Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1950 — Page 1

61st YEAR—NUMBER 100

Judy Garland Slashes Throat In Suicide Ty

Uses Broken Drinking Gloss.

"Plea to Hike Phone Rates Is Before PSC

Public Counselor | B88 Counters With Appeal | For Cut in Schedule |

= Another | Story, | Page my

"By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Telephone bills in Indiana

HOLLYWOQD, June 20 (UP)-—Judy Garland attempted suicide last night by slashing her throat with a broken drinking glass, her studio announced today. Jack Atlas, representative of Metro-Goldwyn- -Mayer | studio, which suspended the 27-year-old vivacious actress | ‘Saturday, said that Dr. Francis Ballard treated Miss Garland for “superficial laceration.” “The star is now resting at home, Mr. Atlas sald. “At 6 o'clock last night, Miss Garland conferred with her business agent, Carleton Alsop, her husband, Director Vincent Mi-

neili, and her secretary, Myrtle Tully,” Mr. Atlas reported.

Airman 2 |

Body of So

Bodies of four persons wes found in the wreckage of 8

small plane on a farm in|

“"Sne got hysterical, walked into her bedroom; locked herself in a bathroom, broke a drinking glass and pulled it across her throat,” he said. Her husband, Mr. Minnelli, went to the bathroom and persuaded Miss Garland to open the

door. and she expressed sorrow

over her act, Mr, Atlas said. Denied at First ~The studio's announcement was made after Mr. Minnelli branded as “sheer fantasy” stories published: in two Los Angeles

newspapers that she had made! action, | plinary measure taken When first questioned about] little more than a year, “upse

an attempt on her life,

had”

Mr. Minnelli said the studio's ‘the PSC reject Indiana Bell's prosecond such disci-|Posal and instead, within a Present rates as reported in The t”] Sunday Times.

the

the reported incident, Mr, Minnelli {jig wife.

had emphatically denied anything)

land, claiming

The earlier suspension came in | " had happened. He denied a Te~| May 14-1949; ‘wher the one-time; quest of a United Press staff -cor-ichild actress was taken "out of | respondent to talk to Miss Gar-ithe plum starring role in “Annie she was asleep/Get Your Gun.”

and he did not want to disturb] | given to Betty Hutton.

her. i

The lead was!

She arguments and theories.

twill rise or fall on the merits]

of two arguments presented| today before the state Public, |Service Commission.

A $5 million rate increase {for the Indiana Bell Telephone {Co. was urged by Thomas Stevenison, general counsel for the util {ity, “to provide a fair margin of {profit.” the same time; Public {Counselor Walter Jones demanded

reduce the

| - Both attorneys climaxed 20 {months of legal wrangling before ithe. briefs summarizing the case. Affect 450,000 Users, The Commission will allow at-

torneys for the utility and the| This climaxed more than two! Public Counselor's office 10 days The blonde singing actress was years of illness that left Miss to answer each other's charges, notified Saturday that she had Garland pale and sickly.

Then,

Commission today. by fling!.

been suspended by Metro-Gold- went to a Boston hospital for a sitting in executive session, the wyn-Miyer studio for “good and rest and checkup, followed by & Commission. will rule on the case sufficient cause.” The suspension vacation on Cape Cod with her|gfrecting nearly 450.00 telephone] came because she did not appear business manager, Mr. Alsop, and. subscribers in the sta for rehearsal for scenes in the his wife, former Actress Sylvia Utility experts Sat oho pro-| movie “Royal Wedding. » Sidney.

Continuances Delay Criminal Cases Years.

Posiponements Granted for Many Reasons, Take Up Time of Overcrowded Courts

~ |approved in full by the Comm ision, would boost Hoosier mite | phone bilis about §1 a month. State and utility officials who! have followed the telephone hear-| ing since the first petition was, filed” In November, 1948, ha privately expressed the opinion that the Commission would probably compromise and grant In-

{posed telephone rate increase, 2

wreckage and four dead early fo tod

Governors Hear Indiana Chief

Schricker Explains .. “Mental Health Plan

ni te is Rp a: Another story on Governors’

Death in & clover field . ... here is the sight which greeted Boone County for Claude Armstrong as he discovered i

| Boone County at dawn today.

