Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1949 — Page 1

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husband Forest, 28 driver of

Brother, sister and Easter bunwierwife Jost in quiet fascination when he

cery, 943 N. Bancroft St.

curse NowARD] 60th YEAR—-NUMBER 35 .

To Them the Easter Bunny Is Real

Photo by Bill Oates, Times Staff Photographer,

. . Frankie Beeler and Noel Ann Beeler, 833 N. Bancroft St. [ported : y séw these soft. eyed bunnies yestarday in Phillips Gro- [one ax area with more seasonable; Eten ln

Faster Week-End Airiift Breaks All Marks,

Leaves Russia Harassed

Flies 12,834 Tons of Supplies Into City Within 24 Hours in Display of Might

BERLIN, Apr. 18 (UP)—Anglo-American planes smashed all]

Car Deaths at 12

2 Killed, 13 Injured In 47 Accidents

a. m, yesterday and 6 a. m. today. | The. dead;

Willie Bays, 32, of Stillwell, John Grush, 66, of Dixon, O.

Car Hits Bus lair

Driving east on Rd. 30 in Mar-| shall. County about 9 p. m., Bays. apparently lost control of! his car. Police said he swerved to the wrong side of the highway!

en by Lima, O. None was injured on the bus.

killed about 9 p. m. a= he walked along ' the highway in

Ohio line.

Ft. Wayne, police said. Snow and ice on city contributed to the high number of accidents yesterday and today, | according to police. 2 Youths Unhurt Two youths escaped serious in-

plunged through a steel guard rail and down a 25-foot iin ment and turned over op its tol ver Roy Foerster, 19, of 1213 . Bosart Ave, received a cut in re right hand. His companion, | ° Ralph Gunvalsen, 18, of 1605 E.| Tabor St. was cut in the left

hand. Both wefe treated at Gen-

‘eral Hospital and released.

Fortune also favored Andrew] Jones, 30, of 835 Fayette st.,|

“in. 47 record of [anys

contin 5

lairlift records today by The Easter week-end traffic toilithe city in a dramatic

in Indiana rose to 12 last might! ‘as state police reported two more

has failed,

- _— fourangined aerial freighters roared into each of western! . riin’s three airfie at three-minute intervals from | noon Friday! deaths, — on Ind. 30. | ra oa Time) | y

to a a m, tons. The planea

sunny

accept

airlift corridors,

Fast Pattern Changes “Your flight pattern is changand strick a Greyhound bus driv-| ing so fast I can’t keep my record Alfred A. Wallenhorst, straight,” he complained, Gen, |Tunner, American commander of Mr. Grush., a pedestrian, was the airlift, felt the fever pitch of record attempt. Allen When he asked an airlift pilot at County, just inside the Indiana- Templehof Airfield for a ride back He was struck by a to western Germany, " car driven. by Carl D. Millenkopf,

Even Maj.

the - successful

just glanced. at {jacket

| and get aboard. hurry.

Gen. Tunner

fclimbed aboard. officials: jury when their car went out of! shortly after noon that the uncontrol at the railroad underpass) official tonnage for ‘the 24-hour in the 3300 block on Rd. 52,joperation was 12,833.9 tons,

Airlift

cial figures will later.

0 ay ago, by more ‘than on (500

safety , center a a three-power Mr. against Soviet maneuvers in the

the regulation which , hid Gen. Tunner's rank and shouted: Streets “You'll have to shake your taf] ™

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be announced

fiving 12,834 tons of food and éoal into! 24-hour display to Russia that its blockade

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FORECAST: Clear and - Sold with frost and freezing temperatures tonight. Fair and warmer tomorrow,

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1949

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Predicted Here [For Easter

Early Morning Worshipers Should Wear Their Overcoats

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Gam... 3 10a m.. 35 £5 Ta m.,. 31 11 a. m.. 36 | ; $a. m... 32 12 (Noun) 37 $a. m... 33 I'p. m... 38

