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~PUMTY OF THI§ Year, He Was ‘Pia Stauter- “took off."

200 Await Trial Plea to Block

Criminal Courts Widening Fails

Half Are Out on Bond; Some

MONDAY, JUNE 19,

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

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Ingianapoiin, Indians

5, 000 For

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May Never Get a Hearing North- of 23d ‘St.

| | | Board Rejects Protest |

Second of a series of artitles. | overruled the protest of ahout By BOB BOURNE 150 N. Delaware St. property| Our Criminal Courts are crowded: They are not over- "holders and moved to con-| worked, but they are busy all the time. ‘demn part of their holdings, Nearly 200 persons are now awaiting trial. About half to provide for widening the of them are in jail, the others are out on bond. |thoroughfare.

In this term of court most of the felony e cases are in) The board acted after a public . shearing. .on..a..proposal.-1o.- buy: property for the. project. which “At times Judge Saul 1. Rabb. icq This however, takes money, will extend from 16th St. north! of Criminal Court 2, has two, and lots of it. to Fall Creek Blvd. courts going at once. Cases eing| : The city already has enough heard by a special judge, but) OUr jail is crowded. Tt was bull, "0" 0 "ites job from 16th] under the jurisdiction of his; op aot pra pripindr ry ison up to 230 ‘St, but more prop-| court, and his own cases may 325 es erty is needed north of that point. be heard simultaneonsly. Most of the protesting citizens Without the co-operation of the! Therefore it is necessary that live in the 2400 block. attorneys, the courts would be Prisoners be let to bail. Ninety. pi, oan for. opening. the. a farce. A few cases are speedily|Six such persons-are free in In:[jo 00 40 3 width: of 48 feet to! brought to trial, and disposed of. dianapolis now. [eliminate a traffic bottleneck.| Out on bail, a “prisoner 18 on The total width, however, would! If an attorney wants to take all|“his good behavior.” In recent gmount to 60 feet of right of | avenues open to his client, itis 'weeks six “bad boys” have violat-| way, because two B5-foot side-| possible that a case may never be ed their bail. {walks and curbways would also

Ibe installed. Burton Case Among Recent Ones Seek 31; Feet

| Most recent was the case of Charles Burton, 33, a former police-| The board is seeking to pur-|

chase an average of three and a| man. The six foot-seven inch giant has been arrested nine times. "RAI Te6t of private property.

Typical of the objectors was Robert Wand, 2445 N. Delaware, St., who said the widening project aay. He is a former aw. partner would iéave his house only seven is.. feet from the bordering line of city property. Heavy busses rattle his win-|

included. He was found guilty of assault and battery three times, , but | has never served a jail sentence. EERE "Three weeks ago he was being held on morals charges. His wife of Attorneys Siegel and McNel signed the affidavits. His bond] The state presented enough evi-|

charges, case, but they “didn’t want to to his porch because of the pres-| At the time of his arrest he show their hand. {ent street width, he said. Reduc-| was on $1500 bond on a. charge. judge pro tem Tindall reduced ing his property would worsen of assault and battery in South the bond to $1500, and Burton the situation, he declared. Bend. {went free. Two weeks later, Mrs.| Other objectors, such as A. P.| The $7000 bond was too high Bonnie Burton, his wife, dis- Harmon, 2452 N. Delaware St, for him to make. He brought a appeared. contended they would have 1 repetition to be let to bail through A note left by Burton explained nulla Ahele Front io inches of - his attorneys Milton Siegel and that he had taken his wife with| jtoF WOUC TO8¢ UP 10 a John L. McNelis. {him on a trip. Last week they Sorat One-Way Street Bar ey Re ukes J. Raymond Tindall, regular] reappeared and Burton was! As alternative action, clerk in Criminal Court 1, was {charged with kidnapping. His!

iremonstrants suggested na sitting as judge pro tem for the bond has been set at $20,000 Delaware St. one-way to relieve Amerasia Critics traffic conditions nd route traffic| Police Stool Pigeon Hits Snag flow in an opposite direction oy

he cave-in.

