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60th YEAR—NUMBER 68

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949

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Indianapolis, Ind. Issued

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Battle Time, Termites In Speedway Stands

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Everything Possible Is Being Done

To Prevent Another Bleacher Collapse By VICTOR PETERSON i Everything possible is being done before race day to avert a repetition of last Saturday’s collapse of Grandstand B at the Speedway, but the job is a mammoth one. The wooden grandstands are old, built long before present rigid specifications were demanded. Time, termites and the elements have taken their toll. : the Jatively recently constructed wooden parquet stands of the infield are in need of repair.’ Overloading of a box seat section » the official explanation of thé qualification day which injured 34 persons. Of- °

! lwere once allowed to use private i force as a remedy for private in-

Judge Refuses New Trial in Assault Case

Upholds Conviction

In Attack Against Times Photographer

Ruling that the right of privacy

Guardians ie mre. Juice su 2 en iEN@FGY PUL

of Crirninal Court 2, today refused! a new trial for two officials of a!

photographer of The Indianapolis Times staff. { Judge Rabb, in a nine-page! opinion covering the subject of! private rights in relation to.pub-! lic peace, overruled a motion for

Harold Jackson, manager of By| That issue was in doubt. But

attorney and official of the firm. -——————-

convicted of assault and battery! two months ago in Municipal!

who fined them $25 and costs| It to be under foreign control. each. Bix weeks ago Judge Rab

tion but reduced the fines to $1 trolled from Moscow.

local animal by-products company By C g G P convicted recently of assaulting a 0 n ress ro U Investigating Committee Asks if Loss Of U-235 Was ‘Carelessness or Espionage’ By TONY SMITH, Scripps-Howurd Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 19—The Atomic Energy Commission was a new trial filed in behalf of [on a spot marked “‘carelessness or espionage” today.

Products, Inc., and Harry Stitle,| Chairman David I. Lilienthal and other members of the atomic

i | ta. The company officials were, How Dumb Can You Get? . . . An Editorial AEC-subsidized student Hans Friestadt admits he is a ComCourt 3 by Judge Joseph Howard | munist but says he would quit the Communist Party if he believed

i How can anyone that stupid ever win a scholarship? upheld the lower court's convic-| 8t AEC member should know that the Communist Party is con-

of Atomic on Spot

the embarrassment of Commission

Even

and costs each. Found Guilty of Assault { They were found guilty of 88 U-235 at the Argonne Laboratory saulting Henry E. Glesing Jr. near Chicago. Times photographer, when the! my..e was a lot of technical ex{planation in the closed hearing

place of business at the Uniomi,,.., of the Joint Congressional Stockyards to take pictures of) 4 i, . Energy Committee. Ac-

le Te Bris pot of p cording to men who heard Chairstory dealing with ecrimin a1 man Lilienthal, commission mem-

officials Chistges that company |AEC assures Congress atomic

were mistreating animals. Judge Rabb’s ruling stated: fellowships will be barred to Reds . . . Page 5,

latter went to the defendants’

“The right of privacy in con-| nection with the ‘publication of ______ SATE NEO \personal matters and the taking per pewis 1. Strauss, General lof pictures under certain circum-|yanager Carroll Wilson, and two {stances involving public interests .... from Argonne Laboratory

| {does not exist in the law. very little of it was conclusive. The scene in the hearing room

“Public peace is a superior consideration to any one man’s

private property, with speed’ and bluntness.

weren't easily disposed of with talk of residues, containers, clinical values, incompleted reports, continuing analyses, and faulty accounting.

Didn't Say Much

juries, cease. ; “The strong man would give law to the weak and every man would revert to a state of nature.”

all social justice must

| energy guardians was an established fact. They squirmed through our hours of congressional questions about a lost container of

It individuals Wasn't quite cozy. Questions came Cross and Blue Shield hospital] 1 They|and medical insurance plans. {

(uestion Legality 0f Hospital Plans

Decision Sought

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. It did not appear immediately that Burany was critically injured. He sat up in the ambulance as he was rushed to the track hospital. 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

On Community Basis The state insurance commis- | sioner said today he had asked| Attorney General J. Emmett McManamon for an opinion on the. legality of community-wide mem-|

bership solicitations by the Blue |

Mr. McManamon said he would | hand down his opinion shortly.

Commissioner Frank J, Vieh-

was whether

man said the principal question | a community could and soybeans on Hoosier farms)

turn and was virtually demolished.

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New Driver Crashes

Wall

After Mystery Blast

Rips Home

Family Escapes From

The family of William

Kiefer-Stewart Officials Testify -

Cash in Price Warsz: 5°

as 5 Sleep |

Dog Heara Barking Before Explosion; !

