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Louis Abel, Juvenile Center supervisor, inspects the broken window screen and blanket rope by which
eight juveniles escaped early yesterday. 3 I lt atures C Central Loses Job. Starts Business
The mayors George A. Schock
Police Capture 3 of 8 Boys i... xu. =i In Son's Coaster Wagon
|proclamations to replace the city]
. invalidated | Unemployed Factory Worker Turns Who Fled Juvenile Center roms mat were invaiidatea ploy y
Seized While Attempting to Steal Car
still at large today,
screen and climbing down a “r ve, the 14-year-old leader and a 16-year-old companion, were arrested trving car in the 2200 block N. Meridian St. shortly after the escape. Two other hoys got away. Seize Twin Brothers Another runaway, to, thé 16-year-old youth How ously recaptured, was arrested by police at 2 a. m. St. and Road 52. The eight boys staged one of)|
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State Department. employee, was Chicago, Gary and Whiting.
made from the Center under the indicted by a federal grand sury| The fast time proclamations
leadership of the boy who rejected “another chance” at Boys Town by running away five days after He was arrested in and returned to the
{today on charges of treason.
son is death, the minimum is five during the chain-filibuster in the
years imprisonment and $10, 000) ature: hours of the state legis-| oof the ne
treason charges followed by only Indianapolis were watching and . ,\ "N° Todd turns on a a few days the sentencing of Mil-| (waiting, intending to follow the, floodlight and - stands, waiting dred (Axis Sally) Gillars to from | Indianapolis lead. | to serve. 10 to 30 years in prison for trea-| Sen. O. Bruce Lane, Republi- y = = he son. She, too, was charged with|can farmer of Bainbridge and] “IF I can make a go of this treason for broadcasting over the author of the year-round stand-| I'm going to put in ice cream
thorities that he planned the escape, feigning sleep until after 4 a. m. bedcheck. He then awakened
been planned. and they fashioned dropped from a second-story winScreening Loosened
torn window screening American embassy in Berlin as a clerk. (Juvenile Court
s Courthouse Lawn
have repeatedly sought appropria- . . : : Disappears in Rain
down by the County (UP)—Heavy rain was blamed
tion officer of the court, s: Vanderburgh County Court House
County Council $12,000 to $4000 and that the ter sum probably
No Major Repairs “We still will not be able to in-
have been no major repairs there since acquisition Indianapolis Orphanage in 1944 In other juvenile escapes over the week-end, four girls ran away from Marydale Girls School and phasin.
Girls School at Clermont
The two Girls School runaways
At Cornerstone Laying
diately but the Marvdale inmates
3 Cash in as Store's Till Is Left Unguarded
Three men today selves to $26 from the cash regis- * lion new American Legion nation- , while he was in the rear of the store,
* Memorial Commission announced
gave chase but The thieves reportedly boarded
car and detained a man Jaggers was unable to identify him as one of
BREAK UP RED BRISBANE, Mar
Some 1500 demonstrators, a with stench bombs
./which was used more than 20
| Wayne, president of the Board
meeting tonight at Rockhampton, north of Brisbane the Communists to safety. Times Index 5 Mrs. Mann'rs 10
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12 Weather Map 3 15 Earl Wilson .
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60th YEAR—NUMBER 16 te | MOND AY, MARCH 28, 1949
FORECAST: Fair tonight. Cloudy and continued ‘mild with showers in the afternoon tomorrow. Low tonight, 44; high tomorrow, 66.
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To ht Time [HOT-gox
] | Feeney Notes ‘Heavy’ 5 | . . | Mail Favoring | Change of Clocks Some form of voluntary day[light saving time was under con- *' |sideration at City Hall today, but Mayor Feeney said he had not {decided to urge unofficial adoption of fast time this summer. > The Mayor sald he has been’ Jo “deluged with mail" favoring the a '§ {fast time, following passage of adi @ *# the Jaw by. the legislature placing 3 the~entire state on Central Standard Time. “If we decide to adopt a volun“itary fast time,” the Mayor asserted, “we will need the full cooperation of labor, industry and professional people.” Mayor Feeney, however, said he did not intend to issue a proclamation to replace the recently
invalidated fast time city ordinance.
