Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1948 — Page 1

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The Indianapolis Times

sw, —_ YEAR—NUMBER 96

THURSDAY, JULY 1,

1048

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It's called baseball fever. school girls and non-athletic office clerks are talking daily in terms of batting averages and putouts. in years ‘baseball is a major conversation tople in" luncheon clubs. and sewcircles. as well as taverns.

Housewives,

For the first time

Association.

sas City. ; THE ©

any fireworks more ex plosive than the stacatto rattle of solid base There are ‘no pre-game at _ Field, such 'as some other parks ;

hits, . added attractions

~ feature.

But the Indians themselves are providing extra punch by leading virtually every department in the from double plays to Flashing ‘a won-|{ lost record of 51 and 26, they're Pacing the loop by a convincing} 6% games and have a toe-hold on their first pennant in 20 years.

THIS YEAR'S club is equally staffed with scrappy youths and| {

' league, stolen bases.

©ool-headed veterans,

} Ownle Bush credits their popularity to hustle, hard: hitting and One of their most magnetic qualities is their skill at Most Association baseball writers picked them

fielding finesse. pulling surprises.

to finish third.

The ‘“people’s choice” among Players probably is jolly, rotund pitcher Johnny Hutchings, ; Jack Cassini," fleet second-sacker, running him a close second. > 1 Hutchings is a diamond clow

enough to loosen up the era : tense, critical moment ast night, after a Kansas gl Player had slugged two ‘home Hutchings gave him an tentional walk next. time up ; underhandéd, A

even in

runs,

tossing the ball softball fashion.

THIS SEASON'S Nictory Field comes: early and stays m. yesterday all had been sold in By 6 p. m. when the Sates opened general admission Im started streaming in and by 7P.m., an hour and a half before rag time, about 1000 seats had filled."

Slientale ate. By 5 p. 2100 box seats advance,

e families *

hy Tribe's

In the throng.

SP

Ved

At the same time last year paid, admissions here aggregated 66,000

With the turnstiles now click~ ing to the tune of from 7000 to! 10,000 nightly and 10,000 or over, on Sundays the Redskins have! a chance to shatter the. American Association’ attendance mark of, 400,000 plus established by Kan-|

brought box thes to munch while watching 2% -hour Wemup session. Babes in arms and hundreds of kiddies wriggled |!

Neighborhood parties and 8chopl fan clubs are in vogue at the hallyard. Yesterday afternoon Fred Keeley, 1417 N. Mount jt. arrived early and placed pilin seven seats on the front tow of the general admission tier. t. who has missed but game this year, explained she Ig” the chairs for a

» d-ciapping, foot-

is noisier,

Victory

President

twilight

beer-and-

ever be-

EARLY ARRIVAL—Mi;s. Keeley often enters the park at & p. m., 2!/> hours. before a night game, to reserve seats for friends by placing pillows on the front row.

utility man, and Catcher Bo shout,

“Grandstand managers” play-by-play instruétions to Manager Al Lopez, a quiet, soft-spok-en man who politely ignores the free advice. Lopez shepherds his flock with fatherly consideration, never carping and seldomf criti-

And the fans themselves are Famarkably uncritical. Even when ‘the home towners are losing as they did last night, leather-lunged grandstanders gave out with ev ing from war whoops toiP hog calls but the Bronx cheers and boos were aimed unanimous-| ly at opposition players and um-

in metropolitan baseball,

SAME spirited Zeal that ips the spectators also infects the players. The Tribe room rings with peppery chatter and cajolery, some of it tradi- ; Pro Old timers like

fp demic Hits Our Town; Nobod ys ied—It's Just Baseball Fever

* [factors today revived talk here

ARDENT INDIAN ROOTERS—Two steady fans among record crowds jamming Victory Field these days are Mr..and Mrs. Fred Keeley, 1417 N. Mount St. Both have missed only one game this year. ) Red Hot Indians Packing Them In ‘By SHERLEY UHL PJ HERE'S an epidemic in

! { ! i i

Top Teamster

Call on Truman

: | One was President Truman's

|apolis ‘after July 4.

