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FINAL HOME

Tear Gas Disrupts Station 8 Hours After

Police Flee

One Court Suspends for Time; Autoists Pay Fines and Then Run to Get Air Pockets of tear gas continued to interrupt work at the Indianapolis Police Station late today, almost eight hours “after a tear gas bomb accidentally exploded in the basement of the station at 30 S. Alabama St., causing choking police-

men to flee to the exits.

Judge Alex Clark was forced to recess Municipal Court 66-year age limit law was

4 at one time, when 12 wit-| nesses in a cutting scrape were unable to testify through gasps and tears. He resumed court in a few minutes but postponed all cases requiring lengthy testimony. The cafeteria court, where motorists pay traffic stickers, said it was collecting more fines and fewer gripes than at any time in history. Motorists, they said, were “paying and running” instead of making the normal volume of complaints. Prosecutor Moves The city prosecutor moved his office from the fume-filled second floor to the first-floor press room. One of the staff remained on duty to answer the phone, working with big tears in his eyes, Workers in the probation office on the same floor had to suspend operations for the morning. In the property room, where the bomb exploded at 5 a. m., workers remained on the job but wore gas masks. The bomb was accidentally set off at 4:58 a. m. by Tyrus Thompson, night attendant in the property room As he put a shotgun into the gun case, Mr. Thompson accidentally knocked off the tear bomb, on a ledge at the front of the case. It exploded and within seconds the fumes had spread to the farthest corners of the headquarters. . Dons Gas Mask

Firemen with gas masks were toda

called to aid in evacuating the station as the powerful fumes spread quickly over the fourstory building. A secretary in the third floor prosecutor’s office was overcome and had to be carried out. Chaos reigned for some 25 minutes until fans cleared out the worst of the fumes. It was not necessary to evacuate prisoners in the city lockup. ’ Throughout the siege, officers and a switchboard operator in the dispatcher’s office remained on duty, directing rescue work and at the same time maintaining service to the rest of the city. Fumes leaked into the office, directly over the property room where the bomb exploded, but fans and the air-conditioning system made it possible for the staff in the nerve center of the police department to stay on the job. As fumes reached his office, Lt. Irwin McClai#h sent the emergency squad to the basement and called the fire department to the station. Both emergency squad members and firemen donned gas masks to go_jnto the basement to search for Mr. Thompson. They found him safe, wearing a gas mask which he had put on immediately after the explosion. Meanwhile, other emergency squad members heard the screams of Mrs. Constance Jeffries, in the third floor prosecutor’s office. They donned gas masks and raced to her office to find her overcome.

Women Scream

Mrs. Thelma Sandsbury, matron in charge of the woman's lockup, thought the fumes were| coming in from outside and closed all windows. The gas concentrated in the section and three women prisoners began gasping and screaming for help. Mrs. Sandsbury reopened the windows and the fumes cleared out. The gas was not so strong one floor below, in the men’s lockup. There were 46 prisoners, mostly drunks from the week-end roundup, confined. The worst of the gas had cleared out in about 25 minutes, but there were still traces apparent late today. Police said the bomb was taken from stock last Wednesday, when police used tear gas to rout Joe Dodson from his home at 880 W 28th St. after the shooting of Patrolman Lester Warrenburg.

Senate Group Puts Off

Decision on Swaim

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UP) —The Senate Judiciary Committee today deferred until! January action on the nominations of 19 new Federal District and Circuit Court judges Saturday by President Truman for confirmation. Among them was-the name of Nathan H. S8waim of Indianapolis, appointed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago.

Terrific Traffic

NEWTON, Ia. Oct. 17 (UP)—A charge of drunken driving was lodged against. Homer H. Hanson, 49, Des Moines, after motorists

complained to police that he was

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Reinstatement 0f 28 Teachers Seen in Rulin

Niblack Upholds Point in Test Case Over- Age Limit Reinstatement of 28 school teachers dismissed under the

Explosion

seen today in a ruling handed down by Judge John L. Niblack in Superior Court 1.

