Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1949 — Page 1

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First Fatality 0f "49 Traffic

+N. DeQuincy St., died early today].

. knocked her into the rear of a .on the rebound.

50th YEAR—NUMBER 282

Recorded Here

Woman a Victim Of Freak Accident

Indianapolis chalked up its first traffic fatality of the year today) as the state toll from accidents| was boosted by five by deaths reported yesterday and today. Mrs. Francis Mann, 56, of 727

at Methodist Hospital of injuries she received when struck twice in a freak accident on Jan. 11 in the 4800 block of E. Michigan St. Carl B. Goens Jr, 34, of 2416 Pierson St., was driving a truck which struck Mrs. Mann Jan. 11,

parked car, then struck her again When ‘hit the second time, Mrs. Mann was! hurled into the rear of another] . parked car in front of 4811 E. Michigan St. : 2 Sons Survive Survivors include two sons, Leslie Colvin, 1007 E. Maple Rd., and James A. Colvin, 4145 Winthrop Ave. and two daughters, Mrs. Theodore Pruyn, 4450 Marcy Lane and Mrs. Ruth Hohl, 4147 Winthrop. Meanwhile, several persons were injured, none seriously, in accidents here. 3 Other deaths: Wayman Turner, 43, former tavern owner in Ft. Recovery, O., killed yesterday when his car collided with another and overturned four miles east of Portland, Ind., in Ind. 26. Richard Tucker, 24, was killed

bridge yesterday. Police first were be marooned i hh high water. But

Two Take Stand At Rate Hearing

‘Railway Treasurer Testifies for Hike

Two witnesses took the stand this morning in the appeal of the Indianapolis Railways, Inc, for an emergency $1 million rate increase, Marshall Dale, vice president of the company, identified the company’s petition and other documents which will be used in the hearing. . Charles Pinkerton, treasurer of the company, into figures] showing operating costs, expenses; and revenues to show the plight of the company since the last in« crease went into effect. Cite Wage Boost ‘ The Mirst exhibit presented by|

posts and a bridge abutment on State Road 22 2% miles west of Kokomo, : Sheared in Half Police said Mr. Tucker's car was traveling so fast that it was

sheared in half, the motor going 200 feet down- the road and the

lived just west of Kokomo. George Walchalk, 61, R. R. 2, Kendallville, was killed when hit by a tractor-trailer early today|,

on State Road 6, one-half mile - rie, Mr Wali] of 1947 and chalk was walking west on Road *o™ 8. Driver of the vehicle was Alex 1948 which were offered to dem-| Miller, Grand a Mich’ [onstrate n s loss in Mrs. Nina Batson, 55, died last decline ~and . the t

night in St. John’s Hospital, An-| derson, from injuries received Sunday in a crash north of An-ithat these two figures totaling §1 derson. Mrs. Batson was hurt inimillion have virtually wiped out a crash which also took the lives |the authorized return on the comof her husband, James Batson, pany’s investment. 35, retired Hastings, Mich., fac-| In the afternoon Mr. Dale ory foreman, and Miss Wilma returned to the stand t¥ discuss Joan Hicks, 18, of Alexandria. |the rate structure, what it is proPoli at + {ducing and what it should pro-| duce to meet the profit rate ap-| Among those hurt in the city| proved by the PSC. was Raymond Broshears, 26, of, In addition to Mr. Dale. and 3744 W. Michigan, motorcycle! Mr. Pinkerton, patrolman, who collided with a/jdent, and James Trenton, vice car on McCarty St, just east of| president and general manager Kentucky Ave. Patrolman Bro-|of the company, were present. | shears was treated for an in-|

$500,000 wage increase. Officials ofthe company contend

Hospital and | and released. pleted by tomorrow afternoon.

Senate Gets Still Gloves Ringside Another Bonus Bill |

You can still buy ringside and reserved seats for Fri- + iy day’s ‘third’ go in The TimesBy IRVING LEIBOWITZ A Democratic Senator w | Legion Golden Gloves Touradded the most generous proposal so far to the growing stack of

nament. Get them at: BushCallahan's, 136 E. Washingbonus bills ‘and said he would

ton St. or at The Sports-

back it up with a plan to keep ng re. 128° N. Pern veterans from paying the bonus, ae : cost themselves, Prices are: Ringside and

first row balcony,” $2; downstairs reserved, $1.50.

