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FORECAST: Thundershowers tonight and tomorrow forenoon. Cloudy and warmer tomorrow ‘afternoon. Low tonight 58, high tortorrow 65.
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Misses Mark; Police Rough Up Demonstrators Ni See World Report, Page 6.
NEW YORK, Mar. 30 (UP) —| British Foreign Secretary Ernest) Beyin, arriving in this“ country to” 8ign the North Atlantic pact,| was the target of a tomato hurled] from a group of jeering pickets) today as he left the liner Queen| Mary. | The tomato missed. Police ar-| rested two of the pickets on charges of disorderly conduct. Nearly 800 pickets, sponsored by the Joint Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism, had marched before the mid-town pier at which the Queen Mary arrived, but when the foreign secretary left the ship only about 30 remained. College Students They said they were college students and that their picketing
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was “spontaneous” and unsponsored Ag police sirens heralded the
departure af the Bevin limousine the youths stormed a protective line thrown up by 30 policemen.
“How do you spell Bevin? ‘SOB.” Several! of the vouths were
roughed 1p in the clash with the! policemen. A few of them reached! the curb as Mr, Bevin's car passed. | Some Carry Eggs They were joined by the entire] group just after his car had gone| by. Police said some of the| youths weré carrying eggs but | didn’t throw them. The two arrested were Robert) Newman; 19, a mail boy, Brook-
lyn, and Harry Hirsh, 17, Brook- | |
lyn, a student at Samuel Tilden High School. Police said others in the group identified themselves
as students at several New York |
colleges,
Times Reporter's Crime Coup Told On WIRE Tonight
THE REAL-LIFE story eof how an Indianapolis [imes reporter, Philip ¥. Clifford Jr. solved a New York tavern slaying in 1935, will be dramatized over radio’ station WIRE at 9 p. m. today. For his part ‘'n apprehending the killer, Mr. Clifford won Pall Mall's 9500 Big Story radio award. He was a reporter for * the New York Mirror at the time. : = 5 "
MR. CLIFFORD is Courthouse reporter for The Times. | During the war, Mr. Clifford] served in Europe as an agent with| the Criminal Investigation Divl-| ‘sion. He is the son of a former New York police captain. His brother is a lieutenant in the homicide squad of Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. Clifford and his wife, the former Inez Achgill, make their home at 51 8S. 7th St.,, Beech Grove
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES
fa m.. 38 10 a. m... 62 7 a m.. 58 11 a. m... 60 8 a.m... 60 12 (Noon) 62 8 a m... 60 1 p.m... 62
A sprinkling of rain fell on Indianapolis in the forenoon today as the Weather Bureau forecast thundershowers tonight and tomorrow morning. Precipitation: may total as much as one inch. Rain clouds were to gather in the northwest portion of the state late this afternoon, over-spread-fing Indiana tonight and continuing tomorrow. Locally, mild spring temperatures will remain with a high today of 70 degrees. Temperatures also were expected to remain above 58 tonight. The mercury was expected to dip slightly tomorrow to a high of 65. Meanwhile, flood waters along the east and west forks of the White River were falling slightly today although spring planting was expected to be delayed. ! Loy S— ~
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Widens Search For Missing Banker NEW YORK, Mar. 30 (UP) FBI agents searched from coast to coast today and alerted law enforcement agencies in foreign countries to be on the watch for a National City Bank executive who is alleged to have disap-| peared with $690,000 of the bank's cash and negotiable bonds. Although the FBI concentrated the search on the east coast, the] agents also acted on the theory that . 41 - year -old Richard H.| Crowe, assistant branch bank manager, may have taken a plane for South America or Europe.
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Gardening ..16 Earl Wilson .12/
“Inside Indpls. 13’ Women's ....16, (Indianapolis Time) tomorrow. | a i ; wr il
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60th YEAR—NUMBER 18 but
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The Churubusco turtle delegation arrives at state conservation department headquarters to discuss legal complications in trapping the monster. Shown are (left to right] Pat Crooks, Kenneth Leitch, Mrs. Gale Harris, Stanley Myers and Gale Harris.
Kenneth M. Kunkel, state conservation director (left), and Henry P. Cottingham, fish and game director (right), assure Mr. and Mrs, Harris they have and can retain full legal rights to the Beast
Police Alerted Farmer Harris Visits City In Big Manhuit To Learn Trapping Rights
i Reassured as to Ownership of Reptile, Seek Memphis Bank He Completes Negotiations for Capture Robber, Jailbreaker | By VICTOR PETERSON City police were alerted by the!
