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[Scupps —wowarpl| 63d YEAR—NUMBER 27

Letter To ‘Baby’ Pours Out Tale Of Undying Love

MADELINE HARRISON—"1'l wait forever."

Asks Tax Hike to Raise

$1 Million for Streets

By JOE ALLISON | A $1 million-plus street repair program fo be paid for with a! “more than 14-cent tax rate in-| crease was proposed today by] Mayor Clark. 3 { “We've got to be realistic,” the Mayor said.

“The streets must be repaired and the only way we can get the| money is by increasing the tax, rate.

“There is no sense in trying to fool the public with bond issues. | The taxpayer pays just as much, or more, for bonds as he does for straight tax-supported projects,”| he explained. The city spent $1.5 million on|

McHale Wins |

streets last year, $1 million of it in bond money. The proposal’ to" boost the tax rate for.at least a year to finance street projects is part of the “pay-as-you-go” spending plan outlined earlier this year by the Mayor and City Controller John Barney. Mayor: Clark proposed the expanded street repair program im the face of a fund shortage for repair work this year, Less than $50,000 is available for repaving and’ reconstruction work this year, compared to $1.5 million spent last: year. City Engineer William R. Hunt has placed an “urgent” tag on an estimated $443,000 of major repair work this year. :

Proposes 3-Year Plan Earlier the engineer declared

the city should spend an estimated $1.5 million a year for

three years on streets to “catch!

That spending program would]

& . ¥ First Round up” on long-neglected repairs. , ; |

lenable the city then to drop back]

. : to its customary $500,000-a-year Bid to Throw Out [program of maintenance.

Claim Dismissed

By DAN KIDNEY i Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Apr. 8 — The, government lost and Frank M.! McHale, Indianapolis lawyer and Democratic national committee. man, won the first round in MecHale's $93,500 fee case in the U, 8. Coiirt of Claims here today. The court dismissed the Justice Department petition to throw out

The new Republican adminis-| ;

tration in City Hall has com-|

plained the budget prepared last ° year does not meet the city's 4

needs.

" Oniy $150,000 was provided for all major street repair and $100,

{000 of that already has been as-| signed to the street commission-| er’s office for use on unimproved streets. }

Gasoline tax funds, normally

the McHale claim for a «lawver's/used for street repair, have been lien” of 10 per, cent against an/allocated for police salaries to]

$935,500 award he won from the Contracts Settlement Board for the Empire Ordnance Co.

The award was based on the company’s unsuccessful attempt | to make airplane struts Suring| World War II. The government] impounded the money in an at-| tempt to collect a greater sum for unpaid excess profits taxes due from Empire Ordnance affillates. The matter is in litigation and the McHale fee also will have to be tried before a U. 8. Commis sioner. Final rulings will be in| the court which dismissed the government's effort to stop McHale's fee today."

Welsh Argued Case

William F. Welsh, member of the McHale law firm in Indian-| apolis, argued the case for Mr.| McHale upon which today’s ruling was made. Mr. McHale was a stockholder and director of Empire Ordnance, which was organized by Frank Cohen, long-time McHale business associate and one of the most, investigated of the wartime pro-| moters. After the war, Mr. Cohen or-| ganized the Empire Tractor Co.,,|

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which made a quick profit of $68,-|°

000 for Mr, McHale and Indian-| apolls Banker Frank E. McKinney upon an investment for a few - months of $1000 each. | Now Democratic national chairman, Mr. MéKinney defended his action at a press conference here as being completely honest. He held no position with the Democratic Party at the time.! Mr. McHale was then and is now the Democratic 1ational committeeman from Indiana. The Empire Tractor Co. is in

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provide a $600-a-year increase.

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How fo Make

An Honest Man Phone Firms Seek

{ . i159 J . . Apr. 18. D [New York and there is nothing | 523 N. Pine St. but the. apart : pr eputy Prosecutor This, he said. was a f Look Like a Fool Temporary Toll Hike ment was empty. the special conference in the Pub-/ 10, Brown said the brothers sald; was actor in

Newbold Morris discovered (Indiana telephone companies to-

this two months after he wag assigned to clean up corruption in Washington.

He . says the method is simple.

For the second in the series of “What 1 Learned in Washington,” as told by Mr. Morris to Scripps-Howard Writer Murray Davis, turn to Page 3.

