Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1949 — Page 1
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"The Indianapolis Times
FORECAST: Fajr, little change in temperature through tomorrow. Low tonight, 38; high tomorrow, 70. Sunday outlook: Cloudy and mild.
60th YEAR —NUMBER 230
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1949
Notered as Second-Class Matter at Postofice Issued Daily
Indianapolis. Ind.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Holdup Roundup Bares Organized System of Parking Meter Thefts
Police Find 12 Coin Boxes Concealed In Auto Used by Seized Suspects Police today cracked wide open an organized system of looting Indianapolis parking meters. Arrest of two men believed to be the gunmen respon
sible for a series of holdups meter looting. Police seized the suspects 10th St., and Robert Sauter, 41, who gave the Colonial Hotel and 1007 W. Morris St. as his address, at 3:30 a. m. today in the Gasteria At 726 N. Delaware St. Attendant Gives Tip A station attendant who became suspicious of the large amount of silver the pair exchanged for bills gave police the tip that led to the arrests. Search of the Yell-O taxi which Bhort drives led to the discovery of the parking meter tieup. In addition to two gums, a quantity of burglar equipment and $70 in change, searchers found 12 meter coin boxes hidden under a rear tire and a tobacco! can full of about 1000 keys. City Controller Phillip Bayt, hurriedly summoned by police, identified the boxes as those discovered missing from meters on collection day a week ago today. He said it would be impossible; to estimate how much the looters got from the boxes, Find Machine Later police disovered a keymaking machine, complete with a| code book with instructions for making keys to fit parking meters, in Slauter’s room. Using either keys or lock picks, the looters opened meters, police and Mr. Bayt said. In some cases they removed the coin box and
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night stickup of the Barton Hotel and a series of lunchroom robberies this week. ,
Victim Faints A few minutes after their ar-
Afr Liner restaurant, 729 N. Iliinois St. The clerk there identified Slauter as the man who held him up and threatened him last Tuesday, firing one shot at a cabbie| who tried to thwart the holdup. The employee fainted after the identification. Another clerk at the White Castle, 620 N. Illinois St., tentatively identified Slauter as the man who held him up last week. Police arrested both Slauter
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‘The Big Wheel’ To Have World
Premiere Here
“THE BIG WHEEL,” auto race drama which was filmed in part at the Indianapolis Speedway during the past summer, will have its wofld premiere at Loew’s Theater here Nov. 10. The film stars Mickey Rooney, and is produced by Mr. Rooney and Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion of the world.
a = » CO - PRODUCER Dempsey is slated to appear here in connection with the film. The cast of the film includes, in addition to Mr. Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Hatcher, Michael O'Shea, Spring Byington, Lina Romay, Hattie McDaniel and Monte Blue.
‘Hatchet’. Lady
| vestigating cases. Virtually every
‘| holds have not yet been worked
led to the discovery of the
, William Short, 26, of 650 E.
Times Puts You On 50-Yard Line
¢ It’s like sitting on the 50yard line when you read The Times reports of your favorite football games . . . and see the diagram pictures of dramatic. plays. © There's no doubt about the big plays . .. when you see them through the camera eye in the diagram pictures. ® For the COMPLETE story - of week-end football be sure to read . .. THE TIMES SUNDAY
Pranksters Make False Crash Call
Police Aroused
At Vandalism By VICTOR PETERSON Vicious Halloween pranks are out. A false report of a train-car wreck last night brought prompt action today from Police Chief Rouls and Sheriff Cunningham. The lives of six deputy sheriffs, an ambulance driver and a General Hospital doctor were endangered in the red light, siren-wail-ing mercy dash to the Kitley Ave. Pennsylvania Railroad crossing. Public safety was at stake as motorists scattered from the path of the emergency vehicles. There was no train, no car, no accident. \ Constant Calls This was but one report as the police radio crackled constantly last night sending law officers in-~
