Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1948 — Page 1
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FORECAST: Cloudy with occasional snow w tonight and tomorrow morning. Lowest temperature tonight, low 20s. Highest tomorrow,” upper 30s. 58th YEAR—NUMBER 263
| ea Asks Budget Boost
“ExDlerk Sues To Recover Gaming Losses
Stiff Congress Fight Faces ‘Cold War’ Program;. GOP Calls Proposals ‘Extravagant’
~By-LYLE.C.. WILSON, United. Press Staff
Ettinger Asks $27,829; Names Two Places
Two suits demanding recovery of $27,820 alleged gambling losses from,
two establishments were filed ™
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—President Truman — sent Superior Court 5 today-by Charles
: Replicas Congress, which i
rv” budget for ‘spending more than $39,
the fiscal year 1949.
is sure to rip it apart, a “cold 000 ,000 in
That is 8 spending increase of $1,941,218,622 over the
current fiscal year, But Mr. Truman called the! new budget “even more realistic and hard- boiled than the He cited the international emer] gency, rising prices: and demands
-of public interest as factors forc-;
ing spending up. He asked for funds to start new programs which ‘would run -into/ — “pationa health ne plan, vastly broadened old-age and unemployment insurance coverage, and universal military training| smong others. Republicans® calltd the budget ui veyed the
R. Ettinger, former Marion County clerk. One suit demanded judgment of
$0846 from “The Spinning Wheel” at 3728-30 W. other action $16.983 from’ Highway 31 in Hamilton County |
16th St. and the: asked recovery ‘of “The Gun Club” on
means of the nation te meet this near Carmel.
year.” Chairman Styles Bridges of the Senate Appropriations Committee led off the attack.
politics in an attempt to make the. budget appear as measure.” Mr. Bridges said there “is no reNR ARR TR ers despite Mr. Truman's $40-a-{head tax reduction proposal of last week.
Tite ‘A. Gibson, Roy Poland and Harry The New Hampshire Republican Poland. All four were named - de{said President Truman had “played fendants in the suit.
an economy Ciener,
Mr. Ettinger stated in his suits
Morris = (Stenge)
RTL Agency in Receivership Filing of the suits followed ap-
pointment of receivers for the J. G.
He said the $11 billion proposed McCullough Agency, Inc, of which
for national defense and “addition- Mr,
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| Highlights of Truman's
‘Message on Budget
(Where Your Money Goes, Page 5)
manager until [Yoh ago.
Stu hearing Court 4 on Dec, 26 disclosed that liabilities of McCullough agency to[taled between $50,000 and $60,000: The assets of the firm were declared “far less than the liabilities.”
Ettinger was ' treasurer . and he resigned two
Statements by attorneys. inthe. in Superior
Mr. Ettinger called as a witness
#t. the hearing declined to answer
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UP)—Major points and high- questions about what happened to
light quotations in President T Surplus
ruman’s budget message:
the firm's money and assets.
Mr. Ettinger’s suits to recover
gambling losses listed 13 dates be-
Pe ATen SURPLUS FOR FISCAL 1949—$4,307,868,068 based on Sinning last Aug. 11 when he lost receipts of $44,476,862.051 and ‘expenditures of $39.668,993 983. ESTIMATED SURPLUS FOR FISCAL 1948—$7,482,610986 based on Wheel. |
debt.” »
budget “must remain high ‘until we
~ gevenues of $45210,386,347 and expenditures of $37,727,775,361. Surpluses-for both-fiscal years “should be-used -to-reduce the public. ~ The biggest single loss, the suit: edi Aim sane. The defendant but Mr. Burney recovered himself |stated, was last Oct. 2 when Mr. pag edrlier entered a Plea. of not & sat back in his chair.
"Spending on regular- government activities will be lower, but the
have met our international respon-
shilities and can see the way clear tb & peaceful and prosperous world.”| NATIONAL DEFENSE—Estimated at $11,025,000,000 for fiscal 1941, Club in Hamilton County occurred;
- tompared with
of added military strength, if Europe should succumb to TR
erans’ services and yr mated. with ‘the current $6,832
specific ampunts at The Spinning
Biggest Loss $2681
d he $2681 in , ng WHEE
winnings totaled $250 on Sept. 15.
