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THE PEOPLE SPEAK: THEY
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- Tired of Poor Roads, Chuckholes And Bad Service, They Declare
By EDWIN C. HEINKE Tue voters want a change. That was what Mr. and Mrs. Indianapolis said last ian: as they sweated it out past midnight in long lines that |jammed the sweltering basement of the Courthouse, spilling onto the sidewalks around the building. | Professional politicians have watched with awe and |amazement this terrific outpouring of the people. Exactly 4191 citizens registered yesterday. It brought the total to 27,787 to smash all records for voters reg|istration. “The politicians have wondered what it meant; ‘So-have-I: 1 talked to the people ‘who stood in line and here is
Touch Bandit Robs Jewelry Store of $4000
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They intend to find out and vote ac-
from another. cordingly. They are interested in city and county government.
ments. They_are concerned over what is happening on the national scene. They are uncertain of the government and the future of its people. They are worried about high taxes. They want voting power so they can do something about them. They are afraid of socialism and communism creeping into our country. ’ . They want to be sure they will be properly registered for the next presidential election in 1952. They
Threatens to Shoot Owner, Then Ties Him With Wire fre going to be careful about whom they send to Congress
Seals Victim's Mouth With Tape and Ea ea Ty
~ Flees With Gems and Cash THESE PEOPLE who jammed the Courthouse last]
Jewelry, diamonds and cash totaling more than $4000 were taken night were a rfect cross-section of India today by a tough-talking bandit who bound and robbed an Indianap- _ g pe 4 4 Rapolis, They!
Chester L. Stokesberry co "I'l blow your Yead off," a
bandit warned him. ? % s Pe ~
In 1948 when President Truman threw ample pollsters into a | | tailspin, Dan Kidney, Times Washington correspondent, remarked: |
They are tired of poor county roads, chuckhole-filled “streets and other poor service of the city-county govern- I
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nd Aroused Voters gistration Record
Fret About Taxes and Socialism;
Most of Them Are Independents
Robert F. Oldham, 3861 N. Delaware St., a first time voter: “If we were a little wiser in primary elections the end result would be better selection of men in presidential and
congressional elections.” » . . » ” ”
John Davis, 3278 N. Emerson Ave., a hod carrier: “I think just what Mr. Oldham says.” ;
- » . » . ” were not people who had been hauled in by the candidates i eS uren, 37 E. 52d St, investment broker, and to participate in the machine vote. MF McNurlen: “We're more interested in national and ine [ternational affairs than we are in the immediate candidates. Some of these people had not voted in years. As people yoo woiiad about the Communist hazard, high taxes, -unschoeled-in_politics, these voters were frank, eager-to devaluated dollars,” tell what lay i in their h arts Willingly’ Bre their names
WANT A CHANGE — ira
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“It looks as though they polled everyone except the people.” “ Potential voters have been jamming the registration booths ‘the They don't know what it means,
last few weeks and - 1950 politicians are in another tailspin.
Edwin C. Heinke, assistant managing editor of The Times, decided to find out . . . from the people. ’
a TRIER est number were Eis They: were interviewed as they inched forward in the long lines. Hod carriers stood next to investment brokers. Here is what they said: ” » . “ ' » ~ - Eskel Nordell, 3526 College Ave., an advertising’ ma and Mrs. Nordell: “We want to be sure to vote in the next national election. We don't think things are being handled |properly. We're worried. Not only about taxes, but about thing about it.
socialism and communism céming in.’ for tonights . : ”.
sha ; «vn | © Robert Cartwright, 2607 Sutherland Ave., and Mrs, William Stainbrook, 5831 Primrose Ave.: ‘People are Cartwright: “We're voting because we want a voice in. nae voting because they have a guilty conscience. My conscience tional affairs. We want to be sure to be in line to vote is guilty. That's why I'm voting. They has been too much against high taxes, communism and socialism.” 'talk about socialism and communism and people have de- nx 2s 8 cided it's time to have their say about it and check it. For, Jerry Moz, 3520 N. Parker Ave., salesman, and Mrs, the first time in a long time we've been made aware that the Mogg: “We're voting because we lost out in the last presi. right to vote is a rally sacred thing.” |dential election. Everybody said it was sure for the Republicans. We were so sure we didn't bother to register to vote
M. J. Staper, 3300 St. Paul St.,: machinist: "We're out|then. Now we're going to make sure we don't lose out (Continued on Page 3 —Col 4)
to ‘beat Stalin, 1 guess.” |
‘want to be sure €o be able to vote when the issues come up.”
