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Muncie Paces 16
Into Semifinals
1391 Champs | ocal Traffic Toll 2d Worst In U.S.
Indianapolis was the nation’s second worst big city in 'the matter of killing its citizens in traffic last year. | Only Oakland, Cal., had a more lethal record in propor-|
Out to Repeat: Tech Hailed
Green Carries Hopes of County
tion to its population. The National Safety Counctl said the Indianapolis traffic
Other stories, photos, Pages 6, | 13 and 14. Defending champion Muncie Central led the parade into the semifinals of Indiana’s 42d | annual high school basketball
Oakland's record was 17.7. And Indianapolis traffic was more than twice as deadly as in such major cities as New York City (7.0), Minneapolis (7.1),
tournament as regional cham-| pions were crowned through the! state last night. | Many of the “peepul’s cherces” bowed out yesterday in the hectic regional shooting. At the start of the firing there were 17 teams which never had won a regional.
{and Philadelphia (8.0).
Pittsburgh (7.4), Milwaukee (7.8)
Chicago with a pro rata death toll of 11.5 and Detroit with 12.3 were still well below the Indianapolis rate. :
Indiana Records
In releasing its annual figures, the Safety Council ponted out
The record still is clean since none of them came through with crowns last night. . |
Carrying the Marion County banner into the semifinals will be! Indianapolis Tech, which routed | Greenfield in Butler Fieldhouse |
last night, 70 to 486.
The victory made visions of!
Tech as a finalist dance in the |
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Tough Luck,
Anderson's Indians have a | right to feel there's a jinx on the Butler Fieldhouse floor.
After a mediocre season last year, they battled Crispus Attucks in the regionals basket for basket to lose by one point —81-80. This year was another mediocre season and you know the story yesterday. Another single point—Tech 47, Anderson 46.
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heads of Tech supporters. Not since 1934 has Tech been able to put a team in the final four. The firing last night pared the original field of 760 which started shooting 10 days ago to the “sweet sixteen.” The Muncie aggregation served notice that it will be rugged again this year as the Bearcats came from behind to defeat North Central Conference rival, Richmond, 50 to 39. The only other team from last year’s final four left alive in this year's running is Lafayette Jeff, which upended little Earl Park, 50 to 45. ! Seven former state champions) went out in yesterday's firing, six! of them in the afternoon. Jasper was the last of these as it lost to Vincennes, another ex-champ. New- Albany, which has been touted as one of the “teams to beat” in this year's tourney, was, hard pressed in the afternoon and went into a double overtime) to stop Seymour. But last night]
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New Albany ran over Jefferson-|
ville, 61 to 48. Other season favorites to win regionals were Kokomo, Auburn and Elkhart.
Power Stoppage Fails To Halt Cage Radio, TV
A power failure at Butler Fieldhouse yesterday afternoon failed to stop either the Regional basKethall tournament or television and radio fans’ enjoyment of fit. A 600-ampere fuse controlling
the scoreboard, Fieldhouse lights] .and claxon blew out when the
Greenfield-Speedway game was
that the pro rata death rate fis sky-high for some small cities and towns since one bad accident could skyrocket the ratio.
For example, the nation’s worst record was in Fairfield, Conn., (pop. 30,370) with 32.8 deaths for each 100,000 inhabitants.
Here in Indiana, the death rate skyrocketed in the Lake County cities of Gary, with 286.1, and Hammond, with 24.0.
Death rates in other Hoosier cities last year were Terre Haute, 21.8; Anderson, 19.2; Ft. Wayne, 11.2; Evansville, 11.7; Muncie, 8.5; Kokomo, 7.8; South Bend, 6.0, and Bloomington, 3.5.
The National Safety Council lists 66 traffic deaths within Indianapolis city limits last year and a total of 112 for all of Marfon County. However, the council does not include pedestrians killed by trains or streetcars.
Jack Gunnell, safety director for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, said the black trafic record here was more apparent singe traffic deaths here had not been cut down as rapidly as in other cities.
Not In Step
“We're just not keeping pace in this drive to spare lives,” he commented. “This is far from the worst year in the city’s traffic history. In 1935, we had 121 killed in the city alone. Last year’s complete total of 70 is a substantial re-
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1952
PRICE TEN CENTS
Spending Plan
Would Mean Boosts
In Tax Rates By JOE ALLISON A pay-as-you-go city spend: ing plan, with occasional] 'boosts in the tax rate of as!
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much as 15 or 20 cents, will!
be adopted by the city. Net effect to the taxpayers will {be the same, say Mayor Clark and {City Controller John Barney, both
'sN death toll was 15.4 for each wo Today S News
|000 persons.
