Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1948 — Page 9

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“DON'T YOU wear a topcoat?” You can ask direct questions like that of Mr, Feeney, “Yes, sure. It's hanging in my office. I've been in the Board of Works Department since 10 after trying to figure out a working schedule,” said Mr. Feeney as he walked towards his desk. I just trailed on in through the executive secretary's office; Five stacks of opened mail was on ‘the desk. To my question of what he was going to do with the stacks, Mr. Feeney said: “Nothing.” Everything was done yesterday.” The first stack was going to be distributed to. the various departments later in the morning when the secretary came in, “I dictated 97 letters yesterday,” the Mayor said. «Forty-two last night from 6 to 9.” At exactly 7:35 a. m. a head appeared around

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“the corner_of the reception room as Mr. Feeney was

telling -about- his new. Edison Voicewriter, which would speed up his dictating, his new intercom-

" SPEAK UP—Mayor Al Feeney will see you. State your business, Next?

“Off the Arm:

NEW. YORK, Jan. 12—I was snorting and kicking the slats out of the stall the other day over the general impotence of the citizen to protect. himself in

the lower case courts of our land, if a big cop says

he done it and the judge just nods and says 10 bucks. I have hung around a loj-of smelly courtrooms in my short span, and. watched a flock of judges ad-

. minister justice on the word of police officers. It soccurs to me that all wearers of the blue are not

without sin, ‘and that on the. supposition that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty, a lot of

‘people go fo jail on an unjust formula.

The thing is that maybe I know the copper in

"+ the case is taking a buck here from the bookie and a

buck there from-the fancy girls and shaking down the corner saloon for his Christmas eggnog. . - It could happen that I am a secret deacon-in the church, a dog-fancier, and a birdlover and the only reason 1 get hauled in that day is the cop is making his quota. So I say not guilty and the cop says he did so do it and.thgpjudge says guilty and they lead me away in the: cuffs, ‘Is my word, as a secret deacon, not as good as the word of a bluecoat on the make? Or not on the make, if he happens to be.as honest as me?

~ Justice Dealt Off the Arm -

I USED TO COVER the courts in Hamlet, N. C., when T'was a wet fledgling, and watch justice being dealt off the arm in thé morning. I began to won253 Lender youth. abovk. the Sidra which enabled the police court judge to know right

TR DERE Rey WE RS prisoner Gd or Giant

shove the shiv into his next-door neighbor. Especially in the case of the ums. Anybody who

logked as if he. didn't belong in Hamlet used to wind:

up in the courts on Monday. Charge: -Vagrancy. The clerk said ‘howjuhpleadquiltyrnot? And if If the bum said he was really an incognito Rockefeller,

Hard Put

WASHINGTON, Jan, 12==When he eased-into the

senatorial hot-seat to tell about alleged. skullduggery

of federal big- -wigs in the grain market, Harold

“Btassen Tooked ‘Tike he'd downed for breakfast a large

bowl of cash corn flakes with cream. His voice boomed like an $800 phonograph. with the bass turned on full; there is no doubt that the testimony of the would-be Republican presidential

- tandidate was- sensational stuff. But you've read -the charges he ‘made about 11- . administration officials garnering personal profits of

$4 million in what President Truman has called gambling in human misery. Politics somehow seemed to underline every word he said, though ‘he insisted he intended no such thing. And so it was that the spot-news reporters

~ Were hard put to get the bare facts down on paper.

I doubt. if they noticed the amazed expression on the faces of the corn-fed cupids on the ceiling of the Sbpropirations committee; or heard a squashing sound and a moan preceded. by a loud squeak. Never was a hearing room more jammed. Photographer- climbed on photographer, television cam-

eramen crowded news-reel operator, and so many - correspondents scribbled notes that there was room

for only 28 spectators, mostly ladies. Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) chairman of the looking like he'd spent a couple of hours under a sunlamp; at least he had the Florida complexion of the sunlamp advertisements. And there was Mr. Stassen, big: husky, «and smiling, with an assistans... and four arm-loads of documents, {

$4000 Profit in a Day THE EX-GOVERNOR of Minnesota was in the Midst of telling how Secretary of Agriculture Clint Andefson, ex-Postmaster General Bob Hannegan; and Ed Pauley were hob-nobbing on the latter's private Island last August in Hawaii, “E-e-e-e-e-k,” squealed a tall lady photographer In a green sweater, as She toppled off a chair.

