Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1950 — Page 1

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Senator Cites FDR Adviser As ‘Bad Risk’

McCarthy Calls Owen J. Lattimore ‘Pro-Communist’ | { ‘WASHINGTON, «Mar. 13! |(UP) — Sen. Joseph R. Mc-| Carthy (R. Wis.), today, ‘named State Department Of-| ficer Haldore Hanson as a

man “with a mission to com-| -imunizeé the world” and former] {Roosevelt adviser Owen J. Lat-| timore as a ‘“pro-Communist.” Ticking off a list of ffames to! [back up his charges that govern-| {ment payrolls are loaded with) " {Reds and Red sympathizers, Mr.| : " [McCarthy also cited Mrs. Esther) : : : ; 3 5% : /Caukin Brunauer, a minor State The Indiana College All-Stars hear their coach, Tony Hinkle, outline plans for their practice sessions. Kneeling (left to right) are Department official, and her hus- | Buckshot O'Brien, Butler; Bob Hemrick, Tri-State; Jack Houston, Wabash; Harley Griffith, Indiana Central and James Woodward, iband, Stephens, a Navy scientist.! Anderson; standing (left to tight, Coach Tony Hinkle, Assistant Coach Bob. Dietz, Jerry Stuteville, Indiana; Andy Taff, Hanover; Bob | Mr. McCarthy told a Senate Metcalf, Valparaiso; Bill McGrath, Indiana Central; Bill Butterfield, Purdue; George Schreiber, Valparaiso; Charley Meyer, Indiana, and Foreign Relations Bybcommitiet Bob Straight, Ball State. : : : (that Mr. Lattimore still holds a

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|. 55 Spurlock Trial Hinkle Pleased With Form [Crash Fatal to'B) “5 umes

“Ithe late President Roosevelt's ad-|

E we - | : ® ° ® ; : viser in China, is a bad security| 4 ml Tai own in irs . ession : risk and may already “have done! a ne ee EF urymen clse {this nation incalculable and irre- Snap, crackle, pop . . . this streetcar sounded like an eri: * snrgunimmiir RR - — opment le ooh 2 - it - y A dh » ay . y r mH - : 1 er de teng is pr i i - .

Smooth Running Attack for Clash ; parable ha | ergetic breakfast cereal early today as it rounded onto Louisiana | . | Loyalty Held OK |. 9 i y i ight | | State Indicates Drive, With Olymps; Tickets on Sale at Marott's Plane Broke in Two, | wi mccarthy sais air Hanson | SF, from Capitol Ave. Sparks flew from its cable all night long | . woof : 4 00 as it ran back and forth keeping the overhead wire free of ice. | For Death Penalty | By JIM-SMITH Says Airport Official bg assigned 10] =k — er eer R 0 | The Indiana College All-Stars had their first practice at Butler LLANDOW, Wales, Mar. 13 J ob” on Presiden Ne ® 4 ‘ PRINCETON, Jud, Mar. 13 Fieldhouse yesterday morning. (OP —Evowitioss: vhred a Truman's Point Four program o Utilit Warns of Peri Ss (UP)—The first 25 prospective : development of backward areas T.

i At. 11 a. m., the Fieldhouse was cold. It still bore traces of power faflure today for the crash | Jurors for the trial of Mrs. Clarice the thrilling time had by some 15,000 high. school basketball fans 5 2 British By of the world, has demonstrated!

: % Ai oo Commi From Broken Gas M Spurlock, - 28-year-old housewife who saw the game between Marion and Rushville. But the flooricrammed with gay Welsh foot- Onftumist tendencies . for| rom r Oo en as ains . | » er

sed of poisoning her parents, | Was brightly polished awaiting the Stars to begin their practice. a is, nmi ; oe : = ms pars |, It didn’t take the All-Stars long| — - z oy: Photo, Page 11 | Sue Mr Ji 5tson lumps Official Scores Sewer Contractors for . > : {te put some heat into the Field- ball fans in which 80 persons Chine 2 e . IT . , Mrs. Spurlock, in a plain brown p,uc¢ a5 they got down to the Pick Jury in u were killed and three a Te ee a The Carelessness n Refilling Excavations dress, and wearing no -makeup, serious business of preparing for) % SWEAR. J WEES {the worst mir disaster on reeofd.|isfied that Mr. Hanson 15 not Possibility. of explosions and health hazards due to broken gas

watched quietly. with her hus-| The eS une gaine) x nn i. The airliner, filled to capaeity security. risk.’ pfaaing Saued DY drdiess” contactors was cited in a letter rebatid, Avlelgh, an Evansville busi-|W the andpolis Olymp = Watts Sla [as with: 78 passengers and a crew Mrs, Brunauer, $9706-a-year as. O0IVE y the Works Boar ay. = ness college professor, as the state Wednesday night. of five. plummeted into a plowed sistant director ‘of policy liaison. iy ET EI a re partment: excused five persons who opposed! The boys who reported for! y —...-|feld-Just short-of ILilandow Air- Citizens Gas oke Y. ay sco ndianapolis paving and

