Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1949 — Page 1

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Scott Keller Spins in at Speedway . . .

Dr. L. F, Schmidt Only casualty at Speedway yes-

terday was 4-year-old Scott Keller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Keller, 4508 Broadway, who “lost control” as he hurried toward the track for his first look at the 500-Mile race scene. He slipped and fell in loose gravel and scratched a knee, being treated here in the Speedway Hospital by Dr. L. F. Schmidt of Methodist Hospital. An “almost” casualty was his 7-year-old brother, Alan, who wanted to “fall down too” after he saw his little brother

grab the spotlight with his tumble.

Takes Blame For- ‘Mistake’

Lilienthal Says He Will Take Rap

For Lost Uranium

WASHINGTON, May 24 (UP) —Atomic Chairman David E. Lilienthal conceded today that the FBI should have been called immediately into the case of the missing uranium.

the loss to the FBI was a violation of Atomic Commission regulations but was a “human mistake,” Mr. Lilienthal told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. He said he did not object to “being given hel. for it.” He denied under questioning in a stormy hearing that the FBI was kept out deliberately or that there is any evidence ‘indicating there has been a violation of the Atomic Energy Act. A small amount of uranium235, the atomic bomb explosive, was found to be missing from the commission's Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago Feb, 8. Some Recovered Six weeks later the FBI was notified. Subsequently, according to the commission, all but 3.49 grams, less than one-seventh of an ounce, has been recovered. Commission regulations, Mr. Lilienthal said, require immediate notification of the FBI in any case involving suspicion that {espionage or theft might be in- | volved. “But it was not so done” in this case, the chairman said, adding: « “There can be no question this is an error—a substantial error. We're dealing with human beings. I should be criticized, and I am— very severely. “This is a case of a man not doing his duty. I don’t object to the chairman of the commission

: being given hell for it.”

Senator Shouts . Homer Ferguson ~ (R. had shouted that “all

Sen. Mich.),

{| violations of the act are sup-

posed to be reported immediately to the FBI” and had asked: “Isn't it true you don’t want

{ |to take in the FBI, but want to

keep everything in your own hands?” “It's not true,” Mr. Lilienthal replied. He added that there is no evidence that the act has been violated. The session also produced testimony that the commission decided last fall to export radioactive research materials to Finland over objections by Commissioner Lewis L. Strauss.

Muncie to Keep Rent Controls

City Council Votes

To Retain Curbs

By ROBERT BLOEM Muncie’s city council 14st night defeated a proposal to lift rent controls in that city, relieving Gov. Schricker of at least one headache in a touchy, statewide political puzzle. Only case before the Governor

rent control law requiring his approval for city "decontrol is a resolution adopted two weeks ago by the city council of Marion. The resolution provides for decontrol of rents in Marion.

AEC Chairman |

A six-week delay in reporting Mrs.

so ‘far under the new federal

‘I've Just Had A Baby,’ Shouts Surprised Wife

Russians Bow

CLEVELAND, May 24 (UP)— Francis Weber, 23, who hadn't known she was pregnant, let out an amazed gasp from her

her husband: “I've just had a baby.” Her husband, Gedeon, 24, awakened with a start and stared dumbfounded at the infant. Then he called his parents, an ambulance, a hospital, and the police. They all reached the house in record time and declared the infant, a six and a half pound baby girl, was doing fine. . ” - THE HUSBAND could offer no explanation for the unexpected arrival except that “Frances is a chunky girl anyway. But she certainly didn’t look like she was going to have a baby. We just thought she needed a little exercise.” “Think of the doctor bills we've saved,” added the surprised fa-

up for it now.”

Union May Spread Laundry Strike

Calls Conference On Extending It

Chanting picket lines formed again today in front of the Progress Laundry on the second day of the walkout in protest of the firing of a CIO union steward. There was a possibility that

city laundries. Joseph Romer, of the CIO Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees Union, said he had called a meeting of all union stewards at 7:30 p. m. today in Union Hall to discuss extension of the strike. Replace Strikers Meanwhile, management of the plant said that more workers had been hired to replace strikers and that most departments were in operation today.

morning, the first major skirmish between the CIO, management and AFL for control of the laundry workers. The incident that touched off the strike was the firing of John Kruge, CIO steward, on Saturday, Mr. Romer| said he filed an unfair a ier charge on the incident with the National Labor Relations Board, which this morning was scheduled to confer with management and .the two unions on the jurisdictional dispute. '' ' Mr. Romer said about 50 union stewards et. last night and prepared otHer-affidavits on 'alleged unfair labor practices of the laundry. He said these also will-be filed with the NLRB.

group continued to send its workers through picket lines into the

bed early today, then shouted to

ther. “But, of course, I'm making

the strike might spread into other!

