Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1949 — Page 1

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This photo shows. Robert Nolte, a newspaper motor route eirculation man, trying to dig his automobile out of the mud in the 3500 block Sumner Ave. this morning. This strip of Sumner is maintained by county commissioners. When Mr. Nolte’s car bogged down to the hubcaps, he called Commissioner Fred W. Nordsiek. Mr. Nordsiek immediately ordered a county maintenance crew to tow out the sunken automobile. The county tow truck was just running out its chain to Mr. Nolte's car when Times Photographer Oates appeared on the scene to photograph the rescue. The county truck crew didn’t like it one bit. “Bub,” one of the crew told Mr. Nolte, “this publicity won't do you no good.” With that, the crew rolled in its chain, climbed back into the truck and drove away, leaving Mr. Nolte stuck in the mud. The circulation man in desperation called a wrecking service in Beech Grove which finally pulled : Nordsiek said he couldn’t order the crew back because the mudhole is not his jurisdiction. Commissioner William (Bud) Bosson is in charge of maintaining road tonditions in the area. Residents say the roadway has been ignored. They fear for the safety for a pregnant woman who lives in the block and is expecting momentarily, Vehicles can neither get in or out

Torrential Rains

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Trumans Attend Valentine Dance, But Sit "Em All Out

“Chief Execulive, Wife Occupy Give Washington Society a Good Look

By MERRIMAN SMITH, United Press White House Reporter WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—President Truman took Mrs. Truman out to a Valentine Day dance, but they didn't dance a step. Instead of whirling to a polka or gliding to a waltz, the President and his wife sat in a draped box and suffered themselves to be stared at by the cream of Washington society. ’ The occasion was a Valentine Ball last night, given by the!

Bandits Terrorize American Newspaper Women's Suburban Couple

The President was precisely Man, Wife Slugged

correct in his white tie and tails. Mrs, Truman snuggled in a fur wrap over her evening gown. For two hours, the Trumans had even less privacy than they did on’ their campaign trips. Their box jutted onto the -dance figor

the two-step to a one-sts as they went by and gawked. Hold Fashion Show During an intermission, there was a fashion show devoted entirely to fur wraps. Mr. Truman sat like an obedient husband as a succession of models swirled by

aged suburban was terrorized by three masked men who invaded their home and robbed and beat them last night. The three men, each white handkerchiefs over their

locked front door at the home

Photo by William Oates, Times Staff Photographer

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{bor and its extent in the light of {all possible information.”

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Probe Urged

‘8-14 Million’ R Forced Into Labor Camps LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y, Feb. 15 (UP) — The United States formally proposed in the United Nations today that the International Labor

Organization inquire into

charges that 8 million to 14 million persons have been pressed

into forced labor In the Soviet Union. t Willard Thorp, U. 8. asisstant| secretary of state for economic affairs, asked the United Nations Economic and Social Council to

order I. L. O. to give “consideration to the problem of forced la-

The Western Powers contend)

ern European governments have! sentenced axis war prisoners and| even their own citizens to slave labor camps. The formal American proposal represented by a backdown from Mr. Thorp's informal proposal yesterday. / Challenges Russ ! Then he challenged Russia to admit an International investigating commission beyond its borders to check or refut~ charges that mass slave labor practices prevail throughout Russia. The formal resolution did not mention) any international investigating commission. Mr. Thorp introduced the resolution, which would. transfer the whole problem to the I. L. Os after Toni Sender of American Federation of Labor laid before the 18-nation council 15 sworn claimed to be hi of the Russian forced labor m, as well as an additional document

Ice on Pavements By United Press

greatly increasing the major floods along the Ohio and Missouri River Valleys. The Far West, however, en: joyed its wécond day of respite from the high winds and ecatastrophic blizzards that struck the range states repeatedly during the past seven weeks. The rain falling east of the Mississippi froze in most sections, lea ire ice on pavements, trees

Report 1.29 Inches In Chicago, pedestrians were Horced to walk in the middle of the streets, where automobile chains churned the sheath of ice into a sloppy but negotiable slush. Toledo, O., reported 1.29 inches

of Mr. and Mrs. William Brad+{in what the announcers called “a

orthern Indiana late

today and farther south tomor-{ 7-30 P. m. yesterday,

: 3 J e y

- to four feet above flood stage.

