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Lottery Law Ruling Stalls Reform Move

Officials Doubt Appeal, Will Be Taken

City officials made it known privately today that the invalidation of the anti-lottery ordinance by Judge Horace L. Hanna of Danville slammed the door to gambling reform in that direction.

Judge Hanna ruled the ordinance void on the ground that the In| dianapolis City Council had no power to pass it, The ordinance made manufacture and simple possession of lottery tickets illegal. | City officials took the position they have done their duty toward: reform by introducing the ordinance! and getting it passed by a reluctant | city council. Shun Appeal Move

With two weeks remaining in their administration, they were not in the mood to contest Judge Hanna's de» cision by an appeal. The next administration would be in office before any appeal could! be heard, officials said. Mayor-elect| Al Feeney never put much stock in| the ordinance, they said. An administration spokesman said | Mayor-Elect Feeney was planning to| appoint as corporation counsel, Edward H, Knight who represented | lottery ticket manufacturers in their| successful gainst the ordi-' nance, | Knight Declines Comment ! Mr. Knight, who served as corporation counsel in the administra- | tion of Mayor Reginald H. Sulli-| van, declined to comment on any possibility. Mr. Feeney might appoint him as corporation counsel. Mr. Feeney said today he had no announcement to make regarding the appointment of a corporation counsel. The mayor-elect added that he had opposed the anti-lottery ordinance from the start as an irre-

had said in his campaign that he did not believe the council had the power to pass it. The Rev. Arnold E. Clegg, chairman of the legislative and public morals committee of the Indianapolis Church Federation, and Safety Board President William H.

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former Democratic judge of the Marion Circuit Court, represented the manufacturers who were involved in the ordinance. Outlines Position Mr. Knight said his position was that the City Council was never authorized by the Legislature to extend its power over lotteries to the manufacturer. The legislature, he said, can regulate the manufacturing end of the business if they want to, but not cities and towns~He contended that under the line of reasoning in the ordinance, the state could be “pockmarked” by local ordinances making the lottery racket illegal in different and varying phases. This would cause confusion, he said. Legal Issues Raised Mr. Knight said he and Mr, Cox also opposed the measure on the ground it did not include prohibition on the manufacture of faro and roulette equipment. This made it discriminatory and raised constitutional issues, he said.

“At any rate,” he added, “what . iqan¢ good Would it do to prohibit manu. hi

facture here when most of that business is done in Muncie where most of it comes from.” The Muncie city council defeated by a vote of 9 to 0 an ordinance] modeled after the Indianapolis or-|

SERVICE TO YOUTH — Winners of Central Indiana Boy Scout Council Silver

Beaver Award for outstanding leadership show an award certificate to youthful

Billy Kiphart of 1117 N. Ta

| Joel Hadley, Arthur W. Macy, John McWethy, Wiley C. Dorsett, Allen A. Parr

and August F. Hook.

Bicknell Water Accounts Short

$24,953 Discrepancy | In 6 Years Reported

The State Board of Accounts to- | day certified to the Attorney Gen- | eral's office a $24,953.80 shortage in the accounts of the Bicknell Municipal Water Utility. The shortage, the fleld examiners’ reports showed, took place over a six-year period between Jan. 1, 1939, and March 31, 1945, The bulk of the shortage—$17,580.46—developed between 1939 and the end of 1943, the report said. The remainder—$7373.34—was incurred from Jan. 1, 1944, to March 31, 1945. - The cash discrepancies were found in a routine check of the Bicknell city finances by Board of

examiners, ; : The examiners reported the discrepancies occurred between cash collections from utility rate payers and cash turned over to the Bicknell clerk-treasurer, The field examiner's report identified Mrs. Myrtle Hollingworth as clerk-treasurer of Bicknell and Mrs. Agnes Dupire as the water utility clerk whose duties were to turn cash| collections over to the clerk-treas-| urer. . State Examiner C. E. Rouston certified the report to the Attorney

So : - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1937

C. of C. Fears Hurts Industry

Police and Transit Critics Called Harsh

By RICHARD LEWIS A threat to the industrial expan{sion of Indianapolis was seen to'day by. the Indianapolis Chamber (of Commerce in the adverse publicity the city has received on law enforcement and transit service. In a special statement, the Chamber's board of directors warned that a “hyper-critical” at- | titude toward law enforcement and transit -service may drive new industry away from the city's gates. The Chamber made public a survey by a private transit engineering firm which found transit service here adequate. It appended to this report its | concern that a breakdown in pub!lie confidence in both the law enforcement and transit phases of municipal life here was damaging the city’s financial prospects. ‘Critical Period’ “Indianapolis,” the Chamber's statement said, “is in a very critical period. Recent events have caused many people, both our own residents and nation-wide, to question

coma Ave., a Cub Scout. The winners (left to right) are

| * en . . , ° whether our city is not a Silver Beaver Awards Given: i. wo wey ss:

community. “Those who have investments here and believe in this as a good

To 6 State Scout Leaders ne a es In i a gd

Council Re-elects Officers at Annual Meeting; I ae or ow

Challenged to ‘Show Way’ to Nation cerned. We are anxious to de-

. velop a course of action that will Central Indiana Boy Scout Council began its 34th year today with P

a; remedy basic wrongs.” a challenge made by a national scout official to “show the way to the The Chamber's statement said rest of the nation.”

that while directors recognize “basic In its annual meeting last night the council re-elected the officers

d defects,” there were some aspects of which led it through a successful year in 1947 and awarded the Silver law enforcement here that are

Beaver to six outstanding leaders of the year. sound. These officers were re-elected by| “The breakdown of public con-

unanimous vole on the recommen- fidence in all elements of law endation of the nominating commitee: lISS I C

i forcement here has not been justiWilson Mothershead, council

fied by the facts of the situation. president; Wallace O. Lee, scout " commissioner; Delmer H. (8kipper) Of Big CCOor Wilson, scout executive; John L.

‘Very Fine City’ “Indianapolis is a very fine city. Buehler, Harper J. Ransburg, William L. Schloss, Walter L. Spencer

It is enjoying a period of the great. and Clarence S. Sweeney, council ing to pass Indianapolis by if we ® The Silver Beaver award winners, .. wo ecked the Foreign Ministers'| The Chamber's anké on. lay

est industrial growth in its history.| “Qther industries are knocking at vice presidents, and Harry 8. Hanna, council treasurer, continue to sap our own confidence in ourselves through hypercritical have had at least 10 years service herh.. Vole ed to is tn scouting * 4nd ~quplaye ns re a ~septsdiiatives of | finding the co ni of public

Only Miracle Can

Salvage Conference

By WILLIAM H. NEWTON

the door, but some of them are go-Soripps-Howard Staff Writer In Service More Than Decade | yANDON, Dec. 13~The Russians policies and activities.”

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Lots of Work, Low Pay | Food Inspectors Find It's Hard to Shake Off Old Political Habits

Can’t Bring Themselves to Crack Down; Dr. Kempf Hands Out Wage Hikes on Merit

Last of a Series

By ROBERT BLOEM A restaurant inspector has to be a policeman, a sanitarian, a teacher and a diplomat all rolled int6 one. With ome or two exceptions, the local inspection staff has not been able to shake the mud of politics off his feet, While most or possibly all the inspectors seem to be working hard for the paltry $150 a month they are paid, the staff

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Kills

Wounds 2

Hunt Missing Mohster After Wild Outbreak

Police Fear Gangster May Be 5th Victim CHICAGO, Dec. 13 (UP)— Police today hunted for a pos'sible fifth victim of a wild night of shooting which left four men dead and two wound-

ed in the biggest mass gang

slaying since the 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre.

