Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1949 — Page 3
ere will be ey retire” ’ . ae : 0 years in Million Program | ; Designed to Increase ¢ years I'vy . Electric Power Output $qver been ‘By LARRY STILLERMAN y'd jerk my The ‘Jes in’ the Public Service Co. of In- : @iana will seek approval of a $14 'eally he help defray part of its $55 milng the wel. lion , expansion program in the: n's Just hue state ; Hearing on the petition to issue ) Bigtanes, 142,354 shares of convertible preack one of ferred stock is set for 10 a. m. 1 all have before the Public Service Comol, mission. A similar petition has ineflelds ig . been filed before the Securities Mussolini's, Exchange Commission in Washno undere n. ; afraid. 0 king of funds is the second tions are a series of steps by the utility rough the to finance its three-year expanlabor polis sion and new construction projid will have ect designed to boust electric soon. . .%, power output in the state. : vate physie Approval of $12 million .of dearmy that bentures for conversion of com- * ¢« + The mon stock was approved by the | spent for PSC last December. | their fam- Biggest expenditure in the prot the fund gram will be for $22 million irybody. It worth ot new generators at the to the past Dresser Station «t Terre Haute,
the Edwardsport station and the].
new $14 million Riverwood generating station four miles north of Noblesville, John L. Mellett, management representative of| the power company, said. Major transmission improvements will cost approximately $16 million, while other new construction will: cost $17.5 million, Mr. Mellett explained. ‘ The Edwardsport station has recently been expanded to 150,000 HP output and work is under way to increase that capacity to 240,000 HP, company officials stated.
Biggest project in company plans, the Noblesville plant, will strengthen PSCI power supply north of Indianapolis on the interconnected transmission lines. Heavy industrial users on the
Kokomo-Lafayette and New Castle-Connersville lines will benefit from the 160,000 kilowatt {213,000HP) output expected from the Noblesville station. Construction which started in March on the first unit of the
The first of two 40,000 steam-turbo generating units will be In use by early 1951 and the power will be linked to the transmission lines at that time, Mr, Mellett said. + « The new plant will replace the * small 500 kilowatt hydro-electric _/Pplant on the site. Other Public Service plants are the 10,000 kilowatt station at Kokomo and the 45,000 kilowatt gov-ernment-owned Charlestown unit leased by the Public Service Co. of Indiana. .
25 Women Answer Ad For Free Trip to Hawaii
BROCKTON, Mass, Nov. 12 (UP)—Twenty-five women today answered a newspaper ad that offered a one-way ticket to Honolulu for a “lady” who would serve
as baby-sitter on a 5500:mil plane trip. Ee The ad had been ipserted by
Chief Petty Officer Henry Lick of Brockton, now stationed in someone to escort his 20-month-oid son, Eric, from Brockton to
A friend of the couple here will begin’ interviewing the. applicants next week.
_~ Hoosier's Body Found. Along Railroad: Tracks
Lee, 38, New Albany, ‘was found “dead today along the Southérn Authotities said he apparently
lagher|still peddle policy numbers but
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By IRVING Gambling is on the run in In refuse to surrender.
joints and gaming parlors.
two years ago. Police raids and declining economic conditions have delivered a one-two “punch that has gamblers reeling. The million pool _ ticket rackets still flourish but not on the same grand scale. Signs of the times came last week when a number of amateur football parlay card operators went out of business after patrons hit in large numbers. . Plush poker parlors and crap games were pushed into neighboring counties. Horse race bookmakers closed lucrative ‘“clubrooms”. and set up telephone betting networks. Along Indiana Ave. —the street that starts with a pawn shop and ends with a hospital—hucksters
But Big Shots Give City the Breeze
Clubbed off the sidewalks by round-the-clock police raids, the gamblers went underground to operate lotteries, horse race bookie
Today they sneaked nickel and dime bets they wouldn't take
LEIBOWITZ dianapolis. But the gamblers still
|ganizations in town. They pay {off on hit numbers each week. | Football - parlay - cards, -which dare suckers to pick three or more games. correctly, are. run
{one professional.
