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62d YEAR—NUMBER 364

J Batista Grabs | Reins in Cuba ! In Quick Coup

By United Press ; «? HAVANA, Cuba, Mar, 10 —

County Income IN From anerty IN Tax to Jump

Valuations Up $20.5 Million

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1952

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Portoffice Indianapolis. Indiana.: Issued Daily.

Gen. Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's “president maker,” seized control of the government today in a lightning pre-dawn coup.

President Carlos Prio Socar-

A whopping $20.5 million increase in Marion County property valuations, which will reflect in higher tax in-

ras’ presidential palace in the heart of downtown Havana was come, was announced today. surrendered to the rebels at 8 v The increase includes a $16.3 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) after _ (million jump in city valuations. two members of the palace guard County Auditor Roy Combs rehad been killed and seven ported a new county valuation of wounded in an earlier outburst of $904,852,790, compared with $884.3 firing. million last fall. The city valuaThe situation as regards the tion rose from $667.4 million to country as a whole remained $683.7 million.

Most of the incréase was in household and business property valuations. In Center Township alone, $10 million worth of cars|. was added to tax rolls.

TY Pressure From: Board 7 | “The increases stemmed from

GEN. BATISTA—Takes over

obscure. But Gen. Batista, who had overthrown three presidents and made two in the turbulent 1930s, was definitely in control in Havana. President Prio’s whereabouts were unknown.

Batista’s Man

|pressure-by the State Tax “Board It was reported that Gen. Ba- jon all: taxing units to evaluate tista planned to install Dr. Carlos in Cuba. {property more thoroughly and to

Saladrigas as provisional presi-

x tadd ne dent. He was Gen. Batista’s un-

taxpayers to the rolls,” lsaid Delmer P. Warren Jr., Cen-

. 3 - successful presidential candidate ter Township chief deputy assesry in 1944. f amin S sor. Gen. Batista was reported Auditor «Combs estimated the

planning to dissolve the present RAS valuation increase would give the government and suspend consti- leity $320,000 more than was antutional guarantees for 45 days, ! [1] [ticipated when the budget was leaving the army and the na-| » ladopted last summer. He said the tional police in control. |county general fund would receive Gen. Batista said the Prio gov-; Net earnings of $6,055,685 dur-'an extra $60,000. epamment had become R collection ing 1951 were reported by the| The actual county valuation is } of political “ward heelers” an up $86.8 million over Mar. 1, 1951,| asserted that Mr. Prio himself Jana Bell Telephone Co. in its ''P Put FU Hon Over far i planned a coup to seat in the annual report released today. | The year’s rise was led by ® presidency his political heir, for-! The earnings represented an in- Center Twp., which includes most mer President Carlos Hevia. crease of $1,500,659 from the pre- of Indianapolis. It shoved a $49 i The Cuban “strong man” won Yi0US year. Dividends were paid million hike. in personal property | control of the capital without a 2! the rate of $5 a share. valuations. struggle, and almost without the The reports said $9 million was Real Estate List Off ; firing of a shot. spent for new construction in Center Twp.'s real estate tax! i The first challenge to the re- 1851, and further substantial ad-)igt dropped $1.5 million, due to volt came when the Cuban air ditions to facilities are planned changes in reassessment figures transport workers union ordered|'OT this year. President Harry 8. by the County Board of Review

ir jobs Hanna said many applications foriand the State Tax Board last Nien 10 walle Out of rer JObS 4 1ephones and for improved serv-|year.

at the Rancho Boyeros Interna-|, ai tional Airport in protest against|'cc 2ré pending. Fast growing Warren Twp. the coup. “Further expansion this year|showed the biggest gain—$4.3 mil-!| will depend largely upon availa-|lion—in real estate valuations.| Speaks to Troops bility of materials and mainte-|The area includes the new West- { Gen. Batista’s first move was nance of the company’s financiallern Electric and Chrysler plants.| to go to Great Camp Columbia|Strength in the face of further in-| outside Havana, general army flation,” he said. itions in millions of dollars by| headquarters. He told the troops| The company’s 600,000th tele- townships are as follows:

