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FORECAST: Mostly cloudy today. Partly cloudy, cooler tonight, tomo rrow.

‘Low tonight, 65. High tomorrow, 88.

FINAL HOME

63d YEAR—NUMBER 159

Hoosier Scared In Cell With Hammer Killer |

By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 18—Junior Cox, confessed hammer killer who taunted police with telephone threats to strike again, frightened another slaying suspect nearly out of his wits when police threw both men in the same cell.

Milton Phillips, a who was arrested naction with the slaying of his

“1S Declares

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butcher Knife

bride in Indian apolig, June 19, gpent Saturday P night in a cell al 0 a p with the claw

hammer killer. “I didn't dare steep — I was § afraid he would % bash my head in with a shoe,” the

“Disaster Area’

Bl-year-old Indi- ig Mey ply anapolis man . or Drought Loans said. “I'd never Junior Cox g |

want to spend another night ini Uncle Sam today declared a cell with a guy like him.” .

Phillips didn't have to. He was 21 drought-stricken counties

taken back to Indianapolis, for'in southern Indiana are a Investigation into his wife's death «jicaster area.” and he actually seemed relieved. » ; = As a result, farmers in the sunCox, who bludgeoned® a man to death with a claw hammer and Parched apply for then threatened to invadé Chi- emergency government loans, All cago hotels in his quest for blood, loans are repayable at 3 per cent| was captured Saturday at a interest. : YMCA. The federal He had been hunted 10 days byigs00.000 in emergency all of Chicago's more than 7000 avaliable to Indians. : policemen, . Gav. Schricker wired for “It's a good thing vou caught ora) aid last week. After me—I1 was going to kill another sulting man soon,” Cox boasted when de-'making a tectives arrested him.

‘I'm _the Killer”

counties may

government madé funds

fedcon-

personal inspection tour of the afflicted area, the Governor said drought conditions and unseasonably high temperaThe 30-year-old slayer said he tures had created was from Logan, W. Va., and re- crop and pasture damage.

vealed that he had rgceived psy- Countics Listed

chi treatment tw Sig at 0 hos Counties in the ‘disaster area" NS ie Wn s,.are: The doctors couldn't help me, Floyd, = Gibson, Harrison, he said. Fes : Cox said he killed his hotel

Ge ey, Spencer, Scott, Vanderburgh, roommate, Thomas Acton, 35, be- warrick, Washington, Dearborn. | cause the Birmingham. Ala. man yefferson; Ohio, Ripley and “kept bragging about how tough!Switzerland. he was.” a C. J. McCormick, undersecreHe said he got “an urge to kill” tary of agriculture, wired Gov.! shortly after the men registered Schricker this morning of the! fn the shabby hotel. | “disaster” designation. | Acton's body was found when!

the hammer Killer telephoned po- Said Saturday it had received

lice, gave the room number and Word the government would ap- NOW are : Lang, Harry G

, In his telegram, Mr. McCormick ers and Milton Craig.

told them: “If you go there you Prove the emergency relief. will find something bloody.

with farm experts’ and M

DOCTOR AILING — Dr. A. C. Yoder, Goshen, 85-year-old "Family Doctor of 1951," was in good condition today at Memorial Hospital in South Bend after undergoing surgery for an injury suffered in an auto accident, Dr. Yoder, chosen family doctor by the American Medical Association's House of Delegates last year, sustained a

! broken knee cap when the car

he was driving collided -with another car in Goshen Saturday.

Democrats Take a Walk

Refuse to Run For Chairman

(Other Politics Page 2) The twe leading candidates for

- Joseph Barr and Albert took themselves out of

This left county Democrats still

widespre: : . ; idespread hunting a replacement for David idea,” he said vehemently. M. Lewis, who quit without warn-{ ing last week. -

Mr. Barr, 34-year-old Navy

Mr. Deluse, a grain merchant,

also declined to accept the party post.

