a July 24, 1950 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS be 3 Page 13 Rocket Off on Horizontal Guided Flight By the United Press COCOA, July 24-A giant guided missile was successfully fired on a horizontal flight out over the Atlantic today from the new long range proving ground here. The rocket, known as "Bumper No. 8," was launched at 9:29 a.m. CDT. It rose to an altitude of 20 miles and then began its horizontal flight at faster-than-sound speed into a 250-mile area over the Atlantic which had been cleared of all shipping.
The rocket was guided on its course by radio beams while radar tracked it and other elecinstruments recorded important scientific data on its flight. The missile was fired in two sections. A German V-2 type rocket began the flight and then, as it began to lose speed, it was to smaller "WAC Correlearocket developed in the United States. Today's firing was the first at the new proving grounds here. An attempt to fire a missile last week failed after 9 hours of mechanical and other difficulties.
Son Reported Continued from Page 1 Castle, is listed as killed. His next of kin was given as Arthur H. Greene, of New Castle. Those missing in action are: Maj. Charles T.
Barter, husband of Mrs. Doris A. Barter, residing in the Far East Command, and son of Mrs. Carrie W. Barter, Mt.
Vernon. Pfc. Charles R. Low, son of Kenneth T. Low, R.
R. 2, Westport. Second Lt. Raymond E. Pearson, husband of Mrs.
Beverly J. Pearson, residing in the Far East Command, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pearson, R. R.
2, Crawfordsville. Paul 1 P. Strawser, son of Loyal A. Strawser, Ashley. Ex-White House Secret Service Chief Dies LOS ANGELES, July 24 (UP) Lucien C.
Wheeler, chief White House Secret Service Staff during the terms of four presidents, died yesterday. He was 73. Wheeler headed the staffs which protected Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson and Warren Harding. After resigning from the Secret in 1927, he joined the Department and Service, one of the FBI's top investigators. He was credited with getting evidence which convicted swindled Gaston B.
Evans. Services Arranged for Samuel D. Byrd Services for Samuel D. Byrd, 54, retired policeman, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Harry W.
Moore Peace Chapel. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery, Mr. Byrd died Saturday in his home, 660 E. 17th Apt. 2, after a brief illness.
A native of Raccoon (Putnam County), Mr. Byrd had lived in Indianapolis 23 years. He was a member of the police force 20 years and retired two years ago. He had been traffic officer at Capitol Avenue and Washington Street several years. He was a member of Brown's Valley Methodist Church.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Iva I. Byrd; daughter, Miss Mildred L. Byrd, and a son, Ralph O. Byrd, Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs.
Hazel Quarles, Elkhart, Tex. Mrs. Ada Holtzmeyer Funeral services for Mrs. Ada Buchanan Holtzmeyer, 64, 1128 S. Belmont were held today in the Beanblossom Mortuary Mortuary.
Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery, Mrs. Holtzmeyer died Friday in. Methodist Hospital. She was born County, Kentucky, and had lived in Indianapolis 44 years. She was a member of the Women of the Moose and a former member of the old Hall Place Methodist Church which merged with the FiftyFirst Street Methodist Church.
Survivors are the husband, Frank Holtzmeyer; a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Hickman; a son, Frank Buchanan, a brother, two sisters and three grandchildren. Mrs. Mary Allyn Mrs. Mary Jane Horning Allyn, 30, 52 S.
Dearborn died today at Methodist Hospital, A life resident of Indianapolis, Mrs. Allyn formerly was an employee in the penicillin department of Eli Lilly Co. Funeral services will 'be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel.
Burial will be in Washington Park Cemhusband, Robert W. Allyn; etery. a daughter, Melanie Anne Allyn, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M.
Horning, survive. Mrs. Minnie Thomas Mrs. Minnie B. Thomas, 80, died today in 'an Indianapolis nursing home.
A resident of R. R. 9, Box 384, she was born at Odon, and lived in Indianapolis 48 years. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the J.
C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. A daughter, Mrs. Elma Shafer, Indianapolis; a son.
Arthur W. Thomas, Miami, a sister and three grandchildren survive. 21 BLUSHING MALES LOSE PANTS, $4,800 NEW YORK, July 24 (UP) -Four nattily-dressed bandits made off with some $4,800 from a plush steak house early today after forcing a score of male employees and one patron to shed their pants in an adjoining alley. The gunmen staged the bold robbery shortly after midnight when Stampler's Filet Mignon, swank Manhattan restaurant, was almost empty of patrons. At gunpoint, they ordered employees and one late-dining couple into an alley They apologized politely to the woman while making the men take off their pants.
They fled after emptying cash registers and wallets. Mrs. Grace Stucker Services for Mrs. Grace Stucker, 66, 2216 N. Wheeler will be held at 1:30 p.m.
tomorrow in Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Stucker died yesterday in Methodist Hospital after an illness of three weeks.
A native of Martel, Mrs. Stucker had resided in Indianapolis 43 years. She was a member of the Roosevelt Temple Methodist Church and the Madden-Nottingham American Legion Auxiliary. Survivors are the husband, Martin A. Stucker and a sister, Mrs.
