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62d YEAR—NUMBER 142
. No. 1
Stu Donnelly s Retired
ut Was Tops in His Day
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ POLICE chiefs in London, Paris, Havana . and Monte Carlo still shudder at the mere mention of Indianapolis’ Stewart Charles Donnelly, who boasts he swindled suckers out of more than $2 million on
two continents.
At 58, Stu Donnelly now tells.folks he
nections.
is a retired and reformed international _=—0 =
confidence man. A con man,
is one who takes morey under false pre-
tenses. -
In his straw hat, ‘Dow tie and natty “suit, Stu is a familiar figure around dabbling occasionally in an old custom—steering
the Claypool Hotel,
prospective customers to joints.
Few people in the hotel lobby can picture the dapper, grey-haired Stu as the scourge of Scotland Yard, the Paris Gendarmes, the FBI and the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police.
His police record indicates, however,
he led them a merry chase.
Siok oP
IN MONTREAL, for instance, police wanted him for picking up $22,000 in a
scheme where suckers bet horse races.
In Paris, London and Monte Carlo, Stu hob-nobbed with nobility and royalty.
“I wined and dined them,” “and then I went into my dance.”
-Stw's “dance”. inyariably left his companions hundreds of Francs on pounds lighter than he found them.
Stu,
Ask Stu who the No.
tional confidence man was and he's likely to give you one of those how-stupid-ecan-you-be looks before an-
swering:
“Why Stewart Donnelly, of course.”
CON MEN work in twos and
‘ threes and Stu was no excep-
tion. His partners were Dapper Dan Collins, who died in Sing Sing and Count Victor Lustig, who succumbed on the sturdy Pacific Island of Alcatraz. No piker, Stu picked his spots. He figured that he would be better off in the long run if he could swing a few big deals rather than a lot of little deals. His biggest job almost ended his con career. He made the acquaintance: of a Holland banker in Paris and
- persuaded him that he could
triple his dough on a new product ready for the United States market, The banker fell hook, line and sinker. Stu was 24,000 pounds richer (about $120,000
in U. 8. currency then) and scooted to Cannes, where the French Gendarmes informed
him his presence was wanted, but quick, in Paris.
5 » » CONVICTED, Stu was sentenced to spend 10 years on Devil's Island, France's infamous prison in French Guiana. He felt this action was a trifle. hasty and appealed. This time, Stu's sentence was changed to 15 months in the Paris Bastille.
School Teacher, 80, Hurt in Car Crash
he explains, |
gambling
on fictitious
says
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The gay spots of the world were Stu's oyster. But he also liked to ply his trade. on ocean liners, where he soon gained fame as a card sharp par excellance. He says he made 60 trans - Atlantic crossings. One crossing, he recalls, was made at the expressed request of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The President, it seems, signed a warrant for Stu's return to New York, where police were eagerly awaiting his arrival.
. = ” ” FOR ALL of Stu's harrowing escapades abroad, his record in Indianapolis is pretty much like that of the ordinary citizen, He has been in a couple of scrapes here, but nothing
to compare to “the good old »
days.” Born near Military Park on the West End, Stu attended St. John’s Parochial School. He was known as a gay, young blade in those days. However, Stu said he never took a drag on a cigaret or a drop of whiskey. He was a rough, tough brawler and fought in the ring. Old time fight fans here recall that he fought Battling Nelson and Chuck Wiggins, then a welterweight. The lure of “easy money” put Stu in the confidence racket,
Minor head injuries were sut-| “Business is quivering like a
fered by a retired school teacher last night when she swerved her| car to avoid a trolley bus and| struck an elevation abuttment in| the 200 block of Virginia Ave. Miss Eleanor Adams, 80, of]
1535 Woodlawn Ave., had started to pass the trolley when it pulled away from the curb. Driver of the trolley was Alfred Jordan, 40, of 25 N. Kealing Ave.
