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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1052
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Entersd as Second-Class Mastier at PostoMes Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Daily.
Better Look At Oil Tanks Before Mar. 3
22 Unions Vote National Strikes
Fuel oil and gasoline stockpiling today became a vital local issue as CIO, AFL and| independent unions threat-|
ened a nation-wide oil strike.
Leaders of 22 oil workers] unions last night set Mar, 3
as the date for the nationwide] @
strike to support the demand for a 25-cent-an-hour wage boost. The strike is designed to “hit the heart” of the oil industry, by| immobilizing the refineries in the| Great . Lakes and Gulf Coast| areas. Industry spokesmen said a] strike by 275,000 workers would | freeze transportation and put| motorists afoot within a matter] of days. Home heating by fur-| maces also would be affected.
Expect Short Strike
But neither management union sources here felt the threatened oil strike could last long before the government would be| forced to intervene. | Francig Schuster, president of the Indiana Independent Petroleum Association, said: “It would be worse than a railroad: strike. The nation would grind to a standstill in less than a week, As it did in 1948, the federal government would be forced to step in ‘and take over.”
Gov, Schricker’s office pointed] %
out that Indiana’s utility compulsory arbitration law might be invoked in case of a major Indiana crisis. The law, although not used recently, prohibits a strike
in a utility affecting general pub-|
lic welfare. Railways Ready
The effect of a gasoline and oil| shortage caused by such a strike would not- cripple Indianapolis transit system. Indianapolis Rallways, Inc., has 310 electric-pow-ered trolleys as compared to 210} gasoline or Diesel powered buses. The utility maintains a normal] reserve supply of eight to 10 days’| fuel supply. { The city’s only refinery, Rock! Island, today had not been served the required 60-day notice of any| strike. The contract with the]
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-CIO _Ofl Workers union expired|
Jan: 26, but company officials said| it was since the union did not give the!
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required 60-day noticé to reopen
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Flu Absences Mount,
bridegroom refused to kiss for photog-
raphers at the wedding reception because "I'm too shy," Liz
Brewery Firm Had a Collar On Generosity
Tax Record Reveals A Frothy Outlay
By DAVID WATSON Why did the Indianapolis Brewing Co. reportedly go ‘broke when it was selling beer
at high black market prices; jand when it had high political] |connections, such as Frank Mc-| |Hhle and Frank ‘McKinney? | | Government officials and oth-! lers who have pored over com-! pany's tax record think, perhaps, | the brewery might have suffered because of its own generosity. | For example, while the brewery | was supposedly going broke, it paid out a total of $5312.94 in| Christmas bonuses for 1945 and 1946. The brewery apparently’ always in an expansive mood,! also: : Bought $500 worth of turkeys for its employees. > Donated $100 to the Indiana |Sheriff’s Association.
For ‘Services’
| Paid $500 to operate the auto{bile of W. E. (Bill) Clauer, one-/ {time political bigshot chum of [Mr. McHale and Mr. McKinney] and former president of the brew-| lery. - : : Paid the wife of the hrewery’s manager, Mrs. Lawrence P, Bardin, $3900 which the cofpany says was for “services” but which the government refused to allow. Paid $150 to move the household goods of the brewery manager, Lawrence P. Bardin, from { Denmark, Wis, to Indianapolis. Paid $857.93 to.operate the automobile of an employee of the
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United Press Telephoto. WANTS BIG FAMILY—Luscious Liz Taylor, who was married in London today te Actor Michael Wilding, 20 years her senior, | said after the ceremony that she wanted to have as many children |
But Schools Stay Open i... cu. oo cu
iitems the government refused to
While absence totals for city from 19 to 30 per cent in absences. allow the brewery as tax deduce]
automatically renewed schools continued to climb, State Board of Health officials said they
Dr. James W. Jackson, State|tions. Income tax authorities Board of Health, said he could|flatly refused to approve a total see no object in closing schools|of $138,820 in such tax deductions
the contract. The firm produces/d0 not recommend closing any a5 a means of curbing the wave by the brewery.
half gasoline, half fuel ail, | Shortage of normal storage fa-|
major stockpiling panic in antici-|
with oil. furnaces, however, are! expected to rush to fill their tanks. |
bus, taxi and trucking firms, also lack adequate storage facilities to build up much of an additional] reserve. “They just use too muh to make any additional stockpiling of much effect,” one local oil man explained.
