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SATURDAY, AUG. 30, 1952
In Blazing Air Battles
| Other Red McGrath to Testify Planes Listed Before Tax Probers
By United Press For-
As d d WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 mer Attorney General J, Howard ny
vy. United Pros McGrath has agreed to appear
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30 — American hefore House investigators to an Sabrejets dealt Communist air «wer charges that the Justice De power a crushing defeat today
tried to obstruct a
as they destroyed five Red MIG-|Partment 158, probably destroyed one and!'grand jury damaged 11 of the Russian-built [,guis jets in a series of blazing alr Chairman Frank I1.. Chelf (D duels over North Korea. Kv.) of the House Judiciary SubIt was the best day of hunting committee investigating the Justhe Sabres have had in August {ice Department sald yesterday and the 17 claims brought the zy. McGrath will appear before monthly toll to 82 MIGs de- (pe group in the middle of Sep
investigation of §St
tax scandals,
stroved or damaged tember The previous best “kill” total Mr. McGrath was invited to this month eame - Aug. 5 when appear before the subcomittee four MIGs were destroyed and ,(tar they heard charges he and
nine damaged. : other Justice Department officials Seventy-nine of the American had sought to. block the 195] fighter-interceptors tangled with grand jury investigation. The in about 100 MIGs in a series of vestigation later resulted in the late afternoon battles near the indictment of St. Louis tax col Suiho Reservoir on the Yalu Riv-ljector James P. Finnegan. er and over the important Red city of Sinuiju in northwest Korea, The subcommittee It was the second straight day|books yesterday on a var the MIGs put in an appearance tract fraud case tha - lee of after staving =afely in the Red|2R€ and was never prosecuted China sanctuary at Antung, Man-|The subcommittee charged the
churia just across the Yalu River. Justice Department with “dilia eT tory tactics’ but it heard test
{mony from a U. 8, attorney that American Superforts also step- the repeated delays in the case ped up pressures on the Commun-|were beyond the Justice Depart ists again by blasting an import-|ment’s control. ant Red power plant in north-| The case involved Norman K The Greater Indianapolis Evanwest Korea. Miller, former operator of an en-|jelistic Mission, a project sponThe raid came a few hours |gineering-drafting firm In De- sored by a committee of 100 Cath-| Allied fighter-bombers hit|troit, who was charged with de- lic, Jews and Protestants, will]
J. Howard McGrath
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after ; the North Korean Capital of|frauding the ‘government of $14,- be launched Sept. 16 at a lunchPyongyang with one of the!000 in war contracts, Miller wasicon for ministers, priests and heaviest assaults of the war, |indicted at Detroit in July, 1944 rabbis. o!but the government dropped the Aq the first step in a plan to Seventeen’ Japan-based B-29| ud Al st ster a pla Superforts 100 over Chosin|Ca8e six years later with Miller ‘make people church - minded,”
and drépped high-explosives on a never being brought to trial. 168.000 homes will be visited Dec. huge powerhouse switchyard and! The congressional investigators 7 in a countywide religious cen transformer ire : { the case appeared to be sus, a spokesman said. The homes
| sald The Superforts were over the will be revisited Feb. 22-26 in an 1 p s WwW
|“typical” of the way high gov lernment officials had stalled cer- effort t te church attend-| target for nearly 3 hours. They In ) ello 0 promote chur( C used electronic aiming devices to|
{tain cases in the past, lance and an evapgelistic mission shower down hombs or some un-|
—— {will be held Mar. 8-22, damaged areas and on installa-
