Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1946 — Page 1

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While his wife's face still mirrors fright from their narrow escape, Maj. Brown, otherwise unidentified, carries his small son from the blazing LaSalle hotel.

106 Speedsters

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Are Nabbed ice Using 1300 |

‘Snares’ in New Crackdown

Police today had bagged 106 speedsters in a

“surprise” traffic cru-

sade, launched without the usual fanfare.

Sixty motorists were arrested yesterday,

By noon today, at least 46

more were slated on speeding charges. Although Several others were picked up on. reckless driving and{Winston Churchill charged today

other counts, police were interested chiefly in | speedsters.

patrolmen were launching their - latest drive, city, county and state enforcement, authorities quietly conferred yesterday with Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce officials in an effort td co-ordinate forces. Possibility of establishing county, as well as city, traffic blockades were discussed. .. Offenders were snagged in — | traps. The number of traps was increased recently from 900 to 1300 Those nabbed én speeding charges

were cited to appear in municipal | court 3, where Judge Joseph Howard |

As traffic

6. 0. P. LEADERS HOLDING G CAUCUS

Hope to ig on Nominee!

| For Secretary of State.

By ROBERT BLOEM Repuplican district chairmen met|

CHURCHILL SEES NEW WAR SEEDS

Kremlin Runs One-third of Europe, Briton Says.

LONDQN, June 5 (U. P)— [nearly one-third of the population “jot Europe now is directed by “the | commissars of the Kremlin” and “it is here that the seeds of a inew world war, if anywhere, are being sown.” Mr. Churchill made his charge B a reply to Foreign Secretary t Bevin's statement of British

wel policy in which he gen-}

erally concurred with the Labor

Charging Britain is subject to a “systematic system of villification pumped out daily . .. by the Soviet propaganda machine, ” Mr. Churchill

announced yesterday he will sus-|, 4.o with a handful of top-flight/said the year since the end of the pend drivers’ licenses of persons party leaders in an effort to reach War has brought “a virtual break

convicted of serious violations. Meanwhile, the latest statewide traffic statistics, released today, re- |

vealed death strikes a victim on!

Indiana highways once every eight hours. ’ ‘Leeway’ Lines Tightened

agreement on a party nominee for secretary of state. With the G. O. P. state nominating convention only eight days] away, a field of nearly a dozen | prospective candidates was seeking {the nomination. At least three were

|{down or stalemate” in allied co|operation and a “painful decline” |in British influence but made plain {he did not blame the Labor party for this situation. Spain Policy Upheld He defended non-intervention in

Traffic officers concentrated yes-| reported as having strong enough| Spain, praised British intervention

terday on highways through the support to constitute a serious prob-| and elections

city. Numerous - speeders were caught in traps at Washington st. and Kitley rd, and at 38th and’ Rural sts. Traffic Capt. Audrey Jacobs said “leeway” on intra-city traffic limits

had been tightened. Henceforth, he | police will arrest drivers)

warned, traveling faster than 25 miles an hour in 20 m, p. h. zones, and those | exoeeding 39 miles an hour in 30 m. p, h. districts.

4 FAMILIES ROUTED HERE BY ROOF FIRE

Pour families today were routed] by fire this morning that destroyed | the roof of a 17-room frame apartment house at 1726 N. Illinois st. Firemerf kept the stubborn blaze from spreading to adjoining houses. Mrs. June Schattel, owner and an occupant of the three-story converted residence, said the loss was covered by insurance. The blaze was discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Simmons, who were asleep in a third-floor apartment. Others who fled the fire were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bohanon, Sgt. and Mrs. Benton Ford and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Binder and daughter, Rebecca.

BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, June 5 (U. ~The senate banking Ra: today stuck by its decision to end price controls’ July 1 on meat, dalty | proguets and poultry.

OFFER NEW CURE FOR STRICKEN BABIES

LOS ANGELES, June 5 (U. P.).— A new sulfa cure was offered today for the epidemic diarrhea that has broken out among babies of British war brides.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements , 6|Jane Jordan . Eddie Ash ,,. 8 Labor Books ....... 13|Ruth Millett , 11 Business 9 {Movies Robert Casey. 11|Obituaries ... 7 Classified ..16-18 Radio Comics 19 | Reflections .. 12 Crossword . 16 | Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Editorials . 12|Science

. 14| Side Glances. 12 Mrs. Ferguson 15 Sports 8 Forum 12| Troop Arrivals 20 Gardening ... 11{Washington . 12 Meta Given . 15|Joe Williams. 8 In Indpls. ... 2|Women's ..14-15 Inside Indpls. 11(World Affairs 13

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lem for the party policy-makers. Two of the ‘three leading candidates were themselves district chairmen—LeRoy (Toby)

on of Kentland, second district. The third, who stood to win the nod if the two district chiefs cross one another off the list, was H. Dale Brown of Indianapolis, motor

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LEGION COMMANDERS WILL HEAR RIDGWAY

Eisenhower “Deputy Takes Place of UN Official.