The swank poker and dice joints that dotted the city and county moved just outside the county limits when the “heat” went on. Strictly first class operations, they are run by the top gamblers in town—out at the old Carmel Gun Club in Hamilton County and at a farmhouse near U. 8. 52 and 96th St. The two gambling joints im-
The whe control the rackets when the town was “wide open” are still on top. But their prestige among the gambling patrons has slipped—a tribute to “harassing” police raids.
The gambling business hit the skids ' three months ago when Police ‘Chief Rouls ordered all vice squad heads to “clean up the town.” « Chief Rouls has assummed top command of the racket raids and directs operations. He reports directly to Mayor Feéney;, who receives dally accounts of all vice raids. 7 A report on the gambling business, racket by racket, fintls the vice lords fishing for sucker patropdge at smaller joints in a smaller way.
Horse Race Bookies
Nine big operators control the horse race bookmaking racket in town. They cater to approximately two hundred city patrons who daily bet on the thorough-
country’s 100-odd tracks. All of the bookies pick up their daily racing forms — without which they couldn't operate — about 7 a. m. at a joint in the 800 block of 8. East St. Police raids and shortage of patrons hdve cut profits of bookies.
ENGLISH, Nov. 12. (UP)—Guy LoHeries
Eleven men control the base‘ball lottery ‘tickel racket—a chance. pick .of.. tickets at. most cigar stores and poolrooms in town,
fell from a fast west - bound freight. i
“T#¢ were riding & tank car when
Coroner Clyde Roberts said his investigation was incomplete, Mr.
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Another lottery, found only on bers racket—the poor man's way lot expressing “his ‘gambling -in-
{bank clearing numbers. Weekly pools, however, are the
(town. They are operated by or-
ported “professional” gamblers from Cincinnati ‘and Chicago to operate the actual dice, blackjack and roulette-tables. Both joints weekends. But only a few of the patrons have the money necessary to make the operations profitable for the owners,
the city’s professional gamblers. They have an assist, Police Chief Rouls says, from economic conditions. ? | “No one is going to gamble {when it will take food from his |kid’s mouth,” “he said. “That {seems to be the situation now.”
Blackmer Seeks OK ‘To-Go Back to France
| DENVER, Nov. 12 (UP) — {Henry W. Blackmer, who re{turned to -his homeland after 25 |years to. face income charges, reported today to have asked
was
{port so that -he could return to {Paris for Christmas. ° | “Mr. Blackmer fled the U. 8. a {quarter century ago during the Teapot Dome Scandal and returned from his exile in France on. Sept. 21. On Nov, 2 he re{gained his full rights as an
| American citizen after being {fined ..$20,000 for income tax | evasion.
Hie $10. million hidden. fortune, which had been tied up by the federal government, ‘has been re leased to him. |
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Arba Minnis, 48, also of New Indiana Ave. is the policy num- Library Group fo Meet Albany, told officials he and Mr, |
| Mrs. Ruth H. Hooker, WashHington, D, C., national president
Mr.’ Lee suddenly disappeared. | stint. Pay offs are made on of Special Libraries Association, {will speak at a dinner meeting |
{of the Indiana chapter at 6:30
Lee's body was returned to New| biggest NJottery operations In p. m. Wednesday in the Spink|
Arms Hotel.
Weather Fotocast
Gamblers Reeling Under You May Raids and Economic Slump
Small-Timers Hang on to Grub for Crumbs,
Views of construction work at new $14-million Riverwood generating plant, north of Noblesville.
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Ex-Envoy Fears ‘New’,
i WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UP) ~Carlton J, H. Hayes, former ambassador to Spain under Presi|dent Roosevelt, warned tonight {that human liberty is being under- | mined by its friends as well as its enemies. The “New Deals” and “Fair Deals” represent a trend toward
The Columbia University historian also lashed out at foes of federalald to education, charging that some have “perverted” the “idea of the separation of church and state.” And he attacked Russian Premier Josef Stalin as a “halforiental and half-barbarian. (who) continues to crush liberty” and as e Who is no less menacing to {the ideal of human freedom than were Hitler and Mussolini. Mr. Hayes set forth his views in a speech after receiving from {Catholic University the ‘Cardinal
And ‘Fair’ Deals |
Gibbons Medal. The medal is awarded annually to a person who has rendered “distinguished and meritorious services to the Roman Church, the . United
States of America or the Catholic
University.” Speaking on “our heritage of
freedom,” Prof. Hayes also said
ts friends has been “the rise
» . : ! | that one of the “more potent factors in the undermining of liberty loy i
Average Payment Will Be $342
Buck up.
