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Drastic Reorganization Would Eliminate Administrative and School Bus Overlapping
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG
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A plan for drastic reorganization of the Indiana school
system-—estimated to save mi
illions of tax dollars annually—
is being prepared for consideration by the 85th general as-
sembly,
The plan was recommended some time ago bythe gov-
ernor’s tax study commission.
all schools except city schools
It calls for reorganization of under the county board of edu-
cation. The board is composed of the township trustees and
headed by the -county super-|™ intendent of schools. At present schools are controlled by the individual township trustees, The reorganization: would bring about a consolidation of school bus
routes and eliminate overlapping!
conditions which now exist. Might Save $10 Million One state school official said yes-
terday it was possible for the plan to save seven or eight. million dol-
lars annually in school administra-
tion costs and possibly two to three
_ million more in bus transportation.
A bill has already been prepared which wolild authorize the reorganization, but its sponsors are making sure it meets with the approval of both educators and the trustees before it is thrown into the hopper. William Wilson of Jeffersonville,
president of the Indiana State
Teachers association, said yesterday, he understood.the bill lacked only the approval of the governor's
"policy committee. It was to have "gone before the. .
E committee meeting yesterday” but’ was postponéd until a later date. Trustees Not Consulted
So far, trustees are noncommittal on the measure. . Theodore Hedrick, | executive secretary of the township | trustees association, said the bill had not been presented to them: for ap-| proval. Another trustee declared “we aré! for anything which would better the schools but we would not submit to a plan whereby our power as| trustees would beé lost.” A recent survey by the tax study commission showed school bus ¢osts in Indiana were higher than in| some neighboring states. Trustees
said also that the survey was based | (Continued on Page 5—Colu §—Column n!
on findings in Warren county where | natural features of terrain and present road networks make transportation difficult.
Illinois Costs Lower
The commission's survey shows! Indiana: school bus costs per mile are 22.6 cents while in Illinois they are 20 cents, However, the trustees! claim it is not fair to’compare Indiana with Illinois since the Illinois school system still includes hun-
dreds of one-room rural schools!
which do not transport children. . Trustees said they would have to give the measure careful study before committing themselves for or | against it. -
Your Job's still Safe
From Atomic Power LAKE SUCCESS, N. ¥..Jan., 22; (U. P.).—Your job is safe from the
atom for at least a decade, United Gramelspacher, Jasper, a Demo- | which cleared Wilhelm Purtwaeng- would be revoked if evidence of| Wilbur D. Hart, 49, of 411 Arbor Cc member of the board, whose ler, German symphony conductor,| gambling is found.
Nations diplomats agreed today. It will be that long, at least, be fore atomic power is developed to the point where it: may wipe out] whole industries, such as the electric power business, and. toss thousands of persons out of jobs.
By that time, the United Nations
economic and employment commission hopes to have solved thé problem of job displacement which probably would accompany an atomic revolution. The estimate of when atomic power may be useable industrially was in a working paper prepared for the commission by the United Nations secretariat.
Times Index
Amusements... 8 | Legislative Eddie Ash... 16] Calendar ... 3, Aviation ,..., 11|Movies ...... 8 Boots ........ 20 | Obituaries ... 7] Ned -Brooks. .. 22 | Dr. O'Brien. .. 21 Business ..... $F. C. Othman. 11 Classified. . 18-20 (Radio ...... «3 Comics ...... 21 | Reflections .. 12 Crossword ... 20 Mrs. Roosevelt 14 Editorials .... 12 |Scherrer ..... 12 Fashions ..... 14|Serial ....... 4 Forum ....... 12 | Side Glances. 12 Meéta Given... 15 Silly Notions. 11 Ernie Hill ... 9|Spelling Bee . 21 Home Page. .. 6 Sports .... 16-17 In: Indpls. .... 2|State Deaths. 3 Inside Indpls® 11 Stranahan ...16 Johnson .,... 11 | Washington. 12 Ruth Millett. 11 {Weather Map. 3 Labor ...:.... 9(Women's . 14-15 John Love .... 9, World Affairs. 13
Mayor Election In 1950 Asked
Bill Puts Local Jury Issue Before Assembly
A new city skipielection law, a bill to limit filing time on portal-to-portal pay suits and a medsure. ito clear uff Marion county's criminal court jury mess featured to-, day's legislative session. | Rep. Edwin Haerle (R, Indianapolis), author of the “jury panel” bill, described the measure as merely a means to simplify the selection of jurors. Its immediate. effect, if passed, would be to clear up the present panel jam in Marion county, eriminal court” The panel was held invalid by Criminal Court Judge William D, Bain after charges by!
