Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1949 — Page 1

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ABC Officials Reject

Denial of Use of Coliseum Facilities Cited as Reason for Withdrawal Action + = | Indianapolis lost a chance to stage the gigantic 1950 American Bowling Congress tourney today. +} ABC officials, meeting at the state fairgrounds, withdrew their. bid, after learning that the Coliseum is unavailable. - ; : | Previously, the ABC group had stated that “it is the Coliseum -or nothing.” They a= =r had surveyed other local H Ith ! buildings, including the But-| ed nstrance ler Fieldhouse, the Cattle Barn ana sow ve wos, von [roe] by Truman ment that annually draws 3500 4 five-man teams from all sections "Would Operate Much!

of the country. { . . 3 | $3-$4 Million Loss | Like Social Security -| Frank A. Baker, ABC assistant| WASHINGTON, Apr. 22 (UP) ig dh J Inaianapolist_President Truman today pro-| 3 n | EA Do a. tourney [Posed a nation-wide system of | _ cities. * [compulsory health insurance as Other ABC representatives atithe keystone of a_four-point na-| the Sogen rs, E. at tional Health program. a Truter. ABC! The President, without men- | tourney manager, and Neil C. tioning figures, recommended to) King of Indianapolis, former ABC Congress . that: the nation-wide, ° president. {health insurance plan be operated

ar ker Sa . Fan {along lines of the Social Security| regular contri-

now doesn’t intend to keep them, Program with The board had given definite butions by the public to an in-| dates gnd fixed a price and now surance fund. He did not say it has doubled the price from how much the tax should be. i $400 per day to $800.” { The present Social Security sysHomer Schuman, president of tem of old-age insurance covers the Fair Board, said “the Coli-/about 37,000,000 wage earners. seum definitely is out.” | The ‘administration is trying to; Mr. Baker also reported that expand it. ! seven’ ather cities are “begging | Administration experts who] for” the 1950 tournament and have been working on the health| that a site will be chosen before program have previously sug-| June. {gested that it be financed by a The board also reported in the |3 per cent payroll tax—split half| meeting's minutes that definite between employer and employee. | promises were not made to the (They have estimated the program | £ A

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. : would cost $6 billion a year when The Cattle Barn had been dis- lin full operation. carded by the bowling group be- 3000-Word Message cause 308,000 would have to be| “We should seek to include asi expended to remove posts and repair the interior before .n-|TARY persons as possible within| stal ‘ ‘ {the health insurance system, so]

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{ : - b Mrs. Mary Hall, 22, of 6132.Raleigh Drive. . . . It was Mrs. | Hall's exceptional emery for blonds which gave FBI agents the clue to the hiding-place of the couple. :

into. a taxicab on E. Market St.

\ The ABC had hoped tb over the Coliseuni the latter ‘part

of next February and showed a|lruman said in a 3000-word mes- ° Wait a Apmil. age. Truman did not amas HET Eagle Eye Aided F Bl Noticed Blond at Hotel and in Tavern

what the cost would be, but he| Two factors working against acknowledged that many Ameri-| : s ’ A Because She Doesn't Like 'Em, She Says rar abs tgedlsme “The truth is,” he sald, “that : By CARL HENN

.the ABC tourney were the Inter-ioang are concerned about the na-| national Dairy Show, scheduled|iisnal cost figure. i for the Fairgrounds Oct. 7 to 15 : and the Indianapolis Hockeyly will save a great deal more] A pretty, dark-hairéd waitress with a camera eye put the| than it costs. We are already finger on Clyde Johnson and his wife, Billie, yesterday. : | paying about 4 per cent of our She didn't know what she had done until she saw her story! national income for health care.ion- the front page of The Times today. {ing star role in a Hollywood-lik

Bernadette Welsh Takes It in Stride -.

