Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1947 — Page 1

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58th YEAR—NUMBER 192

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your budget of the school. On Wednésdays, a fast passenger

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qd Menjou Is "Wormy

Communists Follow

Rescued After Leap Off West Side Bridge

Quick-thinking motorists rescued owing the Communist party as

a 22-year-old woman from the | oovernment.” waters of White River today after

. FORECAST: Fair and continued warm today

SAFE CROSSING? — Pupils at School 85 must cross the Pennsylvania Railroad train roars past the intersection while children are trying to cross.

Run, It has been ithe. target of complaints for years and

With Reds Urges Congress to Outlaw Party; Asserts Film |

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UP)—Actor Adolphe Menjou, asserting that Hollywood is “wormy with Reds,” called today for legislation out-

The suave, stylishly dressed actor of debonair film roles told the

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the narrow bridge on N. Arlington Ave. over Pleasant a mecca for accidents. Will it be widened?

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Delays Imel Trial Two ‘Doctors to Make Mental Examination

Times State Service { MARTINSVILLE, ‘Oct. 21—The ‘trial of 14-year-old Richard Dale Tmel of Indianapolis, charged with

Moscow Lines

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1047

ted | OUR FAIR CITY ... WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT OUR NEXT MAYOR TO DO ants Better, Cleaner Streets |

Time-Limit Parking In Business District Listed as Big Need

ceptive.

" Scattered suburban homes appear. it happens.

hole in the street. It is the street. in Our Fair City.

said he drove his car up over it. up on the curb.

ous: business district. president of the Irvington Business Association, Inc., has \

temperature tonight 53, high tomorrow about 83.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday

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Residents Say Something Should Be Done About Pupils’ Safety—Ask More Sidewalks

By RICHARD LEWIS THE APPROACH to Indianapolis from the east is de-

You glide along a smooth highway mile after mile. Traffic thickens. Then

j 2B . : The jolt that shakes you from stem to stern is not a

What Taxpayers Ask, Mr. Candidate—

ONE—How can the City clean E. Washington

St.? Can the street be resurfaced or repaired?

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TWO-—Can the City enforce time-limit parking in Irvington's Business district ? ;

THREE—Can additional safeguards be provid at rail crossings near School 857 X FOUR-~-Will the Arlington Ave. bridge across Pleasant Run be widened?

FIVE—Will the City build sidewalks on E. 10th St. west of Arlington Ave.?

This is the sign you are

Like most of the other paved streets in Our Fair City,

E. Washington St. is rough. Only two-thirds of the City's 1000 miles of streets are paved.. Half of these need repairs

Citizens May Sweep Up the Dirty Streets SEE THAT PILE of trash piled curb high on the north

side of E. Washington St.?

Pert Beadle, general manager of East Side Chevrolet, He thought he had run

You're in Irvington, now, in the midst of its prosperListen to what William J. Mickler,

to say: “We're waiting to see what the next administration is going to do about cleaning the streets, If they don’t sweep this filth off the streets, there are 63 of us along here who will get out with brooms and shovels and do it ourselves. “Of course, the condition of the street itself—we take that for granted. The least they can do is keep it cleaned up.” ’

Gathering of the Garbage Wagon Clans IRVINGTONIANS are proud of their community, It is solid, substantial and prosperous. ’ Into the sedate, residential area at the corner of Ritter and Aves. comes a jarring note several days each week. The corner is the assembly point for the apen-air prairie schooners of the City Garbage Department. The uncovered wagons form their famous flying column there. ‘ When this maneuvering is going on, with its noise, odors and files,

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The flying column careens off on Ritter Ave, garbage trailers sway-

ling wildly betweem: thie parked. cars, On a fast turn, thé last trailer

appears to crack the whip.

