Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1950 — Page 16

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he Huge Demand for Sets ; k:

‘ @ets, and 4 few, with special plead-| | : “ing, have been on Tat fascinates the customer and Three hundred

"customers.

Lustron's> Push ~~

an eye-catchér, rivaling the cars will have to tread the oozy earth

—— It Tast years pattern 1s fol- Study of management in their an- System, and just a short time ago.

/ Fever High

ow _ State Tourney Causing

Drive bv Beck

By HAROLD H. HARTLEY, Times Business Editor I" 300 Executives Meet in! . TELEVISION receivers are getting scarce. It's bas- pn ¢ 40 Combat | ketball fever running up the sales thermometer. | Tetim Union Plan! The State Basketball Tournament, opening Feb. 22 and . sters lan : i ) By FRED W, PERKINS . running to the week of Mar. 14, will be televised. Seripasllawnce ath “Wether There's always a shortage of- tickets. This year the! WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—The thousands who cannot get the precious pasteboards are tak- year-long drive by Dave Packs s next best. They i, miegere— {dominant figure in AFL ing levisi yre But it doss more. IL enables taamgters Union, to organise stalling television. ; the customer to see his Oll| oo. ihine on truck wheels is reCentral Indiana dealers whether it is dirty or clean, and = == © industry gather already are begging factories for Whether the level is low. |sponsihie 8a And then—it is so ingenious, ing in Washington today. . ndred —execytives of gives him. something to. talk truck lines “froin &il over the |about with the attendant and country are laying plans to com-| lavoids even "the brief boredom bat Mr. Beck-—without bringing lof waiting ‘while “the ‘Jadkcase By Mame into Fable cussion. LUSTRON, builder of prefab ts given a’ swig of fresh lubri-| bore JT ealas ary hoses, is out to sweeten public cant. : 7 conn de oy the union ‘or opinion. : , J : l Lustron has been swimming Wildcat Coal : {odustey wide Suga ny ane the tide of critical headlines over - TONY, who pumps gas at Gase- ,. .rits. its. heavy RFC loans, and its teria Station No. 7. Kentucky The potential power of the consumption of red ink. Ave. and Oliver St. can’t get the rpeamsters over the industry and) In the last month, Lustron has thought of a coal shortage ine national economy was debeen telling its story in pictures straight in ‘his mind. There's a goribed to the delegates by Robert) and text to editors, showing how reason. N. Denham, general counsel of|

quotas to take care of tourney

i . Photos by Bob Wallace, Times Staff Photographer. i was cold outside. Fireman Vern Brunson shivers as he checks the thermometer outside Fire Station No. 13. Weathermen said the temperature would hang around the freezing point throughout

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Lifting 15-Year Layer of Dirt Reveals Color

pounds ; Underneath a 15-year layer of Prices from $15.50 to $16.50 were dust and dirt, City Hall has a/paid for 260 to

heart of gold. The Works Board and City Controller Phil Bayt are giving three former factory workers a push toward a new business. Robers mrinle ary a. to/to $13.75 oe Les . demonstrate a dripless wet-wali reached $14 and $14.25.

The demonstration is adding a/Dative lambs under 100 pounds new luster to two hall offices and Sold at $24.50 to $25. The top|;

stair ‘well walls on the first two Price:

It's the Arst time since 1938 that prices. - Choice were salable at hall employees and visitors can Hr Medium, see the gleaming yellow gold of . its wal ! y 8° $6.50 to $7.50.

Bares Origi ; Late estimates of receipts were: ing These three ginal Cate winging Hogs, 9050; cattle, 1575; calves, 33° out the original color of the walls 375, and sheep, 1375. ? with air pressure, towels, water In cattle trade, cows sold at and some pine-base solution. prices strong to 25 cents higher, They rub a trowel-like scraper [White steers and heifers sold over the dirty walls. Air pressure [Steady in moderately active trade.

mass production principles are Several truckloads of coal the National applied to housing, with huge ©°™Me through his station for fuel- Board. presses stamping out basic mem. PS each week. And the drivers, bers of the modern home. to be who have rolled up from Linton,

