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Indianapolis To Go on fang Time Sunday
Factories, Offices To Put Clocks “One Hour Ahead | Indianapolis homes, stores and factories will set their clocks ahead one hour at 2 a. m. Sunday. State, county and city offices and schools will keep their clocks on standard time, but will change their hours to conform to those observed elsewhere “in the city. f+ The post office will adopt “ad-! vance time” at 2 a. m. Sunday. Little Uproar { The approach of the summer-| _tYime “fast time” era has been! marked by little of the confusion and controversy of a year ago.
At that time the state was split by the repercussions caused
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when the Legislature adopted a bill putting the state officially on Central Standard Time the year around. The Legislature's act was binding only on public offices. Factories, stores and residences still were free to adopt any time they chose. Most of them in Indianapolis chose “fast time” for the summer months. So did most communities in the state north of U. 8. 40. Many south of U. 8. 40 remained on standard time. The same pattern probably will prevail this year, said Harold Schuman, secretary of the industrial relations division of the Indiana Manufacturers Association. Indianapolis public schools will operate “one hour earlier,” Supt. Virgil Stinebaugh said, Catholic and Lutheran schools will run on Daylight Saving Time. State offices in Indianapolis will open at 7:30 a. m. Central Standard Time and close at.3:30 p. m., Arthur Campbell, secretary to Gov. Schricker, announced. This will coincide with Daylight Saving Time hours of 8:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. Voting Times Unchanged County offices will operate from 7 a. m. to 3 p. m.. Central Standard Time, equivalent to 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. DST. Voting places will operate from 6am to6p m CST or 7a m. to 7 p. m. DST in Tuesday's primary election, County Clerk A. Jack Tilson said. Taverns will be closed Tuesday from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m., DST. State law provides that taverns may not open on election day until the polls close. In fast-time areas, taverns will be open until 1 a. m., DST, or midnight, C8T, through the summer. Alcoholic Beverage Commission . officials emphasized, however, that the arrival of Daylight Saving Time does not give taverns an extra hour of operation. The
opening time must remain at 7
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Now Spring Has Really Arrived
Spring has sprung. Arthur O'Connor, 12. of 1154 W. 30th St., was in General Hospital today with a nose injury. He was hit in the face with a baseball while playing in the back yard of his home yesterday. Mike Baird, 3. of 2303 Hoyt Ave. was treated at the hospital. He swallowed a marble.
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J. I. Holcomb
When Lieselott Elsner, 4, arrived at Hoboken, N. J. abvard
the SS Nieuw Amsterdam from became untied. She fixed. that
Munich, Germany, her shoe lace up. ‘And the camera passed it
along. She will live at Corona, L. I.
Irvington Pastor Indorses
Candidate to
Ministry
Backs Fairchild as Prosecutor; Called ‘Unusual’ by Synod Official
The Rev. Howard W. Stone,
pastor of the Irvington Presby-
terian Church, today indorsed a political candidate to the entire
ministry of Marion County. Frank Fairchild, Republican
dorsed by the Irvington pastor in an open letter.
candidate for prosecutor, was inIt was addressed
to every minister in the city and county.