back handling routine general practice cases today, after play-

team. With the dairy show taking over four buildings, the hockey team: has been forced to delay « | # Circle T { More and better care can be! Mrs. Mary Hall, 22-year-old waitress at the Circle Tavern, | d robbers episode Fs opening nest season ot weast|optained for this same amount of|37 Monument Circle, was the one who tipped off the FBI that pr P lve Ta "to pet into ® he gr 4 money under the program I am bank robber and his wife were The nurse who call led police season playoffs the competition|reCOmmending.” at the Washington Hotel. It was (lj elhag Schools [to the nation’s most wanted badwould run into April In addition to health insur-/an accidental disclosure — she ' {man, Clyde Milton Johnson, wi If the ABC had been ac-(20C¢, Mr. Truman also recom-|only did it because she deosn ‘Ado t Fast Time |»s cam about the whole thing cepted, then the hockey team mended that: |1ike blonds. I. P [today as she was during the tense would have been forced to play ONE. “The Congress enact] As Mrs. Hall was walking bo! Time was still a principal topic drama last night. ° its playoff games away, probably |\Sislation to help medical work yesterday morning 8 3 of conversation in Indianapolis| Miss Welsh was at the desk of ; schools expand.” {noticed a girl with long, blon i the office of Dr. John ¥. Parker, in Cincinnati. As it is now, the TWO. “The federal govern- hair emerging rom the entrance tadav as .more individuals and ee De apie ars ment ‘ provide increased aid. for to. the Washington Hotel. She groups decided to turn thelr ypen johnson walked into the son 7020 Sam the construction of hospitals and| noticed the girl because of Mer 5cks ahead an hour to go on waiting room, gushing blood from * other Imedical facilities in com- hair, daylight savings time Sunday. [Wounds received in a’ spectacular

A munities where they are needed.” “1 always notice blonds,” Mrs er : un battle with FBI men on Wakarusa Man | THREE. ° “The "Congress in- Hall said. “I guess it's because It was sunounced today that a Sent Cirele. Killed in Crash crease the amount of federal I don't like blonds.” : all Roman Catholic churches and ‘I Need Help’

I le ie grants” ‘to assist state and local; The same girl came in the Cir- schools would go along with the ret ner es GOSHEN, Apr. 22—A 22-year-|governments in preventing and cle Tavern later in the morning, change by turning - their quoted him as saying. old Wakarusa man was fatally/controlling certain diseases, and and ordered a drink. She put in clocks ahead, while governmental ‘With the same calm with whieh injured today in a truck-car head-|to promote maternal, child health a long-distance call at the tele: | fices would leave clocks as i8|she handles neighborhood boys

i ; {but go to work an hqur earlier. |with cut fingers, Miss Welsh took Noticed Wad of Bills | Persons making appointmentsithe bank bandit into the emerThe girl sat in.a bootn unillis, travel plans for next week or gency room. Then she telephoned

Argues for Health Plan o es eel Mr. Truman devoted his pri-|the call came through, “AI thereafter were caution t0 [police to report a gunshot victim, by Ha oid Miller Wakarusa, who|MAIY agtention to the health in. Tied her drink up to the phone nuye certain whether the ap-| Meanwhile Dr. Parker had ers injuries. Their car/Surance, which he said would not, and , : ] ; |disturb the freedom of doctors|&s she stood talking. fmasied Head on. Wb oi uiiki | Mrs. Hall attempted to take truck driven by Carl Swihart, And hospitals, nor interfere withi Mrs. XK te th out Catholic Parish ie) ‘the personal relationship between | the drink back to the booth but Catholic Parishes

piieesisapusmimans ssa {doctor and patient. {the girl wouldn't allow her to do . ‘TOUGH KID’ EXECUTED |” Under such a system of “socialit. She ordered another drink| To Observe Fast Time

CARSON CITY, Nev. Apr. 22 insurance,” the President said,|and Mrs. Hall took it to her, Daylight

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two miles east of Wakarusa in|ices. southern Elkhart County.

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y ; w lar, often overwhelming, fam-| 2s she paid for the drinks. iat 2 a. m. Sunday, the Most Rev ey hoon a for medical carer | When the gir! finished the call.|Paul C. Schulte, archbishop of Inexecuted at dawn today in Ne-| He said this would not require She picked up her purse and left | dianapolis. announced today vada’s lethal gas chamber for the! doctors “to become employees of|the tavern. But Mrs. Hall didn'tithrough the chancery office. - slaying of two Reno policemen. the government.” {forget the long, "blond hair, the Archbishop Schulte said he au-|gon's pocket. wife tt here il ” - ———=—-ldisturbance over the drink and|thorized the change of schedule rp, news that

