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‘Battle of Cream Puffs’ Feeney Orders Won by Sen. Capehart Crackdown on Food Handlers

Four Lose Permits; 21 Warned

By LOUIS ARMSTRONG w Mayor Al Feeney today ordered a crackdown on food | 4 handling offenses in Indian-| se. apolis restaurants. | In answer, restaurant inspectors of the City Health Department moved into the city's § eating establishments with the de-| ° mand for stricter compliance with all rules of sapitation and health! department regulations. The Mayor's cleanliness campaign follows a series of articles in! The Times exposing the widespread | unsanitary conditions among Indi-| janapolis eating establishments. .| In order to keep an eye on the proceedings, © Mayor Feeney has asked for a copy-of each notice sent by the health department” notifying a restaurant owner that “his permit has been «suspended. Four Places Closed . The effect is already being felt, In the first 15 days of January, four restaurants. were. closed and! their licenses suspended until they! can. comply with cleanliness regu-| lations. This equals the total num- | {ber of restaurants.closed during the’ entire month of December. In addition, 21 warning notices were sent eating establishment ™ owners in the first 12 days of this month whereas 26 were issued during the month of December, Just this week the Haag Drug

FRIEND OF THE CREAM PUFF—In heated debate with Interior Secretary Julius A. Krug, Indiana's senior Senator, Homer Capehart, took up the cudgel for the nation's cream puffs. Said he, it would be awful if their prices went unchecked and people couldn't afford to buy them. "= LA . . . By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—The Yestion before the Senate is cream puffs. Co. was fined $15 and costs in Are cream puff profits too high? Municipal *clodrt becanse one. of is Should we freeze the price of unfrozen cream puffs? |store managers reopened the lunch + Will that cause a black market in cream puffs? ‘What about cream-puff lovers who've got to have

their cream puffs at any price? What's the cure for them? Jail? This may not be quite as silly as it sounds. I can’t be sure because |

Lyster, Franklin yell leader, ‘was aimed the first of two foul shots

'mit_ ‘had been suspended by the Health Department. | City to Hold Night Classes Dr. Gerald Kempf, City health

counter after the store's food per- Franklin's lead was cut to two poi ®

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UTTER DESPAIR—There wére 27 seconds fo go in the Franklin Township-Southport basketball game of the Marion County Tournament last night when the Cardinals got a new lease on life. Befty

distraught as a Southport player at the bucket. One was good and nts,

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MINNEAPOLIS, Jan, 16 (UP)—A private rest home in an exclusive South Fine residential section was swopt—by—fire—today ot said that four persons, "eg hugridden. were reported to have

Fourth Truck Driver

In Street Dept. Quits * on) others were “carried to | - Mayor Al Feeney ordered three safety, witnesses said. Firemen said] street department truck driversithe house was a mass of flames! {fired today because a check of their when they arrived: and that four! fingerprints revealed past criminal bedrooms on the second floor were records. ablaze. A fourth truck driver was said to

have quit of his own accord when Mrs. Josephine

Erickson, accom-

Watts Murder Confession Admitted As Evidence

Mayor Ousts J Report 4 Dead - Attorneys Lose

Fight to Prove = Police Cruelty

Insinuations of Suspect Branded as ‘Lies’

By DONNA MIKELS Times Staff Writer SHELBYVILLE, Jan. 16-—Shelby

Circuit Judge Harold O. Barger toe

Normally the “home, operated by 9a¥- ruled a confession signed by

Robert Austin Watts in the rlaying

he was. told -he must submit to Modated from eight to 12 persons. of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney on Nov.

fingerprinting. Oliver Johnson, a fireman "The three truck drivers were fired Nospitalized with cuts, following * a conference between Sub-zero cold hampered fireMayor Feeney and Street Commis- {I€hters but they. brought the sioner Tony Maio. flames under control in about an Convicted of Murder hour. Ore of “the drivers was convicted |

