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way : — PRICE FIVE CENTS Entered as Second-Class Matter at PostofMce vere ® Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
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Institute Finds
At Pools" Slated to
Family Life
Tough’ Judges Try | Cases : Sembler— Out-of-Town
Due to Reoren _Jurists Form Clark's List
It was reported today in downLocal Attorneys
town gambling circles that the old Chesterfield Social club at Clermont Left Off Panel Editorial, Page 16
IS preparing to reopen tomorrow By DONNA MIKELS
night under a new name, A showdown on the special
Directors Plan for Backers of the swank gambling {judge situation in municipal
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drastically changed social world preparatory to the gala event. was laid here today. 2 * = Machinery to set in motion new! SEVERAL new
! crap shooting attitudes and functions of family 5Pots in Marion county also are life in every community was out- reopening, it was learned. Several lined in a 5-day institute on family of them are on the West side of life education. Indianapolis with one of them just The institute was sponsored by Over the city corporation line on
Needed Readjustments casino which was raided by state! Times Staff Writer police and Hendricks county officers, BLOOMINGTON. Ind. Aug. 22 several months ago, were reported ~The grond work for readjustment hanging drapes to keep out prying of American family life to meet a tyes and’ doing sundry other Jobs | court, criminal division, was developing today out of the mass gambling raids the night of Aug. 13. | All but one of the 13 persons ar-
HELP, HELP —Many a male probably would like to have Rosemary Bergman rescue him if he were drowning. But the job of being a lifeguard is all business to her while on duty at
Brace Yourself For Hot Week-End
3 Hoosiers Drowned Within 48 Hours
LOCAL TEMPERATURES am... 77 10am. : Tam. il 1am... 8 12 (Noon) ..
Another sweltering au was a store fo. Indianapolis’ vicinity, - relief in sight this
with week-end. And as the month-long heat wave seared the nation from. the , Rockies to the Alleghenies another = Hoosiér drowning victim was added to the two ; others . who had lost their lives in Hoosier waters during the last 48 hours. The latest victim. a 14-year-old . Indianapolis Herbert Doolin youth, drowned| yesterday afternoon while wading! in Pall creek near Keystone ave. ! Earlier, a Kokomo war veteran drowned while swimming gravel pit near that city and the body of a three-year-old girl was recovered from unguarded Bacon's swamp near Keystone ave. and H6th st. ! Herbert Doolin, 824 N. East st. was wading in Fall creek with his brother, James, 12, and a com-| panion when. he fell into a hole.
= Indiana's Com Better Than Most Akron Gets Thundershowe
READY FOR DUTY — Patty Meyer poses momentarily before going at Willard park pool. She is one of the many efficient young women employed as life north on King ave.
guards about the city
Worst Drought in |
RIVIERA RESCUERS—Diane Schifflin and Sherry McDowell (top) are alert . at the North side pool.
of pullic instruction, department, Indiana u
2 Holdup Men Rob Store Employee
Polite Hunt Getaway Car on West Side
A West Bide cigar store employee was held up and robbed ii of $1000 by two men late this morning,
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following readjustments that should
be made to prevent a lapse of family life in ONE: Establishment department of family
States
es in the cities. THREE: Passage of
Side. for the bandits who ran 10 marriage licenses. a car after the holdup and drove
The victim of the robbety was Jon Crane, 67, of 731 N. Warman! ave. He was returning to the Louis &/ John Cigar store, 2708 W. Walnut st., with $1000 in cash, when he was robbed. ' Returns From Bank | Mr. Crane said he had been to the W. Michigan st. branch of the Fletcher Trust Co. at 2600 W. Michigan #., where he cashed a check for $1000. | The cash is used by his employer, John Banich, who operates- the cigar store, to cash paychecks of customers. Two men dashed out of an alley and seized Mr. Crane as he walked
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The danger signal
university. | These symptoms of in family life alarming rate, the dropping bi
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his side. The other ripped open his shirt in which he had concealed
“The people are hun
the Indiana Congress of Parents W. 16th st. and Teachers, Indiana Social Hy-|'h? Speedway club. 3lerie association, Indiana Tubercu- | losis association, state department
state health department. Readjustments Outlined
fponsor marriage counseling clinics in every community in the United
TWO: More living space for fam-
ing certain certificates of mental Police were searching the West fitness as condition for obtaining
east toward the center of the SF i A Sip moyiihs Wattiy ze: final and establishmient of more uniform divorce laws in every state.) | FIVE: A requirement that every, jcouple must first attend a counsel-' |ing clinic before a divorce can be
Warns of Danger i tegrations in famly life in Americal
were outlined by Dr. L. M. Krueger, professor of psychology at Indiana
he sald are the increase’ in the divorce
over emphasis on sex. “Sexiness in American life today
ciety,” Dr. Krueger said.
