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58th YEAR—NUMBER 241

All Speedway Aglow With Lights as Yolo Spirit Hits New High

Homes Vie for Honors With Gay Decorations; Stores Gaily Trimmed in Haliday Bunting

By LOUIS ARMSTRONG Speedway is just bursting with Christmas spirit. That community of airplane engines and race cars is putting on the greatest display of unified feeling in its history outside of the Memorial Day classic itself. Everyone in the thriving little area is talking about Christmas and the big party the night of Dec. 283. It shows in the homes and| in the stores and in “the plants” which are the life blood of the town. Last night, Main St. was ablaze with multi-colored lights. Large illuminated tubes like bright] chunks of stick candy hung from| each lamp post and streamers of greenery formed arches across the! gin the § nde. | An all-out effort to keep Prest-O-om e green garlands ung large colored globes on which are! Lite Battery Co. from moving out of painted Santa Clauses and other SPeedway was being pushed today figures. Some globes are in the by civic groups in that community shape of stars. On each lamp | and in Indianapolis.

post is a large foil-covered wetaih) Movin : and the reflectors on the post oving of the plant, whish em have been lined with red and a | ploys approximately 450 persons, has

paper. |been the talk of Speeaway townsThe decorations reach from 16th| People for days.

Factory Removal Stirs Sneedway

Town Acts to Keep Prest-O-Lite Plant

Bt. to 10th St. | A member of the firm said that Every business house along under present plans the firm would Bpeedway's “main stretch” has be completely moved by.the end of

spruced up for the holiday season. March. Windows are either trimmed or, Wayne Baxter, Speedway town

in the process of being trimmed board president, said the city was!.

with Christmas scenes and decora-! Keeping in close touch with the tions. company in an effort to work out ‘an agreement by which the com-

To satisfy the Christmas shop- pany might continue here. pers many of the business places Officials Silent were open last night and the cash, Company officials would not say registers were playing a chorus of to what city they plan to move. “Jingle Bells.” Speedway townspeople say the comDorothy ‘Greengard, proprietor of pany is‘going to Vincennes. °’ a women's apparel shop which! The company has a plant at Vinbears her first name said, “Business cennes is euen better than last year and! through efforts of Vincennes ecitiour Christmas rush really doesn't zens. come until the last minute.” The Prest-O-Lite Co. came to InEd Diefenbaugh, who manages ,dianapolis 12 years ago and began Frank's Furniture Store, said buy-/'the manufacture of batteries for-

Cash Registers Jingle

which was recently built :

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er's attitudes have changed in the merly made by the old Prest-O-Lite last year but explained that despite’ firm. tht change, Dusiess : Jus month, is Mum About Plans “Certain items were very scarce 11N¢ Original last year and things were bought was - founded by the Carl Fisher up as fast as you brought {hem |terests. Approximately a year ago! out of the stock room” he satd.jil Was taken over by. Linde Air, “They are a little more selective | © roducts Co. The present battery this year but it hasn't hurt busi- COMPany was never a part of the ness.” |original firm. Form Somber Backdrop The Linde Air Products Co.

Across the street the half-dark-! ened “plants” backdrop for the gay lights. There was only one discordant note from across the street. Word was out that the Prest-O-Lite Battery Co. was moving from town. The company, after many years of operation in Indianapolis, is moving | to Vincennes, where it has con-| structed its own building.

in{dicated today it plans to take over)

pany said they were not ready to announce their extension plans. The building which the battery [concern occupies is owned by the

{Union- Carbide & Carbon O Co. Big Perk’s Luck 4 The plant employs approximately g 50. Allison division of General oor dces New Test Corp. has announced it will lay off 3% Harkers by this time next| Big Perk will try his already-ex-But this news from “the plants” tended luck in court again tomorwas being taken philosophically by row. Speedway residents who have seen| Andrew Green (Big Perk) Perkins, lay-offs before. this eel-like escape from justice rap“I don’t see how it will affect idly becom a fabulous quality, things very much,” said one towns- will go to legal bat in Judge Joseph man. S M. Howard's Municipal Court 3 on Speedway’s residential area is the familiar charge of keeping a bright and cheerful and gay this'room fo, pool selling, Christmas, Nearly every home is The k ng-size, 40-year-old Indiana aglow with Christmas trees or elec- Ave. racketeer and lottery baron is tric candles in the windows. alleged to have had on hand when The town board's decorations police arrived before lunch-time, committee which collected more ‘Nov. 19, unexplained items that inthan $2000 this year for the towns cluded 1126 boxes of baseball pool trimmings is offering a prize to the tickets, seven bank clearing slips best decorated plant and home. The and 5 pea shafe, Speedway Lions Club will give" a| These were taken to the police property room by Sgt. Harry Yarbrough, along with an array of other

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|articles confiscated in the past from Red- Inspired Strikes Po Ee a, he past Tram Collapse in Sicily Ave. .

