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SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1950

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F rani McKinney, S. Side Youth, Rises to Vast Power In State

Started as Teller, Now Owns Bank;

2 Baseball Teams in Huge Domain.

By EDWIN C. “HEINKE MIDAS McKINNEY. Everything he has touched has turned to gold. He's a fellow: Who never planned or even hoped to amass great wealth, yet now finds plenty of dollars in his ‘coffers.

the most powerful politi- - cal figures in Indiana history—and probably could | become one of the top names in the national scene if he chose. + Who was born with a nature that was shy and retiring but finds himself hobnobbing with Presidents, movie-stars, the na- ! tion's top business and political leaders — in whose mail frequently come letters on White House stationery signed by Harry 8. Truman. : Who managed .a semipro baseball team in his youth for’ sheer love of the sport, and now’ is. boss of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League and the Indianapolis Indians of the American Association.

» » - WHERE NOW goes Frank E, McKinpey at the relatively young age of 45? Will he rise, even against his

--worn by his father, who some 40 years later was to become chief of the Indianapolis fire

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"Mrs, Anna McKinney : X

will, to greater heights in his mother who taught him well. Het amazing business and political ,, : “Th ; career” at son of mine,” choked Chief McKinney, the tears

Frank McKinney himself says he is through with politics for-

swimming in his Irish eyes. “He has been good to me. . I'told him when he was a kid that I hoped he would become a priest and he would say, ‘No, dad, I'd rather become a banker, ; “*‘Why you know, maybe ok some day I'll even own a bank.’ 3 “And by God, there it is! 5 mused the grizzled veteran of nearly half a century in the Fire Department. » - ~

FRANK McKINKEY had ts

quit high school in his second Year to earn his living. ‘ But in

a public office, elective, He has told high inside Washington officialdom to take his name: out of consideration for . the Cabinet post of Secretary of the Treasury, which hé probably eould haye had. He has told high state Demoerats he is resigning as state Democratic treasurer. He says he is winding up all business ventures to concentrate in the future upon his bejoved Fidelity Trust Co. and his equally beloved Pittsburgh ‘and. - iagusepiiny Indians, i

BUT WILL the strange chain ’ of eircamstances that many times have guided his life Hon Bush: « » the against his'will now permit him Th Frank - Ownie to‘fo retire from forces that have gether. catapulted him into Successful venture after venture? Frank McKinney says “yes” as he sits at his desk in the “Fidelity Trust. But in his eyes there is a little doubt and I believe that deep in his heart he wonders, too. 3

appointive or

degree of doctor of philosophy by St. Francis Collegé, Loretto Pa, with. - Gov, Duff | Pat O'Brien movie fame, also receiving the honors.

His greatest pride came when Cardinal Spellman, representing the Vatican, conferred upon him the highest honor to be given a Catholic layman. In 1945 he was made a member of the Knights of Malta, the only man in Indiana to receive such an honor.

Francis Edward SeRiniey was born June 16, 1904, to Roscoe and Anna McKinney at 29 LeGrande Ave. He was a kid whose first trousers were cut down from a pair of frayed fireman's pants

Banking is my business . . . Francis Edward McKinney.

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October; 1947, he way given the

Democratic Senate Race

Announcement Made After Conversation —— With Schricker ° By NOBLE REED .. Indicating some “powerful backing," Congressman An-|. drew Jacobs last night for{mally announced —his-candi-| dacy for the Democratic

nomination*for U. 8. Senator from Indiana. Although Rep, ' Jacobs had been mentioned prominently as) a possible senatorial candidate |B after his debates last year with |