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duction. But we're just not keeping pace “with other cities.” { Mr. Gunnell estimated that 1000! persons have been killed in Mar-| ion County in the last 10 years.| “We're having fewer accidents, | but they seem to be more lethal,” | he said. “Take the recent Oaklandon
|crash, for example. Six persons
died ir that tragedy—the worst in Marion County history since] the 1939 collision of an interurban and a truck in which 19 persons| lost their lives.” Last year's record would have| been much better if it had not been for the marked jump in the number of pedestrians killed. The toll jumped to 33 as compared to
25 for 1950.
|" “Carelessness and haste still are our major traffic faults,” Mr. {Gunnell declared. “Everyone {is sorry, but that doesn’t do the victim any good. He's still just as dead.”
Miss Attlee to Marry
Mar, 8 (UP)-—Cheering crowds greeted Labor Leader Clement
track meet
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VIENNA, Austria, Mar. 8 (UP)
2 [—Six Slovaks told today how they aoain last night at a downtown] GREAT MISSENDEN, Eng./made a successful dash to free- oi
four minutes old. $ The two teams continued to play during the 15 minutes the’ ison power was down, although game] ? officials had extra work. keeping
the players posted on the score.
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[Attlee today when he arrived forijnp a leakin g amphibious jeep. {the wedding of his daughter, They were Ludovit Ollarek, 35, Richard his wife, Katerina, Davis of the Honorable Artillery|small children and a friend, Wen- ged |del Klestineo.
where they were ~ ‘nile authorities.
{of whom will sponsor the plan, Purposes of the new idea is to do away with bond issues for re|pair and maintenance and for {minor improvement projects. | “We've got to educate the public that certain things cost mon-
ey and a lot of money,” Mayor x
(Clark said. | “There's no point in trying to 5 |fool the people by spreading the {bill over 20 or 30 years. They 4 stir pay. it, no matter how you| {split it up.”
Hits Preivous Action
Mr. Barney blasted at action of previous city administrations in passing certain bond issues.
He cited bonds issued five years| §
ago for the purchase of trucks for othe sanitation department. 3 . The bonds were for 10 years, {but the trucks are nearing the end of their natural lives now, Mr. Barney says. '! That leaves the problem, he ex2 plains, of the city still paying for trucks which are worn out and gone. 8 The $1 million spent by the city {last year for street repairs also 3|/was questioned by the controller, | “That money should come out of current tax funds,” he said.
| ‘No Excuse for Bonds’
eo! “There is no excuse.for spending bond money for things that g must be done every year or every other year. Bonds should be issued for new buildings, land and
Barney added. The pay-asiyou-go plan would
grams, costing as much as $1.5 million or more a year, would be paid for out of the current budget. Since the current budget is raised by property taxes, the boost in spending would come from an increase in taxes. For a $1.5 million project, the rate would go up almost 25 cents.
Cites Objections “A lot of people would object on the old complaint that once taxes go up they never go down again,” Mayor Clark admitted. “But,” he said, “we think the plan worth a try.” One problem faced by the city is a state constitution limit on bonding powers of the city, That
{about $12 million.
It Was No Sugar Pie
tigo; 3710 N. Meridian St., hopesiip, he won't see on his tray at Methodist Hospital today.
hospital yesterday.
Mmit is 2 per cent of the property man was kept alive with a me-| De Bakey, took over the duties of value in the city—for Indianapolis chanical heart for one hour and the right side of Mr. Durning’s : {20 minutes yesterday in an oper- heart, where surgeons suspected
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Robert Pettigo . . . No pie today.
There's one thing Robert Pet-| While trimming the edge of| pie, the knife slipped. It hit the table and bounced off to bury That's coconut ple. itself in his left side. It barely Coconut pié sent him to the missed a large artery. Doctors told Dewain Turner,
The 20-year-old ‘patient was restaurant manager, who gave
finishing his 15th coconut
at Parkmoor Restaurant at 1155 first aid, Mr. Pettigo would have EP 38th St. He's chef and com-|/bled to death in a few minutes missary man at the establish-/if the knife had hit the main ment. .
artery.
Doctors Stage Tryouts Of Mechanical Heart
lan improved version of the pump 8-—A developed in 1932 by Dr. Michael |
By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Mar.