: v Allon the State Department's " “ » ; capital punishment and seven for practice weren't total strangers ‘Panel Selected After [port and broke in two, while at- UNESCO relations staf, was cited" contractors for ‘‘carelessness” in refilling sewer ditches after

having opinions on her guilt or|to one another, Many of them had tempting to land on .a return by Mr. McCarthy for alleged Com.

sewer tile has been set. . fe aT ——

: : inging with joy after watching and f | i pective jurors indicated that the Some of the best seats in the | COLUMBUS, Ind., Mar. 15-415 g and found loyal. | . a prosecution's case would be based| Butler Fieldhouse still are jury to try the murder case of Wales Whip Ireland 6 to 3 in a} Mr. McCarthy said, Mrs. Bry. CKch mains i Bagily gol on N as ront largely on circumstantial —evi-| available for The Times Char- Robert Austin Watts was sworn| Saturday match to win the inter- nauer as executive secretary of/ouses and sewers. creating a | dence, and would ask the ity Fund Basketball game be- lin shortly before noon today. {national rugby football champion- the American Association of Uni- situation that is very dangerous.”

She was accused of poisoning at Marott’s ‘Shoe ‘Store, 18 E. {1947 slaying of ~Mrs. Mary Lois alive today, one in critical condi- to associates that he was a Com- pleted, the utility official sald, op) a cent higher, {

her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Winter| yy qhington St. or at the Union |BUrney, sat impassive as the oath | tion,

o — re dential” wat lof 21st St, Mr, Varin added, in ‘Huntingburg, Ind. died -about — which will decide his fate. {dential” Navy job involving “some! 8s ed,| onts, and one of Standard Oil's gar ra NgHterS omnes pia wma or, Sf the fo bas fren SUE JRA cece eptane proke. et Lr ae top ed fran ToTownmE he mitaation or SALens h -— : gh > 21 4 SS . R-— TOPPOSILE Widles 81 tne tatige. CAIY 4) 8 ft the | [3 . ) ol Ciren ‘er 3 . hung out ‘a sign a 4 in Evansville. | few. minutes were taken to shake; COU Yas recessed after the sideways and forward with some McCarthy said he was one of the|* 15-inch sewer pipe. cents for regular, 22.9 cents for. ing, 56, died in No-| : “hi-ya” -[jun : {people thrown out the gaps” torn “principal architects” of U. 8. Far! As the result of the letter, Mr. thy] | Mrs. Dearing, 56, died in hands, say “hi-ya” and meet fel-|" wr .h it resumes this afternoon, in the fuselage r ethyl. | vember, 1948. Her husband, Who|jows whom they knew only byl, I .

: { 13th alternate juror will be se‘was_60, died last April. He had reputation. - 1 wo ai CPE PRT willed his $21,000 estate to his [lected and sworn in, after which

After the father's death, offi- Hinkle, who Bad taken on the ae clals at Evansville and Hunting-|Tomentuous ask. o eld vd burg joined state police in apethese stars’into a smooth-work-exhaustive and secret investiga-{ing combination, sat by nientally

| N | on os | competitors. {General Hospital “after being more of arsenic. ‘walked “into the dressing room Nading, farmer; Fred -Gillaspy, 8rounding all Tudors now in serv- y S la’-manhole from breaks in a 8 : ttn an On that evidence, police issued you could see a twinkle in Tony's farmer; Oscar Herkamp, -electri-|icé as a result of the crash. Ob- oo g pricy WAR ABATES: ~damaged-gas-fie:: _— Poe A chan o ar RB Rie ; ..-an..order for. Mrs. Spurlock’s .ar- eves. He. was probanly SaYing lo.clan. Everd Luenebrink, farmer; SErvers-spoke of the *jitx of “the MADISON, Wis., Mar. 13 (UP). While Mr. Varin could not. be pense of bulk station operation early last night at ‘Senate Ave. : E rest as she and her husband, himself, “boy, I wis eq Herbert Kiel, farmer, and Harry. c atinged “Page 2—Col. §) Motorists today found signs of reached. for. further comment on and the operation of tank wagon and New York St. The driver was 1.95 . Arleigh, 40, were en route to Hot one that Dig here at Butler.’ ___Robertson, farmer. (Continued on Page 2—Col 6), u;igticedni-the pricewar-his-lettenr his assistant; John Mes fleets:: ww mmm oe Rr es ry Cree gptings, ATK, Tor a vacation.” Fhe boys wasted Tittle ‘time get-! Of “tHesE Mr. "Gillaspy. “Is” the aa, : : ’ .

