Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1948 — Page 1
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59th YEAR—NUMBER 57
‘Don’t Let Novi Run’—Bergere Parking Area gh SS Sr © For 20000 Cars Urged
Planners Recommend Downtown Sites
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By HAROLD HARTLEY Indianapolis needs 20,000 downtown off-street parking spaces. “This was the recommendation lof a panel of 15 municipal plan-, |ning experts from nearly every (large city in the country after {a three-day study over the weeklend.’ . In addition to the 20 ing spaces, the panel urged: ONE: The establishment of a City parking authority “to con-
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to get rid of all curb parking
: Fs § Yios, 2 er g a. poi Er es fi ome tawn. } AFTER THE CRACKUP — This is how Ralph Hepburn's car looked after he had rammed into the retaining | i Approve Two Sites wall along the northeast turn Sunday. The front end has been damaged beyond repair at least for this year's race. 0 ig BR Clee oe race. S. A. Silbermann, chief metallurgist for the AAA contest board, is inspecting the damage.
|gHve approval to two parking . i dineedBligmine Binaries nmonss ‘ : ./sites south of Washington 8t.' [4 W yi " Re " recommended by the City PlanCars Are Wrong, \Reports Surrender Driver Asserts |
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year “ago. “The two" sites north of Washington St. were dis-| lapproved as being too far from {the shopping district. | He said off-street parking facilities should not be more than|
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AMMAN, Trans-Jordan, Ma¥ fall within this range. {17 (UP)—Jews within the old! ‘prom 50 per cent to two-thirds {walled city of Jerusalem have ofr all cars downtown are short-|. {surrendered to Arab forces, Jean time parkers,” he said. “These rNieuwenhuys; Beigian-consul-gen- gre the cars of the women shop-reral-at Jerusalem; told the United pers who -- spend -most--of - the. Press here today. money.” ’ : | Mr. Nieuwenhuys came here Plenty of Sites Seen i with other members of a United, He urged the city to.prepare to! |Nations commission which is acquire suitable land, of which ;seeking to obtain & truce for all the panel believed there is plenof Jerusalem. ty in Indianapolis, to move to-| He made his statement of the Ward a long-range program of |surrender after he and other establishing from two to two and {members of the commission had|® half square feet ut parking | Trans-Jorden and Abdul Retman| “P27 SPAbe Azzam Pasha, secretary general| jof ie Arey League; where the 15 experts of the Cenf No Flat Rejection tral Business District Council of, It ‘was understood that the the Urban Land Institute were Arab leaders did not flatly reject arrayed behind microphones at a the idea of a truce for the Holy long table. City, but that no conclusive] ,. red to speak. he said, “No agreement was reached. /thank you. “Your time is too valu-| (A pooled dispatch from corre- able and I don’t want to take any)
By ART WRIGHT A call to bar the remaining Novi Special from the 500-Mile| Race echoed through the Indian-| apolis -Speedway's Gasoline Al - AO AOARY rn Cliff Bergere, who left the Novi team “last Friday after the car which carried Ralph Hepburn to his death yesterday had spun with Bergere on the northwest turn, had this to say about the fatal crash: “I don't think the Novi cars should be allowed to run in the 500-Mile Race , . . one of them! killed one of the best fellows ever to come here.” = “° | Bergeré said, however. that he definitely would mot: spear-head| any petition to have the remaining Novi car barfed from the race. | ’ ‘Cars Were Wrong’ Bergere insisted “the cars were wrong” and charged that they) should not have been in the race |
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even last year. Sl : he. {spondents in Jerusalem, whichof it.” { ... “The cars were allowed. to run| S80 Can Aree staat pms ris AT 8 B.C Le 4. W, in... through! Parking in last year’s ‘500' even when it / v . [State Department facilities, in-out, do not stop parking co! was known that the wheels were| HEPBURN'S LAST PICTURE—Several minutes after [dicated that Abdullah agreed Fri-ition, but do add cash to the city|
one d fi ighth inch off /i- . : center.” Bergere charged. He said,” his. picture was taken early yesterday aftarnoon,
the off-center wheels were resposi-| Hepburn (at the wheel) crashed and was killed in the
sible for the cars going into spins a | IN + r during. practice Inst year. one of northeast turn of “the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. »
which landed Bergere in the créek.' Bergere drove one of the Novi Hepb | To California for Burial
cars to fourth place in/the 1947 Wife Arrives Here to Complete Funeral Plans;
race. wo Bergere-said-he-reported-to-the: Veferan Racer Killed as Novi Rams Wall Jo Open Up Lifeline {smoke abatement. About 75 eitiBy LOUIS ARMSTRONG TEL AVIV, May 17 (UP) Zens attended the hearings.