General admission tickets go on sale fight night at the N. Pennsylvania St. Armory at 6:30 p. m. General admission prices are $1 for adults, 50 cents for children 12 years and under,

Then, while the Senate wrangled over the question of outlawing Daylight Saving Time, the lowér house kicked a new contro-| versy into the hopper—a bill to set a speed limit of 80 milés an hour on Hoosier highways. In ohne of its busiest mornings

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Mother Meets N. Y. Mayor And Grins Come in Style

‘Democrat From Indiana’ Gets Kick Out of Shaking Hands With O'Dwyer Another Story, Page 14

By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor NEW YORK, Jan. 18—80 my mother shook hands with

Mayor O'Dwyer of New York. i

It was at a fashion writers’ gridiron party last night in the Rockefeller Plaza Rainbow Room. The shindig was almost over when someone reported the Mayor coming. The fashion writers; already overdue at: Sherry’s for Nettie Rosenstein’s showing of her

A Feller = Some Real Friends

dog Jesse who rescued the dog from an island i near called to save the animal from the strip of land where he had Torin The boat failed, firemen to the rescue.

Kelly 5 Washed Up Here,’ Petillo Bemoans From Jail

‘Could You Tell the Boys I'm Broke?’ Asks Ex-Speedway Hero Guilty of Assault Charge

By GEORGE RYDER The roar’ of 1935's crowd for the winner of the 500 Mile degrees tonight after a high of/some 40 Marines as his flag

Reid, pres- Marion County Jail ‘On May 31, 1935, Kelly's car careened around the Speedway tate oval at 106.240 miles an hour. The winner's laurels were on his northern Indiana were hazardous

| Memorial Day race was drowned out today in thé ears of Keily|36 today, Petillo by the jeers that ring through the celi bidcks of the Weather Bureau. Tomorrow's

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FORECAST: han, cangin to ow ay tomar: Low tonight, 30. “High tomorrow, 32. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1949

Windy and Colder, Inaugural Fore

Entered as Socond-Class Matter at Postoffies Dally

Indianapolis, Ind. Issued

Blame Weather For Heavy Traffic Toll

3 Hurt in 2-Car Crash on Viaduct

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a m.. 31 10a m.. 34 Ta m.. 32 1am... 34 88 m.. 34 12 (Noon) 34 9a m.. 34 Ip mi. 8

Ice and wet streets in Indianapolis and Marion County were taking a heavy toll in automobile accidents today. “Three persons were injured, two seriously, when two cars collided head-on on a viaduct on 8. Sher-

ding on ice. Taken to General Hospital in serious condition was Dennis McCammack, 46, of 616 E. 15th St, scalp injuries and possible frac{tures of the left leg and left arm, and Donald H. Buck, 22, of 3007 8. Meridian St., unconscious with head injuries. Also hurt, police sald, was Harold Lang, 30, of 641 E. 16th St, taken to St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove, Blame Weather More than half the 34 other! accidents occurring here since yesterday were caused by weather conditions, according to police. Nine were injured, none seriously. Barbara Johnson, 15, of 935 wick St, was injured this

when she slipped on the front porch of her home and Hi She Was teat bY private

University Ave. and to the 7300 block on Rd. 431, where were reported down.

‘nearly one inch

{ground ice and saturated earth.’ Snow Tomorrow

changing to snow early tomorrow.

forecast for tomorrow and tomor-| row night. The mercury will fall to 30

the high

according to

will not exceed 32 degrees.

On the Inside

without money, without friends, 11. n . hr 10, Sts Man miision confers with Red leaders on sur

Prison at Michigan €ity. | render of Peiping . . Around the World “oo “= x =» | digest of today's news...... iii Ee " Page?! FOR YESTERDAY Judge Wil- A qministration aids get key House posts , , . news

(liam D. Bain found the one-time

{CalMfornia

fruit peddler guilty of |

to kill Mrs. Naomi Shafner in a

downtown received a

hotel last June, Petillo| 1 to 10 year ‘term.

Today, the black-haired, hawknosed former champion squinted | through the barred and screened |

window of a cell block and asked: House group gets ideas on paying bonus...

