Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1946 — Page 1
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AL CAPONE MOB MUSCLES IN ON
‘Scheme Revealed to United
“Scarface” Al himself.
take over the wire services which supply results to the handbooks.
would be unable to operate. In this situation, the Capone gang leaders see for themselves a $10,000,000-a-year future.
RACE BOOKIES
Tieup Of Coal Mines Is Slowly : Paralyzin
Press by Racing "News Operator.
By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, May 1.—Grey
syndicate were reported
A cut in the ‘profits woidd go to
The Capone mobsters plan to
Without race wires the handbooks
Confirmed by Police The’ extent of the schéme was reveiled to the United Press today {by the operator of a racing news service. His story was confirmed by police officials. The informant insisted that a share of the “take” from the activities of the survivors of the Capone mob still goes to Al-Capone. He has been reported in doddering retirement in Wisconsin and Florida | resorts. Actually; the informant said, Al Capone still figures in anything | undertaken by his henchmen of the beer war days—especially the profits. He added that he doubted the story that Capone is mentally incompetent. Avoided Chicago When Capone was released from
lieutenants of the old Capone bootlegging hatching a plot today to muscle in on every horserace handbook in Whe, nation.
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federal custody. in 1939 after serv: ing a prison term for income tax) evasion he reportedly was suffering] from paresis. Since then he has| stayed away from Chicago, living in seclusion at Miami and Mercer, Wis. The control of what was left of his multi-million-dollar rackets em- | pire passed to his three brothers— Mimi, Ralph and Matt.” The brothers carried on, with slot Bi hoy juke boxés, liquor and
gambling. The scheme is one of} the most ambitious ever undertaken by an ‘mob. It dips ito an enterprise doing an. estimated $500,000,000 annual business from coast -to coast. The operators themselves are outside the! law, making it impossible for them to appeal for police protection. | One racing service operator al.ject of Capone vengeance. James Ragen, head of the Mi West News Service which has had a virtual monopoly on track news
> of all the de#s an individual set | the ws and the try amy communiwhich) his govgement With. other hcerned felt, must #be maintained segs said.
cist at wing's college, stared vacanty a |as<S at the judge who heard his | Lorin ed glas 4) hib a a brief appearance in Old Bailey. lene veross, aa. DENIES ‘FIRING’ Girst time an| WE : on with the case. d admitted that srson” had asked yon on U. 8. elecd introductions to| d in laboratories. "rir. Shaweross| 190 Delphi - Students still ian gave him a sum | "Out on Strike. {dn amount of whisky, | t the gratuity was) DELPHI, Ind, May 1 (U. P.).— bject was not pur- More than half of Delphi's high rr school students remained on strike guilty to violating today while sthe city school board | secrets act by dis-| denied that it had “fired” Prininformation between ginal Harry Hatton. ph. 30, 1945. -Some 300 students walked out. yes~ pishonorable diner, defense atior- terday when they learned Mr. Hatcourt to remember jon had been refused a new conEe magn Feb School officials said: 150 striking 8%-1land and the Rus- | students huddled under a shelter in erlin. 2 nearby park this morning and re5 intervened to say! i fused to attend classes in spite of no suggestion that|a driving rain. May disclosed was| They said they would remain out 5 until Hatton was reinstated. Settlement Fails A meeting yesterday afternoon between representatives of the students and the school board failed to settle the dispute. ascmoers of the School board said Mr. Hatton had not been “fired.” 