Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1949 — Page 1
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60th YEAR—NUMBER 7
Behind the Scenes at TV Debut
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Miss Esther Smith . . . works behind the scenes in television's Hoosier debut preparing the Grif.
~fith.. Distributing. Co. .display booth. eo Giant Show at Fairgrounds Reveals Television Wonders
Latest in Electrical Home Appliances Also on Display for 8-Day Stand
Television flashed on the screens of nearly a hundred receiving
gets for the first time today with the opening of the Television! __
and Electrical Living Show in the Manufacturer's Bldg. at the State Fairgrounds. Both the curious and the anxious lined Gp for the opening of the twin box offices at 1 p. m. As they sireamed into the wonder show of communication ~~ ERI; —nt— and electrical living, they found a glamorland of vivid color, Gets Promise on flowers and push-button living. Also opening today at the Fair-
grounds was the Indiana Sporis and Boat Show in the Cattle Pa-| _vilion. This show will run nine,
days starting at noon today. Seat- | Jacobs Takes Up
«ing provisions have been made . : to accommodate 3000 outdoor, Question With PHA | Times Washington Bureau
fans. 80,000 Expected The Television and Electrical Living Show which will run for Jacobs, Indianapolis "eight days from 1 to 10 p. m. is Democrat, today received assurexpected to attract more than ance from the Public Housing 80,000 spéctators who want to see! television for the first time, More than that, they will see back- i stage in a television studio where the present veteran tenants. programs will be made right be-| The housing is wanted by the fore their eyes. Air Force for Stout Field personThe center auditorium has been nel equipped with some 2000 seats where “the programs -will be ter up with both PHA and the
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TEN HY ee
Russ Denounce Atlantic Pact
Bevin Hails Accord As Hope of West
Reaction in Washington, other world capitals, Page 2.
‘By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Mar. 19—Russia detoday ‘that the Atlantic Pact means “war on the Soviet Union” but British Foreign
Net Finalists
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Battle It Out
Madison and S. Bend Tangle in Opener,
BULLETIN BUTLER FIELDHOUSE, | Mar. 19—More than 13,000 of | the expected capacity crowd of 15,000 persons had poured into this spacious basketball emporium as South Bend Central’s Bears and Madison's Cubs took to the floor for the first |
| game at 1 p. m. {
The Bears wore blue warm-up jackets and long trousers trimmed in orange and were the first team to begin warms nearly one half hour before game time. Madison's Cubs trotted onto thé polished hardwood pavilion wearing red slipover tops and no sweat trousers over their | red trunks. |
By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS Times Staff Writer l BUTLER FIELDHOUSE, Mar. | 19—~Auburn, Madison, South Bend | Central and Jasper wore the
badge of distinction among 769
{Indiana prep net teams as | Hoosierdom's select circle fought! {it out for the 39th state high {school title today. | South Bend Central's Bears [tangled with Madison's Cubs in {the first game at 1 p. m. and lJasper’'s Wildcats with* Auburngs; {Red Devils in'ihe second game lat 2:15 before 15,000 fans. | Afternoon winners will clash in the nightcap at 8:15 p. m. for the coveted state crown.
At a meeting of the Indiana Maude Rigsby, his daughter, Barbara Lee, 4, and his son, Franklin, 8.
Sportswriters and Sportscasters {Association last night, Auburn! {got the most votes to succeed foday. The twice-beaten Red Devils were supported by 19 scribes and radio men. ’ South. Bend Central
got 16
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1949
Then Jasper & Auburn | |
Secretary Ernest Bevin hailed it votes, and 15 and 10 each were as the West's means of escape cast for. Madison and Jasper, refrom destruction by the Kremlin. spectively All other nations of Western No Ducats Available Europe, fearful : of the Soviet Tickets were as scarce as almenace. hailed Article 5 as a ways at the finals. Not even for provision of the pact which has $20 reported offered in the lobby
‘military protection equal to that of Russia and her satellites. Article 5 states that “the parties agree that an armed attack
considered an attack them ail.” .
‘Means War'—Rus “This pact means war on the
against
Mr. Jacobs has taken the mat- Soviet Union,” said Radio Mos- NOme crowd probably ncomfortable surroundings
cow in an English language com-
staged. There is no added cost Air Force and is still hopeful of
WASHINGTON, Mar. 19 Rep. placed them at long last under of downtown hotels.