Easter Morn will dawn fair and] | warmer in Indianapolis and cen- | |tfal Indiana. the weatherman |promised today. { | However, he said, overcoats will} {be most fashionable in the Easter Parade. Sunrise service visitors {probably will be wrapped in subfreezing temperatures while later {worshipers will find the ther-| {mometer in the low 30s. ! During the day temperatures | “Ihre expected fo rise to a high | lof 60. { : | Thus it seemed, with the new ® | forecasts, spring weather was re-|

|after a brief taste of snow, rain and cold winds, The U. 8. Weather Bureau Yel SiG skies over most of To .

sleet, |

isunshine and rising temperatures, | Fr practically all sections of the : er : ination “fair weather” was pre-| : at hs = | dicted for Easter Sunday. = : fon J Meanwhile, the weatherman | ar forecast partly cloudy and con-| +» 4 {tinued cold weather for Indian- | japolis today with diminishing a {winds. Freezing temperatures! .. ~~" [were expected again tonight with ‘the mercury falling to 28 to 301 idegrees, This morning's low was! 130, recorded at 6:40 o'clock. Storm Moves East | Clear skies may bring slight] ifrosting tonight, he said. Because! lof Sloudy skies there was no frost

five _— a

refused to'lift record.

lord was in the bag. By midnight mark —- the airlift armada had ‘brought in 6227 tons of food, ‘coal and other supplies. All leave was cancelled for the] all-out attempt. Desk officers in! Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Celle, Wunsdorf and other air bases moved into pilots’ seats or were! pressed into other active joba. The display clearly was a dem-

William H.

the pilot

onstration to Russia that the western Allies are capable of We're in a Supplying by air a city the size: ’ of Boston with all its needs. rinnéed and DIES IN HALLWAY announced’ [Elmer Sherman McGee, 74. died

in the hallway of the apartment building where he lived at 507 E.! Washington St. early today, according to police. No relatives could be located.

Of-

Former Sheriff Checks Cars Now

when his car skidded on freshi .

snow. as he crossed the Harding! St. Bridge over White River about! 2 ‘a. m. today. Although he hit and carried out a section of guard rail from the bridge, he

managed to keep his car from, -

plunging into. White River below. He was not injured Mary V. Willis, 44, of 3030 N. Arsenal Ave, was in fair condition in General Hospital today, after suffering head injuries and shock when ‘the automobile in!

which she was riding turned over %

at. 10th St. and White River!

Pkwy. just before midnight. The|} driver, James Brown, 24, of 974

Byrdsal Pkwy, was not injured.

Dorla DeAtley, 28. of Lebanon, | |

was arrested and charged with | reckless driving yesterday when hit automobile struck a panel

truck-parked at 27 N. Illinois St.|

and knocked down the driver, who was unloading it. The driver, Carl Gaertner, 37, of 521 Prospect St., ‘was sent to

Mrs. Thelma Richardson. ETH of 1631 Draper St. was sent to Bt. Vincent's Hospital with head and neck injuries yesterday aftsr the car in which she was riding with her husband, Wilbur, 28, collided with another car as it turned into a driveway at 1337 Shelby Bt. ~

Mra. ‘Myrtle Cannon, 23, of the

Shelby Bt. address, was treated for a lacerated forehead and injured ankle and released. Ha second car, was not, injured

Department toda chill breezs i»

| Pennsylvania Sts, .

Back i in harms” pte an immediate sigma when he rejoined the Indianapolis Police -

oh

former sheriff Albert Magenheimer got

Now Patrolman. Magenheimer, he braved the eck cars on North St. between Meridian and

; last lb of supply daily would i the | {western half of the German capicame in such a tal to its pre-blockade economic am through clear, level skies that a harassed] Gen. Tunner had ordered an vet. Soviet controller “at the Berith all-out attempt. to break the air- have been was probably caused: The operation was by wind, he said. protest to have been secret, but news of it leaked out last night after air warmth in the ground there will base’ officials realized a new rec- be little or no damage to small!

— the. half-way!

‘tory injunction against the coun-

/ iasked for a $52,000 increase for

Time - Index

the city xpromed the opinion that cold last night and tonight would have little effect upon plants and fruit trees. For the most part, | {he said, fruiting buds are not out What damage there may

Photo by Henry E. leat: Jr. Times Staff Photographer.