‘ i | » Urge New Legislation Sh i Vi ti Wi & hi deli d k complain “Sometimes.” Mr, Denham said, 00 ing Cc im ins fe] t elivered on a truck. lf “we hear some of our great : ° | They tell Tony there is some- » % % » thi bad in De kK. They h unions, which conduct their bus- Aq 4 C rt D | th g 320,000 Spins In of ne. coal Portage m Tn iness on an inigyieyomioe w ua y ans $ ain | oq ¢ ENERAL MOTORS "Mid dianapolis and when . as Little e for Century Motorama.” showing 35 here they can’t sell their coal. Ten Days Ago There Was L op

they get tlon-wide basis, monopolistic organizations, espe- ’ . . . cars in the GM 1050 line recorded” There are reasons. Maybe it is cially when they engage in or Girl in Hospital With Five Bullets in Body NL 320,000 spins of the turnstile price, and maybe it is their kind threaten industry-wide strikes or T BOURNE when it ended its nine-d how- {of 1. Apyway, to Tony and to Work stoppages. By ROBER Ta Mri gineday shaw.lo’ c08. Anyway. hy an The girl, who 10 days age was so close to death that almost no

in New , -As-/the wildcat coal truckers, the ‘When these things happen a York's WaortAs {talk of Tia pe is hard to Vo cries go up to Congress for anti- one held out any hope for her, was sitting in a chair beside her bed. |

; ; t . derstand. (trust legislation to curb these She was reading a book. ae Public's Diggen Sura h : practices Mrs. Lois Brown was going to live. In fact she was ready to ' : Overshoe Tour “Right now, for instance, it is leave the hospital. | a Surbeprer ea INDIANA BANKERS are go- the coal miners who are the tar. Still in her body were five bullets. One that rested in her neck with contra-rotating propeller was Ing to get their feet muddy. They 8¢ts. The Communication Work- had been removed. The others ers are making threatening ges- wouldn't hurt the doctor's said. tures at our national telephone)

Labor Relations | tod ay.

i - -t the steel industry was brought to| Mrs. Brown, a small, pretty and hard-bitten policemen and re-|

{ h other and| brunette, was shot six times Jan. porters looked at eac a dramatic stop by the strike of _ ne Ee was Jeaving the New shook thelr heads. They arent

! | The bankers will go right out/the United Steelworkers of Amer- + Office. 301 |often wrong. | Big but Not Red 1 |York Central Freight Office, little pale from her experi-

| ” T arm- ica, C10. | F E ASSUMPTION that vr eng Sa. Salk 12 meth.| "Because of these obvious in-(S. Delaware St. WHET ale 21 a but glad to be alive, Mrs. corporation is wicked Moca it [ods and see if and how the dustry<wide operations and their employed as a billing Sark th ‘Brown looked up from her book. {farmer manages to make a living, Widespread effects, more than-one foray began as she open ®| She smiled. © Pl he edu as to ta Farrer fod tomer fo Monro COUT ba G00 LLIN grag wie ry (Roe Mghmary i 4 {tempted to find some fo! of leg- Po "w t to say anything! to nt Some Mig: hts 8 Jaa (banka er they ehane slation that will ban the nation. through. the door striking het 11, IO. It a on! do both well, become big to use them, their land and their| Vide power and authority exer- the chest The as She San Moe nightmare and I want to forget it, Attorney General J. Howard oncoming crops """ |clsed by these Jabor organizatiops| upstairs and through the office Bo 0® 0 Tow Her gaze wan! McGrath believes corporations ps. lin their specialized and peculiar/ Where she worked, the man fired oo 0%, yop = get #0 big they smother out the Eloctric Co-ops |felds. agaln and-agaim, “I don’t know why he did it, iittle fellow. squeeze him into sub-| THE INDIANA electric co-ops _ Put have you ever stopped to) Lost a Lot of Blood but I know that I don’t want to mission or buy him out. lare huddling here for two days '*2lize what a complete hoid the| yr. Brown's fellow workers see him again, ever. I just want But listen to his ‘words before starting on Washington's birth. 10Amsters have on. every seg-|.:,o4 stunned as the chase went io rest and try to get well enough the New York: State Bar Asso- day. 3 “{ment of the nation's business? yp rough the billing office. She so I can go back to my job at ciation. They make sense, but do They are ah important wing or VO! Just a part of it. was finally cornered in a wash- NYC, if they'll have me.” not add up to all of the pressure the Indiana Farm Bureau and! Difference Explained room, where the final shots were, Lockhart will appear in Mu-| the Government is exerting on hold promise of cheap power to “The only difference between fired. nicipal Cofart 3 Bex Jnoath. an a PE COMBAT. ot course, hat 0a DL, UI 10 Poli urna. Be. of hg Erion Sar Lockhart | charge of wl’ and vier bigness as such 5 ‘NO: CHme Wel ne private ia rey pay, Lamaters and that of the United °% : . Tea40n ‘Mine Workers, the Communica- ; also must recognize. as has the ino taxes, and the big private com- yon Workers, and the Steelwork- She Loved Him ‘Very, Very Much'—

