Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1948 — Page 1
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years old, were arrested by police Naa "| | . and deputy sheriffs last night " TP WwW thy B C in what appeared to be a rapidly: , ; i or " ers ose growing juvenile burglary ring. ~~ 1 . * Toe are is wre aed , ‘of Against Flight ot Foes on a tip provided by high school tig fr ; A Btic1als that the pupils had been] he? ih ba 130 Leaders of Rival Parties Arrested; absent from classes and that the , i dh : A 7 ny BE Di aE arey Fo Premier Forms ‘Take It or Else’ Cabinet Harge-amounts. ........ ........,.., | 8 RT 13 i n ‘Questioned by deputy sheri : Th RE mE AT wh BULLETIN lh SAL at ioc rata] the girls talked readily, even i” PL ’ PRAGUE, Feb. 24 (UP)—The Communists seized ~~~ +7 boastfully, about their burglary; at fo control of Czechoslovakia today—nine years less three and theft forays in Mars Hill » Sa x 4 : . stores and “several” in Indian-| » weeks after the Nazis overran the central European re4polia recently. z A public born of the first World War. Tell of $30 Haul " : ; . wean sips Deputy sheriffs said the girls, | PRAGUE, Feb. 24 (UP)--Communist officials moving to take as unremorseful as some hard- over absolute control of Czechoslovakia tonight stripped all local . ? ened criminals, told about a $30 government organs throughout the country of their authority and CRIED ALL NIGHT—Little Betty Padgett has some mighty |haul they made at the Grant KS turned it over to Communist “action committees.” ; sore fingers on her right hand today. The f6-month-old daughter [Smith grocery store at 3129 8. . Communist Interior Minister Evzen Loebel broadcast on the
f Mr r ; ' : ‘ 0. , Ra —— Prague radio instructions to all national committees which function ot Mr. and Mrs, Charles Padgett, 131 S Oriental St. was playing Copier at Joven) Jaya ago. sen-| : { as mayors councils in Czechoslo-
in the front room of her home yesterddy. An older child came in. , "a bal 5 vg : "an . Betty reached for the door as it slammed. Her fingers were badly tenced. to the us agg sald Ta al By I vak cities. : lacerated, and she’ was treated by a General Hospital physician. |abo 9 them oy hile her! Te wv’ : Vv S es The commtitees were told to . ; y ® pital physician. about ordering groceries while her i y “get in touch at once with the
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cash drawer. i |get your orders from it." oH They told about several other | fi R §47 thefts conducted in a similar man- : av an . és ner in Mars Hill and in Indianap-| 3 ¥ Tr os ek ? ? Asks UN to Call olis. ; oh
Strict police control was clamped down on the country and
fred ; is br al Ae . Confers border squads were reinforced to 1 ; All three were turned over to Sy Big 5 Conference [prevent the flight of. any dissis ; : Juvenile Court for arraignment. LOOK TO THE WORLD — Mrs. Raymond Sayre, président of the Country | LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., #eb: 34 dents and of currency. 5 Seized in Tavern | Women of the World (left). today urged women of the Indiana Farm Bureau to ee 10daY| Meanwhile, a trade union ; | Five teen-age boys were caught i interest in international affairs. She is shown [us for _Pales-|fource said Communist Premier by police in the Cedar Inn Tav-| get out of the kitchen and take an interest in inte United Nations army for. aie ust. Prefict
: { : Hi tine. . ern, 00-5, Wat St. abo 3 here at the Murat Theater with Mrs. Lillie D. Scott, Clayton, Ind. But it asked. the Security Coun-|to speak-later at’ the meeting in