Clerk Candidates State Platforms
oe ’ Of ‘License Racket By IRVING LEIBOWITZ For years there has been standing joke in the Marion County Courthouse that all a poor man had to do to buv a hig home, drive a big car and present his wife. with a fur coat was to become County Clerk. Some who ran for County Clerk GO PRebels score coup in county drive, Page 3. rose from rags to riches on the $£40.000-a-year marriage license racket. The clerk is duty-bound to issue marriage licenses to all qualified couples. He is not duty-bound, however, to insist they buy elaborate marriage certificates to go with the licenses at extra cost. Therein lies the story of why some County Clerks gained riches and why others managed to get
along on their $10.000-a-year salary. } When election time rolled
around, the candidates for County Clerk invariably promised and
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Named Board
Vice President at Butler
Are Appointed
J. I. Holcomb, Indianapolis manufacturer, today was named vice president of the Board. of Directors of Butler University. He succeeded Emsley W. Johnson Sr., who died recently. Appointment of three new members to the board was announced by Hilton U. Brown, chairman of the board. They. were Joseph Irwin Miller, Columbus; Keller T. Brock, president of Haag Drug Co., Indianapolis, and Emsley W. Johnson Jr., Indianapolis attorney and son of the late vice president. Mr. Holcomb has been on the Butler Board of Directors since 1936. As chairman of the building and grounds committee, he supervised recent road development on the campus and construction of the new $1,125,000
John W. Atherton Center and the Pharmacy -
$700,000 College . of building. He is president of the boards of directors of J. I. Holcomb Manufacturing Co. and Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Co. and a director of the American National Bank, He is a member of the Indianapolis Welfare Society, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade, and a former member of the Indiana State Congervation Committee. and president of the Indiana Lincoln Union. _ Mr. Miller is president of the Irwin Union Trust Co., the Cum5
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Mr. Holcomb
Mr. Johnson
-Mr. Brock
Mr. Miller
mins Engine Co. and the Union Starch & Refining Co., all of Columbus. He is a director of the Indiana National Bank in Indianapolis, a member of the Columbus Christian Church and treasurer of the Christian. Foundation. Mr. Brock. a former school teacher, has been president of the Haag Drug Co. since it was organized in 1929. : Mr. Johnson served two years in the State Legislature and was judge of Marion County Superior Court 3 from 1944 to 1947. He is a graduate of Indiana and Butler Universities,
~ tried “to intimidate him. He
The Rev. Mr. Stone said of Mr. Fairchild: “Men have tried to buy him. He |refuses to. be bought. Men have 1efuses to be intimidated. Frank Fairchild has no political commitments nor obligations. He has entered the primaries out of a ‘high sense of civic duty.” Writes as ‘Citizen’ The East Side minister, pastor of one of the largest Presbyterfan churches in the city, stressed that he was writing the letter of indorsement asa “Christian citizen” and not in his official capacity as the minister of a church The Rev. Roy E. Mueller, executive secretary of the Indiana Pres bvterian Svnod. said the indorse-
, ment was “unusual.’
“However, the Rev. Mr. Mueller added that "a minister would have a right to indorse a churchman as a good man for government.’ The state administrative executive of the Phesbyterian Church added “there is no overall supervision of Presbyterian ministers unless there is a complaint.” Contacted at his Irvington Church, the Rev. Mr. Stone said that he was of the opinion “a person could be a citizen as well as a minister in the interests of good government. Mr. Fairchild. a member of the Rev. Mr. Stone's 1600-member congregation and a trustee of the church, could not be reached for comment.
The open letter indorsing Mr
Fairchild was written on the Rev. Mr. Stone's personal stationery. In closing, the Rev. Mr. Stone wrote: “I trust you will do all in vour power. to let people know about "him.”~ »
Phone ‘Jamming’
Assails Union's Threat to Service
An Indiana Bell Telephone Co. official today described as’ ‘“sabotage” the threatened “jamming” of long distance telephone service by striking Western Electric Co. installers. Charles W. Potter, vice president and general manager of the company, said it was “difficult to understand such irresponsible union leadership.” His statement was made after the striking installers announced their intention to tie up the long distance lines at 10 a. m. tomorrow unless settlement nears in the wage dispute. Kenneth A. Silvers, state representative of Division 6, CIO Communication Workers of America, said 237 members of the union would “jam” long distance switchboards in approximately 14 ‘Indiana cities where they are striking. The union's action was called by Mr. Potter “an attempt to
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Bank Call issued
WASHINGTON, Apr. 27 (UP)— The Comptroller of Currency today issued a call for the condition
‘of all national banks as of Apr | 24. 3
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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1950
Ball Park Fare Looms
Risks Charge
At Spy Probe
Browder ‘Refuses To Answer Query Put by Senator | “WASHINGTON, Apr. 27 (UP)—Earl Browder, deposed boss of American Communists, swore under oath today that he knows of no Communists in the State Department. :
He also branded as “false” exCommunist Louis F. Budenz's sworn statement that Mr: Browder “officially” had described Owen Lattimore as a Communist. | Mr. Browder then invited possible contempt action when he flatlv refused to tell Senate investi-
. gators who. besides himself and
a Chinese Red leader; was pres: -ent at a meeting before the formation of the United Nations at San Francisco.
Won't Give Names
He testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee investigating charges by Sen Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) that the State Department is infested with Communists and that Dr. Lattimore is a Communist spy. For more than an hour, Mr. Browder answered committee questions —saying among other things that he did not know, never had met and never had any contacts with Dr. Lattimore: that he never tried to place any Reds in the State Department; that he knows of no Communists in the
knew of any he would tell the , committee but would not give any names, Then, however. Mr. Browder became defiant when Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R. Iowa! asked who was present at a meeting with Mr. Browder and a Chinese Communist leader . hefore the United Nations was formed.
