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FINAL HOME
63d YEAR—NUMBER 117 Death on Wheels—
Crash Tears
Baby Out of Loving Arms
By CARL HENN
In the property room at police headquarters sits a baby stroller that once held a chubby, frolicsome little girl with
dark brown hair and velvety black eyes.
Until last Friday night, the stroller was the exclusive
property of Connie Sue Haus, barely 1 year old. But there was a Fourth of July picnic upstate, a fast ride toward home. And there was a gay fam{ly trio starting out to spend the week end in Muncie. Two auto-! mobiles moving west on 38th St.,| oné automobile moving east. | As Robert Lee Pope, 24, moved out to pass a picnic companion, Homer Holland, 24, there was a slight bump caused by a sideswipe. Pope's car moved into; the opposite lane at high speed and smashed directly into the on-
z gs than the. usual number of by-agers estimated thev would have hy Ha vehi “There. must have been 500, Hurdel Into Street \people standing around,” said, Check Taken
Connie. Sue was torn from the arms of her mother, thrown through the opening] where a door had been wrenched away and hurled into the street. There, a half-hour later, she died in the arms of a. deputy sheriff. Destiny was working overtime that evening.. A mathematician would hesitate to calculate the odds against those particular cars meeting at that particular time and in that particular place. meet they did.
took from Mr, and Mrs. Haus their only child, born after four
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fainted couldn't stand to see it.
INDIANAPOLIS TRAFFIC CHART (188 Days) Last This Year Year Accidents ... 4017 4049 Injuries ..... 1738 1778
Deaths ...... 33
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2432% Guilford Ave. The . accident collected more|least six” votes and Taft man
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‘That's Too Bad’
“I've seen a lot gf accidents, but special strategy today to preven that was the most pitiful thing Eisenhower forces from “pressur I've ever seen,” “She was cute as the dickens in her play suit and white shoes. sat on a blanket in the street and held the inhalator mask over her face for half an hour. Then the But/deputy coroner came and pro- : nounced ‘her dead. He was the In claiming Connie Sue, deathione who put’ the blanket over her.” Pope was charged with
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half-brother of Mr. Lunsford, He!front. and his wife, Geraldine, were vis/iting over the holiday week end|ploded among the warring HooLunsford, |sier factions. Ike leaders publicly
William Owen,|
Maxine, vinen the baby died, one oman gate. however, showed 30 pre-! others
he continued.
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Taft and ke Tum Charm On Hoosiers
Quarrels Riddle State Delegation
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Times Staff Writer
CHICAGO, July 7—Wooed and courted in person by both Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft, Indiana delegates went to the Republican National Convention today determined to cast 30 votes for Taft and two for Eisenhower.
Nevertheless, Indiana Ike forces still concentrated on trying to break the apparently solid Taft
Claims and counter-claims ex-
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Eisenhower's proposal for a for the presidential nomination, The break away to Gen. Eisenhower in support of the rules changes was led by the mighty Pennsylvania delegation.
{Michigan delegations quickly fol{lowed Pennsylvania's lead.
Personal check of eath dele.)
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ferred Taft and two favored Eisenhower.
Indiana Taft leaders adopted]
ing” the Taft delegates on the floor of the convention.
I By fixing the seating arrange ments, the Taft leaders surrounded the two Eisenhower delegates with the strongest Taft supporters. This was also designed to put ‘backbone’ “doubtful” Taft delegates.
years of married life had gone'drunken driving and reckless delegates — Eugene Pulliam and j
by, loved all the more for the waiting. “They wanted a baby so badly,” |
said Mrs, Edna Bailey, Connie's eryhody is praying for Frank and Cale J. Halder, Sen. Homer E. “And she was Sala roay 1s Prayme yet dreading Capehart and Lisle Wallace. | beautiful—one of those rosebud the time she must be told Con-|
nie Sue is dead. ! Who Be ey an av Indiana's delegation was getting “The doctor told us that's the best incentive of all for living.” Mrs. Bailey voiced the univer2a) feeling ome who Suffer a given by Kurt Pantzer, Indianapaccidents.
pick
great-aunt.
babies. Lies in a Coma
“Now, it seems. as if she was just loaned to them for a while.” Mrs. Haus still lies in a coma in Methodist Hospital, unaware her child is dead. Her husband was told Saturday when he called from his bea in Methodist to the home of mother, Mrs. Mary Haus, a widow. The Rev. Leonard Wymore, pastor of Fairfax Chris. tian Church, who had visited Mrs. Haus to console her, told Connie's father what had happened.
homicide and held under $2000 William Hutcheson — were sepa- | 3 rated and fenced in by such ar-}
nd. 1 In the Haus family circle, ev- dent Taft men as State Chairman
hey happen.” she sald. the paper
“But it’s different when it happens on your own doorstep.”