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third call ‘involved trouble with youth warming up for Hallow: een. The falsé train-car report capped a rising wave of vandalism forcing a police crackdown. “This is going to stop. We redoubled our efforts ‘oday to halt this increase,” Chief Rouls said. “It is no prank when the lives
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Bill Corum Heads Churchill Down
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Oct. 28 (UP) — Bill Corum, New York Journal-American sports columnist who picked the finish of the first four horses in the 1949 Kentucky Derby, today was named to succeed the late Col. Matt J. Winn as president of Churchill Downs, Selection of the New York writer and radio announcer to head famed Churchill Downs and direct the Kéntucky Derby was announced after a meeting of the boards of directors of the Downs and its controlling company, the American Turf Assoclation. The directors said details concerning salary and other affiliations and contracts Mr. Corum
out. The selection committee was authorized to confer with Mr. Corum to settle the details. Appointment of the 54-year-old native Missourian had been considered certain since last weekend. The position has been vacant
{mittee sessions and advance plan-
Teachers Told Joh Is Vital In Atomic Age
Pay Must Keep Up With Responsibility, Speakers Assert Hoosier school teachers— some 15,000 strong — today pondered the responsibility of educating future America in an atomic age. The task was shifted to their shoulders by Gov. Schricker, Dr. Andrew Holt, president of the National Education Association and others as the 96th annual
Convention photos. .Pages 5 and 9 Heck, yes, they have fun..Page§
convention of the Indiana State Teachers Association got under
way. Cadle Tabernacle was packed to capacity last night when Gertrude E. McComb, Terre Haute, retiring president, called the session to order. The opening session followed a day of busy com-
ning. “The first grade teacher is more important than the PresiSchool Bells ® a. m., General Session, Cadle Tabernacle. Committee reports until noon. 2 p. m., “Educate Youth for Family ” Francis Bruce Strain, Los Angeles . Public School specialist on family relations and sex education. P r music concert with
Mary erson, Metropolitan Opera. 7:30 p. m., Indiana State
Choral Festival. Maynard Klein,
‘Mr. Inside’ Wins Again
Miss Marie Bardash.. . . Pinch hits for "Mr. Inside."
|to ask Gov. Schricker to step
t Inewest plea before the Public
Feeney to Ask Schricker Aid In Fare Fight
Also Wants Probe Of Statement PSC Tries to ‘Save’ Utility Mayor Feeney moved today!
into Indianapolis Railways’
Service Commission for increased fares. He directed the city legal department to prepare a petition
vestigate a recent statement by PSC Chairman Hugh Abbett that the PSC is trying to “save Indianapolis Railways.” He said he had explored the possibilities of a formal demand
cided on the investigation ap-
1 Reddington informed him “there is no provision in the law for ouster proceedings against a commisisoner.” The petition will ask specifically that Gov. Schricker order the commission to grant the city more time to prepare its case against new rate increases. Corporation Counsel Ed Knight asked this week for a delay in the
Contractor Capituiates, aha PSC was promis
Gives Sovola a Knothole at ae nt Air France listed the names of ‘of
Action Prevents City-Wide Walkout By Building Sidewalk Superintendents
The G. C. Murphy Co. today averted a “walkout” of sidewalk
University of Michigan, guest conductor. “We Still Have Time for Peace,” Leland Stowe, author and commentator.
dent of the United States,” Dr. ‘Holt said in the major address of the evening. “Those teachers must be paid in accordance with their worth.”