It carries the name of | [rested in those raids have asked for Sheriff Magenheimer sald he change of venue from Municipal . hadn't heard of any of the reports Judge Alex M. Clark. The attorstate welfare! Dut that he would be glad to get neys have contended Judge Clark niversity and Some information. {ls prejudiced in the cases because Gambling in the county is just he signed the warrants which led operating so-so, it was- repogted, to the arrests. with things being neither “wide Judge Clark moved today to head open” nor entirely closed down. off any attempt to the defense to .. 8 8 throw the cases in the laps of local IN INDIANAPOLIS gambling in attorneys as special judges. downtown bookie shops and crap’ The judge selected a panel of shooting spots was proceeding just seven circuit court judges from about as lackadaisically. counties adjacent to Marion to sit In Hendricks county County ag gpecial judges. Virtually all of Prosecutor Gordon Gibbs said he (hess judges have reputations for hadn't heard of the Clermont re- cracking down on gamblers.
opening, . Set for September “But you can bet e will | Pig WUE gfe This move appeared to block any
co-operate 150 per cent to keep . ; gambling out of Hendricks county,” “85 Way out of the gambling
| “ad : charges. Cases were set for hear- |" Prosecutor. Gills ot Sept. 3, 4 and 15.
‘Attorneys for the.defendants who Luck of “vill ow appear befors the circuit judges are David M. Lewis, John H . C MecNelis, Thomas McNulty and ‘Buselves in gambling cases. Defendants Find It |" \ypce; vnprecedented Easy to Beat Rap | From the main panel of seven By RICHARD LEWIS \fendants may strike ,one of the The defendants who never fail to three and the county prosecutor appear in the criminal division of may strike the other. The remainmen and aids. In the past, changes of venue have One reason is that the gambler resuited in the designation of spewants to beat the rap to get his cial judges drawn from the ranks
gene Fife Jr. judges, Judge Clark picked three the Marion county municipal courts ing judge will hear the case. equipment back. Another is he of Indianapolis attorneys.
outlined the
general colAmerica: of a federal security to
laws requir-
in the disin-
(Fifth of a Series)
a breakdown
Both Mr. Lewis and Mr. File have sat as special judges them{judges for each case. Attorneys for each of the derth rate and are the gamblers. They are always! Judge Clark's move is practically well fortified with attorneys, bonds- unprecedented in municipal court. of a sick so-
gry for some-
(Continued on Page 3—Column 2) Wants to stay open. Fines for the This system was being followed up
the money and grabbed the bills. Race Down Alley Then both ran down the alley in which they had been hiding. Witnesses told police the twa men! got into a waiting automobile and : ‘drove wildly east on Walnut st. With Jap B Both mien wore white shirts and « " saflor straw hats. Each appeared! YOKOHOMA, Aug.
Drops Ice Over Cleveland,
Reporter Claims Credit for Rain by Dumping 150 Pounds of Dry Ice Into Drifting Cloud.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 22 (U, P.).—~A reporter for the Cleveland Press
800 G. I.'s Rush ‘Gretna Green’
meme MO3t part are light. to one week ago. It has been the | A combination of weak prosecu- 'arget of criticism as an easy “out” tion, stereotyped affidavits which for gamblers, {provide defense attorneys with the Judges Listed (same loopholes in every case, lack, The seven-judge panel selected {of planning between the prosecutor py Judge Clark is composed of: land police and the pro tem and Circuit Judges Tom R. White of
rides
— SPeC{a] judge set-up—all these make amilton county; Frank B. Hutch-
22 (U. P.).~|it easy to beat the rap. linson of Boone county; Horace L.
None of the boys could swim. A . Years Sears. Midwest
half-hour later. police recovered The worst dro ught since the “dust his body and attempts to revive him|, Th era seared the nation's corn
were unsuccessful. The Kokomo veteran, Robert W. rop Yoday wid Bea Prices Lee both Oden, 30, drowned while on a swim- time highs.’
ming party with five- com The price of torn for delivery in Swamp to” Be Fenced September rose again today, going Owners of Bacon's SWAmMD Were i, ¢246 a bushel, a new all-time reported to be constructing a. ferice hioh on the Chicago board of trade.