“Could you call some of the

boys and broke?” Kelly's

ending written in the record of Criminal Court 1, was the typical

spring collection, were gathering, -= et at i the Mayor and maybe ~—up-thelr wraps. 'd latch on to Central Park.| “Lat's 40," 1 said. “He's a nice|1 look off my coat. guy, but I've} The Mayor came. He said kind i" seen him be- words about’ the fashion editors | fore.” who ‘have spent eight days here - Mother was| covering the New York industry. bu t|He said the more publicity fashion gets, the more business will be done; and the more prosperous New York will be. He's in favor of that--just like another Irish mayor in the Midwest. “Isn't he (Mother is hands with him." Mrs. Blanche

Fletcher, 811 N. will yoti come on to Nettie Rosen-

Mother gulped alo) '

handsome,” mother sighed. “My, I'd like to shake

“If you shake hands with him,

and tralled ng. “A Democrat from Indiana” I Mother

is.

‘NOW, In 1949, Kelly's willing to| . do most anything to: keep going to prison—even give up his citizenshi :

tell them that Kelly's

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was Kelly Pétillo's. In 1935, that

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from the halls of Congress lassault and battery with intent Two U. S. carriers join hunt for 20 missing on plane + + «-British craft “vanishes”.....\... [High school pupils omitted from Trin

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week for Times Ice-O-Rama , , . schedule re-

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Numerous complaints were -veirons seas yirds and base cit!

Dreams Come True

Jacobs, 1243 Lee St., is already

prized possession, a young: collie. The ardWiad pounce, 3 yOmEIAtIDN sis. Ro er oo test sponsored by the Gaines Dog Food Co.

Ten-year-old Lynn Jacobs, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. dreaming and talking of

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Ordnance Plant Shines Up, [= Bat the’ Wii 2-Star Flas for Brass": HE

Fyes Riveted On Big Storm Up in Canada

Weather Balmy In- Capital Now

By LYLE C, WILSON United Press Staff

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Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 18 1A rainy front settled on the

award to the plant. The admiral was met in the garage by au honor guard of

broke out over the world's largest home of precision instruments. Split-Second Schedule

Everything moved on split-sec-|

ond naval schedule as the admiral began his tour of the 164-| | acre layout—all except a non-

{broke a spring as one of the inspection parties (not the ad{miral’'s) piled in. Adm. Jones (Annapolis, 1913), tall, erect, with an eye-fixing gaze carried gray Mocha gloves ias did Capt. A. D. Blackledge, § |commanding officer of the plant. |

Page 2 The Admiral is here to award

the honored Secretary of Navy's [Award for Meritorious Achieve ment in Safety for the year of 1946. The plant again earned the) award in 1048, Luncheon Held After ‘a luncheon in fhe Ad-| iniral’'s honor, the presentation y-took place at-which Ad-

ceremon farmers urge income tax boost................ Page 8|miral ion presented the award | pectacular “specs” on the wane . , . See? ,.. a

report on the optometric convention here...... Community Fund selects Perry W. Lesh as “honored

Mr. Dale finds new partner can dish it out , . . _ Blackwood on Bridge . . . a regular feature on “the WOMAN'S PAGE ...vveisassnssissssssssss.Pageld Defense demands removal of “police at Communist trial . .". market reports also... 0ipsiunsse. Pagell Try It... . a new feature on the comic page.