Prosecutor Judson Stark that it did not contain ¢ "names and was
Selections Each Month By permitting selections of jurors month by month, the measure also! {was seen as having the efféct of legalizing the present criminal court
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tem The act cuts,in half the number ‘of names which must be submitted | for selection of a panel and omits! {personal ¢ examination of jurors and; {of voters’ lists. It also authorizes! | selection without reference to com- { missioners’ districts. The city election measure would | |“balance the books” on ‘mayors’ terms. Under the 1945 act Hoosier
{mayors were given an extra year | Ss |
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Kooken Hinted For Police Job
| Governor Gates today was report{ed considering appointment of Don |Kooken, former high-ranking state (police officer, to the police board. | Mr. Kooken today appeared be-, {fore the board which is continuing a probe into conditions. which | brought the recent resignation of Superintendent Austin R. Killian and Executive Officer Walter Eck[ert. Mr. Kooken retired from the state police force in May of last year and at present is acting director of the institute of eriminal law administration at Indiana university.
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The" report, unconfirmed by the | was that Mr. |
|Governor’s office,
From Coma After Stroke
Gangster King Sick In Florida Home
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Jan. 22 (VU. P.).—Scarface Al Capone, king of lerime in Chicago during the prohibition era, who is critically ill here, “rallied out of His coma” early today, his physician reported. Dr. Kenneth Phillips, Capone's doctor, came from the former underworld czar’s Palm island retreat about J: 30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) and said Capone “is having a natural sleep.” Capone will be able to take nourishment when he wakes up, Dr. Phillips said. The physician-indicated, however, ! that it would be several days before Capone could be tensidered out of
Capone Rallies
General Motors Expects No Cut In Car Prices
By JAMES M. HASWELL Times Special Writer *
WASHINGTON, Jan, 22.—General Motors doesn't expect-the- prices of its cars to go down in the near future, according to G. M, President Charles E. Wilson. Sales are not yet meeting any consumer price resistance, and production is still the major problem, he said here, The G. M. price increases announced in Detroit yesterday cover mostly luxury lines of cars, and
of company volume, Mr. aids said here.
Wilson's
Co. in reducing prices completed
prices into line with G. M. prices, (Continued on inued ‘on Page 5—Column 6)
danger. Dr. Phillips spent most of the night at Capone's bedside with | his wife, Mae Capone, and. their | ison, Alphonse Jr. He said he Would | {not re-enter the walled estate except for routine calls or unless [there wds on emergency. Suffers Paralytic Stroke
Thus, "it appeared that the man who survived the Chicago gangland wars that killed 500, Hespite a $50,000 price on his head, had once again cheated death. Capone, who is 48, suffered a. paralytic stroke early yesterday and |} was given the last rites of the Cath-| yolic church. He was unconscious for 14 hours, and rumors swept the city that he was dead. - Later word came from the mysterious 25-room mansion on his island estate in Biscayne bay that he had
{to persons around his bedside. Victim of Paresis
paresis—softening of the brain since long before his release from! Alcatraz in 1939, and his physician; reported a year ago that he had|'™ | the mind of 4 12-year-old boy. He served his term in Alcatraz for federal income tax evasion. { The road to the walled mansion {was busy last night as car after |car, all large and expensive and {most of them bearing out-of-state |. license plates, drove up to be ad- | mitted by two guards at the gates. | At 7:30 p. m. five automobiles {were admitted at once with a minimum of examination by the guards.
