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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1047 Indianapolis, Ina. Tasued daly except Sunday : .

Thanks . . . For | The American Spirit * (An Editorial) THANKSG :IVING DAY has been celebrated so long out of gratitude for abundance that we Americans may be forgiven if we forget that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated out of gratitude for survival, The original Thanksgiving Day was decreed in humble thanks for the first harvest in the new land. The harvest was a symbol of hope and security after a year of hunger and danger, of sickness and despair, in an inhospitable wilderness where only the hardiest survived. The colonists of 1621 could not conceive of the great nation that they were founding, or of the ease and comfort of its present life. Yet they would understand the hunger and danger and sickness and despair that survive today in the midst of dur advanced civilization. But that is not to say that we who are heirs of the Thanksgiving tradition are callous. The spirit of this holiday, the sense of gratitude for the privilege of sharing are never long absent from our national conscience, Occasionally they may seem to be, when we quarrel over other systems and politicians, or when we hear talk about “let them take care of themselves.” But the true spirit is more typically shown‘in such things as the Friendship Train, and in the many instances of unpublicized.

: individual generosity with which Americans have responded al ' CITY OF PLENTY—In diaiapslis'o on Thanksgiving Day, 1947, table posids to the need of the war-destitute and disillusioned. ~ HUNGRY CITY—In the outskirts of the city of Vienna, a little girl digs for roots

groaned under holiday feasts such as this. It was a day for roasted turkeys, pump- We should give sincere, devout thanks for the Blessings and nettles as a substitute for vegetables. Here ss Dey. is another day kin and mince mince pies and loosened belts. that this day recalls. And the world’s hungry may also give of gnawing hunger and empty stomachs. Tosa

| thanks that the true American spirit is not a smug and 14 | Are Held i in Probe Warn Fuel Oil tselfish enjoyment of those blessings. For all the lies and | Die | 1 Traffie Gunfire Kills Boy, 14,

insults hurled at America today, they must know that they

Of Local Liquor I AY Icy Pavements Wounds Companion ‘Embezzling’ Ring |. Home Owners "Why I Am Thankful — Winter torerd Begin: A. They Play on Roof

To Conserve Heat

State Excise Agents Charge Systematic By DONNA MIKELS Seven petals were deiy today] Shots Fired by Jy Who Tells Police . » a ’ y § 3 ’ Looting of Wholesale Firm : i — Sis fuel 4 Soriage eh My Cup Ru nneth Over pavements began to take their an- | He Was Taking No Chances’ . City police and state excise officers cracked down today last summer is here. al oa ou. Slr va a te] Jullets brought a tragic end to a Thanksgiving eve adon what they called a “liquor embezzling” ring believed to! That was the opinion of fuel oil] R Anton Scherrer ar a Rogol venture of two Indianapolis youths, killing one and wound

= ? . . J ‘ firms in Indianapolis today as they! a ————————————". have been systematically looting the Fred A. Beck Co., liquor warned home- owners that oil is TODAY we we celebrate aRs IVIg. My cup runneth

another woman was killed in an'ing the other.

wholesale firm. ’ | scarce and growing scarcer. over dcsieln OF 8 Sippesy paveen: , Jack Riche: M, of 4907 Young five, died Shesly peiots . i Av | The warning was accompanied | . " : ' * midnight last night in an iron lung at General Hos as Fourteen Deron yale attested n 'an “early MOTNINE | 511 a plea to ofl users to keep nome. . Most devoutly I render thanks'to the Indianapolis | The dead are: Jn ih were a for an ot 5 save ope Foudup Jul pores said 2) but three of the group already laluipera tives not Digher than 70 pon who invented a powder to coax worms out of the | oun Lusher, 37, Marion shoe shop SUBeONS were Rk . ave aamitte connec 100 | uring the day and at a maximum . 3 ruck with the ring. All were : ; of 65 at night, ground. Thus prolonging the lives of such aging anglers 1 Charles D, Zimmerman, 56, iin- World Cub Fliers him in the side of the head. charged with: vagraney and Sur vivor Tells Depends on Weather as Evans Woollen, Eli Lilly, Steph Noland, Eddie Schild- |dertaker at Andrews, Ind. His companion, Jack God-

Mrs. George Sachse, 49, Marion.