Pinay Wins 2 Tests With 8 Coming Up PARIS, Apr. 8 (UP)—Premier Antoine Pinay won the first two of 10 scheduled votes of confidence in the National Assembly today on_ his record-high 1952 budget. : Unofficial tallies: gave him ample margin on both tests after the premier closed the budget debate by demanding support for a “logical, coherent and courageous” financial policy. Mr. Pinay won his first confidence test by 325 to 206 votes,

These Men Are at Large

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By DONNA MIKELS In the next paragraph Madeline told her impatient LETTER came to Marion County Jail today. It was lover, “Two years isn't too bad.” for Keith Wright. He wasn't there. But Madeline said today Keith's fervent pleas to “get

: : mg loose so we can get married” had swayed her and that But the sender, pretty, strawberry-blonde Madeline it was that plea which caused her to set off the jailbreak.

Harrison was. Madeline ‘closed her love note with a posteript filled In only a few hours the two had changed roles. with a world of meaning. On the inside was Madeline pouring out a tale of One phrase was underlined. It read: how love caused her to drop five hacksaw blades into a “Until tomorrow.” ventilator to set ofi one of the biggest local jail breaks ‘We was planning on getting married if he got out. in years. But now, I wish I'd married him in here (jail). I'd even

rather have done that than take a chance on him getting

On the outside was washboard-haired Keith Wright, pe

Madeline's ‘baby’ who sweet-talked her into risking her She said when she visited ‘Keith in jail yesterday

freedom to_get him loose. he persuaded her to help him get out. But, she said,

The pert, 18-year-old girl ap parently posted the after she awakened this morning to find her bedroom letter less than an hour after she slipped the hacksaw filled with police officers she began to fear “I might

blades to Keith. of done the wrong thing.” It was addressed to her “Baby” and poured out a “They told me Keith might get killed,” she sobbed. tale of undying love for the 27-year-old accused burglar. “I'q rather have waited two years for him than look at “Honey, that important question you wanted to ask him on a slab.” me—the answer is yes, I'll wait for you forever and Madeline insisted she had told sheriff's officials always.” f ’ “everything I know.” But police doubted her word and

By HEZE CLARK

FBI agents this afternoon joined a hunt for three of seven prisoners who sawed out of Marion County Jail with hacksaws smuggled in by an inmate’s blond sweetheart.

‘Highways and suspected hangouts throughout the Midwest were un-

3 3 | — a | to: der careful scrutiny. | The sonviction penalty: for |iheough_ the bot m of each bar, Four of the fugitives were| aiding in a jallbreak 1s 2-21 yon" They Se a Sough the caught a few minutes after| Jeary In prison, Rhe sentence until each bar broke. the mass break before dawn to- [OT Jailbreak itself Is less severe |, 0 0000 es tater, Patroimen

‘ day.” City police ran them down] eis years and $500 maximum Edward Heycob and Howard Kelwithin a block of the jail.

{ley were walking at Alabama St. Keith Weiaht One of the trio still free this Other stories, photo, Page 13 |. Virginia Ave., a block from eith Wright. afternoon was the accused plot-| ‘the jail. Seeing a man In prisleader, whose blond sweetheart '‘bum’s room'"-—-a section sur- oner gray coveralls, they collared pi k “24 :- gneaked hacksaw blades to him. rounding the cell blocks and used him. He admitted he had just : Bios The break took sheriff's because the jail is crowded Dbe- broken out of the jail and identi deputies by surprise. They didn’t yond capacity. fied himself as William Brown, know about it until city police Theq started sawing about 10 43, Cincinnati. hauled ome of the recaptured p. m. using soap and marshmal-' At ahout the same moment, Pohoodlums back to jail {lows to muffie the sounds. About lice Bgt. George Martin and Pa. A strawberry blond, 18-year-old 20 other prisoners in thé *bum’sitrolman J: L. vere cruise Madeline Harrison, at first room” kept their work a secret. ing east on Washing 8t. when sobbed as she told police deputies] Stopping only when a deputy they spotted three men in pris how she sneaked to the jail under counted heads every hour, the oner coveralls slip out of an alley cover of dark last night, whistled men took turns working through and cross Washington toward the to her lover, then slipped five the’ night. Soon after 3 a. m. Courthouse. The trio also was hacksaw blades into a ventilator they had sawed and broken spotted by foot Patrolmen Tom hole in the west wall. (through two one-inch bars in a Kline and Harry Miller, who ran The pert, blue-eyed cutie said orth wall window. Then they after them. she did it for her sweetheart, Pushed back the thick wire screen!

