Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1947 — Page 1
AP ORECAST: Light snow this Aternom diminishing to flurries mgt; mostly duty and somewhat colder tonight and tompreon,
SCRIPPS = HOWARD 57th YEAR NUMBER 305
ANNUAL APPEAL-The Red Cross needs funds so the
boys’ overseas and those in hospitals won't be forgoten,
eacher Pay Raise Cut By House Committee
“1today- at the Lebanon city limits in
accident on Bluff rd. ~The dead are:
“Thedr Levanon airéctly info the path
iis in fair condition in Methodist
SATURDAY, MARCH 1 1947
2 Local Men Killed in Crash At Lebanon
Woman. Dies Here
In Bluff Rd. ~Smashup|
Two Indianapolis men ‘were killed
a skid-crash and a 27-year-old} mother died last night in a Wo-car
- Irvin E. Darnell, 40, of 1748 8. Vinewood st. W. H. McGovern, 34, of 3621 N.| Tacoma ave. Mrs. Mildred Hester, 27, ‘of 3104 Hanson ave. A State police said a car operated by Guy C. Bowling, 3766 Creston dr., skidded 100 feet on the icy road
of a Keeshin motor express truck.| = The truck was driven by Harry] Morris, 45, of 617 Buchanan st. He was uninjured, The Bowling car was going: north into Lebanon. Both the auto and the truck were badly damaged. Mr. Darnell was killed instantly but Mr. McGovern died’ a few minutes later in Witham memorial hospital, Lebanon. * . Both Legs Broken Mr. Bowling suffered: two broken legs : and other injuries. He was semi-conscious at the hospital, Mrs. Hester's husband, Julian, 28,
TOUGH LIFE re Southport high school\coach Jewell Young gets almost 'as much exercise as his team.
hospital. He was injured internally in the Bluff rd. crash. Deputy sheriffs said - he was ‘driver of a car that was struck broadside by one driven by Otto Bell, 26, Mooresville. Witnesses said the. Hester car had been
Recommendation by Ways, Means Group Starts New Row in Legislature
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG A new battle on teachers pay broke over the legislature today as the house ways and means commiftee recommended sharp cuts! from the compromise agreement between Republican policy-makers and teachers’ representatives. Rep. Jess Andrew (R. West Point), "economy- minded ways and means chairman, handed the committee's recommendations down after an all-night session last night.
The policy committee had agreed
40 “go along” on minimum ur Heavy Snowfall . schedules ranging from $1600 -to 3 :
$2400 a year and a state contribuState Police Warn
tion toward teachers’ salaries of $39 million. °
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“The ‘ways ‘and means comiittee slashed this recommendation to { make the teachers’ minimum pay range from $1512 to $2000 annually. | It chopped the state's contribution down to $36 million. Robert Wyatt, chief of the teachers’ lobby, rushed out of the house as the committee report was read and _ confronted Governor Gates ‘with the charge that the agreement | had been broken. The governor agreed to call. the policy committee into an immediate session to talk over the development and determine what would be the next step. Responsible to Taxpayers - Mr. Andrew, who has beeri the leading block to every attémpt to fncrease expenditires, commented
dryly: It remained cold throughout the | ‘I do not now what agreement | northern section of the country, but | was reached between the policy nowhere were storms or high winds| committee and the teachers’ lobby. reported.
March came in he a tooth-| heaviest snowfall of the year to! Indianapolis. By noon there were nearly . a 3inch’ “padding on the ground and city | streets and highways were slippery. | Highway crews were spreading cinders on curves and hills. . State. -p6lice reported roads were |
snowy and dangerous in all parts of | the state.
