Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1949 — Page 1

maimings” over the 10-year j)e-

life and limb?” asked Dr. Harger.

vision is a “stepchild’in the de

oth TEAR NCMBER 78

Blames Traffic Toll on Past 3 City Regimes

Pgs ees Method Wishy-washy' handling of Indianapolls’ traffic problems by the past three city administrations is responsible for “carnage and

riod since 1937, Dr. R. N. Harger charged today.

snuffed out the lives of pysdons and maimed 25,900 others, Harger, chairman® of the ume enforcement committee. of| the Indianapolis Safety Council told the Indianapolis Council of Women. The annual death toll averaged| 69 for the Sulivan administration, 64.6 for the Tyndall-Densy administration and during Mayor Feeney's first year, 64 persons were killed, Dr. Harger said. A Gruesome Picture “The total carnage and maimings present a picture almost as| gruesome as the mass executions and atrocities of a. German concentration’ camp. Must we continue to pay this terrific price of

The trafic chairman ‘in a denunciation of the law enforcement branches of the past

times in the past seven years due to poor pay and politics, Department ‘Stepchild’ THREE: The police traffic di-

partment.” : FOUR: District police cars are

traffic.

T Cee EER Sickats | .

Construction began today on additions which will double working space in The Indignapolis T Maryland St. The picture is the archi

, 214-220 West I's drawing of. The Times

Construction Starts ie Times Building

. TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1049

setting equipment scheduled for delivery dung the early bi of 1949, and Increased space and equipment also will be added

as it will look when com

expanded plan

to all mechanical, business and editorial departments. t has been made necessary by rising cir-

House Rules Seen Cleari

Of “Truman

Rayburn to Pilot Program With Widest Power

Since 1910 Squelchin

Expects Fast Fund

Boast for Truman

Rayburn Sees Action

N. Y.) introduced a bill in behalf of former Presidents.

ex-Presidents Senators-at-large.

By LYLE CO. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted today that the 81st Congress will look with “considerablé favor” on the legislative recommendations which ‘{President Truman will submit tomorrow. Mr. Truman's program will call for high taxes and big spending in the Roosevelt tradition. He is trusting to

; Rayburn forecast “{success for the President's

In would give them an annuity of

000 a year. Rep. O'Toole’s bill was the first rroduced in the new hy

a. Another bill, by -Rep. Gordon Canfield (R. WN, J.) weuld make

Speaker Rayburn indicated he

s Reform’ ng Path - New Deal

g of Uncle Joe Cannon

Speaker Rayburn to see it through. The program will be out-

lined in the President's annual on the State of the

rsonally before a the House and Senate. Mr.

Over 500 bills on

Government by the

old job as speaker. He lost the job to Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr, Jr., (R., Mass.) in the 80th Co which was controlled by Ropub-|

message Union which he will deliver perJoint session of TARY

filed in House first day Frese cage 8 people . an AROHIAL, + +1 +uxuys PAS “12

Below navgwal posals at his first news oonfer-|surtax to be used exclusively Bsa Rah to-]27° After buing returned 10 his thal purpose, i gay» . 2 Dre OTHER CONGRESS NEWS decides” hi said, “it be a a increased between how| Truman steamroller stills Ran- burden on the people of ndiand.* an Inauguration day, Jan. 20. a en hue 1 Other Donald L. O'Toole (D.|Capehart hails Taft Even aside from the ‘bonus

purpose. “The building fund pays for the buildings,” he said, “but riow pro vision must be made, of course, ‘to operate and maintain them.

favored the O'Toole bill, but heljjcans,

blind, brute force.”

around to. it eventually but that “Hie “doubted

Police department “map ‘Intelligent enforcement instead of spasmodically applying|=

Plains Blizzard By-Passes Indiana

Clearing Weather and Cold Wave Forecast

SEVEN: The mayors of the past 10 years “did not even take the trouble of reading reports” submitted by traffic experts of national standing.” ‘Turped Deaf Ears’ EIGHT: Higher-ups in the ad-

to adopt these suggestions. LOCAL TEMPERATURES NINE: Indianapolis has only; ¢ a. m... 48 10 a m... 47 "spasmodic drives” which 800k re-| - Ta. m.. 4 11a m.. 47 vert to usual lukewarm routine.” 8 a m... 45 12 (Noon) 48 TEN: Police department ig-| 9 a. m... 46 1pm. 49

nores estrians hts, gives k | them J rn. <The Great Plains blizzard will

“Our public officials are only miss Indiana, but a blast of cold, human and they will be influ- air from the storm will end to-| enced by public opinion,” declared day's springlike temperatures, the Dr. Harger, {Weather Bureau said. “In a recent. conference with| Cold winds from the sGuthwest| Mayor Feeney and represénta- will bring .a 30-degree tempera tives of our Safety Council, weiture drop between today.and to-| pleaded with him to underwrite morrow. t a program of: pigorous and ‘sus-| “The blizzard Is going almost: tained trafic IAw enforcement. [straight morth,” Paul Miller, chief | “He replied that he-might getimeteorologist, said.