FBI Hunting For 3 Of 7 Who Escaped Jail Here

later this morning picked up another girl believed to be a “contact” between the fleeing prisoners and Madeline. Madeline wore a black corduroy slack suit, a red jacket and a rhinestone necklace. Madeline, who at 18 has been married and divorced, said she met Keith last year when she was “all tore up" during divorce proceedings. : ; “He was swell, just a swell guy and nice to me.” She denied she had taken part in any burglaries with Keith, as police allege. She explained her presence in a burglarized business place the night she and Keith were arrested: aed “Keith went out to get a beer and when he didn’t come back I got worried and went looking for him. ~~ “I looked in this place and found him-—he'd been drinking heavy—just as I went in to make him go home, so he wouldn't get into any trouble, the police came up.” Madeline broke into sobs again as she told how her family came to the jail this morning and persuaded her to help the police find Keith. “Mom wouldn't let me marry him. She said it would , be her death. But now I think if they can find him we can get married, and he'll straighten up.”

By United Press gambler Frank Costelld was sen tenced to 18 months in prison ani fined $5000. today for contemp | of the United States Senate. It was the first prison term for {the ex-gambler and underworld boss since ‘A 1015 sentence for

tllegal possession of a gun. { He was convicted by a federal court jury last Friday on 1 counts of contempt for his walks

gating Ci ittee in hearings Federal Judge ester J. Ryan sentenced Costello to: One-thousand dollars fines on each of three counts for which he passed no prison sentence, | 8x months’ imprisonment, to run concurrently, on each of three further counts, and $1000

Keith Edmund Wright, 26, of 924 separating them from freedom. Dashed Across Lot

“I love him,” said the girl who until Deputy Clarence Branden- the rear of the Courthous looks even younger than 18, but burg made his routine check at!/sprinted across the parking |

already is a divorced woman. {3:45 a. m. and dashed across Alabama in “We planned to get married,” Then the seven prisoners pulled Court St. she said. {out the bars and squeezed through! ggt Martin and Pat . Found at Home the hole—10 inches high -and 16 Hea turning ng Patioiman Sul

Madeline was picked up at inches wide. head them off, drove into Court home, 1119 E. Washington, rear, Sheriff's Lt. Willlam Owen said 8t. and caught up with two of an hour after the mass break, Ne bars aren't as tough as they them. With the officers’ guns Sheriff Smith said the escape plot look. ‘They re old and crystal staring in their face, two pris‘led to her when one of the re. Zed, making the metal mushy, oners raised their arms and idencaptured yeggs spilled that she and it wouldn't take long to saw tified themselves as: smuggled the blades to her errant through,” he said. | Eldon Shaw, 17, of 705 N lover. is 3 The : Prisoners sawed clear Davidson 8t., ‘awaiting ria) on Madeline herself is out on $1000 charge of second-degree burglary.

arrested here Feb. 15. Police said second-degree burglary,

they were attempting to batter

3 One of the trio apparently open a safe. 3 ducked into a doorway, then! Keith Wright, charged with On Fare Hike backtracked after the police car! second-degree burglary, was one passed. - But his cunning failed.

of the three who made good their He walked out of Court St. into!

escape. Also hunted were: Civic Leaders [he arms of Patrolmen Kline and His brother, Robert Wright, 20, . iller, identified himself as: of 1220 E. Ohio St., charged with Get Bid to Meet ‘Samuel Gregg. 20, of 2610 Sta-

assault and battery with intent ins tion St. A (BY IRVING LEIBOWITZ The Sheriff said the ‘Wright Arthur Doom, 24, of 811 N. Del. The CULy transit systems plan prothers and Doom slipped out aware S§, charged with armed !0 raise -Indlanapolis bus and fret giving them a head start on

streetcar fares to 20 cents a ride robbery and held under $8500 ® the four who were ry prompted Public Counselor Wal- or the last ones Saptured, One

ter Jones today to call a city- pound

ide public meeting to determine! over the city and county, check- v make it Arthur Doom, ing suspected hangouts of the the effect of such a fare increase. in tne