ROME, Dec. 17 (UP) —Communist- S&t. Yarbrough, incidentally, only provoked general strikes collapsed 8st Monday witnessed another of today in Palermo and Catania— Dis efforts go awry in Municipal Sicily's two largest cities—and Pre- Court 1. Big Perk, his usual flashy mier Alcide De" Gasperi’s new two- Self, walked out a free man on the day old Italian government won its Same charge, leaving the puzzled first test of strength in the National Sergeant sitting at a table piled Assembly, high with pool tickets and other The assembly voted 246 to 140 to 8ambling paraphernalia that always uphold the ouster of Antonio Gio- 5¢em to be at 787 when police get vannucci, mayor of Pescara, who wag there. | charged with nepotism and incom-| ) petence, Communists moved to reinstate him, but their motion was defeated.

Soybean Growers Fight Times State Service

U. S. Tax on Margarine, JEFFERSONVILLE, Dec. 17—BeWASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UP) —| decked with flowers bearing conTue American Soybean Association. gratulatory notes, Jeffersonville's ; oe yy ai pore |newest gambling casino operied, last criminatory” and should be re- PiSht. The debut was homey and in-

moved im: ediately, | Ersel ‘Walley, president of the formal. . ‘There were no doormen association, said repeal of the tax is and patrons wandered freely in and necessary if soybean growers are to out, waving to each other like cusmeet their production goals. (tomers at a new supermarket. - Baskets of roses and a large . {horseshoe fashioned from chrysanTimes Index |themums added to the cheeriness, pe e— ‘Drinks were on the house for “pre-

Amusements. 16| Obituaries ... 28 mier” night. Bridge . 24) Dr. Jordan... 23| Nameless and minus the tradiCarnjval ‘ 19 Patterns . 23 tional neon sign, the new joint is Classified. .32-3¢| Radio ....... 35/in a neat, concrete block building Comics ..... 5 Scherrer .... 20 with glazed tile front. Canopied Crossword ... 20|8ide Glances. 20 with green and white stripe awnEditorials ... 20 Society ...... 22 ings. f Forum ..... . 20| Sports .... 30-31 It is located on a quiet section of

Home Page.. 26| Teen Topics. 24 West Court Ave, near Mulberry Inside Indpls. 19| Weather Map 13 St.; removed from the Satish downMrs. Manners 2| Women's ..23-24/ town district, Ruth Millett. 24 Word-A-Day. 19 Movies ....,. 16 World Allain 20'was issued to the Clapp Motor Sales,

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17,

e Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Possible | snow this morning, warmer in afternoon with high of 34; warmer tonight; low of 17 in outlying districts; warmer tomorrow,

FINAL | HOME

1947

“ TRASH BARRELS — "Don’t throw hath on the ground, pd it ina batrel™ is:

the theme of a clean-up campaign which be Massachusetts Avenue Association.

Harry

sn foday-under the sponsorship of the

oburn, association secretary [on the |overheating. Householders will be

truck) prepares t6 hand a barrel to Floyd W, Hassler, association president, as the grganization Placed 32 of the confaners slong the first eight blocks of the street,

By The Times

A campaign to “Help Keep Massachusetts Ave. Clean” began today under the leadship of the recently reorganized Massachusetts Avenue’

{Association

The first effort of the association's drive to dress up the first eight ocks of the street began this morning when members placed four or receptacles along each of the first eight blocks. the asso- =

Reorganized recently, ciation plans an all-out effort to better business and living conditions along the street. Business place proprietors will be urged to improve their establishments whenever possible, Floyd W. Hassler, sporting goods dealer and association president,’ and Harry H. Coburn, association secretary, were on hand today as the first barrels were unloaded. - Persons along the street will be urged to place sidewalk sweepings|

and waste paper in the containers.

