Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1951 — Page 3
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ind they had a “judicial Inown as kangaroo courts.” Gangsters were tried before
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hese “courts all over the coun-| ry,” and “throughout the cities if the United States there were lets of what were known as roops” to execute the gangsters ‘ound guilty of violating undervorld rules, he said. In Brooklyn, . Anastasia issued the death warants, he added. Anastasia escaped “the perfect nurder case” because Abe Reles, he state’s principal witness, died \ sudden and strange death while eing guarded by six policemen, 11 under Mr, O’Dwyer’s jurisdicfon as Kings County (Brooklyn) listrict attorney. The hoodlum 1ad escaped the death chair preriously when he won a new trial Jnd all three of the state's witnesses were murdered. Eloquently and dramatically, Mr: O'Dwyer described one of his talks with Reles. The key witness, he said, told him: “Are you sure you know what you're doing? This is the biggest thing in the United States. You'll never get anywhere with it, You can expect to get hurt—I'm warning you.” Today’s hearing was prefaced
by Sen. Kefauver’s pointed invi-}
tation to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York to become a committee witness on the connections betweenn gambling and politics. The invitation, the committee chairman said, was being ‘“specifically conveyed.” Mr. O'Dwyer was sworn at 8:55 a.m. (Indianapolis Time) and immediately began reading a long
, statement on law enforcement in
New York City which he said was based on his personal experience beginning with when he started his caréer as a policeman in 1917. Sen. Kefauver announced the “specific” invitation to New York’s governor and two-time Republican presidential nominee as the session began. gE “If Gov. Dewey wishes to. appear before the committee, he is cordially invited to do so,” Sen. Kefauver sajd. “The matter is up to him. The question of §aratoga gambling is still somewhat up in the air. Some of us feel that Gov. Dewey may want to avail himself of the opportunity of appearing here. This message will be specifically conviyed to him.” The committee last week heard testimony that gambling operated openly in the Republican political stronghold of Saratoga Springs until last year. A state police inspector testified that he made a full report to the head of the state police but it was pigeonholed. The report, the testimony inid, reached the governor's jounsel. Blames Prohibition * Mr. O’Dwyer blamed prohibibon for organized crime. He said | X-bootleggers controlled it, and public which had been a party lawbreaking during prohibi‘on made these ex-bootleggers respectable.” He was happy in the opporunity: to talk about crime, he dded, “because a lot has been aid and a lot has been written ~hile my back was turned.” Now ambassador to Mexico, a
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by President Truman when he quit the city hall, Mr. O'Dwyer flew here from Mexico City specifically to tell “my full story.” Chief Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley planned to ask about a visit Mr. O'Dwyer made tg Costello’s apartment before he became mayor. : Costello, around whose activities the committee has centered the present hearings in New York, pomised to be present at the committee session today.
Bus Riders Here
. Take Fare Boost
Pretty Calmly
Indianapolis bus riders seemed pretty calm about the rate increase today. Complaints about the 15-cent, two-for-25 cents price were apparently out of most people's systems already. The fare boost went into effect yesterday. The general attitude seemed to be one of resigned waiting and hoping for better services. “We’ still have to stand on busses all the time,” said a woman waiting on the bus stop at Monument Circle. “And the drivers still don’t call the stops.” Most people said they believed the new price ‘was necessary. “Like everything else, prices are going up for street car rides, too,” said Mrs. Alice Weathers, 428 W. 31st St. “I wouldn't mind the price if we could get good service,” said Mrs. Chloe Chenoweth, ° 4901 Evanston Ave. “The CentralKeystone service is still awfully slow.” Walter Terry, bus dispatcher on Monument Circle, said bus drivers reported few squawks.
Tentative OK Given To Sewer Connection
Tentative approval for connection of the Manor Court subdivision to the 34th St. sewer was granted today by the ‘Works Board. Petitioners to the Works Board indicated they would pay all costs of connecting to the existing 34th St. sewer and would pay in addition assessments for a new sewer proposed for that street. Mayor Bayt revealed today thut Fifth Army sanitary engineers will confer here tomorrow on a proposed sewer from Ft. Harrison to connect with the city system, This sewer would serve residential areas built up in and near Ft.
cars also an bobind schedule.
