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22 Contracts 0f Finance Co. Called Faulty
Examiner at Hearing
Cites Irregularities A state examiner told the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions today he found 22 ir-
amined the Indianapolis office of General Finance Corp. last July. The examiner, Olaf R. Olsen, of| the State Department of Finan-| cial Institutions, told the department he had to “demand” to see the finance firm's books. when making the examination. He said that of the 26 contracts which he examined on the day in July only four met State Department regulations. t General Finance is being called| upon to show cause why it should| continue to do business in Indiana after alleged violations of state financial regulations. More Witnesses Due { The State Department has ac-| cused the corporation in six| counts of violating the State Re-| tail Installment Sales Act in the financing of used cars. ; Mr, ‘Olsen was one. of the wit-
chance to show the teachers
partment heard testify this morning. More witnesses were to be
(left to right) Neale Rosser,
called this afternoon as the hear-| phan Crowell and Gloria Fleenor.
ing in the State House continues. The examiner said irregular contracts he examined failed to include many items required hy state regulations. Some failed to include final balance ‘figures,| finance charges or insurance cov-| erage charges. He testified the| manager of the office admitted the contracts were irregular. Transaction Disguised Mr. Olsen also testified he! found one instance in which the’ firm made:a direct loan on an automobile but disguised the transaction-as-a—finance-deal.—+ He said the car was actually free of all encumbrances but was] shown in the contract to be sold|® to the owner by an Indianapolis used car dealer. Mr. Olsen said ° he learned from investigation! that the “dealer” was not licensed! by the city. Mr. Olsen testified the finance
on a loan of $300. I Nearly a dozen witnesses told] * department members of thelr ca ‘dealings with the firm yesterday. | Darrell. Falconbury, 3849 8. Ol-/8 ney St, told of obtaining a loan] of $550 on his automobile he had! purchased a short time before. A member of the department said the corporation has only a petty loan license and cannot]
J%ally mike loans of mere ae FOR THE VISITING TEACHERS—One of the brighter spots on the agenda of ki “visiting Hoosier teachers-this~-morning-was..a. program.at Tomlinson Hall of demon strations by Indianapolis school pupils. ‘ These pupils of School 4 in University Heights® gave up a day of their four-day vacation fo present a gypsy pageant for the, visit-
Nearly all of the witnesses told of signing blank contracts. One declared hd did not sign a contract of any kind in finanecin his car. ’
ing educators.
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TEACHING THE TEACHERS—These young Indianapolis school pupils got a
steation-in- Tomlinson.Hall today.i. Watching Mrs. Clara Swenson, teacher {right}, are
"how to do it" as they took part in a handwriting demon-
Mary Jo Kendall, Rosalyn Bohamon; Glen Freeman, Ste:
The Rev. Joseph Nelson, 1207
N. Senate Ave. told of financing I his car through General Finance dirgroun S liS and of being told his payments would be between $65 and $67.50 for 24 months. He said he signed a blank contract with the under- al pprove standing that payments would also include insurance. | h He produced receipts to show e had ‘been paying’ $85.86 a, i month off a 24-month baste. On Arlington, 38th eee Feeder line bus service on’ Arilington Ave. and E. 38th St. to howers Forecast =: State Fairgrounds will start {within a few days as a result
of an Indianapolis Railways pro-
F : [posal accepted by the Board of or er p ong Works today. ) | This service will substitute Occasional showers will fall in/temporarily for a crosstown line the Indianapolis area tonight and{on 38th from Boulevard Place to tomorrow, the Weather Bureau Arlington Ave. which the Railforecast today. “|ways had proposed. However, they will be accompa- | Buses starting at 10th St. and nied by mild temperatures as the! Arlington Ave. will run north on city is relieved of the cold snap| arlington to 38th St. and then
of the last few days. {west on 38th to the State FairLOCAL TEMPERATURES |. °
grounds, where patrons may 3 a m... pod 10 a. m... 48 |;ongfer to the Fairgrounds 3 a, m... oa 1s * m... 48 | ireetcars. At the other tera Mm... Noon.. 50, minal of the line connection will fam ...42 1p. m.. 52
{be made with E. 10th less trolleys. Withdraw Application After the Railways’ proposal,
——————————————— St. trackLegion Comes Out For War Pensions
(Earlier Story, Page 18) {Lines, Inc., agreed to withdraw
——— | {ts application for authority to MIAMI, Fla. Oct. 21 (UP)— pperate crosstown' bus service The American Legion reversed a/from Boulevard Place east on
30-year stand against soldiers’ 38th St. and south on Arlington pensions today and passed a reso-| Ave. lution calling on the government! The Board of Safety had obto grant pensions to all veterans jected to the proposed line on 38th of World Wars I and II.