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I ————i MADRID. Jowa, Jan. 168 (UP).A and another was given a fire raged thiough the Home for) week's suspension last week becguse the Aged here today. ] he took an unauthorized extended

lunch hour. The three drivers fired are Wil- ill eek 20

liam Brawley. who has served

years for murder. Roy E. England, ‘who was suspended last week, and. 3 Cent Boost Clarence Dailey, Brawley, 1418 N. Missouri st. who has been employed by the city since! Asks Hourly Hike April, 1946, was arrested for harbor-| ing a vicious dog here in 1942. Two. For 800,000 years later he was arrested for gam-| DETROIT, Jan. 16 (UP)~The ing and visiting a gaming house. EE ee & Saming house. CIO United Auto Workers today! rested for visiting a gaming house. pegged the equivalent of 30 cents) In April, 1947 he was arrested for 8n hour as the third-round wage

12 was admissable for evidence. The trial of Watts for first degree murder was ordered resumed. : The judge made his ruling after Mrs. Harriett Stout, who was responsible for Watts’ arrest before

the Burney.-murder was- -discovered,

took the stand to brand as lies his insinuations about her yesterday. High ranking state police officers followed the surprise prosecution witness to the stand to refute Watts’ charge that he was mistreated and denied food until he confessed the Nov. 12 slaying of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney, Jury Excluded The all-male jury has been excluded from the Shelby circuit court since Wednesday while defense attorneys attempted to bar |as evidence a signed confession in the slaying of thé North Indianap~ matron.

lis Subpenaed originally by the defense, Mrs. Stout em

otion and I seldom eat today’s cream puffs. These post-war models are filled {OTicer, announced today his depart-| drunkenness and paid a fine of $1 increase it will demand for 800,000 denied Watt¥ insinuations yesterwith brary paste instead of cream and they stick to the roof of my. jth; yas Jlanming a seiits of yous and. costs. members. day that; os ar lar classes for food handlers which In each of the other arrests here! big auto union. which all ONE: ‘She gave him the gun er Face Teg mouth, . will be held two nights a week. ‘charges were dismissed. sets the wage wren on which has been identified as the ream SO MY * INFORMATION necessarily is second: hand, though it | The classes, comprising lectures England, 1215 Hiawatha St, who organized labor across the count Y weapon that slew Mrs. Bumey and te BTL, _ ‘does come from a pair of portly (from too many cream puffs) experts, (ahd motion pictures, will give in- broke its demand down into fn that he hid the gun for Mrs. Stout. otion ....... the Messrs. Julius A. Krug, Secrétary of Interior, and Homer E. Cape- [structions on sanitary methods of| : 125 cents An hout pay hike plus 8 TWO: That they had been aes Cold Cream 83¢ hart, the Senator from Indiana. handling and preparing foods. Upon to 1915, When he Was AITSted TOT coi an hour for a health ineiraney [TUINU Since 1946, , 2Y5 oz Secretary Krug plunked his 250 pounds into the fenate Banking [completion of the course the food, % petit larceny and burglary. | prog °¢| THREE: That she had sent him 2 04. ..... hot seat to defend President Truman's price control [handlers will be given certificates. {..In 1916 he was sentenced to one _. union warned. ho a picture of ‘herself while she cer Lotion .. 39% Demmitioss Krug said he knew it was a good plan’ he helped write it. | Dr. Kempf said his department, (0 14 years in the Jeffersonville re-yy would wateh Hving BYCHEE, that served in the WAC. . # quet Lotion. .33¢ _ The idea’simply Was to freeze at present levels, the price of anything hed shown Jeniency inthe past “but formatory on a charge of grand lar- And. boost. the 25-cent, figure if od : Makes Insinuations Sk Jovenay, op Ac the President considered likely to go higher. [there is now going to he x general} che. He was arrested In 108 for", 0 To 0 May. 1t cautioned jocai] ¥) y, Watts told several tales id on Sen, Capehart, who isn't as tall as Mr. Krug but is & little thicker [tifhtening up on regulations.” [drawing a deadly weapon, but

t Mrs. Stout and. made several insinuations iy hag woud ts

font: Were nolled. In 1048 he ON4.In earlier negotiations to re-

Why not halt by | “We have given restaurant own-' Around the middle, ‘claimed he had a beiter/thought. y not halt by {was arrested for disor ery con duet,” serve ihe right to alter hn femand. l

