Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1949 — Page 1

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- Elizabeth Fix fle) and Sarah Mickles were ‘out fo paint the town yesterday. They're not letting the interest lag before Attica High School's Red Ramblers get to Butler Fieldhouse Saturday

afternoon to meet Lawrenceburg in the first game of the semifinals.

5 Loading Zones A

. Seeks Legal Opinion On New Time Bill |

Although five new loading zones | were approved last night, the City widespread vice and gambling. Council served notice that appli-/ cations for same

rough going from now on. ls i Ak. al question was raised when Blind Mother

rad als tor ending and worons-D0ing Well After

Gambling in 4-Hour

a i / ny A ox iors or Veiner Birth of Trip lets

| City Council 0K's (Gary Mayor Vows Cleanup

fter Women Storm Council 2000 Angry Marchers Force Pledge fo Halt

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Attica Boosters Paint Town for Semi-Finals

finishes a Rambler slogan on the

and candy shop’ on Affica’s main street. Other pictures, story

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Siege of City Hall

GARY, Mar. 8 (UP)—Two thousand angry women disbanded | {early today after storming City Mall and penning up Mayor Etigene| | Swartz und the town council until they promised to clean oy

The women held full sway in the official chambers for four, might have hours: jamming the hot, stuffy building until past midnight. :

| ~The demonstration - started in, ithe City Methodist Church where {the women adopted a resolution jdemanding that Gov. Henry| {Schricker clean up this steel mill! {town if “local officials failed to.

re being misused for other| Shey We . MRS. MONA STAMPER, blind

s. allan may disclose a mother of triplets, one born dead, Plocks up the street to the City|ler.

number of loading zones existing/and her remaining son and principally for the convenience of | daughter were reported still in retail customers, Councilmen said, [good condition today by General Asks Legal Opinion Hospital authorities. ; Other tentative action proposed! The two children are technicalby the council included a request/!Y listed as critical because of} from Councilman Joseph Wikker their tiny size. Both in. incubatfor city legal opinion on the leg-°'S: they will be classed as critislature’s Central Standard Time ical until they have gained five bill for Indiana, signed into law|POuUnds. -

by Gov. Schricker last night. MPE

. Cm , MRS. STAMPER and her husCouncilman Wicker wants to pand, Clyde, also blind, of 241 W.

know just how the law will af- Morris St, became the parents fect Marion County and whether of triplets about midnight Sunany possibility exists of retaining day. ; Daylight Saving Time in the city] The first of the three was born during the summer months. (at 11:59 p. m. just 14 minutes

: y fafter'Mrs. Stamper arrived in the Mothers Die {hogar : Within 12 Hours

The parents have two - older tehildren;-a- boy ard: a girk Times State Service SHELBYVILLE, Mar.

> » « | Vickie to Face "and Mrs. Clell Alexander of near! Tei ol re Edinburg, attended the funeral of Dope Trial Today Mr. Alexander's mother, Mrs. HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 8 (UP)—

“Rachgel Alexander, fn Fairland Blonde dancer Vickie Evans goes

today and will attend services for on trial today on charges she "Mrs. Clell Alexander's mother, participated in a marijuana party Mrs. Sarah Perry, here tomorrew. with film star Robert Mitchum. The mothers of both Mr, and] The pretty showgirl was reMrs, Alexander died within 12/turned from New York on a fuhours of each other during the gitive warrant for fatling to apweek end. They were both Fair- pear in court with Mitchum, starland résidents. |let Lila Leeds and realtor Robin Mrs. Rachael Alexander died in Ford .on..the. dope. charge... The after suffering other three were convicted. a fractured hip in January. She Police broke up a party in a was 85, Her survivors include her gjliside cottage Sept. 1 and arhusband, Ralph Alexander; a rested the four. brother, Riley Steward, Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Magnolia Arnold and. Mrs. Millie Whiteman, Shelbyville.