The national executive committee, American Legion, prepared to start two days of conferences tomorrow as a general was substituted for a United Nations delegate as speaker for tomorrow night's commanders dinner in the Athletic club. Lt. Gen. M. B. Ridgway, deputy chief of staff and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's representatives at the United Nations’ conference, will

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COST OF TELEGRAMS HIKED 10 PER CENT

WASHINGTON, June 5 (U. P.) — Today's price increase special—tele« grams, . The féderal communications commission last night granted Western Union a flat 10 per cent increase on telegrams, day and night letters, serial and press Messages, The increase applies for one year.

Yoder of] Goshen, third district, and Ira Dix-|

in Greece, urged restoration of the southern Tyrol to Austria, and denounced the British Communist party. Mr, Churchill said it would be wrong to. “cast blame for this mis- | fortune” upen Bevin. He termed {Bevin's address yesterday as “somber and patient.” Mr. ghurchill said the “Socialist” part, e Laborites—had made an im t contribution to world peace “By their resolution denunciation of Communism, by their refusal toflet the Communist party permeatejtheir ranks.” He added the Communist party in Britain was “not a serious thing.” » Mr, Churchill expressed hope that at the forthcoming Paris conference the foreign secretaries of “the Big Four, the Big Threé or the Big Two and a Half as some anti-British-American newspapers sometimes describe them will make some progress.” He urged close friendship between Britain' and western. European nations and demanded whether “any other nation in the world has a right to Object to that?”

‘DUNKER’S DELIGHT’ NOW HAS A HANDLE

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. June 5 (U, P.)~Jimmy Miranti put a doughnut on the market today. that he hoped would make dunking acceptable even in the highest society. The Dunker’s Delight is a plain doughnut with a hole in the middle and a handle on the side. The|___ handle was twisted like a cruller| and Jimmy said it would eliminate | the hazards of dripping coffee. The idea has caught on so well, Jimmy said, that he expects it co keep him in plenty of dough-—the folding kind.

Votes Record

WASHINGTON, June 5 (U, PJ). —The senate today offered the highest military pay in history to maintain a record volunteer army but tentatively authorized a continued teen-age draft if necessary.

The house, however, probably will

11 | balk at conscripting teen-agers, It Europe Today 12 | Serial 20 | * Fashions

already has voted twice this year |against calling them up now that shooting is over. A compromise will have to be.worked out by a senate-house conference’ tommittee if the draft law is to be extended beyond its June 30 deadline. Senate opponsnis of continuing

Senate Favors Teen-Age Draft,

Army Pay Hike

the draft had one last chance to reverse the picture today. It was on an amendment by Sen. Chapman Revercomb (R. W. Va.) to continue the draft law until May 15, but forbid inductions unless congress finds it necessary in the interest of national security. The effect would be to continue on the books a draft law that was completely inoperative. Revercomb’s amendment was given absolutely no chance of approval although his determination

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down a fire escape of the LaSalle hotel.

TWO- FRONT ATTACK Quick- Thinking

Indianapolis resident Ernest First Moves for $1 Million gpickeimier titerally

Made by City Hall. blanket ‘at the LaSalle hotel fire in|

By RICHARD LEWIS The SU yall spring ofensise of Lodged in a wrest more or less from : : the till of the Citizens Gas & Coke Mr. Spickelmier was -awakUtility started off today on two|ened at midnight by intense heat | fronts—legal and financial.

from suffocating smoke. fourth floor corner | room,

was reported to be drawing up al He ripped blankets from his bed, letter asking Utility General Man- soaked them in water from the ager Thomas L. Kemp: bathroom tap, stuffed them over 1. Why the utility has never filed the door cracks. Then, its calendar year budget on the pre- flames raged without, ceding Dec. statute, and a path to his room. As he was led| 2, Why the utility doesnt’ tell the 6. safety by his rescuers, one side] city the purpose of its expendi- | lof the fourth floor corridor wall still] tures for- eapital additions in a was ablaze. Later, he learned some | | fourth-floor occupants had suffo- |

he dressed

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Doctors examine a group of dead and injured guests of the LaSalle hotel in a hallway after had brought the blaze under control

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Many Guests Leap to Death As Fire Traps aa

Lapse in Alarm Is Probed |

By FRANCES T. LEARY United Press Staft Correspondent

CHICAGO, June 5.—Flames leaped from an elevator’

| shaft early today and flashed through the lower floors of. | the 23-story LaSalle hotel where 57 persons died in We,

worst hotel fire in Chicago's history. Coroner A. L. Brodie set the death toll officially at 51,

‘and said many of them died as the result of mass hysteria

and panic. Many leaped to their death from windows high above the crowded streets of Chicago's loop. 7 Fire Commissioner Michael J. Corrigan said many of the deaths were “tragically unnecessary.” : The flames spread from an elevator shaft to an adjoin< ing cocktail lounge and within seconds turned the ornate B lobby into a fiery death trap.