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today claimed credit for a thundershower over Akron. The reporter, Jack Warfel, took 150 pounds of dry ice aloft in a small private plane,. planning to drop it into a cloud and drench downtown Cleveland. The best cloud he found, however, was drifting south toward Akron. He dropped the dry ice into it at] 4 7000 feet. Fifteen minutes later seems entirely possible that introAkron weather bureau con- duction of dry ice into such a cloud firmed an “unexpected shower oc- bank could be responsible for the
around the murky waters where ‘September wheat sold for $2.48% curred shortly after 4 p, m.) lower- resultant thundershower.”
tiny Virginia Ann Willlams 108% oo 0s a bushel a new record for iN the temperature and increasing/| Mr. Warfel admitted, however, An unauthorized strike of long|wheat to be rv cew TO Ju wind’ velocity in the Akron area.” that the rain might have been a shoremen which has.tied up 12 ships
her life Wednesday night. The child is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Williams, 5719 Crittenden ave. She is believed to’ have wandered into the swamp from a side which was not guarded by a fence. One prostration victim was re-
Indiana Gets Showers Indiana, thus far, has been about the least affected by. drought of any of the corn-belt states. Scattered showers through state during the past two weeks,
corded in the city yesterday where COUPIed with hot humid temperathe temperature reached a maxi. 'Ures has actually revived the crop mum of 92. Alice Corbin. 33, of 1045 which got a late start in the wet Hosbrook st. collapsed in her home PlANUNE season. and was taken to City hoépital for In Marion county treatment. The weather bureau saw no relief in sight at least through Sats urday. expected to hit a maximum of 93 * late fall the farmers would have with a low of 74 tonight. tered showers were predicted. for 0 sell at the record high prices. this afternoon. Under Last Year — mimeo The agriculture department, said HE'S RECKLESS, TOO
: the
according to
during the past two weeks. Mr. Ab-
The Akron meteorologist said “it well-timed coincidence.
Nope, It Really Isn't the Heat; Now It's the "Hostility"
Chicago Doctor Says People Make Obsession Of Hot Weather and Just Make It Worse
By ARTHUR J. SNIDER, Times Special Writer CHICAGO, Aug, 22.—It's not the heat but the hostility that's eaus-
Horace Abbott, county agent, the ing a growing number of nausea cases in the current torrid weather, which permit the vescsel to sail for Prides to the United States, if they' crop has been “materially improved” Chicago doctors said today.
People, near the breaking point. are giving weather a dressing down
Temperatures today were bott estimated that if Indiana has to the detriment of their health and wel-being, doctors pointed out,
|“ “They are turning heat into a mental obsession which may interfere
Seat. | 10 to 80 per cent of a’normal crop with proper secretion of gastric
ability of people to get a juices and bring on attacks of in- no Of People fo get a good digestion,” declared am) Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman, national! 8. Sadler, Chicago psyc tia. lly known sleep expert at the UniNot only is fretting and fuming oo. or Chicago, said one enemy an unsound physiological proced-
to be § feet 7 inches, weighing about Some 800 American-Japanese cou- | {140 pounds. They left in a black Ples rushing to qualify under the lcar. Police were looking for a G.I “war brides” act were maried| woman who is thought to have at Japan's gretna green—the Amer[witnessed the holdup. ican consulate here — before the —————————————— Thursday midnight deadline, con-| warrants. . * : sular officials said today. { 1 Shipping Strike The. wedding. tems ut the con.| a CMI AMdavits Defective Spreads to Brooklyn NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (U. P.).— week as a flood of approved applications slmost swamped U. 8, officlals.
defective for one reason or another. In any event, the friction which makes sparks fly Occasionally between Judge Clark's court and Mr, Stark's office plays into the hands of the gamblers. Despite one or which indicate the contrary, the police department is having a genuine war on the gamblers. This appears to be directed from City Hall where Police Chief Howard Sanders gets his orders. The war is worth watching. It has all the elements of combatattack, counter-attack. espionage, counter-espionage and a good deal of commotion 80 far, the gamblers have been
» » ~ TWO PERSPIRING officials have been registering marriages at the rate of two every 17 minutes. Prospective brides and bridegrooms—175
in New York harbor, including the luxury liner America, sprea to Brooklyn todav An estimated 4000 members of the International Longshoremen's as- : sociation (A. PF. of L.) who had PeF cent of the latter Nisei, or struck at nine Manhattan piers American-born Japanese-—filled were joined in the “wildcat” walk- consulate waiting rooms to capacity by approximately 600 steve. ANd often overflowed into the gardores at eight Brooklyn piers aen, On the America, 900 passengers Ine law providing that servicemen waited for . a settlement which And ex-servicemen can take oriental
two incidents
Cobh, Southampton. and Cherbourg, receive army permission; stipulated The America’s original sailing was that the ceremony must be regpostponed Wednesday, the day the istered at the consulate either bestrike started. fore or within a month after the imem— (Continued on Page 3—~Column 5)
Some of Mr, Stark's deputies have sulate was feverish during the past indicated that these aMdavits are!