1 i » | , ws y ; : i { cil to authorize Big Five conaulta- Town 86 : Lopes the year Gor 8 De place magi J k fi Ki B lk Get Into Politic tions on the possibility of using he AND +84 ay . aad. pros AN : Police said they were prepar- UKe OX Ings a | S, aried forse to keep peace In the |, rtist cabinet. £ ? ing to .ransack the place when Great a ain promptly served A whirlwind round of events
* 4 \ they caught them. Four of the , [notice it Id refuse “either in-/aPPeared to have brought the boys were 14 and 16 years of ape a a 1ICago ar m omen igually oF an association with/Communist campaign near its
age and the fifth one was over others” to contribute to carrying/§08L Opposition party leaders
MIR Al 28 older youth, Paul Thur-| ‘ Does Gangland Still Throttle Busine ss? 3 ; Urged to Use Power SUL the Le Alon s Pa lestine hy rd Jal Jo Yisld and
man, 18, of 621 S. Missouri St. Here's Story of Squeezeout : 3) program by ture Goal WHE a | was charged with burglary. The Times Special To Bring Peace mcgruntied Mutters | atta wi i venders DERCTS. Were LITE] Ger 23—Se er E. Capehart tried to| A challenge to “get out of the, stin, fecommiting this country h. 100 party . \venile Aid Division for arraign- CHICAGO, Feb. : n. Hom E Cc kitchen and into world affairs.” (o support of on said the officials hid been arrested. Re- ' {ment in Juvenile Court. ‘buck the Capone-Guzik juke box setup in Chicago. was given Indiana Farm Bureau! dccuty Dati aeteruine [POF of hog 2 women here today. | whether the growing violence in|'R from the provinces.
3 He failed. ; Indi i head! Mrs. Raymond Sayre, president the Holly Land constitutes a Police Cruise Streets vin . ....} .. The Republican senior Senator from Indiana is head! Nv CHF r An threat to world peace, | A Peoples Party spokesman id \D] - Board Ponders » |of the Packard Manufacturing Corp. of Indianapolis, adress he group at its 18th! It the council decrees that It said 30 of ts oficials had. ween
» : ‘makes juke boxes. social and educational confer-/does, Mr. Austin announced, Bhelarriated. The number was exe : A D Problem | Sen. Capehart last Oct. 12 went so far as to meet with Dan ence in the Murat Theater. ne ae ihe BT pectea to mount. . 0 : 'Palaggi, a partner of Fred Morelli, erstwhile first ward Democratic “Women must begin to accept T/0FEE BH 5 ae ace |, alt an hour before the rally, : |committeeman and juke box boss of the loop and surrounding ter-| political responsibility by placing Jon AS av De bvitw tugh Ae |truckloads of troops and volice ¥ be Incinerator Deemed ritory. ; .._Ithemselves in this country’s nus > ie yl ‘were cruising the streets of ; The meeting was held in Room 1184 in the Congress Hotel. RAY: policy-making positions,” Mrs, n peace.
y Prague. . 3 rt i The long-awaited statement of The first ] Eventual Solution (Cunliffs, president of the Illinois Phonograph Owners Association, Sayre said. American policy did not commit! Communists on —
The Sanitation Board today alsd’was present. | phond . Capehart in Indian- “In this way women can exert | discussed plans for the dumping Cunliffs gave Sen. Capebart a Phoned Bea 7 ar their ifuehos Sawa Norking Washington Tt Chere wnanewered on, Cabinet ministers hme when ofs combuatiblé material, Recent. | "token order” at that time. Pa-| “Were you chased out of the out a peace solu wo the big question whether the Se-/the tan hg ak over
llaggi gave him some polite con- Chicago juke box market?” he Problems.” " fleurity Council will mobilize and Posts.
