Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1949 — Page 1

mj 50th YEAR—NUMBER 273

Dodged Gun Battle

Bobby Koss, 6, and his sister, Susan Louise, 8 months . ... foe

they took a hectic ride to their grandmother's house.

Ride To Grandme's. Turns

Into Chase for a- Gunman

Detectives continued last night to check the recent activities of Daniel Scott Madden, hold-up man who was shot and killed yesterday as he tried to escape in a bus after a holdup. ; A druggist, William Knox, 4030 Park Ave. identified Madden as the man who held hii up Ch¥istmas morning in his drug store at 24th St. and College Ave. escaping with a small amount of change, TE —— Several other recent holdup victims were to be asked to pos- i Sitomobile driven by Robert . 8ibly identify Madden whose body|*- . lies. in the morgue at General] In the car with Mr. Koss were EN his two children, Bobby, six and Susan, eight months. Their father was taking them to their grandmother’s home. % . on ne Float gun started, Mr, Tons pushed the children to the floor of the car and told {them to He there and be quiet. “When Mr. Smiker asked me to chase the bus I thought it was a wild goose chase” Mr. Koss Ald. “Who ever heard of a holdup man escaping on a bus? If I had known he was aboard the bus, I wouldn’t have taken

killed Smiser, 34, of 120 N. DeQuincy St, whe fired his shotgun at him

Bandits $2100

.|holdups last

18500 in checks was taken from = |the co-owner of Sam’s’ Super

* [time earlier the Schuster Market,

{up a grocery at 103 8. Arlington

To catch the bus, Smiser hadled;

FORECAST—Cold

2 Night-Time Holdups Net

. Masked Men Rob East Side Grocer Masked and armed bandits made away with more than 32100 In U9 GAS STecuy Not A total of $1200 in cash and

Market, 1923 E, 25th St. A short

939 Divisior St., was held up and more than $400 was taken. The super market robbery was the third grocery holdup of the day. Earlier the bandit who held

Ave, and took $26 from the proprietor, Orville G. Barnes, was shot’ ahd killed as he attempted to get away in a crowded bus. Nathap Nisenbaum, 26, of 1919 E. 25th 8t., who with his brother Isadore, 3139 Central Ave. owns the E. 25th St. market, was held up by two masked men as he left the grocery and .walked to his home next door. With him was Aaron Horowitz of 2814 Park Ave, meat cutter at the store.

Carried Shotgun Mr. Nisenbaum told police the men, one carrying a shotgun, halted them in a dark passage] twéen the house and store and, demanded the money which Mr. Nisenbaum was carrying in his pocket, After obtaining the money the bandits told their two victims to walk down a nearby alley. Mr. Nisenbaum said he and Mr. Horowitz walked a block down [the alley and returned to the Nisenbaum home where he called

| police. { Both Men Masked

The store owner described the two men as both about 5 feet 9 inches tall, one weighing 145 pounds and the other 170. One with the shotgun masked his face with a white handkerchief, The other used a red bandanna. . . Leo D. Schuster, 48, of #934 Washington Blvd., told police two men entered his store while he and his butcher, James Meador, 51. of 3709 Boulevard Place, were preparing to close. The men entered, pointed a gun at Mr, Schuster and Mr. Meador, and ordered them to move to the! bread rack. They then took approximately $345 from the cash

e masked man then turned to Mr. Schuster and declared, “If! lyou. want to see your wife and

the children on that ride for alchild again give me the rest of

wave accompanied by snow. High today 38 degrees, low tonight 18 to 9, i.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1049

Entered as Second.-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Dsued Daily

__ Everywhere ; 5)

Forecast Here

A cold wave, hepsi ing trigid| temperatures and possibly one to| _ 4 two inches of snow, was to"! Jun his descend upon Indianapolis and] Indiana today out of the already

With Record Of Keeping

administration.

Gates Leaves Statehouse

Returns fo Law Pradlice After 4 Yedrs Indiana Abreast of Times By ROBERT BLOEM ’ : WER EO St Ie CCBAOE. t back tomorrow on the state’s

home to Columbia City and his law offices. Behind him he will leave the indelible mark of a colorful and progressive

an ov. JdChricker

v ¢

of Progress

-—

tker, Gov, Gates '

New. Stronger Safeguards for Tenants Urged

Restoring of Power To Director Proposed WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UP) The administration has handed to Congressmen a bill {to tighten .up rent control and extend it for 27 months, it was diclosed tonight. The measure, giving the rent director power to bring new areas under control if defense spending

Halleck Sees U. S. 55" $17 Bilin in Red oo - Truman Spending

DAN

WASHINGTON, Jan, 8.<1t will take three times the four billion

} i |

{million dollars. “The more I think about it the! more upset I get”.

