Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1949 — Page 1

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State Representatives 45 Fo el acelin ad Sem th dt lial Dito feats Cite (bl Adbabag Phos a URED paid A Seg passed the Democratic “Direct gs LL To Washington Premier S

Primary Bill with only one 'dissenting vote. 2 The measure now goes to the — {State Senate for approval, \he : ai i : : vote in the House was 97 to 1 for] . RS Be y

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passage. The measure incorporates the : iy #2] . proposal which Gov. Schricker| LA SE re es EET in his message to the Gen-| fo RE :

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Ao {eral Assembly the day after he; tied arr in Ean White House Takes ’ took omce. 2 Bris yo 5 Nai A { It provides for election of Sr i 2 “ No Official Notice ths | candidates for governor and U; 8. Of Russian ‘Feeler’ oy .| Senator by - state-wide primary - ~.

| vote, Winners are requiréd to {ootain 35 per cent of the total | vote cast for their office or their | selection reverts to state con- | vention nomination. | Unaffected by Bill 4 State elective ofcers other

Premier Joseph Stalin of ‘Russia. today invited Presi. dent Truman to meet with him to talk peace, but specified that the meeting would

than Governor and -U. 8. Senator, g : 29 would —be nominated in state huve to ls place behind the | ee conventions. They would not be| _ curtain. : affected by the bill. - informed of the ue ao

Two years ago a Republican-]

; sponsored direct primary bill was| a. y defeated in the. legislature. Detectives Edirest Euliss and Monroe Betiner . . . These stolen however, provided for the se-| clothes and he "fine threads" purchased with loot led fo the Mefiot “of A State Silals |

would be regarded as simply an. other. move in Mr, Stalin's propas “| ganda “peace offensive,” and that : pe. Tralas would make 10 move 3

downfall of £ “syndicate.” The author ‘of the bill two 1 =9 - " u's» . = _& years ago, Rep. Laurence D.| At the same time, the es Inspector Reveals Mass Arrest of G «., |Baker (R. Kendallville), is a Sent was axpesiad to bon : eais Mass Arrest or Gang; meniber of the present - House this. affesitptattd nly ¥ "Lauds Detectives for Tracking Down Tip of Representatives. He announced Sato meet Stalin in ‘Washing- on 89 oa oy today he at first objected to the any Same, 9 RETR yd Round-up of a nine-man gang of burglars and hold- -up men in- his opinion and would sup- ; en 4 Juivad 42 Sothe 36-maiopFebbeties waa 1vedled by Police inspector port--it.— a cai med ack -O’'Neal-today a ..The...one wots Against. the! ; and The Inspector said the arrests broke up a ring which had been measure was cast by Rep,| | : = long: AIF OF BO systematically looting near North Side business establishments for/Charles Miser (R. Garrett). Ly almost’ four months, Their crimes included a $5000 burglary at’ ’ Karstadi-Reed Cleaners, 1449 N. Bock Il Be Back or Caechoslovakia, No p o————— of the Iron Curtain’

Illino } oA, ms hg en Jealous Rival — ist. Patrick's Day _» who spent their own time track- “To Wet ‘Whistles

«ing down a tip which led to the Sia S Hoosier ~ mass arrest. THe arrest was y | Read Robert C. Ruark, Page 13 |

