Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1949 — Page 1
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER
14, 1949
By-Passing of Law Covering Patol ;
has a legal right to operate|-
parking meters on a trial basis, Superior Court Judge John
L. Niblack ruled today.
Sud Nibley «union. was Mandell dowa ia a decision
in a suit for permanent injunction against the city by Attor-|
ney James M. Dawson. Mr, Dawson filed the action as a
i Niblack ruled that thie City of Indianapolis “has “fall authority under its’ general charter to install
by Attorneys Scott Ging and Arch N. Bobbitt. Counsel Edward H. Knight defended the city in the action. A plea for a temporary injunction, heard by Special Judge Otto Cox, was denied Sept. torneys for Mr. Dawson then Hea suit for a permanent injunc-
HE ecial Judlie Cox TUG. ih. db-
ens the City of Indiafapolis should have proceeded under the state law for -
Parking Facility Law need not be decided in this case.” Mayor Feeney expressed himself as being “gratified” by the court's decision. “It will make it possible to
meters,” the Mayor said. City Controller Phillip Bayt said his clerks were tabulating the amount due the Rhodes company in rentals, He had been withholding rental . . payments pending outcome of the injunction suit. Under terms of the contract the rental payments will go toward payment for the meters if the city decides to buy them.
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‘Trickle of Coal’ Flows Into City
Accidents Kil 5 On Indiana Roads
29 Injured in 50 Traffic Mishaps Here
death toll over the week-end and 20 persons were injured in 50 acicidents in the Indianapolis area. Police said none of the accidents in the city were serious but the 50 highway mishaps came near to breaking all week-end records. The 29 injured were either re-
and leased at hospitals or given first
aid at the scene, The dead: Ye Mr. and Mrs. Roy Houston, Detroit, Mich. Wendell Coble, 19, Birdseye. Mrs. Alice Kimble, 25, Delphi. Joyce Leaser, 16 months, Niles,
Mich. last night when their automobile was struck head-on by a car operated by Ernest L. Sneff, 26. of and | South Bend, on U. 8. 20 two miles north of Michigan City, state police said. The Houstons’ 3-year-old son, Roy Jr. was critically injured and was confined in a Michigan City hospital today.
Bend, escaped with lesser injuries ment in Clinic Hospital, Michigan State police said Mr. Sneff’s car apparently skidded into the path of the Houston automobile during a rainstorm.
Mr. Col was struck late yesterday on Ind, 64, near Birdseye
Degree Low Forecast Tonight
On Tap Tomorrow LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am... 38 10a m... 42 Tam... 837 1am. 44 8am... 38 12 (Noon). 48 fam... 3 ip m... 51
Indianapolis today shared in clear crisp autumn weather which stretched from the Pacific] Northwest southeastward across! the nation to the Atlantic coast. | Partially overcast skies will be accompanied by a low tempera-| ture reading of 34 tonight, and a high tomorrow afternoon of near 54, weather experts said.
ing trend beginning tomorrow would last through Wednesday. Temperatures in the Hoosier capital Saturday averaged 21 degrees above normal, "but were; only seven degrees above normal yesterday,
The mercury peaked at 56 shortly after midnight yesterday morning and skidded to a low of 36 by 6 a. m. today.
and were released after treat-/
y
Albert Willis Mr. Willis of Brooklyn, N. Y. with another ECA official was still a prisoner in in Communistcontrolled North Kored after two angry protests to Russia by the United States government. The first demand that the officials be released was made Oct. 29.
Revenge Motive For Jailing Ward
Chinese Reds Warn All Americans
By ANDREW TULLY Stall Writer WASHINGTON, "Nov, 14—The
{government - controlled Chinese Communist
press openly admits that revenge was the motive behind the arrest of Angus Ward, U. 8. Consul General at Mukden. Mr. Ward has been in a Manchurian jail for more than a month on what the State Department calls a trumped-up charge of beating a Chinese worker. In an all-out smear campaign, both newspapers and radio hail the arrest as a victory for the Chinese peop
have attacked Chinese, inciuding
State Excise
{Wholesale Co., Inc., east of Leba_{non, early yesterday morning.