The ‘Voice’ Rests

HOLLYWOOD, ' Jan. 12—Frank Sinatra's doctor has ordered him to take it easy this winter. He'll Spend most of the time at his new Palm Springs home. , , , A Legion of Decency ban on “Mourning Becomes Electra”—it's being discussed—may result in “8h old situation for Rosalind Russell. She's the léadIng candidate for an Oscar for her performance in picture. Plans for’ the Academy ‘Award presentation this

Year are in the capable hands of program director

mar Daves. He'll concentrate on handing out Oscars; instead of trying to turs: the affair into a Sas a da previous years. .

C sacity Crowd Expected ; the "HERE'S NO REASON why, Hollywood won't pack © 110,000-seat Los Angeles Coliseum for the event. Its yes Sages: don show of the year. dack Carson Dennis Margen ay be pals,

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MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1948 Ti

Ripple Clings To Old Bell

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in at 7:42. He's due at 8 a. m. Detective Reilly id dently wants to get along. I was shown a letter from a big shot in town. He! wrote a personal letter with a $2 check attached. The Mayor's sticker campaign was heartily commended. = Another letter I was shown, before Mr. Feeney made it plain he was going to start the rolling, was a request fo: a pair of high - Mr. Feeney remembered that several gave this same man a pair of gloves of winter, Now the man was asking for ‘a pair-of high tops. % “I don’t wear high tops,” said the Mayor, “bu I'm going to have this man investigated. From the sound of the; letter he's been having a tough time.”

Gasper on the Job at 8

MR. GASPER arrived at 8 sharp. Before he had his coat off he was parrying job seekers. Those that got. to see Mr. Feeney didn't stay long. ‘At one point men’ were passing each other in the hall, coming and going. Stenographer Mary Smyrnis is supposed to start punching the typewriter at 8:30. Five minutes before starting time, Miss Smyrnis was hanging up her coat. She was infor a busy morning. { “Hi boys,"-called Mr. Feeney to three electricians. The intercommunicatior gadget was going to be. wired for action. A “half day of just watghing the “goings on” made ‘me tired. The president of the Board of Safety piled in and out. Then the building commissioner and the city engineer, For a.full 15 minutes the| office resounded he the ‘Mayor told Mr, Gasper

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INTEGRAL LINKS—These thrée educators symbol ze the growth of Broad Ripple High Schgol and tie the days of the red schoolhouse to the present expariding structure. They are [left to right) Edgar Stahl, vice principal and a 1922 graduate: K, V. Armerman nes since 1923, and" Miss Georgia. Paden, art

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CRUMBLING TO DUST—A power shove swings against one of the inferior walls of the ori iginal Broad Ripple High School. Demolition of the historic red schoolhouse has been completed, making way for a new wing and a separate building. Salvaged for a niche of honor in the proposed struc. ture is the original bell which called many a Broad Rippleite.to. class back in the days when the building housed a grade school. The expansion program will be completed for the fall semester of this ALE ae Ie ; ”

my cigaret. Never can tell. Lunch. Out that open door. Detective Reilly can 3 remind the Mayor it's time for ‘chow. |

By Robert C. Ruark

riding. freights just for the fun of it, the Judge said 90 days. No testimony. No evidence. No. nothing. Just 90 days. It got right embarrassing, once, when one of the! bums turned out to be an investigator of the state's!

