Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1946 — Page 1
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POLICE BREAK
UP ROBBERY IN GUNFIRE HAIL
Hold 3 Attempts; One Till Yields $570.
Cruising” policeman interrupted two safe burglaries over the weekend, rounding up three alleged safecrackers. Two other men halted in the middle of a safe theft fled in
# hail of bullets, A $600 safe-¥" cracking, burglaries at a busi- © ness place and a’ residence, two . purse snatchings. and a “rolling” * also are being investigated by police today. : Two men whom | police say were : discovered forcing James Strong a safe at Perkins:
Trucking Co., 419 W. Merrill st., were arrested as they attempted to flee from the firm offices early today. They were James Dennis Strong, 19, of 911 S. West st., arrested on a vagrancy charge, and 17-year-old Donald Greer, -of 509 Abbott st. released -to the juvenile aid division.
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latively out of shiny eyes. They shamble along aimlessly, hulks of what once were men. AYU night they sleep sprawled in walks, because they have no place else to go. They stop some times, with a umbled “Pardon, monsieur,” dumbly begging a two-cent handout. Shove them, kick them, ignore them entirely, or curtly refuse them ~it's all the same, they sidle on wordlessly. What has been done to these walking dead men has rendered them incapable of even the humble emotion of anger. Broken in Body and Spirit These are the liberes, the “freed ones.” They have served out the sentences for which they were deported from France-to the infamous penal colony the world has come to know as Devil's island. Most of them are still wearing parts of their red-and-white striped prisori uniforms. They have been turned out, thousands of miles from their homeland—most of them broken in body, as well as spirit—to do with themselves as they can.
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Police reported that Greer, now on probation from the juvenile aid, has a. past record in the juvenile court. The two youths also are being questioned in connection with a $250 safecracking at the Perkins’ company Friday night when one
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The Story of Devil's Island: White Zombies Walk Streets While Black Vultures Watch
By JOHN A THALE
Correspondent
CAYENNE, French Guiana, April 1.—This is where white zombies walk the street and black vultures sit on the curbs watching them specu-
these ragged, bearded, vacant-eyed
tortured attitudes on the stone side-
Though escaped prisoners have occasionally brought to the outside world glimpses of France's infamous Devil's island, no newspaperman had been permitted access to that isle in all its 92 years of hloody history. . With the French government's abolition of pena} servitude there, however, The Indianapolis Times has been able to get its Caribbean correspondent, John A. Thale, into Cayenne, Mr. Thale gives Times readers his first-hand impressions of that hellhole “where so many men have known agony,” “whose name will go down in history as one of the most infamous prisons the world has ever known.”
persons, is the center of life in French Guiana. Devil's island and the other prison camps have laid a blight on it almost as certainly as they have blighted the unfortunates deported here to have their very souls
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Nine Killed in
safe was open
a pair of pliers and a drill bit. Hi-Jacking Safe
Burglars who were halted in the| middle of hi-jacking a safe at 11th and College st. early Sunday morn-
ing abandoned the safe and fled.
They were pursued by Patrolman Jack Heavenridge, who fired several shots after the fleeing burglars. The
men attracted the attention of
prowl car in frokt of Pittman’s grocery, when the officers flashed
a light on the burglars’ car.
The two ran between the grocery and apartment building and down an alley. Checking the car, policemen found a safe which had been taken from Pittman’s grocery. A back door of the store had been pried open and $25 in change taken
from the csah drawer; Get $570 From Safe
Police said the abandoned automobile was one which had been reported stolen by Cornell Reid, 1443 Park ave. One man is being questioned in connection with the
‘burglary, police said.
A loot of $570 from a jimmied
safe and six pay envelopes from
cash drawer was taken by safecrackers who broke into the American Compressed Steel Corp., 1200 E. They gained entrance ‘hrough a side door and pried open the safe, po-
Maryland st, Saturday.
lice said.
A house-breaker who took $625 from a dresser drawer in the home of Mrs. Maye Miller, 53, of 1001 Colalso is be-
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lege ave. Apt. 201,
RICKENBACKER’S
- MOTHER: DIES, 82
1.0S ANGELES, April 1 (U/ P.).— 82, mother of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, died last night after having been in failing health for many
Mrs. Elizabeth Rickenbacker,
months.
Her son, world war I ace and president of Eastern Airlines, was at her side when she passed away. He came here recently when informed his mother was near death. The body is being taken to Co-
lumbus, O., for burial.
Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Pflaum and Mrs, Em‘ma R. Hanson, both of -Columbus, O., and five sons, Eddie, William, of Detroit, Dewey, Louis and Albert Rickenbacker, all of Los Angeles.
and one battered.
Lt. Noel Jones and Patrolman John Logue checked the truck company while patrolling their district shortly after 1 today, Spotting broken glass near a window, the officers ran to the rear door and ‘headed off the youths as they at- * tempted to make a getaway. Investigating, police found the door pried off the safe and burglars instruments and tools littering the floor. Police say Greer had a hatchet, a paper knife, a pocket knife and pliers in his possession, while Strong had more than 50 three-cent stamps, two screwdrivers,
State and City
~ Nine persons died in Indiana over
accidents, No fatal accidents were reported
jn Indianapolis as city police continued their traffic blockades and arrested 71 persons, 50 of whom were charged with speeding. Ira Tapp, 17, of 1549 Olive st. received minor injuries yesterday when his motorcycle collided at Pleasant Run blvd. and Laurel st. with an automobile driven by William Kalscheuer, 48, of 1714 College Woman of 71 Hurt Mrs. Harriet Stillwell, 71, of 440 N. Irvington ave. was injured yesterday afternoon in an automobilestreetcar collision at Pleasant Run blvd. and E. Washington st. Mrs. Stillwell was a passenger in an au- & | tomobile driven by Carl E. Stillwell, 39, of the same Irvington ave. address. Two persons were sent to Metnodist hospital yesterday afternoon when an automobile driven by John T. Wibbels, 20, of 4602 Carsen rd. collided at 15th and N. New Jersey sts. with anothef car driven by Dewey Gibson, 47, of 1404 Central ave. Mr. Gibson and Lilly Gibson, 47, were sent to the hospital. Wibbels was arrested and charged with not having an operator’s license and inadequate brakes. Boy Killed by Truck The state's traffic dead included the killing of a 11-year-old boy, Robert Robbins who was struck in Bedford by a truck driven by.Mrs. Rose Bradford of the same city. Another victim of violent death was John Gelon, 39, a worker at the Indland steel mills at East
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NOAH BEERY, FILM VILLAIN, IS BEAD
Succumbs at 62 in Arms Of Brother Wallace.
HOLLYWOOD, April 1 (U. PJ). —Noah Beery Sr., 62, screen villain for more than a quarter of a century, died today. Beery was on vacation here from New York where he was appearing in the stage hit, “Up In Central Park.” Noah, his brother, Wallace, who was 57 today, and Wallace's daughter, Carol Ann, were to appear tonight on the Lux Radio theater. His death at his Beverly Hills home was sudden and he died in Wallace's arms.
Auto Traffic
the week-end as the result of traffic
PAOLI KILLING IS ADMITTED
2 Indiana Suspects “Held In Texas; 1 Confesses.
One of two Indiana war veterans, captured after a gun battle in rt. Worth, Tex. yesterday, admitted the hitch-hike killing March 18 of a Louisville man near Paoli, Ind, according to Indiana state police officials, The prisoners were identified as Paul Edward Gibson, 21, and Ernest Ford, 24, both of Jeffersonville, Ind. Ft. Worth officials reported that Ford was critically wounded in the back when he attempted to escape arrest. Confesses to Police Ft. Worth police said Gibson confessed that he and Ford killed James J. Williams, 34, of Louisville, after they hitch-hiked"a ride with the victim and his companion, Marvin Skaggs, 23. Both prisoners confessed, according to a Ft. Worth police report to Indiana police, that they were the bandits who held up-a building and loan association at Vincennes, Ind., March 4, getting more than $2000 and also admitted the robbery -of the Franklin Security Co. at Jeffersonville March 1.
Ft. Worth police said they stopped the pair on a residential street yesterday for routine questioning. The 1aen showed their army discharge papers and officers said they were about to let them go on their way but decided first to search them for weapons. Ford Hit by Bullets
When officers found a gun in Gibson's. pocket, Ford grabbed it and pulled another out of his pocket. The officers fired two shots, both bullets\ striking Ford 2”
in the back. \ After placing Ford in a hospital under guard, the prisoner shouted:
“You can’t hold me here, I'll break away.” Indiana ‘state police officers,
armed with extradition papers, will leave tonight to bring the pair back to Paoli where second degree murder charges were to be filed against both men today.