: ' * ne he large f / the| i : industrial. 18 np Asa J. Smith's Hat in Ring [5 mem «0 mor fei moran in ue nual sine 59 ® * For GOP Chairmanship

neighborhood doctor's. office

“I'm glad to see you”

30, "on that wild ride last night at the point o

{> Mrs. Hall mentionéd it to the ules..iother girls before she went off - CR Mio Sear ° duty in the afternoon. She also| bb Gl d 3 8 Al v: im~ntioned that she had seen. the Ca ie [+ | Ne] e : ive County Battle Shaping Up as 3-Way same girl coming out of - the ° me . 2 : ! Washington Hotel that morning. fi ff B js WwW ih i d { Fight for Party Organization Control jWasiingion Hite ora. morning: er prus i anaitr . By NOBLE REED in the Circle Tavern and began Announgement of ps J. Smits, Vite States Commissioner, questioning the employees about Thought a bia Carrie When Diriman. that he W be a candidate for the arion County Republican two people whose photographs he fo axi ‘George Johnson Says chairmanship, threw GOP leaders into a three-way tug-of-war showed. One of them was the Leaped In ’ g y today for party organization control. ; b ~ igirl with the long, blond hair. Mr. Smith said he would allow his name to gp before the waitress told him where Mrs. Hail Milton Johnson, county convention of precinct committeemen in Tomlinson Hall at had seen her. The agent a AI was al on 1).m, alin fo BE and former . Sheriff AT Nagen-|modiately Jef! the fen. thee elieved It was all over Be mony heimer in 1946. : | FBI ots about Bd tig them- Pistol blazing, FBI agents blasting away at him in E. Market St. oon 3 Mr. Innis is being backed by|XB! men A fthe cab driver thought his mo- : Opposing Mr. Smith, an attor-i,, =~ rion of, party factions Selves, and took seats in the front | LL ney and veteran 4 | 0 booth. They had dinner and sat|ment had come. ; laligned with associates of James ct! The cab dri d the bandit | there for a couple of hours, not: e cab driver an an {L. Bradford, former chairman, “<=C have the same middle and last

Wars, John E. Innis, County Council presi-§s dent, and J. Otto Lee, labor leader former . member of the state legislature. The convention was called earlier in the week to elect a .new party chairman

{Republican Veterans of World = { (Continued on Page 3—Col. 2) names. But their meeting last bd 3. healed De Br . ee uajud was one of those wild coin- : ’ i : 3 icidences which happens once in | Precinct Committeemen's aseoci- Postpone Hearing a lifetime, Cabbie Dn hopes ation, headed by Don R. or the O w t A I it's the Inst time Mr. lee’s cangidacy- Yor the (J) ars ppea { “IT was sitting the number two

| (Continuea én Page 2—Col. 1) | WASHINGTON, Apr. 22 (UP) spot in front of the Circle Tav#3] Sh nition eee | "The U. 8. Supreme Court today ern, in my Red Cab . , . that's 22 Times Index | postponed until Monday thé hear- that the FBI has got impounded ty npn | {NZ Of ArgUMents on a plea for a now ; . . about 7:15 p. m.” re- | Amusements. 26 Mrs. Manners 24 new trial by Robert Austin Watts, lated Mr. Johnson. {Eddie Ash.. 30 Marriage... 24 genfenced to die for a 1947 In-- “I heard shooting on-the Circle f£ 2 land I though it was automobile Attorneys for the National As-|backfire, but it-kept on. 1 thought ‘ there were 15 or 20 shots. So I «++ 39 Radio «..... 27 Colored People represent Watts started looking around. - manding his removal. Crossword .. 40 Ruark: ..... ' 9 in his bid “before the Supreme «Al] of a sudden a.man opened U. 8. Commissioner Smith threw Editorials... 10 Side Glances 10 Court, whose action in granting my eab door and pointed a<gun his hat into the ring last night | Fashions ... 23 Society ..... 21 Watts a hearing gave Rim an in-| in my face qnd said, ‘get goin’. I with the support of regular or-/Food ....... 23 Sports ... 30-32 definite stay of execution. {looked around and it stunned me. : «eess 10/Teen Talk.. 22/ Indiana - Attorney-General J.| «I says git goin’ where? r, Ingles. along Hollywood. . 26 Teen Prob... 22| Emmett McManamon and Deputy| «ge says ‘git goin’ and shoved with the old GOP Citizens -|Homes ..... 25 Earl Wilson. 27 Attorney - General Frank E. that gun forward. 1 turned on .mnittee workerd who backed for-|Inside Indpls 9 Weather Map 29| were here to the. V2 mn ‘mer Prosecutor Judson L. Stark|Dr. Jordan.. 23/Women's. 22-25 new trial piea forthe state. { (Continued on Page

