Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1950 — Page 1

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1950

senipps ~gowarn 01ST YEAR—NUMBER 212

At Week-End Rendezvous ‘Hellhole Of Filth And Immorality’ R

—Photes by Lloyd Wallon, Times Staff Photographer This boy was not in school today because he is quarantined | at home with the whooping cough. Here he carries a neighbor's child, who hasn't had the disease, piggyback up and down the halls.

Curious litHe faces were upturned as the raiding party crowded into narrow halls. At the far end of the hall Lt. Forest Higgs inspects the lone toilet that some 48 children use.

Here's the sight that greeted police as they started in to the Rex Hotel today. The raiding party had to step over children who played on rickety steps and in narrow halls, their only playground.

‘ rr : s ul South Koreans, have been able oy to advance only three miles - : v : beyond the 38th Parallel in two ' y . days. ’ ; i in whi il- i layed quietly with her tin- Biggest Prize Yet This young fellow played quietly by the door This mother pays $32 a month for the one room in which she and her husband and three chil This Young lady Baye Jue y wi o | over Bigges prize Yet on Trade Mask that led oni lone fire escape on the second dren live. JAD officials were trying to compute total income from the hotel, adding up rents that * cup at a neighbor's. Her brother, ? yay : was WE a pacar on. floor. His mother said the door was latched "so ran from $8 to $16 a week for one and two rooms. Some of the telephone booth size rooms have no visiting. Their mother is in the ospital, where | ed the big east coast port. of the kids can't get out.” : : : windows, no sheets on vermin and filth-ridden mattresses. -she gave birth to another baby today. _.|Wonsan and took over its airstrip : 2 = =» : : B88. 2 POR : at ea TTR TTT TTT (practically intact after the sud14 anhiny , ,HR po : . 3 ‘1h: * |den collapse of its defenses. 1 Si Police to Ord “Patriotic” Grou egistration of County Hint Early re mates ter the cap] i Sickened Police 9 r er { | {ture of the airstrip the first Amernediately [jj Reaches Record 279,960 , sd d Immedia e E | The capture of Wonsan was the © & o ; : Asks for Charter ’ ] 0f Married Men ibiggest prize yet in the North Koi i i | , i d rez ign. Red resistance 48 Children Found in Vermin-Infested ox MAL Miess on Books Than Edinaled | ) ended in Worn at noon Rooms; One Toilet Provided for 41 Rooms Says Aims Religious | Vionth Ago, lotal May educec } | Triman Considers American military advisers with ' ; 2 - i = rT Story. Page SET | afar . ‘the victorious South Korean 3d - By DONNA MIKELS i And Nonpolitical |. (Another Story, Photos, Page 13) | Lifting of Ban and Capitol Divisions considered idi : i re, health and building TRV ; , Registration commissioners, peeked out from under stacks of AS STON. Oct. 10 (UP). Sai A raiding party of police, fire, : 8 By IRVING LEIBOWITZ s|forms and piles of scrap pap today to announce the largest WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UP) (Continued on Page 2—Col. 4) “al “ officials today swooped down on what they called “a Creation of a new “patriotic”, pop of “active” registered voters in the history of Marion President Truman soon may lift : 4 d immorality,” [or8anization was being fostered County. : the ban on drafting of married hellhole of filth, incest, sexual degeneracy an See v: [here today to build “a safer and: A total of 279,960 Marion County citizens signed their names men for the Armed Services, They said they would seek to have the establishment, |, America.” on the dotted line to be eligible to vote in the general election Nov. 7. congressions} Jogress sald thaay, idi : mned and closed « . This was 40 voters less than ——— bo aj. Gen. Lewis’ B. Hershey, the Rex Hotel at 470 S. Meridian St. conde |. The organization, sponsored by fhe 280,000 figure estimated 2a of registration yesterday, as 73 director of Selective Service, inimmediately. Rev. Daniel H. Carrick and called pnp ag0 by Harold N. Fields special registration clerks worked dicated in recent testimony before Merchant Sickened police officers counted up some 48 school “The Sons-and Daughters of the and Ira Buttz, registration com- until after midnight making to- fhe’ Sonate Sal, Hous cari Veteran erchan : Aston rin-il ms | Republic,” has applied for a char- missioners, tals and“¥illing out forms. es s Suc . . 88 pre séhocl age vhiloren living . yo jaf othe FoOMS ter from the state. {Long lines marked the last d8Y ono ast Marion County gistion would be recommendad to| Dies at His Home i ow fa 5 é a ind. 18 "Tes : : F al services will be held and playing up and down the dark, narr : | Secretary of State Charles F. . voters passed through the wind . Y : ial unera x One tow-headed boy of rect at once.” Dates showed the Fleming has withheld granting v ing lines last night, candidates, aavied 1D Nol Drecidnmtial Thursday for Otto J. Litzelman, f crders had been sent out to the|the charter, pending an investiga- iweary from handing out cards , oa Tn Sens (note Veteran South Side niercharit, - about 3‘ whose lace Was Glidden Hotel, former name of the tion. and shaking hands for more than, .terans from 19 through 25. "no, died Yesterday in. -fis-home covered with - sores sat nl oltshment on June 22. 