A two-point test case brought by Charles H. Money, former George Washington High School teacher, was decided in Judge Niblack’s opinion.

Two Men, 2 Women| Money, whose contract for the current school year was not

In Critical Condition nO youl aa

Failure to turn off an openigchool Board, held in his comflame gas water heater while/piaint that his rights were viocleaning paint stains with gaso-|jated under the 1927 Teachers’ line was cited by police today as|menyre Act of the General Asthe cause of an explosion at 2340|gemply. This law fixed no retireN. Alabama St., in which four per- ment age for teachers. sons were critically burned. Second Point Cited

The four, two men and two : women, were enveloped in flames| In his second point Mr. Money yesterday afternoon as theY|contended he was covered by pro-

worked in a newly decorated base-|visions of a 1939 law effecting

4 Badly Burned In Gasoline Blast

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1949

Special Delivery Ride

With Big Steel

Sntered as Second-Class Matter at Postofice Indianapolis, Dally

ind. Issued

i'Local Option”

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Supreme Court To Scan

Rent Law

U. S. Arranges Chicago Judge Ruled

Strike Parley

President Seen Intervening if Conferences Fail WASHINGTON, Oct. 17) (UP)—Federal Mediation Di-|

lay the

At Pittsburgh, the international

wire brushes.

the water heater.

List of Injured Critically burned. were Ohmar

|W, Fenton, 54, owner of the build- J ing at the N. Alabama address;|the ousted teachers’ first arguhis wife, Norah, 52; Robert Glen-/ment. The judge held that Mr. non, 35, of 2344 N. Alabama St. [Money's tenure rights ended and Miss Marjorie Ling, 22, of/When he reached age 66.

2342 N. Alabama St. Mr, Fenton and Mr. Glennon both underwent surgery at General Hospital. Their conditions were reported today as ‘‘extremely critical.” The two Women were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital where their condition was reported as critical

y. Neighbors said the four victims had painted the apartment earlier Sunday and had returned late in

spots. Fire Department officials

the concrete floor. Run From Building

by the water heater pilot light, neighbors -told. police, the four victims ran from the building with their clothing aflame. Mr. Fentons’ clothing was virtually

ment apartment with gasoline and non-tenure teachers which re-

Police sald the|quired the school board to serve gasoline fumes were ignited bY|written notice by May 1 that a

the afternoon to clean paintition until last spring.” He became

said gasoline, in open pans and said, with an indefinite contract, buckets, was being used to scrub|in 1928.

When the fumes were ignited notify him that his contract would

teacher's contract would .not be

renewed for the following school year. Judge Niblack ruled against

The judge, however, upheld the plaintiff's secomd portion of his complaint when he ruled the school board violated the law in not notifying the plaintiff by May 1 that his contract would not be renewed.

Began Teaching in 1916

Mr. Money, the court observed, began teaching in Indianapolis public schools in 1916 and “continued to do so without interrup-

a permanent teacher, the court

The court held the school board was la error because it did not

not be renewed until May 25 of this year, 4 Fewer than half of the 28 teachers ousted by the school board action might possibly

headquarters of the steelworkers union said it had received no invitation to the Ching conferences. Mr. Ching was to meet with

Sheet and Tube Co., today in a similar conference. Mr. Ching’s announcement coincided with reports from informed sources that President Truman may take a personal hand in

representatives of the Youngstown | ——

Congress Delegated Its Powers Illegally

States Given Unbridled Discretion, Jurist Said in Eviction Suit Decision WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UP)—The Supreme Court

today agreed to review the constitutionality of the present rent control law.

Two federal judges have issued opposite opinions on the

rector Cyrus S. Ching an.| question.

nounced today that he will| _ meet with spokesmen for the U. 8. Steel Corp. in New York Wednesday to try to

groundwork for a settlement of the steel strike.

