Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1948 — Page 1

City Swelters |

No ‘Relief ‘Seen’ Before Tuesday

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sam. 7 10a m.. 85 Tam..7% ila m..9 Sami. 7 12 (noon) 92* Ham, 8: 1p m..98

‘All the latest gadgets of modern Meteorology failed today to- find any. immediate relief from’ the all-time record heat wave. The Weather. Bureau said the map showed nothing but more of the same today, tonight and tomorrow and perhaps Monday and Tuesday.

‘The mercury. was. expected to soar up to 96 this. afternoon -and back up to the same level again tomorrow with = steaming humidity. These temperatures would equal the all-time highs set for Aug. 28 In 1913 and 1936. Yesterday and © Thursday ' the mercury " hit all-time highs of 98 degrees.

Blames Pressure Area

The only ‘relief in, sight is the!

_ FORECAST

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A COMMON SIGHT—Two

more ‘employees walk away from

: 2 ar xing. ERT oa aS ugh gle : Partly cloudy, hot and humid tonight and tomorrow; high: tomorrow 96; low tonight ght 70 to 74.

Judge Acts to Curb

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1048

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Army Ove Accidents in State Kill 10

Rash of ‘Peeping Toms’

Clark Gives All Offenders 60 Days, $50 Fine; In 24 Hours ; . ‘Governor's Race Strictly ‘Kid Glove’ Skirmish IN THE PAST FEW DAYS police have had more. Six Die in Traffic; > “peeping tom” cases than in the previous nine months. | 4 Others’ Dead Warm nights, open windows with no blinds draw the Aid . rowning at Lake Shaffer peepers. There have been five cases in the past week, plus|, 4 a irae crash this morning one alleged “peeper” who was shot as he prowled near albrought the state accident death home. : : {toll to 10 during the last 24 hours. Judge Alex Clark, who usually weighs past criminal records; Six persons, one an Indian before sentencing, is not doing so now. All convicted ‘“peepers” apolis youth, were dead as the

have received the maximum 60 days plus $50 and costs, first offense : result of trafic mishaps, two . ho the example will be dis . or not The judge is ping he e Pp couraging : re .4 # dt

a eT A ff = . J 1 ‘A Kid Glove Race £ killed in other accidents over the S 0 [ec | IF YOU LIKE fireworks In state: election campaigns, you probably can check the governor race off

Our Fair City—

{ {

William Oyler, 89, a resident at

possible movement of a high! the administration building at Sunnyside : Sanatorium. They are pressure area hanging over the! [saving for positions at other institutions offering better pay,

Hughes’ Funeral

your list right mow. Candidates of both major parties appear determined to leave the kid gloves

the Lake View County Home near Monticello, was drowned in Lake Shafer about 4 a. m.; when He

shorter hours.and a retirement ‘plan. =, 8.5

Plan Private Rites.

on from start to finish. fell off a pier.

eastern seaboard. out into the Atlantic Ocean some “But the pressure area in the! outs” he said, Prearei-auring the lash 24 n dis Slash $75,000 From Next Year's Budget death ‘toll attributed to it rose/of tuberculosis. gan was next with 15. { To hold competent persons throughout the entire hospital staff, mercury Soared to 99 degrees at] year's budget. More than 45,000 Detroit auto the proposed increase and $23.

er Pay Lures Away

Orash Injures Four

Headquarters of Hobart P hopeful, At Evansville a Chicago man

Creighton, the GO has cold-shouldered a couple of well-knowh publicity men be cause they're the fire-eating type with lots of blood and th

under. The rule is still the ssme A% 1

For Ex-Chief Justice “(Life Story and Photo, Page 5

OSTERVILLE, Mass, Aug. 28 (UP)-~The Marshal of the U. 8. Supreme Court hastened to this seaside town a iington to direct funeral arrange ments for former Chief Justice Charles Evans H Mr. Hughes died last night in a Wianpo Club cottage of heart disease

