Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1951 — Page 1
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The Indianapolis Times
FORECAST: Partly cloudy, little change in temperature today and tonight. Fair tomorrow.
High today, 84. Low tonight, 61. High tomorrow about 80.
Sunday
Edition
62d YEAR—NUMBER 169
dg SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1951
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily.
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The Show Goes on—
SACK-BOUND BARNUM—Asthma kept Ed Wall on the sidelines.
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Times Photos by Bill Oates. REFRESHMENTS—Jim Tatum sold the drinks. By BILL FOLGER of the many activities. Profits Ladies and gentlemen and hill. Jade up to more than $30. dren of all ages . . . In the true spirit of the eirThat was the cry this evening|cus there were peanuts, popcorn, in the backyard of 3314 E. Ninth | crackerjack and everything but
St. The second annual Ed Wall roaring lons and tigers which’
extravaganza was on. | the young promoters could hardly But the show had to go on handle. without Ed in the ring. One of the most popular at-
with asthma, Dut VIOWEea iuueu ecw pivves uBYILES WEIS WOW of his production from his bed-|at the picture of a clown with a room window. |open mouth and the lucky ones The affair was a neighborhood who hit wers rewarded with a yhow put on for the benefit of|n;ize .
. | Indianapolis Speech and Hear- qo staged for the delight of |
Center. The ‘center helps the junior circus set were movies, youngsters speech and hear-ighown in the garage. Abbott ing ailments and Ed's youngeriand Costello and Micky Mouse brother Donald, 5, has a hearing! were on the flickers. disorder, : : - What might have been lacking
Pay Their Nickels no big to cover the event
Ed's mother,”
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{70 convicts escaped.
) |where*damage was believed to, be! (far greater. |
i © |hell, her 4-year-old daughter ] : {and a large movie crew from Hol-| {lywood were on the opposite side; § {of the island and no word could] {be obtained immediately on their isafety. However, they were on {the side farthest from the center
40known Dead Ef ramen Barely Escape
As Hurricane
fis limiics Death In Anderson Blaz
Cost of Replacing Warehouse Losses
Estimated at $400,000
Times State Service
ANDERSON, Aug. 18—Two firemen narrowly escaped death this afternoon as flames destroyed a two-block long warehouse here. The two firemen—John Straub and Roy Foster—had ——— | just climoed a ladder to the roof when the second-story brick wall {of the irregular building began to totter, Warning - shouts from their fire-fighting mates enabled them to leap to safety as the wall came One of the fire-
men had his hat knocked off by the tumnling bricks.
As Walls Collapse
By United Press
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug.| . 18—A hurricane with winds] of 125 miles an hour pounded this West Indies island last
night and 40 persons were reported killed in this capital city alone. Thousands were homeless here. The howling winds damaged buildings and tore roofs from homes, a portion of the local penitentiary walls blew down and
Kingston was still in darkness tonight from power failure*and| was cut off from communication! with the rest of the island. Elec-| tric and telegraph wires were! downed by the storm and rail-| roads were cut. Initial estimates put the dam-| age around $3 million in Kingston| but the figure was expected to| rise considerably along with the! toll of dead and injured. There has been no report so far from areas’ outside the city
Ships Beached American actress Linda Dar-!
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Crash Deat g® Believed Due To Flasher
A “migleading” traffic flasher signal at 86th and Meridian Sts.
plunging down.
three-car crash that killed a year-old Cicero woman yesterday That was the comment of Lt. William Owens, safety director of Realty investigating serious mishap in eight days at the intersection of U. 8, 31 and Ind. 100. “The trouble is that strangers think the intersection is a fourway stop,” Lt."Owens explained.
that contained
BLAZING INFERNO—Spe A special
of the mighty blow. | The dead included the master!
land seven crew members of the
» » . - {Dominican three-mast senooner, Draoiojon Timing
{LLa Dominicano, which capsized!