Supreme Court, that ‘size carries panies spend plenty at the tax’... hese latter have thelr| 3 rower na winery enceniries MjOTher Says Mercy Killer

with it and opportunity for abuse’ windows, You can look for fireworks 10 in a single trade or line or type of

a= an attention magnet. when they make an on-the-farm|

lowed. the exhibit may be shown nual clinic up at Purdue Mar. 16 around the country in key cities. and 17.

and that therefore we must con-|

stantly be on the alert for these .., oon in Congress over electric! ndustry, whila the Teamsters T ’ » i i abuses. ; {and all other tax-free co-ops WIth! then eve ry industry Of Dad Insane at me we mos b } i » In that We agres. ' DI% the government bearing down for| «If ‘they could just concentrate

Seta lots esp thelr skirts Im" more business taxes. /that control, as most of the other ‘ff Was Against Very Fiber of Her

|doing the job: for approximately loads of high-medium and good Siokeiy-yan Came

rings for the day s Ei, or the day aw reeisy Boi hours after the jury received the| Debits Tor the month -... £50.910,000 case.

dir . Bull forces the solution through the Some bidding was lower towel-covered trowel. prices remained firm.

I Homes pid .. ’ i A heltlond of high-good and § 4 com Clear water rinse and drying low-choice 1050-pound steers? RY a Rp ii follow the same method

ARTARS The resuit is gold in them thar ,,q4 small-lots of medium and

Pr reached $30.50. Scattered loads pit Sery of Ind com ...... b Serv of Ind 3' ofd ... nts Gear Tool com

halls. low- 850-1100-pound steers ‘*Schwitzer-Cummins ofd The three-man enterprise is low good to $25. Several part- tei

§350 less than the $500 bid mini- 1000-1150-pound steers remained! mum. They hope to get the bid| unsold at $26 to $28. |@°8 Machine Co. *iae for the entire hall, if the hall| Heifers showed little action, A|ghited Telephone 8% nfd ... can scrape up the money. {part-load of 800d 1240-pound fed, “Ex-dividend. {cows sold at $20. Bulk common " 1 Just an Experiment {and medium brought $15.25 to $17.! American Le ails “We're doing this experiment- A few good heavy cows moved at Bastian Marley 5 H ally, just to show what we can $18. SF jar duis, 2 Ln do to dirt in the hal)’ said Mr. | Best Vealers Up $1 : 0 ra... Hinkle, spokesman fit the trio.| Canners and cutters sold at alumbls Chu 3a € 4 * . He told how he, Eugene and $13.50 to $15.25. Medium and good | fadnis Pain: & Color 5¢ 64 .. Joe decided to pool resources and heavy sausage bulls sold at $17.50 jadeis Public Loan Be 84 ...... fortitude in this new enterprise to $19. Cutter and common ne en m2 ™ —the now-defunct ¥.- L. brought $15 to $17.

Good -me- fay Jacobs Co. plant closed the door diumweight beef bulls reached funner Packing ds 39 on their paychecks. ($19. {§ Ind Pub Perv This is their first “big” job to-| Best vealers showed a $1 jump. Public Service 3's 78 .......

gether. 'Other grades remained steady.| pistion Termine 8857 |. Mr. Rice had done some work - in Terminal

with th before h : i d (5 il mith this process setere 2s tv Me Guire, Foun uilty,

ber. ° ° ; ° omer anenied 10 30r. avt 0 WWI] File for New Trial Building Fund in the Works

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GREENFIELD, Jan. 31—A new trial will be sought for Thomas

nal fee to have the offices of the gp \cGuire, 22-year-old Indianapolis man, convicted here last night

Controller, City Clerk Dick Ste-| , wart. and the stair. wells clean ed. |” first degree murder, his attorneys said today

It's a dirt cheap operation.

