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Coal Strike Goes On--Thermometsr Goes Down

THE BIG COAL STRIKE is on—and the down- | ward descent of the mercury is on too. In Indiana |

and elsewhere the coal strike was perfectly timed as the coldest weather of the season set in. The season's low in Indianapolis was reached at 6:30 a. m. today when the thermometer read 27 degrees. | Driving in to work, Times Photographer John

. | Governor Gates today apoointed gensed milk, a prepared chocolate hh | ECLIPSE EASILY Lafayette Has lis Big Day— |i wiih Sou Sur ford Marine, Seni, ro et ei Th m3 hobs tn srs are an

OBSERVED-HERE —49th

By J. E. O'BRIEN {ship of the Daviess-Martin circuit vors had spelled out, apparently] At the airfield to see Mr. Tru- - : Ar Tate Saf Weiter | court, ~ with sheets, the message, “need man off were his hosts for the past a SRGeq Sunigency ud ui fndianapolis Power & Light Co. Overcast Skies Obscure LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 23.—The largest football; John H. Morris, New Castle, Was yrgently warm clothes and medi- week, the officers of the submarine Lo. oo ortages are threatened ' reported a 60-day stockpile on Sh nS A throng in this city’s history—an estimated 43,000—today pPpoisied, special judge to Preside cine,” the Swiss plane reported. | base at Key West. |¥ EftetteIu the steel industry, six hand: = Executives of the utility ow in Some Areas. elbowed its way into hotels, restaurants and eventually Ross- jin-Union iE: | Rescuers Break Through Snow | Soon after his return to Wi blast furnaces were shut down and “°'¢ uneelain Yogay B® viii “By UNITED PRESS Ade stadium for the 49th Purdue-Indiana game iy = | Aerial observers radioed from the ington. Mr. Truman is expected 10 1g gihers were to close today or to- '®M they would have {0 ¢ » The moon inked out a sectiun of | i i : Bh ganme. DIPHTHERIA CLOSES scene that a rescue mission had 80 into conference With GOVE" ,400y Some schools in Colorado '°® and awaited further details es ov to tie 1 a serial Long before the 1:30 p. m. kickoff the unprecedented brokeri through the last treacherous Wont “officials handling the €08l yioeed for the duration of the strike, 0° the federal order from the he sun today In tae fourth partial ..,wd had choked the city’s traffic arteries, harrying the SCHOOL NEAR KOKOMO yards of the snow-clogged passes to “2% |Industrialists said the national Public service commission. : : : . Silent About Strike With a 30-day supply on hand,

eclipse of the year. The eclipse—ihe last this year and

the only one visible in the United waitresses.

Siates—was spoiled for scientists streamed into town in bump- ; -to- - Dr. Will Martin, county health ad ' ahd amateur observers in many r-to-bumper automobile proces ep ' ) "9 less than three weeks’ coal. . \ in Stamm WILL BE PUBLIC commissioner. ordered the Howard CuT IN LARD PRICES fishing: and storing up energy for members of the Independent Pro- ik 80 feimperatures dropped to

parts of the U. Sionis and

cvercast or partly cloudy skies. escaped by ane day the govern- Ie said one death and 13 other cases | 40: y Many Indianapolis residents Ca re rl I dn aly Some were reported in the township and] WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (U. P.). tanned and with no trace of the with the soft coal miners, he. Maite 7a. Lainyely and viewed. the. eclipse through cark even arrived on beckoning thumbs : that seven children in one family —The agriculture department as- head cold which annoyed him be-| The Issue—The government re- * or Sa eather Tolgitt glasses or old photographic nega- Those who came without tickets War Gifts Probe Set 10 cere inl of the ailment. rsured housewives today that a fore he left Washington. fused to negotiate a new agreeient CONVINCE SOC LL up its ass $ piotogra g were aut of luck. Although Ross- 0 en Dec 12 Martin added that if the situation further cut in retail lard prices is During the week, ‘the President with Lewis on grounds his demands forse ine RS ary wilh Phan : . . ’ " ¢ " inst wer: ; 118 - v § In New England. whete he moon Ade stadium was expanded by some p was not under control by Dec. 2, aue soon. left the government's fight against were so fundamental they should 30,000,000 cubic feet per day.

