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63d YEAR—NUMBER 6
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1952
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Yacht? In Election
Year It's an Old Tub
By ANDREW TULLY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
KEY WEST, Mar. 18—An election year always makes a guy kind of nervous. Take, for instance, the case of Frank McKinney's yacht. The yacht, a 50-foot cruiser in the $50,000 class, was the biggest mystery of the season
here—for about half an hour. It all started at the dally press conference held by Joseph H. Short, President Truman's press secretary. Mr. Short started off by reporting that Mr. Truman had gone swimming, despite the 65-degree temperature, and then remarked with elaborate casualness that Mr. McKinney, the Democratic National Committee chairman was in town. Reportorial ears, dulled by a diet of trivia, perked up. Questioning brought out that Mr. McKinney and Mr. Truman would discuss politics. Then, just to make the record complete, somebody asked how the Democratic chairman had come here. Heavily Casual
Oh, replied Mr. Short, heavily casual, he came in his own boat from Miami. His face bore the look of a man determined to be patient about foolish questions. A journalistic trouble-maker in the back row moved restlessly. “His own boat, eh?” said this gnat, Then, grinning, “would it be okay to call it a yacht in an election year, Joe?’ Mr. Short favored the questioner with a look that would have fit perfectly on the face of a Borgia about to poison a near relative. “L” replied Mr. Short sharply, “call it a boat.” What's more, Mr. Short did mot know how big this “boat” was. nor its name. He in-
dulgently ‘agreed, however, to try to find out. This wasn’t necessary. Some reporters went down to the dock and had a look for themselves at the mystery vessel. It turned out to be a brass and mahogany Chris Craft manned by a slow-spoken skipper named Albert Rust. Capt. Rust allowed that it was a “pretty good old tub,” but was disinclined to make it sound too grand. He did acknowledge, however, that it slept six people— comfortably, it seemed to .reporters. Its name was “Merry
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Mac,” out of Indianapolis. The burgee in the bow was Mr, Mc. Kinney's private flag, a red-white-blue affair of triangular blocks.
It was just the kind of yacht —uh—boat that a millionaire banker like Frank McKinney might indulge in, without feeling he was putting on too much dog. But in these days—especially in an election year—politicians apparently feel a little selfconscious about such things. A fellow just can't be too careful —can he?
Council OK’s Guns Bristle at Trial Of Slick Willie Sutton
‘Fast Time’
DST to Start Here Apr. 27
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Brooklyn)
Late sleepers are going to lose and one of his accused henchmen| an hour of shuteye Apr. 27 when went on trial today for a $63,942 willie” twice had escaped state
Indianapolis turns its clock -| robbery. bo clocks for-™ rre Queens County Courthouse, tempt had been caught with his
ward an hour for Daylight Saving Time. It begins officially at
2 a.m. that Sunday morning.
City Council last night voted 8 to 1 in favor of “fast time” again this year, thus launching the an-|
nual “Battle of the Clocks.”
lookers watched in front of the/floor courtroom without being|SPots
courthouse. Turns State Witness
Sutton, natty in a dark blue
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There were only 28 persons
City Gamblers Back— With New Partners
Have to Get Right ‘Connections’ By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Some of the city's gamblers were back in business today at their old stands—
but they had new partners. Gambling joints began popping! went out ‘business
political or police connections,
horse. news. But the rest of the city's gam-
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son. Could Operate ‘Unmolested’
several police characters
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new partners or paid tribute.
But gambling was not wide
open in the city.
The joints were only starting to operate, On W. Washington St., for example, a couple of cigar Istores aleady were selling base-
ball tickets and pick-n-win. Both
{are lotteries.
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{Two of the old poker and crap |shooting dives were again open
On Indiana Ave. the gaudy neon-lit street that begins with a shop and ends with a hospital, men and boys were sell|ing numbers, baseball tickets and policy tickets, All are illegal lot-
pawn
teries,
On the South . Side,
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bling fraternity — crap shooters, card sharks and lottery operators -—were preparing for a long sea-
The city’s gambling dens, closed since former Mayor Phillip Bayt clubbed the racketeers off Indianapolis streets, received word from they could operate “unmolested,” providing, of course, they took in
open all over town as the word| as usual.” There was only one catch—the| gamblers had to take new part-| ners, presumably with the right
So far, only the horse race, bookies were not operating. They! haven't been able to get race results since the recent closing of John Gorman’'s Capitol City Publishing Co. which furnished race!