Mrs. Spurlock was seized at ting dressed and as. they donned only remaining venireman ques- ISRAEL BUYS U. S. SPUDS ‘Which: cut gasoline prices to 20.9 Caleb. said the mains often are Rock Island has no retail ties

: : D z , «cents llon. soline damaged by contractors “using a ups: It sells. , ith ) 5.95 ! Memphis, Tenn, She expressed their workout togs there was a tioned on the first. day who still SEARSPORT, Me. Mar. 13 a gallon. Gasoline today g a g a up t sells .to. anyone with- the operations, iced streetcar ang

| : was selling for 26 cents. ~~ — - huge irom ball with which they price, ‘but it does not wu t,trolley wires here. “Tv surprise at the arrest and declined busy hum of conversation as they remains on the jury. Some 200 (UP)—The Greek freighter Kas- 2 break up the pavement.'” the refinery ‘prices of hi flights were unable Te gar

“Most of our mains,” Mr. Mc- companies. Indeed," in some in- Weir Cook Airport and all local 13 Cateb—added, are cast iron The stences—it—is-higher—— planes were grounded from 3 - dward L. continued pounding very often But the elimination of the bifk p. m. yesterday to early today.

J : to take the charges seriously. récalled games they had played other prospective jurors were 80s, chartéred by the Israeli gov- STUDENT'S TRIAI STARTS 0.95 Dressed in slacks and a tight-iagainst one another, [questioned before the remaining ernment, started loading 200 car- LANCASTER, Pa. Mar TT fittng sweater, she laughed "and| «gay Buckshot, what ever hap-|JUrors were chosen today. _ {loads of surplus Maine potatoes (UJP)_.College student Edway 1.95 Bc joked with Memphis officers. pened to you -in that game at If selection of the 13th juror here today for shipment to Gibbs »

| leaded innocent tod » station and the ta -! A few days later, her father’s \wapash > asked Jack Houston, iS completed this afternoon, actual Israel.. The Israeli government the E oday 1nisnaps the main. Blank wagon opera

: : “impulse” bludgeon-slaying of : r offic i tions has let the independer | body - was exhumed from the referring to the time the Butler testimony in the long - delayed bought them for the surplus price 21-year-old Maria ; at Ty oer S53 ot rom the big

).95 7 ’ Huntingburg Cemetery and toxi-3.e went off the floor and got a trial might get started late to-jof 1 cent a bushel, plus shipping mediately went . cologists found a. total of 10ynee in the small of his back| day or tomorrow. ‘and handling charges. caster County courthouse. grains of arsenic in vital organs. when he tried to get up. 1 8 SAL , 2.

).95 : oa pearing had sSomplained.| “Oh I think somebody in the| M * Tibb & G * i 4 — fore her death, 0 {crowd got excited and kneeled on, it T t P weakness. Her death was at-,o» Fm Buckshot. “Man]| orr iS, i | S ~ e in < a 0

tions. - actually under tank wagon prices|i

tributed in the death certificate to 1 was about paralyzed and scared |. ; a stomach ailment. to death,” continued O'Brien. “I| Chips Way Out

couldn’t get my breath.” . | . . : 7 Truman Spurs “well, it's a good thing 1 OF ‘Financial Rough n : . P wasn’t over there when it hap- By VICTOR PETERSON.

Hoover Proposals pened,” said Houston, “or they| myere stil] are burrs on the sub-

To Keep Roads Icy

| Predicted 3 Here Tonight

{night offered little relief ta

{ous highways, held the accident irate to a minimum, after blustery

{central Indiana thoroughfares

{row. Temperatures will dip to {14 tonight and climb to 36 toe [morrow..

