Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1949 — Page 1
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[scupps-nowarnl 59th YEAR--NUMBER 314 .
A Little Child Shall Lead-Them . . .
James Walker, William, Dobbs, Charles Wilson and Leonard Jackson ...they met a young man in Riley Hospital who changed their minds.
‘Spring’ to Stay "Men Who Rifled Polio Boxes Learn
. How Money Saves Lives and Mends Bodies . . New Front © Four solemn-faced young men walked slowly through the polio i {treatment center of Riley Hospital yesterday.
By DONNA MIKELS
< . It was a guided tour, arranged especially for them. A hospital ay Cold Sweeping West attache walked with them, explaining use of mechanical devices J I | which help victims of infantile paralysis. will Not Hit Here | Once the quartet had to stop for a small brown-eyed | grinning LOCAL TEMPERATURES - boys, trying Tor the first time to) Ep NO a 6am... 42 10a m... 47 |Walk on crutches without his Drive. od James P. Walker, 26, Tam. 42 11am... 48 [heavy braces. : Ey Eoopation 8am... 44 12 (Noon). 58 He was half way acfoss the oe uced charge of disorderly aM... 3 ar before he faltered and a|® , FEW TE WRT nurse steadied him. But there| William R. Dobbs. » Jr : weepin ross/ Was no discouragement on his ’ { ti oo toward p \ Great Lakes face. He put the 30-day sentence. + Biven 8 i he West towar 0 crutches forward 4 ay sentence. £ region will not affect springlike/a nd started I think we've made the punish-
ment to fit the crime,” the judge said.
Woman Stabbed To Death in Hotel
| COLUMBUS, 0. Feb. 19 (UP) |—An unidentified woman was found stabbed 11 times in a blooddrenched béd in a small hotel Weatherman Paul Miller said out of a March here today and a bellhop said. he Indiana streams were cfesting at of Dimes polio chased her murderer down a fire predicted flood points except for grive box, to pay for beers at a escape after he almost caught 3 Terre Haute, where the Wabash North ‘Side tavern. ithe killer in the act. 2d River will rise to almost 22 feet| The tour was their sentence, Coleman Merchin, the bellhop, before receding. from Muncipal Judge Alex Clark, Who said the killer was middleEliminate Threat lho is chairman of the 1948 Sasa. and a 26-year-old man were March of Dime drive. eld as material witnesses. Hotel The cold front now advancing “At first I was shocked when I attendants said the murderer had toward the East will drop tem-| 4 .} ut this case,” the judge registered with the woman, about peratures below freezing In eX- said” I think if they had come|30, four hours before the crime i treme northern Indiana, but was up in my court that day I would | was discovered. 1 *. not éxpected to affect the rest of have given them the maximum| Mr. Merchin said hé had gone the state. But all four of the men had{about a disturbance. As temperatures dropped to al-ifamilies and were steadily em- “The door of room 608 was ‘most 25 below in the Northern ployed at a factory. The night open,” he said, “and I saw blood i Plains, the cold wave eliminated, Of the theft was pay day. Inon the floor. Then I looked down hreat of dis-|their own words, “they had gone the hall and saw a door leading temporarily, the threa fon a binge” and the theft fromito a fire escape open : astrous floods from the ®€P the coin box on the counter was “I looked through th d ge snow blanket covering the ranges. is. nranic eh : {down the fire esca: pesado 1 ‘The colder weather also halted yy i Biot on Records | a t
rains in the Pacific. Northwest, | The men testified th wld fter him.” | ey hadn't down after im. ‘the most critical flood area. inoticed the significance of, the
Ranchers along the ska hoped POX. For three of the men it was SUES FOR $8250 FEE iid weather would halt the|® first offense,” the first blot | HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 19 (UP)— = river's rise. The Nemaha left on clean records as steady work- Producer Arnold Pressburger toi t of Preston, Neb., ers and good providers for their day sued actor George Sanders its banks east o wives and family. {for an $8250 agent's fee.
temperatures in central and! again, a look of : southern Indiana, according to Pride and accom-§ 5 the Weather Bureau. re out sh or 4 ° Today's forecast called for algua.q warm, partly cloudy day with a “The scene held Ti high of 55. Rain late tonight willspe cial sigdrop temperatures slightly, to a Phone ga Ree for low of 36 tonight and a high of,
ers. A week ago 40 degrees tomorrow. they stole dimes
Judge €lark
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1049
| To Drop Cent
The price of milk will be t | A sweeping, non-political a Wart lower on one * investigation of the State ‘ Grade A * milk will. £ ym Highway Department was dend . :
[to the room to check a complaint:
man running fh the dark. I went!
