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: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1948
Parking Meters Asked By Feeney For Downtown
Mayor Reveals Request After Detailed Study
Proposal Aimed at
Relieving Congestion By JACK THOMPSON Parking meters to religve congestion in downtown Indianapolis will be recommended to the Works Board, Mayor Feeney announced today. The Mayors announcement this morning followed nearly a year of detailed study on the parking meter question, and more than a decade of stormy debate, at City Hall on the issue. It was one of the major decisions on municipal policy of Mayor Feeney's 10-month administration. . | Officials of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce voiced their approval of the parking meter plan today. It was also indicated there would be no objections from merchants associations. In a statement to The Times, the Mayor said he will submit detailed recommendations on parking meters to the Works Board Monday. Job of Works Board “It's the job of the Board to draw an ordinance authorizing the meters,” he said. | The Mayor disclosed the Safe-| ty Board has been working up| preliminary plans for parking, meter installation for the last, six months.
Mayor Feeney . . . examines three of the models of parking meters which will be placed on the | curbs if City boards and Council approve. ‘
Although little has been said 4
| - . . about meters in this administration, one of the major questions,
in their acquisition was whether < they should be rented on a per- gaw . » centage basis or purchased out- Dies in Hos al right. Mayor Feeney said he had dePolice Probe Death
vised a plan for acquiring the meters without the outlay of cash necessary to buy them outright! Of Local Man, 67 He said he has worked out agree- : ns ment with meétér concerns to n=} A 87:ygar-old man who eas stall several makes on a consign-|found beaten and unconscious ment basis. Monday died today in General Can Make Actual Trial Hospital. Police planned to launch an in-
“Several leading manufacturers
have expressed willingness to provide meters on that basis,” he said. “They also are willing to remove the meters when notified by the City to do so.” In this manner, the Mayor said, the City can determine which make of meter is most effective by actual trial. Meter collections will be split between the City and
vestigation into the death of Bert Campbell, 67, 1149 E, Troy Ave, An autopsy to determine cause of death is scheduled today. He was found unconscious and
badly beaten at 1:30 a. m. Monday by officers who had ‘béen searching the Southeast Side for him
2 A. M. Poker No Remedy For Bad Heart, Judge Rules
Particularly If Player Bets Straight Against
4 Fours, as Affidavit Says Jesse Jones Did NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (UP)—If former Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones’ heart is strong enough for him to back a straight against four fours for a $4000 poker pot at 2 a. m., then it's strong enough for him to appear as a witness in court. That was what Federal Judge Samuel H. Kaufman held today. The 74-year-old Texas oil millionaire was ordered to appear in court at the request of James A. : {Moffet, former executive of the] Standard Oil Co. of California, ! I'd Ie His
who is suing the Arabian-Amer-
ican .0il Co. for an $8 million . re To Cut Off Oil 1 Mr. Jones’ poker playing habits|
were brought out in an affidavit submitted by Mr. Moffet’s attor-| PARIS, Nov. 24 (UP)—An ney. It contested the Texan's re- Arab spokesman hinted toaay fusal to appear in court outta the Arab world might shut
Entered as Second-Class Matter Issued
at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind, Daily
China Hints Reds Chop Up Four Armies
Only One Escapes Suchow Corridor
encirclement east of Suchow, in-| dicating that the other four
T ¢ NANKING, Nov. 24 (UP)—De-| fense Ministry sources reported] tonight that one Nationalist army | had broken out of a Communist)
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armies trapped with it were destroyed.
through the Communist cordon| in the Nienchuang area linked up C t t with a rescue column 20 miles oO or % Oo east of Suchow, the defense ministry reported.
four armies indicated they had been chopped up in the 13 days of fighting. Seize 1053 Generals i The Communist radio reported| the “annihilation” of the Na-|
Be Hanged
REL wr oe on S@CTEtly Without Delay
Gen. MacArthur Upholds Death Sentences,
Prison Terms for 25 Jap War Leaders . TOKYO, Nov. 24 (UP)—Former Premier Hideki Tojo and six
tionalist forces trapped at Nienchuang, and said the National-
fronts.
ists had lost 18 divisions on all
| The radio added that 105 Na-
{other condemned Japanese war lords will be hanged in secret {without delay, a subordinate said today after Gen. Douglas MacArthur approved all sentences passed by the Far East military tribunal.