owners of the Novis last week | Arrangements were to be completed today for the transfer of Jewish forces launched .a fierce Yesterday the panel took a
that thé right front universal] joint was throwing out oil and| Ralph Hepburn's body to the West Coast for services and burial. attack today on an Arab town of| three-hour bus tour of strategic f problem points in the city. i
warned them that “the oil might] . soak throughto the brake lining.” |" “No ‘one believed me," Bergere The famous heavy-footed race driger was killed instantly 20 000 tae | h J 120, only nine miles from Tel { said; “when I told them the car yesterday when his powerful Novi Grooved Piston Special skidded Aviv in J drive to reopen the Bi was acting up last week. They on the northeast curve of the Speedway and crashed head-on highway to Jerusalem. , The United Nations should send ThE CAr'S Performance, BeYRere anna, age 16, arrived here by Aad track oficals and his death mould ; bt bombed. bY Armed Torces to Palestine to pro: | said: “My many years of expe- plane this morning from their hung a dark curtain over the Pp gains tect the new Jewish state of] rience have taught me to rec home in: Van Nuys, Cal, to com- track and garage area for the {hibited night flights over Egypt./was one of several speakers who, | Any, planes in the skies between|addressed a mass “salute to] | " fo! Bergere also said he had noti-/came to an abrupt end shortly who was sales manager for the dusk and dawn will be shot down, Israel” rally which packed Mad | fied AAA race officials that there after 1 p. m. as he was wheeling (western division of Tucker Motor was “something wrong” with the the Novi Special around the Car Co, was one of the last ac- { hart. ard of the race, and Lee Oldfield, Timed at 128 m.p.h. | : { Two years ago the thinly- , chairman of the Technical Com+| On the lap which he completed , ; oe . mittee, told The Times that Ber-just before the fatal one, unoffi- haired driver broigif the stands Details Kept Secret Under Security Act; Senate Group Votes for 2-Year AEC Terms hour. ) I eat - WASHINGTON, May 17 (UP)—President Truman "announced Mr. Oldfield said he had heard Paul Russo, another driver, Which stands today, the Facord Bergere criticize the performance who had been posted as an ob- H ’ 1 ! } of the car he had driven but that server on the northéast turn, Sasienr 1D. and 1 wus Chairman David E. Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission, also said the latest tests, carried out in secret at the remote Pacific proving ground on Eni- — —
{day to a truce in Jerusalem, butitreasury and restrain the all-day) that Jewish attacks seeking con-/parker from monopolizing curb trol of the city had begun before'space. { word of his agreement reached Jerusalem. As a result, the truce ® = : ss & =» attempt failed at that time.) ® " Mr. Nieuwenhuys indicated urn S 0 Y to e a en Jewish forces held most strategic points in Jerusalem outside the TrrlelaTEity. Arabs had the city under’ shelifire, . members said.
