Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1949 — Page 1
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congregations in Sunday sermons to unite in protest and pray for the soul of the Hun-
prelate. Local Catholics Join Indianapolis Catholics joined members of the church throughout the tian world in a day
of pryyer. yesterday for Cardinal] Mindszenty.
The Most Rev. Pau! C. Schulte Archbishop of Indianapolis, chose
the Mindszenty trial as the theme!"
of his sermon on the occasion of the Ad Altare Dei award to a group of Indiana Boy Scouts for faithful service to the church. The Indianapolis Archbishop) contrasted the upbringing of the persecutors of the Cardinal with
Catholic Forces Pray Evade death For Cardinal, Join
’ 2 : : : ° In War on Communism ' Archbishop Schulte, Msgr. Dugan Hit Treason Trial Tactics; Speliman-Sets Off Keynote The Roman Catholic world united today in a war to the finish with communism, touched off by the trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary. The Indianapolis archbishop, priests and Catholic leaders all over the United States, convinced that Cardinal ‘Mindszenty is to be hanged as a martyr, called upon their
House to Offer Daily Prayer
Indiana House of Representatives today voted to offer a dally prayer for Joseph Cardinal. Mindszenty of Hungary. The resolution calling for the solemnity was introduced by Rep. John F. Ryan (D: Terre Haute), The Representative sald, “I merely ask this body offer, its morning prayer to arding)
himself to the will of God.”
that of Scouts. He urged "the Scouts to pray that God would put into the hearts of the men trying) the Cardinal the faith of Jesus “to bring into their lives the reverence which Scouts: have.” ’ Urge Wall of Prayer Both: Archbishop Schulte and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Henry F. Dugan, Chancellor of the Archgdiocese, deplored the fact there is no way of reaching the perpetrators of the action against the Hungarian cardinal. The Iron Curtain,, they * said,” is. impervious except to prayer. They urged the faithful in Indianapolis to help build a wall of prayer around .the. Cardinal, - Prelates and laymen here asserted nothing Communists have done since the end of the war has #0 aroused the Catholic world as the trial of the Cardinal. They Joined with the nation’s Catholics id an all out war against Combi Spellman cis Cardinal y Archbishop of New York, set the keynote at his first appearance since V-E Day in the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral. . Five thoutang parishioners jammed » Y. cathedral to Cardinal. 9 Mar the
“If we fall to learn a reson] Vg, ag feat
from... Cardinal -
‘Beyond Human Help’ He declared his conviction that Cardinal Mingunsnty had been victim of “torturing and druggings that put him beyond the reach or realm of human help.” He entitled his sermon: “ % lion to Tyrants Is Gbediench 1 God.” 5 In Washington, Archbishop A. O’Boyle told a mass in the cathedral of St. Matthew that the trial was a “vile business” and a “mimicry of justice.” |
Cardinal Kept Awaits Sentence Tomorrow
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Prelate Celebrates Solitary Mass: -
-. Hungarian Press ‘Overlooks’ Statement APEST, Feb. 7—Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty was re-
ported kept under constant awaiting the verdict of the 2 a. m, (Indianapolis Time), _
Government press officials said tary mass Sunday in an office of
ong containing the court in which he was tried. It was understood that special guards were standing a full time vigil over the Cardinal and his six co-defendants. Maximum penalty for the charges the primate is death by 2 which was demanded by . the prosecution when the thiee-day| trial ended Saturday.
the law and. also his call for!
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The accounts, almost uniform in! content, underiayed or ‘overlooked
his statement that “TI was not and/flaming truck om the Morris 8t |
am not an enemy of the Hun garian people and “I did not and do not have any conflict with the Hungarian worker.”
