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Loses

With Cancer

(Obituary, Page 3) By United Press BUENOS AIRES, July 26—Eva Peron, 30, wife of e President Juan D. Peron, died of cancer tonight. Illness/is receiving an extra $3000

63d YEAR—NUMBER 137

Eva Peron, 30, ludge’s Ruling

Bank Robber Kills G-Man In N.Y. Hotel Lob

Battle

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

SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1952

On Julietta ‘Full of Holes’

| Merger Fight Aids | Planning Appeal |

By TED KNAP

had been slowly sapping her life for 11 months. The official radio announced the passing of the ‘‘spirit-

* Evita Peron

ual chief of the nation”—a title

# awarded Mrs. Peron in May.

Hundreds of weeping women in the street outside the presidential residence knew of the first lady's death more than an hour earlier when Peron switched off the small electric light at his wife's bedside at the moment of her death.

‘Evita is Dead’

A moment after the secondfloor sickroom went dark, Peron stepped into the corridor outside with tears in his eyes and told a group of cabinet ministers: “Evita (Little Eva) is dead.” All Argentine radio stations canceled scheduled programs as soon as Mrs. Peron's death was announced, and substituted Chopin's Funeral March or other mourning music. The programs were interrupted

at intervals to repeat the official risdiction in the case. The court

announcement. Unconfirmed reports said the

Today's News In The Times

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Man who won't give in already has spent three years in PESOS dae cnnivass eatin. den Safety Council hits Middles-

worth fix probe “...cepei0e |

State

Jubilant Hoosiers election plans .....éesssis America knows Soviet better because of Indiana Univer-

Co BY eerepiiiiciiiiienn. 24

National

, Ike believes he's a winner... .

Pagelcining rapidly.”

cabinet had ordered honors” and an unprecedented (funeral for Mrs. Peron.

*| It was reported that her body | would be. taken at once to the labor ministry to lie in state and later. moved to the Basilica of St. Francis in Central Buenos! {Alres. There it was scheduled to re-| main until a-special monumenttomb—recently authorized by 2 congress—can be built, probably {in the vast Plaza De Mayd otit9 side Government House. | Although the official decree has

pected to order several days of national mourning, during which

suspended while funeral bells toll from every church in the country. Announcement of her death followed a series of medical bulletins describing her condition as “very serious,” “grave,” and “deIt was an1 nounced late today that she had

Baroness ie Democrats g lost consciousness. an Traffic Shut Off Forei Cabinet ministers gathered at gn {the presidential residence tonight Page| 5 the increasing urgency of the

Army boots King Farouk off Egyptian throne .......... Romanian purge of Russ pets shows Reds can hate Reds even if they're Joe's pals... 2

Editorial

Pa Hoosier delegates happy; they

bulletins indicated that the first 2/lady lay dying. A police cordon halted all motor 1 [traffic four blocks from the preslident’s home. Pedestrians were |allowed to pass only,on the. other ‘side of the street.

idn't were on right bandwagon... 20 Eva Di n

Middle-roaders see Adlai as

best choice ..v.iveusersens » Know How

Sports

Mathias smashes decathlon record ..... Marciano 11-5 favorite ove Matthews ..

ree [ll She Was

1 By United Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,

ceessseesvaesss 12/July 26—Eva Peron, who died to- |

Cards cut Dodgers’ lead .... 13 night of a lingering illness, prob-

Baseball averages

Women's

Page getting back to work, and Presi-| Riviera Club trains swimmers 27

Story hour in Beech Grove .. 27

Teen of the week . . Inside story on bachelor’s apartments .......cc00000

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Times Index

Amusements ........ 34, 35 Eddie Ash ....cieu0eese 11 Books ...... sesasanssnss 1T

Henry Butler (.ceeeseeee 34 Crossword «....cevese00¢s 34 Editorials .,ccc0000i00e0 20 Fix-It-Yourself ......... 25 In Hollywood ....ie0ee0e 3B Radio, Television .... 22, 23 Real Estate 37, 38, 52 Robert Ruark .......... 19 ReCOTdAS .vssvsncnssssces' 2D Sermon of Week .ieveees 7 Don Teverbaugh ...s.v.. 37 Sports ........ sennese 11-14 Earl Wison «..e000000..19 WOMEN’S «cecvencssnss 27-36 What Goes On Here..... 16 World Report .....ee.e 21 Your Federal Job ....... 26

.. 14 ably ‘never knew how sick she

really was. As recently as Wednesday, she was talking confidently about] dent Juan D. Peron, her husband, encouraged her in the belief that ‘she would recover soon.

| Bometimes, when she was in| |pain and her spirits were low, she |would give away precious jewels |and medals to nurses and friends, | |but at other times she spoke en-| |thusiastically of her plans for a; {South American tour as soon as {she was well.

