Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1947 — Page 1

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pes ~nowarol 08th YEAR—NUMBER 64 -

Gary Girl Crowned ‘Miss Indiana’

Says ‘Adviser’

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Duped in Probe

0f Fare Case,

Stanford Requests Chance to* ‘Tell All!

By RICHARD LEWIS A new issue ‘was injected today into the Indianapolis Railways, Inc. rate case in which moré than $1

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million in impounded funds is now at stake. Public Accountant Jlement IL. ‘| Stanford, the city's ex-utility adviser in the case, charged he had I been “duped by political interests” at City hall into misinforming the city council and Mayor Tyndall on vital issues in the case. In a letter filed with City Clerk; Frank Noll yesterday, Mr. Stanford, asked permission to tell his story pefore the .council at an open meeting. ‘Fired’ as Adviser Mr, Stanford served as utilities adviser to Corporation Counsel age of 128.155 in hes Moore Arch N. Bobbitt last year and early " Crown Sparkplug Special. this year. He was discharged from this role two months ago, on orders BILL HOLLAND - from the mayor. The accountant said that ‘during the rate case .he had been persuaded to “lay off” certain issues} yea EA ” in the rate case because high Re- Cea publican interests were involved. ig enior, wi represen oosierland in t e nationa 3 persuaded not to investigate more America beauty pageant. fully the issues of cost and valuae 5 tion in the rate case in the belief further probing was not really vital. | a Since then, he said, he learned that the cost investigation he was discouraged from making was the root of the entire rate case. He said he wanted to bring the whole matter into the open. Wants to “Tell All” In his letter of self-accusation to the council, Mr. Stafford simply asked permission to tell all He amplified this today with a Esa ws oR : statement that he had “improper] BA , ie ; ; SE Ty ie i PASE tag ss informed the mayor and ad BOY, OH BOY —The gee-whiz look on the faces of Lloyd Singer: Marquita Singer, 3, and Charles te | that the ratepayers interests were] Phenis, 5, all of Elwood, as they peeked through the fence into the Speedway garage area, was typical of the properly pruiestes) hen Whe: city crowd th that thronged to qualifying trials today at the track. They were not “properly protectEE el Se Editor gas: Weshingron Calling 2 he Ki had failed to examine carefully the company’s methods of financial re- u. S. Is Keeping 5 S ilent Wn porting to state agencies. | yom ’ | This failure, he said, made it: oO Ure r I atic Timpossible to Sanity the basic is- : 1scove cy j e ton. to. ibe a " . “ : . a go . ; : ictinr= - ¥ Invest on Rated | Georgian’ Assers It Anything, fo Reveal About Deposits 1" Local ri Editor Ra McGill of the At- | ‘ Two rsons, one tentalivel | pursuing this line of investigation ants So said today that WASHINGTON, May 24.—Sizable deposits of ore ee Indianapolis Just fall When hie Nas Siyised bY | opponents of & ‘federal anti-lynch-; containing uranium—source of atom energy—have been |woman, were killed in state traffic id displ a io po sere ate our ing law have been “pushed into a| found in Colorado river basin area accidents and six were injured in blican lead ® Re- comer where, it is no longer pos-| So far U. S. atomic energy commission is keeping |!¢ county yesterday. Pa a RS id h sible to defend our position.” 3 tr gy es 0 p 2 In Indianapolis, a ‘pedestrian was; so of the original 35 entries — be SSOP alg eas ae ‘Speaking’ at the 13th annual) Mum on discoveries. Members are deciding how much, if !severely injured in a South side ac-|500-mile race to rbd ; 1 détail before the council if he is meeting of the Hoosier State Press| anything, to tell. cident. On the East side, a hit-run| lap speed runs, but pee granted a hearing. Only recently, association, Hr Bcc! mentioned Discoveries are of vital importance to U. S. They a I as, buked FASPAR Sa wore expect he said, has he been able to deter-| T2068: V'C HES g mean we're no longer dependent solely on foreign ore. | State police tentatively identified mine the significance of the investi- . . : “ | (We've been getting most of our uranium from Great Bear Lake |a pedestrian victim as Mrs. T. C. gation he was induced not to make.