took a Junchiime bile of more than 15000 seats for today's game, the WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (U. P.. 50 per cent off the top of the sun, pasteboards were exhausted late In Rad m— - Term i i : get observatories trained their telescopes. the summer. ‘A few were in the —Chairman James M. Mead (D CLERK OF HOUSE DIES oils generally is likely to be "ma- and Atiy. Gen. Tom C. Clark, Who the present 54-hour pay of $75.25 rncreased gas consumption as A However, Maine=-the best-spot in—-hands of scalpers, who retused to ! the nation to see the show-—re- part with them for. less than $15. war investigating subcommittee will ported overcast weather. I. U. Has Lease” on ‘Bucket’ start open hearings Dec. 12 on As Aust. Vi here a 84 er Sent It maitered not .to, most of the charges Senator Theodore G. Bi 2. this month after hitting an all-time minute progress reports in frequent for a union welfare fund from the ginia coal from its own mine, hence "WIS Ou ave 4 vell- é é é as S8.), ev 8 S=- : : ' Pi : h . ape 3 ae ht ol ye Jee Well bundled Ians that Liana - A. SSSITPI- War Rupe 5 5 lm = | Mr, Trimble, a native of Ken- high of 50 cents in mid-October. telephone calls. present 5 cents to 10 is not dependent on Indiana coal, isible, the skies wete MOSIy: over- a. favorite on Wg Tecord, Weight. Sissipp OH FRQLOTS: Itucky, had been suffering for sev-' Further price cuts are in prospect Mr. Truman planned to continae | Miners’ Present Earnings $75.25 omeials said they would confer

cast. and experience . Scientists Casually Interested point choice by Scientists took only casual inter- led derdoRs est in the eclipse. oa Brusepdos: servatory explained, have little research value, th rinei i - alue, the principal impor- o due. tance being in ionospheric work.

enterpiece The Hayden planetarium in New Centerpiece for

travaganza was

could “check up a little” during the

eclipse on the motions of the moon. (Continued on Page 2—Column 6) investigating committee for a bill Times Churen ‘Editor

Street crowds generally — even where visibility was excellent—ig-

p 4 . today's Women's Pages. energy output. of particulars on charges against’ RICHMOND, Nov. 23. — Dr . , ; is fir hin . i him, 8 | Thomas Elsa Jones, former presi- e Again The Times is First The Harding st. boiler Notmaly as aves BRIDGEPORT BRASS Charges Outlined {dent of Fisk university and inter- among Indianapolis news- uses pulverized coal sprayed ™ , where the blotting out of the sun— {Assi nationally-known Quaker, was in- papers . . . In publishing nozzle. Near the end of 1ast spring § ssistant Committee Counsel fashion pictures in natural coal strike, the company experi= } color, i :

caused by the moon's getting into! i augurated the seventh president of the light pati Between the-sha/ and | APPRAISAL READY Francis D. Flanagan has outlined gi iham college today.

the 'earth—reached more than 50 per cent of the sun's surface, scientists said “not more than one

person out of 1000 would notice WAA to Consider Report on a Mississippi war contractor In jane scarlet, green, pink and pur-

any diminuition in the light.” ! H. E. Burton, chief of the naval observatory's equatorial division,

help in predicting deviations of the moon in the future,

—— 2 meets next Tuesday it will have siiceessful 1942 senatorial campaign!