up,” Dr. Holt continued as his audience roared approval. “But things need to look up and improve even more.” The president »f the national association deplored the fact that “thousands of teachers are still paid less than day laborers” despite their responsible jobs. “Thousands of school busses throughout the land are not fit to haul cattle and hundreds of school buildings are unfit for human habitation,” Dr. Holt asserted. He added that many things are needed in the advancement of education and advocated advanced pay for teachers as a No. 1 requirement. “Yes, education and school teaching are looking upwards . . . but it must look even higher,” Dr. Holt admonished. "Schricker Sounds Warning Gov. Schricker’s message took on a grave note. “There is a possibility of war before we meet here again,” the governor said, “and it is a challenge to every school teacher in Indiana. “Your school room should be the seat of the propaganda of Americanism. The children have a right to know what sort of government they have. “I am anxious that the children of our state respect our type of government. They should be taught respect for government
{ id w Must Improve Even More columnist complained that side- in n “Kducation and the sch oollwalk superintendents were being teaching profession arc looking| :
: Times Staffer Ed Sovola, author of Inside Indianapolis, | prompted the “negotiations.” } The Murphy Co. had neglected to provide vision panels for {the public in the barricade around the construction job at 63d St. land College Ave. 2
| But the situation was promptly 3 ns remedied when high Murphy offi- joning .clals read a recent column by Mr,
{Inside in The Times, in which the
ignored on downtown jobs. | Viewing panels for the public ;and a special knothole reserved {for Mr. Sovola were completed 3 lin the Broad Ripple ' barricade Considered Here | yesterday. Mr. Sovola is pheasant| Indiana today moved rapidly on hunting in South Dakota this|the local levels to set up emerweek, so the knothole was given gency coal rationing after Gov. {a preliminary inspection and ap-/gchricker called for such steps |proval by Miss Marie Bardash,|yesterday. ~ {1906 Westview Dr, a Murphy| Three cities inaugurated emer{employee. gency programs following the | “You have awakened in us a Governor's ration request, and in {sense of responsibility to the Side-| Indianapolis Mayor Feeney was ‘walk Superintendents Association|considering a voluntary rationing {of America,” a letter from J. M.| Progress toward ending steel | Ellis, sales promotion manager of tieup indicated . . . Page 5. {the chain, pointed out to Mr. 8o- v.55: "to work with local distribu|vola. “You have made us realize|iors. !that our neglect in this particular Meanwhile, the weather man |instance is practically unpardon-|promised slightly warmer days to able. help ease the fast-dwindling sup“We have not only provided the Plies in the state. necessary vision panels to accom- 100,000 ‘Idle modate large groups of ‘superintendents,’ Re De provided| Approximately 100,000 indus{a very special knothole for your trial workers and miners were
Voluntary Setup
superintendents at construction of its new store in Broad Ripple. stressed |
exclusive use, the same being des{ignated and inscribed with your name,” Mr. Ellis’ letter said.
| “We hope our quick action in |
providing the necessary conveni-|
{ences . {of omission and that we will not {be listed among those termed un{fair to the Sidewalk Superinten-
dents Association,” it concluded.
$100,000 Low Fee On White House Job
since last Oct. 6, when Col. Winn|and laws. We fail when it comes| WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UP)
idle in the state as a result of basic steel and coal strikes. State Labor Commissioner Thomas R. Hutson scheduled a
hearing set for next Tuesday. The commission denied it.
Fear 48 Aboard Airliner Dead In Fiery Crash On Azores Peak
One Searching Party Reports All Killed; U. S. Version Differs
11 Americans, Boxer Marcel Cerdan And French Concert Violinist Apoard
BULLETIN WIESBADEN, Germany, Oct. 28 (UP)—The U. 8. Air Force 7th Air-Sea Rescue Detachment at Lagens Air Base, the Azores, reported tonight that a rescue party reached the wreckage of the Air France Constellation and found an unspecified number of survivors.
The report, relayed to U. 8. Air Force headquarters here, conflicted with a report by a rescue team to Air France that it had
found no survivors.
SANTA MARIA, Azores, Oct. 28 (UP)—An Air France
mountain peak today, killing
also asking the Governor to in-| Constellation bound for New York crashed into an Azores
all 48 persons aboard.
The dead included 11 Americans and Boxer Marcel
Cerdan.
The French trans-Atlantic liner crashed in flames on
that Mr. Abbett be fired. He de- Mt, Algarvia on St. Michael proach when City Attorney Island early today. Michae
The crash occurred after
linist on her way to appear Carnegie Hall in New York, and Cerdan’s French manager, Jo
the plane radioed it had sighted] “oD8man
the Santa Maria Airport and would land in five minutes. A rescue squad reached the wreckage of the Constellation late today. It reported that the big four-engined ship was destroyed and there were no survivors. 37 Passengers Abuard Aboard the plane were 11 passengers besides the Americans
Mayor Feeney said his blast| Were 16 French, two Canadians,
at the PSC was prompted by a
0 flways. The study is being cor jointly by PSC engl neers and representatives of the utility. 3 In the interview, Mr. Abbett .the importance of a mass ortation system and said the ‘was g to help the city get better service “without bankrupting the utility.” Prejudgment “I don’t see how the commission can judge a case impar-| tially if some members have their minds made up before the case is heard,” Mayor Feeney said. “I think the PSC in recent years| has forgotten the purpose of pub-| lic service. They might as well] change the name to the Utility Service Commission instead of the Public Service Commission.” Mr. Knight said the actiop of! the PSC in denying the city’s mo-| tion for more time to work on the| new rate hike plea was “arbitrary and high handed.” . | “In any other case the parties| involved could ask for a change of venue or a change of judge,” Mr. Knight said. cases the public, which is the de-| fendant, doesn’t have this right.”
