Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1948 — Page 3

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Gaming Raids

Police Arrests Mount | In Week-end Drive

A pre-holiday crackdown on or-| ganized vice in Indianapolis] reached its peak early toddy as patrolmen walked their beats with special instructions to “stop pro-|# fessional gambling here.” The stop gambling edict, relayed -to uniformed ‘police by Night - Inspector Ralph Bader, called for patrolmen to make “on the spot arrests” where they find violations. “We expect new places to crop up,” Inspector "Bader said, “but we will continue to be on the look out and “will close them| when found.” 9 In One Haul Police arrested seven men late last night in a gambling raid at 552 Blake St. ” - . The most impressive haul made - by the vice squad, working in [1S mas eds 1

dawn-to-dawn raids, occurred

located directly over the Stop 16 tavern, owned by former Police Chief Claude Worley. 7) County Sales Forms Confiscated Must Perk-Up Racing forms were confiscated, gales of Christmas seals in and the nine men were naobed Marjon County totaled $75,329.43, as they attempted to slip out a guring the first four weeks of the rear door, the chief said. But the|jg48 campaign to obtain funds squad, led by Lt. Ralph Cham- for tuberculosis control. bers and Sgt. Charles Peak, had, At the same time, the Marion forseen the move and two, husky county Tuberculosis Association patroimen were standing outside |gnnounced that one out of five the rear doot as the men walked! gquilts in the county have re-| out. | ceived chest X-ray examinations. | Alfred McCreary, 25, of 520% | However, Harry 8. Hanna, sale! Home Pl, who had been con-|chajrman, said “Christmas seal victed on two gambling charges gales must be increased if we are| this year, was charged with keep- 4, help the other 400,000 people | ing a gaming house and dis-ij, the county received chest] orderly conduct. | X-rays.” Eight others picked up in the! A total of 2744 persons received | raid and charged with disorderly free X-rays at the association’s| conduct were: Carl Barb, 42, of mobile X-ray unit on Monument | 1828 N. Pennsylvania St.; Maurice| Circle during Chest X-Ray Week Harris, 56, of 4824 Brouse St.;|last Week. Confidential” reports] Edward. J. Avels, 53, of 109 W.|of the findings will be mailed to St. Clair St.; Russell D. Baker, the persons and to their family | 88, of 3219 Ralston Ave.; Owen physicians within the next three G. Frye, 50, of 1701 N. Illinois|weeks. i St.; Charles A. Jarvis, 52, of 3353] The X-ray unit will return>to N. Arsenal Ave.; Murray Fischer, the Circle location during the! 29, of 2054 N. Delaware St. and week beginning Jan. 10. ! “Last year local residents conLangley Ave. “ - tributed $102,000,” Mr. Hanna Meanwhile, the police continued said. “Through increased sales| to play “cat and mouse” with the this year we hope to expand our gamblers. Reports indicated the program of tuberculosis. control] gamblers were shifting headquar- next year. ters: as- soon as one place was

closed down. bor Ei " N “We heard the locations are Lumber Firm Burns

being moved and we're trying to ln Coldwater, Mich.

keep up with them,” Chief Rouls| COLDWATER, Mich. Dec. 18

said. , |{(UP)—A fire of undetermined } : - {origin tonight destroyed a tum-| ECA CHIEF NEAR HOME {ber company here and caused

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 damage already. estimated at a (UP)—ECA . Administrator Paul quarter of a million dollars. G. Hoffman was due to arrive] The Legg Lumber Co. was de-! here ‘shortly after midnight to-|stroyed and™ fire : departments night after a personal survey of from Quincy; Bronson, Union! Marshall plan spending in the|City, and Colon, Mich. and from{ Orient.

‘Monster’ Is Loose Again In Brown County's Wilds |

It Makes Tracks Like a Wolf

By VICTOR PETERSON { “Times Staff Writer : NASHVILLE, Ind. Dec. 18—| Shades of Harry McClain, big game hunter extraordinary. That monster is back again in, Brown County, roaming the “hollers” and “wallers.” . The latest report has been aj month filtering from the hinter-| d of this wooded area: Jana blasts the theory that the, beast is a mountain tion. Now the) scritter” is a roving wolf, animal] variety. . {

es = = | WILLIAM EXNER,; self-styled. mayor of Brown County, is posi-| tive he has solved the riddle of! the mysterious creature which| has given natives Spteie cases of: n-again-off-again jitters. i y a wermam: employed by the, state to watch for forest fires; *Mayor” Exner literally uncov-

over a narrow lane trough EB Forest near Haunted Holler, he| was forced to stop. Hisar could get no traction over the dew-

William Exner , . . he looks | AS HE BRUSHED some aside, for tracks. i of his startled eyes fell upon a huge ’ . paw print. Quickly he brushed? more leaves. off the lane. A series of, tracks lay exposed His first throught was -of...the, mountain lion "Hunter McClain tracked so unsuccessfully last winter through the snows and later with specially imported “cat” hounds. The dogs reportedly trailed the elusive beast time and again only to be foiled. Carefully the firewatcher copied with pencil on paper the imprint in the soft Brown County clay. ‘It measured three and three-quarter inches in width and four and a quarter inches in length. From each ball imprint, sunk to a quarter inch depth, there protruded the mark of a claw. a

