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FORECAST: Fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight, 65; high tomorrow, 90.
3 Men in Cab Kidnap, Attack Woman Here
Victim Assaulted On Way ‘From Show
A 27-year-old woman reported she was kidnaped and criminally attacked by three men early today as Indianapolis’ latest sex crime outbreak continued. The woman told police she was walking south on Noble St. to her home from the Mecca Theater, 733 N. Noble St, when a taxicab pulled to the curb. Two youths leaped out, she said, and forced her intn the cab, which then proceeded through town to an isolated spot in the county. There, the passengers and cab driver raped her, the woman
cab driver was blond and about § feet 7 inches tall. She added that one of the passengers wore a checkered shirt. She said the men then drove her back to the N. Noble St. neighborhood where she telephoned police at 2:20 a. m. She was taken immediately to Gen-
eral Hospital where - physicians confirmed she had been assaulted.
Refuses to Prosecute
Meanwhile six youths held in
connection with an alleged gang attack dgainst a 15-year-old West In apolis girl a‘ Rhodius Park wére freed when the girl's mother refused to prosecute. The girl was stripped of her bathing suit as she left the park Tuesday night. In anether case, Marion Wesley Harlan, 25, was charged with assault and battery. with intent to rape after a 7-year-old child accused him of driving her in his truck to his home, 332 N. Jefferson Ave. Detectives said Harlan admitted driving her home, but said he went there to get his sun glasses. Harlan was held under $2500 bond and his case continued until tomorrow.
dered the case transferred to one of the Municipal Courts from
where trial was set for 2 p. m.
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All Is Confusion—
A $12,000 Question— What'll Happen to 3 Held in ‘Slot’ Raid?
Stark Orders Beech Grove Cases
Transferred, But He's
swollen by holiday patronage was placed at approximately $12,000.
Meanwhile, Prosecutor Judson L. Stark acknowledged he has or-
Beech Grove Magistrate's Court,
Three Under Arrest
State police had taken their prisoners there Tuesday night after raiding the Liberal View League, 2927 Bluff Rd. and Stenger’s Oasis, 5555 Madison Ave. Held were Roll Hoss, LVL coowner, charged with violating the 1935 slot machine act; George Leskeur, Oasis co-owner, and John W. Garrison, an Oasis employee, both charged with keeping a gaming house.
By KENNETH HUFFORD A general state of confusion existed today among county law enforcement officials over the prosecution of three men held after state police slot machine raids. The uncertainty was heightened by a report that state police might destroy the 20 slots before the cases are heard. Value of the machines and their uncollected “earnings”
the transfer was as much of a mystery as anything. His terse explanation was, “I have my reasons, them.”
(Kit) Carson said he has been directed by his superior to file
Why Prosecutor S‘ark sought
but I'm ‘not ex) ressing
Deputy Prosecutor John A.
owner with close official ties.
magistrate, could throw no light on the affair.
transferred, but nobody has told me anything about it.
we'll have a trial tomorrow. I don’t know,” he puzzled.
It's Truman, Says McGrath; Race Open for Running Mate
Chairman Declares President Expresses No Preference for 2d Place Candidate
Not Saying Why
affidavits against the three men, but that he has not done so yet. The only record of the arrests is the magistrate’s sheet prepared at the time of the arrest. Chief Deputy Prosecutor Glenn Funk, who also hai been serving as Sheriff Al Magenheimer’s personal attorney, was unavailable for comment. An attache of the prosecutor’s office said he was “a very busy man, in conference and a crowd waiting to see him.” Left 110 Machines The valuable 'slots were reliably reported to be part of the late Maurice (Lefty) Wolfanger’'s estate being settled in Probate Court, further complicating the situation. Mr. Wolfanger left 110 slot machines in his estate. The devices, according to unofficial court comment, have been sold as “junk metal” to a prominent tavern Paul
Wetter, Beech Grove
“I've heard that the case was
I guess
Selzed by Youth Last night a 14-year-old Northeast Side girl reported a youth seized her as she walked in the 1500 block of E. 25th 8t. She said he asked her to “go with him,” but she recoiled and he struck her in the face with
, 1. yesterday t girls, one 1h and one 11, said they were accosted in. University Park by a 40-year-old man who offered them $10 to accompany him. They said he “wore a straw hat and had a gold tooth.” Also yesterday, four boys and two girls walking in the vicinity or Norwood St. and 8S. East St. told police a young man stopped them and tried to show them some pornographic literature.
