Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1948 — Page 1
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TERMS VAILABLE
‘IRONING by |5.inch uered steel white rubess $7.25
BOARD, , is famous ening and turdy wood jon, . $5.75
'l accept less than
jection last night of a four-point settlement offer
- » “Joined HE RAEI Of Kentucky” to eeynote: of Al. oo Although no time was set for their national convention here
“-pesumption- of -tatis;-both--Union
Kihgan ~~ vice-president” Howard-tee-atso- recommended ue 0 Sought by : P who
bP»
the would-be nudist before Sgt.
Matrose and Tom Burke. The arm of the law handed over two glasses of milk and a bag of potato chips before Gary's parents
‘arrive. :
Bayonets Halt Violence In lowa Meat Strike
Governor Calls on State Troops After _+___Striker Is Slain When
WATERLOO, Iowa, May 20 tional Guardsmen fixed bayonets
area in front of the Rath packing plant where one striker was killed when 2000 persons rioted yesterday. ; The guardsmen, many of them combat veterans, shoulder-to-shoulder in a line two blocks long and on orders of 0 pass through the Russian zone ®
. . {staff of the 34th Division. kt: W S| they moved forward, pushing a back approximately 55 illegal
In Kingan Strike Union Votes Down Company -Prapodal
Contract talks between Kingan & Co. and striking CIO Packinghouse Workers were expected to be resumed today after union re-|
Settlement of the eight-day-old walkout at Kingan's stalled when the union local voted, 328 to 128, to reject the proposal. Three of the four points were acceptable, union spokesmen’ said, but the fourth snagged an argument. The controversial point provided that the company not be liable for the guarantee of a full when operations were
week's pay perations were ih because of fife or other
threat of strike.
Balloting Nation-Wide | plant. The vote was part of union bal- grabbed one side of the automo-'spe omee loting throughout the country to|bile and lifted it.
settle the nation-wide strike
which has tied up the “big four” Democrats
50th YEAR—NUMBER 60 oo
_NUDIST—The bare escape of 2-year-old Gary Michael Olsen from his baby sitter finds police in Chicago broad minded. Hailing
away from the
FORECAST: Clear to partly cloudy, quite warm with low humidity tod ay and tomorrow. High tomorrow, 82 to 84.
* THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1948
Gambling rS
tered Indianapolis, Ind.
Promoters Here ock, Feeney Warn
as Second-Class Matter at PostofMes Issued daily except Sunday
U.S. Plugs Up American Zone To Russ Entry
PN ] Check-Point Set Up At Helmstedt FRANKFURT, May 20 (UP)— The United States has closed the border between the American and Russian zones of Germany even to official Soviet missions, it was learned today. Under an order issued by Maj. Gen. George P. Hays, deputy U. 8. Military Governor for Germany, all Russians henceforth must enter the American zone through a U. 8. check-point at Helmstedt, in the British zone. Gen. Hays telegraphed instructions to the military governors of states in the American zone that entry by ‘Russians. “who at, any authorized crossing point has been limited to a single outlet at Helmstedt.” * No Reason Given His telegrams gave no-reason for this clamp-down on Russian movements. Only official Russian
John Rochfort are officers Leo
enbarthe American zone previ: ously. —In-effect,;-the “order -seals the border between Soviet-occupied Thuringia and Saxony and Ameri-can-occupled Bavaria and Hesse to the Russians, . - It adds from 50 to 100 miles to 'the distance the Russians have to travel to enter the American zone. For almost three years, Russia lined up Das permitted the Western Allies
Arabs Seize §3
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Off American Ship
U.S. Tried to Stop | Raid by Armed Band | BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 20 (UP)—The Lebanese government! said in a communique today that authorities removed 69 “Zionists of military age” from the American vessel Marine Carp here yesterday. (Reports from Haifa, where the | Marine Carp docked today, said that 41 of those taken off the yessel were Americans, and asserted
2000 Stage Riot
(UP)—A contingent of 350 Natoday and cleared a block-wide
to Berlin only along a 122-mile corridor starting at Helmstedt.