law the changing of all price tags? And slap in the clink anybody who ers time to obtain new pe his the-uos} of anything} a - Which we : ; "HE SAID he ber thitouss” Shave Shik ; A to bring their- establishments into; end up, anyhow. Secretary Krug said, no it wouldn't, The Senator line,” he added. said name one thing’that would bé exempt. Mayor Feeney and Dr. genpt _ “Cream “puffs,” cried the sefretary, glaring at the Senator. held a lengthy conference on the/ " “Why not cream puffs?” demanded the Senator. restaurant situation this week. Both “Because cream putts are not important to the cost of living,” re- |agreed improvements in conditions| torted the Secretary. are ue, That, snapped Sen. Ghpehart, i$ what Mr. Krug thinks. There are . some people to: whom <ream puffs are exceedingly important. They 1 { . 0 to 7 Belo l low like cream puffs. * They've got to have ‘em. | | ero J 0 e

“We certainly do not want to prohibit the people from eating |

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LL a NPE * ; ) ewe Stout. reported x Task Not a a “guaranteed weekly wage” .and! i Se to attack her a a Dailey, 1040 Elm St, employed by three weeks’ vacation for workers| Burney murder waf discovered. the city since Abril, 1946, was ar-|with five years seniority. Wearing a kelly green dress and Tested for embezzlement in 1937, but|- Demands were mapped by the|appearing very pale, Mrs. Stout {Judgment was withheld by the union's 22-man executive board took the same chair in which Watts court. Two years later he was ar- after & policy meeting and an- | |sat yesterday. {rested for assault and battery, but nounced by President Walter P.| In a low tone she testified that charges were dismissed. Reuther. {she saw Watts at the Marion Coun~ In 1941 he was arrested for reck- Mr. Reuther said-all UAW Jocats ty jait-in the afternoon of Nov, 13; ~~ less driving and paid a fine of $1 “whose contracts permit negotia-'At that time, she said; she identie and costs. Police department rec- tion during the next- few months fled him as the man who had ate

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- . ds show no arrests since he has are h by ome, cream’ puffs,” he, said. Fr . Jon €reby notified that the inter-|tempted to attack her at her h ampoo rk vw 79 “No indeed,” Agiem Mr. Krug. orecast onl bagi employed by the city. national executive board at ts 7910 College Ave, that morning. Shampoo, 4 oz. 79% . * . ' r. Maio. said the police depart-- ‘meeting today set “the following Viterly Revolting’ “AND ANOTHER THING,” said ‘Ben. Capehart, thumbing through

ment had not yet completed the economic objectives: fingerprinting of his department] personnel. "He said after the finger-

ad—you even seen this man ONE... Wage-increuse of 25 no 10. this date}. Shelby. County ~~ an hour, Proscuetor Harold Meloy. asked, ’ printing is completed all drivers in| | Her voice rose fér the first time the street department will be| TWO: Five cents an hour for|as she said: checked to see that their! Mate] Lm health, medical, ad “That -question- is utterly “revolt

[chauffeur's licenses -are in order, |SUrgical. insurance. | Mayor Feeney, commenting on the THREE: A guaranteed Weekly (Continued ned on Page 8 }~—Column » action, said, “This is the first re- wage. It of our 1 fi su our policy of fingerprinting pOUR: Three weeks vacation for | Purchasin fo ‘Sponsor

all city employees. Where unfavor-' ‘ |able police records are-disclosed by| Workers with five years senlortiy, (Industrial Exhibit Feb. 1"

[ihe Angerpfinting.. dismissals wil! nificantly, the. executlve board, Armounsement:s td of -an-industriat-exhibit-to-be-held————

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of pensions up to local unions. The red-headed labor chieftain chasing Agents Association of. Ine w=Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's office cnaket | dianapolis. | announced today he would ac-

didnot reveal which first target for the The exhibition, n charge of Dan | cept the Revibijoan presidential

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the administration’ s price control ‘bill. “~Here on page 12, in thie 12th paragraph is something that astounds cI .. ‘me., A $5000 fine and a year in jail for the working man who accepts | 7a m. ... 11 8 raise in salary. And a fine and a prison sentence for the employer | 8 eo 10 who Fives it to him, I object.” .m. ... 10 Mr, Krug said what was wrong with that? If Congress is going to { eontrol prices it’s also got to control wages. And it can 't do that by | slapping anybody-on the wrist, “If by spending a year in jail one man could cause the stabilization of Wages, I Yk that would be a year well Spent, » he added.