Then there is the case of the police stool pigeon. He was N. Alabama St. They also sug- Clagrs the W arrested five times in 21% years on charges of burglary. But “ihe | gested construction of a new| ay police didn't want him kept in jail. Other criminais were easier bridge at Alabama St. and Fall Bo 2d Inquiry to catch with him at large. FASHINGTO! 8 He was sted Apr. 20, 1948, and was reledsed

The case was finally disposed of July 14, 1940, but in he had been arrested two more, times, making bond each time, Municipal Court 4, and both were street These casés were finally dropped. released on $2500 bond. The pal Finally the fifth time, in Feb- came back to stand trial, bu

bon |_ Widening of A AT 6 wou : ana pe. jaotve fhe trafié Moblem, ob. A Herciantly eared the wa > Insidted. They track” and for & second Senate investigation’

'of the Amerasia case today after] [irate should be slowed and not bublicly rebuking the 21 Republof +g

In one of the rare re timands) on $5000 bond, and he couldn’t| His bond was forfeited and the eT sald. the widening Job was he ever has delivered prim Ihe make it. He stayed in jail until préfessional bondsman was rel ntire North Side and not only | Presiding officer's chair, his trial when he was sentenced quired to make payment. This {those property holders bordering Barkley ‘obliquely questioned id] to 2 to. 5 years in the Indiana week Slauter turned up in Elk- oo oor ot whe thoroughfare pro- Motives of ‘the GOP senators and] Reformatory. {hart. He was caught in the act 4.0 op outlet to four sections of the “wisdom” of the whole AmLast October, Indianapolis was of rifling Elkhart's parking), city and must be considered in ©rlasia inquiry. | amazed to learn that its parking meters, according to the Elkhart {p.¢ light, he said. The case, involving the theft meters were being rifled. Two police. Under condemnation proceed. °f hundreds of government docu-| arrests, were made in the case, After he faces trial there he ings to be taken by the city under ments in 1945, already is being | and Herbert Slauter and a “pal” may be returned to Indianapolis its legal right, home owners will investigated by a Senate Foreign | were charged with grand larceny. to face charges. The bond is lost) {be paid for their property after Relations Subcommittee headed The case was continued in it cannot be redeemed. its value has been assessed.

: . They will be given opportunity Md.). Numerous Other Incidents Cited for another public hearing and if, With obvious reluctance, Mr. Paul Smock, 25, was arrested here last January charged

with not satisfied then, they may take Barkley passed along to the Senjssuing a fraudulent check. He was slated to appear for trial and their cases individually to the ate Judiciary Committee a resoluwas released on $2500 bond. board.

tion by the 21 Republicans for a e He failed to come back, but local authorities have been notified! i Sverrdled Mw (Rong Simelseparate Amerasls_ inquiry by that he was arrested in Los Angeles on a charge of robbery. Since y y NAY 3ppea *o Lhe cour uris. assurance the committee would that is the more serious charge, he probably will not be returned {approve the resolution. here. { A robbery conviction may carry

lapolis was astounded by a kid- Local Shriner Shriner Can't Look At Motives * e M B a life sentence in California {naping rape case in which six m n r arkley noted pointedly Nearly three years ago, Indian- | (Continued on Page 5—Col. 8)

that he had been sitting on the Dies i in West resolution since it was introduced On the Inside n e ns e . | E. R Jordan Suffers (Continned on | Page 83 —Col. 5) Of The Times

last week because of the Tydings subcommittee’s work and because Heart Attack Edward R. Jordan, 4702 Win- Indianapolis Drivers . . In Indianapolis {suffering a heart attack in Los

a New York federal grand jury {throp Ave., died early today after Have Speed ‘Holiday’ {Angeles; Cal, where he was at- Hazardous street conditions [tending the Shrine convention. Slowed. down heavy-footed InMr, Jordan, who was 63,

Two well-played games move the Tribe within two games lot dianapolis drivers yesterday as

of first place in the:close AA race. “Bath tilts are re- |

i i " w rts Page. wk 2 {Wednesday with his wife, Louise, police reported no @rrests for Sloe, madi Ah on te Bro — Re lin the California-bound caravan. Speeding for the 24-hour period . amateur baseball standings. .........c.eeneesss Pages 18, 19| _ Chief accountant of J. Worth beginning Saturday midnight. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's withdrawal from New York state (Baker & Co. he was a Shrine Six drivers, however, were arpolitics does not. eliminate. him as a powerfiil influence jehanter.. He had. been. with. the rested. for other violations, .in-

furniture company more cluding one on a charge of reckJess driving.

office

in the GOP, reports Marquis Childs on the Editorial Bt 30 po 9 Eas . Pria [than six years.

