Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1951 — Page 1
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FORECAST: Cloudy, windy and cooler today with showers ending in for enoon. Clearing, cooler tonight. Tomorrow fair and cool. High 60. Low 40.
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Death a Hitchhiker on ‘Last Ride'— Husband and Son As Mother-To-Be
3 Die When Boat Capsizes in River
Relatives last night kept vigil over an expectant young mother, grief-stricken by the tragic death of her husband
and son.
Mrs. Wanda Grindean, 32, was under a doctor's care. Her fourth child is expected “at any time now.” The physician said her state of shock might speed birth of the child, which had been
expected in about a week.
Late yesterday afternoon, her husband and son were two of three persons drowned when their outboard motorboat capsized in
White River near 26th St. The victims:
Arel Grindean Sr., 34, of R. R. 19, Box 710 (6700 block of S.
Harding 8t.). Arel Grindean Jr., 12.
James Whitlock, 46, of 854 W. oth St., a mechanic who worked
for a friend of Mr. Grindean.
Police were to resume the hunt for the bodies this morning. They gave up at 10:30 p.m. yesterday after four hours of fruitless dragging in the 20-foot-deep channel
where the mishap occurred. “The Last Ride”
Mrs. Grindean and their two and
John, 4, were on the bank when
other children, Donna, 9,
the boat overturned.
“This will be the last ride,” Mr. Grindean declared as the boat left the east bank of White River
near 25th St.
Leonard Frame, 3125 Ralston Dr. boat enthusiast and friend
of the drowned man, said:
“They were about 150 yards upstream when I heard something. ~ Then I saw the bqat overturned and at least two persons, strug-
gling in the water. ‘Just Too Far Away’
“1 started to jump in and swim to their aid, but they were just
too far away.”
Mr. Frame then shouted to . Mrs. Wanda Grindean, who was sitting in the car With her tue . 9,
other children, Donna,
Johnnie, 4. - Responding to his shout, “Go _
get some help,” she drove south on the road along the bank to
the Central Indiana Boat Club.
Gene Jones, 34, of 5821 Wina club member, quickly organized a 6-boat search. They saw no trace of human life. But they did recover the
throp Ave,
overturned boat.
Mr. Frame said he saw. the Continued on Page 2—Col. §
rown aits
Tragedy—This Is | Its Background
By TOM HICKS Grim memories haunted a
Pedestrian Hit By Two Cars Dies
Slaughter On Streot— |
Traffic Toll; One Dead, Five Hurt in Rain
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“We Love Our Children” ... an|
O'Donnell Sketch .... Page 20
65-year-old grandmother to-|
and prayed aloud in Romanian. |
—yesterday took away beloved relatives of Mrs. Lena Grindean,| who with her husband came to this country as 1906. Stunned and bewildered, she could only mumble insher native
tongue.
old son, Arel, and 12-year-old grandson, Arel Jr.—downed yesterday in White River. i In 1934, Mrs. Grindean's hus-| band, John, was fixing a windmill| | near their service statioh at Raymond and Harding Sts. his body being impaled by a steel bar sticking out of the ground. Two weeks later, her son, John
‘and tried to sell him a pistol. | They didn’t know it was loaded,| + It was. It killed her son. Ten years later, another son, Emil, was killed in action with the U. 8. Army in storming the German positions at Aachen in Germany. Yesterday her third son and grandson also met violent deaths.
Chicago to Greet Doug Thursday
Milwaukee Is Next; : General Visits Hoover a pe Pn 5
" asbmanee es same nsne
1. backers Resare ss iB ess eestor Photos of little Arthur Mac- '{ Arthur at baseball game... “Tain’t Fair” , . . an ediMacArthur laid it on the
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—Times Photo by Dean Timmerman
THEY CAN'T FIND THEM"—
"THEY CAN'T FIND THEM,
Grief-stricken Mrs. Wanda Grindean and her two children, Donna, Truman 9, and Johnnie, 4, sob on the bank of White River while police | line . . . Washington calldrag the river for the three drowning victims. SNE Ling ovieoosn. vvsrnessssses 21
U. 8. to ask “much larger” ; military aid for Formosa ... World Report ......coo000 21
On the Inside Of The Times
The daily traffic toll—told in pictures Indiana has an ‘excellent’ civil defense program, but it fis all on paper Two Dons top 15 foot pole vault mark . city and county track meets get under way this week ... Cleveland Barons win Calder Cup for fifth time other
sports news and pictures 13-17
The Welcome Wagon rolls into Indianapolis for its fifth annual convention Friday and Saturday .. ., “Wake Up or Blow Up Truman under heavy pressure to shift policy . . . four homegrown gamblers find “go sign” is “stop sign.” This week of music, drama and opera will be marked with contrast . . .