Judge Elwyn R. Shaw of Chicago ruled the law uncone _|stitutional last July 26. Ox Aug. 8 Judge Leon R. Yank« wich, Los Angeles, ruled to

- a peust Accidents Kill 8 w |the contrary. On Indiana Roads |. mms: seas oe

| Court.

oo | The suit was started by Hous« Head On Crash Fatal |ing Expediter Tighe E. Woods in To Clark County Man an effort to keep Shoreline Co-

sme —— ————— ative ) - Photos, Page {Operative Apartments, Inc. from

{evicting tenants. Highway accidents took the

Less than 65 per cent of the lives of eight Hoosiers yesterday.|Shoreline stockholders lived in Emmett Bowlers, 53, Nab b| the apartments. Therefore, under (Clark County), died when the rent control regulations tenants

blown from his body, neighbors benefit as the result of today’s said, and the others rolled in the|ruling in Mr. Money's suit. hallway and on the ground out- * The others, however, will derive side to smother the flames. no benefits from the ruling since The Fire Department rescue|it was learned that they filed squad gave first aid at the scene. resignations with the school board The fire, largely gasoline fumes, following receipt of the May 25 was quickly extinguished. letter.

Dailey Replies ue hioms covaes To Watts’ Plea

. -. Section in 16 Hours BALTIMORE, Oct. 17 (UP)— A mile-long section of BaltiSeeks Oral Argument more’s main street got a faceIn Move for Release liitting in exactly 16 hours yes-

terday. Prosecutor George S. Dailey to- i day said he had requested oral The repaving of Baltimore argument on a defense motion to Street from Calvert Street to free Robert Austin Watts on Fremont Avenue was done by grounds that he was illegally in-|365 employees of seven contractdicted v ors in less than a days’ time to Mr. Dailey said he has mailed Teduce interruption to traffic to| a brief to Special Judge William|a minimum, Public Works Di-| F.- Marshall in Shelby County|rector Paul L. Holland said. Circuit Court, in reply to a de-| Mr. Holland said the job ordifense brief filed last Thursday.|narily ‘would have taken one The defense brief contended contractor several ~ weeks and Watts’ indictment for the Novem-|would have snarled traffic greatber, 1947 . slaying of Mrs. Lois|ly in the downtown sectipn. Burney was ‘illegal because . = = } Negroes were “systematically ex-| MORE THAN 80 tfucks, 10 cluded” from the Marion County paving machines and 20 rollers Grand Jury.” were used to cover the 25,000 The defense will be given an op-{square yards of street with 3500

{six times, fired wildly at two am-| Army during World War 1.

portunity to file a reply to the|tons of rock and asphalt.

Photo by Bill Oates, Times Staff Photographer.

I's a "special delivery" as Postman Wilbur O. Holle, 2237 S. Keystone Ave., gives young Mikie Gasaway, 1609 Edwards St., a ride in the mail sack. Residents in University Heights say Postman Holle, who gives candy to the dogs and rides to the youngsters, has a "Pied Piper" following as he delivers mail in the neighborhood.

settlement of the 17-day-old steel strike. Up to White House Mr. Ching said he personally knew of no such plans but emphasized that any such action would be determined by the White House. There were strong indications, meanwhile, that the government will move back into the coal dispute if no progress is reported a} contract negotiations which are éduled to resume tomorrow. “What happens in the coal situation,” Mr. Ching said, “will de-

Landlord Goes Berserk, Kills Tenant's Wife and Self

“Father of Murdered WAT Runs Amok,

pend on what takes place at the meeting at White Sulphur Springs.” Informed sources reported that the government is ready to move back into the coal dispute if the

