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50th YEAR_NUMBER 300

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1949

Entered as /Secong Glas Matter St ly"

Andianapolis, Ind. Issued

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Hungary Asks Death For Accused Cardinal; Defense Plea Made

Prosecutor Envoy in Summation

Mentions Spellman, Truman, U. §.

Before Pusple’s Coun

Editorial, Page 10

cused of crimes punishable by

death, and the. defense coun-

tered with a plea for a mild sentence. The trial of the Roman Catholic primate of ‘Hungary

and six co-defendants was drawing to a close. Court offi-lof a hit-run driver in Indianap-

cials said they expected sentences to be pronounced Mon-

aay, eh Prosecutor Gyyla Alapi asked

the people’s court for “the heavfest sentence” against Cardinal Mindszenty. Summing up for the state, he ended a long, sometimes thunderous, sometimes sarcastic ~harangue with' the assertion:

“The sentence should be mem-

orable and strike a heavy blow

__at traitors to their country.”

‘Kalman Kiczko, attorney for the accused prelate, followed with the defense summation. Fairly

. short, it included much praise of

the Hungarian ‘state. Chief Justice Vilmos Olti smiled frequently. Asks Wisdom “ ask the court to make a wise sentence, because for cen-

-turies this case will still be re-..

nowned in history and the court will have to give an account of its sentence,” Mr. Kiczko said. “Cardinal Mindszenty always tried to be social-minded, but unfortunately he could not see the present tremendous reconstruction,” Mr. Kiczko said. He based his defense on the plea that the Cardinal as a priest

influenced by the Vatican. Referring to the Cardinal's alleged appeal to U. 8. Minister Selden Chapin for help to escape, the attorney said this was “another indication of his naivete.”

whole world which would not strike with the heaviest punishment for the crimes of the defendants,” Mr. Alapi said. Mentions Americans

ing in the name hs an foe): ap vad lh

pr = 0 aula. to Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York, in his summation. hé said, Cardinal

Mindszenty to prevent the return

vices.

Cardinal Mindszenty . . . hi fate argued by attorneys. .

Sheriff Issues Gambling Ban

Pupils Reported ‘Blowing’ Lunch ch Money

Times State CRAWFORDSVILLE, Feb. 5— Montgomery County Sheriff Roy| Hardaker today issued a gambling ban, effective throughout (the county, after charges were made that school children were losing” lunch money in gambling. The crackdown was especially pointed at Crawfordsville. -City 1. police were not notified of the sheriff's action until publication of the story in the afternoon was

The shertf said be had received the Bt , ar are Je ache nd

spending lunch money on punch-{ t Vice to the university. He was

“from

ents that boards and other gambling debling places closed and stay

closed,” the sheriff said. The drive is aimed at all pri-

of the crown of St. Stephan toiVate clubs, veterans organizations Hungary. and business establishments, inMr. Alapl also charged that|/cluding pool rooms. The sheriff Cardinal Spellman conceived the $aid he will investigate all places

idea of. authorizing Otto of Hapsburg, pretender to the throne of Hungary, of representing = Hungarian abroad in case Cardinal Minds-| zenty was prevented from doing 80.

Says He Asked Tatervention The prosecutor charged that the Cardinal asked for American’ intervention in the internal of-| fairs of Hungary. “It is (former U. 8. Minister to Hungary wo Arthur) - Sehoen«{feld himself who was compelled to clamp down on Cardinal Mindszenty’s most ardent wishes.”

...This was. in reference to a let-

the Cardinal that United States policy excluded interference in the internal affairs of any nation. The prosecutor said that despite the unenthusiastic response, the Cardinal “again and again urged first Mr. Schoenfeld, then Mr. Chapin and even President

reference to President Truman.

Illinois Hotel Fire

QUINCY, IIL, Feb. 5 (UP) — Twenty-five guests A fled their rooms or were rescued when the top two floors of the Tremont] Hotel burned early today. The only person who suffered injury of any consequence was E. L. Cottrell, 72, in whose room the fire reportedly started when a kerosene stove exploded.

