Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1947 — Page 3
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FRIDAY, AUG. 22, 1947
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Luck of Gamblers Taft-Hartley- Labor Law Holds in Courts |©oes Into Effect Today
AVASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U. P). - —Widespread labor difficulties and| Printers’ Union Votes to Defy Defendants Find: It Easy to Beat Rap
fresh union defiance faced govern-| New Labor Law, Page 9; Major ment labor officials today as they| Provisions of Taft-Hartley Law, (Continued From Page One) able to block any serious police
put. into effect the last and strictest| page 14. provisions of the Taft-Hartley law. The new statute, which drastically |ployees will vote on which they offensive into the multi-million{modifies the government's labor prefer. THe contract will run until mins, 40, a janitor at the Sunnydollar rackets. Their shock troops|policy and for the first time imposes May 31, 1046 side hospital, who was killed on fall back, re-form, counter-attackstrict responsibilities on unions, bo- Prohibits Some Boycotts state road 67 last night while walkand restore the situation as before./came fully effective last midnight. In addition to the union shop INE back to the sanitarium from a Defense strategy is nearly asiIt was passed by congress over restrictions the Taft-Hartley law drive-in movie. stereotyped as the attack. Was|President Truman's veto on June also outlaws the closed shop, pro-| Another employee, identified as there a warrant? If there was, 23, hibits jurisdictional strikes and sec- Sam’ Herd, who was walking with what are its defects? If none, what| As the law went into operation, ondary boycotts, forbids excessive|Mr. Cummins, was seriously injured. are the defects of the law? 1t/135000 workers were on strike injunion Initiation fees, denies bar-| Both men were hit either by a doesn’t seem to be hard. 180 disputes. Some 250,000 others gaining rights to foremen, and gives| truck which failed to stop or by Sometimes, though, the stereo-|were involved in crucial contract | employers greater freedom to cam-|® heavy loading platform which typed strategy fails. That's when|negotiations, and a complete tie-up paign against unionization. slipped off an eastbound truck. the battle gets interesting. + ». |Of west coast shipping was threat-| As the law went into effect, there ms, Hed in Wiuble Wu give 4 . Le's tal Task Force ened. Jurisdictional disputes existed were these other developments on|coheren account p: ® Crouch. Ke theese of in Hollywood movie studios which the labor front: P Mr. Cummins died of his injuries It is a hot August night. Po- might be resolved by recourse to! The International Typographical early this morning at City hospital. lice Sgt. ©. B. Crouch, a middleaged and energetic policeman, is about to stage a raid on an In-
» » . » - » f ‘LL: ® the new law. lunion (A, F. of L) voted {| There were no witnesses. It S Difficult to Get Pulpit, ’ The United Auto Workers (C10) xray in its and a ay State police found the loading Women Pastors Say diana ave. smoke shop. Stalk Enemy Position
beat the midnight deadline by ®t make any written contracts for| PIaorm on the highway. They ‘They're Naturally Equipped But Calls Are Few,’| with him are Patrolmen Charles
Scant 40 seconds, reaching “com- the duration of the act. assumed it had fallen off a truck. plete agreement” on a pension plan, Protest Dismissals Child Killed, 5 Hurt * B Asserts Preacher of 51 Years’ Service |Skikie and po COMO: ae
and other differences with the Ford] The Food, Tobacco and Agricul In 2-Car Collision Women are “naturally equipped” to be preachers, two women position for about an hour.