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THERE MUST BE, of course, a recognition of the! fact that a low court judge gets weary of the stock morning line of drunks, wife-beaters, chronic howlers, traffic violators and crapshooters. There must be some realization that a cop can't round up a herd of unwilling witnesses every time he | slaps a ticket on a parked car or overhauls a speeder. | There is also the fact that the guy you find with the dice in his hand or the bottle in his pocket or, tromping “on the accelerator is generally going to’ be | guilty. And say so. And hope to get off with a! reprimand and a fine. « But they have standardized everything below the| rank of murder so: much, in recent years, that the occasional, indignantly innocent citizen gets rail-| roaded right through with the guilty. He can squawk till his ears drop off and nobody, least of all the bored boy on the:bench, will give: him heed. The table d'hote administration of routine crime and punishment in this country, ranging from simple assault to larceny to drunken. speeding; has apie ddwn almost to the level of the rac the hayseed | Axton Healer: The cop puts the arm on you;.and court 15 Held oi BEF ner AURORE. RNG The jaypee tries, sentences and fines you oh three chews of his cud, and then goes around the c to split the takg with the arresting officer. The Oh way to lick that kind of primitive justice is to wri out a bum check, but. you don't find a sucker magistrate very often. Mostly they ony settle for| cash,

THEN AND NOW-—Mathematics instructor A. F. Thomas inspects the old school bell he recalls hearing when he taught in

Three Burglars,

GETTING A FOOTING—The first excavation for the expansion of Broad Ripple High School's latest: addition is under vay today. The school will be able to house 1500 students without overcrowding when completed. : : :

(Citizens Protest Street. Widening

It will Be Only a Symbol of Past ‘s “When New Buildings Are Completed

By VICTOR PETERSON ma THE LITTLE red schoolhouse is gone, REET HR Ab

“Patrolmen en Feed 3 in Family bene Qn. $6 a'Week |

THE FIRST substantial meal

Bow dered” Group West Bide family of three had eaten |

Appears Before Board i» a 1ong time was supplied’ last A number’ of bewildered residents] mgt by two sympathetic police- The living in- Meridian St. between 20th| pn, . and the first alley north of 21st iE today formally protested the tion- of five feet of their

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2 But Broa RISE HIE Ene a SR | progressive business and residential districts, is growing fast. “Held on $10, 000 “Boil A -guarter-of a century ago no seams were. bursting. in. Broad Ripple. Pires rs-and-a holdup -men-

high school was taken into the, =o, 0 yay. torn down and were captured by police over the jerumbled to dust by a giant power wéek-end and held on vagrancy | shovel, . |charges while detectives waited for “The, school wasn't even supposed Saved as a tie with the past is victims to identify them. : “to complete the street- : to last. Those enrolled were to be the old bell ‘which called many ah The bandit. identified by' police er {ton 85, where they found 3. year shifted to the contemplated North Indianapolis resident to the three as William Calhoon, 25. of 3018 W. | fold Emily Gaeges drinking a glass gq. Shortridge High School. R's in the days when the school 1th St. was held in $10.000 bond: hearing of the Works of puttermilk, the only food she . » \ - | housed grade pupils, Aor a brief poearance’ tn Me. | Boa Lg is irs they | bad Bad all say. { IT WAS 1928 Ietore the present Many of these persons stayed nicipal Court this morning. Shortridge building was completed, right on in the old building when p. was arrested selling automo-

» {the street-widen rogram would | Nobody pai ber a Suniien: ue Stastels Yo {mean to a apartment nes MOTHER. Mi Ona Sess, towever. — By then-it-was noticeable it was changed. to a high school.ly gee for a-used car jot-on-s-detece a rs. RUEY TOW 158 Specia 1% owner, in the block agd a half se¢- >> 1S partially blind and he that Broad Ripple had the grow. It hasn't been used for teaching. tive's hunch Saturday. He adm to the Secretary of the Army, sold one job-lof of| up a lquor store Pri.