Federal Bureau of Investigation Is about {0 be written,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1949
Any and all legal complications which had loomed to doom |
Hurls Thresh Out Legal Status of Turtle Arraign 8 Here | Tomato at
In Inquiry
Police Attempt To Pin Burglary Charges on Gang
A confessed burglar and seven other suspected of being a part of a giant theft ring were arraigned as vagrants here today as police continued their attempt to pin burglary charges against them. | Bond for seven ofthe suspects was set at $10,000. Bond for the {other was set at $1500. None was (able to make bond. | Meanwhile, confession of the Indianapolis man to 42 burglaries in the city and central Indiana appeared today as the opening wedge in breaking up what appeared to be one of the largest burglary gangs ever to operate here. Indianapolis and Shelbyville police have rounded up 15 suspected members of the gang. More arrests may follow. A confession has been obtained from one. Another has dictated .a confession but will not sign until he consults a lawyer.
One to 100 Cases
Police Chief Rouls, who joined the city-wide roundup of other {burglars last night, admitted to{day the police may have corralled {most of the big operators in the icity. { More than 100 cases may be {cleared up by the arrests and re-
| It was rumored Mayor Feeney {joined the hunt also last night.
{today and said he spent most of {the evening eating chicken at a restaurant east of the city.
charges today after their arrest there yesterday morning, They were questioned yesterday by Inspector Jack O'Neal, chief of Inidianapolis Detectives. However, he said afterwards he obtained no confessions from the men. Eight others were arrested yesterday and last night here.
Eight Held as Vagrants
| The confession has been ob{tained from: Chester R. Mobley, 27, of 1143 Nelson St., who was traced through the title of an {abandoned car found in Shelby-|ville-after an attempted burglary |of a supermarket. : Mobley, early this morning, coni fessed to taking part in the attempted burglary and outlined 42 other burglaries in which he has taken part since April, 1947, police said. | Through information obtained from Mobley, police hope‘to ob[tain confessions from the other
The final chapter in the battle for the Beast of Churubusco prisoners. Mobley implicated four|
{of the suspects in his statement. The eight prisoners in Indian-
here today to join the nationwide | the trapping of the terrible terrapin of Fulk's Lake have vanished. apolis are being held as vagrants.
manhunt for Clyde Milton Johnson. 30, who robbed the First arrived in Indianapolis today to thresh out legal technicalities wit ' Tati Kenneth M. Kunkel, director of EE N al B k or re his, the State Department of Conserof $43.000 vation. Tenn, and sub- Included in the delegation besequently broke Sides Mr. and Mrs. Harris were
which they won't even let me see
antee that once they set the tra they will bring
jail at Miami, Pat Crooks, restaurant owner; within 24 hours. The contract wi Fla. Stanley Myers, grocer, and KenHarvey @. neth Leitch, garage owner, all of Foster FBI Churubusco. trying agent-in- The Harris party came here is “I'm ready to go along wil charge here determine positively their rights pn,
i > " iant turtle and said Johnson to capture the giant : might head for eXhibit him as they see fit. They
Johnson Indianapolis with his wife, Billie Were advised by their lawyer,
unless they bring him up.
Churubusco, to take era-type moll with a pimply com- these precautionary steps before plexion and the name “Kurt” bringing the beast to land. tatooed on her right knee. Situation Complicated Johnson, the FBI agent said, Although Fulk's Lake is surabandoned an automobile in Cin- rounded by Harris land, it had cinnati Mar. 11 after holding up not been determined whether the an A. & P. grocery in Atlanta, lake was private. The fact that Ga., Mar. 8. it has an inlet and outlet to public Pull Bank Job waters Somplicates the Houation. | os , Mr. unkel called enry . He was one of two men who Cottingham, state director of fish pulled the Memphis bank job.i dg into the conf. FBI arrested Johnson in Miami 2d game, into the conference. It was decided that although the lake must be considered public, there are no restrictions on the turtle-trapping operations. “Turtles are not protected under law. Thére'is no season on
$2000 in front of me and said
on their own hook.”
turtle.
1. Mr. Harris said.
Feb. 17 and recovered $40,000 in bank loot.
But Johnson escaped from Dade County skyscraper jail Mar. 1. The FBI said wife, Billie, assisted in the jail break. Johnson.is wanted also for robberies of Safeway groceries tn California. Police of all major cities have
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capture them with a trap,” Kunkel opined. “Once you have , taken the turtle it is yours.” during the coal miners “Then neither the state nor any- rial vacation. one could take the turtle from Reporting for us?” Mr. Harris asked. It'll Be His Turtle “Absolutely not. That is your locomotive repair shops.