Legionnaires shouted approval cause of heavy traffic already
of a resolution urging the grant|using that section of the route.!
of -$60..a..month. pensions. to. ex. However, the. board.approved the soldiers when they reach the age Indianapolis. Railways plan to
provide service terminating at the Fairgrounds,
On Inside Pages
age of 65,
| ” | Korean sees Red revolt being erushed mre “Page-8{-Democrats. for Progressive Frisble ....,...........
GOP Creighton Zroup aims to take. on “Champ” Halleck ... . another of a series by Dan Kidney. .Page 3 9 Americans die in Scotland air crash . : vr : .“ ’ ..Page 10 Lilibet expects boy within three weeks ........:..Page 11 Dewey ignores effort to draw him into fight ’ ' . ..Page 18 . ¥ LE
Democrats bid for Labor vote .................. Page 21
Other Features on Inside Pages Amuse. ..28, 29 John Crosby .12 Inside Indpls.21 Side Glances,22
- Eddie Ash ...32/Créssword '*.31 Mrs. Manners 5 Society ......24 B
+o044428 Editorials ...22 Movies ...28, 29 Sports ....52-34 Business ++++18/Food +eseee0s27 FRC. Othman 21 Weather Map 7 M. Childs ...23/ Forum .....,22/Radio .......12|Earl Wilson .23 Classified .35-38 Meta Given .27 Mrs. Roosvit..24 Women's 25, 27
Comics 4.404.838 Hollywood ..28 Ruark ......21/World Af. ..22
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948
Teachers Get Lesson From Pupils 15,000 State
session. wijl- be
{the convention
Teachers Jam Mile Square
Educators Here For 2-Day Meeting
By DONNA MIKELS Today was a bad day to split an infinitive in downtown Indiannnolis. The mile square hotels, retaurants, department stores and shops was overflowing with some 15,000 Hoosier educators in town for the annual two-day Indiana State Teachers Association convention. Many of the school marms and masters were attending sectional meetings in- dozens of meeting places or attending to official business in headquarters at the Lincoln Hotel, Hundreds of others, however, “played hookey” from sessions to go looking for new hats or to gather in lounges to renew old acquaintances, Main order of business today was casting of ballots for new officers at district election sites, First
general
held -
eral blisfness sessions “will get underway tomorrow. Miss Gertrude McComb, Terre Haute, president pies McComb of the association, will preside at general meetings here Teachers are expected
Oxford School in Benton County, as 1949 president to succeed Miss McComb, —Hightighting
will be lecture sessions in which nationally known speakers will talk on international problems. They include
Mrs. Agnes E. RB. E. Hood
.| Meyer, author, Washington Post
correspondent and a member of the President's commission on higher education; Maurice Hindus, author and New York Herald-
+ Tribune... foreign . correpsondent,
and Walter H.-Judd. Congressman from Minnesota and foreign policy authority.
izations and scholastic groups are holding annual meetings today and tomorrow in connection with the teachers. convertion.
