Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1946 — Page 1
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“Double, double, toil and trouble” . . . every Mit ‘ax fantastic x the wilches” chant in Macbeth are the lack art practices that thrive fn Some of the most widely used of the mamy black art weapons are the black “death” candle Tuer Siu Yowirs, va cup fos Witches brew, a black arte’ handbook and ironically enough, the Holy Bible.
Indianapolis today.
Stettinius Orposes Reds in
Fight Over Greece.
By R. 8. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Feb. 4-—-The United States threw its weight today against Russian charges that the presence of British troops in Greece | threatened the peace. Edward R. Stettinius Jr. told the United Nations security council that the American government was convinced that British troops being in Greece “cannot constitute a danger to the peace.” He proposed that the security council take no action in the bitterly disputed problem. Mr. Stettinius proposed that the security council thank Britain, Russia and Greece for their statements end that no further action be taken. Another thorny was problem dropped in the lap of the security council even —as it was hearing Andrei Vishinsky of Russia and Ernest Bevin of Britain tear into each other,on the Greek issue,
Appeal to Council
Syria and Lebanon «appealed to the council for the “immediate, total and simultaneous” withdrawal ~of British and French troops from those neighboring countries in the middle east. Mr. Vishinsky reiterated his country’s demand for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of British troops from Greece today. The Russian delégate denied Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's charge that Moscow “propaganda” was the greatest threat to world stability.
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He quoted liberally from British M. P.’s who have criticizéd Britain's policy in Greece and from an, article written for a London newspaper by John Sofianopoulos, recently resigned - Greek ' foreign minister. Mr. Soflanopoulos, who quit as foreign minister and UNO delegate last week rather than testify before the security council, was quoted as saying that no free elections could
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TIMES INDEX
Local People. 2 Ruth Millett . 9 Movies Obituaries... 4-5 H. V. O'Brien 9 Dr. O'Brien... 9 Radio Mrs, Roosevelt 9 Scherrer Side Glances. 10 Forum Sports .......8-7 Meta Given , 13 State Deaths, 5 In Indpls. ... -3|Tom Stokes . 10 Inside Indpls.. 9 Troop Arrivals 2 Jane Jordan . 17 |Bob Stranahan 6 Women’s | .. World Affairs 10
Amusements. , 12 Aviation Eddie Ash ... Business . 14 Classified., 15-16 Churchill ,,.. 10 Comics Crossword ... Editorials .... Fashions ....
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A ovarends Reap Fortunes; Black Candles and Other dl Bring High Prices
(First of a series)
By DONNA MIKELS OOSIER voodoo! Hexes and black art fetishes bordering on witchcraft are festering in Indianagelis, hiding under the guise of “religion.”
Self-styled “churches” beckon people in to worship God only to turn them to the doctrine of hex and hate. The Bible lies alongside of a black arts manual.
Even now in the enlightened Indiana capital an elderly woman lies in a sick bed—put there, she declares, by black candles and blacker prayers.
OVER THE CITY at least two other persons are fighting off what they sincerely believe to be an affliction placed on them by “reverends” of a “spiritualist church.” More ethical spiritualist organizations are joining hands to combat the racketeers who try to cash in on their sincere religious beliefs. Only a person blessed with super-supernatural powers could accurately say how many cases on the city's divorcé dockets came there as the result of the insidious workings of money-hungry, powerconscious mediums. The craze is at a fever-pitch now. It has worked up to that point over a period of years, during which the shady ladies—and gents—of spiritualism have nurtured fear and steadily jacked up prices: Supernatural fear is now a marketable commodity. » o » » » » PE IMPOSSIBLE to discover exactly how long ago some enterprising mediums saw the sale of charms and herbs as a profitable sideline. But at least two years ago one spiritualist church in Indianapolis was dispensing weapons of black art. From the sale of harmless charms, the business has grown to a full size racket dealing in hate, divorce and death. And also dealing, incidentally, in fees running to two and three figures. The many spiritualist churches which oppose the black art racket and “don’t tolerate belief in it” are hesitant to refute its power. ” - » * " n . THOSE MEDIUMS who don’t dabble or believe in black art are reluctant to discuss it. The most you can get from any of them is that they know such things exist. They know the racket is being played and they know that it's impossible, they'll say. But they always qualify a denial of black art with a“statement that if by chance it is worked, it's the work of “the old devil.” The most potent weapon being sold by some of the mongrel spiritualist churches is a black candle. The fear of the candle has become so deeply imbedded that even the skeptical shrink back at the sight of the fallow weapon. . » ” » » » HE TRAFFIC in candles is profitable too. The rock bottom price for candles for more mundane uses is $1 and for such stuff as the eradication of in-laws the price sometimes is jacked up to $5, $10 or $25. The candle presumably forms a bond between the purchaser and the medium who sold it. By lighting the candle and praying various prayers, many to the book of Moses, the purchaser gets on the same vibration with the medium, who is supposed to be praying at the same time, That comes with the $5. A many-sided weapon, apparently, the candle has been sold by one “reverend” alone for a variety of purposes. w . » » » ”.
