Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1948 — Page 1

FORECAST: Partly clondy, contd warm tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight, 61; 1 High tomorow 8890.

gr FULL—Bulging parking lots oth as the one shown here complicate the dow down parking problem in Indianapolis: Store owners contend. customers are: fradng ot neighborhood: shops because of the difficulty ‘in finding space for their cars “down own,

“the street as shown by oh rei thi of dou parking on W. Washington St. this morning. - City. officials ‘and businessmen are moving to ease the problem with a plan for construction of. additional parking facilities fi ingnced by

cut the raises promised City po-.

Chief Edward Rouls and stanch-

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER

Not to Slash

Police Raises

Pledges Aid in Request For 50 New Officers | Marion County Tax Adjustment Board saidTtoday it would not

licemen in the 1949 City budget. Earlier the board challenged Mayor Feeney’s increases in po-| lice and firemen's salaries in an effort to whittle down. a record city tax rate. 3 C. 8. Ober, president of the tax! board and former City Controller under Mayor Denny, said: “Every consideration will be given the request for 50 addi-| tional policemen. 62 Jobs Vacant “There being 62 vacancies existing in the department at pres-| ent, the board feels that in nine months the department should be! able to fill these 112 vacancies. “The board hésitates to give blanket approval of the 50 addi tional police without some assurance that the positions will be filled. and that the request is not a subterfuge for additional funds in the department.” The adjustment board indicated it will attempt to find some way to cut’ between 15 and 17 cents from the $2.220 proposed civil city tax rate to bring it more nearly in line with this year’s $1.79. The budget asked by Police | ly defended by Mr. Keach, safety board director, seeks salary increases for all police’ and firemen. It also provides for 112 new policemen. “The board criticized the request for funds to pay the 112 police men full salaries for 1949, be-| fore the new personnel is, hired. Hope to Start Today It is’ seeking some means of scaling the request down to what the department actually will put out in pay.

the city goverdment before Mon‘to start

y private enterprise.

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_ Mayor to Appoint Group To Study Parking Problem

Asks Plan With Minimum C Participation, Major Handling by Private Enterprise

Mayor Al Feeney said today he would have a committee for the study of off-street parking in Indianapolis in operation by to-

India Wins War Within Five Days

Nizam Orders

& Co. today to discuss formation of. the group which would consider a plan of minimum participation by the City and a maximum

rcury to Hit

appointment of the committee, Meanwhile, downtown Indian-

the world's latest war.

Troops to Quit Firing

MOETOW. : NEW DELHI, Sept. 17 (UP)—| He said he would meet with Theodore Griffith of L. 8. Ayres The world's richest man surren-|

dered his princely state of Hyder- a leaking gas line had

participation by private enter-{8bad to invading Indian troops prise. Mr. Griffith had suggested today, ending in just five days

y with maxima of night b x 00 don y Mayor Feeney which pe shelved for at least three years told his forces to lay down their Bora accordin the City’s far-reaching plan foriarms, the Nizam broadcast to his

y 90's’ Again

apolis was bulging: at the seams

. LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sam... 10am... 76 Tam... 65 11a m... 8L [at noon and for want of space Sam... 68 12 (Noon) 84 ist the curb motorists doublePam... 4 1pm... 85 parked in the streets.

Not in. Business But the City will not enter the

parking business, This was the decision made last

The: miniature heat wave that struck Indianapolis and vicinity yesterday, ringing a high temperature of

7, will continue

! i icoistructing, financing and opera ee otrou [ating four - multi-million-dollar| om and Tussday wil be re ne he “did not in£00 with . scatter SNOWEDS {tend for the City to compete with!

id thunderstorms, the Weather! in “ in {private enterprise” as more than

its long-range 50 puginessmen and City officials) gathered to discuss the downtown! parking problem.

Today's predicted high of 90 is

with parked cars. Lots close to dered a ‘cease-fire of his defense the center of the City were filled forees effective at 6:30. a. m.