At the first general session at (Continued on Page 3-—Col. 2)
Vital Peace
Times Poll Shows Dewey
Decline, Gain By Schricker
Democrats’ Gubernatorial Nominee Only Leading Candidate to Increase Margin By ART WRIGHT Democrat Henry F. Schricker was the only leading candidate {in The Times Straw Vote to increase his margin today in the {rve-day tabulation. The other two leaders—Republican Thomas E. Dewey for {President and Republican George L. Denny for 11th district con- | gressman—Ilost ground to their opponents. | For the second straight day|™ 7 |Mr. Denny lost the most ground| Mr. Schricker. added 1.8 per {of the three offices. His 7.2 per|cent to the margin he holds over cent lead over Democrat Andrew Republican Hobart Creighton in | Jacobs for four'days was short-/the straw ballot for governor. {ened to 4.7 per cent for five days.| Here are the revised tabula- | In the presidential - campaign, tions {for five.days, showing also Mr. Dewey lost 1.9 per cént of the “Jour«day tally for compari {the margin he held for four days. son:
PRESIDENT
5 Days 4 Days For Thomas E. Dewey, Republican ................ 54.1 55.6 { For Harry 8S. Truman, Democrat ......ooovvevvens 43.1 42.7 | | For Henry Wallace, Progressive .........cco0c000us 2.0 1.4 Incomplete Ballots ..........cc000vvvveecvcescemms 08 0.3 t GOVERNOR For Henry F. Schricker, Democrat .....cco000000. 57.4 56.7 For Hobart Creighton, Republican .............0.. 41.1 42.2 For Walter Frisble, Progressive .............. 0.0 . 07 0.3 Incomplete Ballots .........c.c0000vvvveevvsasssess 0.8 08 | : CONGRESS For George L. Denny, Republican .............. ee BOLI 51.6 | For Andrew Jacobs, Democrat ............0s . 45.4 44 For Willard B. Ransom, Progressive .............. 12 0.3 Incomplete Ballots ......... ress cesessnnees 3.8 3.7 PARTY TRENDS Straight Republican Votes .....ci000 covveosnees 35.7 35.3 | Straight Democrat Votes ...cieevissversseacsosees 38.7 31.9 F-Beratoen iiss nnassassssasasss 10d 14.8 { No Party Preference ......cocooeeespsscesnsesssees 10.7 5
r Democrats: for-Republican Dewey. «.veseereossoress. M2
Republicans for Democrat Truman ....ocoveveeeeee 8.2 51 | Democrats for Progressive Wallace .........oeovne 07 0.6 Republicans for Progressive Wallace .......coo00e0d’ 07 0s Republicans for Democrat Schrieker ...ccisevives 12.8 12.3 Democrats for Republican Creighton ........cv0000 13 29 Republicans for Progressive Frisble . 0 llr o2 “0.0 Republicans for Democrat Jacobs ...ooovvviiiniane 67 68 Democrats for- Republican Denny ...ccooveveveenes 42 48 Republicans for Progressive Ransom .....crveeveee 07 03 Democrats for Progressive Ransom ......coeeeeeee 0.5 03
In the on¢-day count for the, fifth day, Mr. Schricker was the Schricker who gathered support
62 per cent of the votes for gav-| voters ernor, Mr. Creighton, 34 per cent, Tomorrow's tabulation, which and Mr. Frisbie, four per cent. will appear ‘exclusively in The {Mr. Jacobs, in the Congressman Times, will give the revised fig- | battle, was second highest with ures for six days of straw voting. 52 per cent. In the Presidential roms
English Singer to Wed.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 (UP)
Dewey annexed 46 per cent of the votes and Mr. Truman 44 per cent. Other one-day tabulations were: English singer Beryl Davis, 24, Straight Democrat, 46 per cent; and disc jockey Peter Potter have Straight Republican, 38 per.cent;lapplied for a marriage license. scratches, 18 per cent, Again the| Mr. Potter, 38, used his real top man to attract voters of an name of William M. Moore in the opposing party was Democratiapplication yesterday.
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biggest single vote-getter. He got of 14 per cent of the Republicgny
‘Report Coming oF WAR SHOULD COME
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eNOT a war scare re- | port , , , it is a peace story.
® A factual description of | steps our government is taking to keep America i strong in case the worst { should happen.
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Elissa Landi, Loneliest Actress, Dies at 43
| Ex-Screen Star | . Cancer Victim
| KINGSTON, N. Y, Oct. 21 (UP)~-Former screen star Elissa Landi, once known as the “lone[llest woman in Hollywood,” died lin Kingston Hospital today of [cancer | The 43-year-ald blue-eyed blond had béen unconscious for 24 hours before she died. Her husband, ™ author Curtiss Kenny Thomas, = was at her beside. . # Dr... Kenneth Lefever, ' her: physician, said the actress died of a cancer that had originated in her abdomen and had.spread to {her brain. { She entered the hospital Oct. 10, {but her condition did not become {eritical until 36 hours ago, Dr. Lefever said. Miss Landi, who became a success as a novelist after starring in such. movies as “Sign of the {Cross,” “The Count of Monte | Cristo,” “The Warrior's Husband”
CANCER VICT I M--Elissa Landi, former screen actress and novelist, who starred in many early film "spectatles,"
jand “The Great Flirtation,” was died today of cancer. She was
said to be of royal Austrian- 43 Hapsburg parentage. . Mother a Countess | seven-year marrage to John CeHer mother was Countess Za-|cil Lawrence, a London lawyer,
—{nardi-Landi and her grandmother became known in Hollywood onlyf {was believed to have been Em- after they were divorced in 1935.
