Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1948 — Page 1
59th YEAR—NUMBER 18
END OF THE
fellow workers from
E—Hoyt B. Main (cab), said goodby to a lifetime career of railroading as he piled into Beech Grove Shops yesterday. Out to say farewell to Mr. Main as he retited after 46 years were his fireman T. A. Seston (rear cab), and Jack Strain, foreman of the test shop (front on steps). Massed around the engine are e test shop. RE ;
Bootleg Cabs Promote
Flourishing
Enable Overlords to Exploit Trade,
Vice Here
Placing Northwest Night Life on Wheels (Second of a Series)
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1948
Russians Seal Off Berlin | With Ban On Rail Traffic |
Congress BarsEnd 2-Hour Roadblock Aid to Franco After U.S. Rejects Move
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Escaping Gas Overcomes 3 | On South Side
Women Stricken in
Fountain Square Store Three women employees collapsed as gas from an emergency lighting system ped through the G. C. Murphy’10-Cent Store, 1053 Virginia Ave., this morning. A few minutes after the store opened, employees and customers noted an odor of gas. At the same time two clerks, Mrs. Margaret Moore, 35, of 1612 Martin St., and Mrs. Eva Clapp, 21, of 1038 Elm St. collapsed. Seconds after they were rushed to Methodist Hospital. A bookkeeper in the company’s office, Mrs. Joyce Riley, 19, Speedway
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FORECAST: Partly cloudy, somewhat colder tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight, upper 30's; high tomorrow, 45 to 50.
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
———— Gl Swears Off Gum:
After Poking Wad | In Tojo’s Earphone |
TOKYO, Apr. 1 (UP)—An American GI guard at the war trial said today his superior officer had “chewed me ” for putting chewing gum in Ex-Premier Hideki Tojo's earones. “I don't know what is going to happen now,” said Pfc. William . Smith, a lanky 18-year-old mountaineer f r o m Eureka Springs, Ark. “But as for chewing gum, I guess I will give that up for awhile.” Robert Smith, whose parents live in Chicago, is one U. 8. military police guards on duty at the international military tribunal for the Far East, where
Throu
Conference Drops Plan House OK'd
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erences to Franco Spain from the European Recovery Program. | It left Spain's participation di-
countries.
The conferees acted about an| hour after the White House an-!
anese warlords are on trial. {was “utterly opposed” to making
a 8 {Franco Spain a participant in “I. WAS on duty Sunday and! ERP.
had six hours there in the court! Senate President Arthur H.| room with nothing to do,” he|Vandenberg (Mich.) also opposed |
City, was overcome. She was taken to Methodist for treatment.
Leak in Gas Light
said. {the Spanish provision. There was no Sunday court! The provision to make Spain {session. He said he could not eligible was contained in the resist the temptation to stick|House version of the bill passed
HOME
PRICE FIVE CENTS
o Inspect Americans
Threaten to Close Aerial Corridor Uséd by American Commercial Planes [ BERLIN, Apr. 1 (UP)—Russia cut off all rail traffic
{from Berlin to the American, British and French zones of A SHINGION AE. 1 (78) SStmany today, but abandoned, after two hours, road. mittee today dropped out all ref- blocks set up on the boundaries of the Russian Zone of the |German capital city.
Both Russian troops and German police with them at
rectly up to 18 Marshall Plan|the roadblocks were withdrawn.
. Later Soviet controlled Radio Berlin announced that the Soviet sector of Berlin would be barred to all trafic
Tojo and 25 other former Jap- nounced that President Truman between 11 p. m. apd 6 a. m. daily.
Traffic will not be permitted to enter or leave or travel inside the sector during that seven hour period, the radio said. : Air Routes Still Open : Air routes to supply the approximately 25,000 men of the three Western Powers in Berlin still were open, and
NYC ‘Old Timer Ends Final Run
Completes 46 Years Service as Engineer
By KENNETH HUFFORD The happy-hunting ground of the bootleg cab operator is the
near northwest sections of Indianapolis. He provides a Northwest
Passage for a dozen minor overlords of vice who exploit the area. He's the man behind the garish night life of the section. He keeps it moving in his bver-decorated automobile which is usually long on accessories and short on brakes.