Hint Dan Tobin In For Secretary Of Labor

Lin

Silent After

Steelman Rejects

Seat in Cabinet By BANTER M.S KIDNEY

WASHINGTON, Nr 1—-Two

{of the possibility of Teamsters’ {President Daniel Tobin being ap{pointed Secretary of Labor. {press conference announcement {that John Steelman, his White House assistant, did not want the cabinet post. Mr. Tobin had called on the President a few days ago but was non-committal regarding it. The, other factor indicating that he may be considered is the visit here of Ira Haymaker, new Democratic state chairman of Indiana. Talk to McGrath Mr. Haymaker, accompanied by Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing, federal security administrator, called on President Truman yesterday. Today he was to talk to Sen. J. Harold McGrath, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at national committee headquarters here, While Mr. Haymaker said nothing directly about the possible Tobin appointment, the idea was discount: by Mr. Tobin's son, Fred, who heads the Teamsters’ Washington headquarters. He said that his father, after seeing the President, left Washington and was taking a holiday trip "before returning to Indian-

Considers Move Unlikely Fred Tobin said he considered {it or Pre his father would STAINS

; : the labor drive in all of Président. Roosevelt's campaigns. Appointment as labor secretary At this time might be acceptable as an honor, but the Congress has practically i shorn the post of ali major powers.

Hotel Employee In Critical Condition

, Arthur P. Roderick, 38, was critically burned today when the gas tank of his Bantam truck

dam, Say

Mrs. FDR on Ticket Says Tnumag

GOP id HO.

WASHINGTON, July 1 (UP)— President Truman today forecast his nomination on the first ballot in the Democratic National’ Convention ‘and said Mrs.. Eleanor Roosevelt would be acceptable to

nee, The President rejected as foolish a question as to whether he would withdraw as a candidate. “Then, you definitely won't retire‘as a candidate?” a reporter asked him, : Mr. Truman ‘snorted an emphatic negative. ‘Then he sald that was foolish question number one of this, his first, news

exploded in the 1000 block of W. 34th St.

midget truck, ran to a neighbor-! ing yard and dropped to the ground. Two housewives smothered . his flaming clothes with blankets and a The victim who is maintenance” engineer at Hotel Severin and Hves on Crawfordsville Road, was taken to General Hospital| with burns all over his body. Developed Motor Trouble Before the blast his truck had

{being pushed by a car driven by {Jack Rains, Box 388, R. R. 5.

Witnesses said the truck back-

| immediately. The gas tank | logated under the front hood near the dashboard.

wheel, Rush to Ald Victim {| Mrs: Martha Gardner, 1037 W. |34th St, and Mrs. Helen Roedd-

{ housewives who rushed to Mr.

{In the yard at 1025 W. Sith.

Mr. Brodérick leaped from the

{ developed motor trouble and was io

Mr. Rains’ hands were seared| Berlin. " : When he went to Mr. Roderick’s| la

{fired and was enveloped by fire! 18/ this time.

Heat from the blaze was so in Suggested by Mrs. Luce tense it melted the truck steering

beck, 1046 W. 34th Bt, were the crate nominate Mrs. Roosevelt

| Roderick’s rescue with - blankets appeared in a recent mewspaper {and a rug as he lay, still aflame, |

pires, something fairly unusual ba

DRESSING- ROOM HORSEPLAY—Skylarking behind |

the scenes in the Tribe locker room are Roy Weatherly,

b Ganss.

newcomers like Ted Beard | Bob Ganss by sparking the d ing room byplay. Occasionally there are as many hand-shaking admirers as players in the locker room. Small fry pester the players for autographed baseballs.

. r = JOY ALSO pervades the swank, mahogany-paneled front office at Victory Field. Calls for tickets keep the telephones and money jangling. Never has the management enjoyed a more season. The team is

iwho never before knew the differeppe hetween a walk and a IX : :

And they're drawing fans, many. of them living outside Indianapolis, who heretofore jour]? neyed to Cincinnati or Chicagol to see major

will swear the Tribe could hold their own en aan either the Cin-

tionally

seriows-miiied'a AV-gAINe Series.

cinnati Reds or vagy Cube

jeague ball. Any] nufiber of loyal Indian followers

The police under Sgt. Burt Ennis aid on the scene.

na Fair, High of 82° Predicted Today

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

“A check of last month's overall ‘weather ‘shows that more five inches of rain fell in In lian-

emergenc;