McGuire's four-weeks-long trial for the shooting of Robert |G: Brown, 45-year-old Indianapolis tavern proprietor, came to an {end at 8:20 p. m. yesterday when a Hancock Circgit Court jury

U. S. Statement

returned a verdict finding him,

Bole Thr Severa- fixing his punishment at life im- passively while

7 com-|prisonment.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 ment expenses § fiscal year through Jan. pared with a year ago ee 0 ph 3030.33.48 5 ney T. Ernest Maholm asked that|t0 2 Ha osd J44020.42¢ | sentence not be passed immedi uire. Ra Lich sti IRI ately to allow time for filing of a a new trial action. . INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING MQUSE | The verdict was reached seven Of the trial. 100.008 |

Local Produce

| But I doubt if the push to tax would be als Ey And bauling them into COU'tithe co-ops gets very far. The or mesons their sconomie, Being,’ She Testifies of Shooting BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan, 31 (UP)—Cagol Ann Paight wept,

because of their size alone 18 co-ops are usually owned by the! sorce and power. = today when her 51-year-old mother testified “she could not have

often not prosecution but perse- farmers who cast quite a few my, power that the Teamsters cution—unless thers are abuses votes.. And no Congressman o..rcise over your collegtive busi-|

of bigness. Then let them have trifies with vote blocs in an elec-| o.... |s sufficient to dwarf the been of sound mind” when she killed “her daddy, whom she loved ‘“}

both barrels. tion year. ‘economic power of those so-called so very, very much.” . |

3-Minute Change New Capehart monopolistic glant unions Into| = She could not have been of sound mind Mrs. Mary Nolan OMB & HOK | CAPEHART with its well. relative insignificance. {Uaight testified. “It was against her re us tr , against Hos po > wih So learned name for excellence in| With this picture before them tne very fiber of her being.” |operation, she said, she and Carol | oll changer. It does » home sound reproduction is bring-|the delegates so far seem united) Mrs Paight was the second de-| pe PH ton of -R the job jon two main ideas—that they tense witness called in the fifth Were there when a nurse came

sing out a television receiver in . | jig same quality range as its Must resist the uniog’s attempts gay of the 21-year-old coliege| ID, with & hYpoqermie and sald.

+ (to change the present practice of genior's “mercy killing” trial. . . YOUR OWN. Turn now to the "El have a 16.inch direct I0dIVidusl company Dargating| Carol shot: her father, stam.| ~We kissed ine U8 Abi. X God ‘Fol * viewing into an industry-wide plan. AlsOitord, Conn. Police Carl 2o% : Ys Times for HOMES FOR SALE TSIWRE fcreen wih the PoIWISon-| that the only practicable way of paight, 52, to death on’ his hos- SS Something to eat—I'm in good from every section of the oly, are. 1s to be called.’ as you| handling the pension question pial bed last Sept. 23 shortly | . Paght weve raked, and suburban areas and In every ;w ‘ sock. th . o L | AONE the thousands of smallly pier she had learned he had PY Pl rE Dew seed price range. The Times is NOW Might suspect, e oncertitpyeking companies is to consign . Caro |

An {curable cancer, the news r with the REAL Grand" tagged slightly under 1 fal Security ® {him while he slept. pape 300. {it to the Federal Social Sy o

