Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1947 — Page 2

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Plans Ap x Of PSC Order In Court Here

; Directors Call Fare ‘Confiscatory’ Indianapolis’ on - again-~off-again transit fare case headed back Ww the courts today. tn a formal statement issued by the board of directors, Indianapolis Rdilways, Inc., announced the new schedule of rates set by the public service commission “leaves no alternative but to appeal.” The PSC two days ago ordered the company to discontinue its 2-cent charge for transfers and set up o 5-cent fare for school children. The three-for-a-quarter token rate now . in effect was approved. Decide to Appeal At last night's meeting, the utility's directors concluded the rate schedule was “Inadequate and contisontory.” They determined to ap-

peal to the Marion county circuit |

court, While the court is considering the appeal, company officials announced, riders will not get the benefit of the transfer order: It was to have becomg effective July 14. Instead, Indianapolis Railways will continué to charge two cents for each transfer, “as provided by law in appeals.” but will give each purchaser a receipt. The receipts will be ohh two cents each if the utility loses its court fight. $500,000 Yearly Loss No decision was announced on handling the new school rate since the commission’ allowed 45

days for the company to set up al

program, The bourd found the. order clipped 8500000 & year from |

transit revenues. Losses resulting from elimination of the transfer charge, the statement said, will amount to $435,000 a year and the new rate for school youngsters will cost another estimated $65,000. “If the rate schedule fixed by the commission had been in effect during the first five months of 1947," the statement said, “it would not have earned the 8.0 per cent on even the $8,750,000 of value which the order says the company is entitled to earn. It would have earned only

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Firm Fig ts. Free’ en

Actress, in Cell, Labels Kidnaping "Charge ‘Ridiculous,’ Sa ays. Accuser Devised Plot fo Wreck Her Career

3 Charges Filed By Coast “Police ° By PATRICIA CLARK United Press Stall Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, July 3-Actress Meredith complained from a jail cell today that her [former business manager charged her with kidnaping and attempted murder in a “plot” to ruin her budding career. Miss Meredith surrendered last night to police who had been hunt~ {for her for two days. She was booked on suspicion of kidnaping, robbery and assault with intent to commit murder. “It's perfectly ridiculous,” she said” “If anybody was threatened, it was me. He waved a plece of pipe in my face.” Charges He Was Beaten Nicholas Gianaclis, 38, who sald {he picked Miss Meredith out of a |delicatessen and made an actress of her, charged that she had him kidnaped and “beaten to a pulp.” This happened, he said, after a row over her refusal to return a / house he gave Her. She sald he gave her the house to keep his wife from learning that he owned it. Miss Meredith said Mr, Gianaclls found her in a studio restaurant, not ‘a delicatessen. Tells of Signing Note She said the fight over the house started because he lent her money to buy it and gave her a note to sign which turned out to be a grant deed.

Mr. Glanaclis said Miss Mere- "| NEEDED PROTECTION" —In Los Angeles county jail on a kidnaping charge, jn Juted Bim ang an, ducal Actress Madge Meredith last night declared her accuser was the one who did all the

road with her car and told a ploHing—against her.

group of men in a third car to “go

» = : : Acme Telephoto | conclusive,” Col. Rossow

May Be Reinstated The state x board today lightened the penalty against Trooper Ray Byroad of Martinsville, who was discharged from the department June 15. . Vayne M Armstrong,

presiden of the board, said Byroad's dis-|

charge had been: changed. to six manths suspension and six moriths ‘more of probation. - Trooper Byroad had been accused of being ‘absent from duty without permission and of insubordination. If he passes the probationary jperiod, Mr. Armstrong said, the fixooper may be reinstated next | June, | Two Others Fired | Earlier the board announced dismissal of two troopers accused of protecting a certain operator's {punchboards ‘in northern Indiana.

| The troopers, Don Woodward and |

{Joseph Vegh, both of the Dunes | post, had been suspended pre- ' viously. Trooper Vegh had resigned but Col. Rossow said his record would be posted to show he would have been dismissed on the charges had he not resigned. Approved by Board Dismissal of the pair was ap{proved by the state police board | yesterday after an investigation |conducted in South Bend by the department’s personnel board. |" “Evidence that the troopers had { been paid for protection was not said in an official statement on the case, “put Trooper Woodward admitted In he had accepted a shirt as a Christ- | mas present from the operator. “The fact that both men by their

get them." ¢ | He claimed they were beaten and held prisoner a day before they overpowered the guard and escaped. |

conduct and association had im-

' Reports Child Molested Take It Easy—That S Motto SP ‘of a 5- Mole sed, out their usefulness as upright

side girl reported to police last| and impartial law enforcement offinight that her daughter had been cers was established to the satis-