DRAFT IS ROAD TO WAR, SAYS THOMAS
WASHINGTON, April 1 (U, P). —Soclalist leader Norman Thomas warned congress today that cantinuing the draft is the road to war, He asked the senate military affairs committee to reject army, navy and state department requests to extend selective service beyond the present May 15 expira-
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Twenty-three ‘of the submarines.
'Indianapolis'
Is Destroyed With 23 Others
charges. The 24th vessel-=-the 'I402—was sunk by shell fire: from this destroyer and its sister ship, the destroyer Larson. — .. The 1-402 was one of the world’s largest submarines. It was designed to carry four airplanes for attacks against the United States mainland. ‘The spot where the submarines were sent down was designated by the navy as “deep six.” The water here is 150 fathoms—too deep to permit salvage at any future date. Naval officers. said the Japanese still had eight or 10 submarines capable of being operated. These will. be destroyed later. ; Material valuable to U. 8, intelligence was. removed ' from the
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1946
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GREECE CALM AS ROYALISTS WIN ELECTION
Coalition Move Seen Likely With Plebiscite Later On King George.
ATHENS, April 1 (U, P.).—Premier Themistocles Sofoulis submitted his government's resignation today when it became evident that the Royalist Populist party would win a majority of the votes cast yesterday in the Greek general election. Official reports said the entire country was calm despite early predictions of riots if the rightists won. Archbishop Damaskinos, regent of Greece, summoned Populist party leaders to a conference tomorrow to discuss the formation of a new government, The regent asked Sofoulis to stay in office until the new government is completed. The Populist party’s administrative committee will confer with Damaskinos tomorrow and receive a commission to form a new cabinet. Only part of the election results were known. The returns failed to record an overwhelming demand for the return of King George of the Hellenes.
Will Try Coalition A Populist party spokesman said that party, even if it wins an absolute majority, will try to form a coalition government if the other parties will accept the fundamental principles of the Populists. The main Populist tenet is a plebiscite on the return of King George as soon as possible, Authoritative sources said Damaskinos intended to resign after the new government is formed. Returns indicated that the Populists polled about twice the vote of any other participating party, but the total Populist strength was roughly equal to the combined voting power of the Liberal party ind National Political union. Informed quarters believed that a rightist-center coalition would resul, and a plebiscite on King George would be delayed until 1948. Greek voters apparently rejected both the left and extreme right in generally orderly voting. No Left-Wingers Despite strenuous appeals by the EAM left-wing coalition to boycott the election, an estimated 60 to 70 per cent of the eligible voters cast ballots. There were no left-wing candidates. = The extreme right, represented by the militant monarchist organization called “X,” was roundly defeated. It polled only a few hundred votes. Ninety districts in Athens and 38 districts in. Salonika gave the populists 33,593, the Liberals 15,022 and the National Political Union 14,414. Both Liberals and the National Political Union showed unexpected strength. The exact extent and significance of the abstentions was obscure. It appeared that an average of 50 per cent of the voters boycotted
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SAYS BLACK MARKET GETTING U. S. GRAIN
WASHINGTON, April 1" (U. P). —QCongress heard charges today that most of the nation’s meat and grain is being sold at black market prices. The charges were made at a hearing by the senate agriculture committee, which is looking into the meat situation. Wilbur Laroe Jr. general counsel for the National Independent Meatpackers association, said price controls on meat have broken down completely, The black market, he said, is “running wild.” Senator Hugh Butler (R. Neb), told the committee most of the nation's grain is being sold at black market prices. He said in some cases the black market is paying $1000 cash “on the side” for each carload of corn.
GANDHI, CRIPPS TO MEET . NEW .DELHI, April 1 (U, P.).— Mohandas K. Gandhiand Sir Stafford Cripps were scheduled to meet tonight for the first talk on a proposed new form of government for India under the British offer of full independence, s
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By DONNA MIKELS Anybody know of a job selling hot tamales in the torrid zones? It couldn't be nearly as hot to
gripe-infested OPA office. 1 spent a day watching some 200 angry people give the two chief “buffers” at the district OPA office, workout.
the path into the office sizzling. And every once in awhile some of them let loose with some expletives that sizzle the ears of the the housing troubleshooter, Miss Alberta Peterson. The people stride in and up.to Mrs. Shaw's desk and begin telling her just what they think. Sometimes she tries to tell them she’s just there to direct them to “gripehearers” but that's usually just like an electric
to the first listening post.
not only has to hear OPA-connect-
handle as being a “buffer” in the ;
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Veterans, tenants, landlords and just plain people who have been 3 goaded past human endurance— these are the gripesters who keep
receptionists, Mrs, Edna Shaw and
Smiling, that Is . . . Miss Alberta Peterson and Mrs, Edna Shaw, the OPA “buffers” collapse under a “Keep Smiling” sign at the end of a gripe-infested day.
