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OFFICIALS ACT T0 AVOID RACE TRAFFIC JAMS
Overpass, Larger Gates and New Tunnels Studied by Heads of Speedway.
As thousands of Speedway visitors still chaffed over the unprecedented Memorial day traffic jam today, plans to avert any similar tieup next year already were near the sketching stage. “It was pretty -terrible and our faces are red over the situation,” Wilbur Shaw, president of the
Speedway Corporation, said today. “However, now that we know what it takes and have ample time to make improvements, we feel we can positively guarantee against the recurrence of such a jam.” Recommendations Considered Even as he spoke, Mr. Shaw was looking over recommendations to eliminate traffic tie-ups next Memorial day, with sketches to be ready in several weeks. Some of the measures under consideration
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by Speedway officials are: ONE: An overpass {rom train terminal on the south side of 16th st. to the Speedway gates on the north side, to eliminate the crossing of pedestrian and motor | traffic. TWO: Additional large gates at | the north and south ends of Speedway. THREE: New tunnels under the track to facilitate faster infield parking on_both south and north ends. FOUR: Additional parking space outside, but near, the Speedway. FIVE: A tunnel under the track near the grandstand to permit more swift passage of pedestrians to and from the infield. Most People Understand Tieup Mr. Shaw said the Speedway has received complaints from persons tied up hours in the jam, but that most of the people seemed to understand that shortage of time, men and material plus the record attendance were all contributing factors which resulted in the chaotic tie-up. He added that the complaints numbered less tham Ohe-tenth of one per cent of the requests for 1947 tickets. Meanwhile, the city and state and Chamber of Commerce all pitched in fo avert a traffic jam in 1947. The state highway department announced plans to build a new| Emrichsville bridge on 16th st. over White river and to make 16th st.| a four-lane highway. There also was talk of widening Georgetown road and possibly 30th st., although no plans for these projects have been officially announced. C. of C. to Have Conference Samuel B. Walker, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce traffic committee, said his group will hold a conference with Speedway, city and county officials to discuss the traffic situation,” but no date for the meeting has been set. The Speedway president said recommendations from the chamber and city would be welcomed and taken into consideration as the traffic improvement project is studied.
GAS STOVE EXPLODES; NEIGHBOR AIDS VICTIM
Mrs. Nellie Gardner, 66, of 321 N. Dearborn st. was burned seriously this morning when a kitchen gas
stove exploded in her face. Ralph Barr, 36, a neighbor, heard the explosion and splintered a bedroom window to enter Mrs. Gardner's home and carry her to the front porch. City hospital attendants reported her condition as serious. Little damage to the kitchen was reported by firemen.
TEST PILOT TO TRY ‘BAILING OUT” AID
CHALGROVE, England, June 3 (U, P.).~Bernard Lynch, 27-year-old test pilot, will try a new device for bailing out of jet planes flying more than 500 miles per hour in experiments here next week. An explosive charge will hurl Lynch about 60 feet vertically out of the- cockpit while the plane: is traveling at high speed. He will then try to operate his parachute in a normal way.
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~—Acme telephoto, flagpole sitter, was rather discouraged. But yesterday his girl friend, Miss Lorna Cosmar, came up to give him an encouraging kiss. Now he's sure he can stay on the pole until July 4.
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Details of New Mexico Test
‘ |espionage agents in Ottawa sent de- : | sian military attache, based on rex | has been convicted of espionage and
but aj —Spurred by a visit from his girl Visit from his girl friend cheered| to show the Russian ambassador to
MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1946
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City Hall Plans To Gas Co. For $10
TOLD REDS OF ABOMB PLANS
Sent to Soviet; Trial of Canadian Reveals.
By JOHN ALIUS United Press Staff Correspondent MONTREAL, June 3 —Russian
tails of preparations for the United States’ atomic bomb tests in New Mexico and of the composition of atomic bombs to Moscow shortly before the tests were held, it was {charged today at the trial of Fred Rose, Communist member of par-
| - A document, allegedly from the 'files of the Russian embassy, said {the information was sent July 9, 1945, by Col. Nicolai Zabotin, Rus-
ports by Dr. Allan Nunn May, who
sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in England. Official announcements at Wash- | | ington said the atomic bomb tests were held in New Mexico July 16. Envoy Kept in Dark Two other documents, purporting)
| Canada was kept in ignorance of
Final Tribute Paid to Sheriff Petit
| Miss Lorna Cosmar was hoisted| the spy ring activities, also were inpermen aboard a helicopter, Mar-{,p the flagpole in a bos'un’s chair] troduced. first evidence connectin
SEEKS TO TAP UTILITY TIL TO AVERT DEFICIT
Company Planning ~ Fight To Prevent Diversion Of Profits.