Want Saturday Parking Problem Solved

SATURDAYS are big days in the Irvington business community. But not for the businessmen, they say. On Saturdays, rural purchasing power comes to town, > Citizens from Greenfield and other points east park their cars In front of Irvington mercantile establishments. Then they take the street car downtown to do their shopping, tying up Irvington parking space the rest of the day., By this time, the rural shoppers know that the 90-minute parking limit signs on E. Washington must have been one of the city council's

she leaped off the New York St. pg... Un-American Activities Committee that Hollywood Communists (he fatal shooting of his stepmoth- little jokes.

/ pridge. Her 40-foot leap was witnessed lige. by two fishermen on the banks of | Mr. Menjou was. the star witness the river. One of them, Frank on ‘the second day of public hearByrnes, 17, of 1549 W. New York ings. Yesterday movie-makers Louis 8t., looked up as he heard a Cry g “ayover Jack Warner and Sam for help and saw her in midair. Wood also had urged that the ComBoth men rushed up the steep n......¢ party be outlawed flood wall to Ted's Marathon Sta- Jams Hearing Riou tion, 1501 W. New York St., where Wren oe a ota Ils

they summoned police. |testimony without havin oduced g n r | Get Inner Tube, Rope * | y 8 P

la. single wrinkle in his brown chalk A motorist waiting in the sta-'striped suit, spectators in, the tion, Earl Cobon, 24, of 843 8. jammed hearing room applauded Lyons Ave. picked up a rubber joudly., It was the first demonstrainner tube and rushed toward the tion of the hearing ®hus far. bridge. As he reach the bridge &| vp enjoy told the committee he passing motorist stopped and 80%! was a widely read student of comsome rope from his car. munism. He said also that he was The two men tied the tube 0, gin actor—“1 hope.” He made the rope and dropped it over the iy... assertions: bridge. They dangled it.over the ong. Hollywood is crawling with water until the woman could grasp “un-American, anti-capitalistic, X._ in they dragged her toward gnti-free enterprise” influences. . | TWO: “Communist front” organiThe motorists and the fishermen ,.¢i0n¢ sprang up‘in Hotraons and helped her up the bank and police , jot of people joined them before squads took her to General Hos- (oy found out what they were.

pital. | Criticizes Sorrell

The woman, who told police she | had been despondent over {ll health,| THREE: Asked to name those he

said she did not remember leaping. thought were Communists, Mr. MenWhen she was pulled from the jou said he believed Herbert K. Sorwaters, she still gripped her hand- tell, head of the conference of studio bag firmly in one hand. lunions, was ‘a Communist. He She said she was married and Plamed Mr. Sorrell for “incredible

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care of her sister today, Police Jurisdictional strike. said they believed that she was not| FOUR: He said Edward G. RobinL// injured, although she hit the water ¢ o Te on her back. /

Pleads Not Guilty On Security Charge

Leo Bennett, oil promoter, was bound over to the grand jury under! $300 bond today after pleading not guilty to charges of violating the State Socurities law. Bennett, who gave an Indianapo- |

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day. . Times Index Amusements . 10| Markets .. Eddie Ash.... 18 Movies

| tower, But what happened to the pants? Today tower officials had the an-

l“rigidly” follow the Moscow party -

Director John Cromwell is a Com-

that she had left her infant in the Drutality and beatings” in a bloody,

Henry VIII's Tin Pants Turn Up After 400 Years

| Dim Corridors of Scrivelsby Court Yield Nether Part of Armor; Royal Mystery Ends

LONDON, Oct. 21 (UP)—~The missing tin pants of King Henry VIII! , were back in the Tower of London today. A 400-year-old royal mystery

For centuries, the custodians of royal armor had searched without i » he nadrest yas Shatges Sent. 9! duccess for the nether part of one of the marrying monarchs favorite! not regis-| so cting suits. They knew the full suit existed. There it was on the ’ Besides, | . ro guilty in Municipal OOurt yester- ip. ton half already was in the sometimes on horseback and some-

... 5swer—and the pants. They were of a mdn, 6 feet tall and witha 3410 found in the dim. halls of Scrivelsby inch waist.