BAR-BQ 20 co NEY. :
Two Set the Pace
| Two of the state's larger industrial cities—South Bend and Lawrence L. Todd. Mishawaka-—already have balked
. Never say die. »
De ant in ne Restaurateur on Curbstone Scale
Ringleader, Escapee From Boys Town, state. By CARL HENN Both mayors said the procla- LAWRENCE L. TODD was on his way into the restaurant mations were issued because “al physiness today in a vacant lot at the corner of Tibbs Ave. and Five runaways from the Marion County Juvenile Center were state of economic emergency w. Washington St. He was equipped with his son's coaster wagon but the seif-styled “leader” of the mass escape threatening the well-being Of an4 a couple of hot plates. and two companions were back in custody at the Center. labor, industry and business was When Mr. Todd, and his wife, Margaret, became unemployed The eight boys, led by a runaway from Boys Town, Neb.. broke created by the Indiana legislaout of the Center at 4 a, m. yesterday by tearing out a second story ture when it enacted the standard " of blankets. time law.”
st t business ‘curb- . The St. Joseph county cities ap- a Usiers on : Conferees A ee Indict War Gl ~ Jpeard to have set the pace for , :
into business for himself . .. the
He callg. it “Tod's Tiny Tid other Hoosier communities. | bits” and his customers are get-
I» { r Cities Rebel | ting into the habit of dropping On Rent Profits As War Il Traitor Other ro cities were ex-| by for a snack. °°
pected to declare daylight saving BORROWING the coaster
jrme fo? i mat omehs wagon belonging to his six- Assure Landlords
| year- son, J . Todd | . " Ex-U. S. Employee | co-operative voluntary effort. | Jeas-ond Sm Puy er Spud "Of ‘Fair’ Incomes {roads wii be plosed. . | Other cities whose mayors or| 3 p { y z 3 5 n spite of showers predicted | Nazi Broadcaster city councils previously indicated! ric) hot plates, coffee pots | WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 (UP) for tomorrow afternoon and,
WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 (UP) they might ignore the new law] ~Herbsrt John Burgman, former Were Ft. Wayne, Hammond, East
The maximum penalty for trea-{the big city Hoosier lawmakers
Mr. Burgman's indictment on ceeds, he said. When night |p vty.
. Nazi radio during the war. lard time, said that cities should] when it gets warmer,” the in- ea IO hen TODD Mr. Burgman was an American not flaunt violations of the law. | trepid entrepreneur asserted. the " ne vide for pp veteran in World War I. When In a public statement, he said:| “I've got a condenser unit for \ i lo pros a this an in forid Wa diplomatic/ “We have tried to avoid a double the freezer at home.” utc " " B ig a h relations with Germany shortly standard of time. If the cities Todd's Tiny Tidbits will The eae re now must be ratiafter the first war, he joined the violate the state law, confusion, grow into a fruit market even- ne measure n ! a
will reign Again. tually, according to the pa-
ure of an earlier venture. all of Thursday.
book today as he awaited death Washington St. will be ready. approval.
Night Watchman John R. John-
County Surveyor Mack Saun-preme Court intervenes. Times State Service
ders said heavy rain was the A petition for a review of the NASHVILLE, Ind.. Mar. 28.— cause. He said the lawn had been case by the high court was filed This cultural hub of Brown Counfilled with -brickbats and old'by Robert Estill, East Chicago, ty is drying out today after its Former Druggist Dies timbers when the court house. was Kallis’ attorney. Estill said if the worst flash flood in history.
built in 1887 the sit - t n 7 on the site of the Supreme Court denied the ap- Torrential rains Saturday night tary of the Indiana State Board
of Pharmacy. died of a heart ail- cloudy tomorrow He low tonight was 44 and a high of
former Wabash-Erie Canal turn peal he would do nothing more gent the normally lazy Salt Cree to try to save Kallis. swirling from its banks in an TT angry rush.
