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‘DEATH RAYS DEBUNKED AS WAR WEAPON

Investigator ~~ Finds ~~ Only Casualty of ‘Inventions’ Was Canary Bird.

By RON ROSS

Science Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Death ray machines invented during world war II probably killed no more than one small canary bird,

This is the belief of the man who investigated contraptions labelled “death rays” by their inventors. Dr. Albert F. Murray, now a consulting television engineer here, was with the radio communications and guided missiles programs of the office of scientific research and in- | vention during the war. He had] the additional assignment of checks | ing up on the death rays inventors claimed to have developed. The added task proved more amusing than fruitful, Dr. Murray recalls. He explained that all of the 25| or 50 death rays he checked on had | *bugs” in them which made them useless or impractical. Only One Bird Died Thousands of dollars and a great deal of time went into the rays which inventors claimed melted rocks, scorched the tops of trees and killed all manner of animals and birds at long distances. When Dr. Murray went to investigate the machines, he found no deaths or devastation caused by the inventions. The only reported death from 8 death ray which the scientist puts any faith in is one described to him by a Spanish inventor, brought to this country during the war. The inventor said his heat arctype death ray had killed a canary at a distance of nine feet. A dog! had only howled violently when | subjected to the same test. At nine feet, Dr. Murray plains, him was quite capable of cooking the bird. But like the other death rays,; the Spaniard’s machine was far! short of the unofficial specifications established for the death Tay.

"None Passed Any of Tests When Dr. Murray began his in- |

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vestigation of the ray inventions, quota yesterday was the utilities (Continued on Page 5 5—Column 8)

he outlined what a successful death | ray should be able to do as follows: ONE: Burn a one-half inch hole | through a four- inch plank in five | seconds. TWO: Burn a live tree six inches In diameter at a distance of two miles in three minutes. THREE: Kill small animals such As guinea pigs, rats and rabbits at 5000 feet in at least three seconds. None of the death rays passed any of the tests. Beams of heat, light and heat combined, light modulated by radio waves, various suggested means for disintegrating the human body and other types of rays were included in the inventions. If a death ray had successfully performed the assigned tasks, the |

atomic bomb might have made it | Rev.

obsolete in any event. Physical

the machine described to | hot yet given,

VOLUME 57—NUMBER 217

Give Now to Your

Comm

unity Fund

/ (An Editorial) ITH just about 36 hours to go the Indianapolis Community Fund still needs $360,000 to meet its

1947 budget.

That means about $10,000 an hour to be raised— about $1.50 an hour by every one of the Fund's 7000 workers from now until Wednesday evening,

It is possible ONLY if

YOU do YOUR part.

These Fund workers have given long hard days

and weeks of work to this campaign. munity Fund doesn’t belong to them.

But the ComIt belongs to

YOU—to every man, woman and child who lives in

Marion county. It is the

responsibility of every one

of us to keép in service the agencies which it supports —and which in turn do so much toward the making of a

great community. ) N # ~ »

HERE is no margin for

for these Fund agencies for next year.

\ LJ »

failure in the budget set up The Fund

goal was placed at a figure just barely sufficient to let these vital community agencies continue the service they have been performing-—with the closest thrift

and ecopomy, and without expansion.

Unless it is met,

in full, some of the services they give will have to be ended—some of the needs of the community will not be

filled.

Many thousands of yoqur neighbors have made

generous gifts and pledges to the Fund already. there are 50,000 givers yet to be heard from. are ope of those, the responsibility is yours.

But If you The time

is short. The need is acute.

Give NOW to YOUR Community Fund. »

Workers Start

To Meet Fund Drive Goal

Last Lap

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1946

Entered as Second-Class Matter at. PostofMce Indianapolis, Ind. Jssued deily except Sunday

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3000 IN STATE STRIKE AT 24

Union Seeks Hike In Wages.

Times State Service

BEDFORD, Ind, Nov.

lof L. stone workers struck

higher pay.

Although reports=were not available immediately from all sections

of the limestone area affected by |the strike, there was no picketing lin Bedford or its immediate vicinity | this morning. The strike technically {became effective at the end of the

work day yesterday and workmen failed to show up morning.

Union wage demands were for a the {$1.50-an-hour pay now received by stonecutters and the $1.25 an hour Strikers

25-cent blanket increase in

currently paid planermen. are members of the Journeymen Stonecutters’ Association of North

A last-minute effort to meet a goal of $1328000 was being made America (A. F. of L.. today by 7000 volunteer workers of the Community Fund.

