Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1949 — Page 2

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sles in racing. He said no plans had been) installed on Over in 1902 made yet to provide for gmer-iags, : if ou i a othing ncy mining of coal and that for metal fins and. the entire appanw oa to the a committee would | ratus is operated by a motor. l awner _over operation of Churchill rely entirely on supplies atbve} The fins flag gently when the M . take ved the track Wray E. Fleming ground. {current is on thereby discouraging r. Hoyas Bd Eo oi] ‘sr. Fleming, general counsel | 1 Believe tnere 1s enough coalfpigeons from roosting, love for the Ken-| of the Hoosler State above ground to take care of the| Result: No pigeons and subse-

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Col. Matt Winn |INamed Chairman

State Coal

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Press As- ” ! immediate situation,” Mr, Hutson] quent damage. sociation, was appointed Indl- | ,.q «f we get to the point

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a _iwhere it seems necessary to ne- | diamond jubilee; March of Dimes ganisige 6. gotiate for a new supply from the K of C Schedules For a while, 3 group ©f| throp Ave. served as state by | mines, we will have to take it up Meeting on Oct. 16 purchased for $40,-| ministrator of the War Savings

at that time.” The Governor said as far as

y Can Device Rid City of Pigeons?

* | A Richmond inventor has ofBp aim i fered to save Indianapolis, Mar‘jon County and the gate Siu : sands of dollars in b upBoard to Co-ordinate keep — not to mention improve-| Dwi i ‘ment in sanitary conditions — by indling Fuel Piles de-pigeonizing public buildings. In a letter to the Works Boa today, Theodore Garrett of Rich- cguse of his heal Governor commented. {mond said he had perfected a th and at thai A survey is now being com- device which has successfully rid pleted, Mr. Hutson said, to locate Richmond of the ‘singed pests. His coal stockpiles. He said the com- letter bore the indorsement of a mittee would attempt to put Richmond banker, the postmaster, needy cities and institutions in|city engineer and other prominent touch with these supplies, but citizens. : could not undertake to provide - The de-pigeonizer, Mr. Garret

transport ati : Assure delivery. explained, consists of brass rods late fs of public build-| served as Democratic C

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Derby running during both World Wars. When racing was banned by the government durng the last war, Col. Winn declared that the 1945 Derby would be run if hostilities ended in by the last day of December. = The Derby was run, Joore than one month later than Shaduled, but the chain was not en.

The colonel, a native of Louisville, took over management of the track when it looked like the doors might be closed permanently, One of his first batat the track came with the estern Turf Association, which fad refused him fair dates for , meeting in 1003. promptly called toother track owners they had been treated badly by the Western Association and formed the American Turf

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His next battle over the track came in 1908, when the city of Louisville said that bookmaking, the only form of wagering at the Downs at that time, was illegal. The rotund colonel got out the Kentucky statutes and found that parf-mutuel betting was legal In the Bluegrass State.

He bought six old French parimutuel machines and continued wagering at the track. Col. Winn also battled to keep running in 1918 when criticism from a Louis-

discontinued for the the war, - Winn raised potatoes in auctioned them off He gave the pro-

lonel was born June 30, Louisville. He attended ¢ school until he was 14 went to Bryant and Business School, from he was graduated in 1876. first job was as assistant

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with 12 years of grocery business ‘behind him, he entered the talloring trade, about which" he knew nothing. The colonel took over the track after Charlie Price, former secre-

to buy it and save the Derby. Col. Winn said he knew nothing about operation of a race track. But he took over on a part time

he could make a success of racing. prises were not limited to the

managed 10 other race tracks, in-

of the Downs since 1902.

the board at Empire City. Never Bet on Horses Col. Winn never placed a wager

any member of his family or his household staff from offering a tip. That rule extended also to all officials of tracks with which he was connected. Col. Winn married Miss Mary Doyle in 1889 and she died In 1902. The couple had 10 children,

and nine daughters, four of whom survive the colonel. In latter years the colonel lived in an apartment located under the grandstand at Churchill Downs. The apartment consists of five bedrooms, a large dining room, living room, modern kitchen, & den and six baths. An elderly couple served as his valet and cook. Those who: knew the colonel intimately #aid his greatest hobby was his first love--racing. Many pictured Col. Winn as the Rrqaluonil JeUtATT) Sentle‘man with a broad-brimmed hat,

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clerk in a grocery store. Then,!

