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By DONNA MIKELS This happened to a family named But as you réad this stop to think: Hawkins. : The same thing is happening today-— and will happen tomorrow-—as the highways jam with cars returning from a long July 4 week-end. And the family name . be yours.

‘The Accident - LILLIE HAWKINS pushed back a wisp of hair and looked around for the youngest of

four youngsters, after she got the three oldest settled in the

It happened when they were returning from a long Memorial Day ¥eek-end. What followed is the “tomorrow” for back seat of the family car, “ av's” tots “Lemme sit in the back with today’s” trafie victim.

_the other kids this time, Ma,” mess wm pleaded 3-year-old Rolland. He" Pu - squirmed free from his Te ET lap and she consented, warning 28%" the older ones to “watch baby.” Sle “I'm glad I let him,” she said a later, “If I hadn't my baby would have been killed.” wa In the driver's seat Henry Hawkins turned on-the ignition, ‘paused to wave goodby to.relatives on the porch of his brother's home in Louisville, Ky. ‘ Then he shifted into first and they. were off, a typical American family returning from a. typical holiday visit. with relatives— Memorial Day week end, 1952. “Henry Hawkins was a good driver, a careful driver with “17; years’ drivin’ and never more than a scratched fender.” But that carload of happy, tired vacationers never reached the fenced-in frame house at 1243 Nordyke Ave. in Indianapolis. ” = = INSTEAD less than an hour and 27 and 2/10's miles outside Louisville — their broken bodies scattered the roadside of busy U. 8. 3% - Tt happened in a split second. . An oncoming driver started to pass a truck, saw the Hawking’ car and tried to drop back in line. But a wheel slipped off the berm, there was a crazy spinning, a gidelong rush bréadside into the car- ; : ; ; load of Hoosier holiday-ers. basi RR, ; ; There was the sharp explosion FRANK-AND ROLLAND—Encased in a cast, 9-year-old Frankie "“watches the baby." For these of metal crashing against metal, victims of a Memorial Day accident, the tragedy continues. the deafening instant of silence, . ; then the moans and screams of and back injuries and a broken injured and dying . . . ipelvis. = oR Then merciful darkness , .. His wife, Lillie-—All Jeft ribs sn 8 {and all but two right ribs broken, hi Re ®t “I GUESS I, came to first” chest caved, punctured left lung 4 8586 7: says Mr, Hawkins. “My head was and internal inquries. : ; between the steering wheel and Frank, 9—A right leg shat- 1 2 13 " the left door and my nose was up!tered, splintered in three places, against the windshield. | Carlos, 11, Sylvia, 7, and Rol“He hit so hard the front seat 1and, broken collar bones. tore loose and Lillie was shoved] In the other car, Driver Roy up under the dashboard, with/gevers of Greenville, Miss, lay everything smashed up against, the twisted wreckage with a her, If she'd had the baby on her| shattered pelvis. And on the lap, he'd a been killed. Ihighway lay his 51-year-old wife, “I heard some men and they| dead got her out and somebody, maybe : ’ it was me, said the car was on, L Dat ay the SLORY eno Hed in fire. T started draggin’, the kids|the next day's headlines, Meac out. They were screaming and lines that said just as tomorrow’s ; 38 Traffic Death crying and I was trying to see|Will say: “Holiday Tre which was hurt worst and I|Toll Mounts. : fainted. Then I came too and A vacation, a crash, the casualwent at it again and fainted and|ty toll, parceling out of broken when I came to again some men| bodies to a hospital, the dead to were keeping me down telling me a funeral home. End report. - I'd kill myself. That's the worst, But that wasn't the end for the moment I ever had in my life.” Hawkins’ fimily . . « for there's The toll of this crash: ~~ |a tomorrow for today’s trafic vieHenry Hawkins—~8evere chest| tims.

Once Speeding Here Brought Stiff Penalty

By R. K. SHULL IF YOU THINK you're harried by radar speed traps, motorcycle cops and Municipal Court judges who hand out $15 fines for speeding, then you should have "been driving in Indianapolis’ 30 years ago. ; Back in December, 1922, city] : officials employed everything his court. He later tempered this short of the whipping post and With an optional punishment. torture rack in ‘a frenzied effort the speeder could give up his auto to stop speeding in the city. license plates for 30 days. In tWbse days, speeders had During the next week, Judget

been treated much as they are ilmeth made his stern proposivas in tion of $100 or the license plates

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CARLOS AND SYLVIA—Carlos cooks, Sylvia helps. Both have broken collar bones but they are "least hurt."