Rain will continue until mid. |’ might; but--dry air-is.expected- to i evaporate water on the highways before’ ice can form.

ir“the “people “were much interested in it. I am therefore appealing to you ‘as ‘repre sentatives of the public to give] The high of 54 degrees predict-

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Tornado Death Toll Hits

Louisiana and Arkansas

270-400 Believed Injured; Damage

Estimated af $1 Million in Lumber Town

WARREN, Ark.. Jan. 4 (UP)—Rescue crews dug into the rubb of this once-booming lumber town today, searching for more victims of a tornado .which killed at least 50 persons in a 100-mile sweep | through northwest Louisiana and southeast Arkansas. = There were 45 dead in Warren alone, and estimates of the) | Injured here ranged from 270 to 400. Mayor Jimmy Hurley esti

Furniture Men Expect Lower Prices This Year

By JEAN TABBERT Times Staff Writer . CHICAGO, ‘Jan. 4—Furnfture prices, according to the furniture makers -themselves, should be starting a downhill slide soon. tol They said so here yesterday as the Tntérnational” Home Furnish~ ings Show opened. Manufacture of more budgetpriced furniture accounts for part of the expected decrease in the

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cost of furnishing a a house. And —|the fact that production is catching up with - demand is another factor, Even if wage incerasés come, industry spokesmen say, the price situation shouldn't be affected since supply and demand are more nearty in in balance.

Bank Call I Issued WASHINGTON, Jan, 4 (UP)~— {The Comptroller of the Currency today issued a call on all na[tional banks for a report of their 5| condition as of Dec. 31, 1948,

"(GOLDEN GLOVES OPENS FRIDAY

Five exciting nights of TimesLegion Golden Gloves boxing for amateurs opens Friday night at the N. Pennsylvania St. Armory.

Choice ringside and reserved seat tickets for all five of the Friday night sessions are on sale now at Bush-Callahan, 136 E. Washington St, and at The Sportsman's Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania St.

# General! admission tickets will go on sale Friday night at the Armory box office. % ’

Prices are: Ringside and first row balcony, $2; downstairs reserved, $1.50; general admission (first three. nights only), adults, $1, children 12 years and under, 50 cents. The last two. nights .all general admis-

6 1 sion will be $51.

Amusements, 4 Forum ..... 12 My DaYessss I Soctety +... 14 Bridge Saran 1504sta Given. . 13 Othman “ran 11, Sports sash . Business .... 8/In Indpls.... «essvy 9 Teen Prob... 14 [Qotmies seess 19{Inside ft Ar cane 3 Weather Map, 3 Crossword .. for oe ash Earl Wilson, Baoan. 2 po Glances 12|Women's . TS is

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son, Richard. i "The little boy was dead on

sditions of The Times and by the growth of

The , ‘which was launched on 17 ~The is scheduled for completion by June 1. -

Nave York, and the gevetal éontractor ng tion is Carl M. Geupel Construction Ce. of

|Pledge Concord

Dailey to Address Detecti :

«The police

mated damage 10 THO GY at mone forcement m Indianapolis.” To seal e deal, Red Cross allocated $50,000 in emergency funds for Warren, and | 0t0rge 8. Dalley accepted an In-| regional officials said they would! ask for $100,000 more. Three persons were killed in| lat Beadquartets —— Louisiana, where the twister was spawned, and two others lost their lives near EI Dorado, Ark. One|! man, Gordon Wiltde, suffered a Ls—the broken back in another tornado a ft which struck Vilas, Kas., yester-|¢2Y alternoon. knocking down a and John O'Neal, - detectives, were present. Plan Night. Prosecution . Promising

prosecutor's-offfce

“Ratn Falls at’ Dawn The day dawned with a4 heavy!