Usual Prelude
“I do not remember and if 1 —did-I-would not give vou that information,” Mr. Browder replied quietly, Sen Hickenlooper promptly noted for the record that all five members af the subcommittee were present. Thie usually is the congressional prelude to a contempt citation which . possibly could result in a jail sentence and a fine. When Mr. Browder said he could not be forced to answer Mr. Hickenlooper said “that determination will be made by the committee.” “Possibly.” shrugged:
Mr. Brow der
Broad Ripple May Get Dime Store
Prospects for-another-nationai
dime store” near the Broad Ripple shopping district loomed today. : The possibility is contingent
upon City Zoning Board approval May 22 of a $100.000 two-story building for a ‘national five-and-ten” at Broadway and Wesrfield Blvd The petition
asks variance
At
the Bedford building. The application was submitted bv Robert L. Reed. 6325 Guilford Ave The second floor of the building will contain office space.
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Probe Hints Reds Handle Army Files
By JAMES DANIEL Sertpps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Apr. 27-A major scandal involving Communist infiltration and fraud at the Army Finance Center is about to
break. The center is located in St. Louis. It handles the family allotments for all members of -the Army,
It's one of the nrst places to detect any decrease, or increase, in the size of our Army 'units overseas. A subcommittee of the House Civil] Service Committee has been investigating the center since last
November. At the Army's request, the hearings have been closed. But the subcommittee is
now at work on its report. a Meanwhile, the Army is pleading for more time to clean house before the story is told to the public.
Chairman of the subcommittee
is Rep. Raymond M. Karst (D. Mo.), Rep. Eugene J. McCarthy tD. Minn.) and Rep. Edward H. (R. Kas.), are the other members. Problems Tie Up When the investigation began, Mr. Karst said the subcommittee thought that the allegations of fraud and the allegations of subversive activity at the center were separate problems.
“But,” says he, “we found that firm started work on another Board of Directors to succeed Mr. who nine-story rental development at Reid. Mr. Pearce is pr were involved in the fiscal laxity 1304 N. Delaware St. This project Railway Service and Supply Corp. were the same employees who will cost $900,000 and wi’ contain
the important employees
were involved in the recruitment and protection of the individuals
whose loyalty to this country is constructed for an affiliate com- Pierre F.
doubtful.” Sixtv-three of the 8St. Center's employees have
1947.
the FBI since 4 43 either
dismissed as security risks. $90 Million Overpaid While the Army Finance Center was turning up 43 security
risks. other loyalty boards declared 448 persons ineligible for employment.
“This indicates that a tenth of the bad risks in the government were in the finance center,” Mr. Karst says. The center emplovs 4500 of the government's 2 million. When the subcommittee inves tigation began. the Army was standing on the statement of its present. Chief of Finance Maj. “Gen. Eugene -M. Foster. that the finance center had overpaid only $90 million. Gen. Foster said the overpay-
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Jerry Dunaway On Critical List
Little Jerry Dunaway was back on the critical list today. The 7-year-old leukemia victim who won a reprieve from death through treatment with “wonder drug” ACTH “may “have "to be rehospitalized immediately. The family doctor made clinical "tests wihch revealed Jerry's bone marrow is again almost 100 per cent invaded with the leukemic cells which threaten his life. This means, the marrow has TRLUL Ded £0 wR IMOst- the original e affected a
vesterday
state before ACTH
temporary remission of the disease. Arrangements were under way today to obtain the hard-to-get
drug immediately for more treatments.
St. Vincent's ere at 82
Known as Spiritual Leader at Hospital; Entered Daughters of Charity in 1894
Sister Agnes, widely known
Vincent's Hospital, died early today in the hospital following a long geniuses”
illness. She was 82. Born in Norwich, Ontario. Ca Bridget Amelia Keane. completed nursing training in St fore entering the Community of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent's de Paul in 1894 at Emmitsburg, Md. A registered nurse, Sister Agnes served with others of her order in the Spanish-American War before coming to Indianapolis in 1901. Head Nurse in Ward She served in the old St. -Vincent’'s Hospital on 8. Delaware St. until 1912 and then moved to the present hospital op W. Fall Creek Blvd. Before her illness, she was a head nurse in a surgery ward for men a number of vears. Sister Agnes took a personal interest in the physical and spiritual well-being of her patients many of whom returned to visit her during her illness, | At one time President Theodore
nurse and spiritual leader at St.
