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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950
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Open Flag Races Today
First Ball at Washington
Bucs Meet Cards In First Night
Starter in History By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Apr. 18—The 1950 major league baseball season opened today, giving millions of Americans a| chance temporarily to forget the cold war. | President Truman led the parade of 250,000 fans to eight major league ball parks. Approximately 40,000 will see four American Association games today and ‘tonight. Millions more fans huddled around ‘radio and television sets. ) ‘The President was to throw ott
“the “first ball” at 2 p. m. (Indian-|
apolis time) at Washington, where the Washington Senators
Gus Bell, Whitey Platt and Dino Restelll ready to guard Indians outfield, photos Page 16. Major league managers tell how they think their clubs will fare in the 1950 pennant chase, story Page 16. High school nines go on batting spree, box scores Page 18.
met the Philadelphia Athletics. But this “first ball” ceremony
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wasn’t the real McCoy since several other games actually begin earlier. { The season really gets under-| way with the day’s principal at-| traction—-a game between the American League champion New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox at.1 p. m. (Indianapolis time) in Boston. Other opening American League games were St. Louis vs. Chicago at Chicago and Detroit vs, Cleveland, at Cleve-| land.
champion Brooklyn Dodgers met | Philadelphia at Philadelphia, the New York Giants met the Boston Braves at New York, the Chicago Cubs met the Cincinnati Reds at| Cincinnati and—tonight in the| first major league opening game under lights in history—the St. Louis Cardinals play the Pitts-
Some Rain Threats - PY baseball writers to finish in firs
As they banked the fires all over the hot stove league and prepared to go into real action once again, there was a forecast of threatening weather which ing day attendance trophy for the
might _lthird straight year. A full house mig fsa Jost ponement ore of 14,500 was expected for the
In Boston, where there was a first of the scheduled four-game
“crucial series” right at the stars SeTies. adi of the campaign. Red Sox Left 1 ReARerIAL Jas predicted er Mel apeell, 3 2gume A pre-game ceremony will include lated t year, Wasi, prief talk by a Hoosier favorite, sa 0 Oppose Yankee Right-\ ot. Eddie Rickenbacher, former Hander Allie Reynolds. Reynolds, 11 4:21 a polis Motor Speedway! who won 17 and lost six last year , ogigent who is president of Eastand became a World Series hero. orn Air Lines. This is his homeis the Yankees’ “best-conditioned ¢qwn. : pitcher.” according to Manager A pajr of lefties have been apCasey Stengel, who thinks he also pointed by opposing managers, Al might wind up by being the best 1 opez of Indianapolis and Rollie pitcher in the majors this season.|
The Dodgers, who are rated (Continued on Page 16 —Col. 1)
easy standouts to win the Na- ——
tional League again; will send pg, o their Negro star, Don Newcombe, No Reason to Go Hom
to the mound against ron WA oman Waits
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Task Still Not Finished |
| Completion by Apr. 1;
No Bills Sent Out
Marion County’s nine town(ships were supposed to have |placed a value on your property and sent you a state-
ment. They haven't.
Indiana state law - allows the various township assessors {until Apr. 1 to complete the task of reassessing all the property. Now—more than two weeks later — not one new assessment
has gone out in the entire county. . | All nine Marion County town-, ship assessors say it was physicalre-
{ly ‘impossible to complete the |assessment ‘in the alloted time. Combs Reopens Roy T. Combs, Center Township Assessor, predicted one
month before the Apr. 1 deadline
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Budget Jumps $224 Million for Health Service
that he would finish on time. He N y v shut his office and the vast $700,- LONDON, Apr. 18 (UP) 000 operation ground to a halt. — Lhe Labor government
Three days later, Mr. Combs opened his business at the same old stand in Tomlinson Hall. He
{admits today he is “far from fin- It announced another year ished.” *
State law Tequired-that-Marion Of high taxes, austerity and ‘County establish a ‘Board of: Res: frozen:--wages for hard-pressed view on Apr. 1 so property owners Britons. might. appeal township assess-| - \ogt of the increase for the
ments. 3 . . - ; { The board. consisting of the 1850-51 budget is for the national health plan, Britain's version of
county treasurer, auditor, assessor and two members selected by socialized medicine. . Circuit Judge Lloyd Claycombe, In his long-awaited budget speech in Commons, Chancellor
has been formed. : No Business A — But the board hasn't had any ___ World Report, Page 15 i business. No one knows what of the Exchequer Sir Stafford] their assessment is and conse- Cripps announced only three tax quently cannot appeal. concessions:
At one time, ry. © § y | {more than Sis 3 Cems. haa ONE: A one-sixth reduction in : “the tax on the first $700 of tax-'
boosted its budget by $224 million today. y
British Fage Reve froth
You Shot Down Missin
g Plane, Tells Russ
Pay Damages And Apologize
Denies Navy Craft | Violated Any | Soviet Territory WASHINGTON, Apr.-18 (UP)—The United States today accused Russia of shootling down an unarmed Amerie can Navy plane over the Baltic Sea.
