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WEDNESDAY, "NOVEMBER 5 D, 1947

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

erie ’ PRICE FIVE CENTS

Wasson to Build $250,000 Addition

Work, Approved by | City, Starts Jan. 5

A proposed building expansion to! ‘cost more than $250,000 was an-| nounced otiay by H. P. Wasson & | Co.

Charles E. Bacon, city building commissioner, this morning

‘ stamped “approved” blueprints for |

an eight-story structure adjoining]

Wasson’s present modern building stood outside the Peeney apartment

at Washington.and Meridian 8ts. The plans were submitted by Walter Wolf, secretary and treasarer of the Wasson firm. Work Starts Jan. § Construction will bégin next Jan. 8, Mr. Wolf said. The new building, with an 83-foot frontage on Washington 8t., will be 120 feet deep, the same ground size as the present five-story structure, ‘he added. “We need more office space, and the three additional stories will provide it,” Mr. Wolf said. Aside from some enlargement of the infants’ and children’s department, there will be no expansion of selling facilities, he added. Te Use Old Building

The proposed building will be

erected in three phases, so as to permit use of a jarge portion of the present fivedstory structure during ' construction, Mr. Wolf explained. A limestone and .glass-brick faeade, identical with that of the present eight-story building, has been designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst’ and White, the architects. Construction will be done by! William P. Jungclaus Co, Inc. contractors. “We expect the building to be finished within six months or less

- after work starts,” Mr. Wolf said.

Times Index .

Amusements., 22|Ruth Millett...19 Bridge ........19| Movies ......22 Classified ..23-26 [Obituaries ....11 Comics“. .....,27 Patterns ......19

.19 {Side Glances, .16 18

Mrs. Mariners. 2| Word-a Word-s.Day ..13

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Color Photograph by Lioyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer.

“Al Feeney . « « Next Mayor of Indianapolis

The Password Is ‘Hi, Mom’ As the Feeney Family Celebrates

‘He Will Bé a i Mayor,” Mother Says Of Former Notre Dame All-American

ith

ocrat Council:

G.0. P. . Shakeup Is Under

Meeting Due Soon to Elect New Charman

Battle Lines Drawn Among Party Factions

A sweeping reorganization of the

{Republican machine that has béen lin control of the. party

here for more than six years was under way] today ‘as the aftermath of the GOP defeat at the polls. yesterday. Henry E. Ostrom who announced | last Saturday that he will quit as eounty chairman after the election, is expected to call a convention of | precinct committeemen in the next | few days to elect a new chairman. Party leaders representing all! factions jumped into the struggle | for party control even before the| votes were counted last night, Battle Lines Drawn As battle lines were drawn among four. or five factions, some leaders) were hurrying to hook up their iso-| lated groups with the factions in- | dicating sufficient strength for con-|

| trol.

Many were looking for leadership

|amiong the remnants of the regular

machine controlled by Mr, Ostrom,; former Chairman James L. Brad-

Ire a “Nutshell— ‘What Election ‘Results Mean

‘In a nutshell, here is the significance of yesterday's elec tions: In the cities the voters threw out an even half of 102 city ad- | ministrations. The result was a sharp increase in the number of | cities now Democratic, But in the 10th district, where the issues were national and not local, .the Republican tide was still on. Where whole counties ins stead of just.cities voted, the res sult was still Republican. Indiana

| is still Republican,

All the city results meant WASsimply that everybody was destined to lose about half his shirt. The Republicans had three times as much shirt to lose, so they lost three times as ‘much as the Democrats.

Times Straw Vote = i oven" gy Correct 3d Time

Accurately Indicated Winning Candidate

By ART WRIGHT

The Times Straw Vote for Mayor!

Feeney t to Fish

__| He will,

Mayor Elec Carries

7 of 24 Wards Here -Then Plnge 17 n Heavy Ballotin

Into New Task" Major Upsets Recorded in First, Ninth, 20th,

And 21st; Wemmer Edge Narrow in 18th Read an editorial, “Our Fair City,” Page 16; Election Night photos, Page 15; Photos of new City Council members, Page 28. oe By NOBLE REED Heavy Democratic voting in the big Republican strong|he got yesterday when he left his hold wards was a major factor in the smashing victory for lcar overtime downtown. : Tomariow. after a short fishing Al G. Feeney over his GOP opponent, William H. Wemmer, trip, he plans to start forming his in yesterday's mayoralty election, | musieypa. government: & his 40 The total vote cast, 132,390, exceeded all pre-election erate S stand t A loi yy iy consideration estimates by many thousands. It also exceeded by more | would not influence his selection of | than 1000 the total vote cast for mayor in the last municipal [hey execuuive; Personsiel including alaction in 1942. Party leaders and election officials had. a : Lag Dt. isk for estimated the vote yesterday would be about 110,000. Complete, unofficial tabulation for all 312 precincts gave Feehey an 8354 majority « over Mr, Wemmer. The totals were:

Pays Parking Fine | As First Official Act’

Mayor-Elect Al Feeney's first act today was to pay a parking sticker |

party recommendations in filling routine |

The mayor-elect would. not com-| mit himself on whether there would FOONOY ..vivvivnsnnsnnes 70,372 or would not be any drastic shake-| p in operating, non-executive per- | Wemmer “ee natasha ey 62,018 ein in the city's employ. 3 All other Democratic candidates for City Clerk and the | He said Be vould Hake » pind (City Council were swept into office by majorities close to ment on policy affecting city hall . | obs early next week. that given Mr, Feeney.

The mayor-elect made the rounds! Democrats Capture Control of Couneil _ of newspaper offices today as usual,

swung

| ism” { tegrity and standing in the com-|

ford and Joseph J. Daniels, former 11th district chairman, Pushing up fast on the other side, however, is the old anti-organiza-tion Republican faction which ral-| lied around Roy E. Hickman, former city controller, in the mayor- | alty nomination battle last spring. | These Republicans laid low after their defeat in the primary but]

organization rank and file just be-

fore the election in an effort to|final tabulation.

line up votes for the chairmanship. | “Scores Ostrom Group

today had become the third Times ‘but an hour Inte. He didn't retire Straw Vote to indicate correctly | until midnight last night and slept

the winning candidates. Previous, polls were taken in 1946 and 1044, | The victory of Al Feeney, Demoerat, was reflected throughout the

late this morning.

Seeks Suggestions T'm going to start right away. top|

fthink = seriously |boards,” he sald.

about

the city

“It's no secret 1

They were Richard Stewart, City Clerk; Porter Seiden Isticker, Joseph C. Wallace, Guy O. Ross, Joseph A. Wicker, |Christian J. Emhardt and Miss Mary Catherine Connor for

ithe City Council.

Three Republican candidates for the council receiving

lentire 11 days of The Times mail| win ack for suggestions on Geren)

'survey which ended last Friday.

| personnel

from the organization,

Credited with 66 per cent of the put I am making it clear I in Complete Vote

{Feeney still had 66 per cent in the

While the, poll clearly indicated

{ihe election trend, straw Vote exe:

heavy body blows info the straw votes the first. day, Mr. | people who are willing to work.”

| The mayor-elect said he “hadn't

|chief of police,

Mr. Hickman stepped out in front | Perts agree that elections are not fications of those eligible,” for this faction today with a state-| Won by 66 per cent margins,

ment, Ostrom. organization. “Having rid themselves of Os-

trom, the Republican voters will not |

accept, as county chairman, anyone other than a sincere Repub-| lican bearing no taint of ‘Ostromand one of unquestioned in-+

munity,” he said. “The new chairman should be a

By RICHARD, LEWIS Albert got elected and everybody went upstairs to the second floor! {ho major anti-organization eandi-

| SparEmens where the Feeneys live in 3902 Central Ave. and hugged Mom. (date for the chairmanship, reminded | om Feeney is the No. 1 mother in Indianapolis today. Her boy is| party leaders that he warned them | always knew he should be.

| mayor. She

All evening, friends kept trooping upstairs to the apartment to see i and her family while Al was being mobbed downtown at Dem-

ocratic headquarters. Downtown, the Democrats were {dancing i in N. Pennsylvania St: They {were screaming: | “Next time, county and the state] . «+ We're on OUr way, boys. . . .

Hi, haven't seen you since the lasti time the Democrats were in. . . .| | Didn't believe what I heard until I saw it. . Where's Al? .. . We twant Feeney!”

‘Open House—Sandwiches in the Kitchen

| “Upon Central Ave. a neighbor

{on the lawn, He proudly indicated {the lighted doorway. “Open house,” he said. the password?” “What's the password.” “Hi, Mom,” ing up behind. That was the password. Mom Feeney came to the head of the stairs.