son, Hume Cronyn, Alexander Knox, er, today was postponed pending

the actor who portrayed Woodrow another sanity test. Wilson in a picture, and Paul Hen-| Morgan Circuit Judge Omar reid were associates of Mr. Sorrell O'Harrow named two Martinsville in a Hollywood union fight. He said doctors to examine the boy to see he wouldn't be seen in Mr. Sorrell’s Whether -he was sane when he was company. ’ accused of shooting his stepmother

FIVE: He didn’t know whether Mrs. Lillian Beatrice Imel last March,

munist “but he acts an awful lot like Judge O'Harrow said he believed one” the trial could be resumed ThursSIX: If Hollywood is to make 98%: propaganda films they should be labeled as such. And if it produces

® Waives Jury Trial { Defense Attorney Sherwood Blue

an anti-Fascist movie, it should fol. Yesterday waived a jury trial. Edwin ojo, pennsylvania passenger And second graders. Some of he yyimming pools and if funds are

low up with an anti-Communist pic- S'¢€rs Jr, Marion County deputy prosecutor, assisting in the prose-

ture. | ti s 4 ! Cites 3 Pletures cution of the case, said it was up

to the judge to rule on what shall Seven: The pictures, “Mission to be done with the boy after the medMoscow,” and “North Star,” con- cal report. demned by committee members as Doctors for both the defense and pro-Russian, should not have been prosecution have said that the boy made, was temporarily insane at the time! Mr. Sorrell was the -only person of the slaying, but that he is now directly called a Communist by Mr. sane. Menjou. Mr. Sorrell is head of Dr. E. Vernon. Hahn yesterday the union which has engaged in a {estifying for the defense, urged thet long and violent jurisdictional the boy not be returned to his fastrike. ‘ther, Joseph Imel, for custody. Mr. Menjou said the strike was, One of the two Martinsville doc-| Communist-inspired and ’criticized tors selected by the Judge is Dr. | several movie celebrities who, he paul Williams. The second is ex-| said, attended a screen actors guild pected to be named later today, meeting in Hollywood and voiced wl suport of Mr. Sorrell. . Messrs. Robinson,

Continued on oe hon Promise 1 More “Days of Warmth

| LOCAL TEMPERATURES

i 6am 51 19am... 17 ram... 11am... 18 8a m.... 85 «12 (Noon) an 9am... 67 1pm. .. . 81

Indianapolis residents . were assured today of at least two more days of “fine fall weather,” to quote the weatherman. . Temperatures, today and tomorrow will approximate those of late summer, reaching a high of 83. The variance of temperature from the cool mornings to the hot afternoons creates a problem of what to do with the topcoat. From (the weatherman's viewpoint the answer is to carry it—it won't be

times afoot.

{ Measurements of the suit show the king in his prime, a fine figure

The popular concep-

Irvington businessmen are torn between conflicting thoughts. If they nag the police to enforce the time limit, they run the risk of antagonizing some of their own customers who might infiltrate intg the visitors’ parking line. ” » ” » ” SOUTH ARLINGTON AVE. is a quiet street. These bright autumn afternoons, you can hear the leaves sigh as they give up for the season and flutter to the ground. . The street is so narrow two automobiles can barely pass. It's a close squeeze when the motorist meets the E. New York-University Motor Coach. Between the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks is Public School 85. A few min- ~~ Utes after school lets out for lunch that intersection at 60 miles per comes the warning shriek of an hour, It is a thing of awe to first

mothers have wondered why ‘here aren't crossing gates or a full time adult watchman,

train, The flasher signals start to flash at the crossing which otherwise is no» & 3 guarded by safety patrol boys. The w«pyp SPEN tots of accidents children Yun across the tracks until Cars hit that bridge all the time the traffic patrol boy holds up his {oo Saturday night, two moto hand. Wham

Times Civic Series Brings Deluge of Phone Calls

East Side Woman Asks Why School Children Must Walk in Mud or in Busy Street

Photo, Page 4 The first of a series of searching stories by Times Staff Writer

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Richard Lewis on the problems and woes of the city that voters want the next mayor to solve brought a flood of phone calls to The Times. One of the first was from Mrs. Dolly Baker, 2525 N. Gladstone