Alfred Lunt Improves CHICAGO, Mar. 8 (UP) — Actor

Mrs. Sarah Perry, wife of Mar--Alfred Lunt, whose hospitaliza-|

shall Perry, died in her home tion Sunday forced closing his after a three-week wll She was 70, Besides her husband and daughter, Mrs. Perry is survived by seven other children and three brothers, |

On the Inside

being in “very good condition.” Mr. Lunt is being treated fqr an acute ulcer.

| Then the women surged two

Hall where a crowd of 500 already was in the two-story build-|

|ing, demanding that the nine- Patrolman Donald Ul jer and the Democrat Party must|/the budget might be left out of ne. council ME immediate re-' Lawrence W. Gastin. They t and take the full responsibility for in- balance, nothing was done about

form action. Gambling to End Mayor Swartz had - ordered houses of prostitution closed, but refused to take action against

en appeared, he promised that he also would try to halt gambling. This didn't satisfy the angry crowd which blocked the doors of the city hall, making it impossible for Mayor Swartz or the reouncil to. leave. } | Several women fainted in the

nor ~ more than [Tou Hotrs they “made” speeches.’ asked questions, and gesticulated wildly In their demand for a gen-!| eral cleanup. The citizens’ drive started after] the fatal shooting last Friday of! {Mary Cheever," 45-year-old high!

[school teacher, when she resisted a holdup man. ° . i Crime Wave Charged | The women charged that a! crime wave has developed here! because. of the influx of criminals! attracted by the city’s vice condi-! tions. { But Mayor Swartz disagreed. | He Draned GEry's Crime Wave oi slums “maintained by some of

they can get out of it, and don’t} put anything back into it for im{provements.” i | Mayor Swartz said that an un-| {Identified woman presented the

play run in Milwaukee, was de- correct picture at the demonstra- star was replaced in the scribed by his doctor today as|tion last night when she charged “Harvey”

{that “gambling and vice are be-| ing permitted to<flowrish in buildings which could be used to house people who have no homes.” The women,” most - of them housewives and mothers, finally disbanded when an alderman made a formal motion fo adjorn.

Four pastors given life terms in Sofia spy trial . .. . Around the World . . . a digest of today’s news. . Page 2 House group OK's $2,211,794,085 spending bill . . . other reports from Congress ... ..Page 3 Divorcee wants love, but boy friend strays. .. Ask Mrs. Manners .. . a. daily human relations column , . . along with Your Marriage. .... vo... Page 4 Lemon, Gordon, Beardon sign Cleveland contracts « + + Hoosier pastimers hold initial battle drill. . Pledge gas rate reduction here ... “if” . . . Panhandle deal urged for city ...........vv.....Page 8 Assembly passes away the time between whirls at passing laws . . , a photo-story . . . other section page features .......i...coeeierinniiina. Page 11 IU students plan “Greek Week” , . . other news of '

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{The motion was seconded .undniimously. by his harrassed fellow councilmen. The women still were grumbling as they filed from the! ‘council chambers and returned to their homes in twos and threes.

Blame Frozen Switch

For_Train Collision MILWAUKEE, Mar. 8 (UP)— A frozen switch was blamed to(day for a headon crash of two lcrack Milwaukee road passenger itrains in which 17 persons Were injured. All the injured were on the

Chippewa, going from Chicago to ,Green Bay, Wis., when it hit the

Chicago-bound Hiawatha No. 8;

ere, Officials said both trains were moving slowly. A frozen switch prevented the Chippewa from turning onto a clear track, they ‘said. 2 Passengers on the Chippewa were standing in the aisles, ready

Miss Mickles, an Attica cheerleader, holds the paint while Miss Fix

Torry —&- House and in-the majority in the ‘Triangle’ Slaying fox. ees Te Trial Opens Here

‘he chi " ” : {enforce the law. (he chased Popp in an automobile

TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1049 _

Income Tax | ip z0of1% To Pay Bonus

* GOP Capitulates ‘Under Protest’ To Higher Levy By ROBERT BLOEM Nearly 400,000 Hoosier veterans of World War II won their bonus| early today from a grudging 86th General Assembly. - 1 Like most of the other major issues before the legislature, the {bonus question had to wait for final agreement until the clocks ' |had been stopped and the assem- < (bly went into its long night of overtime, It brought the first increase in the gross income tax since the tax was first levied 16 years ago. |All who pay the tax will find an -_lextra quarter of 1 per cent on their bill for several years to come. Only retailers escaped the “across the board” tax boost with a lesser rate—one-eight of 1 pe

A Tg Extra for Disabled But to the veterans of the state the last minute settlement of the problem which has headed the, list throughout the 61 days of the Isession meant eventual payment up to $600. There will be an extra $100 . for those who were disabled in ; service. Basis of payment will bef i $10 for each month in service with $5 added for each month spent overseas. i It was a Democratic plan for raising money which finally won out after the long deadlock. Re-

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Odom Finishes 5000-Mile Hop : From Honolulu

Budget Tangled Up In Primary Now as Assembly Nears End

Hints Cast Out of Cuts in Funds, ~ Especially for JU and Purdue By LOUIS ARMSTRONG The budget, biggest single problem left to be settled,

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today as the General Assembly sleepily strove to wind up its session.