LOCAL TEMPERATURES {before it a new

Sam. 2 20am... 30 a highly secret meeting of Mr. T AT 27 11am 37 surplus property in Indianapolis. Mead’s. subcormmittee. at the end of the inaugural pro- Columbia and 21 states—Indiana, | Exempted—Hospitals, newspapers, 8am ...20 12 (Noom) . 4 It has been completed by the THREE: That war contractors BIR, In I Pr. Jones afirmed Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, 1lli- | food preservation and refrigeration Sam... 32 1pm dl odial firm of Ford Bacon & blll an artificial lake—with an BAFINRIN'S. LAIN 45 4 eCeser an nois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massa- services. island in the middle—on Senator this day of crisis and outlined her ' chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-} i

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! shivered as he looked, took this picture. Symbolic

| threshold. “Wonder where they'll find a house to NAMES TWO ELECTION plane were reported able to walk.

cops and hurrying overworked

5. and Canada, by Indianapolis and Bloomington that

oddsmakers. They ‘have had fheir. hold hearings in Jackson Miss., be- | days before in this all-Hoosier en. ginning Dec. 2 on anti-Negro|

Partial eclipses, the Harvard ob- counter and that, the early autumn charges against Senator Bilbo. New Earlham Preside nt Urges: Ed ucation | $62.37 weekly for an average work aye Power & Light Co. mean-

c¢usk might well’ fall on victorious’ Mr. Mead said the charges before |

Mo : the Old -Oaken tered into by Senator Bilbo and York City said that astronomers Bucket, ‘bound in both iron and certain war contractors.”

Tuesday. TWO: That he received from

. ‘imes. Washi B i said studies of the eclipse would WABLING YO ran tractors in 1941 and. 1942. ,Sena-|

the war assets administration board turned the money over for the un-| v

| Bridgeport Brass Co. government- |

tie Davis, Chicago and New York. That Bilbo's property to the [Bridgeport company by WAA will “TT phe made at once appears unlikely, Amusements. 5 Dan Kidney.. 8 y,¢ jt is understood the firm fis

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Governor Alerts State For Light And Gas Cut |

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U.S. to Insist REPORT ALL 12 WASHINGTON CALLNG— [| § ECONOMY

On Sole Rule of Government, Union Show No Ex-Jap Islands PLANE VICTINS of Coal Walkout ORDER 15 SET

a rn OF CRASH SAFE Both Sides Move Cautiously FOR MONDAY

clear today that it will insist on) wASTNGTON, Nov. 23.—Course of tne coal strike

exclusive trusteeship of the Jap- . / : | . anese mandated islands of the Alpine Experts Set Stage can’t be foreseen at this point. 25 Per Cent Slash in Light« Pacific, because the United Nations : \ ’ ” in &i i { * + Rae a le Sas yon To Have Americans There's no break in sight, either on the past of the gov ing Necessary as Coal capacities” to do the job itself. : d ernment or John L. Lewis. Whether the strike spreads to Piles Dwindl The clarification of American emoved. other industries depends on how the government plays lies Dwinaie.

|Joliey was agg vs. delegale pOSENLAUIL Switzerland, Nov. 23 its hand. * BULLETIN He told a United Nations trustee- (Us P..—Veteran Swiss mountain - Some predictions of general strike are heard; govern- WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (U, i i ; Hons i . : : | U.).—Secretary of Interior J. A. {ship sub-committee that nations climbers battled through. Alpine ment's aware of danger, will try to avert it. ovr ar led ox al {able to discharge the "heavy re- spow:and ice today to 12 Americans “ un = x ow» | coal Comsumers to begin} ih | sponsibilities” of administration © oc four days on a barren BEST BET: U, 8. will act cautiously in prosecution of Lewis, will | Joho «ine most stringent cons

| must” be trustees over dependent |areas. At least’ until the United

stretch out proceedings, dvoid clapping him into jail on short notice, | Co tion.” He warned that it hoping to outwait hot tempers on«part of union leaders. was imperative to begin strictest

glucier and set the stage for the

| Nations organization as a whole rescue of all aboard a crashed army Two things stand out: tet fat ! » 1 “widesread sufferin lis capable of administering them. transport plane. ONE: If strike goes beyond eight. weeks it can be worst economic | poe a Sho of a ain Mr. Dulles objected to a pro-' The number aboard the C-53 was gicaster in U. 8. history. Indus- |= - ror "l services A po 1” Less than posal by India that the United moot in official quarters. stry will be prostrate, cities cold | AT STAKE: Governments | ( days’ production is available