By RICHARD LEWIS Broke and getting desperate, city hall today prepar.® to ask the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility for $1,000,000. This was the latest move by city officials to solve a threatened budget deficit of $600,« 000 and keep the lid from blowing off the civil city tax rate next year under pressure of mounting costs. Flushed with war-time prosperity, Indianapolis’ municipally owned gas utility has money in the till, but plans to use it to expand its profitable coke production. i Gas utility officials, who theoretically are also employees of the city, thought that it looked like a raid. They have nothing to say publicly, however, until confronted with a formal request. ‘ Request Tonight? This formality is likely to be phrased at the city council meeting tonight. City hall actually began casting an appraising eye at the utility
% last winter for a contribution to the general fund. Herman E. Bow~
ers, Republican, wroté a letter to General Manager Thomas L. Kemp ;
; {of “the utility asking:
ONE: Whether the utility is willing to increase its annual payment of $160,000 to the city in lieu of
taxes. i TWO: Whether the utility would
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tic coke to aid the city’s smoke abatement program.
Proposal Rejected Mr. Kemp replied with a polite, but firm “No.” “The utility, like many other ine dustries in this area, has a postwar program which as conditions
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent OKLAHOMA CITY, June 3.—
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: Pallbearers carry the casket from the ch urch. Burial was in Calvary cemetery.
Squad Cars, Sirens Silent, TRUMAN- LABOR Lead Funeral Procession BREACH WIDENS
A long procession of police cars, their sirens silent, escorted the| | funeral cortege of Sheriff Otto Petit to Calvary cemetery today follow- |
shall Jacobs was more determined and chatted a few minutes with Mr.! The 176-foot flagpole until July 4. {his dog, Bob, go up. | a document told of tasks being The interview from the helicopter,/ The newsmen who flew in from | “detailed to Gray, Bacon and the Wright field, was the first in the ered close to the 16-inch swing in| legedly one of Rose's undercover history of flagpole sitting. which Mr. Jacobs sits and asked| names. “The professor,” Gouzenko flagpole at the Coshocton fair-|wered over his loudspeaker. They | Montreal, also a defendant. grounds May 30, had ‘been pretty took some photographs and hey, The message allegedly tele- -—— | atomic bomb tests in New Mexico PULSE OF NATION— SENATE TO A T! and said that “400 grams of magnets separation plant at Clinapparently for the bomb. Bulging West aid the information ‘was “handed | ! over to us by Alex.” “Alex” was] Scorns Lewis Gurney Bill | Would Extend Code Expert of Stand | The document on atomic inforBy JIM G. LUCAS | Gouzenko, former Soviet code ex-Scripps-Howard Staff Writer pert, who resumed testifying for pockets of Oklahoma farmers and certain senate approval today of was one of the papers he smuggled | the Gurney bill to extend selective out of the Russian embassy. the way things are going here, in the witness said Sam Carr, former| Washington, or in the world. the stage for a showdown with the| national ‘organizer of the Commubring a flush to the face in these| Senator Edwin C. ‘Johnson (D.!to supply Russian agents with “of'ficers from the armed forces” of
than ever today to stick atop his'Jacobs before she came down to let, Rose with the spy ring came when which brought newspapermen from Wright field in the helicopter hov-|‘professor, through Debousz,” alMr. Jacobs, who climbed atop his him a few questions which he ans-| said, is Prof. Raymond Boyer, discouraged because of the rainy away. | graphed to Moscow; spoke of the { uranium 23 was used daily at the » With Pockets on,” The report gave other details on | the composition of the bomb and) Dr. May's undercover name. Law One Year. mation was identified by Igor WASHINGTON, June 3.—Almost the government today. He said it| businessmen, but they do not like | | sergice until May 15, 1947, will set. Another document identified by Strikes, OPA and black markets) house over its emasculated version.| nist party in Canada, had promised {Continued on Page 3- 3—Column 2)| (Continued on Page 3—Column 6) Canada in 1945, but that “difficul-
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$400 After Imprisoning Pair "dow churn stam Le meme MURRAY URGES VETO OF ANTI-STRIKE BILL
that they worked with Soviet espionage men in. C men in Canada.