A farmer putting his cows

[out to pasture came upon the wreckage containing the bodies

of: Clinton Edward Ferguson, Lafayette, machinist and ni, pilot. ;

Mrs. Marea Ferguson, 31, big wife. ££)

Lt. Robert D Lahr an Lata oO . yette, national guardsman, : was believed the crashed about 1140 p. m, Ia

| night, ‘én “route back from

Photo by Harold Harvey, Times Special Photogs:

day.

New ‘Indianapolis Limited’ Fear 73 Killed

Planned by Pennsylvania

Will Make First Run to New York City ; Has Pullmans, Coaches

an

Wayne i 1atavetls. . Mr, son’s watch was stopped at | time... ... : ai

in Si Explosion

Blows Up in Red

nion Station Sunday evening.

The Hirst train to be named for Indignapolis will pull out ol It will be the Pennsylvania's new Indianapolis Limited, &

4 fast)

ALEXANDRIA, Bgypt. June re

{ Pullman-and-coach luxury run between here and New York, crease, : Ser Paul Feucht, Yor president of the Indianapolis Eas said : : mes §peoia [the Indianapolis Limited wou eave Indianapolis at 5:45 p. Steiis F Per Cont Margin WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, | [he Tndianapells 1 and will ar-|= Slaps 2 Indiana Bell contended in its yy. Va., June 20—Gov. Schricker rive in New York at 9:55 am brief that the utility should be! prep pared a report on Indiana’s| (New York time). allowed a 7 per cent margin of ,.nia] health program today | 45 profit compared do the 4 per cent yop gai the state intends to| it is now receiving. {stress “cure” rather than “custoThe Indiana Bell brief pointed|gia) care” in the treatment of| out that “our troubles are due 10| mental ailments. a combination of declining net Accompanied here by Arthur G.! {income and rising investment.” |Loftin; director of. the state's) Mr. Stevenson's summary pla¢ed| Council for Mental Health, the blame for the proposed rate Governor drafted the mental increase on higher operating health program speech for delivcosts, principally wages. ery before state governors holding The undisputed facts in the record, Mr. Stevenson's brief said, show that any increase in total revenue from customers added

under a fixed schedule of rates Cloudy Today— cannot possibly offset the effect of Rain Tomorrow

the future additional investment foo y a Naar which the company must make to, Raincoats will be in order fo- or NU fete oki Seposiion ae Schade 17 Indian also survived was buoyed by a i meet the public's needs. right and tomorrow again after atime) and will arrive in Indianap-| radio Y 2 Wayne last night. route. days to a week in advance, p ’ 8 : nap-| - Mr. Peerson's attorney, John) message from the Canadian| In Lafayette a) Hits at ‘Errors sky full of clouds today. olis at 9:45 a.m. (Indianapolis! Donovan, asked for a continuance Freighter Lake Chilliwack. It Halsmer Airfield, (Continued om Page 3 —Col. 4) The utility attorney struck hard! The weatherman said Indian-| time), giving passengers about an!yntil July 7. He-also requested said: four-place “Aeronca nw at the “errors,” bias and lack of apolis will be the meeting ground | hour more in New York than theithe taking of the deposition be! “Survivors alive but burned on/said Mr. and Mrs. ena {understanding of some aspects of (for warm, moist air from the Other trains, ) transferred from Indianapolis to hands and back and stil] scream. | her son took off from there jine telephone operation by some south and a cold front approach-| The equipment will be tops. pt. Wayne. ing.” {terday afternoon aft Mr. ) lof the witnesses for the publiciing from the north. Thunder- While the Pennsylvania did not). mqward Williams, Mr. Littell's) But the message made no men-| Ehe0R finished work at y Manufacturing plant.