“ Billie Frances heen asked to be on the lookout turtle.” Mr. Kunkel assured the
for him.
. you want with him . Tornado Kills charge admission, take him anylagain because of the mine hol
place you desire, paint it up, dec- day.
. " x 2 in Oklahoma orate nv ~ | Approximately 500 Indiana been missing : I. Okla. Mar. 30 (Up; Mr. Cottingham said: workers of the Pennsylvania ¢.om his home SANTO, ripped through Can-| If the turtle proves to be of Railroad will be called back to since Sunday
ton and the nearby community of | him. we would like very much to
Longdale early today, Killing {WO oy pinit him at the State Fair this persons and injuring 16 others. | oo.
It tore across the northern half” av gravis had no comment to of Canton shortly after midnight, | pa suggestion. skipped six miles northeastward,| After a quick look around the | and roared through Longdale. One person was killed in each Times, the first for both Mr. and 0 stage audiences town. Fifteen were hurt here and| Mrs, Harris, the delegation sped |2 century as Blackstone one at Longdale. The two towns back to Churubusco to draw up | Magician, was reported in fa are in northwestern Oklahoma. !a contract for capturing the | CONdition toady in Canton, population 1200, is only mossback. ? {Long Hospital here. about 50 miles from Woodward, All plans to snare the snapper | The 82-year-old Okla., where 100 persons died in by using a diver in a deep sea 0llapsed inan Atlanta Theater a similar storm on Apr. 9 1047./outfit temporarily have been|V¢eK ago, suffering from Today's was the third tornado t6 abandoned. strike In southern and south- | Plan to Sign Contract western states within a week, a imeei——————
TRUMAN TO MEET PRESS WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 (UP) cently of Tennessee, where re- prove somewhat.
Asthma Pulls Trick On Harry Blackstone
celled.
Hospital news conference at 9:30 a. m. catching turtles. last night and is “They .are building a trap today. x
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Mr. and Mrs. Gale Harris, landlords of the monstrous mossback, |
1 think they know what}. ve they are doing. There is no pay
“If they're that anxious, so am
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work Monday will be nearly 800 men in the car repair department and 691 in the
Workers were first furloughed yvania city today turtle-trapping farmer. “Once you Feb. 11 because of slack business. to return him to capture him you can do anything They were recalled Mar. 18 but phic home . . exhibit, three days later were sent home
such, great size and you capture work between Friday and Apr. 7
ATLANTA, Mar. 30 (UP)-
ems? sterday and] |Harry Bouton Blackstone, known burgh policeman yesterda) capital city and a visit to The | M for nearly half sald he didn't know
the and ‘only “thought”
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Police today planned to resume h the questioning of the suspects ~ ‘here and at Shelbyville.
First arrest in the gang clean-| Mr. Harris said. ‘But they guar- up came eariy yesterday when
p Shelbyville police caught five
the monster up men in a roadblock north of that
11 city. The officers had erected the
Gun in Car
h However, the first five appear to
fallen into the net. They are believed to have been returning to their homes here after bur-
“The brothers pretty well sold glarizing business places in Qsme the other night when they put good and Napoleon Monday night./the hody and said they
t In the car was found a quan-
along with a 45-caliber automatic
He rejected the cash offer byt Pistol and an Indiana retail store told them to try anvway, with Mr, Harris keeping full right to the
license from e Osgood Legion Post headquarters clubroom. The room was burglarized M~naday night, Shelbyville police said. Next the Shelbyville authorities captured two men within the city
supermarket. Mobley, in his confession, implicated them.
- New York Central Railroad to- Elwood Amnesia
day called back to work 1500 emthem and it is perfectly legal to ployees of its Beech: Grove shops MT. who have been idle for two weeks | “‘memo-
Victim Located
Timgg State Service ELWOOD, Mar. 30—The parents of a husky Elwood High School freshman held in Pitts-
burgh as an amnesia victim went to the Pennsyl-
The vouth, I- Richard D. Carter, 14, who had
night, was identified through a pawn ticket which was in his Richard Carter possession when
_| he approache#.a downtown Pitts-
his name he arrived ir there by bus Gives Father's Name | The ticket had becn issued by Louis a!ti:asser, proprietor, told Pittsa burgh police by phone that he
{severe attack of asthma. The recognized the description of the |rest of a schieduled tour was can:
{six-foot-two, 180-pound boy and {that he had pawned a diamond-
|tion,
(Suiting confessions. |Hospital, the Penney Store seg'ment replacing the English Ho- | But the Mayor denied the report!
