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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1946
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
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ORDERS POLICE | CRACKDOWN ON TOURNEY BETS
McMurtry ‘Alerts Officers to ~ Watch for Gambling in ~Cage-€f:
assic. Police Chief Jesse McMurtry today ordered a general crackdown against gambling on basketball. His order applies to pools, which are doing a landslide business, as well as handbooks, whose state tourney trade is competing heavily
The chief's edict came in the
ketball gambling in Marion county is headed for an all-time high this year. Although gaming interest in Hooslerdom’s classic high school cage playoff is statewide, it centers here where the finals will be held Saturday. Bstimates on the amount of cash plunked on the state tournament barrelhead here range from a conservative $50,000 to an exaggerated quarter of a million dollars. Issues Verbal Orders
The chief gave: verbal orders to Police Inspector Donald Tooley, in charge of anti-vice activities, to instruct uniform men and vice-squad officers {o remain alerted against all forms of basketball wagering. Most betting is on pools, with tickets circulating throughout Indiana among professional and smalltime gamblers. High school and college students likewise are risking | their change wherever facilities are | available. On the basis of pre-finals pairings; Ft. Wayne Central is the favorite on the professional gaming boards because of its afternoon game with Flora, a long-shot. But the odds will shift when the tourney heads into the showdown game Saturday night. Odds Are Listed |
As of today, odds on potential | tournament winners as posted in | ole of the mile square’s more reliable betting emporiums stand at 4 to 1 en Flora, 10 to 7 on Ft.
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The Times Invites MacArthur Here
The Indianapolis Times today invited -General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to visit here when he returns
to the United States. Walter Leckrone, editor of The Times, this morning sent the following cable to Gen. MacArthur in Tokyo: " os » » n = “REFERENCE possibility your visiting U, 8, The Indianapolis Times wishes to invite you to honor Indiana by visiting this city. “On editorial staff of this Scripps-Howard newspaper are Col. Donald D. Hoover, ex-your counter intelligence staff section, and Maj. Earl Hoff, formerly with Brig. Gen. Diller, who would assist in ar_rangements for visit in accordance your desires. “This Middlewestern city has followed your epochal career with extreme interest and hes to express in person the deep admiration which your victories and other history-making accomplishments have created in its people.” » » ” o » » GEN. MacARTHUR,. when he comes back to the United States, | will be the last of the nation’ s great wartime leaders to return to his native land. “Gen. MacArthur not only has military genius, but also a firmness and fairness in dealing with other powers that is vital in this period of our history,” said Mr. Hoover, who served close to Gen. MacArthur in the crucial period of the surrender and occupation of Japan. 2 ” on . ” ” ” GEN. MacARTHUR'S visit here would be a tribute to Indiana, as well, for the important part its citizens played in the war. Indianapolis already has played host to others of the nation's great military men, among them Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Adm. Raymond H. Spruance and Admiral of the Fleet William Halsey.
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ABC Probing Rumors Of Tavern ‘Shakedown
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NEW ELECTION LAW VALIDITY 1S QUESTIONED
Judges Bring Surprise New Issue Into Supreme Court Hearing.
By NOBLE REED A question of the constitutionality of the new state election law was raised informally today by all five judges of the Indiana supreme court, The surprise issue came up while attorneys were conferring with the court on the filing of a petition for writ of prohibition to prevent Marion County Circuit Judge Lloyd Claycombe from continuing pro-
As Search Sor HURT IN CRASH
Bandits Fails Auto Leaves os Road at TradPolice today sought a lone bandit, ers Point; Cyclist Killed. {night and continued a search for | two armed purse-snatchers who! Two persons who were critically | have been involved in almost a! injured in an accident early today dozen robberies. {at Traders Point remained unconPolice also received reports. of scious. in City hospital as police two homes being entered,” one at- | investigated the crash. ° tempted safe-cracking and one! Traffic accidents also took a toll strong-arm robbery. |of one fatality and three other casAn armed bandit who pulled a { ualties in the state last night. Three gun on William Porter, clerk of a local pedestrians were injured in
liquor store at 1422 N. Capitol ave.| accidents. sterday, took $65 in cash, $85 in| The victims. of the Traders Point checks, and a sack full of money, | crash were identified tentatively as total amount unknown. | Arlia Smith, 28, of . Fayette, and He fled after locking Mr. Porter Alberta Boran, 28, Lebanon, Ind. | The crash car was registered as the | property of Arlia J. Smith, Brownsburg.