RFC Cleans House
man who over-did it New Year's Eve” . . . That's Harold Hartley's colorful way of saying that a definite buying caution has gripped the public . . . hard cash has taken on a new fascination
| Prepare site now, but don’t
sow that new grass until September . . . For best results cut flowers in morning or late evening . . . These and other valuable tips for the gardener and homemaker are offered on today’s
WASHINGTON, July 21 (UP) “we Always Lie to Strangers”
— Administrator W. Stuart Sym-|
ington of the embattled Reconstruction Finance Corp. said today he has fired everyone on his]
"garden page ....... Ss 35 . . another installment in The Times’ series on Tall Tales From the Ozarks . .. perfect reading for a hot summer day ..isescevesnss 19
payroll known to be guilty of The long arm of communism
misconduct. “We are still a
gating some others,” he said.
still blocks the career of a Latvian woman doctor who
Wickedest Little Town in U. 5.—
Story of Honky-Tonk Row Begins Tomorrow in Times
Btrip teasers . ... “B” girls ... . Brazen gyp operators . You'll meet them all in oy Went to Work on HonkyTonk Row,” the story of seven nights in Calumet City,
Barbary Coast of the Middle West.”
Edan Wright, Times spel.’
cial writer, has written her story of ‘the strip.” Working as a waitress, she is the first reporter to get inside the row. The fitst of her articles,
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Other Features:
IN BETTER DAYS—ShuDannelly in 196
{Polio cases running ahead of last year 17 Force fighter and bomber sorties)
¥ Every city of metropolitan size has its underworld and Indianapolis is no exception. But unlike the crime cartels of Chicago, New York, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and other vice meccas, this city has its own home-grown variety. The crap kings; lottery czars, racketeers and swindlers of Indianapolis are a fantastic cast of characters. This is the first in a series about some of the city's - plunderworld aristocrats and their. political con-
he frankly admits. “I was fighting .in Miami and some of the big con men took a liking to me,” he says. “I was impressed with their big cars and yachts. They taught me the angles.” » td = IN HIS travels, Stu met the mobsters and the aristocrats of crime as well as the well-heeled suckers he swindled. * He claims credit for “discovering” William Fallon, “The Great Mouthpiece” of the crime cartels of America. When Fal-
lon was able to save Stu from |
prison the con men and racketeers, says Stu, hurried to hire the man who was just starting his law career. In Indianapolis, Stu's name is not associated with gambling. His brother, Leroy, however, is one of the big horse race betting operators in town. Police Chief O'Neal has known Stu all of his life. He says that in Indianapolis, Stu is harmless. An insurance annuity keeps | him in moderate circumstances during his ~ “retirement,” Stu says. Married in the Little Church Around the Corner in New York 32 years ago, Stu says he is now content. But sometimes, he admits, he yearns for the “good old days.”
Next: Lottery.
On the Inside
In Truce Talks
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SUNDAY, JULY 22,
1951
- € : Cs ] ‘ Pp g ol ” ~ FORECAST:. Scattered thundershowers today. High 88. A little cooler tonight. Hot and mostly fair tomorrow.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Expect Russ To Shift Play
Higher Officials May Hold Parley TOKYO, Sunday, July 22 (UP)—Moscow was believed ready today to attempt a new
tack in the Korean truce ne-
gotiations as the Kaesong talks reached a critical stage of stalemate and postponement. The next move was up to the Communists. The Chinese and North Korean| delegations, granted a four-day| adjournment, asked for safe con-|
{duct back to Pyangyang for an
expected three-way talk with Peiping and Moscow. There was speculation at the United Nations advance camp in| Koreo that the talks would not be resumed there—that future negotiations would be carried out at a high diplomatic level.
Peiping’s Story
The first clue to the new move came in a Communist broadcast from Peiping which blamed the! impasse over the Communist de-| mand - for withdrawal of Allied
2 troops from Korea.