Ask Jap Birth Control TOKYO, Oct. 28 (UP) — The! Public Population Council, a, group appointed by the cabinet, today urged the Japanese government to set up ‘nationwide birth control and marriage guidance stations to help solve Japan's critical overpopulation.
ORDERS THOMAS TRIAL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UP) —Federal Judge Alexander Holt-
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meeting today with United Mine | Workers officials here .to urge
Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.) be
- . Will atone for our sin|,,,.o" emergency coal production tried on Nov. 7 on charges of
|to meet demands among state in-| taking salary kickbacks from his stitutions and municipal utilities) COngressional employees.
{whose |rapidly. | 0. L. Scales, president of the {Indiana Coal Trade Association, {said today that the four big |utilities in the state were “in fair shape, each with 60 days supply.” Municipal utilities ranged from
coal supplies dwindled
died at 88 after failing to rally
Fights Fare Hike
from two operations.
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—The John McShain Construction | «exhausted to fair,” he said. Gar-
| KILLED IN RAIL WRECK TEMPLE, Tex. Oct. 28 (UP)— A Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) freight train derailed early today {south of Temple, and police said
at least one man was killed.
SEEK NEW POST OFFICE WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UP)
zoff today directed that Rep. J.|
A little gray-haired lady with a red hatchet told the Public Service Commission today she will protest the Indianapolis Railways’ fare increase Monday. The woman, Mrs, B. G. Gray, 302 N. State Ave. told PSC officials she was the founder of the Carry Nation Anti-Liquor League in Indiana and was “tired of being held up by the transit firm” and seeing “booze signs on the front of busses.” Mrs. Gray, armed with her little red hatchet, was a familiar figure at state legislative sessions, campaigning against taverns and liquor bills. Assistant Public Counselor Walter Jones Jr. said he welcomed all the help he could get to -fight the latest propo transit hike.
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Miss Thelma Ballard
++.23| RUAPK. ..+-~» 9 Miss Ballard, Marion fourth grade teacher, had the edge. If |OREEKS SHOW MIGHT . 42-Degree Low ed ay worwng De Wei Editorials ve 110 Side Glaneas 10 Slecied. she Will be she Bist grads schoo] ,in history to AH ENG rose. Oct. 28 (UP) The mercury slid to 42 at 6 [a oa RO ie three F00d ........20{ Society zescill portant post. {Thousands of Greek soldiers, today in downtown Indianapolls|miles. : on Forum seleud10 SOUR - sev i9:30 The fi is it however, was backing |sailors, airmen and gendarmes after peaking at 60 yesterday at 3| The 200-foot murky wall wid : Inside Ihdpls. 9 Women's ....18| sources said the In hel Schuol SL. Some paraded past Paul, Fieldp. m. A low of 38 was predicted wae nothing but smoke, weather Prize fighter Ma ! Thdpls. seas probably will be named to | Marshal Alexander Papagos and|for tonight. _ [experts said. There were no signs| (left), and her brother, Jean Pies asthe Map 250,000 A today. The weatherman refused all re-|of fog in the city over night. red ar = Bia
mitted a low bid of $100,000 as its fee for remodeling the White House. : The estimated cost of putting the White House into habitable condition is $4,180,000, plus the fixed fee. The bids concerned only the fee. The contractor’s fixed fee must pay for such things as rent of offices, salaries and wages of central and branch office employees, manager and chief accountant and all engineering and clerical employees. :
Identify 3 in Ship Fire
TORONTO, Ontario, Oct. 28 (UP)—Three more Noronic victims were identified here today and the Ontario coroners office announced that 108 death certificates had been issued so far as a _{ result of the ship fire. None were Hoosiers. The cruise ship burned Sept. 17, killing at least 141, -
Miss Charlotte Carter
Top contenders for the presidency of the Indiana Teachers Association are pictured above
Pre-glection gossip in the ‘convention was to the effect that
he
Co. of Philadelphia today sub- | ret, Ind.,, municipal utility has| Post office department officials
already tapped high tension lines hope to decide within two weeks
w—r—— whether to allocate funds to start (Continued ug P age 5—Col. 9a new post office at New Orleans.