His body lay in Green Lodge of this. exclusive summer colony awaiting the arrivdl of Thomas E. Waggaman, the mdrshal, 4nd a funeral coach which will bear the body to New York City for private services in Riverside Church at a time to be announced later,

pods

CHEATS DEATH This eight-inch garter snake which

r governor noniination—“We ain't mad at nobody.” Over on the Demo side, some

tiny. spiders has slithered away to ae unknown. The life and deaths l8 on the: farm" of Norman Lingfelter, "York Cen- . : ter, Ill. aroused the ire of Hu~ Police sald Mr. Johnson was pt

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Powers which sideswiped a t! auto and rammed . headon into

Weatherman Paul Miller said | » if that pressure area should move ° cool air ‘would move down =: High from western Canada: { . e i East keeps hanging on and S d k | there'll be no relief until it moves’ U n n SI e m oO es As to the predicted scattered Further Resignations Feared as Commissioners owers, all signs of them disAs the heat spread out over A high labor ‘turnover today endangers the efficient operation most of the United States, the of Sunnyside Sanatorium, Marion County hospital for the treatment to 85 in the nation. Illinois lea Dr. Frank IL. Jennings, superintendent and medical director, the list with 16 deaths and Michi-| disclosed that personnel changes have reached alarming proportions. In Michigan, Paradise was only. a ~~ @ ss a [the hospital asked for a subsix degrees cooler than Hell. me Same Gun Used . |stantial salary increases in next Hell, Mich., and the 70 residents Already the county commisof Paradise sweltered at 93. { sioners have slashed $51,806 from workers were ijdled by heat-in-duced layoffs and work stop-

to 50 per cent from the

summer Jos of 20 per cent, Hel estimated spoilage losses at $600,000.

There also was bad news for Indiana sportsmen who had hoped to cool off a little by going fishing this week-end.” Conservation officials said “the fish are too groggy to bite.” Thundershowers were forecast for Northern Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan today but the Weather Bureau said they would be scattered too widely to reduce temperatures much, Nevertheless, residents of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City stood gratefully in cooling showers that fell last night.

Southern Coast Awaits ‘Big Blow’

In Slaying, Suicide

Ballistics Tests Taken

. Of Finan

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with h financier Henry Morgan Brooks, 61, killed himself was the same gun used

rbusiness partner, Joseph R. Watkins, 53. Brooks’ body was found in the bathroom of his barricaded suite at the Albion Hotel yesterday. He| had shot himself in the temple. The revolver was in his hand. Brooks’ suicide followed by less than 48 hours the killing of Mr. Watkins who was shot twice with a .32 as he sat in his parked car in front of the Princeton Inn, Princeton, N.’ J. ' Slain in Debt Row Police said the contents of {notes Brooks left for his wie!

satisfied them that he had killed shape physically and patients are Was summoned. well cared for and well fed. We!

{Mr. Watkins in an argument over | {$100,000 he owed the slain man. | | Brooks registered at the hotel

{under the name of Fred Ellis of |

in the murder of Mr. Brook's o

{p25 from a proposed retirement fund. The cut left. $30,000 in the budget with which to increase

{paychecks for some 200 emN ployees. :

A SI but the budget still has to be acted upon by the County Coun1 Dr. Jennings termed the commissioners’ cut a severe blow to any attempt to hold staff members. “Just recently five of our best employees, including some doctors left us for a Michigan institution,” he said. “This is not the first such instance. It is almost an everyday affair. “We have been able to keep our staff filled, but often we have been forced to take the first person applying for a position. We have quantity but not always quality. “The sanatorium is in

have nothing to ask for in this respect.

“But we must take steps to

MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 28 (UP) | Beston, 10 hours after the broad- (hold our personnel,” Dr. Jennings

A whirling hurricane with 115mile an hour winds rolled over

the Atlantic toward the Southern |

United States mainland today and coastal residents waited in suspense to see what course it . would take. Late last night a federal storm warning service advisory placed the center of the blow at 750 miles east of Palm Beach, Fla. It said that “the storm should move toward the Northwest at about 15 miles per hour for the next 18 hours, with little change in intensity.”