the laws which regulated traffic for 30 at 10 mph in the downtown area, speeders. . as 20 mph in residential Sections, ad ONE MAN who was caught] 25 and 30 mph In the sparsely speeding twice during this hectic Betting areas. period was sentenced to the Indi-

Motorists whipped their Mar- _ - "ci te Farm for 40 days. A mons, Nationals, Overlands andi, = qriver. who was charged Duesenbergs over city streets with with recklessly striking a 14-year little regard for the law until the 1; },,y causing him to lose a leg night of Dee, 4. was sentenced to 60 days on the That night, a car careened over qi. Farm and fined $100. a “safety island, knocking | two Shank paraded the voung women into the street. A, ..,,[o4 hoy before lines. o following car, passed over both speeders and clvie groups. women, killing them. Had their drive continued,

CITY OFFICIALS sprang into Mayor Shank might have refrenzied action to make up for Sorted to corporal punishment,

Mayor

their lackadaisical attitude which and Judge Wilmeth might have had. permitted speeders to run grabbed: all speeders’ possessions loose. for skyrocketing fines, ed On Dec. 5, 1922. the late Mayor But fortunately—for the speed- Sa Lew Shank issued orders for all ers—Christmas came and the city i speeders to be arrested and held officials forgot their duties a few Se X in jail under $5000 bond. They days and relaxed. The two young A wera to be hauled to: jail in the Women sprawled dead in the

ACCIDENT AFTERMATH-—Henry Hawkins, on crutches, tries to help care for his wife, Lillie.

they Street were blotted from minds d bY the festive season, And when 1923 dawned on In-

Black Maria. And while were in jail, Mayor Shank orderec the 24-vear-old, heartbroken hus-

band of one of the dead women dianapolis,” the Marmons: and to lecture them in their cells, Overlands and Nationals again |: With tears-in his eyes; the Were easing -up over the speed young widower told, the speeders limit. The police weren't too they all should be imprisoned for Watchful, and Mayor Shank found 1 tn 10 years. other things to occupy his mind. Police " Court Judge Delbert As for Judge Wilmeth-~he real-

Wilmeth—now a local attorney— ized sometime there may be an for

reduced the speeders’ bonds to excuse speeding. The stiff $1000, which brought the wrath Penalties didn’t come as fast dnd of Mayor Shank on his head. frantic as during December. Mavor Shank ‘came forward Idke all police crusades against ‘with a $200 cash award for in- traffic violators in Indianapolis, |

formation of the drivers of the it just faded away with time, two hit-run cars. The next day, Mayor Shank Canada Finds Natural

supplemented his orders to police z . to arrest all speeders and hold Gas in Nova Scotia WASHINGTON, D. C. — Nat-

them without bond for mental inquests. The Mayor stated “speed- yra] gas has been discovered in ers are lunatics and must De Nova Scotia, Canada’s Atlantic treated as such.” ’ headland province. |

THE CITY ar department |. When an exploratory well +Epoke out against the order from | PleW In” a gas strike recently the hysterical mayor, warning it hrought immediate speculation such arrests would be illegal, that oil might be found also. For Mayor Shank gave in to their &!ther natural gas or oil, Nova comments, then later in the day Scotia constitutes hitherto unordered the street commissioner {APped territory on the world peto erect steel posts around all troleum map, the National Geothe safety islands in the streets, Braphic Society says. . “We may kill off a few speeders,| Canada’s current oil and gas but we'll save the pedestrians,” boom centers on .its vast prairie Mayor Shank said. provinces, Alberta and SaskatchThe search for the two hit-run/ewan, Natural gas is produced in drivers continued, and Mayor western Ontario. The nearest Shank continued his frantic de- that drillers have comé to Nova mands on the police and the! Scotia, however, has been near judge. On Dec. 7, he suggested | Moncton, New Brunswick, There, speeders should be paraded ielatively small quangities of gas A » A rough’ 'have been. obta . . A fa va en andont fen (years. aiid’ 107 many CITY IN ITSELF—The MetrosGoldwyn-Mayer studio, in Culver wagon, | Again, lawyers pointed rafter — City, Calif., has nearly 5000 employes and covers 187 acres. The out the Mayor's zeal was out of Oldest Outpost : gun room, top left, contains about 3000 rifles, pistols and machine

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legal bounds, § The only French possession on ' guns ready for every necessity in a picture. Below, actor Keefe . On Dee. 8, Jus Wilmoth Sent the mainland of North or South ~ Brassells is shown with a group of feminine messengers who into “action, merica, French Guiana, is also pi eliver inter-office communications 2nd are trained $100 ta every speeder convicted in|France's ‘oldest colonial outpost. : yickup ng a inter-atige CE ?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

It ISN'T ‘All Over In A Moment...

i weekend has brought to a traffic i casualty of Memorial Day week- eran showman, Harry Hale, who|they went out in the alley, the| Scheduled says he gavelthree hustlers held them up. Took | ney ask amendments io thei

{ dian Creek when | said, “I smell a still.”

