Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1946 — Page 1
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$64 QUESTION— Is Billy Conn Man Enough To Take Joe?
: By JOE WILLIAMS JEW YORK, .June 18.— Standing ‘out for all to see, like the hump on a camel's back, is the fact that Joe Louis is ready to be taken tomorrow night. . The $64 question is: “Is Billy Conn man enough to take him?” My guess is that he is but it is no more i a guess. a Normally it is possible to forma positive opinion about a ' prize fight. In this case it isn’t, for the simple reason both men have been out of action for ‘more than four
We do not even Mr. Willams uv for sure that they will be able to stand up for 15 rounds, much less fight that long. All we know about them is what we saw, or tried to see, during their long training grind. * » » BUT TRAINING isn't fighting. The nervous tension isn’t there. The test isn’t authentic. There are no situations which require quick thinking and resourcefulness, Even the mental attitudes of the fighters are studied, hence unrevealing. Let's examine the known factors involved. Louis has passed his peak and is middle aged as fighters go. But fortunately for him he has always been a lethal puncher and the last thing a fighter loses is his punch. This, Jack Dempsey demonstrated in his second fight with Gene Tunney. At the same time a puncher must have timing. What good is a devastating punch if you can't land with it? = » » CONN still has much of his speed and if he follows the blue print and dances around he will be an elusive target—just as Tunney was. This will put an added premium on Louis’ timing. It seems reasonable to assume that somewhere along the line Louis will tag Conn. Just as Demp-
sey eventually caught up with Tun.
ney. If this happens Louis will hold his title because he is better trained than Dempsey was; he has the leg stamina which will enable him to exploit any obvious invitation to victory. / » » » NO MATTER how long Tunney was down in the historic seventh round, Dempsey still would have won if he had had any legs under him. How will Conn react to a punch? This can well be the key to the fight. He's a dead game fellow, perhaps too game for his own good. In the other fight he lost his head, almost literally, when Louis tagged him. At the time he was ahead on points and it seemed to me that if he had continued to box instead of trying to slug he might have gone on to win the championship. » » = “THIS TIME I'll do nothing but feed him left jabs,” he tells you. If he does that he can win. But I keep remembering what Louis told me: “The first time I boff him a real good one he’ll lose his head. That's the kind of fighter he's always been. What makes you think he can change?”¥ In this I must go along with
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SPITALNY MARRIES HIS VIOLIN SOLOIST
ATLANTIC CITY,'N. J., June 18 (U. P).—The marriage of Phil Spitalny, leader of the “Hour of Charm” all-girl orchestra, to Evelyn Kaye, his violin soloist, at suburban Margate City on June 12, was revealed here today. The bride, a resident of New York and a graduate of the Juilliard school of music, was known to the nation-wide radio audience only as “Evelyn.” The marriage was Spitainy’s second, McNUTT NOMINATION WASHINGTON, June 18 (U, P.). President Truman today sent to the senate the formal nomination of Paul V. McNutt, now high commissioner, to be the first American
ambassador to the new" Philippine
republic. Mr. McNutt will repre-
serit the President at the cere-
monies.
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World Affairs. 10
CITY FALS TO PROVIDE HOMES ‘FOR VETERANS
Stout Field, Other Projects Uncompleted; Blame Material Shortage.
By RICHARD LEWIS Ten months after the end of the war, the city of Indianapolis has not provided a single dwelling unit for a veteran's family. The Stout field housing project is stalled. Its 375 planned dwelling units were scheduled for occupancy July 1, but because of black-market created shortages of materials, the units cannot be completed. Other and smaller municipal projects at E, 32d and Tacoma sts., Kentucky ave. and Morris st, W. Michigan st. near Veterans hospital and Belmont park are still in the blueprint stage. City officials say. they just can’t help it. They say they are doing the best they can in the face of shortages. Demand Still Frantic
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville, however, began housing their veterans months ago. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis| Homes Registry, billeting agency for the municipal housing program, reported that the frantic demand for homes has hardly eased at all. The registry has on file 1190 applications for the 375 uncompleted units at Sout fleld. Of this total, 880 applicants are eligible as veterans with children. Monthly applications for dwellings at the registry are still running from 400 to 500. Up te Federal Agency The Stout field project is now out | of the hands of Mayor Tyndall's emergency housing committee, which completed its work of providing the ground and arranging] facilities. » Beyond making sewer connections | when the project is ready, the city | _ is finished with its part of the job which has now been taken over by the Federal Public Housing’ division of the National Housing Adminis- | tration. Federal housing officials cannot | complete the job for an indefinite | period. They are short one-half million | feet of gypsum board which, they have found, cannot be purchased ifrom Midwestern lumber yards! without tie-in sales of trim, nails and other materials. ‘They have also discovered that at fixed prices they cannot compete with black-marketeers and pur-|
