Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1950 — Page 1
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Even Shapiro's Wearin' the Green—
St. Patrick’s Celebration Here Is Quiet Compared With Goings on of Other Years By IRVING (PAT) O'LEIBOWITZ
In County Cork, Ireland and County Marion, Indiana, the wearers of the green paraded today still fighting to’ break the English hold on Erin. { Irish eyes were smiling, but Irish hearts still held stout hope | “There'll always be an England” without six counties in North Ireland. Here, in Indianapolis, the St. Patrick's Day. celebrations. “tamer “thdn In ‘years gone Ea seer over—on every Irisher’s coat and the Sunday preceeding Mar. 17. ‘every ys dress, even in This year, and for 80 years, the! Shapiro's delicatessen. ARiht Drier of iB “Sure, and it would be a better rae $ Observance 0-8 fly
‘wide affair. day,” an elderly Irish woman was 2 heard to say, “if our Mayor]
lan enthusiastic beat as the city’s: None) Sherif Cunningham | Irishers marched to open day-|
{long ceremonies that usually ~ ....Jt. has been. 1557. years. since St. eluded = Hr Tomlinson H
Patrick Succath, the patron saint/ang block parties on Irish hi
of Erin, died in Scotland. | In recent years, these celebraAll over the world, wherever tions have dimmed, just as the Irish feet travel, the date is joy- shillelagh has disappeared. J fully observed, even though skep-| Last Sunday, the wearers of tics continue to doubt’ whether the green, more subdued than St. Patrick was Trish or that he ever, met for breakfast in the died on Mar. 17, 493. Indiana Ballroom. They came from the North, South, East and That is neither here nor there: to Mrs. O'Leary or Mrs. Clancy, {West Sides of town and from!
ever Catholic arish Where, who bundled up their kids and ‘Mass was celebrated.
sent them off to school. | But it was a quiet affair. Not, They know better. lat all like last year, when state They remember the big street excise police broke in to see what parades, the picnics and the Irish was what, “rinstrel ‘shows. | St. Patrick, ciedited with driv-| Traditionally, St. Patrick’ s Day'ing all the snakes out of Ireland, .» = ®.- = »
Shure and I's an Even Foiner Day, Today—
Fines One Man, Suspends Sentence " _By BOB BOURNE
SURE'N it's a fine day for the Irish. : And it's an even finer day for a particular Irishman—Probate Judge Dan White. It was just 25 years ago this St. Patrick’s day that Judge White took his first bench in Municipal Court room 3. : As he was asked to pose for @ picture, Judge White said: “It's really an anniversary. pow. Just 25 years ago, The Times was here to take my picture, the first day on the bench.” Today, he went back to that eourt room just for today, It had been a long time and a lot ‘of things had been changed, but many of his friends were there.
- - - { THERE were Howard, ScanIon, O'Connor, Fisher, McNulty, McNelis, McClure, Mc@opahay, ~ McElfresh, McManamon * and
Judge Dan White . . + the first day for the new judge in a new courtroom. The year, 1925, four municipal courts to replace
the two city cours then in - . istence. -
McNan. He has served continuonsly as The present judge of room 3, 5 judge in the. civil division % Joseph Howard, was spokesman gince 1928.
for the group as they presented -him with a humidor. It was “in "token of his quarter-century of service on various benches In Marion County.” ved on the humidor -
. THE 67-year-old urist began his legal cayeer here with the firm of Mc. 1909. During World War I he -g was federal director of employwas: “Judge Dan White, 1925- ment. . on the. Jbénch again -
150." - * Sittin; Judge White was appointed as Judge ite heard one case. He fined a man accused of drunk-
. Yon of the establishment t of the Snacss $10°30 vosts--ap HR
FORECAST: Cloudy tonight.