Joe Doakes and His Wife

persons on the bus witnessed th battle. : .

the money.” Money in Sack - Mr. Schuster said he then told the hold-up men of a paper sack filled with more than $50 in small change which was on a shelf be-

frozen ~orthwestern states. The ».orm was to have reached the northwestern portions of the

office from Mr. Schricker in y 1 a to the country was still .at war. Injehid GOP. 3086 1 ts Dethotiats. state early this morning an the first year the job of steering! From a personal standpoint, Whistle down into the central, .i.is through the transition despite the heavy toll of friends

dissenters only to see a weak-

| avery fight with his own Party.

The House Majorty Leader of

ighter Rent Bill Asks Extension Of 27 Months 1

and southern portions this after-\o wor to peace fell to him. politics always exacts, Gov.|the Republican 80th

noon. Temperatures tonight were expected to drop to 18 to 90 He is first to admit that there Gates will find himself still on|Mr, Halleck warned

{low the cash register. The men

[took this and walked out of the {is much left to be done in state the credit side of the ledger.

store. | degrees. . 1 » 3 Mr. Schuster said the masked| The Weather Bureau forecast a SOVeTRMment, yur His afmatniste|

man was wearing dark glasses. light rainfall beginning at noon: He thought he . might have changing to smow. High winds known the man without the mish wers expected to accompany the

Congress to| Years. reject the President's proposals or | An. unfailing sense of humor face financial disaster. tion undertook and completed a combined with an energetic ap-| Mr. Halleck ignored reports large share of the continuing job proach ‘to every problem that/that the President's forthcoming of keeping Indiana up with the was Jaid -before him won him|budget message tomorrow would . ; {friends of all political faiths, His|set a spending ceiling of $41.9 biiPublic Health Gains way with a good story Is famous Hon: for the 1950 fiscal year, ! Outstanding accomplishment. of wherever people discuss ‘ politi-| GOP Expects Figures

Prefer Their Sleep Apart

Home Furnishing Show Reveals Gradual Decline in Double Beds

By JEAN TABBERT, Times Staff Writer land glasses since the gunman’s{storm already raging through ™ Bed HicAGo, Tan Bar, and Mrs. America prefer to sleep apart. [arent andicated $anmiarity with, pe WE den] ela ee adm prove this. manulastineny Raves Deeded o'poil lal . Police tirew (2 blockades blizzard last week: fhe goign og oh cn, he lei the stateho Be vii ht ot imuing ’ The decline of the double bed has been gradual |around the area after the holdup "Racing From Wyoming {tion was edt oO {~ AS ha leaves ins ust | government Spending it Its bresparent in the last year to the men who make ris With the tar was reported. However, the two| The weatherman said tempera- health. Indiana was in the cellar YIPOFTOW. Citta Gales Wil cup. shit rate would bien

of sleeping equipment to a buyers’ market in 1948; the desires of/ Men were still being sought late|tures here might reach a high of/2mong the states In its public tinye to rate as one of Indiana's for the fiscal year starting next the customer could be taken at their cash register value.

. Results of the switch are being shown now to retafl buyers at/ eck; the rest’ nestles ‘under the the International Home Furnish- Seat. ings Show in Chicago. models are to clean, ligh easy clean, t to Wai yaations) twin beds are/ ve and simply operafed. Old ot oF plearly ov ery bed- styles have neede a strong arm yie, © 2r® 9% to manipulate the change from signed to save space in today's cramped living quarters. 1 There's the love seat, for fostance, which opens to produce a three-quarter. bed, 48 inches wide) for the sleeper Who 1kes toilar. These look like a doubl sprawl. Combined with another hut are separated down oul Ie bed. unit of the same size, the twin!into two frames for easy clean-

Some of the firms have licked the space problem by improving their - double headboard ‘models, which also are immensely popu-

Almost’ all the new hidden bed|

day to night utility. ‘ {

last night. Both men were of slender build, the proprietor told (police. _— =. Arn

Escape Draft in February, March

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UP)—| Because of the high rate of voluntary enlistments, the Army an-| nounced today it will draft no men in February and March. { Voluntary enlistments and re-| enlistments have averaged 35,000 a month for the past few months,

bed idea is retained. ing and bedmaking. Dupiex. . jobs. also’ are, offered. One has a sculptured top which these eliminating the right or left|opens on either side to reveal a arm so the pleces can be pushed together to. form a sectional or alroom in others for everything | king-size pseudo double bed. Part/from a radio to a completelyof the mattress slides behind the equipped .bar.

