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Everything Possible Is Being Done To Prevent Another Bleacher Collapse
By VICTOR Everything possible is being
Battle Time, Termites In Speedway Stands
Neither the fimbers nor the cement block beneath his support
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Judge Refuses New Trial in Assault Case
Upholds Conviction
New Driver Crashes At Speedway at 110
In Attack Against ‘Times Photographer
Ruling that the right of privacy does not exist in matters of pub-
Guardians
Hic interest, Judge Saul I. Rabb of Criminal Court 2, today refused! a new trial for two officials of a! local animal by-products company | convicted recently of assaulting a photographer of The Indianapolis! Times. staff. Judge Rabb, in a nine-page opinion covering the subject of private rights in relation to,public peace, overruled a motion for a new trial filed in behalf oi Harold Jackson, manager of By Products, Inc, and Harry Stitle, attorney and official of the firm. The company officials were convicted of assault and battery two months ago in Municipal Court 3 by Judge Joseph Howard who fined them $25 and costs each. Bix weeks ago Judge Rabb, upheld the lower court's conviction but reduced the fines to $1 and costs each. | Found Guilty of Assault | They were found guilty of as-| saulting Henry E. Glesing Jr, Times photographer, when the latter went to the defendants’ place of business at the Union Stockyards to take pictures of animals on the firm's property. The photographs were part of a story dealing with criminal charges that company officials
Judge Rabb’s ruling stated: “The right of privacy in con-| PETERSON nection with the ‘publication of! done before race day to avert a personal matters and the taking
repetition of last Saturday’s collapse of Grandstand B at the Speed- of pictures under certain circum-!
way, but the job is a mammoth one. The wooden grandstands are old, built long before presemtidoes not exist in the law. rigid specifications were demanded. Time, termites and the ele-
ments have taken their toll. Puen the welatively recently constructed w8oden parquet
stands of the infield are in need i of repair.”
Overloading of a box seat section the official explanation of the qualification
any which injured 384 persons. Of-
ficlalzs assert it will not happen again.
Joe Quinn, safety director of ’ the 500-mile track, said an addi-
tional 40 carpenters have been
hired to assure the stands will Sg
be in-tip-top=shap:. By -race-day. Augment Normal Staff
“We have a normal staff of
some 45 to 50 maintenance men and carpenters, but have augmented it since the accident Saturday,” he said. “We will be working right up to the time of the race. After every crowd has been here, we make a thorough check of the stands. If we find a loose or bad board, we repair it immediately.
“We have complied with every request of the state to assure safety,” Mr. Quinn said. Without eseort, I roamed through the wooden stands and probed beneath them.
Total Inspection Impossible
It would be impossible to inspect every plece of timber in the rambling stands and repair those in bad shape before race day, unless thousands of men were employed. : Since the first of the year, six state inspectors have worked almost constantly checking the stands. They say it would take 100 men three months to do a thorough job. Surface inspection consisted of walking with a bouncing step down one row of seats while looking at the row on either side. Consequently, only one-third of the rows even got the bouncewalk test. I walked gingerly in several places as I felt flooring sag beneath me. Much of the wood is rotting about the nails. Evidence of rot is abundant. It is possible, however, that the timber still has great structural strength.
Much Has Been Done
Yet, in the area which collapsed, I saw workmen hit timbers with hammers and saw the wood pulverize under the blows. The rest
stances involving public interests
“Public peace is a superior consideration -to any one man’s private property. were once allowed to use private i force as a remedy for private injuries, all social justice must cease. : ; “The strong man would give law to the weak and every man i (would revert to a state of nature.” In their motion for a new trial, ithe defendfnts contended they had a right to use force as the
Energy Put
By Congress Group
Investigating Committee Asks if Loss Of U-235 Was ‘Carelessness or Espionage’
By TONY SMITH, Scripps-Howaurd Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 19—The Atomic Energy Commission was on a spot marked ‘‘carelessness or espionage” today. That issue was in doubt. But the embarrassment of Commission
of Atomic on Spot
BULLETIN
_ Frank Burany of Milwaukee, Wis, in the last lap of his driver's test on the 500Mile Speedway track, crashed head-on into the wall on the northwest turn shortly before 1 p. m. today,
Chairman David I. Lilienthal and other members of the atomic
How Dumb Can You Get? . . . An Editorial
AEC-subsidized student Hans Friestadt admits he is a Communist but says he would quit the Communist Party if he believed
it to be under foreign control.