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Republican Sen. ‘Homer E. Capehart, he didn’t have state-wide backing until this week. Announcement of his candis dacy followed only two days after a conference with Gov. Henry F. Schricker and Samuel Jackson, Ft. Wayne, who also had been mentioned for the senatorial race. Mr, Jacobs’ announcement Is presumed to have eliminated the | possibility that Mr. Jackson will [become a senatorial candidate, Official Nod Indicated “I can’t speak for Mr, Jackson {but I can say I don't expect him see that the year 1023 was the | [to be a candidate, " the Congressmost significant In his career. |man said. That was the year he stood | Although Gov. Schricker has behind the teller's cage in the {made no public statements on the People’s State Bank, courteous, | Jacobs candidacy, it is presumed all the customers, | the Governor gave the Indtanapo-| especially to one whom he ad- {1s Congressman an official “nod” dressed as Mrs, Bush.’ {for support. Young McKinney had always “I would not have announced been courteous to women. It my candidacy if I had not bgen wag something his mother had [assured of enough support to win taught him. He had always [the nomination at the State Demo~ helped her with the dishes, [cratic convention,” Rep. Jacobs! § much to the dismay of his fa- (sald. ther, who thought he was rear- | ing a sissy. For a man who, when he was young, had often ‘come home with a blackened eye or a bloody nose, this quiet, studious kid who liked to lp: his mother was a problem. “How do you do, Mrs. Bush,” the young teller’ would say. ou_sit

LOOKING BACK new info | Frank McKinney's life, you'll |

Heads Subcommittee

He ‘added that he could not speak for Gov. Schricker but hinted he had been assured the support of powerful forces within the Schricker State House organi-| zation. ‘This support had been open fdr some senatorial candidate for

rt for more than four Fonte under Te ba banner of the

FRANK HAD feard a Jot about the great Ownie Bush . but he had néver met him, And one day Mrs. Bush, her

Charles C. Price of

Relies on Commitiee

Rep.—Jacobs said the Marion County Democratic Committee under Chairnan Paul MeDufr|

Graduates Get ‘Warm Reception rage Af Commencement

Inside The Times Section One

Public likes its lotteries masked . . . third of a series on gambling ......

NEW YORK, June 3 ( 5 | A fire broke up commencement @ |exercises of Pratt Institute to-

asses rane

Bush Crash

(UP)—I

will form campaign oe nlaton ‘petween|

“I will go back to Washington

Injures 37 in Ohio

Greyhound Carrying 40 Pastangers

nomination in .the next few

weeks,” he said. |

Ed Sovola off to see what makes Washington tick.... Ge 1 New d Features, P 1-10) jday and graduates received con-! leided to become a candidate (General News an res, ages fgratulatory handshakes—but no} MASON, © : June.3 (UP)-—An|“sfter careful consideration of * diplomas. | auto-bus co lision near here to-'the viewpoints of Section Two The sheepskins were soaked vw |day injured 37 persons, two of Party leaders in Indiana.” | them critically, state highway Culley Rikard returns to Indian outfield . . . Times se- water. 2000 relat 4 1s Patrolmen said. Jects All-City high school baseball team......... 11 | ware aking Te ALives ana guess Patrolmen said a_ northbound tne people.” | (Eddie Ash, Page 12; The Wright Angle, Page 18; auditorium in Brooklyn and o48| Greyhound bus carrying 40 pas- - Born and reared in Perry] Press Box, Page 183; Baseball and Race Results, Other graduating students of the art. sc. struck a car, overturning! County, Rep. Jacobs came to In-| Sports News, Pages 11-14). . the bug and igi te sar dianapolis- to practice law when on’s Swamp . . . sinkhole of history and m St 1 . Vas (riven SY mg young man and has been’ sc-| Bae Wamp ? y 3nd mystery... 19 H. Davis, 30, Ludlow Falls, O.!tive in Democratic politics many|

(Times reporter rides 3000 horses, Page 19; Editorials, Page 20; Our Fair City, Washington Calling, World Report, Page 21).

; | Section Three

It's-Senior Week in High Schools. ...... eu noire 29 Katy Atkins, Page 29; Winners of National Sewing Contest, Page 31; Louise Fletcher's Counter-Spy and “Latest Fashions, Teen-talk, Marguerite Smith's Garden

News, Jean Tabbert’'s Home Decorations, Weddings and Women’s News, Pages 28 to 39), Section Four Launch drive for uniform building code...........,.. 39 (Campus Crowd Hunts for Jobs . . . Read Harold

Hartley's “The Week in Business,” Page 39; Larry Stillerman’s Real Estate News, Building, Pages 30-41; Classified Advertising, Including Your Market for Homes, Pages 42-55). — Amusements +0426, 27

Automobiles hee ve 39 5- Room Bungalow Rovsanranrasnnne | a A Events 8 East for Orly

Business .iciceesssenys 30-41 $8600

Gapital Capers «....e0v00 30 ~ Marquis Childs .eeevees 20

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Clubs fot sasragraevaeed 34 SIMS wriLL SELL: Crossword Genin sraiinn tt ungslow. 4300 east near New Eh Editorials . ot t's bis The living Toon fs ts. lon the stage. The blaze had gone Fashions + wo1...she bedrooms are big. the kitchen {unnoticed by all but one uniden. FOOA sesessisrsnnasssnse 38 Jus solid. weil constructed with 4 tified. person who turned in the ote him in.