ESTATE ADS. : i System. . : " —— Mrs. Paight told how Carol had ‘Mr, Jaycee’ to Appear {developed a morbid fear of can-| h \cer from the age of 3 after near- On Radio Tonig ht |ing of the “terrible death of an| The locally produced radio {aunt and then later watching an- show, “Mr, Jaycee,” will ‘present |other aunt die of cancer.” {a panel qlituagion tonight on the = subject, “Are e Indianapolis Many of are 00 ppectator® Public Schools Progressive?” The { " | program will be heard over WISH jurors were moist-eyed as Mrs. 4 7:30 p. m | Paight told of Carol's reaction Members of the panel will in‘when told that “Daddy” was uuqe Dr. John Best, co-ordinator | “riddled with cancer. lof student teaching at Butler; | “I realized she was screaming: Harold Walter, vice principal of "Don't tell Daddy . . . don't tell Tech High School; Andre Daddy.’ I pushed her down the Rhoades, copy director, Spencer(hall, I shook her hard. Curtis Advertising Agency, and | “She was crying and scream- Mrs. Arthur Northrup, former Ing and she worked herself into teacher and at present a psycholalmost a frenzy. I shook her ogist. ain, I' told her if Daddy could — 8 be a good soldier, she could be Released From Hospital lone, too. She stopped and sat up. MTs. Bernice Kelly, 46, of 2347 |T realized she was very wooden. N. Gale St, was released from {She was staring and rigid.” Methodist Hospital after treat- | Later, Mrs. Paight said, she mient for injuries received in a {saw Carol come up the walk of a fall in the Federal building toneighbor's house “looking like day. Mrs. Kelly fell, striking her some kind-of mechanical doll.” (head against a wall, when one Mrs. Paight sald they went to- Of .her shoe heels caught in a [gether to "Daddy's room" to door jamb. [ iwateh as he recovered from an ————————— AR. anasthesia after an exploratory Truck Driver Killed operation. GARY, Ind, Jan. 31 (UP)— Mrs. Paight said she became wenneth Coughenour, 47, of fil and went outside. She sald gouth Bend, was killed today she was taken to an adjoining when his truck collided head-on room for some time but became with another truck 17 miles east worried ahout “Ditty” —Carol'siof here. The driver of the other family nickname. 'truck, Robert Bischoff, 41, MichiFound Her Convulsive |gan, City, was not injured. “IT went out and saw her In —

OATS another room on a couch,” Mre.| Rs | Paignt sug 3 rushed to wr Indianapolis Wdter Co. and said: ‘Ditty, what's the ! matter? . DIVIDEND NOTICE | Preferred Stock, Series “A”

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told her: “I killed my daddy.” Mrs. Paight described how wel anes of

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MUNICIPAL BONDS

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Receivable from Customers and Brokers for Se-

curities Sold in Process of Dellvery ........%... 97,502.94 Accounts Receivable ..... vcivvvivnsvnsnnnceeeess 34,260.60 Securities Owned ...... sessessasssasssnssassecss $09,855.14 Exchange Membership ......cccovvsvnnnnansenses 3,681.45 Cash Value Life INSUFANOS .civcvvrvnvcnsnseanenss 9,402.50 Real Estate and Real Estate Contracts ........... 8506.08 Furniture and FIXtures .......v6ieevesisnessssces 1,871.58 i Deferred EXPONSe ...ccocesassscsrssnassssssssnse 569.76

TOTAL ASSETS ...ccvencessnnnenssnsesessss $847,768.11

LIABILITIES

" Payable to _fLustomers and Brokers: Securities Purchased but no Received ............$101,710.08 Customers’ Credit Balances ......osvevevssneses 24,008.17 Accounts Payable 28,745.49 Capital: 4 Preferred Stock «iissesssssseess $128,200.00 Common Stock ...ovvvvnnsveeses 150,000.00 Capital 8 US sessenensnscenses 91,213.39 | Undivided Profits SAAN RtEERNN $22,900.98

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Statement of Conditions, December 31, 1949 ASSETS Cash ...... ondns resrssaseassencsssransessessss $281,008.08

B. Waldo Barrett W. Stewart M - Robert H. King Tre ? D. Jesse A. L. Persvth : _. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Wi Fan

{guilty of first degree murder and no sign of emotion and sat imhis attorneys

asked a delay in sentencing. As st yesr| Judge Samuel J. Offutt set Feb. he was led from the court room

is Year La: 233.634.203.258 § 20.087.835.140 | ..he smiled and spoke a few words 1 tencing. f ttor-| 33018 308 gris 16/11 for sentencing. Defense Attor bis mother, Mrs. Hazel Mc-

Courtroom observers said lit was one of the few times he | poke to her during the four weeks

The widow and brother of the | |slain man waited in the ecourt- "| In closing arguments both de- room while the jury was out, but {tense attorneys, Mr. Malcolm and made no comment on the verdict. | McGuire, arrested on the side A me-|Guire fired the shots which killed walk outside the tavern following Bo Mr. Brown in his tavern last July the shooting, has been in the and over. 20c:|8 but pleaded that their client Hancock County jail since August when the case was transferred | MecGuire heard the verdict with here on a change of venue.

and other inf« ler of the Ch and Albert L. in the prepar: Arrange It was brou ing yesterday arrange exc programs wi and recruit sp dent body. br, Howard cutive secret apolis Church Miss Skinner arrange for grams on loc send a letter tions to the «

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