Tool and Die Co. Property for Sale
Col. Frank P. Williams, chief of Then
pickets still parading before the plant. The troops did not try to move the five pickets allowed at the plant gates by a court restrain.
ing order. 5 that all those removed were og NOX DO ith cin Yai " 5... {forced from tol Pibtiel shoited and swore at” Firm's Real-Estate’ 170 8 i the Soldiers, but no violence 6¢c-| To Be Auctioned The Lebanese communique said
curred. The troops moved across that the 62 men taken off the the street, between the houses op-| ‘Want to buy a going business gp,jp were trying to reach Palesposite the plant, across the alley that's been humming along with- iio to fight in the Jewish army. and through to the street a block Out missing a lick since 1929? 14 4014 all of them were placed in| } plant. | If you like auctions. there's y eoncentration-eamp.— Gov, Robert D. Blue called the one going under the hammer. It's troops out last night after Black not a ban! - . It's the
addition to the Americans, 23
SEEING DOUBLE—Frank Dale Roscoe (left), New Paris, Ind., has had nothing but trouble since his arrival in Philadelphia for the 100th anniversary celebration of Girard College, ‘his alma mater. Secret Service Agents were ‘even reluctant to al low him on the campus when his "twin.on H:e-Jight visited there to speak today. missions ‘have been permitted to The "twin," of course, is Harry S. Truman.
To 1300 Orphans Will Be Broadcast
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by special train today for a visit to Girard College, where he will address 1300 boys whose fathers have died. The President will speak at 4:05 p. m. (Indianapolis Time), at the college which is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Although it will be broadcast nationally over CBS his address is not billed as a major speech, It will be extemporaneous. The President will return to
orphaned sons as students,
evenily;” {and hap + ay imi only
Hawk County Sheriff H. P. Wag-
Quality Tool & Die Co. 401-15
Palestinians,
three Canadians, one Pole, and one Mexican were removed from the ship.)
U.S. Tried to Stop
ner reported police and deputies “couldn't do a thing” with the surging mob. * Police Sgt. Clyde Sauer said
N. Noble 8t., which poured several million dollars a year through its bank account ‘during the war. Jay W. Rice, president and
(Haifa informants said that in i Rick - Tor]
2 Children; Father Victims of Blaze
the violence became a full riot when a non-striker, Fred Rob-
general manager, as well as principal stockholder, has decided to pull up stakes and go to Florida.
Removals From Ship
WASHINGTON, May 20 (UP
erts, 55, shot and. killed William Farrell. 40. a picket, +. He sold his business to Industrial
The shooting occurred ‘when Plant, Inc, of Chicago. The
vance to prevent the Lebanese!
A group of - Strikers jis equipment, May 26 and 27 in|to Palestine, State Department
|were dead today another | J - \ 2 oq i lr ~The. United States tried. in ad-\opjq wis fii critical ‘condition in Ted-tiaired school teacher and his Railways Agrees
RICHMOND, Ind., May 20 (UP) --To children and their father
| and anothér
. Reid Memorial Hospital here as casualty or because of strike Or girikers began approaching Mr.| Chicago firm will auction the real [government from removing U. 8. the result of a ry fire that de- appeared early in April. They TO Pay City $3000
|Roberts’ car as he drove near the egtate a one-story building and [citizens from a vessel en route stroyed the five-room home of Mr, Were living under the names of
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packing companies since Mar. ro Barkley Keynoter
The “big four"—S8witt, Cudahy,
Armour .and Wilson—have been
negotiating since that time. The Kingan local of the UPWA fhe strike May 10.7"
President. Burton LaRue and
Greer sald the “door is open” to further discussions. Kingan officials said they were “at a loss” to explain union re-
ection of
- | proposal on the! _ .-——— . last boint but. said they would Lands in TOO-Ff. Field,
discuss alfernative points whenever. union negotiators were ready. A similar vote on a settlement proposal to end the walkout at the local plant of Armour & Co. was scheduled for tonight. ——————————————
CRUSHED BY TRACTOR VALPARAISO, May 20 (UP)—
Gordon Douglas, 30, a Porter;
County farmer, was killed late yesterday when a farm tractor he was operating overturned and
erished him beneath it. .
Lewis Names As Keepers o
United Press John Le at Washington
today held out hope for peace in the soft coal industry.
He put the issue Of “peace OF tions from the operators since “mental case.”
PHILADELPHIA, May 20 (UP)
|8enate Minority Leader Alben
AW vrs omen senna wena — | The party's executive commit-
nority Leader Sam Rayburn of
[Texas as permanent chairman. | is tanta-|
The recommendation
{mount to election.
Crashes on Takeoff
—The Democrats today een W.
Westinghouse is reported in-|
price will be—what it will bring, |
Department officials said the
It is State Department polic
and Mrs. Leon Fitzwater at New
[officials disclosed. today. |Paris, O.
Y!' The body of one child—2-year-
rp—— | terested, along with a dozen or so("eT® awaiting further word of| ;4 wii hael Fitzwater—was found Name {other industries in the east. The the incident.
