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Chie wet Metzler Critically Hurt As Car pp Hits Wall Twice At Speedway |
Photo by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer.
County Clerk Jack Tilson , . cupboard was bare."
+ "And when he got there, the
Lie Detector Tests Set In $3000 Courthouse Theft
Five Employees to Be
Examined as Police
Probe Disappearance From Clerk's Office
Five additional Marion County
courthouse employees were slated
for lie detector tests today in connection with the theft of $3000 from
the County Clerk’s office.
Disappearance of the $3000 in cash and some $400 in checks
sometime last week-end was kept yesterday. Detectives said today that no new clues have been turned up.
a carefully guarded secret until
checks, left in an unlocked drawer in the cashier's cage Saturday,
Lie detector tests were expected was discovered Monday morning to be given today { tenes by John ‘George, the office to four courthofise ‘Janittors und aieashier. nightwatchman. Overlooked in the theft, County
Earlier in the week Myron Coslér, chief deputy clerk, and ‘Glenn Parrish, a deputy clerk, voluntarily submitted to lie detector tests. : :A third man, a longtime Indianapolis abstractor, also under‘went the tests. Detectives said all three men were in the clear. Disappearance of the cash and
Clerk A. Jack Tilson reported, was a bank book containing $1700 in cash and checks. + ‘Mr. Tilson said the loss, representing cash receipts of routine office business, was covered by insurance. ~ Two detectives, Ed Glenn and William Britton, have been assigned to the investigation.
Moslem Marriage of Rita, Aly Planned Next Week
By ROBERT MUSEL, United Press Staff Correspondent
CANNES, France,
May -28—A member of the Aga Khan's
household said today that Moslem wedding rites for Rita Hay-
worth and Prince Aly sometime next week.
Khan would be held at the Paris Mosque
The decision to stage the Moslem ceremony in Paris instead of at Prince Aly's sumptuous Cheateau De L'Horizon here was
made by the Aga Khan, Prince! Aly's father. As he is spiritual head of the Ismaili Moslems, there was no disputing his word. The Aga, accompanied by his beautiful wife, the Begum Khan, left for Paris today by automobile. Rita and Prince Aly became man and wife yesterday in the eyes of French civil law. Phince ‘Aly will some day succeed his father as spiritual leader of some 12 million Ismaili Mos-
‘Most Important’ 8. I. Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, head of the Moslem Church in France, regards the marriage as “the most important of the century for the Moslem Church in
Francen fal Prince Aly will wear special)
Khan will attend in the ceremo-
Laundry Strike Front ‘All Quiet’
The: trouble-simmering laun-
into the holiday week-end with
isdictional dispute.
tail, (CIO) held a mass meeting in
9th 8t., at which Joseph Romer, (Continued on Page 2-—Col. 8)
For Big Race
dry labor front rolled peacefully
both AFL and CIO consolidating their positions in a city-wide jur-
Visitors Start Swarming In
Thousands Arriving For Speedway Classic; Hotels Filling Up ,
30 Million cars expected to jam U. 8, highways . .. Page 2.
Hotels and private homes began to fill with visitors today as| crowds jammed railroads, com-| ‘mercial airlines and highways, {leading to Indianapolis. Parades, Memorial Day observ{ances and sports events throughlout the state will give away to ithe top item on the entertainment {menu—the Indianapolis Motor {Speedway’s annual 500-Mile Race. Although the influx began today, tomorrow was expected to !see a tremendous increase in the jnumber of people converging on ithe city. Hotels have most of {their registrations for race visitors. made for tomorrow through Monday night. Heavy Toll Feared A heavy toll of lives was feared for the holiday. If statistics are any guide, between 15 and 20 persons will be killed on Hoosier highways between today and Monday midnight. Indiana highways, however, were in comparatively good shape for the heavy week-end traffic. Besides the thousands due to arrive in Indianapolis, families were planning motor jaunts, picnics and visits all over the state. x
road will again run special trains
Speedway track to accommodate fans without cars and those unwilling to buck heavy traffic. In
city. Schedule of Trains Train fare is set at 35 cents one way. Trains will leave the station Monday at 3:15 a. m., 4
15 minutes from 6:15 a. m. until 10:30 a. m. and every half-hour from 10:30 a. m. until 2 p. m. Continuous service from the track to Union Station will begin at 3 p. m.