Ave, who wondered out loud why her three children and 35 other

pupils must walk to school in gud . when it rains or risk walking along Brazil Severs Soviet Relati

the edge of the pavement of a RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct, 21 (UP)

heavily traveled truck route. She pointed out that in the Area bounded by Lancaster St, Euclid Ave., Colorado Ave, and Gladstone

Ave.’ there are no street lights, no Brazil severed diplomatic relations city “water lines-to-the houses. and With Russia today, a few hours after

exvending west to a group of students demonstrating against the Soviets stoned the Rus-

no sidewalks Sherman Drive. Cross Two Rail Intersections When it rains, footpaths on both sides of Massachusetts Ave, become a

muddy, forcing the School 51 pupils Snoozing Porker to risk walking on the edge of the Jailed in Lebanon

pavement, mes Kiale Service

dential district,

sian Embassy in the Tijuca resi-

SCHOOLHOUSE—This is "Old Number 77" public school for children of North Irvington residents. The double seven hasn't brought any luck yet, but residents hope it will yield a modern

“eeney Outlines Wemmer Answers

Campaign Views Citizens’ Questions Covers Most Points Replies to Complaints Raised by Citizens | ‘Listed in The Times

The major points of his city ad-| By NOBLE REED ministration program were outlined, The 10 questions asked most by by Al Feeney, Democratic mayoralty citizens on plans for a better Indicandidate, in a campaign statement anapolis, as outlined in The Times (today, yesterday, were answered by Wil- | Most of the 10 questions asked by liam H. Wemmer, maycitizens in The Times yesterday oralty candidate, in two speeches

hv. wn | in shi general state- last night,

wiles Points His points were: “ONE: Overhauling and modern: are to know my position on !lzing the police department. {all" ‘subjects that. affects them.” “TWO: Establishing a sound “ONE! If the e¢ity can't afford traffic control system to replace the equipment, how about a man with outmoded horse-and-buggy system a pushcart?’ was listed as the first (we have now. {query ‘of most citizens, | “THREE: Carrying out the post-| ‘People Must Co-operate’ war planning program with great «To tnis | answer that the city [emphasis on economy. lalready has on order proper’ equip~ “FOUR: Using the City engineer- yang that will solve most nf the ing department for planning to re- treet clean problems,” Mr duce terrific fees paid outside en- wemmer said. “We will have clean zineers, ; “FIVE: Continuing the excellent Sette ith me Dew Sauipment pd york of the Juvenile aid division “TWO: Dump eradication Get and enlarging it. tid of rats and smoke " : “SIX: Reducing juvenile delin- «yw. ove peen making great quency as a main objective. strides toward regulation of dumps

Outlying Police Stations and . . : 2 when I'm mayor this program SEVEN; Establishing outlying will be pushed forward” he said.

4 stat hout tion- , police substations without additio "Regarding the rats and smoke,

Ls C é v . a), Sutisy Fouls Tunds. enlarg. PIan$ already have been made for ing our playground system within a campaign on these evils but the the bounds of economy as set out P¢OPlé must. co-operate before the inn the budget. program can be successful.” “NINE: Free use of municipal ‘THREE: More playgrounds and the use of the ones locked up now.” Favors More Playgrounds “I wholeheartedly indorse the program for more playgrounds as an aid to curb juvenile delinquency and our plans for these will be pushed ahead rapidly,” he said. “POUR: Grade separation.” “The Republican administrations here have done more in the way of grade separations than any other administration,” Mr. Wemmer ‘said. ‘We started on these contracts back in 1919 and it wasn't until the pres-

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not avatlable 1'll raise them by public subscription as &° contribution to reduce - juvenile delinquency.” Mr; ‘Feeney said these points comprise the “specific program I have advocated, but the overall objective if my administration will be to im-| rove all functions of city government without wasteful manipulation of public funds.” A statement made by William H. Wemmer, GOP mayoralty nominee, branding Mr. Feeney as a “profes-