63 m.. 57 0am ..7 Tam. 61 71 (wooN) 31 8a m.. 68 IL mw If 9am. 68 1pm ..78

Fair weather tonight and tomorrow was predicted today by the Weather Bureau, with scattered showers tomorrow night. The mercury is scheduled to prosperous remain a little higher tonight. attracting thousands of citizens|The low last night was 57 degrees, with 65 degrees the ex-

squad gress ve y Arat|

be nomination — a likely effort to

than

conference in more than a month. Signs Measure The President also leveled a new attack at Congress, saying {the so-called housing bill it [passed “failed miserably” to meet [the people's needs for low-cost entals. “Mr. Truman announced, how{ever, that he had signed the Re- | publican housing. measure passed lin the closing hours of Congress {even though it was "a hasty |patchwork” and “slipshod.” |" He gave his unqualified support to Secretary of State George C. Marshall's statement that the |United States “intends to stay in

Mr. Truman was asked whether {he planned to call a special session of Congress. He replied ‘that he would not comment at And he stressed the (phrase, at this time.

The chief executive entered into no extended discussion of the |idea of having President Roosevelt's widow as a running mate, The suggestion that the Demo-

{for the second spot on the ticket

column by Clare Booth Luce, for!mer Republican member of Con~ from Connecticut. The leolumn appeared in The Times. The President said he had not seen the Luce column. A reporter asked: “Would Mrs. Roosevelt be acceptable on the ticket with.you?” The President said of course. Then he asked the reporter what else he expected him to say.

Expects Enough Delegates The idea of Mrs. Roosevelt for Vice President has not, so far at least, been taken up by any Democratic leaders. Mr. Truman 3 fit in his belief that he 1 on the first ballot at Philadelphia. He said he believed he had more than enough delegates to do it. The President did not discuss the possible one big threat to his

draft Gems Dwight D. Eisenhower unless the general makes a new statement définitely rejecting such efforts. : Mr, Truman was asked whether

dential nom-R- X. 4, Gi him as the'vice preside and choked by #tteadants at the

his death were not substantiated by .the report.

"be nominated

AUTO AND TROLLEY CRASH—Two persons were killed ant “trackless trolley collided at Martindale Ave. and 17th St. last night. { tory, Page 3.)

Coroner Discounts Charge in Subdivision. Patient Djed of Beat

Coroner Roy B. Storms

due to natural causes.

& AL : : i jay Aboerted » 2 autopsy that the death of a 40-year-old Central tate Hospital patient

He declined to open an official investigation after Dr. Horace just road Ripp Banks, Methodist Hospital pathologist, reported he found evidences 82d St. and Evanston .

by Henry B. Glesing Jr, 1 were injured when this automobile and %,

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, was beaten

insane hospital an hour before

Calls Charges ‘Lie’ Dr. Max Bahr, describing the three attendants involved as “among our best with not a mark against them,” called the charges “a deliberate lie.” Coroner Charies G. Pasco, Greenfield fureral director, and Chief Depuly Sheriff Irving E. Tyner of Hancock County, both made formal statements to Hancock County Prosecutor Melville E. Watson, charging that the attendants also ripped Eads’ clothes from him and cursed him when he struggled. William Merriman, supervisor of male attendants at the hospital, identified the attendents as Reese Brazell, employed since] June, 1943; Russell Dooley, March, |

Occurred Tuesday the alleged attack happened as

the hospital from 1835-45, being recommitted Tuesday. He had been brought to the! hospital in ‘the Pasco ambulance after his mother, Mrs,: Alpha Eads, called state police earlier in the day and reported her son had become violent. State police placed the patient in the ambulance and accompanied it to Greenfield, where they turned the case over to Chief Deputy Tyner. He immediately began ‘the legal machinery neces-| sary to the recommitment. A preliminary trip. to the hos-|

under restraint in the ambulance Administered Morphine

formed; and Dr. L. B. Rariden of} ister a morphine hypodermic.

overdrugged.

pital by Mrs. Eads was necessary. permanent Meanwhile, Mr. Eads was kept program can be worked out. residents com-~

* At the hospital, Deputy Tyner! and Coroner Pasco went inside to assist in removing straps used to hold the patient. Both men said Mr. Eads became violent as attendants attempted to remove his clothing. * Then; the attendants beat Mr. Eads in the stomach and face and choked him, the Hancock County men added.