| the country had lost confidence phone was installed last year, the! Township 1951 1950 in the government. ‘report said, twice as many as Center ......... $551.1 $503.7 | His move followed a wave of were in use 10 years ago. In ad-| Decatur ....... 19.2 18.1 | | assassinations. .|digion,- long distance calling set! Franklin sasanas 94 8.7 Army and national police new records, with a fourth of the! Lawrence ...... 13.8 11.9 \ seized the radio stations and the out-of-town calls being handled! Perry .......... 25.5 22.8 airport. (by a new operator dialing method. Pike ........... 10.9 10.1 | It was reported that the home| An average of 3,411,000 locall Warren ........ 69.9 38.7 Police of former President Ramon Grau calls were handled daily, and long| Washington .... 119.2 108.1 Monaghan today ordered every San Martin, who like Gen. Ba- distance calls averaged 106,000 Wayne ........ 85.8 75.9 tista, has become a . power in per day. City (total) .... 683.7 624.0 concentrate on trapping politics for 20 years,” had been| Grogs revenue during 1951 County (total).. 9048 818.0 rats” whose vengeful surrounded and that Mr. orray amounted to $54 million, for an tank robher Willie. Satt was taken a prisoner to Camp) {to bank robber e Sutton. Columbia. Mr. Grau and iromses 0 59 million over 1050/(084 Ice-O-Rama | The search was for the Killer

Prio are members of the same telephone rates granted the firm Cuban revolutionary party. | accounted for the differential.

Seats Right Now

There are some 3000 seats remaining for The Times’ Ice-O-Rama Thursday night in the f d Fair Grounds Coliseum. round. But don’t wait , . . get them now at The Times’ offices, 214 W. Maryland St. to obtain the best locations. Every seat is reserved. The ticket counter is open from 9 a. m. until 5:30

. i Slots. Come io Folie ,, Red Saboteurs Derail , Pa. Mar. . (UP)—Eight new slot machines, Train; 85 Dead, 23 ion) valued at $4000 were abandoned SAIGON, French Indo-China,

in the driveway at the State PO" Mar. 10 (UP)—Communist sabo-! lice barracks here early yester- i dav. ‘The eastern Permivivania teurs derailed a train 170 miles Sie =e northwest of here three days ago, |

area was the scene of a series of : hy, FBI and state police raids on slot <.1N& 85 persons and injuring

lyn street. Comm. Monaghan

in this city and all 19,000 of th

village of Kompong Lat, 30 miles!

! 85 cents; east end mezzanine, volved in this outrage.’

northwest of the Cambodian cap-

| Details on Page 8.

SON SLAIN—Max Schuster, whose 24-year-old son, Arnold, put the finger on Willie (The Actor) Sutton for the police, struggles to leave his home upon hearing of the murder of his boy. He is restrained by younger son Wally, 16 (right), who made formal New and old property valua.| identification of body. Second youngster is unidentified.

19,000 N.Y. Police Told

| ‘R y . To Trap Schuster ‘Rats’ _ , ——— ' NEW YORK, Mar. 10 (UP)— planned to bury thelr son - [oday S News Commissioner George brother this afternoon,

or killers of Arnold Schuster, 24, a clothing salesman. Mr. Schus-| ter trailed Sutton from a subway «ipa [three weeks ago and pointed him wards

out to the first policemen he clues lead to the arrest “af that

Mr. Schuster was shot down {Saturday night as he walked home| lalong a pleasant, tree-lined Brook- |

announced angrily that-“we have 19,000 cops

: 23, it was revealed today p. m. machines last week, { ir . know what their number one job en | The disaster occurred near the pices. Box and . parquet or today—to trap the rats a LOCAL TEMPERATURES airs, $1.20; side mezzanine,

ee of .m.,. 30 : a. m i i a m He ta) of nom Penh, Oo ay 500 Indianapol Pol Ron fared dt yyy at © 4 0118 | Police guards were assigned to 3a m.. 50 12 (Neon) 48 : Hitting a section Of track torn gkaters in a two-hour extrava- [officials of a Queens bank for 9 a. m.. 52 1p m.. 48 — urs ane train = ganza of breath-taking enter- whose robbery Sutton and two Latest humidity ...... 92% |over a bridge into a hil ged | tainment. confederates will stand trial and!