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‘have indicated that he is in good ade less than 45 minutes before | : ical and mental: condition. The gang Was ready to leave for '47 Beauty O "SURE an’ we may have six| Destroyed by fire , .. James F. bs rv tho smking in of th to Fam Copan Co 84 $1. nd Alm fi a = Chicago because members had uty Queen |,.re weeks of winter—according Rd., destroyed by f fire early ly today. Loss was near $23,000. ; semi-official sources i ring heard “the heat was on,” he said... Witnesses Shooting to the Ground Hog forecast today, . * » na ton and London was that of Work” he Stake —but there'll be Boek b beet aiowin' Tp Senos “| Russian premier is determined, “Rout Plots thas Siate- Setvis come St. Patrick's one ¥ Fourth Serious Fire in 24 Hours I for propaganda purposes, to “This is one of the best pleces| BEDFORD, Feb. 2—A former "my, peginning of a book beer: ou fo avoid leaving Russian-dominated . of detective work around here in Lawrence County youth was slain, yop son in the state has -been! i Discovered by Mo rist in County territory tory for say meeting ' with Aa d a long time,” he said as he cred-in Summerville, 8. C. and a, 04imed for Thursday, March 12 A $23,000 fire lighted up North Side skies early this morning 3 ited Detective Sgts. Monroe Bett- jealous suitor of his beauty queen- 777) by the Indiana Alcoholic Bey. {as it destroyed the Best Way Farm Service Co, at 82d St. and Miss Hi Tra Stalin's new message was ner and Forrest Euliss with break- fiancee is held on a murder charge, lerage Commission. | Allisonville Rd. cabled to J. Smith, of | 1 ing up the gang. officidls here learned today. * = = | It was the second fire in that area and the fourth serious blaze ER Se a Bingshurs Such, of L/ ¢ The two, detectives, he said, The dead youth is Eugene Na-| RETAILERS were instructed, Two Unions Win in the city and county in 24 hours. Winter to Run his Paris office. It ‘was in or » 2 worked far into. the night-on theirithaniel Young, 21, son of Mr. andizgot 10- place Dock. beer. on sale; $200,000 Back Wa The. blage' way was" diatavitod bi-a passing motorist-at 143-4. m, a Ee 10.8 message froin Mr, SEIS ask. - own time tracking down leads.Mrs. Villard Young, formerly ofibefere-7 a. m. that date. c ges En from the Washi pater Course, ‘Anyway ing whether Mr. Stalin “would be | . yd They worked 36 hours in one{Needmore and Oolitic. |- And brewers and wholesalers Pay checks to Indiana Bell and Lawrence Township units and Raymond St. and State Rd. 29, . : prepared” to go to Washington to ———— « gtretch tely preceding the! Held as a suspect and charged were asked to make deliveries as. Telephone Co. workers were fat-'from Indianapolis battled the fire Was seriously burned. She was in LOCAL TEMPERATURES see thie : ws initial ts on Jan. 25. with murder is Robert E. Wright, [close to the date as possible. ~ |tened up today by some $1 mil- for almost 2% houps but were serious condition in St. Francis “8a mi... 16 10 a. m... 22 Text of Answer - | It was the gang members’ flairiof Summerville. Authorities said " ee oo [lion “a year. unable to bring it under control. {Hospital today. Tam... 14 Nam. 24 The Stalin answer said: for “fine threads” which provided he is being held at an undjsclosed| l “Two unions. Divisions i and 56; The one-story building, owned, The housewife was pouring "88 m.. 15 12 (Noon) 26 “Your telegram of Feb, 1 re- ; the tip that led to their arrests, jail because of the threat of mob ime - |of the Communications Workers by the O. A. Jose Co., Inc. and kerosene on a furnace fire when ’ am... 18 1 Pe Murs 2 ceived, & detectives said. When they sud- violence. of America . (independent) had valued at $8000, was destroyed. her clothing became ignited. She “f am grateful to President True |: 1 denly blossomed out in newsuits, Fiancee Sees Sia ‘obtained raises for some 6100 Also lost in the blaze was an|ran from the house, the wind The groundhog can't miss see-'man for his invitation to come to one former buddy pointed suspi-| . Mr. Young was shot Thee Killed {workers in Indiana (82 offices). ‘estimated $15,000 worth of dairy | {whipping her blazing ‘clothing BE. |ing his shadow today, Paul Miller Washington. J cion toward them. last Saturday night, Sheriff H. H. S g | The State Arbitration Board had and farm equipment, James Best, She ran until the clothing had ’ B ' “For a long time it was my wish = “One Member Brags ~~ —(2°8een of Dorchester County, set approximately the same: wage 333 E. 31st St. one of the owners burned itself out hefore collaps-| Indianapolis. Weather . urealiss visit Washington, and at one South Carolina, said. The controversial timé “question increase in a decision Dec. 16-0f the company, said. ling. She then made her Way chief sald this morning. “And I'time I mentioned this to Presi