“The pressure for tickets never has been as great as this year” commented High School Athletic Commissioner L. V. Phillips.
|Administration that it will do all against one or more of them in| The JHSAA had alerted author! it can to save Tyndall Towne for Europe or North Africa shall be ities for scalpers, who usually go
to work after their favorite team loses in one of the afternoon games. The thousands in the stay-at-was in, more
anyway. Forty-four radio sta-
to go behind the scenes and see Saving it for the civilians. how it is done. “I talked directly with William The Electric League of Indian- P. Seaver, thé -PHA official who apolis has been planning the show made the Tyndall Towne contract for nearly six months, and last with the air force and then the night flowers were put in place, city of Indianapolis,” Mr. Jacobs draperies hung, TV sets tested, reported. and paint brushes were flying for] “He assured me that PHA is last minute touches. with us all the way in trying to Television sets in the 35 ex- save it.” hibits, representing all of the big. So far he hasn't been able to television and electrical equipment. get the right colonel in the Air makers, will be turned on So|Force for an answer, the Marion visitors can see the live shows in County congressman said. But every booth. he still is trying. Opens With Style Show Today's first telecast was a
style show sponsored by the Wm. Fair Weather H. Block Co. with 10 models. It Due for Tourney
lasted one hour.
Tonight the Electric League
will begin its search for ‘Miss LOCAL TEMPERATURES Oomph” in a “videogenic con- 6 a.m... 22 10 a.m... 31 test.” Artists Elmer E. Taflinger] 7 a.m... 28 11 a.m... 34 and Randolph Coats will choose! 8a. m.., 2 12 (Noon). 35 candidates from show visitors. 9a m... 28 1 psmovis 37
Candidates will be selected to-| night, Monday, Thursday, Friday' Bright sunshine and a high of ; g and Saturday (closing) nights, 42 degrees will prevail here today, when the winner And TURRer-UP-4rcofding to the Weather Bureau Among television acts will be The forecast for tonight calls for| the prize-winning performers from increasing cloudiness and a low the recent Shortridge High School °f 26 degrees. Tomorrow will be Junior vaudeville, Broad Ripple ¢loudy and slightly warmer, with «High School vaudeville, the Ipalco ® high of 50. Choir, Novelaires ‘and boxing ex-| A trace of snow fell again last hibitions by recent Golden Gloves "l8ht for the fifth time since the performers. |city had a four-inch fall on Mar. Models to Appear 10. Wednesday night a group of
ES LE Clinton Green, E New Yore wit eens reer we 1IATON Green, Engineer,
the sponsorship of L. & Co, Mrs. Stena * Marie, Twiname, home economist for Kingan & Co., will run a cooking school Monday ‘through Wednesday afternoons, and Miss Helen Kirtland, associated editor of McCalls magazine, | rector and Orville Bray, 205 Wash will be in charge of freezer demonstrations Thursday and Friday. | But the show is not all tele-| ono vision. It has everything rica] from sik garbage grinders state Civilian C ¢ cifans, glass-lin | water tanks , whole electric, COTP® from 1933 to 1042. hitchens, not to mention wash-| He served as a requirements ers,. irons, dryers, deep-freezers analyst with the National Housand a lot of things you'll never j,o Aqministration in 1946 and think about until you get there. It's television's big Hoosier as special training facilities offidebut, and nothing has been left cer with the Veterans Administo the imagination. There's tration here in 1947. He was disbeauty and charm in abundance.'.p,reed from the Army in 1946 \nd there's dignity, too. Pop- ith th K of : corn stands and hot doggeries ™ Is & nadie major. have beefi restricted. |, He is a naf@ive of Worthington,
In Announcement by
Mr. Green, a veteran of Wor
onservation
Fire Destroys 2-Room Home in Mars Hill A. fire thought to have been payments.
Bray will Be administrative officer for the state veterans’ bonus
heating stove yesterday destroyed| A World War I veteran, he is the uninsured two-room home of past commander of American Mr. and Mrs. John C. Karres, Legion Post 162 and js a member 2946 Collier St., Mars Hill of the 40 and 8 and. the Eagles Mr. Karres and his wife, Eve-|Lodge. During the last war he
lyn, were away from home when served on the local selective serv- «
the fire was discovered. He esti- ice board. He previously was with mated the loss at $1350 for house|the War Assets Administration and contents, i \for three years.