‘to the grief-stricken family who

“Smile, darn:you, smile"—this is National Smile Week. Besides, if you're the slightly lazy type you might be interested to know it takes nearly 10 times as many muscles to frown as it does to smile. A cheerful smile requires the use of only 17 muscles while the gloomy frowns you see all around you call on more than 100 facial muscles. The Times made a Smile Survey and found smiles which covered the whole range of human emotions. Bob Wallace, 4008 N. Adams St., obligingly posed for the series of pictures to illustrate some of the various types. So, let's all follow Bob's example the rest of the week and—SMILE—SMILE—SMILE.

PROFESSIONAL SMILE The Salesman type . . .

CONDESCENDING

Times photos by Lloyd B. Walton Meeting new neighbors, , .

"AIN'T SHE SWEET" Wolf meets new blonde . . .

OH, COME NOW "Are you kidding?"

HORSE LAUGH

The unfunny joke . .

©" GOT A RAISE" Vax takes it all...

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Smile the While and Save Your Muscles, Too

um Army Vows gl To Get NYC Running Again

Walkout Brings Service to Halt

By United Press

CHICAGO, Mar. 10 — A strike by engineers, firemen and conductors virtually pa-

ralyzed the New York Central

Railroad and three subsidiaries today. But the Army promised prompt action to get the trains rolling again. The New York Central was op- ' |erating only as far west as Buffalo, N. Y. Traffic on the Michigan Central, Ohio Central and, Big Four was halted. The Army, in technical charge of the railroads since 1950, was expected to seek anti-strike injunctions in federal court before nightfall.

The New York Ceiitral said li already had laid off about 20,000

walkout, and that the total would mount to 50,000 “if the strike continues two or three days.” The road employs about 110,000. A railroad spokesman said that “hardly a wheel is turning” west of Buffalo. He said a single troop train was scheduled for movement in the Chicago area this afternoon, and presumably would g0 through on time. ‘The walkout yesterday left thousands of travelers stranded. The LaSalle St. Station in Chicago, used by the New York Central, was virtually deserted.

LT “3 United Press Telephoto,

an upsurge in passe tions to New York,

“sold out.”

Sutton's attorney announced

'one of the city’s 19,000 police to today that he expected to be paid

. “the $250,000 for the memoirs of his| bullets life of crime. Sutton has em-|

killed the informer who led police POWered them to use the money to

administer a “Willie Sutton Helping Hand Fund” for destitute exconvicts and juvenile delinquents, | they said. Comm. Monaghan promised

Local Page {Blame yeggs for fire here.... 2

Hospital drive chairmen department's highest re- poo aacerssvnncenvetiser 3 "” to any policemen whose National

heroic boy's killers.”

Rewards Offered : ore ; ‘Hike in food supplies expected Television statiof WPIX of-| to cut down grocery bill....

ered a $1000 reward for informa- Hopes to bag 6 more “second

tion leading to the arrest of the stringers” in narcotics ring 3 killer or killers. The New York ’

Page

Journal-American, headlined in| Foreign red a $10,000 reward for information given exclusively to it Page (which would result in conviction. Adm. Libby threatens truce Chief single suspect was ¢ | FElEY. WBIKOUL «vers Fees 2 f Sp ON-ipt. Wayne pilot bags one of

victed killer Frederick J. (The Angel) Tenuto, who eseaped from | a. Philadelphia prison with Sutton | in 1947 and who is known to he! a. close associate of one of the! Page {men arrested with him. {Red leaders in mine unions Tenuto’s picture covered the, can paralyze British re{first page of two morning tab-| COVELY wuevesereenennnes ves [loids and was prominently dis-!Demand for pennies puts drain | played in all newspapers, on the mint . . , by Fred- _ , SS§YS§YS$SY€$ SS |

seven Red planes.......... 2

Editorials

cE erick C. Othman VA still has hospital “problem

Air Transport Crashes,

workers because of the surprise

But at the Union Station, the. Pennsylvania Railroad reported reserva- ¢ Pennsylvania, unaffected by the walkout, said that its Manhattan was

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Perishables

The New. York Central st Indianapolis today. Fifty passenger trains, wh

'in and out of Union Station, were canceled.