He plies Indiana apd Nofth-|
western Aves, and cross streets
He brings ‘his trade to taverns Hike the British Lounge, the Ha-!
elenda, Mom's, Old: House, and the y Genil of the Lamp of Vicg: He cruises in the short block on Vermont St. from the Avenue fo the Canal where the “hoppies”| who “whiff the weed” assemble in| the evenings. The boot gets their dope and he gets - their liquor. He can also supply their women. He is the genil of the lamp where vice flourishes. Meet the bootleg cab operator, a young man who forms the e-
sential ingredients for the petty
rackets—transportation. “I'm a boot. If you won't use my name, I'll tell you how I operate. Not Too Fancy
“But, I don't want no heat
We're getting plenty of that from! the owners,” with a full Avenue's “ing and outs.” “They're trying to take us for . $8-$9 evefy 24 hours for rent, paid in advance, of course, this includes a full tank of gas. But we're not making what we're put ting into the cabs. All we get over this is our dough, but there's too damn little of it. . ‘ “Natch, we've got to pick up al fin here and there to make a go of it. “And we’re no how it's done.
“Well, you ask how a guy gets
t.400 fancy about
si. =e To Voto Tax Bill
replied the man knowledge of the
Truman Expected
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Calls Conference With. Party Leaders
WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (UP)— President Truman will send a message to Congress tomorrow on the Republican tax reduction bill. The message was certain to be a veto. Mr. Truman held an unusual conference with Democratic leaders this morning.
He disclosed also he will send today to House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R. Mass.) a letter outlining in general terms the additional appropriations he will request for the Armed Services. The President met this morning with Rep. Sam Rayburn .(D. Tex.), Sen. Alber W. Barkley (D. Ky.), Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder, Budget Director James E. Webb and Sen. J. Howard McGrath (D. R. I.) and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Press Secretary Charles G. (Ross said the purpose of this conference was to work out a time table for submission of the President's tax message and the new arms program. The White House would not say
Beech Grove test shops today.
ending 46 years of railroad work. Mr. igoodby
shak ent. ‘Mr, Main, Who lives
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‘38th St.
There was a familiar face missing from the New York Central
Hoyt B. Main, test engineer and “old timer” in the NYC, began his retirement yesterday, Main, «who is 635, said: at .the end of yester- | day's run. He found a surprise {at the end of the run’ when the {entire staff of the test shops {turned out to give him a hande and a going away pres-| A startéd with the railroad in March, 1902, and had
An. emergency squad from the Citizen's Gas & CokW@* Utility which made a check of premises said the gas appeared to.be leaking from an old gas light. There are five such lights in the store, located overhead. The
The utility squad said, however, that only four were properly plugged. A fifth, in the southcorner of the store, apparhad been overlooked. This light was located over the in which the two clerks working and near the ofThe gas odor was strongin this section. The manager ordered customers and employees from the store
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Warns Candidates
some gum in the earphones.
Tojo was visibly disturbed
|1ast night.
{vehicular traffic operated normally along the “autobahn™ ° Discussed Two Hours :
. {through the 100 miles of Russian-occupied territory west
12 p.m. (Indian
when hé put on the earphones Monday morning. Another guard finally had to remove the gum s0 Tojo could hear the courtroom proceedings.
President Calls Parley on Coal
Confers With Top U. S.|
Officials on Strike WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (UP) —President Truman called a conference today of top government officials involved in the soft coal strike, The President. will confer at i Time) with Attorney General! Tom Clark, Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug, Secretary of Labor Lewis B.
matic recognition to the Franco
ifor military and economic aid te
The conferees threw out the| provision after only two hours of | discussion. Mr. Vandenberg told reporters the action leaves it up to the 16 Marshall Plan countries whether Spain should be included. The State Department, at the same time, also spiked a published report that the United States plans to accord full diplo-
government. The House passed its $6,205, 000,000 global foreign aid bill last night by a vote of 329 to 74. It stood pat on its decision to cut
of the city. d But both American and British authorities rejected flatly the demand of the Russians that they be allowed to inspect trains of the Allied Powers to and from Berlin, The Russians halted all rail traffic as a result of that rejec« tion. might attempt to take control of This was the situation: [the Frankfult-Butlin air corridor NE: Four trains—Two Ameri-(2%% { ¥. Ameritey panes, can and two British—were halted |381d. such a move Had been ind)
during the night by a new Rus-| “.qy,, made preliminary moves
sian check-point established at in four-power cofpmittee meets Marlenborn, in the Soviet zone). munich indicate they might
west of Berlin. American and| corridor,” British officers in charge flatly re- ir 3, Font down the ef ’
Spain in on the $5.3 billion, earmarked for ERP, i For the first year's expenditure! on the 51-month ERP program, the House authorized $5.3 billion; |
Chins, $570 ‘million; ‘for military assistance to Greece and Turkey, $275 million and for the Ufited Nations Children’s Relief Fund,
{been an engineer since 1905. He has served as test engineer, making trial runs with new and reconditioned locomotives from Beech Grove shops for the past
To File Early
Prospective candidates the customary
who have been planning to wait until
Schwellenbach and Cyrus Ching, Federal Mediation Director. The meeting of government officials was called as some soft
difference in the Senate-House spending figures.