- Idian troops already had entered

only 3 degrees under the record h set Sept. 17, 1927. empeératures are expected to Average 6 to 10 degrees above! normal in the next five-day period. Normal maximum tem-|

{he did feel it an “obligation” of

ithe City to assist private enter-| :

prise in every way short of par-| ticipation in constfucting addi-|

' The Nizam of Hyderabad or-

{Indianapolis time). And unofficial reports said In-

the military barracks of Secunderabad, across the river from Hyderabad City. Two hours and a half after he

people that the fight for continued independence from India was lost. 3

100 Pup

Warren Central Can’

{tional parking spaces downtown ares. Planned Under Tyndall The plan under which the City

perature for this period for! northern Indiana is 75, normal] minimum, 51. For southern Indiana, normal temperatures range from 81 to 56.

On Inside

obe links U.S, heir. going to let the big downtown ess with A-bomb taxpayers take a licking spy Scuivities +»... Page 2 the public stops coming

Picture of “Mr. Bland:

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was developed during the ad-| ministration of Tyndall, Mayor Feeney said he believed the problem resolved around the

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SNES” vs ionnanns rr Caraga Indians hit road, one Ww. H. Butterfield game behind .....Page 16 Resigns. DePauw Post mes State Service

Rent boosts due here Page 28! GREENCASTLE, Sept. Other Inside Features

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Biisiness ba 23{Ruark aan 21 Clyde E. Wildman, president.

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his parents were chitically ‘burned when their Alexandria home was blown apart in a gas stove explosion, Charles Mottweiler aid, his wife were brought in er 1 condition to Robert Long pital, suffering from second _— third degree burns. Mr. Mottweiler, unaware that ot been shut off, struck a match to light the stove in the family’s new two-room cottage. The blast blew out the back of the house. on

NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UP) <edoe Louls announced today he will defend his heavyweight championship in June against the winner of the Joe RBaksi-

Ezzapd Charles fight if the winner was “impressive.”

CHICAGO, Sept. 17 (UP)— Wage negotiations hetween 18 non-gperating rail unions and the nation’s railroads collapsed today.

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ils Jam School Bus Hors trae ayer eins BUI $0. Carry Only 60.

t Get Delivery

On Two Vehicles ‘On Order All Summer’

a school bus?

That's what Warren Township students, parents, school offi-

iclals and trustees are wondering as they wait delivery of two school

{ busses, on order since the end of

the last school term.

Some 30 Warren Central students were left stranded at Terrace

{jam on any more students, | Indianapolis Railways bus, Jams 100 on Buy

Driver of the bus, George

{question of “whether the City is! | Askren; said he has to crowd,

lover the 60-passenger limit every {day and that on some days he’s - had as many as 100. One of thé new busses is supposed to start [at the Terrace-Emerson point to] ipick up Warren Central students, {but until it arrives the ome bus jomust continue overcrowding. “We were told today that we

We get the new busses ‘definitely next week,” C. E. Eash,| principal of Warren Central, said.! {Resignation of W, H. Butterfield, “Howgyer, we were told last week {vice president in charge of pub-|it would be ‘definitely’ this week. 32, 33 Mrs. Manners 15 lic relations and financial pro- We're ‘wondering just how defi- .« 18 Movies ...32, 33/motion at DePauw University, nite ‘definite’ is.”

Waiting All Summer

The school trustee's office said 22 Mr, Butterfield will continue to it has been waiting delivery all pe (Side FIED 22 work with DePauw officials as a summer and that one bus was 16, 17, 18 consultant on public relations rented from Hancock County in ang os activity. He! the interim. to devote an increasing The two busses will take care of the transportation problem for , the township schools, the trus-

would operate the parking lots ,.4 8. Emerson Aves. today when: the schol bus driver couldn't

the late Mayor They had to get to school via teg's office said. | Pending deliy-

|ery, however, the schools are Just, (“making out” the best that they can,

«4 Leahy Picks Grid ‘Winners Today

17,1948

Holy UNI

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Seidensticker To Quit Sept. 30 As Postmaster

] :

GRAVELY ILL— Stricker with

bronchial ‘pneumonia, J. Hoover was ordered: by

doctors to take time off from his ‘duties as head of “the FBI His associates declared themselves as "seriously concerned.”

Pneumonia Strikes J. Edgar Hoover

FBI Associates

16-Day Tour

Plans 150 Speeches Through 19 Roaches

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Reporter

DENT TRUMAN, Sept. 17 (UP)

‘em hell.” He made the plomise to his running * mate, Sen. Alben W.

