Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1948 — Page 1
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Man of Times Back
—See Him
Tag Him Properly Opening Day and
Win'$50—"Price’ Incr “The Man of The Times is
He will be strolling around the Indiana State Fairgrounds starting Friday, the opening day of the big Hoosier
- fair.
, FORECAST;
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1048
at the Fair
4200 to Return Here As Strike Ends
Forty - two hundred UAW
the International Harvester here tomorrow. The 16-day-old strike, affecting 24.000 workers in six International Harvester plants, three of which are in Indiana, ended early today. . Maintengnce men were cated back to the Indianapolis plant early this morning to restore boiler operation and get air compressors and other power ma- ‘| chinery ready for operation. Five Outside Indianapolis The five ‘plants outside of Indianapolis are in Ft. Wayne, Evansville, Springfield, O., Memphis, Tenn., and Mairose Park,
toward restored production. The new contracts, negotiated separately for each. plant, are reported basically the same, with the language changed. There was -no- disagreement dver the basic hourly wage. The company had granted an ll-cents-an-hour increase in Ju The fundamental difference between the new and the old con tracts is the granting of overtime pay for holidays which. fall on off-duty days, Richard Siegel, a company spokesman, said. Agree to Negotiations After the strike started, the company announced that it would abandon company-wide negotia« tions to try to work out indi-
eases If He's Missed
here ‘again,
A $50 bill is’ Waiting for the lucky person who can|vidual agreements with UAW lo-
properly identify him. If he is not discovered the first day,
the $50 will be increased by $25 each day he is at large. The Man of The Times is an
average Hoosier, He will dress just like the rest of the people at the fair, Like any other spectator he will take all of the exhibits, the * ‘midway,
” IT ‘18 EASY to in the $50. ; The
When you ‘spof' someone you think is the Man of the Times, step up to him, hand him your copy of The Times and say: *“You are the Man of The Times.” You must say it EXACTLY like that. Unléss you do he will not admit his identity even though he may be the Man of The Times. If you approagh him wrong, he ‘won't let you revise your greeting. » - »
THE MAN OF THE TIMES will be “somewherg” on the fairgrounds éach day between the hours of 2'p. m. and 4 p. m. and 5p. m. to 8 p. m. He might, of course, be there at other times, too, but he won't give himself up except between those hours. From now until he is caught clues to his identity will appear in all editions of The Times. Pic: tures will be published and stories! containing hints carried.
| Everyone at the fair is eligible! __pjjice from three states tofay| were on the lookout for a®™5-year- ship freight deliveries as
to join the Man of The Times hunt excépt employees of The! Times and their families. et pmb on
Roll Over Rover, A Posey for You |
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1 (UP) The will be wearing ‘A deg collar of roses for a stroll with its mistress, if the telegraph delivery service has its way. So will the mistress, The matching “flower dogcollars,” modeled after motherdaughter costumes, were one of the features of last night's fashion show of the annual meéting: of the “Say It With Flowers” organization.
cals at each plant. Officers ‘said that one of the) main difficulties in previous bar. gaining sessions had beeen a failure of union representatives from different plants to agree among| themselves.
3 Trusties Flee
t 1 | The union agreed to the new g SOI {type of negotiations but said it
{would not end the strike until |agreements were reached with all plants.
Walk . Away From
Work of Michigan City |. P to yesterday, only one ~
acle remained to final State police launched a state-iment, The union objected to the wide man-hunt early today foricompany's action in firing seven
strikers ‘will go back to work at!
Chicago. All were moving quickly | -
Fur today throvgh tomorrow, Stightly warmer tomorrow
CITY EDITOR—Richard S. Lewis becomes city editor to cuceand Mr, Heinke- in. the expanding news operation by The Times.
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR—Edwin_Q. Heinke, for nine years city editor of The Times, assumes his duties. as assistant managing editor today.