White. parallel negotiations with South-

Wounds Ex-Paratrooper and Sick Baby

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. 17 (UP)—An informed student of

ern operators at Bluefield—con[tinue to get nowhere. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman

world affairs whose wife thought he was “pretty much crazy” flew of the President's Council of Ecointo a rage when a tenant asked for more heat and killed the nomic Advisers, said that “if no

tenant's wife and himself, Officers said Francis E. Cheney, 53, became enraged ‘without warning” when Floyd Greer, 25, his tenant, asked him to turn on the heat because his’ baby was, sick. They speculated that the|the boundary of the Birmingham man snapped because he himself Souther College campus, said had been sick. {Cheney was. “well-informed” on Cheney was a veteran of both economic and military matters, world wars. He volunteered for especially on Russia. World War II after his daughter,] “He read every book I have a WAC, was murdered. land was checking two or three Cheney first wounded Greer, an|books out of the library each ex-paratrooper, and the man’s 11-|week,” Judge Parker said. “He montn-old baby who was in his!liked to discuss Russia and our father’s arms. |chances of getting into another He then chased Mrs. Greer, 22, war.” into her bedroom closet, shot her| Cheney was a captain in the He bulance drivers coming- up the enlisted in the . Navy during Chency steps and committed sui- World War II after his daughcide. ter, WAC Lt. Naomi Kathleen The shooting occurred back of Cheney, was murdered while stathe McCoy Memorial Methodist tioned at Sioux Falls, 8. D. He Church while Sunday School was told Navy recruiting officers that in progress yesterday. he “wanted to fill a niche left Kept Guns in House vacant” by his daughter's death. Mrs. Cheney, 51, told Police ~~ Served on Midway Capt. Marcus Hancock that her Cheney, a post office employee husband was “pretty much crazy nere, returned only recently from and I was afraid something like two weeks Navy Reserve duty this would happen.” She said he gpoarq the carrier Midway, which kept two guns and some dynamite jag visited by Secretary of Dein the house. fense Louis M. Johnson. He was Recorder's Court Judge Ralph on, ted to have been correspond-

Parker, who lives across the ing with Mr. Johnson for a postreet from the Cheney home onigjtion in the defense secretary's

state brief, Mr. Dailey said, after

dowh his decision.

Faces Rearrest P + F Should Judge Marshall sustain a ron aces this defense plea, the indictment » against Watts would be dissolved. Murder Charge Filed However, he would probably be ’ arrested for immediate reindict;, In Man's Death ment by the present Grand | Jury, Revocation of the liquor license which has one Negro member. Cedar Inn Tavern, scene Shoulq She judge overile the Te Saturday night brawl in motion, Prosecutor Dailey willjol 2 y seek immediate arraignment of|which a bartender shot and killed Watts and a date for trial. a patron; loomed today as excise Watts was convicted and sen-|iax police and city officers probed tenced to die for the shooting ofithe slaying. Mrs. Burney but was granted a| Meanwhile, John O. Jellison, 250 new trial by the U. S. Supreme/ws Regent St, was formally Court. charged with the murder of How-

Tucker’s Second

st. yi Ty Police Chief Rouls said Ttords 1 1 in the case had been turn Hearing Begins over to Alcoholic Beverage ComCHICAGO, Oct. 17 (UP)—|mission authorities along with Preston Tucker and seven asso-/records involving other. disorders ciates began trial for the second|in the Cedar’ Inn Tavern. time today on charges of mail| Commissioner Glenn Markland

vestment rules in their unsuccess-|consider the case tomorrow. ful venture to give drivers “the| It was understood that excise car of tomorrow today.” ) As the trial restarted, witnesses Tavern today investigating the and attorneys were briefed thor-/Saturday night disturbance as oughly not to mention before the'well as past complaints. court that one defendant once served time in an Illinois peni-|regard to the issuance of retail tentiary. liquor license, It was such a statement, made} “In no case by a government witness in ref-/permit be issued or stand unreerence to defendant Harold Kars-|yoked manager ten that caused Federal Districtior management thereof is not a Judge Walter J. Labuy to declare person