Curious Watch Mansion
Hundreds of curious, many of | them from nearby night clubs, stood beside the road watching the windows of the brightly lighted | mansion and the shadows on the] walls of an upper-floor room in ‘which Capone apparently rested. | Four members .of Capone's family left Chicago by plane. They were his aged mother, Mrs. Theresa Capone; his sister, Mrs. Mafalda Maritote, and two brothers, John {and Mimi. Mrs. ‘Maritote is the wife of John Maritote, brother of | Frankie Diamond, a racketeer now serving a term in a féderal penitentiary. Capone's elder brother, Ralph, who has been the closest to-him since his release from prison, was reported en route from his lodge at Mercer, Wis.
Report Held Up
BERLIN, Jan. 22 (U, P.).— The
regained consciousness and talked
Capone "has been suffering from
Vote to Probe - Hollywood ‘Reds’
Un-American Group Seeks Communists
The house committée on un-Amer-ican activities organized under Republican leadership’ today. It voted to investigate Communist influences in the Hollywood filin
“expose and ferret out the Commu-
in the federal government.” Chairman J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.) said after the first committee meeting that open hearings will be held in th investigation of Hollywood. ‘He would not say when or | where the Rearings ‘will be held. The committéé’s vote on author[nine the investigations was unanus, Mr. Thomas said. Robert E. Stripling was appointed | committee clerk and chief investigator. He succeeds Ernie Adamson, who had been chief investigator and counsel of the committee in the! last congress. Mr. Thomas" said he intended to “make this the most active year in’ the committee’s history.” Asked would confine itself to investigation - of Communist activities, Mr. | Thomas said: “We are going to let the chips fall where they may—whether they fall on Communists, the ku-klux klan or the Columbians. We are going after all subversive influences and elements.”
Sanders to Probe Gaming 'Fronts'
Newly appointed Police Chief | Howard Sanders today began a systematic tightening of controls over business places suspected of being “fronts” for gambling activities. One of his first steps -toward a new “crackdown” on gambling was
an investigation of all licensed pool |
rooms, usually used as operations | headquarters for gamblers and vice operators. The investigation of pool rooms was ordered by the safety board yesterday. It warned that city
|Kooken would replace Clarence | report of the de-Nazification board | licenses of pool room operators
jer 'term expires March 7. The appointment would place on
has not reached the allied kommar-| | datura committee for final approval!
Chief Sanders-and “safety board | members declined to comment fur- |
{the board a member who has inti- | because the board has run out of ther on the week-old charges of
workings of the department.
day.
mate knowledge of the internal |paper, American officials said on Fumie graft Ipvelving police officers
board in. a public statement whic
The statement was Issued by A. H. M. Graves, Indianapolis Real Estate board president. “From time to time the question of legal controls has arisen. Various forms of control which would keep illegal practices at a minimum have been investigated, studied and discussed,” he wrote. “Thus far none has been devised which fully protects the public and at the same time gives the realtor the freedom of individual enterprise which he deserves under the American system. “This question arofe again just recently in a meeting of the board of governors of the Indiana Real Estate association in Indianapolis.
expose of realty frauds in which veterans have lost thousands of dollars.
Discloses Association Has Discussed Law to Curb Sharp Practices
Legislative proposals to place licensing or bonding restrictions on pe the most potent protection for! the free-wheeling Indianapolis real estate market have been considered |tfie innocent. but deferred by the Indiana Real Estate association.
This disclosure was made today by the Indianapolis Real Bust 7 from the Indianapolis Better |
h congratulated The Times on its
“It was voted to defer action because insufficient time remains tq devise a sound law for the present legislature to act upon. The most discouraging of all the things that has happened was a huge scandal in Washington, D.; C., where veterans were swindled out of thousands of dollars by an irresponsible dealer in spite of the fact that real estate dealers of that city are required to have a license. “The Indianapolis Real Estate| board's 300 active members and 200 associate members would, I am sure, heartily indorse The Times series of articles on real estate swindlers if a
Real Estate Board Congratulates Times On Series Exposing Swindlers Here
“As president I Unhesita! ingly! approve them. But an alert publ and an alert press and an alert vin forcement of present laws appear to
We have had excellent co-opera-
Business bureau and we in turn’ have co-operated with it. “Members of the Real Estate board expect to be Jn business here long after the sharpers who are preying on the veterans have departed. ’ “We are proud of our business and congratulate The Times on exposing" fly-by-night operators ' whose conniving undermines confidence in ‘the established and public-spirited real estate dealer.”