ONE CUSTOMER was sold a candle for $1 and promised that it would bring her money. (After several months of waiting the purchaser decided the only one the candle was bringing money to was the “reverend.”) Another woman bought a ‘black candle, cut with mysterious hacks and holes, which. was guaranteed to drive her husband away from home. A third woman who went to the “church” for spiritual advice on trouble between her son and daughter-in-law wag hurried into buying a candle to “put the girl out of the way” by the medium. When the woman protested taking the candle under those conditions the medium allegedly shoved her out the door, » ” » » ” »
N ELDERLY lady just released from the hospital told her pastor that a “black candle” exploded in her face and that she woke up in the hospital. She said one of her in-laws purchased two candjes and had been burning them to bring death to her for about two weeks prior to her breakdown. The black magic candle is one of many trinkets which are bringing the money into mediums’ pockets. For a price you can “cure” almost
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GUARD AGAINST GOERING, HESS RESCUE’ PLOT
U. S. Army Posts Tanks and Machine Guns After . Receiving Tip.
NUERNBERG, Feb. 4 (U. P.) ~The United States army placed a strong guard of tanks and riflemen around the Nuernberg courthouse and
prison today on a tip that the Nazi underground planned an attempt to free Hermann. Goering, Rudolf Hess and other top war criminals. Machine guns were mounted inside the courthouse, and the jail. Heavy tanks rumbled Into position at strategic points commanding all entrances to the buildings where the top crimipals of the Nazi regime are on for their lives. Authorities said they also had posted “airplane spotters” on the prison roof, apparently fearing an attempted paratroop rescue similar to that which snatched Benito Mussolini from an Italian prison more than a year ago. Report Unconfirmed An unconfirmed rumor circulated that Nazi elite guards and regular German army troops interned in camps within 20 miles of Nuernberg had planned a mass escape with the intention of attacking the prison and rescuing their former leaders. There was no confirmation of that report. But the sudden precautions indicated that the American authorities were taking no chances. A strict secifity blackout was clamped on details of ‘the purported plot, but it was learned that
American counter - intelligence
| agents had obtained a tip on a
Reported Dickering on, Site planned jail break over the week:
For Football Stadium.
By J. E. O'BRIEN
Officials refused to comment on how the information was obtained or how complete it was. No one
‘Cathedral high school’s football would explain the necessity for teams, homeless since the founding | posting airplane spotters, which apof the school, may have a stadium | of their own in the next year or so. how the Nazi underground might The Times was informed today|be able to obtain one or more that the school is dickering for planes,
property opposite Victory field on
peared to indicate fear that some-
The action followed by only 24
W. 16th st. as the site for a new|hours the first practice alert in the
athletic field.
courthouse area during which radio
The property, owned by the Indi-|cars and sentries with fixed bayo-
anapolis Water Co., the south by 16th st. on the north by 18th st., on the ‘east by Harding
is bounded on nets patrolled the district.
On Safe Side Brig. Gen. Leroy H. Watson com-
st. and on the west by E. Riverside | mander of the international mili-
dr. The ground has been planted in grain for the last several years.
Shifted About . For years Cathedral football teams have been the city’s “orphans” and wistful for a stadium of their own. While other city schools have had home athletic fields, the Irish have had to play and practice wherever they could find a vacaney. Their home games have been scheduled at the Butler bowl, at Tech field and on occasions at Victory field. Practice usually was held at Riverside park. It also was learned that the city of Indianapolis is dickering for property just west of Victory field. While no reason was advanced for this possible deal, it was pointed out that the ground would be an ideal site for a swimming pool or other recreational facilities.
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DAUGHTER HELD SANE
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb, 4 (U. P.).— State psychiatrists held today that the Rev, Frank E. Siple, 53, confessed poisoner of his 17-year-old daughter, was sane. The Church of God minister will be charged with first-degree murder, authorities said.