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basis, retaining his tailoring business for a year until he saw thatition, Gov. Shricker said: i

cluding Empire City, Juarez, Mex- : 000t ico- City, Laurel, Douglas Park, Installs 100, h Latonia, Lexington, Lincoln Water Meter Fields, Fairmount and Washing-| ton Park. He had been president| ,,,,04 another milestone today

He was executive director at i was installed at the home of DaLincoln Fields and chalrman of|q C. Hammer, 4501 Farrington |

on a horse after he directed his { . dential water meters currently first Derby in 1903. He stopped company. A total of 92,314 resi-’

one son who dled In Infancy\mokyo Rose, appears before Fed-

string tie, white vest and goatee, ing plant, often called “a hodgebut they were wrong. He looked podge with a soul”—the plant like what he was—a Righly suc-ithat Col. Winn built.

State institutions are concerned,

to another before attempting to operations with the striking) UMW. Utilities Shutdown Averted A complete shutdown of utili-|

tion, Mr. Hutson said.

Monday.

“We have no way of knowing|

Downs, Since 1904 he owned or ment of the strike.”

The Indianapolis Water Co.

when the 100,000th water meter,

Bt. The meter setter was Ralph J. Emory, a 20-year employee of the

are in service in the city, The remainder are in commercial, industrial and nilscellaneous use.

SENTENCING TODAY SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6 (UP) —Mrs, Iva Toguri d'Aquino, convicted of treason as the war-time

eral Judge Michael J. Roche today for sentence.

cessful businessman, stocky, silver-haired and usually puffing a stogie. He preferred an old fashioned to a mint julep any day. Many said he was a double for the late Guy Kibbee. Second to his love for racing was his fondneas for bridge. Col. Winn made Churchill Downs and the Derby what it is today, the nation's most colorful jand traditional-laden sporting |classic. Ever-increasing crowds have forced additions to the rac-

formed Oct. 18 at the Knights,

the State probably would con-|., > sider shifting supplies from one} °1 Columbus Hall, 13th and Dela

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[ported that a union mine ownediat a luncheon of the Indianapby the city of Washington would olis Optimists Club tomorrow in start operations again today or the Severin Hotel, |

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Once started, his racing enter- what the future holds, We can guarding an office of the strike- or in government service. He was only hope it holds an early settle- bound Holmes Electric Protec-/born in St. Louis, on June 30,|school classmate, Irma Protzman, tive Alarm Service today, over-| 1903, and was educated ,in the(in 1929. They had four children, turned two parked automobiles schools of his home town. {and set one on fire. ! He received his law degree from'Sally.

Robert Hannegan Dies at Age of 46

Former Democratic

Natidnal Chairman (Continued From Page One)

time was ordered to take a years 1309 Hartford St., suffered a frac-! rest. - :

Put Truman In

Mr, Hannegan was also a for-/in which his car traveled drivermer chairman of the Democratic jess for a block after he had been {National Committee to which thrown from the driver's seat. ti post he was appointed by the President Roosevelt. He hairman

Hannegan was Commis- car swerved around the corner

sioner of Internal Revenue and a St. Louis attorney when he was picked by the late President| nto 8 pole. {Roosevelt in 1944 to the fourth-

went the accident and at first believed smoothly. At the national Demo-|it was a hit-run case. They gave feratic convention in June, 1944, chase to the car only to find it Major degree ceremonies of the ni, yannegan master-minded the driverless after it crashed. Mr.

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Three Hoosiers are dead today] and an elderly Indianapolis man| was fighting for his life in Gen-| eral Hospital as the result of traffic mishaps on rain-drenched, slippery highways and streets. William Joseph Dudley, 73, of

tured skull and other critical injuries in a freak accident at Meridian and South S8ts., last night

Police said Mr, Dudley apparently was driving south on Merid-

Charles Bowman, 41, of 1313 Woodlawn Ave. Mr. Dudley's

after the impact and continued west on South St. until it crashed

Police Witness Crash Police in a patrol car witnessed

ian St., when his car collided with To thé rods are attached until Ne resigned in Nh > an automobile operated by Frankfort, was killed instantly 2