_ Mr. Smith to succeed Bridge «eves 23 Movies ..... 26 gjanapoliz sex killing. James W. Ingles who resigned Business .... 33 Needlework. 25 : ‘the post after a coalition of three Classified. 34-38 Othman .... 9 sociation for the Advancement of party factions filed a petition, de- Comics ..

George Johnson, cabbie, said 2—Col. 7) "| kept thinking of my own life.”

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Wife ‘Is Unwitting Betrayer Of Bandit Shot Down By FBI

Bandit Johnson ran right between these twg young women and twirled them about as he jum

Lou Brandenburgh were indignant at such treatment until they realized the situation, Norse ised QE "By Bandit nisode

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1708 E, Washington 8t., last night’

set it in the window ledge ,,inteq hour would be on day-istarted giving emergency treat-| ~|ment tq the naw subdued badman. | Frances Louise Johnson, also: known “Am I hurt, Doc?” the nation’s:

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(UP) — Nineteen-year-old David/ “regular contributions to the in-{booth. ~The waitress noti ed theleffective for all Roman Catholic gfter the nurse had phoned, city

Blackwell, a typical “tough kid” surance fund” would “replace ir-iwad of bills in the girl's purse parishes and schools beginning police rushed into the East Side Home Show Today

Nurse Welsh told them as they removed a gun ctill dangling from Johr~

she had been the man that FBI

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Cabbie George Milton Johnson, 48 who took Bandit. Clyde band im- & gun. was pushing his Red Cab around the city today, greatly gusta

Last’ night, when Bandit Johnson leaped into the.'cab with Gov.

Blond Tresses : | Attract Notice # = Of Waitress

| Condition of Robber Wounded in Circle Battle Is Critical Clyde Milton Johnson, 30, the Midwest's most hunted bandit since John Dillinger, ‘was also betrayed by a woman, The Times learned today. The woman was his wife, Mra, Frances Louise Johnson, 25. Dillinger's “Woman in Red" aid Other Stories, Photos; Pages 8, 16 and 38 [it deliberately, but in the case of (Frances Louise, betrayal was inladvertent, . Her long. blond tresses and {quick temper in the Circle Tavern { yester morning plus a long {distance phone call and a’ flashy {roll of bills attracted the atten[tion of a wallress. | The waitress spread her de|seription. The FBI who had been {alerting police departments here ‘and everywhere to watch for the pair jumped: on the trail. - pe Leads to Operating Table | jAgents never- let go until ¥ {Johnson was on the operating Photos by Lloyd B. Walton, Tinies Staff Photogiaphet: (table in - General Hospital last {midnight, with a bullet hole in ary (his chest and a slug in his back, {after his wild flight to evade wwe capture on Monument Circle. fd | The bandit, wanted for breaks ing jail In Miami after the $43. [662 robbery of Kirst National {Bank of Memphis, recovered con{sciousness in General Hospital | this morning. : His room was guarded by two {Federal agents who kept all but {Jospital attaches away with a | potite; "Sorry. he's & federal