and sank in the harbor here. Six steamships were driven aground,
habitable houses were left standing. Thousands of homeless were
child and a native girl Sompan (ex arrests,
fon of the child all were killed] while trving to escape a falling Is {wall at Port Royal. ,
Several inmates of the Union K Poor House and Mental Hospital were killed. 3 Many public institutions and several churches lost roofs. Airplane hangars at Palisades Airport were practically destroyed. | Timing Precise
der.
cluding Britain's huge sales tax,| the car cost about $8400. | “No!”
oIt was belfeved the storm did a¢ 8:35 p.m.
reported that the hurricane, policy slips. carrying winds of 125 miles per . hour, this evening was moving Wagons Loaded
hour. " [they waited to be booked.
| | |
birthday present from her par-| “How many do you have?” ents, King George VI and Queen| “Eleven.” Elizabeth, “Could you squeeze in eight
It was truly a royal gift. In-| more?”
cular blaze at Anderson attracts big crowd.
has a yellow caution blinker.
the other part of the building. Trucks are stored in the ground floor, the apartments. are on the upper story. : Hours after the fire, thousands of spectators milled around the fire scene. Parked cars jammed the area. Special police details were sent out to control traffic. At the height of the blaze, all traffic was rerouted off Ind. 9 which runs alongside the gutted
- - 2 Come to Full Stop. : : { “Motorists unfamiliar with the including the new cement ship In Gaming Raids intersection, come to a full stop Shae Which just arrivey from lon Ind. 100 at U. S. 31 and then Port Royal (the port area) was é y 1 ] | practically obliterated, Only six Jams Wagons ry De a or ad write to Samuel Hadden, chairman of state highway commission which maintains the flasher signal, to cal attention to the potential hazard. Six other persons including the area. husband of the victim were also
In a major change of tactics|
given asylum in churches and in thé war on gambling, police| other public buildings. raided seven places at exactly the A British army officer, his wife, same tjme last night and made!
Among those arrested were | saac ‘Tuffy” Mitchell, Archie! “Joker” Young and Walter “Big! Inmates Rilled Perk” Perkins, three of the best! nown operators on Indiana Ave, Thirty-one policemen in 14 cars carried out the rajds under the direction of Inspector Ralph Ba-
Gen- ‘some oily. rags and pape eral Hospital was Mfs. Mildred in the waréhouse. ; |{Juliano, 41, &f Chicago. Mrs. Bowman's body was taken/ to the Genefal Hospital Morgue ~and.wdill.be shipped. to Mullins pyjiding, estimated the cost of for replacing the fire loss at $400,000. He said it would cost $200,000
\to* replace the building and that Four other persons were treat- stock valued at $150,000
led at the scene by an ambulance equipment at $50,000 were de{doctor for minor injuries. Theyistroyved in the blaze. were, Fred Grinder and his wife that $15,000 |June, both 24, of Noblesville. Mr. stored in the part of the building 3ernard Lootens, of AT- not touched by flames.
The food shortage was de-| Their timing was precise. They| scribed as “acute” and likely to checked their watches before the become more gritical. loperation and began each raid enormous damage to all crops.| They struck with complete sur-| Gar Hit Broadside Many banana plantations were prise and without search warlevelled and six dead were re- rants. Police said they found evi-| ported at Spanish Town, ancient| gence of gambling in every place] #n capital of this British Island. raided. All told, they seized 154! The weather bureau at Miami hooks of baseball tickets and
| According to witnesses a car yy, {going east on Ind. 100 failed to stop at the intersection of U.S, 31. { This car was driven by Mr. Bow{man and struck broadside a car| {driven by Mr. Ginder which then {hit Mr. Lootens’
toward the Yucatan peninsula in] The men arrested crowded the! southern Mexico at 15 miles an cage outside Municipal Court 4 as
> At the height of the round-up,| Royal Princess Given |the police dispatcher radioed one| . | patrol wagon that one man had]; Roadster for Birthday {been accidentally locked in at LONDON, Aug. 18 (UP)—Prin-{1412 -E, 16th St. Police returned cess Margaret, who-will-be 21-onrand picked up-the-12th man Tuesday, today received a sleek|rested there. 9 green Daimler roadster, capable] The dispatcher asked another of speeds up to 90 mph, as al patrol wagon:
Mrs. Bowman, thrown from the ar- [right-hand side of the car, died , ” En Route Home Mr. and Mrs. Looten are high . 0 school teachers, She teaches EngNARROW ESCAPE—Anderson firemen (circled) leans ex- [lish at Arcadia, while her hus-
haustedly over edge of roof after being narrowly missed by col- | lapsing wall.