Winter Bars Door to Spring
Due to Get Much Colder Tonight Continued From Page One ists to proceed ‘cautiously on most Indiana highways. All roads were passable, but in some sections, mostly in the south and southeast, were slippery and hazardous. Dropping temperatures were not expected to relieve conditions much as traffic packed the snow down, Mrs. Anna Huffman, 47, of 1115 Union St., a civilian employee in the record department at police headquarters, sustained an injured hand and wrist as she fell on the sidewalk in front of headquarters this morning.
She was treated and releas:d at General Hospital.
Suffers Injuries
At 7:30 a. m. in front of 1230 Meridian St., Miss Mabel Lea, 58, of 22 Kansas St. received head injuries when she slipped and hit her head on a-ourb. Her condi.sogetermined at’ [Methodist Hospital. [ A State Highway Commission report indicated from 3 to 5 inches .of - snow east of a line roughly through Evansville, Washington and Greencastle, and south of a and Anderson. West Baden, in the heart of southern Indiana’s mineral springs resort area, was buried beneath half a foot of snow. Dangerous driving conditions were reported by state police in the Pendleton, Putnamville, Connersville, Jasper, Indianapolis and Charlesgown areas. Muncie got four inches of snow, as did Bedford and Seymour. Other Sections Hit Hoosierland did not have an exclusive claim on the freak weather. Large sections of the Midwest lay buried ‘beneath heavy snow blankets today. Squally weather had dumped sleét, snow and rain along the western slopes of the Appalachfans from New York state to Tennessee. Yesterday's big snowstorm in the Midwest trapped entire trains amidst mountainous drifts and halted -airplanes and busses in many areas. A Great Western Railroad passengel train was stalled at Harlan, Iowa, yesterday while labor gangs dug out a freight train that bogged down in a heavy drift. * Minneapolis and St. Paul were buried beneath two feet of snow that virtually cut off southern sections of the state.
Tenants on ‘Row’ Await Court Rule
Eviction Sought By Landlord
Tenants of the Merrill St. “row” and their friends on Charles St. looked to the Indiana Supreme Court today for possible relief from their threatened eviction by landlord William T. Allison, 3375 W, 10th St. A restraining order issued by Superior Court 3 Judge Norman E. Brennan has prevented the landlord from forcing Sheriff Dan W. Smith to evict the two families of the “row” and Mrs. Emma Ott, of 1014 Charles St. Threatened on the “row” are Mrs. Louise Dickerson and her parents, 1036 W. Merrill St, and Mrs. Laura Bluehers, at 1040 W. Merrill St. On an appeal by ‘Allison's ate torney, C. K. McCormack, the Supreme Court issued a writ of prohibition against Judge Brennan because the landlord questioned the jurisdiction of Judge Brennan in the case, Judge Brennan was ordered by the high court to state his rea< sons for issuing the restraining order and he filed his return answer today.
Issued Under Law
The original order for eviction was secured through Superior Court 3 and was {issued under Indiana law without the merits of the case being heard by Judge Walter Pritchard. In response to a request by the tenants’ attorney, Robert H. Orbison, Judge Pritchard ordered the original eviction case to trial last Monday. But before the merits could be heard Mr. Allison. requested and was granted a change of venue. Charges Non-Payment Mr. Orbison charges that Mr. Allison is basing his eviction orders on non-payment of rent, but the actual facts of the case are that Mr. Allison refused to accept the rent, he said. In addition to the three families which have been sued, four other families on Merrill St. and one on Charles St. fear they will
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3 in Beech Grove Mayoralty Race
Three candidates are in the race for Beech Grove mayoralty nominations.
The third candidate is Charles H. Goddard, 75 8. only Republican so far in the mayoralty race. The present Beech Grove Mayor,
Scholarships Sought
Richard Byland, has not yet filed To Columbia University | for. renomination.