Hundreds of these, the survey exindicated, are flowing through » court neednessly because of un- Motor Co. If they had failed toj tial Workers (C. I. O.) threatened p-ordinated work of agencies and agree before the t-Hartley law to sue in the federal courts to reure to provide skilled treatment went into effect, the U. A. W. would strain Robert N. Denham, general ANDERSON. Ind, As 33—A behavior problem children be- minister) said today. but {v's & " : have had to win a majority vote in|counsel of the national labor rela- 1-year-old chld was injured fatally ore they reach the delinquency ers sa ay, but it's tough for them 10 get a pulpit. They don't have a warrant, May=|y country-wide poll of Ford workers tions board, from dismissing its|and five other persons were hurt Mrs. Berthg Mason Fuller, Little: Rock, Ark, for 51 years a min-|pe re handicapped, but 1 Sex Hunger Emphasized ister, said life was usually not too easy for women preachers. i ky on ig gov e2 [to retain the union shop provision Cases for failure of officers to file|last night in a head-on Sollisioh u “However these restless millions,”| “They meet with a lot of prejudice,” she said, “more often than not (ng a BY they pe it enjoyed in all previous Ford con- hon-Communist afdavits. So auivmoliles OB sate " he ‘said, “are not finding emotional from other women.” Rev E. Janet Rugg, Indianapolis, said women |wirout them tracts. |g Toe United Auto Workers (C. L{¥L ied fatally in accident ‘was satisfaction in overemphasis .in were doctors, lawyers, teachers and For one thing. the warrant is: an Labor observers doubted ~the(Q) polled the most votes ab the Hal Kimble, 1-yeéar-old son of Mr. sex.” in business, but “the ministry is still] Rev. Fuller, who was once a cheer g: Whe LIU, A. W. could have obtained an Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Co. plant " . |in ess, stry 1s, still exposed flank to be attacked in lin Balti i and Mrs. Jack Kimble of Mohawk, He pointed out that the sex hun- opened to women to only a very leader at Texas Christian univer- TC other's warrant: 1s election in that event, since C. I. O:/in Baltimore in the last major col- oe Tier was driving One of es. ger in American life was exempli- limited extent.” sity, has traveled throughout the sometimes a tip-off for reasons Sioees So fur h hve Siused Yo Sen ee ATEN ation i be automobiles. The other car was fled by movies, lurid advertising| She said too often the “Lord's nation as a minister and a repre- which no lain i : driv Daniel "38, of fa” : one can explain. union financial statements, Both|the U. A. W. failed to get a clear- (driven bY Skaggs, 28, and literature. call” meant “feeding men’s bellies) i010 of the Christian church. The esponage that goes on beLester A. Kirkendall, director of *
ildren Death on Highway
Pedestrian Killed, Friend Seriously Hurt
State police investigated today the highway death of Curtis T. Cum-
AR raremnri
[Contributes Heavily ITo Juvenile Crime ere, Says Report
Delinquent Youths Pour Through Courts At Rafe of More Than 2000 Annually
(Second of series)
By NOBLE REED ~ Failure of Marion county to provide any kind of institutional treatnt for mentally maladjusted children has contributed heavily to the gvenile de! increase here. This was one of the major weaknesses of Indianapolis’ child welfare ystem as pointed out by Community Surveys, Inc, New York, in its cen report on a three-month study here. !
pr =m moe ind Family Life Near Collapse
early stages would pay for itInstitute Plans
plf in cash savings on corrective d penal institutional care later, For Readjustments (Continued From Page One)
report said. thing—they don't know exactly
) 2000 in Court Annually linquent children are pouring what and under the pressure of new social codes they are turning to
ough Juvenile court here at the te of more than 2000 annually, sex for gratification,” the psychologist declared.