For July 4 Celebrations

Reports Talk of Killing Start Early, Drive Slowly, Be Careful in Water

“I heard the men say Madge was

going to pay them $2000 to kill us,” Tuesday afternoon.

molested by a middle-aged mani faction of the superintendent who while playing in Tarkington park]

presented the evidence to the plies | board. »

TAmaleur Puts ole 18 Floors Up

teals Show From Paid ‘Sitter’; Winds Up in Clink for His Trouble

DES MOINES, Iowa, Jura (U.P.).—Police wondered, today what to t jealous and stole the show from the regular flagpole sitter at sh 101st anniversary celebration. They held him in jail on an open charge because they figured he

On Flag

In Fadp

do with a steeplejack who go

might try it again,

Sahara Drill Team To Step at Bowl

The Sahara Grotto champion drill team, commanded by Maj, Chester Pruett, will give an exhibition at the 12th annual fire-

lumbus, cently, Pruett’s group placed first in the Class A division,

will be used in the mammoth display, Eli Thompson, fireworks technician, said today.

$90,000 Loss

. In Princeton Fire PRINCETON, Ind., July 3 (U. P.). —Damages of nearly $90,000 were counted today as the result of a blaze which swept through an en-

destroying a bottling plant and scorching other buildings. Fire fighting equipment from Evansville helped extinguish the flames, which firemen said started in a flue of the Pepsi-Cola plant, Nearby business establishments, including a commercial printing

shop and two taverns were dam-

th Tons of vari-colored explosives

tire business block here yesterday,

fil

Pro to Shame

The steeplejack, Theodore Franklin, 39, last night shinned up &

60-foot pole atop ' the 18-story Equitable building, this capital city's tallest building. Whirling about the pole like an acrobat, he gave one of the greats est shows the city ever Saw. Below him, a half block away, was Dixie B , & famed flagpole ’ NA a atop a pole on the roof of the Flynn building for four days. .Mr. Blandy was hired to publicize the “Hawkeye Holiday” festivities. During the two hours Franklin

was aloft the crowds paid Blandy”

no attention. “I didn't want this other guy cope ping all the publicity,” Franklin said. 13

Trick Lures Him Down

There wasn't any danger of thas, ot after Franklin threw down his safety -ropes and performed withous

em. Fearing that he would fall, frane tic pelice and firemen held back a crowd of hundreds of amazed people who had turned their backs w Blandy. Franklin ignored police orders to “come down.” He might still be atop the pole today but for a trick played on him by an unidentified spectator. The spectator waved “a $500 check” at him and asked him to come down. Franklin slid into the waiting arms of policemen and. the man with the “check” disappeared into the crowd.

PUTS ON THE TAX BITE ‘ STAMFORD, Conn, July 8 (U.P.).—Daniel Reilly accused Otto Meyer in city court today of- biting

him on the shouldéf during an are

gument on the merits of the sales tax. The case was continued,

Ie mid And’ Just Watch the Fireworks

Miss Meredith said the meeting in the hills was arranged by Mr. Gianaclis to: discuss ownership of the house. “When I got there he had one or more men with him, I'm not sure how many,” she said. “When I tried to escape they tried to pin my car to the side of the road. I was the one who needed projection.”

3 Service WASHINGTON, July 3.—~TTo declare your independenct from death and injury on July 4 (and the long week-end), here is what mig engineers advise: Take it easy in driving. Don't take a chance in passing that her Don't speed. Start early if you are going on a trip and expect Yow will be one of 30 million cars trav-

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Gallant Briton Yields

HRH-1 Plate to Princess HULL, England, July 3 (U.P) =|

CAr. to take longer getting there, eling four billion miles. Take it easy, too, in your vaca- | tion play. Don't try fo make up | for all the exercise you have falled [to take since last July 4. Don't

3.7 per cent. “The company could not sustain such.a loss in the face of rapidly mounting operating costs of all kinds.” “We regret the necessity of keeping this matter in the courts and prolonging the proceedings and litigation that have burdened compan and public alike for four years,” the statement said, interest the company cannot stand aside and permit its nroperty to be confiscated of see its service to the public deteriorate because of lack of adequate revenue.”

Purge Diehards,

Wallace Demands

NEW YORK. July 8 (U, P)— Henry A. Wallace called upon President Truman today to take

the lead in ousting “reactionary”! southern Democrats or face a third

party formed by labor.

Writing in the

magazine, of which he is editor,

the former Vice president sald the

the Democratic in the

battle to - “save party’ would be fought south. If “reactionary” gained control of the party by re-

instituting the two-thirds rule at par ty |

the 1048 convention, the would be dead, Mr. Wallace sald.|

Labor would then form a third he said, just ‘as it would have done had not Mr Truman labor

party,

vetoed the

law,

Taft-Hartley

Wife of Educator . Killed in Car Crash

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, July 3 Maude Presi. | of Tri-State college, was killed yesterday and educator seriously in-

(U. P.)~Mrs, Jeanette Handy, 62, wife of former dent Burton Handy

the retired jured in an auto-truck collision. A tractor-trailer

the car driven by Mr,

The truck driver was uninjured.