They were about 27 per cent short, with $357,142 yet to be pledge]

before closing time tomorrow.

“Success of the campaign is in

|the hands of the people who have | division,

" he declared.” “We

be held.” He added that there was no intention of extending the drive beyond the official closing time.

Only soliciting group fo reach a |

| headed by William A. | { Hughes.

The

ledges, or 632 $450,000 quota.

3 Women Injured Seriously

In 2-Car County Accident,

Presént standings of the various! chasers ‘of

Charge ‘Wildcat’ Strike

{ under

sistance to increased wage demands,

STONE PLANTS

No Picketing Reported as

19.—Production coasted to a dead stop in 24 | southern Indiana limestone plants {today as approximately 3000 A. PF. for

for work this

Spokesmen for the companies involved termed the walkout a “wildAn appeal to every citizen of Marion county was directed by | cat strike” and said the union was Walter Leckrone, general chairman. a two-year contract which

| did not expire until Jan. 1, 1948. Re-

{that contracts for next year have Pilots to Receive. Prizes at | been signed calling for delivery of |

industrial division, where stone at prices which considered the

There is no way, now that such contracts have been made, of passwages to pur-| stone; ménagement |

Fo wage scale.

ing on increased

{spokesmen said. However, they {wages 10 cents an hour with one week of paid vacations or a flat increase of 12! cents, Connor Wykoff, president of the | cutters’ local, said that a settlement | of the dispute was “still possible.” Management members of the!

Three women were injured seriously and two other persons hurt ot committee include: C. E. |

in a two-car crash at 8. Meridian st.

and Southport rd. today.

The crash victims taken to Methodist hospital were:

Mrs. Rose Crisman, 31, Danville,

Ky., seriously injured.

Mrs. Bethel Crisman, 31, Danville, serious. Mrs. May Piercy, 28, Nashville, serious. Tommy Piercy, 5, Nashville, minor injuries.

A fifth accident victim, the Rev.

The two cars crashed when the Mr. road, drove onto

long-range use of the ray or ren- bound car driven by Mrs. Rose

dered the machine practice than in theory caused most | failures. | One of the most potentially territying death“rays blew compressed |

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SEALS ‘SHOPS WHERE PLASMA IS STORED

SHANGHAI, Nov, 19 (U, P.).— Mayor K. C. Wu, acting on orders from Nanking, tonight ordered the sealing of all shops where “surplus” American blood plasma was known to be stored. He said the action was taken to make sure the plasma would not move to the black market where it has been selling at $25 a pint. It is being held back pending an agreement on the price at which the foreign liquidation commission will repurchase it.

EARTHQUAKE ROCKS PERU'S CAPITAL CITY

LIMA, Peru, Nov. 19 (U. P.).—A violent but brief earthquake rocked Peru's capital city early today. Residents fled their homes and poured into the streets. There were no immediate reports of casualties or property damage. At least 500 persons were reported killed in several tremors 10 days ago in the Andes mountain

TIMES INDEX

Amusements... 16 Labor ....... Eddie Ash ... 10 Ruth Millett . BOOS «....ees 22) Movies .......

13 13 16

Business ..... 6 Obituaries .., 9 Carnival .,... 14! Dr. O'Brien , 13 Classified ..20-32| F. C. Othman 13 Comics ...... 23} Radio ........ 23 Crossword .,, 23' Reflections .. 14 Editorials .... 14 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Fashions ..... 19 Science ..... 13 Mrs. Ferguson 18 Serial ....... 8 Forum ...... 14 Silly Notions. 13| G. I. Rights.. 23 Sports. ....... 10 Meta Given .. 19 Washington . 14 Indiana Saga. 14 Weather Map 3 In Indpls. .... 2 Women's.. 18-19

Inside. Indpls. 13 World Affairs’ 14

less deadly in Crisman.

Mrs. Crisman crashed into the

“

Tragedy on the highway. . .

Morgan, driving east on | {the Southport laws which prevented ! Meridian st. in front of a north-

Benny Morgan, 29, of R. R. 7, Box | ‘side of the Morgah car. Both cars 1654, was injured but was not taken to the hospital.

turned completely around. The Rev. Morgan's car careened into a |deep drainage ditch running along Meridian st. The Rev.