West fork, White River: Moderate crests above Indianapolis, with less than flood stage expected here. From Spencer to Petersburg, crests within one to two feet of January floods. Wabash . River: Three feet “above flood stage at Bluffton. At

“Wabash, eight feet above; about

three feet .above the warning stage. At Peru and Logansport, high water but-not-to-reach- flood stages, ‘ w " From : Lafayette, with 10 feet above flood stage, to the mouth of the Wabash, Mr, Miller said the worst of the water will appear. Covington may expect eight feet above, Terre Haute, four to five feet above, Vincennes, - four teet above, and Mr, Carmel, three feet above flood stage. The local weather forecast called for clearing weather late today, becoming fair and colder

* tonight, low 26 degrees. Tomor-

row will be fair and warmer,

On the Air

House committee backs $90-

for veterans of World Wars Iand II... Green asserts Taft-Hartley bill hampers unions “clean news from Congress. ....

out” of Reds... other

ford, 5224 W. Kelly St, at about] quarter million dollars worth of rs.” The President is not exact

ty “af fur fan. He probably would have been bored had it not been for {the fact that he knew some of! | the models. i

“This is a stickup,” one of the

moved, downstream. At present, en said. ‘He then raised a beer

prospects seemed to be: East fork, White River: Moderate flood stages to prevail. Seymour and Shoals will have

| bottle which he was carrying and struck Mr. Kelly over the head.

House Ransacked

gle, Mrs. Bradley leaped at one |g, wag Mrs. Charles F. Brannan,

face. The third man rushed initupre a and struck the 46-year-old] apy Clark made a particular) woman over the head with a {hit with the President by pausing blackjack, cutting her head and migway in her modeling to hand! bursting the blackjack open. him a Valentine rose. Mr. Tru-

from Mrs. Bradford's purse, $5 evening. . from Mr. Bradford and a 22-call-| ber.gun

a drawer. {Came time for suppér--about

Pyle’s Body in Hawaii To Await Reburial "HONOLULU, Feb. 15 (UP)— The body of war correspondent Ernie Pyle rested today in the Army mausoleum at Merry's Point while awaiting

Cemetery in Punchbowl crater. “The body was brought here aboard an LST from Saipan. Mr, Pyle was killed on, Ie Shima during the Okinawa campaign.

Today

a-month pension plan

box. Daricers in the general area |

Executive grapple with oygters. A man in uniform and Madame Bonnet, wife of the French ambassador, danced by the presidential box sedately, she In a chic

from Paris. A young couple—the girl in a flimsy thing of brown and the boy in an {ll-fitting dinner jacket—romped by in the belt Mutervug style.

a chance to dance.

Blast Rocks Koppers Plant

KEARNY, N. J, Feb. 15 (UP) —An explosion rocked the Kop-

Crash kills two brothers, injures five on U. 8. 6... .Page g/pers Coke plant here today.

Tension, fatigue enemies to

Your Marriage analyzed by Samuel and Esther Kling . . . 8 new human relations feature along with Mrs. Manners. ............/....Paged China to speed peace efforts with Red foes. ,

The concussion was felt in midcouple on honeymoon nm

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man and tore the mask from his wife of the Secretary of Agricul- Tapidly * hw |

As the dazed couple watched. san carefully folded the flower Elkton ceased, the three men ransacked the ines his program and gestured drained fromthe houses and: house, taking - $4 anda... Walch with it during the rest of “the! Served In Box |

| ) There were two major fires ., | midnight-+and the “Trumans ate| from dalnty trays served in thetr| OFS midnight last night.

gown of gray just off the boat |

of rainfall in a six-hour period

last night, and Effingham, sian spokesmen in the United Na-

had 1.20 inches. % & U. 8, engineers feared the downpour wouid intensify the danger of flooding along the Ohio, the Missouri and their tribdtaries.