Greatest on ye : TWO-STORY TUMBLE—David Downs will be a careful young-*}iy all local dumps were closed to yersation. |was asked. cay| She Pleads tor Toleranwe of United Nations army to enforce The committees installed Evzen
: ster now, Yesterday he leaned out a bit too far from an upstairs |such material by city order. On Jan. 17, 1948, Sen. Cape- “I wouldn't go so far as to Palestine partition. | alues . pts window in-his- home: 915-E. Maryland 5+. Suddenly. he. plunged 10. . Sines then most such trash 0 My came here to speak at a din- that” said Sen. Capehart. “We picjuics Fyn ere open-mind. The stayoment left members of Lasuel I Jincs of rv National : the ground. but luckly linded on his feet. Except for some 5076 |peen taken to the Speedwayinct of the Tein Haswhe TOL I en In Ohloago. We edo tim Women make a Persoial mu tere eantied. comments Trade: Hubert. Ripka, and put. muscles, a General Hospital doctor said the 5-year-old boy is all \dumping grounds, but INQICALIONS convention. ng. the coin machine racturers are at the mercy of the Study of economic causes of war.| they filed out of the Security Sut he Teopis Dery Minister
TT ; right. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Downs. ‘ a- “Women should follow up their ., , Ll LE sono vr a p—— youre Joy that His Spot ‘might, Shortly thereafter the Senator in) {juke bux) assori study with definite action,” she Couneirs plush metling room, Take It or Else — also closed to this refuse. announced a change in his sales pel they controlled by hood- sald. “They must take an active amttimpS legality,” one Sources in position to know said
abs rs : ’ | The Sanitation Board discussed ,,| | | ] icy. - an . Gott had 0 Favorites, FBI Questions line: possibility. of providing a policy Chain distributor or fas. JET: the Senator was asked. part in: poliies Wogiuuing in their _. ior snapped. earlier that Mr. Gottwald a cago ribu or fac Are you talking to me for OWN . “Hypocritical,” said another, “A ‘Most completed a cabinet, and
| " 'D: 4 sanitary fill. Here refuse would ; ’ ’ Big Steel Makers Ibe dumped and then coveréd. tory representative thereupon publication in the paper?” asked At this morning's session of the _, =.» was expected to present it to
‘took the Senator’ ke bo d two-da rogram, Hassil E. "= { ; \Y, S V Gates On Hike in Price Urges Incinerator wl or Ferre oy his Tuck Een. Caphart Re Wan itl ne Bnet Ta al president, Another visitor id J mest Tyla: Haunrd Buoes 8 & as . 3 The long range program is for ¢nere - hr not going to answer that,” Presented Gov. Gates with a check President Truman “has lost the #The fight » Tost one oppost » & {th truction of &n incinerat- : $5000 - ; Deparment” Heads — { ~WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UP) lor, Mayor Feeney, who attended, The Chicago Daily News tele- said the Senator. ~~ |/¥ Pe the "Rave, British Colonial Secretary hd ott des said Soward thy a <p y Attorney General Tom C.i ine meeting, urged that an in- Capehart's Business in Chicago Is Small The money was collected from | AT ibur—Oreech--Jones--told ther Opponitiomnt. re ee vee Told to Vote Freely {Clark announced today that the cinerator would be the solution. | pr | farm bureau- groups throughout council Britain was faking its| = leaders charged that . FBI and the antitrust division] jy Ww. Neeves, operator of! “The music dealers say they, “Within the same industry in Tlarmy out of Palestine By Aug. 1 Gottwald had discarded all
Gov; Gates told department ._|the state. " “ pretense of legality 1 . _{of the Justice Department have rprash llection, Inc., a private have a right to protect them- Chicago is another large business v {at the latest and “will acquiesce gality in his seizure heads: of his administration to begun a nation-wide investiga- com; hy said that Fol local Selves,” he continued. “They od which has ae of at ib Sumani Moksage Fort. M© longer in the use of British of power, and would ride roughay that they were free to sup- mp: ’ concern c as o rs.” Russell Cushman, Ort- | rces and the squandering of shod bver Mr. Benes if n
n tion into recent steel price in-| is becoming desperate. Want to keep the old machines in : : port any didate at the Re. creases, |euation 2 : pe a location at a hotel or a restau- Officers a close relative of Jack ville, president of the Farmipg....) ves to impose a policy| Informants said Mr. Gottwald's publican state convention next | He said industries and business Guzik Buran Women's Department, pre-| cabinet to replace the coall The inquiry was begun on or-!firms cannot find the necessary rant and deny them the right to Guzik. sented her annual message to the partition) which one or other of 1 tion