How can anyone that stupid ever win a scholarship? an AEC member should know that the Communist Party is con- |
trolled from Moscow,
It did not appear immediately that Burany was critically injured. He sat | up in the ambulance as he Even | was rushed to the track : hospital.
energy guardians was an established fact. They squirmed through !four hours of congressional questions about a lost container of
U-235 at the Argonne Laboratory near Chicago. * There was a lot of technical explanation in the closed hearing room of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. According to men who heard Chairman Lilienthal, commission mem-
were mistreating animals. AEC assures Congress atomic
fellowships will be barred to Reds . . . Page 5.
ber Lewis L, Strauss, General Manager Carroll Wilson, and two men from Argonne Laboratory very little of it was conclusive.
The scene in the hearing room
If individuals Wasn't quite cozy. Questions came
with speed and bluntnéss. ‘They weren't easily disposed of with talk of residues, containers, clinical values, incompleted reports, continuing analyses, and faulty accounting.
Didn't Say Much
Chairman Lilienthal didn’t have much to say, according to wit- Organization.
right of privacy and that their |property was invaded illegally. Judge Rabb said “this court has }imade a thorough study of this j subject and finds that those rights were not invaded” under the general interpretation that “public
+private property.”
City Hospital went broke
meet its payroll.
Marked for ‘repair, this warped support is out of plumb.
closed. However, prospects for payday
om for hospital employees improved that action on the whole question Ralph|was deferred pending further inIt is possible to move Moore ordered County Treasurer| vestigation particularly with resome , of ' the rear supports by Louis Fletcher to advance the spect to the accounting system which would permit such a situaCity and county officials said tion to develop.
there are many evidences of in-
security.
when County “Auditor
hand. I'saw a section sway and hospital fund $60,000. heard it groan: when two men
walked above. me. the funds were deposited in the
on which they rest.” The pres-{Dancing errors which left the hos-|
them in place.
3 ‘Just Bookkeeping’ In many cases the timbers, on
laid on cement blocks.
tered on the blocks and many of the blocks literally hang half in elsewhere {the air. {has eroded away. |pital tomorrow. Throughout the stands are the markings of state
immediately, there
portions. It is admitted, how-!
not see everythin
is cracked half-way through. are now getting.
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peace. ig superior ta.any one manp’s|énthal drew this reply:
explain that™ r .
- .. ber said, the man selected couldn't ln produce.
said the explanations were incomplete and far from conclusive.
today and had to borrow to gressional committee agreed. <-IMost of them emphasized that There was “not a dime” in the Chairman Brien McMahon's state- # |Health General Fund to meet ment which indicated that the # | General Hospital's $57,500 pay-/committee was satisfied that there “ {roll tomorrow, a city official dis- was no espionage involved, was strictly his own.
There is no indication that rear Health General Fund. But city. ye heart of the atom bomb, supports are nailed to timbers Officials privately condemned fi-| i. 1isging from the Argonne Laboratory at Chicago. One newssure of weight seems to hojd|Pital fund empty. pacer pik I | {of a pound of a U-235 compound City officials said at first the was gone. The commission said which the rear supports rest, are shortage was “just a matter of|it was only 32 grams of U-235. Several bookkeeping.” Upon closer scru-|Tt said it had recovered 25 grams of these supports are not Cen- tiny, however, it was disclosed by analyzing waste material. 80 {that unless funds were obtained only seven grams were missing.
235 which the British scientist, | Although the crisis was tem-|pDr. Allan May. turned over to a inspectors porarily solved, city officials were Russian agent in Canada in 1945. calling for the repair of certain asking “how come it happened?” |The Russians thought it was so Mayor Feeney said he believed important they flew it to Russia| ever, that the few inspectors can-ithe empty hospital fund was in a special plane. The Canadians . largely due to the fact that hos- thought it was so important that Feeney said, There was Bo Marking Jr &2- pital officials and anticipated re- Dr May is serving 10 years in ample, on_one 4x4 support which! cejvi m prison. { 05 More SIeyenne thas ey prison ldentity of the man who|linéd by City Engineer M. G. (Ole) |”
nesses. He sat back and let his
staff do the laining, Manager spokesman, on the sams Ont
Wilson directed the tdam neling questions to whichever man he thought could answer. One member said that many of the questions directed at Mr. Lili“Why, yes. Mr. 8o-and-So will
But most of the tithe, this mem-
Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R. N. Y.)