| “We who opposed a federal lynch : ’ ; . Mr. Stanford said he filed his let. | law—because to support one would region of Canada.) Means other workable deposits undoubtedly will {Mayer, 520% E. Washington st. ter with the clerk after conferring|be an admission that the moral| be found in this country. She died in Clark County. hospital THE PAIR SEX—Runners-up in the Miss Indiana contest in- with Mayor Tyndall. Mr. Sin strength of a state was not strong Urapium is not rare, but is seldom found in large enough con- stat bic Suck BY an ito gous cluded (left to right) Miss Mary Frances Ryan, Miss Bloomington, |could not be reached for comment. {enough to support its own law and centrations to permit profitable operations. or Heir e oh # ie Road ow third; Miss Beverly Trenary, Gary, Miss Indiana; Miss Ida Lou Stein, | The accountant was “fired” from |law enforcement bodies—are pushed} Skilled crews of U. S. geological survey secretly have peon Sous Natalie June Steup, 17, of that pen Miss New Albany, second, and Miss Patricia Keigley, Miss Terre [his City hall advisory post during|into a corner where it is no longer | the West. One official familiar lay With heir work said they BR i wien® dro diver of a ont dn Haute, fourth. Miss June York, Miss Jeffersonville, was awarded the primary election campaign by possible to defend our position,” he : ~iwhich she was a passenger Was £5th the mayor, but retained as adviser said. Bride’ S Hushand (According to unofficial sources, blinded by oncoming headlights and itth, . i . A to the council by Council President. Fact of Trial ‘Important’ these crews have discovered two |crashed into a bridge abutment on Joh 2 pusher: Conse! Bote “Yet it is important to notice that large deposits of uranium bearing 'the Larwill rd. bitt ‘intervened for the city in tI » {Fill was held. A few i hd ore in southesstern Utan and on | The driver, Jack Moore, 20, Col- Their four-lap tome bonita rven or the city in the no trial] would have been held. pp S 1111] me |umbia City, and three other pas-: Would be called standby time trials, Indiana - Béll Telephone rate case| pr Arizona-Utah border. Within past r. McGill said more newspapers two weeks a copper-mine operator |Sengers were, injured. |and at the conclusion of qualificahow being heard, Mr. Stanford was in the South were “boldly and | Times Stale Service | discovered another good-sized de- Four were injured in a truck- | tions next week the fastest ASPAR no longer his adviser. vigorously attacking their own| COLUMBUS, Ind. May 24—An- oct in norther Fini South. |8uto crash at. the’ intersection of cars which were entered after the . Intervenes on His Own peculiar problems” than in any other! nuiment proceedings against Mrs. wo Be or |State Rd. 29 and W. 60th st. last! April 15 deadline will be certified to But that did not discourage the | region. {Geneva McCluskey Hasta | Wosiemn LoDrado is considered might. * |All the vac in the. 38-car Meis| another rea. ancles EA rien on is “Where a quarter century ago Franklin, 17-year-old brunet mother, : or a are conterbed Suffers Broken Hip morial day field. in hearings in knots last week by|tDEré Was one newspaper and one held in Bartholomew county jail oo" ge Coro nator cuts | Attempting a left turn into Shi Twentyssis positions In. the stattstaging’ a three-day cross-exami- minister speaking out against hate charged with bigamy, were filed to-| —if they stand—on their search | |st. from Road 29, an automobile os 1 eup still were a plo when nation of the telephone company’s organizations such as.the cowardly day by her second husband. |. tor: raniurs. © Geslopteal 23IVe {operated by Luther Weddel, 56, o! tla ying began today. first chief accounting witness and despicable Ku-Klux Klan and| Nope Franklin charged that she, has been drasticall Bie by I > | 2648 W. 60th, was struck by : _|similar organizations, there today .saicely and f ] "| Das been crasticaly cul-Dy MOUSE | g,iomopile driven by Benhamin | week-end, : [He