Public Offices | Close Tomorrow |
For most people, tomorrow is! just another day. Officially it's| Washington's birthday. For public| officials and most federal em-| ployees, it's a holiday, and for bankers, it's a headache. The post office will close, with
the exception of special deliveries, |
as will other federal offices. All city, county and .state of-| fices will close for the day. The banks will pull down the) door shades all day, but the em-|
ployees won't be too happy. Under Hunt clues in death of GI and
a new system inaugurated in 1951, | banks close for holidays but open on the first following Saturday. So, the bank workers can have| their fun tomorrow, but they’ll] have to split their week-end.
Markets to Close
Securities and commodity exchanges will be closed tomorrow,
Washington's Birthday. The In-| dianapolis Stockyards also will be closed. 1
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schools,
In addition to the influenza bugs ing places are closed.
cilities 18 expected to prevent any attacking Indiana, measles now is| on the rise in Marion County, with!
pation of the strike, Home owners|369 cases reported to the Health
Board.
Hardest hit with illness among Major gasoline users, such as the city schools is School 9, with
267 of the 776 pupils absent today or 34.5 per cent,
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lof colds and flu, unless all gather-| A Difference 1 r :
“Actually, hygiene there is Yotneneiaps, the, bigges Sigerence/ ter than most other places. Clos-| government was the amount of. {ing the schools does not ‘put 2 money the company failed to re-| quarantine on tpe patients, they, ‘The brewery said it had re{still run loose,” he said. {ported all its earnings, But tha | He added although anti-flu vac-/government said the brewery \cines are available if the wave of|fajled to report $908,367.00 it
Other schools in the city ranged liness reaches epidemic propor-imade in 1946.
Today's New In The Times
Local L Pag Heroic mother saves two chil-
Power & Light Co. seeks okay on $9 million stock issue to help pay for expansion pro-
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® changes, the vaccine makers have
dren from blazing trailer.. 2 lo create new serum,
tions, the routine. administering! Assistant United States Dis-| jof virus vaccines to cHildren is/trict Attorney has the records of not recommended. the brewery’s manager, Mr. BarHe said great care must be din, and contemplates taking actaken that the serum is from the tion against him personally. Mra {same strain of virus. He said flu Bardin owes $490,000 ig unpaid (viruses constantly are mixing,land delinquent taxes. He has ad|creating new Hoosier hybrid|mitted that he sold beer on.the types. "And each time the virus black market. : {| The Justice Department in | Washington waited five years before asking the local federal pros|ecutor to take action against Mr. Bardin. When Sen. John J. |Williams (R. Del.) exposed thel
| Laketon High Closed | Elsewhere in Indiana school offi-
cials also are worried about ab-
> gram: EY reerre 28 wn attendance still 18|city hrewery as the latest tax National 2 ve ni Marion County, ‘scandal in the nation, the Justice Sailor, buried three nights in fiorth of Anderson Don unty| Department immediately forwardsnow, laughs it off ........ School. how is cloned or ii 8 |ed the. file of Mr» Bardin to IndiTruman hits Congressional : * E€C-lanapolis for prosecution.
curb on ‘Morris’ - powers in
govefnmental cleanup drive. 26,
Foreign
girl friend in Germany. ... 1 Hep Tokyo interpreter keeps reporter “savvy.”