Barkley of Kentucky, who went to Washington's Union Station to see him off. The President's 17-¢ar special train will cover 9500 miles In 16-days, including ‘neatly 150 stops. He will speak as many as 15 times a day, appearing in a variety of towns as small as Olive Hill, Ky, and as big as Los Angeles, His first major speech will} come tomorrow at Dexter, Iowa, where he will speak at the sixth

President Truman headed west-ibhy P resident ward on a 10 state campaign trip/Truman, '

today vowing “I'm going to give

ADOLPH SEIDENSTICKER, Indianapolis = postmaster since

1933, will retire Sept. 30 under By S federal automatic retirement pro- tern 6 visions, He will be suc- BEF . In Jewish Qua

in postal service ; 34 years, . Mr. Seidensticker Mr. Seidensticker, who was 73/ in July, would observe his 15th anniversary as postmaster Oct. 1, He has been a lifelong Indianapolis resident. He was a prac ticing attorney here prior to his appointment,

. » ACTIVE in Democratic poli tics, he served as a member of the state Legislature in 1909 and 1011 and led the fight to legalize Sunday baseball. He also served oh the State Board of Pardons. After retirement Mr. Seidensticker sald he will vigit hig son in York, Pa, for several months, He said on return to Indianapolig

AMMAR,

n Board members said they saw no possibility of fixing a rate for

Indianapolis. today a ro and |

Seriously Concerned

annual National Plowing Contest. ! he planned to "get busy on some.

WASHINGTON, Sept.:17 (UP) ~J. Edgar Hoover, the nation's No. 1 G-man, was in serious condition today with bronchial pneu monia. The 53-year-old FBI director has been confined to bed at his, home since Monday but his iHness was not revealed until last

him’ acting direc-

for of the TBE fn 2034 ing | vr

Seven

In the s, when a wave of jidnaping and other crimes hit. the nation, gangsters and eitizens {alike became acutely conscious! as- of J. Kdgar Hoover and his! “G-men. ” i The “G-men” moved in on every major crime that could be attacked under federal laws. FBI guns and sleuthing ‘soon ended. the careers of such public! enemies as John Dillinger. Long before Pearl Harbor, Mr. | Hoover had prepared plans to

Mr. Truman also made a Be ise to tell the voters "what i8sues are” In a brief talk night before a a polly National Rural Electric operative Association, The 19 states

strength of 251 votes, just 15 Sh Lo ‘of the bare majority needed

Dexter the | President was} oll heavily on

ver,

his Western tour. [Mofiday at Des A

lwhere he is expected to snmwer OFC

retireme!

the President will RE To Plead combined electoral coliege % f d !

Faces 2 to 21 Yeu

hing" rather than [remaining ln

Ousted Juvenile Aid

the charge by Secretary of Agri

culture’ Charles ¥. Brannan ihat {the Republicans would like to kill

Times Writer * On Truman Train Traveling with, Presi-

the farm support price program. Cle

tions . while lodged at ‘the detention|” home while under custody y of the, 0” Juvenile Court, .

protect every major espionage system.

directed sa occurred

fight.

was born here Jan.'], 1805,

industrial plant in the United States and set in motion an extensive: counter-

And in World War II there was

ot a single instance of foreign5 . ign stories of the presidential

botage hinder the nation’s victorious

Since 1924 Mr. Hoover has devoted most of his waking hours to the FBI. A life-long bachelor,

dent Truman on his 9500 Mile Election tour is Earl Richert, Times palitical writer in the nation's capital. For

“on the scenes”

party as it sweeps across the nation and the public's reaction, be sure to read The Indianapolis Times for Mr. Richert's

Hoover often told friends he just] 3 reports; Japan today. They landed never found the right girl, He It's another EXCOLU- (4 fishing boat off Fukul f SIVE for The Times, ture.

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SARDINE STYLE--That's the way these’ V school bus—those that get on, that is. the driver could: only cram on some 20 over his $0-passe that on some mornings he's crowded 100 on his ou, wd left some o standing.

Some

Lowell state police sald.

girls asked that he be attentive *¥® to them “to avert trouble as the result of their emotional prob lems,”

JAPS NAB 100 KOREANS

~<Japanese police Koreans for illegal entry

Following & le detector test," admitted the charges,

He said that in both cases the

KYOTO, Japan, Sept. 17 ( arrested