Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1950 — Page 1
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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1950
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arly birds LH « fling Tor the May primaries spied today were (left to right seated) Fred W.
Nordsiek, Democratic candidate for county commissioner: candidate, and Thomas Gibson, Republican didate. Republican H. Dale Brown hands his bent R8p bl ican County Clerk, A. Jack Tilson.
James
E: Langsford, Republican sheriff |
seeking nomination as Center Township trustee candeclaration of andidaey for county clerk to incum-
Firm Asks Variance On 6-Story Structure |
A $1.5 million, six-story office building will be constructed at! 18th and Meridian St., if the City | public office. Zoning Board approves a vari-| ance application Mar, 27. Petition for erection of the jon fourth floor of the Courthouse modern steel and masonry struc-'as the first day of filing for the ture on the rapidly expanding May primaries opened. Meridian St. business section was | They came early ... many besubmitted yesterday by Bodner, fore the office opened at 8 a. m. Inc. 966 N. Meridian St. {Before the filing deadline on Apr. Construction ‘ plans provide|1,.several hundred candidates are for 50 off-street parking space. lexpected to toss their hats into The structure was designed by the ring. L. E. Byfield and will be con-| structed by the Bodner Construc-
22 In by 8:30 ks ~ Twenty-two candidates entered the: primary before 8:30 a. m. A three-way race for a major county office developed 15 minjutes after the Election Board office opened. Albert C. Magenheimer, Langsford and George. L. epublicans, filed sh
Permission also is sought to, construct a $135,000 15-family| apartment building at the north-| east corner of N. Meridian and] 57th Sts. | Harold E. Abraham is the applicant for the terrace-type strucCorp
James Winkor th
Two other Republican dates for sheriff had filed before
NOORw- They were... Willian Phil SORE aa Miller and George Gregory Glam-
Board at its last meeting this °K month.
Barrington ts, was listed as; Mr. Abraham's headquarters.
Tilson Offiicates
lan announced candidate for Con-
Muncie Motorist Killed gress, officiated for the {commissioners.
In Plunge Into Ditch Among the first candidates to
State police today reported the! file for major offices were H. Dale death of Harold Lawson, 39, Mun-/Brown; -Republican-candidate- for cle, whose ‘automobile crashed county clerk and Fred ‘W., Nord-
The big politician and the little politician, handshakin backslapping, rushed up to the crowded Board of Elections office
| ° oge : As Primary Filing Opens Twenty-two Enter Race in First Half Hour; Incumbent County Clerk Tilson *Officiates’ By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Today was Politicians’ Day at the Marion County Courthouse.
{ From Perry Township and Warren Township, from the 16th |Ward and the Sixth Ward, politicians came to file candidacies for
and
Pope Confers With Spellman
Hint Discussion of
U. S. Envoy to Vatican | VATICAN CITY. Mar. 3 {UP)| —Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman of New Yori: met Pope Pius XII in private audience today and church quarters speculated they may have discussed the Ssible appointment of “a new,
candi- UU. 8. diplomatic representative to!
the Vatican. & The cardinal, who talked with
the “pontiff -for-40 minetes in the Phinney: who “had ‘dramaticany |
{papal library, refused to discuss
[the nature of their conversation.| oath to the jury, began cross= “County Clerk: Jack PHsom Siice President Truman's per-| amination.
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sonal representative to the!
election: [vatwan Myron Taylor, resigned Mr. Phinney’s questioning she got!
he United States has had ne, of-| he! charged with maintaining contacts with “the Vatican. “But there “have ‘been persistent | rumors that a full ambassador or
~|County_ Hospital where Mrs. Bor-{ it differently. ,.4roto died Dec. 4.
her life by injecting air in a mercy ~imurder.
College Puts Chill On Bundling Plan |
During Coal Crisis |
EAST. LANSING, Mict Mich., Ma Mar. : 3 UP)-—~A move to revive bundling im the Michigan State College campus to keep warm during the coal shortage got a quick chill today.