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stopped at Bluff rd. and then started up in front of the othet| {automohile. | Mr. Bell said he was Woreiing, about 50 miles an hour when his! (vehicle struck the -Hester car. He and =a brother, Eddie, 31, of| 'Martinsviile; riding with him, both! {were treated at City hospital for, minor injuries, Another passenger in the Bell ‘automobile, Gilbert Cooper, 43, of! (Martinsville, suffered a leg fracture. | He was taken t6 the U, 8S. veterians administration hospital here, On Way to Grocery Store | Mr. Cooper is a brother-in-law of | {the Bells. Mr. and Mrs. Hester were wi route to a grocery at the time of ithe tragedy. . A
* UMMMMMM — A bit of sloppy dribbling by one of. his boys brings a disappointed look.
trashed into an ‘automobile while] chasing a stolen taxicab. & Deputy sheriffs, taking up the! chase after the squad car was wrecked, caught a 17- -year-old Indiana Boys’ school parolee a short! | time later near where. he had] the cab. They charged him’ with the taxicab theft. 5 The speeding police vehicle | crashed into an automobile being {driven by George S. Abbitt, 29, of | 959 Concord st., nea» the intersec- | tion of Raymond and Shelby sts. Mr. Abbitt was uninjured. | The youth admitted holding up {Leo Marlnee, 914 Highland ave. a |taxicab driver, and taking his cab land Wrecking it.
I just~know the ways and means committee, together with.the senate finance committee and the education commifiees of both houses, are responsible to the.taxpayers as well
slied sterrly that he was ‘to. the; policy committee t--and dq not care what
A547 The ‘uation now may resolve itself intéFa fight between the legisla-
tive poMey’ conjmittee and Mr, Andrew,’ on a “ita jor Budget issue.
Hectic Session
The ways and nieans committee #pent most of the night in a hectic | “final session to put out a few more bills. Most. of..the..§5 expenditure measures which if’ had : were. re-
tained in the committee's pocket.
The house passed and sent to the senate - Another bill ‘which would penalties on drunken
place heavy driving: Wher: intoxication is proved .against/a driver involved in an accident in which damage was $25 or mofe, or persons. were injured, he now will be subject to jail or _ prison. First offenders mdy be sent to jail from five to 60 days, second 8 offenders up to six months, and third offenders will receive a one- ® to-fivg-year sentence in the state ; 1) pen ntiary.
In | the senate, the administra- |
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Snow to Continue
+ The forecast here was for continued snow today and tomorrow with little change ih temperature. The snowfall was expected to average two inches in the northern portion of the state and four to six inches:in the central and south portion. Snow was falling from Kansas to Indiana and was expected to move into the ‘Onio river valley today and tonight. Fhe snow had piled to a d
Missouri. It was raining ih most of Arkan: sas, Tennessee and the southeastern states. J Temperatures during the night dipped below -zero in the northern {and central Rocky Mountain area. The only area in the U. 8. to report warmer weather was the Gulf coast of Texas which . enjoyed a brief warming spell.
epth of six inches in Kansas and |
“U.S. Officers Held |
By Chinese Reds
WASHINGTON, March 1 (U. P.). —The war department announced today it had been informed by the U. S. military attache at Nanking that two American army officers have been .“captured™ by Chinese Communists. The officers are Maj. A. B. Rigg {and Capt. J. W. Collins, assistant U. 8. military attaches. They were “captured,” ‘the war department said, March 1, Chinese time, which. was yesterday our time. They were taken by the Communists in the vicinity of Chialunchien, a small village a [ew miles northeast of Changchun. The nature of the “capture” was not disclosed. The military attache said a full" report was “forthcoming
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Taft's Senate Rule Shaky After Several Defeats
Loses Vote on Budget, Bows on Debt Reduction, Poor Second in Poll-of '48 Race
WASHINGTON, March 1.—Senator Robert A. Taft's g rule over senate is shaky after two months, He was on winning side in fight over budget cut, but’. majority of his Republicans voted against him. On earmarking ‘sum for debt reduction, he had to bow to a youngster, Senator William F. Knowland (R. ‘Cal.); and give away four times as much as Mr. Knowland in com- ' promise. 3
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg grabbed. “ball from Mr. Taft on reciprocal-trade agreements." Mr. Taft took what seems to be losing side o He-told friends he realized his help Mr. Bfilenthal.