Ida Loftin. Robert Dennison Robert Harry Dennison, 57, 1132 Churchman will be buried at Glasgow, tomorrow. Funeral services were held today in the J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes.
Mr. Dennison died Friday in Methodist Hospital. A native of Glasgow, Mr. Dennison had lived in Indianapolis 22 years. During that time he was a glass inspector at the Fairmount Glass Works, Inc.
Survivors are a son, Robert H. Dennison, and a daughter, Wanda Jarboe, Indianapolis; three sisters, two brothers and one grandchild. Mrs. Lydia Downing Last rites for Mrs. Lydia Ann Downing, 70, were held today in Kirk Ben Davis Chapel.
Burial was in Floral Park Cemetery. Mrs. Downing died Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Grace Thomas, Pennville, in Jay County. Downing had lived in Indianapolis 35.
years prior to moving to Pennville last year. Previously she had been resident of Wayne Township 22 years. She was a member of Bridgeport Church of the Nazarene. Survivors besides the daughter are a son, Virgil L. Adams, New Castle: a sister, two brothers and grandchild.
Hoosier to Head College DR. EDGAR CUMINGS Special to The News CEDAR RAPIDS, July 24 -A Hoosier, Dr. Edgar C. Cumings, was named presidentelect of Coe College here today. Dr.
Cumings, former president of Canterbury College, Danville, and former acting head of DePauw University during the illness of Dr. Clyde E. Wildman, succeeds President Byron S. Hollinshead, whose resignation becomes effective January 1, 1951. The Indiana man had been named of Coe College, a 99-year-old liberal arts college, last May.
Cumings was born No27. 1909, in Bloomingvember, His father was a member of the Indiana University faculty from 1898 to 1944. President-Elect Cumings was graduated from Indiana University in 1931 and received a master's degree the following year. After a year's study at the University of Leipzig in Germany, he, attended the University Chicago Graduate School, receiving his Ph.D. in Germanic languages and literature in 1936.
He was assistant professor and administrative assistant at the University of from 1936 to 1943. He served in the United- States Navy until 1945 and became assistant to the director of the Indiana University Extension Division. He was named president of Canterbury College in 1946, and in the fall of 1948 was appointed dean at DePauw University. Charles E. Malpas Charles E.
Malpas, former Indianapolis resident, died last night at Baltimore, Md. A resident of Indianapolis until 25 years ago, Mr. Malpas owned and operated a parking lot at Baltimore. He was a member of the Pentalpha Masonic Lodge in Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m.
Wednesday in Flanner Buchanan Mortuary. ial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. The widow, Mrs. Laura B. Malpas, survives.
DESIGN FOR DEATH Cleveland Murder Recalls 'Mad Butcher' Berne Rotary Gives Pig to FFA Group Special to The News BERNE, July 24- -There's a new agricultural project in the Berne Rotary Club. It has purchased a pure Hampshire gilt and presented it to the Berne chapter of the Future Farmers of Ameria. Dallas Neuenschwander, a member of the local FFA, will raise the gilt and give two gilts from the first litter to the FFA Club. Two more members will raise these and pass on firstlitter female pigs to other members until each member of the club owns a pure-bred Hampshire. The Rotary Club hopes to encourage the boys to raise registered, purebred hogs.
Mrs. Ida Harrison Mrs. Ida Olive Harrison, 79, died yesterday afternoon at her home, 7000 W. 34th St. Born in Hendricks County, Mrs.
Harrison had lived in the Indianapolis area 45 years. Her husband, the late Harvey 0. Harrison, was a farmer. She was a member of the Clermont Christian Church. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.
Wednesday the Royster Askin West Washington Street Mortuary, The Rev. Kenneth Thorne, pastor of the Speedway Christian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in South Cemetery, Danville. A daughter, Mrs. Nita H.
Hightshue, Indianapolis; a son, Dr. L. R. Harrison, New York; two sisters and a brother survive. Mrs.
Bessie Glasgow Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie C. Glasgow, 66, who died Saturday in her home, 2619 N. Illinois after four months illness, will be at. 10:30 a.m.
tomorrow in Flanner Buchanan Mortuary. Burial will be in Shelbyville, Mrs. Glasgow was born in Rush County and lived in Indianapolis 31 years. She was a member of the Methodist Church at Waldron. Survivors are the husband, Dr.
G. A. Glasgow, retired Indianapolis physician; a daughter, Mrs. Robert R. Carpenter; two brothers, a sister and two grandchildren.
Harry Brutcher Friends' learned today of the death and burial of Harry Brutcher, 47, former Indianapolis resident, last week at Phoenix, Ariz. Mr. Brutcher had moved to Arizona in 1945. The widow, Mrs. Mary Brutcher, and two daughters, Mrs.
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Four air reserve crewmen were on the Minutes the C-46 climbed planetter from the Municipal Airport here it plunged into the pine-spotted muckland. servicemen were still within sight of the airport until just before the ship crashed. Towering, gasoline-fed flames pushed would-be rescuers back. Helpless, they watched the cremation. When the flames died.
white-jacketed Army medical corpsmen began removing the bodies. Late last night they had recovered 15. The others were trapped in buried, charred wreckage. Bits of the big transport were flung in a 100-yard circle. The wings were still further away.