‘Defense Secretary to Talk um
The water rose so rapidly in
Legion Head to Place
ankle deep South of town a
y
three weeks ago, something had to be done and he did it. He went
Instead of insuring landlords a “reasonable return” as voted by Edwardspo the House, it would promise landwhatever increases necessary to guarantee them “fair
fied hy both Houses before it goes tient Mr. Todd. He has a meat wo the White House for President [100d stage. ie . o y- ruman’s signature. Present rent ; Lake County Slayer sheer and Jome Other rai controls run out at midnight east and west forks, reported three feet above flood stage toPrays as He Waits which he can use if and when Before putting a final okay on day. It will crest at about seven . . the time comes. the compromise, the conferees EVANSVILLE, Ind. Mar. 28 Execution Tonight Meanwhile, it's growing also rubbed out wording which also will crest Saturday, with | oo ~ warmer and there's always the some felt left a loophole for the eight feet above flood stage pre- - today for a cave-in on the “yyGHTGAN CITY. Mar. 28 tree to lean against when trade ‘housing expediter to disregard dicted. (UP}—Thomas Kallis, 59, read a js slow. When business picks “home rule” decisions to lift rent lawn but Building Superintendent .. Orthodox church prayer up the curbstone caterer qf controls with their governor's. H. Kerchief said the courthouse
was in no danger. in the electric chair at Indiana _ _ I ~The original compromise -said-
the housing expediter would lift
: . state prison tonight for a Lake » son discovered the cave-in last Sale? slaying. Flood Puts Damper controls upon receiving an night when a small boy vanished ays
) convicted of killing [propriately substantiated” while running across the lawn. ,,,ther man in a Gary hotel On Cultural Hub (lution from a municipality. Mr. Johnson found the boy trying ,oom in 1947. was slated to be to get out of a hole ‘eight feet
deep. midnight unless the U.
|conferees knocked out the two
executed a few minutes after In Brown County [words to answer charges 8.
__ (critics that it left a loophole for will reach one foot the expediter to veto such actions.
SALEM. Mar. 28 (UP)
ment in his home last night. was a druggist here 57 years.
ABC Shakeup
Returns Doyle
South Indiana Rivers Plunge
Over Banks
High Water Is Not A Major Danger,
Weatherman Says
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6 a. m... 46 10 a. m... 63 7a m.. 47 11 a. m... 64
| *8 a. m... 51 12 (Noon) 68
9 a m.. 58 1 pom... 70
Rivers and streams in southern Indiana have begun to rise over their banks to threaten lowlands with high water for the third time this year, the Weather
Bureau said today.
Swollen by heavy week-end rains and resulting runoffs, the east and west forks of the White River and the lower Wabash will go to seven to eight feet above flood stages in some places, according to Paul A. Miller, chief
meteorologist.
In general, "however, the high water will not be a serious threat,
Mr. Miller said. ‘Moderate So Far’
“It is just moderate flooding so far, mostly confined to the lowlands,” Mr. Miller said, “and I. expect that only some county roads and possibly a few state
and some weiners and barbe- |—Senate and House conferees night, he expected nothing more cue meat and trundled the load |agreed today on a compromise to than bank-full waters on the up-| to the corner of Tibbs Ave and | {guarantee landlords “fair net op- per west fork of White River ang Ww. Washington st. hire he (erating income” under the 15- the upper Wabash. set himself up in business. month rent control extension. {were first: raised as a threat by\ "pg, m. until his stock is | The decision was reached at a fall, flood stage will not be gone he Stands behind a tablé fina] two-hour session in which reached in Indianapolis. / on a corner plot lent hin by the 'Hoyse conferees finally accepted property, Who 5 compromise wording of the pro-| Meanwhile, smaller cities near| Vi. charge rent only if he suc" yisijon by Sen. Ralph E. Flanders
Unless additional heavy ral
Spencer Crest Tonight
above on Thursday.
On the east fork of White d River, Columbus crested at flood stage early today. Seymour will crest today also, at about three feet above, and Bedford will crest Thursday, at five above. Shoals will wait until Friday to crest at
Petersburg, at the junction of
above by Saturday. Hazelton
Wahash Due to Crest
foot below flood stage today.
Iwill crest at 2!'3 to three feet above on Saturday, Mr. Miller The said. ’ The last crest is expected at by New Harmony, where the Wabash
stage by Sunday.
Showers will fall on Indianapolis again tomorrow afternoon Weatherman Miller said. but the liam H. Rudder, 77, former sec Mo mild weather will continue. Fair skies tonight will become The expected
66 was predicted for tomorrow.
section of town. was Toner Mother Ends 7-Year Search thee er hones waa: FOF Hero Son's Lost Dise
New Building Stone lake of several hundred acres Story in The Times Brings Discovery formed as the raging waters ‘ ’ : ' U. 8. Secretary of Defense poured into the valley in a rapid of Then / H Keep on Loving You Louis Johnson will speak at the run-off By DONNA MIKELS cornerstone laying of the $2 mil- Tourists flocked to the area yes-| Everyone who has ever had a record collection knows how
terday to view effects of the flood. feels to lose a personal
Today conditions were returning reasons. al headquarters building May 6, EB
Felix J. Brown, executive secretary of the Indiana World War
today. National Commander Perry Brown, of Texas, will lay the cornerstone of the new building, using the same trowel and mallet
years ago by Gen. John J. Persh- (stomach disturbance, left today Years.
ing in laying the cornerstone of the Indiana War Memorial Shrine. Master of Ceremonies Judge Clarence K. McNabb, Ft.
|sonal plane to fly to Key West, It was found by Mrs.
