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Coal Strike Called Off By Lewis; Miners Ordered Back Monday

122 Killed in Fire ERE: Makes Dramatic Move At Atlanta Hotel;

To Allow Court Action Toll Mounts Hourly Free From ‘Frenzy’ Trapped, Screaming Guests Plunge Through

New Walkout on March 31 Hinted; Windows to Death; Scores Are Injured Truman Speech Not Cancelled By BURNS BENNETT

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (U. P.).—John L. Lewis today United Press Staff Correspondent

oes . n {called off the national coal strike. ATLANTA, Ga. Dec. 7.—Fire raged throughout the| j*R packed Winecoff hotel on Peachtree st. today. | Me Lewis sudaenly Ulered the A. F. of L. United Mine In a matter of minutes at least 122 persons perished or Se 9 TE : ou ay March 31 vader toi in the smoke and flames of the holocaust or by plunging to | € directed that they work unt x nder lLerms the street. of the union contract with the government—the contract

Mr, Lewis ‘i ‘mi : The death toll was soaring into one of the most terrible] that Mi Lewis had tried to terminate : } : five disasters Ih tie nation’s history. “ The action affects all of the soft coal mines which have b truck for 17 days The latest check of hospitals and mortuaries within a Ren SLIUCK Tor Lf cays

Mr. L radius of 20 miles of Atlanta showed 122 bodies admitted. | Ir. Lewis told a news conference that he took the

More were arriving as quickly as ambulances could deposit | jaction on his own authority to give the United States su: them.. Many of the more than 100 initially reported 0) |preme court time to deliberate, on appeals from contempt

iured the dead \convictions “free from public pressure superinduced by the . : / ead. . 4 uD JUTen Were ROW AMOK he fen d hysteria and frenzy of an economic crisis.” Many Dive Through Windows Man) g |

Case Before Supreme (Court It was the worst fire in Atlanta's history. The toll Mr. Lewis and the union have been convicted of conalready had far exceeded the last major fire disaster in| ‘tempt in the U. S. district court here and fined $10,000 and the country—the LaSalle hotel fire in Chicago six months’ :

1$3.500,000 respectiv ely. ; ago which took 61 lives. The case is now before the supreme court. Even as A few survived miraculously by swinging from window Mr. Lewis made his dramatic announcement the court to window on bedsheets along the upper floors. That way | was in secret session, deciding whether to grant a govthey were able to get to the few rooms the fire didn’t reach | lernment petition to speed a final decision. and wait for firemen, or reach adjoining buildings. There | Mr. Lewis’ directive addressed to each union member were 280 registered in the hotel. | . Bv 6 a. m. (Indianapolis time) the flames had been ex-| tinguished. But the Winecoff, with its stately facade across | Peachtree st. from Atlanta's theater district, was a hulk. There were scores of black gouges where its windows had been.

| “All mines in all districts will resume production of coal immediately until 12 o'clock midnight, March 31, 1847, {Each member is directed to return to work immediately to their usual employment, under the wages, working hours land conditions of employment in existence on and before

Bodies Burned, Broken tts : : |_|" _——— ® Nov. 20, 1948." Lod sa . pi i : a Tetoporon MAP WHOS PIOURE Tid 1 nosai The bodies pouring into Grady hospital which also AFTER THE DISASTER Here | is a + Girard doyle view of TRIED TO LIVE A woman victim lies with her head out the ‘immediate comment. but’ it "I will ever be, the protector serves as the city morgue—were mostly burned or broken | i. Winecoff hotel after it was swept by the worst fire in the window where she sought desperately to escape the fire which | 1 ; rs of American liberties and the rightbeyond recognition. Some were merely Does bi looked | history of Atlanta, Ga: cost her life. [Other photographs, stories, Page 3 (was learned that President privileges of individual citizens,