Police also received another re-
ceedings to oust members of the |voters registration board. | The supreme court permitted the | petition to be filed but declined to iss ssue a restraining order against Judge Claycombe, pending a hearing at 10 a. m. tomorrow in the supreme court. Validity Questioned Supreme court judges in an .informal conference with attorneys representing ousted registration board members said there was a question in their minds regarding the validity of the whole election code. They explained therefore, that they could not issue a writ of prohibition under a law that may not be valid. The supreme court asked the attorneys to be prepared to argue
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Streets Flooded as is Alley Dirt Clogs | Sewers
Steady rains today turned many Indianapolis thoroughfares into miniature lakes and streams. Scores of complaints were being received as sewers, clogged with dirt were unable to carry away the rain. In the 500 block on E. Warsaw st, the water rose to two feet when-dirt was washed inte the sewers from “The condition has been here as long as we can remember,” sald weary citizens.
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VICTIMS’ FEAR OF REPRISALS HAMPERS HUNT
Report Racket Averages 3 $250 to $2500 Under | Guise of ‘Fees.’
By SHERLEY UHL The state. alcoholic bevers ages commission is investie gating widespread rumors of wn alleged “shake-down™ racket aimed at Marion couns
ty tavern operators, The Times learned today. In some cases, it reputedly costs tavern proprietors anywhere from $250 to $2500 “extra” to open estabe lishmients or continue in business, The usual sum is said to be $500, This®s in addition to the outlay for the permit itself. Some proprietors claim they have “paid off” but received no licenses. Also tracing “shake-down” re= ports is the Indiana Retail Alco holic Beverages association, an ore ganization of retail liquor. dealers. Pay for ‘Advice’ Investigators have been proceeds tag in secrecy for several weeks to thwart any attempts to camous= flage possible evidence. The racket reportedly prospers on the traditional reluctance of tavern men to confide in enforce= ment officers, It likewise is abet
Wayne Central, 8 to 5 on Evans- port of two women being robbed ville Central and 2 to 1 on Ander- | by a pair of bandits who have been son. However, many, bookmakers operating in residential districts.
Police, who have been unable to! constitutionality hi the act at the
are ‘refusing to back Twit bets on Flora, which they consider the weakest team, at any odds
In most pools, the picker takes | his choice and gives three points, |
but he must win on all three Satur-! day games to collect the five to]
Recover Pocketbooks
The women, Mrs. Anna Bowman | jie northwest of Traders Point, at and her daughter, Joy, of 2224 Cen- |, on today, when it left the road. {tral ave. were robbed Tuesday but | pe auto climbed an embankment, did not make the report immediate- | 1; a stone wall and rolled back
ascertain which of the two. oeccu-|hearing | pants was driving, said the car was _ pefition or a writ of pro- | headed north on road 52, one-half | hibition ged that Judge Clay-
combe had no. jurisdiction to remove members of the registration board.
Ousted Tuesday Registration Board Members
ly. Their purses were taken bY| gon the bank, turning over three
| George K. Johnson, Republican, and |
one payoff. Points given and taken on individual games vary somewhat. I - Some pools are operated on the | SUR. sa i 7 Tl ues D:ease, basis of the size of total game |* ey to 58. alr Durses contained some loose change.