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several
taverns blossomed out with base|ball tickets and pick-n-win jars.
2 Old Spots Open
Even the county was not im-| {mune .from the gambling fever.
{ for business and the baseball and|
. Washington St. | spectators seats—about one-sixth| A Es wantsd 1 oper-
ate craps or any one of the lot-|
of capacity—when the trial start-
| NEW YORK, Mar. 18—Banki eq, and they were admitted by Bandit Willie (The Actor) Sutton]
special pass.
Police, aware that “Slippery
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“In| Pick-n-win lotteries flooded W.
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a new gambling partnership—|
“Lefty” and “Carl.”
Both have
prison and on a third escape at-/been prominent in the rackets for
|where the two were called to trial,/escape tunnel nearly completed, |bristled with guards and armed
a long time. Baseball ticket joints got the
patroled the corridors and per-| 80 ahead” sign from “John.” detectives. A crowd of curious on- mitted no one to enter the third
screened. . Like Bank Tellers Sutton and Kling, both slight
Every year Indiana is divided suit with a white pencil stripe, nen with thin, pencil-like mus-
on the DST issue, with most rural
areas favoring “sun time” and most cities voting for DST.
“Island” to be Annexed
Councilman Guy O. Ross, former railroad conductor, the only opponent to the plan.
In other action, the Council re-
‘a 'man
was
was led into the big courtroom! hae
at 10:1
He was followed by his
bespectacled,
suit.
and the quiet demeanor of
5 a. m., Indianapolis time. hy tejjers, were directed to rise co-
defendant and pal, Thomas Kling, (hem they were charged on four studious-looking .,unts. canis in a brown pencil-striped
while a court ‘clerk informed
‘Reds Don’t Want | Capital Inspected
In the county,
had ' the approval
PANMUNJOM, Korea, Mar. 18 (UP)—The Communists balked
| The counts against each are loday at opening Pyongyang, capfirst degree robbery, first degree| ital of Red North Korea, to neuCounty Judge Peter T. Farrell, grand larceny, first degree as-|tral truce inspection teams,
{prior to calling in the two de-|cayit and third degree burglary. ceived an ordinance to annex an fendants, granted a severance of The assault charge involves the|inated five Communist-held and!
Red armistice negotiators nom-
“island” of county territory sur- trial to another alleged Sutton pointing of loaded pistols at va-|five Allied-held “ports of entry”
rounded by the city. A filling station at Southern
henchman, John De Venuta, on
the
and Madison Aves. was left out|Attorney James P. McGrattan,
of an annexation ordinance
a supermarket into the city.
The Council approved rezoning branch of
the
of a traet between 13th and 15th Trust Co. on Mar, 9, 1950. Mr. McGrattan: told the judge/in, and selection of a jury was
Sts. and between Arlington and| Bolton Aves., opening the wayithat De Venuta “will give testi- | begun. for development of a residential mony which will involve Sutton
motion of Assfstant District]
subdivision by Markun Subdiv-'and Kling in the commission of,
sions Inc.
Film Dance
By United Press
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Mar, 18— Vibrant Betty Hutton, who sighed she ‘sure missed the state of being married” after her divorce from Camera Manufacturer Ted with Dance Director Charles O'Curran
Briskin, exchanged vows early today. The couple was
Frontier. here. Miss Hutton said they suddenly
decided to fly here from Hollywood while they were having dinner last night. They chartered a plane and arrived here shortly They were mar-
after midnight. ried 30 minutes later.
Stages Her Acts
She said she met Mr. O'Curran last summer while working with “Somebody Since then he has
him on the picture Loves Me.” staged all her acts.
Miss Hutton returned from Koréa where she entertained troops only last Saturday. Mr. O’Cur-|
married by Judge Frank Manamee in a sur-
prise civil ceremony at Hotel Last They will honeymoon
lerime.t
Betty Hutton Marries . ‘Director
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|outside
| Judge Farrell. granted a de-|would be assigned during a Ko{fense motion that all witnesses|rean cease-fire. De Venuta was turning witness be removed from the courtroom! passed last year which brought for the state. All three men are|for the duration of the trial.:tween the Communist list and the
Manufacturers’ | to leave was given.
