Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1951 — Page 1

Page PDF (8.52 MB)

Back to issue view

16, 1951

3 BEST OF MULLIONS!

JINN Yel

62d YEAR—NUMBER 36

TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1951

Enter

At Same Old Stand—

Gamblers Are Back Spaces Needed in Field (Baseball) "me _Fire Speeder Drive Ce =. Bag 40 Offen ders :

Top Ticket © Operators Go

i i

s | | |

{

}

16,900 Parking

Downtown

Survey Cites Acuteness Of Problem Here

By JOSEPH ALLISON

part time parking are needed

lin downtown Indianapolis “it

was revealed today in the re-

sults of a survey made by the

Off Street Parking Authority. The report said this number of additional parking spots would

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Chilly tonight, low 30. Warmer, partly cloudy tomorrow, high 64.

FINAL 1 | HOME |

- | PRICE FIVE CENTS

ed as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice

Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily.

Childish Nightmares Fire Speeder Drive;

Southeast Side Headache—

Citizens Ask Closing of Tunnel

Truck Chases

Cigar Stores Offer Same Old Specials

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The city's gamblers were

back in business today at

their same old stands—cigar Here's Our Question— : store stands.

As the baseball season got What Makes it lllegal

underway, Indianapolis’ home _ . . 9 grown lottery— baseball tickets— T bi G D blossomed out all over the city. Oo ave amin evices ° Practically anyone could go into his neighborhood cigar store and purchase any one of several big name tickets. Tickets on Counters Such well known operators as Arte, Sm, Ranke and Soe Wax up your croupier's stick #8 uc a ckets on cigar store : , counters. friends. adjust that cravat in your It was this same operation two boiled starch shirt and get ready. years ago that prompted city and We're setting up a gambling casi- | county officials to brand the no right here in Indianapolis. Sr ———————— No stumble-bum joint will our’s Let's call it Hoosier Henri's

Girl Pupil and Pins Her Hand

Victim, Sister Relate | ‘Night of Horror’ By TOM HICKS and HEZE CLARK ~~ Nightmarish memories of a +... wildly plunging truck by two “+ 10-year-old pupils of Publie - School. 75, today touched off ‘a rigid speeding crackdown. | Eighteen motoreycle pa«

‘|trolmen. responding quickly te {Capt. Audry Jacobs’ order, ars {rested 40 motorists for speeding. 25 of them near the scene of the Inear-tragic accident involving the’ youngsters yesterday. Special emphasis was

take care of 10,500 all-day park- Ith MM | WM ae wire nes AAS € FE€aITh an oral Menace would be accommodated in the {other 6000 spots. “The big problem is that women shoppers just. won't walk,” Charles S. LaCraw Jr. heading the resarch for the authority. stated. Mr. LaCraw is employed by the Ramp Building Corp. and is conducting the survey for the civic group.

“They Just Won't’

BASEBALL TICKETS—Here are top brands on sale today.

n aren

" Assail Pedestrian Walk Under Railway

By DONNA MIKELS A group of angry southeast side parents, teachers and residents today reopened a 30-year fight to ’ close the narrow pedestrian tun nel under the New York Centra! “There are many places out of tracks at 1000 block Bates St. the three-block main downtown Calling the tunnel a health and area where women could park and moral menace and a “hangout for walk to the stores,” he said. “But Sexual ‘degenerates, drynks and they just won't.” perverts who molest lfttle chilThe area most critical in which dren.” the residents said they will the recommendation for the new Carry their requests to Mayor parking sites is bounded by Geor- Bayt on Friday. gia, Alabama, Vermont Sts. and The tunnel, a narrow corridor Senate Ave. the width of the sidewalk. was | The survey has been conducted built in 1918 to provide a pedes\over the last several weeks and is trian thoroughfare under the ‘now continuing with a study of tracky. Unlike other under-the-

? habits. A crew of five track passageways in the city, it parking : is used for pedestrians only and

They're Being Sold In Best of Stores

By ED KENNEDY Let's have some fun

Eatin) being

. ratre Ls iplaced on enforcement of s ry Fatreniia be keep the theme of the famous illegal? You can buoy it with no are working dally on the project. not for vehicdlar tPafiic. [peed limits in school opecial casinos of the Riveria. trouble. Nobody will ask what Praises Police An. OWI Josue | Hits 60 mph Clip

baseball ticket spots are closed.” He also made the statement

Yes sir. and by cracky. our Mid- You're oing to do With it Mr. LaCraw praised the police Since the 1920's. parents and | ‘Of the first 35 speeders nabbed