Other Members Agree Other members of the joint con-
Chairman McMahon announced]
The U-235, an element which
There was a cut under his chin and he was bruised. Burany driving a Schoof Special, had just been signaled to step up his speed to slightly above 110 miles an hour. The car hit the wall as it was coming out of the turn and was virtually demolished.
Question Legality 0f Hospital Plans
Decision Sought
On Community Basis The state insurance commis-| sioner said today he had asked Attorney General J. Emmett Mc-
Manamon for an opinion on me Scattered Showers
legality of community-wide mem- Dye for Tonight
bership solicitations by the Blue! . Cross and Blue Shield hospital] VOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.. 68 10a m.. 7%
rand medical insurance plans. re od A Mae d 1 m.. 9 Mr. McManamon said he would| 8 a. me 18 15 (Noes) 81° hand down his opinion shortly. | 9a m... 15 1 p.m... 82 Commissioner Frank J. Vieh-|
Cr———
Guy W. Spring. a Blue Cross Storms early tonight.
had told leaders of 4. of that if a’ cross-section of
{per cent, wanted medical insur-| partly cloudy tomorrow. lance, the community would be ac-| cepted as a Blue Cross group.
policy to a company whose em-| row's high will be 72. ployees are covered,” Mr. Bpring| Scattered showers were fore: said. "Our contract is between cast over the state followed by a Blue Cross and the individual! drop in temperature. concerned, with the company as-| ' sisting both parties by deducting | membership fees.” \Burglar’s Loot Includes
= ‘Cash, Keys, Trousers
Sewer Extension Urged by Mayor
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Mayor Feeney today urged the and his trousers, valued at $20. Board of Public Works to extend sewage facilities to
St., told police that
University said. He entered through a
of $240,000. The city’s proposed sewage pro-
gram, already estimated at $4 (23 million, originally did not aenge Oi) 2, Rescued University Heights. : Residents in the suburban ae. FrOM Cold Air Duct velopment, brought into the city] A frightened 2-year-old girl
rear porch roof.
ities, Works Board members indi-/feet through the narrow tube. cated they would act favorably on| The child, Peggy Ann Usrey, the Mayor's suggestion at a later, toppled into the 18-inch-wide duct time. . {and fell all the way to the furThe University Heights develop-|nace. The cover had been re-
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But, Rep. Cole pointed out, that!
The soil beneath them would be no payday at the hos-was 7000 times the amount of U-
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ment includes Indiana Central{moved while her mother, Mrs, College. {Bruce Usrey, was housecleaning. For years residents of Unli-|A police squad removed the furversity Heights have. paid city'nace pipes to rescue the child taxes without getting city sery-|and treated her for slight bruises, ices, the Mayor pointed out, Pi . “I urge the Board to give prior| £7! mi ” consideration to the University : Heights sewage project,” Mayor| ¥ : ’ “despite the added! [ expense.” : The proposed sewage plan, out-|
man sald the principal question! Slight relief for thirsty corn J was whether & community could | and soybeans on Hoosler farms between Rieter Stewart and the, group,” and em- Was Indicated by the Weather agram Co. rolled as such by the insurance Bureau in a forecast calling for (scattered showers or thunder-
‘his organisation In Indignapolis a few sprinkles
; : sted this afte fol 1 e had. e lowed by cooler weather tonight population, equal to at least 80 and tomorrow. Bkies will remain come one of the smallest whole- . “I can't expigin
| The "mercury was expected to {drop from a high of 86 today tg} Shipments “We do not issue a master 8 minimum of 55 tonight. Tomor*“ me,
thold whisky prices at
William L. Roache, 509 Brightitoday before a federal jury of someone 10 men and two women, ‘entered his residence between 3 n {8 m. and 5 a. m. and made off/charges in its suit that the Sea-old daughter Sal {with $3 in cash. a set of keys, Bram and Calvert organizations gsieep x Y ze
The burglar used matches to|Plies ‘see his way around, Mr. Roache|fUsed to agree to a plan to fix|in upstairs bedroom when the
Heights, despite an additional cost ®econd-story window above the MeNt# halted, the annual liquor
more than 26 years ago, had peti- was removed unhurt from a cold | tioned for adequate sewage facil-|aid duct in her home at 442 8t, [today announced appointment of Paul Bt. today after she fell 10 Melvin Bcott, Churubusco, as su-|bathroom which connected the