has been retained by the In-| Foo, oF oig y raudulently represent-| and Secretary Krug has warned | Gregory, 17, Zionsville. driver was to get the second spot diana Municipal league to assist 1s| €d herself to him.” They were mar- | this may imperil national secur- : ' in the third row. Hoosier city attorneys (outside of} Mr McGill objected lo Proposals rieq jast Saturday in Greensburg. | jty. Bureau of mines. cut will Injured were Mr, Weddel's wife, Indianapolis) to fight the-tetephone that appropriations for the “Voice She Aas married’ Wo. Chester & a . m Stella, 54, arid three passengers in ’ of America” be reduced. argely negate” Investigation of ap. Gregory's car, Delores Taylor, company’s proposed rate increase. Six h d Chastain, local express company radioactive mineral deposits and lds and Wil uick He sald he intends to cross- x past presidents were honore |employee on July 18.1045, th [ 5 i b | Eugene Reynolds an ma Q last night at a dinner meeting end- y ree curb research on fissionable mate- | 4); 17, of Zionsville. examine every witness the company . [weeks after her 16th birthday. Their | rials, bureau says. ; first day's session. The { ' Weddel was charged with bein ox produces and then call a few of his|n8 the firs y Y!son, Edgar Dale, was born in Sep: | a4 $ 2 aT: own in order to “get at the facts” of| Were Wray E. Fleming, Indlanap=i, oo . "500" 04 they separated in RNR Sos) | drunk and reckless driving by sher- Marion's Perthe rate hike. olis;’ Foster Riddick, Columbia City; {0 C0" , GOVERNMENT doesn't take |igps deputies and slated for the bel R. A. Brodhecker, Brownstown; = » . | seriously charges of American Beech Grove magistrates court. ] Gardner Thomas, Marion; E. C. Was my big mistake,” Geneva | Legion Commander Paul Griffith | gyhy] F. Pettinger, 24, of 22 8 Aga~ Tru man fo Sta Gorrell, Winamac, and the late J. | aid, a hii filed for a divorce sev-| that this country is being flooded |gytier ave, and Mrs. Sally Shany Frank McDermond, Attica. § ago and in the mean-| with illegal immigrants. UO [non 44, of 513 E. 15th st, were ; : . 5 Ce time had been working in Ohio. I| Carusi, commissioner of immigra- |iniured when a truck swerved into and Norm Houser | n randview; {didn’t know whether I was divorced ' injured whe pecial. { lor not. 1 al d ” [their automobile while trying t0| “ai jeast one. ASPAR dri Mother Unchan ed| ars nter erence | F not. I guess J didn't think.” | (Continued on Page 2—Column 6) ‘avoid hitting another car at Kessler}. run a standby g | Fi T Ac { ol blvd. and State Rd. 37 last night. : In Indianapolis, Xury Stribbling, GRANDVIEW, Mo, May 24 (U. n C 1 0. Dance | ive ieen- gers njure 129, of 1525 Lexington ave. oe and the Belen er P).—The gravity of the condition! {a broken hip and leg injuries when of President Truman's mother was, ‘As Stolen Car Hits Culvert {he was struck at Lexington ave. antl Ret the Jee} of he underlined today by the official an- | The city today was restrained | : . . ? Prospect st. by a car operated by ‘ hauncemtent, tal the Witke House from preventing & C. I O."dance| Martinsville Police Pursue, Catch Youths he Althoff, 31, of R. R. 10, Box octor could not advise the Presi-| . . . ; dent to return to Washington a in the Antlers hotel. Trying Getaway in $2200 Automobile At 1 a. m., Mrs. Denta Baker of this time. The Ar onire Five teen-age Indianapolis boys early today smashed up a $5200 3844 E. 30th st. was awakened by a Morning reports from her sick| Police from pi 8 stolen automobile on Blue Bluff rd. near Martinsville trying to escape thud against her house. She saw room were that her condition was or ida no Jermit has yet poen police pursuit. |the headlights of a car backing off APOLIS ENTRIES—Miss Pattye Dietz, as Mis cio unchanged and that she spent a issued—was hande own | Two of the five were in serious condition with skull fractures. The her lawn. ‘The porch railing was Fur oan Po Yo us Saters, as Miss Com ereaton Tally comipriable. might, gies a ourt 4 BY) other three were held in the Morgan county jail for Indianapolis police: smashed and a bicycle or he padeh FM the. only wo local participarits A Total of 1 |loves nn udg The seriously injured youths are Jack Silcox, 17, of 442 W. Merrill! /pushed’ through a window. of Music, were only two local parficipan oral 0 ove IT HAS become an accepted fact| Police Chief Howard Sanders had |. 