“Know

“I'm thrilled to death,” she said.

always a good boy. "He'll be a good mayor. I know. “When he was a little boy, he

to End

STRANAHAN

Ready

By BO

{ler and DePauw which has existed |sirice 1890 appeared at an end today. “

| series, but there was no Jaculyy con-~ firmation. Athletic Director Raymond (Gau-| mey) Neal of DePauw was evasive when questioned concerning suspension of relations. He said the DePauw schedule for next season wasn't ready and any announcement would have to come from the faculty athletic committee. “Our relations with Butler are as; friendly as ever,” Mr, Neal said. Tiger's Victories Few But the Tigers haven't won from

1926 and only 10 times in the length

of the meetings. Last Saturday.

| Butler drubbed ‘the DePauw eleven, | 35+0.; In 1046 the score was 41-6.

compared to 1050 for DePauw, gives

said the people com- |

Says She's ‘Glad | Lived to See Him Mayor’

The football rivalry between But-|

Students on both the Fairview and Greencastle campuses discussed the possibility of termination of the

she said, “C'mon up,” said a voice behind her. “Come up and get met.” Everybody clumped upstairs and got met. Mom had owiehe Jn the “kitchen and she 'stee straight to a sandwich. Downtown, Albert was making a] speech over thr, radio about Mom. | Up on Cenlral Ave, everybody | (was listening. Excepts Mom. She 'was making a speech about Albert. |

- 1

| “Come on up,”

lows you ever knew. This sounds

“And who wouldn't be? Albert was! trite, but I'll say it because want,

to say it tonight, “He's the finest son a mother lever raised and I'm glad I lived to!

Butler, DePauw Reported

Grid Rivalry

as many football prospects to draw, from ant many feel the rivalry no| longer is equal. This seemed the biggest reason for stopping the | series, There seemed a strong likelihood that Miami University of Oxford,| 0., would replace ‘DePauw on next | season's football schedule at Butpe . Miami is a member of the Mid- | American Conference in which Butler now is playing, and all schools! {in the circuit are attempting | strengthen the rivalry. | Head Coach Sidney Gilman Miami said that the Redskins would | | “welcome the opportunity to play {Butler next .year)” This season Miami played Brad{ley Tech on the. corresponding date lot the Butler-DePauw game; and!

(Continued on’ “Page 7=Column 5)

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. ....5 10am... 50 Tam... lam. ... 5°] Sam... 50 12 (Noon)... 50 1pm caves 49 | oo.

Sat OB ice hg

man who, unlike: Henry Ostrom,

{' would leave the selection of candi- | dates up to the voters and

not | force his: hand-picked candidates!

{on them.”

Cites Previous Warning Mr. Hickman, who is considered!

| last spring that if the party ex- | pected to win -Mr. Ostrom would] have to resign. “The voters have borne out my

leadership,” Mr. Hickman said. He charged that William H.! Wemmer, the defeated mayoralty

(Continued on Page 7—Column 4

53 State Cities Elect Democrats

List of New Indiana Mayors, Page 5!

By ROBERT BLOEM Democrats controlled a majority! lof Indiana's cities for the first time! in took the broom to the “ins” in a | thumping protest vote. Exactly half of the 102 cities] changed ' horses” in yesterday's | municipal elections. Democrat: and Republican administrations alike were overthrown by the Surge. of

was one of the sm smartest little fel- (Continued tn Page 9—Column 3) reaction, but when the final

was in, United Press a uty showed, 53 cities had gone Demiocratic, Ma jor body slows to Republican’ power ‘were dealt Indianapolis! kingpin of the 11th congressional district; Pt. Wayne, home of what has been recognized as the strongest political machine in the state, and Evansville, key city of the delicately balanced eighth congressional district. Feeney Victory Jars GOP In Indianapolis, where Democrat | Al

1» Democrat Mayor Wins

“in Rushville Voting

Times Stale Service

RUSHVILLE, Nov.

Jashing out bitterly at the!

Feeney defeated Republican William Wemmer, the shift of party

5—Rushville mittee, will have a Democratic Mayor and who polled:

{Republicans crossing party lines to ¥yote for him. The election con-| firmed this. | Ludlow Carried Election

terday’s election gave Mr. Feeney, 153.2 per cent of the votes cast.

eral reasons for error: There is no |

he sald. | pegney (D)

[“One of the surest ways for an ap-

pressure me on his behalf,

Arouses Suspicion

“That always makes me suspicious | Unofficial complete returns of yss-'and anxious to inquire what's be- Jameson (R)

hind the pressure.