! Indianapolis is near its bonding ation which made medical history a clot or tumor was obstructing
limit now with about $10 million in America, outstanding. | pital announced today. |
;Woman’s Memory Brings Capture of 2 Holdup Suspects
“MARGARET BRUNER, 335, Bainbridge, a trackless trolley operator for Indianapolis Railways, Inc., never forgets a face. Especially if she thinks the face] {belongs to a person who held her [up. Pia this case it was two faces| her eagle eye spotted—she jens {fied the two as part of a trio who| [took $80 from her last Tuesday! lat 29th St. and Northwestern
ve. She spotted the two on her bus
(stop. Along the way she stopped]
a and called police. ‘She then
time until the law caught up. | They -did at 21st St. and North-
29, their three western Ave., and took two teen- bv Rev. Mvron
youths to
held for juve-
This Easter In Your Own Home
Plan now to be the proud owner of your own home in time for the Easter holiday season this year. You have plenty of time if vou start right away . . this weekend to shop for the home that will fit your desires and the needs of your family for many years to come, Shop where the selection is hest. Below is a sample of homes advertised For Sale today in the big Real Estate Section of The Indianapolis Times . . . many appear ONLY in The Times.
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Is Still Critical
Pennsylvania - Hos-'the flow of blood. During the operation, Mr. DurnThe man, 41-year-old Peter ing's heart functioned partially as Durning of Bethlehem, Pa., died the surgeons sought to free blood two hours after the mechanical from the right side of his heart heart was disconnected, but only and permit them to probe for the because of a heart condition that suspected obstruction. could not be corrected by surgery. | Gave Permission A team of surgeons from Penn-| After the operation had been sylvania Hospital and two other under way for three minutes, the hospitals were reported satisfied surgeons noted that a non-cor-with the results of their first|rectable lesion was filling the successful use of the machine on|right side of the heart with blood, a human being in America. |causing a defective valve action. They believe it will be used| For the next 80 minutes, the surin the future to carry human geons permitted the mechanical beings through heart surgery and heart to bypass only part of the back to normal life, In the operation,
Boy in Fatal Crash
the machine, Minute from the original rate of oe five liters a minute, which is the inormal rate of the human heart. The chief surgeon then probed for an obstruction, which if preslent, would have heen removed, Ronald: Straley, 13, one of the But he found only the non-cor-victims in the car-truck crash in/rectable lesion. the 4600 block of 8. Meridian 8t.,| Mr. Durning, who along with
into Austria pozrded her bus and .stalled for remained in critical condition at his family granted permission for
blood at a rate of three liters a|
Pay-as-You-Go utton’s Fin German
Gunman
: Salesman Shot Down
On Street Near Home;
Assassin Flees in Car
NEW YORK, Mar. 8—Arnold Schuster, sharp-eyed Brooklyn pants salesman who tipped off police. on the whereabouts of bankrobber Willie (The Actor) Sutton, was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman as he walked along a Brooklyn street with a friend tonight. Sutton heard of the shooting over the radio in his cell in Long Island City Jail. “This sinks me,” he said. Sutton apparently referred to any chance at leniency he might had. ‘Mr. Schuster was murdered 10 doors from his home, Four shots from the assassin’s gun brought Brooklyn householders from their homes along the street. Mr, Schuster, a hero three weeks ago, lay sprawled on his back on his the sidewalk. Police assigned 12 detectives to investigate the shoots ing. Mr. Schuster, 24, was shot four times as he strolled with a friend, Jay Reiter. He was hit twice in the groin and twice in the head. The ar gunman fled in a car. Dr. Solomon Fialka, a near. by resident who pronounced Mr, Schuster dead, said the youth was hit in each eye by the gun-
man’s bullets as well as in the | stomach, :
| Dr. Fialka said he ran to the |window of his
home when he heard the shots and saw an automobile roaring up the street. When he got to Mr. Schuster's body, Dr. Fialka said, “there was nothing I could do for the boy.” Police said Mr. Schuster was on the way home from his father's Brooklyn clothing store. He (normally took a bus part of the way and walked the rest, police sald. The gunman apparently was familiar with Mr, Schuster's = habits, a Detectives took Mr. Reiter and five other young men, who had planned to join Mr. Schuster tonight for a party, to precinct headquarters for questioning. Huge floodlights set up by
ARNOLD SCHUSTER , Shot in both eyes.
{police {illuminated the scene. A large crowd gathered and dis{cussed the killing of their neigh{bor in hushed tones. Several girls,
{who said they had known the handsome Mr. Shuster, were crying. Near Father's Store | A young girl who lives near the {scene, Debby Seigel, 16, sald she was watching television when the {normal calm of residential Brook|lyn was broken by “what sounded | like backfires.” “I ran to the window and saw {other windows going up and faces {appearing and the bey lying on the sidewalk,” she said. : | Mr, 8chuster’s tip allowed police {to arrest Sutton. A number of the ay |bandit's, gang have been arrested, ©“ {but it is not known how many (are still at large. "SLICK WILLIE" The shooting occurred on 54th eo » "This sinks me." | 8t. in Brooklyn not far from the
| clothing store were Mr. Schuster kept in a desk at his father’s clothing store.