They used to look ragged as| Miss Mary Knight, 19, who was

bowl of eau: and now thevre erville's Contennial Queen|Te-entered the state Senate today, hich the telephone company had| In another fire yesterday Mrs. back to the house where she tele-/gyppoge the six weeks of winter/dent Roosevelt at Yalta and to

quickly carried into the legal bat-| Mary Folkening, 41, , residing at phoned the sheriff's office before | oyion superstition promises will {President Truman at Potsdam,

sharp as razors,” the disgruntled/two years ago and who was|in the form of a referenduin bill § ts of the Marion County — ~ lapsing into unconsciousness. a ~ “Unfortunately, at present I am informer told police. engaged to the victim, witnessed passed yesterday in the House by! [Circuit BL. Mae unty| Equipment Lost probably follow.” {unable to realize this wish on The detectives said ofie of the the slaying. a a vote of 53 to 41. The agreement was announced b as Hang She was discovered unconscious| Winter weather almost always mine, since doctors strongly obmembers bragged that they had She told police that Wright fol- Tne upper house had hardly re-/late yesterday in Gov. Henry on’the front room floor when herliyyty until March 15, anyway, Mr ect to my

undertaking any prog. formed into a “syndigate.” lowed her and Mr. Young and |covered from its ar Ausband, Arthur Folkening, re3 gument over F. Schricker’'s office by State La- usban u 8. | rved onged Journey, especially by sea When aristed, they had Jat) halted their car in the country. time in which last week it passed bor Commissioner Thomas R. {turned home from work. . He and Miles obse KS wil th a dozen guns and a car waiting|When Mr. Young emerged. from and gent to the House & measure Hutson, less than 48 hours before! {deputy sheriffs who answered the, unny skies br tng A “The government of the Soviet to. take them to Chicago where the car, she said, Wright shot him t, make Central Standard Time the original date on’ which the call rushed her to the hospital. |mercury to 28 today after a low Union would welcome the Presis they planned to move “syndigate” in the left eye. He then beat then, only officiai time for state, company’s rate increase petition| LANDSBERG, Germany, Feb.| Another ‘fire victim. Clifford of 14 degrees recorded at 7 a: m., dent's visit to the USSR. The o operations. {youth over the head with the gun|county and city governments in was to have been heard by the 2 (UP) — Six Germans were Goodwin, 25, of 2001 Miller St, according to the Weather Bureau, Co0ferénce could be arranged at = . Close In Jan. 25 [before firing a second hot Into/inqjana. The Senate time bill is Public Service Commission. {hanged here by the United States who was credited with saving the 1 ‘ the President's choice ither In og his. victim's heart, the young new resting in a cubbyhole of a Win Back Pay |Army today for crimes committed life of four members of his fam-| ncreasing cloudiness tonight williytoseow or Len Detectives arrested six of the woman said. ~~ {House committee. lagainst allied filers and concen-{ly when fire destroyed their be accompanied by & chilling 10-12 iiningrad (fromerly Ph SN Joes Mi a. mn an a the) The slayer then turned on the| The House time bill