“Get your wardrobe ready. You| will acompany me,” she told De-| lia de Parodi, a Peronist member of congress, a few days ago dur-| {ing a discussion of the proposed |tour, { “I Will Help”

On Wednesday, she told Forjeign Minister Jeronimo Remorino| that she expected soon to be back | at her desk in the Eva Peron| !Social Aid Foundation, one of] her chief activities. |

“I understand you have some! plans for social work in your] ministry,” she said. “Please wait ‘until I get up, and I will help you. I will give you the nurses and personnel that you need.”

Peron often spoke of his wife's|

It'll Be Hot . Again Today

Another day of fair weather

and high temperatures, was fore

cast today by the Weather Bu- a lapse into coma made it appear |

_reau.

i 4s A high today of 90 degrees was OXY8en mask was used in an at-| predicted after yesterday's mark 'emPt to revive her. Late that |

that she might die that night, an|

of 95 degrees. Tomorrow, the night she rallied. When it became Weather Bureau said, should be Plain that she was about to re-| fair with the highest temperature 83in consciousness Peron had the in the low 90s. Tonight's low oxygen equipment removed from e |

should be around 85, _

‘Baby Smothers in Crib

room. ! | When she opened her eyes, she! saw Gov. Carlos Aloe of Buenos Alres province ‘standing at her

}

* ‘DES MOINES, lowa, July 26 bedside. Her first words indicated (UP)—Martin Kuhns, 6 weeks! that she did not know how close! old, suffocated in his erib today She had been to death.

sleeping.

His body was : found by his mother, Mrs. Alvin this late hour?” she. asked.

are you doing here at!

when she tried to awaken ; |

IN rR A

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“highest | ruling should not be set aside.

Nation Mourns | Assembly to draw up the bill, [charged Judge Brennan's findings

* |not yet been published, it was ex<|and class legislation . . . clearly .. Page MAP. 1%. lan oficial activities would be

Judge Norman FE. Brennan

|annual salary’ which is, by his own ruling, illegal and un-|

|constitutional. | The judge also decreed his own lcourt is unconstitutional. | | Those barbs were tossed yes|terday by leaders of the Juliett {merger fight as they tore apart Judge Brennan's recent ruling that the 1951 ® Health and Hos- § i pital Law is un-} constitu-§ tional. City and state officials have joined to prepare an appeal to Indiana Supreme Court | against the Su | perior Court oo i Judge Brennan jurists’ decision. {| First step in such action was taken yesterday when a petition {was filed with the. Supreme Court |challenging Judge Brennan's ju-

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{

{promptly issued a writ, asking the judge to show cause why his

Attorney Robert Hollowell, who was called in by the General ;

were “full of obvious holes.” One| of the most ironic, he said, is’ this: | Judge Brennan put considerable weight ,in an argument the law | is void because it applies only to! Marion. County. ! = The law covers ‘those counties | having population of more than | 500,000. Judge Brennan noted | this “singled out Indianapolis and | Marion County as a privileged | class.” «He called it “restrictive

in violation of the state constitu~

Singled YE : : : United Press Telephoto. But at e BO sow, NO TOUGH GUY NOW-—Gerhardt Puff lies in pein on the sidewalk, felled by a shot in the in effect which single out Marion | :

or some other county on a .popu-! lation basis. .

oe One of these is the law whigh/ WW: : sets a maximum salary of $10,500 inne d S if a year for county judges, includ- pi!

ing Superior Court. The excep- |

tion 18 in counties “having popu-| ’ ‘i lation of more than 400,000"— where the top salary can be! ; $13,500. ey Will Keep Post at

