Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1952 — Page 27

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“Today «Business 231 Prisoners

Letter Paper Talks, Too

By Harold Hartley

LETTERS TALK. And I don’t mean their woris® The paper itself has something to say. If you're a letter feeler, as I am, you'll know what I mean. : I run through the mail, picked|

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All in Good Shape, Food Supply Ample

By United Préss 2 RAHWAY, N. J, Apr. 23 ~The 231 rioting prisoners who held eight hostages in the. New Jersey State Prison farm surrendered yesterday after 113 hours under seige. | The hostages all were in good {condition but one said fervently, “I'm glad to get out of there.”

After

N3-Hour Si

Kidnaped Pair Taken On Night Crime Spree

By United Press * CHICAGO, Apr, 23--Two gun-

Force enlisted man and his 18-|

{year-old girl friend and took them room, Miss Aird repeated

on a nightlong robbery tour. i The night of terror ended in a Loop restaurant after a police]

paused for a’ moment to tell the)

{cashier what was goipg on and! couple men today kidnaped a young Alriiod her to notify rit g Ap aged Oklahoma City

(Generous People ‘Work ‘Miracle’ For Aged Couple

i By United Press - OKLAHOMA CITY, Apr. 23

still owned their modest On her return from the wash- room home today and had her money In the bank to pay taxes whispered story to the restaurant) for years to come, thanks to what hepa y they called a “miracle.” Police were called. Officer Gier-| The homestead of Mr. and Mrs, ald Keefe saw the gunman draw|G. W. Pettyjohn was scheduled to

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out the stiff paper envelopes, ex-|, ’ hagg ecutive size, and read them first, Packaged a Ha gin were Jugsurd and * = |" HAVE YOU BEEN looking atigood condition. A few minutes I FOUND I am not alone. The the kitchen calendar . during pefore telling authorities “we're letter begins to talk from the out- breakfast? ; ready to come out” they dumped side, by the quality of the paper. | Then out {nto the back yard, 10ad of milk, water, food and Yesterday I one of the where the bushes are leafing, and ' y bosses of Atlantic Bond, Jackithe grass is getting that deep Massengale, lay the letter writing spring green? h ) i business on the line. Then I know. You've been themselves in. no» ihinking about when and where] . Had Ample Food 1 WAS HUDDLED over beef-|'0 EO. ~ | “There was a real load of food,” steak and oven browned potatoes "Ls - ' , in Parlor A at the ‘Athletic Club, | MAYBE YOU'LL do it the old ba i¢ {oop E suid whe chet Ray Petty, youngish, ruddy-face, WY. and think it costs less. But “They had plenty to last them a president of the Indiana Paper 24d Up the cost, what you get for hil y gt" Co. was there. And so was Mrs, M, YOUr time and money, and maybe haf Was. no lmmediata: xe Speers MacCollum, president of YOU'll change your mind. | i ym. victs the MacCollum Paper Co. They The see-more.for-less, and fast- planation of" w are ' —_ iv both sell Atlantic bond, cordial ®™: t00, Way to do it is the pack- got the food. It had been competitors. |aged tour. You get'more for your|lieved they were "on starvation ® ® = ‘money. And no worries. | rations, with virtually no water. AND NEXT to me was one of| . 8» | The prisoners gave up after the most interesting guys I've met| I LEARNED that last winter holding out since Thursday, and in a blue moon, C. I. (Chink) When Dorr Babcock, of Ross and were safely under control when Greenlee, who sells for Indiana Babcock, in the Claypool lobby, the state announced the surren-

Paper Co. He's a traveler, too. [Shipped me off to Panama. He der.