HE'LL INFLUENCE LAWS
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U. P),
—John Dickinson Ball, of Washington and Scranton, Pa, has registered as .a lobbyist for the “True | Order, Perfect Mutual Aid for Un-
poll of those members were taken, |
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Recent action of the Ford Motor the operation of bringing Ford
WASHINGTON, Jap. 22 (U. P)—
colony. 5 The committee also decided to nist ‘and Communist sympathizers
whether the committee! |
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Auto Smashes Into Tree; Two Others Injured
Couples Returning From Club Meeting
Two Indianapolis young people were killed near Knightstown last night when their car skidded on the icy pavement of U. S. 40 and crashed into a tree. Two oth-|
ers in the’ car were injured. The dead were:
Miss Marilyn June Davis, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernie H. Davis, 4102 Hoyt ave.
Jack L. Story, 19, son of Mrs. James P. McBride, 431 8. Emerson, ave. Injured in Hospital
ty hospital, New Castle, are: >
Miss Margaret Ellen Duling, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen C. Duling, 3965 English ave. broken right leg and arm and shock; condition fair. Gerald Shelley, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer E. Shelley, 3937 Hoyt ave, face lacerations and possible internal injuries; condition fair. Miss Davis was a sophomore while Miss Duling is in her senior year at Howe high school. One Victim a Veteran .
The car, driven by Mr. “Shelley, recently from the navy, was entering Knightstown from the west when it hit a patch of ice and careened across the highway, srashe ing into a tree.
Parents of the young people said they believed the four were taking
|a pleasure drive beforé returning|{home from a club meeting ing
{ Irvington.
The injured, both in Henry coun-|
ar Shcond-Ciase Mather at Postét Ind. ued; daily except zine
KILLED—Miss Marilyn June
Davis, accident victim.
DEAD—dack- i. Story. kiled in automobite rash;
Miss Davis, who would have béen {16 on Feb. 10, was born in Greensburg, Ind, but came Rere in 1941. She was a member of the Mead{lawn Christian church.
Five Sisters Survive
| Survivors, other than her parents, |are five sisters, Mrs. Henry Swegman, Mrs. Orval Smith, Mrs. Charles Mueller, Mrs. Marshall J. Eastwood, all of this city, and Mrs. Merli Collins, Greensburg, and four brothers, Duane, Ranson, James and | Michael, Indianapolis. é A former Technical high school | student, Mr. Story was employed in his step-father’s grocery at 5136 Brookville rd. He was born at Mt. Carmel, Ill, and was brought here by his parents when a baby. There are no immediate survivors other than his mother and step-father. The dead have been removed to Moore mortuaries Irvington chapel, but services have not been arranged.
Two Railroad ‘Accidents °
Two accidents on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad yesterday were at- | tributed tor falls on ice. i Everett Neely, 37, Clayton, Ind; |is in critical condition at City hospital. He slipped and fell beneath Ia locomotive at Miley ave. as he attempted to mount the tender. His left leg was cut off below the knee.
(ave, is in fair condition at Meth- | odist hospital after a fall from the top of a boxcar at Keystone ave. A brakeman on the B., & O., he slipped as a cut of cars jarred the
INJURED — Miss Ellen Duling, one of four involved in Knightstown wreck.
Margaret
Hoover 0. K's
Richmond Fire Kills Family of 3
RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 22 (U. P.). —A family of three died today in a fire which partially Sesuroyed 's their’ home. .George Turner, 21, his wife Gloria, 20, ‘and their 2-year-old son, Kenneth, suffocated. When a fire broke out. in’ their ‘home, in the early ‘morning hours. Authorities ‘sald Mr. Turner, a garage mechanic, left his home to call the fire department when the
his wife and son trapped ‘In the inferno, and in an effort to’ rescue them was overcome by the flames and suffocated. Fire department officials said the fire apparently was caused by a defective flue. They sald the blaze had to be extinguished before ‘they
one he was working on. He suf{fered ¢back and shoulder injuries,
could gain entrance into the house, but were. too late to revive the |
three persons.
industrial users to suspend i gas.