Commission, will be master of Louis Johnson . . . to speak at apolis Time) You.’ ceremonies. cornerstone laying. The May 6 date was selected by
to the spring meeting of the Na. coast radio hookup.
the American Legion. Mayor Feeney will welcome a8 Grand Marshal of a parade Truman.
|—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, ord for which she had searched who is recovering from an acute Unsuc cessfully for almost seven
aboard President Truman's per- Recognizes Description
Fla... for a rest at the “Winter Sharpe, 222 8. 3d 8t., Beech Grove, | WHite House.” who thought she recognized Mrs. Mrs. Ross remembered as the title US § ‘ t Def The four-engined Independence Ross’ description of the lost rec-|of the song. She found no song of Trustees of the War Memorial « 9. Secretary of Uerense - took off at 9:39 a. m. (Indian- ord “Then I'll Keep On Loving by this title but she remembered the line as a lyric of “Sweethearts Gen. Ike suffered an attack of Mrs. Sharpe moved her record or Strangers.” acute gastro-enteritis last Mon- player close to the telephone and Mr. Sharpe, husband of the commission as a fitting climax to be broadcast over a coast-to- day. He has been confined to his put the record on. It had played woman who found the right 0 hotel apartment here. Gen, Eisen- only a few notes before Mrs. Ross tune. made a rush delivery of the tional Executive Commission of Adjutant General Robinson hower made the “trip at the recognized it ds the same record record ta the Ross home and Hitchcock of Indiana will serve personal invitation of President purchased by her son, Staff Sgt. Mrs, Ross today planned to have Melvin Ross in December, 1941, unbreakable copies made of the
favorite, a tune prized for sentimental
|to hormal, | Maybe that is why the stgry of a gold star mother’s search —————— - for the favorite record of her soldier son published in yesterday [ Times touched the heart of Indianapolis record collectors,
tke Hops off { Within a few hours after the
paper was delivered, Mrs. Bevin . tx Revs For Florida Rest Ross, 41815 N. Alabama St. Strangers,” the tune Miss Boswell | WASHINGTON. Mar. 28 (UP) a copy of the Connee Boewi rec-
other side of “Sweethearts
thought fit Mrs, Ross’ description
of the record she sought. Meet Backstage
5 visiting leaders of the American to precede the cornerstone laying. Talking with reporters before the last record he bought before tune,
Legion from all pver,the United My. Brown sald. his plane took off, Gen. Eisen- he went overseas to his death. It| Numerous other record colStates and Gov. Schricker will All living past national com- however said ne “was hopeful” later was broken and the mother lectors kept the Ross telephone welcome Legionnaires on behalf manders of the American Le- about the future although ‘there’ has been seeking a copy since. “} recognized it-in a minute”
of the state of Indiana. | gion will be invited to participate is trouble in the world.”
‘ the hey address, which is expected the event.- ' \ | men.” v
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|busy yesterday offering Mrs. Ross|
access ‘to their Boswell collec- . Ex-Commander to Talk land the Legion's 49 continental | “I am very hopeful,” he said. Mrs. Ross said. “I told-her I was tions. One other woman, Mrs.
Secretary Johnson, a past na- ‘departments will be asked to ship “This is a strong country and sorry I-was crying and she said: | Bernice Keating, 4922 Carrollton tional commander, will deliver state colors to Indianapolis for we still have some damn good ‘That's all right, I'm crying 00." | Ave., also located “Then I'll Keep the infantry reserves in October, TATIONRLLY FAM FAMOUS KO {Curiously, the tune was on the On Loving You" foy, her,
On the lower west fork, Spencef~will crest at flood stage tonight. Elliston will crest tomorrow, at 61; feet above flood stage. rt, now 51% feet above, was expected to crest at about 9
Mt. Carmel, Tl, where the Whité meets the Wabash, was a
above flood
The gold star mother and Miss | Ross met backstage of Circle the|ater Friday and Miss Boswell George tried unsuccessfully to locate = “I'll Always Love You,” which
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As Chairman
Steinsherger Markland and Rice Named
New Head Served In That Capacity
Under Townsend By ROBERT BLOEM Gov, Schricker today appointed an all-new Alcoholic Beverages Commission to take office Apr. 2. Bernard Doyle, Hebron
‘farmer and a former commis sion chairman, will head the new ABC. He is a Democrat. The other Democratic member on the bi-parti-san commission will be Walter A. Rice of South Bend. William T. Steinsberger of 3932 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, and Glenn A. Markland of ‘Zionsville, are the new Repub- . lican members. | Mr. Doyle was Mr. Rice chairman of the ABC under the administration of former Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. He had William T. Steinsberger served several years as a come ; ‘mission investigator before that | time.