S—The Rev. E. Janet Rugg of Indianapolis (left) and the Rev. Bertha M. Fuller, Little Rock, Ark., are lifting their voices in song and discussion at the convention of women ‘ministers at Butler. :
Institutional treatment can be rovided in two channels, the rePsychiatric Clinic Warranted One is the establishment of a yehiatric clinic and the other is evelopment of foster homes with sonnel skilled in treatment of havior children. “The child welfare service prom in Marion county is large nough to warrant a psychiatric nic entirely devoted to needs of h mmunity’s maladjusted chilren,” the survey stated. “In addition to a clinic the agenes with large volumes of cases h as Juvenile court, child wele division, the social service unit public schools and the family gencles should each be equipped th psychiatric consultation servof their: owh.® ‘Direct Significance’ The report stated that there is Hirect significance in the value of| gychiatric consultation toward retion of the flow of delinquent hildren through Juvenile court.” “It has been demonstrated in y places that when social workhave diagnostic services to rethe real meanings of the situaon they are dealing with, they ten recognize that removal of a d from his home is not the blution.” The survey experts recommended neral reforms in the handling of dren by juvenile court and the blice department. Police Failure Cited One of the weaknesses pointed | in the survey report was the bparent failure of police officers the Juvenile Aid’ Division to recmize the difference between “seous crimes of children under 18 hd thé mass of ordinary juvenile
.. and washing dishes in the are required under the new act be-|cut majority and a run-off election Muncie. the Association for Family Living| church et She specialized in “building up lit-|{tWeen the S. Alabama st. citadel/fore the national labor relations may be necessary. However, unless The sider ow ble, 24, untied y : 28th Session Opens te fun-down chufches—culturing®'d the Indiana ave. front mustipoarq can authorize an election. [the U. A. W, and the rival Interna geyare y ons. and former federal government edu- pen ; " uring ake the OSS look amateurish ¥f| The new contract gives Ford em- tional Association of Machinists|S mole: 32, suffefed face lacerations, cation consultant, outlined a pian| Both women spoke their feeling them into life. it's all they say it is " §ives, Por am us body bruises and a fractured left for community teams composed of On the subject as women ministers Sometimes she had to chop wood : " h ployees their choice of a 15-cent (Independent) file non-Communist| Another son, Tony, 4, suffered parents, teachers and health direc-|from ail over the nation gathered to heat her church and then chase Taokout’ Key Obstacle hourly wage increase or a T-cent aMdavits, the case probably will be| "ot red right leg and face tors to carry the family readjust-|here today for the 28th national wasps and wandering animals out Surprise is the critical element boost with a pension plan. Em-|dismissed by the NLRB. lacerations. Mr. Skaggs suffered a ment program to every home. assembly of American Association of the building before services could here. Sgt. Crouch and men feel ° ° Te o |compound fracture of the jaw and Attending the institute are rep-|0f Women Ministers. The 50 dele-| begin. easier without a warrant. Now their Luci ano Plies Old Trade body bruises and his brother, resentatives of these groups from gates represent from 6000 to 10,000 “But usually after I got them main obstacle is the “Lookout.” Marvin Skaggs, 39, also of Muncie, every part of Indiana. women ministers in America, theyfon a sound basis, they'd turn them This forward observer is standing Fr “ suffered a fractured jaw and body Ores Stabled Pamities 1 | over ion man she sid. in rons of ne more wor. Hew rOM Capri Hotel-Haven jscenton The ministry, said Rev. Rugg, is| The inter-denominational asso- camouflaged to look like anybody The Kimble child died a few Dr. Lester M. Jories, dean of 50- the profession “for which by alll ciation, founded in 1919 by Rev.