Other Features:
Amusements Jimmie Angelopolous ... Births, Deaths, Events .. 59 Crossword eseeeceeceeeee 29 Editorials cceeeevseseeess 20 Forum ....... 20 Erskine Johnson ........ 29 Potomac Patter . 30 Q and A In the Service .. 2
cesses
Radio and Television ... 26 World Report «ceoveeesss 21 Society ....oeeeee004..38-39 Ed Sovola «.ceoveeceeess 19
SBPOILS sseevesesravsve 13-17 Women's ..coceseeess 31-42
sesessnssenses 28
~ MUTE EVIDENCE-The half-submerged outboard motor boat, its engine askew, lies on the bank of White River where its three joonsiions whieh still exist.
-occupants had drowned earlier.
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By United Press NEW YORK, Apr. 21 — Gen.|
“MacArthur Day” and then go! home to Wisconsin for a celebration there Friday, his aide announced ‘today. | Ma). Gen. Courtney Whitney said the General and his’ wife land son would -leave New York |“fairly early” Thursday in Gen. {MacArthur's private plane, the {Bataan. They will stay overnight in the Windy City and then fly jon to Milwaukee for one more! | “welcome home" celebration. Friday night, they will return to
immigrants tn/3°70 intermittent rainstorm here last night.
Minnesota 8t. was in critical con-| ; dition In General Hospital with, 2, chirped wash basin to wash multiple fractures and a brain) 5 concussion. She was struck while crossing N. Warman Ave. in the 300 block. - Police arrested the| [aries ‘William H. Bauerle, 45, of 458 Arnolda Ave. He was or-| |dered to appear in Municipal Court en cabinet, the table holding 4 Friday on a charge of not hav-| ing a windshigld
umphress. 8iFuiton St. He was treated at Gen-| eral Hospital for severe head and! 8leg injuries. Mr. Humphress told! {police the pedestrian walked out in front of his car. |
| Douglas MacArthur will fly ton. Chicago Thursday . for another with a head injury
Death and suffering poured
day as she clasped her Rosary out of the clouds last night, |
One man was killed, two
men and a woman were critic:| Violent death—for the ally injured, and two other, fourth and fifth time in 16 yearsimen suffered less serious ininjuries.
All six were pedestrians run by cars.
-~were struck during the
One driver, his vision impaired
|by the rain, was arrested for not Latest losses were her 34-year-|, ving a windshield wiper, Two (other drivers fled after striking down their victims.
The man who died was struck
{by two cars. He became the 23d traffic fatality He tell, this year,
in Indianapolis
Mortally injured when struck
by two cars was Thomas Hoover, 67, of 610 E. 33d St.
Jr., was attending the service sta-|route to General Hospital of a tion when a youngster came in crushed
He ‘died en|
chest and compound fractures of both legs. Mr. Hoover was walking across
Washington St. at Coleer St. at! 8:52 p. m. when he was hit by a| westbound car driven by Donald Alva Lewis, 19, of 226 N. Tre-| mont St. The impact knocked him into the path of an eastbound car driven by Ralph D. Johnson, 21, of Somerset, Ky.
Neither driver was held. Mrs. Geneva Jones, 57, of 59 E.|
Homer edgh yl 326 N.
CaPle St, was critically injured ; when struck on W. Washington St. readies major at Miley Ave. by a car driven by Poug's “Hp
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Joseph Urajnar, 51, of 131 Nor-|
: dyke Ave. was struck by a car! to copy Doug |griven by Willlam H. Kirby, 21, RR. 1, lacross Ind. 29 just west of Emer-| {son Ave. He suffered two broken! legs and head injuries. His con-| dition was critical |Hospital.
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Acton, when he ran
at General]
George Breedlove, 70, of 2038 Broadway, was hospitalized after being|
Hungary to ‘Expel Long-Held Vogeler
Reports American's | Release Negotiated
|New York City, { The General took it easy to{day. He left his Presidential
{suite on the 37th floor of ‘he
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Vogeler's
Page wife hopes news isn’t false alarm
Arel Grindean Sr., 34, . . . "This will be the last ride."
{Waldorf Towers to visit former, {President Herbert Hoover, who
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politics were discussed.” Tonight the MacArthurs
suite grams.
watching
EDWARD FRAME . . . a joyride turned to tragedy.