The Democrats have three days

to find a new chairman before the County Convention at the Athen- Harry Johanssen said the tam-|

pering may have been the work a saving of thousands of dollars!

Sen. William FE. Jenner's office aém Thursday night. |a year in operational

Leading cantenders for the post Fred Nordsiek,

asper, Dewey My-| boats

praised Gov. Schricker for] Cox swaggered at a police show- promptly recognizing and report-| up. When asked for his name he jho the emergency. The underbarked, “I am the hammer killer.” secretary said: 4

In his confession, he told de- “Your alertness : tectives he “often had an urge to swift action ... is recognized kill.” and appreciated hecause of the

He said he was planning to Kill importance of Indiana farm pro: a man in Calumet City, Ill, when duction to our total national food

Detectives James Cooley and output.” Lloyd Sands arrested him at the | YMCA.

| Views on the News—

Not So Quiet | Dan Kidney

Accused knife Milton| ov, STEVENSON has decidPhillips didn’t get much rest in eq jt will take a talkathon to tell Indianapolis, either, according to why the Democrats should be allowed to.try again.

Local Jail

slayer

jailers at police headquarters. “Nobody could sleep very well ® =n = in there on Sunday night,” said The Archbishop of Canterone turnkey. ‘We get a big load bury says we should respect the of drunks and bums every week sincerity of his “Red” dean in end. They make so much noise bearing false witness against

you couldn’t hear yourself snore.” | us. ~ Phillips, unshaven, tired and 4 2 8 beat-looking after his two-day = THE GOP congressional lead-

jail ordeal, appeafed before Judge ers claim the 82d Congress “mudScott McDonald in Municipal dled to a dismal end.” The RepubCourt 4 this morning. lican members can’t be hlamed — Judge McDonald told Phillips they were in Chicago at the time. he was accused of murder and TT Fe. asked him if he would waive for Grand Jury action. Phillips said he would, and Judge McDbnald ordered him held under no bond.

Middies Salute Faisal ANNAPOLIS, Md. “Aug. 18 (UP)—A booming salute of 21 guns welcomed King ‘Faisal I1I-6f Iraq today as he arrived to tour the U. 8S. naval academy. Maggie's in Sweden STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 18 (UP) — Margaret Truman began a four-day visit here today.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES yam... 3 19a Mm... 7 6a m.. 8 1a m.. 34. m.. 78 12 (Noon) 7 9a m.. 13 i p.m...

Latest humidity ......

Pollen Count Grains per cubic yard of air. TodAY A.ervesrnssssssnss 58 Yesterday ...ocecececnnss 50

The Marching Dead

THE LINE OF MARCHING DEAD GROWS—Marion County's 82d traffic fatality was Fred W. Reid, 64, of 75 N. Warman Ave., who died shortly after he was struck by a car at West and Maryland Sts. today. Mr. Reid, according to witnesses, was crossing West St. a few feet from the intersection when he was hit by a car driven by John

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MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1952

Reds Are Out To Kill Him, Says Kaiser

2 Speedboats Tampered With

By United Press

| LAKE TAHOE, (Cal., Aug. 18 — Millionaire industrialist Henry J. Kaiser said that some of his enemies—possibly Communists —tried to murder {him by tampering with two of (his high-powered speedboats. Thirty minutes before he was| to have piloted one of the 169-| mile-an-hour boats in the Lake] Tahoe Gold Cup Race yesterday | the tampering was discovered. |

Mr, Kaiser's executive assistant, Robert C. Elliott, said the propeller shaft of the 32-foot alum-linum-hulled Hot Metal had been sawed in two and bolts, nuts and {rags had been stuffed into the craft's carburetor and blower. | Five gallons of gasoline had {been poured into the hull of Mr. Kaiser's other speedboat, Mr. Elliott said. | Both speedboats were entered lin the races. | “This was a murderous attempt upon my life,” Mr. Kaiser said. |““Pouring gasoline in a boat is {just plain, cold murder as far {as I'm concerned. |