cigarets from the windows of the = the barracks they had barricaded

man, summoned when the girl his gun. The policeman fired be sold May 12 to satisfy back Patricia Aird, whispered her twice, Officer James Brenda also taxes and penalties dating back plight to employees, shot and Opened fire on Withers, who was to 1949. But today they held a wounded one of the gunmen. (hit at least three times, ~ | “paid In full” receipt from OklaThe soldier, 19-year-old Mar-| At ‘Birdwell Hospital, Withers) homa County Treasurer W, T, tin Frer of Chicago, told police refused to identify the other gun- (Bill) Hale. that he and Miss Aird were ac- © oh More than 100 persons who costed by the gunmen while they read of the couple's plight dowere having a midnight snack in a Navy Pier restaurant, Speedway Sets The men forced Pvt, Frer and \ p 7 Miss Alrd Into an automobile ana Senior P lay drove them to suburban Park! Ridge where Mr. Frer was forced ¥

into the trunk of the car. “Its nothing short of a mir. ’ o acle,” Mrs. Pettyjohn said today. En route, the gunmen threat “Thank God for the good people ' |ened their lives several times and »

stopped twice to rob gas sta tions, Mr. Frer said. With Mr. Frer riding in the trank of the car, the gunmen drove back to Chicago where the auto was abandoned and one of the gunmen left the group.

High School Pupils Win Right to Dance

WILLMAR, Minn, Apr. 23 (UP) «~~ High school pupils were free to fox trot at school dances

To Loop Restaurant Ma ’ nry Amn today after parents’ groups won

George

And over lunch owe re-toured made it so easy. People were ex-|

Central America together. Only! he saw more, he knew the chief of police in Mexico City, | - Across from me was attentive Bill Whedon of the MaeCollum Co., quiet but drinking in every word. Jack Massengale shot the fig-| ures on paper. Including paper-| board, the industry turned out 25! million tons last year. » n - THEN I FOUND that not only steel has its eye on the defense program. The “machinery of defense” is one of the biggest users of paper, carrying messages to and from the government agencies. | And eight out of nine of the, big steel companies use it. And! they don’t fool, either, on price of quality. And they like those important looking, hard-cornered envelopes which speak with authority in the morning mail. Personally, Tm going to quit writing on scrap paper, and leav-

pecting me all along the line. The only pain there was came in my arm when I wrote the check. But that wasn’t bad, last. ed only an instant, and the rest was fun, all the way.

- . » TRAVEL IS ONE of the best organized of businesses. You can go anywhere, by rail, air, boat or bus, and know within a few bucks what it will cost. : ‘Right now I am looking at packaged tours, western, southern, Central or South America, Europe, New England, Canada or Alaska, all with the little thoughtful things packed in. » » ” THEY NEVER dump you off in some forsaken neck of the woods and let you shift for yourself. And that's what you have to do when you “plan it yourself.” I vote for packaged tours everytime. And your travel agent

ing notes for the milkman on a corner torn out of a paper sack. down.

Job Swap ‘Joe Had It

OVER AT ARMOUR'S 2 going to try it. R'S they're | AM A SUCKER for gadgets. I A salesman who paddles side- Never got past the toy stage. walks is going to trade jobs with| Yet, some are mighty useful, I his boss next week. [saw one a few days ago. It was an M. G. McCoy who sells red meat affice He. oh to hotels and restaurants down- e am, town was elected honorary sales-/oPened the Graham Office Equipmanager. And his ‘boss, R. R./ment Co, in: 325 Bankers Trust McKenna will take over the eat- Bldg. set it on my desk. It looked ery beat. 3 _ |like all other files. : It's a swell idea, but not new. Then he opened it up to the Glidden put its top-level execu- letter “Kk.” And the cards began to tives behind retail counters in Seperate themselves, fanning toCleveland demonstrating paint to|Ward me slowly, so I could read customers. Others do it. It/the name at the top of each card. shuffles perspectives. The cards and the file are magon netized, so you don’t have to

i ” finger-walk them one at a time. AT ARMOUR'S the salesman|™,". " ver all right. But I will find out his boss has no easy . ’ liked it because it is a new idea. Job, that he’s fighting quotas, in controls, competition, and maybe And nothing more is more # : : rtant than a better way, lead pencils that keep breaking|P® points. Joe Graham had it. And the salesmanager will find out how tough competition is. Overdue