nald and White in
Photo by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer, it's St. Patrick's Day (pronounced POTrick with York St. a Butler University Sophamere; typi-
Irishers Think I'd Be Finer if Feeney And Cunningham Would Marry Colleens
[Paddy's “day find finds Erin dry but gaY «coves i®uruena, Page 3 > -| Construction will doubtless get the blame to-/house for Zeta Tau Alpha sociall celebrating sorority at Butler University will
morrow, after the
FRIDAY, MARCH 17,1950 -
gerry s Coming Home—
~ Little Victim of Leukemia, 7,
Colder tomorrow. Low tonight, 30. High tomorrow, 40. Outlook for Sunday-—rain, slightly warmer,
Entered s as BSecond-Class Matter at Postolfice _-__Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued. Daily
~ Brown Leoiher Jacket
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~ Will Return Next Wednesday
NEW YORK, Mar. That is, as soon as I ¢
new pants. The clothes that Jerry by The Times for treatment are much too small.
You do not know how much joy there was in my heart last night when the doctors at Children’s Medical Service .of New York Univer-sity-Bellevue Medical Center | told me that my son could go | home next Wednesday. ACTH has restored Jerry's bone marrow to “as near
tors said, and he ean return to Indianapolis, go to school and act as any other normal boy. _ How's that, dad?
n = ” —JERRY-has-—not-been cured; Dr. Irving Schulman, who has supervised the treatment, said ACTH has brought about a remission in the disease. There will be a certain recur-rence-of the leukemia within six months or a yea: and Jerry
($85,000 Sorority House Launched
| For Zefa Tau Alpha
of an
grinds to a halt, with chasing the | begin Monday.
[reptiles to America.
To be located on
normal as possible,” the doc-.
Work Starts Monday clothes.
“fraternity
He Now Can Go Back to School, Act Like Any Other Normal Boy
By MRS. RUBY DUNAWAY (Jerry's mother)
17—My Jerry is coming home.
an get out to a store in New
York and buy that wonderful 7-year-old son of mine some
wore when he was flown here with the wonder drug, ACTH,
For Jerry has gained 20 pounds.
will have to have more ACTH treatments. Arrangements currently are being made for him to have priority for ACTH treatment when the recurrence comes. It 18 possible the treatments will be given in Indianapolis or Chicago. Doctors told me that great strides in ACTH research were -being made in Chicago and in all probability my boy.can be treated much closer to home when he needs the. wonder drug again. ‘
oN TODAY physicians started a “tapering off’ program of
ACTH with Jerry.
Doctors said the -administration of the drug would be cut gradually until his glands have a chante to start functioning =| normally. Oh, you don't know how I feel! I've been here since Feb. 2. I've watched the wonder drug bring Jerry back from a wasted 42 pounds to his present weight of more than 60 pounds. { Tve got to get him some People don’t know it | but I had to rip his pants last week ‘when they made pic-
$85,000, tures,
His clothes just won't fit any more,
ARRANGEMENAS - will be
Like Monday morning, when a and sorority row” on W. Hamp- made by The Times to return
local Irisher awoke, having com- ton Dr.
pleted a full day and night of story medified English brick.
revelry in proper Irish tradition, !
Emerald Isle.
The new Zeta Tau Alpha home Were. and -complained he saw “all "the Will "Havé “Tacilitiés Tor “Housing where another Indianapolis leu-
by. |snakes St. Patrick chased off the|24 out-of-town co-eds and accomBut the shamrock: busted out all| is celebrated in Indianapolis or modations for an additional 30
“They're weaving ‘in and out Indianapolis women.
{formal and informal lounges,
the house will be four-
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Jerry and his mother to Hoo- + sierland next Wednesday. Over at University Hospital
kemia victim is receiving ACTH treatment, physicians reported Tyrone (Tony) Diggin was
Hibérnians ©f my room,” he groaned, holding! The -main “floor will include progressing satisfactorily, {his head. There was no doubt of it. To-|library, housemother's suite, lock-| was reacting favorably to the
day is w ful d tr Stud d| tments, was gaining weight In years gone by, bands blared! Irish, a wonderful day for the ers and guest room. y and! trea g g 8
Latest reports were that Tony
|dressing rooms will occupy the! and keeping happy.