“A Russian Idea” |

| | | “It could well be munist influence.

the ComSome of these

arion County Democratic Chair- people have been very critical of dren but is “overflowing at this man Deluse - the race today.

me. Scme of ‘them have even said publicly they wanted me, ‘eliminated. This is a Russian “We America don't have ideas like!

du { . |

is Mr. Elliott said the propeller

Clark, Crawford, Dubois, veteran, said he did naf. want ‘the shaft of the Hot Metal would|25th St. and Keystone Ave. would J Jen- {pact for himself but would sup- have pushed through the deck of be moved to the nings, Orange, Pike, Perry, Pos-| ort any Democrat who would the boat probably killing anylian's Home, site. Ese : in

attempt to unite the party.

occupants as soon as it was started. The scattered gasoline and the stuffed carburetor and

blower might have exploded, ! setting fire to the boats, he said. But Tahoe City Constable

of someone who'd become fed up

Sam with the noise the high-powered!

have been making in [preparation fot the races.

Getting Cranky for both

“There have been many com|plaints from residents about the noise,” he said. “Some people

have been getting pretty cranky.” Despite the harrowing incident,

Mr. Kaiser entered the Gold Cup {Race in his 16-foot ‘Stardust,”| | which he piloted to second place, | land also entered a fourth boat, | |“Let-Me-Go-First,” which his me- | {chanic Max Collins brought in! | third. | Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser won the {lady's 200-horsepower championship in “Stardust,” giving the Kaiser fleet three places in two events,

| Times Tourney |

Is Under Way |

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Pinner, 33, of 933 W. 30th St. Mr. Pinner was making a left turn onto West St. when Mr. Reid stepped out from behind . @& slow moving, northbound “semitrailer rig.

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Press Telephoto,

HAPPY ENDING—Nine-year-old Eva Lois Phillips gives deputy sheriffs a big Pog in Dallas, Tex, after being saved from a woman who had kidnaped her. The child and her abductor, Mrs, Corrinne - Wood, 20, who admits the crime, were picked up in Dallas, Saturday.

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Dynamite Explosion

Rips Fill At 5635 N. lll

New Children's Home Planned At Julietta

Program . Outlined By County Board |

By JOHN V. WILSON

Plans for .building a new Children's Guardian's Home| at Julietta were unveiled to-|

day before the Marion County | Council. i The major change was asked by County Commissioners to relieve the present over-crowding at the Guardian's Home at 5751 University Ave, County Commissioner Golden P. Silver explained the home is licensed to care for only 81 chil-

time.” Under the proposal the new home would be expanded to house 250 children.

Would Be Moved

Under Dr. Silver's “proposal, the “outgrown” juvenile center at

United Press Telephoto,

THE RAINS CAME—Plymouth, England, women wield brooms in doorway of shop as flash floods, made more severe by torrential rains, devastate coastal holiday resorts. Latest. flood toll lists 43 persons dead or.missing and more than 1500 homeless as the watery havoc threatens to grow worse.

present Guard-

Dr. Silver estimated the project would cost $500,000. Erection of the. new Guardian's Home at, Julietta would cost $465,000 and, changes to the present Guardfan's Home would cost $35,000. “The arrangement would effect |

Raft Crew Weary Of ‘Friendship Test’