$60 million. There was no major!
fused to let Soviet troops enter or| He said he doubted fores would inspect the trains. {be attempted, but added “they TWO: One American train got might just ask us to cut our through to Bremerhaven, Hot fights to one daily.” only after the American feu-| ’ tenant in charge, who was. identi-| a ov . Airlines fied as 2d-Lt. John Asbury (home U- §. aitlife officidls address undisclosed), permitted tbat the Russians also ha Russians to search the train. moves to bait the flights = Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American erican commercial airiines. The military commander, promptly Russians recently asked by what indicated Lt. Asbury might be|right American commercial airs disciplined for disobedience to his|craft landed in Berlin. flat order that no Soviet troops
nine years.
For UN Session
U.S. Musters Votes
‘LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Apr. 1 (UP)—Reliable sources said to-
Saturday midnight closing time for filing their declarations at the Court House may get a % County Clerk A. Jack Tilson, boss of the election machinery, hinted strongly today that he will close the filing office at noon Saturday. “I am advising all candidates wishing to file for the May 4 primary to get their declarations in the election board office by noon
coal opepators weighed the idea of offering John L. Lewis a new one year contract with a detailed pension plan in an effort to end! the 18-day miners’ walkout. Reach No Conclusion White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said that Mr. Truman thus far has reached no conclusions in his study of the coal strike situation. The Presi-
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Rising Wabash
The Wabash River rose more than six feet over flood stage today at Mt. Carmel, Ill. A few lowland families in southwestern Indiana began to evacuate their homes,
were to be permitted to interfere with any American train.’ THREE: American and British air operations to Berlin were proceeding normally. Gen. Clay said he was prepared to supply the 10,000 Americans in Berlin entirely by air if necessary. American sources pointed out that a thrown switch could halt a train, but guns were necessary to stop planes. They did not believe
Russians that their two { weekly to and from Berlin do not violate the four-power agreement. Russian checkpoints established inside Berlin (later abane doned) were the first that have appeared since the four powers occupied the city Trafic pre. viously passed freely among all four zones. One control station was fixed at Brandenburg Gate, sepa«
The officials said they told hs el
Saturday,” he said. He added, however, that he .1/hasn’t decided on the closing time] United Nations Security Council definitely, leaving it open wath to call a special session of the advice” on the possible nodt
general assembly to discuss a deadline,
temporary trusteeship for Pales- | 5 On Inside
ine. A vote was expected when the Developments in prima lineups for prosecutor post
council meets today. It was not known whether Russia's Andrei center around Stark and Jacobs ..... Page 3
day the United States had the necessary seven votes to get the
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Gromyko would cast his 23d veto to block the American attempt to scrap the UN's partition plan and work out a trusteeship as a! substitute.
American spokesmen served "
dent plans to take the report of his coal fact-finding board with
rates the British sector from the
him to Williamsburg, Va. tonight.
The river has already reached | a stage of 23.2 feet at Mt. Carmel. |
the Russians would use guns. FOUR: The British deputy-com-
{Russian-controlled Unter Den {Linden area.
ry|
Flood stage there is about 17 feet. |
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possibility of industry | peace overtures was increased by AS he 0 or or 2 at ld Satan hii 8 utsxpected engineers said a rise of two more ecision yesterday against seek- feet would close Road 64 between ing an immediate strike-haiting Princeton, Ind., and Mt. Carmel jnjunctio n under the Taft-Hart- Water has already started washey Ac | : | Some mine operators were dy ® Yoad 0 a depth of known to be doubtful that the Only nine state roads are now |government could halt the strike cut off due to high water. They before it: completely disrupts the|,;e ‘Road 39 south of Tampico national economy. They feared - ; | {62 northwest of Mt. Vernon, 157 {such a development would lead
southeast of Clay City, 157 north | |Congress to authorize govern- and south of Bloomfield, 235 east
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mander was to see the Russian! another was established at
deputy-commander who signed | eipziger Platz on the Russians
e letter setting forth the new) American border two blocks east restrictions later today. The Brit-|
{of Brandenburg Gate, ish already had lodged a sharp
protest. Army Tells Clay FIVE: The
Russians without warning set up road blocks and 10 Use Own Judgment
checkpoints at the boundaries of! WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (UP) their zone of Berlin proper, and —The new German crisis precipis for a time stopped all trucks car-| tated by Russia’s transport ine rying goods out of the Soviet zone spection demands caused grave unless they carried special Rus- concern among military and sian permits. i diplomatic officials here today.
