Churchman Blasts
Gunman Who Shot
Trooper Friend
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., UP> —
A fleeing bank robber killed a
vetenan state police officer at a
road block Monday and then died
in a gun duel with the officer’s
friend, a Methodist minister.
Sgt. Marvin E. Walts, 49, a
veteran of 19 years’ state police
service, was killed by a bullet that
entered his forehead while Wil
liam Hassett, 25, of Louisville,
'was dropped by two shotgun
i charges fired by the minister
through the rear window of the
trooper’s car.
The Rev. Robert Gingerh, 37,
minister of Trinity Methodist
Church in nearby New Albany,
gave this account of the incident
although he was in a near state
of shock:
He and Walts were returning
from looking at fishing sites in
the area of Sellersburg, a commu
nity north of here, when state
police radio broadcasted that the
Sellersburg state bank had been
robbed of $1,655 by a gunman.
Although it was his day off, Walts
was directed to a roadblock four
miles north of here and Gingery
accompanied him.
Hassett, stopped by Walts, got
out of his 1947 car, and said: “I
hope this thing won’t take too
long.”
The trooper searched Hassett
and found nothing significant but
when he looked in the car,-he
spotted a brown leather jacket,
a key item in the description of
the bank robber.
“I’ve got a subject here that
answers the description,” Walts j
radioed his post. “Give me that|
description again.”
Gingery said that Walts then j
returned to the bandit’s car with
the suspect.
“I could see Walts bending J
down as if looking under the front t
seat,” said Gingery. “Then I saw !
the man jerking around in the j
seat as if he was after something.;
I could see them scuffling and I j
heard some shots. I didn’t see j
Walts after the shooting but the i
other man got out of the car and
ran around to the other side.
“Then I saw him crossing the ]
road toward me with a gun. . . .” j
Gingery said he then picked up !
the pump-action riot gun from1
the police car seat and leveled it!
out the side window.
“He saw it and ducked,” Gin- J
gery said. “He ran around behind I
the car.
“It’s a good thing he did. I tried
the trigger, but nothing happened.
Then I thought of the safety.
“I saw him through the rear
window pointing at me. He fired
a shot and a bullet whizzed past
me. I pointed the gun at the win
dow and pulled the trigger again.”
The charges caught Hasset in the
side and midsection, killing him
instantly.
Additional Aleutian Isles.
Quakes Recorded in
New York and Boston
NEW YORK, UP) — A “fairly
sharp” earthquake in the Aleu
tian Islands was recorded at
6:39 a. m. Tuesday on the Ford
ham University seismograph.
The Rev. Joseph Lynch, univer
sity seismologst, said this shock
followed a series of tremblors in
the same vicinity Monday and
early Tuesday. The estimated dis
tance was 4,500 miles northwest
of New York.
The Boston College observatory
recorded a “very strong” earth
quake in the Aleutians at 8:01
a. m., EST.
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Gen. Lucius Clay Says
He Would Be Happy
To See Alaska Statehood
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASINGTON, (ff\ — Delegate
Bartlett (D-Alaska) Tuesday
made public a letter from Gen.
Lucius D. Clay in which the re
tired army man said he “would
be happy to see” Alaska become
a state.
The letter was in reply to one
by Bartlett in which the Alaskan
delegate took note of printed re
ports that Clay, now chairman fo
Continental Can Co., had influ
enced the Eisenhower Adminis
tration to oppose statehood.
“It has been said in print,”
Bartlett wrote Clay, “that your
opposition to statehood is based
upon the connection between the
Alaska salmon industry and Con
tinental Can Co. as a supplier of
materials to the industry.”
To his knowledge, Bartlett
added, Clay had never been asked
to comment on the allegation.
In response, Clay said he has
“never talked to anyone in the
h and Game Bill
'r>'*.c,sed Wthout Approval
Gov. Hendrickson
By WILLIAM J. TOBIN
JUNEAU, — A controversial
firh and game bill is becoming law
without the signature of Acting
Gov. Waino Hendrickson.
In his most critical message of
the 23rd Legislature, Hendrickson
told the lawmakers that some of
the provisions of the bill are “ill
advised.”
The measure, creating a 7-man
Fish and Game Commission, has
become a fiery issue in Alaska
and in the Congressional state
hood hearings.
It was supported by commer
cial fishing interests and bitterly
attacked by sportsmen.
fishing industry about statehood.”
“In point of fact, I know little
or nothing about the arguments
pro and con. Moreover, I have
never discussed it with anyone in
government. I would be happy to
see it a state. However, as I said
above, I do not know the problem
this poses, if any.”
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