Fred M. Saigh Jr, the present

crossed in front of truck driven by Glen Risk, 28, of Holton “I just caught a of her

the driver as saying, “but it was too late.” Roy Hartwell, 63, of New Cas-

| THURSDAY. OCT. 6, 1049 ' Three Hoosiers Killed | On Rain-Drenched Highway

Judge Selected

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pedestrian in ing to preside at the second De, ~anotch $a, died {der trial of Robert Austin Watts

the admitting room in Methodist Hospital after being struck by an automobile on U. 8. 40, one mile west of Greenfield. Police exonerated the driver, Orville Clock, 33, of RFD 2, Fairmount. Mrs. Emma Rock, 62, of RFD

ast night while walking on f 6, one east of Ross yd state police reported. - State police identified the driver as Delman Charles Maffit, of Ft. Wayne. He was not held.

Purse of Car Victim

is scheduled to assume jurisdic tion of the case this afternoon. Judge William F. Marshall of Rush County was named as special judge after the state and de~ fénse each struck one name a panel of three-candidates drawn up by Shelby Circuit Court Judge Harold Barger. . Judge Barger named as candie dates Judge Marshall, Judge George Long of Bartholomew [County and Judge Samuel Offutt, Hancock County. The defense struck the name of Judge and the state that of Judge Judge Marshall was notified of

Knocked down an automobile at East and Ohio Sts. early today, Mrs. Lucille Bingham, 43,

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his selection and indicated he would come to Shelbyville this |afternoon to assume charge. | The defense filed a motion for la special judge last Monday, the day before Watts was scheduled

For Watts Tri '

{nation to Mr. Truman. Party Split Open

Almost all of Mr. Hannegan’'s the St. Louis University Law| Pickets overpowered police career was spent either in politics School in 1925.

section. General said his condition was critical.

{Knights of Columbus will be Per-,oping scenes maneuvers which/Dudley had been thrown out andjof 13 N. Alabama St, was only|s go to trial again for the gave the vice presidential nomi-|had rolled to the curb at the inter-|slightly hurt but someone stole November, 1947 slaying of Ine her purse and $683 while witnesses jjanapolis housewife Mary Lois Hospital physicians were picking her up. minin, | Police said Mrs. Bingham was BE I ape §|bers are invited to attend. | That 1944 convention brought/He has not regained conscious-|struck by a car operated oy age, first trial, was “biased A [the long-smouldering party splitiness since the accident. {between conservative and

|Burney. The motion charged Barger, who presided st

George E. Bunch, 25, of 719 N.\and prejudiced.”

left-| , Noblesville school teacher, Alabama St. as she stepped from| Today the defense also filed

Hamilton County, state police re-

Oscar A. Swank, of Orleans, | Wing elements into the open. Theyre Ellen Gentry, 48, of RFD 2, the curb. When she fell to thespecial bills of exception to seven

ties in Washington, Ind. was|executive general manager o averted through State interven-ithe International Dairy Exposi-

He re-|tion, will preview the exposition |Y®ars | P po {congressional campaign. Mr. Han-| truck at Roads 13 and 37 in Pital for treatment.

negan's troubles multiplied. In the 1048 election, Republi-| ported. | cans captured not only the House| Police said Mrs. Gentry appar-

{fourth-term campaign was suc- street she dropped her purse but of Judge Barger’'s decisions d 4 blesville, was killed instant! ge Bargers decisions de{cessful, but in the succeeding two Noplca when she alighted a she believed police had it when|livered last Monday. In each of leading up to the 1946!3 pus and walked in front of a *N® Was taken to General Hos-the seven instances Judge Bar.

{ger overruled defense motions.

At the hospital, however, it was| It was expected that a new discovered that investigating offi-/trial date would be set after cers had not seen the purse.

BANDITS ROB CAFE TERRE HAUTE, Oct. 8 (UP)|js scheduled to preside Monday : {—Authorities widened a searchiat a habeas corpus hearing seekMr. Hannegan married a high today for two youthful bandits ing Watts’ release from jail. This who held up cafe owner Joseph action, which charges Watts is Thomas at gun point just outside being held illegally, is a separate

Judge Marshall assumes jurise diction of the case today. Meanwhile, Judge Barger still

Patricia, Robert Jr, William and |the city limits here yesterday and|civil suit apart from the trial iproper.

escaped with $700.

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