Sports Bratton win is loudly booed... |Marjorie Smyth Indians’ ticket { boss sesnes {‘300’ Kindles Corsaro's blaze, | Kegler's Korner {Caps play host to Syracuse tonIGAt icin iiiiines Senos
Women's Joan Schoemaker provides meal-bait for your family
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1 sles, with 793 cases reported to Trust Co., when it was in
crreshrereseiennnie 30,
g2| Thomas Edward Young, a strap-
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Hotel Employees |Accused in Theft
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25. ‘of 1240 ‘Broadway, and Douglas Mayville, not been seen since. |37, of 1409 N. Pennsylvania St. | will b#& tried in Municipal Court’'in. 1951 were burglaries in a drug {4 on Mar. 28. Police said they adol/in Kansas and the Dakotas, and|
fond day this week, after 97 ofl. Courthouse records of the comine 370 students failed to report. pany show the brewery .received ake County, in the densely- 4 $15,000 loan fron¥ the bank of populated Gary and Hammond Democratic National Chairman area was hardest hit by the mea- Frank McKinney, the Fidelity
health officials. ership. Teeeivs
.FBI Hunts Bear Wrestler and Wif
By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 21— ping 230-pound bear wrestler [FBI's list’ of “10 most wanted fugitives” today, - | Young, 33, is considered ‘‘ex[tremely dangerous,” the FBI said. He has a criminal record dating back 20 years. . 3 * The FBI “promoted” him to the
49, captured Feb. 7 by FBI agents at Cody, Wyo., after eluding ar‘rest four years on a Los Angeles ° {murder charge. The FBI said Young, a native |of Colfax, Iowa, claims- he once {had a bear-wrestling act in a car{nival. { Five charges of federal crimes are pending against Young, the |FBI said. It also announced that [Young's wife, Margaret Rita, 32, |is wanted. The FBI said Mrs. Young. has a. 12-year criminal career and once urged her husband to shoot some officers as they arrested him. In 1951, the FBI said, “Young apprehended three
times.
HE WRESTLES BEARS—Thomas Edward Young (left) won a ‘niche on the FBI's list of "10 most wanted fugitives.” The list how- : . ever, became "11," because, also wanted, is Young's wife (right), Matgaret Rita—for crimes, of course,
In between, thé FBI said, the
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NO BOOKWORM, HE~—Thomas Kling, 46, acs unconcerned when mugged after his arrest in New York City as a pal of Slick Willie Sutton, the nation's foremost bank bandit. "Peace of Mind"
«the book he holds—evidently was good reading. Arresting pes Lo
lice said they found an arsenal in his apartment.
Police Nab Willie's Pal, Say Robbery Plot Bared
By United Press ‘one of the most desperate men| NEW YORK, Feb. 21—Policejaround” and said he had proof| put, Slick Willie Sutton’s accused 'that he and Sutton had held partner-in-crime behind bars to-|secret meetings before Slick Wiiday and said his arrest revealed lie was arrested Monday on a tip that the two men had been plan-|from Arnold Schuster, a Brooklyn ning another big bank robbery. [pants salesman. Two detectives picked up Thom-| Police - believed the two men 8s Kling, 46, last night in his{planned to use the handcuffs to
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tucks, Cathedral Clash In 1st Round of Sectional
Tech-Hornet Winner Draws Irish or Tigers In Explosive Brackets
INDIANAPOLIS (SIXTEEN TEAMS)
Game ~~WEDNESDAY EVENING— Officials 1. 7:00~Warren Central and Manual (1-2) 3 8:15—Washington and Broad Ripple (3-4) ~—THURSDAY EVENING— 3 7:00-—~Ben Davis and Lawrence (1-2) 4. 8:15—Decatur Central and Sacred Heart (3-4) ~—FRIDAY MORNING— 5. 8:30-—Technical and Beech Grove (1-2) 6. 9:45—Crispus Attucks and Cathedral (3-4) 11:00—~S8chool for Deaf and Howe (1-2) ~—FRIDAY AFTERNOON — 8. 1:30—~Southport and Shortridge (3-4) 9. 2:45—~Winners Games 1 and 2 (1-2) 10. 4:00—~Winners Games 3 and 4 (3-4) FRIDAY EVENING— 11. 7:00—Winners Games 5 and 6 (1-3) 12. 8:15—Winners Games 7 and 8 (3-4) —~SATURDAY AFTERNOON— 18. 1:00—Winners Games # and 10 . (142) 14. 2:15—Winners Games 11 and 12 (3-4) - SATURDAY EVENING— . 15. 8:15—Winners Games 13 and 14 (1-3)
_Officlals—(1) Marvin Todd, (2) Eugene Sparks, (3) Robe ert Dornte, (4) James Sanders.