75 Attend Hearings Speakers other than Mr. Farr were Richard J. Seltzer of Philadelphia; C. Harvey Porter of Baltimore; Fred W. Moe, of the
th i of Detroit, and Max Wehrly, e commission Washington, D. C. Other questions on the agenda
Jews Open Att were traffic, transportation, city pe ack |finances, urban development and
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"He said such a thing would ereate! a hazard. thought 1 was making excuses for ints the outside retaining wall. He was 52. | "A spokesman for the J Protect Israel Taft “Imynelf ‘ pps The “victim's wife, Mrs. Ada} ror AR0KRESMAD. 10 e Aewiah,,... Aviv continued: Israel. Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.. ognize when a car is right andiplete arrangements for transfer remainder of the afternoon. In Cairo, thé government pro- 0.), said last night. Mr. Taft] when. it is wrong. That Novi was of the body. : tu - Headed ‘Sales Division a government announcement said. son Square Garden. . * Novi. |brick and asphalt oval in prac- tive competitors of the racing era President Hails Progress No Formal Protest [tice prepratory to attempting made famous by Tommy Milton, gere had “never made a formal cial checkers in the pits timed foe Toot WY hegotialing oe protest against the Novi cars to'him at more than 128 miles an today that this country has successfully tested three improved atomic weapons, The results, he said, “indicate very substantial
“No One Believed Me’ PRES VS rT T— rom—— 3 ; wre, NEWYORK: May AT (bP hmm Admitting he was “afraid” of Hepburn, and his daughter, Jo- & TAVOFIte among the drivers high command sald’ that hiro) § definitely wrong.” { Mr. Hepburn's racing career The stocky Van Niys driver, | # Jack Mehan, AAA chief stew- qualification. (Jimmy Murphy and Frank Lock In 3 Improved Atomic Arms them.’ average speed of 133.944 for four progress.”
made in the car in which he was killed yesterday, was 134.449 as “Hep came off of the back yet unequaled by any one, stretch and hit the curve high. Raced Motorcycles As he began his normal swing a ’ down into the low part of the He first entered speed competicurve the back end of the Novi tou Ny ne, motoreyeles. | i n ne o ese races ® i [eee to at seo but by {that he suffered a leg injury to start at once further nuclear renomination. 'that Hme the front wheels of his {Which since had caused him to development based on Intorma: UN - Abandons Hunt
“tion gained from the tests. ; car were on the infield apron. He The tests were conducted under For Control of A-Bomb
4%en gave it the gun and the security provisions of the atomic, LAKE SUCCESS, N, Y. May he felt he couldn't handle it.” (NOV! shot almost straight up the energy act and information as t0/17 (UP) — The United Nations" Mr, Mehan said that in the Pank of the curve and struck the [scientific results and technical de-|Atomic Energy Commission toopinfon of the AAA “the Novi retaining wall head-on. A a Shay the iestitatls cannot be made public at|day abandoned its long and fruitcars are mot ‘wrong.’'” He said] Skids Down Track Ito do. He knew of gv hazards but this time, the White House said. [less search for agreement on Hepburn's crash showed that the! “The car did not turn around ,. accepted them as a challenge, Chairman Lilienthal told re. world atomic control until the cars were sturdily constructed put skidded down the track pacause racing ‘appealed to him. porters that the tests marked ‘a Soviet Union accepts the major-| Since “they did not fall apart” slightly sideways and came to, v h milestone in atomic development.” ity-backed American atomic conunder the impact. rest in the .short straightaway.” ‘From the way he acted and Oppose Truman Plan [trol plan. . He sald there was every indi-| Mr. Hepburn's helmet and gog- the few things he said, I think | The 9-to-2-vote tossed the east-| cation of a situation similar to gles were thrown 150 feet from he had the idea this was coming.! The Joint Congressional... atomic stalemate into the the fatal wreck of “Shorty” Cant- where. the car collided with the Several of his close friends ad- Atomic Engery Committee, overs 00g Nations Security Council lon during last year's race. He wall. «His chest and skull were vised him not to race because he riding President Truman's objec- ond paved the way for a major! sald Hepburn's car appeared to crushed. Dr, E. Rogers Smith hadn't kept up with it. You've got, tions; today approved legislatibn | 4 oniia debate at the United Na-| take a course similar to. the Cant- said he died instantly. ito build up to this thing. He was/to extend the terms of Atomic sions General Assembly session lon car, od 7" |" Mr. Hepburn is survived, in ad- °0 & spot. Energy Commissionefs for only/,.yy september. = Mr. Mehan sald that as yet it dion to his wife and: daughter, “Fm sure he «felt that if his tWo years. It voted 11-10-53 10| pejegates overrode a last-min-could not be definitely determined by his father,” who is in poor time time was up he wonld want extend the terms to June 30. 1950. rE ! : health in Los Angeles, Cal
{here never was an official pro- gave this version of the crash: est. “I have no official criticism of the Novi cars,” Mr. Oldfield said. They meet all the standards. | The responsibility for driving any car is with the driver, not the AAA Says Novi Cars OK Mr. Oldfield said he felt BerRere “exercised proper judgment” In refusing te drive the car “u
from one to four years. (sors of the two-year bill contend [that is the only way to avoid a fly approved commission plans Senate fight over Mr. Lilienthal's
wetok Atoll, are “a milestone in atomic development.”