|press Elizabeth of Austria-Hun-| She married Mr. Thomas in
gary. {1943 and settled down to live near She obtained the nickname of|Kingston. the “loneliest woman” because she! seldom mingled with the movie/1904, near Vienna. She got her set. {start in movies in London when 8he was so reticent that her'she was 24,
Death of Man Found Hurt In Alley Launches Probe
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-Without Fully Regaining Consciousness Death today in General Hospital of a 58-year-old Indianapolis
!man who was found unconscious in the rear of a tavern last Fri-|
lday launched a police investigation of circumstances surrounding
{hia tatal inhay, Ss
ori FA IR RR A hs i be te Poll | The victim was Ralph Becquette, 1935 N, Illinois 8t., employed las a maintenance man at Rest Haven Sanitarium, 3245 N. Illinois St.
Dr. J. 8. Bean, deputy coroner, =~
[sald today Mr.. Becquette ated Local Man Named 5 fel a 3 j without fully regaining conscious 40 & 8 Historian the teRekS rn ness of injuries which could have] Phil E. Clements. 5132 E. St. the project ! been the result of a slugging or aq 4 gt has become historian of than oe { fall. An autopsy is to be per-ithe 40 and 8 Society, the Ameri- early th ad formed. can Legion's fun making organ- yeat rnative: 1b : i Found at Foot of Stairs [=P remerts was named you- W. Michi: | Mr. Becquette was found at the so rday at elections -held during 5 tracks : foot of a stairway in the rear of | closing sessions of the legion con- ‘ e they A i McCarthy's Tavern, 2140 N. Ii-| vention in Miami, Fla. AY age) rT. years. f _|nois St. There were cuts and| —— ecessity for reaching a de« ] bruises on his head. cision on. track moving has been i
After being taken to the hos- Remember pital, he was identified by his sis-| ter, Mrs. Margot Gage, 2034 Meridian St. Mrs. Gage said today that her LOWER SLOBBOVIA brother had received a salary]
payment of approximately $100 needs help again
only two days before his injury, and but that when he was found he | L'il Abner (natcherl had only a few dollars in his| goes to'the rescue Ses) pockets. | of 26 colgr comic fea-
Mr. Becquette, who was not! married, was born in Ft. Wayne, | tures in your but had lived in Indianapolis for|
30 years. He was a veteran of! SUNDAY TIMES * World War I. | FIVE CENTS . . Everywhere
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Break Bottleneck
Of Past Decade : The long-awaited W. Michi« gan St, grade separation to eliminate the West Side traf-
fic ‘bottleneck at ‘the Balti« more & Ohio and New York Central railroad tracks was under way at City Hall today. The biggest municipal improves ment of the year, tentative esti« mates at City Hall today indicated cost of the improvement would dwarf South Side grade separations completed in the last two years.
make Ww. Michigan 1 a fast ols Fastlly paRng wert sb.
Key to the cost of the separa. Ron will be turned tomorrow executives of B&O
Works Board members and engineers at City Hall. A Complete cost estimates cannot be drawn until the railroads ads City officials how much it
the wrench which has
on cost is expected to clear the rails for the project. ; The proposed underpass would be longest in the city. It can be constructed without moving properties between N. Holmes and Concord Aves. Re-routing Michigan St. as an
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St., preferential over Boulevard, Ave. The taxi-overturned’but the drivers of the two vel
. 7: wire v .. > Photo by John upside down cab will appear in Municipal Court tomorrow failing to stop for a preferential street, The cab driver, Hen a proffith a3 Jalnastawn was collided with a car driven vehicles
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