By UNITED PRESS The breach between organized {labor and the administration | widened today .as seveh maritime | alone sought foreign aid in a | threatened shipping strike. The unions appealed: to the world
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{ f his life in police work as a de- | Rising temperatures today and VY friend and benefactor of thou= |
A lone gunman who held up the Davis Cleaner station at 2604 N. Capitol ave. today escaped with $444
ties” were encountered. : i : On direct testimony, Mr, Gougen- 108 requiem high mass at St. John's church. Maritime Woon Appeal| one unman Esca pes Wit ko said Russian secret police were| Final tribute was paid to Sheriff Petit, who died at Methodist hos- | : known as “neighbors” in code and|Pital Friday, by several hundred political associates and personal friends For Picketing Abroad.
worked out of their basement prison, the stocky bulit’ bandit had made good his getaway. = Police
to find the holdup man. William Kinley, 48, of 2631 W. 61st st. collector, was picking up the branch office’s morning receipts from the attendant, Mrs. Katherine Bevington, 60, of Apt. 4, 3620 N. Meridian st, when the bandit entered, the shop. Pointing a long-barrelled, nickelplated revolver at the pair, he said: “This is a holdup.”
Locked in Basement
He then pointed to a partition at the rear of the store and said “Go ahead—get down there,” indicating the way to the basement. When Mrs. Bevington hesitated he poked the gun in her ribs and herded both to the basement door. After forcing them into the basement, he closed the trapdoor and placed a heavy screen door over the top of it. The victims remained in the basement until they heard the bandit leave, then tried to get out to summon police. With weight on the door, however, they were able to raise the basement covering only seven or eight inches, just enough to permit Mrs. Bevington to slide through. She released Mr. Kinley and reported the holdup. Mrs. ’ Bevington described the bandit as being about 30 years old. He wore a brown felt hat and
black mustache. The holdup today marked the second time the clerk had been a bandit's victim in one year. In June, 1945, while working at the Davis cleaners at 38th and Illinois st., she was held up .by an armed
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days. Forecast for tonight was| “quite cool.” | The mercury today had dropped one degree below yesterday's low, mark of 51, only eight degrees, higher than the lowest June 2| temperature ever recorded here (1910—43). Elsewhere in the Midwest, cold masses howled out of the Hudson bay region, sending the tempera. ture tumbling at some - points taj within two degrees of the all-time| low records. Parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin | and Michigan had snow, which was| passing on to the Eastern states. Lowest reported temperature WAS | at Land O'Lakes, Wis.,, with 31 degrees. Heavy rains were reported yesterday in the Eastern states] Wheeling, W. Va., reported five) inches, and moderate to heavy rains | fell throughout the northern Ohio river valley.
MARBLE ACE SAILS ALONG FINE, UNTIL
By ART WRIGHT . Times Staff Writer CLEVELAND, O., June 3.~Donald Yates got off to a whirlwind start in the first round of the national marbles tournament today, but later ran into trouble against the girl contender from Canton; O., and the boy from Cleveland. Io first four games -Donald (Co
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TETANUS KILLS 5 BABIES | SAN FRANCISCO, June 3
died as the result of a tetanus infection from unsteriliz talcum powder, Radio Australia Mid today.