. ” » 5 » ~ W. H. Latimer, 430 St. Paul St., an inspector and Mrs, Latimer: “It’s time the Republicans got in and did somes fthing. We need a change in Washington. “We're mot so n, much interested in local candidates for offices as we are the socialism and communism aspects. We think the coun try is headed toward socialism and we're here to do somes That's what everybody else is down here
olis jeweler in his shop. i ‘was L. Stokesberry, 55, of 252 Burgess Ave., who | Urges Bill to End!
was trussed up with wire and locked in ‘a rear room. his mouth | ed with adhesive tape. The robber, between 35 and 40] years old and fairly well dressed,’ J err y Visits Tony, County Wast carried a blue steel gun and told | Le e Mr. Stokesberry several times Both Victims “I'll blow your head off” if his * commands were not obeyed. Of Leukemia . | The proprietor. was alone in the Assailed by Book | store at 2838 E. Washington St, JERRY DUNAWAY found out .’ Legislative reforms to end when the bandit, wearing a gray| iwhat it-was like to live in a big waste in county purchasing hat and overcoat and with a small/ family last night. |methods was advocated today by piece of adhesive tape across his| -. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Book, executive. secrenose, entered and asked to see a 835 Eastern Ave. of Com-heart-shaped ring. young leukemia Brings Out Others ee Mr. Stokesberry had no such, Photo, Page 2 ring, but brought out trays of Jerry and his 2- year- “old other rings. As he was kneeling brother, Jimmy, to see Tyrone
Purchasing Methods |=
Total residential construction
Earl Dunaway, parents of the tary of the Chamber victim, took merce. } Pointing to obsolete and waste-
(ful purchasing by county commis- biggest home building March in EE— —— county history and the second Editorial .e . Page 16
largest in city construction, Tosioners as disclosed in last Sun- gether, statistics® revealed the 33 Sale in earn he store | ig Dizi at home. day's Times, Mr. Book declared continued soaring res idential forced him to int o erry and Jimmy had a the county’s goal should be “busi- building trend locally. or go IMs a rear Wonerts) time.” Mrs. Ruby Dun- pegglike urchasing conducted by “ip i wr ABlle TONY DAS... LOUL qualified: Ls ‘to--obtain quality ; 211 Dwelling Units here the robber took picture, a and four sisters, and products at truly competitive In the county, 211 -dweliing worth $1,578,070 left the
wire from his pocket, tied the mr, and Mrs. Di ggin made us very prices.’ units jeweler’s hands behind his back welcome.” P es Times that blueprint stage last month.