‘| a mistrial on grounds of a preju-|tegrity and high epuie. ar

dicial error last week. 2 ‘Stabbings Repo First order of business in the) Officers pointed out that since

cars off the highway near here with a 1914 Maxwell. : 2

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retrial was selection of a he jie. Craze 1) Tavern had been Wa Rn x 4 5 -re- scene i" NE IE Ti eed ori ia ry ee

wien ne will seek oral srsuments Beye Where Bartender Slew

ard C. Abbott, 47, of 952 S. West §

fraud and violating federal in-|indicated that the ABC might

office. During the cruise Cheney wrote extensively for the ship’s paper. Detective J. R. Norrell believed Mr. Cheney went berserk suddenly while the Greers were telling him of their baby’s illness and asking for heat. Detective Norrell said Cheney had been receiving treatment from a physician for several weeks and the “subject of being sick apparently was touchy with him.”

Partly Cloudy Tonight, Tomorrow

Moderate temperatures and partly cloudy skies over Indianapolis tonight and tomorrow will be followed by continued mild fall weather through most of the week, 3 Weatherman Paul Miller said to-

ABC Probe

y. He predicted a cold front which moved into the northwestern states from the Canadian Rockies

peratures fo the 20's, would cause only slightly cooler temperatures here later in the asl Host i Rain fell again on the Hoosier fd 3harged with Lh o Selu rday state last night. The Weather nig ying P . BuFeau sald it was not heavy enough to affect the swollen Wait 1s likely to lose its license at bash River which was expected tomorrow’s session of the ABC. to start f 1 th “There is no way on earth we|y, *co ANE HT SOx feet can crack down on all taverns ¥

John O. Jellisen . . . Bartend-

:|and bars in the city,” Chief Rouls|¢0W, flood

stage. declared Anderson led other Hoosier “We cannot anticipate trouble communities in rainfall with .66

inch this ‘morning. Indianapolis in bars until it happens and we; intend to keep right on recorded .30 and the Weir Cook

enforcing 5 jrport rain gauge registered .17 the law to the best of our ability,” a7. the chief said. Knightstown reported .21 inch.

It was indicated today that| LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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exise tax officers may conduct a| 6 a. m... 60 10a. m... 66 probe of recent digo in tav-] 7a. m... 60 11a m..; 67 jerus and present its to 8am... 81 13 (Noon): 87 the ABC prosecutor, fam, 64 1p veo 88

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significant progress toward settlement of the steel and coal strikes is made this week, the problem will be coming into its crucial stage.” Sees § Million Idle At the same time, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer esti-

Other labor developments: ONE: Some 20,000 workers walked off their jobs at nine plants of the Aluminum Company of America today, boosting the nation’s strike-idle to well over 1.5 million. TWO: Officials of the AFL spurned suggestions that they pool the AFL’s resources with those of the CIO and the United Mine Workers to set up a join “strike fund.” § THREE: A United Press survey showed that the cost of the steel and coal walkouts in industrial and transportation revenues has mounted to more than $600 million. Railroads have been forced to lay off 92,000 workers. In the automobile industry, 8500 are idle.

Walkout Ended At U. S. Rubber

Wage Dispute To Be Arbitrated

The 11-day walkout of 1100 workers at the U. 8. Rubber Co. plant here ended today. The workers decided at a union meeting today to return to their jobs on the 3 p. m. shift, and to turn their dispute over to grievance procedure set up in their contract. John O'Neal, president of Local 110, United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America, CIO, said the grievance procedure calls for arbitration. The dispute arose over nine jobs which were reclassified from men's to women’s hourly rates.