would put |, Sometime in thie Jans two Teeks tration camp inmates. [home yesterday, remained-in ser- degrees in central Indians. {berg in East Prussia), in ‘Odessa, x He one at PN 8 girl and beat her with the pistolito a vote of the people whether ln a load of back pa Y ome They were: {igus condition In General Hos- momorrow will be cloudy. with|0f 8t Yalta, provided of course a ator an As, 500 onthe sheriff said. She was admitted yndiana should have Central |Dec. 10) averaging fro of . 88. Capt, “Helmuth ~ Vetter, pital today. an exppc.ed high temperature of that this does not go against the suspected” hangouts to Dorchester County Hospital for(gtandard. Eastern Standard or g from © physician at the Mauthausen ¢on-; - He leaped from a second story LA President's considerations of cone which officers had compiled. shock and head wounds, a combination of both. The reter.|$8 Per person. The increase, per centration eamp. Hil #ubor-|window with his 19-month-old 28 degrees fGllowed by rain or venjence, 7 Thay knew only the nicknames| The Hoosier youth attended endum would” be held in the 1950 Re (Tee depart 3 Foe dinates injected gasoline Into the daughter in his arms, caught his snow late tomorrpw. A 8 ADProXimae Sidresses of the {grade schools in Oolitic and Need-| general election. on mnting) trafic or $3 Ro pet] inmates. |¢-month-old son dropped from| mne Wabash and main White, ey wel neg. 3 {more before moving to Summer. This measure was expected to| SOUR Indalecio Gonzales, Matithau-|{the window by his wife and Rivers are still above flood y 8 ames ville with his parents, bring forth another heated cons’ me. 'sen inmate, who became a camp broke the fall of his wife and tage Wade, 450 N. Senate Ave; Milton |troversy in the Senate where The foreminded telephone com- supervisor and killed at least a/mother-in-law, who jumped to./Io southern Indiana with angry - Phillips, 23, of 118A, Belmont Pk House Member Wants (Central Standard bill was “passed (PY wy figured “the wage t+ dozen other inmates, seven of gether. waters receding very slowly. At aa a andy 20: porte [fe Tax Coin Machines [only after much arguing. creases ete. Tate the] ime pit. heiped push nto-+-la- PIA Rr 11 tf apo Mt: CarmeEtiié Wabast-35- gntiy % Davis, 347 W. 11th St. all charged| cox". oor state tax on alll Change in Prosecutor settlament may have strengthened Karl Schroegler, Mauthausen home of Mr, and Mrs, Joe Reyne fot pri ond ig today and with robbery. with deadly weap:|, operated vending machines, | 9 #8 rate case. trusty credited with killing 10 elds, 8100 Dean Rd. This was los Vill still ¢ feet above flood other messag ons; Charles Cloyd, 20, 450 N. Sen- including . coke dispensers. and, Break for 7. Svs - The rate hearing before the men by throwing cold water on|cated a half-mile east of the Best] * a” from now, Mr. |that Russia would be willing to } ate Ave, and James Young, 615 (PBC, however, is standing far them and jumping-on their chests, Way Farm Service. __.._{conclude a “nowar” pact with the . _ _

{juke boxes, was proposed today| There are some seven prisoners kK in Ii 1 10s W. Vermont 5. narged with, a bill introduced in the House down in the city jail~~who are Sack In line. h the next two Bited States.

