Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1952 — Page 9

Council Says Investigation Is Incomplete

. By DONNA MIKELS The Traffic Committee of Indianapolis Safety Council | a | today scored the “incomplete ta i javedtigation in the Hugh! (Wally) ‘Middlesworth traffic “fix” | case and urged a “reaching” in-| vestigation by the Board of Safe-| “We hold, with the Nationall

Committee Chairman Dr. R. N.| .e Harger, “that our traffic laws] must be.enforced vigorously, fearlessly and impartially. “Mr, Paul Robertson, president of the Board of Safety, has as-| sured me that his board will subject this matter to a searching investigation. I have always! found Mr. Robertson to be a man of his word.”

Board is investigating, adding: |

“The first thing we're going to] §

do is get a thorough police inves-

tigation.” 75 ‘Didn't Know Him’ Dr. Harger's statement came after the police department “in-| 75 vestigation” consisted of asking J Capt, Michael Hynes to submit

a statement as to why he ordered 75 a patrolman to. release Middlesd worth. The patrolman had taken the Butler University assistant 75 football coach into custody and] was preparing affidavits on|

Safety Council,” said Traffic &

Mr. Robertson said the Safety! §

SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1952 : ce

Safety Unit Hits Middlesworth

A 105.POUNDER GOT AWAY—When David Rash, I1, of 734 Congress Ave., went fishing re- culture Department entomolgist, cently he caught a 105-pounder measuring 61 inches. But 12-year-old gress Ave. got away after doctors at General Hospital pulled a six-Hook lure from his head. A bald spot on the back of his head is all Walter has to show from the mishap. The boys were fishing in |cais wou.d prevent - widespread,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES : , —_ PAGE9

Fix’ Probe—————

Sen. McMahon's Aid | BL iol Is Moving ‘ ‘Hopeful’ He'll Rally : The Circle

By United Press earlier to be in critical condition, WASHINGTON, July 26—Sen. but neither Georgetown Univers:

‘Brien McMahon's secretary said ity hospital nor the Senator's of-§ {Brie y fice would discuss his condition.

today the ‘Conpecticut Democrat “n. yon McMahon. his brother, ;has failed to rally as expectedreported in Norwalk, Conn. thel {from .a recent operation for a/48-year-olé Senator was in critical | “sacroiliac condition.” condition with only a “50-50” But she added he ‘““‘is doing all chance of survival. iright-and we are hopeful he will Se —————— pick up some.”

Sen Nahr Y= Dive MELON! PLAIDS! | . ROYAL! CHECKS! ; Army Worms GREEN! SOLIDS! GRAY! STRIPES!

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By United Press MADISON, Wis, July 26 — Marauding army worms, form-! ing one of the biggest insect {*chow lines” in Wisconsin in a {decade, were threatening scats tered sections of central Wiscon-|

isin corn and grain fields today. |}

The caterpillar - like insects were opening fresh onslaughts on

grain fields after eating through! an estimated “millions of dollars” of crops in several southern) IN OUR ANNUAL FALL

YUASA

The insects, numbering a mil{lion to the acre in the southern! section of the state, have been known to strip oat fields of their! grain in 48 hours. i But E. L. Chambers, State Agri-| ter Stalnaker. 709 Con- (said the southern country army ’ } worm crisis is over and hope{fully predicted nature and chemi-

charges of drunken and reckless| . . . . . wt nit driving and intoxication when he| White River near 30th St. with another chum, Jimmy Strode, 13, of 3149 Northwestern Ave. lcrop destruction in central coun- NOW-Pick a Color! ES. i 0 was told to halt the arrest. ISR thes. Ww . F : I In his statement Capt. Hynes ? ° * | Mr, Chambers, who tagged the J nan nir ean Alive?—Mother Waits, Waits mri] NOW—Eek @ capri: bout be se | id “not d n ties about because he did not think] ° 3 / ce not over a dozen” counties NOW—Pick a Style!

Middlesworth was drunk, He said | he did not know Middlesworth. |

Twenty-four months of| After 10 more months, thatiand he had no operations. Sheithe worms.

silence again was broken with the knows of no outstanding marks| iimiimit———— EY >

This did not explain an early anguish and battling of offi- death letter

version of the story from other cig] red ta

officers who said Middlesworth in the lockup requested a policeman to “tell Capt. Hynes I'm here.” Papers, Car Gone Nor did it explain Middles-| at the initial investigation of the

i “fix.” Middlesworth told The|

Times he had not been taken into,

custody and to each query replied:

he has been unavailable for com-|which Mrs. Sims bombarded gov-

ment. ernment offices up to President : . Neither did the officers’ state- Truman for a oon of her identify him. {the other. : (would be repelled by a candidate] fall coat at this wonder low price! ment explain disappearance of of- son. | But it made no mention of the She still has hope. |“whose voting record has been} Superior quality Smokey Fleeces, Gabar-

ficial papers relating to the case

or the release of Middlesworth's son's letters stopped coming. She! On the date the Army lists ner Rains Came 5 ; automobile from Plaza Motor Inn knew something was wrong for