| waiting for a streetcar. Or ob-| (Continued From Page One) | One such business representative, minutes after being brought to St. clology at Depauw university, de-| her finest feminine qualities, wom-| Madeline Southard, Kansas CIty, serving the weather : contact with anyone outside his/in a club in Rome, is an old|John's hospital here. Madison clared: ‘an would seem to be most natural-| Kas., and Rev, Ella Kroft, Indian-| ; circle. His henchmen and hench-|Luciano cohort named Ralph Puec- [County Coroner Fred Hiday said his “The cure for a sick society rests ly equipped.” apolis, has worked to advance the If Sgt. Crouch e al cannot gel omen are always between Lucky cin, who was depo at the same death resulted from a skull fracture. in the stabilization of family life. The purpose of the association is| cause of women ministers since. past the Lodkowt, al Joat. On and the public. time Lucky got the have from the soieerm—————— The social role of the family de- to “promote equal ecclesiastical “For the woman endowed -with| 8 ressts She uzzer, the SMOKE rye government has told Lucky U. 8. Big Four Official termines the future of every indi-| rights'for women” and to “encour-| the ability to preach,” said Rev. Shop turns into a smoke shop. to be good and quiet, and I gather| I have also been told -that sue] vidual as to his happiness or mal.| age consecrated and capable young Rugg, “It is tasteless sop to be| Police have a trick or Wo they, yo gimog obeying their advice.|dno has whipped together a tainly Moved to Cleveland adjustments.” | women to take up the work of the ordained to the ministry and then never reve court. While they, say almost, because he has begun | large organization in Italy to ply| BE. J. Gibbons, assistant general | ministry.” | ignored.” lurk in al , ® pretty girl ma-| é { ; y Pp district of Mrs. Margaret Smirnoff, state in terializes out of a doorway and|!® OPerate in the night-club league the black-market trade. Officers on manager of the Big Four Te Ty mr oho lf sre pn avn Loma el, De ot hoon oo | ontre n Clvan, O sus- , uves. | e a come taining unit and that drastic read-| Confesses a Murder, Logkout. The night-club business in Italy isthe ships, pe places like i assistant general manager, the rail. justments must be made as family . Files His Nails the prostitution business too, be-|Trieste, to buy whatever they can |Foad announced today, functions are “farmed” out to omer WW ON ¥ Revedl Own Name : This gent is occupied at the mo- cause nearly all the joints are well- buy. The leader of one such band,| OG: W. Birk, superintendent of institutions. nk with fing his nails, the better staffed with hostesses under the who called himself Tommy and [equipment in Indianapolis, will be Dr. ‘J : : . push that buzzer. sharp eye of their business repre- [spoke perfect English, openl promoted to Mr. Gibbons’ post here Oe ati i eo Suspect Gives Himself Up, N. Y. Police Fut hw dosnt (Fs tie ash sentative, a ir 86 Sesistans Sener] wuuager. Ms. . Ta : perambula n rection. . a native ndisnapolis a Sha us Ask Help in Identifying Him doesn’t miss her coy smile nor the On the Isle of Capri Found Him, and has been employed in the railto help family life. By LEO TURNER, United Press Staff Correspondent manner in. which she rotates past of b to th | | f C i road's motive power NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Police asked the FBI and officers of other him. Goodbye @ Isie or Lapr since 1918, Wrong Education states today to help them identify the man who told them he kissed The Lookout starts up the avenue| I would like to know more about Luciano, but you remember the big-| He was promoted to the post of “Religious fervor is used unwisely and killed the woman he picked up in a bar, but stubbornly defled|in her perfumed wake. Maybe she Lucky's doings, but my curiosity mouth who touched off all that|superintendent of equipment in as a substitute for intelligent solu-|them to find out his name. knows what time it 1s? Maybe she has not progressed to the point of grief for you last winter in Havana? | January, 1946. tions to the problems of married] They sent his fingerprints and picture to other cities and asked: has a match? Who can say? stepping up and asking him. We Well, I'm him and what I want to life” he said. Who is this man?” Task Force Crouch, never letting|are both enjoying Capri, and I|know now is..." Turnabout—Seeks He was five feet nine inches tall, ! weighed 140 pounds, had black hair, To Evict Landlady
Dr. Thurman B. Rice, public health professor, declared that all
an opportunity slip, races out of wouldn't want to spoil his fun. I| But unfortunately, I lack a necambush. Patrolman Banika slips/wouldn't want him to spoil mine, essary quality for this sort of stuff. inside. either, .
the floor, and I was alone with her,” the unidentified suspect said.