nada. Sister Agnes was christened
She attended schools in Buffalo, N. Y., and
Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, be-
Roosevelt was taken ill in Indianapolis and she served as his personal nurse in the hospital. Later, the late President presented her with his autographed photograph as a token of gratitude: Mass Saturday Surviving are a sister. Mrs. Clara Tiffany, Buffalo, six nieces ind two nephews. A requiem solemn mass will be sung at 9:30 a. m. Saturday in the hospital chapel. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond Noll. pastor of S88. Peter and Paul Tathedral, will be the celebrant. The Rev. Fr. Victor Goossens, pastor of St. Mary's Church, will deliver the sermon. Burial will follow in Holy Cross Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel after 6. p. m. today.
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Apartment House May 15
Nine-Story Tower On Meridian to Cost $2 Million
By LARRY STILLERMAN mes Real Estate Editor
Ti Work will start May-15 on
ment building at 3710 N. Meridian St., The Times learned today. The project will contain 238 units and will cost well over $2
million. Itwill be called Shoreland Tow-
ers, an evestopper with terrace garden penthouses topping the brick—veneer structure,
The apartment is the latest of six rental projects up, or going up, under 1950 construction plans by the IL. & I. Building Coxp.
principal stockholders in the corporation, are also developers of
the massive Windsor Village, East and general manager, Miss Liland assistant treasurer; Edgar A. Claffey, treasurer and assistant” sec-
Side single and multifamily development. . Plan Second Building They also have cleared plans for a nine-story apartment at 3470 N. Meridian St. Work on this 101-unit. $900,000 project will start May 1. “And last Monday, the Lippman
108 units.
Lawsuit To Block 25-Cent |
Special Bus Rate To Victory Field Called
‘Discriminatory’ Move
Attorney for Indians Says Many Fans
Have Asked Refunds
By
on Season Tickets
ROBERT BLOEM
Indianapolis Railways today faced prospect of an ine junction suit to block continuance of the new 25-cent bus
fare for baseball fans.
David Lewis, attorney for the Indianapolis Baseball a nine-story twin tower apart- Club, Inc., said the suit probably would be filed late today
Dale Elected President Of Railways
president —of -Indianapolis ways, -Inc., today.
He succeeds. Harry Reid, presi-
dent since 1941, who’ is retiring.
or sometime tomorrow. ‘Mr. Lewis said the club management already had received a number of requests for refunds on season tickets because of the “discriminatory and prohibitive’ rate now being charged
The “Indiana Public Servica Commission authorized the hike last week-end, effective immediately. The order raised the rate
The Board of Directors. at its between the Circle and the ball
officers:
Leo and Maurice B. Lippman. annual meeting. also elected these park to 25 cents each way, more
than double the regular fare, and
J. P. Tretton Sr., vice president withdrew transfer privileges.
lian Siegrist, secretary
retary, and C. comptroller. Board Election
O. Pinkerton
Stockholders, also holding their
elected Edwi ; is lar fare of 12 cents each way to
annual meeting, 8. Pearce, Indianapolis, to
Directors
Dale, Mr. Tretton, George C
The three buildings are being Forrey Jr., Edward 8. Goodrich
pany of the L. & L. Corp.
In addition to the planned projtwo
the Lippmans have
$413,000 Granville Apartments at 6102-16 Carvel Ave. and the 35unit $175,000 Windermire Apartments. in the 6100 block Compton Ave. ‘ Inclement weather has slowed construction of the 310-unit Negro rental project, Barrington Heights, at Keystone Ave. and Minnesota St. However, this $1.6 ‘million development will be readv for tenants late this L. & L. officials said Shoreland Towers will be Hshaped, containing 182 efficiency. 53 one-bedroom, one two-bedroom and one three-bedroom units. There will also be a custodian's apartment . Rents Start at $737.50 Monthly rents will range from $77.50 to $97.50. for the efficiencies and from $130 to $250 for the penthouse dwellings. The FHA-insured project is underwritten by the Manufacturers Trust Co. of New York. FHA also disclosed the New York firm was mortgagee for the 13th and Delaware Sts. project Shoreland Towers was planned bv Paul I. Cripe. Inc designers of most Lippman projects The Delaware "St. and. both ‘Meridian St. structures will be completed late this year or early 1951. corporation officials stated. However, ho applications for units will be taken for any of these projects now, spokesmen said. !