The strike started yesterday

Meanwhile, the opposing AFL]

To Big 3 in Berlin Strike

Allies Ordered Them to Get Out Or Be Put Out

BULLETIN BERLIN, May 24 (UP)= Soviet-controlled German rallway police began pulling out of struck rallway installations in western Berlin today in the face of an Allied ultimatum to get out or be put out.

By JOHN B. McDERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent

The Western Powers today demanded the withdrawal of

controlled railway police from strike-bound railway property in Western Berlin. Allied military police and West

German police began at once to take over atruck elevated rail-

left in most cases without argument, Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley, American commandant in Berlin, sent a. demand to the Boviet railway control officer that he withdraw armed Soviet troop units immediately from the Wannsee station and rallway yards near the elevated station at Schoeneberg. Sends Ultimatum

Gen. Howley also sent an ultimatum to Railway President Erwin Kreikmeyer in the Soviet sector. He gave Mr. Krelkmeyer until 12 noon, Indianapolis time, to get his heavily armed railway police out of the U, B. sector. At that hour, Gen. Howley said, west sector German police will take over the railway property. British sector police, sometimes accompanied by British officers, meantime seized control of nine elevated railways stations and sent the railway police back to the Soviet zone.

larly accompanied French sector | German police to Tegel station in north Berlin. - The Communist railroad defenders there withdrew without a fuss. Casualties Rise The three Western military governments decided to eject the Bo-viet-controlled railway police and any Soviet troops from the Western sectors of ‘Berlin after casualties in the four-day-old railway strike reached three dead and 1500 injured. Some 16,000 rallway workers living in the Western sectors of Berlin struck in an attempt to

Eastern marks,

BERLIN, May 24 (UP)—|

Russian troops and Soviet-|

way stations. The railway police ®

French military police simi-

force the Boviet-controlled rafl-|

way administration to pay them County Hospital at Sullivan. His . in Western marks, which are wife was killed when the snarling | ire its worth four times as much as ] y {

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as high as utility wires, in an father, Paul Shields, and sister,

erally "bounced" off with only a leg injury.

Automobile Pitches.

back to earth.

Shelburn Tornado

Stricken Village Buries Storm Dead

Times State Service

SHELBURN, Ind, May 24 The dead pf this tornado-twisted town st at 10 today.

‘died of injuries in the Sullivan

istormi struck their home B8atur:

He flew through the air . . . Sevec-yestnid James Shields doesn't remember anything about his 25-foot

ident, were told by persons in following cars that the boy literally o high.string telephone wires. He emerged

Phone Wires Bounce Boy As Crash Hurls Him Aloft |

Toll Rises to 10

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spin into the air, auto accident yesterday. But his Mrs. Frances Minnix, in the same

Tighten Shanghai Noose; Defense Hints Evacuation |

Hurtles 25 Feet in Air Nationalists

Mass Boats

On Whangpoo |

All Signs Point To Quick Showdown For Control of City SHANGHAI, May 24 (UP)

—Communist armies tight.

ened a noose around Shanghai today and signs developed that the Nationalist defense garrison was getting ready to evacuate, ‘ Several thousand Nationalist soldiers were on the move northward, They were bound for the Woosung area, a few miles down the Whangpoo where the garrison command had ordered a massing of all available boats, Reports circulated that basic changes were being made in the organization of the Shanghal municipal police, They tended to bear out earlier indications that various “discussoins” had been going on for some days in search of a solution of the Shanghat problem without bloodshed in the

streets. Deal Possible (The cautious language of the dispatch coming through a strict army censorship hinted at nego-

tiations for a deal between the

Communists and Nationalists by which the Communists could take over the city with a minimum threat of disorders and anarchy.) The United States Consulate staff considered moving its offices to the rear of the building it now occupies if the situation became worse. The move would be away from the Bund, across the

Out. Three ;

After Steering Control Breaks A T-year-old boy was reported recovering today after he narrowly escaped death in an automobile accident which threw him 25 feet up into the air, as high as telephone wires which bounced him

The boy, James Shields, was riding with his sister, Mrs, Francis I Minix, 17. in a car driven by their. father, Paul Shields, R. R. 6, at/Posséxsion of the city was headed

6:30 p. m, last ‘night.