Morgan, a Nazarene

preacher, told police he had come to a stop at the intersection to let one car pass. He #aid that he started across the road before he saw the Crisman car approaching.

« A new Plymouth, wrecked in a

two-car collision, had only 1200 miles on the speedometer. The driver, Mrs. Rose Crisman, Danville, Ky.,, was seriously injured.

| , burealt and U.

Ehle of the Indiana Limestone Co.; John Fuller, Heltonville Limestone €o.; C. O. Rollins, Victory-Oolitic Co.; Robert Ingalls, Ingalls Lime-| stone Co. of Bloomington,

Cleveland Tomorrow.

BULLETINS “Miss Columbus” took the lead today in the fivecity jet-plane race. Capt. J. FE. Sullivan com-

for an average of 534.6 miles per hour.

By ART WRIGHT . The “Miss Evansville” entry in the {five-city jet-plane race held a new world’s for an 820-mile course today and “Miss Indianap{olis” was in third place. |

A sudden shift in the schedule {listed the final runs for today. The

record

TO END TODAY

Pledges totaling $102,204, | they said, was based on the fact! can put over this drive with dom-| for 101.2 per cent of quota, were plete coverage of the county be-! listed by this team. tween now and tomorrow night] {when the final report meeting Will success of the campaign .is believed |to hinge, has reached $284417 in per cent of a

| trackless {trolley lines east on Ohio,

Map Improvements in Indianapolis Traffic Situation

Mapping badly needed improvements in Indianapolis’ traffic situation. Harry Bailey, W. F. Milner, state highway commission traffic engineer, and Thomas_R. Jacobi, city civil { engineer.

2% Of State Miners Idle As Walkouts Grow

LEWIS SILENT; RISKS POSSB COURT ACTION

Hint Partial Brownout Is Possible in East if Strike Occurs.

, By UNITED PRESS Nearly three-fourths of In« diana's - 8500 United Mine Workers were idle today. Throughout the nation 72, 829 were off the job. And the period of ‘grace shrank in which John L. Lewis must decide whether to risk jail or call off a national coal shutdown scheduled tomorrow night. In the event of a national soft coal strike the civilian production administration fs all set to issue conservation orders. Such action could result in a partial brownout .

Left to right—Police Capt.

JET PLANE RACE Rerouting of Trolleys, Buses

To Be Urged on Safety Board

Needed traffic movement improvements were mapped today by fuels administration said at least

officials in city hall.

Five steps in rerouting streetcars, trackless trolleys and busses were |

jrecommended at a meeling of city, state highway commission and’

Chamber of Commerce officials. The plan will be submitted to The plan would:

| Indianapolis)

TWO: Reroute Central

trolleys

ave

bama and on out.

THREE: Route Mars Hill busses Sonvaition

up Kentucky ave. to Illinois st.

FOUR: Route E. New York st. and |

21st and Arlington busses south on!

New Jersey to Ohio, west on Ohio

to Meridian, then north to New York and on east.

FIVE: Route Speedway busses off

and race, sponsored by The Times and Meridian st. to Ohio, west to Senate

Ennis Cline of the Bloomington! other Scripps-Howard newspapers, iS and north to New York.

Limestone Co.

NARCOTIC AGENT DISPUTE BARED

Chicago Office Shown at Odds With Caughran.

Friction between the Chicago supervisor of the. federal narcotics 8. District Attorney B. Howard Caughran was revealed as the Bernard Peterson trial continued in federal court today. Peterson, former narcotics agent here, was told he was “working for not Howard Caughran,

us,

in a letter the supervisor, fendant last spring. Under cross-examination by Defense Attorney George Jeffrey, Mr. White finally identified the letter. He also testified that he prodded Peterson repeatedly for his “con-

cases, the only ones he reported were routine, petty affairs brought to his attention by some other agency.” Peterson, along with two convicted addicts, is charged with conspiracy to violate the federal narcotic laws to defraud the government,

54, and James Jim) Wooden, 55. If convicted on both counts, each |

(Bowling Green

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SNOW FLURRIES IN INDIANA FORESEEN

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am .. 36 10a. m .. 49 7am... 36 11am .. 5 Sam .. 38 12 (noon) 57 9am ,, 45 1pm .. 58

Hoosiers Friday will experience their second snow of the season, the weather bureau predicted today. A | trace was reported at LaPorte in October. Snow flurries were forecast for| the lake region Friday. The bureau