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Appointment of Clinton Green, 5338 N. Pennsylvania St
neer with the Purdue University athletic department: €'€C- | merly was engineer and administrative assistant to the director of men's Association. and Republi}
As assistant to Mr, Green, Mr, |
He has been active | : started by a hot coal from alin veterans affairs for 20 years. |
mentary, the first Russian reac- tions set up headquarters at Buttion to be heard in the West. ler to broadcast the play-by-play In the broadcast, however, Mos- of the three games. cow. avoided giving details of the 200 newsmen «re pounding out North Atlantic treaty. In addi- reams of copy for their papers or tion to denouncing the pact in/wire services. {familiar ideological language, Mr. Phillips, late in the mornMoscow pointed to Communist ;;g announced that Roland anti-pact demonstrations through- Baker, Jack O'Neal, C. N. Phil-| fout Furope as proof that the/lips and Marvin Todd had been! treaty did not have popular sup- named to officiate the three-game port. finals. “The Atlantic Pact is being put New Champ Assured over by one of the greatest lies Only assured thing today was in the long and crooked history the crowning of a new state high of diplomacy.” said the Daily school champion, since none of Worker in London, “the lie that the fieldhouse foursome has carthe Soviet Unign . .. is plotting pied off the Indiana to invade - western Europe and toga in previous vears. launch a third world war.” Madison and Central also will i Bevin on Radio strive to win state titles previousMr. Bevin took to the world- Jy denied them. defeated. 15 4 ) Ces ) e Bears were defeated, 15 to girdling British radio in person 14, by Wingate in the 1913 chamlast night to explain to the peo- pionghip game at Indiana Univerple of Britain and the dominions gj; - why the British government! Tne Cubs’ title hopes were joined the North Atlantic POWErS. snuffed out in 1941 by WashingHe said the Soviet Communists ton's Hatchets. 39 to 33 (were trying “to create a situation, - of chaos in order that the will of JL the Kremlin could be carried - Petitio and thé whole of Europe brought n
into bondage.’
Two: courses were open to the west, he said—''to stand idly by luster of In les and be destroyed or to build up .
gome collective security toGOP Coalition Acts
gether in a strong resistance to After Refusal to Resign
these (Communist) methods.” A petition charging James W, Ingles, Marion County Republi
hardwood
8S. Ayres ® h an. with . on Appointed Head of State YA duct and demanding tin Risen
Orville Bray Named Assistant
from office was filed today with the GOP State Central Committee in the -Claypool Hotel. The petition bore 30 signatures as di- of Republicans who formed a ington Court, as assistant director coalition of three factions. These
Schricker’s Office
of state veterans #&ffairs was announced today by Gov. Schricker. were Republican United headed
ld War II, is now a construction|by Eugene Fife Jr.: United ReHe for-/publican Precinct
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re ? The group opposing Mr. Ingles
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Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily
Four Hoosiers Killed For State Title JA Grade ( rossing
Into Car Near North Judson
| Vehicle Carried Nearly Mile on Front of Locomotive
imes State Service
| NORTH JUDSON. Mar. 19
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—Four persons were killed early today when a Pennsyl« vania Railroad passenger train plowed into their car at an unguarded crossing south (of here. The dead were identified as Ede ward Orth, 29; Chester Okley, 30; Mrs. Marcella Glass Wovith, 34, and Mrs. ‘Valentine’ Spencer; 31, all of North Judson. ; All four were killed instantly {when the train struck the car broadside at 12:48 a. m., state (police said. The car containing /the victims was carried for nearly a mile on the front of the traim, A wrecker was required to pull {the demolished vehicle from the
Will Pop make it? . . . Diver Woodrow Rigsby poses with his wife (left), his mother, Mrs, [train before the bodies could be
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Pho'os by Vic A mother rather blow his nose.