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‘Hellhole’ Not Cooled Off —
Few Improvements Noted At The Shoddy Rex Hotel
Building Official Still Dissatisfied
| With Conditions at ‘Vermin-Infested’ Den | | By ED KENNEDY { A flophouse for families, the Rex Hotel at 470 S. Meridian St., {is still doing business at the same old stand. :
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Arel Grindean Jr., 12,..."|
| | wanted to try boat,"
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‘While Mom's at | Home Show, Dad's Doin’ Home Work |
By United Press BUDAPEST, Hungary, Apr. 21
occupied a suite six floors below. —The Hungarian government anThe General took the elevator nounced tonight it had completed |down to see Mr. Hoover at 1:40 negotiations to “expel” Robert A. and Vogeler, New York businessman | /stayed 20 minutes. Gen. Whitney sentenced to 15 years in prison on |declined to say what they chat- charges of spying against this ted about but added that ‘no Communist country.
The announcement did not say
did when Mr. Vogeler will leave the not go out, but stayed in their country. It followed many months television pro- of negotiations United States legation and the Gen. Whitney said this was the Hungarian government for re-| first time MacArthur had been'lease of the 39-year-old Mr. |Vogeler. {
between the!
Silent on ‘Demands’ A government announcement
|said the negotiations called for fulfillment by the United States of “various just Hungarian demands not yet fulfilled so far.” American officials had no com-
Five manths ago, police, fire, health and building officials raided the place. They found 48 youngsters living in squalor with their
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families in the crowded tenement. The vermin-infested firetrap and den of sexual degeneracy was
{to be condemned and closed im-| mediately. {Board usually backs the recom-
Officials who made the raid mendation © described it as a “hellhole.” (heads, and if closing of the “hell-
| Today it appeared that it would hole” 1s advised it probably will {finally be closed this week. |be ordered by the Board. | “I'm very dissatisfied with the|
{Obviously there has heen no sin Crawling from cracked plaster| |cere effort to put the place In| |order.” said Building Commission- them still
{er Charles Bacon, who inspected [the place last week. .. |The stench of unkempt holes in
He will recommend to the the wall, called apartments, {Board of Safety Wednesday that still the same. (it be closed. -
the Board of Health, said he is! : | dissatisfied with the unsanitary Continued on Page 11—Col. 5 Charley's Restaurant. 144 3 ; | Mayor Bayt said the Safety jS*Siclis since i .
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housework,
the department,
Today the men took a turn at
Scores took off early to slick | p their exhibition booths at the,
Home Show.
They expect record crowds to-!
day at the 1951 exhibition at the! But today, the bed bugs and gtate Fairgrounds Manufacturers Inickel and dime improvements. roaches have yet to be evicted. gyjiding. !
Others were pressed into home
and split woodwork, armies of|gervice by wives en route early to
nip at grimy Kids| yiew the Home Show model house [i sleeping three and four in a bed. and booth home attractions.
It's Indianapolis Day today at
18 the 26th annual show, the third 3 day of the 10-day event. It's the Time after time, since the first day, in the past, that has at-
Dr. Gerald Kempf, Director of raid, owners of the proverty have tracted the largest crowds.
Gates open at 11 a. m. and
biggest home
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close at 10:30 p. m. like every -
1 Qhle, Busi- day, at Indiana's idee: Vout, rament. show.
The
Monument, 2d Class—
Soldie | To Gougers on Front
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Corporal’s Frail Wife
ets Water From Well
And a Sergeant Bombed at Pearl Harbor
Lives in 10x12 Room With Mate, 2 Children
SGT. MORRIS PARKER was bombed at Pearl Harbor, wounded in the Philippines and still was going strong against the enemy the day the Japanese surrendered. He's one of “our nation’s glorious defenders,” one of the men cities build great stone monuments for. Today Sgt. Parker is living with his wife and two daughters
in a cramped 10x12 room in a hulking farmhouse on Pendleton Pike at 52nd St., just back
| of Ft. Harrison where he is
stationed. The tiny room is on the first floor of the long-unpainted farm house which is set among a series of barns and wood sheds in varying states of disrepair.