{cast ‘of a nation-wide alarm! {charging him. with the Watkins imurder. Prosecutor Mario Volpe said he | Seanitely established” jcampus. | He sald Brooks had telephoned |Mr. Watkins Wednesday afternoon to arrange the meeting at! the inn, ‘Broke My Mind’ Brooks’ body was identified by letters in his suitcases.

just off Princeton University

said. No Retirement System Currently the hospital has no

Brooks was at the murder scene, Jennifigs, his staff and board of OPeéns here tomorrow and managers hoped to institute such

plan. Also, there is no provision for overtime work compensated with pay at time and a half. The work week is 44 and not 40 hours. “It is only natural that employees leave when they can se-

‘Two of cure these advantages, at other| the letters were addressed to his institutions,” Dr. Jennings said.

; Flag at Half-Mast The flag over the cqttage flew at half-staff, Death came to the 86-year-old jurist and elder statesman 8:15 p.m. ( is J

age. Mr. Hughes’ son and his two daughters, Mrs. Catherine Waddell,” Riverdale, N. Y., and Mrs. Elizabeth T. Gossett, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., were at his bedside. His wife died in 1945,

However, he suffered a rela ‘early this week and his family

49th Encampment Opened by VFW

| 8ST. LOUIS, Aug. 28 (UP) [Avinues of Flags today welcomed learly arrivals for the 49th ‘annual {national encampment of the Vet-

tinues through Friday. The city broke out its most colorful bunting, and hotels {brought qut cots for the 60,000 {delegates and guests expected for [the six-day program of parades, {speeches, merrymaking and’ adop{tion of resolutions; Pre-convention activities 'included a two-day conference of

Death resulted: from a heart attack and the debilities of old

{plan. Seems he wanted no part {of such horseplay and, even if he

Without Seeds By Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 happy idea which strikes most of us this season of the year—watermelons without seeds—has come true in the laboratory of a Jap-

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on |2nese scientist.

Dr, Hitoshi Kihara explained here how he has produced the seedless watermelons in his ge netics laboratory at Japan's Kyoto Imperial University. His

PS | technique consists in

tampering with the heredity of ordinary watermelons. The watermelons are not entirely seedless, of course. But in: stead of the more than 500 seeds —ecount them sométime—in your watermelon, Dr. Kihara's melons {may have only one seed. There |also are some tender, white seed-

[like bits in the melon, but these

th at retirement system. This year Dr.lerans of Foreign Wars which 2 edible. And there are fewer

{of them than the seeds in usnal |watermelons, “They are like the seeds you eat in a eucumber,” Dr. Ki{hara said. The melons aren't yet {ready for the market.

Harvester Co. Deals With Ohio UAW. Local

Negotiations between the struck

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Johnson's car on a.small concrete

336 Oxford St. died

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ter, At Seymour; Edward Smith, 55, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad seétion worker, was killed when a cable broke and dropped a steel boom on his head. *

ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Patton, of Pgoll, was killed when she fell out of a truck being driven by her father. {Asa Higgs, 48, of Mitchell, was killed yesterday when -he was struck bya train’ near his home: Donald Walter Brim, 23, of Jeffersonville, was fatally injured when he lost control of his motor. cycle and overturned near New Albany.

was killed by a hit-and-run truck driver in front of his home in Chesterton, Ind, yesterday. Strikes Power Pole In Indianapolis, Mr. and Mrs,

Two-year-old Mable Jean Pat-

Five-year-old Fverett Wilson

By JACK THOMPSON > = Approximately 285,000 ex. § GI's in the United States—at Jeast 30 of them in Indians apolis—were being tagged by:

{Uncle Sam today for over

ipayments from . the Army

{during World War II. «

The U. 8. ‘Army Finance Cens ter in St. Louis told The Times 8

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escaped from a web trap after (min I a three-day battle with two |

William Charles: Casey, 17, of in. General

A {ident

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Truman, the State D ment ordered Lomakin out UU. 8. for his handling of pion after, Russia

{in this ‘country,

|" Lomakin refused to be inter.