June. { »" he headed gave all th ders of President Truman, issued spots to dump their refuse. This a new machine. “Both companies have received co... the parties is determined to re- B a e top posts ay: mia that he had_net in. aboard the presidential yacht is causing the material to pile up| Again he was asked, “Were financial backing from the same|” gpe aid the solution to present sist.” Fa Communist, with some minor ny - person Williamsburg, now cruising the dangerously within the city. . You chased out of here, Senator?” individual, who, in turn, has been! word biems Mes } a Just before Mr: Austin spoke, 08 earmarked for leftwing date for governor and had made co, ihbean. | The Sanitation Board estimat-| He laughed. financially interested in New 3 oo nA SOUR! Chairman Karel Lisicky of the Social Democrats and dissidents re rs Would pave. the Attorney General Clark saidied that the city would have 100,-| “It's not true in that sense.” york companies within the same| phere is E assurance of peace|F destine Commission warned th from the Natioua) nist and te U8. Senate nt tooo ee of FBI agents began questioning 000 pounds of combustible refuse he said. “We changed our policy industry in which the Frank until all people are well informed °0uncll that ‘partition cannot be pe a. — @ close Of executives of 16 leading steellto burn In an incinerator in a Jan. 1. We quit selling to dis- Costello lieutenant, Meyer Lan- 4.4 ble of thinki t the Carried out unless. the Security rs and policemen his term next January. and capable of thinking ou el | seized the Boclal Democrat Part a Dek y companies this morning in the year's time. . |tributors and are selling direct. sky, is an officer. -|solutions of our problems,” she de-| Council forms an international|, ooo to > BY . e wouldn't accept an gm eq of the various companies. | en We still do a small business in| “And the Capone lieutenant, jared » force by May 15—the diy Great| quarters. The party files Ppointment as Senator if it were, ae. cork said the purpose of | Chicago. Charles Fischetti, has been ac-| Mrs George Neff, Goshen, pre. | Britain ends its repsonsibility fer| ene ransacked. The same thing
ff “beca - { 0 % | jon. of le lee ihe Investigation is determine | Selected | “Let us say we find the Chi- tively interested in both the New sided at the session this morning. Palistine, i National Bociain:. Gov. G tes d th at te {whether last week's $5-a-ton price cago situation very unsatisfac- York and Chicago phases of. this ———————————————— J . h M Ba | The -off yeale ay. Wvents in a a a rteq|INCrease ‘tn — semi-finished steel! Hory." ~— wasiness:” . ‘ Sn y Jewis ortars ter or Some of two Peoples v ; among - A To Sirculs . {products was the result of any, | In last Week’s annual report of} Frank Costello. is the most d British Security Area ar i i Dek io were occupied Automatic ment heads. He war oh par t agreement among steel producers Nn g ers 4aSe the Chicago Crime Commission powerful hoodlum inthe coun- : ] de h . fa 11140 ers. ! . am em that in violation of the anti-trust laws. was the following: ‘ try. He is a sort of super-Capone, : JERUSALEM, Feb. 24 (UR)=}} S. Fo ‘ they must not use their offices or| : y per-Lapo ¢ resaw veeze The price increase was first an- “Prominently, affillated with Lansky has been picked up by
personnel “to f. y 10s T r : Jewish mortars hidden deep in al onograph $ o form or support any nounced last week by thé U. S. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UP) legitimate industry in Chi- police on occasion with Paul ‘the Urged hy Wallace newly fortified Jewish sector Of Czechs by Moscow
organization foi >» : : 4 The n for any candidate.” gee) Co, Virtually every major|—A federal court jury of 10 men cage is an important political Walter) Ricca, boss of the Chi opened an attack on the British yu, guiNGTON, Feb. 24—The
Governor sald he felt . ” " i 't 7, fi e Mived 10 "awe my osiion clear steel producer in fhe country and two women was chosen today leader who is a known friends of cago mob. Fischetti, a cousin of security sector today, firing three g,,., 15,., tment predicted secrete
SRE = quickly followed suit. i Jack Guzik. (Greasy Thumb . y _|. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UP) shells at British police headquar10. ne members of my adminis- = ye. mo mante orders were is- to try Maj. Gen. Bennett E, ae A in sasy RS A} Caboue, gw Under Indiet: Henry A. Wallace. today called (ters there. I" ast September that Russis \ on and to the people of this, 4 to the Justice Department, Meyers, retired Air Forces pur- ,..... oo , for election of a “new President” The attack was launched short: Ho® e at any time to make
thi ; Capone mob. ses. > , Stats to de ig reports which 4), Commerce Department and chasing officer, on charges of pane mob.) uo who - would confer with Josef ly. after several hundred British Cesnotiovakia a. total Communist Ooo Sivit Wide, and often ine President's Council of Eco- subornation of perjury. Jukebox Boss Kept Books for Vice Racket Stalin on world peace. troops began street fighting ma-" py" arned today.