A conference committee on the record $207 million 8—Capt. William P. Odom

budget was reported held up by one of its four members, Rep. Laurence Baker RR. - Kendallville). Mr. Baker, it Legislature Today was learned, was insisting on, (11:20 p. m. Legislative Time some action to pass a state-wide| Monday, Mar. 7). direct primary - election law yet this session. There were indications that if]

and when a conference report on the budget is completed there

publicans, in the minority in the

All (Other Legislative News, Pages 2| Islation and 3; Calendar, Page 8.) tockes

increased income tax. In the lower House, GOP members registered a mass protest, not against payment of the bonus, but against the gross income tax method of raising the cash. Blaming a Schricker “ultimatum” for forcing them to accept the tax method or face responsibility for failure of the bonus 0 pass, the Republicans said: : “We feel that an additional gross income tax rate is an extension and an aggravation of al presently unjust and inequitable! tax. :

First State Witnesses Begin Testimony The trial of Charles Butler, charged with first degree murder in the New Year's Day 1948 “triangle” slaying of Robert Popp, got under way in Criminal Court 1 today. Butler, 37, of 1522 §helby St, signed a statement admitting

“We, therefore, protest that we

t t J da: and shot him after he found Popp have no alternative but the ¢on-

with his wife, Mrs. Geneva ButPopp died about an hour ater in General Hospital. First state witnesses today were protest the increase. Gov. Schrick-|

fied they answered a report of aC cAsed gross income taxes.” traffic accident and robbie Over in the Senate, where six! Popp by the wreckage of his car, | * co 28ainst the gross tax hilke/ i shot in the head. After the shot. | and one failed to vote at all, Re-| {Bun-blasts -struck- hit, Popp lost Publicans dubbed the new bonus

control of the car. which juniped tax the “white hat tax in the

. public gambling. When the wom- the curb and smashed into a uti}. "°P® ©f pinning it permanently,

fon the Governor, | | There was little doubt the bill Dr. Ray P. Fost would have the Governor's sig-! Host WAY FL. Fosler of General nature, all that remained to make | qo pial, surgeon who examined jt law. Whether the amount! , a ictim, followed the officers needed to raise the bonus money n the stand. in full could be accumulated in

ity pole. Surgeon Testifies

{is needed and how gross income

Clure.. presiding... Deputy. Prose-i-- The increase -in-the-gross- incutor Russell White made the come state's opening statement Defense Attorney Lawrence Shaw |perity” continues. waived opening statements. Butler has pleaded not giifity lion on up. It will not be known! to the charge. He is free under exactly. what the bonus will cost

bond. - {until all- applications are in. His wife, who was to have been |

star witness” for the state, in- i dicated she might refuse - to Ships 7-Room House

testify on the grounds “I might From U. S. to Eire | r » Perjure myself, DUBLIN, Mar. 8 (UP)—James| E. Maher of Pinehurst, N. C., was

Malaria Strikes torn between two loves—the green ; “SR {countryside of his native Ireland! Joe-E. Brown

The amount

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built house.

our best people.” The mayor] PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 8 (UP)| Now he will enjoy both. The| charged: that these landlords|—Comedian - Joe E. Brown was S. S. Irish Pine docked at Cork| (rolic the property for whatever confined to his hotel suite today Yesterday with Mr. Maher's seven:

room house, complete with basement. It was packed in 59 big ‘rates.

for treatment of malaria, | contracted while entertaining Pacific | troops during World War II. The popular stage and screen

comedy | last night by his

GERMANS TO VISIT U. 8.

BERLIN, Mar. 8 (UP) —! friend, Twenty-three German newspaper- | film actor James Dunn. {men will leave for the United Mr. Brown developed a 104 de- States in May to Study American gree temperature last Sunday and newspaper techniques, the. Amer-| Dr. Louis Chodoff called in Jet-|ican military ‘government anferson Hospital consultants, who | said the comedian was suffering 15 visited the U. 8. last Septem. his fourth recurrence of malaria. ber.