“One of the things I want to do] In any straw vote there are sev- is sit down and talk with Mayor! George Denny and I have

| Denny.

way for the survey to reflect the | been political foes, but privately I power of a political party to get|consider him a friend and 1 have

people to the polis. A straw vote, reflects only clear withjout consideration of political fac-| tors. voters who mail in a straw |card do not go to the polls.

elections: Reasons for Error Ia 1946, the straw vote for Senate gave Republican Jenner 55 3

| stand by repudiating the Ostrom | P¢" cent to lead Democrat Town-

{tion with the 57.6 per cent, which was 1.8 per cent higher than the straw vote, For Congressman, Democrat Lud- | {low polled 64.6 per cent to top Re|publican Beveridge. Mr. Ludlow! carried the election with 51.4 per cent, which was 13.2 per cent, lower than the straw vote, “As was the] lcase ‘this ‘year, the straw vote] {showed a record “scratch” vote which was borne out in the elec- | tion. For Prosecutor, Republican .Stark! | received 62.4 per cent to lead Demo-! icrat Sullivan, Mr, Stark won the| election with 57.5 per cent. This|

13 years today as 715,000 voters (Continued or on Page 8—Column 3) ‘the votes I -did.

Citizens School Slate Sweeps In

Photos of New School Board, Page 6 age 6

"School board candidates backed! by the Citizens’ School Committee won all seven places in the city election by a five to one vote. But an unofficial tabulation of the official count of the 312 pre-

cincts showed that nearly half of Pound Riverside trolley at

those . who voted in yesterday's municipal election didn’t vote for | the school board, How Votes Totaled {| + The school board Victors and their votes were: Carl PF. Brandt. | | 57500; Emil V. Schaad, 55663;

| (Continued on Page 3—Column 1) Olma Bruck, 53,530; J. Dwight Pet-

| erson, 53,636; H. Nathan- Swaim,| { 52,332; Raymond F. Brandes. 54,396, and Leon C. Thompson, 53,625. Losers were the two candidates | backed by the Peoples School Com-| the Rev: R. T. Andrews, 16,674. votes, . and

| Republican councilmen as a result of| Charles 8. Preston, who received

yesterday's balloting.

Russell Coons, Democrat, defeated for! the Bulldogs on the gridiron since this lent str ength to the. report that mayor by an unofficial vote of 1326 tary of the Citizens’ §chool Com-| to 1607. Councilmen €lected, all Re- mittee, hailed the victory as .publicans, including Chase 8. Sadler, other triumph for efficient school Pet, Arthur Weidrier and administration.”

Ralph Morgan, “Republican;

Charles Cecil, {James R. Newkirk: | 7 *

114,336 votes. Secretary Hails Victory { John D. Hughes, executjve secre-

“an-

{He asserted-that “once more ihe

schools -are run have aided us in} 4 sires aiiasaies securing 3 lt S00} our > 5 Presta

class vote.

the greatest respect for | want his advice. “Another thing I want

him. 1

to do a

| hand cities which have solved the

ample.

| ments.”

Here is how the 1044 and 1046 Same problems themselves, |Straw Votes compared. with the | “I think we can learn by ex-| I don't believe in spend-

| ing thousands” of dollars in experi- Shulke

Tired but Happy Warrior

| The successful mayorally candi- Bright {send. Mr, Jenner carried the elec | date was a tired but happy political Connor (D)} .iiiivieviveises The one-time All- Ransom

warrior today. America grid center said night was more tiring than of football games, When

he came downtown ‘morning, he couldn't walk 50 yards Brandt without being stopped and

election a couple

this

con~

The Times poll showed that Mr. Iplicant to disqualify himself is to | Feeney's count resulted largely from ove so-called influential people Noll (R)

i as | Ross It refiects a protest vote. All| | the first step toward solving prob-!Davis (L) ...... FE IR of ballot! lems we have here is to study first|

On Cy Races

- | the slightest idea” who would be his fn) Frecinets Out of 345, Unediéial

CMKYOR 4

“I'l weight the records and quall- Wemmer ® tresaviensrasns pi Trani rrr JT

CITY CLERK

| Stewart (D) ...

CITY COUNCIL (First Distriet)

| Seidensticker D) .. (Second District) Campbell. (R) ....susser0es’s Wallace (D) ,.. Shepard (L) .....co0n:is (Third District) (R) vi.. (D)

vanssssneanan 1

| Suggs

shes rnanbnn

Meters ata nt aan

(Fourth District) | Ehlers (R) | Wicker (D)

(R) | Emhardt (D) (Sixth District) (RY siviees

(L)

Mss sninannn ans

| SCHOOL BOARD

gratulated by hundreds who knew |

| him personally or from his pictures.| gohaad

About his election . .

“TI hadn't

any real idea whether rd be elected

or not,” he said. try to figure it. .I have | way of campaigning , | every vote I cah. Amazed by “It amazes me to think I have {statement that it

word ‘class’. 1 don't like [Pope along those lines,

“I didn't

was a 1 abhor the use of the

even

a funny

. I try to get

Votes

I got all} heard a

to divide

“I think my support was general

{and the fact that it

came from

{the 20th ward and Irvington indi-

|cated to me that people in of life voted for me. “It makes me feel dam

Dies

Walter E. Hauger, ian St,

and Ohio Sts.

all walks

good,”

Boarding Trolley

The Vote by Wards

Ward One

Pct.