Collections will city, The association also has on its agenda the improvement of the avenue's lighting.

be made by the

Treasury to Sell $4 Billion

Bonds in Inflation Drive WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UP) The Treasury will conduct an or-

zanized drive to sell savings bonds the shattered pieces of the plastic 36 by tomorrow afternoon, melting jn May or June as an anti-infla- pistol he told her how Stephen Off most of the ice.

tionary measure, it was learned

today.

Informed sources said the goal will be in the neighborhood of $4 billion.

Jeffersonville Winks as Gamblers Open Doggy Casino With Drinks and Flowers

[Co. for use as an auto parts sales shop. But the only items for sale

[there last night were food, and red,

white and blue chips. A restaurant, separate from the gaming quarters, occupies one corner of the building. The calm, clubby atmosphere last night gave no hint of reports a gambling war may be imminent in southern Indiana. Underworld sources here relay rumors that Jeffersonville proprietors are accusing each other of “cheating” and violating certain unofficial “fair trade” rules established by common consent of all competitors. The newcomer is reported backed by a combine of two or three gaming impresarios who already ‘operate, or have operated other casinos downtown. Interior of the latest addition to the city's major industry is com-

the ‘evening, and a roulette wheel

cage were

ne moves ete omic Massachusetts Ave. Starts Galosh Weather Drive to Get Rid of Litter

32 Barrels Placed Along First Eight Blocks By New Association for Cleanup Campaign

Civie Reporter

| pistol.

surface and the street

iterday’s races were still

Streefcar Kills Boy, 5, as Santa Visits His Home

BOSTON, Dec. 17 the front doorbell hy Mrs. Margaret Barnes, 36, hustled her 5-year-old son Stephen into his jacket and cap. Wows don’t go on the street,” s med. oN, I won't,” he promised, picking up his red and White plastic “I'm gonna play holdup.” Mrs. Barnes admitted the deliveryman who carried a bright, new tricycle into the house, » ~ ~ FIVE MINUTES later, after had the tricycle hidden in a closet, the doorbell rang again. This time it was a policeman,’ He led her to a nearby intersection. While friends picked up

sha

ran across the street, waving his| toy weapon and shouting: Bang. It's a holdup.” The boy was struck and killed

by a’ streetcar,

| Scores of chairs with arm rests were arranged in rows before horse-| betting boards where results of yeschalked up: A sign said the place pays track) odds. Color photographs of Xen-| tucky Derby winners decorate (lie! walls, Early play at the dice tables was light. Among the participants were several elderly ladies whom the stick men affectionately | addressed by their first names. | Later an assortment of well-| known Louisville gamblers barged) in and were welcomed warmly by official greeters. Neither Mayor Samuel G. Shan- | non nor Police Chief Gordon Gilmore could be reached for com-| ment. police department and inquired if|

| officers knew anything about the fortgble but not spectacular. Two dice tables were operating early nf , sald the man on the police switch- | Bulding permit for the structure’ "blackjack table and chuck-a-luck| board. But that's as far as he for action.| would go.

newest development, “Yep, it's a nice place 1 hear”

= was 18 degrees,

A reporter telephoned the

Expected Tonight

Ice to Become Slush |

In Mercury Upturn LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Sam.....19 10am..... 2 Tam..... 20 am....3 Sam. ....23 12 (Noomn).. 35 fam... 8% lpm 35

Rising temperatures will most of the ice and snow. off Indianapolis streets by tomorrow night,

the weather bureau predicted today.

State police, however, trips today.

ous,

The worst of the cold wave, which north Central states yesterday, missed Indianap-

swept across the e Olis. The lowest temperature

at the airport at 3 a.m. today.

The weatherman said there may be another light skift of snow here but rising temperatures will

today, turn it into slush by tonight. Lowest temperature

in the but it was 12!

tonight In the city is expected to be around]

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice. ddianapatin Ind,

Issued daily except Sunday

Higoi With

PRICE FIVE CENTS

ns Named

Markey

To Court Posts

Shell to Cut Deliveries of

Oil to Homes

Plans to Build Up Emergency Reserve

Re. !

Bookwalter Heads GOP in 11th District

Step Aimed at Ending Inter-Factional Strife

| By DONNA MIKELS A 10 per cent allocation cut to all

|domestic users of fuel oll was an-

nounced by Shell Oil Co. today as {the firm spearheaded a voluntary, industry move to set up a “hardJp pool.” Shell is the first major company. wo announce a cut, but it was un-| {derstood that similiar programs are [being studied by other major. firms, |'ndependent groups and oil men's!

associations.