Flood waters of the Little Riv-| Mrs. Tom Clark, wife of the “hich drove-ai least 85 west-| As the two men began to strug-| Attorney General, was there and ®™ Kentucky families from their

Torrential rains swept wide portions of the Midwest today, 50,000 to 100,000 German forced threat of|laborers, including some prison{ers of war and political prisoners,

a thin glaze of treachers

charging Moscow with "use of! [slave labor in mining uranium.” This document charged that

|“are engaged in mining uranium {in the Erzegebirge area, which lies partly in German Saxony and partly in Czechoslovakia.” / ‘Bullt Slave Camps’ Miss Sender charged that Russia has built “large efusters” of slave labor camps in various parts of the sprawling Soviet Union. In some le camps, she said, thére are a# many as 1 milpersons whose relations with the Kremlin have sent them to forced labor. Great Britain's Christopher Mayhew was “eady to throw British weight behind the American proposal when the council con-

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The Ott Workman Case... No. Fear, Mystery, ‘Political Dynamite’ Shroud Workman Case

Judge Even Hints ‘Fabulous Sums’ Were Paid to Promote Parole By ROBERT BLOEM OTT WORKMAN, the Loogootee lifer in sta is fast becoming a mew D. C. Stephenson. # Not since the Ku Klux Kian Dragon was sent up in the mid-1920's for the murder of a statehouse working girl has a convict's case become so deeply mired in.politics, fear and mystery. Recently a prison official, Trustée Carter Manny, charged publicly that Ott

Workman was a “political

prisoner,” Weeks of exhaus-

tive investigation . add weight to his remark. Ott Workman was

some ‘sent

Dubois County jury. found guilty of injuring . his brother-in-law, Charles Basch of Haysville, during the comm n

the. .acene of {is BOP dike testified that Workman had mastermin the holdup attempt. /

Free, Once—For 25 Days i

#ON THE ONE occasion when

administration. Politicians fear

Workman case. : Reputable lawyers are afraid to answer Workman letters asking legal advice for fear of having their names linked with his. Out of that 1045 rumor money-—$§50,000 plus “extras” had been used to buy the Workman parole. Official and unofficial investi gations have followed one another in rapid succession. No one has ever uncovered the slightest

venhed today. i/ Mr, Thorp said that even Rus-

tions, Soviet statistics and Soviet ‘newspapers have revealed the ex-| {istence of “corrective iabor camps” in Russia.

| Suspects Secrecy {

| {have come into existence they|

evidence that any such sum was used to “buy” or otherwise pro-

hig rrdedom lasted only 25 days. That was in |factory reached its peak production. It has Today the once afMiuent Martin. a move in his favor would be considered

could be misled for years to comne by 4 wrong move in the

factory that,

mystefy. It” the

prison for life June 30, 1938; by Political He wi

n 1945

Ott Workman did

the fortunes of

Workman, himself, would

Politics, Feuds, Sharp Dealings

GOING STILL further back in the case history, a number of Wo persons close fo it insist that Ott Workman was the “brains” of a to one-eigh {gang of cutthroats and arsonists who terrorized Martin County and [the its environs a little more than a decade ago. There are mysterious given up the idea. “Wherever Communist regimes references to two-unsolved murders in Martin County. Arter Back in the misty period before the robbery-shooting, a

homes, subsided today almost as have brought in their wake a re-| Workman was not present bit for

as they rose. 2 Fires Break Out

The rains which sent. the Little |58Me countries about a century sharp

and the water

as thie worst In 40 years.

Weather officials sald the main

slowed down to watch. the Chiet|"P® for averting more floods lay

in continued freezing weather.

GOP Primary Bill Rammed Through

Republicans brought their Senate majority to bear today to ram

the Trumans never did get| through the GOP direct primary |

election bill over Democratic pro-

{test that it was a “scheme to

perpetuate party bossism.”

The measure was passed along

[strict party lines by a vote of 28

[to 21.