Ry United Press ' Dr. Silver predicted. MARSEILLE, France, Aug. 18 sity Princeton, N. J. | By building the new Guardian's —TWo0 men quit the “Ken-Tookle” | Home near the County Home for'raft expedition today after dis- Md. the Aged, Dr. Silver said, services drift: in They told

covering they couldn't institutions could be a (harmony for even 30 hours,

{ The only girl in the six-member party said she thought she would use the quit, too, before the

expense,” felt the same way,

combined. enough. Same Service

He said both

was taken home by a

could and sewage disposal plant. He al- adventure across Mediterso said combined services would ranean to Africa, months and 2000 make for lower electric rates. Purpose of the drifting expedi- open Mediterranean when Under Dr. Silver's plan the new tion was to prove that “five intel- wakes up. Guardian's Home would be built ligent persons— not necessarily of. However, Michael on 10 acres of county property| tne same sex—can live in har- Bournemouth, between U.S. 52 and Julietta. mony away from the Dr. Silver said part of the land i i1ization.” could be used for a playground.| : . He pointed out bus service would | The other three members of the be available for the children to expedition—including a newcomer both elementary and high schools —said they planned to stick jt in Warren Township. out, but if Nurse Muriel Grand 20, of Hull, England, makes good ther threat, it will be a mortal The ,county comm’:sioner sald plow the to experiment described the juvenile center property which as “more philosophic than sclen would be vacated under his plan tific.” could be used for outlying county| The 13 by 26-foot raft floating offices and storage space, “hoth of on a collection of old oil drums which are sorely needed now.” Dr. Silver said he would ask the county council to consider a $1.5 million bond issue to finance the proposal. The hond issue also shift sail. would make available $996,000 for major repairs of the county

the will decide about those

Jones,

to carry on,

Adlai Stevenson, Learn About Him In The Times

Not in years has a major U. 8. political party named a presidential candidate less well known to most Americans than Adlai Stevenson. Democrats at Chicago choose him as an attractive personality,

Storage Space

set out yesterday from the mouth of the Rhone River for Marseille with a blanket hoisted as a make-

Ran Aground

Caught in a strong west wind

home. the -“Ken-Tookle” drifted -by the have been a good governor of Illinois. - harbor mouth and ran aground But what about the record? pp S to pp 20 hours later at tiny Port Des! Did Adlai Stevenson deal sucGioudes, seven miles east of Mar cessfully with his state legisla- . 4 ture ? . u sellle, ; Did he meet state problems Both raft and crew showed resolutely? 4 signs of wear, The blanket sail py oq play with the politicians - {was. torn and battered. The lines: go his own way?

County Council President Scott holding parts” in place were limp Ging today urged: council mem- and weakened bers to “remove sore spots’ in One night on the open sea wa the operation of Juliettd to “as- enough to convince Madrid-born meat

Did he balance the state budget or was he a “spender?” :

scandal” The multi-milllon-

sure our keeping control” of the jhe De Tojada, 23. of Princeton, dollar cigaret tax fraud” The County Home. Me. he was nm sailor. West Frankfort, Ill., mine dis“That's the best way,” Mr He ig an as oo nt professor of aster?

Ging added. “Then maybe we'll avert this thing.” He referred to the 1951 state law merging health and hospital facilities in Marion County. Mr. Ging said he believed the law is “undoubtedly unconstitutional.” “I'm sure it the legislature

Tomorrow The Times begins a eries of four articles by Charles top political writer, dis-

Expect Peace | cussing these ane many othe Indianapolis and At Chalmers Plant phases of the Ri ranion Tota :

Lacey

Times Stale Service TERRE HAUTE, Aug. 18 Mayor Ralph Tucker of to Haute said this noon both side for were ready to «ign an agreement

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will go next

clarification he declared, "And ending the 15-week-old strike at they'll end up by putting a large the _Allis-Chalmers jet engine © part of the Julietta management plant here back in county hands, Mavor Tucker met with the Tickets went on sale today for Meanwhile, County Attorney two groups yesterday but failed the finals in The Times Junior Max Plesser predicted today the to get them together to discus ie : 5 Olympics and a giant water show Indiana Supreme Court would his “package” settlement. which * declare -the new Julietta health includes a 14-cent hourly wage to be held at Broad Ripple Pool merger law unconstitutional increase p.m, Aug, 27, vw» He advised the ¢'ounty Council The union announced a mem- Proceeds will go to support to consider the 1953. County Home bership meeting was called for swim training programs in city

budget, “just as if the law didn't tonight --either to re port on negotiations or to vote on

a possible settlement

eive a re- pools and amateur athletics sponsored by the Indiana AAU,

More than 65 stellar events are

Du ke ‘Much Better’