Shell has Instructed distributors {to cut household consumers 10 per

cent below what they normally re-|

{ (ceive,

The oil saved “hardship pool.” served for use in emergency cases for persons who have installed ofl’ burners and are without a source of} oil supply. It is to be rationed out! to such persons until they can and another saurce-of fuel, “This 10 per cent reduction should, not cause any discomfort for fuel users,” said. government rationing, fuel oil consumption was cut by approximately 30 per cent and even with this severe reduction there was no real {hardship » | “A survey of 75,000 homes shows

{able to take- the omb:n their sfride iif they will resét thefmostats to |degrees in the daytime and 60 ay

[night,” he reported researches indicated, “Hardship” pleas from persons

who converted to oil or a oll] \burners without assursnce of ade-| quate supply, made the rationing | {program necessary, spokesmen said. |

Provides for Gls

Previously oll companies have fol{lowed the policy of supplying old

orders. However, since in many {cases newly installed oil burners are {the only source of heat, oil men [have taken this step to spread the! | supply as far as possible. | Some of the most extreme cases

melt igre in GI residences, quonset huts,

{trainers or small houses, where a small burner is the only source of supply. The coming cold spell would

warned find these places totally "unheated, Hoosiers - against . unnecessary alto) yf the distributors do not maker” Authorities said nigh-! OP When ways were still extremely dang- r=

emergency allocations. As Shell led the way, independent | associations and other firms were mapping out a similar project on a national scale, Should these plans crystallize, a {similar 10 per cent cut may be adopted by all major firms and members of independent associa- | tions. Preliminary plans are to ask {governors and mayors to set up a citizen's “hardship committee” to investigate requests, Supply Not Permanent

Oil from the pool will not be used

23 degrees with a low of 17 outside to give anyone a permanent source

the city tomorrow morning.

of supply, according to present

A mass of warm air moving in plans, but merely to tide them over here from Montana is expected to until some permanent plan can be

send the temperature as high as effected.

Although automobiles

“Bang. land crashed all over Indianapolis

last night, accidents. At Pendleton, Ned Huston, 52,

there were no serious!

land Equipment Co., Anderson, was) [killed instantly when the car ne

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THE TIMES 1947

Mile-O-Dimes

+ DAILY, ESTIMATE

® At 8:30 a. m. today, 48% lines, or

$7180.80

® The Times MIL E-O-DIMES is located on the sidewalk in W. Washington in front of the L. 8, Ayres Co. and 8. 8. Kresge Co. It is open 24 hours a day and manned by members of the American Legion Pireman's Post: No. 42 during off-duty hours. It takes 60 lines of dimes, each 88 feet long to make a full MILE-O-DIMES ~—$8076.00 — every dime of which will go to clothe a needy child, ® 8top -by-and add YOUR dime to this fast-growing line. i

The severe oil shortage was predicted by The Times last summer

skidded {when it was foreseen mass installa-

[tions of oil burners would exceed sources of supply. Although there is no shortage of crude oil, lack] |of steel for production and trans-|

pn sales manager for the Brown Motor |POrtation has caused the shortage

{in the Midwest. The announcement of the cut {brought warnings from safety experts against any attempt to hoard | {oll One recent fire was believed! to have been caused by storage of | la winter's supply of oil in drums| {in A garage. |

139 Youngsters Outfitted By Clothe-A-Child in a Day

Internal Revenue Employees Play Santa To 17 With Shopping Tour and Big Party

By ART

CLOTHING of needy children through The Times Clothe-A-Child| reached its 1947 peak yesterday when 139 youngsters were outhited at

local stores. This brought the year’

Times shoppers took 113 of them to the stores. dents who wanted the Christos thrill of being host to the children

clothed 26. Employees of the local the outstanding Santa Claus of the day. Men and women workers took {17 children ‘to, the stores, bought them clothes, then took them to |their. headquarters for an all-aft-| (ernoon ‘ party at which toys and candy ‘were distributed. T ONE OF THE WOMEN emPloyees bok expressed the spirit]

Reserved for Emergency is to become a This is to be re-|

A spokesman for the firm! “During the war years under,

gray oi te bench of Mr

By NOBLE REED A three-way maneuver dee signed to cover up intere factional strife in the Repube lican party here was seen in major political appointments today.

| Upon the formal recommendation |

GOP LEADER — Republican chairmanship of the |ith district was given today to John H. Bookwalter,

of James W. Ingles, newly elected county GOP chairman, Gov. Gates [today offered the Superior Court 3 'judgeship to Willlam R. Higgins, {veteran Indianapolis attorney and [Republican leader. | On the same recommendation the Governor announced he had ape pointed Joseph T. Markey, Demo icrat, former Superior Court 1 judge, as the new judge of Municipal Cours 1, succeeding Judge Louis Weiland {who has been on that bench eight years.