TURNED TO JOY=-Co-yell leader Exene Tucker danced and screamed - with “happiness when her favorite Franklin five sewed up the game in the last five seconds of play. The Franklin team controlled-the-ball-atter-the-foul-shot-and-wen-the game by-a-twos { point margin, 42 to 40. The tourney is being held in Butler Uni-

Prospects of zero and below versity fieldhouse.

weather today brought -warnings| —— | from the Indianapolis Fire Department against. 6verfiring.

| "50 Icy Firemen Battle 1 DON'T) » aid Se Capehart. Sen, Joh Ww. _ Ala- Tumbling temperatures since mid“dams; who adn Bas — a day, a “He Lo a Lath... eh iy pepe Twos Alarm; $75; 000 Blaze

bill-would put a housewife behind bars if she paid more than the Tegal Jminor,. but._most - were caused. by Roy Pope 5 f Co I Sent to Haspital: J.

- price for a chuck roast. Or & cream puff. : ra over anxious -householders hoping *It does not say any such thing,” Sen. Capehart said. to beat the chill of ‘dawn. 150 Trailers Crowd Burning Ter inal

rh Jus 3 does, Histol Sen, Bpasitpiun. Meanwhile, the Federal Weather! »” "0 “ ” ’ 3 ~— eutts i fen C26 said Sen. 8. Obviously; we |g, 00 here revised downward the “I'll ask the Supreme Court to rule on that next Monday,” inter- | anticipated vpperaigre, * Prom More than 50 0-ice-covered firemen today “battled a $75,000 two- alarm | rupted Chairman Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire. Sen. Spark- | tonight with. tomorrow's. mercury. fife in the Indfana Motor Freight ‘Terminal, Inc, 530. Kentucky Ave. man indicated he was spoofing. Sen. Capthart said that was different. | expected to rise above 10, in 10 above zero weather. _ And I still claim a cream puff, rationed, controlled, or allocated, One fireman was injured while some 200 workers employed at the First 48 Traffic “Victim

(Photo, Page 14) eee {UAW's new wage p more than rogram, but it! | Young, will include 1 | was expected to be the traditional, national manufacturers. The hi guinea pig, General Motors, {bition will be open to the public,

ATTY hoveen- Seals Guard Gas Supplies | r “ . cream, . y largest freight terminal in the city made their way to safety. It Sti n R AXIS ...coeens hE a The prediction is bad news for Roy Pope Jr, Company 1, was sent to General Hospital atter ne Dies in Hospital Here Ss 1 po e WwW id, : : many Indiana gas consumers. "was cut on the arm by glass. ~ P r' S or

| The city’s first trafic victi f In Columbus, several industrial A total of eight companies, two terstate Dispatch, Inc, and the 1048 died today in General Hospital.

"| plants were asked to reduce the use jaqder outfits and a rescue squad Knaus Truck Lines. Some 20. com- Three other. persons who’ were {n-

of commercial gas for one day. in fought the stubborn blaze which Panies are housed at th, terminal, order that their might be enough jured in 1947 have died since thes

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Mentm erupted without warning at the An eyewitness, Earl Elser; 1625 cari of the year. i John Mason Brown. ‘owder. . {fuel to heat chilly homes. terminal ~ whose 60 docks were Edgecomb Bt, was sitting in his| Today's victim was John FI p E I ywder _. ... The weatherman said it Will con® | oyqeq with 150 trailers. Miller Preight Lines tractor. wail-|gweeney, 50. of 308 8. Warman Ave raises Ernie Pyle ingel Face... ine Sold, us bright apd sunny | Three chiefs assisted Chief Roi-|In to back to a dock. He was struck Jan. 9 ip the 300! “The difficulty of writing books d RR ETOY. biting cold Sunday with coe McKinney in directing the fire- ‘Bolling With Smoke’ {block of W. Washington St, by a today is that it. is still a reporter's

fighters who had to move slowly | “Everything was normal. 1 was|/car driven by Fred Phillips .Js, 26,| night. through the congested area. The looking at the terminal and glanced [Of 5445 ‘Rockville Rd