“ ‘nomic Advisers, Meyers is accused specifically Mra It is the function of this ad-| of persuading B. H. Lamarre to Virgil Peterson, operating di- Cooney, the vice racketeer in the p,oyiq0nt told the House Foreign rl,
, «Ml Ministration to .perform public GREEKS USE WARSHIPS Ne. under oath to: conceal the rector of the Chicago Crime Com- Capone-Guzik syndicate. Affairs Committee that “a change & {pean analysis prepared for cone
* \ | service for the le of this state, ! : _| Morelli and Palaggi own the oa . S rn to Sta {gressional committees -on foreign and I shall 6 pepso the heads| ATHENS, Feb, 24 (UP)—The general's alleged $150,000 profits mission, may deny it, but an In-|\ 0 budie Co. 2134 8. Wa. OF faces” 1s needed inthe ex pring y |aid... The document is still marked
d service men tell ¥ Mor the various departments of | Greek government used two war. I, Rickbaclés from 4 Wartime vestigation reveals be was 1alk- bash Ave. which has the Loop Sliven Y the U8 ov: At Least 1 Day {reatiioted,” of fo compare with this J state government so conduct their|ShiPs to land troops on the su > Biitrateing company. ing, in the commission report, of “stops” for juke boxes. "He did hot mention President] American officials view the re Y horsar the Bl Tetpective departments that there | Peloponnesus and drive off some amarre headed the company, p.., Morelli, who in his youth, Further the crime commission pn early| SPring is scheduled to hang cent events as meaning an end. cord chang i, He SE a
ruman by name, but clear] —- i oh BL be no eriticism as to the 100 gucrrillas who attacked the | (AON of 8 ihe Ahviation Electric us a bookkeeper for Dennis (Continued on Page 3—Col. 3) called for the defeat of Mr, Tru.|Around for another day at least. to Moscow's “folerated immunity” 'm . . « large 10-inc manner in which such public serv-| town of Aigion, on the coast east ‘ ” lce”is being performed,” the Gov- of Patras, press dispatches said
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The third party candidate for neuvers in the British zone. wan made in a 273 page Euro-
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~ ” . ~ r if+.out ’ : k year. ” erate cold w for t new drop-panel, [i er an investigation by the Senate | Pp . ’ ave Omorrow ly re needle and nor concluded. today. War Investigating Commtitee. ange a es rogram, | Mr. Wallace denounced the pro- nas heen changed by a consid- Schuman Wins Another : PIL noi , PE Meyers has denied the reported ° : posed Puropten Jacovery Pro- erate Weather Bureau. : Vote of Confid Admiral improve " t ; . kickbacks. He has indicated that { d S t A + gram as a "blueprint for war.” | But .the sun isn’t expected t 0 0 on nce ' v . n e nsi e Lamarre’s story was spite, resuit- n ana ena or sser 'S ay aid, the average European shine. The sky will be ody and PARIS. Feb. 24 nee or monthly —_— e Ing from his association. with Le- op aps 0 [Delleves American imperialism jight rain is on tap. National Assembly tonight House Republicans trim President Truman's budget, Page 3 marre's wife. +. Refuses Comment on Possibility : is on the march” and the recovery| "Mild temperatures are on order Premier Robert ny lonight gave
.. | * Meyers had told Senate investi-] Of ‘Gangland Monopoly’ in Chicago ‘ |plan Is just another kind of “In- for Indianapolis today with :helof confidence, the seventh in the