Offi cials Probe
cate of ' was cheating the state of thousands of dollars of revenue. oi . They were probing reports of seven heistings of tobacco distributors and agents in the past few months. The most recent job was the burglary of $6875 worth of popu-
lar-brand c and a $950 stamping machine at the Woods
‘The burglary was the second of the Woods firm in three weeks, the excise bureau reported. More than 150 cases of cigarets have been taken in the two jobs, officers said. Lacked Meter Device Tax division officials said it was the first report they ever had of the theft of tax stamping machinery. They said, however, the machine lacked a meter device with which to stamp cigarets. But they feared the gang plagned to steal a meter to mark untaxed packs and deprive the state of revenue.
Entrance was made through a glass window of an overhead door, police said. More than $600 of the cigarets were stamped, Maurice Horwitz, of Indianapolis, vice president and
tion company, said. E. P. Davis, branch manager of
aiding police with identication of the stolen machine,
I , Fred M. Johns of Lebanon.
general manager of the distribu:
his office said.
He said that even if thieves had a meter for the Woods ma‘chine, it would be “too complicated to set up® In other burglaries being in-| vestigated, .six cases of cigarets were stolen from an Anderson distribution center recently and 33 cases were reported hijacked from a parked freight truck at an Indianapolis warehouse. Police are also questioning two teen-age suspects in Muncie who were nabbed selling cigarets at $1.25 a carton. The legal minimum for -¢artons in Indiana is
Shenyang. This account was {typical of the violent language! used in all the press attacks jon Mr. Ward. Said the Yi Pao: “In order to) {find out if his method of enslaving and oppressing the Chinese people (which he frequently used years ago when he served as U. 8. Consul at Shenyang) was still good, he stepped down from the train and beat up a porter by the! name of Yang.”
Ward had beaten up two cigaretstall keepers. and two wagon driv ers. Wen Hui: Pao in Shanghai said}
T. R: Packed
Wife on Trial in Husband's Slaying
Mrs. Myrtle Conrad, 44, of 635,
52. Selection of a jury began In| Judge Willlam D. Bain’'s court this morning. Mrs. Conrad will stand trial for first degree mur-
der. state charges she shot her husband last Mar, 15 during a
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Dispatched Atlantic To Get Mr. Perdicaris
By Seripps-
Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—All that trouble we're having with N. Noble St. today went on trial |, Chinese Communists over the arrest of our consul general in * in Criminal Court I in the pistol yuxden, Angus Ward, must be preity confusing to a bulky, slaying of her husband, Claude, mustached wraith who used to be Theodore Roosevelt.
The newspaper also charged Mr. |
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the description of an. incident at $1.89,
‘Mayor Asks End Of Varied Paving
Mayor Al Feeney today urged |that the Works Board adopt a policy of requiring’ utilities and ‘other firms to resurface - street cuts with Identical material used In original paving joba. The Mayor said such a policy would prove economical since the jase of different materials on the same streets results in early de[terioration. : “There are too many -checker~ board | t. jobs in the city i now,” the Mayor said.
a Mean Pistol
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When American Was Seize
Fleet to Tangiers Out of a Jam
When Teddy was President, he had a little fuss with a Moroni] bandit in a similar case, but he solved the probgem merely by |
being himself. % | Sta It was back in 1004, when you, couldn't fight a war without declaring it. But ‘even then there were bandits who claimed that the
_ one. afternon he and his band descended 0° a fancy man-| aan
States. Our consul didn’t over. :
[fook it, though; he sent word to’ the State Department, Well, the State Department
messed around with it for a ™
while. Then, after a couple of
| weeks of this, so happened ¢/ to mention the matter to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
All Teddy did was hit the roof,
letting out a roar that could be heard in the suburbs of Balti
had been doing all this time, and| they know an American) on was the most important kind of citizen there was, and where does this guy, the Bey,
Between roars, he ordered the Atlantic Fleet to sail for Tangier and to take along plenty of Marines. bi
His firm supplies meter stamp-
“ Prince Charlie fo Be Denied
* 40-Pound Pastry, Full of Rum as Sailor on Leave, Toc Hearty for Future Ruler of Royal Navy.
LONDON, Nov. 14 (UP)—Prince Char!
be King of Britain, celebrated party for his Playmates around cake.
cake, but probably wil: not be permitted as much as a bite of the cake itself. That's because, as one source put it, the cake is as full of rum as a sailor on shore leave. Brandy is the usual spirit chosen to flavor such cakes, but rum— the traditional Royal Navy drink.