Win Promotions at Times
New Appointments Part of Program For Expanding News Operations Appointment of Edwin C. “Heinke as assistant managing editor and: Richard 8, Lewis as city editop of The Indianapolis Times ‘was announced today by Walter LecKrone, editor of The Times. The announcement sald both pr fons were part of ‘a program of “expanding news operations” by The Times and were the first of several planned re-assignments, Mr. Heinke, who has been city
nine years, will be ‘In of | & city ‘hall reporter and a ape-
di loimant J an and! tO. years he was amusements Pho Photographic departmenth: aN: a popular column, ne ei in Alirn: TT Served Wilk 3. Army : Entering the Army in 1943, Mr,
“The Voice
Scripps newspaper, after his graduation from Ohio State Untverslty, lled every reporting ngment a Jstropoiitan . He was wounded in ‘following the allied in. vasion of Normandy. : He returned to The Times in 1946, and since then has written pe g articles on 'mu-
three men who last night broke employees for picket lhe viola-| A
diana State Prison, thon, at Ahe Malrges
apolles police, Sat oy the company: 4S Stathews, 39, pend ‘the ‘workérs fof period and Thomas C. Cowherd, 33. one to three weeks “4s a disclThe third escapee, Archie Jones, plinary measure.” is from Allen~ Counts, . athews was. described by State Police'as 5 feet 5 inches tail] 10, 000 N. Y. City: and weighing 130 pounds. Co-| y
wherd is 5 feet 9 inches tall ana Truckers Strike weighs 140 pounds. Jones is 5 feet NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (UP)
4 Inches tall d igh and. welshs 15 Nearly 10,000 truck drivers. and
pounds. The men escaped fiom the [thelr helpers went on strike to-
Warren Prison Farm, | ws was committed from off food supplies to hundreds of Marlon County and was serving groceries.
day in New, York City, cui !
Department Heads Pledge All-Out Drive To Curb Highway Accident Toll
: lice departments will throw their entire ‘drive to keep Hoosier motorists alive over
Svaliabie policeman was ordered on trafic
E.C. Heinke, Richard Lewis
editor of The Times for the past|h® #00n achieved distinction as raided ‘a marijuana party’ n'a ids, {Clalist in municipal affairs. For
r. [editor of The Times, and wrote thing—my career, my home, my
and Amy, and as ‘4 western Bu imilitary sRuation writer for Stars big, fat reconciliation. Huh! With and Stripes, with the rank of that temper of hers she'll turn ho
1 10.10 years for grand larceny. Cowherd was serving 1 to 10 years from Marion County for auto theft, while Jones was serving two to five years from Allen County for 2d. degree burglary. Working as trusties,~ the men “walked away” yesterday afternoon.
Police Hunt Girl, 2 Other Jail i
NEWPORT, Ind., Sept. 1 (UP)
iold girl who broke out of the Vermillion County jail with two men and drove off in the sheriff's car. Sheriff Loren Griffin said Jack! Lee Blauser, Charles Kimerly and! Lois Catterson escaped from the jail Monday night. He said one of the men. appar-|
well-dressed pooch ently climbed a ventilator shaft! |finance minister,
ito the roof of the jail. Then he)
went to the sheriff's living quar-ithe ters, took thé keys fo the autolirom Ludwigsburg internment and to the cells from Sheriff Grif-/camp. fin’s “secret” hiding place and! A German de-Nazification ap-
freéd his friends.
Sheriff Griffin said Blauser and did not belong to any political Kimerly were held on charges of party’ and did not participate in assault and battery with intent toithe Nazi war effort beyond helpkill, auto theft and rape. The girlling the nations defense, ‘a legal/from 7 a. m.to midnight at street
was being held for delinquency.
Members of only ove. local ot the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL) quit work when their contract expired at mid night. Union officials predicted, however, that 50,000 members of 11 other Teamsters’ Union locals may join the walkout. The strike by the 9700 members of Local 807 cut food de liveries to chain groceries immediately. If the walkout spreads ja will pinch off food supplies to all groceries and tie up rail and
it did in {the 1946 strike, which was esti- | mated to have cost $1.5 billion.