No Great Reductions Seen In ‘New Look’ Price Tags

Fashion Experts Predict Only Slight Parings—None in Expensive Lines

(Another Story on Page 18.) BY LOUISF. FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor NEW YORK, Jan. 8—Continued paring down of the “new look” in upper-bracket fashions is bringing some paring in prices « + « but not much. Fashion writers, checking In early for the New York Dress

Institute's press week which starts Monday, are finding varied answers to their questions on prices. ;

In general, the dresses rang- garment + + + AR the saving ing from $100 up will carry js passed on by the manuabout the same prices they did hy last year. It is the designers of thése more expensive styles

—————

fluence their designs have later on the Chard ricking to rayon flight dress- Ly J Most of the high-style, high maker says price designers .s prices are 10 per cent those of .

cation of the “new look” which arrived a year ago last fall, less fabric is required for a

gh gi

be necessary if they are to a good business this 2

+ - DI a oa > og

lamp on a swivel arm. There's!

Selective Service calls unneces-' Army Secretary Kenneth Royall notified, the Munitions Board, which controls draft calls for alll services, that the Army's previous 5000-man draft call for February {should be cancelled.

calls in March.

Truman to Ask 1950 ‘Budget of $41.9 Billion |

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UP)— President Truman will send Congress his spending program for fiscal 1950 on.Monday and ask for new taxes to give the govern- | ment upward of $4 billion In| |creased revenues. |. His budget message, which will {be read to the House and Senate {by their clerks, is expected to) outline a $41 billion spending plan| for the year beginning next July 3.

Looking for a

Good Value

in a home, farm, building site or investment property; a good used car or car service; a furnished room or housekeeping apartment; furniture, appliances, building mate rials, machinery, a pet or | any miscellanéous articles?

If you are be sure to read the WANT ADS in your

Sunday Times

* ++ In the Sport Section.

Ay ¥ ’ 3 ;

Vin

the Army said. This has made! storm which raged for three days. Many communities = were . sary for the next two. months, Showbound and many‘ personsiadvances in flood control, a De-it5 that post twice;

38 degrees this morning before health program. dipping under the blast of the] Today

i tanding health The riew blizzard was reported/the country and

the state has one of the programs in| already has racing from Wyoming through|taken long strides in providing |

|ablest politicians,

the Dakotas last night in the path|up-to-date care for its mentally |

of the West's most crippling!illL storm in history last week. The cued from. the cold wave spread over most of collapse. the North Central states. Three new institutions—the The storms swept southward|Northern Indiana Children’s Hosthrough Colorado and Wyoming|pital, the Northern Indiana Hosand eastward across the Dakotas, pital for the Insane and the LaRue Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.| Carter Memorial Hospital have The western area had not yet|/been added to the state's facilirecovered from the disastrous ties. Gov. Gates also leaves Indiana stillla statewide aviation program, were still uniccounted “for or partment of Commerce: and mar ed. . lic Relations. The list is long, but Te. peratures as low as 10 toiin spots has been controversial 15 degrees below zero were ex- |and the going has been rough. pected in‘ parts of Nebraska, Politically, Gov. Gates started

In addition, fowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. his four years as undisputed chief the Army sald it would make no Winds of 30 to 40 miles an hour of his Republican party. As has|

also “were forecast. ——— ie |nors of Indiana, his political power COLD HITS LOS ANGELES ~ |waned with the passing years. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (UP)— By the final year many of his A new cold wave threatened One time cronies were ready Southern California tonight, |bite the hand that had led the where crops already have been GOP to its first governorship half ruined by a record-breaking] victory since 1928. Party dis$60 million freeze earlier in the sension caused him increasing week. {trouble but he stayed on, won

On the Inside

What's happened and what's coming in the legislature . . . with pictures........ .. Page 2. Hoosiers get answers to questions on foreign policy

+ + « & picture story.... ‘ (General news, . features, Pages 1-12)

fers ran nan

Springtime in Manhattan . . . news and pictures of

latest fashions by The Times Women's Editor, now in New York...j}........ (Society, women’s news, food, patterns, teen talk, Pages 14-24) “Tax Dodgers,” first of a thrilling series, . . also ; “Last of the Boys in Blue,” a picture story. ... Page 25. (Editorials, politics, warld report, movies, radio, Pages 26-38) Bowl games face restrictions in 1950 . . . Times bowling tourney «oooo. Page 87, (Sports, Pages 37-40; classi Pages 41-47; President has economy props ready, other business news, Page 48)