$10,746,000,000 in 1948. This accounts for 28 per cent, during dice games, the suit Raed,
| between. Sept. 20 and Dec. 6. 8. few
OR EEG #7000:000,000 in fiscal 1949 compared with $5,533,000,000 Says" before a petition was filed! in fiscal 1048. This accounts for 18 per cent of the budget. “The costs against the McCullough Agency. !
totalitarian
the program of ~economic aid now |
eri, $6 103000. - ne
$5,25,000,000 for debt retirement compared with $5,200,000,000, and $2,028, |
000,000for social welfare, health and security compared with $1,060,- pared the suits, said the defendants|
000,000.
Taxes . “Some “readjustment is required, to afford relief to many’ families who are suffering great hardships! from the present tax structure . out total receipts should not be reduced |
Mr. Tréman last week called for|
Ancteasi thus not depriving the gov-| of any revenue.
posed bill would reduce revenues by _$5,outs. off -setting “this loss by other\taxgtion. But the| II try to make up
for “thi” py reducing government of intentions of ousting the Ameri: Cipiyang
Spending, - Mr. Truman said tax revenues “assume of the present high levels of busi-| hess activities and incotge, continued full employment, and_stable Prices close to the present’ level (but) ‘these assumptions. presu an effective anti-inflation gram.” -
Anti-Inflation
ntinued high] ntinuation
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“We are all’ aware of the im-|
Perative necessity for preventing further inflation.” . Substantial budget surpluses — used to reduce the public debt—are “one of the most effective weapons” for fightAng inflation. Otherwife “we shall have to rely much more .heavily on direct controls, which we all agree should be held to a minimum.” : CONTROLS<~Continue rent con-|
trols. Reimpose installment buying Curbs
tioning ‘andl allocations controls. Curb commodity speculation. Cur-| tail government lending. Strengthen anti-trust enforcement. PUBLIC DEBT--Now below $258 billion. Mr. Truman estimates fit Will be. down to $246 billion by Juhe 30, 1049, if ‘surpluses are -ap-
(Contifiued on “Page $~Column 1) Times Index Amusements. 12/F. C. Othman 9| Eddie Ash.... 6|Pattern 14 Carnival .,.., 9 Obituaries . 8
‘Marquis Childs 10 Radio .. 19 Classified ..16-18 Mrs. Roosevelt 13
Comics | ...... 19 Robt. Ruark.. “9 Chossword ,, + 15!Scherrer ..... 10 Editorials ,,.. 10|Side Glances.. 10 Fashions ,,.,. 14 Society ...... 13 Forum ,... a. veeans 81 Meta Given . 44 Stranahan ... 7 In Indpls, . § Teen Talk. ... 14 Inside Indpls.. 9 Teen Topics ., 13 Mrs. Manners, 3|W: .. 10
Ruth Millett. 14) Weather Map 15
price, .wage and rationing
Grant “limited” stand- -by| ‘Powers to impose price-wage, ra-
-/Dr Wells Held '3 Hours: by Reds
BERLIN, Jan, 12 (UP)—Dr. Her-
Clay, was detained for’ “three h
| disclosed today. - The detention of Dr: Wells was one of a number of incidents arising since. the Soviets served notice
|cans and British from Berlin. Wound U. 8. Officer A Russian border guard fired five bullets through a car carrying Maj. Richard R. Baker and his wife. The! Air- Force ‘major suffered a nicked
finger. Dr, Wells was picked up-late. yess.
“|terday in the Potsdamer Platz. He and Peter A. Frankel, another mili-
tary government official, were - ing the lighted windows Kaminsky’s, art dealers: They sw another American automobile sur rounded by Russian soldiers armed with tommy ‘guns, Kaminsky's was closed recently by Soviet authorities. Dr. Wells asked a Russian soldier whether the shop had been reopened, and why the car was surrounded by soldiers. "Reds Surround Car
The Russians then moved. In around Dr. Wells’ car. After questioning them, the Rus|sians telephoned U. 8. military police and asked ‘them to come and {get the two parties.
Asked for an explanation, the |Russians said Dr. Wells and “Mr.
camera in either car.-
that “the plaintiff won on FTI
L.. Announcement of the “program
Rotstein had been detained for try-| ing to take pictures. There was no brother,
The biggest single losses at the Gun Club were $1400 on Dec. 1 an 1300 on Oc
on OEE ET Sr SEL 2¢ Andrew Jacobs, attorney who pre-
tin the cases all had been given an| {opportunity to pay back some of] the money before action was taken, | *but they refused.” The second paragraph in the sult]
‘against the Spinning Wheel asked
for appointment of a receiver to “take charge of any assets held by the defendants.”