On the Insid | counselor. !showers will result. say so, it was obvious that ¥ attorney, related all the delays tion of a rescue. LE ; It was the Lake Chilltwack | Thy were fying tn 7%, Wagne relatives,

. { -On the ‘theory that “we have to! He predicted a high of 82 de. Would come out of the merging of | apncountered ‘in trying to contact © imes {make some money in good times to have supper with

rees ' tomorrow. Temperatures four other runs. 3 Mr. Campbell, and Federal Judge which radioed the fi | because we lose our shirts in bad gre drop to 62 tenight The Spirit of 8t. Louis and the! Letts ruled no continuance should the explosion, The ISL ward o In Indianapolis | times,” utility spokesmen said the| During the next five days tem- Jeffersonian will be combined be-i pe" granted. |“British Steamer Indian Enter{Public Counselor's office had peratures will average 5 to 8 tween St. Louis and New York. rhe original subpena ordering |prise exploded. Am proceeding to A sketch drawn on a sack by a holdup victim results in failed to disprove the telephone degrees below normal. The mer- 2nd the Trail Blazer and the Gen- ype. Campbell to make the deposi- scene. All ships in vicinity keep conviction of the holdup man Page 22 company’s figures justifying the cury will reach a maximum of 83 eral will be combined between (ion was issued in federal district sharp lookout for survivors.” Visiting Holland couple clomps into town with wooden {rate increase. north and 87 south, sliding night- Chicago and New York. lcourt in Indianapolis on June 10. —— shoes . . ..our mechanized -methods amaze them. However, the Public Counselor's ly to a minimum of 59 north and um | Mr. Campbell was to make his Bod f Mi Carl Henn sketches their life here and in Holland Page 11 office charged the utility con-|84 south. Showers tomorrow and lstatement -in the . Indianapolis! y © ising Boy Hoosier businessmen are taking a greater interest in state sidered as part of its rate base again Friday will measure one to office of Metcalf, Mahan, Mahan | Discovered in Lake politics, Petér Edson reports that the Indiana State lexpenditures ex ceeding $10,000/two inches. and Connor “in the presence of a i CHICAGO, J Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Manufacturers jwhich-Indiana- Bell has: used-for, notary publie-or- similarly-qualt= poo" SOR SENS 20. (UP)=The!T Association are leading the movemeént. Navy has {extension, construction, addition fied representative.” who left day -old Jimmy Knaus, : Yesterday when his surplus of carbon paper. . . . Memo to Congress. . . . Red infiltration of armed forces ,, , on the Editorial Page.

land improvements to its plant Mr. Campbell was drawn into land equipment without approval’ mother” refused him ice cream, 6) was found today in Lake Michi- ! gan. Indians hit their stride again—-only one game out of first place in the Association—Eddie Ash's baseball

Page 12, of the Public Service Commis-| # fon. roundup in the Sports Section. Sixty-one local golfers tee off at Coffin in qualification play for the national public links golf tourney. Baseball results , . fishing news and a swimming lesson by Shirley May France. As ansssneiuted Ashe sams res sna ssnsnansrsssrasinges 14, 15 Ten-year-old golfer sinks a 149-yard hole-in-one by bouncing i the ball off a bridge and tree. A switch in pictures on i campaign match folders causes two Texas politicians an anxious moment ...coecevcrassnnes Cessensnnans seses Page 11

In the Nation

Patrick J. Hurley, former Ambassador to China, 18 willing 1 A to furnish Senate\investigators the names of Stdite De- | Mark, who lives at 563 N. High- os / 5 ] : ® If you want to buy a 4partment, officials ‘accused of giving top secret docu- land Ave: called The Indianap- 4 , : 7 4 IE | bedroom home in a fine | ments to pro-Communists in China........... sevanssans Page 4 ‘oils Times. yesterday and between #28 . 7% ? , neighborhood near Short-

ithe state's outstanding “criminal: 2 ridge High School, perIn the World [big sobs gulped: haps the above Home will |\2¥Yers and most recently assoE “Somebody stolded my Great Britain was conspicuous by her absence at conference