and wired his legs from knees to| | pointed out . ” ? it Thomas F. Diggin and his fam- hrough its This was $422,070 and 59 units ankles. ge Supuyside Hospital thiough As more than were started by coun-
lily live in 1064 Oliver Ave. His food - li He sealed his victim's mouth method of buying fo supplies son, Tony, another leukemia vic- ty builders in the first two fon a day by day basis, on an open months combined this year. March
with several strips of adhesive tape and then went back into the hoi, vas Son to New York for competitive market, was saving building marked a $93.120 in-
Departments showed the sag in the county. In fact, last month was the
several ay t main store room, locking Mr. Jerry made tos ih nays after thousands of dollars annually| "Co" 0 hot uetion valuaStokesberry in, ‘the small rear = P ’ compared to the three-month con- (jo ne: tor the first three months room. BOTH returned to Indianapolis tract system in other county in- . nined in 1949. Yet there were
eight more residential starts in
After 10 minutes the jeweler 5 few .days.ago. after ‘wonder, |stitutions. through oarch last
managed to get to his feet. Al- gryg” injections (ACTH for Jerry] “There ought to be widespread’ January though still bound, he fished his|anq cortisone for Tony) arrested support of legislation to establish year. keys from a pocket, backed up to|the course of the disease and re- modern practices in purchasing by ~~ And these totals for periods in the door, and released himself |stored their vitality. the county,” Mr. Book asserted. both years do not include 22 othfrom his back-room prison. Mrs. Dunaway said Jerry will “Every taxpayer, would benefit, er incorporated towns in the He hopped through-the store; go to St. Vincent's Hospital to- and when was there ever a time county.: Adding residential starts, out the front door, and next door morrow for blopd and bone mar- when we so urgently needed to from these communities would to the Old Trails Tavern. There row .tésts, the first since his Te- cut out waste in public spending hike the . comparable figures Garrett Holden heard him bump-|turn to determine whether he is! as now?” - another 12 to 20 starts valued ing against the door and went t0/jmmediately liable to a relapse. | A special act of the legislature at approximately $100,000 . his aid. | Tony was sent to New York by| seven years ago permitted Sunny- each year. Takes 10 Diamonds 'the Indianapolis Variety Club, City home. building last month Mr. Stokesberry said a checkup Jerry by ‘The Indianapolis Times. (Continued on Page 3—Col. of the store showed the bandit, =
Also taken were 10 watches
Home Building Dashes Into 13th Boom Month Here Highlights |
Report Residential Construction Has
Biggest March in History of the County By LARRY STILLERMAN, Times Real Estate Editor
sprinted into its 13th straight boom month today. There was a decided dip in home building in the city last month, but statistics compiled today from the City and County Building
for in Indianapolis and the county.
5) showed 153 dwelling units y valued. dicted.
Inside McKinney Disgrun
Replies to wed 's Pol Poiiic] ian’
Word Battle Waxes Hot on Primary Front By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Mayor Feeney was pictured today as a “disgruntled politician™ still trying to purge Congressman Andrew Jacobs, George Dailey and Sheriff Cunningham from the Democratic ticket, The characterization was. painted by Frank McKinney, banker, baseball magnate and veteran Democratic power. Mr. McKinney made the charge after Mayor Feeney blasted the county machine and Mr. McKinney for “bossism” and dicta-|
ge Weddings, Sorority news, another illustrated story on | square dancing, sewing contest rules and entry blank . also Eleanor Roosevelt's column ‘My Day.’ ....civsee.b
Blackwood on Bridge, Louise Fletcher's ‘Counter-Spy.’ food column, pattern service, tips on that Easter menu. ......
in Indianapolis and Marion County
the city was offset by a surge in
C ity - -c county “home - building figures, Page 20.
at "$1,081,330 were started. In
March, 1949, 231 units worth podiatrists to convene here . . . $1,349,950 hit the stick-and-stone high school pupils awarded ‘year office holders,” Mr. McKinstage. commercial scholarships. ... 8 ney said. “He was opposed tb : Builders attributed the com- | Jacobs, Cunningham and Dailey”, SAN FRANCISCO, Apr.
A complete schedule of your
parison decrease to expiration of > Mr. MeKinney.-said county. Dems.
7 torial control of the party. 8 “The Mayor is just peeved be- : cause we refused to purge the two- 3
“favorite radio and television A HA Rr eS ee HR ent SAR fRVGEaNe Svancing for huge’ PrOGTAmS. +eivvrerss .......11 0cratic leaders met with .the 4 (UP)—Longshore union apartment constru ’ ! (Mayor at his request last Wednes- ~ Federal Housing Administra<{Erskine Johnson reports on |day. chief, Harry Bridges, was tion Title 608 which granted up| happenings in the film capi- | “He Flared Up”
convicted today of charges of perjury and COnSplacy.,
to 90 per cent loan insurance on . tal, The Times .amusement | * “When we refused to bow to his| apartments expired Mar. 1. This, = clock . . . Cinderella contest |demands, he flared up,” Mr. Me-| said builders, put the main set tomorrow. ...... yergreee 12 Kinney said.. “I don’t like con-|
damper en city construction in | D Ed Sovola interviews a tax col- ducting a war in the newspapers.