"You oughta see the other g « + . Patrolman Francis

Biemer sported a beautiful shiner in

Since there still ix some

vator operator developed into a brawl. The "other guy, iplants, he said. | Earl Rogers, 28, of 48 E. LeGrande Ave. is out on Yesterday, snow fell in Indi-!| ana, lower Michigan, Ohio and! as far south as Kentucky as the [storm moved eastward toward! ‘the Appalachians. Freezing temperatures were recorded in a wide belt north of central Missouri and southern Illinois. The nation’s lowest reading—19 degrees—was reported at Rochester, Minn

500 bond, awaiting trial May 3 on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Report Simple Blood Test Developed in Cancer War

New Experiment Tried on 300 Persons,

! Ape ‘a The nation-wide special Easter. Scientific Publication Article Reveals

forecast of the weather bureau By PAUL F. ELLIS, United Press Science Writer aid: NEW YORK, Apr. 16--The development of a simple

Low tonight 28-30, high tomorrow 60.

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Ly Hf Hospital today. He increase of 28 cents an hour, collected it Thursday night in the Indiana Ballroom where he was company offered to reduce the

on special duty, when an argument between a patron and an ele. (work week on Sept. 1 and grant "William a 7- cent raise,

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Wellcco Bocrv Dies at 65;

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Lovable Rascal’ of Fil

| By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON, U

last night of a heart attack.

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Fair. Warmer Ballroom Brawl Leaves Mark Haeut Attack 1s Fatal To Veteran In Hollywood Roles

___Former Circus Elephant Trainer Won Fame, Academy Award for Character Portrayals

of 34 Years

nited Press Staff Co

HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 16-—Grizzled Wallace Beery, who recently celebrated his 34th year as the “lovable old rascal” of Hollywood's rough and tumble movies, died at his home

He was 65.

; It was the last of many seizures suffered by the lusty

Pay Hike Dispute Put Up to Mediator NEW YORK, Apr. 18 (UP){Railway Express workers voted [today to return to work Monday.

: {turning to the Midwest today| : ow eg A ending a five-week stoppage.

# | The Brotherhood .of

Rallway jand Steamship Clerks (AFL) an{nounced - that 3200 members had. to return to work Monday. ® ;

= . The vote was taken on a man

[agement proposal that the 6500 ipackage-handlers and clerks in-

§ (volved in the dispute return to the

{the jobs they held Mar. &, date on which the company fur{loughed them.

Details Withheld

a | The workers voted to return Lo work

“witheut prejudice”

back-to-work proposal of the management were not

| public.

work: for them. The stoppage ha

44 to 40 hours and

Meadowbrook Project

{Abad of Schedule’ Karl Peters, state FHA ditt - announced today the

giant Meadowbrook Housing Proj ject, at 38th and Rural Sts, will “doubtless be completed” before 1850, deadline, With 85 apartments already oeleupied, 36 more are to he avallable to tenants within the next 10 days. The 647-unit project carries

“Fair weather is indicated for for cancer that may be used throughout the country for mass ex. Mortgage of any muitiple- family |

development In the nai ion.

{practically - all section of the agminations was disclosed today country Sunday. The only ex- The test was officially reported in the current issue of the ceptions are possible showers yournal of Cancer Research, one of the nation’ 8 top scientific pub- Three Held After

him a!

lejl will be requested in the Suiperior Court suit which was be ing. prepared today.

«Mr. Dalley. in the budget

and cloudy and cool weather with Apout 300 persons ‘have been Seen. through North Dakota and Mon- Huggins and a group of associ of Chicago. a case, it would give Monday on Budget were classified in three categories, | conventional {the $30,000 the Marion County With cancer, and patients with The prosecutor said a manda- pital population, either patients or éess of the test reviewed the had ‘mostly on the experience of, other year: The council pared theiy,4 yp in long, challenging trials.