50 cents. Starting at 5 a, m., vehicles will leave the bus station one every minute, or as soon as loaded, and continue until after the race starts. There will be no stops during the 20-minute trip. However, the regular Speedway bus will be in service and will make local stops. High-ranking officials of the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors Corp. from Lansing, Mich., will arrive here in two airplanes tomorrow. Oldsmobile officials today also completed arrangements with the Terrace Tearoom at Wm. H. Block Co. for serving 500 box lunches to the working press and technical staff on race day.
Signs Anti-Red Oath CLEVELAND, May 28 (UP)— A. F, Whitney, president of the
Last night the Wholesale, Re- Brotherhood of Railroad Train-| Department Store Union Men, said today he signed a non-
{Communist affidavit under pro-
The New York Central Rail-| § between Union Station and the 3
One-way fare on busses will be|
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Indianapolis race driver George Metzler was critically injured today when his on the southwest turn,
Traction Terminal Bus Station] 5% to the oval track in Speedway}
a.m, 4:45 a. m., 5:30 a. m., every| .. =
George Metzler
Ford Talks Stall On Arbitrator
DETROIT, May 28 (UP)— Round-the-clock negotiating sessions failed to settle the Ford Motor ‘Co. strike today because of disagreement on selection of an arbitrator. Practically all issues in the 24-day-old “speedup” dispute were gettled, including the question the arbitrator would rule on. The company held out for an industrial engineer as arbitrator, however, while the CIO United Auto Workers wanted state or federal
officials to name an impartial outsider. UAW President Walter P.
“common
Photo by John
Glessner Special smashed twice info the wall
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Skids in Dirt
‘Death Turn’ Is Scene; Banks
Agabashian, Levrett Qualify for ‘500'; Cantrell Bumped
BULLETIN
Freddy Agabashian in his Indianapolis Race Cars Maserati No. 15 qualified the car today, at a speed of 127.0607 miles an hour and bumped the Federal Engineering Detroit Special out of Monday's 500+ Mile Race. Banks’ speed was 124.980. Tommy Hinnershits had tried to qualify the Mas. erati yesterday but was out because of his low speed. Immediately after Agabashian qualified Banks went to the starting line in an attempt to qualify the second Engineering Special, He took aps but came In on the fourth. He will have two more chances to qualify today.
(IRC Maserati No. 8) Lap Time 1 BEBssr inns 1:10.08 1:10.09 1:10.68
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again today because he “wanted
himself in voluntarily last night Records show that DeHoe was sentenced to 5 to 21 years from Shelby County on July 30, 1927, on a charge of rape. He told Supt. Moore that he has been “all over the world” since his escape, He has been married, he said, but his wife died. During his years as a fugitive he kept out of trouble, he declared, but he was never at ease. Brought by Friends DeHoe was accompanied to the reformatory by friends who brought him from Tennessee. The decision to return, he said, was “a hard one to make,” but he could not be happy with the unsettled debt to society hanging over him. Records show that he is a painter by trade, and had never been in serious trouble before his arrest in 1027.
Have You Seen Them?
to Pendle
Times State Service Cl PENDLETON, May 28—A prisoner who escaped from the Indiana State Reformatory here nearly 20 years ago was behind bars
Z Alexandria Teen-Agers Missing Since Mar. 14
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to get rid with God and man,”
Raymond DeHoe, 48, who eseaped on Oct. 10, 1929, turned
to Supt. R. D. Moore.
Reds in Control At Shanghai
SHANGHAI, May 28 (UP)~ The Chinese Communists for. mally took over the administra-
[Nationalist currency, Central Bank and suspended all papers.
commission will be the supreme governmental organ. | The use of gold bars, Chinese {silver dollars and foreign curren-| cles was prohibited.
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Showers Forecast
MPH 126.798 126.778 127.354 & Gonniindns 111080 127.119 sees 4148.48
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG The perilous southwest
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fans were handed a bitter pill at noon today when Fred Maher, assistant meteorologist at the
showers will probably occur during the day Monday from Indianapolis southward.