Idella Veal, 29, of Detroit. dard, 13, of 49025 Young Ave, Roscoe Shields, 21, of Mitchell, Back on \. S. Soil released from the hospital after Emory Bridges, 27, of Paris Cross- being treated for a bullet wound in Hing. right shoulder. David Leachman, 76, of near Fair. LOS ANGELES, Now 21 (UP)—| The shots were fired by Denald

placed under $2000 bond each pend-| our present contracts,” one firm, Dennys (father and son). ing filing of new charges. Grateful, too, am I that—except for the silly behavior of worms—

| spokesman said. “However, our alExcise agents closed up a liver Within 10 Minutes locations are based on normal American wild life gave a good Account of itself. store and a tavern in the wake of Rn As iii ot conditions and any pro-| In the environs of Louisville, a rabbit reached out the sweeping roundup, Proprietors) KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov, 7 longed cold period will work a hard-| of a hunter's gamebag. The rabbit pulled the trigger

of both places were among those him ii" the ‘foot. - {ship unless the users have a back-| of the hunter's gun, and shot him in artested. Five or six more mem- UP)=An Saat, sliver wids 15 And in Philadelphia, two roosters about to lose

bers of the ‘ring’ still are being today-the wrecked Army freighter 96 out’ in the cold are their heads ganged up onl the woman executioner. SougHt, Piles a, 5 Month {Clarksdale Victory split in half 10/p, dreds of home owners who| They. broke her arm. Goodie. > oing on for Six Months | minutes after she struck a rock I give thanks, too, for the discovery that AmerPokies said. the Jooting of liguor|, A on tiny Hippa island | Er a soo] ican Sn didn't spend all their time fiddling Skull Fractured @ | The two landed at Van Nuys air- was first discovered by Theodore from the Beek wasenouses hae beeh/ |new oil heating installations. with the atomic bomb as the Russians would have Critically injured in the wreck going on apparently for nearly six| {140 miles south of here, | Nan ean Who converted to, the world believe. For, in Rhode Island, a Providence man thought was Russell Lusher. also. from stop from Lethbridge, Canada, on |he shut off power machinery in the months. Last night's roundup was| Carlos M. Sanabria, 23, was one Pe without assuring them-| up a pillow case with a flap to protect bald heads from drafts, Marion ‘who Was. thken 1o- Marion the result of investigations begun of Yonly four survivors found YY seive of 2 Sree of i And in Schenectady, N, Y. Bernard Vonnegut (Kurt's kid) General Hospital With a fractured several weeks agp and ensnared search parties 48 hougs after the| =; : f d " pp y we helped the General Electric people to produce artificial rain. skull Three other assengers in the eight Beck employees and one for- 7000-ton freighter rammed into the 0 ee reed “to convert hick to! My, my, how time flies! Seems but yesterday—although it Is all Lusher tar and Wy pagsenger in mer employee. island, i : — Bernard's father took him aside to tell him of ie d ane yi No official estimate was made on The bodies of four other crewmen, “AUally out in the cold are per- Ne ear BE sister, “Gee whiz,” exclaimed the 3-year-old He ean auto . received the amount of liquor lost to the were recovered from the bow-of ~O0° who have Tetentiy purchased future rainmaker, “let's tell Mom.” | Police i id M Lusher and three ring but it was estimated the figure the broken ship and the nearby hotes with oll, yhils, wious gete $n 4 . =a b hie = d P ro et ae Me. hand, 100- horsepower planes, rifle when he saw one of the boys’ would exceed $5000. Police said beach, (Continued on Page N1—Column. GRATEFUL, too, am I to learn that the conduct of American oo He h a Hien: ere re How about a couple of tickets tof ‘point something” at him, the employees apparently were a 8 8 ssid Rudin courts isn't as shameful as we have been led to believe, turning Tom a unting rip smuggling the liquor out of the, THE OTHER survivors were In Boston, a seasoned judge of 65 (old enough to know what Mrs. Sachse. was fatally injured

Ty . {ing no chances.” J Bh ; ; Truman, 39, asked. § warehouses a few cases at a time Third Officer William M. Rasmus- | makes the wheels go round) rendered the opinion that “Forever [when a car driven by De Son. “youoiayic 13 hour flight, 1700] and relaying it to other members Amber” acts like a soporific—rather than an aphrodisiac. . Foster, and a car driven by Mrs. | sen of Modesto, Cal.; Third Officer | of the ring for disposal.

4 . ‘ miles over part of Canada, Mon-| —— Clair E D 11 of Los A And in Atlanta, a bigamist told the court that if Georgia could Lonel Ellison, also 3 aria Soke p Turkey Forecast hn Primus, 31, of 1001% w, | Clair riscoll of Los Angeles, have two governors he could have two wives. That perfect line of |lided on an icy stretch of Ind. =" =" YD a py one of those ar- {and Becond Officer Henry H Wolte an S at rc iy PE didn’t impress the court worth a cent, 37. north of Marion. She died in was the toughest, along with flying Skimpy Snowfall

tana, Utah, Nevada and California, | { . the Atlantic and Pacific” of the! rested, was convicted and fined | |of Oakland. In which connection, it may not be amiss to note George Gal- Marion General Hospital. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

How Ship Split Up m We plan to be able to take care! knecht, Marc Waggener, Tubby Toms, Joe Adams and the two George

t. pty Lusher and Mr. Zimmerman | 1108 around the world in Cubion the roof of the H. A. Waterman

; planes, observed Thanksgiving here Co, in Five Points, were “killed instantly last night in today—their first day on “good old | “Taking No Chances’ {a two-car collision five miles south U. 8. soil” since last Aug. 9 . roof lof Warren in Wells County, + * g-.%, Presence of the lads on. the

Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los/lives with Mr. White. Y

spectators, greeted the flivver pilots come down from the roof. Mr.

world wip. they said.