The suit stafed, however, that
8 W0-a-person fncome tax reduc- man B Wells, president. on 16ave ype oiaintiff believes that the Ho pie would be paid for by from Indiana University and cul- money wor by the defendants was; corporation. taxes $3.200.- tural adviser to Gen. Lucius D. transferred over to property under, “the names “of ‘persons “the identity A pro-|by the Russians yesterday in the of whom is to the ‘defendants - well ublican income tax cut Soviet sector of Berlin, authorities known.”
The-names of the “parties holding the assets are unknown to the plaintiffs,” he suit stated.
Gas to Spend $1 Million on Plants
Citizens Gas and Coke Utility today announced it was planning a $1 million expansion program for Js ‘two plants here. .
was made by company officials foljowing their -meeting with Mayer | Al Feeney at City Hall. «By virtue of his office, the mayor is a member of the utility's board of directors. The million-dollar loan will be’ financed by a bond issue, since the utility is not allowed to turn its
revenue receipts into new construc-
Company officials were not ready to .make known the full details of the expansion program.
Tivsws Kerosene on Fire, Girl, 9, In Hospital Henrietta Starks, nine - year - old daughter of Mrs. Johanna Starks, 316 Arch St. was in fair condition in General: Hospital togay. 8he was ‘burned on the head and face Saturday night when she threw kerosene into a stove at her home.
Frankie, were alone at the time,
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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issied daily except ht Sunday
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NTR Adin was retained by
? Watis’ The suit referred to ofily one SeS- intricate sion when the plaintiff won. The apparently exasperated Judge Barger. At one point, he commented: The $16,983 net losses at the Gun ~ “we're here to get the evidence. (Continued on Page $—Column 3)
Police said she and s six-year-old|
Court Denies Surprise | Motion as Selection Of Watts Jury Begins 3
Judge Asked to Rule
Defendant Enters Formal ‘Not Guilty' Plea
By DONNA MIKELS, SHELBYVILLE, Jan. 12—The
A rat of The Spinning charged with the slaying of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney, got under way late were y Donnelly, Albert i1is morning after Shelby Circuit Judge Harold Barger denied defense motions to quash the indictment and suppress evidence.
Judge Barger also overruled a
. | last-minute surprise motion to sei Not to let lawyers display their inThe other suit stated that Nate aside a report of physicians de- tellectual capacity.” Glazier claring Watts sane and mentally Danny Douthitt and Jake Tony competent to stand trial. were operators of the Gun Club in PE RI RR
This motion was ied " WY 8.
Stage Cleared for Trial
By overruling
Judge Barger cleared the stage for the first degree murder trial of. in. the. case in the position of beifig,
Witts fr the Armistice Day slay- temporarily at least, a defensé wits. iny of Mrs. Burney in her Me- " ridian Hills home.
The judge called the defendant,
nattily dressed in a collarless jacket and a red, blue and yellow tie, to! the bench and read the murder | morning’ and conferred frequently indictment to him. i {
“How do you plead?” asked the judge. “Not guilty,” replied Waits evenly. _
Judge Barger ordered _pfospective
jurors into the courfréom and the selection of the jury began.