“You & ; and read the|cheering Hoosiers: Deadline and think, ‘That's too
‘I Have No Doubt’ | For some unexplained reason,
the royal treatment from the rival presidential candidates. Sen. Taft met Hoosier delegates and politicians at a reception
olis lawyer and Samuel Harrell, Noblesville grain merchant. The Ohio Senator . the wildly
“I have no doubt of the nomination. I feel confident the American people. are with us. We want to adopt a foreign policy that
“It was an awful blow to him,” said Mrs. Bailey. “That night at the hospital, he couldn’t remember what had happened. He kept asking where Maxine and the baby were, and I just kept saying, ‘They're being taken care of.’ “And he kept asking, ‘Was it my fault + Was it my fault? ” Police said it was not. He had driven away from his home, 599 Moreland Ave., sometime between 5:30 and 6 p. m., with Mrs. Haus
The car held a suitcase, an over-| night bag, Connie Sue’s blanket! and baby articles and the stroller.
First Birthday Party They were on their way to spend the week end with Connie's] maternal = grandmother, Mrs. Freda Faulkner, in Muncie. Connie Sue’s first birthday party, the. only one she was des-| tined to enjoy, had been held Tuesday, Mrs. Haus had baked] a cake and placed on it one! candle. The flickering flame delighted Connie Sue. They took a picture of her with the cake.
While Mr. Haus was driving
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will protect America and yet not cost us so much money. : Soon after the reception, Mr. Wallace, Taft's Indiana campaign manager, issued a statement. It said: “Some of the Indiana FEisenhower leaders have given up trying to get more delegates. It begins to look like their mission is
eign policy at the expense of wrecking the Republican party.”
Earlier, a group of Indiana Ike] | backers met with Gen. Eisen-| { hower in the Blackstone Hotel. | | Five Hoosier delegates . were among the guests of the general.
| Two of them were Eisenhower | | delegates—Mr. Pulliam, publisher {of the Star and News and Mr. | Hutcheson, President emeritus of: {the United Carpenters Union | (AFL).
Trouble Brews The three Taft delegates were Col. Walter J. Riley, East Chicago; former Sen. Raymond Wil[lis, Angola and James F. Peele, | Richmond. All three Taft dele-
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east out of Indianapolis, Robert Pope and Homer Holland were bringing home. two carloads of pichickers. Mrs. Mattie Lunsford, 28, was] riding in Mr. Holland's car with| her son, Robert, 12. Her husband, Eddie, 34, was riding with Robert Pope. Mr. Lunsford was injured—his wife and child es-
Mr. Lunsford remained in. General Hospital.
Some Beer, Too
three in the afternoon,” Mrs, Lunsford said. i “We didn’t do much-—just sat and talked,. and had food and pop. There was some beer, too.| Robert Pope didn’t stay with us all the time. He wilked around quite I guess.” Mr. Holland, of Louisville, is
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Ki d . |awaited decision came the word an i ney the 45-year-old defendant's for-| mer sweetheart, Louise Wilson will stand by him and wifi try t raise funds for his bond. "| It was during an estrangement Wilson in January 1944 that Mersing shot and killed| Judge Bain urged the prose. | 70 31-year-old Camp Atterbury| Sutor to “seriously consider that |
"CHICAGO SEEMS filled with Democrats for Taft. %
- a REP. CLARENCE BROWN (R. 0.) said of the Republican 80th Congress that it “started | with a prayer and ended in a | be.” That may be applied
cago who. thinks he’s still run-
{from Miss
Sweetheart Will Aid Convict in New Trial
By TED KNAP
William J. Mersing today won caped harm. Two other persons a new trial after serving 8% were hurt in Pope's car, but only|years behind bars and reassurance from his former sweetheart|came after The Times last week, that “I still want to marry him.” revealed the 7 years’ wait for|
| Judge Bain ruled the 1945 trial jover which he presided in Crimi-| nal Court 1 was not fair. Action in the Mersing case]
“Thank God, thank God,” said| justice. |
the former bartender and cab] i “We went on the picnic about gpiyer, visably shaken and near|ley in ruling on Mersing’s plea tears. My prayers are answered,” he Justice” on the defendant. {said. “I'm so happy I can hardly [talk.” Special Judge William D. Bain, {who sat as judge in the trial in {which Mersing was convicted of # bit, and he had some Deer. frst degree murder, scratched the, a Old conviction and set a low $2500 nd so Mersing may gain free‘dom pending a new trial.