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| Seven of the 15 suspects were] {being held in Shelbyville on open |
Entered as Becond-Class Matter at Postoffics
Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Dally
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Sees Local Construction Ahead of 1948
Building Permits Exceed $5.5 Million To Date, Board Told
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The building ‘industry in Indianapolis this year promises to pass its record-breaking $43 million boom ofwgl948 Charles E.| Bacon. commissioner of buildings, | told the Safety Board today. Mr. Bacon told the board that permits for $5.5 million in building had been issued up to last week end. “At this rate, we'll easily pass last year,” he said. The huge building volume includes the $7 million Veterans
Sts. and several new insurance
{buildings.
Largest Medical Center
Mr. Bacon said the addition of the Veterans Hospital would give Indianapolis the largest Medical Center in the country, surpassing even Philadelphia which boasts one of the largest single Veterans Hospitals in the world. The grouping of the hospitals including the State Hospital, Riley, Coleman, long and the City’ Hospital brings together unmatched medical facilities in a single grouping. he said. Mr. Bacon urged that the city
building ordinance be amended rope for the investigation, the
to control the size of buildings. He said shacks and two-room |
‘dwellings which would develop |
into slums should be ruled out. He will ask the Safety Board to petition the Council to make, the change with the aim of ap- | proving the overall appearance of (the city and protecting property he
Police Halt Hunt |
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For ‘Body’ in River
Packing Co. Worker
Ignites Search
A two-hour search for what
read that if they have not caught block to catch the group which was believed to be a body floating him by Apr. 16, they will stop had broken in the supermarket.
in White River was given up by police this morning. An employee at Stark & Wetzel Co. reported what he thought was the hody of a man wash over a small falls in back of the plant. Police could find no. trace of could. determine no starting point for a
was mine if they could go ahead tity of whisky and chewing gum gearch.
Louie TLamtz, employee of Stark & Wetzel shipping department, [told police he was standing on] the loading platform with a partner about 9 a. m. when he glanced over the river.
He said he, saw
what he be-
caught in {near a small {body washed over the falls and
Trial Looms
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Gen. Clayton L. Bissell
Gen. Bissell Face me mace he engin 30 A Force Charges
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Open Inquiry in Germany on Case | FRANKFURT, Mar. 30 (UP)—| U. 8. Air Force headquarters an-| nounced today that Maj. Gen.! Clayton L. Bissell, former assis-! tant Army Chief of Staff, has! been charged under the Articles War and may be court-| martialed. The announcement said the al-
leged acts of Gen. Bissell while! and air attache ynqividual
he. was military at the U. 8. Embassy in London were opeing investigated to determine whether he should be brought before a court-martial. Gen. Bissell has arrived in Eu-
announcement said. Article of War mentioned in the Air Force statement was 46-B,
{which provides for a pre-trial in- Business
vestigation. Under Army regulations, a charge is preferred before such an investigation. However, there|
of the charge against Gen. | Bissell. | Started as Private The announcement was signed by Lt. Gen. John K. Cannon, Air| Force commander in Europe. It| said Gen. Bissell would be repre-| sented during the investigation! by John E. Hughes, Washington and Chicago attorney. ! Gen. Bissell was in command of the 10th Air Force at the outbreak of World War II and in 1943 was made Chief of the Army Air Force Intelligence. In 1944, he was promoted to Assistant Army Chief of Staff in charge of intelligence and continued in that post until the end of war. Gen. Bissell went to the U. 8 Embassy in London as military and air attache in May, 1946, and served there until last July. The 52-year-old general, a native of Kane, Pa., was one of the Army's pioneer airmen. He began as a private 1st class in the aviation section of the Signal Corps in 1917. LONG DRY SPELL ENDS LIMA. Peru, Mar. 30 (UP)-
limits believed connected with the lieved to be the body of a man It rained here yesterday for the
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the swirling’ current|first time in more than five years. falls. He said the|The government weather station
put the fall at 21 milimeters
disappeared before he could tell (about 00.8 inches) during a twohis companion what he had seen. hour shower.