Prowler Clues Hunted |
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After Mystery Blast
Rips Home as 5 Sleep |
Dog Heara Barking Before Explosion; Family Escapes From Tumbling Debris Probe into a mysterious explosion which wrecked & {Southeast Side home early today turned to investigation of a “prowler” near the house shortly before the blast. Meanwhile, police and insurance investigators gave conflicting opinions on cause of the near-tragedy. The family of William Harry Winzenread, union S “7 steward and longtime eme Assert Firm Lost [ployee at U. S. Rubber Co. {narrowly escaped death when ” . ithe blast ripped through their Cash Mm Price War at 1042 St. Peter St. at ae a.m,
The probe turned to the prowe
Officials of Kiefer-Stewart Ca. plosion on a ho water heater, ) os Indianapolis wholesale distributor, | Ext vir — bers testified today in Federal Court gq tety valve on the nom-autos their firm had suffered losses in/matic hot water heater after they 'a price controversy with Joseph found the tank in a neighbor's |E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., and Cal l0WR 75 yards away.
\ | Veteran insurance inspectors, on Distilling Co., both of NeW however, who followed up the pos ork. {lice probe, discounted this theory, Walter Lutes, the vice presi- They said the top of the heater dent, and Walter Baker, sales was intact, not blown out as is Runager, oia the Sourt o! negos. normal on heater explosions, ations ween . the Calvert Co. and Kiefer-Stewart in which plans| yr Neutte Turnid 08 were made for the distributors toi, . police theory with the Blshed open a Calvert sales program. that the heater had been turned In the suit Kiefer-Stewartioff and “double checked” before charged that the Calvert Co, the family retired, Her husband verified this. There was no evi-
withdrew from the deal and -u set the distributing firm's planadence of overheating or hot water when it learned of a price feud!backed up into cold water pipes. either waa there any odor. of as, » The “prowler” incident wi Says Firm Suffered linked 4g lags otis oe Yesterday B. Moxley, Mr, Winzenread he was president of} Kiefer-Stewart, testi awakaned at 2 a. m. by the barkt a i i AR
" jon az leader in eras In of at
| this uniess {sale dealers when the two east- someone had it In for me and ern distilleries withdrew whisky was laying for me.” he said. He in a price-fixingtold Jolie he had no ‘known enemies.” 3 :
: Sales companies of both or- Thrown Out of Bed 4ganizations wére aldo named de-i The blast awakened fendants in the action whichiing neighborhood, _ rh charges them with attempting to!hurtled through air and smashed OPA into. adjoining houses. A nextlevels. Kiefer-8tewart is asking|door neighbor was thrown out of heb damages In the $700,000 bed snd a resident two blocks suit, > away’ said she wi The trial was In its second day by the explosion. " tm Mr. Winzenread, an inspector at U. 8. Rubber Co. for 25 years,
The company his wife, Dorothy, and a 12-year.
Indianapolis
stopped shipment of whisky sup- bedrooms and twin 9 y 3 year-old When Kiefer-Stewart re-|gons, Richard and Charles were
whisky prices. When the ship- explosion occurred.
{sales of the Stewart company Didn't Hear It (dropped from $11 million to $3.9| “I didn't even hear the explo. million, Mr. Moxley testified. sion,” Mrs. Winzenread said. — “I just woke up and everything was dust and I was choking from it. When I woke up I heard my girl Bally crying and saying, ‘Mama, I'm caught, I can't get The Conservation Department/out of bed’ ” The mother ran through the
‘Melvin Scott Named To" Fish, Game Post
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perintendent of fish hatcheries(tW0 bedrooms and pushed funder the state Fish and Game through walst-high debris of | Division. {laths and plaster covering the I He will succeed Maurice Long! floor to her daughter's bed. The lof Syracuse, who resigned, {child was buried under more plas- ! Mr. Scott has been a game | ter, laths and boards which hag warden captain since Jan, 20. Hejcayed in from the upstairs,’ “She
is a veteran of World War IJ and’ kept calling ‘Mother;”
prior to 1946 he served nearly Pe 3—0C ; seven years as a game warden, j{Continied on Page ol 3), - - a ~ ¥ 8
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Kiefer-Stewart {Ter Incident after nse he = f spectors wi fice ins Officials Testify {ar aagree blamed the ex-
to jit jit Hi |
of Grandstand B is no newer * . than the section which crumbled. Mars Hill Resident v
Other officials said the hospital | {board had “probably underfigured!
