Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1949 — Page 1
3 24 Hours After ‘Harmony’ Banquet By NOBLE REED Five more veteran Republican ward chairmen have beén fired by John E. (Jack) Innis, newly elected GOP
county chairman, in a purge| of party- ranks in Marion
The dismissals, announced guring the week-end, came less than’ 24 hours after tne Republican “harmony” banquet at the Claypool Hotel during which alignments were set up for 3 nite front” paign in h Pe GOP En shakeup was the second purge of party “wheel horses” in the last two months. Several weeks ago Chairman Innis fired five other veteran ward leaders from the organization in the first of a series of maneuvers to consolidate his position agaiast opposing factions. Mr. Innis was elected chairman in a fast coalition team-up ma: neuver between the forces led by James L. Bradford, former county GOP chairman, a GOP war veterans group led by Charles Brownson and the forces that put Cale Holder up as Republican State Chairman.
Wetter Included
The ward chairmen purged by! Chairman Innis during the weekend were Paul Wetter, ousted as 13th ward leader after serving in that capacity for 27 years; Ralph Moore, county auditor, fired from the 17th ward post after leading party activities many years; Leo Brown, former deputy prosecutor, ousted from the eighth ward chairmanship after many years in| that job; Fred W. Lenz, fired from, the 15th ward, and Thomas Mec-! Nulty, who was replaced as chair-' man in the 11th ward. . Appointments made in wards by Chairman Innis ‘Were Mike Morony and Luke Miller for the eighth ward; Joseph Shinn and Leland Morgan, 11th ward; Virgil Norris, attorney for Center
ward; Samuel Walker and Clarence , 17th ward, and: Hoffman, Arthur Grayson and
Norman Brennon, Wayne Township.
Hearing Delayed In Beating Case
Accused of whipping three Indianapolis policemen last Good Friday, 2 man was granted a 30day trial continuance today. Will Rogers of 48 E. LeGrande! Ave. received the postponement; when brought before Judge William D. Bain in Criminal Court 1.! Rogers is alleged to have beaten Patrolmen Francis Biemer, Oscar Fendlay and Howard Allen aay April when they attempted to arrest him on W. Washington st. | Police said Rogers has a repu-
tation as an officer beater. They gq
said he had been involved in attacks on other officers.
12 Parking Meters Found Robbed
A dozen city parking meters have been looted. . City Controller Phillip Bayt said today collectors found coin boxes on 12 of the recently-in-stalled meters missing when they made a weekly collection tour. Since the coin boxes were missIng, officials theorized the thief had a key. Mr. Bayt said new locks would be placed on all the meters by the M. H. Rhodes Co., which installed the trial meters. No charge is to be made against the city for the change.
Crash Kills Five
» . Air Force Fliers MIDLAND, Tex. Oct. 2¢ (UP) «Five Air Force fliers crashed to their deaths near here
when their B-26 instrument flight
plane failed to negotiate an emergency landing in rainy weather and
Sovola Starts ‘The Big Hunt’
® What happens to Kd Sovola as he starts “the big hunt” for pheasants in South
Dakota shouldn't even happen
60th YEAR—NUMBER 226
How About a Cleanup? Drunk Driver
‘Autuon debris . . . What can Irvi trash in S. Audubon Road near Irving Cir
East Side Leaders Urge Drive to Beautify
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1949
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Traffic Drive .Stiffer penalties were indicated for drunken drivers today with sentencing of one driver to $100 and costs, 10 days in jail and revocation of his driver's license for one year. : Two other drunken driving cases were continued as 90 motor-/
ists faced charges of speeding, reckless and drunken driving. Po-!