Get Ice-O-Rama Tickets Downtown

"Tickets for The Times’ Ice-O-Rama go on sale over-the-counter Monday at 9:30 a. m. at L. Strauss & ° ; Co. store.

“ Plenty of seats: still are available for the two-hour-fice revue to raise funds for the Infantile Paralysis Fund, You'll find plenty of reserved side nfezzanine chairs at 85 cents . , . parquet seats on the East end

circle at $1.20 , . . end mez--zanine seats (unreserved) at 60 cents , , . and a few

Archduke reported to have punchboards,

high school basketball pools, slot] machines, poker games and “tip” |

Catholics boards.

He said that gambling in the county has sharply increased 1since last summer and asked the {public to notify him of violations.

Three Boys Caught Deflating Tires

‘The parents-of three small boys: caught deflating hutomobile tires last night by employees of American Foundry Co. were ordered to report with the boys to Juvenile Court today for a conference’ with authorities.

Meanwhile, three persons were

Six Added To Mounti Traffic Toll

Pedestrian, 60, Killed Here by Hit-Run Driver Cold weather hung out its own warning signs on Hoosier highways today as six more persons

were added to the state's traffic {death list, including the victim

lone,

Snow

| Burt, none--geriously, in 18 acleiden ts which decurred in Indian

driver in the death of James

at. 30th ‘and Annette Sts. after a [second car had run over the dead man, Skid marks at the scene ~tindicated Mr. Bracken had been thrown about 12 ' feet when struck. Shattered headlight glass was found nearby. The other dead: Francis M. Patton, 24, Marion;

and Philip Allen, 23, Ft. Wayne,, all Indiana University students, killed when their car skidded and] crashed into a truck on Ind. 427, 11 miles north of Ft. Wayne, yes-| terday. Driver of ‘the truck was| Edgar Neese, 1220 Herbert St. Indianapolis.

Hit Utility Pole

who was fatally injured when the car in which he was a passenger skidded in Hammond and hit a utility pole and another car, Bernard Neal Roberts, 18-year-old sophomore at Purdue Univer{sity ‘who died yesterday of in{juries received in a truck-car ‘collision near Lafayette late Wednesday. Mr. Roberts lived at Lafayette. Mr, Patton, .a graduate student in psychology at I. U, was to have received his master’s degree in June. His brother, John Barrett Patton, is a professor in the I. U. geology department. Active on Campus

Mr, Patton, well known here, was active in campus activities, a member of the Union Board and e Flame Club, independent hon-

a graduate of Marion High School and was a student: at Michigan University while in the Army. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Barnett Patton, live in Marion. Mr. Bracken, an electrician and member of the Seventh Christian Church, will be buried in Washington Park following services at

Bracken, 60, of 1046 Eugene St.} whose body was found last night

James Roger Allen, 21, Marion, |

Stanley M. Raymond, 42, Gary,

took up Investigation of the literature, sent by an Indmaapoti sm, a : Dailey was in the middle of his own investigation of BR

What's this Seater? » » Ever since flo Vermillion of Anderson his own personal face. The veteran lawmaker asked for the board as a means of noting committee schedules and im-

portant meetings which he wished to remember. Then th chamber license" in spelling of Hialeah.

joam in the Sera's gave Democtof Senaler Wille board strange things have

been appearing on its sur.

the other morning Senators arrived in the to find race results posted on the board—rare wits, these Senators, Note the "legislative

FBI Probing Pamphlets

Sent to Indiana Legislators

Dailey Drops Investigation in View of U.S. Action; Material Mailed by Local Firm

2 Protestant

| Churches Merge

Create Denomination

Editorial, Page 10

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were today investigating ahd! pamphlets sent to members of the Indiana General Assembly,

When the FBI stepped in, Mr. Dalley said he calied a halt to his work and termed it “needless” in| ~~ The literature bore the: imprint efficient.” of Circle City Coy Spas 8 Hast The material claimed ‘the Com|8t., Indianapolis. is "8 munists were “pushing a program the Circle City heading Were or myying races in kindergartens signed by a W. M. Osman. land all social affairs even to Copy of a letter addressed “To marriage.”