{viewed by the dozens of reporters {who came to the Hudson River pier to. ses him off. “Bverything that. {shld has been sald in the notes {from Russia,” Lomakin said when {asked for a statement. Booed by Crowd There was an ironical twist to {the former consul general's sail {ing in that.the..cabin. 1 his. was by | Wreden, a former director of the | Tolstoy Foundation. It was Lomakin's “rescue” on

of. the

closed its consulates tol

Nicholas

wife, In one of these, Brooks “One other factor also is involved. described his dispute with Mr, Need New Quarters Watkins. | “We have clean quarters for —*The lack —of anything just the staff, but they are not adebroke my mind,” the note said. |quate. Right now we need three He also blamed the tragedy on/new houses for doctors and their overwork and lack of a vacation. families,” he said. “I Kept telling (Watkins) I had The hospital's total budget reto have answers to our relations'quest was for $629,413. The comproblems,” the note added. missioners slashed $75,421 . proIt was learnsd that the swank Posed for increased pay and the Brooks’ estate at Greenwich, retirement system. Conn., had been attached for =

The hurricane, distovered early Thursday some 1200 miles southeast of the Florida co course three time yesterday as it moved in closer to the ‘mainland. Weather observers kept a close watch to try to determine if and where it would strike. Forecasters hoped to be able to tell today whether the revolving winds would hit Florida. They emphasized that the storm

VFW representatives and Ver.| International Harvester Co, and the UAW unions shifted from erans Administration officials On| ne Memphis local to the Spring rehabilitation and service~work | P —Was 0 this morning | by George E. Ijams, FVW Reha-| © Teach bilitation Service director.

Reports He Was Cut

Resisting Hold-Up 'e Jesse Elliott, 34, of 420 W, New,

{York St., was injured today when! {he resisted a man who attempted

Roy Sparks, 830 Arrow ‘AVE. A

ug. 7 of Mrs. Kasenkina from were badly injured when the carly,” Tolstoy Foundation farm is which they were riding failed... Nyack, N ; w power line pole at Massachusetts °° international incident in and Emerson Aves. In another crash, William Ar-| vant, 21, of 1151 Hoyt Ave., and] Miss Marcella Lawrence, 19, of] 657 8. New Jersey 8t., were in-|

jured when the car in which they

f volves ing the middle-aged schoo! teach-

an agreement. | The new method of negotiating {a contract for each of the six plants (24,000 workers) on strike separately is expected to prolong {the bargaining for at least a week, negotiators said. The strike, now in its 12th day, affects 4200 workers at the Har-

there were boos from the crowd of several hundred spectators and longshoremen who lined the pier.

er. As Lomakin boarded the liner,

could still veer northward and miss the mainland altogether. But Florida residents continued to make hurricane preparations as the big blow whistled along its erratic way, And as the storm

appeared to be taking a north

westerly direction, coastal resideénts of Georgia and the Carolinas also went on the alert.

Boy ‘Torturers’ To Be Placed. in Psychiatric Homes

aici NEW ALBANY, Aug. 28 (UP) ~Three boys who tortured a minister's son with matches and a rope will be placed in private psychiatric homes, their today.

Probation Officer Frank E. Kel- |

lely said two of the boys would be sent to 2 home at Louisville, Ky., and anapolis. * The parents agreed on the plan in compliance with the recommendations of Dr. Louis M. Foltz, a

lieved “society books” was res boys’ actions.

and not comic

third to a home in Indi!

ponsible for the |

$125,000 and that Mr. Watkins had recently obtaihed an injune-|

tion against his partner for $72,000. !

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500 THREATEN STRIKE = SOUTH BEND, Aug. 28 (UP) —Nearly 500 maitenance workers of the Indiana & Michigan Elec{tric Co. threatened a strike to-

day over wages and working con- | ditions.

Times Index 6 Inside Indpis. 6 «+s+« 8 Dan Kidney. 10 M. Childs... Churches 4 Movies Classified 12, 13 Radio : Corhics .... 14 Side Glances 10 Editorials .. 10 Society ..... 3 Forum ..... 10 Sports 7 H. Hansen.. 8 Weather Map 11

Amusements, Books

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‘Washington Calling— ‘Showdown in

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Berlin Seen’

If Kremlin Parleys Collapse

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ican call Soviet hand without jdo it before winter. lot war would be gamble.