scores. Police hua already recovered the
BUYS 2 BUILDINGS = {ioseeiiuiis. summed of toe oo FOR STATE MUSEUM
the hold-up. The purses were found | The purchase of two buildings at
in an alley near 2300 N. Capitol ave. Two homes were broken into last the corner of Ohio st. and Senate pjght. Dr. C. W. Dowd, 549 E. 42d ave. for ultimate use as a states said a $15 gold dental bridge museum was announced today. The was taken by thieves who broke property was purchased by El Lilly into his home. for $60,000. | Mrs. John C. Alexander, 1440 4 The property is expected to be ggell st, reported that her home taken over by the state at the next| legislature. The property was formerly the Methodist Deaconess Svere—p———————————— hospital, and one office is the pres-| TIPTON VOTES HOSPITAL ent headquarters of the Center| TIPTON, Ind, March 14 (U. P..| township trustees. {—Plans for the construction of a | im {county hospital advanced today | after Tipton county residents yes-
STATE POLICE HUNT |terday voted 17 to 1 in favor of the | ESCAPED PRISONER. umt. The hospital will be dedicated
COLUMBUS, Ind. March 14 (U. jos 2 Jnenonal servicamen of P.).—Southern Indiana police were on the lookout today for a 30-year-| old Jennings county resident who | sawed his way out of Bartholomew | county jail and dropped 14 feet to freedom. Sheriff Walter O'Neal said that Carroll Scalf, escaped after “what must have taken weeks of undercover work.” |
| (World copyright by NEA Service, Inc. All rights of reproduction without express FAMED MANUSCRIPT permission prohibited). | — TO BE SOLD IN U. S.. TA erie | STOCKHOLM, March 14. — The NEW YORK, March 14 (U. P.). — | Nazis maintained in Stockholm The manuscript of Lewis Carroll's | |two complete espionage outfits, “Alice in Wonderland” will be sold | which acted independently of each
to the highest bidder at the Parke- |other and frequently at cross pur-
Bernet galleries on April 3. poses. One was operated by the on April 3. gestapo, the other by the “Abwehr”
The hand-written manuscript |or military intelligence section of
was last sold 18 years ago in Lon- | the high command. don where it brotight $75,259. | ‘This is disclosed in the documen-
Ar——————————— [tary expose of Nazi espionage in FLY: CARDINAL'S BODY
{world war II obtained by NEA NEW YORK, March 14 (U. P.) .— A trans-world airways airplane bearing the body of John Joseph
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(Second of a Series)
from a former code teleprinter at-
INSIDE THE NAZI SPY NEST—No. 2 Nazis Maintained 2 Complete 'Spy' Outfits in Stockholm
one of the bandit pair, who stepped | times. (from the running board of a car {at 2000 College ave. He waved a
{David Klapper, Democrat, were A Kokomo motorcyclist was killed | ousted Tuesday without a hearing and his companion seriously injured | {on a petition filed in circuit court when the vehicle crashed into al {by G. O. P. County Chairman Henry car near Kokomo. The dead man E Ostrom. He charged they failed | was Raymond Fife , 20. He was|to conduct their duties ‘and impartially.”
(Continued on Page 3—Column 5), Judge Claycombe had ordered Mr. Johnson and Mr. Klapper to appear
WEATHER } FORECAST: for a hearing this afternoon to RAIN AND MORE RAIN hw cause why they should not
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6am ..5 10am The status of this hearing was 3m... HA am ...55 | : |’ not immediately determined in view 8am ... 5 12 (noon) .. 55 lof the su v's refusal to 9am ...5 1pm ..5 | preme courts re usa.
| issue a formal writ of prohibition.
The weatherman today said there would be no let-up in the showers) that let loose -on Indianapolis during the night. As a matter of fact, rain, inter-| | mixed with occasional prowess, Jight,
OFFICERS IN 2 YEARS maa GET OUT BY AUG, 31
the remainder of the day, ae a Exceptions s Ae Those in Regular Army, Volunteers.