INSIDE A MOVIE STUDIO

Do We Want To Be Known As ‘Hog State’?

You'll Find

The Aftermath : | “IF YOU don’t blow your own! WHEN THE State Police horn, nobody else will.”

. clearied up the bodies and the| Indiana has been missing a mii-| oO n i India na Aven vue

. 7 . * :__, lion chances to toot its wares on| wreckage of. the Hawkins'|, i, jicense plates. That may] Memorial Day weekend crash, soon bé corrected. | ADVICE TO foolish men: the case for them was finished; | Officials in the: Secretary of Stav away from the vicinWhen New Albany hospital re- State's office and Bureau of Motor |. a : y £ id leased the last of the mending Vehicles are seriously considering |! Y of Indiana Ave. after midvictims last Tuesday, the case for the addition. of an advertising night. them was closed. - | You may be looking for sex But for the Hawkins’ family the {and/or whisky, or maybe just a tragedy isn't ended. Sal ; [little excitement. But you're liable It’s gaining momentum, taking /, | ito find more trouble: than you ‘on a tinge of hopelessness. f lever want to see When Mr. Hawkins paid $42 to | Take the word of ‘Homicide De-

the ambulance required to bring| 2 “Mom” and “Frankie” home last et Surgeon Davenport and

Tuesday, he had $6.75 in his] pocket, . | Sgts. Davenport and Rogers He's applied for benefits from last week locked up seven teenan insurance policy ... but the X, age youths who specialized in $20 weekly payments won't come , iclipping gay blades. The - boys through for at least four weeks. Jubd: jconfessed 17 robberies, many of Mr. Hawkins drew his last pay- {which had never been reported to police. They even had one or two

check from B, B. & 1. Motor, Freight where he's regarded as| girls working for them, luring men into dirk alleys.

a ‘good, reliable worker” May | } 29. That lasted through the va-| : “It's a crime, the way the men cation, through ' the extra ex-.,,g to the 1,236,461 passenger 80 around there. just begging to penses of renting fracture bed and yepjcle plates. ‘It has worked for be robbed,” said Sgt. Davenport.

wheelchair ior rs. Hawkins. other fates, and should help In- Keep an Eye Out BUT LAST Tuesday Mr. Haw- Several suggestfons have been| '‘Thatkind of stuff has been re-| kins had only $6.75—and a family coming in lately, and there's the sponsible for one murder that we needing food medicine, shelter. (rub, Officials are looking for a XnoW Of, this year” said Sgt. “I supported my family, never No 1 product which is the pride Rogers. Z asked anybody for a penny,” the of all Hoosiers. They're afraid] The two detectives spend many worried father says. “I didn’t ,¢ offending other products by[2 late hour on their own time, oats oi phy the welfare) Tission, oy Caio) Ave. and Blake St office. He went there. But welfare |, or xenPle the SUIT AY ohio St. and 10th St, chasing can be given only in certain cate-|;; , 1oa4ing tomato grower, and|2Way men (and women) who ob-gories-—dependent children, the] viously have no business there. aged and the blind, They sent Mr.! “When we stop them, and ask

{why not plug ourselves as “The Hawkins to the Center Township | 1 omato State.” In double mean- what they're doing there at 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, they

Ry CARL HENN

SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1952

Trouble

If You Hunt It 5

= fieed any help in making a living. She was an expert pickpocket, Her trick was.to climb Into a man’s car and immediately start loving him up. While the man was distracted, so to speak, she took out his wallet, extracted the money, and slipped his wallet back. into the same pocket. And that's all the man got—a few minutes of expensive education before she slipped out of the car and was gone, Geneva was sent up for 1-10 years in Women's Prison. Before she left Indianapolis, she told detectives only about one out of 20 men ever reported being taken for his money. The rest just stood the loss and kept their mouths shut. Consider the sad fate of an Eastern industrial executive who was driving alone in Indianapolis one night and picked up a girl. She had his wallet out of his inside coat pocket and back in again before he'd gone 10 blocks. Unfortunately (for him) he felt it and noticed it wasn't so fat as it had been. He stopped the car,

{right in the middle of Fall Creek

Parkway. Wet Auto

When he grabbed for her, she jumped out of the car. lowed, and began wrestling in the street, trying to get his money back, Along came a car, honking to get by. The impatient motorist finally bumped the executive's new car, and it rolled right down

Trustee |ing, this could also flatter HooThere workers heard his story. Sierdom’s pretty gals, just like . The next day an. Vota: Georgia with its “Peach State.” come. WP. ith Sous Jahulons a8 came to the little frame house at!