{to the U. 8. Supreme Court.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Entered as Second-Clasy ‘Matter at Postoffce shane
Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Dally
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Demands Senate Probe i
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Crumbling Indiana Roads on Hamburg Front Beck Proposes. CZ TA {Man Board DE FROM ONLY. Conduct Quiz
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Grade A to Sell For 19 Cents, OtlProducts to Follow
By HAROLD HARTLE" Times Business Edit
In State Contracts By IRVING LEIBOWITZ
Might Be Uncovered
20°10 19 cents a quart products will follow, ittage cheese taking the largest fut of 3 cents on a 12-ounce container. Polk, Maplehurst and Borden dairies said the milk drop would i go into effect with all deliveries Monday morning. Other dairies usually follow as is the custom
manded today in the Indiana Senate. Sen. Dale E. Beck, Democrat dairy farmer from Young America, called on his colleagues to “find out exactly what is wrong with the state's roads.” In a scorching attack on road
in the monthly price-setting conditions, Sen. Beck proposed system based on condensary that the Senate form a bi-parti-quotations. san committee of four members
Canned Milk Piling Up to explore the controversial bate ~The reason for the successive {tle between the truckers and the drops is believed to be the pile-, highway department. up of canned milk. “For some, He hinted that a probe of road reason,” one dairy authority said. | . {conditions might uncover graft “canned milk is not moving. And| Don Warweg of Warweg's Self Serve Market, 1328 W. Washington St. . . . "No dobbinburgers here.” |In contracts. when a manufacturer gets too| = » = . = | mae this tit ete ™ phot na 35 toh hoes. he stops maxmg io | _‘Horseburger’ Raids Fail to Dent Oil Scout Found example of “road detérioration” This apparently has created a Appetites of Restaurant Customers ou Be ivan Je PA surplus of Grade B milk used by| Smashing of a “horse meat” syndicate didn't even dent the . h [he said had withstood heavy the condensaries which has re- Indianapolis appetite for thick, juicy hamburgers today | ndi flected it 1 the {pounding for 25 years. ec 8 over-supply on | Customers lined the stools of the quickie eating places last | Trucker interests have been Grade A market. 1 gq DIgNt, stuffing themselves with “Wimpies” and flipping wisecracks . \badgering state legislators to Coffee cream wi go from at the white-coated waiters. - | Foul Play Indicated; support a measure which would [cents to 20 cents; buttermilk from Some grocers believed sales would be off. [.. . sua establish new liberal ) 16 cents to 15 tents; half-and- $4000 Cash Missing "w raliad Huck cen 0 tpls; PA ’-an “And for no reason.” said one. oo TTT ae sandwich shop ng (weight limits for state highways, half (cereal cream) from 21 cents .ye grind our own, right in front i" Greencastle. _' PALESTINE, Ill, Feb. 10 (UP)! The truck bill, introduced by wo 19 Sets, and Shipping . nate! the customer if she wants t0 police quoted one of the men —Chester Kimmel, 42, Palestine Sens. William Bates (R..New Al yom 37 cents to 35 cents a half yo, §t gone.” arrested as stating that 500 oll scout, was reported near death bany) and Mary Garrett (D. Ine pint. i | Others were not worried. They pounds of horse meat hamburger today as Illinois and Indiana dianapolis), passed the Senate . . said their customers knew from y.. gent to Bloomington weekly. Police investigated the possibility today by a vote of 36 to 8. -A spot {experience what their hamburger All Make Bond {that he had been attacked and check of House members indi | contained, and they expected ‘ ‘ ie, atp TODDed of as much at $4000. {cated the liberalized truck re } sales to hold up. ri men ere chirged J Mr. Kimmel, who travels for strictions would have easy going | | | But one little restaurant op- Violation 0 an the Evansville, Ind., office of the in the lower House. 0 atts _ erator was sad. “We have good Food and Drug Act and placed gonis Oil Co. was found lyingi Opposed by | JwWamburger,” he said, “but last under the $2000 bonds by Crim-y.yiqe hig car on Route 33 seven| State highway officials oppose | “night after the papers came ow, nal Court 2. All had made bond yy jes south of here early yester- any liberalization of the present i Denies Constitutional we didnt sell a one” Ye pom, Tora. - [day morning. Palestine is a few truck weight limits. They say . C tate Hea partment offi- miles from the Indiana border. trucks are tearing up the high ; Rights Were Denied Re, 2S cials of the food [nd drug Sit] Early reports said he had cen |r ¢ iid i i | The Indiana Attorney General's sy,qicate were free on $2000 bonds 5/00 today intensified their drive fered a strake and there had been | Truckers, howéver, contend that office today filed a reply with the ey while county and state of-|'© contact more retailers of the ‘no foul play.” But Sheriff C. T. “only lax enforcement of weight U. 8. Supreme Court asking thatg..., pressed “their search for | orseburger. Te Jo ot Indian. | west said today that the frac- [requirements in Indiana” saved an-appeal by Robert Austin Watts ooo oor deli {apolls and central Indiana oul-i4;,req skull and wound on the left th from hy Bo sentence for outiets taking delivery {rom yoru groceries; restaurants and wae of his -head-could not have tn ttom a, murder be denied. [the syndicate. been set for ar ae TY spiral to" several poop inflicted “by a fall.” been constructéd properly they Watts was sentenced to die in : -| hun . $4000" wo the electric chir at state prison 'ignment of the 13 men. | Officials of the division sald RoooNee ted San Palestine ran Rot have defelioriadt 49 for the murder of Mary Lois Bur-| The huge horseburger ring retailers and restaurants taking hvsicl id this morning that| “We would have to close f was smashed here yesterday by| delivery from the syndicate face P ysician, sa orang up ney Nov. 12. 