Page. Another Congressman lowers his sights on Washington cocktail parties. Dan Kidney, in a letter to the A lifelong resident of Indianboss, reports don a speech by Claude G. Bowers made apolis, he had attended Shor before the Indiana State Society dinner............... Page 14 Tidge High School. He was Two pairs of elderly women are reunited in an Indianapolis member of the First Congrega-

“ " tional Church and the North Park A Ci ¥ Ci il ) p BO inves cus inns dere home for the aged by a “miracie Page 13 | Masonic Lodge. S i ivi

Purdue graduates 2304 at the university's 94th commence- FE oe ivy ni ’ ment which required double ceremonies. Grads ft y his ‘wife, a Shite " De Tus: A YOM brother, Lewis, and three sisters, will Take Position

Indianapolis and Marion County and the degrees re-

COIVRRl HIE HBEBA, «ous rvivrirsivrssmariatssoirme sees Page 4 Mrs. Minnie Beck, Mrs. Stella With Private Firm “When parents come to terms with their own fears and |Behr, and Mrs. Frances Willlam- " ison, all of Indianapolis. Mrs. M. G. (Ole) Johnson today sub-

insecurities, problem children will cease to be problems,” says Harold F. Strong in the first of 10 articles treating child-parent relations. Also on the Women's Page is the first of five articles giving common-sense advice about palio by Edwin P, Jordan, M. D. «.cevessresnives Page 6;

Are you rich “or poor? You'll find out when you read : ¥ Page 10 Home Laundry

Harold Hartley's “Today in Business.” “Men and women should have four romances hefore marry- Section With youth club in Birmingham, England. Opal Crockett . age reports amusing sidelights “About People.” SAAN yy Page 13 This Edition 3

[Williamson and her husband, mitted his resignation as city civil Lowell J., also were attending the engineer.

|convention, : CF Mayor Feeney, who said he accepted the resignation with regret, stated it would be effective July 1. Mr. Johnson said he is leaving to take a position with a private firm whose name he was not ready to disclose at this time. He first served as city engineer under

ing,” says the Rev. P. L. D. Chatterton, director of a

{ ® Housewives . . . and all Mayor Sullivan and has served In the World : homemakers . . . will ind about 2%; - years under Mayor GI deserters are providing important leadership to the Com- i labor saving news in to- |Feeney, = munist dominated Huks in the Philippines. Clyde Farns- day's Times . . . in the His total service has been about worth reports from Manila........ Wanstesnssivisensees Page 2 Home Laundry Equip- 71; years as engineer although he

Communists in the Ruhr and Rhineland made a miserable ghowing in yesterday's state election. Voters favor | nationalization of" area's Other news of }

ment Section which marks Home Laundry

has served off and on in other capacities for approximately 20

industry. Week. | years, world-wide significance given in “World Report” ...... Page 19] oM : | Mr. Johnson is also a former | oney-saving tips on employee of the State Highway Amusements <.......... 10 Gardening .....iv04s ssa T0] Births, Deaths, Events Erskine Johnson «....... 10 | nome Jaun ar aap ment Commission Whefe he seve 33 nip Movéments ....:... 2 Your Job ...coiverernsee 17} stories of later develop- by Mr. Johnson with the city pays Works Board. 3 Bridge srssarivaestesans 3 Mrs. Manners .......... 17 ments to make your home - $7000 per year, plus an additional Chitds | Preiser sisesats 1 HECdIEWOTK +. veerveenes 7 chores easier . , . will be $500 as a member of the flood the second recent loss said to be diana ao 8 ciieisenrsenensns 3 Dipman siesseseaniiniie B ‘found in this special sec- [control board. mics TE Fevssssnsnsanasn 4 tion . . { Mr. Johnson said he has resenivans 17 Rafllo: sssevesevasvnsnnss' IS ]

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digger Homey M. Randall. The H.yearold man was buried two hours in

[Rescuers Win Death Race, Loring Law Faces: Digger Saved from Cave-In Major A

By Crumbling Walls of: Narrow Well

Expected i in a Count for '50

Official Figures Due This Week After Final Check Marion County will show a . population figure of approxi mately 545,000 and Indian< ‘apolis- proper - Aeprosimately, : 445,000, According to official {census figures to be ane - nounced within several days. The 1940 census showed +County's population as 460926 and the city's as 386,972, Thus the new figures will show .a..growth for the coun of aps iproximiately en ty. of ine {crease of approximately 60.000 {for the city. Although Henry Neal, director of census taking for: this pr trict, declined to disclose “waa the figures will show, it was * {believed the ' county’s ng of | DAS no .