‘David E. Lilienthal. 8, iatement agains , Condruiston might
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Taft Runs ‘Second fo Vandenberg i
WHEN Republican senators were polled on presidential Pens. Mt. Taft $s poor second to Mr. Vandenberg. In later public-opinion poll, Mr. Taft was fifth—behind John “Bricker. (But Bob Church,
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Revision Plan
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3-Man Independent Board Recommended |
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A complete revision ot Indiana's
recommended to Governor Gates today by a special study commission.
WHEW! — A close play |! brings. a worried expression to “the face of the former Purdue “university ster,
OUCH! "— The other team | scored a basket. That makes any Hoosier codch a > very un- : happy man.
Photos by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photograpner.
Glenn W. Funk Named Stark's Chief Deputy Glenn W. Punk, 40-year-old first
assistant ‘city attorney, today was! named chief deputy prosecutor.
Judson L. Stark climaxed a long! experience in Republican party affairs. A . DePauw university graduate, Mr. Funk spent two years as a po-
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lice and city hall reporter for the Evansville Press and the Evansville Regri In 1931, he was griduated from the Indiana university. Law school and began the practice of law. \ He was a candidate for prosecutor In the 1940 and 1942 primary elections, During the campaign two years before, he had been 11th ward chairman under County G. O. P, Chairman Carl Vandivier. . » » ~ A former president of the Tvs = Republican ‘club, Mr, Funk also a member of the Trvin Presbyterian “church, Tndianaolis Masonic lodge, West side chapter, | | Royal Arch Masons; Nettie Rans-~ ford chapter, O. E..8, and the Raper Commandery, ; He also is a member of the
{Indianapolis Lawyers association,
Indianapolis Bar association, Amerfean Bas tion, Phi Gamma Delta, Delta. Ohi, Delta
Theta Phi; mR Kappa.
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OOH, YOU ROBBER!-—A decision by a referee against one of his boys brings Young to his feet with a roar. team won, 55 to 49, advancing to the sectional yemifnaly
Incidentally, his
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3 County Teams Pace Sectional
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Three Marion county representa
'tives and a loné-Indianapolis stand-
~ His ‘appointment: by Prosecuter | lard bearer were to. square away at the Butler fieldhouse this afternoon in semifinal games of the local sec tional high school basketball tour-
nament, : The first afternoon game pitted Broad Ripple against Warren Cen-
‘tral, with Southport and Lawrence
Central meeting in the afterpiece. The two finalists will meet at 8 o'clock tonight for the right to ad“regional play. 1 341 Teams Eliminated : The same pattern was being followed today in 63 other centers, and by the time firing ends tonight, only 64 of the original 781 teams that started will be around. Morning, *afternoon and evening sessions yesterday eliminated 341 .of them. Around the state most of the faworites were among. the survivors, although there were a few noteworthy casualties. Highly regarded New Albany fell before Silver Creek, small team that lost only seven a, games.” Munéie Central
Along with Shortridge, they were the chief victims of upsets.
Pay Boost Granted
~The Terre Haute City Bus Lines, Inc., today announced’ a new cons tract: with local 1048 of the Street. Coach
jjereation of a three-man board of
A practices in the background of the
. {trustees can remand a parole vio- : ally “necessitates a court trial. {that .the division of authority now
| current between prison trustees and ~ |welfare department has produced
The commission recommended the :
paroles independent. of the state’ yen tq DEATH James
“Eidson= 37, employee of the city. park deparimpnt killed by | Mrs. Eidson.