All Representatives” which was It was also claimed the Com-

3 p. m. Monday in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary.

Born in Old Augusta, he lived | {all his life in the vicinity of In‘dianapolis, | He is surviyed by three sisters; | t Mrs. Josephine Fingerly, Mrs. William Binkley, and Mrs. Oscar| E. Benneman, and.two brothers, Luke H. and Charles M. Bracken, all ‘of Indianapolis, Among those injured in ¢ity accidents was Lloyd Maynard, 34, jof 1801 N.-Hitnots; who,“ police said, “leaped from a motorcycle when it hit a rut and skidded in the 700 block Massachusetts Ave. Mr. Maynard, riding on the back of the vehicle, driven by. Carl

ywas treated at General Hospital for bruises and abrasions and re-

Cupp, 36, of 470 8. Meridian St. [other “hate” organizations.

Powers Hapgood Dies at 49;

The boys, 8, § and 10 years old, 1 were discovered removing valve|

stem cores from a number of cars| parked near the company plant Hunt Lost Navy Plane at 1535 Naomi St. They were ISABELLA, Cal, Feb. 5 (UP)

turned ever to police, who re- —Navy officers, establishing a turned two of -them-to-their par- Communjcations center at this ents... % highway town," today used - radio Police said the parents of the)to direct a land and air hunt 8-year-old boy were not at home when he was taken there. "The lieved to have crashed in the boy was sent to Juvenile Aid Di-| Sierras while carrying seven men; vision for shelter last night, | including five scientists, ”

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Pioneer Labor Organizer

Suffers Heart Attack At Wheel of Car

Services for Powers Hapgood, pioneer labor organizer and § prominent Indiana political figure, who died last night en route ® to his father's home on the Southport Road at Barth Ave, will be at 3 p. m. Monday in J. C. | Wilson “Chapel of the Chimes.” Cremation will follow, He was 49. = Mr, ‘Hapgood was found! slumped behind the steering _ wheel after his car left the road at a low speed and came to rest in a yard beside a bushy Dr, 0. N. Olvey, deputy coroner, attributed death: to coronary océlusion, - . Told by his physician just a few hours earlier that he would have to have a complete rest, Mr. Hapgood was en route to his ’

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Powsrs.Hapgood"

He was jajled i union demon{strations at Terre Haute, Ind. [five times in Boston, and in Cam-

ther's 630-acre farm on Southport Road. He had stopped to fill a préscription before starting home.

wr Jlairly- CIO Organizer

Prices include tax.

Get yours Monday to be sure of the best locitions.

Some - 800 local skaters will take part, oa > travaganza Feb. ~Fyirgrounds Coliseum.

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vigorous re. history during thé past 25

lers for the CIO, Mr, Hapgoo® was Me., and Pittston, Pa. figure In American] In early CIO days, he struggled unsuccessfully with John L, Lewis years, He often said that.he hadifor jeadership of the United Mine forgotten how many times he Workers of America. had been arrested for union organizing or. taking part In dem-

NCumiamg. of Boge 3orCol. 3)

received Rep. Jam Re ant munists were backing fair emr ( cago {ployment commission bills as a ‘along with copies of three pam- one of broadening their ffth phiets was turned over to Mr. cojumn here, {Dalleyearlier this month. r “The Communists have enlisted Investigating, Dailey Says . [so-called liberal minded ministers, Mr. Dailey said he wrote to Mr. professors - and lecturers and Osman at Circle City Co. inform- added a powerful church organi:| ing him that the prosecutor's of- zation and gained control of the tice was investigating the mater-/ {National Association for the MM fal snd if sufficient evidence was vancement of Colored People,” secured showing violation of the P&ragraph in one of the pamstate’s “anti-hate” bill the Grand Phists ee wl be asked to take ac ne...o leaflets. . was 4 Tort. tas dressed to the 81st Congress and “ » dictionary definitions of The “anti-hate” hill was passed] 2Ve by the 1947 legislature to outlaw | quoted Lenin and Seraons. It also activities of the Ku Klux Kian, n