Fifty veniremen were brought
100 Police on Hand : None who asked to be excused
expressed fear of reprisal, but several hinted at it by saying they wouldn't - want the “no:
toriety.” One man said it ‘would make his pregnant wife “very nervous” if he were put on the
jury.
One hundred policemen patroled the courthouse, Inside
|were 17 more, plus 25 detectives,
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Betty Hutton . . . surprise, surprise. e
seen together a number of times the engagement was off.
recently.
. Since Miss Hutton filed suit for B divorce from Mr, Briskin a year She married him in. 1945 and ago, she has had a number of finally filed for divorce after two
off-and-on=again romances.
“I don't enjoy being free,” she
trial ‘separations.
She has two children by. her’ confided.” “I didn't get divorced marriage to Mr: Briskin, Lindsay, ‘ because I wanted to.”
|4, and Candie, 2,
MISSED MATRIMONY—
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{15 court attendants and 15 offi-
ers from the department of cor-
rection.
No spectators were admitted and searched for weapons. tectives eyed
tantly.
Dethe audiente- con-
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County Tax Income
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A short time later the bouncy ‘th h Pura actress displayed -a Svcara) da w er. = she ran made the rip wt aio sata mond ring and jhdicsien She mount, Miss Hu ) {planned to marry in Hollywood the couple had been Norman Krasna. Five days later
Miss Hutton's divorce from MT. services. riskin became final in January.
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Due to Jump
: in A big boost in Marion County
tax revenues is coming this year, County Auditor Roy Combs said today. |, He estimated the new billings for real estate and personal property taxes will total slightly more than $40 mililon. » This would be $5.4 million higher than the amount due last year. Actually, the county received only $32.3 million last year from a total billing of $34.6. The ‘increase is due chiefly to n $80.7 mililon boost in property assessments. ’
city and county stay out of the red while providing municipal
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Most notable difference he-
|accused of robbing the Sunnyside| None was present when the order|10 cities proposed by the Allies | Monday was the omission by the!
enemy of Pyongyang on the Red side and Seoul, capital of South
Korea, on the Unite erick, the new trustee brought| ) d Nations, from Chicago, wasn't so lucky. | al headquarters mentioned “short- |
side. Col. Andrew J. Kinney of the United Nations objected to the Communist list. ‘He insisted that
it should include the two capitals because they are the most import- a a : Ca ant cities and transport Jape in | did Hot speciTy “thaf~ the truck] Mr. Kavher was Brought here Pressure hikes afr base costs ¢ |drivers wanted” must be union|from St. Louis last July to run| The. staff officers reported no members but only that they be Local 135 when its officers were! progress at the end of their two-| ‘licensed and capable.”
Korea.
hour, 16-minute meeting.
Tax Scandal Probers Quiz Nunan Secretly
the gambling
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|Teamsters Local 135 gave the of|“‘bum’s rush” today to a new
“Harry,” who reports he has high/trustee sent by international Police connections.
Gets ‘Bum’s Rush’ Here
U.S. to Refund 530
To *40 in Taxes to
800,000 Hoosiers
Hopes to Get Money Mailed Before June
. Roughly Covers Half of Payers
By DAVID WATSON Blue Monday became bright Tuesday, despite the clouds, for Indiana federal income
taxpayers, Preliminary estimates today ine dicated between $24 and $32 mile lion will be pouring into their pockets between now and June. The money will come from res funds on income tax payments for 1051, ° 4 : A tax official estimated some ‘* » |800,000 Hoosier taxpayers have |between $30 and $40 each coming ~ « |back to them. This is roughly half the total number of taxpay- p ers in the state. to ~ Wilbur O, Plummer, assistant collector for Indiana, said his office hopes to have the last of the refunds in the mail by’ 1, but most of them will be of that date,
Some Humorous i Deputy collectors said 48,783
Te tt med , nit |
STANDS BY DADDY~Reginald Gill, 36, who robbad #'Las Angeles liquor store fo get money |usual amount of trate and humor. to pay bls, is hugged by his daughter, Hsaboett 3, hor a less o $1000 pend. The bay was ous Mites. a Tetar posted without security by a soft-hearted bondsman who broke one rules of his business taxpayer in ter today because he believes Gill is a "good man." i ~~ |asked the bureau if it had re-
Today's News In The Times
Local
Teamsters’ New Bos
with it a note which stated: “Please advise where poor relief office is located.” And a soldier sent his blood type number in case the bureau 2 thought his money wasn’t enough.