At 3900 8. Meridian St. the

steering control of the car suddenly broke and the automobile skidded wildly across the wet pavement, into the mud and crashed against a utility pole, Al three persons were thrown from the car. Horrifled witnesses in following cars said the body of the small boy was tossed into the air as high as the telephone wires and bounced back to earth, {The ear made a complete turn, {almost crushing Mrs. Minix, | All three persons were treated |

The boy suffered a leg Injury,

| |

Whangpoo Srom | which formidable !

massed. :

American organisations ad~ vised Americans to stay off the streets unless they were in essential activity, and to store up foodstuff against an emergency, "By all signs the struggle for

swiftly toward a showdown. Communist spearheads probed the western defense perimeter of Shanghai proper. The Nationaljst command reported that it dispatched reinforcements and repulsed the invaders. } Airfield Abandoned Official statements sald that the defense of Shanghal was going on as strongly as ever, and the Nationalists were scoring suc-

But ‘the fact remained that

Last night Albert Oakes, 52,/and released at General Hospital. while the communiques talked of

over-all successes, the Communist net drew tighter around the city, The steady movement of Nationalist troops through the cify in a northerly difftion stirred speculation that an evacuation might already be getting under

cesses in the Pootung region east (of Shanghal. :

way, or possibly that a countere

Gov. Schricker conferred yes|attack was shaping up somewhere

terday with James Sansberry of plant.

day. . : | Earlier yestetday Mrs. Ida WFBM-TV Sends [Hauser m0. sso aiea 1 tne nes- EIWQ0{l FACIONICS [pital. Fifteen residents still are|

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Pickets Orderly

Anderson, hehd of the rent ad-| { hospitalized. | # {along the Whangpoo. The Nation visory board in the Anderson. Willam Herr, international 1 @8t Patterns I Cisy Bhelium began tw}, ELWOOD, May 2A IPF alists held only a thin corridor | Marion area, on the Marion ques- representative of the AFL Laun-| The test pattern of WFBM.TV bury its dead. Services for five '00aY destroyed all of two manu erm —

Photos by Bob Wallace, Times Staff Photographer. i These Ind:anapolis high school boys won the "'show” position i in the race to be first at the Indianapolis Speedway gate. First place went to Woody Ferris and son, Pat, of Detroit, Mich., and second was won by Lawrence Bisceglia, Long Beach, Cal. Seated

| i y 0 i nd st of * om ed pyadvisory board official |dry Workers, today claimed the went on the air for 20 minutes Of the victims Wate Jcheduisg lating Soi) Bu sngte vung. Mother Finds | stating in effect that its members| Co *"k® had been “broken.” late yesterday Afternoon UBAD-|wers to be held fn the Methodist (ing in northwest Elwood. Damage B by Dead in B d ‘We have a lot of respect forinounced and was reported clear Church for Mr. and Mrs. Ed was estimated between $500,000 A y ead in be

did not have sufficient detailed in-| {formation on Marion to recom-|Mr. Romer,” the AFL representa- as far away as Lafayette, Harry Owens and his sister, Mrs. Edna gang $800,000, A General Hospital ambulance

fer to righ} are Gus Domi, Paul Domi, Bill Selzer and Don Switzer, standing) Edgar Callis and Bob Green.

'Pole Position" at Speedway Gate Won by Detroit Man

Local Group Has ‘Mostest’ at 500 Vigil But Out-of-Towners Come in ‘Fustest’

The annual traditional race for the coveted No. 1 gate position

| mend approval or disapproval of [the decontrol resolution. { Washington Interested | Meanwhile, rent authorities in { Washington were reported watching with interest the Indiana situation, Indiana may become the first state to set a clear-cut state policy on rent control since Congress granted “local option” on rents. The Governor said today he | might announce his answer on {Marion by the end of this week.

at the Indianapolis Speedway is not a question of “the fustest with| , At Muncie, the six-to-three de-

the mostest.”

Otherwise an even half dozen Indianapolis high school boys

would have nabbed it by sheer force of numbers.

The position has been claimed by Lawrence Bisceglia, Lang

feat of a decontrol resolution {proposed by organized landlords | was virtually along political party lines. 8ix Democrats on the city council voted against decontrol,

Beach, Cal, Woody Ferris and

his son Pat, Detroit, Mich. wn last Wednesday, beating

the loca: group. out a Bisceglia by one day.