He tempered his prediction,
tion of Bhanghal today, outlawed end in northern Indiana by early seized the] reportedly faster than indicated and pass afternoon news- Indianapolis early in the day.
Communist Gen. Chen Yi' as-| sumed administrative control of this city of 6 million and an-| nounced that the military control
however, by saying that local showers which were expected to
morning on Monday might move
Temperatures for the race classic were expected to be in the mid 70's and sunshine later in the day could send the mercury soaring even higher, Mr. Maher sald. 15 MPH Winds Winds during the day will probably reach 15 miles an hour and slightly above, the Weather Bureau said.
Eorly in Day = | George A. Metaler, 38, It LOCAL TEMPERATURES |dianapolis driver, lay critical 6am. 40 10 a-m...:50 [ly injured in the Methodist Hose 78 m., 51 11a m.., 61 [pital after his roaring Glessner 8 8 m.. 55 12 (Noon). 62 [Bpecial hit: the wall twice after 9a m.. b8 1pm... 68
Memorial Day B500-Mile Race
Wedther Bureau sald local.
turn of the Indianapolis Mo-
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A. Metaler, 38, Té
coming out of the home straight away at terrific speed. ;
Metzler was practicing prelimis nary to attempting to quality in the last day of qualifications before the big race Monday, It was the southwest turn’s second victim of the 1949 racing season. A few weeks ago Byron Horne hit the wall and still is in critical condition, although ime proving, at the hospital. Shorty Cantlon was killed at ithe same spot in the 1047 race. Slides Onto Apron A few minutes after the wrecks age of the Glessner Special was ‘cleared from the track, the big Saturday qualifying crowd was electrified to see Jimmy Dawalt of Wabash, Ind. slide into ths apron but Dawalt brought the machine back into control. Then the thrill thirsty crowd got another spine tingler when Henry Banks, who had already qualified, spun on the track neay
Bunday outings were given a 50-50 chance of ideal weather as the Weather Bureau forecast only partly cloydy skies tonight
and warmer and widely scattered, get bumped out’ of the race
light showers tomorrow. I becaus i ltyt Cool air from the north moved pe a law duslitying
into Indiana last night, lowering eral Engineering Special in the
the southwest turn after skidding in dirt thrown onto the track by the Metzler wreckage,
Banks, who thinks he is likely
peed, was driving another Fede
the Amalgamated Hall, 168 W. rivers to take part in collective sense proposal” which would send
itest to allow 17,000 affiliated PAY announced a
temperaturer in South Bend 10/nopes of bringing up his speed.
37 and Indianapolis to 45. Only The ca: to Sam scattered light frosts in low | Hankn. Was 10 bs riven by
places in the north and none in|
Drop Out of Sight
Last March 14 Bill Lewis pulled on his crimson high school
{bargaining elections conducted by the 62,200 strikers and 43,800 the National Labor Relations other idled Ford workers back
| Board,
robes for the occasion. The = Dan Tobin's Statement
nial costume of the Imam Ismal sect, Miss Hayworth is expected to wear western dress if she at-
tends. However, it is not neces-|
sary for a bride to be present
at a Moslem peremony.
Pri said that Miss Hayals a Catholic, recognizes the penalties of marrying outgide her faith but that she was very happy despite the religious complications. Rita Excommunicated Vatican sources said Rita ineurred an automatic excommunication by the Catholic Church when she married outside the church without permission. The Moslem rites will be in two parts. In the first, non-re-ligious part the couple or their representatives . will
Gentlemen:
have not been very well informed on local™situations.
Editorial, Page 10 I was surprised, however, last evening, Thursday, May 26, 1949, to pick up The Indianapolis Times at my home and read the ad-
sign = mar< yertisement -on page 21 of that
riage contracts ‘stipulating a dowry for the bride. It probably will be a nominal sum. In the religious rites, the priest will read from the koran and
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issue dealing with' the laundry situation. This advertisement was {paid for not by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as an International, but by the Indian2polis Cleaners and Launders lub.