{ chasers for commercial structures to
whom price is no object. Lack Water Pipe | They have tried to purchase ply- 28 wood for interior sheathing in place of gypsum at double the cost, but | have failed to find enough Also. lacking is one and two-inch | water pipe to make water connec- | tions. Window glass and frames] they have been able to salvage from the Stout field installations. y At Stout field, the materials shortage were partly blamed on the national housing administration’s failure to allot a higher than CC | priority to the project. When the priority is presented to the lumber | yard, the yard doesn't seem to have| the material With a higher priority, it was| explained, housing officials could | approach the manufacturer, Negotiations for the resale wl veterans of 80 prefabricated houses, purchased by the city, at 32d and! Tacoma sts. have been completed, | but the houses’ have not’ yet been | erected on the sites. A non-profit corporation of real; estate men, headed by Marion | Graves, has been“appointed to han- |
near Veterans hospital, and Morris sts. and Belmont park. |
CREEK YIELDS BODY OF INDIANAPOLIS BOY |
The body of Richard Blinn Jr. 6, | son of Mr, and Mrs. Richard Blinn, |
early this afternoon from Fall creek | near the Millersville bridge. | Deputy sheriffs and state police had been dragging the creek bottom with grappling hooks since Sunday afternoon when the lad) accidentally drowned while wading with his younger brother and | mother,
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Fireman's Confession Bares
Details Of '500' Race
TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1946
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as Second-Clase Matier at Postoffice
Entered Indianapolis, Ind. Insued daily except Sunday
Action Photos of Tomads That Took Score of Lives Near Detroit
Two pictures of the tornado which devastated the area south of Det roit.
shows the twister as it egan to die away.
BOILING HEAT Tord Wind, Like Giant Hand, SEARCH STORM WILL CONTINUE Litted Houses, Cars Skyward RUINS FOR DEAD
Local borssaclcr Expects Rainfall by Week-end.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6 a. m. 76 1a m 82 7am 76 11a m 8am 79 12 (noon) 9am $1 1 p. m 88
Sweltering residents’ “cooler” for“tonight. The relief, however, will be shorti lived. For the rest of the week temperatures will average five degrees above normal. The forecast for tomorrow is partly cloudy with little.change in temperature. The mercury will hover around the same mark throughout Thursday, only to shoot | up again Friday and Saturday Residents who plan picnics or country outings to cool off over the week-end, however, are due for a disappointment. Nearly threefourths of an inch of precipitation will fall, occurring as showers and HDT Friday and Satur-
HIE residents ‘who took to | the outdoors for relief from last | night's heat puzzled over strange flashes of light which filled the sky southeast of Indianapolis | shortly before 11 p. m Described as resembling a search light, the flashing rays were visible as far as 40th and Illinois sts., seemEmsley M.
Kentucky | johnson, local astronomer, guessed
| that the lights might have been shooting stars, which are likely to occur at any time. He i how, ever, that the city is not through any meteor shower a or time.
WASHINGTON, —The senate military affairs odmmittee today approved the promo- | tion of Gen. Mark Clark to per- |
spite protests by The Texans charged that his strat- | egy caused unnecessary loss of life
DETROIT, June 18 (U. P.).—, Survivors said today the winds on! the edge of the tornado which
struck the Detroit-Windsor areal orm He stopped his car and
were so hot they burned the face. | The storm looked like a giant | black hand that scooped houses,
{he saw
Left shows the twister as it
fly up at least a thousand feet im. the air.” Sgt. Bordeaux was en route home when he ran into the path of t
{dived into a ditch, escaping injury. Another Windsor policeman s#d
struck near Windsor, Ont.;
right
PRICE
Lottery
Purcell Names Metcalf as
to Prosecutor Sherwood Blue.
for which 100,000 tickets at a
criminal court this afternoon charging both Purcell and
Metcalf with conducting a lottery scheme and gift enterprise, pool selling and gaming. Conviction on these charges carry penalties ranging from $10 to $500 fines and 10 days to three months in jail. Metcalf ‘Out of City’
Metcalf was reported still out of the city on a vacation trip. Prosecutor Blue said Mrs. Metcalf reported that he has been “missing” since last Wednesday and that she does not know where he is,
Purcell said Metcalf approached him last January and asked him to be his partner in a Speedway race lottery enterprise. “In February we went to the Pratt Printing Co. and ordered 40,000 tickets,” Purcell said. “Metcalf paid Arthur Pratt $280 for these which we distributed to about 20 sales persons in Indianapolis. “Later we got 40,000 more tickets and Metcalf paid $230 for them, Later we got 20,000 more and he paid $115 for these. Sold on Commission “All persons who sold tickets for
us were paid on a commission basis. Some were paid 40 per cent and some were paid 50 per cent. All the money was handled by Metcalf.
ne Fear at Least 20 Peri
| DETROIT, June 18
automobiles and farm machinery a washing machine and hundreds today from a tornado which grazed
into the sky.