| 3 3 z & 2 | States itself take over administra- Brig. Gen. Ralph Snavely said | ® | i 2, i ; and powerless except in the south | ability to cope with labor di | oo. gisiribution under emergene tion of trusteeship areas “wherever there were 12, including a crew of 4" west, essential services putes; unions’ desire to keep ‘and | er his eye iA | possible” instead of meting out au- five. All previous reports had sald ped in-rease present powers; higher | » , | thority over such areas to indi- there were 11. with a crew of four. D 3 § a i addition to that in the hands of vidual members : Gen. Suavely said he based his TWO: This is ‘thé key, labor Wages and danger of InAAUONALY | goctaries, railroads and other con- : : Tp fight. That's why the A. F. of | spiral ¥ sumiein:

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used for their activities.” Gen. Tate talked by radio with

; ; 3 : % orig. i Bpure on kwwiedge vg ; a L and C. I. O. closed ranks | There's increasing talk of a FEW CANTEENS HURT St b 59, ® against anti-Lewis injunctioif. | special session of congress. it ! BY JUKE BOX BOOST : . And why even more bitter | could pass the emergency legisla - furt’'s list, because they should . a federal governmen today to know if one man scheduled to #0 enemies of Mr. Lewis—the inde- | tion President Truman proposed e g t A y t t ill not be affected did Dot.” prepare for reductions in - < . f jleen-canicens wi! no pli eae American headquarters in Vienna of Illinois—stand with him. operating juke-boxes, K. Mark announced receipt of a message A tured gas service for the con|Cowan, city recreation director, from Brig Gen. Ralph Tate, who g s ati ion’ | declared today. flew over the wreck site today, oa tr e servation. of the nation’s | them. I believe—own their own Vversation with the crashed plane aa. weather blanketed the state. boxes” the official added, “with that all those aboard had survived. | FLORIDA REST At ance Governor Gates this morning Utility thermometer at E. 38th and Meridian sts, WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 «U. P.. cc:mmyjssion to enforce the civilian Teen-Canteens not owning boxes his son. Capt. Ralph Tate Jr. phot Scie ~The coal strike at a glance: production administration's conHons 8 the picture below the thermometer, showing few, Mr. Cowan said. eral's wife also is aboard. appear in court Monday to answer Received at the state house last a bridegroom carrving his wife across an imaginary Nine .of the occupants of" the Toughest Problem. |charges. niidnight, the order Includes a 25 | brownout in Indiana, 20 and industrial lighting starting at The Swiss plane dr reels, KEY WEST, Fla, ‘Nov. 23 (vu, Ordered a and indus ghting CONTEST JUDGES ,, oid Upped. pa {other states and the District of Co- 5 p.m. Monday. It was hot clear

that “I am not arguing with Frank- Indiana was alerted by the Youth affiliated with the ci's pendent Progressive miners union | | . |greatly by the increased price of Moa nh electric power and manufac. “Most of the canteens—11 of that he had learned in radio con- dwindling coal pile as sub-winter Spicklemire glanced up at the Citizens Gas & Coke watever income there is being Nine Able to Walk crdered the state public service J 's trot i - . v perhaps of the U. S.s troubled economic condi may be forced into the purchase of of the grounded plane. The gen- Goes Back to Capital and Court Action—John L. Lewis must geryvation order. | Conservation — The government per cent reduction of all commeicial tea, sugar, bacon, bread, con- : , = of .\en, sug P.) President: Truman today end- |p. ...i. affective Monday at 5 p. m. wnether this applied to public holi-

burn the coal that isn't there?” mused Spicklemire.

| election contests. socks, shoes, woolen caps and gloves.’ | Judge Lester Nixon. of the Pike - - ; Lo one of the cent at midnight Sunday. The gov- | tingent pat, dhe. utility, stoukaiie. It messaged... Survivors. seen... jo by. plane Aoyotackie ernment sald, however, that an em-" As it dwindles, service 1s decreased

dt | d 1 e Ic © Ww o [ e m ei uit court was selected to pr side | » n tana} ul u a I pick up various of these parcels. | toughest problems of his hite It pad tial freight is v rees to stretch-out 8 ie.