: s in the yesterday as the big league western Monte Carlo will have On a tour of siofes in force and said they were “doing citizens of the neighborhood have this morning. Arthur Ketterman, ba s ed. thing but the best in roulette downtown area yesterday we saw, "3 . lh 730 Brookside way: ag ca he was oa chuck-a-luck and dice all Sorts of such gaming equip-|8 ee yO ai 5 en [abel te AY 0 A vind a He Ar § ar ’ m ment on sale. You can buy dice at 8 : : Hw X 3 aware that the retail lottery games. | The south quadrant of the cen- quently the site of drunken 3 wal

We know our stuff will be the most of the drug stores in town. city area was classed as the parties and immoral rendezvous,

operators—cigar store man- | supposed that all

agers—were trying to open at new spots but he was “pretty

it right Is it these

pest because we'll buy craps are used for Parchesi?

here in Indianapolis.

one most in.need. This area is residents nearby charge, and sevbounded by Kentucky Ave. Vir- eral times school-bound children

hn.

, TOR!

buy RCA ision. For television re, quality

in place by nchronizer; the controls ou want it;

ra-powerful ainst inters

8 vs» Ask evision with - mes, undeg

ctor owners re Contract Buy it with Victor set e Company

CA Victor 8... priced

gs. U. 8. Pat, OR, ubjeet to change

by dD

EVISION

haseball ticket lottery business in Indianapolis, a $10 million operation. A few top ticket operators decided to wait and see how the local officials are going to react before putting their tickets out. One ticket operator, related to the founder of the baseball ticket lottery here. said he “had to stay in business.” ‘In My Blood’ “It's in my blood.” he added. But another operator, much more cautious. said: “Im not in this for glory. in it to make money.” The cigar store operators were a little cautious.

I'm

x » - THERE WE reach the point of our tale, As soon as we got that first sucker to wager a buck on one of our wheels or on the ‘toss of the cubes there's no doubt iwe'd be in the klink—tout de

sufte, monsieur, we wers running

a Prench joint, remember? nothing flat. Among the things we might be charged with would be the possession of gaming equipment. Our question: What makes the possession of gaming equipment

- . . They didn’t display the baseball Si ht Oil Slick tickets like they did in the old

Continued on Page 3 —Col. 4

Weatherman’s No Baseball Fan

Home-town fans will give the Indianapolis Indians a chilly welcome at season-opening ceremonies at Victory Field tonight. The temperature is due to drop to 30 degrees by morning, nearly matching last night's fall to 27 degrees. Warmer temperatures are due tomorrow—one day too late for baseball beginnings. The weather-! man said the sun will push the

In Hunt for Sub

75 On Submarine Lost Off England

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspendent PORTSMOUTH, England. Apr. 17--The 1620-ton British submarine Affray was feared sunk in the English. Channel today with 75 men aboard. “A Danish ship found a big oil slick in the search area. The Affray, carrying 75 men on a training cruise, failed to a dive and was

The law would be on us in

mercury all the way to 64 dégrees, come out of following a high of about 50 to- feared lost in 240 feet of water. day. British, French and American A long-range forecast predicted warships began searching a 1900temperatuves of three to seven de- mile rectangle southwest of the grees below normal over the state Isle of Wight and north of Cher-

during the next five days. For this time of year, normal maxi-

bourg, France.

The small Danish freighter

devices named, plus a number that this usually well-informed reporter on the subject didn't know about, Roulette wheels and dice cages that looked good enough to be professional were for sale. Of

Prosecutor Frank Fairchild said today that there was no law against the sale of gam- | bling devices, However he cited a Supreme Court decision which ruled that seizure could be made of devices used only for gam- | bling or other umlawful pur-

poses.

1 i

course, they will be used only in recreation rooms and for peanuts '—not cash money. We saw dice as big as ice cubes and horrors — even little onearmed bandits. The slots we saw were as free as an Annie Oaklev—but wnen we hit three bell fruits on one it paid off with nothing, too. It was reported that there were some little slots for sale in the city which took pennies, but we didn’t see any of those. 8 = = WHILE WE still have our telephone let's get out qf the gaming business before we get into it. But the next time you scan the

sheet that serves vou and read of this raid and that raid vou might ask again--just what constitutes the possession of gaming equipment?