Judge Brennan is one of 10! Marion County judges “singled | . Least Temporarily By IRVING LEIBOWITZ

out” and “privileged” to get $13,-! 500 3 | Times Staff Writer

CHICAGO, July 26—Frank E. McKinney agreed today to continue as Democratic Na-| tional chairman until the new| presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson, selects a replacement. | | Mr. McKinney, Indianapolis {banker-sportsman-politician, told

{the Democratic National Committee Mr. Stevenson had persuaded him to remain “temporarily.” | i | However, a move was under |way to keep My. McKinney as the Mr. Hollowell {party's boss for ‘another four ty. The five Superior Courts, two years. Criminal Courts, four Municipal Courts, Probate ‘and -Juvenile| Praised by Candidates Courts—all are authorized for: Jacob Arvey, political bpss of Marion County .because of its/Chicago and Illinois national large population. committeeman, told the Indian-| Scratch those population courts apolis Times he would “do everyand Marion County would end up thing in my power” to retain Mr. with one Circuit and five Justice McKinney. of Peace Courts. ;

leg from the pistol of the G-man he killed.

If Judge Brennan's argument against population basis laws was followed, it would wipe out nearly all the courts in Marion Coun-

Mr. Diener

United Press Telephoto. | END OF THE TRAIL—A brunet said to have registered in a Mr. McKinney was praised by New York City hotel with Gerhardt Puff, captured in a gun battle

"Rep. George 8. Diener, co- Gov. Stevenson and Alabama’s| by FBI agents yesterday, is led from the hotel to an auto. The

author of the law that would Sen. John Sparkman, candidate couple registered as Mr. and Mrs. Burns. Puff, wanted in connection

take the Marion County Home for Vice President, as “the man

for Aged out of politics, blasted Judge Brennan's decision. Continued on Page 3—Col. 1

‘A Long Way' | “It looks like he had to search

= | Officer's Helpi % el 2 long way to ind arguments for fficer’s He ping fan | | |

with a bank robbery, appeared with a gun in each hand when trapped by FBI agents.

Indiaztapolis legislator charged. | . ° - ® ep. Diener pointed out the Health and Hospital Act was Repaid With a Kick checked for constitutionality by| the Legislative Reference Bureau! and the Attorney General's office. | They spent months working on| the bill. And the state Board of counts looked it over. “At least a dozen lawyers went over the bill carefully. We spent| two years drawing it up,”

(Photo, Page 3)

|directions. Officer Burns turned

(his head to give the directions.

| Michael Burns got a kick instead |, 41y Ac- of a shake last night in return for {stomach.

his saving a man lying in the offi middle of a traffic-filled street. Wiis Bh Bh nt 1

Officer Burns, who walks altw, fel] to the pavement. In the, ReP. downtown beat was chatting With giqewalic scuffle the officer. was|

Diener sua. firemen at Engine House 13, at aple to get a handcuff in place No Control? [Kentucky Ave. and Maryland 8t.,|on the man’s wrist.

Another of Judge Brennan's When he saw the man fall in the, Witnesses called for additional

kicked him in the

TEE EH

Sunday

Edition

PRICE TEN CENTS

12 Agents Snap Trap

That Starts Gun Duel Right Out of Movies

By United Press -

NEW YORK, July 26—FBI agents shot and captured one of the nation’s 10 most wanted criminals today after he fatally wounded a G-man who had wounded him and raced through a gauntlet of pistol fire in a Manhattan hotel lobby,

Gerhardt Arthur Puff, 37, shot, agent Joseph Brock as he and 11!

other FBI men sprang a trap online

Denmark said he cowered behind lobby desk while bullets

the fugitive bank robber in the singed through the air, puncturing narrow lobby of the Hotel Con-|walls and upholstery and falling

gress off Central Park West. |

But before the 44-year-old Gman and father of three fell nor.) tally wounded, he winged the des-| perado as Puff, his two guns vias, ing, fled through the hotel en-| trance. Puff fell screaming on the | sidewalk. Mr. Brock was dead on arrival

spent on the floor.

“I felt my throat tightening up—this was just like something in the movies, only I knew this was real and it was pretty tough to do my work with all this going on around me,” Mr. Denmark said.

He said that agents stationed

at Roosevelt Hospital, Puff was themselves around the lobby and confined in the prison ward of |pehind parked cars outside and

Bellevue Hospital after receiving emergency first aid for his wound at Roosevelt.