; however, since the late { tor, said it. would. five or. six ther, Homet. 35. is crippled and un- ing’ pains of an adolescent. _ The purposes s ted holding Sle while the Muss: Anderson Hasinegas were hist, \ off the front of his'guilding. able to work: The family*has been school had 425 stiidents: “Tt"has stood” on school ground gay night In 1308 N. Capitol Ave. Sueets. He made a $4000 profit that day, Stassen "Thi city seeks to acquire gre feet existing on m $6-a-week. allotment! -Guiding the destiny was K. V. 88 . link with ne past. . jand Save polies wi of burglaries - ” i { th t the from the Center Township Trustee, Ammerman as principal.. He isi G this hk is 9Ating back to last spring. Squack, vent the camera dy as. she Juted hs a rea phy o Stree LR She $3 of which they pay for a rdom, prificipal today and his vision or Speman ni High bok 1a The six-foot, wavy-haired “car 10 186 185 of & PHENE WHREN, Wig-moan ory, mj die In their sordid surroundings in the future has been fulfilled. |teacher. [sulesman was identified by two of

lks and curbs, » fright than in pain. | sidewa, % ju Stassen; Ferguson and Co. also ignored this. i) Works Board records revealedithe fear o I= X. oni Mr. Ammerman misoned hl A. F. Thomas is the only kd 3 Mekjome i nerde —— regret to report that the television experts did, too.| that the general improvement reso- th ot "or the Vag oo nid nave : Ripple High a hoa ing Suttrueton who taught. in th [saturday might arte i wh Stassen' got to th int of re-| lution calling for the paving and wou ave students. e lab-|red, schoolhouse. ased tnt Same th > rome lored for enlarged quarters. Over] “We're growitig up on the tar] them through into an alley in the

[whek, the two patrolmen arrived. fusing -to- name the 11- accused government men! | widening of Meridian St. between | Th was referred to th Ju- Ti rear of the 400 block, N. Illinois St. Jph Davies, the ex-/16th St. and Fall Creek Pkwy. was! eScase as € JU“ /the years addition after addition/North Side, biit. it seems. only yes YRvept for Ms. Pauiey and Rai jvenile Ad Division. [was made to the school. [terday that there were less than

troleum sdministrator—the place was 8 “smoke- | adopted Aug. 4, 1947.. »" pe The last stage now is in the mak- 100 students in the whole school, identified as ded

filled room for sure. 70-Foot Right-of-Way Cigaret and cigar fumes were $0 thick I doubt #f| Plans call for 70 feet of rant-or- Hustle to. Head Off War. ing. By September a new wing] he said. Willis, 27, of 704 W. New York Si. BATAVIA, Jaya, Jan. 12 (UP) == Will, have been added, plus a sepa-| “It's ‘nice to grow ‘and to make ang Robert Hudleston, 22, of 641 8.

. . icity school system with a total of 04 iain Ray Whobrey and Ce- students. cil Vincent were called to the Hoo-+ ‘sier. Restaurant, 1211 W. Washing~+

By Frederick C. Othman

the television picture ever reached anybody's living way between the boundaries. The gh > room. If they do they'll look like a foggy morning disputed section is the only one in United Nations ¥delegates worked rate building. The school comfort- | | progress. But there also is som - | Missourf St. Detectives were trying on the Potomac. {which the full 70 feet has not been against time today in the Indo- ably will-house 1500. The enroll- {thing nice about the SaHier duvs,| tto-Hnk-the pair-with-a- series of re Wh N t S R blic ns? | obtained. nesfan Republican capital of Jog- ment today-is 18%, | Memories ‘3 are part of the ol jot puis Senckings: ia Eh y. of ome Kopuniica . The records also show that the jakarta to head off & renewal of . UY { the sweetest I recall is je as Ra Tg aL ening y MR.’ STASSEN THOUGHT he was through: he improvement resolution was adver- Dttch-Indonesian warfare, sched- TO MAKE WAY fon the new sec- e 0 swee po ,Raym Eugene Harris, wanted to catch a plane for Missouri, where he had a tised Aug. 5 and 12, 1047, and a pub- jiled to begin at noon tomorrow. tions, the original square, red school the beautiful tone of the old bell as/21, of 823 Paca St. admitted 2 date to make a speech. But that was not to .be. - - |i rang out the opening hour of dozen burglaries of goods and ~lotns. . Sen. Theodore F. Green, the 81-year-old Democrat