OPA 'Buffers' Are Given Hot Work-Out By Local Veterans, Tenants and Landlords
hopping mad about surplus prop»
fan in a hurricane.|erty (not an OPA duty). Their gripes, 99 out of 100, are|driven to Cincinnati to bid on some housing wails, have been damned- surplus, arriving just as the place up too long and they spill them| opened only to be told the property
He'd
wasn't available; it was all a mis-
The city's most growled-at woman | take. He got back in town and the next ed gripes. A general confusion on/day saw the same property he'd government agencies locally results| tried to buy on sale at an E, Washin her hearing about everything ington from surplus property to priorities.|there dickering for the goods, the For instance, a veteran came in retailer told the veteran he'd just
st. commercial firm. While
purchased the surplus nati—the same day and at the spot the vet was turned down. Then there's the woman who drops in once a week and says “I want to see the main guy—Mr, Strickland.” Everytime she is questioned and everytime she won't talk, She gets shuttled to the interviewer and next week she's back, wanting to see “the main guy.” “Honestly,” said Mrs. Shaw, “I
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LONDON FEARS TRICK IN IRAN
British Want Red Military [Equipment Ousted, Too.
BULLETIN NEW YORK, April 1 (U, P.)— Premier Ahmad Ghavam of Iran —answering charges that he and his representatives at the United Nations security council disagreed —today threw his unequivocal support behind the case presented to the council against the Soviet Union by Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala. Ghavam cabled United Nations Secretary Gen-' eral Trygve Lie that Ala “has been and continues to be” fully accredited and qualified to represent any matter concerning Iran before the security council. The cable indicated that Iran had no intention of backing down from its charges to the council that the Soviet Union was violating Iran's sovereignty by maining troops in that country,
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 1.—British
officials insisted today that -any settlement of the Soviet-Iranian dispute must guarantee not only unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops from Iran but also removal of all Soviet military equipment. Fear that the Soviets might leave such equipment behind them in the hands of “Russian sympathizers” or autonomist leaders was expressed
as: ONE: Soviet Russia underscored her confidence in the basic ideals of the United Nations by becoming the first big power to pay in full her $1,723,000 contribution to organization’s working fund. TWO: President Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes scheduled conferences in Washington to review the United Nations crisis over Iran and decide upon American policy if the Soviet union ignores the security council's appeal for troop removal assurances. THREE: Security council members started to “sweat out” the last 48 hours before Wednesday's 10 a. m., (Indianapolis time) deadline for a reply to their identical notes to Russia and Iran for more information about the status of negotiations.
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By SHERLEY UHL BELIEVE IT or not, but right there in black and white. That's what the newspaper says. A six-room house for $2750. New Buicks (several if you want them) $815 f.0.b. Electric washers, $48.85. All the gabardine suits you can Nylon stockings (limit five pairs to a customer) for $1.15 a pair. Sirloin steaks cents a pound. We didn’t believe it either until we read those ads in The Times,
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SAYS LAGUARDIA KIN DIED IN ‘SICK’ CAMP
DACHAU, April 1 (U, P). — A Czech professor testified today at the trial of 61 Mauthausen concen- | tration ' camp officials that a brother-in-law of UNRRA Chief F. H. LaGuardia died at the camp in
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The witness, Dr. Joseph Podlaha, a former inmate of Mauthausen, said LaGuardia’s brother-in-law, a Hungarian Jew named Glueck, died in the Mauthausen “sick camp.”
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Today's the big. day for séveral hundred Indianapolis “spelling wizards.” or ' Aftdr weeks of hard study they will officially open The Times Spelling Bee at 7:30 p. m. in two community centers and one church, the first matches of those to be held in 21 centers throughout the city before April 13. . . Tonight's spell-downs will be held in these locations for the following
Garfield community center in Garfield park—-Schools. 20, 31, 34, 35, 72 and St. Catherine's and 8t. Roch’s Catholic schools. Fairview Presbyterian church,
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Catholic schools.
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Lockefield community cenfer, Locke st.—Schools 4, 17, 24, 40, and St. Rita (west branch) Catholic
school.