There were conflicting reports about the crash. Some said the plane, But seemed a pilot to who explode flew in mid- over the Carolina swampland said the ship didn't blow up until it struck. At Nashville Sunday dinners were interrupted by a terse broadcast that a plane-load of homeward-bound guardsmen had crashed. Families and sweethearts raced out to the Tennessee Air National Guard base. They clustered-some weeping, others white-faced and silent.
A plane landed, bringing with it returning guardsmen. The clusters broke. People ran to the plane. For some there were tears and shouts of joy. When the last of the returning planes landed.
people took up their vigil at the State Capitol. With them was Mrs. Mary M. Brown, a widowed mother from suburban Antioch. She sat outside the adjutant general's office with two sons.
They were called into the general's office. There they were told that Cpl. Emmett Clifton Brown, the youngest son, was aboard the crashed plane. Cpl. Brown, 19, finished high school this year.
There were 29 other similar messages. At the scene of the crash an unidentified woman told wouldbe Army rescuers that she saw two men parachute from the falling plane. But she said they dropped into the blazing wreckage. That report couldn't be verified. Capt.
W. P. Vandiver, Birmingham, a medical officer from Shaw Field in Sumter, S. said bodies already recovered were badly mutilated. The task of clearing the area continued today.
By the United Press CLEVELAND, July Discovery of a headless, dismembered corpse in an east side slum aroused fears today that the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" is stalking new victims. Police said the killer of an unidentified man mutilated his victim with a technique similar to the grisly fashion in which 12 men and women were slain here in the late 1930's. The "Mad Butcher" who terrorized Clevelanders for three years and shocked the nation never was captured. The killings still as unsolved. The body of a man about 6 feet tall and between 25 and 30 years old was found Saturday night Korea Action Continued from Page 1 and that the South Koreans "completely occupy" the town.
AIR FORCE BASE MOVED TO KOREA Despite Red losses estimated by a Pentagon spokesman as from 14,000 to 18,000 in the four weeks of the war so far, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported that the enemy is building up "considerable strength" all along the semicircular front from Yongdok to Kwangju. With clearing weather, the United States air arm roared into battle. B-29 superforts from Japan struck at Communist transport lines, dropping 80 tons of bombs on roads and bridges, chiefly behind the Taejon front. Gen.
MacArthur sent a message to Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, Fair Eastern Air Force commander, saying the contribution of the Air Force to the fighting has been "magnificent" and has "exceeded all expectations." The Fifth Air Force moved its advance base from Southern Japan to Korea, where two fields already are in operation. Fighters and light bombers flew 248 individual flights against Red positions.
United States planes also are dropping propaganda leaflets behind the lines. Woman Gets 5 Years Term for Slaying ELKTON, July 24 A Todd Circuit Court jury has (AP)convicted Mrs. Sylvia Harris, 25, of voluntary manslaughter and fixed her punishment at five years in prison. Mrs. Harris was on trial for murder in connection with the fatal shooting of her former husband, Minor Harris, 51, last June 22.
She was arrested at Richmond, after shooting. The verdict reached after nearly three hours' deliberation Saturday night. beneath a pile of steel girders in a run-down industrial neighbor hood frequented by hoboes. Two severed arms and a severed leg were found near the decapitated torso. Coroner S.
Gerger said the man had been dead from six to eight weeks and identification might be impossible because the body was decomposed. Detectives said there was no doubt the man was murdered. The body was found 3 or miles from Kingsbury Run, an underbrush stream near which the struck 12 times between September, 1935, and: August, 1938. The decapitated and dismembered bodies of his victims- all hoboes, drifters or prostituteswere found in the same general area. Police questioned hundreds of suspects unsuccessfully.
Authorities concluded they were looking either for an insane surgeon or a hunter, so skillfully were the bodies cut apart. When the murders stopped abruptly, police speculated that the "Butcher" either had died or been committed to an asylum on some other indication of insanity. East German Reds May Be Training AF BERLIN, July 24 (AP)American intelligence officers today investigated reports that East Germany's Communist Government is organizing an Air Force, in addition to Army and naval units already in training. They said they were inclined to believe the reports, which were published in the United States high commission's German newspaper, Neue Zeitzung. The paper said the Communists were camouflaging the AirForce under the name "air police," the same tactic they used in forming their land "people's police" and naval, "sea police." The Western Allies already have denounced the people's police as an illegal army.
Mrs. Katherine Oliver Mrs. Katherine Oliver, 56, 1238 College a bookkeeper, died today in St. Vincent's Hospital, Born at Hamilton, Mrs. Oliver had lived in Indianapolis 11 years.
She had been a bookkeeper at the Hotel Severin five years. Previously she was a bookkeeper for the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co. She was a member of Central Avenue Methodist Church. Funeral services and burial will be Wednesday afternoon at Hamilton. Two daughters, Mrs.
Marian Bless and Mrs. Jean Carey; four brothers, a sister and four grandchildren survive..