jin a hearing involving the judge-| During the morning the survi- House career—the coal strike. be needed for several days. The a pile ie i ‘Day, Stoe

— KOKOMO, lnd., Nov. 23 (U. P.) the U. 8S. army officers, families of economy would suffer even more : x : For a week, Mr, Truman basked heavily next week. ‘the Ciiizens Gas & Coke Utility

: . | —_One Howard county school was army men, and crewmen Of the . : The 43,000 |closed today for at least a week be- in the warm atmosphere of this, Miners Involved—Some 400,000 | ill not be affected immediately | cause of an outbreak of diphtheria. (Continued on Page 2—Column 53) southernmost point in the United soft coal miners; thousands of bv the order which applies to man-~ i i States, swimming, sun bathing, hard coal miners and some 2500 ufactured gas utilities which have

the winter ahead. | gressive Mine Workers of America,

township school closed all next week EXPECTED SHORTLY He goes home rested, heavily who have walked out in sympathy 18 at Ft. Wayne, 19 at South Bend

But it added that for the next few John L. Lewis in the hands of be served on thé mine owners.

the school would stay closed. | : vears at least the price of fats and Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug Principal Union Demands—To get Consumed More Rapidly

N Y.. announced today his senate, WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (U. P.). terially higher” than before the war. were following strategy agreed upon weekly for a new 40-hour week— ....1t of cold weather, they pointed South ‘Trimble, clerk of the house — The department said -lard prices before. Mr. Truman left the White equivalent to raising basic hourly... * would consume coal stocks on of “representatives since ~1931, died on the Chicago wholesale market House wage rates from $1.181-5 to $177; hand more rapidly. : fi early today of pneumonia.” He was fell to around 40 cents a pound early | Mr. Truman received up-to-the- to increase the tonnage Assessment op. oaq utility uses West Vir=

and a 1-to-13| The hearings will be held here. eral days from a severe cold which in December and January when hog his policy of silence on the strike, for a scheduled work week of 54 with CPA officials in Washington the professional Ancther senate group—the cam- geveloped into pneumonia. His ill- slaughter and laid production ap- at least until the litigation 15 hours, including 35 straight-time = ¢ 4.re supplies, sinfe the manuknow that so- paign investigating committee—will . oc pacame critical last night. proach their seasonal highs, it said. through the primary stages. hours and 19 overtime hours; goV= | ¢ .iuve of gas requires coal minus eri - - - y fm - r- i ernment figures, disputed by the the high sulphur content of the funion, show average earnings of cer product. >

his gro “ | {week of only 42.4 hours. while. disclosed that it had effected en Hise 9p. Salers Roan. trans- P . i Lif * WwW ld c 1+ hi . Cc a transition from coal to oil for the ! - f ; en en- mm | — r awh ‘ repa ri ng or | e in or . oO uni Y Fast ion . Qo i powering a Bs Sut puiverised e ue nue id ! fashion model in all its This 40,000 kilowatt plant supplies

s s raf 1 'ERS MILNER r Senator Bilbo has asked the war By EMMA RIVERS MIL bright, flattering color on 29 per cent of the utility's electrical

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| What Brownout Order Means

ov. 23 (U. P). day level, elevator service and WASHINGTON R street lighting cut to 50 per cent of normal, 1f coal supply dwindles : to 10-day ‘level, electric street car i) and interurban railways will be cut. ; | When Effective—Monday at 5 p. to 50 per cent normal operations, 4 !m. (Indianapolis time). elevator and escalator service to 3

Where Effective—The District of “30° per cent. ]

the charges as follows: | , ONE: That Senator Bilbo received a $25,000 contribution from

He brought up the rear of g/long line of dignitaries from every part of thesnation, Colored hoods-—bril-September, 1342, {ple—hung about their necks and | shoulders indicated years of study for degrees and the universities and colleges: in which the work was € done.