1949. After he was mass raids on an abattoir and possible prosecution unless they there was “no chance” Mr. Kim-|shop in Indiana if the officials ‘ denied a new trial by the Indiana wholesale distributors bY prefer to turn state's evidence mel would recover. He is being enforced the law,’ one truck
Supreme Court, the National As-| “= state officials. sociation for the Advancement oi | county and against the syndicate.
The syndicate's deliveries blan- Arrested in th threeColored People assisted In Carrv- yoo4 Marion County and spread raids Were: ‘ Ce-PrOng | armed Mr. Kimmel had been to Meanwhile, Thomas H. Maec-
ing his case to the Federal tri- , . oiohboring Hendricks and 2 : i Olney. 111, on an oil transaction. Donald, U. 8. Commissioner of bunal. : pe helgnorine Among towns sons Brows, 39, of 3430 E. He said Mr. Kimmel might have Public Roads, supported the InIt is charged Watts’ constitu- on (he delivery route were J Wayne Armacost. 48, of 2205 collected as much as $4000 there. diana Highway Commission's flat tional rights were denied by a yi neville, Greencastle, Sheridan N. Gale St. Mr. Kimmel was last reported rejection of a proposal to increase 4 “systematic” exclusion” of Ne- ,,.4 whitestown. Harvey L. Bottoms, 33, of 1213 seen in Evansville Wednesday truck axle loads beyond 18,000 groes from Marion County grand 1, ,ne instance, investigators N. Concord St. noon. His car was reported seen pounds. : . juries and by the use of duress reported tracing ground horse’ Lewis (Pop) Bottoms, 72, of 3 9 p. m. Thursday about 50 Road-building concerns cone in obtaining his confession. nm = ~~ 8309 W. Washington St. . yards from the spot where Mr. tend funds allocated by the state Cites Trial Testimony . John Floyd Barnett, 58, of 1258 Kimimel was found lying uncon- highway department for road con« The Attorney General's reply la p or Ww. Washington st. scious beside it yesterday. i struction have been insufficent to to the petition for a Supreme : | Elmer K. Flaherty, 22, of 1258 The only marks found on Mr. build “first class highways." They {Court writ of certiorari neld that W. Washington St. Kimmel were the bruise on the maintain a much greater outlay .. {no systematic exclusion of Ne- Curtis E. Barnett, 22, address fide of his head, a small wound would be needed to give the state |groes from grand jurfes exists. It fl 0 ery dar ges unknown. ‘at the base .of his skull and “heavy duty” roads. [Cited testimony on his Point In a Albert A. Anderson, 63, of 1742 slight abrasions on the fingers of Support Inquiry im > ’ e ore Arrai t Slated |N. Parker Ave. lone hand. Co { Bens. Garrett and Bates said a) to quash the murder in rraignmen a Loyal Anderson, 30, of 1918 N.! Authorities thought Mr. Kim- they would support the proposed . . Lo r vo... Parker Ave. CL } mel might possibly have traveled probe on condition that “part ony bre. cited To show that mo! Jor Mar, 26 oo gl Lloyd 8. Ray, 62. of 1854 Cof- to” Breckentidge, Ky. to “vit his politica be eiiirinirted. «= enis undue force was employed in ob- vain and investiga- lege Ave. son at the Army camp ther. Few safeguards have. been I Walle oor ap) dicted in a grand jury Investiga-| pawn Black, 32, of 1631 Park, A 30-caliber bullet, unfired and taken by lawmakers to prevent g Walls’ confession. tion of Marion County's lottery oye Apt, 1. : believed to have been taken as unwise spending of highway The state's reply contended|gypdicates was tentatively set to- George Holmes, 48, of Box 31, a" souvenir, was found on the funds” Sen. Beck sald. that throughout the Watts case, day for Mar. 26 by Judge Bain Maywood. - floor of the car. Truckers insist they are ene Henry Ratterman, 58, of Bridge- . Mr. Kimmel's son was reported tified to” special consideration on
including his appeal to the state ;, criminal Court 1. {Supreme Court, his constitutional] potions for the delayed ar- port. lon his way to the hospital here. Indiana highways. They point to TT ee ~ Ithe huge sums contributed by
jrights were carefully considered) ,ignment were presented by At- a In : Kers toward the upkeep of hool Doors Opened Again iw... Torna tes
and guarded. It also held|yorney Jacob Miller and Eugene James Nicholas, executive sec~
that no federal question had been |y,ckey. w d forthe fi It nc | Yockey, who appeared for‘the five legally presented by the petition men. The lawyers told the court <¢ retary of the Indiana Motor Truck Association, told a public road
hearing last week that Indiana's laws governing trucks are. “thes most stringent” in the nation.