shart one. At the Frazer Funeral|intended to put a night prosecu-

Home, embalmers worked on into) tor on duty at the police station

~—|the mornihg, preparing the dead {spot - arrests”

bodies were to be placed in plain| to swear out warrants. pine coffins and set in the Frazer’ The prosecutor discounted pubChapel. Then the doors were to lished reports that he had conbe opened to the sorrowing sur-demned the “entire police depart vivors of yesterday's storm. {ment as corrupt.” “That's about the best way we| “I was misquoted,” Mr. Dafley | can think of to get all of them claimed. properly identified” said Mayor| Prosecutor Dailey made this Hurley. + revelation after Inspector O'Neal

An hour and a half search of|informed him that “600 policemen | BLOOMINGTON, Jan. 4—Con-/can bottle up administration legthe worst devastated area by Na- are making faces at you” for in- struction .in Bloomington during islation for 21 days but no longer tional Guardsmen after dawn to-'ferring that they were guilty of [the last year dropped nearly a/lf Mr. Rayburn wants it to come day failed to reveal any addition- knocking down charges for mone- quarter million dollars, City En-|/to a vote.

al dead or Injured. The path of the tornado in the Warren area was approximately

tary considerations, “Things Different” Inspector O'Neal charged that the outgoing officials of the pros-| 8) ‘ecutor’s office made it virtually] impossible for police to enforce) {effectively the. firearms act of | 1935. Mr. Dalley said that from now on “things would be different.” He promised that gun and rifle violations would be treated as a (felony.

Rue Alexander Funeral Today

Times State Service PINE VILLAGE, Ind. Jan. 4 |-Lt, Gov. Rue J. Alexander wis laid to rest today in a little cemetery near his home town. Mr. Alexander died Sunday in Billings Hospital at Ft. Benjamin Harrison near Indianapolis. He was bo. Statehouse offices, were closed for one hour from 2 to 3 p. m., {the hour of the funeral. Many of Mr. Alexander's co in {state government and th RepublicAn politics attended the funeral inthe high school gynasium, Services were conducted by the Rev. Lowell Morris and, the Rev.

Father's Vigil Comes to Naught | After Tornado

WARREN; Ark, Jan. 4 (UP) ~A 3M-year-old clerk, Richard | Derryberry, stood vigil in Hunt's Clinic today st the bedside of his 7-year-old daughter, Carolyn Rose. She was the only member of his family to survive yesterday’s tornado. Mr, Derryberry hurried home after the twister passed and found his wife injured. He carried her” to Hunt's Clinic and, shortly thereafter, stood weeping: at her bedside as she dled.

» » y BEFORE many minutes passed, neighbors carried in his

Rose's

Now, Mr, F sat by

She Tom el W. Lowry, .

50 Piice, Prosecutor

department and the prosecutor's office today pledged {each other mutual “arm-in-arm {co-operation for better law en-

Prosecutor

4! vitation from Police Chief Ed-| {ward Rouls to address detectives | Monday at 2! {Malcolm 8. Hare lost control of

lL, The latest development among e city’s law enforcement agenthe came after a special session yester-| Both Chief Rouls inspector of

“all-out coopera: rainfall, but the downpour was a tion,” Prosecutor Dailey said he

to aid the police make “on-the-rather than waif Sometime during the day, the until morning for complainants

before Mr. Truman is sworn in for his next term. 3 The President's salary is now 1875,000 a year and he is allowed a maximum expense account of $40,000 a year. The salary is Saxable; but the expense account not.

enacted. Thus, any pay raise bill would have to.become law

No Priorities

proposals for labor a aie with other House leaders,

on that.” he The CIO has called .for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and reA ctaput of’ the Wagner Act. Mr. Rayburn” said no list of has yet drawn up. The speed with which bills are considered will depend

Runaway Truck Hits Car, Hvdrant, 2 Poles, 3 Trees

LOS ANGELES; Jan. 4 (UP)=<

{his giant truck and trailer last night as he wheeled along San Fernando Road. In quick sueccession, the big truck: Snatched a parked car out of. a woman's hands as she was locking the door, demolishing the car; 5

sent up 8" geyveer of water; Snapped off two telephone poles, down = wires for. two blocks; ‘Mowed down three big trees and a 100-foot steel fence; ‘ Came to rest in a vacant lot 200 feet down the road. Mr. Hare was taken to Van Nuys receiving hospital with head | injuries, shock and a ticket for "| making an unsafe lane change.

Construction Drops

4 Bpeaker's

Rammed a fire hydrant .and.committees,

on how soon they get out of committees, he added, Asked whether he considered’ the ruléx liberalization voted yesterday a big increase in the power, Mr. Rayburn {said there had been no “depletion” of it. To Republican criti elsm-—that 1t Speaker a virtual czar, he re-| sponded: “A czar is a nice thing to be ir you can get away with it." | But he . emphasized that he hoped. it would not be to circumvent the Rules Committee in the consideration of legislation approved by legislative!

