Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1949 — Page 7

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Indianapolis smoke control, which has staggered groggy and| defeated from municipal courtrooms here in bout after bout with the law, finally is beginning to emrge a winner, That's Wolf, city combustion engineer, the man whose duty it was to pick smoke control up off the floor after every licking and toss him back into the fray. Now that smoke control is coming out on top in legal battles, Mr. Wolf smiles benignly on municipal court judges. His 1948 record is perfect—he didn’t lose a case all year Cites Difference Why should Mr. Wolf now be winning cases formerly tossed out of court? He credits public opinion as the biggest single influence _on the situation. “When a whole city gets worked up about a problem, the noise of the mob drifts in through the courtroom window every time,” he sald. “It's different now than it was three years ago, when nobody cared whether a smoke violator was fined or not. And that lifference is our margin of victory. “Don’t think I approve of our present law,” he continued, “because I don’t. It's a mess. We need a strong, airtight law with teeth in it and public opinion behind it if we're going to clear up the city.” Seek Heavier Fines He cited a few statistics to fllustrate his point. “Indianapolis has, roughly, 1000

cial establishments and 100,000! homes. In the first category we| do pretty well. With the second, | we're already beyond our depth, and as for homes—you can see what we're up against.” Mr. Wolf isn't completely satisfied with the outcome of court cases these days, even though he wins them. Instead of $1 and costs up to $20 and costs now imposed on smoke violators, he would like to see heavier fines levied. “But I'm not kicking,” he said. “We're making progress, and that’s what counts. You can quote me as saying, ‘I like it.’”

Police to Buy 1 Resuscitators

Plan to Use Equipment On South Side |

The police department hoped | today that it soon will be able to help more accident victims breathe more easily—especially| on the heavily industrial South | id - Day Inspector Leo Troutman has announced that the depart-|

ment plans to purchase two more |

oxygen -resuscitators, “Money hasn't been appropriated yet,” he said, “but it's a certainty that we will get two, more.” For some time, only four—and| in an emergency, five—resuscita-| Tors Have. been available, and none of these are located on the. South Side. Follows Parley [ One is at Police Headquarters and another is at Fire Department Headquarters (on loan from the Police Department). Two are with Police Squad 14 at 30tH St. ind Kenwood Ave. A fourth is in the receiving office at General| Hospital, and the fifth can be] taken from the hospital's ob-| stetrical ward. Inspeétor Troutman said that] one of the two new resuscitators| will be put in Fire Statiofi 27 at

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Desk Lt. Francis {Frange) Gootes scans the day's crime reports as he takes over on the night shift,

Giant, Far-Reaching, Never-Ending Agent Relentlessly Tracks Down Night Crooks -

By GEORGE. RYDER NIGHT IS a time of rest—for some. But to the criminal and the policeran, it Is a desperate time of rob and kill, hunt and capture-bound” only by the borders of dusk and dawn. A policeman’s eyes cannot always see into ‘the dark in which crime hides, but with him in his endless chase is a hidden helper—

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with a call from a police car: “Car 18, one arrest, vagrancy, suspected of robbery.” = Gootee flips his mike switch Sgt. Meeker jots down the iil on his pad and the police department has wound up

a far-reaching, never-ending agent—the radio. Radio today hamstrings the criminal, often catching him in the act, usually finding -his trail minutes after he has fled from his crime, constantly pursuing him.

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out over the air: . ~ “Attention all cars, car with man wanted for holdup at. 10th and Keystone, believed now héading west on North St. This man is armed. Wanted by Car 18.”

On into the night. Another clue.

THIS CATS] Another broadcast. Always closer screaming “to the scene Of" the/ys tha trail of the CHIMINAL Méah-|; crime, keeps other cars alertiwpile other crimes—burglaries,

|along the path of the getaway. steali i . This power in the night of In- Poe YS ? noiingy; ht of a gun ... a short man wearing, {tion, DZ, drones an echo to

Car 18, 10th St. and Keystone Ave., holdup.” A few minutes later, Lt. Gootee’s receiver brings to his ear the pertinent facts . .. a filling station . .. $100 taken at the point by Car 18 for holdup of a filling | station at 10th and Keystone. Be- | [Tieved headed ‘south on Keystone. | In green sedan. This man is armed.” An announcer at the radio sta-

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one part of the hunt. If will redume the next day in City Court. Lt. Gootee and Sgt. Meeker are only one of three teams who handle the police radio from the two rooms hidden underneath the north stairway of the Police Headquarters. An’ ‘endless parade of thugs, miigs, hoods and punks has passed “the "sharp eves of Lt.|

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dianapolis is governed by the police desk lieutenant and his dis- each, » this calm, tireless 1 invisible patcher—such men as firm, decisive Lt. Francis Gootee and crisp, staccato Sgt. Paul Meeker. A plea, by telephone, sets this team in action. Sgt. Meeker sends a car to the place where the crime has been committed. . . . Let's say brown-rimmed glasses and a long brown overcoat . , . the ds long the criminal took. ... The size . and color of is ar THE LIEUTENANT swings ol nis mike: “Attention: all cars, on the lookout for a short aon] {wearing horn-rimmed glasses and| a long brown overcoat. Wanted, Lt. Gootee’s blanket order a ; {gives the time signal. The hunt | [has begun, less than minutes | after the frightened attendant] opened the till to greedy hands. | Other police cars speed to the] {area of the hunt. One sees the car of the criminal, Lt. Gootee is fold. _Another blanket order goes | .

Leonard Cox, who is in charge of ambulances at General Hos(pital, which handles police emer-| |gency runs. Jarring Is Problem Mr. Cox pointed out the reason the hospital's four ambulances) are not constantly equipped with | resuscitators—is—-that-the day-in, |day-out jarring that the am{bulances take on - Indianapolis streets would break the instruments, which are expensive and delicate.

r Sgt. Paul Meeker puts down the phone and int fo answer the continual cry “send us a policeman.”

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THE END of one chase comes since he joined the force in 1933.

Gootee, who has ridden cars, endlessly prowl the night—hunt-

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- . . HE BECAME a lieutenant in the Communications Division last February. Y Sgt. Meeker las been on the: police roster since August of 1940. His experience includes time on a district car, two and a’ half years as a traffic motorcyclist | and two years with police radio before he was promoted to sergeant and brought down to Police Headquarters as dis-| patcher. | Both now have an important| task. Out of the night, they ahd]

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