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Gray-Haired Child, 4, Dying of Old Age

By United Press

CHICAGO, July 19 — A 4-year-old girl was dying of old age today and doctors said they were helpless to save

her.

The child, her body withered to an

"infant's size and her thin

gray, is suffering from progeria, or

premature senility. The girl was identifi “Linda.” pital Jan. 28," 1948, months. 4

Linda will be 5 years old on Nov. 14. But her tiny body will actually have aged many more years than that be-

cause of the exceedingly that has struck her.

Hospital nurses said she has the withered, wrinkled face of an old

womarn, Doctors said tha

Stevenson Can

Win—McHale

Backs Russell for Vice President

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Times Staff Writer

CHICAGO, July 19—Frank Mc- |

Hale told top politicians here today the Democrats could win the election by nominating Illinois’ Adlai Stevenson for President and Georgia's Richard Russell for Vice President. ;

Mr. McHale was here to attend his last meeting of the powerful Democratic National Committee. Although ousted by Indiana Dem-

ocrats in May, he remains one of

.the top party bosses.

The portly politician, who has been a powerful and influential figure in Indiana for more than 20 years, characterized the Republican ticket of Gen. Dwight D. Eigenhower and Sen. Richard Nixon as “full of inexperience and youth.” pe 5 ‘Marvelous Chance’

“The Democrats have a marvelous chance to win. But it depends on what develops at the convention. A Stevenson-Russell ticket would carry the Midwest and the solid South, It is strong on experience in government. And it

would capture a large bloc of Re- §

publican voters.”

Mr. McHale predicted a Steven-son-Russell ticket would win the South’s entire 128 electoral votes, plus the solid Midwest, and had a “good: chance” of taking New York. “The Republicans are bitterly divided,” he said, “but there is no deep bitterness in the Democratic Party.” Mr. McHale, who began his climb to political fame in 1932

under Gov. Paul V, McNutt, labeled the GOP “a sectional party.”

id “We (Democrats) have a national party,” he added, “that's why we always win.”

Still Push Schricker

Meanwhile, most Indiana Democrats here still were plugging a

President. But He still refused to officially recognize such a movement,

State Highway Commissioner Jap Jones ordered “Schricker-for-President” placards and plans to} distribute them all over Chicago. Indiana Democrats held their first strategy meeting Monday morning in the Harrison Hotel, headquarters for the Hoosiers. At! that time, they will decide who to support. Thirty Hoosiers are delegates, 22 elected at district meetings and eight appointed at-large. The| eight at-large delegates only have! half a vote each. .

Views on the News

Dan Kidney |

DEMOCRATS fight over labor

She was admitted to the hosat the age of 2

taking its toll on’ her body and vital organs. She may die in her sleep at any time. Little is known of progeria, and there is no known cure. The disease, in simple terms, merely compresses the life span of the victim into a few short years. It is characterized by thinning, graying hair and withering skin in infants. Linda is only 24 inches long and weighs only 734 pounds. She is so tiny that the hospital attendants have dressed her in dolls’ clothes. Many visiting physicians have studied the child's case at the research and educational hospital. Linda was born in Aurora, Ill, and has been adopted by a religious organization and given a court-appointed guardian.

hair already

ed only as

rare disease

t senility is

WAVES TO ADMIRERS—Gov. Adlai E. Stevensop arrived

in Chicago yesterday by plane.

Committee

Anti-Truman Groups

BULLETIN

The Democratic National Committee voted today to seat the “regular” anti-Truman dele-

—reluctant — Gov. Schricker for Sales. from Texas and Missis-

sippi in the National Convention opening Monday.

Another Story, Page 2

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, July 19--A credentials group recommended temporary seating of two anti-Truman Southern delegations today but a

Kefauver-Harriman coalition)

promised a no-quarter floor fight if necessary to bar them from next week's Democratic National Convention. The Democratic National Committee's credentials subcommittee

proposed unanimously that “regu-| lar” delegations from Texas and!

Mississippi be put on the temporary role. But mindful of threats that the Southerners might bolt if the convention picks a platform and nominees they don’t like, the subcommittee added a declaration that: “The honorable course . . . is to

SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1952

“Big Tom’ Raid Ruled legal By Court Here

Judge Suppresses Gambling Evidence

By DONNA MIKELS Walter F. (Big Tom) Thompson won a resounding victory today when a-special judge ruled that the police search which led to Thompson's: indictment was -illegal. Special Judge Alvah J. Rucker sustained Big Tom's motion to surpress evidence seized in the Feb. 27, 1951, raid. This leaves the prosecution with almost no evidence on which to try Thompson on prelottery! charges. However, the prosecutor's office said charges will not be dropped and deputies will try to convict Thompson without use of the evidence which today was ruled illegal.