“Peiping said the Communists: asked the recess “to give both sides adequate time for careful consideration of the question” of] troop withdrawal. The United Nations blunt “no”; to this Red demand placed the! issue of war or peace in Korea— and possibly the world—squarely| in the hands of commuiinism’s| highest leadership, It meant there would be no Allied reconsideras
-Up to Kremlin
And observers on the scene believed this decision—whether to hos up the talks or give in to the Allied ultimatum to discuss, |only military matters—was someithink only the Kremlin could decide, | The truce talks called to pre|pare an agenda for formal armis[tice negotiations were adjourned {until July 25, 8 P.M. Tuesday, {Indianapolis Time, at Communist request. United Press Vice President {Frank Bartholomew, who made ‘the trip to Kaesong with the {United Nations peace team for {the showdown session, ‘reported, |“the correspondents were wager{ing even money that there would |be no more cease-fire sessions in|
beat,” |. who with
"Operation Save the Life’
freon Massage Staves
FIVE PEOPLE in white stood silently around a General "Hospital yesterday. Suddenly the patient. “Doctor, there is no heart spoke the anesthetist skilled fingers: had been Keeping constant check on the patient's pulse. »
opérating table
life slipped from
The reaction was i{nstantaneous. “Scalpel,” came’ the sharp
command from the senior surgeon. Operation ‘‘save the life” was under way. ou » = A STERILE surgical knife was slapped into his rubberclad outstretched hand.
* “Scalpel,” the attendant replied ‘as the instrument was delivered.
Within a minute after the
terse no-heart-beat alarm had -
been sounded, the two doctors had made an incision through the ribs and exposed the stilled lump of muscle. Then with supple fingers the surgeon started manipulating the heart. No action. The vital organ remained limp. No life. The surgbéon continued for several minutes. Suddenly, between his fingers he felt a twitch.
HE CONTINUED the mas: sage. The organ began to twitch regularly, He relaxed his grip. The action continued by itself. A heartbeat had been restored. A life had been saved. Dr. J. 8S. Bean, Medical Di-
ae
| rector of the hospital said that
cardiac arrests occur once in about every 5000 operations. | Often they are saved by in-
tion. ~1 Jjecting adrenalin directly into 1 the heart.
Off Death
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AFTER OPERATION—Nurse watches over Mrs. Clark.
The patient, Mrs. Jessie Clark, 31, is still in critical condition, but her doctors hoped for the. best. CHTIBNging “al natigatotsse to life after a heart stop is not unusual,” Dr. Bean said. “But getting in through the chest in less than a minute is.” » » "
WHEN THE patient recovers from the heart operation, she will undergo the kidney operation which was to have taken place today. Professional ethics require -that the two surgeons go unnamed.
The
operation
employed “save the life” had never been executed on a paig tient before by. the two doctors. But every works in a General Hospital
technique
to
operating robm the steps are |
routine. They have tp be. A
year ago Dr. Bean directed that |
everyone performing any kind of surgery know the technique. Yesterday the pay-off came. Cool heads, cold steel, skilled surgeons and the practice of a procedure worked. Operation “save saved the life.
the life,”
An Orphan Steel Life on y the. Oh- hoses
Makes His Honor Gals Aboard Raft Shop When They Hit a Big City
Very Unhappy
THERE’S AN orphan street in in Indianapolis. And Mayor Bayt is unhappy about it. It seems the Mayor took an active interest in.seeing that Now
York St. between Blake St. and
White River was reopened to traffic. It had been closed for widening and resurfacing. = = =
IT’S OPEN now. Has been since
{Friday morning.
But few people are using it, the
i : Mayor declares.
| Kaesong.' { Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, the| |chief United Nations delegate, {flew to Toko Saturday for con-| {ferences with Gen. Matthew B.| | Ridgway, supreme United Nations
| commander,
| Patrols Feel Out. |
Reds’ Strength |
TOKYO, Sunday, 9 22 (UP)| |—Allied patrols stabbed cau|tiously northward. today to feel {out the strength of the Com-| | munist armies reported massed {for a full-scale offensive should | [the truce talks fail. { No heavy fighting was re{ported but the United Nations {turned a wary eye toward the {Chinese who built up their
has settled in Indianapolis —| strength to vast proportions be-|
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson served on a ‘‘Kefauver Committee” investigating gambling at the turn of the nineteenth century? in Indiana are
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Fire Flares Upi in K. C.