'C Embargoes Freight; Travel Is Hard Hit Here

50 Passenger Trains To City Are Canceled;

Stranded

rike struck a double blow at i ich normally carry 4000 daily

The city is without passenger, {service to Cleveland, Detroit and] Cincinnati.

Also. tiled up were the

f [the entire strikebound area. [ Thirty freight cars containing perishables meat, dressed chicken, lettuce, potatoes — were stalled on the tracks here. And the strike was expected to spread. Engineers, firemen and jconductors of the Pennsylvania Railroad were reported ready to join the walkout.

Pennsy, Monon Rolling

Pennsylvania and the Monon Route reported operations normal this morning except that Pennsy [trains were discharging passengers in East St. Louis to be taken on into Bt. Louis by bus.

Reason was that crews of the other lines are refusing to pass the NYC picket lines at the St. Louis terminal. | George W, Birk, NYC's assist-| ant general manager here, said he was checking to determine how much perishable hospital supplies, such as drugs, was tied up, No shipments of war goods were involved here, Mr. Birk sald. But on the railroad's Illinois divi-

One New York Central official

|said while it was a surprise strike ony tO the railroad, the train crews 231 must

freight cars belonging to the game time. v“They already had NYC's Big Four as the railroad their "4 Y

imposed a freight embargo over gid,

have known about it for picket signs painted,” he

Yards Shut Down

Besides Union Station, pickets patrolled the NYC's Brightwood and Shelby 8t. roundhouses, the Hill and 8. Belmont yards and the Belt Junction, The Brightwood roundhouse and: the yards shut down today, “We're not turning a wheel,” Mr, Birk said. ~~ He said some men were worke ing in the Shelby 8t. roundhouse and the big Beech Grove shops were not affected.

U.S. Fixes Tough Curbs On Russians

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (UP) — The United States slapped strict restrictions today “on the

sion eight cars of Army equip ment were sidetracked at Carmel, In,

30 Days’ Coal Supply

sald.

The strike found Indianapolis in pretty good shape on coal with 30 days’ supply, industry sources

travel of all Russian ‘officials and families in this country, The State Department delivered the tough order to the Soviet embassy. It announced that it was restricting travel of such Russians in retaliation : similar restrictions © on Americans in the Boviét Union.

abandoned here yesterday, the

first day of the strike.

The train crews left their posts and set up picket lines at Union Station

About 200 passengers on the New York-to-8t. Louis Southwest. {ern milled around the station {for more than an hour until L. J, |Hennessy, NYC passenger agent, put them on the Pennsy’'s Amer-| ican,

The Riley and Knickerbocker, ‘both eastbound and westbound, then were taken off their sched(ules. | All tickets were being refunded today at the NYC office in the Guaranty building or at Union Station. Monday traffic is not inormally heavy.

No Troop Trains Due

There were no troop trains scheduled today on the NYC, al-| though troops have been going, through steadily in groups of 25 to 30. | Airlines here reported a “land ‘office business’ the second day, iof the strike. But bus lines reported only normal commuter {traffic this’ morning.

| Railway Express was refusing!

10'all perishable goods which would |

thave to have been routed over the,

. .. Dear Boss . .. by Dan hei road ies tied wth : KIGNeY -v.evaivees deesesns . .10! perishables tied up in the| 12 Escape Injury The Triumph of Brains Over [terminal here when the strike] OMAHA, Mar. 10 (UP)—A C-47| Brawn... an editorial car- Started wi * ie Jasterasy have} | . ; LOON s00s0tsessnne bashes . 10/been move y truck or rerouted military ‘air transport plan e over other lines. crashed and burned today at Of-| Sports Mr. Birk said the strike hit the| {futt Air Force Base. All 12| Page railroad on a slack day for mov-| persons aboard escaped without Muncie and Lafayette Jeff lead |ing perishables. |

injury. | The transport fell and burned Eddie Ash's Sports Roundup ..