Tumbling Debris

Probe into a mysterious explosion which wrecked a 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. :

Harry Winzenread, union

“steward and longtime ems<

ployee at U. S. Rubber Co.,

Assert Firm Lost hovers escaped death when

{the blast ripped through their

Peter St. at

The probe turned to the prowe {ler incident ‘after insurance ine spectors disagreed with police ine vestigators who blamed the ex-

Slight relief for thirsty corn when it learned of a price feud:

Ofcials of Kiefer-Stewart Co, Plosion on a hot water heater. Indianapolis wholesale distributor, | Detectives Ed Gerdt and Paul Kennedy affixed blame to a faulty testified today in Federal Court ograty ‘valve on' the nom-autoe 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 Ca). Vn 70 Yards AWRY, i t Yo. ! an insurance inspectors, you Distilling Co., both of New!) owever. who followed up the poe ork. {lice probe, discounted this theory. Walter Lutes, the vice presi- They sald the top of the heater dent, and Walter Baker, Sales was intact, not blown out as is manager, told the court of negoti- normal on heater explosions, jations between the Calvert Co. Heater Turned Of

and Kiefer-Stewart in which plans Mrs. Winzentead, too, banished

were made for the distributors to open a Calvert sales program, the Police theory with the report.

In the suit Kiefer-Stewart charged that the Calvert Co. withdrew from the deal and upset the distributing firm's plans

off and “double checked” before the family retired. Her husband verified this. There was no evi.

backed up into cold water pipes. between Kiefer-Stewart and the Neither was there any odor of

that the heatér had been turned

{dence of overheating or hot water

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ficials assert it will riot happen again. “Joe Quinn, safety director of the 500-mile track, said an additional 40 carpenters have been

hired to assure the stands will SEE.

be in tip-top shape by race day.

Augment Normal Staff

“We have a normal’ staff of some 45 to 50 maintenance men and -carpenters, but have aug-

mented. it since the accident. Sat- ” urday,” 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 g

board, we repair it immediately.

“We have complied with every request of the state to assure safety,” Mr. Quinn said.

Without escort, 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 be-

neath 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 of Grandstand B is no newer than the section which crumbled, 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®_..d adding... oroements not requested by the state. Speedway plans, already in operation, call for the replacement of one wooden stand each year with a steel and concrete structure.

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,

Times Index

Amusements. 12 Mrs, Manners 24 Eddie Ash.. 28 Marriage ... 24 Bridge ..... 10 Movies ..... Business .... 22/|0Othman .... 19 Childs ....... 20 Pattern .... 10 Classified. 31-34 Radio ...... 17 Comics .....” 35 Ruark ...... Crossword .. 18|8ide Glances 20 Editorials .. 20 Society .../. Food seaseee 10, Sports vio 28-30 Forum ..... 20 Teen Talk .. 7 Gardening .. 10 Teen Prob... 10 Hollywood .. 12! Weather Map 22 Inside Indpls. 19 Earl Wilson, 18

” Dr. Jordan. . 10, Women's ans 10|

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arked for ‘repair, this warped support is out of plumb.

there are many evidences of insecurity. It is possible to move some . of ' the rear supports by hand. heard it groan: when two men walked above. me.

There is no indication that rear supports are nailed to timbers on which they rest.” The pressure of weight seems to hold them in place.

| In many: cases the timbers, on {which the rear supports rest, are laid on, cement blocks. Several of these" supports are not centered on the blocks and many of the blocks literally hang half in the air. The soil beneath them has eroded away. Throughout the stands are the markings of state inspectors calling for the repair of certain portions. It is admitted, however, that the few inspectors cannot see everything. There was no marking, for example, on one 4x4 support which is cracked half-way through.

Mars Hill Resident Held as ‘Peeping Tom

Eugene 8chriber, 443 Farns{worth 8t., Mars Hill, was to face arraignment before Judge Howard in Municipal Court 3 this afternoon after he was arrested late yes v in the 1800 block of LeGrande Ave. on a “peeping Tom!’ charge.

and caught Schriber after he saw | Schriber from his nearby bed-| room 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 pursued Schriber.

Anderson Man Reported Beaten, Robbed Here

An Anderson man visiting Indianapolis was beaten and robbed

watches and rings valued at $605 early today, after meeting a "stranger last night in a down‘town tavern, .

19" Leonard Anderson told police g| Who found him in an alley in the

1100 block W, Georgia St., that he {could not recall what happened [artes he had several drinks with a stranger and left a tavern on |N. Illinois 8t, near the bus station. He arrived there from Anderson late yesterday. :

In their motion for a new trial,

be considered a “group,” and en- was indicated by the Weather S087Tam Co. Says Firm Suffered

P| Health General Fund to meet ment

I saw a section sway and

the defendants contended they had a right to use force as the right of privacy and that their property was invaded illegally.

nesses. staff do the explaining.

made a thorough study of this subject and finds that those rights; were not invaded” under the general interpretation that “public peace is superior to any pne man’s private property.”

he thought could answer. One member said-that many of the questions directed at Mr. Lilienthal drew this reply: “Why, yes. Mr. 8o-and-So will explain that.”

. Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R: N. Y.) Is are of Cash Other Members Agree meet its payroll. {Most of them emphasized that

But most of the time, this memsaid the explanations were incomCity Hospital went broke! Other members of the joint conThere was “not a dime” in the Chairman Brien McMahon's state-

» = al ber said, the man selected couldn't ln produce. os — plete and far from conclusive. today and had to borrow to gressional committee agreed. 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

closed. strictly his own, However, prospects for payday, Chairman McMahon announced for hospital employees improved that action on the whole question when County Auditor Ralph|was deferred pending further inMoore ordered County Treasurer vestigation particularly with reLouis Fletcher to advance the|gpect to the accounting system Hospitat fing Sovoce ial a "hich would permit such a situay and county officials sald tion to develop. the funds were deposited in the 2 ich Health General Fund. But city. by ry “an Dement aid officials privately condemned fi-|___ missing from the Argonne Rance errors which left the hos- 1 ,poratory at Chicago. One newsP ps sap pag {paper account said Jiee-quartiee ‘Jus okkee {of a pound of a U- compoun City officials said at first the was gone. The commission said shortage was “just a matter of it was only 32 grams o U-235. bookkeeping.” Upon closer scru-|It said it recover: » grams tiny, nl it was disclosed by analyzing waste material. 80 that unless funds were obtained only seven grams were missing. elsewhere immediately, there pyt, Rep. Cole pointed out, that {would be no payday at the hos-wag 7000 times the amount of U{pital tomorrow. 1235 which the British scientist. | Although the crisis was tem- pr. Allan May, turned over to a {porarily solved, city officials were Russian agent in Canada in 1945, {asking “how come it happened?” The Russians thought it was so | Mayor Feeney said he believed important they flew it to Russia Li Smpty pial fund ua Ih a Special plane. The Canadians argely due to the fact that hos- thoug was so Im pital officials and anticipated re- Dr May is serving 10 years in {ceiving more revenue than they prison. |are now getting. | The identity of the man who Other officials said the hospital turned the uranium over to Dr. {board had “probably underfigured May never has been revealed. But [here Riis or They S¥plained its assumed il federal officials ithat the transfer of funds was tha e sample came from Ar“not unusual,” since the revenue gonne. That insiallation had the |was slated for the hospital fund only supply available at that {In the future. time.

Gas Heating Restrictions

Ewell Phillipe, 2002 E. Ray-

PSC Expected to Lift Bans Elsewhere

iwi ie, 2 = or. Lifted in 2 State Areas

Greensburg, Vincenn

es Sections Affected:

Guy W. Spripg. a Blue Cross

ceptéd as a Blue Cross group. “We do not policy to a company whose em-| ployees are covered,” Mr. Spring| said. “Our contract is between! Blue Cross and the individual concerned, with the company as-| sisting both parties by deducting membership fees.”

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Sewer Extension |

Urged by Mayor | By IRVING LEIBOWITZ i Mayor Feeney today urged the

Board of Public Works to extend sewage facilities to University

of $240,000. The city’s proposed sewage pro-| gram, already estimated at $4 million, originally did not include University Heights.

Residents in the suburban de-

} {

ities. Works Board members indi-| cated they would act favorably on| the Mayor's suggestion at a later! time, The University Heights development includes Indiana Central | College. i { 7 years residents of Uni|versity Heights have paid city! {taxes without getting city serv-| lices, the Mayor pointed out. | “I urge the Board to give prior! |consideration to the University {Heights sewage project,” Mayor| Feeney said, “despite the added

{

|expense.”

The proposed sewage plan, out-| {lined by City Engineer M. G. (Ole) |

{Johnson, is expected to cost me :

than $240,000. Because it runs {partly in the county, Mr. Johnson ‘said, the county would have to {share in the cost. | | 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-!

a) izece of Me. Emery and the

|assoclation “for their patient con-| [sideration of the problems invplved.” * is |" The Mayor pointed out that the! {city could avoid the financial |burden by not “attacking” the

Chairman Lilienthal didn’t have/T0ll¢d as such by’ the insurance Bureau in a forecast calling for

much to say, according to wit- °rganization. He sat back and let his

spokesman, his id Wilson directed the ann chan had told prev Judge Rabb said “this court has neling questions to whichever man that if a’ cross-section of the

|scattered shpwers or thunder {storms early tonight.

wb ee co es de hE lowed hy cooler weather ORight Sana or distribution to be- at x a { population, equal to at least 80 and tomorrow. Bkies will remaipicome one of the smallest whole {per cent, wanted medical insur-|partly cloudy tomorrow, ance, the community would be ac- | : : {drop from a high of 86 today to *hipments issue .a master 8 minimum of 55 tonight. Tomor-

row’s high will be 72. Scattered showers were forecast over the state followed by a drop in temperature.