March. 1 ol by Ruark and |But if that's what he wants we There were no apartment proj- ector, columns by Ruark and |o;) te) the whole story.” = mary filing deadline passed Sate — ects started last month. In Othman, CRapter 9.01 peter Mayor Feeney, contacted at “his urday at midnight. March. 1949; foundations--were| Marshall's ‘Mr. Jones, Meet office this merning; said he wanted Four Demodats Avi oe poured for a 40-unit multiple- the Master a Times | ny to “purge the party of bos-| colors of the Ct HA housing structure. | Lenten presentation . .. also |gjem” before the Republicans get formed ea ~ 's newly ‘About People, an interest- ithe chance in the fall general elec- oo ew Good Govern
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ing roundup of personalities |tjon, On the over-all picture builders “in the mews. ............... 15. Mr. Feeney termed the county Taser He ounty Jona in ‘remained optimistic. They dis- piitorial comment, Marquis | Democratic machine a “goo rr gan counted a downward turning cmids writes on Red es- |eéXample of Boss A er] y Hall Slate : point in the construction trend plonage . . . Hoosier Forum. 16 He dictates who shall run for] The City Hall candidates are} : Sheriff—Tony Malo.
|office and who should not, the Wilson's zippy column County Clerk— Albert Lochs.
{Mayor charged.
The “big” residential building Earl . yor J " Font here is yet to come, they pre- from the saloon beat,” Your he ayor's vy Ha orces! he 3 y Job, Mrs. Manners. ....... ros uid +26 were in pitching when the pri: Auditor—Toney Flack. .
Recorder — Mary France .
|e hine dates* back two months
wes. Navy Says Mystery Sub ‘Could Be’ Uncaptured U-Boat oat Of The Nazis A, on cy a
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Leans fo “Belief
T Craft Is Russian | By JDWicHT GEDULDIG
$71.50 each, a $64 set of silver-| ware, a dozen rings, $150 from the cash drawer, and miscellaneous items, including two imitation I 0 Cro pearl necklaces. He also took Mr. SAN TRANCE 1SCO, Apr. 4— 8tokesberry’s billfold, containing iyign Navy officers believed to$17. |day submarines reported sighted v RES (off the West Coast belonged to LOCAL TEMPERATURE Russia, but the fantastic possi-
6am. 60 10a m.. 40 [bility that they may be of Nazi 7a m.. 45 Ila m.. 40 ngin also was being investi8 a. m.. 43 12 (Noon) 39° | gated. 9a m.. 42 1p. m.. 38 |" Rear Adm, Frederick J. En-
| twistle, deputy-commander of the {Western Sea Frontier, bolstered [the reports of othér officers by,
The U. S. Navy sent the destroyer Colahan to search for reported mystery submarines
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Beal, English, type brick ven, 3 off Ha Jotthern Caliloluia Pre bad A nr : the submarine was photographed by a crewman aboard the yacht
Press - Staff Correspondent Dwight Geduldig was the only | reporter on the cruise.
it. * wrkist. k.. very F nice bath, Tul | ase. auto. at and wir "htr. { ie tasciation Storm wind. and Feel to. = TRAN O¥? ® If so, perhaps the home above Will interest you. It's just ome of HUNDREDS.of homes for sale which you will find- in the classified columns of today's Times: Homes from every section of the city and suburban areas, y i rion Yes, Te. Pie |twiktle as “highly imaginative,”| THE TIMES that brings you the GREATE ST .SELECTION of Real Es- : tate Ads!
proached within 75 yards of the su
et Tes et Frontier believes Jom fe 2 eclaring e’ Uniden at + are “very probably” Soviet ves- Hitler's U-boats e sels on “normal peacetime opera- convicted of helping the tions.” during the war. Donay, At the same time, he said Navy year-old Detroit importer,
a 51- type to take his life.”
ported underseas craft are of same time the Coast Guard submarine.