The shootings were touched off

needs men who are worth) grt Tr id hs tuation more than that and the city in his recent fight to obtain higher should pay such men move. |salaries for the incpection staff. He has obtained a hike in the maximum The Times found no ific evidence in the ey of|t0 $2400 a year hut is keeping the restaurant sanitation conditions|PUr>® strings tied. that inspectors today have to show Present inspectors who are juslifavoritism to avoid political heat fled by experience and training and But that definitely was the ‘performance for the higher salaries officials agree, not so long X ast. wiT get them. Those who are not

will receive no raises. Certain inspectors, recalling the According to city hall gossip, some time of the recent past when they were primarily proteges of city own limitations when the salaiy councilmen or other influentialinght was going on. According to politicians, can't seem to get out of the story, certain inspectors ap-

the old habits. The Times found|egled to their councilmen friends considerable evidence that some In-|noi to raise the salaries “because

spectors just can't bring themselves somebody else will be after my to crack down on restaurant owners, job» y although right now there appears to!" The qualifications are vital in

be no political reason why they nis type of work. Inspectors have shouldn't. |

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Washington Calling—

Bank Credit Conirol Talk

of the inspectors recognized their|

Dr. Gefald Kempf, city health (Continued on Page 2—Column 1)

when three. smalitime hoodlums sought revenge on a police informer who had tipped officers to the iden« tity of bandits who robbed a woman in her home last Sept. 5,

The informer was slain by the three gangsters. Two witnesses were taken for a one-way ride, shot to death and dumped on a lonely roadside, Left for Dead Two other witnesses were shot {and left for dead. They survived only because they remained motion less after they were shot—leading the killers to believe the shots had been fatal. One of the hoodlums was captured later by police and a second was shot to death when he resisted arrest. Police feared the third member of the mob was slain by the |pangster they Killed, This was the story of the slayings as told to police by Lowell Fent«ress, 21, a member of the mob who was captured at his home, “Shot in Head ~ © Fentress, Thomas Daly, 42, and

The winners: accomplish a miracle today the conJoel Hadley, August F. Hook and ference will end soon in complete Arthur W, Macy, all of Indianap- failure, olis; Wiley C. Dorsett, Danville;| with it will end any hopes of a Allen McWethy, Clayton, and Al-|peace treaty with Germany and len A. Parr, Lebanon. perhaps any hopes of permanent Mr. Hadley, Shortridge High peace in Europe. School principal, has been in scout] The Big Four called off their work since 1918. He was formerly|usual Saturday meeting today a scoutmaster and has served as a shortly before it was scheduled to scout. merit badge counselor for begin in order to give the delegates many years, time to assess the crisis.

General this morning. Mr. Ruston said the state will attempt to re-| cover the missing funds by suing the clerk-treasurer on her bond.

bond of $14,000 is insufficient to insure repayment of the shortage.

Tire Firm's Safe Looted of $1000

{ Burgilars, whose talents have been in a larger-than-usual number of safe crackings this week, |

were active again last night. Thugs knocked open a safe at the Guarantee Tirg and Rubber Co., 938 Virginia“ Ave., and took be-

l¢il's leadership training committee night. land has been skipper of Sea Scout other nations. He devoted an en-

Mr, Ruston said, however, that the Sip 1 here for several years.

Mr. Hook, vice president of Hook's] Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Drug Co., is chairman of the coun-|Molotov wrecked the conference last He hurled defiance at the

tire hour to the most vicious charges Macy began his scouting and inuendoes ever heard at a meetservide in 1924 as a troop commit-|ing of this kind. teeman. He assisted in the organi- Resent Molotov Insults zation of the council's east district! wan it was over, U, 8. Secretary and is a» member of the executives ciate George OC. Marshall said

board. Mr. Molotov had made it difficult Heads Health Commission {for other nations “to have much

Mr. Dorsett is chairman of the réypect for the dignity of the Soviet council’s health and safety commis-|ynion”

sion which was organized during| RBritain’s Foreign Secretary Ernest the year. He has been a district Bevin spoke next.

committeeman for many years and He said when the foreign minis-

Troop 301-in Danville. |problem, “We did not dream that Mr. Parr, active in scout work at we would inflict on ourselves the Lebanon for many years, is a for-| — mer; scout master of Troop 1 there. (Continued on Page 2-<Column 4) He is chairman of the district ad- »

standing leadership among bOYS”|p i.e Britain and the U. S. can transportation here.