Seize 2 Women

The FBI also seized two women along with Puff. One identified herself as the gunman'’s wife. The other said she is the wife of 22-year-old George Arthur Heroux, Puff’s bank robbing buddy who was captured in Miami, Fla., Friday. o : Sed Puff's dvife, a pretty 17-year-old brunet, said she was born Anine Laurie Mopre in Bangor, Me, and married the gunman June 3 at Darlington, 8. C., under the name of Richard E. Rodgers.

, “all of a sudden without warning the doorway leading fo the firestairs, which is just down the corridor about 30 feet away from me, burst open and thers stood Puff, a gun in each hand. + “Then it happet » start. ed to roar an ere were bullets all over the place. . . . I just dropped flat on the floor and said a few prayers. “After the shooting stopped, I looked outside and saw Puff lying in the street holding his eg.” :

“I Was Alone’

As Puff lay writhing in pais on the pavement in front of the

dren. . Puff also is from Milwaukee. FBI said 17 agents have been killed in line of duty. The last one to be slain by gun fire, before Mr. Brock, was Hubert Treacy, killed Mar, 13, 1942, in Abingdon, Va.

The cocky gunman's capture came on FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s 35th anniversary with the Justice Department,

Comes Out Shooting

Puff, considered one of the most dangerous public enemies since John Dillinger died in a gun-battle with the FBI, apparently knew he was trapped and decided to shoot his way to freedom,

The G-men blocked off Puff's only avenue of escape after he and his two women entered the ‘hotel to obtain a cache of weapons in ther ninth-floor room.

An agent was assigned to operate the lone elevator in the building, which is only two blocks from Gambler Frank Costello's home, while other agents stationed themselves in the: lobby and on the sidewalk in front of the hotel.

Outdoes Movies

But the cunning gunman walked downstairs and burst through a door at the back of the lobby with two guns in his hands.

The gun battle outdid that staged in any Hollywood gangbusting movie. Hotel Clerk Hy

MARY HELEN AND CHILDREN—

Big Hearts Here Swell rei err ez Fund for the Sullivans

OR MARY HELEN and the children. I { wish it were 100 times greater.

An old friend of the Sullivans.” Outpourings such as this from the hearts {- of the good people of Indianapolis are beginning to swell the John L. Sullivan Fund for the future education of the slain policeman’s

Good luck. a volume. But

to be born, wil

The other woman, a 23-year- pate] agen him. old blond, told nts she was Where ATS Abe others” he - Joan Evans of tt, Mass. | was asked SAE Ing Wa —identified as Heroux—at Co “where the girls? lumbia, 8. C., last Feb. 18. | “Ident ther: . Why ,+ Mr. Brock, a native of Mil- | dont: you emt it : waukee, Wis, was married and! “You don’t want to get the girls the father of three teen-age chil- killed, do you™ ;

| “Ah, bell™ ssid 3 gunan, jand brushed aside questions with a wave of his hand. Puff was wearing a light blue sports shirt, gray slacks and highly polished brown shoes. Residents of the neighborhood. off Central Park West, gaped open-mouthed out of windows. “We heard shots—bam, bam, bam—just like in the movies ™ sald Miss Nita Winslow, whe was visiting a second-floor apartment across the street from the hotel on West 69th St. “We looked out and saw four FBI men—two crouched on each side of the doorway. They shot about three more times and then ran behind some automobiles parked in front of the hotel.

Lets Pistol Fall

“ ‘Drop it, drop it’ ” they yelled. This man was firing back at them jall the time and then they hit him. He slumped over on the sidewalk still holding his gun. “The FBI men shouted ‘Drop your gun’ and he let the pistol {fall on the sidewalk. They ran {up to him and slapped the handcuffs on him real fast. Gosh, I was scared.”

Hotel Scarred

curiosity seekers flocked to the hotel and gathered speat bullets for souvenirs. Splotches of {Puff’s blood stained the sidewalk: In the hotel lobbly, walls were

Continued on Page 3—Col. 2

The goodness in people's hearts could fill

many give us no name, others

merely put a return address on the envelope.

But surely it makes all feel tightness in the throat that the two children, and the one yet

1 have an education.