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Run Higher i The A abe: : until late today. Then they will be sent to the regional offices at Chicago for release to city offie. clals probably Wednesday. However, the city figures ‘may run a little higher than 445,000, it ie | WAS reliably learned. Conservative estimates-on’" the city’s population figure show an estimate of 440,000 while optimis{e Satimates place the figure at

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Senate Nomination

By DAN KIDNEY Times Staff “Writer” WASHINGTON, “June 19--

by Sen. Millard E. Tydings (I.) Charles B. Browneon, Indianap-| was moderator of the

Capehart-Jacobs debate, says it is his turn to take on the Marion Mall suburb of Elkhart, yester-|

County Democratic Congressman, 42y when be lost a screen which

olis, who

Rep. Andrew Jacobs, this fall

He is confident that he will do so0-as the Republican nominee for recover it, authorities said, and |g, Which the walls caved. means that he thinks the Democratic state convention will turn digging, summoned help. down the Jacovs bid for the U. 8. senatorial nomination at the digger completely except for his Apartment Owners Association, soll.

Mr. Jacobs’ House seat.

state convention June 27. Since Mr. Jacobs already de-

bated Sen, Homer E,. Capeharticascading down from the unsup- Builders, Architects Society of In-|breezes will shove rains out of the (R. Ind.) all aver the state, there Ported walls. that

will be no need to repeat performance,” Mr. Brownson declared. to debafe Andy.

(Continued on Page 3-—Col. 5)

SMUTS HAS SETBACK PRETORIA, Bouth Africa, June 19 (UP)-— Field Marshal Jan C Smuts’ doctors reported today that he suffered a slight Betbacu in. his fight for life. He a recurrénce of coughing,” they said.

1 : “The M. G. 'Ole’ Johnson Resigns 2; nis, sume cours sins!

Engineer

M. ©. Johnson

a bridge engineer. The job held of a successor will rest with the he found in the stolen car nu- split up. Two brothers went to! Mr.

The logs of the city engineer

traceable to sub-standard salaries Sought by police for questioning. |

for city executives, Last week the

PAGE: 24 TO PAGE 48 (signed to accept his new post at $4800 executive secretary's job .in receipt = “considerable increase in com- the mayor's office was abolished Other contents of the car included | jeveryone he was Sone to South ‘because a competent person could a hobby horse, a red tricycle, a

not be hired.

“I feel that it is my. turn attached it We will confine Keeping a supply of air flowlag

Hunt Auto Thief

Th law whieh akira. in. alr can bulld- what, da. He escaped with no in- will be picked apart by 10 ajor

ternal injuries or broken bones {and suffered only shock, authori- [uniting ¢ivic and legal associa

[ties said. The meetin 1 The Elkhart man's brush with as an Testing wil be conducted’

was a close parallel to the City Council chambers at 7:30

in California last year and to the cials announced today. entrapment of welldigger Domi-| Under recodificatio n. for more. 4g. {mick Atteo in a cave-in In New tfian a year, the ordinance has Is nm... 64

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York May 10. In both of these, been redrafted t [Fescuers lost the race with death. [been } a eliniinate Sut fam. 66 1pm... 70

More rain ‘today.

Walls Cave In rent building themes, Noble Hol-| a 2 Saturated with .88 inch: - “a

Mr. Randall was digging a new |lister, commission executive sec-! well at his home in Dunlap, a ‘retary, said, the past 24 hours, ending at 2 Exchange of Ideas ia. m. today, the city will be the. ‘The discussion will be merely, ‘unwelcome host to frequent show= kept sand oft of the pipe. a eeling 10 exchange ideas on|ers and thundershowers this after 3 e recodified law,” he said. inoon and early tonight. They will H “ | e wert down into the well to| Commission President J a ck boost 1050's chances of becoming mmins said organizations 4n-the wettest year on Indianapolis Aigo [vited to confine discussions to the weather éhiarts, 8 wife, who was watching the text of the ordinance are the Fed-| Already 32.75 Inches of precipl- 3 erated Civic Leagues, Real Estate tation, including rain, hail and well- Board, Chamber of Commerce. | snow, have soaked into Indiana ; nose and mouth. . Rescuers uncov-| Construction League of Indianap-| ‘But the weatherman oftered 3 Marion County. Residential some relief. ‘Warmer southerly