Police Criticized

: In a five-page written opinion, {Judge Rucker took broad swipés at the prosecutor's office and police for the manner in which they snagged Thompson. “Search cannot be used as a {fishing expedition to catch evi!dence,” he said, referring to the iway police obtained a search lwarrant in the Thompson case. The warrant to raid Thomplson’s offices in thé downtown Wulsin Building was obtained in this manner:

away. Police followed him and arrested him for an alleged fraf-

failed to stand up in court. They then searched his car and, found lottery tickets in the duffle bag. On this evidence they obtained a search—warrant to raid;

his offices. And evidence seized in the raid led to his indictment by the Marion County Grand Jury on two counts of operating a lottery and one of keeping a room for {pool selling. Illegal Arrest

‘However, Thompson later was

|found not guilty on the traffic|h

violation, and it has been. his attorney's contention that because

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Daily,

Seen

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Bride of One Week Stabbed to Death in

Her Bedroom Here

{ Police, watching the building! saw Thompson emerge carrying: {a duffle bag and a brief case. He} {put these into his car and drove.

fiv violation, a charge which later|

the arrest was illegal, the subsequent. search was illegal. This

today. Judgé Rucker criticized police for presuming a traffic

search a citizen's car, office or home. “Under the law segrch must be incidental to the arrest,” the judge said. “And if the arrest here was genuinely for a ‘traffic

United Press Telephoto.

| |

|judge after Judge Harry C. Cham- did” in fatally wounding a 19- badge. {pulled back the bedspread to unou eat year-old father last. night. | Sgt. Wurz had been making a sport’s glorious past, carried cover the body. He immediately fied himself. Judge Chamberlin

|sissippi. A bolt - breeding floor| fight is in prospect.

Youthful Sen. Hubert H. Hum-

(phrey of Minnesota sparked the,

ileft-wing drive by denouncing| Govs. Allan Shivers of Texas and! Hugh White of Mississippi asi “modern political carpet bag-| gers.” 1 | Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten-| nessee, front running candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination with 2681; delegate

votes, and Averell Harriman, New York's favorite-son candi-| {date with 1161; votes, teamed up| (with Sen. Humphrey in the move |against the governors. | | Sen. Humphrey and his allies] among organized labor and in|

and civil rights planks just as/follow the majority decisions of the Americans for Democratic|

though they intended to use them the convention here and here-| Action wing of the party were after.” | This was in line with the sage ere.

after election day. ” » ”

VICE PRESIDENT Barkley ‘advice of veteran James A. Far-

arrived in Chicago and marched

ley. He arrived in town today

rapidly coming into their own Moderates who hoped to avoid a North-South split were anxiously seeking a presidential

up Michigan Boulevard. Said with the message that the Demo. candidate around whom to rally this proves he can win in a crats can beat the Republicans in their scattered forces,

walk. » » .

DELEGATES attending

[November only if their warring {factions stop wrangling over civil! the rights and other platform issues, !

Barkley Talked Up Vice President Alben W. Bark-

first “free convention” the Demo- and unite behind a “good strong ley, with only 27 first ballot votes | cratic Party has held in 20 years, ticket.” n

should be looking for a “man of| his word” instead of “the man with the word.” |

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SPE LRAT

Fight Already On His word may have come too

A left wing

administration figures already

was grabbing for control of the Gov, Stevenson “certainly” could convention.

The coalition’s first goal is to

bar the @nti-Truman governors of merely announce his willingness Texas and Mississippi from next to accept it. But Gov. Stevenson

week's pre

roceedings if they can.

The Northerners and South: erners are

bitterly can tp “discourage” his supportover civil rights and whether the ers from putting his name in conventiop should recognize nomination. 3 » hii, % $s \

now to his credit, was being, 'talked up increasingly as a har'mony nominee. But Gov. Adlai,

|late. The man who put Franklin E. Stevenson of Illinois remained! . |D. Roosevelt across after a bitter the mystery man of this con-| fight 20 years ago isn't the party vention. |power he was then. coalition studded with Truman who is actively booming another

{ One highly placed Democrat, candidate, told the United Press have the nomination by the second or third ballot if he would

arrived here yesterday with the statement that he will do all he

| Indianapolis

{violation,’ search of offices farjaway for gaming matter was not

incidental thereto.”

He said officers conceivably

| {might stretch the point to search’ Way day. | ‘the home of any citizen arrested’ Police Chi Ambuhl declared| <wming your own business,” the today, “I can’ find nothing Wrongiofficer quoted the youths as say-|

for traffic violation. .

| Mr. Rucker was named special with what Sgt. Clarence Wurz ing after he showed them his

berlin, Criminal Court 1, disquali-

also criticized the prosecutor's office in his disqualifying speech. Immediately after the judge

{gave his opinion, the 48-year-old forced him to back up in an alley said he heard the sergeant tell|With pomp and pageantry. {“loyalist” or . antiadministration' Thompson was brought up for ar- more than a city block. CHICAGO, July 19 (UP)— /delegations from Texas and -Mis-/raignment and pleaded not guilty.