/The press also overlooked the
to deprive any social class of any
trial-ie-a-
He said Catholics. everywehre should disregard the cardinals confession because it followed the pattern of Communist trials everywhere. Also ih Washington, the Rev. Dr. Frederick B. Harris, U. 8. Senate chaplain, - s&xid the trial was the signal for “war to the hilt” between Catholicism and communism. “It is the signal for war between an anti-Christian tolossus and any church which refuses to submit to its supremacy and regimentation,” the Rew. Mr, Harris told his congregation at the Foundry Methodist Church. “This sickening sham. (It) is only the Sirst of a series of onsiaughts that may be ex-
pected. ‘Flendish, Ghoulish’ Cardinal Spellman, who was elevated to his rani at the same
3 I “fiendish, ghoulish men of slaughter™ who worship the gods “Stalin and Satin” He warned the Arherican people to unite and abandon: their “ostrichlike” attitude to save themselves from “trickery, tortures, disaster
the death of Cardinal. Mindszenty,” he said, “for man is not completely born wumtil he dies to Hive in God.” - Cardinal Spellman expressed the belief that Mindszenty's jail= ers perhaps gave the prelate drugs without his Ixnowledge to wring from. him the confession
Roderic Rae Jr, . . . Two shots whistled past his head. » ” .
Ex-Local Officer
Ballistics Expert
Roderic J. Rae Jr. former sheriff's deputy and son of a. former police laboratory ‘analyst here, escaped a shooting ambush early today as he left the home of his mother in 2055 Park Ave., he told police today. Mr. Rae, visiting his mother, Mrs. Roderic Rae Sr., for the week
down the steps to the
He told police he believed the vehicle was a maroon colored Kaiser. He said he could think of no reason for the ambush. Mr. Rae has been living in Chicago for several years.
that he was guilty “4x printiple and in detail of most” of the gov-!
ernment’s charges of treason,
{espionage and black marketeer-
t ing. i {
Under Guard;
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watch in his prison cell today while! : ‘ Budapest Peoples C Somonow i on the “blind” date that led
the Cardinal celebrated a soli-| his prison building, the same
portant. American. British and)! ‘
French newspaper present at the trial must have been very disap-| Pointing for those wh ent of their political hopes! or - desires ow garian democracy from the trial” | Cardinal Mindszenty and his Six co-défendants will be sentenced on a variety of charges, charged with either
From Flaming Truck Hs 2 street department were fnjured toda when they jumped from thelr
escaped Injury when th leaped to safety. ey William Marshall, 62 of 525 Goodlett Ave, Injured his back, right shoulder amd head while William H, Maxey, 65, of 126 W.
aimed against Hun-{for there is Robert
liots of fun to teach the
bridge over White River. Five playing for-awhile. She has lobar
[the little girl, who already had
right whatever which was their due.”
fired a--can--ofi
Gladdens Hearts Of Evicted Family
MR. AND MRS. ROBERT T. ALLEN and family have moved| into the home of the couple who! attended them when they were married. They've left the room from which they were to be evicted, to take the basement apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harvey of 2602 8. Rowena St. Mrs. Harvey introduced the Al-
to marriage. The Allens lived with the Harveys a few months after their marriage. They were invited back when their friends about the eviction. in The Times. i
{ THE ALLEN boys, Bobby, 8 0 walted|ang Billy, 5, have been too ex-
cited to eat. They have pals again| Harvey, 6, and a host of youngsters in the neighborhood. They have a front yard and back yard, Robert's dogs, Stardust and Gf , won't make Bobby and Bil entirely forget their own dogs, Scotty and Tiny, But it's dogs new |tricks. Scotty burned when the {Allens’ first house was destroyed
Benefits Under sum
relatives who will divide the in-
To Lie Near Sacco and Vanzetti
who have become martyrs in the heart attack last week, was cre-
‘Workers Hall, 168° W. 9th St.
Basement Home [members of the 1abor movement, '/tar outfielder, sig including CIO officials from other|his ID# contract today at a 1igcities, passed before Mr. good’s casket.
Riley Hospital
Aside Interest for Care of Children Funds to provide medical and surgical care in- perpetuity for the children of Shelby County at are provided in
Riley Hospital - § Rhe $300,000 estate of Dr, Samuel|
Kennedy, Shelbyville - physician, who died last Tuesday.
estate after the death of five
come among them as long as they live, Indiana Trust Co., executor of Dr. Kennedy's estate, could not immediately estimate the amount
of income. officials were conferring with attorneys in Shelbyville today. A Pioneer Ph
First Shelby County resident to enter Purdue University, Dr. Kennedy was also the first physician in the county to operate his own X-ray equipment. Having no children of his own, he frequently told the parents of ill children he attended that when
Seize Pool f Probe
itness
he died, his money would go to| SE
help the childrén of the county]:
receive adequate hospital care. Wife Died In 1047 With the death of his wife, Katherine
him.