Sen. Walter Vermillion (D. An-|

‘derson), leader of the Democratic minority, termed the Republican primary bill a “fraud which would undermine free gov

control.” the voters as far as the primary

election is concerned, he said. He was answered by Sen. Wesley Ma-

Around the World . .. a digest of today’s inter- page 7{EoMCEman and every ayiiab ble one x Clnion). who wo a national .news Cheats ave sus aeatt trae isbaae scene, . la i ro ¥ S Senate on des, salesmen by day . . . at night they skate hin tions ware u Jilad at the A ne. .¢ in Times Ice-O-Rama . . . a photo-story . . . other The Koppers Coke Co. is located Chief Contentio bi - ection page features with Sovola, Ruark and in the southern part of Kearny| Particular bone of so tution 3 Page 900 the Hackensack River just/™as 4 provision in the c OthMEBN ...icveeetornsanssvosssssssasssnsseal north of the Newark turnpike, would require primary election Or Satch’s “nice” raise is news to Veeck ... , other Company officials believed there voters to declare their party aff- ] . vies... Pages 14-15|might be “a number of casual-|liation 35 days before the primary sports Wermtbetstaererinn tran “e pe ; ties.” A J ! it/in dr to be ligibe to vote a i. Other Features on Inside Pages. 5 neon cao won lie The measure p ain Amusemen | fven. . cedlewoik .12/Sobiety .....11 |RUSS LEADERS TO MEET |governor, lHeutenant governor * Bridge 1320 Honywood I erates, oT Sports. «+.14,15| BERLIN; Feb. 15 (UP)-—The(U, 8. Senator iri a statewide priBuatess +on 7 Inside Indpis. 0 Othman ,.... 9| Teen Taik ..12/Suppeme Soviet Russian’ Barlia- mary. If no candidate for nomiComica ttt" 19! Dr, Jordan. ..12| Patter ....12| Earl Wilson. 5 ment has been called into session natioh receives at least 35 per : 'd .. 4 Mrs. Manners 4! Radio ......20) Weather map 2|in Moscow.Mar. 10, the Soviet li-|cent of the {otal vete nomina- ; i + +10 Movies ves 33| Ruagi sreane 9) Womens eel? censed 2 ody, news agency tion would revert to old con- | F004 seseessdd| National ALL.108ide Glances.10| World Af....10/ADN said

streets. . The flood was described,

plagued Hopkinsville residents, Russian): government . ,

be one of the surest indications! jst ration were the actions of men

be- [10 “{that there is much to hide."

It virtually would disfranchise|,

{turn of practices. of slave labor| similar to those abolished in the

[River five feet deep into the Hop-|280,” Mr. Thorp contended. | Kinsville business district and

He said that if such allegations

|flooded the downtown section of Were not true, Russia should be] + here remains

willing to let international inves-

tion. ‘ [He added, howevér, that “the

4 Iraqis Hanged

BAGHDAD, Feb. 15

today for conspiring to destroy

(UP)—) |Two Iraqis were hanged in public]

which he was sent to prison, lies a fantastic story of politics, feuds, ‘dealings, hill country hatred, fears of reprisal and revenge. yet, nearly four years after the case first broke

tigators. clear Moscow's. reputss iaree—print—o-reluctance—on—the: part of members of the. adminls-|

tration of former Gov. Gates to

Fire, on top of the’ flood, Cloak of secrecy adopted by (the qjgcuass the case. Though little seems was

said, actions of that admin.

who Dbelleved, as Judge Gilkison does, that the Workman parole was bought and paid for. Ewen the Supreme Court as a whole has played a weird role in the case, succeeding only in

[the state. Two others were hanged | adding to the mystery surround

yesterday. for the same thing.| iMilitary courts - found all four {guilty of impairing public security| by causing unrest f (forces.

Linn Freed on In Gravel Pit

Declaring that the “presum

Judge Oral 8. Barnett of the Johnson County Circuit Court yes. terday ordered Robert C. Linn, 28,. of 631 Holly 8t., released on {$10,000 bond in the gravel pit murder case ! The. order, one of the few on record in fitst .|ernment for the sake of Party... was handed down following several

{evidence in the case at Frank- | Relatives of the defendant |posted the $10,000 bond a few {minutes after the order was given land Linn walked out of jall and returned to his home in Indianapolis the first time since his arrest here in September, 1047, Jury Falls to Agree Linn's murder case was venued to Johnson County from Marion County several months ago after a jury in Criminal Court 2 here fatled to agree on a verdict in November, 1947. '

his companion, Herbert Brunner, 26, of 820 Division murder of Theodore whose body pit in W, Raymond St. here July 13, 1947.