The Chamber said it had been disturbed by the July 1 order of the Indiana Public Service Commission which branded transit service furnished by Indianapolis Railways, Inc, as “overcrowded, inadequate and dirty.” In order to find out the facts, the Chamber's statement said, the directors employed an independent firm of transit engineers, Day & Zimmerman of Philadelphia, Pa., to make a survey, The survey showed, according to the Chamber, that streetcars and busses here are no more crowded than in the other comparable cities, that vehicles in use at least meet the standards of cleanliness main~ tained elsewhere and that the service provided here, while admittedly not perfect, nevertheless is generally as adequate as that in the five ther cities examined ‘Good as Others’ | The Day & Zimmerman study re|veals, the” mber said, that transit service Nere is as good as that {provided in Louisville, Cincinnati,

took part in the organization of ters met—to- consider the German [P25 Columbus and Toledo which

are comparable cities, it added. The 21-page Day & Zimmerman survey said its findings were as follows: : | “We found the service furnished in Indianapolis to be generally ade-

tween $1000 and $1500, police were|vancement committee, has been a dinance, he sald. The Muncie ordi-| told. ¢ {member of the.executive board for| Wo een- Jers nance proposal was drafted by the| Detectives found truck tire tracks| the.past five years and is a national

erusading Delaware County Ministerial Association.”

Forecast 17° Low,

in the rear of the office building council representative. . ie and concluded from marks on a| Mr, MgWethy has been field =n Killed in Crash door that burglars had backed a missioner of cubbing in the district truck. into the door to smash it. |for many years and has spent much

Once inside, the burglars ran- time with the younger boys in| sacked the entire office, removing scouting.

He is a former Muncie TWO teen-agers were killed and two

quate, carried on under progressive policies in the phases covered by our assignment, and to compare favorably with that observed in the other cities. “Assuming a continuance of pres- |

TERRE HAUTE, Dec. 13 (UP)— nt policies and procedures, there!

is every reason to believe that

1s whether ‘some of these might start bigger downtrend than anticipated. "

ment guarantee. But Republicans say any change downward would | slow home-building and they ” “ » MEANWHILE, politics has influenced Republicans to give home-building another spurt by | authorizing FHA to underwrite

that,

w - ” IF CONGRESS makes detailed investigation of speculation in

don’t want to be responsible for |

} ° v James Morelli, 20, broke into a gae Makes Washington Shudc ar me oricd br om guess sna 4 his brother, Nick. Fentress said they intended to “ Debate Rages Over Most Explosive Issue [jon Kuesis but when he sot tos Capitol Hill Has Seen in Years [best of them in the scrap, Morell , . shot him in the head, killing Kuesis WASHINGTON, Dec. 183—Debate rages behind instantly. scenes here over hottest, most explosive issue in years— | The killers then forced Frank whether to impose real controls on inflation [Baker, 19, mechanic; James Ale, : ! : . Hl a friend of the Kuesis brothers, and While Congressmen discuss price controls, priorities Emil Schmeichel, a customer in the and allocations, back-stage talk concerns bank credit con- 88rage. info their waiting auto and trol. It was tried before 1920 depression and before 1929s ore, Westward out of the city. rol. was rie eirore epression and beiore & «Let's kill them all and make it crash. No one’s sure, now, whether reverse trend could 'a perfect crime,” Daly was quoted be stopped, once it's started. They're nibbling at it, Say. in. Frotonds Death haven't made up their minds how far to go. | Nour eg Brookfield, m, Economic and political dangers make officials shudder, [Daley fired a slug into Nick Kuesis’ wonder if cure is worse than disease. , [neek. Huesis foil to the ficor of All-out steps to cut bank credit could slow up indus- the car, seriously wounded: bus aul P P InAUS- |with the presence of mind to pretrial production, increase unemployment, seriously cripple [tend death. housing program; cause drop in price of government bonds held by | “I dragged Kuesis out and banks and insurance companies (not war bonds the public holds); [dumped him on the side of the cause higher interest rate on public debt. {road,” Fentress said. “About that . 8 » . wn = {time I heard another shot. Morelli POLITICAL pressures are all the other way and will be, all next had shot Baker. We dumped him year, because politicians fear effects of deflation even more than next to the road, too. inflation, . Baker wasn't dead. Like Kuesis, Truman Cabinet and other advisers are split on it; Republicans he was only pretending. are split on it; bankers and industrialists are split. | Fentress sald that after they Probable results: Nothing will drove away Daly shot Schmeichel be done immediately, nothing but | homes and apartments. There's three times in the chest and half-way measures will be tried | much sentiment In Cungress for dumped his body from the car. any time soon. Biggest question ' reducing the 90 per cent govern- |Morelli killed Alex by shooting him lin the head and the. Killers placed his body by that of Schmeichel, i Summons Police Aid Nick Kuesis crawled to a farmehouse and summoned police. Police waited at Fentress’ home, captured um and then went to the home of Daly.