William H. Kennedy of New York City. >
They will divide income of the| §
estate with three relatives of the late Mrs. Kennedy. » Mrs. Kennedy's «relatives are two nieces, Mrs, Marie DePrez of Shelbyville and Mrs. Justine MillKin of New York City and a nephew, Will L. Elliott, New York City.
Hapgood’s Ashes
PART OF Powers Hapgood's
[ashes will, be sent to Boston, |!
labor ‘movement. Mr. Hapgood, who died of a
at the Amalgamated Clothing Hundreds. of rank and file Hap-
The labor leader had devoted his life to the cause
Lefeers Kennedy, in| 8 June, 1947, Dr. Kennedy had only] }
Believed to. Exceed ‘Babe’s’ $80,000 NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (UP)
Joe: DiMaggio, the New York Yahkeées' / star outfielder, signed
ure believed to be the highest ever paid to 4 member of the ball club, even exceeding Babe
of labor. “1 think Powers would have!
liked to have part of his ashes! DiMaggio signed the contract OTeCas! {for one year and although
near those of Sacco and Vanzettt,” said his wife, Mary. The| remainder of the ashes will ‘be strewn over the farm on the] Southport Rd. that he loved so| well. : ' Officiating at Mr. Hapgood's| funeral this afternoon was John Brophy, Washington, long time labor. leader who is a. public relations and legislative official in the national CIO.
Wants Rent Curbs
Two More Years
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UP)—| Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods today asked for a two-| year extension of rent control] because of a ocntinued “critical shortage” of rental housing. Woods told the House Banking Committee that if rent ceilings are removed, on the estimated 14,350,000 dwellings now under control, it “would be a serious blow to our economy.” He said! demand for rental housing will not be reasonably met in less
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by fire. Tiny ran away before!
months later, ‘ ® & »
MARILYN ALLEN, 8, won't be
pneumonia and bad tonsils, Marilyn is recuperating in an upstairs bedroom of the Harveys. House hunting in bad weather, because her mother had no place to leave her, seemed to prove too much for
nervous disorders following the fires. : Mrs. Allen is, making éurtpins and. glowing. with plans for furnishing the basement apartment. Mr. Allen is at work making a Kitchen cabinet and putting 'waiterproof paint on the floors tn make the‘two rooms “home,” and the true friends who provided then are pleased with their tenants.
Times Index
Amusements 13|Movies ..... 13
than two years.
ness in hearings on administration demands for extension. ~
today to next week end. Then, barring new heavy having to walk two and one-half
to be passable by the end of the, week. . , Gasoline business has been vir-| tually at a standstill for nearly)
in town can’t get out. They can
Childs ...... 100Othman .... | Editorials .. 10 Ruark vesen 9 | Forum
Blau ......s 12|Needlework . 12 9 BRITISH PROTEST REJECTED. Comics ..... 17 Radio ...... 8
than two miles. The rest of the town’s automo-
Ruth's $80,000 a season in 1931 and-1932.
neither he nor club officials would reveal the exact amount of‘ the pact, Arthur (Red) Paterson, the Yankee secretary, sald, “Joe is quite satisfied.” The slender slugger, who had one of the greatest years of his career in
i General” Mane st eng fee -O-Rama Seat
Weiss before aflixing his name to the document. ) It was believed that he had been slightly at odds with Weiss
over a bonus clause, }
Got $68,000 Last Year - Playing his 10th season with the Yankees, the 34-year-old center fielder batted .320, hit 39 home runs and drove In 156 runs, the second highest total of his career. He also hit 26 doubles and 11 triples which made him the most consistent extra-base slugger on _the club and perhaps in
the major leagues, v are re- | because the decline has been so 1 out: of; his Last year, DiMaggio drew) _neid® tor PORS WIE TE | i00dy. But they should remem. (Pocket and said he was on his approximately $68,000, getting end: eszanine ber last year's porterhouse steaks to testify inthe lottery part of it in base pay with the re- ’ at $1.05 per pound (mow 65.to Probe. He sald theYyury would be mainder on a bonus arrangement. ® The «Times Ice-O-Rama (75 cents). mighty unhappy if he didn’t get He revealed that he was leav-| Feb. 24 in the Fairgrounds From Washington, however, 40Wn 50 we. him to
their second house burned, a few| (Government authority to im- ing tomorrow by plane for Mexico! pose .rent ceilings expires Mar. City, where he will have a brief 31. Mr. Woods was the first wit- vacation before reporting to the
Yankee spring training base at St. Petersburg, Fla, Mar. 1.