} pee dt alse demanded indemnities
command assessing Center Township. He cut his staff, but recently began rehiring workers. The smaller - townships have kept the majority of. their workers. 3 Six townships — Decatur. Lawrence, “Franklin, Pike, Warren and Washington — have County Council to appropriate an
1% me Nationa! League tne IVIUNET® ‘on Mound in Tribe's Starter Against Red Birds
14,500 Expected to See AA Season Get Under Way Under Lights Tonight By BILL EGGERT, Times Sports Writer COLUMBUS; 0:7 Aprit-18-<The Indianapolis Indians; pressured{ WASHINGTON; Apr: 18 { UP) can Association baseball season here tonight against Columbus. Red Bird fans have been raising a lot of rumpus about their
{Columbus club, that returned home yesterday after winning 15 of 22 spring exhibition games, and are out to capture the open-
. ~=7a0 UR Truman in Form For First Pitch
He'll Start Majors’ Season, Right or Left
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t place, help open the 1950 Ameri-|__president Truman, ~ex-umpire
|who turned to piano playing and
#" ” - : . At 3 p. m., the nation’s bestProbable Lineups INDIANS RED BIRDS Bell, rf Moreci, cf
Basgall, 2b Restelli, cf
Steiner, 2b - geason. Natisin, 1b | The forecast is “possible show-
Stevens, 1b Miggins, rf ers” for the Philadelphia Ath- Em Platt, If Shofnef, 8b |letics-Washington Senators game. 3157 Tocent rains. and f8 tare | \ But, -rain or shine, the President] 3 Jans Bockman} 3b. Broome, If said his arm is in shape for his plant on higher grounds. Water ps hs . : |collected in the lowlands is exO'Connell, ss Costa, ss one-pitch chore. He tuned up for pected drain away within a few Ganss, ¢ Sarni, ¢ [the task last Saturday by throw- days, * 8 Muir, p Haddix, p |ing a veto at Congress.
|operations.
able income. But the basic income tax rate remains 45 per cent and surtaxes still range up to 97.5 per cent. TWO: A 50 per cent cut in the purchase tax. on Rolls Royces and other high-priced cars, from
asked 66%; per cent to 33'3; per cent. ....ders to collect $25,000 insur-|
Thus the purchase tax on all new
additional $19,000 to complete the cars will be 33'3 per cent. Job of reassessing.
THREE: Lifting of the pur-
Council will*act on the request chase tax for the next five years
“today or tomorrow.
Mercury to Drop
20° Here Tonight
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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.- Indiana’s three-day preview of summer was scheduled for-a 20-2
degree setback today. As temperatures
dicted a drop for tonight.
paid pitcher will throw one ball—| Sunny skies were to give way |the ceremonial “first” pitch open-| to showers tonight, with cloudiling the 1950 major league base-| Ness and a low of 45 degrees. To-
ball campaign—and then call it a MOrrow’s high will be 50. | The rains probably will not be
serious enough to hamper farm Fields are drying out
Umpires—Clegg, Heinlen, Mon-|
roe and Solodare. Game Time—7 p. m. (CST).
Near Churcl
Fifth Assignment
Male Students Hit Back
This will be Mr. Truman's fifth
starting assignment. Everybody After ‘Slight’ by Coeds
{who is anybody in Washington} will be among the 31,000 at Grif-| (UP) — Augustana College men fith Stadium to see whether the students,
ROCK ISLAND, Ill, Apr.
feeling they
[Chief Executive will throw left-| slighted by coeds during recent
| {right-handed, at which he
{handed, his ‘normal stance, oriwomen’s week activities, retaliis ated today with an “avoid wom-
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were
|equally- proficient as a pitcher.
jen” routine.
on materials for war memorials in churches.