| welfare . department and outlined la 10-point program to reduce Hoo- | ' ster crime and parole violations. Governor Gates said that if he ‘felt the recommendations were ‘practical and the need for parole jrevision urgent _ enough, he would’ recommend passage under rules | suspension of a senate bill which would. enable the state to put the program in effect “almost immediately. The study commission was named by the governor to review) the parole and probation system in Indiana after a series of articles in {The Indianapolis Times exposed lax and: inefficient parole and probation
murder of a state policeman. 3 Power to Grant Paroles : Members of the commission were!” drawn from the ranks of Hoosier jurists, newspaper editors, welfare workers, psychiatrists and eriminels 3 ogists. Supreme Court Judge - James Al {Erhmert, study commission chair- | iman, submitted the Jecomiusiaa- | tions to Governor Gates. Commis {sion members concurred n them | { unanimously. |” The commission {that the three-man board be given not only the power to-grant paroles
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WIELDED HATCHET — Mrs. Marion Esther Eidson, 20, blond housewife who confessed wieldrecommended - ing the hatchet which killed her | husband “early this morning of.
15-year-old sister. — advances, The dead man was Js :
341 N, Park ave. but the authority to supervise pa- :
rolees and to return paole violat~
vided: di state welfare department's cortions division. | The prison trustees grant the 1 paroles: The correction division then {supervises parolees. But only the
lator ‘to prison and this action usu-
Confusion ’ . Members of the commission found
confusion. The pull and tug betweert the two agencies—one granting and the other merely supervising paroles— had led to the high incidence of parole violation in Indiana’ members concluded. : These are their recommendations for correcting the situation:
SLEPT SOUNDLY — Undisturbed by the tragedy was 13-months-old Helen Eidson,
ONE: The creation of a two-year study commission by the legislature to determine inadequacies of Hoosier prisons and to map a recodification of the criminal law. TWO: Creation immediately of the. three-man parole board, its full-time members to’ be appointed by the governor at: salaries ranging from $6000 to $7500 annually. THREE: Transfer to this board
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Truman an Flies Tomorrow |
For Mexican Trip MEXICO CITY, March 1-(U. P.). — Routine wofk in government offices and private business houses was “laid aside today. The people
ishing touches on preparations for the history-making arrival of U. S. President Harry Truman, Mr. Truman leaves Washington tomorrow for Kansas City to visit
of Mexico City are putting the SB
daughter of the couple, who slept through the “killing. >
Criminal Judge
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bill creating a second criminal court for Marion county and immediately named Saul Rabb, Indianapolis afttorney, to the new bench.
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criminal court until Jan, 1, 19861,! when a new judge will have been elected to succeed him. i Mr. Rabb, who formerly ‘served six years as chief deputy prosecutor,
Saul Rabb Named
Governor Gates today signed a
The law was designed to relieve ai ‘rthe jammed criminal court docket: |said Mr; Rabb will serve as judge .of{"
yielded to Burris of the same city. |
TERRE HAUTE, March 1 (U. Pat
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The foreign ministry—primarily responsible for the smooth function- Police Chief Quits ing of events ~on the President's] NEW CASTLE, Ind, March 1 (U. crowded three-day schedule--con-|P.).=~Mayor Sidney E, er today tinued to strain today to, insuréiannounced the ‘resignation of Police | 'everything wil go as planned in!Chief Donald L. Long, this city famed for its studied dis-|March 15. He had served since Jin, regard of schedules and plas, 1, 1943.
Holy Land Blast Kills i 17 Hurt in New Outbreak
Terrorist Trio Caught After British Officers" Club ‘Is Blown Up
JERUSALEM, March 1 (U. P.) ~The, Jewish ndepggound—strking into the heart of a Jerusalem “security ‘zone’ '—blew up a British offers’ club today. + A British public information officer issued: what be ehlled: rected” casualty list showing seven "dead and 17 ihjured. conflicted with éarlier figures which listed 16 dead in the blast and persons shot to death. ‘The change |= : in higher figures was not explained. Officidls speculated on The annouficement said 'three bility of “imposition. or
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“terrorists” had been caught It said they drove up in a suck, ik, og