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long life : has s suitable place for oD Sxiih |alarm. © Erskine Johnson ..seeeee 27

or an emergency; $8600. Mr, |

Pina. Peims CO. IR-1197 . |were moved t Kk th Dan Kidney ..ceseersese 20 Irvington is, "15, Ritter Ave. Ts mere oved to a park across the Mrs. MANNETS ..osesieses 2 TT @If you pref it you prefer to live | .

¢ {in Cincinnati and Dayton. None| yiqe Poi the bus passengers was gerious-! the House subEF liy injured. { chairmanship of 4

\ . jeurred in heavy traffic and that

and the driver of ‘the car, whose| years, condition was reported as seri-| ous, was Paul Briol, 57, of Cin-| cinnati. Mrs—Josselyn Farmer, 40, Cin-| nati, a passenger in Mr, Briol's car, was reported in critical condi-| pyuring the year or more he ton. has ‘been in Congress, Rep. JaPafrolmen said passing motor- cobs has gained considerable ists took the injured to hospitals cognition as the result of his activities, ’ including the

Much of his law practice] in recent years has involved rep-| resenting various groups of or- | ganized labor.

Assured of Support

Leommittee for democracy in la-| Patrolmen said the accident oc-| bor unions.

He said Ris candidacy for the Senate will not stop his plans

{Mr. Briol had apparently tried to) imake a left turn in front of the

Jacobs Enters |

Bend has announced as a candidate.

{416 N, Warman Ave, stood motionless in the middie of The Times’ Telty room.

now and the convention June 27.| ound her worn raincoat.

Mrs. Buster didn't come to the| next week and resume my duties, o.oaners to hurt ‘anyone, she| ra ceid : in the House. and will not have explained. She just wanted to find

much time to campaign for the gp.nar tor her family.

la water-spotted purse, she om Ini Ie § Here The Congressman said he del ..;. 4.4 tears from her face.

Democratit| ye month-old baby, she and her | {husband faced eviction He promised, if nominated, to ‘row. They had failed to keep up “vigorously present the issues tol $70-a-month payments on a

promised to pay the rent for us.

Torrent Stalls Bars, Swamps Sewer: Lines

Basements Flooded, Streets and Yards Covered With Debris

‘The rains came. . . , Indianapolis -floundered on soggy water wings last night. +as8 the skies cleared and 285 = | inches of rainfall cascaded towards the White River “ou {and the Gulf. Se It stopped raining long before dark but the night found more Photos, Page 3.

than one Indianapolis ‘motorist trying to start a Walsrlogps

lion. reported 34 traffic ace |eldents between 1 p.m. and 8:30 p.m, most of them attributed to the weather.

Discover Leaky Roofs A number of Indianapolis res igents discuvered_isaky foots 88 result of the recent "ail deluge

Husband's lines’ Threw

On $70-a-Month Payments Ron © “We're being evictéd.”

Her voice so choked she could hardly speak, Mrs. Loulse Buster,

Water from the heavy downpour outilde dripped” in paddies | o

major highways to 2 were ‘under water in the late’

ternoon. Drainage Is Rapid "| Drainage was fast in most tors, however, and there were no dangerous’ points on state highe ways. Police in Indianapolis were in vestigating damage in the 3500 block of Caroline Ave. where residents reported water up to porches as storm sewers overs

owed. flooded . points included sections in the vicinity of 8, Colorado St. and Pl Run Parkway, Pogue's Run and ‘Mich. {gan Bt, and the 2100 block of N. Jefferson Bt. In the early afternoon the 2800 block of N. Cladstone Ave. was said to resemble a Venetian canal as - several resi Jayncheq. portble bots in the street, Cars were reported stalled be * neath several railroad en as flood-water clogged the streets,