Poor Little Pan Fish Faces Great Big Frying Pan
State Officials Order
Stream Depopulation TOO BAD, little pan fish. They
won't let you nest in peace this spring. The Indiana Conservation Department has issued an order there will be no time off. .this vear for blue gill, yellow perch, rock bass, red-eared sunfish and crappie. They may he caught at any (time. Dyring their annual fam-
ily raising period, May 1 to June {16, they must dodge hook, line {and sinker just as at any other time. ” » » BASS AND game fish are excluded from the order and may nest in peace this year during [their annual closed season.
| Kenneth M. Kunkle, conserva|tion director, and Henry P. Cot{tingham, director of the division (of fish and game, signed the opening order. : : They said its purpose was to !depopulate the streams of larger
{obtain more food and thus grow up to be vicious giants. “88 : ACTUALLY societies for the
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The open season was the special recommendation of the fish's “family doctor.”
| The open season was recom-| The Harris’ plan to sign a con-| Blackstone was kept under an set cameo fing. The boy gave his pan fish so that small fry might mended’ by Dr. W. E. Ricker of tract today with R. V. and C. V. oxygen tent for several days father's name. ‘Butler, now of Ft. Wayne, but re- until his condition began to im-| - The father, Robert A. Carter, at- who operates a concrete ready-| ¥orum ......14 Weather Map 8 President Truman will hold a putedly . they spent their time taches said “ie spent a fair night mix bus ness here, identified his somewhat better son from the telephone descrip-
Purdue University and his group!
which have made an. extensive study of the pulses and blood pressure of their water bound
charges. It's all for the good of |finny folk need not feel too Sad. the pan fish society.
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45¢ More Sought For 2-Party Lines; Hearing Is May 16
By HAROLD HARTLEY Times Business Editor
Most telephone subscribers
(would pay from 40c to 45c
more per month under the increased schedule sought by the Indiana Bell Telephone - Co. before the
Public Service Commission at hearings opening May 16. The 40c increase will be asked for four-party and rural residence service. Two-party users would be increased 45¢ and individual residence service would go up 75¢ a month, the company estimated today. Business rates would advance 75¢ for rural and $1.25 for individual flat rate service. A. B. Nail, division manager, said the average increase from basic rates changes would be about 12 per cent. Current and proposed rates for Indianapolis are:
Residence Now Proposed Four-party ......83.10 $3.50 {Two-party’ ...... 3.80 4.25 wenn 550 5.25 Business {Individual ) | (flat rate) ....13.30 14.75 {Individual (measured) ... 6350 7.00 i ; (100 msgs.) (80 mags. | Rural Residence ....... 3.10 3.50 Ceres . 4.50 5.25
(Federal Tax not included) The proposal will also include some increases for miscellaneous services and certain long distance
|was no indication of the nature|calls within the state.
Yesterday the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted rate increases ranging from 25 to 50 cents (about 9 per cent) in the Cleveland area. Cites Increased Costs “The cost of many things such as food, automobiles and clothing has practically doubled in the past few years,” Mr. Nail said. “Telephone rates here are about the same as they were more than 20 years ago. Following the reduction in 1939 and an increase in 1947, Indianapolis has the same rates for individual business, rural business and individual resi~ dence that were in effect in 1926. Party line residence rates are only 5 and 10 cents higher today than in 1926.” Mr. Nail said operating exe penses have increased in the telephone business as in every other business. He also pointed to the company’s expansion program which includes five new buildings,
|six additions to existing buildings,
additions to central office equip~
ment, the $4 million conversion of
Belmont and Cherry to dial serve ice next Sunday.
. Five Held Here 6 + 1 * In ‘Pyramid’ Raid The Pyramid club craze reached Indianapolis. A police vice squad last night arrested five “Pyramiders” in the Mahogany Bar, 901 «Dorman St. and seized sheets of nearly 1000 names of “club members.” The nationwide Pyramid party craze, patterned on the old chain [letter fad, has swept the nation lin the past month. In many other cities police have failed in attempts to “break up” Pyramiding. Local police invoked city lot tery ordinances in their raid last night, arresting tavern proprietor Herbert McNabney on charges of keeping a gaming house, gaming and advertising a lottery, A waitress, Mrs, Jessie Schuttee, 2005 Caroline Ave, and a bartender, Harold Cottrell, 435 Madison Ave., were charged with aiding and abetting a lottery and | gift enterprise. ‘ | Three other persons were {charged with gaming and visiting {a gaming house. They were | Franklin Rossler, 1129 E. 9th (8t.; Clifford Hedrick and his wife, {Pauline Hedrick, 917 Dorman St,
: Clean-Up Time— Indiana Central Colle-. glans have set the pace for Indianapolis’ annual cleanup. To get in the mood for your own part .., . read how Ed (“Mr. Inside Indianapolis”) © Sovoia helped . . . and ‘see the fun” in Bill Oates’ pieture story, They're on Page 13. .
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_ SingleParly Service Would Rise 73 Cents
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