Ward Two

Weminer “159 sainsnesns. 1B aseins 130 . 226 216 i

Saree ame

; ies ians

. . i “x

Wemmer

Feeney 204 283 260 343 280 . 230 296 226 219

2341

{Preston .,,.. | Bwaim

(312 Precincts Out of 312) (Unexpired. Term Ending ’ Dec, 31, 1947)

(Unexpired Term Ending Dec. 31, 1949)

(Term Beginning Jan, 1, 1548) (Elect Three) Andrews Bruck Peterson seinaesehs ners rios

| (Term Beginning Jan. 1, 1950)

middle |

1723 N. Merid- | without died today apparently of a polled 92 votes. heart attack as he boarded an a,

(Continued on “Page J~Column 3)!

Feeney,

217

269 239

(Elect Two)

62,230 : 60,707

. 63.003 71,787

62,565

63,528 10,996 3189 for Mr. Wemmer.

Ln! ually heavy Republican stronge

57,500

{the next highest vote will comprise the minority membership

of the Council, They are: “{ Donald Jameson, Charles P. Ehlers and Joseph Bright. Their vote was sli (higher than the other three 1GOP Council caiididates, Harmon A, Campbell, Clarence

Suggs and Harold Shulke. The Democratic Mayorselect carried 17 of the 24 city wards and cut heavily into the Republican strong~ hold wards, The major upsets, on the basis of balloting here in the last three elec tions, were in the following wards: Pirst (Forest Manor), Ninth (East Side), Eighteenth (Irvington), Twentieth (North Side), and Twen-

3 LN -first (far North Side).

Mr. Feeney carried the First by [2341 to 1899; the Ninth by a to

50,342 4088. 72,651 2,879

The Seventh ward hear Northwest Side) which has been going | Republican for several years gave Mr, Feeney a majority of 3252 to

Small Edge in Irvington In the Eighteenth (Irvington) a

, Mr, Wemmer won by & com=pg, small majority of 3645

6371337152453. This usually goes two-to-70,210 one Republican. 3,626) The normally three-to-one “Re-

| publican Twentieth ward (north of 138th St.) gave Mr, Wemmer only | 4540 to 3030 for Mr. Feeney. In the | Twenty- First ward (horth of 46th |8t.), Mr. Wemmer's majority was cut to 6899 to 3043 for Mr. Feeney. This ward usually goes about four

55.663 to-one Republican.

The only other wards carried by the Republican candidate were the Fourth. (south of 38th 8t.), the

«os 16674 pipin (around Crown Hill cemes cevvvaresrieninennes 53530) prey

Third (southeast of Tall

53,636 Creek) and the Twenty-second (far: aT yg) Creek) and ye

52,382) 0c).

{south around Indiana Central Col~

Most of the South Side, West Side and central city precincts went

54,396: heavily for Mr. Feeney, Some of 53,625 the majorities in the near: North

Village Elects Dead

‘Candidate to Council CLEVELAND, Nov. 5 (UP)~Volers|

pm to .village council,

suburban West View Village |

paid their respects to 73-year-old Ernest P. Schuster today by electing the 18th (Irvington) where the

"Side and industrial areas were greater than the pre-war majorities when the Democratic party was in power here.

Bare Majority in 18th Notable among the upsets in the precincts were. in the seventh of

ole was even, 277 to 277 in the

One of six candidates running, mayoraity contest.

opposition, Mr,

the polls,

211 17 274 203 124 342 22.

% ive rise “vidane odd

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Schuster

Two other precinets in the 18th gave Mr. Wemmer only a bare ma.

He died last Monday and laid in| jority where Republicans usually Illinois state yesterday as citizens went to) | win = two-to-one. ‘These were the.

fifth where Mr. Wemmer received 289 to 209 for Mr. Feeney and the 11th where Mr. Wemmer got 271 | to 204 for Mr. Feeney. The big upset on the North Side was in the fourth precinct ef the 20th ward which was carried by | Mr. Feeney by one vote, 258 to 257, according to unofficial returns,

Youth, | 14, Injured By Hit-and-Run Car

Police today were {leads to the identity of the o un driver who struck and inured 14-year-old Robert |terday.

| Robert, who lives at R. R. 3, Box

_|74, had dismounted from his Bove: fin & after a ride with 4

jchums and was struck by the side of the road

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