other “Hate” organizations. “Stock Values OF This week Mr. Dalley received

a reply to his letter signed vy Billion Dollars

W. M. Osman. Mr. Osman said] he was “surprised” that the ma-| NEW YORK, Feb..5. (UP) —The

[terial was questioned. He said Stock market cracked one to moré

lit ‘was intended to protect an than three points today, losing| races and to combat activities of reat an ana hilion dollars n She; the Russian fifth column in this|

view of the federal Investigation, [PAMPhIet §2id “the cure is equally

Of 2Million Members

The General Council of the Con-

_|gregational Christian Churches

of America today voted to me with the Evangelical and

denomination of some 2 million

} members known as the United

Church of Christ, The final vote had not been tabulated, but officials said the necessary majority of ballots had been cast in favor of the historic merger, The merger, of interest to protestantism the world over, was the first major move toward ~1unity of two protestant religious ‘groups stemming from different sources. 9000 Congregations The two denominations each! resylted from former mergers. {The Congregational Churches 2 and the Christian Churches unitfed in 1931, and the Evangelical {and Reformed Churches merged in -1934. The new church created today {will include about 9000 congrega[tions in all 48 states. But even as the votes were being counted, anti-merger forces. ended hopes that the votes would create complete ‘unity. = They charged delegates to the general couricil meeting had - been “ma~ {nipulated” and sald from “500 to 1000 congregational thes” La would refuse to accept the mer-| LOY ger.

Plan Another Meeting

CLEVELAND, Feb. 5 (UP) ent with trends. or in. Hots

formed Church, creating a new

for ‘a navy Beechcraft plane be-|edged

For several years, president of AK

country, Yesterday Rep. Hunter. acknowlreceipt of the letter and pamphlets and said the material had - been turned over to Mr. Dailey by Henry Richardson, Indianapolis attorney. Others Get Same Material “Rep. Joseph

sald he had received the same ma-|

terial at his home and declared, “We all got copies except Rep. Forrest Littlejohn (D. Indianapolis).” {Harvey Foster, special FBI] agent in charge here, wpuld not] confirm or deny that agents weré investigating the literature. : The literature favored segrega-| tion and contended the anti-segre-gationists were being backed by Communists and Russia, we One of the pamphlets suggested] the legislature pass a law which would define certain areas for

white people and other areas for)

Negroes and would prohibit either

from entering the area of: the

other. The literature proposed sterilization as “a certain and complete cure for all mental cases involved in rape” and in case the cause

Council of Europe

. ‘ [tro Plans Take Shape [onta he feat we in jxanapge-| As she ate in a restaurant near

LONDON, Feb, 5 (UP)—The five Brussels pact countries today | announced the completion of rec-

| One of the first three organiz- den, N, J St. Louls, Lewiston, ommendations for the proposed Police were told shé had made ments were

“Council of Europe.” Great Britain, France, .Be}glum, Holland and Luxembourg,

“Kein: Gary):

‘The break came on the heels of| Opposition. leaders added they |a “loss of around three-quarter would hold another anti-merger [biltion dollars Friday. meeting later today to formulate Trading quickened as prices, their plans. | went down and hit the fastest] The Evangelical and Reformed 1g for any Saturday since Nov. Church approved the merger at last -year, at’ 790,000 shares, its general synod last year by ac|against 300,000 last week. |cepting a “basis of union” drawn

{today to nervousness among in- cil vestors and professional traders| However, befause of ‘later “in-| rought about by weakness in|terpretations” of the document) commodity markets, the decline by thé general council, the “basis |in wholesale food prices and the/of union” must again be subdisclosure that unemployment has| mitted to the Evangelical and |risen by.two million since Decem-|Reformed Church’ 8 governing {ber, although still substantially bodies. Little ‘or no opposition above the levels of a year ago. was seen for approval, |