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burgla weeks the PSC has 15 the r Maj. Albert Hetm, who ori gy In. Washingto th urglary, 8s the other cases gered two American fiers shot \ n, e White |by Rep. Carrol Dennis (D. Beech glad Judson L. Stark is no longer R h \M di i =r F d J cab drivara who admitied driv. C10v Marion County's prosecuting at- docketed. jafter they parachuted from a us e [ 4 ne a 00 San. 1 phaatzec that no invites hold-up. bert Collins |. The state, does not presently torney. y » T kind . been iag- 1109 PSA and Wil- fevy a fax on such devices. Rep.. The seven men, arrested for a Jacobs’ Daughter por Logwig Rollacher. "el o ric an n ans in es Prams Bein dent, Truman from liam Shaw, 20, of 1063 Holbern Dennis estimates the tax would series of burglaries and holdups, Pak bt he parachuted. Charles Ross, ry fens: 0 St. and Emmett Ard, 21, of 414 Sriog tu approximately 37 million | | would Date oe ee sot Mr, To Enter Novitiate Corp. Friedrich Metz, involved| Tribes in Arizona, Dakota Hungry; } } secretary, said that as fat as he (Continued on 2 Page 8 —Col. 6) The federal government ana|ioot from one job, burglary of a Wanda Lee Jacobs, 18-year-old with Hotlacher ‘in the killing | Dixie Gripped by Third Day of Freeze Truman: yaa- th oe or most city governments tax coin|dry cleaning establishment, " daughter of an An- A seventh man, Gustave Hei- "Pr Salted rasa a would be _____|cluded the topcoat of Mr$8tark. [drew Jacobs (D. Ind.) and Mrs. gel. was given @ last-minute stay| mug Apmy' and Afr Force rushed medical aid and food supplies S120 to meet with Mr. Stalin in pd : machines. ~|Jacobs, today was to enter the When the Army department cau, ynousands of starving. pneumonis-ridden Indians in Arizona and ‘Washington. He made. this staten nsi eo B Bi il novitiate of the Order of the Sis- bled that it was forwarding ma- go .+v Dakota today. {ment after Souterring this morn-Veteran-Backed onus oli |ters of Providence at St. Mary- terial bearing on his case, Part of the vast Naylift and bulldozer operations fighting the "§ “It" the Fresident. . p— : of-the-Woods, Ind. The six dead all had been tried god, big spowdriftd to reach 5.5 million head of livestock were Ross sald Mr. Truman i Legion Post cites 6 police, di St te Senate Miss Jacobs will receive the [at Dikchau before an Aijing mit giverted to carry relief to the dying redmen as s rapidly as y possible, ro neve Lo ntug_ about the report 4 firemen for merit in | ere in a habit of the order whose mem- tary war crimes tribu | Meanwhile, the Dixie states offered to bers follow the teaching profes- ‘endured their third day of freez- through the snowdrifts of ihe/meet him in Russia, Poland or 1048 . . with photos Page 8 Benefits Similar fo GOP Measure; sion, Aug. 15, at St. Mary's, She ‘A d th Cl k’ ing weather and. landowners in northern plains to-ranchhouses Czechoslovakia - except what he Murder on the highways on ! is. a graduate ofthe St, Joan of roun e oc Texas, Louisiana @nd Georgia that had been isolated for weeks. [had read in the newspapers and Boosts Gross Income Tax Exemptions Arc Parochial 8chool and the St. I P H feared that their citrus, straw-- A flood struck along the Oga-|Ptard on the radio. +> No. 14 .. > +. Page 13) lative © lendar Page 4 TT |Agnes Academy and attended Bi asses ouse |perry, vegetable and peach crops chit\River in Arkansas and vir-| A Feporter asked: led : America's = million quiz | 1agisiative Ca : TO8 [Marian College for one semester. The House today passed and would be wiped out, tually) the entire population of'.” Would the President go to Po. ’, 1 ‘ program... - No. 3 Page 17] Another bonus bill, this one proposed by three veterans organ-| Miss Jacobs expects to continue gent to the Senate a bill to ex-| Agricultural experts-said it ap- Calio about 150 families, - fle land! or Czechoslovakia, or . . .7" : | izations, was introduced in the Indiana Senate today, her college education and eventu-|tend to, Mar. 15, 1951, the war-|peared that vegetable growers as wafler spilled over a 25-foot) Before the question could be ) a The bill contains similar Benefits as proposed by the GOP bonus, ally teach. x time act which permits women to/were suffering worse in Texas levee. Some refugees were housed completed, Ross snapped: : Other on F eafures |measure which has passed the Senate and is now resting in a Her mother. Mrs. Jacobs, sald work “around the clock” in im-/than the citris orchardists: Fruit'at Eldorado, Ark. but others “No comment _. + period. That nll Amus'm’tsv10, 11 Dr, Jordan,. 