From Chicago

The Republican convention was a battle between two great contenders. But the Democratic convention will be different. Will it be Kefauver, Russe]l, | Barkley, Harriman, Kerr — or | even Truman? To keep up with all the NEWS of all the camps, The Times and The Scripps - Howard Newspapers

| will have a huge staff in Chi-

cago for exclusive coverage. Walter Leckrone, Times editor, Irving Leibowitz and Dan Kidney will cover Hoosier anles. And, again, the staffs of The

| United Press and The Chicago |

Dally News will be working night and day to keep you posted through the columns of The Times. And; again, The Times will be backing no favorites in its NEWS columns.

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Police Hunt Hushand for

Questioning

Knife Found Sticking In Woman's Side

By HEZE CLARK A 32-year-old bride of eight days was found stabbed to death with a butcher knife in the bedroom of her home

here today. Mrs, Gladys Mae Phillips was found entangled in the blood: splattered bedspread in a rooming house at 526 Fletcher Ave. The knife was sticking in her right side. Police broadcast an alert for her heavy-set husband, Milton Phillips, who left the rooming house several hours before the body was found. Although the blood-smeared bed showed signs of a terrific struggle, two other roomers in the house told police they did not hear any commotion. 3 A neighbor, Mrs. Alberta Flem-

ing, 530 Fletcher Ave. told police

tling on the sidewalk in front of the house . sometime after midnight. Two hours later, Mrs. Fleming said, she heard screams from the rooming house, She saw the bathroom light go on and a few minutes later Mr. Phillips drove away in the car, she reportd. Thought Victim Asleep

The body was found by the victim's ‘sister, Mrs. Ruth Norris,

i974 Elm St, when she came to

She said she rang the bell sev-

TE fb

was upheld by Judge Rucker, the

arrest was sufficient cause to|

| 55, the owner of a little Helsinkiithe side. e in the air as a warn- man to the alley, the three men rn es assailants «eornered in the other car fled. Officers haberdashery. But he religed his| Dr. Robert J. Rohn, deputy eff - Foe htm in—a—rear—yard—at—3849—E. didnot learn—their names hours of glory and h into coroner; satd Mrs. Phillips died of

Mr at 10 a. m. today.

i Times photo by William A. Oates Jr. LOVE THAT WATERMELON—There's nothing like a piece of ice-cold watermelon to cool a guy off on a hot day. Times carrier Vernon Romine, 14, of 1010 W. Maryland St., takes a break from delivering papers to enjoy a slice.

{eral times without response and {then was admitted by Pvt. John | Paul Whitley, a GI on furlough, | who was staying at the house & owned by his brother-in-law, ; “When I went into the bedroom,

Chief Backs Policeman 70,000 See iss

| “Her foot was sticking out from under the bedspread, so I reached out and tickled her foot to wake her up. “Then I saw that blood on the I bed.” By LEO H. PETERSEN | Pvt. Whitley, who was standUnited Press Sports Editor {ing in the hall, heard Mrs. Norris HELSINKI, July 19—Paa- say: “Maybe she’s dead.” He then entered the room and

After Fatal Shooting (lympics Open

Photos, Page 2 [report to his South Side beat to-

{vo Nurmi, a ghost from the|

| Sgt. Wurz said he shot Richard purchase in the East Side Bait] : 3 {called police. woe, 558 N. Tremont Ave. in & Tackle Shop, 1313 N. Sherman the Olympic torch on. its last Patrolmen Raymond Cooper self-defense after the youth and Dr. Another customer, Everett|le8 of the relay Jrom Greece t0-ang William Withers responded. three companions beat him and Dorman, 3701 Fletcher Ave, day as the 1952 games began, Officer Cooper reached down to feel for the pulse, but he found From 1920 to 1928 the famed Mrs. Phillips’ wrist slashed, They |“Flying Finn” won nine Olympic then found many other stab Now he is balding and wounds and the knife sticking in

the four “at least -15 times” he

off duty and ‘in was an officer.