one Cuban, one Iranian, one Mexican, one Lebanese, one Iraqi, one
the passengers with American passports as Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kamen, New York; Mr. Silbernagel, New York; Mrs. Marie
Ryan, New York; Philip Sales,| Tel Aviv, Mrs. Margarita Sales,{
Tel Aviv; John Abbot, who gave #& Cairo address, and four others who gave Paris addresses, Edouard Ghering, Emery Komlos, Edouard Supine and Irene Sivanitch. Two passengers traveling on Canadian passports were identified as Guy Jasmin and Mrs. Rachel Jasmin, both of New York. ong the. French passengers were Ginnette Neveu, concert vio-
Violinist Booked Here Is in Crash
Ginetia Neveu Aboard
lll-Fated Constellation |
Another Simone Broche a - ber of the well-known Hennessy cognac family,
4 Americans Die
In London Crash LONDON, Oct. 28 (UP)—Four iAmericans and two Britons were
Ginette Neveu, young French| killed today when a twin-engined
- {violinist who was scheduled to In PSC rate| pear with Fabien Sevitzky and
the Azores.
Grumman am plane crashed in a thick fog at London
ithe Indianapclis Symphony next! Airport. Jan. 28 and 29, was aboard the Constellation which crashed in
Co-pilot Oscar Sivage, 33, a Californian now residing in Cal-
Traveling with Miss Neveu was| jury when he was thrown clear.
who served as her accompanist.
played the Beethoven concerto.
tinguished family in Paris.
her mother,
studied at the
international competition.
tour.
Weatherman's Prediction Warms Coal Users’ Hearts
Temperatures 4 fo 8 Degrees Above
Normal Forecast for Next Five Days
The Weather Bureau gave its full co-operation to coal conservation plans today in Indianapolis. Its forecast of sunny weather with a high of 70 this afternoon and tomorrow was only the beginning. Weather experts also predicted temperatures ranging four to eight degrees above normal for the whole state through Wednesday. The mercury is expected to LOCAL TEMPERATURES
range from 40 to 64 north and| ga. m... 42 10a. m... 58 from 44 to 71 in the southern] 74 m... 42 11 a.m... 61 portion of the state. Slightly) 8 a.m... 48 . 12 (Noon). 64 cooler weather at the beginning! 9 a. w... 54 1p. m... 67
of next week will be followed by
warming to a mild Xvel again by Svonsihility for the thick gray While downtown visibility was
her brother Jean Neveu, planist,
States for her third American
1/10 of an inch, forecastedy said, | \ndustrial plants and homeowners
cut to “lamppost to lamppost” as
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ownéd by the Superior Oil Co.
Miss Neveu was soloist with|of Los Angeles, Cal, crashed as Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestraiis was taking off en route to Nov. 6 and 7, 1948, when she! Rome.
The American embassy identi
She came from a musically dis-|fied the dead as: Her great-uncle was Charles Widor,|a vice president of the oil comfamed organist and composer,|pany. and she began musical study with
Robert Allen Jr. Los Angeles,
James M. Lewis, 40, Walnut Park, Cal, a company attorney
Making her first public appear- and partner in the Los Angeles ance at 7% years of age, she later/law firm of Caplan, Livingstone Paris Conserva- & Lewis. tory. At 15, she won the Wieniawski Grand Prize in Warsaw in|Cal.,, the pilot.
Joseph Jordan, San Fernando, Andrew Cole, Los Angeles, Cal,
She was en route to the United the radio officer. W. J. Horne, a Briton. H. Weightman, a Briton. » ® » i