Masked Bandit Pair Holds Up | Market Here
2-Gun Thug Gets $290 in Robbery
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lice eontinued their traffic crack- At Barton Hotel down today. | No serious accidents were re-. “I mean business. ported, but three persons were. iy oi'q have it.”
slightly injured in 24 wrecks in-| . : a here this week-end. | With these words, heavily
Probe Ass} amt robed| 2rd and masked bandits In the state, ce yp t . the A Exact of two semi- [00K an estimated $300 to trailers seeking identification of $500 in holdups last night and twd men burned beyond recogni-'.q.y today. tion when the steel-laden trucks! mw. bandits cleaned out the crashed four miles north of Koko- .. register at White's Market, mo shortly after midnight. 1401 S. Warman Ave., early today. A big semi from Indiana Har-/ A bandit, who police believed bor roared into the rear of &n- .,,3 ne one of the pair, staged other transport which had been; a daring holdup ‘in the al parked on U. 8. 35 by its driver, ol. Barto i Lyal K. Bowman of Gary, after cu,;; 0p gonwartz, of 2007 Col-| ts lights falled. h 'lege Ave. night manager at the My. Bowman tod Police ie he market, told police the amount’ preparing io Ught are beter Istolen was undetermined. He semi smashed into his vehicle. | 104 however, that it was a One of the dead men was ten-| i able ROWAL" tatively identified as George Met-| calfe of Terre Haute, the driver Both Wore Masks of the truck: Trucking company! “It all Rappened in a few sec: officials told police he was alone onds,” Mr. Schwartz said. - “The when the truck left Indiana men hurried into the store, walkHarbor yesterday. "ling fast, and pulled guns as they! One of five motorists charged approached me. Both were wear-| with opearting under the influ- ing handkerchiefs tied over their ence of alcohol in 44 arrests|taces. made Saturday, John Jones, 42,| “Both had big guns, blue-steel of 1109 N. Sheffield Ave., pleaded revolvers. They got the money guilty to drunken driving iniang were gone before. I knew
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Entered os Second-Class Matter at Postoffice
World's Safety Valve—
UN Does OK as Police Force With Publicity Its Big Stick
Asse Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily
Serves fo Drag Issues Out in the Open; Limits Squabbles to Name Calling By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer The United Nations, which was four years old today, has done okay for a police department that can’t arrest anybody. Maybe it hasn't stopped countries from calling one another names, but at least none of the big
powers have started tossing sticks and stones. Sure, the boys are still messing around with a lot of oid arguments—the Italian colonies, Indonesia, Palestine, Korea, Greece, atomic energy control, reduction of armaments and an international police force. But just the same, United Nations has settled quite a few fights and generally has kept nations from each other's throats, This is all to the good, because legally the United Nations can’t force anybody to do anything. All the General Assembly can do is recommend or pass a resolution saying it thinks this or that nation ought to behave. The Security Council can only ask-—neot order-—the world to stop trading with a naughty nation, and although it has power to “take enforcement measures,” it hasn't -any police force to take ‘em with. ¥ a x ® " »
UNITED NATIONS makes the most of its one big weapon, though—publicity. With all those countries getting together
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Outlaw Atom War, Truman Urges UN Ee A Li In Control by Baruch Plan
Veils Suggestion That Soviet Stop Playing Lone Hand By MERRIMAN SMITH
Ri TORE, "BCH
NEW Y
\President Truman called on the peoples of the world today to be “men of good will” and come to agreement on an effective plan to outlaw {atomic warfare.
spoke to represen-
Mr. Truman tatives of all the United Na
in one big hall, it can keep all the arguments out in the open [the hilt the so-called Baruch plan where nobody can pull a fast one. The little guy can holler |for international control of atomie off his complaints about the big guy and everybody hears him |[energy. The Baruch provides and it gets in allothe papers, and even if the big guy growls |for international .
that it's a pack of lies and it’s really the little guy who's doing the persecuting, it makes the neighbors real suspicious. This is the way United Nations won its first real victory— when Russia yanked its troops cut of little Iran. Russia refused even to listen to the argument, but when the council went into all the whys and wherefores and decided to keep the question on the agenda, the Soviet’s soldiers suddenly took a powder. Then there was the case of the British and French troops overstaying their welcome in Syria and Lebanon after the war ended in 1945. The council told ’em t¢ start getting out grad-
Abaiement of Street Floods, Trash Nuisance |
“We are disturbed with the!
Judge Alex M. Clark's court and what it was all about.”
received the senténce immediately.