{in the ruins of the home an hour Yiarter the fire broke out early to-
With Girl Pupil, 18 Times State Nervies ELWOOD, May 20-— Arrangements were being made today by {the FBI to return an Elwood High |School teacher and one of his {pupils from Ithaca, N. ¥.; where
wife. ‘ ‘ Donald R. Brown, popular 44-year-old English teacher who coached debating and dramatics, the - gi¥l. were apprehended yestérday by Ithaca- police. Brown is chargea with violation of the White Slave Traffic Act while his pupil is being held
Qf $1000 bail.
N.Y. yesterday before U. 8. Commissioner A. Van W. Hancock, Brown pleaded innocent to the charges and was held in default of $5000 bail, A hearing has been set for June 9. ;
Disappeared In April A search was instituted for the
attractive pupil when they dis-
which should be somewhere be. "Ot 0 issue passports to Amer-|,, pg 27.year-old father and tional charges of desertion and!
tween $100,000 and $250,000.
= A motorist
missed. running down four
a. pistol.
agents for the U, + ACOMMISSION rrr
he Anferican Export Lines
Arabs’ Press Attack
{In Jerusalem . Battle narrowly] TEL AVIV, May 20 (UP)—|the fire. per-| Jewish forces defending Jerusalem| Firemen said the-father appar-/a promotion. The girl was nearsons at a near-North Side inter-|are under continuing fierce attack ently was attempting to start a ing graduation when they ran section today returned a few mo- DY ATab légionaires and have 16st [fire Tn a heating stove with keroments later to threaten them with some ground in the city, official sene when it exploded. reports to the capital of Israel
WINCHESTER, Ind, May 20/1 pugsell Coulter, 931%; N. Al- indicated today.
(UP)—State police said today
abama 8t., told police he and his|
that a student pilot who made a)... 4 + wo children had started |
[forced landing in a 100-foot field | yesterday crashed on the at- | tempted take-off after correcting motor trouble. Clifford Wiggins, 25, Anderson, escaped with minor injuries, but {the light -airplane was demolished, police said. The plane was the property of the Darlington Airport, Anderson.
3 in Industry § Coal Peace
issue to be settled will be the activation of the $36 million wel{fare and retirement fund built lup by 10 cents a ton contribu-
war” in the coal industry square-| July 1, 1947.
ly up to three men — Benjamin Fairless, president of U. 8, Steel Corp,; George Humphrey, president of M. J. B. Francis, president of Island Creek Coal Co, ’ . Mr. Lewis, who abruptly broke
A. Hanna Co., and agreement”
July|t
On other strike fronts today: Rails—An informed Washing{ton source said today a “basic may be reached with{in 24 hours on new . contract | puite. i~ Meat-
troit between the the CIO United - remained deadlocked
{terms in the railroad labor dis-|
| 80 Striking CIO United Packinghouse Workers wjll vote fat Chicago-tonightton the 40 drop, the weather bur forecasts, with mercury in the he nation’s’meat packing plants. Motors—Negotiations at De
Chrysler 2d Auto Work-| temperatures in the upper 80's. d despite] "00 AT TEMPERATURES
| motorist bore down on them with- | lout warning. torist and. some words followed, he related. The motorist, whose license number was obtained and turned over to police, went around the ‘block and then. returned. “I didn’t hurt them,” he pointed | to the children. “But, I can hurt all four of you with this.” He waved the pistol then. Police Chief Edward Rouls im-| mediately ordered “every effort’ made” to find the motorist whom | {he described as a “menace to everybody” and an apparent
Temperature Due
. 0 To Hit 80° Today [The temperature in Indianapolis is expected to go as high as degrees today with clear to) rtly ‘cloudy weather predicted.
lower 50's. ol aia Tomorrow is expected to be warm with record or near-record
| Mr. Coulter shouted at the mo-|
Three-Year Search Locates Body of Missing Flier-Son
"Europeans offering ! way for 5000 of the circulars to post
Arabs were pressing a fierce attack from the north, the reports _The -Senate Commerce Com-!| ito cross the intersection at Wal-|indicated, and fighting in the old mittee today killed a bill to regu- ®ach had written a letter hohe nut and Delaware Sts. when the Walled city was damaging andlate
destroying the most shrines of Christendom.
as; 8. Maritime! res VEpOrted “EHC
|died in the Richmond hospital beAOR AO 0 57 rs vay res RE HEN a TA Ira Monroe, 6, son of Mrs. Fitzwater by another marriage, was
|__The_ mother, Ifma, 27. was (working on the third trick at a {Richmond factory at the time of
LIQUOR AD BILL KILLED WASHINGTON, May -20 (UP)
liquor advertising. The
sacred committee tabled the measure by
a 6 to 5 vote.