Probers Suspect War Rail Rates
See Story, Page 3
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UP)— A House investigating committee decided today to ask the Justice Department whether it has- investigated “possible criminal activities” by Army and Navy officials 'who negotiated - railroad rates during the war.
Truman have fo personal prefer< ence for the nomination.
Preston Lane of Maryland and Robert F. Wagner of New York, ison of the Senator, were prominently mentioned.
Read Charles T.
Mr. McGrath said he and Mr. vice presidential
The names of Gov. William
Mr. McGrath said there was “long list” of prospects and the race was wide open. 3 The party chairman said he had no doubt President. Truman will be nominated despite the desire of some party elements to dump him and draft Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Murray Declines There will be a meeting of the, Dump-Truman crowd here Sat-
James E. Roosevelt, the national committeeman from California, and a group of others including Chicago Democratic Leader Jacob Arvey. Mr. McGrath said he
“There is a suspicion here ofl, eq to see Mr. Roosevelt.
criminal activities and we want to know what the department has done about it,” said Rep. George H. Bender (R. 0.). Mr. Bender is chairman of a House Executive Expenditures Subcommittee investigating the 4 i wartime freight
Food for Europe Meeting Set Here
Plans for the assembly and
shipping of a train load of food|
stuffs to the hungry in Europe will be discussed at a meeting in the Indiana Farm Bureau building at 2 p. m. tomorrow. Dr. Frederick L. Hovde, Purdue University president, is chairman of the program which is sponsored by the state section of Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP). Gifts of grain, meat, dried fruits, cotton, wool, peanuts and other food will be solicited.
Little David Due For Psychological Test Next Week
A psychologi
cal examination of Little David, 13-year-old evangelist, tentatively has been set for next week at Riley Hospital. The I. Q. test will be the last step in the long custody battle in Juvenile Court over the child Preacher, who says he spent five hours in Heaven in 1944. The suit was brought by his father, Jack Walker, Chicago. Court Referee Lawrence Hinds said he will study all of the evidence in the case at the conclusion of the examination and decide whether Little David is to be made a ward of the court or to be left in the hands of his -legal guardian, James Dawson, Indianapolis attorney.
Little David currently is on a|
revival tour in Virginia.
as he returns.