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American success story—a poor! member” ......i..iiiiiirieniiiiiiiiiesnns bo e from nowhere to win | he, a a mions. + Written proof best for deductions . +» Your Income ann | Tax Primer No. 12...a timely 1 series. ......... Page 5 | KELLY'S 45th birthday passed| Whiting school official dies here . . . other local las he sat in Marion County Jalil, | obituaries .......... FUREY veerieseess Page 6| but no one could have foreseen that when he was born on Dec. {Newcomer Connie Desmond stars in novelty ‘os 15, 1903, in Pittsburgh. Down by the Station” . . : Off the Record . .. In 3931, by Jawily waved sei a regular Tuesday feature..... cesrsrnnenes ..Page 7) California, me wholesale “ ” fruft merchants. ‘And by 1929, Bulldogs bank on “hatchetman” as they tackle Irish Kelly is “King ine way he jinx . , . other sports.. cisissessseess Pages 8-9 ute,” famed for the Accidents take three Hoosier Tives every day-—one da his truck around thé 900 ove as the Toad from Bakers-| gould be yours . ” a Pistorial Setien, os? > Page 11 field to Los Angeles. |Waxie n honest man? . . . Dewey dou this In’ 1930, Kelly sold his Seok and began driving for . . » read Tax Dodgers No. 10 . . . a series...... Page 11| money. Every year he got a Prise Free school fight won in 1852 . .-. Our Town... by $I Sat. et Jrove his Anton Scherrer . . . other local and national | ered flag, breaking the Sheek | opinions CEsANEA EASE EAE NN RININSIRTIETR AREY Page 12) | Wild Bill Cummings had set only Propylaeum day, Columbia Club luncheon,. Shortweet: The world) Tidge reunion highlight week . . . news of interest to the ladies .........iceevvevivssivses.Pagels

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to Capt. Blackledge, who in. turn presented it to Carver H. Reinertsen, safety engineer of the plant. Mr. Reinertsen accepted the award in behalf of all the work|ers, In spite of heavy wather, the day moved along smoothly at the) | station; extra-close shaves and] {fresh “harbor gaskets” (collars) were much In evidence. The Admiral commended Capt. Blackledge and all hands for the good housekeeping at the station.

SOVIET GENERAL DIES MOSCOW, Jan. 18 (UP)-Ma}. Gen. Vassily Alexeyevich Degtyarev, 70, inventor of the Soviet army rifle and numerous other arms, including = ~machinegun |and anti-tank gun, died yesterday, it was announced today.

| Famous Oralor Born

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By i The decks were spotless and a two-star Admiral's The Weather Bureau said rain pattling the icy wind over the Naval Ordnance Plant at 21st St would continue through tonight,|and Arlington Ave. this morning. Rear Adm. J. Cary ‘Jones, commandant of the Ninth Naval Much colder temperatures were District, arrived for an informal inspection and to make a safety

Radium Left in Taxi; Police Warn N. Y, NEW YORK, Jan. 18 (UP) ~— Police broadcast a city-wide alerm today warning that a box] joontaining $1250 worth of “radium

has been lost in a taxi and that! {anyone who ‘might open it would n _ {conforming station wagon which be severely burned.

The wooden, lead-lined box

flag was|for

weighing 15 pounds was left in a taxi by Mrs. Mildred G, Greenfield | {last night. She told police she! was delivering it fo her usvand, lo a doctor,

But the ta commit tse decided final move alt : al to give ticket berueted view,

‘Banks of Wabash’ Greets

Early Inauguration Visitors -

Strains of Hoosier Songs Echo Through Union Station as Purdue Glee Club Performs

| By DAN KIDNEY,

Times Staff Writer

| WASHINGTON, Jan. 18~Purdue kicked-off Indiana's partici week-

[pation in Washington's greatest in jamboree the “Banks of the Wabash” right into union station at the

fast hour today.

‘breaks

» Arriving over-night from Lafayette, the “50 ofilegiate shows men” who comprise the varsity glee club from Purdue

[treated the jam-packed crowd of | arriving visitors to such favorites, ns “The Banks of the Wabash" {“Back Home Again in Indiana” and “Hail, Hall to Old Purdue” On hand to greet the singers were Ben. Capehart and Reps, Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis, Mrs. Cecil M. Harden, Covington, Thurman C. Crook, Ray Madden, Gary, and Ralph Harvey, New Castle. The latter (is the only Purdue graduate in Congress. Official Welcome

REA Administrator Claude R.

[Alumni here, made the welcome .. lofficial, Mrs. Esther Costa, secretary of the Indiana State Society; Dr. Otis C. Trimble of the Btate Department; Rosier D, Oller, 3535 Watson Road, Indianapolis, and Robert Meleny, secretary of the Purdue Alumni here, were amo the greeters. There are 37 world ‘War veterans in the Glee Club—13 Agricul Navy, 23 Army and one Marine.

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Adm. Morton Willcutts, will. have the club members as dinner guests at the Naval Medi cal Center where théy will sing: Friday night, sent an aide to greet thém upon arrival this morning.

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