Taking a paper napkin from

Mother of Six The mother of six, Including a

Local Man Hurt In Truck, Car Crash

Four persons were injured In accidents in and near Indianap-

tomor-

combination home-store they] were buying at the N. Warman |°!# yesterday and last night. | Ave. address. Ira Taylor, 25, of 2503 College “We have to leave by tomor- Ave, was taken to General Hos-|C row, But If we can rent a4 place(pital in serious -condition after the next two weeks while Ed—|an accident in the 400 block of that's my-husband—finishes our|g Noble St. yesterday afternoon. home at 28th St. and Temple police said Mr. Tayior was rid- | Ave.; the county Welfare Board ing g in a truck driven by Artie { Levi, 26, of 1334 Hoyt Ave., which Monday or Else twas in a collision With a car “Ed took sick with double pneu- qriven by Donald M. Struck, 24, monia in February, the ‘months 19141; N. Sterling Ave. after’ we moved into the house: Minor Injuries

, and was laid up for seven weeks. : Mr. Levi was treated by a phy-|

“That's when we began missing! Residents Isolated 4 \our payments to Mr, Allison (Wil-|sician for minor injuries. Mrs. Lena Silox, 424 W. Nore |

filam Allison, 3625 W. Michigan] Wayne House, of R.R, 9, Box Wood St, reported that the water St.) A deputy sheriff told us two|211, was treated at Cold Spring Tat one point Tad Fisén over the weeks agp. we had five days to{Rd. Veterans Hospital after the| front lawns and up to the front move, but not to worry, #ince he|car he was driving was in a col- poréh level in some cases, tems was taking a vacation, andilision with a car driven by Clarg porarily isolating dozens of resis

Acton. at Rd. 20 and dents in that area.

to subpena John IL. Lewis ‘10 wouldn't be back until June 18. testify before his subcommittée on undemocratic, dictatorial tac-

ties in the United Mine Workers

{ bus. [ Passengers were removed from ithe bus through an emérgency | door and precautions taken by - |patrolmen to prevent a, gasoline’ Mr. Jacobs told Marion County

day and told us we had to bel Mpg,

out. We'd be able to get a place toq

{ence Ault, “Then they came back yester- Franklin Rd.

last night, Alleen Munden, Lout by Monday or they'd put-us her son, Wavne, to General to rent, if it weren't on such short muitiple bruises-and shock.

12, Hospital

Mrs. Belle Etter said that the water had entered her unfinished

30, and| were admit- | 4-rm. house at 1540 Olive St. She

with

said she had complained repeatedly to the city of defective sewers, but could get no action.

and technical school were back- 7 Hours, Rescued i

| stage putting on caps and gowns.

The graduation ceremonies then

{fire. Democratic ‘leaders and candidates last night that if he were nominated for the Senate he | would resign as candidate for 11th | district Congressman. In that case, he said, the Marion June 3 County Committee would have to

Boy, 4, in Icebox

KALAMAZOO, Mich,

Suddenly, firemen dashed in pour-| (UP)—A 4-year-old boy was res- nominate a successor for the con-

“|ing water at the proscenium arch! cued tonight from an ahandoned| | gressional candidacy.

{icebox in which he was imprisoned | [for seven hours aftér a playmate

Doctors said there was “noth-| ing seriously wrong” with the] {blond Larry Shelton, although the | {child had been wedged in the re-

Obituaries sesessnssssnnie 10 EAST, perhaps the rea-

Boy on Banister

Othman ..o.evfisesveess 15 sonably priced bungalow. |¥ Potomac “Patter Vesdensne 24 above will interest you. | ¥ 3 a pm OS at Oh or Tau: {fides to His Death

—NEW-YORK, June 3 (UP)—A fa favorite game- of chi {dren brought death today to Jac | Fiort, 11.

Reeal-Estate «vvvvrvere30-4l Records «:ceosssssss 15, 26 Ruark sesesvevsnsvveces IB Sports ...ceessesveesasll-14 School ...oiesanesses 16, 55 Society ..ovaisvserssnd0, 32 Ed SBovola civsvsasnssasr 1B Earl Wilson seccsvevenes 27

“home bargains advertised in the classified ~ columns of the REAL" ‘ESTATE SECTION (Section Four) of today's Times , ... under classification 43. Turn to. the Real Estate Sec-

| gotta, 10, were sliding down..