Convicts Miss 7th Meal In Sit-Down Strike
Times Photos by Dave Payton.
The answer was an emphatic
‘by the big time had
On the Inside
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to New York St. will be one-way northbound from New York St. to Fall Creek Blvd.
| SALEM; Ore, Aug. 18 (UP) |Oregon State staging a sit-down strike in -an jeffort to have a guard removed wurk in (from inside the walls, went with- for the removal of Guard Morris today, Race because they said he was 53 “brutal” in using a riot convict who had another guard down.
convicts, his policy tinued would be enforced.
The convicts also refused
{out breakfast and
hours since they last visited the hit knows right
8 mess hall.
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Burned 2!; Hours
Damage estimates ranged as high as $200,000 as two-thirds of the large building—used as a warehouse for the Glazer Bros. Co.—~was gutted by the 21-hour blaze. Replacement cost was estimated -as high as $400,000, Speedy work by the fire companies that answered the alarm saved the section of the building the apartments. fire wall—built when the warehouse was owned by the Union Traction Co.—helped save
Another Photo Page 2
| “Fire Chief Earl Toombs, stilt injured in the three car collision. busy at the fire scene five hours Dead was Mrs, Grace Bowman, after the outhreak, said the cause 76. Her husband Lonnie is in fair of the blaze had not been deter condition in the Cold Spring Road mined. Veterans Hospital. Mr. Bowman, sibility that it was caused by who is 75, is a Cicero -famer.
“spontaneous combustion” ‘Treated and released at
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sjgmated Loss
George 8. Glazer, senior part ner of .the. firm that owns the
Two other firemen, Russell alker and Carl Hurley, were overcome by the intense, billow=ing black smoke. None were hurt {by falling bricks.
car which over-4) Key Sireels Ready to Receive One-Way Traffic
One-way traffic on Pennsyle vania and Delaware. Sts. will go into effect at 11 a. m. tomorrow, band teaches social studies at Trafic Engineer Frank Gallagher Mr. Ginder works at jnnounced yesterday.
{the Armour Packing.:Co. of 1 Pennsylvania St. will be one-
4 The Lootens and the way southbound from Fall Creek Ginders, returning to their homes
Warden George Alexander sald at the time of the accident, contheir journey. Several of the residents in the g
to area were vocal about demanding support of their demands gtepg
S. Dr.
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THE DELAWARE ST. bridge prone crossing. That any concert-/gyer Fall. Creek will be two-way ed action might be taken was not and Fall Creek Blvd., 8. Dr., one= al- way westbound from Delaware to though it appeared a definite pos- Meridian Sts “Education cars” beating large placards showing the direction of {the one-ways will be operated on {the stredtg for three days by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
» . Pin Up Girl MUSKEGON, Mich., Aug. 18 (UP )»—Delores Berreuzo, newly-crowned “Miss Michigan of 1951,” said today that the gold cup she re--ceived was nice but she got more good out of an old beat-up safety pin. As the 19-year-old Wayne University student paraded before the judges the zipper on her evening gown split. Miss Berreuzo, of St, Claire Shores. Mich. was
Trane,
A safety pin put a crimp in her peek-a-boo act.
Plane Upsets, Flier Saved
"LADYSMITH, Wis. (UP) — Charles Hull, about 30, Rockford, Ill, was rescued from the top of his seaplane after it capsized here today.
#dllen Count
He said there was a pos-
He added of aluminum was
Delaware St.
Aug.. 18