‘Schacht De-Nazified,
Freed From Internment STUTTGART, Sept. 1 (UP) — |p {Hialmar Schacht, Adolf Hitler's was acquitted jon charges of collaborating with Nazis - today and released
}
ipeal court found that Schacht
lders to arrest reckless motorists.
In duty to prevent’ trae The order came Rouls and Trafic Inspector, — Audry Jacobs today. At state police headquarters; state. troopers were alerted to watch the highways closely. Plan Road Control Col. Robert . Rossow, superinitendent ‘of ‘the state troopers, sald all available police from Indiana's 10 department districts will patrol roads under strict or-
Mayor Al Feeney issued this pointed warning to the people of4 Indianapolis: “I know from past experience that Labor Day san be fatal to
hopes of nothing but good times: t takes just a little care to prei tragedy. I hope all of the péople here who plan to leave the city for the week-end come back safely.” “In order to cope with the heavy] traffic anticipated here because of the Indiana State Fair, Capt. Jacobs said hé will post extra detials in the Fairgrounds area
action.in all countries.
Forty policemen will be on duty
‘intersections near the area and
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| players’ appreciation teremonie
ROSY PENNANE--Jobn Hutchings, relief pitcher
| disnapolis Indians, ‘was welcomed a
many who start out with nigh tem fatal.
the" ofces 8 of “Chief of Police + Edward D.
oh the | gates “and 1 15 5 motorcycle officers will patrol the vicinity “We're going to. keep a close eye on out-of-town drivers, too,”
{asserted ‘the traffic department
head. “Men will be stationed at the city limits on all of the main arteries into. the city to stop
motorists who ‘don’t slow down]
when they. enter the city.” Capt. Jacobs. is determined to keep the Indianapolis traffic record in line with that over last Labor Day. During the entire week-end, he sald, there were 56
accidents and 18 injuries; none of |
On Labor Day, itfhere were eight accidents ot four injuries,
He added that ‘a number of
new sets of white speed-lines have been painted on the .city streets and that motorcycle officers will be stationed near them to nab speeders: Col. Rossow urged every driver in ‘the state to-drive carefully. He said 11 persons were kifled in Indiana during the four-day Labor Day week-end dn 1947, and that this year might be the “toughest” motorists have ever experienced.
Boosters Deluge Indians With Gifts, Cash
Pennart-Bound Redskins Get 1200 Presents, $2146 in Money in Huge Demonstration
By JIM The hearts of Hoosiers are as If there is any doubt in your
SMITH
big as all outdoors, mind on that score, just ask any
member: of the Indianapolis Indians baseball team who last night at Victory Field shared more than 1200 gifts and $2146.65 in cash,
all from boosters of the pennant-
bound Redskins.
Home plate at the ball park last night looked like a downtown
department store after two truck-, loads. of gifts were scattered around, Of course, two truck-! loads weren't all, The other three truckloads were left parked up-| derneath the grandstand. i "Adding ‘to the general confusion were pedigreed dogs and a goat. There was supposed to be a cat there, too, but it failed] 10 make an appearance. |
"Indianapolis’ first Ameri can Association baseball pennant in 20 Years can be won tonight if the Tribe beats Columbus at Vietory Field and Milwaukee loses at home to St. Paul. The Indians have won 95 and Jost 47 and have 12 to play. Milwaukee has won 82, -lost 58 and have 14
Give Up Their Pets | to play.
2 That Hoosiers learn their big-
i ness of heart early in life was
Hoosier last nig
at $ oF Victory Field with a basauer
of roses. Hutchings, whe formedy lived in Chicago, has. putchated
a 4 3 home on. fhe. West Side.
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by two boys who gave!
evidenced their pet dogs to members of the) Indians. Anyone who his a dog knows that it
To punt Will fo WIth & four-footed f
of 23540 N, oe wanted pitcher,
Bob Malloy to have his prize Doberman Pinscher. Dale K.