Will Stand by Him
Right on the heels of this long-|
lcorporal in Miss Wilson's apart. Mersing has been deprived of his ‘ment at 612 N. Delaware St.
In court as a s tor this orning and Ho Mersing Was shot accidentally. He said he
And he said the seven-year de-|
into some A As a result, the two Eisenhower 38
to save the Truman-Acheson for-|
{ Sen. Robert A. Taft (Q.), who ‘may stand to lose a batch of contested delegates if the rules change goes through, criticized the proposal as a move to change “the rules in the middle of the game."
before the convention until they have been formally seated. The present rule, 40 years old, permits contested delegates to vote on all contests except their own. In preliminary maneuvering the Republican National Committee gave Mr, Taft 76 and Ike 20 delegates out of a contested total of 96. Taftmen Confident
Taft managers were confident the Senator could lose a hat full of delegates under the proposed change of rules and still win the nomination. Tkemen were jubilant. They were talking of early ballot victory. h ree Republican governors favoring Mr. Taft who joined last week with 20 others in a “clean convention” manifesto struggled to escape from their bonds to-
Jordan, Idaho, | Brunsdale, North Dakota.
3 : : ay = : a vy $5 Si ’ : 2 v Lo NR in oo JE SCAFFOLD GAVE WAY—Two pa ‘were severely injured in a fal from a scaffold af 707 N. | Gen. n and De Quincy St. today. Taken to Methodist Hospital were Harlan Russell, 27, of 1713 Broadway (fore- | CUctd to Sign a call for a
rut ground), and Charles Sigler, 26, of 1158 Kentucky Ave. Row props. The. thes: teas
! i pact here. Gov. Theodore Roosevelt McKelden of Maryland will place
big: ! { Gen. Eisenhower's name in nomi- : hy nation, it was announced. I Gov. McKeldin is the “favorite {son” choice of the 24-vote Mary-
{tand delegation. But he said after Five men and one woman today|a visit with Gen. Eisenhower that {were chosen to serve as the he might release the delegates {Marion County Grand Jury for the before the first ballot and that remainder of the year. {he strongly favored Gen. EisenThey were picked by Criminal hower. Court Judges Saul I. Rabb and Sen. Robert A. Taft's backers Harry O. Chamberlin from a/Put up a fight in Pennsylvania panel of 75 names. and New Jersey caucuses, but the I. Lee Jackson. 63. a retired California vote was unanimous. firemen living at 319 N. Sherman|, The 70-vote delegation, led by Drive, was chosen as foreman, an 8 Five, today Yotsd : y in a caucus voice Other members of the new jury vote to support the revised Lodge
are: | dm William M. Kleinschmidt, 44, of pup) ii ens of Tules for the Re-
| 849% Grove Ave. a meat cutter, ! Marlin 8. Bare, 33, of 3625 N.| 58 For, 10 Against
+-4The California, New Jersey and} =
, trapped last week by faster thinking Re-| po actual ie on the nomi ; publican x vernors . who etd nation comes later in the week.
ecru ey States Fight To Change Rules
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: CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO, July 7—The 25th |Republican National Convention got off to an angry start today with big state delegations backing Gen. Dwight D.
rule change vital to his bid
GOP meeting schedule, Page 8; convention vignettes, Page 11.
Other convention steries and photos, pages 3 and 14.