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desk drawers and throwing them |scout commissioner and has been Others injured seriously early today ©dual or even better service will on the floor before forcing open commissioner of the council's west| When their automobile collided with continue to be operated, espgclally [the safe door, detectives said. district. |a hit-run car on a bridge as they !I better street conditions be

90 per cent of construction costs

Sgt. Frank Pape crashed in the of another $750 million werth of

front door of the house and Daly

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While some of the other robber-

O. B. Evenson, assistant national Were on their way home from a

brought about during rush periods, |

went for his gun,

fes this week have resulted in|director of rural scouting gave the|dance. blowing of safes, generally the address of the evening, . method of peeling the underside of

The dead were Alvin Morris, 18, “The Central Indiana Council is|and Mary Gayso, 18, both of Terre| P/ficAtion of routes in the central

Decreasing cloudiness was fore-/a safe or knocking off its combi-

In a position of leadership in na-

and possibly furthered by some

| consolidation of routes and sim-

| district.”

Clothe-A-Child Drive Aids

Before he could draw, Sgt. Pape fired six shots from his police gun. Every slug struck home. Three hit

Mother Working as Janitor vi i bea ire in’ te

|chest, He died instantly. Three Youngsters Fed on $40 a Month; | Morell was not found in his - . . {home and police believe Daly may 256 Children Outfitted so Far in Campaign have kinled him and may have inBy ART WRIGHT tended to kill Fentress later so that

Haute. Mr, Morris was killed out- A right. The girl died in St, An.| A The Chamber's directors said Day

gathering in Roberts Park Meth-|thony's Hospital less than an hour ¥ Zimmerman had convinced them odist Church. “We are waiting to| later. (that Indianapolis Railways was see where you will lead us.” | The injured were Patricia Wolfe, sii to the confidence of the Mr, Lee, oldest scout commission-|16, and Edward. Cleghorn, 19. public “as to its desire and ability

east for Indianapolis and vicinity/nation has been employed, police|tional scout work,” he told the this afternoon, with clear and cold! observed. tonight. wa}

Temperatures will rise to 35-th

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w = Weather Bureau said, and drop to Anti-Trust Suit 17 tonight. Increasing cloudiness

was forecost for tomorrow.

| Snow flurries in Lake Michigan area are expected today and in the ges po :

north portion of the state tomor-

row. Indiana skies were expected, WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UP)—| to be cloudy today, tonight and to-

morrow, but only slight temperature changes were forecast.

[The Justice Department today filed an anti-trust suit against E. I. Du~| pont De Nemours, Inc, of Wilm-

er in the world from point of serv- | Police said the accident occurred ice, paid tribute to scout mothers, on U, 8. 40 at the west end of wives and sweethearts. ia Bridge over the Wabash River.

There's Still a Santa Claus, Says Victim of Home Fire

Ravenswood Veteran Praises Neighbors for

{ington, Del. The government

|to render adequate transportation service to this community.”

School Construction To Be Speeded Here |

Clarence L. Parrington, president jof the Indianapolis School. Board,| {last night said immediate steps are planned to speed the school con-! struction program.