1 Eve up their pets, but proud to ‘he able
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Mayhall. 10, of 1935 Shadeland. moved
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been to! 1 those young lads e ugh for ‘they her mouth, they said.
Pi ‘ to show ii appreciation to. their. fa- said they were : istioned 4 te
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Nab Film Star Boh Mitchum \
Actor Bemoans.
‘End of Everything’ | By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON | United Press Hollywood Cotrespontens Correspondent | HOLLYWOOD, Sept, .1—Screen! Actor Robert Mitchum howe other Hollywood personalities were arrested on a nareotic charge early today when officers
ACCUSED-_R ab om al umiwas. ¢ rgéd" ay By Los |, Angeles narcotics. officers with. ‘being. marijuan ac after Note soit Huon” of “My wife left t ths outsi of | ago, Put she. And: the! two X Kids| Lila Leeds, “film starlet. This |
blond stariet’'s home. “This is the bitter end of every:
callare on their way out here now,” picture shows him in the unio
3d he said.
tags tm of a Gl as he sppsared
"Crossfire,
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was all set for a in: the screenplay.
the car right around and head back East. I can just see her face when she hears the news on the radios . 4 or reads it in the papers,” ;
‘Get Two Bosses’ 3 Arrested with Mitchum, 31, were golden-haired film stron ; Lila’ dancer Vickie Evans,| n Ford, 31, a friend of}
and Mitehum's. All four were seized when police crashed into Miss Leeds’ luxurious home in Laurel, Canyon ouside Holly med, shortly after
Who's gonna : Bob?” asked the Dut you Jou fs no the records, “108 only,
“Who ond. Kos “I've got two Selznick and RKO studios. Have you ever. listened to Belznick or] & RKO studio when they're peeved?) | 1 ink I'd just as soon stay in ail. “Anyway, if Selznick calls up ll hang up on him. The man can’t do a thing. My careers washed up for good.” ‘When a policeman asked what he ‘wanted him:to put down for his “occupation,” Mitchum cracked: "former actor.” . “Robin and I were going out to eat,’ he-said. - “He suggested we find’ out - where Lila lived and stop by: - We had to call and get the address, and even then we! got lost. Drove all around the iblock. Just had to get there, you know. 4 “We shoulda got. a hamburger! . and gone on home. He had a “mild marijuana flurry when he was a youth,” he sald, but had been using it fairly regularly for the past two years: “That's why my wife left me. incidentally,” he sald. “Bhe'd}’ heard about one or two parties!” I'd been on and she took off
fast.” Teen-Age Romance Mitchum met his wife, Dorothy, in Philadelphia when he was 18 and she was 14. They were mar-| ried in March, 1940, and honeyimooned in California. x Mi Leeds 5 her marriage! o cago man Jack Little annulled in 19486, | Vickie Evans, dancer, wes held Anreatios | policemen AM, Barr] on a technical charge by Los an non, who crashed Angeles police after being Ars into Miss Leeds’ luxurious Laurel! rested in the marijuatia reid.
STEPS HGHTLY. (is Casi Fihyood, iarily wll dove JgJrom - auacters, after being booked on ny charge pia violating the tafe atcotics Act,
ALSO CAUGHT—Mis
Canyon home, said Mitchima, Ford and Miss Leeds had lighted. marijuana “reefers” in hands; i Miss Leeds was entertaining her friends in a clinging blue} hostess robe, the investigators sald, As they broke in the house, the 20-year-old Sirl-about-tam ; lt a cigaret, handed it to. Mitch um and then lit up another fof herself. Mitchum Watched Mitchum and Ford, who were lounging on a divan, dropped their lighted “reefers” on t Toor. The officers scooped. up as evidence, Miss Leeds still had hers in
and McKinnon,
Officers Barr iMiss Leeds’ house when Mitchum
“We've been for six months” tehum