Lobby Enveloped in Flames Modernistic leather upholstery in the silver lounge

|bar ignited almost instantly and soon the expensive wood

panelled walls of the lobby were enveloped in flames. While thousands of spectators jammed the streets, hotel guests fought through smoke-filled halls. Many failed to make it. One sailor chose to jump from the 18th floor to certain death. Others leaped from lower floors. Fire department officials, investigating the cause, found

Police, or sailors and civilians lend a hand as a victim of Chicago's “worst hotel fire,” is carried

OPENS ON GAS TUL Survives Chicago Hotel Fire

Spickel-| oqies of the United States. tossed a wet|mier emerged without a scratch. | |

He told of his escape in a 3 a. m.

{phone call today to his wife, Mrs. | death, is the nation's eatest ca-! | Chicago, and thereby saved himself gqdith Spickelmier, at their home, oe I re gr!

16011 Norwaldo ave.

President of the Spickelmier Co. | Francisco earthquake and fire of | building materials firm, he was in|1906, and 498 persons were killed in

Chicago on a business trip. The Indianapolis man

cently. In it, scribed a “wet blanket” combating possible

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the fire apparently started in an elevator shaft below the § street level. They believed it started in a single cable §# beneath an elevator car. John Fenn, deputy fire marshal, disclosed that he had sent hotel officials a list of 10 violations of city fire prevention ordinances May 10. He said the violations had not been corrected. Whether any of them contributed to the fire he declined to say. s Phone Operator Dies at Post

Despite the panic there were stories of heroism. Mrs Julia Barry, a telephone operator, told the assistant mane ager she was going to “stick it out because 1 might do some good here at the switchboard.” She died in the flames. As firemen fought their way up from floor to floor, the death toll mounted. Bodies of suffocated victims lay in the corridors and rooms. At least 200 persons were injured or overcome by smoke. Among them were 30 firemen. One fireman was killed. Mayor Edward J. Kelly, who appointed a five-man committee to investigate the fire, said his reports indicated that 15 to 20 minutes elapsed between the outbreak and the | time the fire department was called. lf | Despite the delay, Mayor Kelly said he had found no evidence that negligence was responsible for deaths in the fire. ‘Failed to Call in Time’

The mayor said he understood Chicago hotels have a | “bad habit” of putting out their own fires and said he understood that this case was “one of those” where they | failed to call the fire department in time. He added it was “a miracle, with careless guests and other factors” that | there were not more hotel fires. Edward McNamara, policeman on duty at the hotel, said he smelled smoke around an elevator shaft and called the engineer's office, as it had fire fighting equipment. He was told the engineer could not cope with the fire and he called the fire department. Joseph T. Scott, hotel attorney, was told to bring several employees, including some injured in the. blaze, to a hearing tomorrow. Firemen were hindered by the spectators who rushed from theaters and night clubs. - The crowd jostled and pushed in a gay mood, few at first realizing the seriousness of the fire. But as the flames spread and smoke filled the upper stories, trapped guests began jumping to their death from windows. At least seven died in leaping down elevator wells, Find Mother, Child Dead

The hotel, one of the city’s largest, has 1000 rooms, almost all of which were occupied when the fire started at about 12:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). Near the theater and nightclub district, the hotel was built in 1909. The bodies of an unidentified mother and her child clutched in her arms were found on the roof of a three

story section of the building. Shi . Flames still were smoldering on By UNITED PRESS the fire broke out. Loss of life in Chicago's LaSalle| Fred Malorrus, St. Louis, said he |single tolls in recent years, but didifound five persons he belleved wers {not approach the major fire trag-|dead lying in the hall.

apparently had jumped from #& Other Big “Fires the ninth floor several hours ale hotel fire was one of the highest|,nened the door of his room and “I'l always see their eyes”

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| Dec. 30, 1903, when 602 persons met

Malott Park District . 3.Bedroom Brick Home

Here in a setting of natural beauty you have the cleanliness and quiet usually associated a suburban location, still it's one block to regular city bus line. :

Approximately 500 died in the San the “flash” fire that swept the CoA blazing canvas of the “big top”

1944, took the lives of 168

BRICK BUNGALOW, 31 Indianbedroom an Other major fires and their toll 0;

Ohio state penitentiary fire, Co{lumbus, April 21, 1930-320. | New London, Tex. school explo-| sion and fire, March 18, 1937-204. Crile ‘clinic hospital fire, Cleve-

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