Albert C. Magenheimer, deputy | 1243 Nordyke St. {Motor Vehicle director, said In-|

Carlos, who was “hurt least,” diana may go farther than other... tn,ee laps. He'd pull up be-!

answered thé door. He does the states by cutting the plates in cooking and with Sylvia tries to shape of the product. : keep the house neat. Mr. Hawkins, who is theoretically confined industries—the distilleries. Anti-|professor from

side a girl walking along, talk] to her, then drive on. When we! lice for not stopping an unstopTake one of Indiana's biggest stopped him, he said he was a|pable situation. It’s the ones who university,/ go looking for trouble who find

into Fall Creek. In the scuffle, the man’s cheek

“Once, we tailed a man driving) was slashed and the girl got away {around there while he made two with a considerable sum.

You can’t put all the blame on {the hustlers, or put it on the po-

to bed, hobbles on crutches to booze societies wouldn't like it,|looking for material for a book. it. As Sgt. Davenport said:

tend his wife and Frankie, in a but you COULD cut a plate to|He looked like a professor, too.| cast from the waist down, look like § bottle of hooch. Ditto About 55 years old, had a little] “I never saw a more pitiful With corn on the cob. {goatee and everything. We told case,” said the investigator. 4 5 a {him: “Here's a nice family that took! HOW ABOUT hogs? Deputy care of itself. But Mr. Hawkins Secretary of State Gilbert Ogles fore you get hurt, or we'll let you can’t go back to work: |said porkers are one of Indiana’s gather some material in Marion

=m {biggest products. But would|County Jail'.” | “THEY'VE ex ¥ {Hoosiers like to be regarded as| You don’t even have to strike, ) : exhausted their re-\y,o hawjgers? up a conversation to get into dif-/

sources. They've got rent and al i [ficult few small bills. They need help.! Dairying is 2 strong contender y

But all ve th [even though Wisconsin already | = ut all we can give them 1s a $13/cizims it. So are fry chickens! There's always some character grocery order.” state parks and hospitality. ‘hanging about who'll run up to Henry Hawkins, as reluctant, «wppe state is probably missing | vour . d 4 unt ol about discussing his financial {your car and ask, obligingly:

{a good bet for advertising,” Mr. “want. some whisky? Want a problem as any man who pridesiyacanheimer said. | “What we girl?” y

himself on shouldering his OWN need. is for some group to stir up| If you want whisky, he knows| i i Bamits: t Bx.T _ Hoosier pride, agd we'll work it just the place that will sell it oe 8 e worst nx-1 was gut’ |after hours, but not to you. Just ever B. : | He pointed to other states hand over a five, or a 10, and he'll He called creditors and exX-iywhere the plan clicked—Florida’s be right back with some good plained his problem. Most WEI “Sunshine State,” Maine's “Vaca-|stuff. Only he never returns. | understanding: The $2000 hospital tioniand, Kan sa “Wheat| “Why, there’s guys who inake| bill will await insurance settle- gate,” Arkansas’ “Land of Op-{a living hustling whisky who! ment. The family doctor hasn'tiportunity,” Wyoming's “Rodeo|don’t own a drop of it” said mentioned a bill yet. And the $15 Rider,” New Mexico's “Land of |Sgt. Rogers, weekly grocery order put food in'mnchantment” and many others.! The sucker who gets taken for the house. “Let’s not forget politics,” Mr. whisky money gets off easy com. But there’s the July rent, un-Ogles said. “Hoosiers take poli- pared to the dopes who go after paid. jtics more seriously than anyone women. A new owner just purchasedle]ge.” | “Last week,” said Sgt. Daventhe house which the Hawkins| That might be hard to depict. port, “two guys met a man in the have rented for years. A rental Make the license like an elephant, hus station. He offered to get agency heard his story. But and Democrats howl: use a don- them a girl—at 3am : Wednesday a letter came: key and the GOP roars. I “He took these guvs into. a “1 talked to the owner .. . ."| You could use half-donkey and vack vard and into guys s d it read. “He demands payment half-elephant—but which party |; 1d Sy t it th Nes) anc . ‘one-half month's rent im-|/would settle for the derriere? |. ° em 15 wa ere, . Then mediately or the balance on the ———— oe ent [stairs jane Sowa J. other stairway and got two other

15th. I am sorry that extra time : . 1 could not be arranged but it is will Rogers His Find, fellows together. Showman Claims The man who lived in that

Easy ‘Money

“Just like throwing a worm in the water—they’re bait.”