Nov. 1. He was charged with operating under the influence of| alcohol, drunk and reckless driv-t ing. Case Continued On similar charges, Harold Sheets, 37, of 3373 W. 10th St. was released on his own recognition when his case was continued to Dee. 1. In Judge Joseph Howard's court, William H. Hill, 1918 Holloway Ave. was fined $10.25 and costs and had his driver's licénse suspended for 30 days when he| was convicted on reckless driving charges. Speeders were the main violators in 46 arrests made in Sunday's traffic roundup. In traffic mishaps here Idole Richey, 70, of 615 Eastern Ave,
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By LARRY STILLERMAN What can be done to “clean up” Irvington? at 8 p. m. today in 5452 E. Washington St. They complain they are distressed with flooded streets and Although city officials and East 8ide political leaders have (been invited to the Shelly Jury | This wes emphasized’ by rie had + TET TUTE, Besley, East Side real estate ton Citizens, Inc. hosts for the parley. “We a : a {cize the city administration, but High Court Denies {te plan a co-operative movement Prohibition Writ {greater civic pride out here,” he ty grand jury today began hear: declared. ing evidence toward a new in-| Watts in the Mary Lois Burney physical appearance of our secslaying. tion,” he said. “Maybe a. plan one woman was sworn in shortly | before noon. It operative town-wide clean-up
To Be Considered at Meeting Tonight That will be the question discussed by East Side civic leaders basements, overloaded sewers and trash. | discussion will be non-political. - I » al man and member of the IrvingNew Watts Trial re not meeting to critiito clean up Irvington and create A newly sworn in Shelby Coun-| Hope to Fina Plan dictment against Robert Austin The grand jury of five men and |, 1, oot to fnitiate a coimmediately |
started hearing testimony of more; movement.” aan 3, dozen witnesses, i a Invited to the meeting are repe same e, Indiana Su- . preme Court- denied Indianapolis =H tatives of the Irvington attorney T. Ernest Maholm the usiness Association, right to file a writ of prohibition to stop the Shelby County in-
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uiry. - The high court held that there only two sides, the state and the defense—in the Watts case and|y
South East Civic League. Bernard Korbly,
in the matter. i Mr. Maholm contended that tel” 03 10 Join 10 the: discussion,
judge who put Watts’ case in the hands of the Shelby County grand attend. jury misinterpreted the law.
sloverturned and skidded 150 feet
{Kiwanis and Lions Clubs, Howe!" {400 Men's Club, Irvington Union|3t |Club, East Irvington Civic'League,| North Side Civic League and the
th 4 Democratic ward chairman, and his that Mr. Maholm, acting as a.,unterpart in the -Republican citizen, had no right to intercede |, 1c geott Ging, will ‘also be
Street Commissioner Tony Maio {or Chief Clerk C. D. Hudson will
received a fractured ankle and {possible internal injuries in a {crash at Emerson Ave. and E, {Michigan St. Two persons were injured when the car in which they were riding
on its top as it entered the bridge 30th St. and U. 8. 52. Treated for facial lacerations were the driver of the car, Miles Hoard, 54, of 2515 Shriver 8t., and his passenger, Mrs. Ann Harrison,
Mrs. Flora Fox of 404 Warman!