“Tt seemed like a big. fire was
sweeping across the land and when | Spirits rose |i; had passed, the wind was hot, | Windsor weather was promised | {burning my face,”
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Walter Leskrone
LECKRONE TO DIRECT ANNUAL FUND DRIVE
2204 E. New York st., was recovered | 0. K. CLARK PROMOTION Walter Leckrone, editor of The |
Community fund |
Indianapolis
for local
Dates of the annual appeal funds to finance the 41
in the Rapido river battle in Italy. agencies of the Community Fund
‘Haven't Been and
Don't Expect to Be Candidate’
"less than a week away,
By ROBERT BLOEM “I have not been a candidate, I am not a candidate now and I do not expect to become one.” + With these. words former Governor Henry F. Schricker today eliminated himself as a prospective Democratic nominee for U. S. senator, His statement brought a simul- | taneous expression of relief from Hoosier C.I.O. leaders who had threatened to “take a walk” if he entered the convention scene. With - the state convention now the sena- | torial spotlight shifted to two other] party leaders—former Governor M. Clifford Townsend and former Mar- | fon Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox. Only avowed candidate in the|
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{in 1947 will be announced later, Mr. Woollen said. Mr. Leckrone already has started the work of recruiting top flight leaders in the volunteer solicitors’ OUpRIiFRLION, He will head a volnteer army of more than 4 IE when the campaign gets under way. The new general been # resident of
chairman has Indianapolis
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{of pieces of debris picked up and strewn across the sky.” Constable Frank Graham of] said he saw chickens,
said Sgt. Davis |plucked clean of all feathers, bufBordeaux, 50, of the Windsor po-|feted.through the air like scraps of | of more than 100 homes leveled in SAW 8 good-sized house | paper.
THREE SLAIN IN ILLINOIS BATTLE
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State Trooper’s Killer and Companion Shot Down.
Indiana state police late this morning called off a manhunt for the slayer of an Illinois state]
trooper after receiving word fromt
(Springfield, Ill, that the killer had | {been slain in Illinois. The manhunt was the largest set
“lurbs and in less
Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, leaxing rain-soaked wreckage in the {wake of its searing sweep. Daylight brought out scores of { voluneers who searched the debris
{ Detroit's crowded down river subpopulous districts lon the Canadian side of the Detroit river, The giant black funnel twisted its way through the suburbs of Mel|vindale and River Rouge southwest of Detroit, dipped south of the teeming auto city, swerved across the river and struck with full fury south of Windsor. Many Are Missing
Fifteen bodies already had been | ‘recovered. Thirteen were in morgues on the Canadian side. A power linesman was electrocuted and a woman drowned when a ‘dam broke | {on the Detroit side. Hundreds of others were injured land many were missing. | Torrential rains before and after the tornado hampered rescue
'‘Boss' in Scheme; Says Only. 24,000 Tickets Were Sold
By NOBLE REED The complete story of the lottery scheme based on the Speedway race was revealed today by George H. Purcell, 1402 N. Alabama st., a city fireman in a written confession’
He named Raymond T. Metcalf, 6139 Winthrop ave, a retired city fireman as the “boss operator” of the enterprise
dollar each were distributed.
Prosecutor Blue announced that he will file affidavits in
Goorre HW, Push. uty
BREAD BACK ON SHELVES AGAIN
Scare Buying Ends, Loaves Makes Appearance.
By DONNA MIKELS, After several weeks of playing hide-and-seek beneath grocers’ counters, bread today was again trickling back. onto regular shelves
I had 20 agents here and six out-|®$ en “over Wl COMME OOS side Indianapolis in South Bend, | modity. Mishawaka,
. Evansville, Elwood,
In Detroit Tornado. {Muncie and Pt. wayne.” Purcell said Metcalf warned him (U. P..—At [about having any tickets at his | TOF the most part was obtainable
“farm machinery, bicycles,|least 20 persons were feared dead |home.