After a two-hour session Satur- listed on the fast-paced 2';-hour PARIS Aug 183 (UP)~—The day, State Labor Commissioner program —a water version of the Duke of Windsor was ‘much Yhomas R. Hutson said some famous Times Ice-O-Rama. A disbetter” today following a severe “progress” was made, Company play of aerial fireworks will attack of lumbago. He was helped SPokesman Lee Baker said the climax the evening.

from the train vesterday when he Outlook was encouraging. In addjtion to the final spirited

arrived here from Italy by the But when yesterday's confer- heats for City Junior Olympic duchess. a ences adjourned, neither union’ championships, there will be divterse asmini —- ‘nor management would discuss ing exhibitions, a water ballet.

Charley's Restaurant, ME Oh . Bu ie ; Ae i . i yh Bemaurant, 14¢ .2..0 te Bus» the issue or offer any hope for syfhchronized ‘swimming, for Steaks Sinee 1910 optimism.

boat races, water polo, life saving,

> philosophy at Princeton Univer-

Miss Grand, haggard and worn, friendly home-made villager in Port Des Goudes for 2Way he said. same steam service, water supply, raft set adrift here on a 2000-mile a good night's sleep. She said she two | miles on the she reported hearing the explosion . this morning. of| Mrs. James Steen, 5658 N. Iisng. and Andre|linois St, said she was awakened rigors ‘of Larivier, 23, of Paris, the new- DY the explosion and told her huscomer, sald they were still game

a man liked but not well-known to party leaders, a man said to

What about the so-called horse- |

Filling Station

NOIS Blast Tears

Out Windows; None Injured

Security Police

Investigate It By RICHARD MITTMAN

A dynamité blast that awakened residents over a half-mile area shattered a North Side filling station

early today. Police called to Modern Fuels, Inc, at 3:20 a. m. found the entrance blown out and several windows splintered. Officers of the Police Internal Security Division also investigated, The building at 5635 N. Illinois St. is owned by C. W. Irwin, of 3812 N. Capitol Ave. He said he was unable to estimate damage. | No cause for the dynamiting was given. A similar bombing at the Earl 'Hinsey Service Station ih Brookville Aug. 9 was tied with the North Side blast today.

Knows of No Motive:

| The Brookville explosion was more severe than today’s. It ripped’ {the weather boarding from the [front of the station and broke most of the windows. ’ | Mr. Hinsey reported at the time he knew of no motive. But after {learning of today's bombing, he {sald there must be a connection as he is a retail distributor for odern Fuels, Inc,

Donald Kindler, 28, of Jessups,! James Hixon; Franklin County

sheriff, told The Times today the

the skipper Richard Brookville blast apparently was Miller, 27, Chicago, 111, they'd had caused by a home made bomb

placed under the tire rack. A long fuse attached gave persons who tossed the bomb time to get

Housewives Hear It Meanwhile, many North Siders

band at breakfast, “it sounded like a bomb.” “I wondered if it could be the {start of bombings—I always have /these things in the back of my mind,” declared Mrs. Lawrence | F. Crosbie, of 28 W, 54th St. { By mid-morning much of the damage had been cleared away. (Splinters of glass had been swept from the driveway and jagged pieces pulled from the casing.

Fire Truck Trapped

| MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. Aug. 18 (UP)—Mackinae Island firemen put out a week-end fire in a state park building without the use of their fire engine, The fire truck was in thé building.

| Judge Jails Namesake

GOSHEN, Aug. 18 (UP)— Judge James A. Simpson sentenced James A. Simpson, 55, tn 60 days in jail in City Court on a drunk charge.

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