Meanwhile, CIO President Philip Murray joined two other labor leaders in rejecting an invitation to address the convention. Of the four invited, only one— President A. F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (Ind.)—accepted. Previously, AFL President William Green and President Daniel J. Tobin of the Interna. tional Teamsters’ Union rejected invitations. The Democratic drafting committee
platform - was called
PHILADELPHIA, July 8 (UP)—Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath today set a four-day target for the Democratic National convention to nominaté President Truman and pick 8 vice-presidential candidate. : Mr. McGrath said he expected the convention, which meets Monasy to wind pond work Thurssax night. It could take longer there are any 8 over fist. ‘She Sid ‘down Arsenal Ave. platform or nominations but Mr. wal McGrath didn’t seem to expect itd
{last hope of preventing renewed | bloody Arab-Jewish warfare in
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THURSDAY, JULY 8,
2d Methodist Bishop Named By Conference
Total of Four
1948
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-By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor
today was elected a bishop of the Methodist Church by the North Central Jurisdictional Conference in the Roberts Park Methodist Church. He is the second clergyman to be given the highest office of the church by the conference. Dr. Richard C. Raines of Minneapolis was elected last night. The two bishops-elect will be consecrated Sunday afternoon in the Murat Theater along with two others yet to be named by the conference. A third ballot taken last night was counted this morning with Dr. Reed receiving 217 votes when he needed 225 for election. On the fourth, Dr. Reed received 238 votes. Favored in State Indiana folk have been watching the returns with the hope that Dr. C. A. McPheeters of Detroit, former pastor of the North Methodist Church, here, and Dr. Merrill B. McFall, pastor of the First Church in Bloomington, might push to the head of the list and be made bishops. But so far, the count does not indicate that this will happen. Candidates closely , following Dr. Reed on both the third and fourth ballots in order were: Dr. Hazen Werner of Madison, N. J, and Dr. H. Clifford Northcutt of Champaign, Ill. Also last night, Bishop Titus Lowe of the Indianapolis area, who will retire during the conference, gave the episcopal address delivering a message from the college of bishops of the North Central Jurisdiction. A speech on “For Christ and His Church,” by Mrs. Charles W, Meade of Omaha tonight, will highlight the session beginnin at 8 p. m. It will be call “Woman's Night.” Mrs. Meade, who also addressed the Monday night banquet, is a member of the Woman's division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions , and Church Extension.
UN Fails to Win Arabs to Truce
" Full-Scale Warfare
Expected Tomorrow
. BULLETIN LAKE SUCCESS, July 8 (UP)—The United Nations Security Council called an emergency session for today in response to Israel’s challenge for action on the Arab refusal to extend the truce in Palestine.
RHODES, July 8 (UP) — The
the Holy Land went glimmering today as Count Folke Bernandotte announced here that Arab leaders have rejected a proposal to extend the United Nations truce in Palestine. : ! Count Bernadotte said the Arab refusal was made on the basis of “their experiences of the past four weeks.” Arab leaders have charged several times that the Jews were profiting from the truce by ‘ building up their strength for renewed hostilities. Full-scale fighting is expected to be resumed at 1 a. m., Indianapolis Time tomorrow, the United Nations mediator said in announcing failure of his efforts to prolong the 28-day truce in Palestine. Israel Accepted
equivocation” President man’s @vil rights program. Toughest Nut
equality groups and 21 national Negro organizations joined in demanding a firm stand by the party on the hot-potato civil rights issue which split the South off from President Truman. James B. Carey, CIO secretarytreasurer, urged the Democrats to adopt a “Roosevelt platform” incorporating the ‘late president's “economic bill of rights” and President Truman's civil rights program. The civil rights issue is the toughest nut before the platform committee. There have been suggestions that it write a civil rights plank so worded as not to alienate the Southerners any further.
upon today to indorse ‘without, Tru-| had agreed to accept a 30-day
Spokesmen for the CIO, racial! of Israel, indicated that fighting
Israel, the new Jewish state, extension of the truce. Reports from Tel Aviv, capital
already had begun with an Egyptian attack on Jewish strongpoints south of Tel Aviv. ‘At Haifa, United Nations truce observers announced that the Arab rejection had ended their work in the Holy Land, and they prepared to leave the country aboard two United States warships which docked there today.
REPORTS SAFE ROBBED Burglars last night entered the office of H. A. Waterman Co, 1432 Kentucky Ave. farm equipment distributors, and forced open a safe, taking $30, Ray Waterman, an official of the firm, said today.