{German origin. This new possi- sighted an unidentified submarine
{bility was described by Adm. En- Sunday. {searched for Donay’s body, Nava
{be trie. suicide note found in Donay’'s have
{from the water.
|interested in the strange. dis- by him. 'appeafance Adm. Entwistle podhted oul
of Theodore Dona, His rather” "Felix Donay, in|
Could this be Russian? Or a Nazi fugitive still on the prowl? Sighted off Catalina Island, one of Southern California's playgroun
rine when two khaki-uniformed men on. the conning tower disappeared down a hatch, whereupon.
| the vessel submerged, witnesses said, Strange submarines have been sighted off the Russian, traveling in a pack on a training cruise. Allies failed to capture. Unconfirmed reports indicated the above sub was the USS Char.
Nazis Detroit said Donay “wasn’t the that at the end of World War II
While civilian authorities
Authorities ordered a - hand- intelligence investigated the pos- some | although he said that it could writing expert to determine if a|sibility that the submarine could | equipment for an escape run t landed someone on. the Japan.
3 rson tured, and at least one was | Intelligence officers, he zaid, are hotel rom actually was written) {mainland or picked up a perso cap Adm. Hopper said he s take what ap-| act ‘that night and within
crs Freripor's Fees | when Mayor Beeney-and City Cony {troller Phillip Bayt formed the | Interests hoi | Democratic | 5 | Committee. Sur, Cal, while picknicking Sun-| Campaign funds were collected day. His report was not con- hy the new political group and firmed by either the Navy or City Purchasing Agent Albert Coast Guard.. | Losche was named chairman. Another of these réports sent, the destroyer USS Colahan speed-| ocrats said the funds were ear ing north from San Francisco to; marked for the fall general elec search the waters off the North-| tion “to beat the Republicans." fern California coast over the! They said no funds would be used | |week-end. This correspondent in the primary. was aboard. | Now, however, it is expected On its’ return yesterday, the that the City Hall group wii Colahan's skipper, Capt. J. A. {throw its entire resources against Holbrook, and Lt. Fred Redeye, athe machine, veteran of submarine warfare, de-| “Ruthless Dictator” clared they are -convinced they| In attacking Mr. ds.. [ran through a pack of foreign day, Mayor hid a + bmarines during their four-day | the veteran Democratic leader was search.. They said they saw definite} The Mayor also charged the radar and sonar contacts made on| county machine used hgnnands unidentified underseas craft tak- ed methods” in in naming a ing what they described as “nor-| of candidates. mal evasive action.” { He dubbed the organization
Exclusive Times- -Acme Telephoto.
"Westward Ho" during the San Clemente races. The yacht .ap-
Northern California coast. The Western Sea
But it is not overlooking the possibility it is one of
“We believe all were accounted he said, “but there is always to believe a fleet of subs is oper-|cause Paul McDuff and
But he! there were numerous reports that for,” rented said it was “just plain silly” to high Nazis had fled Germany inthe possibility that one or more ating in the Northern California Cunningham visited New Orleans
intelligence officers were investi-' a motorboat and vanished at sea connect his brother's disappear- submarines with plans to- extan - th sighting of the lish ecret base in some isoSating the POSIBIINY IAL thie re [oar Catalina Lela Bout ante the Signting pag submarines sighted off the West, say there are four in this group.’ '| tilings.
got away.” _ area,” Capt. Holbrook caid. “They while Mr. McKinney vacationed. There have been nine reports of usually travel in packs and. ral in California during the primary lated part of the world. i Allied intelligence checked these Coast in the past three months.” The Colahan was dispatched, They tried to freeze out any thoroughly and found Some of these sightings have last Thursday after a naval _pa- candidates they weren't hand submarines loaded = with! been assessed by the - Navy asitrol plane reported sighting a sub- picking,” he charged. 0 “most probable.” marine periscope some 40 miles; In his office at the Fidelity The latest report came yester- oft the coast near Eureka, Cal. Trust building, Mr. McKinney day when Army Capt. Francis L.!The Colahan made its. first con- observed: “I notice he’s got his
1 reports
Several were sunk or,
bagged in Asiatic, waters,
ut! Entwistle said. _|peared to be a sub!
e off Point, ites made a second contact.
Good Government “;
At the time, the City Hall Dem=
- slate of City Hall candidates entered.” - Ee
|a “ruthless, power-mad dictator} :
“The contacts we made lead me| slate the “Sunshine ticket” be :