Tomorrow ‘good ‘readers, we'll

mum north is 61 degrees, south Rhodos late today sent a radio tell you about another little deal,

69 degrees. 39 north, 45 south. Partial sunshine tomorrow will be followed by showers Thursday, and again Sunday.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES a, m... 30 10 a, m... 39 a. m.. 38 11 a. m... 41 a. m.. 35 12 (Noon) 43 a. m.. 38 1p m.. 46 Latest humidity 48%

eral Search area: “Am lying in big patch of oil at 50 degrees two minutes north, two degrees west. Am staying until further notice.” Slicks Common The Admiralty ordered an immediate ifivestigation. But pointed out the Channel in that area frequently is spotted with

Continued on Page 3—Col. 1 -

Normal minimum is message to Lloyds from the gen- the legality of which might be

questioned by some. Meanwhile, lady, put down that club--we said: “What beautiful sloe-eyes—not

snake eyes.” n r

1 TOMORROW'S final (for the ~. t time being)

thrilling chapter in “Crusade Against Cads. Cards and Craps Shooters,” will be entitled: “The Lady Had a Full House, but No Clothes.”

GOP Senators OK Probe of Doug's Ouster; General Flies From Hawaii to U. S. Today

Democrats Back Full Inquiry

Among My Souvenirs + 4p a Talburt cartoon . . . Page 16.

“By JOHN L. STEELE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Apr. 17—Congress formally invited Gen. Doug-|

Works on Speech Before Congress By DAVID F. BELNAP

United Press Staff Correspondent HONOLULU, Hawaii, Apr, 17— Gen. Douglas MacArthur returns today to the homeland he has not seen for 14 years to defend his conduct as Far KEastern commander.

las MacArthur today to address |

: The ousted U. 8. and United T ti a joint meeting on Thursday a {Nations commander, his wife and

11:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). 13-year-old son ‘are scheduled 10

Democrats, however, blocked ; i {take off from Honolulu Internat. immediate action on Republican | '= Alrport at 1:30 p.m. (In-

demands for a quick follow-up investigation of the Far Fastern poMey that caused his dismissal, |C1S¢OBy unanimous agreement, the! Their four-engined Constellation Senate joined the House in invit- Bataan is® expected to land in ing the General to speak. It was California eight to nine hours announced he would give his ver- later—between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. sion of his struggle with Presi-| Gen. MacArthur worked late dent Truman over policy into the night in the presidential But: Democratic leaders {hen guest house at Pearl Harbor last moved to head-off a “complete” night on the speech he will deliver investigation of the MacArthur at a joint meeting of Congress in affair and U. 8. Far Fastern Washington Thursday. ~ policy by a joint House-Senate, He began work on the speech

|dianapolis Time) for San Fran-

——

‘Killer Tanks’ Crush Enemy

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Wednesday, Apr. 18 United Nations forces launched a general attack in western and central Korea Tuesday.

They scored “big gains” behind two tank-infantry killer columns running interference. e The Chinese Communists fled north ahead of the advancing Allied infantrymen ali along the front except for the western end of the Hwachon Reservoir. One officer said he believed the Reds were

won, Red base 17 miles north of the 38th Parallel. At Hwachon the Reds withdrew only to positions north and east of the dam. From there they poured rifle and machinegun fire. into two Allied patrols attempting to reach the dam. Both patrols were driven back. Jump-off of the new United

} Continued on Page 23=Col. 1 | Continued on Page 3-—Col. 6 | Continued op Page Blob. 1

withdrawing to another defense line closer to Chor-'

areas are now under study, They will be determined and made public within “several months.”

Minnesota Town Braces for Flood

Build Up Levee Against Surging Mississippi

By United Press WINONA, Minn., Apr. 17-—The Mississippi River surged to the highest level ever recorded here

| and engineers warned today that ‘most of the city might be under

water by Thursday. Hundreds of volunteers manned shovels and bulldozers to build up a 1300-foot levee as the river rose toward the 18-foot level. River forecasters’ said the spring flood was wreaking the worst damage ever recorded along the upper Mississippi. Citv Engineer W. O. Cribbs was doubtful that the two feet of earth and sandbags piled atop the levee would hold against the crest, expected to arrive tomorrow night or Thursday morning. He warned the 22.000 residents that most of the city would be flooded if the river came through the levee.