: i tion now for a truly out- | trom" the fifth to the fourth floor | the heavy door, dled from service - connected : KELLY IS RECOVE i t standing ES of on a sficight, slippery banister, The other youngster was afraid loauses. — — : neil, was wrecked whi 4b Jrck period. ehty nest cent CHICAGO; June 3 (UPS-_Forin i - HOMES FOR SALE , many ‘times. {to tell his parents of the incident, oH PE Ty a parked truck, sale » ¥ Bay eipriveiy % = Mayor Baward J Rolly. . 4, over 1000 homes to ‘| Jack Fiorl's last ride was fast. police said. ~ ° | STRIKE TIES UP AKRON | Mascart, Somin sian. Merch Shiau 8, wa loodea. a ECE mada choose trom. The Times {He worked up so mach speed I” An unidentified searcher, acting| | AKRON. 0. June 3 (UP)—A on East St. near Warsaw §t AR ald today. m : hel brings you the . [he couldn't stop when he got to|on a hunch, opened the icebox and strike of 2700 truck drivers and The driver sald-he had been dozens a police c: . : HOMES FOR SALE, . [the fourth floor “landing. He|f Siouched. inside, sob- | dockmen on a two-year contrac blinded by the Jights of an wp- Shey wey of ? plunged through 4 window, fall-|bing and sliagss from has stopped nearly all local de- proaching car. He escaped with re wal r ing four floors to his death, . _ibreathing the sggnant si liveries in this eity today. minor scratches,

Jack and’ his chum, Jack Le-

| banister in a lower East Bide |the- icebox and fled in panic when | apartment house. They slid down! ‘he discovered he could not open

(frigerator, stored in the family| |garage, since early afternoon. | Police and about 100 volunteers lin suburban Parchment searched n through a wide area after Larry's 1-| iparents reported him missing. k| They believed he had been kidinaped. - Sheriff's deputies sald another a boy, 5, playfully locked Larry in

{from tenants upstairs, but it was | Sheridan: Ave iso much, But the Kids aan

To Widows of GI's -

4° WASHINGTON, June 3 (UP) Pinned in the wreckage of a 14-Inch Rain

“fanteed mortgages, VA maid Tol oo oo yeoe

notice, “We tried ‘to pay Mr. Allison $30. the two months we collected

Police said Mrs. Munden and A resident in the 800 block Lacs her son were passengers in & car jede St. said she returned home {operated by Delbert Payne, 382) erom a shopping trip to find the which was in col- h in front of her considered only. part payment, ,. co. win an automobile driven! Water _ ugh not enter. and he wouldn't take it. b {by John Stevens, 35, of 3505 W., Police erected barricades at Now we have to be out B¥isap gi at North and Alabama other strategic intersections whers tomorrow. Ed and I don’t mind.g, | nigh water had flooded out dozens {of automobiles. | Today's forecast calls for parts !ly cloudy and cool weather with an afternoon high of 68.

Man Pe Hurl ‘When Pinned in Wreck

‘VA Approves Loans

Widows of World War II service- oo; after it had struck a parked 2d

men who have not remarried are sligible for GI home, farm and Hruck, John O'Connell, 26, 905 8.; Hits Galveston GALVESTON, Tex, June

business loans, the Vetergns'Ad-| | East St, was removed to General ministration ruled today. | Hospital in critical condition just} CUP)—An. almost endless 14-inch The widows will be given the! | night. after police. uped crowbars TAI covered flat Galveston Isle

lsame benefits as veterans in thei co mo he WEEE froauy: 4 flooding much of the busi« purchase of homes with VA-guar-| » eo re d-residential sectors and Ls O'Connell, PR eden halting transportas was booked by ition. ; started | re

} or sighic Sher band 8. Just police on charges of reckless driv-! The -downpour | sometime between Sept. 16, 1940, |ing, drunkenness and operating a! just after midnight, and | ‘and July 25, 1947, and must have car under the-influence of liquor. 13.85 inches of rainfall. The car, driven by Leo O'Con- sea-walled city n'a

His cousin,