. Oren D. Pritchard, general tions the Communists had been] Hobo King Calls ehateman, Josterany named nine Hn | . * lay and clerical alds. trying to repair. | Rival for His | They are Dr. Howard J, Baum- » . | ‘ » gartel, the Rev. John C. Craine, 2 Sailors Die Throne a Fake Dr. A. L. Neurman, the Rev. Carl As Tug Is Sunk HAMBURG, N. Y. Aug. 30
TOKYO, Aug. 30 (UP)—A loose (UP)--Hobo King Jeff Davis Was wjjjjam M. Baumheckel, Fermon enemy mine floating off Korea's ®® hot as a nd of Junigan slew S.. Cannon and Roy T. Combs. east coast sank the 1589-ton fleet today ax he ep oded claims to his; pigeon offices will be in fug USS Sarsi yesterday and two ‘tI Supposed y sailors were killed, three are miss- made by one ing and four were seriously in- Scoop Shovel
jured, the Navy announced to- Scotty. ; Any The guy's
fake,” the baldThe 205-foot Sarsi plunged tong emperor of
the bottom off Hungnam 16i1e Knights of minutes after the explosion, buts). Road, Alr & 92 officers and men survived the g... xclaimed. disaster, “He's tried this Lt. Willlam M. Howard, Nor-/hefore.” folk, Va., commander of the tug,/| The hustling was among those who escaped. little man paused cation at a church youth camp. The Navy said the detonating during the 44th Authorities said the Evansville mine's explosion damaged the'annual convention of his Hoboes college sophomore was scheduled tug's confmunications equipment|of America, Inc, here to consider to go to Lake Wawasee today and prevented the sending of dis-!the latest report on Scoop Shovel with a group of young people tress signals. However, threeand “Cannonball Baker.” from the Linwood Evangelical ships were on the scene within] Seems that a bunch of {United Brethren Church. 30 minutes and picked up the crew with itchy feet, billing themgélvest--She worked Friday night at a survivors. No Hoosiers were re-a3s the Knights of the Road, hell {hardware store, relatives said,
ported among the casualties. a conclave in Towa the other day. [2nd planned to pack her luggage a—— inrr————— | “, before retiring. However, she had Reports have it that they electe y fer y elected a dates and didn't get in until
Scoop Shovel Scotty as “the new!" king of hoboes” since their al- 18 pn the paren a and lleged reigning emperor, Cannon-* Is g ya gam Ror fier ball Baker, failed to show up. . ef PArtiis Waiod np and she shot herself in her home
It's “Jus y 8 { . ust 2 Publicity Stunt at : lo less than an hour after she res ‘al fair,” pronounced his majesty surned
MURDER 5
On the Highways — somes LEBANON —H dW WwW . : 10, HI rig en HphL Red Cross Trying To Find Officer Dr. Rebecca Parrish, 82-year-old world renowned medical mis-
to a hospital here yesterday after his- bicycle was struck by a car DE county road southwest of| 1+, John L. Kaesman's mother sifonary who died in her home here : own is seriously ill in l.os Angeles, ac-'last Saturday, left an estate estiSL : ” ‘op a y mated at $20,000. Her will was EVANSVILLE—Leroy Gentry, Soran 16 word yeceived hete to filed yesterday in Probate Court. 35, Boonville, died yesterday when “2Y PY the Red Cross, which is Indianapolis singer Frank Para stripped down hot rod in which {Frying to locate the officer who jon a nephew, will receive about he was riding with two other is due to report at Camp Atter- one-fourth of the estate. The rest men struck a tree along Ind. 261 pyry next Saturday. will go to Dr. Parrish’'s brother, near Newburgh. It. Kaesman checked in and William M. Parrish, Chicago, and
Martha Out of an Indianapolis hotel last ? niece, diss Louise Parrish, Mus Mich.
H. B. Holloway in charge.
vv" Evansville Girl Shot to Death
EVANSVILLE, Aug. 30 (UP) Mary Nell Ringham, 19, a col lege coed, shot herself to death wh with her father's revolver today while preparing to pack for a va-/|
Mr.