Hoosiers living farther south will

and / | we're paying your salary, don’t for- | get,” George H. White, wrote to the de-|

sistent failure to develop any new |

Thousands Pass by Bier of Jimmy Walker

The addicts are Charles Kahler, |

sald the temperature throughout | the state will average 3 to ; degrees bitterest political foe, recommended | below normal the next five days.

part of the National Aircraft show Jat Cleveland. The 18st two planes in the race took off from Cleveland airport beSore noon Joday. First to shoot off s “Miss Columbus he ranva y afterward was! “Miss Cleveland.” {

iit is

bus stop at the southwest corner! of Pennsylvania and Market ois. “The plan may not be ideal but worth trying,” | Jacobi, city engineer.

Officials hope to remove as much |

ONE: Reroute Brightwood (West streetcars to Dela- | pleted the 820-mile course in 1 Ware and Maryland sts. in place of offered to raise! hour. 31 minutes and 52 seconds 'W. Washington st.

and Columbia to Ala-

said Thomas |

the salety board Thursday.

C. 1. 0.-GIRDING..:

| Wages Are ‘Imperative.’

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Nov. 19 (U. P)—The C. I, O. resolutions committee today called it “impera- | tive that American industry in col-' lective bargaining give, substantial | wage increases. | It declared the higher pay was!

| The plan also would eliminate the ‘necessary to compensate workers |

(for a 25 per cent take-home pay

cut and high income tax deduc-!

tions from their weekly checks, The resolution laid the ground work for the C. I. O.s big drive for higher wages to increase work-

entations will be made by Janis} Paige, Warner Brothers movie star Official Speeds Here are the official speeds and| elapsed times of the three planes which have raced over the course— Cleveland, Indianapolis, Evansville,! Cincinnati, Columbus, O. and back to Cleveland. | “Miss Evansville,” piloted by Maj. | {F. E. Everest, 1 hour, 3¢ minutes and | '40 seconds, an average of 525 miles per hour, “Miss Cincinnati,” piloted by Lt. |

D. A. Schultz, 1 hour, 40 minutes | mashed potatoes,

said,

1GI'S IN J IN JAPAN TO EAT TURKEY AGAIN

YOKOHAMA, Nov. American soldiers in Japan will! have a traditional Thanksgiving | dinner, the army disclosed today. The dinner starts with fruitcup

cocktail, oyster stew, pickles, celery, and vegetable salad. The turkey will be flanked by cranberry sauce, giblet gravy and

and 26 seconds, an average of 493) oyster dressing. The G. I, also will

miles per hour. “Miss Indianapolis, piloted by Lt. | Arthur Murray, 1 hour, 47 minutes, |

| eat buttered asparagus

tips and butterfly rolls.

For dessert, he will eat ice cream,

19 QU. P).—!

Other proposals submitted for! convention action were: ONE: Demand that the United {States senate bar the seating of ISenator Theodore G. Bilbo (D. Miss.) O: Request for dissolution of | the. Wood - Rankin un - American | | committee in the house. THREE: Repeal of the Smith- | Connally war labor disputes act.

FOUR: Opposition to any form of sales tax. FIVE: Opposition to national,

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‘INCH’ BIDS REJECTED WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U.P) ,— War assets admirtistrator Robert M, Littlejohn revealed today he has

50.5 seconds, an average of 458.2 pumpkin pie, mincemeat. nuts and rejected all bids for the “big inch”

miles per hour. “Miss Evansville” and “Miss Cincinnati” rdeed yesterday,

hard candy. If olives arrive in time from the Wnited States, he'll get those, too.

and “little big inch” pipelines be- | cause they did not guarantee “a fair price” to the government,

To Pay Respects to New York's Ex-Mayor

By LEO TURNER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-—The people he loved stood in line for hours today to file by the bier of Jimmy | Walker — the gay and lovable ex- | mayor who went to meet “the man | upstairs.” r James J. Walker died in Doctor's hospital from a cerebral blood | clot yesterday, He was, 65, Jimmy Walker was admired by millions because he never held a grudge. “The man upstairs takes care of things like that,” he once said. The humble and the great waited patiently in front of the Frank E. Campbell funeral parlor. They were paying their respects to the politician of another era who looked at his world and found it amusing: The public never forget his good | humor. : They forgot that he stepped out| of office under fire. : But Fiorello H. LaGuardia, his

Jimmy Walker They remembered Jimmy Walker,

| who frequently squelched the gloom | Shortly afterward, Mr. Walker's

|Mr. Walker for the $20,000 a year | Spreaders With a wisecrack.