" : ‘ciated with 'the law firm of nities Lou IL 8 Just one |Holmes, Norris and Demaree, Inaimed at pooling coal and steel industries of ;six nations "It seems Mark's been having you will find advertised in | Slanapolis died last night in of Western Europe. Other important wopld develop- {a run of bad luck. Last Thurs- $8 the classified columns of | Spine, Ala. He was 3. ments in “World Report”. ..c.ccvvivivsssssssnens aenrnnn Page 4 day he toppled out the door of gi today's “Tim e s—homes |inent — wiagint mia had promElpidio Quirino, President of the Philippine Republic; believes |his family's new car as —his from every section of the eal a {Spr Dod that the islands are not in danger from. Communist { mother, Mrs. Barbara McQueen, city and suburban areas, {from In diana is. to All b threats. Clyde Farnsworth reports from Maiiila on this {was en route to Kokomo. He ho = e . in Svity price [tour yours pom Jo Asians impl cessnsans range. Yes . . here threat and its implications. (ended up in Riley Hospital. and Sunday, your Indi | frequently, however, until ‘last About People ....ciee00000dl Obituaries Released Yesterday anapolis Times now [fall . Amusements .......v..000 8 Othman He was released yesterday, Births, Deaths, Events, Radio .. {still bandaged and unable to Ship Movements ........ 2° 80clety ..c.eeeessvercanse 8 ‘walk, let alone ride his tricycle.

20 (UP)~-The British freighter red {Indian Enterprise blew up in the! A m, {Red Sea last night and only one

=~ lof the 74 crewmen was known! to have survived.

The 7319-ton ship carrying 580) tons of commercial type explosives and other cargo was blown to bits 300 miles south of the Suez Canal. Unofficial reports said the main parts of the wrackage sank immediately, fa gents for-the-ship said 7" of @ Crew m Times Washington Bureau ‘and three were. British, Jodign) JASHINGTON, June 20--A - last-minute effort to put off Alex Campbell's giving a deposition in It will carry a twin diner and the Norman Littell libel suit an observation lounge. against columnist Drew Pearson. : : failed here this morning. Mr. Returns at 9:45 a.m, Campbell must proceed to give the

diana Bell a $2 million rate in- Conference, Page 8.

Third of a Series By BOB BOURNE : Our eriminal courts are in constant turmoil because

-many persons don't want the speedy trial they are guaranteed by our basic law. It is possible that cases may be delayed indefinitely— delayed to the point that prosecution is dropped. Some hope that witnesses will lose interest, die or| move away. Others continue The grand jury must study the] ~cases in hope public interest | case. This takes one to three!

| months. If an indictment is rein them will drop. turned, the accused is cited to When persons are first ar-,pnear in one of the two criminal rested they are brought into one courts. of the municipal criminal courts. He may be in jail or out on Each side is allowed one con- bond during all these legal protinuance without stating a reason.|ceedings. If the offense is a felony, the! When the trial is set, witnesses case must be taken either to/must be subpenaed and the atCriminal Court or to the grand torneys notified. For this reason Jury. Most cases take the lattericases must be set from three

Passenger Alds It will carry a train passenger) {representative to’ assign coach {seats, or move you to another] {window if the man behind youl is eating peanuts, and will have [coach attendants to Keep passen=| |gers comfortable, On the ‘Pullman side it will] have roomettes, duplex rooms, double bedrooms, compartments, 2) drawing rooms and section sleeping cars.

= Doi Fight

Ordered to. Proceed n Littell Libel Suit

Survivor | ‘Ploked Up

Maritime officials said they It was could cotifirm only that the Nor- c weglan Tanker H. Westfal Lac- o sen, bound for Britain, picked up, one survivor,

Hope that a few other crewmen &

(Continued on Page $—Col. Bassett, Boone icoroner, that the fourth body w Ri, Officials at the scene

on Sunday to fly with the tional Guard. y

LIVE BOMB FOU ND FRANKFURT, Germany, June |20 (UP)~—During a practice session of-the Griesheim soccer team: {near here yesterday a 1000-pound |ltve bomb was discovered unter | {the surface of the field. Tt had {been there six years. A disposal squad removed the fuse.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES m... 62 10 a. m... 65 . 62 Ila m... 65 « 64 12 (Noon) 66 64 1p. m.. +88

folded" Tricycle Back

Judge Joseph M, Municipal Court 3 1 Theodore Ingle, 2308 agp Set | The youngster had been missing! to pay So ea costs and —— since 4:30 p. m. Monday. Authori-|10 days in jail. Robert

{ties ordered the lake dragged af- R. R. 9, pay Was se [ter a playmate, James Reamer, 6, {and costs a esd 10 Sn

{told police he saw Jimm fall in [the te y to | Both rate charged with eckles

~ Ira M. Holmes, Attorney, Dies in South at Age 73

Former Outstanding Criminal Lawyer Ira M. Holmes, formerly one of

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