For them it is not charity but a chance. Your contribution should be mailed to the

main arguments—that the merger street amid surging traffic. * He police help which sped to the| children, John L. Sullivan Fund, The Indianapolis plan would put control in the rushed out and pulled the man scene and arrested Arthur Stas- The anonymous note is typical of the let- Times. 214 W, Maryland. St or it may be Mayor's hands—was branded as from between moving cars and chack, 44, 26 W. Pear] St. tera teleph, n ad brought to The Times office. false and impossible. [narrowly escaped being hit by a| BStaschack, arrested for drunk Indiana PaO A 384 personal visita to The JOHN L. SULLIVAN FUND Judge Brennan said since the trolley. |and resisting an officer, was tak- Pa : _ Mayor appoints three members| As he helped the man to the en to General Hospital for in- Take, for example, the kind hearts of the Previous balance ........coeveeeseee § 715.48 of the governing board while/curb a passing motorist asked! juries suffered when he fell. night men in departments 300 and 900 of Link- Link-Belt Co., Depts. 300 & 900 Night « County Sorginissloners appoint | oN Belt Co. One of them brought in their collec- Men ..oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiin. 36.00 wo, it would give the Mayor con-| Views on the News . tion yesterday. He didn’t . W JH K, siviiniitniiiiniiiaiaiii, 10.00 trol over policies. L ———————————— ‘Woman Dies After he he ow a in hi o 53y, much. What Universal Film Co., 517 N. Meridian St. 10.50 Mr. Hollowell countered ‘that . : . ; ‘ . Boa eyen No name mentioned, please .......... 10.00 The trustees are appointed for| Dan Ki ney Leaving Train The people at. Universal Fiim Co. sad Chas. L. Steff : : 10.00 staggered terms of four years, | simply: L as. L. FROM + ivrnreannransiinine J and can be removed only by court! NATIONAL Democratic Chair-| A 69-year-old Indianapolis “We hope this will help a little bit.” Dr. and Mrs, A. S. Jaeger, 2935 Wash. impeachment, like any other man Frank E. McKinney said the | VOMmAD, returning from a visit Then there was th h BIVES vies se beuctieruyerassbrbbiels So county official. southerners don't have to keep in Calumet City, collapsed and as e man who called to say F.J. Sanertelg «...ovconsnndnncssrnee 5.00 And the Mayor also is for-|the pledge. After all, it was the| died last night as she stepped into| he and three friends decided over lunch to Margaret Hellman ......ceesececesss 5.00 bidden from choosing more-than Democrats who repealed prohibi- * cab after leaving an air-condi-| make the rounds of employees in the large Mrs. E. L. Sandberg «.vcesaescssssss 5.00 two trustees from one political tion. tioned train at the Boulevard Sta-| down town store in which they worked 5.00 arty. This makes the board bi- tion of the Monon Railroad. ; as Georgin. Brasher .........sv aeerveves 4 party. e : 4 as Frm {. And from out W. 10th St. comes word that Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Salomon ......... 5.00 partisan. Xa: Several presidential candi- | Police said Mrs. Corinne Ruth-|' two businesses have set out jars to accept con- . ba 5.00 “Once a trustee is appointed, he dates had “their mames placed erford, 4532 Carrollton Ave. was tributions. They are David Richards’ Banner Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Barber ... Is as free of political control as in nomination without ome of met al the station by her sister, Market at 2516 and James Sullivan's Pharm. ANONYMOUS ....ivieviiss®rorrenianes 2.00 a school board member,” Mr. the Roosevelt boys making a Mrs. Bertie Cowan, who lived acy at 2520. Mr. Sullivan is no relation to the Patsy Troyer ........cceieceiiinnses 5.00 Hollowell sald, | speech on their behalf. (with her. The two got into a, policeman for whom services were held yester- Mrs. Tressie Stacey .........sseeees 1.00 ~ “There would be no control by lr a cab at the station. Mrs. Ruther- \ : An old friend of the Sullivans’ ...... 1.00 the Mayor or anyother SOME GUYS see flying ford put her head on the back while, officials atCity Hall said their : : Sam: Be every ime they are i th cu. sat 434 co, ‘collectipn of $50 has grown to $100, ¥ 5 : . .. (AF i

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After the gunfire had halted,