Truman to Receive Degree Offered Him 3 Years Ago

President Flies fo Rollins College

. As Break in His Florida Vacation

By MERRIMAN SMITH, United Press White House Reporter WINTER PARK, Fla, Mar. 8—President Truman flew to midFlorida today from his Key West, Fla., vacation spot to receive an honorary degree and make a brief speech. At a special convocation in his honor, the President will be awarded an honorary doctor of humanity degree by Rollins Collége. “Mr, Truman flew from the|™™ ? Boca Chica Naval Alr Base on Grandview, Mo., for the PresiKey West to ‘Nearby Orlando, dent to place in the Rollins Col: Fla., Air Force base in his White lege walk of fame. iL House plane, the Independence. | The walk of fame is a tree After the ceremonies at the colJege, #@ reception and lunch Mr. marked with stones and memenan will fly back to Key West toes of each of the’ Presidents.

to resume his scheduled two When Mr. Truman first was in- along with a proposal for with- his instructions. {vited to Rollins in 1946, Mr. Holt holding gross income tax and a! with the

weeks of loafing. Mr, Truman greeted at Or- arranged President's lanao by Sens. Spessard Holland mother, then still living, jo ship

i get off at Milwaukee, and were|

to the floor. when the ek

President Hamilton Holt of Rel-| Mr. Truman was forced by of- \ h Si : to It was HAL ho, Rollin ‘years ago a stone stone the old

would be come cuts, particularly

sities,

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sidefation of this bill because of UPPed the motor vehicle license the Governor's ultimatum and we fees in all categories,

icreed or color in the public schools | The- trial began today before five years depended on how mich] Acar

{ holds up as a basis for revenue. tive with the beginning students minimum is 23 north, 30 south.)

tax was caléulated to raise| Years of junior and senior high! and |about $21 million a year if “pros-|5chools next September.

needed may range from $110 mil-|0On-Segfegatibn may be postponed ™ Prior Be

ln Tie comforts. amencansincreases were granted at nearly And Zoo Expects

nounced today. A similar group of dation under a five-member com-

{lined path on the college campus fender.

Motor vehicle license fee Infor Indiana and Purdue Univer-

Adoption of some final fi was expected to break the ure ) and speed the 86th General As-! sembly toward sine die adjournment,

The session has had to set back |} 3 its clocks because it passed the ers constitutional deadline of mid-| , night last night. ; T M | In

However, the bulk of the as‘Mild Temperatures

State-wide property reassess-

sembly’s record already had been written.

It had passed a soldiers’ honus,

broad legislation affecting the pl sa schools. limited the state to Cen-| TO Glide Along tral Standard e, increased, op EMP RES truck weights lengths and| 4 AL - ER ATURE is Tam..37 11am. 48 8a m.. 3% 12 Noon.. 51 While it was generally conceded! 9 a m..., 41 1p m.. 58

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Scattered light showers were reapportionment, many salary in-| forecast for tonight and tomorcreases were voted, the parole re- row by the Weather Bureau. form bill was left unpassed and, The rain will be accompanied the cigaret tax was retained and by mild temperatures tonight, all its receipts turned over to the with a low of 42 degrees. The general fund. _ {mercury will rise only slightly to5 Fiery Measures morrow, to a high of 44, the! One of the most fiery contro- Weather Bureau said. versies of the session developed Temperatures in Indiana will over passage of the anti-segrega- remain near normal for the next tion bill. The measure would out- five days, according to.the Weathlaw segregation because of race, er Bureau's long-range forecast. Warmer Friday (Normal maximum for this pe-|

Non-segregation becomes effec- Fi0d 1s 41 north, 51 south. Normal

who enter first grades and first) = CL. BtY

After the temporary cold . toa warming trend’ was foreseen for Friday and SatIf facilities are not available, |Urday. Sunday may bring colder

until 1950 in gra hools, 1952 Precipitation for the .next five in junior a aoe. act and 1954 92S will be light, the Weather in high schools {Bureau said. Less than 3; inch A fair employment “practice Vas expected to fall in northern

Indiana; increasing to about meson bill for Indiana failed inree-fourths inch in the south,

. : d . occurring tomorrow and ‘Only ‘a portion of organized | *™ . labor's bills were enacted. {again about Sunday. Teachers and the schools com-| ~~ pleted a grand slam in their eg- Hal and Sal Pal islative program. Minimum pay increases

New Sehiol Ald ‘A Boy or a Gal An entirely new formula for | = ANI IR Mew © (TTBY distribution of state aid to . LOS ANGELES, Mar, 8 (UP)—

er a solo flight from

Direct primary bill dead |

ment in 1950 approved. , {dwindling

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Broken for hit Planes

Flier Averfs Indiana Crackup

ere {became entangled. in.a. direst. primary election controversy) As. Gas Runs Low