The cave-in covered the

ered his head but more dirt kept olis,

(diana, Bar Association, Merchants state ton ht, hiki fariapo 4 Finally they strapped an oxy- Association and members of thigh, to nS andlana The 4

gen mask around his face and City Council. mercury will dip to 56 tonight with a pump while

to a garden hose! frantically. they dug The Times Finds Relatives wore mare we wae wienes Qf *Friendless’ Man, 81 to prevent further cave-ins and Hotel Resident Died Leaving $50,000

workers dug the victim free with Estate; None Knew Then of His Family

shovels. : By BOB BOURNE i ms Out-of-State Firm Relatives of an almost friendless old man who died twe weeks

ago, leaving an estate esfimated- at $50,000, were identified t Must Pay Tax ay

by The Times. Indiana Supreme Paul Leitzinger, 81,

who died in his room in the Earle Hotel, apparently was alone in the world, real astate firm must pay gross Oh But wo sisters, Miss Nellie Leitzinger; 5015 N. Paulina 8st, income tax on property sold in In- cago 40, Ill, and Miss Kath- een incom erine Leitzinger. Mt. Pleasant but we never Kifew how — eile A= detslch” of tie ‘Sanitarium, Mt, Pleasant, Iowa: money he had.” Marion En Circuit Rat. the a nephew. John Lee. and a niece, IY Molher was ihe favorite. ] Hoosier high court ruled. that Mrs, D. C. Martin, botlt-of Musca Re A joue tiiad iy | Robert Bartlett, Chicago, is re- Une, lowa, have been located. a Tossipls to nnd him nate {quired to pay $9150 in gross in- t Their identification became pos- Joty es Aesth wt yea as Ths. sible when Norman Smith, 527 880." d | Mr. Bartlett, who sold , | Lockerbie St, read in The Times MF Leitstnger : lived~at the r. : oH Je v 0 3 Is0f that a man with whom he had a Farle Hotel for about 15 years, property in Lake County, contend- + 2Peaking acquaintance had died. None of the present 1nanagement jed- in his-suit that he was no {of the hotel remembers when he required to pay the tax i ‘Spoke of Brother first came. « he lived out- -of- state. | Mr. 8mith, now retired, told The! Mr. Smith quoted Mr. Leitzinge : - : ; Himes he hud atked to Be. Leit- er as saying he had money in< veral occasions, and vested all over the country. He : Get Calling Card, #_|that he told him be had a brother mentioned. Los Angeles, New. .

“Orleans, San Francisco and Flor< He also. mentioned his travels ida. .

‘around the country, and his many, Authorities of the

| The man believed to have investment Fletches istolen the automobile of Helen ments, Trust Co., administrator of the |C. Cates, 1236 Central Ave, on A ¢all to Muscatine

located estate are attempting to locate A {May 20 didn't exactly leave his, John Lee, nephew of the dead all his holdings. 2 lcalling card . . . but police said Man. He told how Mr. Leitzinger Mrs. Martin said other heirs he might just as well. and his ten brothers and sisters may be difficult to locate. oe Detective Gerald Akeman, ‘who ag Sa with their folks on a “There are more nieces and went to Greenfield today th re- ar Muscatine years ago. nephews, but we have not ny cover the car, which was found| About 20 years ago.” he said,! (from them since the family split abandoned there last week, said! ‘the folks died, and the family Wp,” Mrs. Martin said. Leitzinger was born in now Germany and came to this couns {try when he was a child. i Went to Chicago family farmed near Muse “The two sisters went to Chi- He lived there all “his life The papers included a 1947 fine.cago,” Mr. Lee continued, “and 20 years, ago. from riminal Court.! they still live there. Paul told ried.

. Camden, Mo. All bear the name of an In- dead.”

merous personal papers. They are

al America. He had bingo set and three Bibles. : Th