Dailey Convinced Telephone the muck for the ridge on his soda lime in absorbing deadly carLine to Office Is Tapped
Prosecutor Says He Has ‘Almost Positive’ Proof, But Won't Name Suspect Yet
Prosecutor George Dailey
He said he had “almost posit the suspect, he said. Yet.
fighting mad The prosecutor said he discovered this invasion of official privacy alter newspapermen began calling him up and asking him about subjects a few minutes after he had discussed them on the telephone. ' Mr. Dailey concluded yesterday that his telephone conversations had the privacy of a coast-to-coast quiz program with the master of ceremonies answering the question. ,He asked the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. to check his
|extricated, according to state poe Park Post, {Wreckage was strewn a half mile
= » ” i 1 2 along the right-of-way. : Ver mie Victims Headed East
| The train, southeast bound from
: : 2d Chicago to Logansport, was ree | f gs Ing |} leased nearly an hour after the ry accident by Dr. J. R. Matthews, Nor Cupfure of Churubusco {orn Judson, Starks . County Beast Delayed | Pr. Matthews said the victims { Times State Service {w re headed east from town. The | CHURUBUSCO, Mar. 19 — A/crossing is located a block south leaky safety valve on the helmet Of the city limits on State Road ‘of Diver Woodrow Rigsby again|10. There were no witnesses to temporarily halted Operation Tur-|the crash except the train erew, Itle today after he spent three Dr. Matthews said. {minutes 10 feet under water test-] Mr. Orth was employed by the {ing his suit. {Pennsylvania Railroad as a track After an inch-thick coating of man. Mr. Okley was a laborer, {ice over Fulk's Lake was broken| Dr. Matthews released. the and Diver Rigsby was dropped bodies to McCormick Funeral loff the edge of a raft, bubbles Home here where services were rose to the surface, indicating being arranged today. trouble. The capture of the Beast! Train crew members wepe O, of Churubusco was temporarily F. O'Brien, engineer, and O. Hines,
{lice - from Dunes
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‘delayed.
fireman, both of Logansport.
sits by awaiting the capture.
announced private telephone line in his office was tapped
There may be a hitch in the investigation Bell “T. only know what I know
Mr. Rigsby, whose descent into|
Fulk's Lake yesterday, was halted Here's the Gadget
by-a leak in his suit, earlier today
A said he was all set to go after the They Should Have
turtle. His suit was patched last
§ night at a U. 8. Rubber Co. plant ’ plight ska U. 5. 3 At Fulk’s Lake | The suit was the second one, SANTA MARIA, Cal, Mar. 19 ‘sent down from Chicago this week | (yp) — Scientist Otis Barton, New las Gale Harris, owner of the lake, york said today that tests of his jattempted to capture the moss-| “Benthoscope,” in which he hopes back. to make a record dive into the 4 Repair Helmet ocean, were “entirely successful.” “I doubt if we'll have much Mr. Barton and his assistant, ° ‘trouble finding the turtle,” the Hans Carstensen, spent four hours
or Peterson, Times Staff Photographer.’
Her son would diver reasoned, “since the cold yesterday in the diving machine water must keep him sluggish.” under a variety of artificially Mr. Rigsby intends to locate created diving conditions. They
the turtle by feeling around in especially checked the reaction of back. bon dioxide exhaled by occupants Mrs. Harris, wife of the farmer of the sphere. on whose land the turtle has | 2 x - . made history, said descent! “THE TEST was entirely suce would be made again this after- cessful,” Mr. Barton said. “We noon after the helmet is repaired. both felt fine.” m—— pene | Mr. Barton said his device is today he nelieved his : vastly superior to the Bathyes New York sty. Hel icopter Sets Record sphere _in which he made record But he will not name, BUFFALO. N, Y., Mar. 19 (UP) dives with Dr. William Beebe. Aircraft Corp. today re- es He was ported a new unofficial altitude . h record of 18.550 feet for helicop- Pair Accused Police Nab Youths ters not equipped with super . . , - charged engines. Bell fest pilot In Kidnaping In Unlighted Auto Joseph A. Cannon reached the en . : . . vv + JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Mar, Four young" out-of - towners height over Niagara Falls, N. Y. 19 (UP) Henry V. McCuiston, were “arrested and charged with two days ago in a two-place heli- | ~ y Vv. ; 45, and Paul Doublas Davis, 22, drunkenness just after midnight copter ; , ; a both of Paris, Tenn. were held last night when police saw their today in connection with the ale automobile being driven without i headlights at Delaware St. and Refuel Endurance Plane leged kidnaping of a Bedford, Fall Creek Bivd BIG SPRING, Tex., Mar. 19 Ky.. man. Stanley Sprinkle. 20. of Paoli, (UP) California endurance fliers’ State police said James Leslie driver of the car. also was Bill Barris and Dick Riedel. hop” Moore, 36, told them the two men without ing to stay aloft for six weeks, stopped his automobile north of
charged with driving ! proper lights, having no opera- refueled their single - engined Bedford, Kyv., and forced him to
ive proof.”