Flood of Mail The tax bureau for all prac
By EMERSON TORREY
Ma f th J Kk Aroused members of AFL ny» e city’s true
drivers were to walk off their jobs this afternoon to attend a meeting to protest naming of a new trustee of Teamsters
Page Prosecutor plans mass round« up of 250 “runaway pappies” Man trapped 30 minutes in
conveyor belt here ........ 2
jheadquarters to take over as yocal 135 by international |Indiana Bell blasts PSC as |tical purpose became & post office { “dictator” of their logal, headquarters, The local sald | being “unfair” ..........,. 3|today, ; Their protests over the sudden _ = drivers would take care Blue bloods of the doggy set Mr. Plummer said most of ouster of Richard Kavner as getting ready for dog show |the employees were assigned to trustee flared into open rebelifon of emergency shipments. A | (0 Sunday ...... vvvv.... 3 opening mail to help bring about ° on the steps of the Teamsters’ spokesman for the Indiana Mo- New Albany woman named speedy deposit of checks in Ine
Hall, 28 W, North St., at 7
peared in answer to a newspaper advertisement asking them to rejport at that time to C, W, Frederick, the new trustee,
{rious persons during the robbery.|to which neutral inspection teams Me™ loyal to Mr, his assistant, Gene San Soucie.
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entrance by a wall of about 75a lot of scabs to take over our|
Editorial, Page 12 an ugly mood. But they grud ingly let the men who replied 10 added one of the 61 stewards of|
a. m,
8 dianapolis banks. A. half-dozen truck drivers ap-
The faster the money is banked, 13 he said, the faster the govern. ment can get to it, use it to pay its bills, and reduce the interest jon its obligations. The revenue office has been . getting an average of 35,000 Speedy B-47 Stratojet being De My ne a
prepared to replace B-29 as g 150,000 letters.
s Senate Asked
Truck Association sald, | “There's nothing we can do about it—we understand it won't be a long meeting.”
tor “mother of the year” ..... Dan White observes 26th year | on judicial bench ....cs4ue |W. 0. Hughes enters race for
state legislature .......... 13
National
1 They were met at the hall's: Kavner and|union and we aren't about to sit {still for it,” Mr, San Souci The local's members were in snapped angrily. : “ ” “If they try to dictate to us, cq iaTEl LLRE ee hor —|therell be a riot,” he threatened. |", ° 33
Bary » fourth husband 8-| After all, we are the union, U. 8. charges illegal sale of
the ad into the hall, (the local who Saturday protested 5, 2" II surplus planes .... 13 Tg Keep an Eye A man identified as Mr, Fred-| Mr. Kavner's removal. Rail _utiions to resume pay 13 ; P y
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By United Press WASHINGTON, Mar. © 18 Joseph D. Nunan Jr., head of the Internal Revenue Bureau
from 1944 to mid-1947, was called before House tax scandal investigators today for secret question-
Cal.) refused to discuss the “un-
Bg. Chairman Cecil R. King (D.
announced, closed-door session of his ways and means subcommit-
tee.
But other sources said sub-
committee members were armed (with a long list of questions about (Mr. Nunan’s general conduct of
the tax bureau,
and about his
legal work im behalf of taxpayer clients since he became a private
New York attorney.June 30; 1947
Sen. John L. Williams (R. Del.)
has charged that Mr, Nunan got rextremely favorable gettlements Officials said the 17 per cent [OF @-number of tax clients. (increase in revenue will help the |
The Internal Revenue Bureau
confirmed that Mr. Nunan's New
York law firm got special waivers
to handle upwards of 100 tax cases after his departure from the government, :
The King group summoned MY. was ousted with tax planation that Internal Revenue scandals reached into the New agents had uncovered “an irreguYork . City collector's office for larity. in one of his own tax reithe second time in seven months. turns.” : i \
Nunan as -the nationwide
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shoved Mr, Frederick down the reason for the ouster. He sald
Indianapolis newspaper vesterday|comment.