: . By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS : Indianapolis basketball fans will be treated to one of
the most explosive sectional elimination tournaments im
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Crispus Attucks, Tech and Cathedral, regarded by observers as the three toughest 2 Complete Tourney
teams in the local sectional in that order, are bunched racket |P . Nn ‘ in the talent-loaded lower bracket 1 Page of the 16-team Indianapolis draw- a rings, ; ing. \ — " Tech, the local No. 2 team, Before Attucks tackles the battles Beech Grove, winner of Irish, Tech's chances of using its only two of 17 games, at 8:30 first-stringers only part time Friday morning. Attucks follows against Beech Grove are good. with Cathedral in the 9:45 a. m. Favored Howe confronts Deaf game and that winner will meet School and Shortridge, which winner of the Tech-Beech tripped Southport, 40 to 38 at Grove game at 7 p. m. Friday. Tech Dee. 8, completes first Tech's overall strength will round of play against the Cards make it a prohibitive favorite at 1:30 p. m. Friday. over the undermanned Hornets. | Attucks downed Howe, 67 to s x = 45 and Shortridge, 83 to 53. but BUT THE LUCK of the draw the final score tells little of i stubborn résistance given sprinkled the 16 teams in such a Tigers by both teams. Attucks manner that the 1052 Indian-||.q4 Howe only 43 to 37 early in apolis sectional battling could the fourth quarter and Shorte make this one of the greatest ridge only 36 to 26 at the half, . = » ® Tr of arbor | WARREN OEXTR AL and Polled" in the to RY at Manual open the firing Wh ; p Ket are qay at 7 p. m. and Washington Warren Central, Manual,” Wash- _ : , and Broad Ripple scrap in the ington Broad Ripple, Ben Davis, aoond tilt Wedensday. Lawrence Central, Decatur Cen-| pan Davis, the team with the
dingy East Side apartment where manacle witnesses to a future they found three pistols, bullets, bank robbery and would have nine empty money ‘bags and 19 hauled away their loot in the pairs of shiny new police hand-{money bags. , cuffs. Commissioner Monaghan said Detectives Thomas Walsh and Kling “would have killed” one of Victor Shanley said they tiptoed the detectives if they had not used info {he bathroom and seized [eXtreme caution in entering the
KIijpg before he could reach for a apartment. pistol in his bathrobe - pocket. Brunet Seized Kling, like Sutton, was on the| i, said Kling had’ a record of FBI's list of “10 most wanted” |19 arrests, including three felony criminals, convictions, and was serving time When the detectives manacled with Sutton in a Philadelphia Kling with a pair of his own prison before Slick Willie made handcuffs, he protested that he his getaway in 1947 and estabwas receiving “unjust” treatment. lished residence three blocks from He later was put in a police|a Brooklyn polire station. lineup where James Oliver, chief | Following Kling's arrest, detecclerk of a Long Island branch of tives seized a 20-year-old brunet a Manhattan bank, identified him of Irish-Arab descent and a 37as Suttons accomplice in a $64,- year-old former convict as ma000 robbery in 1950. terial witnesses in the Sutton] 3 cent, Case. | Paice Commissioner” George, Platclothemen, satoned out Monaghan ‘described Kling a emits into custody -a¥ "i |prepared to enter the building. | De Venuta said he was bring-| ing sandwiches to Kling, whom| {he had met on a subway two) {months ago. He said he pitied | |Kling and wanted to help him be- | {cause the man had asked him for) | money for food. | |
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But police said De Venuta and Kling first met when they served time together in the New Jersey state prison at Trenton. Pe Venuta, they said, had a long police record, too. Police said the woman, Margaret Moore, was a friend of ‘Kling and Sutton. She was ar-| rested at a girls’ club which. has been her residence since she en-| tered the United States in 1950, from Ireland. - Police held her in| protective custody at a Manhattan hotel. : For their "work in arresting Kling, Mr. Walsh and Mr. Shanley were promoted from third- to second-grade detectives, giving] them - each a ‘$500-a-year pay| boost. - |
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tral and Sacred Heart—each ofipest county record (15-3), takes whom is capable of providing sn Lawrence Central in the first this sectional with one of the game. at 7 p. m, Thursday and most wholesale series of upsets in Decatur Central tangles with a
history. balanced Sacred Heart team { In the lower bracket with Tech, the second fray. .