yas was required to make a w plea because psychiatrists had
plea followed a sowsing of legal - maneuvers, which
atts’ me” ee
supplement four Si juty in Marion County. lawyers, { [called as witnesses, these = motions, Son L Stark and Sheriff’ Al Magen< heimer,
Slight Hike MayBeGranted By Expeditor
Lovisville Case
Declared in Point
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 Mayor Al Feeney's opposition to a 256 per cent across-the-board rent increase in Indianapolis likely will be sus{tained Here by Housing ExRE PE ar ON | Thus far the Expediter’s Office has allowed only two general in. creases—-$5 per cent at Louisville, {Ky.. and 10 per cent at Klamath {Palls, Ore. ag “oyoday & 10 per cent increase for EE Solando and 15 per cent for Contra } Costa Counties in California sore (denied. They are in the San Fran. | etsco area where the city board has ‘recommended no general increases ibe granted and that rent control . pe continued for. another year, : {Previously the Expediter's office ‘turned down six such general ine crease recommendations from local boards, none of which were for more’than 15 per cent and the ma- : jority of which were 10 per cent. 4] _ 8 Cltisens Protest | | Although the Indianapolis Rent OB | Advisory Board recommendations ' for a 25 per cent increase have not |yet arrived here, two citizens al- 4 A wasted RRA RE
Out Sanity Finding;
Times Staff Writer trial of Robert Austin
Watts, 25,
Several hours were spent in hearings on the defense motion to quash the indictment. One defense conno bo ever had ANA Gb ama
To prove its point, the defense Prosecutor Jud«
This placed the prosecutor”
He didn't like it and- frgued heat(edly with the defense. Appears ‘Confident Watts ‘appeared confident this | with-his attorneys. ~Across the venerable . Shelby “County courtroom from him sat the husband of the dead woman, Herschel Burney, with his lawyers and an attending physician. As Watts was called to the bench to make his plea, Mr. Burney paled and clasped his hands. His physicians leaned toward him anxiously,
charged with. the Shotgun Zloying of Mrs. Mary’ Lois {protest from re ead felts a8 Burney, walks to court handcuffed to State Police well ” Sh aru a a 4 Defective Eimer Cord. Shelby County Deputy Sheriff |Some\™ pr ea. i
y's venire drawn for the January" term of the court. One of the biggest points in the
Protests came from Miss Marian
Due Late Today
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Considerably colder weather was to move in on Indianapolis and vi-
|cinity this afternoon, dropping the
temperature to the low 20s by | tomorrow morning. - The Weather Bureau said it saw little chance of it warming up tomorrow.
Cold masses from both the Cana-!
dian plains and the Pacific coast would reach Indianapolis this afternoon in the form of high winds and occasional rain, the Weather Bureau said. The maximum temperature today y eapected to be in the middle
THE COURT CONVENES — Shelby County Circuit: Coyrt Judge Harold Barger today operied the first- | degree murder #rial in Shelbyville. Watts earlier confessed the killing of Mrs. Burney, socialite, and” Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, prominent clubwoman.
Mercury Drop
) ! | would be ample. Hubert Thompson: follows as. guard with hand on gun. a " i . 5 | kaxton, who wants a ruling made
| Ril tion because it is impossible to find : .i|& piece to lve in Indianapolis on {such short Totice, she contends, — Her letter suggests a 3-month mini. mum, The other Jetter of Protest .
Mrs. Spooner’s letter commends { the Mayor for taking .a stand i against the 25 per cent increase and charges ‘that -the rent board Is packed in favor of the real estate men and landlords. ‘The landlords have been getting 'adequate returns from their invests {ments by ‘having no idle" property } {and spending. nothing for repairs, = . : her letters asserts, : “4 -“It may not have occurred to 0 some of them that many white tole : lar workers ‘who are trying 40 main. tain decent living standards st pre‘war salaries. and sky - «= rocketing prices feel that their drastically in flationary action could reasonably {be called selfish and un-American,” | Mrs. Spooner “concludes, Her letter states that emergency rent relief was grafted in many [eases to Indianapolis landlords only nat OAL.
‘Gates R Renames Boll LAs 3° College: Trustee 222
Gov, Gates today appointed : |oeorse » Ball of Muncie tad Wile 1}
‘Check City-Wide Hazards Drug Store Dfficia Following $400,000 Blaze Faces Hearing
McKinney Baffled by Delay on Reports Of Explosions in Meridian St. Plants | An official of a large drug com- en
a. ‘pany faced a hearing in Municipal] Both appointments were for full Court 3 today on a charge by the |e ee Feu: | e Governor also announced. the d City Food Division that a drug store Bbsintent of Scott Henry of Marin the chain failéd to close itS|ion to succeed Michael Meyer Jr lunch counter after its permit had ,¢ Elwood, as a member of the Stale been suspended. lion Enrollment Board. Mr, Henry “The department's affidavit named will serve three yess. K. T. Brock as manager of the Haag Rai — Drug stores.
Dr. Gerald Kempf sald a -eity Bandit Orders Coffee,
‘restaurant inspector issued a warn-| Pyllg Gun, Gets $91 } ing to the Haag drug store at 820 A lone gunman today grabbed ’ ' Pt. Wayrie- Ave. on Dec. 26. The og 400 the cash register of ine 4 warning notice required certain Georgia Street Grill, 540 E. Geor
changes in the lunch counter and gia St, and fled through an alley the food handling methods. | beside: the Grill.