Butler Applauds _ "DePauw Actors
® DePauw University’s Little Theater gets ‘the nod” today from Times Critic Henry Butler for its current twin-bill operatic program. ® Indiana’s top show review er——amateur and profes-sional-—reports DePauw's efforts in his characteristic unbiased style that has become the No. 1 guide to top entertainment. . ® For Mr. review. . . TURN TO PAGE 28
Butler's ‘expert
‘Judge White Observes 25th Anniversary of Bench Duty
_ feated The trustees usually follow |
Judge Dan White | TET eee 1] was a ne suspended seritence. Sitting Jat.
. the right of aire’ ‘White this
morning was Mrs. ‘Wendell Bar-
and Judge Joseph Howard
second - floor while two dormi-|
‘He, too, is anticipating the
Lories and storage will he located time when he can return to
onthe third floor vrs The half-basement will contain | {a- chapter "room, dining room, {kitchens and boiler room. 1 Members of the house associa[tion board include Mrs. Louis A.' | Whitesell, president; Mrs. Leontard . L. Swartz, vice president: Mrs. Bromley House, house pledge {chairman; Mrs. Roy Price, ways land means; Mrs. "Ancil Hatfield, treasurer; Mrs. Horace Hadley, |secretary, and Mrs. Norbert Rich|ardson.
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day for the Irish. rett, who, as Miss Katie Ryder, -
seers Trrdtarapors:
45... “/this afternoon. to consider Mis | utes after his birth to what are believed to be the last words he, He said Mr. Fitzgerald had looked
rrCrovernor-
- |son’s life_sentence be commuted
~{8hould take only a short time. It
‘Tomorrow’ s The Big
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Dressed Up’ On Fatal Day
City Garageman Tells of Issuing Truck and Gasoline
By DONNA MIKELS Times Staff Wi
COLUMBUS, i Mar. 17 (—A crusty Irishman who {would take none of the dee fense lawyer's blarney was {today’s first state witness ‘against Robert Austin Watts,
3 | The prosecution said “it hadn't
{been planned particularly for St, |Patrick’s Day, but its first wite ness this morning was William (Fitzgerald, Irish as a shamrock {and still with a touch of Irish |brogue in his voice. Mr. Fitzgerald was in of the garage at the city asphalt plant on Nov. 12, 1947, the day Watts is alleged to have slain Mrs. Mary Lois Burney at the
North Side Indianapolis and Mar. fon County. Reported for Work
Mr. Fitzgerald said that at 7
4 o'clock-in the morning Watts ree
Times-Acme Telephoto,
When a fellow's "britches" have been split down the ba just HAS to sit still. Jerry Dunaway doesn't want to be still—he's excited about coming home Wednesday. Mrs. Dunaway had to. |= Hp “hig pante for his"p ictire because he's gained so mu Foor
Stephenson Likely To Go Free Today
By ROBERT BLOEM
.C.__Stephenson, Indiana's most publicized convict, today! could count the balance of his! {prison term in hours. | Persons close to the state prison Board of Trustees which mgets |
‘parole said there was “little doubt” the former Ku Klux Klan
~ [EFara dragon would be released.