rules change seemed assured of {adoption. It would bar cons tested and temporarily seated - delegates from voting on each other's eligibility to be seated permanently in the convention to help choose the presidential ticket. The rules amendment was so phrased as to prevent, in opin-
The change would bar contested |jon of Tkeman, the bringing of delegates from voting on an issue|phony contests merely for the
sake of jeopardizing the elegibility of any delegation. Ike's strategists pinned their greatest hope on stopping Mr. Taft's nomination on the first . ballot, reported. Charles Lucey, Scripps -. Howard staff writer, But so close raged the fight that one of the most respected political operators on the scene com-~ mented today: : “It's impossible to estimate accurately what the first ballot will show.” : ; Both sides had their worries, One of the biggest ones on Gen, Eisenhower's side was the restlessness of pro-Taft delegates in the 96-man delegation captained by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Most of the New Yorkers were ready to go along with the Eisen-"
day. All three were hot for Mr. hower forces in the critical test 'Taft—J. Bracken Lee, Utah, Len! and Norman But the
0* today Sen. Taft has 557 delegates pledged to him. Mr. Taft
' repudiated their action—too late, [Pimself, at a press conference {It already had had explosive im- Yesterday, waved aloft a batch
of telegrams he said came from 510 delegates pledging support. Disagreement
The Coleman estimate included delegates Mr. Taft was given last week in GOP national committee decisions on disputed delegates. It did not include Taft strength existing in Pennsylvania, Michigan or California regardless of what party leaders in those states finally decide to do. Gen. Eisenhower's strategists conténded that if they win the rules change test on the so-called “fair play” amendment, they're ag good as in, They say the psychology of a first convention victory over Mr. Taft would certainly aid them in getting needed additional delegates for the nomination. 2 Taft leaders, “on this as on virtually everything else, dis-
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agreed. They would not acknowl . edge the Eisenhower side would win today, but said that even if this occurred, it was not tantamount. to nomination. There seemed some support for both
Dearborn 8t., a garage operator., The vote was 58 yes, 10 no, and Donald F. Knight, 40, of 1360 N. two not voting. | Kealing Ave, a machinist. Mrs.| The vote followed a strong per- _ | Zora Yoke, a widow living at 1327 Sonal appeal by Gov. Fine to | Linden St. Donald L. Mabee, 34, | Saat and Fesclve the resentment | of 3264 Baltimore Ave. a motor/0f the people throughout the na-| | assembler, tion on the question of these con- Sides of the Sebats. : | The foreman said: {tested delegations.” hi 8 Seem airly swe; What“We're coming in here to help] “The people are aroused,” he, als yots shown in the the community as best we can, said. “We want to feel that when | es an the vote change will repWe will be concerned with all We leave Chicago we will have "**nt the Senator's rock-bottog matters and have no special Answered the hopes and prayers|*trength. This would represent
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"4 5 | drives in mind.” .{of America. We have to meas-| ‘he so-called Taft diehard } a Nh x | Biggest single case facing thejure up out here.” [Fiiensth, appeared likely that jurors is the Mike Mattes murder! Gov. Fine’s position was at-| . a - GIRL HURT IN FALL—Mrs. Margaret Roberts places her 7- |
(case. Three suspects currently tacked by Republican National Ma0Y Who would not join him in |are jailed and under questioning Committeeman G. Mason Owlett, 11% fight against a rule change stories today. Police said she lost her balance as she sat in a [about conflicting stories in the of JF ehnsylvatia, who charged £27 nevertiitiess would vote jor : ay 11951 lovers’ lane slaying. at “the purpose of this motion! ; e nomiwindow of ho home, 224 S. State Ave. Her condition in General | Judges Rabb and Chamberlin 8 to get rid of three Taft votes nation begins. ospital was fair. lalso were choosing 12-member/On the cerdentials committee. | On the other hand; the Eisen-
year-old daughter, Silvery, on a ‘stretcher after the girl fell two
{for a new trial “worked an in-
‘Not Full Justice’ | One of the reasons
hand testimony in the case soon| after the trial. There was diffi-| |culty in translating her notes.
sympathetic toward the slain cor-/h poral and his widow, and this) turned to ' resentment Mersing.
’| Deputy Prosecutor John Daily {said his office has not yet decided Central Police District said his
1 press for {blotter showed not a single comaL piesa fore "e¥ paint against any of the visitors activities started but
since they began arriving a week the customers are Chicago people, groups, -
conviction.
liberty for 8% years.” | Mersing contended the corporal
‘went to Miss Wilson's apartment
Republican Visitors ian ns mnie enn Ape \Well-Behaved
istripteasers, cops, bartenders and route | Judge Bain previously said the taxi drivers agreed today that! wanderings were pointed out, the cratic presidential aspirant, was 12 women jurors became overly their Republican visitors are be-| oahhie
against its good behavior, too, giving the {delegates their money's worth, |
{except for the traffic problems,” conventioneers had asked him to he said.
night spots throughout The Loop!