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A search of all business and industrial buildings for fire hazards in construction and storage was ordered by Fire Chief Roscoe A. McKinney this morning to prevent repetition of last night's $400,000 fire disaster in 1005 N. Meridian St. The blaze, punctuated by violent explosions of stored chemicals, broke out in a two-story, brick building at dusk yesterday, but was not | reported to the. Fire Department until flames spread through the roof and sent dense. smoke clouds we’ up in. smoke. [rolling into Meridian St. Wiped out were the offices and Every piece of equipment .\n the equipment of the U. 8. Rubber downtown area raced to the scene: Co.'s Mechanical Goods Division, Chief McKinney directed operations the Minneapolis - Honeywell office personally. The blaze was brought and warehouse and classrooms of {under control three hours. after it the Lincoln Chiropractic Institute, On Jan. 2, Kempf said, the in-| & mn eported >: > ob The Chief's announcement of a spector returned and found his or- LY PeiRy Brow A050 Columbia Ave. e oy! urant tha fire and the explosions 1 set city-wide industrial inspection was ders had not been complied with. {came into the resta and ors loff, With it thousands of dotiars (Continued on “Page §—Column 6) (Continued on “Page 5—Column 4) dered Dates. ow then pulled a gun — Mebtmm— Loom his leather - jacket and held
worth of equipment of three firms
dents, 18 and 15 years old, who
burglaries “because there was really nothing else to do” sat in the City Jail today wondering what made them do it. Both are sons of well-to-do Indianapolis families. Both admitted they looted two public schools, two golf course clubhouses and several filling stations in ya series of Saturday night
forays. They committed the burglaries,
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Two Tech gn School stu- | older boy's mother, a profhinent
clubwoman. The Times does not print the names of juvenile delinquents, although the older boy is not classified as a juvenile ‘under State law and will appear for preliminary hearing this afternoon in Municipal Court. The 15-year-old boy will be arrdigned in Toyetyte Court. were captured Saturday Wing after police ‘chased thém halfway across the Willowbrook Golf Course, 4701 N. Keystone :
and Monroe Betner at headquar- | ters was that they got the idea :
from seeing crime movies. Today, the older boy gaid* “I got confused, 1 guess, by those movies. 1've-been sitting here thinking things over. They shouldn't have movies building up crooks into heroes. . » .
He said he and the younger boy
had studied comic books and de- | teetive 'maghzines with flashy | covers to get some “angles” on |
how to break into “places.” They got some angles from |
| these publications. too, he said
“1 feel terrible,” said the older boy. “Why hasn't Dad come down” | here 10 s08 ne” 4
ars Blame Film's Glamorous Crooks
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Brown at ‘bay while raiding the cash drawer,
tact, in the older Boys hase- Get Golden Gloves ment. There is an automatic fur.
nace which’ requires no attention | Tickets Now in the basement and the loot lay | : thére unnoticed by the parents, |
“I just wanted to sep whether
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teries “to power a radio set. He said his hobby is to build radio transmitter and receiving sets In the basement of his home, Movies like “San Quentin” and “Dillinger” gave him the idea, he
Stunned at the call ‘trom police headquarters Saturday night advising them their sons were arrested as burglars, the parents of the boys were heartbroken today. The older boy's father grimly
: @ Smart sports fants buy their tickets in advance for
refused to see his 18-year-old boy | said, and the crime magazines | we could get away with it,” said The. ‘Times-Legion . Golden in jail up to this morning. The | and comic books suggested the | the older boy. “I didn't. There Gloves bouts . . . to avoid _youriger boy's parents went down- | methods. ‘just wasn't any sense in it. I'm disappointment and standtown to Juvenile Court this morn-+ The methods worked, The two | sorry for the folks. 1 hope 1 ing in line,
® How to obtain your tickets . and information about . : the second. session of ‘the | ° tournament next Friday , . ~~
| ing and waited there, . The older boy told an interviewer he led the younger boy | ‘nto the burglaries by showing him how easy it was, after he | broke into a filling station alone a month ago and Stole several batteries, 1
| boys took $1200 worth of golfing | can clear Dad's name. 1 guess I equipment from the Pleasant Run | deserve any punishment they give Golf Coiirse clubhouse a week-ago | me. - : : . Saturday. Mohn) took ve type- | © Both boys said they had every- | writers and . two ra from | thing they wanted at home. ound Times - School ¥0, 510 E. 46th St. and | “There was too much time on Sports Paes on. The also raided ‘School 3, in 200 E. our hands, I guess,” said the older | i Raymond St. .* ' boy. “Too many of those movies.” ! Aura to Page i“ The look ‘was found yy in- | We. Sdn. think”
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