Betty Suomela . . . freed by and punishment of the Soviet police. fliers responsible: ra The - accusation and; demands {were ¢ontainéd in a note handed are ove N g to the Soviet Foreign Ministry in {Moscow ¢* 8 a. m. (Indianapolis . ae [Time). State Department Spokesman n Ir in [ Michael J. McDermott made the _ note public here and went on to" . deliver an oral denunciation of the Engineer's Change of soviet Union. Heart Saves Family | The note itself denounced “the LOS ANGELES, Apr. 18 up) [INPLOvORER destruction of Amerie Police worked today on the the-| : ory that love for a red-haired] airlines stewardess drove Aircraft Engineer John H. Grant to try to} kill his wife and two children by] time-bombing a plane carrying 16 persons. Grant said he planned the mass;
ance he took out on his wife, Bet-|
The plane, a four-engined Navy Privateer patrol bomber, vanished over the Baltic Sea on Apr. 8 with 10 crewmen aboard. No trace of the missing ship or its crew has been found, despite a week-long search. Disputes Soviet On Apr. 10, Moscow fired a pro-
ty, 29, and their children, Robert, test at the United States charg5 and Mary Anne, 4, just before/ing that an American plane had they boarded the United Airlines!flown over Soviet Latvia and fired DC-3. ion Soviet fighter planes that in He said he needed the money tercepted it. :
Mr. Cripps offset these conces-|to clear himself of back-breaking| Both those allegations werd de= sions by imposing a tax on book- debts totaling about $8000. Most|pjed flatly in today’s note.
imakers handling football pools,
lof the debts were incurred, hel My McDermott further called
|increasing the gasoline tax 100/52id. when a New York woman the Soviets to task for decorating
per cent, putting 333
purchase tax on trucks and subjecting gifts of company shares
to high executives to surtax.
politics, switches to pitching to- shortly before noon on their way is $43 billion. day. Right or left-handed, he is/to an expected high for 72 for
lower rates of income tax squarely at the lower-paid workers in Britain, who form the backbone of the Labor government’s supporters. He also strengthened coholic content of their favorite drink —beer-—-although the price and tax will remain the same. Winston Churchill's Conservatives well may try to maneuver a Labor defeat on the provisions of the budget. If so, an election would follow 21 days later.
Census Here NOT Complete
Census taking in Indianapolis and Marion County is not complete.
the al-|
per cent/WOD a suit naming him as then, Russian fighter pilots who
| father of her child. shot down the American pl
However, Betty Suomela . of! and for their failure to help Hermosa Beach, Cal., told. officers search for the missing men.
that she and Grant had carried
He proposed a 1950-51 budget on a. love affair for the past three Moreover, the Soylet governs . . ny f $9,674,000,000, an increase of years. £224 million over 1949-50. The)
reached 68 United States budget for 1950-51 visor-of stewardesses for Ameri- an American aircraft,” he said
ment has thus far shown no sign . Miss Suomela, assistant super- of regret for its attack against
can Airlines, said the 31-year-old in amplifying the note.
Mr. Cripps aimed his main con- engineer was supposed to be in| The note demanded that Ruse
ready. |the day, weather forecasters pre- cession — the reduction in the COUrt arranging for a divorce at|gjs “institute a prompt and thore | | __ the very moment his plot to blow|
” lup the airliner was discovered. Sah reatigation ee 1a Shouts Warning land provocative behavior of its Grant said it was a last min- aviators,” punish the guilty fliers ute change of heart that g¢aused “promptly and severely, ‘and inhim to shout a warning to cargo| ei uct the Red air force to “ree
loaders just as they placed a suitcase he had rigged with an yo{ Ein trom Such Befions Mthe
cendiary bomb aboard the twoDemands Indemnity
engined plane. | United States, it added,
| Police were't so sure about that.! pe (They were checking the exact 3150 expects that Russia will sequence of events in the belief “pay appropriate indemnity for that Grant may not have had his|iphe unprovoked destruction of
(Continued on Page 3—Col. 2) | American lives and property.”
Raft Found in Baltic Type Used by U. S. Navy |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Apr. | 18 (UP)—A life raft picked up in| the Baltic Sea was identified by| |U. 8. Air Force officers today as,
“The investigation conducted by the United States government has convinced it that the U. 8. Navy plane in question did not fly over any Soviet or Soviet occupied territory or territorial waters adjacent - thereto,” the. note said. *
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Wanders From Home Wheré Sister Is Missing;
|... Located by Police After Neighbors’ Reports... It was past midnight, but several hours still had to pass before the sun’s rays would filter through the haze cloaking the city. ~~ In the darkened doorway of SS, Peter and Paul Cathedral | huddled the form of an 80-year-old woman. She remained virtually
motionless, the patience of age weighed upon her.
| Over the city the lights of police squad cars probed the dark-
CM Teft-handed”
(ness, spotlights flashing into al-|
leys and lonely recesses of door- walked and walked. .“|turned to dusk, dusk turned to Then. the lights of one picked darkness and in the gloom of
|ways.