Beech Grove, Attucks and Cathe- Possibilities for u POSS psets in the dral _are Howe, Deaf .8chool, ynner berth tang . Shortridge and Southport. On De BNE "ary we the .basis of records, team! warren Central, with a strength and potentialities, Howe, record and a 3 : Shortridge and. Southport areitourpey giant-killer, could blast capable of catching any of the Manual, a 6-13 performer, at the favored trio of Tech, Attucks andigtart. Manual bopped Southport, Cathedral hanging “Sn groggily a 13-9 county tourney finalist, 47 after their survival-of-the-fittesti{o 42 at Southport last ‘night,
tests before the semifinal round Warren tripped Manual, 62 starts Saturday afternoon. lat EE er fua n 6210 59,
a. 8 8 : ® ® =» : FOR 'ATTUCKS, the No, 1. WASHINGTON is a 55 to 44 favorite, the tourney path couldn’t Soruera of Ripple on the Washe have been thorn {ington floor Jan. 25, but Coach nier ‘if the draw|. i Baird's’ Rockets are ane had been planned to give Attucks other tourney-geared combination,
its toughest tests. Ditto for Ripple has won-only four of 17 Cathedral, games but has lost several close Cathedral is the only local heart-breakers. Washington has team to give the Tigers a; 9.30 slate. Attucks stopped
thorough scare, losing out, 52 to| Washington, 75 to 49 and Ripple
46, after trailing by only two 66 to 48 points in the final minute of play| av at Tech three weeks ago. The: Ben Davis Slowey Lawrence 63, Tigers haven't played Tech. i Continued on Page 31—Col. 1
Coy Resigns From FCC To Look for Private Job
By United Press ‘ WASHINGTON, Feb, 21 — i Wayne Coy resigned today as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Coy called at the White House today and personally delivered his resignation to President Truman. The resignation will be effective immediately, Mr. Coy, 48-year-old native of Delphi, Ind., has been chairman of the FCC for four years. : He told reporters. that he is quitting “so I can negotiate for a job in private life.” ‘He had not yet lined up a_job but had
do. The FCC chairmanship pays $15,000 a year; but Mr, Coy said that with one child in college and another in -prep school, he had
‘was {The first. time, he jumped bond. |The other two times he escaped
A hotel bell captain and bell boy {from jails at Sioux City, Iowa, today were carged with stealing money from coin operated radios
and Fargo, N. D. oo . In the Fargo jailbreak, last Dec. 27, Young rescued his wife, ‘alsp a jail prisoner. They ‘have
Among crimes charged to him
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Youngs stole several automobiles, urged him to. shoot them. Her
: , lcriminal fecord, the FBI said, inLast July 17, the FBI sald, the, 400 convictions for grand’ lar-
Youngs and a companion just re-/ceny and forgery. A month later, leased from the Iowa State Prison the Yobungs escaped from th at Ft. Madison were stopped by Sioux City jail, FBI and local agents .as they! FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover |
drove toward Burlington, Iowa. on the whereabouts of the Youngs | The FBI said Young 6-feet 1-inch/to contact thé nearest FBI office tall and powerfully built, stepped immediately. Young's past shows out of the car, pistol in hand. ™. he might be. working or seek He dropped the weapon on com- work as a farm lahorer, truck mand, the FBI said, but Mrs. driver, dry cleaner or coal minem 4 sein im = . : ‘5 ds 0 2 or i # * Ras ag .
asked anyone with information|
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that threatened the four-story (tO U. 8. Corrugated Fiber Box Co. building at 1409 Roosevelt Ave, The fire broke out shortly after noon and spread rapidly.
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leave the government ‘for economic reasons.” “I've got kids that. cost a lot of money to educate,” he said. Mr.
Wayne Coy Coy during World War II served and now chairman of in a, number of government po- paper's board, ; fins and at one time ‘was as- Radio station. tant director of the budget was then o
Tam... 27 11 a m... 29 [bureau and ‘a‘special assistant to Mr. iy 8 a.m... 27 12 (noon) 20 [the late President Roosevelt. the “in 9am... 27 : After World War 11, he became Coy said hi
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