Griffinites Are Shoo-in for Track Honors ic: iu ow rent or i Rati, ve fo, ge sae As They Walk Rails to Beat Flood Waters
Residents Look Forward to Dry Week End And End of Town's Month-Long Isolation
GRIFFIN, Feb, 7 (UP)—Griffin's 280 families. looked forward rival on “foreign” soll. The walk {doesn’t . seem to. bother. the athletes. They won the Posey County
Since Jan. 11, flood water from the Wabash River has isolated [tournament after the flood isothe community. Now it is slowly receding and highways are expected Inted Shar 8 their town.
rains, they can get out of town without
miles along a railroad track.
fon the shoe leather of Griffin
folk who have jobs outside town, and on people from other towns
pany.
ce flood. a month. Some 25 automobiles who work for a Griffin oil _gom-| heard one man travel in a radius of not more Some 30 persons park their distance of 180
cars at the Barrett Switch crossroads’ daily and walk the. two
Printing Plant 0f Quiz Figure
Confiscate Tickets Produced by Rahke; Arrest 2 Men Thousands of baseball lot« tery tickets printed by the firm whose owner has been the main witness in County Prosecutor George S. Dailey’s lottery-politics probe were seized by city police this morn, : wo men afilisted with the + {firm that prints the tickets were arrested but Fletcher Rahke, who police say owns the printshop, was not held. Police Chief Edward D. Rouls said- the arrests were the result lof an anonymous letter received by Mayor Feeney last week and turned over to the chief of police, gi Text of Letter | The letter said:.
Mayor: 1 “There is a matter that I think 'ealls Tor your attention and ime mediate investigation, “At a two-story cement block building at 601 KE. Michigan St. ‘many members of the police department visit there very short stays. Many times police -jears are standing with motors Michigan St. just east
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“oad up packages which I hear o are ball tickets. They are there 3 from about 8 until 9:30 o'clogk. Several times during the day these same cars come back and leave smaller jes and load _ again. happens every Tuesday, One of the cars is°R 104§Black Ford
Rain or Show
‘Seen Tomorrow... LOCAL TEMPERATURES
atl Weds Drop == 18.3% in 3 Months
84m... 18 104 ex 2a to Ba mild 12 (hoow. 81 Prices Slip [ing Clea fam... 22 1pm... 16% % Since Holidays Sa an rn
Light rain or snow tomo! will follow today’s fair and rather) Times Biter cold weather, the Weatherman| Retail meat prices in. chain warned Indianapolis today. stares te have. filles 18.3 per After dipping to 15 degrées to-/cent since r Day weeknight, the merciry is expected to|end of last year and groceries are ri tree | GOW 16.5 per cént from the pre-| Another Weather Story, Page 2 |Christmas season, a Times food reach 42 tomorrow. Light rain in|survey showed today. 1
By HAROLD HARTLEY
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“We saw three mén get into an
; {automobile, one of them carry the afternoon or evening was This morning prices of choice! a ” to follow Increasing hogs in. the Indianapolis Stock- ing_3 package. said Kavanagh,
cloudy skies earlier tomorrow, (Yards dropped another 50 cents a Rain was predicted in rn hundred pounds to $20.25. Porkers
Hoosfer counties, while northern | £6TR 225 Ke 259 Douuds brought Sriver dalled 3s give 2 wud parts will receive light raid or | 50-280 ars onty|to the curb and ad Roo snow, istrict. 14 $17.50. . George Brown Jr,, 21, of 4233 Sun In the Yincarmon dist " pes The drop in retail meat and|®et, on a charge of failing to give Seco ay bh water v grocery prices {from last January|® band signal. : eauss of hgh water. is not so great, a leading grocer Sm Ne opens he Pskags ~ reported. Retail meats fell from found it contained 20 -
an average of 52.4 cents to 49.2 cents and one pound of dry gro ceries from 14 cents to 12.6 cents.