. . ! : LJ innocence. The others were ex- — | Six Days Effort Shater flight from Dublin yes- munist front activity. The State] In" his Jjeiter; agdressed to * Price Guns Roar {collision at High School Road and cused for medical reasons. Choice Seats Left By DONNA MIKELS ay Welsh on {Department also promptly said/G. (Ole) Johnson, city engineer, | | The state's questioning of pros- ‘via Times Staff Writer e elsh passengers were that she had been investigated Mr. Varin said escaping gas from |

Jury to send Mrs. Spurlock to the tween the Indiana College All- | After six days of attempting to SDIP for the first time in 39 years. versity Women, was instrumental reer 3G Breaks Recently wmf. independents Stash as rr yar....... “electric chair. | Stars and the Indianapolis impanel a jury, state and defense|- Wreckage of the ship scattered in committing that organization, The utility official cited 26. condition with cuts and abrasions Mrs. Spurlock was indicted by Olympians. ‘agreed on an all-male group which over 100 yards but it did not burn. |to the support of various Commu-'preaks in gas mains in recent Rates to 19.9 Cents | ‘Mrs. Margaret Strain, 18, of 614 a grand jury in Evansville, but| = Tne prices, including tax, are: (included nine-"Bartholomew| Twelve persons crawled out of the nist front enterprises. months | The price guns were cracking Fyetcher Ave. was treated and the case was brought to this ad-| First Floor. $2; 1st balcony, [County farmers, one electrician,|plane alive. Seven died in the! ... Top Architect | . ford 8 in ’ on the gasoline front today. released a 8, real aud joining county on a change of $1.50; 2d balcony, $1. {and two industrial “workers. {arms.of rescuers. Two more died, Her Hungarian-born husband, ar ed on ran e- Son Independents were shaving reg-l iyo Johnson automobile: gyn yenhe: | © Get them over the counter | Watts, who is charged with the|in the hospital. Three remained Mr. McCarthy said, has admitted > ction Job. was. re \ ular grades-as low as 19.9 cents, !

Iunist. {there wete 14 breaks reported in| 7 lided with an automobile operated i “The parents, -who lived] 7 |was administered to the jury NC Sy 1s gna ME. the-gas-main. In-Gent-Ave., nor the BL om ine Re pene enueth OC StaINey, iW Dearing. ep S, | Building, Butler University. vi Breaks In Two y Ng around 20 to 21 pp 17 Starkey was charged with — boda a failure to stop for a preferential ISR er PI eres =

. {Eastern policy and repeatedly is Johnson sent a memorandum to Hudson Oil, Hoosier Pete, Sites! Raymond Quinn, 18, of 1167 ‘N. “We had to cut the straps to.called. in by the department for all sewer and paving contractorsi.gng- Gaseteria were Settiig the Gladstone Ave, was taken to

Hinkle On-The-Job - ~—{the-trial will get under way. {get_some bodies,” he said. “The special missions abroad or for citing the damage and hazards pace. And dealérs whose stations General Hospital with an injured:

| wor I by the utility official. | i i d fi : daughter. | The jurors in the order in which] Yorst was the front of the plane/work as a consultant. Lattimore reported ; . carried the big names in oil were leg and foot. Body Exhumed | Quiet, soft-spoken Ton Y they are seated in the fury pox | here they were 12 deep against served the late FDR as a “politi-| Mr. Johnson emphasized in his yelling for lower tank wagon!

y ward wall.” } {cal adviser” to Chinese Nation- memorandum the dangers - of prices. {passenger in a car driven by William Fye, employee Nobiitt-| Coroner Col. Harold Rees called alist Generalissimo Chiang Kai- broken gas mains by citing the Buy at Refinery Prices | Wesley Schlenz, 19, of 1336 N. parks; Charles McMahan, 20 Inquest to identify the 80 dead. Shek in 1941. He also accompa- severe injury recently suffered] This is what Kas happened: Riley Ave. which collided with Horna Glen Fillenworth. co/Among the victims were seven nied former Vice President Henry by.a city employee while inspect- The strategic location of the one driven by Marvin D. Martin,

» {appraising his team, writing down |. : |women, including the plane's A. Wallace on his war-time trip to ; Ww sew ‘Rock Island Refinery. 5000 W..23. of 2117 E. Michigan St. on.. tion of Mrs. Dearing’s death. |appraising his riting “for Plovee, Cummins Engine Could g P ‘China, Mr. McCarthy said. {iog-a—new sewer.The-man,-Mr. 86th St. has let th W. New York St hig An autopsy performed on her their names, getting ready foro. "11" Armuth, farmer: Forrest >'cVardess. | “This man's record as Johnson pointed out, “was seri- mek e € in ependents x tol Pa body, exhumed in August, showed that first practice session. |Whittington, farmer: Cecil] The Ministry of Aviation sald yo unist Bor ae & Pro“igyusly burned by exploding gas, WY at refinery prices to meet the pedestrian, Mrs. Cleo Parks

that it contained six grains or “As @ 6” George Schreiber Hoeltke, retired farmer; Lincoln (It Was studying the possibility of| > 7M) Mr. McCarthy said Many which apparently accumulated in PK Wagon prices of big name 1555 Senate Ave. was treated at

n Baker and im-/damage to gas mains was caused the business away from the big said approximately 100 men on trial in Lan- by ‘contractors refilling excava- ames with prices which are worked overtime last night clear-

em | quoted them. _ (ning as much as an hour late at That's what it's about. And the!10 Pp. m.