Davis
Dr. Rebecca Parish Leaves $20,000 Estate
278 8 EVANSVILLE — Mrs, keg Agnew, Henderson, Ky. died to- Week. He is asked to contact the KeEOT.
day when her car overturned on Red Cross Home Service Depart . Driver in Crash Held
a curve of Ind. 65, four miles Ment, LI-1441 On Drunk Charge
northwest of here. A passenger - Mrs, Lucille Delano, 37, Evans- Where to Go Indiana “State Fair Centen-
ville, was. critically injured. nial, State Fairgrounds, “Hoosier Stars of 1952" at 7:30 p. m, $3, $2.40, $2.20 and $1.80. “Irish” Horan and. His Lucky Hell Drivers at 7 p. m. $3, $2.40, $1.80, $1.20 and
Fast St, was drunken driving today after a [two-car collision at 16th St. and Central Ave. Police said his car was struck by one driven by Manuel Dinwiddie, 21, of 851 'W
charged with Visitors Report Thefts By Bus Pickpockets |
Pickpocketzs preying on bus!
riders got $268 from two elderly! * $1. $200,000 30th St. out-of-state men last night, police! Grand Circuit Harness Racing Miss Martha Moore, 22, of 2335 were told. at 12:30 p. m. $3, $2.40, $1.80, N. Talbot Ave. a passenger in Willlam Aurentz, 70, Pitts. $120 and $1. Wright's car, was slightly inburgh, said his billfold contain- “Broken Dishes,” presented jured. ing $100 was lifted, apparently! by the Brown County Play- | - — — S as he boarded a nie bus.| house, Nashville, Ind. 8 p- m. | Dean of Indianapolis baseball
writers, Eddie Ash, writes in your
Stock Car Races, 16th Street Sunday Times.
Speedway. $1. 8:30 p. m, Harry McCrady and his orchestra play music for dancing at Westlake Terraca, 9 p. m.
Emmett Tremiae, 69, Bardstown, Ky. sald he was jostled as he boarded a bus at the terminal and later mized his wallet containing $168.
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By United Press BASIN, Wyo, Aug. 30—The FBI today held a 16-year-old boy who impersonated President Truman and talked an 83-year-old widow out of $200 to ‘fight communism.” |
The boy, whose name was with-|
held, was charged with ‘“Imper-| sonating a federal ofcer”’—to| wit, Harry 8. Truman,
The youth's
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his demands up to $2000. widow became suspicious called local authorities and FBI. The boy was bound over for federal trial on $1500 bond. He sentence of three years in prison and a $1000 fine or both. | His when
confidence career began he and two companions
demanded $150 from the widow
«0» one of the boys “could visit his mother in Alaska.” George Burton, special agent in| charge of the FBI in Denver, said | the boy returned to the widow's home Aug. 8 wearing a business] suit and dark glasses. He passed | himself off as an agent of the “U, 8. secret ranger service| Mr. Burton said, and got $200 to| “fight. communism.” 1 Then the boy played his trump card, He impersonated the Presi-! dent. From Plymouth, Mich, where he had hitchhiked, he gent the woman a letter. It was signed
“Harry 8. Truman, Pres. of U. 8.”
Here is his letter: “This is a very important letter from me, the President of the United States of America.
Asks “Great Favor”
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“There is a boy in Plymouth,iare specializing in aeronatutical Hatfield, Dr. Carleton W. Atwa- Mich, where I am ‘at, he has no training.” ter, Dr. Buford A. Norris, Mra. legs and no arms and 1 was in
hopes that boy $2000.
you would send this Two thousand dollars
the for new arms and legs which were! the field of scheduled air transKnights of Pythias Building, with shot off fighting for his country. portation performed by students |
(The letter then gave an address to which the money should be sent.) “Do not let anyone else read this letter or you will get into plenty of trouble. “Please send the money right away as soon as you get this letter. Do not wait one day to
send it. | Margaret in N. Y.
“Yours truly, “Harry S. Truman “Pres. of 1]. 8. “P. 8.: Send it right away, “Burn this envelope and letter.”
Young Chicago Bandit Admits Killing Officer
CHICAGO — A tough-talking member of a youthful gang admitted today that he killed a policeman during a $157 holdup. Richard (Smoky) Green, 286,
[told officers he killed Patrolman | Burbank, Cal,
Harry Bending Jr., 32, in suburban Des Plaines.