The number of candidates seek- Several scholarships to send)
Saag opponents seeking the i" wags raised to 22 today when|ty niversity wil th James M. Kleigfen, 2022 N, Gale versity will be the aim of a
St., filed for one of the nipe GOP benefit concert at 8: 15, p. m, tonominations. .. |morrow at the. Indiana’ University
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Unions’ Accord
Labor Policy Group Calls Meeting °
By United Press WASHINGTON, Mar. 10
step today toward returning to the government's mobilization program, The AFL-CIO United Labor Policy Committee (ULPC) called a meeting this inorning, and an; official predicted the group would! vote to approve union representation on President Truman's new
Mobilization Policy Board. * 17-Member Board
The board will be composed of 17 members, four each from labor, agriculture, public. and business with Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson as chairman. Some committee members saw the President's action as answer(ing some of labor's complaints |that it is not being heard at top policy levels. Indications were that - AFL President William Greer and GIO {President Philip Murray would be named to Mr. Tfuman’s advising board, along with two other AFL bigwigs—President Al Hayes of the recently-reaffiliated machin-| ists union and Chairman George Leighty of the Rallway Labor
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BOYS' FOOTWEAR is on the FIRST FLOOR MEZZANINE Good Shoes Moderate prices "Strauss Fitting og Service Extra-ordinary."”
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IT'S AS NATURAL to have the urge for SPRING and EASTER Clothes—from The Man's Store—as it is for grass to furn a brighter green—or tor birds (or Bing or Como) to sing—or for Betty Grable's husband fo Trumpet. ;
THE URGE COMES from deep within! If's partly inherited. His Dad—and his Dad's Dad—had it before him. + It is a matter of preference-he wants his clothes from
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produced, we think we would be in a position at the.end of that
|year to fight a pretty substantial
war with materials in existence. And, God willing, if there is no all-out war, at the end of the third year it sems to use tah we will have a really mighty array of weapons ready, and facilities
|available to increase military pro-
duction rapidly, if necessary.” As for what might happen to the economy should international tensions ease, Mr. Wilson wasn’t (bothered,s He said he did not believe the United States has reached a “mature” economy.
Speaks of Labor
“I think we're still in the pioneering stage in the United States,” he said. “I think that 10 years from now, if we have peace—and God knows I hope we have it—you will be talking about more production, not less, for the civilian economy.” Mr. Wilson dwelt at length on the labor situation. Labor has withdrawn its representatives from government advisory posts in protest against his policies.
He said he hopes it will'not be necessary to use complisory manpower. controls, and the manpower committee “established in his office will deal with that problem. -It has representatives from the departments of Defense, Commerce, Agriculture and Labor.
Executives Association. They are the four co-chairmen of ULPC.
THE SIXTH FLOOR—THE MAN'S STORE
HIS OWN STORE—from a clothing minded Specialty Store
He emphasized the committee was neutral and policy-making
U.s. Ready for All-Out War in '53, Says Wilson
for industrial plants. Indirectly, he defended the po ernment’s 10 per cent wage ceiling formula. He said the of stemming inflation has “many, many facets.”
Viclous Circle
“Here we are sitting as a na~ tion now with greatly increased wage levels,” Mr. Wilson said. “Then we have numerous labor contracts, ‘the cost of living, the improvement factor, the incentive factor—really what {is being asked over all, is the sixth wage-
increase round-—at the moment -
when all are being asked to make sacrifices . . . now that inevitably would make the cost of living go up.” He described the situation as
a vicious circle and “where she
stops, nobody knows.” He thought a no-strike pledge by labor, “if you could get it,” would help the defense program,
In addition to labor complaints, he said, he had complaints. from
| business usually on amortization
of new plants—“I just don’t hap= peu *to believe in complete amore tion of. plants at taxpoyers® expense.” He sald their complaints have not been as vocal as labor and “they haven't been as vitriolie about it and they haven't gone on the radio about it every night as
some groups doing.
—with a masculine background! He wants clothes that he feels good in—that surround him with comfort and pleasure—nothing different!
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