T. E. (Pop) Myers, vice presi- Indianapolis = group

of | Gus and Paul Domi, Bill Selzer, |

while two Republicans and one Democrat voted to lift rent controls. Last night's meeting at Muncie

dent of the Speedway Corp., who|Don Switzer,- Edgar Callis and followed two public hearings on has handled such matters since/Bob Green were third on the|the question, held a week apart.

the tradition was an infant, has ruled the winner of the “pole position” to be Mr. Ferris, who

“Ed Sovola Slept Here . . .

® Ed Sovola, The Times columnist who usually is first, last or “always” doing something unusual has scored again.

® He now becomes the last man ever to sleep in the historic English Hotel « + » victim of a wrecking crew.

® Read of his experience and his new claim to fame in “Inside Indianapolis”... tomorrow...in The Times.

{scene, arriving last night. ————————————

BULLETIN

Kiefer-Stewart Co., wholesale liquor distribute ere, won a | $825,000 judgment in I¥ anti | trust suit against Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., Calvert Distillers Corp. and two sales companies of the firms. Kiefer-Stew-art charged the firms attempted to fix whisky prices. (Earlier story, Page 18).

CROWE PLEADS GUILTY

today Yto embezzling $883,660.

NEW YORK, May 24 (UP)-| Editorials .. Richard W. Crowe, the assistant| Food ....... manager who disappeared from Forum ..... a Broadway bank and was ar- Hollywood .. 15 Weather Map 13 frost was predicted for res in Florida, pleaded guilty Inside Indpls. 11 Earl Wilson.

| The council had before it a peti(tion bearing 565 names of persons ‘who wanted decontrol and {another petition, circulated by {local labor unions, bearing 1824 {names of opponents to the decon- | trol resolution. ‘Times Index | Anse. oii v1 Mrs. Manners 4 { sh.. 16) Marriage ... 9 |Bridge ..... 7 Movies -..14, 15 {Business ... 13 Needlework . 7 {Childs ...... 12| Othman vere 11 Classified. 18-20 Pattern .... 7 Comics ..... 21 Radio ...... 9 Counter Bpy. 7 Ruark ..... 11 Crossword .. 8 Side Glances 12 12| Boclety ..... 6 7 8ports... 16, 17 12 Teen Prob... 7

Dr, Jordan... 7 'Women's ...

.T| Below normal temperatures of 73 forecast for today,

[tive said. “He's shrewd, but for|Bitner Jr., owner and operator of Graves. {all his bravado, his strike hasithe station, said today.

failed.” The transmitting “The tragedy of this,” he con-|si1; under the supervision of ander, in the Baptist Church. Hnuen, “is that labor is fighting goa engineers, had the signal apor.

A double service Was Tne Hubbard Spool Co. and goctor today blamed suffocation {scheduled for. Mrs. Mae Starkey gonigsiow Stamp and Tool Co. pop the death of a 4-mo 14 equipment; | and her son-in-law, Leo Alex-|ractories were destroyed, and the) nths-o baby found lying against the wall

‘in its bed,

{General Lamp manufacturing Meanwhile, the living continued plant was damaged badly, The child, William Scarpone,

The day of cutthroat/,, tne air again today from 12| efforts to make the stricken, Firemen said cause of the blaze

competition among unions ought noon to 5 p. m. It will be on|town habitable. Even then|was not determined, but it appar-| was found unconscious by its to be over. (the air at approximately the same tragedy stalked the town. Tony ently began In the Hubbard Co.'s/mother, Mrs. Patrick Scarpone, Picketing orderly. There pug tomorrow. {GIll, 32, Shelburn, was injured paint room. All available firemen 2856 Medford Ave. who had been

were some rs of minor incl-| op, Thursday WFBM-TV will!slightly in an explosion as heland fire fighting equipment fought/in an adjoining room preparing

[gents but’ these were denied by (aye over the transmitter and worked cleaning up debris, |the blaze from 4 a. m., when it/lunch. police and the management. will keep the test pattern on the! A pile of ruble exploded as he was discovered, until 10 a. m,| Mrs. Scarpone called for help ATES £ CARTE Ey |air from“noon to 8 p. m., Thurs- set a match to burn it. The when it was still smouldering but and. tried breathing into the EXECUTE 3 PRAGUE SPIES |day through Sunday, to enable debris was believed to have been was under control. child's mouth to bring it back PRAGUE, May 24 (UP)—Three get owners and installers to tune mgturated with gasoline during] The damaged building, a brick to consciousness. An ambulance,