Anyway look. for remewed America Louisville psychiatrist. who be. W® Can suppiy Beriin by air ‘indefinitel

we will,

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By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—1If Kremlin talks collapse, parents said We may force showdown in Berlin. 3

Our top- strategists are divided. One group thinks we

risking war. They want to

Other defense planners think, in a showdown, chances 50-50 at best; say we're not ready to take that

n. firmness. We've shown But that doesn’t mean

‘

It Moscow talks fail, we may throw Berlin issue into Uni

{to hold him up with a knife, {told police. !

[oft South St. pear West Bt. when

.‘10| Mrs. Manners ¢ ‘he man stepped up behind him. | +i+..8,9 AS Mr, Elliott whirled around the; {man cut him slightly across the fled.

stomach and

then

Fumin’ and Fussin® Hollyweed »+_ 3 Wastingwan . 10|__Jpv Only Mental

SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Aug. 28 (UP)-—It snowed here today. Vincent J. Schaefer, General Electric Co. scientist who specialized in making clouds shed their moisture, whipped up a Wee furry inside a home freezer in the hope that just locking at it would help him beat the heat. Mr, Schaefer exhaled a large breathe into the freezer, and a cloud formed. He sprinkled dry ice crumbs into the cloud. Within a few seconds, tiny snow fiakes fell. “Feeling hot is 1 mental” Mr. Schaefer said a sweat dripped off his in. ;

the Indiana primary. 1. The judge

vester plant on Brookville Road

hein Indianapolis. Mr. Elliott said he was walking

{today for getting drunk.

Tipton Candidat Of Sentenced on Drunk Charge

Democratic Nominee for Prosecutor to Sweat It Out Until Shortly Before Election

TIPTON, Aug. 28 (UP)-—-The Democratic nominee for Tipton y county prosecutor was a prisoner in the Indiana State Penal Farm

e for Office

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Police Hold 12 In 3 Vice Raid

Twelve men were held by: po-| ce today on- lottery and lquor

law violation charges following

Oliver D. Wheatley, 39, marked time until he can get out three vice raids here last night.

{two weeks before the November election and start his campaign to unseat his Republican opponent, Troy N. Hutte.

Mr. Wheatley was arrested for public intoxication early this week

vember. He faced Circuit Judg

prosecutor of Circuit. Judge Mount's records showed

was nominated for prosecutor

‘Wheat-

provided Jey’s behavior until next Oct. 15

a. J ocrat, Waban

Cleon Mount, with whom Mr./{o take Wh Wheatley would serve as an offi-/institution and feave him there cial colleague if he were elected until Oct. 15. 1

i ‘ton that Mr. Wheatley was given a! county suspended six-month sentence last! Sheriff's . (April 15, two weeks before he at’ ; i regulations would 5 sald the sentence from sendin had suppori.

[violated ‘tne suspension and must for the third time since last No-|be penalized.

He ordered Sheriff Jesse Tudor tley to the state

the nomination last . Tip

is normally a Republican ley would get a late start on his campaign. They said state farm prévent him g letters to voters

‘and that he'd have to wait until In the arrest of

had served his term before

his - appeal - ry ballot)

Eight of them were arrested in {a raid on a poker game at 1721 Calvin St. John Crenshaw, 58, { livhig at that address was {charged with liquor Jaw viola-

‘tions and keeping u gaming. | House. Seven customers were held

| “Where there (we will 5 { books, 1 * ! 4 We | thetic {have to Asked what the Finance d do if the veterans spokesman

{

| Foster said:

now in have caught up with thelr ‘work | —and 285.000 veterans.

i me a is

Your Last Chance For Free Rent

Times Contést Home in Windsor Village will be Sune day. bi 80 by getting an entry blank at the

on charges of visiting a gaming

the 36th Judicial! Wheatley was unopposed for house

| Police ‘charged Harold Rybolt, T44 Sparrow Ave; and Gilbert { Darnell, 4245 Sunset Ave,

‘on the Rybold Tavern, 1121 i [Troy Ave. A raid on the B. & B. Cigar Store, 29031; Clifton St.. resulted

[1001 W. 20th Bt. and 942..Congress Ave; ‘on charges. : :

John Brown.

, Se {lottery law violations after a raps ~~ 8% E.