Bernard Doyle
ND Graduate
Mr. Rice is an attorney and a |graduate of Notre Dame Univerisity. He is now counsel for the [National Discount Corp. Mr. Steinsberger also is af at|torney and has spent 12 years in the Internal Revenue Service. He was auditor for the ABC in 1936 and 1937 and is a former memsber of the State Board of Ac|counts. { Mr. Markland was a member of the 1939 and 1941 General Assembly and has been associated with the ABC for eight years. He spent four years as director of public relations for the commission and for the past four years has been ABC prosecutor, Members of the retiring commission are Chairman, Lefler R, Anderson of La Porte and Clarence D. Rotruck of Anderson,
Glenn A. Markland "Republicans; Elmer B. Lohman of Three Seek Job ram. same > H IU Zoologist As Smoke Engineer g
Dreams of Chow Feeney Considering |n That Turtle
Out-of-Town Men Times State Service
Mayor Feeney today was con-| BLOOMINGTON, Mar. 28 —= sidering applications of three out- | Everyone wants in the act of the of-town engineers for the newly- Beast of Churubusco. created post of City Superintend-| The giant turtle of Fulk’s Lake ent of Air Pollution Prevention. has created comment in news-
He declined to name the appli-|,, ne. and scientific circles. Farmfants ou sald all were fully on Gale Harris, landlord of the juatliiec mossback and chief instigator of
former City Cn « ry Former y Combustion Engi- ype {rapping activities, would like neer Robert L.. Wolf resigned last . . . to wash his hands of the whole week after the City Council affair. passed what he considered a = gi the public won't let Farmer weak and ineffectual
SMOKE | yarris relax. ordinance
2 = : Under the new law the Board NOW one latest advice in the
of Air Pollution has been placed great battle of the terrible terraunder control of the Safety Board. pin Ex-Inspector Supervising “The best bet is out-sized nets Meanwhile, the city's smoke or turtle traps, not divers,” said control program is being carried William E. Ricker, Indiana Uni out under the supervision of C. V. versity zoologist and state direcMatthew a former smoke in- tor of the Lake and Stream Surpector under Mr. Wolf vey Mr. Matthews said there hag If there is a turtle in Fulk's been no let-up in enforcing the Lake, Prof. Ricker is more ine anti-emoke ordinance since the clined to estimate its weight department change around 100 pounds rather than Currently the Polution Board is| 500. : helping North Side home owners ‘‘Warm weather will make the to prosecute a case against Pow- turtle more active,” he said. “If it ors & Pittenger Mattress Manu.|l8 caught, it will make a lot of facturing C The case will be|good eating.” heard in Municipal Court tomor- — mn m—— row morning - h erry Shaw Becomes en. Smit ssigne Assig Fence Buster To Governor's Island | « wibur Shaw “crashed WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 (UP) | through” to a sensational Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, | start in his first auto racé whose resignation as ambassador crashed through the to Russia was accepted Friday by | fence. ’ President Truman, was named to- ® Be sure to read today’s day to be commander of the First | installment of the Indian Army with headquarters at Gov-|
apolis Speedway president's sensational ride along the “roaring road” to international acclaim. ® Bill Eggert, Times sports writer, takes you “right
ernor’'s Island, N. Y. He succeeds Nn Courtney H. Hodges, who retired Jan. 31, Gen. Smith was chief of staff to Gen. Dwight DB. Eisenhower through the North African, Med- . > er wa and European invasion , 40Wn on the track” with . the speed king in his exoperations. He was appointed] ambassador to Russia in Febru- citing story of Wilbur ary. 1046. Ae. tod and Born: in- Indianapolis Oct. 5, ay . . ..and 1805, Gen. Smith died not attend| very day EXCLUSIVELY ‘West Point. He entered military] IN ‘THE TIMES as OR service as a second lieutenant in| Page 8.
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