5 oh mir ; * 'gations that Mrs. Lemarre was tervention.” mercury reachi ; ; 18 escaped prisoners of war still roam the U. 8. . . . one may ¥* secretary and “girl friend” for Sen. Homer E. Capehart declined to comment here today on| The former Vice President read middle V0 this ah ioan a he gins onthe See he thoi
be a neighbor . . . an exclusive Story. ........... Page 5 five years. - the possibility of a “gangland monopoly” on music boxes in Chi- a 10,000 word statement in a|casional light drizzles, today will crisis late last vear., - vy .» FE Mrs. Lemarre has filed a slan- cago reported in a Chicago Daily News story today. {House caucus room packed with turn to light rain tonight, the The issue re i last -Fri4000 children enjoy good music a picture story. Page 11 der suit against Meyers. : The Chicago story hinted that Sen. Capehart's Packard Manu- silent spectators. He got only a weatherman says. day when Communist deputies K et 4 nti ects tpg facturing Co. (phonograph machines) here, had been squeezed Sihgle handclap when he entered) Temperatures ‘tonight are not dea approval of Malton ey to Other Features on Inside Pages Hunt Missing Transport out of the Chicago juke box market by an association of former the room, : expected to drop. to freezing. Yes- forcing the government to reime Amusements. 6 Fashions ... 15 Mrs. Manners 2 Side Glances 12) STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb, 24 Al Capone gangsters, “Of course there is a phono- Killed b EA terday the mercury rose to a high pyres immediately all holders of Eddie Ash... 9! 3 0 y Falling Tree [of 48 degrees and dropped to A recently .demonetized 5000-frang.
B {Forum ..... 12|Movies .....' 8 Society ..... 14 (UP) — Swedish coast guard Sen Capehart said that last graph association up, In Chicag ge «vss 14 |Gardening .. 15| Obituaries .. 10 Sports ....:8-9 planes and cutters searched the Jan. I “our company here changed ang it controls things around) ANDERSON, Feb. 24 (UP) —{10W of 36 early this morning. {notes, = * ClaChilds ... 12 | Meta Given , 15 F.C. Othman 11 Stranahan .. 8 Baltic. today for the Swedish It sales program. '. |there, that's all." ; Russell Travis, 24, Frankton, died] LOCAL TEMPERATURES | Later the government issued & Classified «16:18 \In Indpls.... 3!Radio ...... 19 Teen Topics. 15/ transport Iwan, missing six days.| “We formerly sold to dis-| Sen.Capehart said the Packard yesterday of a broken neck re-, 6 a. mh... 36 10 a. m... 41 decree, - today, provid. Comics ....,.19| Inside Indpis. 11| Records .... 10| Washington. 12 amid widespread reports that tributors and row we're selling firm is doing business in Chi- ceived when a tree he was felling 7 a.m... 37 11 a. m.. 45) ing full relstiurpsientt he March Eanoword . 13 Dr. Jordan.. 15 Mrs. R'sevelt 14| Weather Map 13 Russian pirates are operating in to dealers . . . that's about all cago but indicated it was not toppled on him. He is survived by| 8 a.m... 39 12 (Noon) 45 |i for holders of torials .. 12 Labor ...... 2|Ruark ......11/World Affairs 12 the northern seas. there is to It,” he said. {altogether satisfactory, parents and’a widow, ~~ v9 mm. 89 Lp. ma. 45 ‘worth of : Y ip . v h ' & a | 4 ’ : \ “ , v 4 . ! id Ap .