Quest Ended as C Story of Crash in
a lonely grave forest, “It's a great relief,” sald M
to find him.” <Mr., Middleton had 30,000 ci culars printed. his son's pleture. He asked them to post the
many people as possible.
Middleton, a Stamford attorney. seen an “But I'd have never quit trying in
ircular Reveals German Forest
STAMFORD, Conn., May 20 (UP)-Ever since his fighter pilot son was shot down in Europe in 1944 and given up for dead, Ellis 8. Middleton had but one aim in life--to locate his boy's body. He never gave up hope and today, after a three years’ search ition cameramen between 1935 and in which he enlisted the aid of thousands of sympathetic Europeans, | ’ he learned that the body of Capt. Ellis 8. Middleton, 2d, 25, was in| 5 Das been taken to the floor in a German ~ a —
| American officials and told them r. that in Be
the reichswald forest in western Germany.
r-|
After hearing Mr.
' Then he waited. ‘Soon letters of an American soldier. Through came to him from hundreds of tooth charts, the body was posily identified as that of Capt. on. y
notified Mr. Mid-iKathleen Lady in ‘|dleton ‘that his son's body wasidaughter of former U. One of the circulars came into! being transferred to a U, 8: cem
The Army
hands of 1 , ‘aietery . at Npuville-En Condroz,
—|of both houses of Congress by
tember, 1944, he nad merican plane crash son (R. Ind.) exhibited a group
Mr. Riemer said. the pilot of On them were the plane was buried by paraHe rent the troopers who put a rude’ birch circulars to the mayors of towns cross-over the grave. in Belgium and The Netherlands. oh m story, U. 8. Army sper ex-| where they wi be seen by as|amined the grave, ich con-| ” tained the unmistakable remains APY HARTINGTON BURIED
ican citizens if it is known they|s old Wanda Fitzwater DOn-support which are pending $10 a year be paid on each public are going to Palestine to fight. |
The Marine Carp was operated
Denounces Reported | Effort to Set Up | Tightly-Ruled Syndicate
with self-styled “influence” to sét up a local syndicate to control gambling reached official ears today.
clared. “No one will have any ‘go’ sign and the adminise tration will shield no one or have any ‘connections’.
spite close supervision.
chief and me to whip. shocked,” he promised.
who are “sneaking”—that is, accepting bets on the teles phone without “room play’ —has been lively the last day or so.
TH 5 "ww They say that the syndi- 0 1 Jok x = cate is being formed to “put| ops dp er = i ,jorder™ into the disorganized, vee sla i fi ea criiiuiancmtunomnl cut-throat situation. count. (J Shoulder Again :
ers who are accepting occa- 3 sional bets, probably 60-70 places > i Elwood Teacher are interested in the horsebook | industry. This ts too many for| The dice stopped rolling on Ins rei me manana A AA sean rt BRY--Of- theta to-make- an 3 - PHILADELPHIA, May 20 (UP)| Arrested in New York !!ving.' the fuli-time boys com-
| — President Truman arrived here plain,
the syndicate
in taverns places. other slot devices of any im-|tomer at Young's spot got the portance would be included in the Worst of a fight over a dice game arrangement, along with the Shs- \ATEMEDL. Wardelf B . i 3 tomary * operations such as e@ customer, Warde pann, they have been living as man and na a pera oe raset(23, of 534 Patterson St. ball tickets, and “books.”
pay $500 weekly to the syndi-| cate,
suggested baseball would pay half this amount. Mos
as a material witness In detauit re a on Wy, Jad the,
When arraigned Al SYFRGUNS. test oe Grieg oe cer trie
ean
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No ‘Go Sign,’ No ‘Connections,’ Mayor Says; ‘They'll Have Me to Whip' : By KENNETH HUFFORD Reports of an-attempt by some politicians snd others
Mayor Al Feeney denounced the reported effort. “No syndicate will be permitted to operate,” he de-
rn
He admitted some gambling always would exist, des
“But, any syndicate will have the Safety Board, police The syndicate will be rudely.