Nurse Believed Victim Dead Soto Hypo
| ~Witness Says She Got No Pulse CA About 11 a. m.
By H. D. QUIGG United Press Staff ‘Correspondent MANCHESTER, N. H,, Se Mar. 3—The defense today | “THE BU NDLING board was produced the first of a series! 800d enough for the Puritans and| t's good enough for me,” Robert! of witnesses who will say Voges of Brockton, Mass., said. cancer patient Mrs. Abbie C.|
Dr. Judson T. Landis, instructor. in social relations, said the two-. [in-a-bed plan “just wouldn't fit] in with our present moral and| {cultural standards.” | | But some of the students—par-| jHisularty the boys-- weren't. het alll
“It certainly isn’t any worse than| {campus "smooching parties.” Borroto, 59, was dead when Senior Barbara Zylstra, 22, of Dr. Hermann N. Sander injected’ Elmhurst, 1il., couldn't see it. She alr into her veins. aid she was “always a little, ~ I thought she was dead,” said ee of Puritan morals. Mrs. Cecilia Smith, supervisor of| the women’s ward of Hillsborough day.” she said. "Read Andrew Tully, Page 4 But Mary Smith of Detroit saw| “You can count me] iin,” . she declared when the!
Dr. Sander is accused of taking colonial custom was explained. |
U. ] Joins Airlines
Mrs. Smith said she Shisren
room about
“Did you take Mrs. pulse?” asked Defense eens! Robert P, Booth. | “I wasn't able to get a pulse,” |
Walkout of 4600 Enters Third Day
| NEW YORK, Mar. 3 (UP)—A She returned to th {minutes later with dedi {federal mediator met with offi {Snay, a’_staff physician. She, Clals of the Transport Workers! {watched Dr. Snay try to get al {Union (CIO) today ina move to! |pulse and listen with a stetho- ©Pd" the-strike of 4600 striking, .iscope to Mrs. Borroto's.chest. .....maintenance workers against Questioned Witness American Airlines. | “What was Mrs. sorroto’s ap-| ~The strike is in its third day. rn * asked Mr. Boota. The mediator, Lawrence Farm-|
~ “She had an awful death pallor ©: Was expected fo meet with
. and she was cold and tlammy| Sa pany officials later. lo the touch.” replied Mrs. Smith. | “What was her condition?” | “I thought she was dead.” ee acussl “Was she breathing?" ‘Open to Discussion’ 4 ng: Mr. Grogan said the union is!
| undisclosed place. | I*
“Was Mrs. Borroto gasping?” | ‘always open to discussion.” He| “No. ”» : “Are you sure?”
{come of the meeting. “I'm positive,”
The company meanwhile an-
“What was the expression on Mounced that it had added six|
Mrs. Borroto’s face?” (originating passenger flights to! pression. » [46 as compare to a normal pas-| “When you saw Mrs. Borroto| S¢N&er schedule of 189. The com-|
[you think of her condition?”
1 thought she had passed | away.”
“Did you make any remarks Engi Neer Broke | about this?”
“I told Miss Rose so—that the!
| patient was dead.” | #Did you observe if there were| 3 U S Rhy facial twitchings?”
No; there wasn’t.” Mrs. Smith said that when Dr. Jury Recessés Probe | Sander arrived she did not gj
|into the room “but walked away | Of 31 Rail Deaths to take care of my own duties.” MINEOLA, N. Y., Mar. 3 (UP) “Have you ever heard any |—Jacob Kiefer, Long Island Rail-| sounds coming from a person road engineer who admitted ‘run-| after death?” = ~~ /ing his train through a red light. .- “Yes ‘|in a crash that killed 31 persons, | “What were those sounds?” thad a record of 21 safety viola-| “The sounds of air escaping.” tions. many of them for disre-! Cross-Examined Nurse {garding signal fights. Attorney - General William L.|, This revelation ‘in the Nass [County grand jury rei of “he Feb. 17 Rockville Centre!