Temperatures. _will continue to be mild. ® WASHINGTON, March 14 (U. P.). —The army today announced new discharge requirements under which nearly - all officers who will have served two years by next Aug. 31 will be separated from service or en route home by that date. The exceptions are regular army officers, those who have volunteered for additional service, medical officers and a few others in séarce categories. The War department said about 4000 male officers and about 200 WAC officers will become eligible for discharge under the new program,
vey revealed sufficient officers are volunteering to allow enactment of the new schedule, Detailed plans for releasing enlisted men after July 1 are under study, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said yesterday the basis for release after that date would be two years of service. Under the present program, enlisted men with 45 points or 30 months of service
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are {o be homeward bound by April
Cardinal Glennon left La Guardia |g: khoim. field at 10:38 a. m. today for Bt.| gweden's . beautiful, water-girt Louis, Mo, and was scheduled to0|oqpita] was-predestined by nature arrive there at 2:23 p. m. (Indian- | |to become the metropolis of espiapolis time). onage in world war II. Even during the last war Stockholm had been a favorite haunt of foreign agents, from the perky drawing-room type down to. the
TIMES INDEX
Amuse. ....24-25 Edw. Morgan. 7| two-bit cloak-and-dagger man, AftBusiness 31| Movies .. 24] |er- a respite of 15 years or so, folClassified. 27-29 Obituaries .13] lowing the armistice, the unwelComics ....... 30|H. V. O'Brien.17 come guests flocked back to their Crossword ....30/Dr. O'Brien... 17 41d hunting-grounds as soon as it Wallace Deuel 17} J. E. O'Brien.26 | gppeared that a new war was inEditorials .18| Politics ....... 10] evitable. Fashions - ..... ..20| Radio crave tue 0 City's Attraction Forum ....... 18| Reflections ...18| ‘Many factors contributed to the G. 1. Rights . 10] Mrs. Roosevelt. 17 attraction of Stockholm for spies Meta Given, ..21| Science ...... land would-be spies. Sweden's James Haswell 9 H. Shapiro ...23| proximity to, and traditionally close Don Hoover. ..18 Sports .... 26-27 relations with Germany, the obIn Indpls, 3| Troop Arrivals 15] vious storm-center of the new con-
Inside Indpls. 17|B. Stranahan 26|fijct, the comforts of travel, faciliJane. Jordan. 30 Washington . .18|tjes of communication, “the demoLADO .uinvei 17, Women's . 20-21 Ruth Millett, .17] World Aftairs. 18 (Gontistuod on Page 2—Colusin b
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30. Those with 40 points or "24 months of service are to be en route home by June 30.
‘I'M MAD?
® A war veteran speaks up in the housing crisis . . . a resident challenges trolley fares". . . another wants cleaner entertainment . . still another complains of the smoke nuisance,
® They're your neighbors “saying their piece” in the Hoosier Forum — your own . department. in The Times. vid
Col, Fritz Wagner, a burly, fiftyish gestapo man with globous eyes, heavy jowls and an unctuous smile was attached to the | German legation in Stockholm, Although he posed- as a scientist, he actually headed up the foreign
® Read what the average reader has to say . . ,
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Scenes like this at 64th st. and Park ave. were duplicated all over the city. A post-war sewer modernization program has been mapped by various committees.
ment Prospects Bright.
High officials of the C. I. O. United Auto Workers said today the] outlook was “very bright” for early settlement of local issues which will return 3800 General Motors employees to work here. Arnold Atwood, regional director of she. U, A. W., said information he had received from local unions on strike at Allison and Chevrolet | Commercial Body plants indicated | local matters would be ironed out by the time formalities of the national settlement were carried out. Steel Outlook Hopeful Mr. Atwood will leave early tomorrow for Detroit where delegates from local unions will hear detailed terms of the national settlement; first, step in ratification over the country. Delegates will report back to local unions which then will accept or reject the Detroit terms. Simultaneously a more hopeful prospect developed in the local steel strike picture involving 6680 workers still out at Link-Belt, SchwitzerCummins, J. D. Adams, Indianapolis Drop Forge and Thomas L. Green plants. Although no new developments were reported as of late last night, new meetings were -under-
BOTH G. E. AND G. M.
JOBS SEEN NEAR
Union Calls Local Agree-
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RETURN TO 6, M. Bevin Confident Russians
Plan No. Aggression in Iran
By HARRISON BALISBURY United Press Foreign Editer Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin expressed confidence today that
Russia will respect Iran's territorial
But reports from Tehran indicated Soviet troop movements still are in progress and tension was high. Mr. Bevin told the house of commons that Generalissimo Stalin and the Soviet government had given “most categoric reassurances”
that Iran's integrity would be re-| spected and that no aggression] against her was contemplated. He said that Russian policy was difficult to understand in the light of these .reassurances. He said it is “more difficult” to believe that Russia would not live up to her promises, including the withdrawal of troops. However, Mr. Bevin- said that Britain “would regret any. Iranian settlement which appeared to be extracted from the government of Iran under duress while the ‘Soviet government was still in occupation of a part of Iran.” Mr. Bevin said Britain had no present plan for restoring her garrison to Iran despite the reports of Soviet troop movements. Reports from Teheran said that Soviet troops had been moving north out of Fabriz, capital of Azerbaijan and that one column had swung west toward the Turkish border, These reports also estimated that the Soviet garrison in Azerbaijan had been doubled in the last month from its original size of 30,000 men. The source of these reports—Ilike
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integrity.
FRENCH ASK BIG 4 BREAK WITH SPAIN
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United Nations.