Gen. MacArthur upheld the seven death sentences, 16 life
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Television Due To Start Here
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Of Programs Set hy WEBM
See-and-Hear Shows To Get Green Light
By HAROLD HARTLEY Times Business Editor
Dawn of the television era
terms and two other terms of 20 Will break over Indianapolis
manufacturers, he said. for several hours. Under this arrangement, the Police Officer Clarence Wurz, Mayor hoped to avold the bicker- Who was off duty Monday, reing which defeated the purchase ceived a call from Arthur George of parking meters in 1946 and Barnett, 2704 8. State Ave., about, 1947. 110 a. m. Monday. At that time, City Hall cliques| Mr. Barnett told the policeman disagreed on makes of meters, he had seen Mr. Campbell lying
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grounds he had a severe heart condition and that testifying “would be detrimental to his health.” $4000 In Pot The affidavit said in part:
“The witness Jones played po-|
off its oil to the Marshall Plan countries in reprisal for their Palestine policy. “The success of the Marshall Plan’ depends on oil from the Arab countries,” Faris El Khouri lof Syria warned the United Naitions Politicsl Committee debat-
each group boistered by its own|on the ground back of his house, ker at the 29 Club, 11 East 61st ing the Palestine situation. “experts.” Parking meter sales- He appeared to be badly beaten, Street, on the night of Nov. 16
men lobbied frenziedly to make Mr. Barnett said. sales. Found in Ice House Mix-up Resulted Police cars searched the area The result was that meters ap-|but were unable to find any trace proved by the Works Board were|0f the man, ; turned down by the Safety Board Three hours later he was found in a nearby ice hEown Our by the ilOuse’ owned by Wesley Brown, certain City!1213 Hanna Ave. :
Council, Meters A +] Police ' said he was bleeding
Councilmen preferred * were -rejected By the boards. and appeared to have been beatThe Mayor's plan would obvi-|en. He had been drinking, ofate initial dispute, since several|ficers reported. He was charged types of meters would be given|with drunkenness and sent to the test of the formidable down-|General Hospital. He was unable town parking problem. to give a coherent account of his Meanwhile, maps of parking, activities. Meter Sustallations in the Mile| ’ quare have been prepared by|C#§; Traffic Engineer Lewis 4.y Sticks n Stones sa Johnson. PARIS, Nov. 24 (UP)— The Mayor sald meter installa- Reporters agreed today tion is part of an over-all City| that French Minister of Hall program to disentangle Interior Jules Moch was downtown traffic and provide, the “most insulted man” parking places for shoppers during the current session rather than “four-hour squat- of the National Assembly. ters.” The official records show that in four days Mr, Moch has been termed a lar 17 times, a murderer 11 times, a “copper” twice, a “dirty boy with a runny nose,”
Models on Hand “The parking meter step has been held up because of our revisions in the traffic program,” said the Mayor. “The Traffic Engineer had to determine loca-
until approximately 2 a. m. and,
during the evening, Jones consumed large quantities of whisky. “On one occasion they said Jones backed a straight in a pot involving approximately $4000 against four fours. “No ddubt ~ “Zing a straight [against four fours _with $4000 in the pot has heen the cause of many a heartache, but, to my
ommended as a cure for heart trouble.” Judge Kaufman ordered Mr. Jones to appear in his chambers Friday. He said he would stop the proceedings if the Texan showed signs of fatigue. Mr. Moffet, who once served as federal housing administrator, contends the oil company owes him the $8 million fee for services he rendered in their acquiring an oil property from the King of
knowledge, it had never been rec-|
. “The West Europeans should {remember that fuel for their cars and their airplanes comes from Arab countries,” El Khouri said. “If that were cut off, what would happen? How would they score a victory if there was a war?” The Soviet bloc earlier attacked Anglo-American proposals for a Palestine * settlement, . insisting that the United Nagons gtick (to {its partition progr pted a | year ago.