18 House committee. today that the about-to-be-Sister |qustry, growers debated whether to im- huddled around eafhpfires wait-{®nds the subject ] : Eddie Ash "20 (Mrs. Manners 12| Introduced by Sen. Wesley Malone (R. Clinton) | and Sen. John of Providence is very happy, has The vote showed 89 Representa pose an embargo to prevent freege- ing for 18d Cross ald. TT ———— Beauty ve 19] (Movies ..... 11|/Blunt (D. Little York), the bill~ SEY {long had the ambition td enteritjves for .the - measure and 9 spoiled crops from reaching the, The Fourth" Alr Force reported Petrillo fo Oppose Tat; =A : Bridge ..... 19 National Aff. 19|would provide a minimum pay-/Foreign Wars and Disabled Amer- the. order-and that she is “very against. out-of-state markets. _ {that its planes “have flown : Foi ae 6! Needlework . 19 ment of $30; maximum payments {ican Veterans. [happy for her.” In debating the bill opponents Whole Nation Shivers {haylift. flights that carried 1,- 12 Fortissimo, in 1950 y EC Bus ery thm e for domestic serivec and, Hoosier gross’ income taxpay- te 4 All ti & a claimed the measure would return All of the nation, except the ex-310,086 pounds of feed to Nevada HOBOREN: N n: pain Each Ey Coa - 1 Radio - Hii oor foreign service based on ers would-be given additional RECORD LIGHT QUAKE Indiana “to the dark ages.” The treme tip of Florida, shivered in livestock. ~. James Petrillo ht 3 4 " fi Comi Es 25 Rudrk had, 13 the rate .of $10 for each, month exemptions Under provision of a BERKELEY, Caf, Feb. 2.(UP) bill allows women to work in in- sub-normal temperatures. It was Diphtheria Is Threat ; ; $Et SUTMIE xe 26 Side Glances 14 of state-side service and '$15 for bill introduced today in the Senate —The University, of. California dustrial plants between the hours 27 below zero at International| An airlift was set up to camry|sielans (AFL), sald tt mn eathers, ' « ‘Hditorials he 14 Bociety .. 18/each month -of foreign duty. (by Willis -K. Batchelet (R. Ap-! reported today ‘its selsmographs of 10.p. m. and 6 a.m. Falls, Minn, at midnight and 26 food, medical supplies and doc~|union would no all out feather 3 31 r to .y 19! Sports "20. #1, The proposal would also provide gola). recorded ‘a. moderate earthquake ‘Those lawmakers favoring the below at Pembina, N. D. [tors ‘to . Navajos ‘snowbound on Republican 00d .iiiie en rob. .. 19 an additional $100 for service:| The measure would increase the of about ene hour™ duration ¥es- measure said it would disrupt in- - More and more tales of human theif vast Arizona reservation. | when be nh re-election in Gardening .. 19 Try. It .

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vess, 25 incurped disability of 10 per pent present $1000 exemption for wage terday. The quake was estimated dustry if the measure failed to misery unfolded as Maj, Gen. Diphtheria has cropped up in 1950. oe M Gi 19. Weather map 17 or more. ‘ners and farmers to $2000, and 1700 miles from Berkeley, either pass and women, consequently, Lewis A. Pick's mechanized along, with the pheimonia i “Taft doesn’t aur T : Holy oa. 10 Earl Wilson. T| The bill in the joint propokst-of o._current—$3000 exemption of (in ' Central “Mexico or Bouth/were required to leave their night: ‘army" of glant . bulldozers, ing the distressed nation, A All "Mr. | sald at Ce a i. 13, Women's vss 19'the Apsrin Legion, Veterans of retail mirc to $000 (Alaska: ©. ’ ‘shift jobs. pweasels and snowpidive bucked beaith ‘director J. P. Ward sali. union dinner. 3