Job as impartial chairman of the|

held for 3 five years.

It. was the Jimmy Walker who |

have rain, according to the fore-|cloak and suit Industry which he laughed. a book censogship bill out cast, . of the state assembly "n- “FL have (Continued ‘on Page term

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| yet to hear of a woman whose vir[tue was destroyed by a book.” It was Mayor Jimmy who welcomed Wiley Post and Harold Gatty after their round-the-world flight in the Winnie Mae with: ‘Winnie Mae, Winnie must, Winnie did.” It was Jimmy Walker who once before found a crowd wafting for a look at him said: a What's the matter? close “the aquarium?” Solemn high requiem mass was planned tentatively for Thursday at St. Patrick's cathedral, Burial will be in the Gate of Heaven cemetery, Pleasantville, N, Y, Mr. Walker had been in a coma since early Sunday when he was taken to Doctor's hospital, He died while his physician, Dr. Sym Newman, administered oxygen. His attorney, Sidney Harris, stepped into a corridor with tears in his eyes and told waiting reportars:’ “It's all over, boys.”

Did they

sister, Nan Walker Burke, with whom he lived, was carried from

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in coal-burning eastern states. . The premature strikes by A. P. of !L. miners was spreading rapidly in the Hoosier coal fields. Practically all of the major shaft mines were closed along with many strip mines, C. C. Lytick, managing director {of the Indiana Coal Trade (tion, said the shut down mines normally would produce 48 per cent of the annual estimated Hoosier soft coal production of 21 million

M:. Lytick listed 11 major shaft mines as completely idle, The solid

two large strip mines were down. Biggest Mine Closed Many small mines were also clos (ing, Mr. Lytick believed. He was un« | able to estimate how many of the ates 175 pits were in opematian i

said the

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FOR PAY FIGHT

Told Higher

at Terre u aan re and other souths western Indiana cities. Shutdowns were not so widespread in strip mines, where fewer - miners were employed, Mr. Lytick said. Included was the state's largest imine, the King at Princeton, It | employed 500 men. Three mines of [the Knox Consolidated Coal Corp, Bicknell, were shut. The Glendora and the Little Betty, the Regent, all {near Sullivan; the Victory, Tally. dale, Blackhawk, Saxton, all in | Vigo county; the Dipney Hills, War- | rick county, and the New Hope in {Greene county, were all listed as closed. 272 Pits Down Over the U, 8, the solid fuels ad. _ ministration estimated 272 pits were shut down, SFA estimated produce tion losses yesterday and today at 633,487 tons. Normal daily produe{tion is about 2,200,000 tons. At the rate in which members of the A. PF. of L's U. M. W. were walking out ahead of the deadline, it was apparent that vital bitumie {nous production ‘will be at a dead {stop by Thursday morning unless | Mr, Lewis rules otherwise. If he does not—if he chooses in« | stead to stand pat on his announce ment of last week that the U. M. W, consider its contract with the gov. ernment terminated by midnight Wednesday—Mr. Lewis presumably will be in contempt of a court ot{der that he call off the shutdown, He also will be subjected to possible prosecution under the Smith-Cone nally aet. With less than 36 hours to go be~ | fore the scheduled shutdown, the | shaggy- browed mine union chief{tain, veteran of mahy a winning

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- ELECT 3 NATIONS TO

UN SECURITY COUNCIL

FLUSHING, N. Y., Nov. 19 (U. P.)~Belgium, Colombia and Syria were elected to two-year terms as non-permanent members of the se~ curity council today by the United Nations general assembly. All. three nations easily polled the necessary two-thirds vote for | their election to replace Egypt, Mexico and the Netherlands on the council. At the same time, the 51 United Nations became 54 today, as repre[sentatives of Afghanistan, Sweden and Iceland took their seats in the tan and blue chairs of the (general RESOMBLY. id

TANKS, 600 POLICE GUARD ROME PALACE

ROME, Nov. 19 (U. P.) —8ix hun~ dred special police and troops sup-~ ported by tanks and

ace today when word spread that jobless Italians were about to march on it.