9 nights the day the strike began.
read the Hippocratic physician's.
{Gulotta to announce today that
Mrs. Smith said in answer tohe would examine the personnel
the stethoscopé for Dr Snay and that he was in’ Mrs. Borroto’s™ | room about two minutes. She said she saw Dr. Snay and Dr. bail {Sander m=et in the corridor asi filed
road engineers and motormen. Held in $10,000 Bail
“I don’t think it would work to-|
"way
President William Grogan at an
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Woman F Found Dead: Lack of |
Coal Blamed
— Mrs. Rosalyn Lutz “Victim of Gas; Another Overcome One Indianapolis woman | was dead today and another ‘seriously ill victims of the coal shortage." Found dead when police,
broke into a gas-filled apart-|
iment at 1124 Broadway today, was Mrs. Rosalyn Stadler Lutz,
30, court reporter and secretary.
Five burn to ‘death in Nobles- |
Vv the fire .-
to ‘Municipal Court i Judge Joseph| Markey. . N ‘Unconscious beside her. in bed was Miss {friend of the dead woman. She {is reported in serious condition iin St. Vincent's Hospital. Police who investigated said they believed the women lighted la gas oven in-the kitchen to warm the apartment-and that the flame Hater-went-owt——————
Police said Miss Macey 18 the]
tenant of-Apt. 14 at 1124 Broadand that Mrs.
Before the women retired last night they asked another tenant! ito awaken them at 7 a. m. today. The tenant, Mrs. Helen Kelly! had a key to the apartment.! When the girls did not answer her "knocks she unlocked the door, but |
{was barred by a night chain. She
smelled the gas and called police. | |the tragedy. bed.
{to be traced to the coal shorta
In Noblesville a mother and gn
would not speculate oh the out-{chilgren burned to death yester-| day as kerosene thrown on corn!
cobs exploded. Closes In On Colleges
diana educational institutions.
Announcement was made that | Ibe fore Dr. Snay arrived what dig| PANY Suspended its 12 freight the Butler University Fieldhouse |
will be closed next Monday, and
hat on the same day a meeting
of Purdue University officials will be held to decide whether to suspend operations. The Field House shutdown will not apply to state high school tournament ‘ basketball games, Butler officials said. Physical
education classes and other ac-|
tivities willbe suspended in the | big building, however, to save] fuel. Purdue President Frederick L. {Hovde ‘said the: university would {be forced to close when supplies of coal drop to 1000 tons and that this point apparently will be] jreached next week. It was explained that a 1000ton reserve is the minimum] amount necessary to protect the! We aniversity plant in stand-by status] through the remaining period of
At Indl na University the situ-
records of 305 Long Island Rail- ation has pot yet approached the than 1000 families reported they
jeritical point. Officials at - the Bloomington institution said there
Mr. Kiefer is free under. $10,000 18 still some coal on hand, small The miners were jubilant over
Virginia. —Maeey,—208+—
Lutz was ‘spending the night with her. T
Police broke in and discovered, Miss Macey's pet, Mr, Farmer met with TWU Vice cat was found dead under the!
Mts, Lutz’ death was the sixth lin Indiana in the past 24 hours
The coal faniine today was clos- | “It was a drawn, painful ex.|!ts schedule, bringing the total to ing in on some of the major In-
esa Hihe-.eity today. ~withostate.. Potions
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Will Ask Authority In Special Message; Confers With Cabinet
Coal Crisis at a Glance—
{NATIONAL President Truman disclosed he will ask Cone -
gress for power to seize mines. The government obtained
| a full 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction against striking | miners. Mr. Trugan "called for a feport on Negotiations between UMW. and ‘operators. Destitute miners in Pennsylvania were ‘reported anxious for government seizure so they could return to work.