{out the quiet form leaning against pers
3ithe door of the house of worship.|a
[person in a big city the police peace.
|looked for. . Woman Questioned Gently Patrolmen Alvie Emmel-| man and Philip McGee questioned! {the elderly woman. She wanted to, {wait until the church doors opened lat dawn. She wanted to enter the |comforting church, seek solace for {her sorrow. Comfortingly police urged she {go home, the darkened city was no {place for her to roam. { | Neighbors had set a search in {motion when she did not return to| |her home after leaving in mid-| |aftefnoon yesterday. | It was then she had departed | {for a visit with her sister, also jeqerly, who is hospitalized with| a broken hip, suffered in a fall on the street five days ago. No Reason to Go Home But as happens at times with! people of age and sorrow, she! kept walking the streets either {unwilling or unable to go ‘home. {And there was no reason to go home. For years she and her sister ‘had meele their home together. [Now half of the household was!
gone,
n | Ad so the little “old lady|
| He hasn't revealed his strategy. | {Last year, he threw a southpaw obey the following rules: |spitter; the year before that he No dating. No shaving. No threw two “first” pitches — one|talking with coeds after 7 p. m.| one’ tight=1 No fraterntzation” in-the library:
and’ | handed. . ‘Veep’ in. Action, Too an umpire
ball start as
| Bryant's pasture in Independence, | "Mo., will share opening day cere-| Daylight \monial honors with Vice Presi-| ident Alben W. Barkley. The 72-| | year-old “Veep” will march to the onal thought her feet turned centerfield flagpole with 87-year-automatically to the cathedraljold Connie Mack of the Philadel[The little old lady was but one where she knew she would find phia Athletics and. 80-year-old Clark Griffith of the Washington the
Senators to. preside over
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_ | After his one toss, Mr. Truman “turns the pitching over to two right-handers—Carl Scheib of the Athletics, who drew car Indianapolis Race Cars, Inc, the starting assignment because
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Tony Diggin Leaves Hospital
Tony Diggin, hospitalized again on Friday in serious condition, in the race won't be known until was released from St. Vincent's after the test runs, The Times
{Hospital this morning.
Hospital attaches said he rest-| Metal Auto Parts, the team man|ed well last night. His parents ager. said* doctors had reduced body swelling that had been impairing is the Maserati piloted last year his breathing and that he was by Lee Wallard and formerly
“looking and feeling fine.” His father, Thomas
[the new “bike” that { him at the hospital.
Mr. Truman, who got his base are off limit§ to men.
of his record of previous suc|cesses aganist Washington, and , a time two years ago but
|Ray Scarborough, who won 13/44: drive in the 500 in 1948 or and lost 11 for the last-place 10,40
Diggin, Wilbur 1064 Oliver Ave., went to the hos- president. Wallard this year will pital to bring the 11-year-old leu- drive for the Lou Moore Victory kemia victim home, t her with team. sent to
Until The Times sincerely regrets the story which appeared yesterday stating the count was
complete. We were in error.
Saturday, the men will
| Strict segregation of sexes at the | student union meeting Thursday | (night. "All 9yomen’s dormitories
County director, said today it will be fully two weeks before all noses are counted.
one of the type carried by the, Mr. McDermott said the note |Navy Privateer plane lost in the|“corrects the distortions of fact | Baltic. {which the Soviet government has | Capt. D. J. Klingler, U. 8. air injected into the incident and Irescue commander, said the raft Puts the matter in its true light
Henry “EB: “Neal, “Marion Would be'fiown at’ ofice to Wies-| as-an: attack: against unarmed.
|baden, headquarters of the U. 8.| Americans.”
| Air Force in Europe, where rec-| . Mr. McDermott also paid: tribe
{ords there may show whether it/ute to the Scandinavian coun-
Cliff Bergere May Driv
Has More Miles Than Any Other By ART WRIGHT } Cliff Bergere, who has driven more miles on the Indianapolis Speedway than any other pilot, is
being considered for one of the driving assignments of the two-
Bergere was on the Novi team
| The veteran Bergere will be at | the wheel of the new-engined IRC entry driven last year by Fred Agabashian when the team be|gins test runs at the Speedway early in May. Who will actually drive the cars
| was told today by C. A. Myers, of The second car entered by IRC]
driven by the late Ted Horn and Shaw, now Speedway
piston displacement of
The car Agabashian piloted-last inches. It has a
year has a new engine, one of supercharger. It is one of the)
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~ Cliff Bergere, who might drive for IRC in the 500, sits in the 179-cubic i Mechanic Roy (Whitey) Worline is on the left and C. A. Myers, team manager, is other car is the Maserati driven last year by Lee Wallard.. v
{was actually from the Navy plane. tries for their help in the search.
e IRC’s Entry in ‘500’
v
nch_eniry of IRC: neriing. The
the latest developments of speed smaller engines built for the race. car last year it had a Maserati competition. It is a four-cylinder ne 1,0u Moore Victory cars have engine, which has since Meyer-Drake-power plant with a! : i 179.7 h-efficiency | inches. :
been | scrapped. - : The car Wallard drove last |year has been {from When Agabashian drove "the radiator to tail.
piston -displacements of 270 cubic