(had worked for his father. | Mr. Schuster’s 16-year-old Jt showed Sutton in different brother, Wally, broke down in poses and said the bandit was tears after he identified the body. warited for robberies and holdups Mr. Schuster's mother and jn which the loot totaled hundreds father were nog at home wheno¢ thousands of dollars and for the shooting occurred. But when breaking out of a Pennsylvania
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What Happened? | WASHINGTON, Mar. 8 (UP) — car in the 100 block of Bicking The government's new gambling gt A license and tax yielded $1,455,393 ,iq40 from November through January the Internal Revenue Bureau reWhen Congress! it was estimated the annual yield would be :$400 million.
ported today.
General Hospital last night.
He was riding in a car driven for two hours after the machine McKitrick. with was disconnected. headquarters five other members of his Siin- his own diseased heart failed. were on ———
day School class, They
their way to Rollerland here to
- celebrate a pal's birthday when Man Shot in Head
rammed into.the back ving a load of Asks Passerby
birthday they Ronald Carter, Was His father 1746 night fought to save the life of
their car end of a truck carry
The hoy whose were celebrating 13, also of Bargersville, killed in the crash. Herbert H. C‘arter lives at Roosevelt Ave
passed the license law,
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the elder Schuster, who had efcouraged his son to claim the credit due for Sutton's arrest when the police were making no mention of it, arrived home and heard the news he hecame hysterical, He had ‘to be restrained -by police from jumping out a window, Mr. 8chuster’'s mother into tears when she heard the news and moaned over and over. “Why should this happen? Why should this happen?” When police first nabbed Sutton on Feb. 18 as he changed a battery in his automobile, they took full credit for the arrest. But when Mr. Schuster showed up’ at police headquarters two days later with a lawyer and pressed his claim, authorities gave him full credit,
Eluded FBI
Police admitted that Mr Schuster led three police officers
the unprecedented operation, lived He died when
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For a Cigaret.
General Hospital doctors last a man in critical condition from a bullet wound in the head. Gordon Fritts, 39, of 1406 Park
Ave., was found in his parked 22-calibre rifle was at his
Although Badly injured, he walked from his car to the waiting ambulance and even asked passerby for a cigaret.
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his automobile in the shadow of | Brooklyn police headquarters, after the young salésman trailed Sutton from a subway station.
broke
to Sutton, who was working on,
prison five years ago. Mr. Schuster said he trailed Suts ton three blocks. from the sube way stop and saw him go into a garage near police headquarters, He found a radio patrol car and
itold Patrolmen James J, McClel-
lan and Donald P. Shea: Officers Promoted
“Don’t think I'm crazy but } just saw Willie Sutton going into a garage.” A. mechanic identified Sutton by" his alias, Charles Gordon, Officers McClellan and Shea and Deteétive Louis Weiner made the arrest — stil] unsure they had Sute ton until he was identified by fingerprints. The two patrolmen were proe moted to first detective, which
(gave each a $1000-a-year raise,
and Det. Weiner was advanced from third to second-grade dee tective.
Mr. Schuster said he began aoe tion to receive credit for the cape ture, that they knew of no such 000 in rewards posted for infore mation leading to Sutton’s arrest,
OH WHAT A NIGHT—Thete Tech cheerleaders were final gun sounded the Regional title blasting the Tigers, 70 to 46,
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“body of a woman identified as not be announced simultaneously.
| Mrs, . Cecil ,Brandel, 51, Daven-| The Soviet embassy here -re-
{here today, authorities said, An'partment-that 407 of its citizens {autopsy was ordered. . |are in the United States. .
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Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan promised to aid Mr. Schuster in collecting any rewards offered for Sutton's arrest, Camm. Monaghan's announce-
The FBI informed him after police admitted he was respons sible for the bank robber’'s cape ture that they knew of no such rewards, only $50 offered by Sing
ment that Mr/ Schuster was responsible for the.capture of Sut- Sing Prison, from which Sutton escaped in 1932.
ton, who had eluded the FBI for aly five years, catiSed the cancelation . of commendation ceremonies : bed scheduled in city hall for the three OOS Station Rob ” officers who arrested Sutton, | A holdup man last night ese | *Mr. 8chuster, a Coast Guard caped with $126 after he forced veteran, told pelice he recognized attendant Richard Stiener, 30, of
_|port, was found in a spowbank cently informed the State De-|Sutton on the subway from a the Mueller Service Station, 3854
'wanted notice posted by the FBI E, Michigan St. into the men's (which the young salesman BALiten) ool and locked him up.
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