blinquency.” “Juvenile court must go its shar
the way in a real attack upon more serious juvenile crimes hd the police department must ornize itself to distinguish between rious and ordipary delinquency
“List Tough Judges
The survey experts declared that eg taking of signéd statements or
hd keep its responsibilities clear, report stated.
children get sex education one way elor another—most of it the wrong way. “The example set by adults is the better teacher of sex education,” he declared. g :
brown eyes and clear cut features. Police guessed his age at-35. His complexion was fair and his hands indicated that he had been a laborer. He told police he was born in Puerto Rico, and had worked as a polisher. His voice was calm and’ his eyes keenly alert. He walked into the Clinton st. police station yesterday and sald, “Put me under arrest. I have just
“I decided there was only one display before a gent has time to thig to do. Running away would | close the sliding panel’ which hides get me nothing. I'd have to give them from the public view. So tes-
myself up,” the man said.
“What's your name?” a detective
asked for the 1000th time.
“I told you I had a mother and
sister,” the man said.
The police blotter said:
Doe. Charge, homicide.”
He sees lottery tickets on Y This poses a unique problem in the history of journalism. If I were a brave saloon columnist or a fellow who wears “Press” in his hat band, I suppose I would dash up
2, Defendasits 1 C and demand an interview, I would a nl Ww. u There are two defendants in the say: “I beg your pardon, Mr.
case, a man and a young woman.
tifies the policeman in court.
I ain't brave. And so, as the sun {sets on beautiful Capri, you are apt to see Mr. Luciano and cohorts admiring the view—a rtion of which will include an’ American newspaperman in a dugout, paddling like blazes in the general direction of Naples.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U. P).— Charles Griem asked authorities today to evict his landlady and her two children from the basement of the house he has rented from her for 10 years. Mr. Greim charged that the landlady, Mrs. Rose Fitsgerald, forced
[The man is charged with keeping 8 pleted. All that's left is the “inroom for pool selling and advertis- vestigation.”
ing a lottery. The woman is charged The week is up. Once more the
S—— her way into his cellar while he was Miss Nilsson Improves |on vacation and set up housekeep-
SANTA MONICA, Cal, Aug. 22,'°%
killed a woman.” with advertising a lottery. cast of this drama is back onstage (U. P.).—Doctors said today that!
Mice: is
“objectionable - practic
hd should be discontinued except here the child is over 16 year of and has been charged with a
offense.”
Statements prepared by police puld be kept confidential and not out to the schools and the federation as is done now,
arch
report stated. (NEXT: The breakdown in th
program for dependent and children.
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efugees Spurn France PORT DE BOUC, France, Aug. P.) —Nearly 4500 Jewish gees aboard three British vessels today to disembark before 6 p. m. British deadline and ed for deportation to Gerwhere they may be put hore forcibly. The refugees red a last-minute invitation from
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(Continued From Page One) gambling house at 66-68 W. New| York; One Is Unidentified Edward Hoeltkmeyer and John P. Vandeman charged with keeping a room for pool selling at 237 N. Illie nois st.; William Haering and Kenneth Chrisensen charged with keeping a room for pool selling at 217 N. Illinois st., and Bert Dnnlop charged with keeping a similar room and an unidentified defendant arrested at 138 8. Illinois st. and charged with visiting a gaming house. Only defendant who has not asked for a change of venue thus far is Lasky Farb, charged with keeping a room for pool selling and gaming at 126 W. Maryland st. He is being defended by his brother, Max, municipal court attorney.
Beckley, and Charles Marjory Paks. At 84, Vineent's— William Margaret Detter; Robert, Ruth Miller; J. Edward, Dorothy Roy, and James, Adeline Dul-
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st. Cale, Bettie Wi Bixthe; James, Noel; Robert, Davis,’ and John, Anns Me
mona Hudson $50 at 101 Buchanan, ‘| Laie “Xin at 335 N. Tlinols, ear-
. Howard, 77, at 646 B. 62d,
since Christmas.