Rain, Snow Predicted For U. S. Thanksgiving
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UP) —Rain and snow were predicted today for many sections of the country on Thanksgiving Day. The Weather Bureau, in a special holiday forecast, said occa{sional rain is expected tomorrow {in New England, the Middle and South Atlantic states, and from
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Saudi Arabia. lower Michigan into Indiana and
Illinois. Musician Dies LOCAL TEMPERATURES WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UP) 8 a. m. 30 4 a. m. 253 —Yasha Kayaloff, 50, first vio-| ¢ 4 ok “SS Iz ae) 38 linist with the Philadelphia Sym-| g % ™ --33 13 (noon) 33
phony Orchestra, died today fol-|
lowing a heart attack.
and a racketeer. tions so that once meters are installed, the City won't be put to the expense of moving them
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Models of the meters are now az on hand for examination by ex-|F rance and Britain bolt U. 8.
perts not connected with the City administration, the Mayor said. Time and space called best On hand are three makes of
meters. They charge 1 to 5 cents
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utes and 5 cents for one hour. In several instances, different makes may be installed side by side as a test. The Mayor did not indicate immediately how he would pro-
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pose that the City acquire the Cotton Henning grooms mounts for “500” in 1949 as fall winds whip Speedway.................Page 11 with the meter companies as a Our Lovely Lady of Tomorrow ... a feature of
meters permanently. He has objected in the past to fee-splitting
method of payment."
Spreading Strikes Cripple New York
Strikes, sympathy walkouts and Eddie Ash .. 8 Crossword ...13 slowdowns in the Maritime,|Bridge ......15 Editorials ...12 Trucking and Express industriesiBuilders ..... 4 Forum ......12 by three AFL unions crinplediBusiness ....16 Gardening ...15 business in the naticn’s largest/Childs ......12 Meta Given .15 city today. No settlement for any|Classified :17-19 Hollywood ... 6 of the disputes was in sight. CIubS «scees.14In Indpls, ... 3
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on Berlin . . . Around |dise Center, 2400 N. Meridian St.,
the World ..........ciiiivvevnnnesennsses... Page 2 will succumb to the traditional
Thanksgiving Day feast tonight. The turkey will be dressed and roasted at the store in prepara4 [tion for public servings tomorrow {from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. Last week the Chambers Center held a contest to determine {the largest turkey in Indiana and offered to pay $3 a pound. Mrs,
A-bomb defense for
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summer . .. Page 8 . .. Other sports ...........Page 9|Mary Rugenstein, RR 1, Morris[town, and Tuffy were the contest
{winners.
Lisbon Munitions Blasts
The Times ................ccceoeenee..... Page 14 Kills 6, Injure 8 | Price control need argued as living cost shows drop, Page 16, LISBON, Nov. 24 (UP)—First|
Other Features on Inside Pages ; NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (UP)—| Amusemts.. 6,7/Comics ......20 Inside Indpls.,11 Side Glances.12 and eight were injured in two,
{reports said today six persons {were killed, five were missing,
{ Mrs. Manners 7 Society ......14 blasts at the Amoras explosives | Movies ....8, 7 Sports ....8, 9 factory on the left bank of the | Obituaries ...10 Summersby ..13 Tagus River here. Othman .....11 Teen Prob. ..14| The blasts shook buildings over { Pattern .....14 Weather Map 16/a wide area in Lisbon. Some | Badio ++eese. 5/Earl Wilson .13 persons at first believed an earthRuark «.....11|Women’s ....15/quake had occurred.
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Huang Po-tao, which were trapped east of Nienchuang, had taken a severe mauling.
Koo Finds Truman
‘Most Sympathetic’
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UP) —Chinese Ambassador Dr. Wellington Koo conferred today with | President Truman, and said he {found him “most sympathetic” to |China’s need for more arms and {moral support in its fight against the Communists. Dr. Koo said afier his White House visit that he was ‘“encouraged” by his talk with Mr. Truman. Asked by newsmen why, he| replied: “I'll leave that to the President.” | The ambassador said he would,
{of State George C. Marshall who conferred earlier in the day with President Truman. Presumably, China's pressing plight was part of the Truman-Marshall conference.