Talk Becomes Lively ¢ Talk among the city's approximately 20 bookmakers
mg tavern-keepers and oth- : Slated on Gaming As Dice Stop Rolling
na-Ave fora and Archie (Joker) Young, pros prietor at 606% Indiana Ave,
Under the plan being discussed, had to take time out to go with
i
would designate police and be slated on a charge whose “juke” boxes would be used of keeping a gaming house again.
and other publici The games were running , Pinball machines and smoothly until a dissatisfied cus- -
i
to Pps anh tia thers aif hut Pay $500 Weekly : ce did all policé are a le under one Snancial plan| Joker was caught, Spann was as “reasonable” A Charged visiting ‘ticket, pick-win spot house and two others ong 3 out on several other avenue spots about the same time, :
t proponents of this plan, the
checked were told to go home. :
passed the word that dice would be tossed last night for the first time in months. An enthusiastic group gathered, but signals were, and the “sportsmen”
door of his car and started to get in, g “I threw the car in gear and
swung at the man,” Mr. Weddle said.
swing and the car k rolling on down Michigan ot withom a driver. Mr. Weddle sald he fought
Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Parriil.] The Indianapolis Railways has with the assaflant a while and - {She was working as a clerk in'agreed to pay ‘the city $3000 un- then ran after his car. It had a department. store. der a seldom enforced ordinance PUTMPed against a vole and The couple is reported to have dealt ith @ stopped 200 feet away. been collaborating on a novel, |9°+/INE With display advertising.| The other man and a woman | On return, Brown faces addi- Mayor Feeney said today. ran when the fight started . The ordinance requires a tax of ret moe here. conveyance carrying display a. | Reveal Police R ’ po ooo lvertising on the outside of Of Slain... OI poms PEt of “Fee ehiete. | Since the iin ? ,E a. | The father of four, he has a 300 vehicles falling in this cate-|, AR FBI report was turned over 119-year-oid- son; twin “Doys-of “11/8OFY;- i Trust: pry $3000; -i0-€ity police today on the backs 1 land a daughter, 7. oe “We have been negotiating Eround-of the “peeping Tom" who
{Brown soon would "hHavé ¢ompleted his 20th year with the EI{wood school system and was {believed to have been in line for
away, An honor student, she had re. |celved “a scholarship to Indiana {University a few days after she! left town. Following their disappearance,
from Anderson, Ind., where they are believed to have entrained for the East. . Brown reportedly wrote his wife never to attempt to find him, while the giil is said to have threatened suicide If efforts were made to locate her. )
FSA Pictures Now "J On Floor of Senate | WASHINGTON, May 20 (UP)| ~Ridicule of photographs taken! by Farm ‘Security Admiinistra-|
{Hoosier legislators, Yesterday, Rep. Noble Johnof photographs in the congtes|stonal files, Including one of a scene in Nebraska entitled: “Men Picking Their Teeth.” I~ A few hours later Sen. Homer Capehart brought the same group
Riemer's:0f pictures on the. floor of the!
Senate. . '
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LONDON, May 20 (UP)-—More an 200 persons, including members of British aristocracy, attended a a 1044 for ar
withthe company for séVéral
transportation firms will be re
Feeney hastened to“ point out. Vehicles carrying displays adver tising civic events will be exempt under the ordinance, he said,
STRUCK BY STREETCAR Jean Ann Miller, 18, of 3499
quired to pay the tax, Mayor |
weeks,” the Mayor said, “and Pome here last May 9. ve ‘reached a satisfactory The report showed that Carmin agreement.” David Morettl, whose body has Taxi companies and other|Not been claimed, had a long po
The first fingerprint record was in Stratford, Conn., where He was arrested on, a burglary ‘charge, He served a prison sentence of one year and was caught again in Wilmet, Ill; on.another burglary charge. Other arrests since 1940 were for vagrancy offenses.
Birchwood Ave, was injured today when she was struck by a streetcar at Fairfield and’ Birchwood Aves. .
He was shot to death by Clare ence H, Cochran, who ca | suspect peeping into a window of his home at 252 N. Arsenal Ave.
On the Inside
Mundt Bill on Communists
~ » Reform law may render s
studied ow... oiuvinlivinii
vow Marine Air Corps celebrates force . . . Aviation “firsts”
» Hummmmm ... ouch .
“hair” raid ..iiiuiiinas o ” » ~ There's talk about Speedway
that, 13 more cars may + ++ Other sports
.|sador to London, J y nedy, who was killed, crash in seuthern France,
wa §
ant pho
po Srl
: WE i A Key to Other Features on Inside
faces Senate log-jam
+ «+ Taft raises doubt of action this year........Page §
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i tate GOP convention
“speechless” . . , Time-saving nomination plan
sessssnriiaiiinsnane Page 8
i » ” 37th year as fighting
noted by leathernecks.Page §_
. ” ” » : +« ah .v.. that's better . . . Victor Peterson and his candid camera mirror a
srvas savas iirareess Pagel
i+. Art Wright reports qualify this week-end
lice record in several states,
ught the
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was shot to death wt an Bast Side kta oy