Mr. San Soucie said internation-
On Wayne Coy
Editorial Page | WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (UP) Page —8en. Herman Welker has asked the books show there were none. Political fight shapes up over |the Senate to keep an eye on the International officials declined! Ike Eisenhower's job in Eu- [work done for Time Magazine by . } TODO essissemsseinis esses. 12 Wayne Coy, former chairman of re the Federal’ Communications Comes ~~ in Morocco , , . By Clyde mission. Farnsworth . ., also editorial | The Idaho ReExcitement, Plus and Minus. 12/publican told the among the members w ted | Washington policeman is hazy [Senate Mr, Coy, gn A ere aa Tuieted about a little bit of cash ... 12 of Delphi, Ind., [them a voice in their locals! was retained by affairs. - Sports ‘Time at $25,000 International headquartérs re Page 2 year as a radio neged on that pledge, the local's Crawley saddling Bronce for and television stewards charged, when they re-| ride into Fieldhouse 14 representative” moved Mr. Kavner recently and|Gearhart firm about proving immediately aftinstalled. a new trustee without' he's AAA player 14 er leaving the the local's approval. ‘500° List is hiked to 28...,., 14 FCC. i {Saddler wins a tough one...., 15) The FCC then
| $90,000 Supermarket | granted a license
One teamster said several men ages” —in the local’'s funds as the
The ad which appeared in an|
fired. Dissension that resulted! “It's an attempt to brin
sees
Mr. Coy
Women's lto an Albuquerque, N. M. Judie i Page station, Sen. Welker said, ing Planned on East Side First in a series on outdoor 8 the magazine and Mr, Coy as coPlans to build a $90,000 super-' living by John Peters, well- owners. " market at 5117 E. Washington’ known home living counselor 5 Sen. Welker said the case just
g'doesn’t read well when all 4 branches of the government are trying to clean up.” - “Mr. Coy can be accused—and
Versatile provincial furniture
St. were disclosed today as a peMeridian Hills golf schedule. .
tition for zoning variance was filed” with the Board of Zoning
Appeals Other Features: 5 dar Te accisst sand f ‘approved, the market would, Amusements nk justly | . | 7 o Sharer trae replace the Blackwell Funeral | Eddie Ash ..... had ory tained not becanss of Jie suitiy Home, Thomas J. Blackwell said | Bridge i..oo crs *: 21 Fai utause o co ¢ in filing we Detition, Diane finde Henry Butler se.eieee... 10 . rein ol hiring of Mr, down a new Re tn Comics ........ cesses 20,21 Coy “might be 100 per cent hone the site and an adjacent lot pore Crossword .............. 21 lest” but that the Senate “should 15115 E. Washington. 8 ig Pe seenene sean 1 watch that proceeding.” : Haro Brey... via { ra prv— The area now is zoned for Aim i¢ a ' . apartment houses. | Rael: Television sarites . ! Believe U. S. Jets Set mo mw if Bporta ss... weeeeeees 14.15 New Endurance Mark Lawrence Duncan Files | orl Wilson ...vuveeeess 11 | NEUBIBERG, Germany, Mar, omen's ...... irsannee §!
18 (UP)—Two U. 8. Air Force What Goes on Here ..... F-84 Thunderjets landed here to. A . day after setting what Air Force ‘Weed Fire Fatal lofficials believed was a new ene LAFAYETTE, Mar. 18 (UP)—Idurance record of 2008 miles of Representatives from Marion Edward J. Leh, 85, was burned without refuelling. County, fatally yesterday when his cloth-| The flight spanned seven na~ Mrs.« Louisa Collier Culver, ing caught fire near his Mulberryitions and took ‘4 hours and 48 Evansville. a Republican, filed as farm home. Authorities said Mr. minutes. indicating an average a candidate for Congress from Leh was burning weeds in a gar- speed of slightly. more than the 8th district, ,den. i, lmiles an hour, LS
For Representative 7
Deniocratic Lawrence A. Duncan, Speedway, today filed as a candidate for the Indiana House!
Joseph D. Nunan Jr. |
Monrae D. Dowling, appointetl New York tax collector last July, the terse ex-