Whole Word Held
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Mental Hygiene Group Hears Doctor
By CLIFFORD THURMAN “The whole world is sick mentally ill." Dr. William C. Menninger, general secretary of the Menninger Foundation; Topeka, Kas., made that startling statement today in Indianapolis. “Americans may be technical
he said, “but insofar as they remain indifferent to their relationships with one ?
another they will continue to be Dr. Menninger social morons.” Dr. Menninger was here to address the luncheon meeting of the Indiana State Mental Hygiene Society at the Columbia Club. “This sick and troubled. world is of our making and is our responsibility.” the widely known psychiatrist said. “To bring more security and happiness into this troubled world, the individual citizen must learn as much about
emotional first aid as "about physical first aid.” The problem of mental {ll
health is a growing one. Dr. Menninger pointed out. He said one out of every 10 families in
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summer,
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Phone | nformation Booth at Home Show
Goodrich, Irving
Ross H. Wallace.
.. operators of electrical and transportation facilities. In Ft. Wayne he supervised transition from street car operation to trolley coaches and motor busses. After a short affiliation with Bowser, Inc., he returned to Indianapolis Sept. 15, 1948, as executive vice president of Indianapolis Railways, Inc. : Entered Field in 1913 He entered the utilities field in 1913 with the Kentucky Utilities Co. He iz a veteran World War 1. and a meéniber of the Service Club, the Second Presbyterian Church ¢ tish Rite and Shrine lodges, the Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Columbia Club. He and Mrs. Dale reside at 5715 N. Pennsylvania St. A married daughter lives in California.
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Mr. Dale is a native of LexingBroad Ripple apartment bufldings ton. Ky. He was an official of ready for occupancy this summer.
the. Public Service Co. of Indiana while under investigation or were These structures Sire the ot-unie/ fe Ft. as ndiana Service Co
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‘Costs 74 Cents’ “That means it costs practically anybody who wants to ride Ine dianapolis Railways transportae tion 74 cents for the round trip from home to the park and back,” Mr. Lewis said. “A fan now must pay the regu-
get from his home to the Circle,
esident of and then an additional! 50 cents
to get-to the park and back to the Circle. That is because it is no longer possible to use transfers to or from the special busses.”
Mr. Lewis said the injunction suit would not be filed in the Lemaux, J. Dwight Peterson and name of the baseball club but in the name of a number of fans who have complained about the
new rate.
company Q need crease in fare for special busses because of the long lavover time for drivers during the game,
“But why should Indianapolis Railways single out baseball fans for this rate increase?” Mr. Lewis said. “So far as I know there is no increase for other special sports events, most of which are served by Indianapolis Railways.” He said he will charge in the suit that the commission acted contrary te ‘law by granting the rate increase without notice. He also charged it is a “danger-
ous practice’ to permit such. ine
creases as this without hearing or Anvestigation. Ball park figures show, Mr. Lewis said. that normally about 12 per cent of all fans reach the park by bus. In the first-two games since the fare increase the number was only about 5 per
“It's pretty obvious that a lot of good fans were. forced to stay home.” Mr. Lewis =aid.
cent, he said
Freezing Temperature Predicted for Tonight Indiana ill take it on. the chin from Noe Man Winter” again tonight. The Weather Bureau predicted freezing “temperatiires or below for most of the state. Frost was expected to be widespread and tender vegetation may be dame aged, the weatherman warned. The mercury may dip to an all-time low for the date in Indianapolis. A low of 32-35
Your ‘Job
Busiest One
Exposition in 6th Record-Breaking Day
By LARRY STILLERMAN
Times Real Estate Editor
The busiest booth at the Silver
Anniversary Home Show will continue to keep its lines today.
Its wires hummed as the expo-
sition rolled into its sixth record-
Home Show Facts WHERE — Manufacturers Building, State Fairgrounds. WHEN—Daily through Apr. 30, 11 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. Indianapolis Real Estate Board Day. TOURING GROUPS — Nineteen high school, college and club groups in home economics and planning. i breaking day. And it kept things jangling for the anticipated closing rush this week-end. The booth doesn't sell TV sets or insulation or hot dogs. It hawks service, some of it for five cents, most of it free.
It's the telephone booth, “mid- |
dleman” for the 64.000 who have strolled through the housing fair, harbinger of information for 50.000 yet to see the “miracle of 38th Street.” And the
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