Metcalf explained “police might raid us.’ “I got frightened about the whole thing about this time and Metcalf handled all the business,” Purcell said. He related that Metcalf told him the drawing on the lottery would be May 29 in the Century building. Crowd at Drawing Site
went to the Century building for the drawing, he saw a crowd of people raising a protest with a man hamed William E. Baker, causing trouble,” he said. “Metcalf then told me he didn’t stop at the Century building but returned home and conducted the drawing there. He didn't tell me |how he conducted’ the drawing. He | merely «aid he did it himself. I was
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FATHER DROWNS AS MOTHER SAVES CHILD
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 18 (U. IP.) Swimming to the aid of her
up by Indiana police since Trooper efforts and attempts to calculate |husband, seized by cramps as he
Robert Bennett was 24 near Seymour Block Indiana Roads All police personnel from the Lafayette, Dunes state park, Jasper and Putnamville posts were. dis-
wounded
[the actual storm toll. to casualties, damage to homse, factories and utilities was estimated in the millions. Windsor was completely without
In addition
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patched to block highways leading! _._
W. B. Nicewanger Promoted |
into Indiana from Jllinois. The gun battle took the lives a
three men—a state patrolman, unidentified white man and a Negro. The patrolman = was Marvin |
Archer, 31, a war veteran who was|
June 18 (U. P). (Indianapolis Times, will ‘be general | helping another patrolman during | chairman for the 1946 campaign off-duty hours. jof the
manent rank of major general de- |Fund, Evans Woollen Jr. Texas veterans. (president, announced today.
Archer and his partner stopped | an automobile, which they believed | was stolen, on State Route 6 at Paxton, Ill
As they approached (he car, the
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WINNER OF 1912 300’ CLASSIC DIES
To Comptroller of Times
Promotion of three employees in
{the business office of The Indianap[olis Times was announced today by |Henry W. Manz, business manager.
W. B. Nicewanger, who has been
|office manager, becomes comptroller. | Harry E. Beplay becomes office | manager and J. Walter Lauer as-
sistant office manager and credit §
| manager Mr. Nicewanger started in the newspaper business Jan. 1, 1920
with the W. D. Boyce Co. pub|lishers of the Indiana Daily Times, | He continued with The Indianapolis Times when the Scripps-Howard
. organization took- over publication
Joe Dawson Win in Year of De Palma’s ‘Mishap.’
Joe Dawson, former Indianapolis
“race driver who won the 500-mile
race in 1912, has died in Philadelphia of a heart attatk, according to word received here today. T. E. (Pop) Myers, Speedway vice president, was informed of
Dawson's death by telegram.
Dawson drove to victory in the
{second 500-mile race, averaging 78.7 {miles an hour in an Indianapolis-
made National car. In the same race. Ralph ‘ DePalma, the wellknown Italian driver, was eliminated two laps from the finish when his car went dead. , DePalma pushed the car across the line, but was disqualified. x
in May, 1922, He is a native of Marion, Ind. {and graduated from Marion Normal |college in 1900. He is a member of |the Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite and Shrine. Mr. and Mrs. Nicewanger live at 1018 N. LaSalle st, They have four children, Bernard, Russell and Mrs. Margaret Steele, of Indianapolis, and Robert D., a student at Indiana university. , Mr. Beplay, a graduate of Manual high school, has Times 19 years. He months with the 367th quarter
live at 124 E. Adler st. Mr. Lauer,
Cathedral high school. Mrs. Lauer dnd their six children live at 826 N. Bancroft st.
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been with The & served . 30 |
master corps. Mr. and Mrs. Beplay # who has been with §
The Times 15 years, graduated from Mr. and
swam in the Blue river near here late yesterday, Mrs. John Arthur Myers heard a scream and saw their 2-year-old son fall from the {bank into deep water She turned back to rescue the “child. The father drowned.
Mr, Lauer .
“Metcalf told me that when he!
Meanwhile; vet’ the. ain Whe {situstion was much the same. Bread
and there were no widespread bakery shutdowns. Sugar and shortening supplies, rather than grain, were to become principal bottlenecks. A scare buying spree which caused local grocers to hide away bakery supplies for their regular customers has subsided, Indianapolis hagary officials agreed today. Down 25 Per Cent Although bread production still is down 25 per cent, it apepared that bread would remain above the counter, at least for the remaindes of the summer, The recent hot weather also was believed one of the factors respone sible for bread becoming slightly more plentiful. Bread consumption always slumps with the beginning of warm weather. Today found fewer and shorter bread lines over the city after early morning bakery deliveries. Bread, instead of disappearing in |a few minutes, remained on the |counter while housewives bought one or two loaves along with rege ular shopping. Supply Still Short The situation still remained shor for workers, however, who were compelled to shop in the afternoon, Grocers agreed that the supply probably would be exhausted by the time these workers reached neighe | borhood stores. Charles "Ehlers, secretary of the Indiana Bakers association, said that production is down 25 to 33 per cent In most of Indiana's 600 commercial bakeries. He said he expected the bread situation to remain short until after July 15. May Close Shop He added that smaller bakeries, which produce more pastries and sweet goods than bread, may be forced to close as the sugar shortage becomes more acute. A United Press survey of bakeries over the nation showed that flour millers hoped the shortage had passed its most critical point, Harry A. Bullis, president of Gene eral Mills, told 300 bakery manae gers at Chicago that their shor term outlook was “not e - ing.” But he added that “there reason to hope we are near the darkest point today.”
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