Correspondent TETERBORO, N. J., Mar,

lulu which set a new world distance for light planes.’ The flight was approximately 5,000 miles,. but the official dise

tance was not announced imme-

diately. Capt.

the Hudson River from New York ‘land about 15 miles from mid-

politan So of Sporn. ro The established a

tong distance ying. Ar long-distance and a solo flight record. The 29-year-old flier more doubled his record for light planes of the heaviest category, set last January when he piloted the same single-engine plane 2406.902 miles from Honolulu to Oakland, Cal. . A crowd of about 500, including

press photographers, gathered at the airport to greet Capt. Odom, Police roped off the main field and the runway which Capt. Odom used to taxi to a halt. Veteran of ATS The record-breaking flight nearly ended in disaster over Goshen, Ind., when the plane's engine cut out when a a gasoline tank ran” dry, and Capt. Odom dived through an overcast, his wings icing dangerously, while switching to another-tanik: But the ice melted, and managed to continue the flight. Mr. Odom, a 29-year-old ‘vets eran of the Air Transport Service, took off - from Hickam Field, Hawaii, at 12:04 a. m. Monday and reached the coast over San Francisco at 3:50 p. m. (Indian apolis time), 16 hours and 46 minutes later, After skirting a snowstorm over Wyoming, and rain squalls over Nebraska and Iowa, he headed into near perfect flying weather that weather officials said would

dér of his Night. Beats Lindbergh

By the time Mr. Odom reached Nebraska he had aiready flown

schools, the recommendation of Romance bloomed today for Hal, the Indiana State Teachers As- ‘Ne pashinl same} whe Sota to| sociation and the Indiana School A ye 0 get away from an-| Study Commission, was enacted. os Not one. but fwo school con- eit 22 eer who solidation bills were passed. One the other way when they put Sal provides for consolidation under in his cage a month ago, said the | the township trustees on a county two now are “more than friends.” | basis with means for city sys-| “We're looking for a baby in tem to. enter the county. unit.

about 11 months,” said keeper | The other would permit consoli-| Charles AL pe

» ” ~ . mission from districts. Any two| THE 3.year-old Hal was con-| or more units in a county or in|fused when he saw Sal running | adjoining counties could consoli- after him because he'd never seen date under this plan. {a camel before, Mr. Allen exTruckers received increases in plained: He wouldn't let her get length of their vehicles to 50 feet near him until the keepers put for combination outfits and an their dinners together, so Hal had increase in gross weight to 72,000/to “step up at mealtime or Sal pounds. -For this they pay higher, would eat it all, ee | license fees. Passenger car li-| “We just let nature take its| censes will cost $2 more next year course,” the zookeeper said. “Evin each catagory. .erything’s hunky-dory now. A proposal to increase gas tax) Te y 1 cent was discarded. Complete Arguments

Repealers Fall In Axis Sally Trial

On the negative side of the ledger were rout repeal pills] WASHINGTON, Mar. 8 (UP)— which failed to pass. Among Defense and prosecuting attorthese were repeal of the utilities neys were scheduled to complete oom puisory arbitration law, re their arguments today #t'the sixpeal of the cigaret tax, and re-| week-old treason trial of Mildred lpeal of the office of public de- (Axis Sally) Gillars.

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Bills to legalize pari-mutuel bet- the jury tomorrow after Federal ting, -and slot machines failed Judge Edward M. Curran delivers

The case is expected to go to

further in a lighter plane than Col. Charles Lindbergh flew in his 3600-mile non-stop flight from New. York to Paris in 1927. Mr. Lindbergh's “Spirit of St. Louis” was a 225-horsepower plane with a '38-foot wingspan, while Mr. Odom's “Waikiki Beech" was 185-horsepower with a 3434 foot wingspan.

Senate Orders Night Sessions

Other Congress News, Page 3

WASHINGTON, Mar. 8 (UP)— The Democratic leadership today called a night session in its losing battle to jam through the Senate a gag on filibusters. ; ; Democratic leader Scott Lucas of Illinois ordered night session tactics although both administra~ tion and - Re voiced belief that southern Demoerats had about won preserve their right to filibuster. Mr. Lucas announced that Sen-

an h tate imum A : Sh i i piv ie A om % 'ratity 8700 Workers idle a President

the change in the Constitution to, DETROIT, Mar. 8 (UP)-—Abou limit the President to two four- 8700 auto workers in Chrysle

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continue throughout the remain-