Water From Well
One of the outbuildings is an old-fashioned outdoor toilet, which serves the four Parkers, the family of another ‘soldier who lives upstairs and the landlord and his family. In the yard is a well. From this Mrs. Parker carries water for cooking over the little twoplace hot plate or to pour into
little Sandra, 3 and Ellen May,
Crowded in the room are two beds, two. dressers, a kitchen table with three chairs, a kittable with three chairs, a kitch-
the hot plate, a rocker and an old-fashioned pot bellied stove. Nearby is the scuttle of coal— the Parkers buy their own. There's an overhead light which the Parkers can’t burn after 10 p.m. . $60 a Month This is the housing Sgt. Parker moved into six weeks ago, desperate after visiting almost 100 other places. The rent—$60 a month. Upstairs some old packing cases have'been nailed together to form a wall for another “apartment.” These two rooms were occupied until Friday by Cpl. Richard F. Bowles, his wife and daughter, Rhonda, 4. Like Sgt. Parker he was transferred here from Ft. Lee, Va. Like Sgt. Parker he “couldn’t find anything else.” His frail wife must descend and climb the two flights of steps to carry in buckets of washing and drinking water. Like Mrs. Parker, she has no facilities for storing food so she buys small quantities. Can't Buy Much That doesn’t pose too big a problem, however, since the corporal’s $150 pay check doesn’t buy much food after paying $65 rent. The Bowles were moving out Friday, to a $50 a month trailer in Greenfield. “It's too much, too, but at least it's got heat and water,” sald Mrs. Bowles. Four soldier friends of Cpl. Bowles were also moving to trailers.
On the wall of the Bowles |
kitchen was a crudely-hand lettered sign: “Rules for Roomers. NO DRINKING in rooms and keep your child Quiet and don't Let her Run as my Husband works at Night and Sleeps in The Day. late. Your landlady, Mrs. Mae Sigman.” The Indianapolis Area Rent Office said neither Mrs. 8igs o o
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Mrs. Richard Bowles ‘and Rhonda : . . $ | toilet, ng lights after JO p. m.
{day on the
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man nor her husband Lloyd have registered their rooms within 30 days of rental as required by law. Unless they register voluntarily within that time so that the Rent Office may set a fair rent, a rent may be set and the landlord ordered to pay back overcharges back to the original date of rental, Rent Office officials, which called this case ‘one of the worst we've seen” said they would start action Monday.
On Central Front
Reds Reinforce Both flanks
BULLETIN TOKYO, Sunday, Apr. 22 (UP)=—Lt. Gen. James A. Van Flext, speaking as Allied forces rammed into stiffening Co nist resistance in North predicted today that ; laneous other volunteers” may join the “Russian . aggression armies in Korea. “There Is some possibility they may use air,” the new commander of Allled ground forces told his first press conference. “We don’t know who the pilots sre,” he added, apparently hinting they may not be Chimn:se-o Korean.
By Unlved Press
forced both flanks of the front.
closing with the enemy believed in the
angle.”
Allies Gain § Miles
Delayed dispatches said the | Allies jumped off at dawn yestercentral front in a new phase of the 8th Army's offensive aimed at seeking out and
Chorwon“ron tri-
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Landlord Is G's Big Foe On Home Front
$60 Monthly ‘Buys’ & Room, Outside Water By DONNA MIKELS - Soldiers stationed at Indie ana military establishments today are facing a home front enemy—money-hungry, rents gouging landlords. In the shadow of Ft. Harrie son’s water tower, a wounded GI
who fought from the shores of Japan is paying a month for a 10-by-12 room, outside water and toflet and electric lights until 10 p. m. only,
who pays $65 per month for two upstairs rooms, a good half-bl from outside water and toilet, forced to move into ‘a trailer at the “cheaper” price of $50 monthly. iad Woodshed Converted . In Franklin, a GI stationed at Camp Atterbury pay $20 a $87 monthly, to house his wife an attic room. wit Fm Another Atterbury soldier ren
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personnel arrives and when new industries start rolling full blast. ! Officials of the Indianapolis Area Rent Ofifce said they are
Another Ft. Harrison soldier
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ampered in their efforts to pro- ;
ct soldiers from ove
TOKYO, Sunday, Apr. 22—Al- both by the GI's failure to report lied troops plunged as much as|rent violations and by a series. of five miles north into a soft, undefended bulge in the Communist defense line across central Korea yesterday while the Reds rein-
loop-holes in present rent control laws. Some ‘Major’ Bugs : Here are three major “bugs” which makes rent control in Indiana a leaky umbrella which protects only a portion of the area it covers: oe et ONE: Twelve counties, now. in close proximity with expanding military or industrial areas, are not under rent control because they were not classified as defense rental areas under | original law. TWO: Numerous other ties were de-controled by action of their local government when Korea was only a speck on the world map. They have become hot spots in the defense speedup following outbreak of fighting in
THREE: The “conversion” clause of the present rental law made units control-free if the landlord cut them up into more units. The intent was to create more housing. However, the result has been that many landlords have thrown up beaverboard partitions, put in some form of bathing or cooking facilities and jacked. prices sky high. Small doubles {which were satisfactory and redslonable rentals as two units become unsatisfactory and far from
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65 a month for two rooms with outside water and 5 {