lat the base, just next to the run-/ News from the baseball train|way, as it-left the ground bound| Ing camps {for Hill Air Force Base, Ogden,| {Utah. The plane was based at! [Mountain Home, Idaho, Air Force | Page |Base. The Afr Force said it was Leanne Johnson, Lovely Lady lon a routine mission. of Tomorrow Fi re |Hadassah's regional education institute set for Wednesday

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Elderly Couple Dies Only 6 Hours Apart

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(terday for Mr. and Mrs. H. Ward { McGinnis, ‘who died. six hours |apart after nearly 69 years of {married life. : | © Mr. McGinnis, 90, died first |n {his home. Mrs. McGinnis, 88, died {later in Wabash County Hospital.

Charley's Restaurant, 144 E. Oho. Busi-| They observed their 68th anniver4. Feed Famom py 13st Nov, 29,

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“big teams” into semifinals 12 12 at the end of the parade ground Records of Regional Champs . 12

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One passenger train, the NYC's érack Sou vestern, and a Cleve-land-to-St. Louis mail train were

The United States action was

accompanied by similar Javea in France and The Netherlands. Most of the North Atlantic Treaty nations were expected to follow suit. 4 ; Russian officials and their dependents in this contry must notify the State or Defense: Departments before leaving the city in which they are residing. . The restrictions apply to 226 Russian ‘diplomats, their wives and children in Washington, to members of the Soviet Tass News Agency in Washington, and to the nine members of the Russian Amtorg Trading Corp. in New York City. Exempted are 144 diplomats serving at the United Nations and to newsmen working for Tass and Pravda at the United Nations and all Soviet Union radio correspondents accredited to the United Nations.

Trieste Reds Strike

To Uphold American TRIESTE, Mar. 10 (UP)—Come munist-led workers went on a token 15-minute strike today to protest the expulsion of Mrs. Nell Cattonar of New York, daughter of U., 8. Communist Leader Is rael Amter, from the Trieste free territory. The strike was only partly efe fective because the Italian chame ber of labor ordered its members not to join the stoppage. Mrs. Cattonar, an American citizen, was expelled from the American zone of Trieste Mar, 4 by the military government on grounds her documents were not In order. She and her two daughe ters went to Venice,

Uncle ‘Runs

Juvenile Court Report, Page 3 |

By JOE ALLISON

“If you know your way around, |

{you don’t get into trouble,” a 15-

5 year-old boy bitterly told Juve-

nile Court workers. | The youth has been committed {to the Indiana Boys School for [the theft of $5000 from his uncle.| | “Did he squeal on me?” the boy (asked court officers. “If he did I've got enough on him to send {him up for 20 years.” His uncle, he said, is a “big| time” lottery operator on the South Side who never has served time in jail. . | The youth told court probation workers he has made “many”! trips with his uncle to local in-| dustrial plants to deliver lottery tickets and to collect, i He is typical of misguided youth pinpointed in the latest Juvenile Court report.

cached in his uncle’s basement. “Passed Up $20,000” | He said he passed ‘up another $20,000. His uncle kept large amounts of cash in his home to avoid keeping records of his gambling business, the boy said. With the $5000 the boy, several other teen-agers and a 21-year-old

Youth in Trouble Says

' Lottery

South Side man had a giant pokes game with as much as $100 bet on each card. 1 : All the money used by the “poker players” was from the $5000 taken by the 15-year-old. The “game” was broken up when neighbors called police about the noise. Police captured one of the gang and he led to the others. Officers also found quantities of beer at the site of the “game.”

Previously in Trouble

The boy previously had been In trouble for stealing a car and was on a suspended committment to Boys School when picked up for the $5000 theft. Charles Boswell, chief probation officer of the court, said the boy's father died in 1946. His mother went to work to support herself and the boy, her only child. “This boy is typical of the many

The $5000 the boy took had been who come from homes broken either by death or divorce. He lacked proper parental supervisibn and was allowed to roam freely on the streets,” Mr. Boswell said.

“At the same time, he was ine

,flienced by the conduct of his elders like his uncle who though

nothing of breaking the law,” the probation chief added.