“‘You get on out of here se AP Freight

Lines Want Mail Loads

By MAXB. COOK Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor Final decision of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB).on the scheduled airfreight carriers’ request for permission to carry air mail, air parcel post and air express at low airfreight rates may have a far-reaching effect on the present air mail setup. ‘If the plan is accepted, the cost of car. ying mail—both by the airfreight carriers and the allcargo aircraft of the scheduled air lines——would be reduced considerably, airfreight carrier executives contend. 3 3 - They say a resultant reduction in rates for parcel post and alr express to about the zame level as airfreight rates would let the Post Office and the Railway Fxpress Agency cut substantially the rate the public now pays, This in turn would increase greatly the volume of small packaged traffic moving by air, they conclude, Separate applications to CAB have been filed by the Flying

the policy of these owners.” That is what the July 4 holiday house came out in the hallway LINCOLN, Neb. (UP)—A vet-iand told them to go away. When

end. It isn’t the end of the story lives in Lincoln,

Tiger Lines; Slick Airways and U.S. Airlines, the nation’s three airfreight carriers.

. because in real life trage- Will Roger his first tryout on g48 from one and $30 from the| Certificates to permit handling of

dies don't have happy or unhappy the stage. |other. endings. | “Nobody remembers,” the 73- running.’

They just go on. [year-old Hale said, “but you can| « ’ | look it up, Young Will ‘got his), LnOte-Suys told us they didn’t

Then they said: ‘Start

0 3% i top running until they got to . : first stage job with Harry Hale fo Sheriff's Nose for Booze & Associated Players at New| Lire House No. 1--about 10 os : blocks. That's a long way to run

York City in 1899, Ziegfeld picked |

Traps Moonshiners {him up five years later.” fon a hot night.”

JASPEE, Ala. (UP) — Moon-1 Fale said Bis Tather, Harryi *', . Mest Geneva shiners in Walker County are at and was backstage at Ford's! Even if the eager customer gets|

a disadvantage because Sheriff Charles W. Harbison has a nose for booze. Deputies said they were riding with the sheriff in a boat up Insuddenly he

stands a chance of |

Theater the night President Abra- to the girl, he or of having his|

ham Lincoln was shot. Hale, the Ping robbed, jinior, said the assassin “nearly Pocket picked. knocked my father over when he! Only a few months ago, police ran through the wings and made finally nabbed Geneva Jackson, his getaway.” |a 28-year-old woman who didn’t

mail, parcel post and air express. The carrying of mail and air express has been limited to the {scheduled passenger airlines on

‘the basis of air mail pay plus sub-

{stdy. The airlines have used the added funds to build a sound air transport system for, among other reasons, national defense. CAB has contended that the passenger airlines need all the revenue which Air Express could generate.

Keep up with home decorating trends in the weekday women’s pages of The Times.

The officers paddled farther up- Versatile Sheep

stream but Harbison told them to

turn around. {I've lost the scent,”| Fat-tailed sheep are raised he said. throughout the Near East, but When the boat returned, the not only for wool, meat and milk,

sheriff got out, sniffed the air a couple of times and climbed a bluff. He found the whiskey still on top. His deputies estimated the sheriff can smell out a still from 200 yards,

says the National Geographic Society, Their tails, which weigh up to 35 pounds, yield a fat prized lin making pastry. In times of drought, th fat stored in the tails serves as a reserve supply {of nourishment for the animal.

Through both the Republican Democratic (starting July 2 staff of reporters, writers, an

follows the convention

: J If you are to be on vacation . as receptionists. More than half a million costumes hang in the wardrobe department where two milliners are shown, top right, with hats to be used in “The Merry Widow.” ‘Under W. P. Hen. dry, former Culver City police chief, 73 ed officers and ‘34 watchmen-make the studio a well-patrolled area, below. The s ; fludo is complete, with # rea railroad and navigable watdbwny, . | 1 Shan 70 Ac Me Yo 700-9: M, ; ” : Si. TI : & .

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