Truman will proceed with his plans

like they had been through a, To Speak to the nation over all net- ~The issu before the court aré

crematory. Dance of Death— : works at 9:30 p. m. (EST) tomorrow fateful for our republic, Tt may he Down on Peachtree st. in] ‘Mother Knelt Dead Timber dmage {night. The nature of his speech, presumed that the verdict of the of course, will be altered to fit the court. when rendered, will affect

front of the Winecoff the pro-' | Dangle From Bedsheets On Public Lands | Sirouielarces now prevailing. the life of every citizen. cession of bodies was con- With Children’ Suit to Be Filed | Mr. Lewis read a: copy of his These weighty considerations tinuing from the lobby as fire- | L 15 Stories Above Street Offered for Fuel

| letter to union members to a jam- Me He Siting respect Hue Ye aigmen and Red Cross workers 4 Bobby-Sox Girls pera brought down victims from| . = Die in One Room

packed news conference in the _. . tively require that, during its pe. 49 in Irvington Named Yusement of his union headquar- ,i,;"of deliberation, the court be the upper floors. The tiny lobby was a tangle of fire hose By WILLIAM. TUCKER

. . . RESIDENTS of six Hoosier counHusband, Wife Alive After 3 Horrible Hours; i vere oferea some reiiet trom| In McNellis Complaint free from public pressure superin-

" "The administration's ‘vellowi | the coal shortage today. . duced by the hysteria and frenzy of Swing From Room fo Room to Escape Flames age OY. vernment| A cross complaint ‘asking $100,000 40% injunction has reached the," economic crisis. In addition,

supreme court,” Mr. Lewis read public necessity requires the quan-

and heaped clothing. It was under United Hg gg Ri pg By J. REED HORNE as Told to United Press has ruled that any citizen may take damages will be filed against 48 (joy. i wa rh half a fool of water but still hot.) ATLANTA, Ga, Dee is yeas ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 7.—My wife and I did a dance of death at the UP to $50 worth of dead or downed Irvington residents, attorneys for| “The Supreme eourt is, and we (Cominued o on Page 2—Column 3) And that was supposed to be athe way the Winecoff—a few hours end of bedsheets, 15 floors up, for three horrible hours this morning. timber from public lands for heat- [Patrik McNelis, 632 N. La Salle] -

fireproof hotel,” said a fireman who | before one of the proutes build-

iy e bY 1 can't believe that we are on the ground and safe {Ing purposes. st., said today. BP mn wie, te tn | EL eH ft sf 2 use Packard Co. Plants Here smoke and taken to-the gency | thought it was a dream: Then my. wife - woke - up and we looked bureau of land management. N= original temporary injunction which .

ss the street, morning Bet ie Sn Tak of ese] Its 15 stories: reared up gaunt down from the window. Flames were shooting up from every window terior department, must be notified prevented Mr. McNelis from erecting ““ § stor ‘ear My G to i I ip R below us on the front of the hotel. — before wood is removed, however. |, piilding at Emerson ave. and Close Down Next Week