Strongly New Deal Mr. Truman's program will be| strongly New Deal in flavor, Mr. Rayburn will take on the task of pushing it through the House with the widest powers given any Speaker since a rebel: lious House blasted Uncle Joe Cannon's dictatorship In March, 1910, The House yesterday voted Mr. Rayburn authority to force ‘the Rules Committee at his discretion to permit legislation to come to

(For Bloomington

gineer Ross Buch announced to-| day. | Buflding permits for $1,101, 955) {worth of construction were issued | {in 1948, compared to $1,350,406) for 1947, he cited.

Governor-Elect Picks

Democrat field representative Yor Other tax commissioners will

is bi-partisan by law. Mr. Hollar, formerly of Goshen, now lives in D837 College Ave here. He formerly served eight years as deputy auditor of Elkhart County and was secretary of the state tax board during 1942 and 1943 under Mr. Schricker’s previous administration. Former. Mayor ‘Mr. Thompson is. a former] mayor of Bluffton, served as a! member of the House of Repre-| sentatives from 1933 to 1939. 'IDuring four: years of that time! he was Democratic House Aoor leader, i Ha

Schricker A Appoints Hollar As State Tax Board Head

And Richmond Republican for Commissioners Governor-Elect Schricker today appointed Noble W. Hollar,

head the state tax board under the upcoming administration,

Democrat, and Adolph L. Fosler, Rictimond Republican. The board

{& vote on the floor. The Rules Committee hereafter

That will break the power of the coalition of Republicans and Conservative Democrats which frequently has frustrated administration plans, There is no such bottleneck in| [the the Senate.

Mr. Rayburn said Congress will|,, Rela the Eun-Hartier Act uit

“I want to feel my way slog]

would make the -

{This will add ta the overgll cost of operating state Institutions.” On education, he told the Wom-

unit school it/the pec

tte People :

“nt is unfair to ask trustees’ to

would be such a vital change that only the people themselves should have the power to decide.”

4 igi Deputy Attorney Gen{eral Frank

outlined a proposed plan of attion to ours sex crimes in the state.

Sex Crime BUI

Chairman of a commise sion on the study of sex’ crime, Mr. Coughlin told the group a bill- wduld be presented to the

of accused criminals suspected of being ‘sexual psychopaths, ~Where such examination was requested by the prosecutor and {ordered by the judge, he said, and the individual found to be a sex psychopath, he would be furned over . to the Mental Health Council for placement able” institution and for treats ment. Purpose of ths law, he explained, was to

waiting until after the crime.

Schricker to Take

Office Monday

Governor-elect Schricker will take office for his second term as Governor in the. State House rotunda at 11 a. m. Monday, Former Senator Samuel D, Jackson will preside over cere monies at which John Watkins: of Bloomfield also ‘will take his oath as lieutenant governor, Judge Oliver Starr, chief ? luntlcn

of the Bupreme Court, will ade minister the oath to Mr, Schricker. Mr, Watkins will be

sworn in a moment earlier by Paul G. Jasper, newly-elected Democrat member of the Supreme Court. Gov. Gates will present Mr, Schricker for the swearing-in ceremony, Mr, Watkins will be presented by Mr, Jackson. Invocation for the ceremonies, which will be held on a specially constructed platform in the roe tunda, will be given by The Rev.

Bluffton Democrat

the state bodrd of accounts, to

be Frank J. Thompson, Bluffton

tary for .the War Production Board in Indiana during the late war, At present he is associated) with the Bluffton News Banner.

{diana County Auditors’. tion. He was a member of the Indiana Tax Study Commission for two years and is now serving

ilies Tan night struck A eae during) Whitbey, 50, R.

William H. Eifert, pastor of the

Redeemer. Arrangements for the Inaugurs ation were made by Secretary of State Charles Fleming, State Aue ditor James Propst, Démocratss

dnd Ruel Steele, executive secres

tary to Gov. Gates, both Repub« licans.

Car Kills Man, 83 FT. WA Nl

as a special representative of of the State Tax Board we lon the 1049

'& Council he favors the county system, but believes

* he said. of schools x

legislature requiring examination

catch potential sex criminals before they coms “remitted some strocity rather thang ~~

English Lutheran Church of Our -

Treasurer of State Frank Mila - -

A reg