After the jury deadlock, the cons vention SYSem, ____ .. me. (C388 Of the two defentisnts were. able doubt

‘He was tried here jointly with “careful . consideration.”

it. for the i i a Wolfe, 23; - However, last summer, after was found in a gravel the Brunner irial, the

ing _ it.

Death has taken a hand to add to the confusion. It. took three

the armed prosecutors to send Ott. Work.

man to prison back in 1938. One

$10,000 Bond Murder Case

‘Presumption of Guilt” Called Insufficient As Judge Hands Down Rare Order

ptiom of guilt" was insufficient,

degree murder hours of testimony on segarated. Brunner wént on trial a nd time here last April and the jury found him guilty and |sentenced him to life imprison. | ment. | FEowever, recently Special Judge Dewey BE. Myers granted Brunner a mew trial as the result of an | Indiana Supreme Court decision, {overruling technicalities in the {instructions given the jurors at the time of the trial. | Xmsetructions given the jury in. volved reference to circumstantial {evidence as the basis for guilt on This

wording formerly was the Supreme Court.

Feuds,

te prison,

"This in the first of & series of articles on the Ott Workman

celebrated D. C.

movedl from their positions, “Ott story in his own good time."

In Bonus Fight |

Hope to-Block Quorum Vote

Ste-

tell the

t which

of them

planation. after the trial Hystery unsolved.

heart

J attack recently. knew

In the articles which

speak for themselves

4 political prisoner.

what went before.

appeared mysteriously on the day the trial opened. Who hired him, what part he was expected to play was not revealed. Nothing of his part in the case ever has had a supportable ex- ¢ He died some years leaving

Frank Greenwald; lite attorney and erstwhile public defender, lost his job largely over the Workman. case. He. dled of a!

’ » TOMORROW: The crime and |

the

Gary

If he,

anything of the case bei yond what has been explained! publicly already, he told nobody, |H® ‘and his secret died with him.

this one the Workman story will{lives ‘while : people back be told, as much of it as ig|Were making money, known, from beginning to end. aren't giving them enough, The facts, most of them unpub-jdeclared. - lished before now, will have to| Rep. Joseph Klein OD ard | to jumped to his feet and s : whether Ott Workman ls, in fact,| Rep. Copeland, “You

In Housing Bill

. The Senate today was consider-

ing amendments to the

Indian-

apolis Redevelopment Commis- Pick and Shovel sion bill which yesterday passed the House by a vote of 93 to 0.

The amendments would permit

the commission to accept

assessed valuation, and permit the commission to

ance program.

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Greencastle Puts

Lid on Gambling

Times State Serviee

forms County, : The sheriff, who said

Court held that jury instructions on such evidence. must involve tion “beyond all reason

dem

word

received . numerous about

‘board, %

some homes from the slum clear-|

announced an airtight lid on all of gambling in Putnam

prosecute ght pirating ar playing

Federal

aid, repeal a provision) which now permits the purchase of 10 or more plots at less than

would | exclude

he has te

| forces for passage of fure which would set a

Study Changes |

pro ghth of 1 per cent. meeting the lawmaker

publicans jumped to their f with p

Democrat majority, still

2 per cent sales tax has been estimated at appro: mately $150 million. ~~ Rep. Charles Miser (R. t uw the time Tm OF Servos. ~.... "Grab for Voters

nover) sought to bilF’s maximum from $400 “The veterans were giving |

And}

try ing. a cheap scheme to grab votes.” 4 For nearly a Week

have been

$400 on the amount vo Fr

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Hl Modern Miners Not. '

* Fifty years ago a miner's output with ? shovel and hard work 4 only 2% tons daily. With today’s modern 3

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