{Celler (D. N, Y.).
tary tribunal command, said “we are not looking for any trouble, but to be on the safe side we are increasing our fire power.” Armed guards in each corridor of the vast palace of justice were issued a new set of samples of various identification cards against which-to-check the right of every person to be in the building. The sudden tightening of security precautions two and a half months after the trial began caused wide comment. Edgar Faure, assistant French prosecutor, began summarizing Nazi activities in Denmark as the trial resumed. He charged the Germans forced Denmark to intern 300 Communists after the German invasion of Russia and quoted a Danish government. report calling the incident “abusive interference” with Danish soyereignty,
STRIKE BILL KEPT ALIVE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U. P.).— The house today defeated, 130 to 42, a motion to kill strike control legislation which has been under consideration for three days. The motion was made by Rep. Emanuel It would have prevented further consideration at
Siple admitted last week that he|this time of either the President's
poisoned his daughter,
Dorothy |fact-finding bill, which was watered
Ann, in 1039 in what he described down by the house labor commitas a “mercy killing.” |
Baby Girl, Weighing Less Than Two Pounds At Birth Here Nov. 3, Now 5-Pound 'Husky'
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By SHERLEY. UHL Three months ago Mary Kay Ritter was little more than a tiny knot of courage. Smallest surviving baby ever born at Methodist hospital, she Weighed one pound, 15 ounces, That was at 3:15 a. m.,, Nov, 3. Today she has a firm pair of lungs, a temper, and a stout heart that kept pounding against tremendous She tips, the scales at five
Mary Kay was born with two strikes against her, She was three months premature. “According to Hoyle,” she should have greeted
the “world only yesterday.
place
tee, or the tougher Case substitute.
Within a few days she'll be strong enough to leave her own little “warmer” in an isolated nook of the maternity ward and take her beside other babies in the regular nursery. “She's quite a pet,” said Miss Merle Ritter (no relation), head maternity nurse. “We're all very fond of her.” When born, she was about 10 inches long. Her parents are Mr, and Mrs. Norman Ritter of 6314 Winthrop ave. “A teacup would have covered her head with oceans of room to spare,” Miss Ritter ‘recalled. “She looked like a 26-cent doll.” At first Mary Kay was fed every
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BET YOU '$10,000,000,000—
Public Is Pouring
Sum Into
Surge of Gambling
(First of a Series) By JOHN N.
N. SABO
Times Special Writer
(CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—Astronomical as it might seem, the $2,000,000,000 spent in the development of the atomic
bomb is only a fraction of the amount now being poured
by the take-a-chance public into wagering ventures. These
ventures are 75 per cent illegal.
football pools.
of Europe for a year. THe natural question becomes:
During 1945, despite the fact
STRIKE SETTLED AT E. C. ATKINS
Operations at Plant Here Resume This Morning.
Operations resumed at the E. O Atkins & Co, saw manufacturing plant today following settlement of a strike involving 1100 employees. The settlement came yesterday at a mass, meeting of members of the United Steelworkers of America (C. I. 0.) Union spokesmen said acceptance of a company proposal in effect met the 18%-cent-an-hour wage increase recommended by President: Truman's fact-finding committee. Terms of the agreement provide for an increase of 13%: cents an hour, retroactive to last Sept. 18. Last fall, at earlier negotiations, the company had increased wages by
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3 SCARLET FEVER CASES REPORTED
Guardians Home Children Removed to Hospital.
An outbreak of scarlet fever in
Home sent three pre-school-age children to City hospital today.
County Welfare Director Arthur Wooden disclosed another registered nurse was added to the staff when the cases were reported. In his opinion the outbreak was not due to overcrowded conditions in the home. No scarlet fever cases were being treated in the home, Mr. Wooden said, although several children are recovering from chickenpox. Immunization is being given to all-ex-posed children. Dr. Gerald F. Kempf, city health officer, and Dr. A, M. Hetherington, county health officer, visited the institution this morning. A meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon ‘by county commissioners to discuss crowded conditions at the home. Representatives of various social agencies have been invited,
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two hours with a dropper. After
four weeks she was “tube-fed” with
physicians controlling the amount she received. Now she receives a regular bottle with a nipple every three hours. Her only nourishment has been a pre-prepared type of powdered milk, “Simlac,” in various stages of dilution. Immediately after her birth she was tucked in an incubator, remaining there until she weighed four pounds. Then she was placed in. the “warmer,” with a constant temperature of 90 degrees. Her parents saw her for the first time, after her mother had been released from the hospital, through the-glass ‘of the incubator,
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In a gambling surge unparalleled in history, Americans are betting $10,000,000,000 a year. as it cost to produce the atomic bomb. It is not a figure taken at random. It is the sum totaled in a. careful estimate of the amount being wagered annually at things ranging from horse racing and dice games to the numbers rackets and
This is five times as muoh
It is a sum which clearly indicates that while the public may not be losing its shirt, it is not for the lack of action,
TEN BILLION DOLLARS is enough to build 100 big aircraft car« riers and 40 battleships. It would be enough to feed the starved people
How is this 10 billion wagered?