‘1 Couldn’t Remember’
breast. .
He directed police to an apartment on the lower East Side where they found the stabbed and beaten body of Mrs. Clarissa Strakele, 36, brown-haired clarinetist who played with a trio in East Side saloons. She was the wife of a seaman who had not been seen by her neighbors
He had removed all identification from his clothing and wallet. He refused to give his name and said he did not want to hurt his family.
‘Police found the body of Mrs, Strakele clad only in a nightgown, They said she had been beaten with a broken lamp base, wine bottles and frying pan and apparently had wrenched the: 10-inch butcher knife blade from the wound in her
“I couldn't remember hitting her, or even having any reason to hit{tavern. Police found one expended her. But there she was, dead on
Before Judge Alex M. Clark, the defendants are represented by Attorney Tom McNulty. He attacks the method police used. He demands what really constitutes a charge of advertising a lottery, Were there advertisements in the newspapers? On the radio? On the walls? A barker, maybe? No. Prosecutor John A. Carson jumps in and begins to fight. There doesn’t have to be that kind of advertising, he says. Opens Counter-Drive Then Mr. McNulty counter-at-tacks. He advises the courts the confiscated lottery tickets have been “molested” while in police safe
Hunt Trio in Wanton Killing
Police today sought two teen-age boys and their girl companion in
the wanton killing of William Mathews, 52, of 513 Fish st.
Mr. Mathews and Porter Lawrence, 53, were sleeping in the backyard because of the heat when they were awakened by the youths firing shots in the alley. When they protested, one of the youths fired at Mr. Mathews, wounding him in Yhe right arm and keeping as evidence. Maybe someright side. He died on arrival at|body has pulled a winner. Who City hospital early today. knows? Mr. Lawrence told police the| Prosecutor Carson asks for a conboys and the girl had been seen|tinuance. Judge Clark says the hanging out in a neighborhood matter will be investigated down to rock bottom. Case continued for a week. The testimony has been com-
22 cartridge in the alley.
room—if anything?
to the cast. Stages, room. Crouch to appear in court. “
at hand. But it nevér comes.
forgotten. Judge Clark closes the case. The man 1s discharged on the charge of keeping a room for pool selling. No evidence of a sale has been | produced. On the charge of advertising a lottery, judgment is withheld on the woman while the man is fined $25. The cast walks offstage, leaving only Bgt. Btaggs. “Did you want me?” he asks the prosecutor. “No, guess not,” says the prosecutor. He calls the next case. Tomorrow: Double jeopardy,
Tri-State College Gets
New Board of Trustees ANGOLA, Ind. Aug. 22 (U, P.)—~ Tri-State college today had a newly organized board of trustees who will serve without compensation. The new board plans no immediate radical changes in the college
Niehous, Raymond E. Willis, Ray Alwood and Theodore T. Wood, all of Angola, and Prank Wells, Harris-
waukee, and Perry T. Ford, Columbus, O.
la Guardia Reported In ‘Weak Condition’
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U. P).— Former Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
‘Iwas reported today by his physician to be in “extremely weak con-
covered sufficiently from a recent operation to resume his broadcasting duties, although he is allowed
{to sit in his garden .for several
hours a day.
in Municipal court 4. The second gijent film i 18s0m, act opens. What happened to the! sar Amma §. MW :
lottery tickets in the police lottery DOPPitalized with bruises and a One more person has been added accident, was in “fairly good” conHe is police Sgt. Fred g keeper of the property L He has been advised by Sgt. ‘ The trial reopens. The climax is
Mr. McNulty's charge that the lottery tickets were “molested” is
burg, Ps., Mark J. Woodhull, Mil-|
Racer Designer Dies
PARIS, Aug. 22 (U. P.) —Ettore Bugatti, 66, noted auto designer and racing car manufacturer, died yesterday after an illness of three months
|knee-cap injury from an automobile
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