{Ave. told police she had seen a Robert Barton, 20, 630 E. 16th pig car cruising up and down in! St., was released on $100 bond front of the store. She said some-| when his case was continued to|thing had been tied over the li-
cense plates. { armed with
Another bandit,
ually—and they did. - ” ” » » . THE UNITED NATIONS had a lot more trouble with the Indonesian quarrel. It got a partial cease-fire in 1947 between the Dutch and the Indonesians, but a year later trouble broke out again. Finally, last May, the good offices committee got both countries to agree to let the Republican government start operating again. Now the Dutch and Indonesians are thrashing it
two , held up the night clerk ' guns. out’ in.a round-table conference at The . he is convinced 3nd thies Sussts at the Ean) It also took a year to get anywhere in Palestine, where oi di : the Jews and Arabs fought a junior war after the British [not be solved through ean Business left in 1948. But a smart mediator named Ralph Bunche finally |reasonablenéss “I mean business,” he said. persuaded ‘em to cease firing. Then he fixed up an armistice “No single Backi his words, agreement between Israel on one hand and Hgypt, Trans- [have ity own with = wild shot into the wall, the, jordan, Lebanon and Syria on the other, Now the General |causs the bandit confronted thie hotel clerk.) Assembly js trying to write a permanent peace. |probiems is to Ernest Kendall, 31, of 209 E. Unitéd Nitiohs even can take some credit fof ending the tidtion and North St. hurriedly scooped $200, Berlin blockade, although the thing was cleared up in some | Hé said from the cash drawer and obeyed) talks between Philip C. Jessup, U.S, delegate to United Nations, |based on 8 the bandit's command. | and Jacob Malik, of the Red delegation. After all, it was the |Fights, promotion Tl take your wallet, sir,” the] United Nations that brought them together. velopment and a system for come bandit told W. H. le : trol of war weapons. ; Muncie, a guest. It contained $75. ® e ; United Nations members hav airs. winier neta out ner purse) | PUMAN Ald Disavows Plan june aro “iter” apeh but the bandit scorned it, wen . : “lence” Mr, Truman - that i To Int 2 Strikes [mins of ae He backed to the door and ais- | © IATErVENe IN trikes the beginning of tyrauny aid, appeared, also ignoring a wallet too often, the beginning r another guest, Eugene Ridge, had| Press Secretary Says He Knows He hoped that the Covenant tossed on the lobby floor. of * . ’ . Human Rights being wy Bandit Well Dressed No Impending Moves’ by President the United Nations Human Police said the bandit was well By Uhited Press Righ Commission would cone dressed in sport clpthes and the The nation’s labor situation took a definite turn for the better|igin effective provisions for free. handkerchief covering his face today as Missouri Pacific Railroadmen and Hawaiian longshoremen
had a fancy stripe. i Another bandit, answering the same description, held up a filling, station attendant at 1429 E. Ver-| mont St. last night and took $23.
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Local Milk Suppy Wins
High Sanitation Rating Indianapolis’ milk supply has achieved a sanitation rating above 90 per cent, Dr. Gerald
handkerchief over his face and gave crypti¢ commands.
‘School Traffic Boy
Injured on Duty
A School 9 traffic patrol boy
Robert Slagel, the night man-{by the Chief Executive or the ager, told police the man wore & White House to intervene in the
ended their strikes. . President Truman also was believed preparing te intervene im the coal and steel walkouts. President Truman's press secretary said today, however, he
w of no “impending moves” Britain's Budget Cut $784 Million
| * Meanwhile, Federal Mediator| World Report, Page $
nomic aid to under - developed areas of the world. He promised American support for these ef-’ forts in line with his “point four” program. "10,000 Hear Him He said he would urge Come gress, when it reconvenes im January, to give “high priority” to proposals to ‘make additional
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Nevertheless, other government labor experts here predicted the) President would take a hand in!
the paralyzing strikes if they are
{coal and steel strikes.
The grand jury was called into special session by Shelby County. Prosecutor Harold Meloy and Circuit Court Judge Harold Barger. Mr. Meloy, who was a state attorney in the first Watts trial, was presenting witnesses, including Herschel Burney, husband of
Race Car Kills 10
was injured today in the line of duty. While
Kempf, city health officer, said| today. The recent survey of the supply was conducted by the State Board/ chums at Fulton and Ohio St,
guarding his school
RAFAELA, Argentina, Oct. 24|
(UP)-—ltalo. Bisio, driver in: a of Health under procedures rec-|Claude Perry, 14, of 231 Park 500-mile automobile race, and 10/ommended by the U. 8. Public|Ave., was struck on the head spectators were killed yesterday Health Service. Thirteen com-! when Bizio’s car left the track panies here qualified for the 90
when a trolley brace wire swung loose.. He was treated at General Hospital and sent home.