LOCAL—Coal shortage blamed for death by gas of one young woman and serious illness of -another. Butler Field House to be closed Monday. Red Cross reported heaviest load of emergency calls so far, with new telephones to handle increased number of appeals for coal.
STATE—Coal shortage was blamed indirectly for the death of a mother and four children in a Noblesville fire. State officials awaited reply to their latest effort to obtain UMW approval for opening of additional mines in the state. | State allocated 550 tons of coal from military estabments. Purdue-meeting set for Monday to. determine. whether. “to” close- University. .
Miners Seen Likely to —— : Court Order; Report on Talks Asked
By ROBERT E. LEE, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Mar. 3—President Truman decided today to ask Congress for power to seize the strike-bound soft coal mines and put John L. Lewis’ miners to work for the
government. sno
The President came eto ‘his decision at a “two-hour White
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{House Sonlgrenice ith members of his cabinet and his top
3 States. Boost i Fo SR on the Si Deliveries
|coal crisis was scheduled for |submission to Congress around i2 Sonn . (Indianapolis time) toVirginia Seizes s But the White House indicated Private Tip ple that Mr. Truman may use the new PITTSBURGH, Mar. 3 (UP)—/powers, if Congress grants them, /Stringent emergency measures as a club in the closet to “per{boosted coal deliveries in three! /suade” the United Mine Workers states today. : {and the soft coal operators to But the supplies still were only settle their long contract fight. : May Not Use Powers
sufficient to stave off the worst effects of the United Mine Work They said his request for seizure powers does not necessarily mean
fda ani to take over and operate {the bituminous mines on a temiporary basis.
ers’ strike.
Gov. James H. Duff of Penn-he intends to use them imsylvania sent all available state mediately. police reserves into western Penn-! Reports from the coal fields sylvania to protect trucks moving strongly that the non-union coal into Pittsburgh. miners, who have successfully deIn West Virginia, state courts fled court injunctions and Mr. |issued new injunctions against Lewis’ own back-to-work orders |violent picketing and wholesale sor the past 20 days, would go |arrésts were under way.. Copies pack to work if the governmerit lof the court orders were nailed [took over and turned all mine to the sides of coal trucks in| | profits into the U. 8. treasury.
iwarning to the strikers. | In Virginia, the state seized al |, The President a I lion te coal tipple to get” more. t1v ineffectual government coal. The seizure doubled the jou)’ maneuver against the strike state’ 8 coal production. {by injunction, Verdict Pleases Miners |. At the government's youth Pittsburgh retail coal merchants pederal Judge Richmond B. Keech [reported that “quite a bit” of low- signed a full Taft-Hartley act ingrade strip coal was moving into junction this morning to replace
However, acute...
“out in force.”
{shortage still wa
(issued on Feb, 11. 2 Order of: Apevelopments~ In _rapid-fire order, .the Prosls {dent:
-More!.
were without coal. One ton de-
liveries were made. B: Directed Chairman David
ON L. Cole of his coal fact-finding
on ‘a manslaughter charge] supplies are being received, and] | Federal Judge Richmond Keech's hoard to meet with the mine ownafter he admitted runping BC Immediate necessity of sus-| | decision yesterday
freeing the org and John IL. Lewis’ coal union -
WIteNporary “ENtEARE or TT
down a "10-foot embankment: on istek, Democratic candidate - for apn -Ameri¢an charge d'affaires to Dr Snay left the Ind. 3 near the Delaware-Henry county commissioner. Toom, County line last night. i
1a red light a few seconds before Pending Classes was séen. [UMW of contempt charges. They jand get & report from them on {the Vatican might be appointed] Mrs. Smith said she saw Dr. the Rockville Centre crash. Dr. M. O. Rosse.Butler presi: believed it would lead to govern-/ ithe issues and #tatus of their dis-. Before noon the following can- py the United States. {Sandeér enter the ‘room but she Mr Gulotta: disclosed that -Mr. !dent, said temperatures in the ment seizure of the mines and ®pqte;
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- Driving alone, Mr. Lawson lost| control, police said. He was] thrown out and killed when his car rolled over going down . the slope. A train-automobile claimed its second fatality yes-| terday when 9-year-old Robert Duffy died of injuries in a Mich- | igan City hospital. i His brother, Thomas, 12, was] killed earlier- yesterday and his| father, Edward, 36, was critically injured when their car was struck by a Chesapeake & Ohio freight train at an unprotected crossing.