Mr. Handy was president of Tri-

State at at Angola from 1935 » 1046

Lehman | Says | Ban On DP's Will Hurt U. §.

WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P)

“But in the public

{The program will be in charge af Plans to leave for Athens on July 13, | yesterday for spitting on a Subway

New Republic,

Democrats

truck driven by Elmer Perry, 32, Chicago, struck | Handy as he attempted a turn at the inter-| section of U.S 20 and Ind 43 |

Two Escape With $80 | over-eat. Be moderate about tak-| Princess Elizabeth had a license In Liquor Store Holdup ing the sun. jLiate tor her sports car today—

If you swim, take along some{one else and don't go in alone.! She had it by courtesy of George Don't go into the water until an| Thompson of Hull, to whom it al{2065 Central ave. last night and os hour after eating. Don't dive of ready had been issued. Thompson caped with $80. {jump if you don’t know the depth|ghve up the license when the William. Limp, said one of the| of the water. Don't indulge ini paimier Co. asked if he would remen pointed & gun at him. The highjinks, in the water or else- linquish it so they could put it on other removed a watch from Mr. | where. = the car her father for Limp's pocket and the money from | Look &t community fireworks, = pow is the prefix of all Hull the cash drawer. celebrations and save your own, pre

fingers and eyes from injury. EARL BROWDER FINED

| Northeastern . Homemakers will! GREEK AID CHIEF TO LEAVE NEW YORK, Jul ) i { meet at 10 a. m. July 9 for a picnic WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P.).—| gar] Browder, 2 JY 345 2 the and pitch-in dinner at the home of | Dwight -P. Griswold, chief of the Communist party in America, was Mrs. C. 8 Clark, 6327 E. 42d st.|American aid mission to Greece, | fined $2 in Bronx magistrate’s court

Two bandits with pistols held up the proprietor of a liquor store at

| PICNIC FOR HOMEMAKERS

Mrs, Hervey Thomas. it was learned today. [platform

AT NOME gree INDIANA POR 735 YEARS

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SEE... THE BIGGEST LITTLE SHOW oN EARTH

Herbert Lehman, former governor of New York, said yesterday failure of this country to admit displaced! persons would favor “the forces of disorder and chaos already working to turn ‘Burope ERA American’ ideals”. Mr. Lehman testified betore a house tion subcommittee ih favor of tion to permit entry | into ‘the United States of 400,000) A HiviAgad versns. in the dex Jour

Sunday Is | Is Proclaimed

John Paul Jones Day‘ WABHIGTON, July 3 (U. P)~ : ident Truman yesterday desiga na “hy som Pe Joe

A Complete 5-Ring Miniature Cirous.

Shown Daily in the Auditorium, Eighth Floor i July 5 through July 12 LL

a ADMISSION FREE The Little Big Top is here . .. with all the fabulous features of a full-size, 5-ring circus! There are elephants, ring-masters, trapeze per- | ] . formers, clowns, and even a band. All Miniatures were carved by i W. R. Brinley .. . the complete show taking" wanty years in the \ "making! So hurry: to Ayres’ Eighth. Floor . ly you'l see the bigger ad

AYRES’ IS CLOSED

TOMORROW = JULY 4th

Summer Store Hours:

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday thru Saturday

CLOSED MONDAYS!

pp y Believ May | By CH SerippsWASHINC publican oC tod tion bill whi

dent Truma in three wee

view. Sena Va.) believe fective date to Jan. 1 of + the Preside earlier tax | Others po both houses majority to passage, and ence his sig Permit Only a s peared, mi Senate rule limited débe ers might ri to stay in ¢ tatively set The new { “the ‘house mittee toda reach the hc ers foresaw than three Senator I predicted t! reach the or,July 14. Up to the cision to go bill—reache leaders of had shown such action however, a back. 61 In the se ing appliec Byrd, Walt and Edwin Polling of s days in an

to override very senato more than most cases, G. OP lieved a nu dition to t date of c¢ picking For ope, six month: $2 billjon bi been A mat ber / of se haye oppos With the tial paymer nd meet & / probably h / seas help 2 £ tion whethe

/ this time.

The sen: report on t for 1948, ¢ * billion nati ment recei penditures timated su It was est sbe left, afte for debt 1 cut to be e! the fiscal would lose tially. bett weigh with - gress,

'Ensla Tells |

—Dora Jo maid, will t on charges Ingalls ens Mrs. Ri