will help you. He'll never let you

And how hard it is to land an| LIKE A FIGHTER who “tele- American States pfd ........ 24 order, And how many ways a cus- graphs” his punch Ellis Arnall|{Tsgire Collieties com --oooe 81" 10310 tomer can say no, and still be'lifted controls on 16 items yester- Belt RR & Btk Yds com .... :4% fla elt RR & Stk Yds ofd .... 63 5la, fairly nice about fit. jday. The price boss caused, no|Bobbs-Merrill som ese 13% is 2 @& \furors. No one even blinked. For |Bopbe-Merrih 4a ik 155 97 ; | IF SALESMAN McCOY clicks, the trade knew that the ceilings Centra! Soya =~. oo... ee. 3 ; he may become honorary general have been phony for months. Circle Theater com ........... 60 i } Citizens Ing Ter >% ofd oM plant sales manager in Chicago Look at the main ones—wool,|Gommonwealth Loan ¢% pfd.. 81 for a week. {lard, cottonseed oil, soybean oil,| 1 4 And by that time, maybe he and corn oil. ul may be darned glad he’s a sales- ... 8 ; | Zaswern man after all, calling on his] WOOL HAS been taking a : friends in the hotels and restau-/crowding from synthetics. Lard g - rants along the main stem in In-/Das been on the lame list for |g . dianapolis. {five years. And the vegetable oils i have run into another synthetic, 5

Little Side Door That hit soap.

DRIVERS, short of gas, usually] And all it means to me is that!"

stop at “the next gas station.” ithe hand of science is faster than And the gasoline companies are the eye of government. trying to break them of the habit.! If you give production a chance, The very fine differences init will rub the ‘word “ceilings” gasolines do not show up imme- right out of the dictionary. diately when your foot hits the]

gas pedal. They are there, but it Why Mention It?

takes time to get the benefits. 4 : The filling stations are looking’ RETAIL FOOD prices moved

for other ways to get your eye, and your business, to give you that want-to-come-back feeling. They sell you gas and oil, and accessories. But the main things are gas and oil. There is no quick cash profit in filling radiators checking batteries or tires, 80! oes 2 cents make?

sometimes, the “free work” gets, mo. conte has become so small

March.

ernment bothers to tell it: When you come out of a super{market with two sacks of grocer-

the go-by. And sometimes YOU in..o gays that some pedple are in a hurry and don’t want it. ,,),,c)) when they get caught pick-|U 8 Machine’ Co

” n » GULF OIL with 250 stations in the Anderson-Indianapolis area is getting its dealers together at

ing it up.

Dr. E. C. Kernel

who has just]

detergents made from. petroleum. |

up one-tenth of a per cent be-| tween mid - February and mid-|Nati Homes pfd

But I don’t know why the gov-|

‘lies less about $20, what difference ig,

They gave up only after winning assurance an impartial investigation would be made of the state parole board but lost another demand that they go unpunished for the riot. BD In Trenton, Gov. Alfred E, Dris- ] coll sald he would announce the Michigan Prison. U appointment of a committee to J. Carrier; lower investigate the entire New Jersey Hergert.

penal system as a result of the . vr Hog Prices Drop At Yards Here

s are among hy 10 being held by rioting convicts still barricaded in a cell block of the Southern

HOSTAGES—Thess guard

loft, George Brown; upper right, Harold , Cecil J. Lawrence; lower right, Orville

riot—fourth in. state prisons in

one month. Troubles ‘Just Beginning’ Hog prices at Indianapolis, Hoss i flows light and medium Prison guards told reporters Stockyards dropped today with ister ir i cholos ;

7-11.50, ts Kk i oh - and gilts down 25-50 cents from i 15-1818, Tew $15.50, ‘heavier sows $14 yesterday's average. Cattle 850: calves 300: all classes get{ing dependable early action; steers an Steers and heifers were active. | heit ars poironss choice oariines 35; Good to low choice, light to me- steers J32.28 so oholce, “near 1623: Daun dium steers brought $32.25. $33; Dulk . © ner to: a are Bulk commercial to low choice yearlings 27-33; cows firm: bulls steady; yearlings brought $27-33. Cows odd Read young cows uh utters =, terday’s averages. Utility and|333.50-36; odd 3 commercial cows sold at $21.25- Bi oat

their troubles were “just begin-| light dnd medium-weight barrows ning” after the riot ended. They said the prison was crowded before the riot and would be even more 80 now because of the damage done to the barracks where the rioters held out. F. Lovell Bixby, Deputy Commissioner of New Jersey Institutions, said the state still held to its right to punish the men when