treated at the Ikemire clinic here. firm execu ive told. the - Senate Sheriff West said that he had Committee Roads. .
|final indictments against the : T 5 The reply was signed by Attor-|n..; were not handed to them un- For 28 Banned by rus ees |ney General J. Emmett McMana-| this morning. They requested . . \mon, Chief Counsel Earl Cox and ,, gelay to read the charges Judge Grants Temporary Injunction . rr" at ’ In Vigo County Fight Over Tuition ost atringent” in the BAUGH.
to overflow at sevand threatened The fourth man had a previous
io © eral other points. record but was making what The Ort Workman Story .
R parole officers termed “excellent” On Inside
progress. Labor law ousting Reds at
i sked ... helm of unions a ft was then that the judge began other news of Con- [ive justice.” | Gress ..........on- Page 2| : He took the case under advise-| C ing events in city's ment. When. the four came into | hurahes | , court yesterday he sent them of masterminding the holdup-shoo
eee Page 4|with his bailiff, Sgt. Anderson, Madison end sea- Langsford, to look at the chil-| son atop high school
In court the judge also learned . that the factory had fired them [2 All summarily, without waiting to or ily yen
learn the outcome of their trial.
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It was then that the judge began But Parole Procedure
-. totem pole . . . Indiana tous he talked, to the men, re-|dohn's second wife whom he had cing the charge agains em married four years earlier, and sports news ...... -Page 6 to disorderly conduct. her son Norval Sutton, were the
“No jail sentence could have |beneficiaries. 3 "ws : ardinal .|imparted to these men the Im-| ott work gag Ar trial oa Carding plications of what they started|Gray of Perr tut carl « +» + AroOun e as a prank” the judge said. |attorneys who had assisted in
Page 11! “I explained that the money jecu the Basch case 8 they took was intended to help pt ceayion 1 4 co AS the {save the lives and mend the @ y will. ‘Late in “1930 Oft was given
{bodies of polio victims, that it 2/\was the same money that would ® Dekel pay parole to tes-
Hungary denies “press
.. Other Inside Features Amusements 5-9 In Indpls....
+ Books ....... 8 Inside Indpls. 5 pe used If their own children ] ER Bridge ...... 3 Mrs. Manners 7 should ever be stricken by the Even that parole . caused Jlg'fied 11-12-13 Movies ..... 5 difease. Before they left they trouble. There were complaints Comics ...... 14 Obituaries ...11 each contributed $5 to the polio.from Martin and Dubois County Crossword... 8 Radio ...... 8 fund” A wi {that he had too ‘much freedom. & Editorials .. 10 Side Glances 10 He said that because of ‘their The guard who accompanied him
Foreign Aff.. 10 Society ..... 3 good records, he placed Charles on that temporary parole was Forum ..... 10 Sparts .... 6-7 Wilsqp, 20. Southport; Leonard fired as a result. One complaint Hollywood .. 9 Weather map 11/Jackson,” 21, of 713 N. Sherman| Was traced to § Jasper attorney,
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Case Proves a Headache
No Evidence of $50,000-$60,000 Payoff
By ROBERT BLOEM Once Ott Workman was sentenced to life In 1938 on a charge ticket pools.