The officer, : As the youths backed the police- medals.

lcivilian clothes at the time, said

14th St. Weeks’ companions were silent the stadium with the torch to the “m ultiple stab wounds in the 4 Weeks lunged forward, ex- and defiant when asked what the mighty cheers of 70,000 specta- back. . . : claiming, “I'm not afraid of your fight was about. tors. Made a Mistake’ n" Sgt. Wurz said. | One of them is Charles A steady rain pelted Olympic Mrs. Norris said her sister yesgun, {Englerth, 21, of 1155 W. 34th St.,| Stadium as the colorful ceremony terday indicated the marriage Wounded in Stomach {high scoring center of the 1049- was unreeled in the ffadition, orans a whirlwind courtship of {50 Technical High School basket- ancient Greece. A total of 5, {three weeks was not working out ema, me ing ball team. |athlétes from 69 nations paraded well, 8 Weeks in the pit of the stomach.| Englerth was charged with dis- their colors. { “I guess I made a mistake,” The youth .died in General orderly conduct. Despite the third successive day|she quoted. her sister as saying. | Hospital 3% hours later. | |of rain which filled the Olympic| The. gay brunet had started Sgt. Wurz said the four youths | . {track with pools of water less/wWorking at RCA just after their tacked him when he arrested] Weeks’ other two companions than 24 hours before the start of marriage in Jeffersonville on a charged with disorderly actual competition, every. seat in/July 11.

{them on disorderly conduct/were ; : | \charges. He said he saw them conduct and resisting arrest. They ‘he huge stadium was filled. |, She had an 11-year-old daughLined On Field ter by a previous marriage which

‘pull three men from a car and gre Pvt, Ross FE. Moore, 21, of ended in divorce here two years

slug them. : 3724 W. 16th St.®and Thomas Members of the Internationallago. Her first h 1 - . " S : f ) . usband now is Sgt. Wurz had to defend him of 3106 Winthrop Olympic Committee and the Fin-supposed to be in Burkesville,

" i Morton, 20, mr Shiet Ambul guid todad Ave. nish Organizing Committee lined Ky. police were told. B oe 1 up on the green infield for the!

uniform or out, to defend any Moore, a Marine, is on furlough

Marine on Furlough

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= | citizen they see being attacked.” from Camp Pendleton, Cal. Mor {Oni presentation by President 6a m.. 77 10 a. m... 82 The chief said Sgt. Wurz. aton is on leave from the navall"“w.., "progident Paasikivi were| 78 Mh... 77 11am. ... 86 {former member of the oe amphibious training base at Coro-| ; Sigreled Edstrom of Sweden | 8a. m..7T1 12 (noon) 86 squad, was a first-aid expert and nado, Cal. , afon] 3a m.. 30 1 ie lesaved many lives.” Police said they found three Erosident of the 100, and Baron} wale oo all. Chief. Ambul pledged police co- cans of cold beer in youths’ car, : | Latest humidity ...... 79%

operation in the coroner's investi- one partly consumed and two uné|{O¥ERRizing eommitiee. . 4 teat | will record the winners of Olympic

events was spelled out: {

gation of Weeks’ death. Mean- opened. ‘while, Sgt. Wurz was ordered to] Weeks was free pending appeal

That Bird Mr. Stork Can Even Tell Time

MR. A. STORK, unconcerned with the more pressing things in life, soared over St. Francis Hospital yesterday, dropping three bouncing bundles of coincidence. At exactly 4:07 p. m. the big white pird released two boys, who ishmmediately became cousins. "Their mothers, Mrs. Roy Arthur, 1756 8. Randolph St. and Mrs. Donald Muffiey, 3709 8." Ewing St, are sisters. Darrell Arthur weighed in at 7 pounds and 11 ounces, while his relative, Gary Muffiey, tipped the scales at 6 pounds and 6 ounces.

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Fenton, city air freight agent [twice previously on disorderly field hockey and soccer. | for Trans-World Airlines, told |conduct charges. Both were dis-| As usual, the United States 1s| Fitate Section you will find her, “You've got an hour and ‘missed. : lexpected. to make off with the( - 2Ver 80% of the Better Home 15 minutes.” A charge of preliminary rob- most gold medals—perhaps as Values, From this VIDE Jo The youngster who made it bery against Moore was dismissed many as 38. The over-all gold] BIETY you are SURE to fin was named Donald Scott. Pop in March, 1951. Morton has no standard of the U. 8, team was| ‘e¥eral you will personally fi says, “Looks like I'll be losing previous police record. estimated at 10 first places in| 'Mspect this week end. ¢ Ee a birthday.” | Cases of the trio were con- track, gine in swimming, four, To order the convenien The newest addition is the tinued in Municipal Court 3 un-leach-n- boxing and weight-lifting,| home delivery of the big third of the Fenton children, [til July 31. Bond was set at/three each in wrestling and gym.| SUNDAY TIMES, you may all of whom have been born $200 each for Moore and Morton nastics, two in shooting and one| Phone PL aza 5551 during Leap Year. and at $100 for Englerth. ; |each in basketball and Towing. to_midnight

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