8 They skid hey simply chose not. 10 contract for next year. Shgwtiet] guilty, “BY no They told the students that the b 1s known (about /mmgtter was one “for adult eenwhich Nunn May|gumption* and thelr im. unknown persons) | mediate return to school. An apfpublic. peal by Mr. Hatton failed to inrary to Law {fluence the strikers today. viously published, Mr. Hatton charged yesterday ientist, while in a that the board demanded his resigr poSition in Can- nation for what he called “charges ation on a vital/of a minor character.” ples of uranium to! acted him, i oc EDUCATION’ TO GOST) sh United States and | ists were successful | WORKS BOARD $2450 portunities for evil | d which come from | Mr. Shawcross py blin to Be Told Told What to me scientists sin- | i at the discoveries! Put in Trash Cans. with other na-| The works board today decided to spend $2450 to “educate the public” for which we on what to put in trash cans. or yuEh the| publicity Man Arthur P. Tiernan ’ POS- was ‘employed at that sum for the purpose of informing housewives about technical features of garbage collections. Sanitation Superintendent W. H. Frazier has blamed trash and garbage collection delays on failure of residents to observe certain rules. He says they place|an the wrong things in the wrong cans |» the wrong time. Mr. Tiernan will be expected to TE liron out this misunderstanding be- ! WARD Di ES tween the collection a and IC INJURIES the public. The contract states he a Ls ot is supposed to channel his enlightraffic ac- enment through the “press and night causeq the | radio.” Howard, 52, of 3032 it fie night. {6.0v hospital where MACARTHUR NAMES AIDE ib critical condition] TOKYO, May 1 (U. P.).—Gen. It. ' {Douglas MacArthur announced tofvas fatally injureq 92y the appointment of Maj. Gen. Bn by Carl Osborne, {Paul J, Mueller as his new chief of
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er, collided with a |9- Marshall. Gen, Marshall is rewm Virginia Elliott, | {turning to the United States to beWh st. and U. 8, 52 | Ome superintendent of the Virginia
(in Chicago, fled into a police sta- | tion to report that he was being
pursued by three men in another |
automobile. Drove by Station While he was reporting the in-; { cident; the automobile drove slow- | ly by the police station three times. Ragen said the Capone men had | demanded a 40 per cent interest | in Midwest News and insisted that Ragen pay all expenses: which amount to another 40 per cent. After he furned down the demand, Ragen said, he received numerous telephone threats before he was chased by the swarthy men in automobile. : Police gave him a bodyguard, Ragen charged that the murder of Harry (Red) Richmond April 18 was the work of the mob, He said that Richmond, a handbook operator, had stopped taking the mob’s racing information. Richmond s killed by a blast from a sawed off shotgun in typical gangster style ase he stepped from his automobile in front of his apartment, His slayer fled unidentifled. -
ASK 25,000,000 SHELLS WASHINGTON, May 1. (U, P). ~The civilian ammunition industry has asked the government to set aside. 25,000,000 shotgun shells. to help farmers and ranchers pro-
ready claims to have been the ob- |
- {of the. Bridgeport Brass Co., advo-
BUSINESS TREND
U.S. Official Says Monopoly’
Hits Small Industry.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 1 (Ua Pd 8. Attorney General Tom 'C. t “warned today that are
small businesses gradually ‘being eliminated in the wake of a “dan-
gerous and unfortunate trend toward poly.” “Big business has become bigger and smaller independent enterprises {have shrunk in size or have disap- | peared altogether,” Mr. Clark told the general session of the 34th an{nual meeting of the United States
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Chamber of Commerce,
“Essential war-time controls, together with other phases of the war, played a part in accelerating the dangerous and unfortunate trend toward monopoly and the disap- | pearance of ‘independent enter- | prise, ” he said. . Mr. Clark added, however, that this does not mean that the time | "has arrived to completely abandon] | war-time controls. “Business has a tremendous stake ‘ in the continuation of OPA for another year,” he said. He warned that “as we do abandon war-time governmental controls over industry, we must be very certain that we gre not surrendering control to private monopolists.” Herman W, Steinkraus, president
cated a five-point program for industrial peace. Mr. Steinkraus said any peace’ formula must provide for the use of fair and open-minded negotiators and a sound and workable grievance procedure. He urged exchange of complete and honest information | devoid of propaganda, &quality before the law for both labor and management, and less use of strikes by labor as a bargaining weapon.
7 KILLED IN CAIRO RIOT CAIRO, May 1 (U, P.).—Seven persons. were killed- and about 50 were wounded at Alexandria today when police fired on students demonstrating against reported British plans to maintain perma-
tect their food crops.
nent air bases in Egypt.