ut commercial we aaa! ; od 8 to $27.50; and bulls were steady with yes-| canner 21.80: ¥ i

the to give up yesterday|2550. _. |bulls $24.28, scatter d they agrees 8 i Vealers were active, choice and oy ‘noihing omered ean Shortly before the surrender|prime bringing $33.50-36. ————————————————

was announced there was a flurry of activity in the barracks whereU, S. Statement the prisoners had been holding out. Signs they had hung from windows were pulled in and some : convicts who had been leaning out knocked down by a bull at In

pared wit ye 0. ast Yealoel dlanapolis Stockyards, was in fai the windows disappeared. from Receipts tals Hide condition today in St. Vincent's view, : = Ad

8 : 3 jee | FH OSPital. Then Prison Physician Dr. Cash balance iE app atitiiod Mark Hettenvan, R. R. 1 Acton, Harry A. Proudfoot was called reserve Bi: ,034, . 1890 suffered broken ribs and cuts on

Acton Man Injured By Bull at Stockyards

A 38-year-old Acton man,

WASHINGTON, Apr. 23 (UP) Govern. ment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year ough Apr. 21, com-

Slug, Rob Dentist

The remaining gunman, later] identified as Thomas Withers, 23,

forced Mr. Frer and Miss Alrd| lergy had strongly into a taxi and ordered the driver Brooks” Speedway High School | 1 he he to

to take them to a Loop restau-

rant, Once there

room, The gunman did not object. On her way there, Miss Alrd

3 Young Hoodlums

A 65-year-old Indianapolis denyoung thugs last night.

18-year-old youths at the corner of Broadway and 424 8t, He suf-

of $31 early today. {The gunn identified as stolen,

Crushed by Tractor

SULLIVAN, Apr. 23 (UP)—A 63-year-old farmer, Paul Dix, Sullivan, was killed yesterday when his tractor overturned while crossing a ditch. Authorities said

inside the prison yard to examine] yypranaPOLIS CLEARING no the head when attacked by the/Mr, Dix was crushed beneath the! the eight guards who had een GIggtines iors ASSESS bull last night. vehicle. held hostage and the prisoners. —

Mr, Frer suggested] that Miss Aird go to the wash-\jead opposite her in the three-act dances for the

tist was siugged and robbed of} $40 and a $250 ring by three}

Dr. C, W. Dowd, 549 E. 42d St. | sald he was slugged by the three,

fered cuts above the left eye from e his broken glasses.

Yi | high” I m%ull and) (In another robbery, Temp Den-| fits 3 nis,” 53, attendant at the filling] i station at 3315 Madison Ave. said]

| fled in a car, later;

Miss Mary Ann McArthur ‘will a bitter election fight over the play the title role in “Our Miss issue.

senior class play, at 8 p. m, Fri high school ces, and a

day in the school gymnasium. [number of voters went to the George Mayo will play the male polls yesterday to approve such

103042,

comedy by R. J. Mann. measure carried

Thursday Only

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The hostages all were in good shape, Mr. Bixby said, but one told him feverently, “I'm glad to get out of there.”

Local Truck Grain Prices

a $3.27. No. 2 white corn, $1.91.) Ne : i Zollsw corn, Nis.

Local Stocks and Bonds|

Apr, 28, 195%

[nd Telephone 48 pid _.,... | Indpls Ath Club Realty Co .. {Indpls Pow & Lt com | Indpls P & L Indianapolis Water com 1 (ndianapolis Water 4% pf .... § Indianapolis Water 5% pf 10 Jefferson National Lites com 1 *Kingan King!

Linco

armon-Herrington com .... 4 Va astic Asphalt rerrnasane | Nat! Homes com

HE price of a car has a lot to de

fn Pub Serv com N Ind Pub Serv 4% ofd N Ind Pub Serv 4'2 pid

Progress Laundry Som" .....i0 31 3) » with the number of folks whocan buy in Dub anil Ind n ceeane 39 ; s| aff dt it & . s Gear i Tool com i 4 ord to own 1t. Schyitaar-Oumming 5% old - Nn, . Stokely Van Camb. com +... 13% 3 So the leaders in sales—for almost a

| Stokely-Van Camp pfd ....... Tanner & Co 6%% pfd ......100 Terre Haute Malleable

' generation — have been three cars 2% whose bid for popularity has included 1 a potent price appeal.