{Cyrus Ching resumed his negotia- LONDON, Oct. 2¢ (UP)—Brit{tions in New York with U, 8.ain’s Labor government today Steel Corp. representatives. lopped $784 million from its 1949- | The Missouri Pacific Railroad 1850 budget in an attempt to
expected to have some passenger head off runaway inflation and trains operating over its 11-state estore the nation’s world trade.
system by tomorrow as 5000 con-| The government's emergency ductors, engineers, trainmen and|Program touched off by. devalua« firemen ended their 45-day strike tion Was announced by Prime
technical assistance and money available - for under - developed nations. :
More than 10,000 persons heard the President. He was guarded along" his route and at the oeremony by 5000 city police, U, 8, Secret Service men and United Nations guards.
and plunged through the crowd. per cent or better rating.
the murder victim,
Expect Mercury To Hit New Low °
Chilly blasts out of the icy Northwest will end the growing season in the northern third of the state tonight, the weatherman said today. : Temperatures . ranging ' downward to 25 degrees are expected to kill vegetation in fields from & Lafayette north to Lake Michi-
gan. Light frost is “likely” in Indianapolis as skies become clear by early’ morning, the Weather Bureau said. The 34:degree low-mark weathermen forecast for tonight in Indianapolis would shatter the previous low reading of the season, 35 degrees Sept. 30. Fair skies and winds shifting gradually to a southerly direction tomorrow will bring warming to} 56 by late afternoon, f Ts | said. Thick clouds over the Hoosier capitol southward most of . the
view’ hued foliage, the mercury reached a top of 69 at 1:20 p: m.y yesterday in Indianapolis. : coolest temperature here this|:
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Meso 4 ws
over 282 grievances.
{Minister Clement R. Attlee to the
Precautions were taken to cone
Hunt for Giant Indiana Turtle Attracts Crowd
jtrol any demonstrations by the Win Wage 1 |House of Commons. trol y Most ac volv. He announced that the govern-|city's 30,000 Communists which ’ ment had decided to cut domes-| Might be staged against the Presi.
ing about $3 million in claims, beca vies ‘tic expenditures by $700 million | dent use of the recent con were settled the last two weeks. P y $ 3 | tion and sentencing of 11 Commu- ! cone
But a few remaining issues wil] 2nd defense appropriations by $84 be submitted to. arbitration, The million. nist leaders for: criminal strike cost the road $36 million] Program Highlights land the workers about $1.4 mil. Highlights included: Ilion in wages. Reduction of Britain’s imports About 2000 CIO longshoremen from the United States and other in Hawaii won wage increases dollar steas’ il billion comthat will total 21 cents per hour|Par th $1.6 billion in 1948-49.| by Mar. 1. They had struck last] Abolition of free prescriptions O'Dwyer of New York, and Am. May 1 for a 32-cent raise, At that under Britain's socialized med-| Passador Warren R. Austin, Chief time island stevedore firms of- icine program to save $28 million| U: S. delegate to the United Nafered 12 cents. i |a year. Britons henceforth will tions, spoke briefly. Meanwhile, state, federal and have to pay 14 cents for each = ‘Mrs. Biddle to Sue
leity mediators were attempting Prescription. : to avert a strike by 15,000 AFL | Abolition of subsidies on fish o Legislator Wen't M dies to save $19.6 million a year. PARIS, Oct. 2¢ (UP) — Mrs.
truck drivers that would shut off (and revision of other food subsimilk deliveries to 11 million customers in the New York met-|¥00d subsidies now total §1.3 mil-| pargaret Thompson Biddle ‘said ropolitan area. lion a year. today she wonld give the AnusThe drivers are demanding a|, NeW capital expenditures—for|irqijan legation 10 days to nove . housing, buildings, other new con- out of her house. The legation’s struction, purchase of machinery|jeqqe expired Dec. 15 1948.
$10 weekly pay boost plus com--financed - pany-fin Pension and. Wel-land the. like—would be cut. BY] aia Siac br ihe [ora wife about $392 million effective in the of Col. Anthony J Drexel ‘Biddle, former r
fare . second half of next year. American ambassador te
| spiracy. Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines, president of the | 4th session of the General Asseme« bly, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Mayor William
At Cleveland, the CIO's 54member executive board began a week-long conference to prepare _— for unmion’s national convention | TYrONe Power, Linda WHICH Spans Bext Sunday. Arrive in New York NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (UP)— Motion picture star Tyrone Power
and his wife, Linda rived
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