without the required release pa- he was faithful in writing. Her t . pers. g lletters to him were being re- William F. Dean, commander of feet deep and rooftops blown off Rhee Enters Race i ; 1 i Dr. Harger, inventor of the turned *“address unknown.” She the 24th Division was taken pris- houses today when cloudburst! PUSAN, Korea, July 26 (UP) touches! All sizes 9 to 52! SMALL DE- : i 4 drunkometer and long-time safety waited, then began seeking word oner during the furious fighting rains and cyclonic winds swept| President Syngman Rhoe for-| POSIT HOLDS ONE IN OUR LAY- : \ FLOOR 4 " leader said the safety group isifrom the government. ‘there. Pfc. Sims was with the the seacoast in the Sydney area. mally entered the South Korean AWAY! . — y Shey J : : not satisfied with the Investiga-| There was no SuSWeE ue word division. | Neany ne Jnehes of rain had presidential race just before the| U (SY 3 0 U LAYAWAY FEN : : tio date of the July 5 incident. for ong months—except from | allen in a e more than 24 deadline today. The election will] — i price Honjo his group EY the pa- the Adjutant General's office One lag. Shorter (hours up to mid-afternoon. 'be held Aug. 5. noney trolman should be allowed to ye. [Which Said het son was all rig] 20d Sow ihe long, heartbreak.) +] rme e in n ore information! ' ; * He he eS a "0% {yore a casually. begins again. | * OPEN EVERY NIGHT | : More Silence | - Mrs, Sims wants to know what

In his prepared statement, Dr.|

the following questions:

suddenly silenced at the whim of | a brass hat who arrogates to himself the added roles of prose-| cutor and court? ! TWO—“Do you have officers who still think th&®%a driver must pe helplessly drunk before he breaks the Indiana law prohibit ing driving under the influence of liquor? THREE—'“Can you convince the four or five other policemen who saw this driver in custody that they are free to tell the whole truth without fear of reprisal? (Dr. Harger earlier had criticized the method used in which patrolmen are forced to give testimony impliacting a superior offi-| cer under whom they must con-| tinue to work.) | FOUR-—“May not lack of pub-| lic confidence explain why your department has unfilled vacancies at a time when the Indiana State Police have 10 times as many applicants as they can take?”

6 County Students Win Journalism Awards

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, July 26 — Thirty-six pupils from eight Marjon County high schools won prizes for outstanding work at the sixth High School Journalism Institute at Indiana University. The following Marion County pupils won first prizes: June Hauenstein, William Alltop, Mary Fackler, Carolyn Wilson, Carol Cooper and Robert i Hurt, Broad Ripple; Sigrid Hood 3 and Jo Anne Niehaus, Shortridge; 4 Philip. Whitesell, Park; Robert Koepper, and Patricia Tollan, Manual, and James Hanna, Ben Davis, Those receiving citizenship awards were: June Ann Brown, Southport; Kathleen Callon and Richard Carter, Manual; Laura Fountain, Howe; Sigrid Hood, Shortridge; James Dearmin, Ben Davis, and Darrell Lance, Broad Ripple.

GOP Club to Hold

& . Ice Cream Lawn Social An old-fashioned ice cream

Club at 7:30 p. m. Thursday on the Edgewood School grounds.

Kendall, club president, says no political speeches will be made.

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All state and county candidates | have been invited, but Walter T.|

|briefly her son, Pfc. Ernest S.|

ONE—“If a policeman @akes|yrs Sims seeking word. an arrest in good faith, can he be| oss a

|died-son although the government|tions cerhetery near Tanggok.

: The letter of death to Mrs. recovered or when it was buried. | worth’s. statement to The Times “qi “roe Divicion St. said | other, probably the result of a/the Advancement of Colored

It was back in July, 1950, her tWO-Year wait.

pe today left an| 71t said her son’s body was re-

Indianapolis mother still in covered near Kujong in and temdoubt as to the fate of her sol-|porarily buried in a United Na-

he had been examined by a doc- : y tor in Dayton, O., before he went LOSING Negro Vote |into the Army. { CHICAGO, July- 26 (UP) - | { The doctor told him -one leg Walter White, executive secretary ihas listed him killed in action. | But it did not say when it WAS was slightly 10ia Dim “on tolof the National Association for 4

|pared with Pfc. Sims’ record to

|Or Scars.

The letter also said the body mild attack of polio. Her son|People, said today “it will be dif- : : {was removed to Japan for “syste-|didn’t tell her the doctor's name. ficult, if not impossible” to get Sm as killed -in_sction Tul imatic examination in our scien-| Mrs. Sims plans a search for|Negro votes for Sen. John Spark-| This abruptly ended a second! ‘DCAllY C21 p¥edinboratorisfibe doctor to see if she canman, a contender for the Demo-| “It wasn't me.” Since this: time $ *\where physical and dental char-|verify that information and then cratic vice presidential nomina-| . : period of long official silence in| co Loic oT a ere com: plans to-have the body examinedition.. veo : NOW . .. While our fresh new fall stocks to see if one leg is shorter than! Mr. White said Negro voters

son missing, American forces] |were fighting near Taegon. Gen.) (UP)--Strests were flooded six, ‘! button trims, Rhinestone and Pearl ’

Then came official notification physical and dental characteris-!

{body is that of her son’s.

Harger said: “In the meantime We | i}, it explanation that Pfe.lt have asked the Board of Safety Sims was Sl in action. Pioliles made Ihe Army believe the!

{ «Then more silence except for, She says he had no dental] work done when he was a civilian

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