trailers could not be. moved as the away for a cou le of ——— On Tuesday, the mercury will pm y ple of seconds. When | . nudge zero temperatures, said the fire raged. . Only a few were |I looked back the whole place was Golden Glovers weatherman

aged. {boiling with dark, gray smoke. ‘In Action Tonight

| Chief McKinney said most of the | ry.re wasn't an " y noise. loss was in merchandise. The two- | As fire company after company | bleck long, one-story building 18 of rojieq to the scene, long hose on @® Tonight is amateur box ing night at the N. Pennsylvania St. Armory |, , . the

until midnight, began dropping at St¢®! and brick. snaked from hydrants. midnig second session of The Times-

ht. Merchandise Desgaved In minutes raincoats were covered At 1 8 m. it was 34 degrees andl] Principal destruction was TA<|yith a sheath of ice and fcycles| formed on-helmets. Water running | Legion Golden Gloves Tour= [from the blazing structure froze in| nament,

world just as it ‘was during the war,” John Mason Brown said here ye Mr. Brown,

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former dramatic Yesterday's comparatively mild temperstures, rising to 35 late in the afternoon and staying there]

of thé Baturday Review of Litera ture, spoke before the Indianapolis Town Hall In English's Theater. His subject was “Review of Cur rent Books and Plays.”

Praises ‘Raintree County’

etries

[ (dios, electric stoves, soap powders, Extra Savings all thrbugh the night it got colder.

It was 10 d at 8 am and baled cloth and cases of whisky

which exploded. : - 43¢ the mercury was still falling. w thick beds on the ground. ® Choice seats still are He praised “Raintree County,” oth Powder i The winds whipped through de-| The Cantar " She sirelure has Shumaker Bros. building owners, available for tonight's fights prize-winning book by Ross Lock’s Tooth Powd. serted city streets and across the ® Second story where several trucks... (he structure was insured. and for the. sessions Jan, ridge Jr. of Bloomington, as one of oth Powder. . 3% frozen fields of the Middle West up|'P8 lines Jue offices. or re A 23, 30 and Feb. 6. ‘Get tick~ the first important books since the to 60 miles an hour in some places, x Heved ve. starte ing t Ti ets ‘at Bush-Callahan's, 13§. war that completely removed i a 2 on th Da Cars ” of Times Index E. Washington St, or at from the war and its influence. )eodoran oz. i. * et —— the Sportsman's Store, 126 + ‘Mr, Brown, who spoke ye ’s—S. E., D. E.. Russ Ready fo Talk Without a warning flash of fire| Amusements, 23 Movies 'N. Pennsylvania St. or at | at Indiana University, sald he was

the Armory box office starting at 6:45 p. m. ® Prices are’ Ringside and first row balcony, $2; down- ~

“deeply moved by the school's col | lection of. Ernie Pyle’s momentos,

or explosion, dense clouds of | Eddie Ash.... 26 Patterns . Lend-Lease Settlement choking smoke billowed into the!Carnival .... 17, Radio ....... WASHINGTON, Jan, 18 (UP)— iffices. where 18 employees ‘were | Classified 28-30 Mrs. Roosevelt 20

" {Russia is ready to resume negotla-/workingg = |Comies ...... 31! Robt. Ruark. 17

ol Mite ; 3 - Ne by x [tions with the United States {o set-| Someone yelled, “Fire, get out.” |Crossword ,.. 10, Scherrer .... 18 stairs reserved, $1.50; gen- . Bh ii.uaner 10 N (2 he y 5s v1 {tle the Soviet Union's $)1,207000000 H. C. English, terminal manager Editorials ,., 18 Side Glances. 18 eral admission—on sale Sly 3, JALKS HERE — John Wasen Navy during the war, was a personal - Rouge. ah wins BACK PEDALING SECRETARY — Secretary Krug lost the [1end-lease bil, Soviet Ambassador for Knaus Truck Lines, Inc. sprend| Fashions ..., 31| Society ..... Ab the Armoty box office. | io New York: World-Telegram :

battle of the cream puffs started by his quip that "cream puffs are not important’to the cost of ving. Convinced, he agreed with Senator Capehart that “we certainly ‘do not want to prohibit the ment T iri from eating. cream puffs. They debeted

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