One ‘levee hroke vesterday, flooding 25 homes. The water poured through so fast that a

truck hauling dirt was swamped Almost 400 persons driven from homes in lowland areas were sheltered at the National Guard armory.

On the Inside Of The Times

DAR expected to pass resolution backing Gen. MacArthur ~ . . Organizations . . . Club and PTA évents .......... 6,% Railroad crossing watchman turns flower grower, Bible expert and interior decorator = . . . when a person under social security dies members of his family may receive certain henefits .......... 15 President Truman is still full of fight and ready to de-

fend his party . .. a Talburt cartoon .......... sr eusae AG Harold Hartley reports ‘Today in Business’ .. 17

Fans ready to welcome Indians in Association opener here

tonight tragedy hits Harlem Globe Trotters. but the show goes on . , , other Sports news .......e... ..18, 20 Other Features: About People ...... sees 13 Amusements .....ce000. v 12 Frank Anderson ......... 20 Fddie Ash .:.......... 18 Births. Deaths, Events .. 8 Comics *...coinnieninva. « Crossword ...cvosvsesceses 5 Editorials ccosvrvenees 3-16 Forum ........ Brass arene 16 GAPAENINE : . cc vivoivisins 6

Erskine Johnson ........ 12

Charles: Lucey ......... 16 Needlework ......... ven 1 Frederick C. Othman .... 16 Pattern oi. .io sia 7

Radio and Television..,. 10 Bark. Richert s.scesaessvd 18 Fd 80vola «cesnererinn.s 15 Sports ..... rvensades 18, 20 Earl Wilson «.i0c000e..0 15 Women's reserinsse oi 8, 7

Harold H. Hartley....... 17 |

7 at 748 Bates said in the past 16 vears they served there it has been ‘nothing unusual’ for children to come to school shaken or hysterical after being accosted {in the tunnel. { Mrs, Dorothy Mays. 1134 Bates {§t., one: of “the leaders in the present battle, sai her two

jaughters. 7 and 11. both have *

been accosted in the tunnel. Her voungest daughter was grabbed and her clothing torn; the older &irl was accosted by an old man who made immoral suggestions, she said. “If this thing was anywhere else in town it would have been closed long ago,” said Mrs. Mays.

‘Care Just As Much’

“We care just as much about our kids as if we lived anywhere

else in town. even though we have to live in this district to get housing.” Aside from moral considera-

tions. the tunnel is a health haz‘rd. other residents said.

: sure all the old spots are What? You thought the pozses- . Shea 8 ginia Ave. and Georgia St. have been molested drunks and ‘perverts ts turk here { closed.” son of gaming equipment was Bialvpi oF ihe Shes Sores In Mr. LaCraw said that possible The present principal and the y Sa. Lg i = ——————— mr ee {11€g B17 clywes a e gambling locations of off-street parking former principal of nearby School Shai SE .

SAFE—Children are warned

‘Tell Me What I've Done'—

tests will get a sticker. Those found defective will be ordered corrected.

All the speeders will be cited to {appear before Judge Joseph Howard in Municipal Court 3. Jailed for 30 Days = Judge Howard, this morning, jailed Raymond C. Jackson, 21, of 1702 N. Illinois St., for 30 days

never to travel tunnel alone.

“I'm the traffic guard for School 7 and that tunnel is my biggest headache,” said Mrs. William Feier, 722 Bates. “The drainage fills up with water and the children have to wade through. Other times people use is as a public toilet—many times I've had to go in and sweep aside human refuse so the kids wouldn't have to walk in it.” Lately she has two new problems. Junkmen carried out a big section of metal reinforcement, leaving a hazardous gap in the walk. And hot-rodders in the neighborhood have started a new game—-swerving off the street onto the sidewalk and speeding through the tunnel, barely clearing the walls. Mrs. Bert McCammon. past Indianapolis P-TA Council president, said she had been in a group which tried in December to bring about action on the tunnel. Grade Crossing Asked This group met with the Works Board .and that ‘ board recommended that the city engineers prepare a plan for making a grade crossing at the tracks. City _ Engineer William Hunt said today he submitted the plans to the railroad but that they declined to put the plan into effect or to allow the city to do so. The leaders of the group meeting with Mayor Bayt Friday said they will ask the Mavor's help and propose that the city seek legal methods of replacing the tunnel.