Burglar's Loot Includes

Cash, Keys, Trousers William L. Roache, 509 Bright 8t., told police that someone entered his residence hetween 3 a. m and 5 a. m. and made off with $3 in cash, a set of keys, and his trousers, valued at $20. The burglar used matches to see his way ‘around, Mr. Roache said, He entered through a

rear porch roof,

Girl . 2, Rescued

velopment, brought into ‘the city| A frightened 2-year-old girl | 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 St. today announced appointment of

Paul 8t. today after she fell 10 feet through the narrow tube,

The child, Peggy Ann Usrey, under the state Fish and Game through waist-high debris

toppled into the 18-inch-wide duct

and fell all the way to the fur-|

nace. The cover had been removed while her mother, Bruce Usrey, was housecleaning. A police squad removed the furnace pipes to rescue the child and treated her for slight bruises,

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Mrs. |

=! Yesterday George B. Moxley, Mr. Winzenread recalled

At Speedway at 110 MPH

BULLETINProwler Clues Hunted |

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as, R The “prowler” incident was

linked with the explosion after

he wes

president of Kiefer-Stewart, testi awakened at 2 a. m. by the bark-

“I can't i

| explain this unless {sale: dealers when the two east- someone had it (n for me and

T re lo ern distilleries withdrew whisky was laying for me" he he mercury was expected to in a price-fixing told police he had no “known

scheme. Bales companies of both organizations wére also named defendants in the ; action which charges them with attempting to hold whisky prices at OPA levels. Kiefer-Btewart is asking treble damages in the $700,000 suit. The trial was In its second day today before a federal jury of 10 men and two women. The Indianapolis company charges in its suit that the Reagram and Calvert organizations stopped shipment of whisky sup[plies when Kiefer-Stewart re{fused to agree to a plan to fix {whisky prices. Wher: the ship-

(Heights, despite an additional cost second-story window above the ents halted, the annual liquor

{sales Of the Stewart company {dropped from $11 million to $3.9 million, Mr. Moxley testified.

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From Cold Air Duct Melvin Scott Named

To Fish, Game Post

The Conservation Department

{Melvin Scott, Churubusco, as su{perintendent of fish hatcheries

{ Division. He will succeed Maurice Long lof Byracuse, who resigned. Mr, Scott has been a game warden captain since Jan. 20. He Is a veteran of World War II and prior to 1946 he served nearly seven years as a.game warden, !

enemies.” Thrown Out of Bed The blast awakened a sleep ing neighborhood, as ‘debris hurtled through air ahd smashed into. adjoining houses. A next door neighbor was throws out of bed and a resident two blocks away said she was awakefied by the explosion, : : Mr. Winzenread, an inspector at U. 8, Rubber Co! for 25 years, his wife, Dorothy, and a 12-year. old daughter Bally Sue, were asleep in adjoining downstairs bedrooms and. twin 9-vear-old sons, - Richard and Charles were in upstairs bedroom when the explosion. occurred. Didn't Hear It “I didn't even hear the explo sion,” Mrs. Winzenread said, “I just woke up and everything was dust and I was choking from it. When 1 woke up I heard my

girl Bally crying and saying, ‘Mama, I'm caught, I can't get out of bed,"

e mother ran through the bathroom which connected the two bedrooms and pushed of {laths and plaster covering the {floor to her daughter's bed. The {child was buried under more plaster, laths and boards which had caved in from the upstairs, { “She kept calling ‘Mother,

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+ (suburban development’s sewage

By ROBERT BLOEM The Public Service Commission today lifted all restrictions on the use of gas for home heating in two Indiana areas and was ex- | pected to act on other sections of the state within a few days. i All space heating restrictions were removed in the Gr burg {and Vincennes areas. Restrictions have been in force against new {home installations of gas heating and other types of space heating | since 1946. BE ama - ——— | The Greensburg area is served representatives of the gas indus{by the Indiana Gas & Water Co.,| try who recommended an 8-point

12 of $40, a check for $100 and which has obtained additional|Program for the removal of the

| supplies of gas from the Big and |two-year-old restrictions. {Little Inch pipe lines of the 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 in most other!

{be able to obtain a sufficient sup- parts of the state, {ply of gas for all space heating | A spokesman said the commis{purposes from new gas wells in sion would determine within a (the area. {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, :

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{problem now. He said that the| |city would benefit in the long run |by helping the residents of University Heights immediately,

Two-Fisted Action

Photo = on, Time ~~ Photosrapher A mysterious explosion smashed the home of the William Harry ' Peter St. early today. (Another photo, Page 3).

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Winzenread family, 1042 SH.