Police Help Baby Sitter, 19,

To First Meal in 24 Hours:

| Girl Hitch-Hiker Found Sitting On y

Suitcase After Ride From Detroit

“A 19-year-old girl who has made her own way as a baby sitter {since the death of her grandparents today murmured thanks to [the Indianapolis Police Department as she ate a good meal, heb first since yesterday morning in Detroit. It was Sgt. Willlam Larman, driving in the 2700 block Eng:

{was not mental but criminal the|/lish Ave, who saw Miss Margaret Hall sitting, disconsolate and ;

cold, on her suitcase. He Stopped. Bot. Lorman: Bor sast oest Bad She could not learn the where > abouts of her father, she said; Deen breakfast yesterday in De-

‘her mother's death three years Police headquarters, officers arago, put her on her own in Pates- ranged to take her to the Travel-

, Rain Due Here; ew ‘Blizzard Rips We

Keep Senator Posted on Hialeah Cloudy,

Buries Utah

Storm Brings Fresh Peril to Livestock

By United Press A new storm center swept across the blizzard-burdened West | today and an avalanche of snow buried three railroad workers in Utah. Forecasters warned. that the) aew storm center might cause

suffering. it crosses

rangelands where thousands of rescuers are trying to save millions of starving livestock. The new blizzard already has struck hard “at Utah and had swept across the continental di{vide, dumping more snow on the 'western slopes of the Rockies as it moved eastward from the Pa-

were buried beneath tons of snow which thundered down the steep wall of Bear River Canyon. The missing men were presumed dead, but 100 fellow workers dug grimly through the snow in search of

to clear last month. The new storm t fresh peril to about 1 million sheep In snowbound sections, About B00 farmers who went to|=

, Warmer S Here Tonight; Slide

Workers

Roads Are Icy Ls Wa

In Northern Indiana LOCAL. TEMPERATURES

6am... 18 10 a. moo : Tam... 18 11 a Mm... ) =, Er 8am... 19 12 (Noom). 81 : .. am... 2 3 1 pene 8 ay

Cloudy skies ies_and slightly warmer. temperatures... predicted for tonight, and o casional light rain or snow tomorrow, the Weather Bus reau said. -

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drawn sleighs to save 30 children marooned on another bus in the same area. Loses Race With Stork

At Mobridge, 8B. D., Mrs. Fred Feather, 22-year-old Indian, gave birth to a son while lying in the snow with the temperature at 20 below zero.

D., was walking to her sister's ranch when she felt her first labor Her 15<year-old stepson, Rudolph, built a fire. for her and then ran for help while her. ana year-old son, Roland, tended the fire, By the time Rudolph returned

had" given birth to’ an Sepang baby. They were brought to hospital in Mobridge, where attendants said their condition was

Off 2500 Workers PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5 (UP) ~The Pennsylvania Ratiroad an. nounced today it will furlough approximately employees as the result of a “more than seasonal” decline In traffic.

Stockyard Head Dies

CHICAGO, Feb. 5 (UP) —Arthur|

Mrs. One Feather, of Faith, 8. He

with four men, Mrs, One Feather Sake jot v AT,

maintenance mon

a sais

- [Rules State

Wall Street_traced. the. selling Up joinily with the general coun-.C. Leonard, presidentof. the. Chi HoRin..

‘éago Union Stockyards and Tran- Director Walter Mybeck of the

(sit Co.,

died, last: night at his/state public works and supply -

home. He was 86,

division.

Senate Democrats rap Taft as

assassinations ..........

Church news and events . . , . feature ........ dba nsntnh Golden Gloves field pared to

WW Minton vs vive sivas

ville, Ky. {lers Aid Bureau where arrangeade to send the girl -/to Patesyille with hopes of em-| ¢ ployment. ® Just to make sure she would

a living by baby sitting in H /fiton ‘and : Columbus, O. Th weeks ago she went to Detroit,

called for an early conference where she stayed with a \friend eat” on the way and when she Bridge other European nations Shand looked unsuccessfully for. a got there police

re-job, she added. * [little touch--thky collected $6.50

organization 1 western, Three hitchhiked rides brought|to . jingle in her almost empty Classified 12-13 Forum

her to where she was found by purse. ; + A

added one more Childs

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