Mother's Day
Founder Dies
WEST CHESTER, Pa. Nov. 24 (UP) — Anna M. Jarvis, 84, the founder of Mother's Day, died at Marshall Square Sanitarium today after a lingering illness. The aged woman, who had been blind and a helpless invalid for years, died of a combination of ailments brought on by old age, physicians said. She had been in the sanitarium since 1943 when she was found in ill health and strained financial circumstances living in Philadelphia. ? Since that time a committee of Philadelphia residents had looked after her welfare.
No Hoax, Says Official
Breen Disappearance HAYWARD, Wis, Nov. 24 (UP)—District Attorney Winslow Davis said today he was convinced that “no publicity hoax was intended or perpetrated” in connection with the disappearance of former child singer Bobby Breen on a flight into the north woods. :
Mr. ‘Davis questioned Mr. Breen
told newsmen he believed the affair resulted “from an unfortunate set of circumstances.” Mr. Breen's agent, Ernie Roth, reported him missing Sunday with his pilot when he failed to arrive here on a flight north for a deerhunting trip. The report set off a widespread search that included more than a score of planes and hundreds of woodsmen and deputies. He finally was located Monday evening at a Glidden, Wis,
tionalist generals were captured] in the recent battle of Mukden. Other government sources ad-| mitted that the forces of Gen.)
Seventeen - year - old Millard Rattliff, 1702 Linden St., was shot fatally in the right side of his chest in an accident today while hunting rabbits just
outside the Indianapolis city limits near E. Washington St. Mr. Rattliff, who works at the Kroger Baking Co., was hunting with two companions, Clyde Tremmell and Joe Hodge when the mishap occurred. He was dead when brought to a physician's office at Sheridan Ave. and Washington St.
3 Pullmans Roll wav meeting vin sears (IEF {1 Wreck
Few Passengers Reported Injured
STEVENSON, Ala, Nov, 24 |(UP)—Three rear Pullmans of the Tennessean, Southern Rall{way’s passenger train from Memphis to New York, overturned near hers today eausing minor in~ juries to & few passengers. : J. B. Hale, station agent here,
wreck. Railroad officials said a few passengers were given first aid and transferred from the overturned cars to Pullmans left on the track. The front section of the train continued on its trip to New York. Mr, Hale said about 12 cars were left on the rails, although the tracks were torn up for one and one-half miles. |
Freight Train Fire . Costs Around $100,000
IRA, Towa, Nov. 24 (UP)—| Fifteen Chicago-Great
gasoline and oil, still were burn-| ing today after an explosion-de-| railment here last night. No one was injured, damage was estimated at a minimum of $100,000. St ———————————
State to Give Yule
thorized the cutting of “several!
state forest lands to be given to) Riley Hospital, Veterans hos-| pitals Monument Circle. Ruel Steele, the secretary, said the highway de-! partment would be authorized to!
resort.
Christmas trees.
This Smoke Gets in Our . . . Everything
| Hurry up with that new smoke ordinance . .. again this morning Indianapolis residents were greeted by thick, dark atmosphere in the downtown area. Motorists were required to turn on their headlights. Meanwhile, City Council considers a new anti-smoke ordinance.
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sald a broken rail caused the
Western| ] freight cars, 12 of them filled with|"¢"W higher rates for the eight
and seven years imposed on the 25 Japanese war leaders brought to trial for launching the Pacific war. The supreme commander ordered Lt. Gen. Walton H, Walker, U. 8. 8th Army Commander, to carry out the sentences. Gen. Walker said the executions of Tojo and his six fellow war lords would be secret, with no one but official Army witnesses present. Presumably the seven condemned men will be hanged at Sugamo prison in Tokyo, customary 8th Army execution site. Gen. Walker said the date of the hangings would not be disclosed in advance, Those to hang, in addition to Tojo, are Gen. Kenji Doihara, former commander of Japanese troops in Manchuria; former Premier Koki Hirota, Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, former war minister; Gen. Heitaro Kimuraw, chief of staff of the Kwantung army; Gen. Iwane Matsuit, commander of troops at Shanghai, and Lt. Gen. Akira Muto, infamous |leader of Japanese troops in the | Philippines. | Bixteen others were given life sentences and two escaped with lesser terms. Gen. Walker declined to permit correspondents to witness the executions. He said there
{despite réports some of the sen{tences have been appealed to the |U. 8. Supreme Court. | He said he thought the bodies would be cremated and disposed of in the same manner of those of other condemned Japanese war criminals.