4 william Bailey, 17, of 1136, -| br lies Sompered for the state title. here that the President will re-|refused to sanction a permit for |g” woo ot They were in In dian, | Martinsville on the Blue Bluff rd. dh LOCAL TEMPERATURES main here until there is a material|the dance on the basis that both | 1. city Hosnital . the policemen in hot pursuit. 6am 10am... 60 By ‘VICTOR PETERSON, Times Staff * Writer change in his mother’s condition.| White and Negro members of the P y nospliaL, ly| “We couldn't come near them,”! lam... 6 TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 24.—A pert, 18-year-old Gary high school His presence was one of the prin- union would ‘be admitted. : Bruised a cut, bu Bot Seslonnly said officer Denny. “They were| 8 a.m “57 12 (Neem). Samo Joday Jelens Sys iocsleriane as Miss Indiana Sy. before | CIP8I factors in her tenacious will to C. I. O. Regional Director -Powers a are 01 avion Ges “Hous, 1, of [128 away from us. Then they hat . 39 e is Miss Beverly Trenary, who, until her trip here, never ore | stay alive. Hapgood inted out that other the culvert three miles north of' had been on a train. Now she is set for a longer train ride, one which An President, after receiving his a IR dances have been held pnd B. Sapit) hy ed Wiliam | ,o, | Times: Index =~ will carry her to Atlantic City for a chance at the Miss America crown. | customary early report from his! here. aley, 18, of $51 wes “They smashed right into it with r Eleven Hoosier lovelies paraded ‘before judges and a packed house| sister, said there had been no over-| Chief Sanders, who earlier said State police said they stole a 1247 the front end. The grille was Amusements . 5 Dan Kidney.. last night in the union building of night change in her condition. arrestsswould be made if the dance|Buick owned by James Lamar of thrown 50 yards. Eddie Ash . + 6/Ruth Millett. the Inidana State Teachers college.|another one in her home town, As| “She had a fairly good night,”|was, held without a permit, an- (New York City parked near the| «1 noticed there were only four Books 14 Movies . . They fepreseied ge Stem of |is was the 17-year-old missed her|the President added. nounced he “certainly would obey Saverizt hotel shortly after 11 p. m. | phoys and we faust there were Gumival van 1 F.C. ndiana beauty in the Miss Indiana high school commencement, She eh tn any court order.” » only four until the sheriff saw a ww ‘finals sponsored by the Tarre Haute has been accepted as a student in| Sassen Says Wallace mani Shortly after midnight, iy of ‘white and we found the Clasei | ida Se junior chamber of commerce. They the Powers modeling school. . MOSCOW RADIO TAKES ADS |yjjle Officers Raymond R. Denny Gedek boy hiding under the culvert. | Comics 1 8 came from all sections of the state. | Others who placed included Miss Fosters Travelers’ MOSCOW, May 24 (U. P.).—The|and Dewey Albertson saw tne Buick | “He must have been thrown clear | Crossword Cae Runner-up honors went to another | Mary Frances Ryan, Muncie, as Miss| MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 24 (U.|Moscow radio advertised in local|make a two- wheeled cu.tn in the|in the wreck. .He was -cut and Editorials teen-ager, Miss Ida Lou Stein, who |Bloomington, 3d; - Miss PatriciatP.).—Harold E. Stassen says Henry newspapers today that effective im-joublic square af a high rate of might have bled to death if we Forum... ' competed as Miss New Albany. 1f Keigley, East Chicago, as Miss Terre| Wallace “would make America a|meditely the Moscow city radio| peed. ; hadn't found him.” ~~ Gardening. ‘she hadn't been on the stage here Haute, 4th, and Miss June York, nation of fellow travelers down. the {network 1s accepting “advertise- | They gave chase in their couiser Silcox, Cedek, Bailey and Hows H yl im i lag night, she would pave } been on 8 Miss ersonville, Sth, wrong road.” ments and announcements.” © The Buick roared north out, of have police iid here,