They withdrew these road TheeArmy gave Gen. Lucius D,
. LAs . | ment seizure of the mines—a step Drive to build $20,000 ani- they want to avoid. One seizure
mal clinic here starts today Pill already has been introduced.
notice in advance, that if Russia vetoed the call for a special assembly meeting, they would go
what Mr. Truman's action on taxes would be. But it was conteded among the President's
into this racket. Steered to Car “You get 'a car
. {blocks after two hours. They had Clay, U. 8. commander in Europe, ot Medora) i 5 Washington. 558 explained that the purpose was full authority to take “appropriwest of Plainville, and 450 near solely to prevent illegal truck ate action” in dealing with the
friend who's bootin’ jt to steer You to some .guy with a car that’s not working. Most of us don't! hold much folding stuff, so we can't pay the $8-§9 in advance that f the owners want. “So we work on 30 r cent Commission, I know you thinkin’ a smart operator can hook the owner right off. But, the OWNer ain't so crazy, either. He figures the 15 or 16 gallons of gas he puts earn about $2 a gallon for you and him, if you're on a ely “If you have to cruise and hook
by asking a
into your hack should
itlosest advisers that the Chief Executive had no choice but to reject the bill which would cut taxes $4.8 billion. Both houses, in passing the bill, had more than the two-thirds votes necessary to override a veto. The tax veto is expected to go to Capitol Hill at noon tomorrow despite the fact that Mr. Truman will be Williamsburg, Va.
URGES STOCKPILING WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (UP)— Pregident Truman today asked Congress for immediate authority
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directly to th¢ 57 UN countries and ask for ohe. If a majority of the UN members approved the session could Ye convened despite the Soviet action.
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act under the Taft-Hartley Act |vesterday also spurred speculation over possible new White House efforts to mediate the dis{pute over pensions for Lewis’
State roads covered by water, but not closed were Road 58 west of Elnora, four inches, and 69] south of Mt. Vernon, 10 inches.
ket traffic. keep the Army advised of all de« Germany ‘Dismembered’ velopments. c Radio Moscow preceded these! Secretary of State George C. developments by announcing the| Marshall, who is attending the dismemberment of Germany al-| Inter-American Conference at
U. S. Planes on Way To Turkish Forces
WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (UP)— The 12,000-ton aircraft carrier Rendova was scheduled to sail
sewing contest news . , and other women's fea-| tures
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‘Weather Plays April Fool Joke
million for stockpiling strategic
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from San Francisco today with the first of three carrier loads of military planes for Turkey. The Nuvy did not reveal the exact type or number of planes that would go to the Turks under the U. 8S. aid program.
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ght takes a call fof a bootleg cab at at 837 Blake St. A trap door shields the telephone from the af can be heard for a half-block rouses cab drivers dozing nearby, |
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U. S. Says Greenland Pact in Full Force
force for use in any possible emergency, government officials
WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (UP)— United States rights to strategic bases in Greenland are in full
{ready was an “accomplished fact” Bogota, Colombia, was being kept land said the authority of the informed by telephone and cable, |four-power Allied Control Coun-! State Department officials leil had ceased to exist. pointed out that ir. Marshall | The broadcast quoted the: of- could return to Washington by ficial Communist Party newspa- Plane almost overnight if neces.
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| The weather played its own | April Fool joke today by pro-| ducing winter-like temperatures! {in Indianapolis and vicinity, The mercury will reach only e high 40s today, the Weather Bureau says, and it will continue! to be cool throughout tomorrow. | Temperatures are expected to! reach a low somewhere in the | upper 30s tonight. Cloudy conditions are to pre-| vail, according to the forecast, and light showers may occur in| scattered localities.
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. . Reds in Trieste TRIESTE, Apr.- 1 (UP) Mounted police today dispersed a crowd of 500 striking machine hop workers who attempted to stage a Communist demonstras tion along the Trieste waterfront. The demonstrators attempted to stage a parade from their :. shops to Communist headquare ters and Allied Military Govern ment headquarters. Mounted police, supported by jpolice in jeeps and radio cars, {broke up the crowd without une #% |due violence after one hour. The one-hour strike was in proe test against the dismissal of a union leader charged with bringe ling Communist political speakers nto the plants. ’
Chico Marx Still Seeks ‘Damages in New Trial
| HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 1 (UP)== A new trial was ordered today of edian Chico Marx’ complaint
t that the movie “Rhapsody In him by
. o Moscow had declared that the ny had broken down, Soviet au-
thorities in Berlin began isolating the American, British and French
Marienborn (I) on the only, rail wers, and setting up checkpoints
llias have to use. Road blocks also were set up inside Berlin only to by lifted two hours later.
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