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ing his years as a public officer to sacrifice his own life for the safety and protection of all citizens,” the Rev. Fr. Hill said. He paid high tribute to Mr. Petit’s| constant vigilance over the welfare of Marion county's half a million
Pe carers were Otto Ray, for-| mer sheriff; "Virgil Quinn, who served as special investigator for Sheriff Petit; Herman Rickhofl, for- | mer police chief; Randall Mitchell, personal friend of Mr. Petit for many years; Glenn Funk, attorney for Mr. Petit, and Herbert Kimbrell, chief deputy sheriff. More than a score of other deputy
| sheriffs and personal friends served | Schwellenbach also was expected os Honorary palliearers,
COURT ORDER BLOCKS GRAIN FUTURES TRADE
CHICAGO, June 3 (U. P)—A| temporary federal restraining order, aimed at regulations compelling | settlement of May grain futures contracts at severe penalties, prevented opening of the grain fu-| tures market on the Chicago board of trade today. Cash trading was not affected by the injunctiod, which apparently! caught board of trade directors by | surprise. U. 8. District Judge William H.| Holly issued the restraining order at the request of attorneys for the Robert W. Buckley Co., grain | brokerage house, which said the | bogrd’s settlement regulations would | impose irreparable damage on some traders and would drive some out, of business. Judge Holly %aid his order was to be in effect only long enough to! permit a hearing on the board's | futures trading regulations before | U. 8 District Judge Elwyn R. Shaw.
t after imprisoning his two Te : logh y 8 tomorrow were predicted this morn-! ca ae of citizens during all of his! federation of trade unions to picket victims. : : ing by the weather bureau, after| i. Tells Truman Law Would | American ships in foreign ports in By the time his- two captives the chilly temperatures the last two, «ge was willing at all times case President Truman carries out
‘Increase Labor Disputes.’ | WASHINGTON, June 3 (U. P.).—
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{C. L O. President Philip Murray {today asked President Truman to veto the Case anti-strike bill on
|grounds that it would “encourage {and increase labor disputes.” Mr, Murray wrote to Mr. Truman |
| that the measure “presents exceed[1 ingly grave dangers to the public welfare.” It was, he said, merely one more serving “from a warmedover anti-labor stew which has been | kept brewing for the past 10 years.”
Secretary of Labor Lewis B.
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his threat to let the coast guard and the navy man the ships. The unions have scheduled a strike for June 15. Other labor developments reflected the increasing gap between President Truman and the nation’s labor leaders. In congress, 16 representa tives arranged for top labor chieftains to testify against Mr. Truman's emergency strike control bill, = At St. Petersburg, Fla., President James C. Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians (A. F. of
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MIKHAIL KALININ DIES LONDON, June 3 (U.P.).—Mikhail Kalinin, former president of Russia, died today, the Moscow radio anInounced. _
A part-time burglar who confessed ‘plundering 15 East side
| homes in the last few months was
Field by police today, after he was trapped burglarizing a residence {last night. The burglar gave his name as Roy Armine Eckhardt, 26, Colum= bus, O. railroad brakeman. He was arrested in the home of Ralph A. Clark, 315 Eastern ave. last night. Patrolman Frank Lotz and Sgt. Harold Morton went to the Clark . residence to investigate a break-in. Finding a window pried open, Pa{trolman Lotz entered and caught Eckhardt es he was sneaking out
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permit should be fulfilled to main- | tain the high quality of gas service {given to consumers,” he answered. “The hoard does not feel that it should make any additional commitments which might lead to in-. creased gas rates.” This exchange in correspondence took place in February. Since then, the city hall has decided to pursue [its request further. : | It believes that the gas company has made a profit of about $8,500,« | 000 since it came into the hands of the citizens of Indianapolis in 1985. Want Part of Profit Councilmen feel that some of the profit should become available to. the city as aid and comfort in the present financial emergency which
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services this year. The city’s move lends an ironical twist to the history of the utility, which is one of 15 by-product coke plants of city gas works in the United States. When the city acquired the utility in 1935, all kinds of safeguards were thrown up about the company to prevent political raids on it for cash, The utility was then a financial toddler. Now it's a huge success, keeps its manufactured gas rate one of the lowest in the country and does a, small, but nation-wide business in coke and other by-products. Uthity on Guard : Although the utility has not yet been formally approached on the request, it has been raising up its legal safeguards and dusting off the statute books for action, The city is going after the utility’s cash. At least if it can't get it, city hall wants to find out why gas rates are not reduced. And the utility, which is a legal though remote function of mus nicipal government, is going to fight back.
TELL "MONTGOMERY TO ‘REST LONDON, June 3 (U. P).-~Tha war office announced today that Field Marshal Lord Montgomery has been instructed by his physi. cians to take a rest because of ex= treme fatigue.
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