Members of the four-man bi
Bulk of FDR Personal, Political Papers Made Public
Documents Reveal Bid to Willkie to Go Abroad os Personal Aid During Jap Crisis
" By BARBARA BUNDSCHU, United Press Staff Correspondent - HYDE PARK, N. Y,, Mar. 17—The bulk of Franklin D. Roose- | velt’'s personal and political papers were made public today, reveéa ing new sides to his colorful personality. The from -an-announcement message written by his father a few minwrote—‘‘let us go forward with — |strong and active faith.” nomination, as It was revealed that like many friend of mine.” another person he attempted from —~About-15 per-cent of the presi-|
Cobmem——t— |
ported to work dressed in -ordi« nary working clothes. He said he drove a crew of men to a street repair site in University Heights. But, said Mr. Fitzgerald, in mid-morning Watts came back, “all dressed up in striped trou sers, a yellow brown jacket, tan shoes and hat.” “He drove up to the gasoline pump in truck No, 514, all dressed up,” said the witness, who talked
tion him. “He said he wanted 10 gallons to take to Broad Ripple. I says to him, ‘How is it you're all dressed up?’ and he says to me, ‘Didn’t you hear, I'm learning to be a doctor. I'm going to take this to Broad Ripple and {then go park the truck at City ) [ Hospital. » Checked Records
Mr. Fitzgerald said he went
.{over and checked the records
later and found no crew was ase signed to Broad Ripple that day. Mr. Fitzgerald examined
“brown leather - jacket, the jacket
the state says Watts left behind
‘in the home of Mrs. Harriet Stout
when he attempted to attack her the same day. Mr. Fitzgerald found the name “Robert Austin Watts” stenciled across the back of the jacket and said that was the jacket Watts had on when he came back to work at mide morning.
Defense Counsel Lew Sharpnack that Mr. Fitzgerald, one of the most colorful witnesses in the {trial, got his Irish up.
Mr. Sharpnack tried to estabe lish it was possible Watts might have been driving some truck other than No. 514 that day. Mr. Fitzgerald would have none of that. He declared Watts for that truck right in his presence and drove it out.
- Mr, - Sharpnack shot questions asking if he wasn't basing his
‘what someone else had told him. |a long time before finding Watts’
“an old, personal name on the jacket as he identified it this morning.
“No sir, b'golly,” “sald Mr. Fitz.
Aten board had no advance) time to time to keep a diary, but dential papere were withheld be- gerald, half rising from the wits
comment for-the record. How- | ever, past experience has indi-|
the attitude Sxpresse by the wna the CIeHetY] Commission. Gov. ‘Schricker- recently ap{proved ‘a - clemericy. commission [recommendation that Stephen{to “time served to life,” thus mak{ing him eligible for immediate parole. Daughter in South If the board grants the’ parole today, details of his release
was believed Stephenson wold be paroled to a daughter who lives
never was able to stick to-it. He also was a frustrated novelist, having started a historical novel about a business tycoon. But-he- onty” Tintshed two Pages. Bid to Willkie One paper showed that two days before Pearl Harbor Mr.| Roosevelt invited the late Wendell| Willkie to. go to. Australia and] New Zealand as his personal rep-| ¢ ; resentative but told him the Jap-| By ART WRIGHT anese situation was “definitely The public will be guests of The serious” and “perhaps the next| | Times tonight when Ben East, nafour or five. days will decide” [tionally known . outdoor sports whether “an armed clash might |authority, presents his latest color devélop. movie and lecture at the Armory, In a letter written in the spring|711 N. Pennsylvania St. of 1928, Mr. Roosevelt described: The Armory. doers will open at
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{in Oklahoma. Stephenson was sentenced to] life nearly 25 years ago on a sec-| ond-degree murder conviction in| Shey death of Madge Oberholtzer,| ate House employee. .His efforts to obtain release through the courts have been almost continuous, His recent successful appeal to the clemency commission was his second attempt. to obtain freedom through that channel.
Day eg the big fay in Hoosier basketball , THE FINALS. ® Turn to page 23 for the records of the final four, - picture of Lafayette Jefferson, probable. lineups and Jimmy Angelopolous’ ¥
was Judge- White's SesreLary 25
gearimge, .
pre-finals story.
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Herbert Hoover, then candidate|7 p. m. and the free sports show for the Republican presidential will start at 8 p. m. { It will be family night for many sportsman will be accompanied by their wives and children. The type
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courtesy of his magazine. He isi
door Life, comes here through the activities. sd
known to sportsmen ss. the na- solutely free. The | tion's outstanding authority . on n of the Armory has been
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Free Ben East Film, Lecture Booked at Arniory Tonight
Outdoor Sports Authority to Appear With New Movie Under Times Auspices
The public will be
climax -of a rape. foray around
faster than lawyers could ques-‘
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