people dying a Where nd Shere, with a hundred black eve-patches| we were scared to death. But my Federal public lands are located Michigan st are a lot 2x em wll dere ye for windows. The neon sign on the wife had enough sense to suggest we ft Harrison Seen: In the Iollowing COURS: Brown, Residents secured the injunction : ya . . As he = = an smbliance body | COINer of the hotel showed only lie some sheets together and try to "Lawrence, Orange, Washington, ypen jt was believed he would erect Coal Crisis Forces 2d Major Shutdown; came by the oe Sartying a ed the W-I-N and the inal F of get to a lower floor. We made two Cr won a ang Penry, + vs Perry. {a tavern at the site. . d . | ay a ow the are Ton! ‘Winecoff.” Jagged holes tore the ropes and climbed down separately. Hope to Find Materials, Reopen Soon triple awnings over the terrace of iBut when we got to the 14th floor it S ousin k " : what had been a man. His once (ible awnings over the WSe BT. oot we had to climb back up Navy Ta es Halsey Weather Here Sets By RICHARD LEWIS ; llanta’s favorite eating and drinking | to--our room. My wife climbed back | Thera was speculation here today Off A + D $ ‘Record for Dec. 7 : The Packard Manufacturing Co. was the second major industrial Fevots all by herself. She's the pluckiest! : foi ctive u b4 Femi, victim of the coal famine in Indianapolis today. Two Crawfordsville, Ind., resi- | Spots. dowh lived concerning what disposition will be The all-time weather record was The company's Columbia ave, and Noble st. plants will shut down dents escaped serious injury in Bodies had plummeted through B1'i-Who ever lived. | made of numerous houses and bar-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (U P.)~! broken today in Indianapolis. The | Monday and "Tuesday : : ; . { ings. knocked a| It was getting hotter | racks ri & a Ye y ii { TA . the Atlanta. Ga. hotel fire. They |the awnings. One had hoc se Yas selims ao and hotter, racks at Ft. Harrison, to be aban- Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey Jr—| eo io temperature at 12:40 p. m.! Management will attempt to resume operations Wednesday if it can are Mrs. Otis Welliver and Mrs {crusader-cross poster, advertising and smoke was coming in so We doned next June 30 as a military the daring “bull” of world war II— find materials tied up hy the freight embargo. But resumption then is Harold K Stampf, cousins. Mrs. the anti-tuberculosis campaign, off | looked around for a part of the ho-| installation. | was relieved of active participation was 64. . ll, pny une frag Ip: Welliver Was Strack by falling |its standard beside an awning | tel where it wasn't so bad. We | It was pointed out that there are in the navy today for the first. time The old record of 63 for Dec. 7 { The Packard lant which employs Himbers that Were ablaze, burning Water ran a foot deep in the tiny crawled out on the ledge with the/a number of houses on the post, in 46 years. was set in 1892, the weather bureau 500. i owned pu U 8 Senator he the b nd si : i h {lobby. A bulletin board told you aid of our bedsheets and got in an-| now occupied by officers and enlist- The navy announced last, night said. 0 0 [eSS Yor E C hart (R. Ind) Its or o al u gues Ng NE | at you could see “Three Little other room on the same floor. |ed men, that would need no conver- | that the bluff wartime commander| BAImY weather thwarted the coal Homer B pe ar amatited ts aed as on Vi Pare Loses His Wife | sion for use as civilian residences. of the third Pacific fleet “had re- | SYke's effect over most of the na-| Ee awa gre mine on a ledge u °C “0ses LL : sen - rescued, Mrs. Stampf was not pe tinded on Page hig bh A man named Henry joined us. | A number of barracks could be ceived orders to proceed home.” tion us temperatures were 20 to 25 On Indiana Plan government deadlock. burned . There he 1s over there on that cot.!converted into living quariersi “He is relieved of active partici- {degrees above normal in ihe Soi Disclosure of this second major ‘ He and his wife helped us 16 move When the fort is abandoned by the pation in the navy,” the announce- west and several degre , |P _ normal in the New York area By ROBERT BLOEM shutdown followed by 24 hours the aw ump Bo a oom. Be |The arm fered Hen) Seid, "OUL he istnol Feuring Southern Illinois “sweltered” | Y w announcement that the P. R. Malwhite shi tl t. on to sheets and. ledges. Then he he army offered the fort to |S 3 Timex Staft Weiter i shirt was mottled with he | | g inasmuch as fleet admirals may temperatures ranging from 95 to 10.| TERRE HAUTE. Ind.’ Dee. 7— lory Co. Inc., will close Wednesday

{lost his wife. Another girl jumped | Governor Gates and Senator Hom- pot pe placed in retirement status.” : i ? A Indiana's own plan for bringing until after Christmas,

black of smoke and the red of G bi his blood so that it looked gro- [ |from the roof and hit her as she ©r E. Capehart as a possible site for| The g4-year-old Adm. Halsey is| . . : Packard has been making juke tesquely like a lumberman’s shirt. From 10th Floor’ passed by. Both of them crashed all| & mental hospital, after the two oo recuperating in a New York| LOCAL TEMPERATURES {about coal production in the state boxes and parts. It is ‘not running