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| Crawfordsville,
A Good Neighbor at her post , . . Mrs. Bertha Oliver (left), 1515 §. Belmont ave, was found atiending an ill neighbor, Mrs. Belle Cozzie, yesterday when a Times photographer sought a picture of Mrs. Oliver, winner in the first week of the Good Neighbor Committee judging.
CLARK ATTACKS Naming of Mrs. Bertha Oliver
Is Based on Letter of Friend
The Times Good Neighbor Committee has selected its first Good Neighbor in the letter campaign to name four persons to be honor guests
at the benefit breakfast May 25 in
a letter to The Times. “ireld ‘of the honor Mrs. Oliver was
the telephone, “what in the world have I done . .. why I haven't done anything special.” Convinced that she had beén lected for the singular honor, Ms} Oliver regained her composure and
bered.” More Contestants Coming Another good neighbor will be accepted from nominations made in letters postmarked between -last Saturday midnight and next Satur-
be mailed to Good Neighbor comi mittee, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. | Maryland ‘st. Four Good Neighbors in all will be selected, one for each week.| Those four will attend the benefit! ‘Breakfast in Hollywood” in Edge-|
wood school, 1406 E. Epler ave, at
9 a. m. May 25. ~The "outstanding Good Neighbor will be selected from the four that day and will be awarded the “Good Neighbor Orchid” ‘which has characterized the Tom Breneman broadcasts daily over station WISH. A complete breakfast show based on the Bréneman broadcast will be staged. The letter selected for the first
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REPORT SEIZURE OF ~ FIREARMS IN SPAIN!
‘MADRID, May 1 (U, P.).—Spanish civil guards were reported today to have intercepted a large shipment of firearms and ammunition
“My, oh my,” she cima la]
said she was “glad to be remem-
the Englewood grade school.
She is: Mrs, Bertha Oliver, 1515 8. Belmont ave. Mrs. Oliver's selection—which was a complete surprise to her—was based.on helpful deeds outlined by = of hér own neighbors who wrote
SOAKING RAIN ~ RELIEVES CROPS
Continue All Day.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 0am...
day midnight. The letters are to|-
| A gentle, soaking rain that the! | Weather bureau said would last {most of the day fell on parched earth today to relieve a serious crop con-! dition. At the county agricultural agent's office, it was said that last month, one of the ‘driest Aprils on record, had retarded growth of wheat and oats by nearly three: weeks and might cut ‘the Yield as much as 20 per cent. Although less than an inch of precipitation has fallen in the Indianapolis area since Sunday, all the rain has soaked gently into the soil and there was no runoff Gardens have not been damaged by the dry weather, but some pasture lands have been parched, slightly. Today's beneficial rain fell on central and sou Indiana, The northern part of the state did not {share in today’s precipitation.
being smuggled into Spain from ‘France. The arms were said to have been intercepted at various points near Andorra, the tiny mountain republic which lies along the FrancoSpanish border.
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(U. P.).—Frank MRS sentenced to a 101 § years in prison TUM rape and at- . o year-old Rosa-
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Navy Probes
—~Five men were listed as missing 27.
Davy opened an investigation into
the munitions bl ue destroyer-eacort ch Wrecked rty-five of the Jured were still in To be 0 wir by 20 of them in serious condition, Twenty civilian dock among those injured. mos of the missing, enlisted men I\be made public gs Solar was a naked metal as a beside the I tte RinuRiOn de 9)at right ale a p to, ® Nav, named oe pay the
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and lotterie. including and one officer, today. mass of twisted, it lay half sublong pier of the pot. Eighty feet
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Five Believed Dead: 165 Injured
ANDERSON MAY URGE GONTROL-FREE MEAT
Plan Considered to End Black Market.