dlong the east coast of Florida|jjcations. ry scattered showers in “the “Lake given the test, the Journal dis However. as one cancer expert Superior area and. westward ciosed fn a report by Dr. Charles inieq out, it definitely tana. ates of the Department of Surgery and Chemistry, Usiversity may be suffering cancer. Dailey Plans Suit wien The subjects, the report sald, Prosecutor George 8. Dailey each of 100, respectively, of ap-i,,.is would then have to apply |will file suit Monday to recover parently healthy persons, patients {locate a cancer, i {Council slashed’ from his budget | /non-cancerous diseases. The irequest, he said today. group was assembled from a hosattendants, Dr, Huggins in reporting sucnumerous other blood test experi- * ments, and based his technique scientists. However, no other pre-. the remaining nine months of the oo vinnd test for cancer has amount to $22,233.33 The Chicago groups test takes The council's action, Mr, Dailey into account “the albumin disturb.

does scuffling in front of a Fi. show that a person may. be in Ave. restaurant early today were 33, sued him for support of her. ° fll health—and probably that he arrested on disorderly conduct baby charging the actor was intie In such charges.

because the test itself does not Davenport,

for a 26-year-old American civilian who was

“for “cancer ‘remained to be Restaurant Scuffle

i mother,

made fright.”

About 3500 drivers and other Ww

a 4. phant trainer. hit 10 agency terminals and’ 36, shock interviewers with the | stations in the metropolitan area. | The union has demanded an {immediate work-week cut from a wage! The!

character actor since he strained his heart last summer

[cranking an outboard motor, THe stant care of hig doctor ever

gince, and for the past several weeks a private nurse had been

{at his has to make sure the | Mz Bee

ved

once-active

| quietly,

e has been confined to the house for the past two weeks.” a sobbing nurse sald, “We owed him to do nothing strenuous. He couldn't even go out in the gare den and putter around. “He ate’ a fairly large dinner last night and was resting. He was reading a book and seemed

Inverygood spirits. ~~

““Then suddenly he seemed to

~erumple before our very eyes, Has -

collapsed to the floor and died immediately. There wasn't time to do a thing for him.”

Relatives Present — Present with the jumbo-sized actor when he collapsed were his adopted daughter, Carol Ann. her Mrs. Reta Beery, Mr, Beary's brother Will &na his wife, and his nephew, actor Noah Beary

“It all came so fast.” they. sald, “He apparently felt no pain or Thus ended 5 Hollywood ‘career an sere eed show business as an But he liked to

[he entered the entertainment feid jaf a plano playet in a Kansas | City, bawdy house. Af 8 young man he was » chorus boy and a raliroad wiper

he made médre than 20 pictures and kept thé nation alternately chuckling and weeping for almost four decades, . Only Lionel Barrymore boasted a longer Hollywood career, ‘1 don't try to be different.” Mr. Beery sald once, “I'm just plain me in every picture. But 1 play everything from dirty old men io decent citizens. I keep shuffling the deck and coming up with a different card and the public continues to accept me.’ For almost 20 years the. rumbling star, whose admirers affece

blood test the largest single FHA insured tionately said he had a face “like

'an old squash,” was one of Holly woods - top salaried actorg—and

(one of its shrewdest businessman,

His death brought to a tempor {Ary halt the Hgadline making [charges of xz willowy movie bit {player that he was the father of

Three mien who police said wereiher vear-old son.

Wayne! Arrested were Howard Saltz

and Esten! 23; of B32 N. New

Jersey St.

Counsel for Hoosier GI Demands Royall Resign

Attorney Charges Army Secrefary Failed To Observe Civil Rights of Russell Bird

By WILLIAM H. NEWTON, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer FRANKFURT, Apr. 16—Resignation ar ouster nf Secretary of Judge Wiliam B. McKesson Mr, {he Army Kenneth C. Royall was demanded today by the attorney Beery tried fo settie the suit out forcibly brought back of court for $20.000. She .said Be

John Fabian, 20, o}

the thanked her for iment.” but vehemently denied hs

Honey blond Gloria Schumm,

imate with her many times in his Hollywood home and on his cattle

warning<-a warning to have a man, 23, of 1104 N. Alabama 8t.. ranch in Wyoming, complete search for cancer, The grillman in Good Food Cafe, 913 methods of W#iag-/Ft. Wayne Ave; - lof Billings Hospital.