1949,| Dr. Carrick, reached at his “Sei-! "gg * a month, leaned against doors It Was Feported that Ip. some at 3708 Brill Ri. the hall, slapping his hands and Feb. 14, 1950, and to the new ence of God” theological school; Milkin Cham and talked among themselves. |, 0 "co 4 Voicinots the supply Requiem high mass will be : fa, Sapp lowner who ‘changed the name to 506 W. 31st St, said the new or- Politicians are predicting the ,¢ available manpower had Subg at 9 a. m. in St Roch’s : - in a puddle of filth. Rex Hotel on Oct. 4. Only minor ization was nonpolitical in i i greatest: off-year vote in the his- qronned to the point where only Catholic Church. The Juass wil Health inspectors found only. ... tions were made. - |nature. ; Dairy Exposition {try of the county, and they are 95 ang 21-year-olds are available./ De preceded by SELVice: 2 toe one toilet is provided for the t tor ‘A Hed’ : We want to eliminate political . ‘basing their predictions on the Lauck Funeral Home. Bur y 41 nspector “Appalie corruption, graft and dishonesty! In Full Swin [heavy registration. be in Calvary Cemetery. floor on which there are | An inspector from . the City in government,” he said. “We HORAN | y reg Ind Thai yh i = * * ] N . i -Mr. was " FOOmE, Most of wh ich house Tamar Health Board was equally ap- ——— u By OLIFF Th AN ik. For the commissioners, the Times Index of Litseimian, wad Dorn Feb lies with from three to six {palled at living conditions. (Continued on Page 2—Col. 7) enry ¥. > work is just beginning. Now| ,\ People iv rie.r.a. 13 {25 h » " dren. | In one room marked by a RR - ——— ingest governor in the world. they must process all the regis-' , oo ¢o 10 yas gradysted from high school . - - Sess rrr ara er, - came 0 - The overpowering odor of gar- «whooping Cough” sign a mother I Looks Like | He won Ihe title by Sefamlt Tact tations. The next month wil be pirths Deaths, Events, Sao ek pr an Se or 18, bage, excrement and human gaiq four of the six children play- He Was Riaht {night at the Intern lled with filing, cross-filing, Ship Movements ....... 9 : i filth which filled the halls made jo there were hers. The others, rie Yas Rig | Exposition and was presented a checking and cross-checking. Brilge foaariis ret Operated Store one member of the party so ill she said, were a neighbor's. “I'm |handsome bronze pail by Fred, mpe total BEUIE WIN NOW DE. Comics .r.rerersrrerenss 23 For 16 years he operated the he started out on the fire escape taking care of them for her,” she Beautiful |Biess,, vice president of the eXpo- “taken down a notch” when the qu cw ti*"""""""""""""" Jo |Litzelman Dry Goods Oo, apt : 2 | sition. 8 . 30t : non "the door a oo pa another . room where Day, said the weather- "Today his trophy .rested upon Fo aay deaths Tots, arcele. Harold H. Hartley «.vneee 16 land later at Morris and West Sts. | . latch which mothers said was four children were housed, offi- ‘man. Looks liké~he was his desk at the Statehouse, tions from other counties, and. poiP tT iRl SY ttt og He joined the late Charles "there “to keep children off the cials found a 14-month-old baby right. Let's hope he is proof positive that Indiana's chief gisenfranchisements by the COUMtS.| oo MANNerS «..........—9 |Oeftering in founding the Oefterfire escape.” : 1ill with pneumonia. iaht for + . executive is the outstanding, un- Today's total, believed 40 De &| Movies ..r..o.oorrerr... 10 '|ing-Litzelman Coal Co. at 1130 Cites Fire Peril { In room after room babies lay, right for tomorrow since disputed and reigning milking record for “active” registered Vot-| Obituaries . reer... 5 Kentucky Ave. He was associated “If a fire ever started in here gwaddled in filthy Bedclothes, : he changed his first pre- Shampion of the world among ..." topped the 55020. PETSONS| Othman ................ 13 |in the business for 25 years, re everybody would be burned to sucking bottles while flies buzzed ap i governors. : registered in 1948 Although 286-| pattern ................. 7 (tiring two years ago because o cinders,” Capt. Hallie Shearer of over thelr faces. | diction of showers fo one | yy, Governor won the bronze 006 were reported registered IN| Radio .................. 15 [ill health. Mr. Oeftering died in the Fire Prevention Office sald.| Derelict Found : of fair weather. (Continued on Page 2-Col. 2) 1940, officials believe the present, SOCILY + evvsivasssvrssss B.. |1948, : : Be “They wouldn't have a chance of} pn the midst of the inspection, It's tobe. cool Tonight pear figure includes more “active” YOt=| pa Sovoln eee ons 13 Mr. Litzelman was a member getting these kids out of here, police opened one room to find a t's to Cc onignt— LOCAL TEMPERATURES ers than the former figure. : Sports LIB lof the Indianapolis Coal Meralive.” {bearded derelict, Sleeping in urine- down fo 45—but au- | g, 0m... 49 10a m.. 63 | A total of 3764 persons TéEs-| Earl WHSOR +sssvesserses 8 CHADS Association bifore his £ ‘71H carried in his Hands a sheaf sopked clothes, his Whisky bottle) tumn isn't supposed to | 7am... 50 11 a.m... 65 tered yestérday, as compared to’ Weather Map ...,........ 16 [retirement from business, x of reports on the establishment gi) by his side. As they arrested a PF Sam..58 1% (Noon) 66 '4718 persons who registered Of Women's ............... 7 had once served as a director. m— Which listed 24 violations of fire be the perspiting season. | 9a m.. 5 1p m.. 468 {the last day in 1948, | . gr | Active in church and com- ¥ 2 + A : ' 5 - >a 2 2 A s