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|Dobbs, Center Township Demo-
iriil J. Woods and Walter V. An-
didates filed for nominations: - County - clerk—H. Dale Brown, Republican. °° = County recorder--Carl R, Lich, iRepublican.
crash Sheriff — Langsford, Magenhei- ‘keeping = with present
mer, Winkier, Miller, -Glamock, |Republicans; and incumbent James F. Cunningham, Democrat. County surveyor — Darrell C. Walton, Democrat. County commissioner — Mr. Nordsiek, Democrat; Lemuel Glidden, Republican. Other Candidates County Township trustee — Thomas E. Gibson, Republican. Justice” of the peace—James A.
crat. Warren Township trustee—Merdrews, both Republicans, and Curtis Riggs, Democrat. Justice of the Peace Paul W.
Schneider, Warren Township, Republican. = Thirty-eight candidates filed for, Re-
_|precinct committeeman, 27
publicans and 11 Democrats. Cite Party Split Courthouse observers said that! the heavy Republican filing ‘was due to the split in the county party. Glenn Funk's American Way Republican Committee predicted that a majority of the committee candidates would ~be antiorganization. der Mr. Tilson announced today
‘Police Recover Watch -
Catholic circles have disclosed {the Vatican does not favor ap-| pointment of another “presidential! jenvoy.’ They said this type of! appointment would not “be in!
stances.” Leads Pilgrims Cardinal Spellman, who was granted more time with the Pope! than usually ‘is accorded to visit-| ing cardinals, led more than 500, pilgrims from the New York re-| gion to the 1950 Catholic Holy | {Year celebration here. Before leaving Rome, he and the pilgrims will be received in mass audience by His Holiness. Earlier today the cardinal recited mass for the pilgrims in thé Church of Santa Susanna, \ The New York group was joined today for mass and a tour; of the ¢ity by some of the 95 piigrims who arrived here {Wednesday ' and Thursday by plane from Bt. Cloud, Minn.
Lost Here in 1943
Police who keep an eye out for
lost or stolen goods in the city’s!’
pawn shops scored a hit today. They reported of a
recoyery watch. reported lost Nov. 8 1943,
N Paaasvive Davis, then . a ; Pennsylvania he. h
was" one of the heaviest filing
{“first days” in recent years.
George Dailey filed notice of his intention to seek Tes
: {Cantiaund on Page 3—col k A)jats Zarwarding the
pawned Feb. 15, police had to
frock Sowa ihe owner They
did "not enter #ith him. Kiefer, 55, an engineer on-the line! afterward. she testified, nurse for the past 28 years; had been!
Rose came to her and described susperided on 13 prior occasionsitomorrow night immediately fol- government is.
“what Dr. Sander had done.” An objection prevented her|
for violation of safety rules. Mr. Gulotta also said the grand!
circum- | testifying as to that conversa-! jury had learned that a similar,
tion. tragedy was narrowly averted. at “Mrs. Smith; “dia you give Miss Rockville Centre last Sept. 4 when Rose any advice as to_her bedside {Engineer H. T. Hunt stopped. his (notes ‘in particular?” ‘asked Mr. train only two cars’ length s Phinney. 5 of a head-on collision after go A defense objection prevented mittédly running a red light. {an answer. |. "The grand jury was adjourne ed Mrs. Smith said she never haditoday until Thursday. {examined Miss_Rose’s notes and/ CE {did not have any interest in them | PLANE WRECK FOUND | “because the case was finished at, MIAMI, Fla, Mar. 3 (UP)—| that time.” | The wreckage of a small plane A dramatic reading of the missing since yesterday afternoon Hippocratic Oath in the stilled was = found in the Everglades {courtroom occurred as the de- | swamps west of Miami today and| first reports said both persons | (Continued on Page 3—Col. 1. 2) aboard were dead.