; {last night and didn’t see a single them I'll try to find a place,” he Time {to return a shotgun which was al intoxicated visitor. : p s Index
| petit juries for their own courts, “I hope no one accuses any-/hower people figured that any {Panels for' both juries were One of trying to steal Taft votes Pro-Taft delegate who left the drawn from lists .of huoseholders by their support of this motion,” Ohloan on the rule test was a and submitted to the two judges. | Pew Backs Taft 8ood prospect, for conversion to
Owlett, Taft Eisenhower after two or three
Mr. strategist, charged that the “present rules ballots on the nomination.
served Gov. Thomas E, Dewey very well four years ago. We Lilly Firm Brings Suit ought not to take any definite ‘ . : * stand until we hear all issues.” FOF Patent Violation elegate Joseph N. Pew, also| Production of » pe 5 from Pennsylvania, supported Mr, lin by a Pio Denil Owlett. [violates a patent held by Eli Lilly drum up support. Mr. Taft told his news confer-/& Co, attorneys for the Indian-
Mr. Harriman made plans to °"¢® that his campaign aids were apolis firm declared in Federal | The head waiter at the Silver|junch with Gov. Schricker and !'YIng to find out what the issue Court here today. Frolics, a gaudy spot in the National Committeeman Frank Would be on. the convention floor| Lilly's has sued for an injunc-honky-tonk district, said business/M. Butler, meet the press, and 'oday but that it was “very com- tion against Schenley Laboratorhad picked up since convention later confer with national con- plicated.” {les, Inc, in ‘an effort to stop “most of vention delegates and other He said he has seen one pro- Schenley’s from manufacuring ‘ posed compromise which would |the drug. . jblowing off steam.” | His appearance here is spon- disqualify gertain disputed dele- | Unspecified damages plso are “We don’t know they're in town| One taxicab driver said some sored by. the National Committee gates by name. He believes the asked in the suit. ~~ for . Harriman for President. past practice of allowing disputed | Schenley attorneys today said (Steer them to some female com- Dean Barnhatt-of Goshen is In-|delegates to vote on all contests they planned to show there is no Two reporters toured a dozen panionship. (diana chairman of the group. (except theif own should be con- Patent violation because the drug “Whenever they do that, I tell ~~~ === tinued, he said, although the com-|2nd its chemical reaction was = [promise proposals merit consider. XnoWn ‘before Lilly's got its
Harriman Due Here For Campaign Today
By United Press , | The reporters found two cases, Averell Harrims M I CHICAGO, July 7--Chicago’s where taxi drivers took a Tonger| . i+ oe tan, Jitya Sethan necessary. When their y In'nisirator an emo-
sceduled to arrive here today for
8 claimed they weren't too a 24-hour whirlwind. campaign to
well acquainted with the city. ‘Blowing Off Steam’
aving themselves, And Chicago generally was on
Lt. Thomas D. Donnelly of the
‘said. “I ride around on the meter
. | | Am isaninia lation. [patent. ing. rnd i | “I'm willing. In fact I'd be Shristmas gift from ler. The Many of the gaudier night awhile, and pretty soon they lose Bra ni, re 2 | “I don’t regard It as vitally im-| . LOCAL TEMPERATURES glad to marry him. He's a good 8un went off, sald, €| spots found business glow, despite interest. IRIS OBOE + ua'ss vaste ss dent : ¢ SeaL 78 10 a. m... 83 man and a good worker. I'm sure handed ‘it through the doo® of their offerings of “continuous ex- “The funniest thing that hap- ns a seein, a Ba Rt 2 Matter of Home Robbed Tam. 7 11a m.. 86 he wasn't to blame for this.” the darkened apartment. {otic entertainment.” . + pened was when one of them Editorials .. tira 12 | ’ : slip Burglars took. $600 worth of 8a m.. 78 © 12 (noon). 88 She said she'd start work im-| Mersing ‘went to police head-| At one spot, a B-girl sidled up asked me to find him a hot spot, Rite Seems Assured
9a m.. 30 Latest humidity ........50%
Charley’ rant, 144 E. Obie. Busi- would otherwise te pegs "pm end’ Fond" ramen urther legal steps. \
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1pm ... 89 mediately to raise the $2500 bond quarters immediately-and turned to the to free Mersing from his cell in himself in. Subsequently police | “drink Marion County jafl where he found the corporal dead and] main, pending charged Mérsing with first degree
Chicago has an ordinance against | |the solicitation of drinks by B-ion the floor for fear his wife] map Wilson
In Hollywood .....i... Radio, Television . te 3 He again asserted that the pro-
2: .[posed change would promote con-
Robert Ruark: «vo. eeeve 11 Ed Sovola ............ 11 (tests at future conventions, 1 Within minutes of the moment
for the convention to convene the
jewelry and clothes while Mr, and Mrs. : Angelo Pizzo were #way from their home, 4101 English Ave, for two weeks on vacation. - The Pizzos arrived home yester- - day and discovered the robbery. - ‘ ‘ : 4 20h : , 3 ; A ¥ %
Iepoviars and proposed a and we happened to ride
past his let's get acquainted.” hotel. i
“So help mie, the guy got down| , jwotlid see him.”
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