The guests included scores of the way down, |officials hadoasked for partial use poenital from an operation Onis 46> 1am 56 |voday appeared doomed to failure out of fuel, but it is squeezed in week-end Christmas shoppers, . By HERB FOSTER (Mr. Horne referred to J. w.|0f Wakeman hospital at Camp At-| The announcement ended the) 7am .... 46 Ila m 60 | Labor Commissioner Cnarles| ,. .q0 sagging structure of Midleast 50 delegates to the Georgia United Press Staff Correspondent | Henry, Jeffersonville, Tenn. near |terbury for this purpose. |career of one of America’s most| Sa. m..... 48 12 (Neon). 62 |Kern. acting as emissary for Gov-| industry. youth assembly—girls and boys— ATLANTA, Ga. Dec. 7.—People | Knoxville). | Camp Atterbury will be retained colorful naval heroes. a.m. .... 51 1pm 63 | ernor Gates, who authorized the rantin it and business people. The Winecoff ‘leaped to their death on the pave- | © The three of us that were left | for ‘use by national guard and army plan at the suggestion of The | Disruption Comes was one of Atlanta's favorite hos-| + this morning. {kept swinging from room to room | reserve forces. J Kindly H Folk Times, reported no progress in to-| gy apie to get parts because of telries. Although comparatively on the 15th floor, slaying just ahead ust Kindly Home Folks {day's effort to bring about stale-| .,.(usion resulting from the freight small, it ranked among the lead-| They stood at their windows and! r the fire. After what seemed a | Mile- O- Dimes | wide coal peace. | embargo, it is also unable to ship.

ated in the absolute heart of At- flames pulled them down from be-|that the flames and smoke had | dent. District 11." United Mi lanta. hind. The window stills hid their| Passed by. It was cooler there and n asure nile "€ | who have run out of fuel.

; { o : Mr. Kern met in separate coning hotels in the city. It was situ- screaming until the smoke and|year, we reached a corner room | ( 3 lothe A ( *hild Donors | |And the company is being ham- . - - | ferences with Louis Austin, presi-! b wns of si Tops $1000 Mark strung by. shutdowns of spplisrs

i | Workers of America, and Harvey | The fire was touched off—it had |jast agonies. |the firemen seemed to be getting Warmhearted Indianapolis citi A Y hed d N hh | | ‘The economic disruption predicted not been determined how—between | The old Winecoff, one of Atlanta's the blaze below us under control. |zens have already contributed more re our 00 eig ors Sastyiigm, Jbor Sofmmisejohes and just a week ago by the chamber of 2 and 3 Indianapolis time) than $1000 to the Mile-O-Dimes, secretary, Indiana Coal Operators’ .,mmerce was coming . . . and coman a. m. (Indianapolis time) most gala hotels, became a torch Speechless With Grief { a : ai y ssociation : Y the 1 stories of the for ‘a rad | which is growing fast on the side- By DONNA MIKELS as on, ling fast. This was the situation to« among e lower stories ® {for its full house of guests in the| So we sat and waited for two I''m A d t hi 15-floor building. It shot upward dawn of this Pearl Harbor day awful hours. We had picked walk in front of L. 8. Ayres & Co. | The people who year after year make The Times Clothe-A-Child r. ustin stood pat on his 4.y here, and in the state: and downward within minutes | mornin E a u Bel thes 0 cove pike uP land d S. 8S. Kresge & Co. a heart-warming success aren't philanthropists who carelessly scribble statement of yesterday that he had | ONE: Mayor Tyndall's coal eonAll Rooms Occupied As DE atched the people at every a Wn ial pin > No | Last night, at the close of only off donation checks. no authority to negotiate at state yorvation committee met at city : ; . +) " en | They are the people in your neighborhood, the men you work with tres hall this morning and reported a Tra and enveloped in the d ling a f / {the second day there were seven ) i , 1a rning pped » Winfow Sirugsiing she pleading Jor God help the yeonie Who owned| rows of dimes on the pavement, at the factory, the small businessman down on the corner. They're (Continued on Page 2—Column 2) 10-day supply of domestic coal in

torch were most of the 280 guests. oul 1 ti 8 - . Hie T Touidny help bu Sunk Stun. Henry jush Sai Hire shea he} (or 616 feet of silver money. | members of the average income group to whom the contribution oftimes -