Times Index |CRASH KILLS SEAMAN WASHINGTON, Mar. 3 (UP)-— A eople | aol erase {William M. Dean, 25-year- ola! Bridge ... {boatswain’s mate attending sea-! Comics |man’s school at Annapolis, was {killed tpddy when his automobile
rossword vin verre [collided with a truck.
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7800 employees to get within the agency's budget for the fiscal year
| BERLIN DEPUTY NAMED BERLIN, Mar. 3 (UP)—Col, James T. Duke was named deputy
learned Mrs.
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Davis now resides in|
waich to be
36 1by Maj. Gen.. Maxwell D. Taylor, American commandant.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3 (UP)—=| nounced today that it is firing Easy Gwynn who has been cam- tient at University Hospital. But
starting July 1. “trone (Tony) Diggin. ——e——l——— es i
9 |U. 8. commander of Berlin today ACTH =o Houbled: and Jog An Wyck,
glant Field House will be reduced new wage agreement. to just above the freezing point! “With an attitude like that, the| going to get along!
(Continued on Page 3—Col. 7) (Continued on Page 3 —Col. —Ool. 1) _ Floored by His Popularity’ —
«Jerry's Flood of Fan Mail |
Leaves Him ‘Feeling Fine’
1065 Cards and Lefters Pour In on Local Leukemia Victim in N.Y. Hospital
- : Times Special ? NEW YORK, Mar. 3—There was no new word from doctors today on the condition of Indianapolis leukemia victim, Jerry Dunaway,’ ‘his mother had some to say. As far as doctors are concerned Jerry's just about the same. There'll be no new medical information on the 7-year-old boy until | tomorrow, when another bope Marrow test is taken. But here’s the word from his! — mother, Mrs. Ruby Dunaway. “Jerry's feeling fine. of thanks for this goes to the are the other kids around him in ‘people who have been keeping up his spirits with their wonderful {cards and letters.” | Today Mrs. Dunaway said she'd Center. The nurses call him counted - 1065 cards and letters “Clark Gable” and kia him about sent to Jerry since last Tuesday. “fan mail.” Many of them came at the re- There was no coun of the mal quest of Indianapolis disc jockey received by Tony, who's a pa-
Jerry's mother said he is
paigning for mail to Jerry and he, too, has been recei large. his. fellow leukemia sufferer, Ty- bunches of letters from Hoosier $e well-wishers. erry’s hdd a constant stream Tony's condition also fis. _reof mail from well-wishers ever ported “about the same.” : [since he was flown here for treat:| ~ Tony's father, Thomas Diggin,
on Feb. 2, by The Indian: New York again this -_— to apolis Times. - But his" mail _has| visit Tony and to be: with Mrs. | 4Ruth Digsin on Ber
And a lot “floored” by his popularity. Sol,
Children’s Medical Service of New: {York University-Bellevue Medical A
th the new wonder drug of 1064 Oliver Ave, came back to|w
TWO: Reviewed the deepening (Continued on Page 3-—Col. 8)
— |Snow Tonight,
Rain Tomorrow
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 14 : Tam... 14 Sam... 18 fam ..19
12 (noon). 1p. m:.. 30
Warmer weather will turn light snow tonight to rain tomorrow, the Weather Bureau said today. The mercury tomorrow will climb to 40, after dipping to 25 tonight. A low of 13 was recorded
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