Approximately 25 spellers whb survive tonight's test in each of the
matches will return to their centers Monday night of next week for the|™ oe or or second preliminary. That night
two best spellers will be selected to
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New Disputes Will Boost List of Idle Workers: To 805,000. By UNITED PRESS A new strike wave developed today with a walkout in the nation’s soft coal niines and strikes which crippled transportation in two major industrial cities. Public transportation in Detroit and Akron, was paralyzed when transporthtion workers struck in
Lewis B. Schwellenbach less than 12 hours after the bituminous miners struck at 12:01 a. m. He also scheduled a conference with President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers (A. F. of L.) preparatory to a meeting of the union and the operators. : Little Hope of Accord There was little prospect of & settlement for at least two weeks, when the full force of the coal stoppage will begin to be felt in recon-version-vital industries such as steel. ; Technically, the miners were on an annual “holiday” today anyway. It is the 48th anniversary of their eight-hour day—so the strike as such will not affect mines until to-
Supreme Court to Review Seniority Dispute. WASHINGTON, April 1 (U, P.). ~The supreme court today agreed to review the hotly-debated question of “super seniority” in the reemployment rights of veterans. The court agreed to hear a suit by Abraham Fishgold, a Brooklyn, N. Y., welder. After 14 months in military service, Mr. Fishgold returned to his job with the Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. Later, however, he was laid off during a slack period while non-veteran workers with greater seniority kept their jobs. Mr. Fishgold filed a suit to regain his job and to collect damages for his discharge, on grounds that the re-employment rights of a veteran take precedence over ordinary seniority rights. The high court, in agreeing fo hear Mr. Fishgold’'s case, asked Solicitor General Howard J, MeGrath to file the government's views on the problem. Federal courts in different areas have made conflicting decisions. The government has backed the veterans’ rights, and is expected to do so in the supreme court. The high tribunal in reviewing the case is expected to decide whether a veteran is entitled to keep his job, regardless of union
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TRIBUNAL UPHOLDS UTILITY AGT CLAUSE
‘Death Sentence’ in Holding Company Law Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, April 1 (U, P.). ~The supreme court today upheld the “death sentence” clause of the
1937 public utility holding company act. ‘ Justice Frank Murphy delivered the court's 6-to-0 opinion. Justices Stanley F. Reed, William O. Douglas and Robert H. Jackson took no part in the decision. The much-disputed death sentence clause authorized the securities and exchange commission to cut large public utility holding company empires down to a “single tegrated public utility system.” The fight against the act was carried to the supreme court by North American Co., New York, with- pub-1 lie utility holding in 17 states; Engineers Public Service Co, a 12
Light Corp., Gulf of Mexico utility, The companies contested constitutionality of the death sentence
interstate commerce and an invalid taking of property wifhout due
state utility; American Power &|
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with parades. The coal strike began at midnight last night when the vanguard of 400,000 members of the United Mine Workers (A. F. of L), laid down their tools. The walkout threatened the reconversion program just as it was recovering from major set-backs in the automotive, . electrical and steel industries.
Idle Doubled
The three new walkouts incréased the number of workers idle in labor disputes across the country from 400,000 to more than 805,000. Other major developments: ONE. Threatened spoilage of one-third of the country’s food and vegetable pack was averted when A. F. of L teamsters ended a month-long boycott of 63 northern California canneries, > TWO. Federal conciliators at Washington reported progress toward settlement of a 71-day strike at Midwestern farm machinery plants of the International Harvester Co. THREE. West coast longshoremen postponed a strike scheduled for today and agreed to submit their dispute with shipping lines to a presidential fact-finding board. Transit Operators Idle
In Detroit, more than 5000 A, F. of L. operators struck the cityowned streetcar and bus lines, stopping transportation for some 1,800,000 residents of the automotive center, . The strike began at 3 a. m. (Indianapolis time), after negotiations collapsed at a last-minute confer. ence late yesterday, Police patrolled terminals but picketing was
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RELATES NAZIS TOOK GOLD TEETH OF DEAD
DACHAU, Germany, April 1 (U, P.) —Twenty-four thousand grams of gold, drilled from the teeth of dead prisoners, were sent to Berlin between November, 1941, and April, 1945, it was revealed today. : Ernst Martin, a prosecution witness at the trial of 61 officials of the Mauthausen concentration camp, made the statement during his direct examination, A At current gold prices, the 24,000 grams would sell for approximately $22,000.
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