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Bidhop Lowe Speaks Bishop Lowe last night described the bishops as a “Umit In their be-
period presents an opportunity for asgenuine revival of religion.” He traced in broad and farreaching terms the outlook, con-| ditions and prospects of the jurisdiction. Bishop Lowe made clear the relation of the church to the world today—to the furthering of peace and the outlawing of war, to labor-management tensions, to missions, global relief and countless other matters involved in our complex presentday life. He laid upon all Chris-
Dr. Marshall Reed of Detroit;
lief that this turbulent post-war]
Russ Offer Power
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tians and especially his Methodist Church of more than 8 million] members a tremendous responsibility. 2d Ballot Elects Bishop-elect Raines received 253 votes of the 346 counted on, the second ballot. The episcopacy committee had decreed that 231 would be necessary for election. A Hoosier layman, T. Morton McDonald of Princeton, Ind. is serving as chairman of the committee. It is given the privilege of making recommendations as |to the assignment of bishops to {specific areas. After the announcement of Dr. Raines’ election, he came by request to the rostrum and expressed his appreciation thus: “Thank you, brethren, for what you have done for Mrs. Raines| and me. We'll do our best not; {to disappoint you.” Immediately |afterward, Mrs. Raines was intro-| duced to the audience. Native of Iowa | The well-known Hennepin Aveinue Methodist Church of Min-| neapolis is Dr. Raines present;
tive, a graduate of Cornell Col-| lege and Boston University School of Theology. He has done graduate work at Oxford University and the University of] Maine and has ministered to,
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allied pressure forced a chink in the Russian starvation blockade of Berlin today. Reacting swiftly to an order by the Western Allies drastically cuiting transport and electricity in their sectors of the German capital, Soviet authorities promised to supply enough electric power to keep the Berlin elevated ralilway system operating throughout the city. The gllied order would have halted the elevated system in the western sectors at midnight tomorrow. The order also cut deeply into electricity for homes and electric power for plants and businesses.
Russ Use Service As if in reply, the Directorate!
ates the elevated, announced that! the Soviet ~~ authorities ~ had promised to supply all power necessary to keep the ¢levated| running. About 40 per cent of Berlin's population depends upon the elevated for transportation.
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i on x IP Gd NA id Sa Sigh Am TY ne ph x ; Lar. IN MEMORIAM—John W. White, 80, tours over fhe backyard grave of his dog
"Queenie," once a familiar Brightwood character. 2 Master, 80, Grieves for Dog That Died Just a Year Ago
Queenie Was Pet of Brightwood Children But Since Her Death They Stdty Away
By SHERLEY UH
A stooped, grizzled 80-year-old.mian wept silently over a small It was “mdurning day” at 2166° Avondale Pl § John W. White's Dalamatian hound, “Queenie,” long a neigh-
grave in Brightwood.
borhood character, died exactly one year ago.
Emotionally shaken, Mr. White removed his battered straw hat and tenderly placed flowers on a backyard grave plot surrounded by a tiny, neatly painted)
picket fence.
Bees buzzed drowsily among $5000 Jackpot Says ‘Goodby’ When No
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chrome served as a headstone for One Says ‘Hello’
the canine burial place.
Whitewashed tile outlined the precise spot where Queenie lay in her tarpapered box. In the early '40s Mr. White and! residence, 1733 E. 60th St. to-
his dog were inseparable compan- qay but no one answered.