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The Times Straw Vote—

Percentages Remain Same After 2 Days of Balloting

Feeney Keeps Lead With 66% But Party Trends Show Some Change

TABULATIONS on the second day of The Times Straw Vote for Mayor showed these results: | Al Feeney, Democrat, and William H. Wemmer, Republican, du~ plicated their percentages of the first day's results published yesterday. Thus, neither gained an advantage Fewer voters crossed party lines, | Here are the aggregate percentages for the two days:

For Al Feeney, Democrat .... .. ....c.ocvvevnersinisaniions 66% For William H. Wemmer, Republican ........... Sans ein 34% Straight Democrat Votes ................ccc0vvae darsesis 50.34% Straight Republican Votes ss nas sae ys aa nents sat wav e3B00 Republicans for Democrat Feeney .................. carne STR Democrats for Republican Wemmer .............00v0 RO 3% No Party Preference Indicated ..............ccovivniiss 21%

» ” "” WHILE MR. FEENEY and Mr. Wemmer in the second-day tally polled the exact percentage of votes they received the fist day, party trends changed in all categories. Pdr the second day's tabulation the party trends showed: Straight Democrat, 387, : Straight Republican, 28%; Republicans for Democrat

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Classified . 20-22! Mrs. Roosevelt 16 itary -king’s champion, | declining years, : I d Comics ...... 23 Ruark ....... 13 By accident, the royal pants had The Dymokes of Scrivelsby held Somewhat Improved Crossword ... 17'8ide Glances. 14 been joined to a. leds distinguished the office of king's champion for, WASHINGTON. Oct. 21 Up) -~

Sh 16 suit of armor and had remained un- 700 years. Until 1821 thé head of: Former Senator James E. Watson 18-19 noticed for generations in the musty the family rode in full armor to ‘R. Ind), was “somewhat Improved” Forum. ...... 14) Stranahan ... 18 copridors of Scrivelsby Court. jeach coronation ceremony where ne today after spending what attendGardening ... 17 Teen Topics.. 16, The complete suit, now properly! flung a gauntlef before the assembly ants at Garfield Hospital described Meta Given. . 17| Washington . 14 assembled in the Tower of London, as a challenge on behalf of the as a “good night.” Homemaking.. 17 Weather Map 15/is a long-skirted model designed for king. In payment from the king, The 83-year-old former legislator - Don! Hoover. 14 Women's .... 17 fighting on foot. Henry VIII fre- the champion received a gold cup had been in very critical condition . Inside Indpls. 13| Word-A-Day. 13 quently, ook part in court JOuS; and a sult Of armQF. . last week. a

Editorials .... 14 Society Fashions .... 17| Sports ....

T The children must cross two rall- [pBANON, Oct. 21—A 40-pound Feeney. 14%: Democrats for Republican Wemmer, 27%; No Party Prefers road intersections, at only one of gqyealer was under arrest here to- r 0, ‘which safety patrolmen are sta- ence Indicated, 18%. i tioned Mrs. Clyde Harrison, 2817 N ay. These straw vote results are offered as a public service feature and Gi oto A y d ' The pig was arrested at the Clars are by no means to be interpreted as a Times prediction for the election adstone Ave, added. ence Shepherd home after police Nov. 4. Both women said they broughythe received a call that it was 'asleep The votes are cast by Indianapolis residents whose names were matter to the attention of school on Mr. Shepherd's front porch taken from the City Directory in a regular pattern that includes all officials, and have attempted to ar- A policeman captured it after a gections of the City 8nd the entire alphabet, Straw Vote ballot cards - range some means of transportation. brief chase. = The pig's “They just keep passing us from aroused sleepers in the entire one person to the other,” Mrs. Baker néighborhood and faces appeared said, “and never give us a definite at doors and windows as the po- kind to identify how an individual voted. : answer, We are beginning to wonder liceman departed with his squeal-' Revised tabulations giving up-to-the-minute results will ‘Mf anything will ever be done.” ing char shed EXCLUSIVELY in The Times until the pre-election Be.

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