Police and deputies fanned out because he became stuck!

|three still at large, They took Mr, Jones prepared a letter to

Madeline with them. and she led civic leaders, city and county of-

ficials, labor leaders and busi- court 2 - 's Cg [them to one suspected hidéout at nessmen, urging them to attend gue Ao and’ Madeline's case was

;» se f : -!g Police said a car with Illinois }i¢ Service Chambers at the State- arranged to plead guilty.

house Apr. 16. “ license plates was stolen from . This break is the result of that neighborhood this morning. ,i¢ 100K his action as members overcrowded conditions in the

Representdtives of independent

|day asked the state Public Serv- State police were alerted, .and of the Public Service Commission ja » gheritf Smith sald. “The jail

fce Commission to’'allow them to deputies said they had a tip the

considered giving Indianapolis

Railways, Inc.. a temporary fare was built in 1893 to accommodate

| charge higher long distdnce rates Wright brothers were heading for , ooo a holding public hear. 2° prisoners. Last night, there

[for another 60 days or until they Florida.

ings. were 370 prisoners in the jail”

can get court permission. The teen-aged blond said she Can Grant Hike The “bum’s room.” because its

When the toll rates of Indiana bought the blades yesterday in a Commissioner Crawford Par- barred windows lead directly to

| Bell Telephone Co. were raised hardware store on Massachusetts ker said the PSC had not dis- the outside. was not ‘built to 'by Circuit Court Judge Lloyd Ave : cussed the transit case hut N0!d prisoners. But because of |Claycombe, several other Indiana Madeline told deputies she pointed out the commissioners the great umber of prisoners

phone companies received court slipped the foot-long blades into soyjd grant Railways a tempo- CO'% are set up in the room and s do permission to follow the same toll & 14-inch ventilator hole "in the rary fare increase and hold Apo they are confined there. ’ Nl Jresiaental St irorp fhe tin jump the rates. west wall of the old jail. lic hearings later. UE . Indiana. : n a he Pitopurgh area to However, a number of inde- Escape plans apparently took - pe explained the transit com- Because of the ‘torrid fight be- as : pendent companies were unable shape yesterday morning when pany had filed an emergency pe- Boy Falls Into {tween 8en. Taft and Gen. Eisen- Pickets marched before: ths

to get court permission. They Madeline visited her caged lover. tition yesterday asking for imwere the ones who urged the PSC| After buying . the blades, she mediate financial relief. Flooded Basement to allow them to charge the same Waited until it was dark and! The commission could also hold toll rates as the -bigger phone|lonely outside Wright's section z pubic hearing immediately to. A 6-year-old Southeast Side hoy

E. ‘Washington 8t. | Back to their cots they went| The fugitives ducked around

bond, charged with burglary] : Norman Coffey, 17, of 704 N. . {yer home from a nationwide tour after she and Keith Wright were 0 es “Pine 8t., also held on charge of For Miss Truman [today, apparently in anticipation

sregg, who almost didn't lorganized Demo-

small opening. {California SunDoom and the Wrights were today, Mr. Krebs Miss Truman appear Thursday in Criminal igaid that “Mar-

fine on one of those counts. ‘Frank Costello

One year imprisonment, to run rrently, on each of four nts, and a $1000 fine on one of

=> : & Fi . i : se counts, . Judge Ryan refused to con- 2 ‘tinue Costello in ball pending ; : appeal and ordered him to sur-| ems : i render and go to jail at 3 p. m.| (Indianapolis Time). Time on Steel : Costello's attorney said he i

would ask the court of appeals to set bail this afternoon. Summons Sawyer

“I think I'll go out and get! myself a big meal,” Costello said. Back to Capital - By Unived Press : . President Truman called Secre« Predicts Wedding tary of Commerce Charles Saw-

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of government seizure of the SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 8 (UP) |strike-threatened steel industry. —Theodore J. Krébs, a Stanford] Mr. Sawyer called & news cons economics professor who is close ference soon after he returned to President ‘Truman's adminis-|{from Detroit by plane. tration, has pre- Authoritative sources said the dicted a White seizure orders already have been House wedding 4 drawn up and delivered to the tn August or {White House, : September for { ~The orders, under which the Margaret Tru- Commerce Department would man and Martin take over nominal control of the Braverman, steel industry, need only President Speaking be- Truman's signature. fore the newly- Waiting It Out White House sources said gov ernment seizure does not appear likely today. | Press Secretary Joseph Short {pointed out .to reporters. that “negotiations are in progress in

cratic Council of

garet would like to get married.”