To an investigator, the answer becomes simple.
that the race tracks were closed
through the early months, $1,306,514,314 was wagered legally at tracks
in 18 states: This was the parimutuel handle. State and city treasuries got $65,484,121 of this in various tax deductions. Still, $1,306,514,314 is far short
nearly the amount wagered on the horses. Illegal bookmakers and police officials have estimated that the amount bet with “bookies” throughout the nation on the horses is two and a half times as much as actually bet at lhe tracks. This would come to $3,276,285,785. : amount wagered on the horses at $4,582,800,009 a year. » » - NEXT COMES the amount wagered in the numbers and policy rackets. The numbers racket is simple enough. In the old days the
the-Board of Childrens Guardians
operators used a prominent race track for the winning numbers. They simply added the parimutuel payoffs on straight $2 bets on horses, These were figured thus: , One race paid, two races paid, three races paid, five races paid and seven races paid. Then the third figures in the last three numbers of the day. It might be 131 or 693 or any number between 000 and 999. Thus the odds were 1000 to 1. But the winning number, depending on the house operating the racket, never paid off at more than 500 or 600 to 1. » » . WHEN newspapers discontinued carryithg these mutuel payoffs, the operators switched to stock market transactions. Then there were policy houses which actually drew numbers three or four times a day in paying off on the same basis. In Detroit, for example, the police raided one mutuel house recently. Pigures uncovered, showed that this house handled $750,000 in one year alone, Scores of similar houses have operated in virtually every big city in the land. It has been conservatively estimated that the amount bet in the numbers racket closely approaches that wagered on. the horses—or approximately $4,000,000,000 a year, » nw . BUT THESE -are only two phases of gambling. There are dog tracks and football pools, baseball bookies and handlers of hockey bets. There is a big basketball syndicate in the east and another reported in St. Paul. The headquarters for the baseball bookmakers is in St. Louis. Again a conservative estimate puts the amount wagered on these “lesser” gamble enterprises at $2,000,000,000 a year throughout the nation. Thus the figure is past the 10-billjon mark and friendly poker games on Saturday nights and bets on the golf courses haven't even been considered.
» . # A PERFECT illustration of the increase in gambling is given on the accurate figures of betting on the horses “legally” at New York tracks. In 1940 the pari- ~mutuel ‘wagering at all New York' tracks was $103,260,359; in 19456 it was $421,156932 or an increase of more than 300 per gent in five years. Copyrignt, 1046, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. NEXT: What's the reason for this gambling mania? A leading psychologist “gives his answer,
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Banning of Magazine Is Called Censorship. In Ruling.
WASHINGTON, Feh. 4 (U. P.) ~The supreme court toe
held that the army had given the |
The court also ruled that Esquire | magazine, Varga girl and all, can be sent through the U. S. malls, Chief Justice Harlan F. Stones | wrote the 6 to'3 opinion in the Yamashita case upholding the mills
conviction, subject to the prescribed review by the military authorities were lawful.” The court denied a petition for certiorari and a request for permis sion to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus and prohibition, Sentenced to Hang An American military commission at Manila has-sentenced Yamashita to hang for war crimes. The sens iL. hies. te Yeview by SS authorities,
bidding the postoffice department to revoke the magazine's second-class mail privileges. ; Justice William O. Douglas wrote the unanimous decision, The decision ended a fight of more than two years by the maga« zine against an order issued in November, 1043, by then Postmaster General Frank O. Walker. Walker contended that because of the semi-nude Varga girl pictures
The high tribunal reviewed the case, including life-sized exhibits of the Varga girl, on & government ap- . peal from a ruling by the U. 8 court of appeals in favor of the magazine. A lower court had ruled in favor of Mr. Walker. / Justice Douglas, sharply denouneing the postoffice action, said that . to uphold the order “would grant the postmaster general a power of censorship.” I “Such =» power is so abhorrent to our traditions that a. purpose 0 grant it should not be easily ine ferred”, The magazine fought Mr. Walker's order as “capricious and arbitrary® and in violation of the freedom of press. Besides, it said, the 1 would cost it an additional $624,000 annually to send Esquire by parcel post. Mainly at issue in the suit was the extent of the postmaster's duties under a section of the postal laws which requires second-class mail to be “originated and pubs lished for the dissemination of ine formation of a public character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts or some special industry.”
SHIP GOES ON ROCKS
SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. ¢ (U, P.). —An Alaska steamship line pase senger ship ran aground on rocks off Puget Cape today during & blinding northern Pacific blizzard, Two coast guard cutters blige through heavy seas in an attempt / | to aid the 5746-ton ship, the Yukon,
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