PARIS, March 14 (U. P), France has proposed to Britain and the United States that they join her in breaking off economic relations with Franco Spain, it was learned today. The French proposal was contained in notes handed by Foreign Minister Georges Bidault td the American and British ambassadors Tuesday, it was learned. The proposal constituted the French reply to the Anglo-Ameri-can answers to the original French suggestion that the Spanish question be put before the United Nations security council. The French notes made the alternative proposal that a four-power meeting of foreign ministers or
Back of the Headlines
Louisville, Workers Back to Jobs.
By UNITED PRESS Two of the nation’s longest and largest labor disputes, involving 275,000 workers, were settled today except for the formality of rank
contracts. Agreements to ~ end the two strikes—the C. I. O. auto workers’ against General Motors and the C. I. O. electrical workers’ walkout against the General Electric Co.— were reached on the basis of wage increases of 18% cents an hour. Conclusion of the 114-day-old G. M. strike was described by Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach as the “most significant” of any reached in recent work stoppages. Mr, Schwellenbach, said it pointed to early settlement of rer labor-management dis putes idling. 367,000 workers. The number was the smallest since the current wave of reconver-
| ston industrial disputes broke out
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DISPUTES SETTLED
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By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS WASHINGTON, March 14.—8Some of the best European observers express fear that the international situation is almost certain to become worse before it gets better.
ussian Dispute
By THOMAS L. STOKES WASHINGTON, March 14.-—For| the sake of objectivity—which is hard with all the emotion that has been stirred up, let us for the moment put ourselves in the place
Complaints regarding virtual ex. tortion attempts have been filtering into both the A. B. C. and Alcoholic Beverages association. But cleanup moves are balked by the hesitancy of those allegedly “shaken down” to level open charges for fear of “reprisals.” Called Legal Fees “Smoke” from the situation is haunting the local Republican hierarchy which is understood to be making & sincere effort to quell the “fire.” But the racket reportedly crosses party lines. In conversations with a Times
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reporter, two tavern operators privately voiced threats of physical violence against those they accused of plotting to
“bleed” them. One of the more common Vers sions of the rumored racket is the ancient “exorbitant attorney fee” approach’ “Applicants for permits are told to hire a lawyer. Usually, they are referred to the same ate torney. There is nothing in the liquor laws requiring tavern permit applicants to retain legal aid, “Clients,” are advised to chalk the transactions up in their income tax statements as “legal fees.” Political Clearance
In other instances, the alleged “pay-offs” are handled more open= ly, although delicately. Reportedly no checks, only cash is accepted, Usually those desiring to open tave erns are obliged to obtain “clears ance” from ward chairmen or pres cinct committeemen who custome arily keep a close watch on such new developments. But their participation is only one link—sometimes an innocent link—in the chain. Sometimes the “contact” men hold no official or party offices. Even certain saloons keepers reputedly have been -en= listed in the racket to “pass word around,” of its existence. One potential victim was ins formed his “donation” was to be diverted into a campaign fund. But, generally speaking, the reputed shake-down is believed not to have
| any connection with traditional
political slush fund collections among tavern proprietors. ‘Sweated Out’
Sometimes applicants are sald to | have been “sweated out” purported [ly as a maneuver to drain them of additional money. At any rate, certain irregularities can usually be found in virtually any saloon in town.
and file acceptance of the proposed
The reason is Russia's overwhelm-|of the Russians. ing strength and|/what has, been America’s present called “The Iron 7 weakness. | curtain” and look § These observers out upon the rest do not believe of the world. that Russia wants | What would we war. They are gee? convinced, how-| Pirst, we would ever, that -she is|gee the two other bent on continu- great powers of ing her territorial | the world, Britand political ex-|ain and the pansion to the ut yynited States, most short of war| sontrolling great
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Mr. Simms Mr. Stokes the mS are as hazily ‘defined as now. Russia, in their opinion, wants to
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sia_and Turkey at any time would) Mo. speech. (Editorial, Page 18). surprise no one, Tito, Moscow's puppet in Yugoslavia, continues te strengthen his forces along the Italian border, ac-
—always hazardous especially where | |areas, bound together by common
All of which has been re-empha-stay in Iran. Trouble between Rus-|sizéd by Winston Churchill's Fulton,
‘There is Great Britain, known in the past for her imperial ambitions |
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