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lwalk with a limp: Of the tragedy Wilhur Shaw, president of the Speedway said: ‘I've know Hep for 25 yeafs and he was just like all the rest
{to go as he did. If he had the. "Mr. Truman has renominated Andrei’ Gromyko to continue the
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~ {Continued on Page. 10—Col. 4), “mp, iragedy marred the othér- same choice to mike again I.commission Chairman Lilienthl talks. Mr. Gromyko argued. that, - }aTio ALY FaioTy Tos "rERey, mise perfect for qualifying at feel sure he would do just as heifor a five-year term and the other agreement was possible but “the A Lanovy gon. TEA a ‘the Speedway. Mr, Repburn was did” ; "four members for terms ranging United States does no} want it.”|
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Letters, Telegrams Stacked on Desk
| | | By ROBERT BLOEM Henry Schricker's famous white hat was in the Democratic governorship rihg “But I won't spe 'get the nomination,” the former {governor told The Times in an in|terview at his desk in the Fletcher Trust Co. He made it clear that he still doesn’t want to give up his bank post and re-enter politics. But he | glanéed . ruefully over his. pincenez glasses at a stack of letters and telegrams on the desk and added:
“I expect I'll have to make some kind of a statement some time - this week: mr : “Makes Statement Here 1s. Mr, Schricker’s statepe re a wires 5 | He said he would go “only so far as to give my consent to have my name placed before the nom- | Inating convention. That's as far ' . ; | al enid go. h 3 RELUCTANT CANDIDATE—Former Governor Henry Schricks |r feel that 1 have had my ar smoked -a-cigar-and-did-a lot. of thinking: at his" bank desk ahs 1 mare of BANOS. 1 1 €VEF 134 Any morning, The white hat, almost as well known as the former Gov.
{dissipated and I'll not press any ernor himself, is in the Democratic Governor ring even though (claim to the Democratic nominaMr. Schricker says the b
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Faces City Council Tonight cc evi. ssi 5 *We-Will Fight Plan to-Restrict foniry ai ihe "governor. race. To Licensed Canines,’ ISPCA Head Says Saturday's reor a
Democratic State Committee, left little doubt as to what his formal answer will be.
By DONNA MIKELS A storm was brewing over the special city rabies vaccination | appropriation today as dog lovers demanded assurance that the) free vaccinations will be available to all dogs, licensed and up-| licensed. Mrs. Edna Harrington, president of the Indiana Society for. the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said her group will be on
hand at City C il tonight as| and a y ounc nig a co | The Fair, Warmer Due:
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“We will fight any attempt to restrict this vaccinatioh fund to} licensed dogs,” she said. “After all, this is a health and not a|
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The 1ISPCA spokesman said the © 8% WM... 53° 10 a. m.., 57 | Confidential sources within City Board of Health had pre- Ta m...5 11am... 61 |victorious BSchricker group inviously gone on record as favor- 8 &. mM... 3} 12 (Noon) 61 |sisted then that Mr. Schricker ing vaccination of only licensed] 2-8. m .. 53 1pm... 61 [already had made a commit.