{their budget.” They explained!
turned the uranium over to Dr, °hnson, is expected to cost more
than $240,000. Because it runs May never has been revealed. But it's assumed by federal officials PATt!Y In the county, Mr. Johnson
In recent years much has been done by Speedway management to reinforce the stands. State officials admit the owners of the famous oval have complied with every demand. They have done much on their own, maintaining inspection and adding reinforcements hot requested by the state. Speedway plans, already in operation, call for the replacement of ‘one wooden stand each year wi a steel and concrete strucure.
Evidences of Insecurity
. Meanwhile, the race continues and crowds of more than 100,000 jam the track each year. Timber in the parquet stands appears to be sound. However,
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9/100 block W, Georgia St., that be
Held as ‘Peeping Tom {that the transfer of funds was
arraignment before Judge How-!in the future.
that the sample came from Ar-|
time,
ard in Municipal Court 3 this aft-| ernoon after he was arrested late |
Tom" charge.
and caught Schriber after he saw | Schriber from his nearby bedroom pass back and forth in| front of a house at 1853 Le-| Grande Ave. then loek in a window there. Mr. Phillipe told police he grabbed his gun and pur-|,,
Schriber. d to act on other sections of
i { All space heating restrictions Anderson Man Reported {and Vincennes areas. Restrictions | home installati f h Beaten, Robbed Here | 0. of*'*ton® of sas heating An Anderson man visiting In-| The Greensburg area is served
dianapolis was beaten and robbed hy the Indiana Gas & Water Co., | {ry who recommended an 8-point |
reimany in ne ise eck ot (5s Heating Restrictions | ® ® nimi Pipe, 202 x. nay. Lifted in-2 State Areas Greensburg, Vincennes Sections Affected;
PSC Expected to Lift Bans Elsewhere By ROBERT, BLOKM The Public Service Commission today lifted all restrictions on use of gas for home heating in two Indiana areas and was ex-
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the state within a few days. were removed in the Greensburg have been in force against new and c other types of space heating
representatives of the gas indus-
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of $40. a check for $100 and which has obtained additional Program for the removal of the)
watches and rings valued at $605 | gypplies of gas from the Big and two-year-old. restrictions.
early today, after meeting a’ “stranger last night in a down-| town tavern, } i Leonard Anderson told police {who found him in an alley in the
Little Inch pipe lines of the
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The industry committee pro-|
| Texas-Eastern Gas Transmission posed full lifting of restrictions in Corp. __|these two areas and the lifting of The Vincennes section is served restrictions on space heating of | {by the Hoosier Gas Co., which will one-family homes fn most other
Food vovniae 10| Sports “en 28-30 sould not recall what happened Pe able to obtain a sufficient sup- [parts of the state,
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after he had several drinks with Ply of gas for all space heating a stranger and left a tavern on Purposes |N. Illinois St. near the bus sta-|the area. tion. He arrived thers from An|derson late yesterday.
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A spokesman sald the commis
from new gas wells In sion would determine within a {day or two what action would be The commission's action fol- taken as to other areas of the , lowed a recent conference with|state,
Eugene, 8chriber, 443 ¥Farns-| “not unusual” since the revenue gonne. That Inscallation had toelsh Ae in the cost. : a
worth St, Mars Hill, was to face | was slated for the hospital fund only supply available at that!
said, the county would have to
Richard E, Emery, representing the University Heights Civic As-| ; sociation, submitted a petition for, | the project nearly one year ago. | Mayor Feeney praised the as-| sistance JY Mr. Emery and the! association “for their patient con-| sideration® the problems involved.” | The Mayor pointed out that the city could avold the financial burden by not “attacking” the suburban development's sewage problem now." He said that the city would benefit in the long run by helping the residents of University Heights immediately,
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