” § |here.” Mr, Truman 8 Qecision not 40 seek | Other White House sources sald Mr. Braverman. a Washington. |the President wants to exhaust D.C. 1 . shing ON. | every possibility of a negotiated . C., lawyer, has heen a frequent tt bef ti escort of Miss Truman. settlement before acting. : ————— At New York, meanwhile, gov . ernment Wage Chief Nathan P, : {Feinsinger said he had "some conRaps Preferential |fidence” that union and industry * [representatives may be receptive Primary System 'to suggestions he’ is making in a last-minute attempt to avert a Gov. Schricker and the State nationwide steel strike at 11.01 Election Board today turned p. m. (Indianapolis Time).

hower for the Republican nomi- Crucible Steel Co. plant at Mid nation, the primaries in New land, Pa. as sound trucks paHamipshire, Wisconsin. Illinois, /'trolled the streets, calling the Minnesota and Nebraska have workers to stay out of the plant.

| lof the jail, o s | companies. Bin in the alley along there ine 3 Dre was an emer. narrowly escaped death by drown- caught the public’s fancy this The plant employs 7500. ; il. she ducked into th (gency. Or, the commission could jg today after he fell int year. { At Ambridge, Pa. 850 ems jail, she he 3s no the parking| deny Rallways' request for an im- water silied basement ne ® However, Gov. Schricker called ployees of the H. H. Robertson i d lo nd the west wall. She mediate fare boost and hold reg- ar 1% them “meaningless.” Co. refused to go to work Times Index {slipped between cars and creptiy blic h home. A . 8 . op 10 the stone wall ular public hearings later. . | Darryl Churchill and his He refused to indorse such a CIO steelworkers struck at the ATIUBCINEINE oes virinses 8.1 Wists = Window ' Indianapolis Railways yesterday, rer “David, 7, were playin (primary for Indiana in a letter Lone Star Steel Co. Lone Star, Bridge Sea stled at Window asked the state to approve New| ound a grou r t Bite U. 8. Sen. Carl Hayden (D. N.|Tex., at midnight, putting 1200 ey vrxyvsasensuseess 0 She stopped at a barred win-iand higher bus and streetcar| wo oC group of partly-com-ipy chairman of the Senate/men off their jobs. : ave whe Cavan s ii 20; dow, glanced around to see no- fares for the city. preted nouses near their home at 'Ryjes and Administration Com-| Premature walkouts al Crossword .:ccceveveeies 21 bod . teh q . 2205 Greenrock Lane. - { also were Edt eriale oss s daa ae y was watching, and whistled Tokens to Go Out The boys climbed into the h mittee. The Governor conferred reported in Michigan. More than Harold HArtley ...c.c... 33 low. The company proposed a cash ' 10US€ |with State Election Commissions|1600 employees of the gh

according to unofficial tabula-|

tion. He won the second by 456 -

to 100.

Official results will be announced later today when the

voting resumes on the other eight

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“Keith came to the window,” fare of 20 cents or 4 combination tNrOUgh a basement window and ers ‘Harry Latham, Corp. refused she said. “He told me to put the!65-cent weekly pass permit which Darryl slipped into the flooded gang Edwin Steers Sr. Raat Se uD Jen ed 1 so ¥p blades in the vent hole, so I.crept allows passengers to ride for an Pasement. ‘|beforg taking the action. - ‘over there, slipped them in, and additional 10 cents each time, David ran for help and the boy" The proposal, Senate Bill 2570, : ; In addition, the company also WAa8 rescued hy Wagner Lake, a authorizes federal. financing of 6 a mm... 36

Earl Wilson .....ovveveen 11 Sheriff Smith said the parking requested approval to boost the Workman on the housing project.(such primaries at the rate of 20s] T 8. m.. 4 1u

Women's ..........o.oeed5 of area should have Deen lighted, fares of high school students, The boy was taken to St, tar nt a vote under federal regula

What Goes On Here ..... 2 but it was not. (from 5 tq 10 cents. Grade school, cis Hospital where he was ip fair — | The men were confined ig; the ‘fares would be left at 5 eents, condition. : : any VL : ;

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