KANSAS CITY, MO. July 21 | (UP)—Fire broke out today in| the area of the inferno which! raged for three days during the height of Kansas City’s flood, but | {firemen believed they could hold| President
to one 18, "gasoline 000 gallon: Potottine. today
{fore and the | negotiations. | The weather still was working|
{for the Communists and a heavy]
during peace]
vidownpour of rain blanketed all
|of North Korea and cut Fifth Air
tq, 120. The Navy on the east codst still bombarded the enemy’s costal supply route. But the Communist buildup was believed complete, with 300,000 troops in the line and 350,000 | {more to back up their drive. | A ——————————— |
Hit-Run Driver Dumps 2 Gls at Side of Road
MARTINEZ, Cal., July 21 (UP) | -—A cold-blooded hit-run driver] | killed a hitchhiking Air Force enlisted man and badly injured a |second ‘near here early today, | stopping only long enough to! drag his victims into a field] laway from the highway before | fleeing from the scene. Army authorities from Camp Stoneman, Pittsburg, Cal.,, where {the two victims were stationed, |identified the dead soldier as Airman 1/C Cornelius J. Kelly, |22, of Detroit, Mich. The injured) man was Airman 1/C Jack T.| Blackwell, 18, of San Francisco. | | Mr, Blackwell, his left. leg shat-| tered said the driver made no! jeffort to help after dragging him| and Mr. Kelly off the road.
‘Truman Goes on Cruise WASHINGTON, July 21 (UP) Truman cruised the the presidential yach He
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The whole idea was to extend the eastbound operation of New {York St. all the way from. the! |river. Previously it had been iust {from Blake St. to Highland Place. Well, it's open now--all way to Highland Place. Mayor Bayt invites all apolis motorists to use it. It’s all brand new and pretty. {Smooth, too, he says.
the And Indian-
Selection of Miss Indiana In Pageant Set Aug. 4
Miss Indiana, who will represent the state in the Miss America|
| Pageant in Atlantic City in Sep-| tember, will be chosen in the Jef-|
ferson High School Gymnasium! in Lafayette at 7:30 p. m., Aug. 4. The contestant from Indian-| {apolis is Virginia Ann Johnson,|
Broad Ripple High School grad-|
uate who also won The Times “Sweetest Girl in the World” Contest last spring.
Asks $5 Million
WASHINGTON, July 21 The American Red Cross said today it's ‘special $3 million flood relief drive is the first such ap-|
peal since the New England hur-|
ricane in 1 1938.
Some Facts About
Home Ownership
On one of the inside pages of today’s Times you will fino a large ad listing some of the many advantages of home ownership. Check this list and you will see that a better home or a more suitable home will add to your many blessings. Buy Your Better Home To- _ day! "5449 WINTHROP 3-Bedroom, very attractive 6-room home, completely modern living room 12x28, fireplace, spacious dining room, also sun room. Full basement, 6 oll furnace, 2-car garage, fenced rear
yard, well-constructed home. By apointment only. Harold R. Donneil
A-2374, JACK C. CARR, INC. MA-2374
139 E. Market Si. : Above is a sample home from the many hundreds of values offered today in the big Real Estate Section of The Indianapolis Times,
tos Shia WIDE VARIETY of omes For Sale you are sire nnd several ‘that ound; ” See them toda To SECTION 4
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PITTSBURGH, July 21 (UP)The female crew members of the raft, Lethargia, did today what most women do when they visit a big city-—they shopped. Skipper Mary Ellin McCrady and Geraldine Garcia browsed through downtown department stores while Milton Bordon, 30, and Robert Brown, 23, put the finishing touches on the cabin the 20x12 foot raft. The Lethargia was moored near the Point—the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers which form the Ohio. Pittsburgh was the first stop on the planned 1800-mile junket which began at New Kensington, Pa., to end at New Orleans about midSeptember. Dreams Up Trip
Mary Ellin, 24-year-old blond, {dreamed up the trip as an op{portunity to study the reactions |of people living together under trying conditions for a long time. | She is a graduate sociology student from Ann Arbor, Mich.
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AHOY MATES—The crew
Thursday and is scheduled
Mary Ellin and Geraldine, 23-year-old artist from Boston, showed no effects of strain after manning the sweeps which sculled the raft into Pittsburgh.