The state bonus picture isn’t|..otorists’ |nearly as bad as it's been painted. ! Cold facts and figures show it
can be paid
Average payment according to an official estimate this week by the State Department of Veter-
Hoosier veterans.
in 1957.
ans Affairs, will-be $342.
A Veterans Administration { survey ‘shows about 367,000 1iv{by a number of amateurs and yo gHoogier veterans eligible for {the bonus. Next of kin of 10,000 {who died in seryice and possibly |- Parlor Poker and Craps another 5000 wh have died since also will benefit, On the basis of these official
of the ‘welfare state.” i - TIRE TROUBLE Tire trouble is still the most mechanical cause of difficulty on the road.
frequent
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|. June in November. . . . Pretty DePauw University
co-eds Barbara Martha Curry of Indianapolis found their light cotton dresses ideal for in
game at Greencastle. The temperature was
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TRADITION WITH A TOUCH OF TOMORROWE
‘{lion. This is the first cstimate of
are jammed - on
Both clubs are on the verge of closing because business is’ “bad.” Police don’t talk all the credit for . making things “rough” for
sary to pay off will be $131 mil-
the cost based on official figures since the bonus first became an issue four years ago. Garbled Report ) - Many veterans were discourby recent widely circulated reports that the bonus was underfinanced, ‘that the bonus tax
would bring only about $7 million}.
a year, ‘that no payment was in sight for 20 8 OF mhore. There is $622,689.71 in the bonus account now. It was paid in only by. persons who for some reason made a “final” report during the first quarter 6f the 1949-50 fiscal year. Vast bulk of the first quarter gross income tax returns are not yet in. Total gross income tax returns for this calendar year are not expected to drop a great deal Had there been no strikes, fiscal experts agree, the 1949 caléndar year returns would have hit an all-time high. There is réason to believe the final returns for 1949 will put no less than $8.5 million in the bonus fund. = ¥ | Fiscal experts, including those lof the State Chamber of Com- | merce, firmly believe estimatés of | drastic drops in the gross income {tax in the next few years are
{unrealistic. They believe even The)
{ Times figures, based on a con-
But figuring the average an{nual return on the regular gross income tax at only $50 million a | year between now and 1957, it is | apparent that the fund will con-
| tain $131 million or more when]
ithe 1857 General Assembly con- | venes. This allows for a drop of {nearly 10_per cent in gross in{come tax revenue every year be- | tween now and then. i 129,156 Have Filed
Should returns from the gross|
figures, the total amount neces-|
bored iorses WHICH 7a # HY“ the[threv State Department: fora Dh outlook, are. 100 low, 1.
income tax. -Arop. below. ..these....
| estimates, “ most tax observers | agree the tax would be unable to | meet school and other obliga- | tions, let alone a soldiers’ bonus. Director Clinton Green of the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that 129,156 bonus ap- | plications already have been re- | deived up to yesterday. Of these
proved and only 566 have been disallowed. Of those disallowed, only about two dozen so far have elected to appeal.
and approved is tHe issuance-iof an order to pay which will tell the veteran how much he is to receive when the legislature has the meney to pay off. The “order to pay,” however, will not be negotiable, Mr. Green said. Deadline for filing of bonus applications is Dec. 31, 1950.
ALEXANDRIA, La. Nov. 12 (UP)—A suspect was being held today in the bludgeon slaying of Joseph Miley, 56-year-old Portland, Ind., show owner. Police held Marshall Hart, 55, Columbus, Ga., a carnival worker. Earlier they questioned but released nine other men. Mr. Miley was beaten to death last Wednesday, A watch was found hear his body, which was discovered under a parked truck, inscribed with the name C. D. Landrum, Mr, Miley's co-worker. Mr, Miley, Mr. Landrum and Mr, Hart all were registered at a hotel here, ;
50,738 already have been. ap-|
Next step on those processed].
y |Camival Worker Held | In Slaying of Hoosier
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