lic hearing was held Aug. 25. Min RE class.” ing from private homes in ‘his from Providence, R. I, couldn't see where he'd proved utes of the Works Board disclosé Carnival By Dick Turner neighborhood. He was arrested

that no property owner along the r MR. THOMAS is ” ot homesick Saturday night. ythie —t a nat, oy ele. street ‘appeared at the hearing. / for the crude physical equipment of © ment, then into a discussion of economics in general! Residents in the controversial grea {the past. Basically it consisted of Rent Law The mustached gentleman from Rhode Island could Said today they had received ng no- desks, a few maps and blackboards not understand why ‘Mr. Stassen kept: mentioning tice of any hearings, and that/tHey in the eight rooms, four on each ‘The Supreme-Court today agreed to Democrats in high places. Why not somé Repiib- Were unsware-that the city infended: L-floor-and-all-on-corners.. . {decide on the consitutionality of the licans, too? to obtain five feet of their property. A mathematics teacher, Mr. present, rent control law. “I take it as being quite elemental, Senator." sald, The Boards: hearing on the mat. Tomas nd manual training |= — Mr. Stassen, “that Republicans are not in the con- ter today was the first of a number . f s man fidence of this administration.” which will be necessary to determine ; The riew wing and separate bulld- WORD-A-DAY Touche. And, now, please, could he rush out and {he extent of damage to property | \ {Ing will provide the school with 15 By BACH try to catch his flying machine? Sen. Feigusom owners involved. . | classrooms, a first aid clinic, ROTC CM} co said he could. Somebody opened a window and the! | : | gaaess, Sis Syusiin and Hori | instrumen music room, Cupids wiped the frowns from their faces. I had Start Jury Selection | neu 8 Fhe an aspirin and two cups of black coffee. 7 ! present girls’ gym become ‘In Stice Murder Trial |. $F Oh : library which now is crowded into

Selection-of a jury tw try Harry | a single classroom. {

| Haw {(ha-b ent ) sou | il’ 1-ment)soon By Erskine Johnson sic. st ia a STUDENTS ALSO will be glad (hail oF =

{charge was ‘started in Criminal ¥en Bevel Ripple High School DRESS; ATTIRE but they're-both angling for the role of Babe Ruth | Court 1 today. Completion will relieve over- Pe in the film biography of the swat king. | Stice is charged in a Grand Jury | crowding’ which has been kept al Theater marquees in Los Angeles and Hollywood | Indictment with slugging to death, a minimum, however, by lengthenwere all dressed up inf their best picture title the last; Mrs. Olga Schwinn, 45, during a| ing the day, ! week of 1047. The reason, of course, was that a! Quarrel at the E. Washington St. The school day for many now movie must be shown locally at least once in ‘47 to| address last May 9. starts at 7:45 a. m. . Regular hours qualify for the Academy Awards So all the studios| Witnesses ‘told police that the are 8:30 a. m. put their best films on dress parade, “fatal beating occurred after the| They'll like that extra 45 minutes d ' d d | couple came to Stice’s room after of sleep. Hollywood Couldn't Un lerstan 1p | PNAINE the evening drinking in FOR 51 WEEKS of the year, we had to take the , down-town tavern. An n seconti-rate, low-budget, slapped- together pictures a of v,. VY Elon G. Borlon fo Speak For 51 weeks, ‘business was off ‘at’ the boxoffice; : WP ye | :Elon"G. Borton will speak to the and Hollywood couldn't understand why. Byt during Break Darkens Homes Aa Kei f Advertising Club of Indianapolis at the last week of 47 évery theater had a line as long A distributor circuit blew oul , ase ‘a luntheon Thursday in the Hotel as the nylon lines during the war. terday afternoon In.the power svib- | Lincoln. He is president and genThe reason is obvious; The pictures were good. station at the Chapman Price Steel eral menager of the Advertising. J " of America. JRA fe

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