” ot : IS h ed Loo k’ {public-reaps the harvest while the ; {big and little fellows fight it out. |ficials said northern Indiana roads : re ——— te were packed with snow, glazed in

g | ’ spots, but were passable. . Mostly Set Dr. Sander $: cloudy skies were predicted to

{ : , |bring occasional light snow to : Hearing Apr . 12 {southern and eastern Hoosier | CONCORD, N. H., Mar. 13 (UP) counties today.

Low of 14°

‘No Relief Seen From Hazardous Driving Conditions LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 24 10 a. m....28 a.m... 23 11 a.m... 27

Sam... 24 12 (Noon) 27 9a. m... 24 1pm... 27

Predicted colder weather toe

hazardous driving conditions lon highways already coated ‘with ice. This morning, Indianapolis workers crept to work over icee

glazed streets. Drivers, conscious of hazarde

winter weather filled with freezing rain, sleet and snow-glazed =

yesterday. bi The fresh cold blast calmed light snow flurries early today

“rand was predicted to diminish to

fair weather tonight and tomor-

At least one death was attributed to icy conditions of Hoosier highways, but Indianapolis and immediate vicinity escaped with a minimum of traffic mishaps despite the slick roads of the past 24 hours,

Killed Instantly Mrs. Jean Winters, 35, Muse kegon, Mieh., was killed instantly {when the car in which she was iriding skidded on Rd. 43 near {LaCrosse and crashed into a truck. y " State police said the driver of the car, Hans Nielson, 55, Mus{kegon, was injured when the car struck a truck operated by Lloyd Thomas, 28, Knox. : In Indianapolis four persons were injured, one critically, in a

56th St., yesterday. Mrs. Mabel Johnson, 19, of 5109 Victory Drive, was in critical condition” at Methodist Hospital with a fractured skull. Her husband,

Police said the Johnson car col-

Pedestrian Hurt In another Sunday - accident

. Police said Mr. Quinn was a

Rain and sleet halted airline ..

100 Work Overtime = Indianapolis Railways officials

ng iced lines. Trolleys were run-

State Highway Department of-

: urban business machine at Morris WASHINGTON, Mar. 13 (UP) (Continue on-Page 13—~Col. 8) St. and Tibbs Ave. : Sei : : : Ea President Truman today sent | It won't be long, however, until oo. ky oo : ¥ aa a) of 21 plans New Roy Rogers the rough spots of new enterprise ; : . Mh -

{ {Dr. Hermann N. Sander should] {be allowed to resume the practice {of medicine in this state. 5

| The hearing, closed. to the

and 24 messages pn government are smoothed off and the area

hich he said Thrills on Page 17 | becomes another thriving district : : {typical of those popping up on

reorganization would make “half the Hoover,

Commission’s’ dream come true. | ® The Roy Rogers adven- : |public, will be held in the State] An omnibus presentation to the . ture pow En The Times i he Kgl ey Te House at- Concord. Dr. Sander House and Senate, Mr. Truman again today . . . and. |pis way out of the rough toward {vi he permitted to appear with; dispatched legislative proposals you'll find one EVERY : [the short grass of the fairway. counsel i” Ke qlicases: which would: DAY INCLUDING SUN- |Businiessmen at Morris and Tibbs | Dr. Sanders mercy murder trialf ONE: Shift the Maritime Com- DAY. 'have lofted their shot from the [iiited Thursda) 1 bis Scquitial| ; mission to the Department of som] {deep financial rough. a me was accused of hastening the} : @® The new comic page [deep r oug! death of Mrs. Abbie C. Beiroto . bois the independent] thriller is as ‘exciting as Ln ay they nave Their tyes on 59, a dying cancer patient, by! status of General Counsel to the 8 Roy Rogers movie, je gTech. that day wich the ecm

= ling center will have the polished National Rabor Relations Board ,. ®Be sure you have The. | a EE a hav Be polistied 5

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