the sudden, severe cold wave
ure by phone this morning.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
12 (Midnight) 6 7.8 mM... 8 am... 6 Sam... Z2am....7 %am....10 3am... 7 Wam.... 12 4am... 7 Nam... Sa m..... 7 i2 (Noemn).. 15 Sa ms +8 lpm... 1
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Plans Food Study
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U. P). —Former President Herbert Hoover
at President: Truman's request. to go to Germany. There he will make
& uty of food food conditions with a
Only U.S. Zone
The mission “will be concerned only with the American-occupied zones of Germany and Austria, Mr. Hoover said, and not with those, “It might also apply to Italy,” Mr. Hoover said. He would not amplify. “We're interésted in the American problem which is now a partnership problem with the British, and to isome extent with the French, too,” he said. Mr. Hoover said he will consider the broader, long-tange problem of’ when productivity in Germany can be self-supporting. He said he thought the ability. of | the Germans to feed themselves probably’ was two ‘or t: ree years away. Mr. Hoover said the cost now to; the American taxpayer of feeding Germans is more than $300 million! bY a year. He'thought the tax burden might be cut by increasing productivity in such products vital to agriculture as fertilizers.
'lke' Released From Hospital "WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U. P). |—General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
{army chief of staff, was released
from Walter Reed hospital today. | He is completely recovered from a BH disorder. Aides reported
that he “felt fine.” The chief of staff was rushed to the hospital yesterday with an attack of acute indigestion.
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Tax Loss Granted | ait Is Requested for Two
In Portal Suits
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U. PJ. —The treasury’ announced today {that employers who pay portal to- | { portal wage claims may claim tax
(relief for the years affected. . |
| payments; the treasury said, will be! Indiana state trooper was filed today
!taxed at current imcome tax Tates.|
der refused to estimate what the) cost would be to the government in tax refunds if pending portal wage claims, totaling nearly $5 billion were paid in full. Nor would treasury officials guess!
will finally -be ‘paid.
suits out of court. All legal authorities concerned |
does, allowed will be a small fraction of tthe amounts now asked.
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Trooper Murder Defendants Petition to Release Teen-Age Girls, Held on
Tst Degree Charge, Will Be Ruled On March 3
Times Stale Service
COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 22.—A petition to release on bail two as Employees. who receive such back age girls being held on first-degree murder charges in the death of an
Judge George W. Long said he
| Ward, 14, Evansville. On that date, Wiliam V. Johnson, | 17, and William F. Price, 17, both of Evansville, will be tried here on
|the same charges.
The judge pointed out that this
what proportion of these claims charge ordinarily is not subject to ’ 4 bail,’ ‘Congress, meanwhile, is consider-_he added, if a defendant can show ing: legislation to throw the pending a lack of evidence by the prosecutor,
However, a bail may be set,
Since he estilnated two or’ three
government, industry, labor——agree'days should he required to hear {that regardless of what congress evidence on the petition, Judge Long
portal pay claims ultimately decided to hear 16, t time of the This was agreeable. w Chasles al
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oJomew circuit court. e March 3 on the petition
would
Secretary of Treasury John Sny-| filed in behall of Vera Jean Hornbeck, 15, a: and Mary Ruth The
{ Bichel, attorney for Miss Ward, and Emmanuel H. Baugh, attorney for|. Miss Hornbeck. * THey met with |’ Prosecutor William Lienberger off’ Bartholomew county.
With Request From City Urilty The Citizens Gas & Coke Utility today et :
Increased domestic consumption of 8s brought
the appeal. Some 200 industries were informed of the m
To Aid U. S: Taxpayers,"
announced today that he had agreed
‘relieving “some of the|
immediately operations’ :
was given as the
can be : Meanwhile state polls. “waried motorists to stay off highways unless a trip was ‘essential’ even though the temperatures are expected 10
ody. skies, wil prevall for. the n ‘The’ severe’ cold moved eas jie, vite “Aliant seston ates the’ weatherman promised
FLOAly rung errs of the rest of the nation,
grees above zero early today northeastern states. where 36 _ earlier temperatures of 63 were reported at Philade 61 in New York ZEAE mpd harsided the arival of wa er weather Midwest, ending 8 cold snap that h-2 readings. At Lomira, Wis.,