” UNEASILY got back into his car and went

This ‘is William Exner's drawing of the monster's print. It is reproduced exactly half nor- | "= =» mal size. : | the track-finder| o { brought to, light the ‘information| to his firetower post. He men- that it could not have been a tioned his find to others, but they member of the cat family. Cat failed to look for the prints im-/claws are extended only when on| mediately. . |the attack. ~ Since .then rains, freezes and) A wolf in the area is highly thaws have obliterated he probable. So is the presence of tracks. i la mountain lion. Years ago a pair| But “Mayor” Exner Was N0t|of lions reportedly were turned| satisfied with what he had found.| ,ce by a coupie who had brought| He sought books on animal Hfe.|tpem here as pets from the West. ” s x AND IT wasn’t 80 many years Tago that the Tast community wolr “drawings, he found his, answer. ‘drive was held in Brown County A WOLF PRINT, reproduced, ‘© rid the neighborhood of the

half normal size, loomed from the| predatory pests. - page. It was #xactly half the size, Cat or wolf, Brown Countians of the prints he had noted along|don’t like it. Once again they are the forest lane. : taking precautions when they search in the text must walk the lonely lanes alone.|

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Indianapolis, he obtained a text which-cartied-paw-prints... Comparing his sketch .with printed

- Of sudden death RE two busses . . . flames that burned at least 13

water units in battling the blaze. Coast Quake Recorded la “moderate” earthquake at 5:45 tists said it could have been n | PASADENA, Cal., Dec. 18 (up) |P- m. (Indianapolis Time). The{Palm Springs, where a quake two 3 90| weeks ago caused thousands of

Angola, Ind., have joined Cold-|

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{gis and Battle Creek, Mich., have|—California Institute of Technol-|Shock™ was

been asked to stand by. {ogy seismologists today reported | miles from Pasadena. The scien-idollars damage.

late yesterday as nine men wére - arrested at 1548, N. Illinois St. a The horse race betting place is Mn y

STRAUSS SAYS: STORE HOURS, MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY:

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Service men hobble from the wreck.

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DEAR SANTA CLAUS!—YOU'RE A MAN—YOU'LL UNDERSTAND! Here you see a picture of a Young Man—doing some ardent "day dreaming" and." Christmas Vio

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Tricycles for Needy Tots

Retail Druggists Association Offers Donation

To Enable Completion of Gifts for Children : By JOHN WILSON Matthews Genéral Repair Co, warehouse at 1104 Patterson St.

will have the atmosphere of an authentic Santa Claus workshop this week as volunteers rush to assemble 200 tricycles for needy children in time for Christmas, The story of Yuletide generosity began last week when John 8. Matthews, company owner, told The Times he was willing to donate parts for 200 red pedalers “for|™ ; ——— children who would lr other-| Mr. Matthews has issued a caif wise be able to obtain them.” [for “mechanically inclined” volThe only hitch was that about|unteers to hélp assemble tricycles $1 a unit was needed to purchase| today, tomorrow, Tuesday and spokes ‘and ‘aluminum paint for| Wednesday.” “Fourteen will not their assembly. be too many,” he said. Shortly after the story was| His workshop is located in a published, Albert C. Fritz, secre-{cément brick building one block north of General Hospital just off Indiana Ave. { Yesterday, Mr. and Mrs, George A. Gilbreath, 1530 N. Illinois St.,

$200 for the tricycles’ completion. |WVorked with Mr. Matthews and

Orders for tricycles, which or range in size from the smallest |" bray INE toel bart. ered up ‘to 20 inches, are being AC | Christmas Eve and Christmas cepted and checked by the Christin orning by George Danforth, |mas Clearing Bureau of the In-|4river of the Salvation Army's |dianapolis Council of Social Penny Ice Fund truck. gencies. CAR —

tion of Retail Druggists, called The Times, saying his organiza-

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wwe | During the week-end, the of- 25 AFRICANS SLAIN ear fice was flooded with calls for

WEENEN, Natal, South Africa, {tricycles as was The Times and! Dec. 18 (UP)-—Twenty-five na {Mr. Matthews’ residence and shop. [tives were killed today in a wild Today 114 orders had been ac-/spear and rifle fight involving 1000 Natal tribesmen.

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Wishing." If you could read his thoughts—they would go about like this: "Gosh—shucks— for theloveamike' (or whatever his favorite exclamation is). “Fhope Santa Claus stops - at Strauss first—that's my idea of a regular place to get clothes and gifts. That's where Dad : and Big Brother get theirs, That's swell for me! Say—what do | want with sissy things— : | don't want a doll house—or something with embroidery on it. "Look—Mr. Santa Claus—

you're a man—you'll understand—you wouldn't let us menfolks dowh!". The Boys’ Floor— ..: “can fake care of little fellows of 2==up to those im the-early-twentios!>.Quter Clothes—' BA PRLOI Furnishings—and Selected Gifts—Even the price. tags seem to say. "Merry Christmas!"

L. STRAUSS & CO., THE MAN'S STORE, MEN 2 TO 20, 4TH FLOOR vi

{James Beasley, factory manager, .

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Santa’ Sets Up Shop, Fixes