Three other members of the Squirrels Keep Cool
gang, who participated with Green in the holdup of the Time Finance Co., were in custody. [One more was sought, Two girl friends were held.
third attempt to § get money from the woman ran
To Aid Airline
| MADISON, Wis., Aug. 30 (UP) |
Tariff Slash Won't Cut | 29th Strike of Year Truman Plans
Oil Prices, Officials Say | Hits Atomic Project WASHINGTON — Government, PADUCAH, Ky.—After 10 days 6 : Y officials warned motorists, house- of harmony, another strike—the IS p ops holders and industrial users today 29th of the year—was underway not to expect lower gasoline and at the billion-dollar atomic-energy Talks Scheduled on fuel oil prices as a- result of a project near here today, but there . ’ ‘drastic cut, ranging up to 50 was no work scheduled because of Way to Milwaukee | WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (up) [oll
per ‘cent, in duties on imported the Labor Day week end. “- Work at the vital defense — President Truman will make] The present-tight oil supply project was virtually halted yesseven whistle-stop talks during will prevent whatever cash sav-/terday when about 15,000 of the his Labor Day trip to Milwaukee ings result from the lower tar- 20,000 construction workers
“if some people show up.” liffs from being passed on to con- walked off the job. Thirteen AFL | Wraps came off some of Mr, Sumers, they said. crafts were involved.
Truman's campaign plans | < a ’ Peace ‘of Mind
terday when Presidential Secretary J oseph Short an-| nounced eight “operational Stops} will ba made by the train car- ® Many of your neighbors have planned with us the things they want when their own end comes . . . thus forestalling @ painful ordeal to those they leave behind.
yes-|
Press|
rying the President to Milwaukee! for a Labor Day political speech. |
“If some people show up” at seven of the stops, Mr.. Short|# said, “I wouldn't be surprised if] the President made a talk.” |
Mr. Short also announced Mr.| | Truman will speak Oct. 1 at the dedication of the Hungry Horse |Dam in northwest Montana. The chief executive's special train will leave here Monday.
President Truman apparently will ignore Indiana as he shuttles through the state on his Labor Day journey to Milwaukee.
Our Pre-Arrangement Plan can bring peace of mind to you also. Why not visit us and let us tell you about it?
United Press Telephoto. LIKE THIS—Gen. Eisenhower
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— steak — indicating the thick- | ness preferred, at his campaign | headquarters in New York.
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scheduled in Hoosierland. The route to Milwaukee may
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Pledges $1 Million For Refinancing
—Purdue University’s Research | Foundation pledged up to $1 mil-| lion today for refinancing Wis-| consin Central Airlines on more! favorable terms,
Dr. R. B. Stewart, treasurer of | the Lafayette Foundation, said] the foundation will transfer al fleet of nine Douglas DC-3 planes] [to the airlines for overhauling | land modernizing. | - Stewart sald the agreement] | provides that the airline will “be- | come a field laboratory for the; | benefit of students of Purdue who |
INSTALLATION $10 CASH OR TERMS ALL PRICES PLUS TAX
| He said this would give the air-| ‘line “the benefits resulting from| ‘research and special studies in|
jand faculty members of the university.” | The line operates in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and] Michigan and is headquartered in Madison,
Mrs. Truman to Meet
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UP) |— Mrs. Bess Truman, wife of the| { President, will go to New York| by train Tuesday to meet her| daughter, | Margaret, who 1s returning from a European tour {aboard the liner “United States.”
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Mrs. Truman arrived here yes- AT. 1447 44 terday from Independence, Mo., ERVICE : with her ailing mother, Mrs.) |David Wallace. White House] FOR S N. DELAWARE
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{Press Secretary Joseph Short said {the President's plane, ‘‘the Indepence,” picked up Mrs. Truman and her mother en route from| where it was over-
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NEW ORLEANS -— Sweating workmen said today they found four newborn squirrels left by their mother In a window air conditioner at Loyola University.|
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