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|Initea Telephone 5% pfd

Union Tale... uneane-siasnies *Bxtra dividend

BONDS Allen & Steen da American Loan 4%856 .....¢ §

Fl But who do you think is right on their

the Athenaeum tonight. And American Security 5s 60 . 8. M. Williams, district manager, 3 Batter Mol 08 2) 0 heels? Wh . will bear down on an important To Open Office Batesville Tele Co dian 11... 98 :] 3 0 has led the field, outside spot in all gas stations. Dr. Emil C. Kernel, graduate gh of Com Bldg das 61 .... 3 | the low-priced three” — ever since It is “the little side door,” ofr the Northern {Equitable Securities 5s 60 ..... 98 19389 usually labeled ‘Ladies that1iinois College of Tndpise Paint: & Color bs 64". 98 | Gulf wants to be the cleanest in optometry, will. [ndpls Public Loan He84 ..... 96 . | . . the state. They add as much t0onen his office - ays 58.07 ceive 8 41 Well, sir, the name is Buick.

the home-like atmosphere of a 5t 1113 Prosstation as anything. else. Dirty pect st., in Foun‘rest rooms have lost a lot of busi-| tain Square, ness, and a lot of franchises for| ymonday, 4 ‘tation operators. He is the son 4 a 8 of the late Dr. H. H. BORGERT, assistant Emil cd 04

manager, will take an oar in the ov, died in 1943.7 campaign to make Gulf stand p1o is a life-long | nut for cleanliness which’ goes! .qident of the 1and in hand with profit. South Side. You'll get soap and towels, and

Dr. Kernel | | He is a veteran of World War clean walls, good light, a spotless ty ard lives at 3670 Bluff Rd.

floor. You_will genuinely be’ a

nd Asso Tel 3s 78 Ruhner Packing 4s 59 . Langsenkamp 5s 48 .... Paper Arts Co Bs 68 ... Sprague Device 5s 50 . Traction Terminal 5s 67 ... 88

You get more pounds of real automobile when you buy the Buick pictured

here. l \ You get more power. You get “big-car | when sex feel | : You get an honest-to-goodness Million first stirs Dollar Ride.

“Guest of Gulf,” at its housekeep- produce ing best. .

behind

Are you unwittingly making You get, in other words, an all-round

” ” ” 5 " : Ezgs—POB Cincinnati; consumer grade; : th h + | J. C. PATE, merchandising and U. 8. A larg ewhite, 40-45%ac; brown mix perience through over-severity, || dp sales promotion manager, knows Jiu nl S550! while a rade | prudishness or ill-timed teasing? || that makes any Buick — SpeciaL, the score. He knows what I dis- icom’l. graded 40 per cent); exira lathe Learn the disturbing effects your || ; on covered long ago. That people rent receipts: cases exch 30-3%¢ = | misunderstanding can have...

Market. tail outlets slow, storage demand decreas ing at present prices, Light arrivals at un changed prices. ommercially

stop for restrooms more often than they stop for gas. ‘ But when they use a restroom, fekens—C they'd kind of like to do some- 26-38: mostly 26.3%: hers. thing for the station. So they roosters Jie. oto hear buy gas and oil. And that makes ea T30

ng demand, ers limiting the cash register ring. regular. ahipvers In most:

grown

fryers heavy 23-26c: t. 18-18c: old

offerings exJureiinses tances. un-

May (Coronet now on sale. | Gulf’'s got it right. Clean rest- ch . : : rooms pay. ar wh Poulet See PT Net”

puberty a bitter, shameful ex- money’s worth of great engineering

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- | find out what to do about the age of sexual awakening . . . in “The

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We think you ought to find out for yourself what these other folks have discovered.

We think you ought to find out why so many Buick’buyers are trading in one of the so-called “low-priced three.”

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If you can afford a new car, you can afford a Buick.

Why not find out for yourself what's

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1952 BUICK LOCAL DELIVERED PRICES ‘22347 tour tun see ween sis 39) B ) 16 3343 Optional squipment, accessories, state and local taxes, If any, additionoh

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