$6000 to $8000 from other war con- ; | Here's a’ summary of the coal

gaving brownout order: oy i | Administrative Agency — The "civilian production administration.

Nov. 23.—When tor Bilbo is alleged to’ hav

The procession formed in Car- : ter hall and wound its way past tf senate Sergeant-at- S pen geant-at-Arms Walll pe iham hall, into the fieldhouse.

appraisal of the hi Doxey, who was questioned today at| The new president's address came

{plans for future study and action 'souri, New Hampshire, New Jersey

New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Selling Bedford Stone House Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, In Irvington to Settle Estate | West Virginia and Wisconsin, | . | Affected—All electric and g85 pgign on a hill overlooking. Pleas-

Poplarville, Miss, »sstate; uilt his “Dream House No. 2” on! the island, later furnished it for lim, and that a war contractor gave him a new Cadillac.

“The college band directed by Donald Morris played Elgar's “Pomp and Circumstance.” Dr. Harold Clayton Urey, distinguished service

Eddie Ash ... 6 Labor ey i | y f Aviation 7 Ruth Millett . 7 definitely. slaied to get. the Plant. FOUR: That Senator Biluo so. Professor of chemistry of the Uni. companies ‘using coal, |" ant Run, only from El sew XE Bridgeport Brass Co. bid $3,125.598 versity of Chicage, spoke. Dr. Rufus | * ity - ' & 4 Books ...1. MM MOVIEs .. i. "8 1or the plat last August ool icited funds to construct a parson- M. All hal ’ It bans—Electricity for non-es-| lenberger Park 1s h “attractive : Boots ........ 12 Obituaries ... 10 4(her Ny b Garrett Metals Co..| 88 for the Juniper. Grove Baptist | d =m Sharman of the college | sential refrigeration, air condition- furnished house for ims carnival ..... .8 F. C. Othman 7 Chicago BS Garrett firm bid church in Poplarville and later OPV of ; yustess, insvalled DE. ing, outdoor or indoor advertising, mediate occupancy « «a 00 : Churches ... 4 Barton. Pogne 7 $4,250,000, but on a different vasis| Jullt te parsonage; bit Su) holds / Robert Lincoln Kelly of the class flood display, decoration, ornamen- 5320 Hill St. now vacant New Classifi 10-12 Rad 13 i | title to, the dwelling and has not ' tation, show-window or show case ford stone fo lassified . adio 3 according to WAA officials. The ap- jo the minister move in of 1888 and fourth president of oh a Fook Hove. Comiet ....,. 13 Mrs, Roosevelt . 7 praisal ‘by an ‘oftaide firm was)" ad rind Earlham also spoke. Dail W. Cox Bight ng: Hievator and escalate] -. Bomar rosmt i ; Crossword ... 10 Serial 10 ordered and final award is expected SUNSPOT DISTURBS RADIO [directed the college choir and the |. Jt curtails— hormall place: dinate Editorials .... 8 Silly Notions. 7 (0 follow shortly. | By Science Service Rev. R. Furnas Trueblood and the Or service to 73 per. cent of normat{ Bits “in i Forum ....... 8 Sports .. 6 Senator Homer Capehart (R. Ind.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—A large Rev. Herbert L. Huffman gave the “in bulldings with more than one| Jurpace: Gardening ... 7 Washington .. 8 asked WAA to give the plant to the sunspot, faintly visible through prayers. : . ir > he} agent " ‘Indiana Saga 8 Weather Map. 1) Bridgepgrt company, if possible, smoked glass, wilh, probably disturb. Dr, Jones reminded his gudience TH kal SS . rl scar) part) ng ol ’ Og! Ti In Indpls. 3 Women's NAws 0 since it™\s alréady established i, In- shortwave radio broadcasts over the ¥ ‘President Thomas Elsa Jones . . . “Earlham educates tor the Piet lighting to safety minim A1imes 7 os Eat u coal supply dwindles to a 15-

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