Retailers are charting future “We charged Brown Jr. prices steadily downward, SAIS) Rretiig 8 JOTery, ‘Then & foresee no collapse, but a gradual ; 3 drifting to lower ground. “The
Sale Is Brisk
“WOver-thé-counter sale of = tickets to The Times Ice-O-Rama was brisk today
the special booth opened at 1. Bram & Co. [it 0 TEE 1 fern nim ono lotrs char too he ported. “The future grocery bill] There was a third man in the = @ For the better seats, be sure | Will be affected in three ways: By| af who said his name was ; to t yours early this [how much the government buys Fletcher Rahke and that he Ee y for’ Europe, for thé Army and to printed (the tickets. But in as-
week — perhaps tomorrow. Prices are: Box and parquet chairs, $1.20; side mezmanine, 85 cents; east end mezzanine, 60 cents. Prices
support prices.” ; Steaks Down 80¢ “Housewives fail to realize how |far prices have broken,” he’ said,
|Grand Jury subpena
ceed.” : Lacked Search Warrant ‘ Tnasmuchi as the policemen did , they igan
Coliseum will raise money [came two other dissenting views Pro for the Infantile Paralysis on meat prices. The Department Fund. Some ,600 loeal ice {or Agriculturé: predicted “mod- | skaters will take part in lerately rising prices” in the next not have a search ; the two-hour production. few months due to short supply. did not go back to the REI But a widely read “tipster” letter St. printing firm,
[the freeze in the West, and that|Pearance before the Grand Jury
meat prices would continue down-| a rok. od probe was ward. {launched last week by Mr, Dailey
{floor schedule. But once a week| Government support prices re-
the team and coach walk the
mains the big factor.
(tracks to keep a date. with
them even at that price. ) " - Charles Gilmore “.p ."} ines but good polis Start $5 Million Drive said iat poopie in town had tics,” one grocer commented, In Heart Disease since the He said he had| Meat going: over the bytcher NEW YORK, Feb. counters today is a better grade| XO] ib 7 ( A claim a record of|,, =" 4 year, It in better fed nation-wide drive to raise $5 mil~ 38 round t since Jan. 11, ® and weighs heavier. “Meat is not/lion to fight heart disease, the Ca 180 i ec 7 ofr, ot be 1s uk de Sime o, dst recréation is & checkerboard and|'"’ oo Soo" TOTES ny the “Alsocias ‘Bus Crash Kills 17 Hon;
|biles can't get In. They were out- and one-half miles to Griffin #0 pinball machine in a cafe.
side when water closed the high-
t tonight oar 1080ckety reer Wigay, rejected a British {Hollywood .. 13 Sports .....6-7) lies nection with the trial of Joseph aside Indpls. 9 Weather Map 2 5." poyeri?”, Cardinal Mix y charged Tilnols Central freight Britain with to give “assistance to the enemies of Hine. = / ;, : The situation. has - bard
they can report for work.
2 py boxcar once a day in anthe five-mile round-trip once or) train. [twice a week to call on patients. There is no passenger service on Griffin has no’doctor of its own. the 4
The ' Righ school! basketball team had- tor cancel its home
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usual. Set a new in fact.” :
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sald the month-long Dr. H. E. Ropp, a physician isoldtion didn't bother the peo-| roll inte town from New Harmony, Ind., walks! ple very much. “We have something like thig{and 50 injured last night when {every year,” Gilmore said. “This!a bus plummeted into a ravine time It lasted a little longer than near Baden-Baden in the record, zone, the newspaper Fr.
ing Is U. 8, potato buying. The) &|government is paying $4 a hun-| dred pounds for potatoes in Maine to keep prices up, and reselling cents a hundred: pounds. And the alcoho! makers don't Want
FRANKFURT, Feb, 7 (UP) -~ |Sevénteern Germans were killed
a
them to alcohol makers at § ta 8) von
Outstand-| Who seeks to link two prominent
Republican politicians, one of
ve ball lottery racket.
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