Fair weather is forecast for|

the Weather

treason and espionage, the offi- Mile Race Monday. — lisolated from other buildings and but the baby was dead. cial news agency announced. Mr. Bitner sald Philco train- Al to | ntro du ce {there was no danger of the fire The father is employed by the [Lafayette last night when dem- gu. y Injuries. child, Michael, 2, survives. : WASHINGTON, May 24 (UP) lout iating installa tion the Rita on Screen Lomommorrry o Di $ 37 ! fo claimed June 14 as Flag Day. on the screens. (UP)—Prince Aly Khan «Howard Scott ies a i Cl Over Night Skies to Clear Over Night [no oe etre \Hayworth, to his wedding guests) Bakery Salesman Ill 7 Months; Long a ot Gitar Familiur Sight With Horse at Exhibitions LOCAL TEMPERATURES This will be done by assembling’ _

men were executed today for high sets for the telecast of the 500- the tornado. land concrete block structure, was doctor, and state police arrived, ing crews were surprised in |spreading. There were no reported Switzer-Cummins Co. Another PROCLAIMS FLAG DAY —President Truman today pro- WFBM-TV test pattern flashed CANNES, France, May 24 nye oan sa wrivss And "Buddy” Loses a Buddy ° . While Cold Front Arrives {by showing her latest movie Howard Beott of Clermont, Ind, who with his horse, “Buddy,”

tomorrow by Gam... 60 10a m.. 68 th ests in a rented movie thea- Was a familiar sight the past six years at rodeos and horse shows {Bureau following clearing skies 5 4 m,,, 61 11 s. m... 58 hyd guessing Te Miss Hayworth around Indianapolis, died yesterday in General Hospital following | tonight. 8a m.. 688 12 (noom) 59 on the screen while the prince an illness of seven months. He was 37, The mercury will range from | . » a. m.. 64 1p m.. 60 announces “meet the bride.” An Omar Baking Co. route salesman 17 years, Mr. Scott fulfilled

148 to 72 in the north and from — - 153 to 77 in the southern portion|Will continue in the state tomor'of the state through Sunday as row and Thursday and be fol-

'a lifelong ambition six years ago when he acquired “Buddy” and’

trained her for exhibition and| = » : ‘ Surviving are his wife; a son, Hayworth, who becomes the Prin- racing in Clermont. oor Bott; his parents, Mr.

{Indiana remains under the influ-| lowed by near normal tempers- cess Aly Khan in a civil ceremony Wins Many Ribbons land Mrs. Arlie | ! . Scott, Oaklandon |ence of a cold front scheduled i, .., gaturday and cooler again| Friday. | Since then he and his horse|three sisters, Mrs. Arma Tolson. {to arrive tonight, Weatherman Sunday.’ | The movie star's wedding to won a “dresser-drawer full of rib- Indianapolis; Mrs. Vera Apple, Paul Miller said. Rainfall in “ the "period will|the Indian Moslem prince prob-| bons and cups,” mostly for run-|Oaklandon, and Mrs, Margarette t 50 Here Tonight range from ohe half to one inch, ably will be held at Prince Aly's ning competition, according to|Bracken, Fortville, and three Cool alr from Illinois was ex-| probably occuring as thunder-| white Chateau de L'Horizon. his wife, Elsie. - brothers, Paul Scott, Orlando, pected to plunge thermometers to| showers Thursday and again Sat-| The prince was so intrigued] Mr. Scott had appeared in at Fla; Irvin Scott, Oaklandon, and 50 tonight here and to near freez-|urday or Sunday, Mr. Miller with the idea of the Hollywood least one rodeo here and had Cecil Scott, Lawrence, Ind. ing in the northwestern portion| said. |introduction that he ordered his planned to participate in the re-| Services at 1 p. m. tomorrow in of the state. Bcattered light] The mercury will rise to a high private plane, which had gone to cent horse show in the Coliseum. the Jones & Matthews Mortu-north-lof 70 tomorrow in Indianapolis pick up guests in London. to stop ary, Brownsburg, will be followed

For some of the guests it will be their first glimpse of Miss

western part of Teaneck

Born in Oaklandon, he was. a in comparison with a maximum off at Paris for a&¥ print of member of the Oaklandon Chil: by graveside services in the 100F | ‘Carmen.” . tian Church, Cemetery in Oaklandon,

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