| prisoner. i Fr bullet lodged in

just off Monument Circle. Mrs. Maxine Tudor (left), and Miss

The second {Johnson's back was found by X{ray this morning, Dr. C, A. Wied~ | hoff, hospital staff physician said. The bandit's condition still is too critical to permit removal of the slug. Life Saved by Miracle The first bullet passed through the chest, between the main ar {teries of the heart and out of his |back, without hitting any vital’ {part. That miracle will probably save Johnson's life, physicians sald, They gave him a shade better than a 50-50 chance to pull through. Johnson” was given’ a blood transfusion and an Injection of" blood plasma this morning. Meanwhile, the girl whose snappish behavior in the tavern gave (away Johnson's presence in Indianapolis, was arraigned before U, ~ f |8. Cofnmissioner . Francis Hughes this morning. The Commissioner #et her bond at $15,000, pending arrival of warrants charging her with aiding Johnson to ‘escape {from the Miami County skyscrapJohnson and she have been roaming the Midwest since until their capture. - Arrested in Room : Mrs. Johnson was arrested in her room in the Washington Hotel shortly after FBI agents attempted to arrest Johnson outside the lobby. In commissioner's court this morning, she wore a gray, close fitting dress and smoked cigarets, — ooking around with a half-smile. When court convened, she <xtinguished a cigaret and gave -the > butt to U. 8. Marshal Julius Wis~ cher, who disposed of it. . Asked if she could ‘make the bond, =hé said Well, that is all according.” Has $200 and Car She said-she-had $200 in -her hotel room amd a 1941 Chrysler car. in the Hotel Washington garage 1f I could sell the car, I could get enough to hire a lawyer,” she said We'll let the bond. go.” Johnson.-was captured by Indianapolis police last night as he lay wounded on the floor of Dr. John Parker's office in 1708 E. Washington Stcafter escaping = {FBI agents on the Circle. Sad were i He fled by..commandeering a - taxicab in front of the Circle Tower building in E. Market St. after a° running ‘gun fight with ‘FBI agents in N. Meridian St. and Monument Cjrcle,

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Photo By Bob Wallace, Times { as Billie Johnson's wife, posed in the Marion County jail.

Colorful Processional Due at Fairgrounds

_Blaring trumpe:s and a color. ful processional through the ) ‘Manufacturers building at the State Fairgrounds were scheduled {to open the 24th Annual Home Show at 5 p. m. today A bevy of young women from the home econoniics classes. of” {Indiana State Teachers College St Marv-of-the-Woods -College and Taylor University were to be led into the area by a 57-plece from the Pike Township f Consolidated 8¢ hoo! of New Au-

Acme Telephoto : a Clyde Johnson Prominent guests. including ooo Schricker and Mayor Al ] ,| Feeney and officers and directors Steckler Plans * lof the Home Show, Inc, |scheduled to attend. | . ie Gold-plated keys to open the Railways Probe { {Continued on Page 2—Col. 6) : ve . : By ROBERT BLOEM . Public - Counselor - William E Harvey G. Foster, FBI agent-

Cloudy, Warmer A Steckler today announced plans in-charge here. said his men were

4 : : ; RR ‘for Johnson at the Washfor a sweeping study of Indian- iting for kK - Due on Week-end ols Railways efficiency of ington Hotel about 7 p. m. : LOCAL TEMPERATURES :

operations ‘Johnson seemed to sense our y te ted ¢ there to take him > wrrently is asking fen. were «i+ 58 10a m,., 62 The utility cu «eo BT 11 a;m... 64

. i said Mr. Foster, the Public Service Commission!’ : ! 2 > ms .. 58% 12 (Noom). ¢7 for an increase in bus and troliey. The bandit drew a gun and _ ran Sam h

fares on grounds that it is fosing west oh Washington to Meri +

wer 8171p. Mm... 69 the agents. in pursuit. When they a—— money under the present -Hi-cent a bh No rain is expected to mar fare. turned. Into Meatiting Jokinsotly Mr. Steckler said members of Who had reathe e- ectrie

4 -€ tir lans, Weather- ; i Wek Poul Mier card at her the commission had’ indicated Sullding. turned anc fired orice.

2 “oma urn the fire, keeping ov v therd would be funds in the com Agents return t s | today... Siies, however, will re. mission's budget to finance an the Soldiers and Sailors Monu-.

jmain: partially cloudy lopight and| orictency study by outside utility ment in che background, Mr. Fos tommorrow and become increas- experts.. . ; ©. iter: said. : 5 ingly cloudy Sunday, he said. |" Jiew of the fact that In- The shooting coutinued on the ; Following a low of 45 tonight, /‘dianapolis Railways now shows Circle,. with bystanders looking the mercury is expected to rise operating loss of nearly $40) around in alarm, “into to 70 tomorrow. Slightly warmeringg a month, 1 do not believe it doorways or standing - still,

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