, sald the prosecutor.
lines before his Hooper gets too tor's license and operating a ve- plane “Sunkist Lady” over Munic- drive them to Madison, Ind.
high. The Mayor Too Over at City Hall, Mayor Feeney, who has been at odds with the prosecutor on the subjéct- of
Committee: erating the police department, was tn sympathy withthe prosecutor’s” plight.
“The Mayor has also experienced the curious
Not only that. The Mayor has
:|rallroading through his nomina- been quizzed about a letter he did illegal not receive until an hour after manner, being guilty of ‘general the ‘/incompetence” and being respon. hung up the telephone.
reporter who quizzed him
On 8S. Alabama, police officials
ition of campaign contributions sayr#here are more leaks in in- {| from taverns, country clubs and formation than there are in the i| public officials by his underlings,/foof of that crumbling structure, Lm epee That's one reason police are not|
i [Times ind be eager to get ‘search warrants dmb omin e rs —oer|whefi they look in on a gambling musements 5-9 In Indpls. .. 2/joint.
, Officials were agreed today that| inspect the town before the start|can plans for sharing atomic 3| Mrs. Mann'rs 7 somebody
is operating a spy|
«+11 ring around town, and that it is officers with the help of Atomic| there would be no need for usicifically to discuss 3'strictly a cloak and dagger out8 fit.
had their hands full to guard the cade part of our liberties.” islation to control it. 3body is getting away with some city's traffic record. : | The atomic laboratories are for, an answer, a: he Bue
They intimated that some-
“iv 6.7 mighty unimportant secrets \Forum ..... 10 Teen Talk .. 3 arourid here, and doing a slick
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sensation of being [submitted the petition after he called up by newspapermen and {.|refused a formal demand Thurs- asked about something he thought he had discussed privately.
Mr. Moore told police the men beat him and threatened to kill him several times. He said they bought a case of whiskey at Mad-
{hicle under the influence of al- ipal Airport today and headed for
cohol, police sald Ft. Worth ison and forced him to drink
Hundreds Visit Oak Ridge As U. S. Eases Restrictions | mm ree ou ster grime.
Gates to Town Opened by Electrical said, and he drove Into a filling
A . {station near Charlestown, Ind, Impulse From Atom Pile 15 Miles Away and notified police. OAK RIDGE, Tenn. Mar. 19 (UP)—A burst of white fire set
from an atomic pile 15 miles away burned the ribbon to the gates Congressmen Get
of Oak Ridge today. 1 tor the | ul tn. travel Over . It took a millionth of a second for the impulse to trav y telephone wire and go off with a sound like an air rifle. Wire-Tap Data Now, the public can enter the town unrestricted. + NEW YORK, Mar. 19 (UP)== Immediately, souvenir hunters , . Ten of the city's Democratic Cone rushed ‘to salvage fragments of Conn.) took the DeCAsIon. lo ax gressmen called at City Hall to» the red and blue ribbon. Hun- press hope that “the day will come day for an extraordinary, secret dreds standing “just outside the when through international con- session with Mayor Wi four newly opened gates broke tro) of atomic energy. all fences O'Dwyer on the alleged wiretap through. Long lines of cars are removed from the eity of|ping plot against city officials, started the slow movement down Oak Ridge.” {The delegation was headed by a long turnpike into the city. | gen. McMahon said that if the Rep. Emanuel Celler of Broo The crowd had two hours’ to §gviet Union had accepted Amert-| Rep. Charles E. Buckley of i Bronx shook his head when asked of a parade, and Oak Ridge traflic|secrets under effective control|if the conference was called
Energy Commission patrolmenito lock up our secrets or barri-land the possibility of federal
The chairman of the joint con- still restricted, and are not even : gressional committee on atomic in sight of the area opened to “Well Sen. Brien McMahon (D.jvisitors today, - ee ; I ' ig > AR / fe %
, Congress is quite. by conditions hare in the city