’ ¥ 2

EEE EE

even vees 20

(been the fate of nearly all gover-s

26|eutenant

Tigtitutionn Bare, been sus Office Tomorr ow

‘37th Governor Is 1st

| Yo Win Post Twice | (Legislature News, photos Page 2) Henry Schricker will become {Indiana’s 37th Governor tomor-

|row, first man ever to be elected

HE will be ‘presefited hy Gove

jernor Gates shortly after -the in-|

|auguration ceremonies begin at {11 a. m. Then he will raise his right hand and take the oath of the state's highest office from |Chief Justice Oliver Btarr of the Indiana Supreme Court, “ | - Thousands of Hoosier Democrats and just plain spectators will be on hand for the bandplaying, flag spangled ceremony. The Inauguration will take place on a specially buflt platform in the south rotunda of the statehouse. 4 Governor and Mrs. Gates moved out of the huge Governor's mansion at 4343 N. Meridian St. yesterday morning. The new Governor and his quiet, grey haired first lady already have moved In.

Jasper to Give Oath

Tomorrow's inauguration ceremony in the statehouse rotunda

3 will open with a brief concert by

the Indianapolis Concert Band under the direction of William Schumacher, : Former U, 8. Senator Samuel D. Jackson of Ft. Wayne will

13.(act as master of ceremonies and

after the playing of the national anthem, the Invocation will be given ‘by the! Rev. William H. {Eifert, pastor of - the English {Lutheran Church of Our Re|deemer,

| THen John" A, Watkins of | Bloomfield, newly elected leuten,

ant governor, will be introduced, probably by Lt. Gov. Richard T. James. Judge Paul G. Jasper, only Democratic member of the State supreme court, will administer the oath of office to the new r.

After his Ina tion,

Mr.

Schricker to Take Susi

{July 1. And the new social and (economic m Mr, Truman proposes, he said, would boost the | Mr. Halleck estimated that the most revenue the government could expect in the 1850 fiscal year would be $4.7 billion. That would mean a deficit of more than $12 billién contrasted {with the $2 billion surplus Mr. {Truman was reported as envisag{Ing If the tax hike fis enacted. fate.”

Fear "Boys Will Be Boys' Bars Rentals to Mother 3

People With Homes Find No Place

For Children, House Hunter Bemoans

By A WORRIED MOTHER ‘ oe tap expect your hoys to be anything but boys.” at's how one landlord refused to rent hi r my boys, 6 and 9, and me. nt his apartment ig he That's where he's wrong. Ha and I, and all the other people Eaphes them ip be/men-—fine men-—in a few years. He ro of at family he has reared--he knows “wh " against.” But he reared: his children in a, ~~ "in home. . It was the same story! Why people objected to renting with 30 other listed rentals. {with families. . | Footsore, exhausted, discour-| I trudged on—one woman was {agéd and mad, T arrived home— kind. She sald to call Back {to our one little room-after About her apartment if I didn't {house hunting. I stopped at the find that kitchen I was hunting. {corner store for little gifts, while| She said she loved children—and {I got my bearings. I hoped they proved it. . {would make my sons forget about| One woman brushed me off, {that yard they expected. It's been saying her doorbell was {hard to keep telling them that/She didn't suggest that I {even a room can be home. | back, No Place Found I'll raise my eyebrows at the next woman with extra space who says she wishes she had two boys, Just like mine. My sons went along house hunting, until they wore out. They couldn't understand why people/’ refused us. They acted like they liked us. The boys were chucked under their chins—but chucked, out the door. be : “Only one bed.” sald one &part{ment owner. I offered to buy a cot—but a cot would crowd the rooms, he said. Timidly, I suggested that we could do without some of his furniture. Maybe another tenant would lke it. That would ruin the looks of the apartment, he said, concluding the conversation: :

ed the proposals # “appropriately substanti.

» ————————————————————— o Tientsin Asks Peace NANKING, China, Jan. 8 (UP) ~The Tientsin City defying Nationalist Commander Gen. Fu Tso-yl, asked the Chinese Communists today for an ime mediate cease-fire and L tions “to settle peacefully or city’s

fits

igi i

“Your boys are such a nervous,” said Fm