Awaits Acceptance .{ The appointment of Mr. Higgins to the Superior Court bench was contingent upon his acceptance of the oRer. { ‘Mr. Higgins’ aeceptance of the .court post, the Governor said, will | depend upon a legal opinion on whether he will serve on the bench {one year or three years. | The attorney general's office was ‘asked to give an opinion determine [ ing whether the appointment will | be only until a judge can be el net year or whether the a | winl serve the full unexpired term jx retiring Judge Emsley W. Johnie y | fo Jr. who resigned two weeks 3 Others Attacked. ems cor cue { The third appointment regarded

as highly significant toward ende Pedestrian Forced ing GOP factional strife was the Into Car

announcement of Chairman Ingles that he had appointed John H, A new outbreak of sex crimes was Bookwalter, president of the Book=

i NAMED JUDGE—Joseph T, Markey today was appointed

Woman Kidn

customers: and accepting no new | being investigated by police t>day. walter Printing Co. Inc. as GOP

One woman was kidnaped from|chairman of the 11th district te {a downtown street and raped. Three represent Marion County on the more women, one an expectant! Republican state committee. mother, ‘were assaulted in rape al-| ne Governor also announced the tempts and police held a suspect in \appoifitment of Joseph F. Eichhorn one of the assaults. of Bluffton #s prosecutor for Wells The rape victim, a 27-year-old County in the 28th judicial circuit, wife, told police she was kidnaped Mr. Eichhorn, a Democrat, will by a lone man in 8. Illinois 8t. near succeed Arthur E. Freeland, another the Union Station, | Democrat, whe has resigned. (The Times does not Neither Mr.®Higgins or Mr. Book« names of rape victims.) walter have been active publically She said he gouged her eyes to in the fight between GOP warring force her into an.old model car and factions during the last six years, then took her to the Bluff Rd Mr. Higgins many years ago was dumps where he assaulted her twice. treasurer of the state GOP come She said he threatened to knock mittee and at one time was dise her out if she kept screaming and trict chairman, promised he would take her home. mr Bookwalter also served as En route to her home, she said, her (yeasurer of the state GOP come abductor parked the car on the mittee several years ago and also South Side and attempted to rape served as the 11th District chaire her once more. man. She struck hip with a shoe, He choked her and gouged her eyes, she said. He threatened to take her to Louisville, “for his brother,” she told police, He then assaulted her a

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Happy to Serve “I am happy to be of service te my party,” Mr. Bookwalter said on accepting the district chairmanship, “My efforts will be directed toward the interest of our district to the best of my ability in all deliberae tions of the state Republican come mittee.” The offer to appoint Mr. Higgins to the court post appeared to be a forced compromise between GOP

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rapher,, , . or just like good : ip 2 oat, oo . to [factions which have been battling see the best-of-the-week |OVer two candidates for the judge : hip. selections of The Times |* When Judge Johnson resigned, he Amateur Photo Contest today recommended Frank Fairchild for *. Also you'll want to Appointment as his successor. Reme ead the rule the §75 nants of the old GOP faction *a e Tiles for the § |aligned with James L. Bradford,

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|former county chairman, got behind Mr. Fairchild. Urge Brown for Post Members of the faction headed by Joseph J. Daniels, who success fully backed Mr, Ingles for the county chairmanship recently, were reported supporting Leo T. Brown for the Superior Court post. Affer a conference of party lead ers t night, both Mr. Fairchild . |and Mr, . Brown were eliminated |from the running without explanae tion. Support for Mr. Higgins is said to have developed among members of the Ingles-Daniels group as a hage mony compromise, Close connections with the Ingles Internal Revenue. Departm¥nt were Daniels ghoup also wis seen in the that keeps the pulse of Clothe-A- [Murked appointment. Judge Markey Child alive: It ecently has not been closely ale “I think that this day will bring| lined ‘With the Democratic pedben

me my higgest thrill of Christmas. pation. other hand, Judge Welle

To see the joy in those youngsfer's faces ‘was well worth every minute(and: Who sought re-appointment, is

{of the day.” Whether ‘the

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