“That Man Is Dying’

“That man is out, he's dying now,” Mr, Tyner said he told the attendants, when he saw’ Mr. Eads turn blue in the face. said one of the attendants was holding a towel around the pa-{lon County Plan: tient’s throat. Coroner Pasco added that “as we were leaving, the attendant holding the towel around Eads’ neck dropped him, {head strike the tile floor. I also {saw .one attendant houing Band head to the floor by placing his 1947, .and Earl ‘Boyd, OcWober, | toot on ‘Eads’ neck.” On the way home, Mey. Eads who had accompanied er son on The two Greenfield men sald}, o trip but did not know of the|, |hospital incident remarked, “It's

Mr, Eads, who was a patient atig dreary place, but I know he'll wasn, :

ave good treatment.”

Dr, Bahr said “the man was I've also heard about abuse in that Hancock County jail and I think Eads was beat up before he ever got here”

Warfleigh Promised Relief on Sewers The Works Board today promised residents of the Warfleigh community temporary TeHef from flooded sewers until a sewer. construction

Worst section,

which was parked by the Pasco plain, is near 63d St. and Washestablishment, Mr. Pasco said. | gta Blvd.

He

letting hisleion will be constructed

An old drainage ditch. will be reopened, Works Mr. Eads became violent while Board officials said, to provide waiting, Prof. Watson was in-/some measure of drainage. A permanent solution will reGreenfield was asked to admin-{water into White River. [quire pumping facilities to force

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of heart disease and ott organic disorders. sites for Charges by ' two ancock viding some 300 County officials that Indiana Uni- er the Eads home, aioghes ¢ vetsity graduate Bugene B. Eads, h a administered 8

Contains 80 Aves “The site, - th mile from the Broad Ripple ‘busi ness district, containg 60 acres-of farm land and 20 wooded sgres, The ‘wooded acres will bs de veloped first and the farm. land later,” Mr. Dawson said. The rough plans for the: addi tion are inthe hands of’ erie

Plan Board. They expécted to Feceive action wi the month. "Sons to Help i The homes on the Daweco addi by the three "sons of Chatles Dawson, Two, Robert L. an ¥ oy are builders, _ ‘the Charles H, will do the excavate Dawson said, . ‘The ‘projected plans will pt for a business district at 82: and Keystone Ave. with # § cery, drug store. resta other neighborhood sh cilities. :

Dewey. Assails GOP ‘Exclusion’

ALBANY; Ne-¥., July.1 (UP),

lican Presidential candidate,

charged today ‘that the Truman administration has confined bis partisan handling of America’s foreign affairs to activities of the United Nations. The Governor made the accu’ sation after a conference with John Foster Dulles, his foreign affairs adviser and a delegate to the United Nations. Mr. Dewey said at press cons ference that the Democratic ad« ministration had not consulted the Republican leadership. on

On the Inside

Greek-Turkish policy, the Potse dam conference and agreements, the entire China policy, or “lack of one,” and the administras tion's switch on: Palestine.

in office ...

Bridge .¢...+22{Food

Tito: Anti-Soviet or Red Failure? An exclusive analysis of the story behind the Yugoslav story..Page 2 “Too many trying to sell Indianapolis down “the river” ... Mayor Feeney speaks after six months

Other folks ‘besides the Indians are catching flies “a how you can whip public enemy No. 1..........Page 19

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Amusements 14 Editorials or e200 Mrs. Manners 29; Ruark ros esins23 Movies ......14|Society Sports ...25, 26

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Radio .......20| Women’s ....23 Keerbergen aird Inside Indpls, 19! Mrs. Roos'v'lt 22 World, AfL pe

apolis, as compared to the narmal|Gen. Eisenhower. . be ac-|Business ....30/Forum ......20|Obituaries of 3.62 inches: Temperature 3 ver-|ceptable as a Vice Presidential| Childs ......20| Meta Given .23|F. C. Othman 19| Weather Map 18 10 |aged shout two degrees above thelcandidate. He said would be{Classified 30-34 | Hollywood RET normal 72 ; ; up<to the general Comics gr A fi

Jiess.19 blinding rainstorm . +i+++22/n00n today near here.

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“Do. you mean to say that the administration has broken faith with the bi-partisan agreement on foreign affairs?’ Mr. Dewey was asked. “I have been discussing. facts,” he replied. “Opinions will be discussed in the campaign. ee evetalherebeicts

‘Plane Crash Kills Nine BRUSSELS, July 1 (UP)—Nine | persons were killed when an Ital~ {ian transport plane

—Gov. Thomas KE. Dewey, Repubs .

26/said to belong te the Ad went down only hi