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FINAL HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

ruman And M’Arthur To Talk In Secre Out In Pacifi

aidedPresident Expected

To Use Plane for Trip

| After St. Louis Visit

Meeting Place Believed West of Hawaii;

Two Have Clashed Over Far Eastern Policies By MERRIMAN SMITH, United Press White House Reporter

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10

Gen. Douglas MacArthur will meet secretly

the Pacific this week-end.

(UP) —President Truman and somewhere in

They were expected to discuss the Korean War and Far Eastern strategy in all its aspects.

A surprise unanswered specifically why the - Supreme Commander o

White Hous

ie announcement today left or where the President and f United Nations Forces in

Korea will hold their rendesvouz. This will be the first face-to-face meeting between Mr. Truman and Gen. MacArthur who have had many

differences of opinion on va policy. The announcement recall

rious angles of Far Eastern

ed a similar meeting between

the late President Roosevelt and Gen. MacArthur at Pearl - Harbor July 26-29, 1944, to discuss grand strategy in the

Pacific War. While the White House

Reds Slow Up

| Yanks to Crawl

South Koreans Seize Key Airfield

By EARNEST HOBERECHT 'nited Press Staff Correspondent

1 TOKYO, Oct. 10—Red resistance slowed the 1st U, 8 Cavalry’'s drive toward their capital today at Pyongyang to a crawl.

"obviously will

did not say so, Mr. Truman

fly to the secret meeting place. It was believed the meeting place (will be somewhere west of Hawail. | Mr. Truman will leave for St. {Louis tomorrow and proceed from

[there to the Pacific. He will be {back here Oct. 18. }

There was no immediate indication who will accompany Mr. Truman to the conference. While the purpose of the cone ference was not disclosed, it was {assumed here that Mr. Truman {will discuss with Gen, MacArthur

The Reds’ fire from mountains | the military and political aspects

|overlooking the Seoul-Pyongyang

rockets, flaming gasoline

| American tanks

| - An Indianapolis officer, 1st Lt. Robert A. Goidberg, is playing an important part in broadcasting Gen. MacArthur's surrender terms to North Korean troops. A dispatch today said Lt. Goldberg was a member of a crew on a C-47 transport plane carrying a giant amplifier sys-

i | tem which tells the Communists

what happened to their war and urges them to surrender quietly. The amplifying unit is manned by Capt. Jim Gibson of Dayton, O., and M/Sgt. Kenneth H. Logan of Marien, IIL

of the invasion of North Korea

highway was murderous despite (With attention on the desirability jelly (of avoiding any incidents involy{bombs and machine-gun sprays ng Russia or Communist China. {by U. 8. Marine “Tiger bombers.” |

There was speculdtion that the

5 and artillery | President also would go into all (joined the “Tiger Bombers” in|aspects of the administration's {trying to drive the Reds out. But Formosan policy—an

issue on which Gen. MacArthur and the administration do not see eve-to-eye. : Views Clash’

The clash of views was pointed up late in August when Mr. Truman tried to suppress a MacArthur statement to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention which amounted to an attack against State Department policy on Fore. mosa. Announcement of the meeting drew from Republican National Chairman Guy G. Gabrielson the remark, “it’s about time.” Republicans have been insisting “all along that ‘it was Gen. MacArthur's brilliance, rather than any effort of Mr. Truman's part, which turned the tide in the Korean War. -

Stengel Signs 2-Year Contract

NEW YORK, Oct. 10. (UP)— Casey Stengel signed a new twoe year contract to managé the New York Yankees today. Terms of the new contract were not ree

vealed. - The Yankee manager signed & one-year contract at the begine ning. of the 1950 season. That contained an option. By signing him to the two-year pact today, the Yanks merely picked up the option. : ’

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Otto J. Litzelman Services To Be Conducted Thursday

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i Otto J. Litzelman munity work, he was a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Roch’s Church and of the Knights gf St. George. | He is survived by his wife, |Olivia; six brothers, Cletus, Dell, {Oswald and Harry, all of Indian~ lapolis; Bugene, Taylorville, TIL, ' and Eustice, Oxnard. Cal, and three sisters, Mrs. Olive Gordon, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Charlene |Bolander and Mrs. Mary Maginn, Pou oe Sainte Marie, Ii %

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