Mr. Brown, a husky six-footer
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doctor © who
Hear SOS After 38 Vanish On Airlift Plane In Storm
26 Gls Lost During Flight
Ate rp
Across Alaska
Distress Signals Reported Strong
By United Press
VANCOUVER, B. C,, July
'21—Faint hopes that a Koirean airlift plane with 38 persons aboard may have crash{landed safely were raised tonight ‘when a Canadian Pacific airlines
spokesman disclosed a “continuous wave” radio signal had been
1 {monitored for almost three hours. | The signal
“could have originated” aboard the Canadian Pa~ cific Airlines DC-4 missing since |early today, CPA officials said but |“we are mot putting much faith in it.” The signal first was picked up
iat 10th Rescue Squadron Head-
i quarters, Elmendorf Field, Anchorage, Alaska, An hour later a {CPA radio operator in Cranbrook, {B. C., 300 miles east of here, re{ported receiving the “strong but intermittent” signal. CPA spokesmen described the signal as “just off” the international distress frequency, and a continuous wave with no discernible dots and dashes.
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TiContinuous Hum’
Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters here said “every avail|able” set on the British Columbia {coast was funed to the distress frequency in hopes of tracing it to |its point of origin. The signal was first reported about 4 p. m. (Indianapolis time) and continued until 7:40 p. m. However, CPA and RCAF spokesmen said “no usable bearing” on the signal's direction was taken. | “It was a continuous hum, [rather than a clear signal,” a {CPA spokesman said, “but you | know a transmitter was turned on somewhere.” Aboard the CPA transport were {three United Nations officials, 28 servicemen—26 of them GIs—and a crew of seven, including two stewardesses. The four-engined transport was on the first leg of an airlift: flight to Japan from Vancouver, B. C. CPA officials said the craft had enough fuel to stay aloft until 8 a. m,, Indianapolis time.
who is a senior sociology student]
at the University
fraternity brothers. don, a serious student of forestry and engineering hopes to gain experience from the trip to fit him in his profession. Sam Is Sensible
Geraldine and Mary Ellin bought some gifts for their family land sent along reassuring notes that their journey has been safe lalong the first 20 miles. Among the shopping items was a ukelele for Mr.:Brown. He will
{help Mary Ellin, a guitarist, ac-| company European folk singing]
in the evening.
The crew plans to stay in
Pittsburgh overnight and start] {down the Ohio River tomorrow. The fifth crew member—Sam, a 10-week-old mongrel-—lay on ‘the deck sunning himself.
of Michigan, | took the trip on a dare from his/| But Mr, Bor-|
Radio Goes Silent
The missing craft's radio went silent after sending a routine radio message at 3:17 a. m. while flying over Cape Spencer, midway between Vancouver and Anchor(age. | Search officers hoped the trans port may have made an emer= gency landing on the water near the coast along Alaska's pane handle. Military officials said thé search would center in the southern end of the St. Elias mountain range, known as “The Land of Missing Planes.” Mount Fairweather juts 15,300 {feet into the sky just 60 miles north of the cape. Other mountains In the area are more than {10,000 feet high. Servicemen aboard the plane {included 23 U. 8. Air Force men, [three soldiers and two members of the Royal Canadian Navy. Their names were withheld. Crew members were identified {by CPA officials as Capt. Victor Fox, 44, West Vancouver, B. C.; 1st Officer Bruce S. Thomson, 29, West Vancouver; 2d Officer Ere nest L. Kraushar, 30, Vancouver; |Radio Officer Freeman R. Tupper, 138, Vancouver; Flight Engineer |Arthur 8. Boon, Vancouver, and |Stewardesses Kathleen M. Moran, {24, and Eva M. Lee, 23, both of [Vancouver.
President Will Visit Detroit's Big Party
DETROIT, Se 22
(UP) =
". [President Truman comes to De-
|troit next Saturday to wish it a {happy birthday and highlight a {week packed with parades, [speeches and entertainment.
+ | The President won't join in the
of she raft Lethargia, bounding
down the Ohio and Mississippi toward New Orleans, is shown at
Aspinwall, Pa. Left to right they
are Donald A. Brown, Mary Ellen
McCrady, the skipper, Geraldine Garcia and Miten E Bordon Jr. § & |
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|parade commemorating the city's {250th birthday Saturday after {noon but he’ll take time to offer his greetings in a short address at City Hall. Secretary of State Dean Acheson will precede the President to Detroit by four days and deliver a “major” foreign policy speech Tuesday night. Mrs. Acheson, & native Detroiter, will. accompany him.
Book to Woo_
10S ANGELES, July 21 their marital