{ions, familiar figures on Bright-
wood streets,
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friends, “Love me, love my dog.” |testants on the Kaye show,
Children Stay Away
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to halt service would have cut off |after he retired. The dog. S00N gergons would have received:
line from Russian Berlin |
headquarters at Karlhorst
Soviet soldiers use the line daily. Col. Frank Howley, U. 8, Com-|
blame for these new ‘“privations” squarely on the Russians. The measures will
Col. Howley said. Jobless Allowance An obvious result of the drastic power cuts was the prospect of greatly increased unemployment, which will make more difficult the task of the occupying powers. In anticipation of this, the allied military governors re-
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der this plan, unemployed Ger-| mans will get an allowance of 50 to 60 per cent of their normal wages. 1 The severe restrictions on transport will make it almost impossible for many Germans to get to and from work. A large number of industries and busi-| nesses will be forced to close completely. . The U. 8. and British air forces were studying plans to fly in more coal—about 160 tons was brought here in sacks by plane yesterday ~—by modifying bombers to permit them to drop coal while in flight on designated fields. The U. 8. air force later announced that a plane missing on the Berlin transport run had been found undamaged and its crew unhurt after a landing near Hof
became popular with Brightwood A $5000 jackpot, a trip to Berto boys and girls, so popular, in fact. muda for two; an 18-foot boat Potsdam in the Soviet zone. Many [that she became the subject of and outboard motor; a console {radio television set; a set of sterattraction ling silver; a complete luggage mandant in Berlin, placed the for children, aii vice versa, was wardrobe; a diamond ring, and liked most a gas stove. {about his pet. Then his backyard become rang with Queenie’s piayful bark-| effective at midnight tomorrow, ing and the laughter of children. {But there “wre no children at
newspaper stories, Perhaps Queenie's
what John White
RIDES FOR A NICKEL
Charles James,
No one answered either last [night, on a call from the Sammy A relied DE Four Jreihi Kaye's “So You Want To Lead of the Reichsbahn, which oper-| agent and telegrapher, the aged A Band” Show that would have an took Queenie on shopping paid off $5000 for a right answer. tours and visits to his cronies. She © : 8 slept at the foot of his bed. And phone he would have been asked for eight years Mr. White told hisito pick the best of three con-
someone answered the
| IF HIS selection matched that quired Queenie in 1939, shortly or the studio audience, the Hen-
Five cents bought 11-year-old 1014 Hosbrook
vilding Boom Here Biggest in History
Value of 1948 Permits Double That of 1947
Total More Than $20 Million So Far
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG Indianapolis is in the midst of its biggest building boom in history, at least in terms of dollars and cents. Figures in the office of the city building commissioner disclose that the valuation of construction permits issued thus far this year is nearly double that of the same period in 1947, when the previous record was set. Up to July 3, the building commissioner's office had this year issued construction permits wvalued at $20,866,136. During the same period last year the total was $11,082,180. The total value of permits issued last year was $31,511,482. Vacant Lots Vanishing All over the city can be heard the noise of hammers and saws as business structures and residences spring up. Vacant lots are fast vanishing. There is every indication that more money will be spent in Indianapolis this year for construetion than ever before. . With the exception of the war years, the value of co in Indianapolis has been increasing since 1033, when only §1.037,000 in permits was issued. This figure jumped to $15,676,165 in 1041. It diminished during the
war, but in 1946 again to $22,000,000. jumps
Residential Bullding
Tai de s tes h Duting the month of June alone, 8 permits ghounted “188,775,612 were issued. Thin" uré included 528 ons-story host five two-story homes and one-story doubles. Permits for business tures in June amounted to $424, 910 last month, and Industrial structures totaled $465,000. Also during the month, permits for $11,500 worth of apartment constriction were issued. None of these figures includes the great volume of construction now going on in Marion outside of Indianapolis.
$8 Million So Far
Residential building in the city alone amounted to $14,127,263 in 1047. Thus far this year, resi. dential building values run to nearly $8 million. : During 1948, residential construction totaled only $7,032,387. In 1939 the total was only $4 million. Of the residential permits issued thus far this year, the greatest number, 307, are for structures in the $5000 to $7500 price range. Thirty-six permits
| THE TELEPHONE rang and/Were issued for construction unlrang at the George Henderson|der $3000, 142 for work
$3000 to $5000, 490 for permits for work costing $7500 to $10,000, and 24 permits for work costing more than $10,000,
Barristers Agree In So Many Words
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 8 (UP) — Judges and lawyers attending the 11th annual convention of the Third U.S. Judicial Circuit agreed today on some~ thing any newspaper court reporter could have told them ages ago. Court opinions, they said, are too\\ wordy.
Weatherman Says
‘Fair and Warmer’
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 5 10am... 78
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The oh-so-familiar “fair and warmer” was again the Weather Bureau's prediction for today. The mercury rose to the middie 80's today and is expected to dro to 65 tonight. The expected high tomorrow is a sizzling 90.
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