A mother who works as a janitor to keep her family together faces all the witnesses to the slayings a happier Christmas today because of The Times Clothe AOE. Se would be dead except himself. The $40 a month she earns is far short of the funds neede eee ep, clothe her three youngsters and to provide the food necessary to keep !7 KILLED IN RAIL CRASH young bodies healthy. CLERMONT-FERRAND, France, There is no other source of income. Her husband is in the hospital Dec. 13 (UP)—Seventeén persons and doctors say it will be a long were killed and 20 injured last time before he will be able to work [night when a train crashed into a . small - motor-powered trolley operating on the railroad line. The accident occurred on a spur line between Riom and Pontmore, 10

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again, One of the children is nearing the age where he could leave school

$15,000 BANDIT SEIZED PO

Offers of Rooms and Clothing

Addressing four PTA groups inand go to work. But this brave ® At 8:30 a. m. today, 35 School 3, Mr, Farrington predicted mother chooses to scrub floors lines, or* that & raise in the city’s birth rate rather than to deprive her boy of would overcrowd Indianapolis his education. $5236 00 schools and seriously impair the “x v who hurried education program unless expan- THAT'S WHY Clothe-A-Child is| ® The Times M IL E-O-sion and renovation of schools keep Sending a letter to this mother, DIMES is located on the entered the house to be ace, 2 telling her that kind-hearted In-| sidewalk in W. Washington __ |dianapolis neighbors have provided in front of the L. 8S, Ayres the funds with which to outfit the Co. and 8. 8. Kresge Co, It children. is open 24 hours a day. It It's because of the many people takes 60 lines of dimes, each in this unfortunate circumstance 88 feet long to’ make a full that Clothe-A-Child needs every! MILE-O-DIMES .— $8076.00 {dime and dollar that Indianapolis| —every dime of which will

, Ore, Dec. 13 (UP) charged unlawful monopoly of the A lone gunman was arrested late cellophane industry in the United “There's still a Santa Claus,” sald Augustus Charles (Gus) Bret-| yesterday a few minutes after he gates, hauer, 56-year-old blind veteran of World War I, who was left homeless robbed a Portland department store! The suit was filed in the U, 8. today when fire gutted his small house in Ravenswood. of an estimated $15,000. District Court here. It named six Mr, Brethauer referred to his “wonderful neighbors” foreign corporations as co-conspir. to his aid with offers of rooms and clothing. Times Index ators, but not defendgnts.” | Returning from a stroll Mr. Brethauer Attorney General Tom Olark said met with gusts of smoke and flame ~~ fm ava Amusements. 9 In Indpls. 5 in announcing the suit that “this that singed his hair, When the fire, Dressed in donated clothing, Mr. Eddie Ash ... 7) Inside Indpls, 6 is 8 major case directed at a serious Was ting dished the Rymiblicg Sve Brethatier sat on a couch in tne SATURDAY SPECIALS Books . ..... B/E. Johnson .. 9 monopoly condition where avenues room galow was a smo ng oEvery Saturday The Marquis Childs 10| Mrs. Manners 2|of competition are closed.” shell home of Pyul Nyholas and Pre Times is “chock full” of Churches ... 4-6 Movies .. ... 8 . Classified. 12-13] Music

“Por many years Dupont's cello-| Lost in the fire were all of his his neighbors. special features . , . for ex14|P. C. Othman, 5|cess of two-thirds of all of thismuch hand-woven material Mr. people,” he said, “a man could do

miles north of Clermont-Ferrand.

6! phane plants have produced in ex-|personal belongings, furniture, and With the aid of such wonderful ample:

os Bl ROdID ....... 14} commodity used in this country,” Brethauer had to fill Christmas or- nothing but start again. I set out

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vow 3tMr; Clark said. “This. {llegal -mo-|ders. He learned to weave while a/to support myself when I returned

can spare. A little bit from every, go to clothe a needy child. one goes a long way toward fur- ® Stop by and add YOUR ° nishing the money to do the job dime to this fast-growing