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dogs and sale of tags at vaccination sites. The courtell” fx to wet tonight on sping ay ee on Satur the request of Dr. Gerald Kempf, : ’ ver, Mr. Bchricker city health officer, that $5000 of USIasts, picnickers. and nature steadfastly declined to discuss the Board of Health's funds be '0Vers in general took advantage the matter with reporters. He used to provide free rabies shots of, the local Weather Bureau| declined Samiinap} of any kind to city dogs. {forecast for today and tonight is|® er week-end. “Faxes vs. Rabies’ 'partly cloudy and rather cool. a morning's statements wers The request came as an emer-' Today's high mercury reading ,f pt $ht even approached a gency measure. as the worst Will be from 66 to 70 degrees DiCUssion of his can . ; rabies epidemic of 20 years grips While tonight's minimum tempér-| Despite reports that his fathe city. } ature will be from 45 to 48; [Yorite Republican Sppinetit wuld he 18 is taking is i Tomorrow | tbe. h enner, Mr, The ISPCA is taking issue with ) s expected to be Sehricker declined to nt
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mony.-should. not. he. used on any. the highest tem ranging 20. the four-way race for the ops... other than taxpayer's dogs. dn the middle 70's. , positions Govetrior nomination. Stipe frm place tive boards — simi apr RAMSAR "PPO...
of health has no power to enforce Hem? he : tax provisions—it's pot a tax collection agency,” Mrs. Harring: ton said. “Is there more interest in collecting taxes or in stamping out rabies?” - “It's no protection to the taxpayers to vaccinate licensed dogs and leave the unlicensed dogs and strays susceptible, It won't keep a taxpayer from being bitten by an unlicensed—and possibly rabid-—dog."” Plan Bitter Fight “The ISPCA started this campaign for emergency rabies measures when the public health agencies had failed to prepare for it, even though they've known for three years. this was to be a peak rabies year,” Mrs. Harrington said, “Now, however, 1 will personally stand with handbills in front of theycity schools and urge children not to take their dogs to the vaccination sites, if there's going! to be a tax collector and a dog pound wagon waiting to take |
Plan to Clear Streefs : Of ‘Work “During Race Stock List Steadies The State Highway Commission Affer Sharp Upturn
today joined City Hall in a co-| NEW YORK, May 17 (UP) - operative effort to keep all streets! Stocks steadied toward Hoon tox clear of repair work’ during the| day after Saturday's rise traffic congestion of the Memorial! ee rp, ut nthe earlige Day Speedway crowds. Volume fell o Arthur - Grayson, state road| recession i harp Se supervisor of this district, sald| profit-taking. First hour sales of ithe state would issue no permits|gg90.000 shares contrasted with for any Kind of repair work onthe 1,220,000 shares of Saturday's State Highway streets in Indian. first hour In the Friday session apolis until after the race. volume amounted to 570,000 in
until after the race. DARK HORSE FROG WINS | hat period.
ANGELES CAMP, Cal, May SEEK TO AVERT STRIKE 17 (UP)—The 1948 international WASHINGTON, May 17 (UP) jumping {rog-jubilee.crown went|—Union leaders today offered to today to Heliotrope, dark horse|arbitrate their wage dispute rathentry. Heliotrope won the anmial{er than go on strike at the Atomic
foomtest with a jump of 11 feet five|Laboratoty at Oak Ridge, Tenn. nches. |
‘after June 8, their pets for a one-way ride.” |
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State Highway Commission asked, aa . yo» the Board of Works for permis: Out-of-town entries win $500 Legion-Times horse
sion to close Howard St. from ; the Pennsylvania Railroad to, Show stakes . , , a4 story of the charity event Highvay. welition with photos wiirearavarsvesasraeraareseas sa PAgS
Kentucky Ave. The State { oa .m said closing —of Howard St. 8a J would be necessary for the proj. A Key to Other Features on Inside Pages oa ect because plans called. for a! Amusements | 8; Fashions ... 14; Mrs, Manners 22/8ide Glances big cut Into that-area. Ernest Blau. 15| Foreign Aff.. 12 Needlework. 14 yon 136 ‘The Board referred the request M. Childs 2| Forum ..... 12/Obituaries .. to City Engineer M, G. Johnson Comics sess 21 Meta Given. 14/F,C. Othman 11 for a recommendation before ¢ ‘a ‘Inpdis. 11] Radio acting upon mo ¢ Bditorials... 12/Dr. Jordan.. 15, Ruark «eves x = nie » 4 ’ CE b :
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