Times Index
Further looking at The Times I see on the front page, final
Amusem’nts 5, 9{Hollywood .. 9 Books ..s... 8|Inside Indpls. 5 Bridge ...... 3|Mrs. Manners 7 Childs ......10/ Movies .....5,9 Churches ... 4 National Aff. 10 Comics .....14/Radio ...... 8 Crossword ..11|Boclety ..,... 3 Editorials ...10 Bports .....6,7 Forum. ......20| Try It ...... 14 Gardening
issue, an editorial “What's Wrong !At The Laundry”? I was some{what confused to read the ad- | vertisement and the statements of fact and copies of an agreement between the union and the laundry owners and then to
I have just returned from] Cleveland where I have been at-|'TOVersy and eventually reached tending ‘several important na-|8n understanding with the emtional conferences on labor I|Ployers in the industry and they
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read your editorial on the front!
page. So this mornthg I have
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On Laundry Strike Here
The following statement in connection with the laundry strike here was addressed to the editor of The Indianapolis Times by Daniel J. Tobin, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The statement is printed in full:
ticipated in this laundry con-
absolutely deny many of the statements contained in your
editorial,
» . - YOU SAY the Teamsters have planned a program of raiding other unions—unions which have already had satisfactory legal contracts in force. We deny this statement because the whole meat of the question at issue is how can we prevent stoppages of work in Indianapdlis as we have done in other cities in the very necessary laundry industry. The right nf workers to open up the contract is guaranteed under this contract. The only thing that the contract provides
for fundamentally is that during)
negotiations: or disagreements of work for a period of six or seven years. Everything else can be opened up, as I get the information from those who have participated, after one year and then
every two years. Everything can’
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to their jobs. Then the negotiators would get 72 hours to pick an arbitrator. Offers Alternate Plan If the parties cannot agree on an arbitrator, Mr. Reuther sald, they should ask either President Truman, Gov. G, Mennen Willlams of Michigan or the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Bervyice to name a man. The company, which turned
down Mr. Reuther's offer, wanted|/
the regular UAW-Ford umpire, Dr. Harry 8. Shulman, to choose an industrial engineer.
Further peace talks were re-|
cessed until tonight to give weary negotiators a chance to rest.
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# have hunted jobs scores of per-
~ departments,
sweater--the one with the “50” class numerals on it, and strolled
andria. A few blocks down the street he met pretty little Jane Reed, a neighbor and a class mate,
Together they got on a train|
for near-by Andersbn. And dropped out of sight. Almost a nation-wide search
““By their distraught families has
failed to reveal the slightest trace of the two youngsters. On the
| theory that the high school ro-| | mance everybody in Alexandria knew about had led them to seek!
a wedding license in Kentucky or| one of the other states where! marriage is easier, hundred of county clerks have been contacted all over the middle west, |
On the theory that they may
sonnel men have been questioned. On the possibility that they may have met with some mishap police state, local and even federal, have been notified. All without a single clue,
Bill is 16, five feet 11 inches, weighs 175 pounds, with dark hair, horn-rimmed glasses ' and
as
Indianapolis, however, were reported. Indiana was expected to remain in an area of high pressure and cool air tonight with a
{minimum temperature of 48 pre- 8. Dearborn Bt, was 3
dicted, Winds were expected to shift the south by tomorrow evening low pressure replaces cool northern air, A high of 75 was
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forecast for tomorrow.
a conspicuous gold tooth, athletie,| Los
genial, and friendly. Jane is 17, tiny, blond, vivacious. Bill's parents, Mr. and Mrs. WilHam A. Lewis Sr. 411 East Monroe Bt, Alexandria, have offered a reward for information about them. There isn’t, they say, any stern parental discipline awaiting. On the contrary, all is forgiven. They just want to know where the children are.
Bayliss Levrett (Offenhauser Special) Lap Time 1 Jevvvennnes 1:10.04 128.408 2 civeeirens. 1:00.32 120.838 3 SERENA» 1:00.74 120.051 irrsrasess 110048 120.571
Totals ..., 4:38.56
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Brought Under Control But Banks, too, proved his met.
[tle and brought the car back into | control.
Driver Metzler, who lives at 32
{down the grandstand straight |away when the car skidded as he {came into the death turn. It spun completely around, [landing on the apron. It careened |Into the outside retaining wall, bounced off, spun again, ‘hit the {wall a second time 100 feet from the spot of the first impact. Metzler lay unconscious in the car which was wrecked so (It. will be unable to get into the
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