Read Eddie Ash— He Picks 'Em

Baseball will celebrate its golden anniversarv this season. Eddie Ash, Times sports editor. has spanned almost three-

period and he'll be on the job again this season for The Times baseball readers - reporting what's going on in the Tribe wigwam. Turn to Page 18. to read where Ash picks the Indianapolis Indians to finish. The Tribe opens their American Association season tonight at 8:15 at Victory Field against Mil

Ash

Painter Sticks to His Denia

That He

on a reckless driving charge. He also was fined $15 and costs and had his driving rights suspended

itruck that touched off the big {crackdown z It happened this way:

Halt for Red Light

Hours of Grilling Fail to Shake Story

Hours of intense grilling failed today to change the story of a 47-vear-old painter held bv police for the slaying of an official of his union.

Sandra Elmore, 1833 Bellevieu Pl, and her sixth-grade chum, Henry Swango, 1847 N. King Ave., chatted gaily as they walked home from school vesterday

fourths of that -

Leonard Pruitt

Spring Time ls

Home Selling Time

oe Because/of the higher de-

mand for/homes in the Spring yon should be able to get a

better price for your home NOW!

If your present home is unsuitable for your family . .. or "if you. prefer ‘another location, then NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL YOUR HOME.

List your home with any one of the capable real estate brokers who’ place their advertising in the Classified Columns of The Times. He will advertise it where it will be read by the majority of interested buyers.

Turn to the Real Estate Classified Columns of today's Times, select a Redl Estate Broker and call him NOW. You will get a free appraisal of your home . . . A CONSULTATION ENTAILS NO OBLIGATION,

' official

, his home. 4724 E. 10th St. shortly

- tioning him.

afternoon. Waltér Belcher. 47, of 2333' They obediently halted for a Roosevelt Ave. grew more deter- red light at Bellevieu PL. and Ws mined in his denials as police 16th St. When the light flashed questioning progressed. green, they started to cross. He denied having killed Leon- Suddenly there was a one-ton ard Pruitt, also 47. business rep- truck plunging directly at them. resentative of Local 47 of the In fright, they turned and Painters, Decorators and Paper dashed back to the sidewalk, then Hangers of America. The union down an alley. But the truck still was shot when he an- came on.

swered a knock at the door at Truck Follows

Henry jumped in one direction; Sandra in the opposite. The truck followed in Sandra's direction, knocked her down, ran over her, Horrified spectators rushed to her "aid. They found her under the truck, its left front wheel pinning down her left hand. They lifted the truck. and freed the frightened youngster. She Police stil! sear&hed for a posi- Was taken to Methodist Hospital tive motive for the slaying to see how badly her hand was Mr. Pruitt, who had a premoni- crushed. tion of trouble; was shot through Mrs. Marjorie Elmore, her the head. Belcher was seized a mother who is a registered nurse, short time later. took her home for the night. But At the time of the shooting six Sandra was going back to the squads of police were searching a hospital today for a more coms downtown hotel for him after he plete examination. ‘Her 8-year-old sister. Judy, also

before midnight last night. “Tell me what I've done. 1 don’t even know what I'm supposed to have done.” he told officers gues-

Had Premonition. His case was continued until Mav 4 by Judge Joseph Howard in Municipal Court % Belcher was held without b#&nd, charged with murder

Continued on Page 2 —Col. 2 rire " . mires Continued on Page 38 —Col. 2 » é

WITH U. S. 24TH DIVISION. Korea, Apr. 17 Gets 50-50 Chance (UP)—Cpl. Jack G. Hat- Portia Daily, 8 of 2922 W,

Jackson St. was given only a 50'$0 chance of survival today at General Hospital, | ‘The second-grade pupil of Pub- . lic School 50 was hit by a car 'driven north on Belle Vieu Pl. at | said Cpl. McCoy, ‘a Ken- Ww. Washington St. by Mrs. Edna | tuckian from Mayfield, Ark ‘Henry, Clermont, yesterday. i : © | Walking home from school

; “The fighting was all ! ool... |” over a pig Instead of a {hand-in-hand with her 13-year-old

field and Cpl. William D. McCoy met during a lull in the fighting and. declared an end to all that

mountain feud. y “It was all a mistake,”

‘waukee, ;

| woman,” said Cpt. Hatfield, Sister, Shirley, the youngster | . 0 Stone. Ky. P 5 (broke away and dashed tly in ry : i front of the car. =. 4§ \