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car he was driving struck an-| could not be evicted in order to other car head-on in Ind. 62, 8ive stockholders occupancy.

north of Charlestown. Three) other persons were injured. { The injured, none of them in serious condition, were Mr, and Mrs. John W. Selig, of near Lexington, and Hillard Lush, 41, R. R. 1 Nabb, driver of the other car. As he lay in Ind. 45, north of Chrisney in Spencer County, Leonard Brashears, 38, Gentryville, was killed when he was struck by a car driven by Herman J. Durbin, 21,~Tucia, Ky. Car Skids, Upsets Investigators said they were unable to determine why Mr. Brashears was lying in the road. Mrs. Genevieve E. Hayden, 37, Huntington, was killed one mile west of Huntington, when: her car skidded and overturned in loose gravel on a country road. She was thrown out of the car, police

Illegally Delegated

Judge Shaw held that Congress illegally delegated its powers when it included the ¢so-called “local option” section in the law, This permits decontrol of rents upon the vote of a state legisla ture or even of a local governing body if the state governor approves. “There is a grant of unbridaled administrative descretion subject neither to reason nor findings of fact,” the decision said. Judge Shaw said Congress could never have passed the law at all without these local option provisions. Therefore, he held the whole act unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also held today that Otis & Co. Cleveland financiers, cannot block further government investigation of a

extra day's vacation was added

said. lawsuit the firm filed over a Mrs. Dorothy Caterall, 32, Kaiser-Frazer stock deal in 1948, South Bend, died in a collision of two cars at the intersection of Pre-Halloween Vandals

U. 8. Highways 6 and 35 in La- Sought by Police

Porte County. Spooks were traveling early in

A car driven by Mrs. Caterall's husband, George, struck a car|the 500 and 600 blocks of 8.

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: - to Halloween pranksters. mated that 5 million workers will| Seek to Pick Ju 5 Fred Hunter, of 611 8. Sherman be idle and thousands of small| r., reported garbage cans turned businessmen forced to close if the| steel pension dispute continues)

th Bee In Robbery Case

over and destroyed and wires stretched across the alley at seve eral points. Police said the gare bage cans had been crushed and bottoms knocked out and that the wires, dangerous to traffie, : had been stretched across at | Members Questioned [about one-foot levels along the

| A panel of 50 prospective jurors| alley: |was being questioned today in| ye eee. |Criminal Court 2 in efforts to Judy's 2d Spy Trial select a jury to hear a case! . |charging a young local counte| PY! Off Until Nov. 9 {with robbery and auto banditry. | NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UP)— Mary Lois Bergin, 24, and her |The espionage conspiracy trial of husband, Martin, 26, of 1810 N. Judith Coplon; 28-year-old former Rural St, are accused of being government girl, and Valentin A, part of a trio which robbed the|GuUDitchev, Russian engineer, tos Hoosier Pal Tavern, 2002 W. 10th |[42Y Was set for Nov. 9, St., of $30 June 7 and then flee-|, Federal Judge Vincent L. Leis ing in a rented car. ; |bell set the date on a request by Robert Clawson, 26, of 1065 N. Lc 8overnment and told Mr, Livingstone Ave. third member | CuPitchev, who has refused to involved in the case, has been B00 a court-appointed counsel, granted a separate trial. No date] © pe ready thes, Miss Coplon did has been set for his case. not 2p peat al todays hearing. Bergin is represented by Lowell uled to start t gina a schede B. Storey, but his wife, who told |poned Fark +h as poste the court she is without funds, is | judges. Ehoriage: of being defended by Thurl Rhodes, |

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tody several hours after the al-! The Vatica er n radio has begun leged holdup as they sought tol expanding its facilities for a.

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cal Workers, reported. ‘ ] ®¢ When Norway defeated Black Charley Free communism at the polls, In Little Earl Shooting there was more to the story FAIRFIELD, Il, Oct. 17 (UP) than the election figures —“Black Charley” Harris was| Indicated. freed again today on charges that ® That story has been un he was involved in an apparent covered by Marquis Childs, plot to wipe out members of the Times columnist, who is notorious Shelton ¢lan. now making a tour of EuCharges of assault with attempt rope to report the sigto murder against the 53-year-old nificant trends of current ex-convict were dropped when news, “Little Earl” Shelton, the fourth| Mr. Childs tells you about member of the family to be shot it in an exclusive article from ambush, failed to appear at in The Times tomorrow. a preliminary hearing. Similar

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