Prince's father, now serving {aboard a destroyet at ‘Malta.
| Prince Charles Philip Arthur George played host in his nursery at Clarence. House, the home of his parents, only a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace./fi He is second only to his mother In line “of succession to the | throne.
hand to assist her son in receiving his guests. Also lending a helping hand were his two nurses, a detective and a young footman. “Other members of ‘the jruyan family. also dropped in. | Gifts were showered on the prince, but none was disclosed. His ther sent a present by air last week. Some guests all understood to have brought poe and others, toys. Dowager Queen Mary, his great-grand-| et. was expected to give him | a book.
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| i in Telephoto. | Prince Charlie . . . in his new- | est photo.
The infant son of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh was to be given a chance to olow out a big orange candle atop the
—was chosen in deference to the)
Princess Elizabeth was on
| when a train bound from Bogota, i blanca.
1100-Foot Crane Boom Ready ‘To Snatch Giant Tortoise
Charles who some day may his first birthday today with a a rum-soaked 40-pound
U.S. Accuses Russ
Of Hate Campaign =
| Rejects Charge Of War Mongering
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Nev. 14 (UP)~-The United States today rejected a Russian resolution! condemning the Western Powers! as warmongers and asking for a five-power peace pact, and called! upon the, Kremlin to: “Stop your! {eampaign of hate against the non{Cominform world.” Denouncing the “melancholy! pattern of broken Soviet prom-| ises,” Ambassador Warren R.| Austin, chief U. 8. delegate, put) before the United Nations a colinter - resohition, So-spomsared by Britain. It calls upon the General As] sembly to declare. that the! United Nations charter is “the most solemn pact of peace in his- | tory” and “lays down basic FH ciples’ necessary for enduring | peace.” I Mr. Austin spoke immediately after Russian Foreign Minister! {Andrei Y. Vishinsky, in a 90minute tirade, charged that “al new human slaughter is being {prepared by an aggressive bloc
|of states headed by the United] . lore and the United Kingdom," Conform" with its greater width Ure.” Sen. Capebart
| TRAIN UPSETS, 3 DIE
| BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 14 | (UP)—Three persons were killed and 10 were injured last night)
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It's David's Birthday, Too
|Senator Acts After | Times Discloses Fund | Was Squandered
Charges Responsibili To Run Down Causes
+ Congressional investigation of the squandering of the $8,250,000 miners’ pension fund in Indiana was asked today.
by Sen. Homer
Capehart.. His action followed publication of a copyrighted story in The Sunday Times which was documented by actual cases of how the fund was wasted
The United Mine Workers pres{dent let it be known that he would be “at his desk in Washington” this morning “awaiting the convenience of erators” whom he “stubborn refusal” Federal
iy “for the industry. . Wheeling’s 50.000 employees returned to work today.
Allegheny-Ludlum Steel -Co., {with 12,000 workers, was expected to sign today. Pittsburgh Steel, smploying 8000, was expected to ch an agreement by Thursday. Negotiations were {sume with the Aluminum Dotpore- | tiontion of America, 20,000 worker, on Wedn:
But Crucible Steel Co. indl- cel
cated it would hold out for a special-type contract on grounds that it could not pay the cost of the $100 monthly pension plan
to re-|_
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in Indiana's mine fields. = Sen. Capehart immediately - sent a letter to Sen. Edwin Johnson (D. Colo.), chairman
of the Senate Interstate and Fore eign Commerce Committee, and
asked that a subcommittee be sent here to hake an on-Eewspl investigation. Sen.
Fear Reprisals The: story also told
‘and insurance benefits laid down|ol how the miners were
th ‘the Bethlehem agreement.
Proposes Widening
to talk “Because of reprisals fi United Mine Workers’ ‘state: and local officials. Regardless of the fear element that prevents miners from voluns
Of Delaware St.
The Safety Board today asked could be sent into the mine
that the city Works Board con-| sider widening Delaware St. between 16th and 19th Sts. in conjunction with a proposed resur-| facing project of the same area. |
Leroy J. Keach, board presi. formation that can be had
dent, said his board proposed the widening to make Delaware St.!
| from 19th to 22d Sts. ‘The Works Board today with‘held award of resurfacing contract on Delaware St. pending a survey of the thoroughfare by the city engineering department. Bids on resurfacing were submitted to the works board last Thursday.
Answer to Eight-Month
is netted and end one of =
teering their information, Sen. Capehart said that aan,
talk to people, and later be ‘them before the su ee that he asked Sen. Johnson ®. appoint. i “There certainly is plenty of
het 18 up to the government to get (and protect the miners in th
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