WASHINGTON, May 1 (U, P,)/— Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson told congress today he would favor abandonment of controls over meat in 90 days if present government efforts to. stop the black market ayé not effective. He sald he considered the recent restoration ‘of quotas for: meat slaughterers “as a last effort” to conquer the meat black market. If this is not effective, he said, “we'll have to try something else.” He appeared before the senate banking committee considering a
‘| price control extension bill,
VANDERBILTS DIVORCED MIAMI, Fla, May 1 (U., P.).-—-A divorce was granted Mrs. Lucille Parsons Vanderbilt from George | Vanderbilt, scion of the prominent family, in ‘half an hour late yesterday. 3
THE PRIMARY
CANDIDATES— © vw the candidates
will appear on ‘ballots in
Precipitation Expected to letsnd to essential food processing
- | believed the femaining 500 to 600
Industrial America Faces
Disaster If Walkouts AH ‘Continued Another Mc
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
Ww ASHINGTON, May 1.—The coal strike is one I
old today. Reports from over the country show that
trial paralysis is beginning. Another month of ‘the strike will support that industrial America faces disaster. Reconversion go into a tailspin. Production of automobiles, new hous and all the other things that people want will be k suspended. : For “coal ‘is the or It is still the we su most utd 3 ole
-y Eo ae mi nanufacturing stops.
COAL PINCH FELT BY MORE CITIES EES
Rushville 3 Report Growing Crisis.’ Lof freight | TH produ
More Hoosier cities ana towns be j ; : : | gan tightening their belts on coal ® oma eftorta to stop the | are no more,
today as the coal shi “threat-| the bituminous Soal
ened blackout of utility services. i Latest cities to report the short- | | United Mine Wore started . ing March 12. i
age nearing emergéncy proportions) ‘were Crawfordsville and Rushville, Portland, Kendallville, Marion, Gar-| rett, Frankfort and Columbia City] 2000 previously had been reported running low on coal for the operation a of utilities. y te oding 1g ay » Principal menace at both Craw-|.. reported by fordsville and Rushville appeared to | | newspapers: = | be the possibility of a water short-| | age. In both cities water supplies) INDIANAPOLIS are ‘dependent upon electric power towns hardest hit. 1: fug for pumping. ‘ministration has taken 840 ¢ Emergency Supply Low | coal, 40,000 tons, from r:
Meanwhile, the Indiana office” of| the solid fuels administration said that only 35 per cent remained of
{his settlement terms in generalities,
the SFA, said that 1700 cars were’ | taken April 1 and held for emer- |
gency use. “It has been re-|*
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“Over 65 per cent of it is gone, »
Mr. Gray said.
ts, - hospitals and utilities durlog the rst 30 days of the miners F work stoppage.” | Mr, Gray" sald that ‘calls for the backlog of fusl increased daily. - He
cars ‘would’ be used mich. more quickly than the first one-third of | ® {the supply. Mayor Manley Abercrombie of Rushville has begun a program of power conservation, cutting out | electric signs and shortening’ th period of street lighting, to colserve the city’s dwindling coal sup-'® ply. The present supply was esti~ mated at enough to last 10 days but & shipment of four carloads was expected to stretch that to 18 days, Mayor Abercrombie said, Indianapolis in Better Shape Glen Hayworth, superintendent of the municipal power plant st Crawfordsville, estimated the coal supply there at sufficient for two weeks of normal operation, However, since it takes seven days to get coal from the mines even in normal times, he sald, the margin of safety will be wiped out within a week. In Indianapolis, the Power and Light company reported. enough coal is being ration;
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By FRANK FISHER J United Press Staft Correspondent LONDON, May 1~—Russian b fusal to confirm the identifica bot & “sack of bones” is the only flaw in a strong chain of circumstantial evidence indicating that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun died a year ago today. Frau Heusermann, assistant to the late fuehrer's dentist, has positively identified bridgework among the bones as belonging to Hitler and the woman he later married, according to Dr. Feotor Bruck, who now occupies the office once belonging to Hitler's dentist. Shortly after the occupation of Berlin, Russian soldiers showed the sack of bones to a small group of British intelligence officers and said they were the remains of Hitler and Eva Braun. § ,Some of the Russians themselves sald they ‘were certain Hitler was dead after Fray Heusermann's identification, but on June 10, 1945, Marshal Georgl Zhukov said: “We have discovered no corpse t could be identified as Hitler's.” British officers, who viewed bones shortly after Zhukov'ss ment, indicated they belie remains had been in Russ session since Wn few dys deaths were fron
Bro enslonity: 3 them they we. ously put bach’ Red army thing that somebody appre: up the bones to tion.”
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