Vehemently Denied Charge Mrs. Schumm, who has since returned to her husband, said she visited Mr. Beery often as a friend {of the family and of his daughter, [Several years ago, she charged, [the relationship became “more {than friendly.” The lumbering Mr. Beery said “the compli.

had anything to do with the fathering of young Johan. Mrs. Behumm came into court - last week and told Buperior

said, 8 in_wviolation of a I1aW ance jn patients suffering cancer. from the United States by Army authorities to face court martial Was “pressuring” her into aee {passed by the last General As- According to the Journal, sueh al- here. cepting, The judge said she didn't {sembly, permitting the prosecu- pumin. disturbance registers in . He is Russell G. Bird of Mishawaka. Ind former Army ny post have to. \ itor’s office to increase itz an-‘the ability of the blood to co- exchange manager who faces a A “If the allegations are not

nual budget by $70,000. agulate, or thicken, under heat. ————————————— In simpler language, the test Woman Hurt as Car - inupives the taking of a specimen , ~'of blood from a person. It is Plunges Over Bank placed in a tube and then heated | Edna Crockett, 38, of R. R. 13. by boiling for 30 minutes, { Box 108, Indianapolis, was taken = Then the test for coagulation is ito General Hospital with face taken: In the cancer patients {cuts and possible internal injuries was found that their blood had a | | shortly before noon today whey lower protein concentration and ;a tie rod in her car broke, plung+ lower albumin level. than that of | {ing the vehicle head-first over the healthy petson. jan embankment into a ditch in| The same reaction was noted in|. | the 5400 block, Allisonville Road. persons suffering tuberculosis or! Fifteen dozen eggs In the rear acute 'infections—but such ailor the car, were smashed by the ments can be diagnosed, and elim-| impact. giving the interior of the inated from the ‘overall Picture |car the appearance of one huge! lin determining” that cancer is did not take legal actioh during -{omelet, police said. . ; ithe 16 days he was held incom-| ” Dr. Huggin® admitted that hia|municado by the Army ls _itest was not 100 per cent perfect!

sentence up to 30 years at hard {labor for having “misappropriated” post exchange cigarets. In a statement in Washington, Secretary Royall said Mr. Bird's civil rights had not been violated by the Ariny. He also as-

{his return to Germany.”

d, said:

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warrant - Royall's removal office,

“Unable to Talk"

Even talk to an attorney.

t the U. 8 Army would not let him hy merely claiming

“It. is the - primary obligatmn in the United States _— the Seaectsy of Ugpasmy Wi 4 Jotun. und,

compel observance of “the civil rights of people of the United *

true,” Judge McKesson ruled, ‘Mr. Beery should not pay any

_/Btates, Royall's fallure to do this thing. If they are. there should forfeits any claim he may assert be a continuing ot obligation and ths to hold that office.” Mr. Carroll said the real issue (Continued on Pages 2—~Cel 3) ” . #

in the Bird case is not whether the Army has jurisdiction to try| “whether the Army- “has

to challenge the legality of the the right tq ignore the safeguards Army's action during the 16 days; provided by the Constitution and| {between hjs arrest in Indiaki.and 'by law.”

“Here {isa public offétal putting 5

Barl J. Carroll, 8an Francisco his official approval upon a kid-| & {attorney who is defending, Mr. naping. A kidnaping is a kidnap-|& ing ‘whether the Army does it or| “Royall’s - comment that Bird whoever does it.” he said.

“Royall's statement that mili-

tary jurisdiction means the Army! i not only ean take any American from his! 2 facetious but such a "deliberate {home and remove him to a for. 3

¢ facts as to/eign land without the consent of 71a whether it was a specified Mmisrepresentation o ET To Hie eof nt of

him an opportunity to be heard

or to consult with counsel violates! the fundamental concepts of ‘oury 3 “Russell Bird did nov take legal American democracy.

“If Royall's statement is true, Nlsdictong

.the Army ean grab any

Rad heen under cons ~~