46¢c Tax Hike OK'd For Center Twp.
Center Township property owners will pay a tax rate of $4.49 on each $100 of. taxable property next year, 46 cents more than this year’s rate of $4.03. Approval of the increase for Center Township, along with
other townships inside and outside the city limits, was made yesterday by the State Board of Tax Commissioners. Also approved by the board was final rates for Perry Township of $447 cents, a .461-cent jump; “Washington Township, $4.3136, an increase of .4036;
for two hours last night and then Trees it 0 Hosgpit~le Wayne Township, $4.50, a 46-cent Gov. Gates’ office today “au-$4.34,
sad. Warren Township, a 40-cent increase.
hundred” Christmas trees trom Charles P. Taft Ml
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 24 (UP)~—Charles P. Taft, president of the Federal Council of
at Yale University infirmary. Mr. Taft, a Cincinnati attor-
condition.
old be no ee in Sosa by dioder from Gen. MacArthur,
the week of Mar. 19 to 26 with a full-blown Television and Electric Exposition at the State Fairgrounds. The Indianapolis Electrie League, which has kept television under wraps locally for a year because of the lack of a local transmitter, will give see-and-hear entertainment the green light with the Mareh exhibit. WFBM, moving along briskly to be first in the field with tele~ vision here, expects to have its tower on the Merchants National Bank before the Electric League's exposition and to be on the air with regularly scheduled programs by Mar. 15. Entertainers Sought All types and uses of television will be open and available to the public in demonstrating booths in the Manufacturers Building, 70 per cent of the space of which has been spoken for. Hoosiers will see television in each of 40 booths, WFBM’s mo» bile transmitter will tour the exposition telecasting demonstrations of all types of electric equip ment—automatic laundry equip ment, home freezers and heating equipment right up to the point of seeing someone snuggle under an electric blanket. »¥ In addition to first broadside of television receiving set promotion, the league is negotiating for séveral big name television enter tainers who will appear in 15minute shows. : The pit will be converted into an aullitorium so the public can see television programs produced, then select receiving sets adaptable to their needs. Production Rolls On At the RCA Victor Division of
ithe production of television sets {is rolling ahead under full steam. {Radio production lines are béing replaced with television set assembly lines as set buyers dee mand more and more production. The RCA plant, turning out around 3000 12-inch screen sets a week, is the largest producer of television receivers in the world. Other producers will have their lines on exhibit and for the first time Hoosiers will be encouraged to buy home feceivers. And ffom that week on, Indianapolis will get a ‘red pin on the map as one of the nation’s leading television towns, .
Birthday Quietly PADUCAH, Ky., Nov. 24 (UP)
| = Vice President-Elect Alben W,
and for decoration of Churches of Christ in America| Barkley planned no special celeland brother of the Ohio Senator, Pration today in observance of governor's was a pneumonia patient today| Dis 71st birthday.
The Senator from Kentucky, {who retires as minority leader
use its trucks to haul the gift ney, was reported in satisfactory in January, slipped home last
week end unnoticed, and begged newspapermen not to mark the observance of his birthday. He said he wanted a few days {to rest before returning to Wash-
¢ | ington.
| It has not been a policy of the city to celebrate Sen. Barkley’s birthday. Since his election as | Vice President, however, a came {paign was begun to erect a {statue here in his honor.
Mother Hurls 2 Girls In River; One Saved
VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 24 (UP)—Mrs. Leslie Jones, 28, hurled her two baby daughters 30 feet from a trestle into False Creek last night. But one of the children was rescued after she had floated downstream a quarter of a mile, police reported. . Linda, 3 years old, wad pulled out of the stream by Richard
second child disappeared and wag presumed drowned.
Put Nix on '76
LONDON, Nov. 24 (UP) The Colonial Office launched a campaign to “educate the British public on colonial affairs” today. # A recent government survey among 2000 persons showed 50 per cent could not name a single British colony and 3 per cent
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