Last week's series of gambling ganna of Hendricks cdunty; Omar raids downtown were made without o'Harrow
Marion County Prosecutor Judson yarold G. Barger of Shelby county;
Stark's assistance. Municipal Judge john B. Hinchman of Hancock Alex M. Clark signed the gambling county,
of Morgan county;
and Grant Rogers of Johnson and Brown counties. Defendants whose cases will be heard by one of these judges are: “Greek” George Morris, arrested at 22 W. Ohio st. on a charge of keeping a room for pool selling: “Joey” Jacobs, arrested at the same place on the same charge: John Dobroto, Charles "Williams and Richard Chandler. arrested at 66-68 W. New York st. on a charge of visiting a gaming house; Harry Klein, charged with kéeping a room for pool selling and Keeping a
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Clipper in Trouble PEARL HARBOR, T. H.,, Aug. 22 (U, P).~The Hawaiian sea frontier was alerted here today as a wesrbound Pan-American passenger plane was reported 600 to 700 mile: out of Honolulu with one engine out.
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yesterday that on the basis of Aug. DETROIT, Aug. 22 (U. P.).—Max)|
of sound sleeping is a small bed.
Luciano Quietly Plies Familiar Trade
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15 conditions, Indiana would harRaber, 53, on his way to serve as 4 vest 168,009,000 bushels of corn this witness in a reckless driving case, year, about 27 per cént less than last smashed his auto into another car. year, Raber paid a $10 fine for reckless, In other parts of the nation, the driving. {scorching heat wave continued to sear the cornbelt with hot winds that burned the crops as effectively Times Index {as a blow torch. No rain was in ..19]
ws 8 Crop Below Average vvv.. 8 The agriculture department re..+..18 ported that the nation’s 1947 corn 27 Radio "........27 crop prospects had dropped to Reflections .. 16 2,437,000000 bushels, 223 million Mrs. Roosevelt 17 bushels less than was anticipated Scherrer .....16 on Aug. 1. : Society .. 17 The department had” been trying .. 18 Snorts 22-23 tor a crop of 3 billion bushels. Yes15 Teen Talk ,. 18 terday’s forecast was far below last News 7 Washington , .18 year's record corn yield of more 11 than 3,267.000,000 and 202 million 18 bu below averdge.
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From Hotel-Haven on Isle of Capri
By ROBERT C. RUARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer [iron for his protection. Then there CAPRI, Italy, Aug. 22.—The world is wide, and full of|!* ® bald character who: pays
A i the tabs and rec . hotels and why I had to pick the one joint in Europe that| mem ss one more. say. hose
lists Lucky Luciano as a guest, 1 am sure 1 don’t know.|functions are not clear, and then But here we are in sunny Capri, Mr. Luciano and I, practi. there are the dames. A couple of
| cally cellmates in the Hotel Quisisana. the ladles apent fo be Tata nih
Lots of people won't remember, but T remember, and Lucky remem- wno speaks -a pure b bers, who caused him all that trouble in Cuba last spring. Little Buster and who understands no Italian. here, the fearless journalist, But the fearless journalist.did not foresee They move in convoy. When one at the time that he would be having lunch every day so close to Mr. of the bodyguards wishes to dance, Luclano. - the dope king And ilhie™i"my hoy smiling quietly tole peels off his coat, wraps it panderer, thal we are Now BOITOW- jyeeir, What do I do now, Daddy around his gat. and hands it to one ing each others salt. It Is begin..." vn and ask him for an of the . She sits on it : ‘ning to, make the fearless journal- autograph? ‘he gets tothe table. [ist 8 ch nervous. | The luckless Liciano is behaving! Mr. Luclano: I go to the beach for a swim, , at any rate, He follows the for n wi who 1a the first person 1'see? merciless Capri routine every day, He . I; attend the cere- with the members of his band. |
10 choose Miss Capri, 1047, With Lucky are two young i, ight thers pt the next, both nandshme Shape a w