James| Basch, his éase became a headache to all who touched “ts
. . b Shortly before, Ott Workman's . . 5 ment-owned chemical plant bardren who benefit from the fund his well-to-do father, - John an Ir Dl ohuit Court, Tickets Available [racks and their parents didn't pay tentiary employees.
they had rifled. Then, after the living son, was cut out of John Workman's will. Mrs. Ida Workman, FOr Ice-O-Rama
{attach significance to Mr. Gray's
{Deputy Attorney General Frank and prepare legal motions. ! TERRE HAUTE, Feb. 9 (UP)-—A Superior Court judge ruled vestigation took the form of a
|E. Coughlin. | List of Accused N 5 | Indicted by the Grand Jury « + NO, 'were two brothers. Thomas H. today that 28 children involved in a dispute over free ¥chool attend- upésolution which he ‘introduced’ McNulty and Edward R. McNulty, ance could go back to their classes Monday. _ (just before the Senate adjourned both Republican ward chairmen; Judge Clay Phillips granted the request of the youngsters’ (or lunch. William Miller. attorney; Ralph parents for a temporary order restraining Honey Creek Township| 1f the measure is adopted, & . Hitch. bondsman, and Hugh Trustee Buel R. Watson from enforcing his order banning the chil- genate probe would be condiieted y tant dren from three schools cause - a immediately IF ponowing a month-long investi- their parents didn’t pay tuition federal penitentiary or the Vigo .
» ation by Prosecutor George §. [fees chemical plant. } Datley. the five men were charged Judge Phillips set Mar. 11 as 8 7h ruling, he said, was based MOT@ Road Funds
] two of the coun-jdate for hearing on the parents’ re fed- ! hoy milion - year lottery request for a permanent injunc- BH the {abt the areas \ ae Sought by State : tion. The children were barred erally owned and the residents ibe... Soi. : because they lived in a federal not contribute to local property (Other Legislative News, Page i |prison reservation and a govern- taxes. Calendar, Page 11) i Most of the parents are peni- “pra. og economy-minded ade ministration, faced with the nes local property taxes. The petition claimed that last cessity of revamping and repair Nineteen parents filed a petl- Wednesday, after Mr. Watson got|ing state roads, today swung its lon in Vigo Superior Court yes- ino tuifion moneéy in response to weight behind a program for ads terday for a -permanent injunc-'his letters, he ordered the chil-|ditional highway revenue. » [tion against Mr. Watson and offi- dren” not to go to school any; Gov. Schricker and other state relals of the Honey Creek high more. officials were reported pressing lschool and grade schools at] When some of them went to/for legislation which would pros {Maryland and Youngstown. class at the Youngstown school duce an additional $16 million. |. Mr. Watson had notified the anyway, the petition said, Mrs. The proposals took the form (parents that beginning with the Martha Neff, a teacher, told them of two tax bills. . . |second Syuester Jan. 10 it would to take their books and walk] One would {increase license [cost tuition rates ranging from 90 home down a country road. plate fees to bring in approxis cents to $1.50 a day. The letters Passed Up by Busses {mately $7 million. were dated Feb. 1. Others stood waiting for school! The other wouid levy an addi Cités Oficial Ruling busses to take them to classes, tional 1 cent on the state gas Mr. Watson said he’ had. an but the busses passed them up, the/tax. This would be an &vhends ‘official ruling from the Indiana complaint said, ment to a gas tax hoi i {attorney general last November One of the parents said the tui- submitted which calls for a spurred estigati WV - heen sold out {saying the township school tor tion.costs for keeping his three cent increase. Tp EE TEER s a ns Svan gation Ws , @Get. your tickets today [poration was not required ‘to children in schoo! would be $68 The first of these bills — fe ’ or Monday to avoid disap- furnish free education to children a month out of his $200 monthly creased license, fees— passed the (Continued on Page 2--Col. 7)! ' pointment. living on -the grounds of the salary. Cim 2. yesterday. Lat eR
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ting of his brother-in-law, Charles
Henry W. Lane, who defended - Ott’s stepmothier and her son in the will case. ‘Attempts were made later to
® You can. still get reserved seat tickets for The Times Ice-O - Rama next Thursday night in the Fairgrounds Coliseum . . . the two-hour extravaganza to raise money for the In-
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connection with the will case. However, Mr. Gray took employment only with the understand-| fantile Paralysis Fund. ing that it would in no way ob-! ® They're on sale at theligate him to any future effort L. Strauss & Co. store. to help Ott Workman get out of Prices are: Side mezzanine prison. He never did make such .. (reserved), ‘85 cents; eakt an effort. : end mezzanine .(unreSome time later the clemency served), 60 cents. Prices
administration of former Gover- include tax. Sorry... the nor M. Clifford . Townsend was box and parquet seats have
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