All the Winecoff's 194 rooms were | American sailors on the battleships less with grief. I thanked God tha me town, that buying was normal and

occupied. [ just five years ago. It couldn't have my , ‘as | Computed at the rate of $1.70 means sacrifice. . | householders calm. The committee Ta of them never had a [en Tug sudtien than tel Tah ah Bremen and Red | Per foot, this amounts to $1047.20. These people make Clothe-A- Donors List TIMES INDEX | may ask some non-essential busichance. A lot of them took the|disaster that struck the gay Wine-|Cross got to us. They were amazed ttt——————————————— Child a living thing because they various Balance ..... $604.50 ntsement >.1n Indois 3 ness places to close as soon a its quick way out—headlong through coff crowd that had gone fo sieep|to find us alive. They helped us| Defective Wiring are close enough to life to sym- “4ulin CPeono,ny 28.00 | para 8 snaps. -.. 7 powers are clarified. only a few hours before. down 15 flights of Steps and Ww re | pathize with the less fortunate. TO Barton Rees Pogue ... LS © 15.00, Eddie Ash ... 6 Inside Indpls. 7 TwQ: Preparing for mass un« (Continued on “Page 2—Column 4)| 1 saw half a dozen victims—they!safe and gy hh DE a ape 3 Starts Hospital Fire them a real Christmas means give} Selmer Compuny £117 vkiny 33% Aviation vias ul Run Mets - : employment, Noble R. Shaw, eme In : — y . Oh . ( ing . . . and giving warm garments No Gossio Club, Indianapolis eva 10.00 Books ....... 8 ‘a YUGOSLAV SENTENCE YANK 1] \dgjoeq lke women Mmp tom Nite, cay the bravest woman AMER, gg to protect tiny defenseless children |A Friend Siete ens "sin Books Correa #F.C Othman 2 (Continued on “Page 2—Column £%) BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec. 7|long when they tried to get out by on the third floor of the Cambridge | from winter's stinging cold means Mrs. Howard L Deakyne, {Carnival ..... 8/Radio ....... (U, P.).—Roy H. Stoeckel, 22-year- Bia They Roars on|| A to March [© hospital today, but no one was|& Teal Christmas. yaheridan, lodianab. of heh 59 Churches vi Serial ...... 8 State Legislator Dies old American who was arrested by the pavement or they impaled ran rmy to arc |hurt and no patients were evacu-| You can help bring warmth to! 'ossional Typographical Union. 300 | Classified ..10-12 Silly Notions. 7| SALEM, Ind, Dec. 7 (U. P.)—Leo Yugoslav authorities when he crossed | themselves on the grillwork of the] TEHRAN, Dec. 7° (U. P.).—Shah ated. {the hearts and bodies of these un- A Tax-Payer . ae 3 05+ Comics .. 13 Sports .. .... 6 M. Dennis, 50, one of #8 Republicans the Austro-Yugoslav border, has|second floor balcony. : Reza Pahlevi tonight “expected, to. The blaze was believed to have fortunate children who otherwise “"*"'®* Tommy and Johnnie... 3 09 Crossword 13 Stranahan .. 6 ejected to the Indispa Tidus of repbeen sentenced to four years im-| Luckier people poured from the order central government troops to been started -by defective wiring. will know nothing of the joys of | Today's Total ..... $100.00 Editorials ... 8 Teen Talk ... 9 resentatives last month died Inst prisonment by a Yugoslav military little lobby in a steady line. They march into Azerbaijan within al In the section of the hospital Christmas. There are two WAYS in qa To Dare boar Forum, Lo. 8 Washington . 8 night in his home ae fein, Mr. court at Cenje, Croatia, the U. 8. came draped in bedsheets, in bath-| few hours. “Reports from the north where the fire occyrred there are . i. DIRECT DONORS ya |Don Hoover .' 8 Weather Map’ 10 Dennis, who was 50. astved two embassy here announced. ; ‘robes and some in their underwear. “told of new skirghishes, "quarters only for internes, (Cuniinued on “Page 3~Column 5) Mn ol xerigm rar Indiana Saga Women's News yi. in the state: ho. @ . » %®

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