The remainin The fatal crash was the second earlier this week in Beech -Grove| =" o ape 5 officers and - WASHINGTON, Nov. 27-(UP)-i lop’s. disclosure that three out of four ws, Si eonsdes - vie | accident in that place in less than a 3 Pama magistrate’s court on charges of il- J the vessel's stern sank in President Truman and his family| spanking of kids a pretty good idea. Thanks i | ab. hoy ; "am....2% 0am... 38 legal possession and sale of liquor. {deep water. The crew's quarters | attended special holiday church NOR AM I unmindful of the blissful ‘fact that, since last Thanks« | * Death interrupted a party en Jenner Assails 8 Acts uh B: Biv a He and his wife, Obelia, also aro... 4 i ‘the section that ‘sank. | Services this morning to start their... ye bert Marshall, Doris Duke, John Kieran, Carol of Rumania | route to Indiana for a Hoosier { Indianapolis and most of the nae rested, have a previous record of np. ganapria’s story told how the Observance of Thanksgiving. and John Hamilton have found new happiness in new ties. One, to Thanksgiving. Three persons were cy tion were getting perfect Thanks bootlegging charges. [Clarksdale Victory, bound south) The President, with his wife and be sure, is only a provisional marriage. But the rest on a more per- killed and four injured, in a truck- Curle S Release giving weather today. Others Held in Roundup from Whittier, Alaska, to Seattle, daughter, Margaret, who is here manent basis, I pray. Anyway, it was a bountiful harvest. I, for one, |auto crash near Belvedere, Til, For Indianapolis residents and Also held in the roundup Were ... yeraq suddenly by a gjgantic| between concert tours, worshiped | wish all 10 great joy. { W. T. Nash, retired railroad em-| most other Hoosiers;-the weather. Ollie and Charles Edwards, Pro- cell. at the First Baptist Church where| And while I'm on the subject of love—provisional or otherwise— |ployee, was killed instantly and his WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UP)— predicted a “white Thankse prietors of the Cat's Play House # Mr. Truman attends frequently. | ; ony Almighty God for persuading Princess Elizabeth to stick to ‘Indiana's junior Republican Sen- cw o1¢hough the snowfall will tavern at 502 Agnes St., and Edward «gHE STRUCK Novily and then Any business the President trans- | the old wording in the Book of Common Prayers marriage service. (Continued on Page Column 5) ator, Willlam E. Jenner, today called be a Sedam, operator of Sedam’s Liquor shuddered. as she struck 3 rock acts today will be only of the It's the only remaining document that still "grants us males certain President Truman's commutation of Overcast skies and a light snow« Store at 1400 E. Washington St. i > ‘' most pressing nature. Peipin Guards Gates James M., Curley’s fraud senterice i . Raiders also arrested Arthur| she heaved and struck once or twice! ronight the’ Trumans with &| ancient, prerogatives. op g “brazen action.” fall will set in on Indianapolis this Sheid, 23, of 1009'S. Alabama 8t.; after this , , , |few close friends will have a tra- GRATEFUL. too am I that the advertising people have got let To Halt Red Agents Sen. Jenner sald the commutation wR om Overton White, 37, of 540 Hiawatha “All hands were called to the boat! ditional Thanksgiving dinner in| me down since last Thanksgiving. Notwithstanding Huckster Charlie PEIPING, Nov. 27 (UP)—Guards of the sentence, so that Mr. Curley pre cloudy. and snk ed cold Bt.; William H. Durham, 26, of 830 deck to abandon ship,” Mr. Sana-|the stately, paneled White House Luckman's failure to label meatless days in an arresting way, stationed at Peiping's centuries-old could enjoy Thanksgiving dinner Lowest tem erature yee ht will 8. Senate Ave.; Chester Thomas, pis said “but due to mountainous | ining room. To make up for Charlie's flasco, a Berkeley, Cal, restaurant ad- gates kept a close watch-today for With his family, would not make be around 26, p th re Janie? high 49, of 3449 N, Illinojs St.; James E. | preapers it was thought safer to “Mrs. William Sharpe, the White| vertiset triumphantly: “Our Tuesday Lunch—the Ultimate in Human | infiltrating Communist agents as holiday dinners “taste any sweeter” pti to S, Wath 36. : Reed, 24, of 1101 S. Senate Ave; emain on board than to attempt House housekeeper, and the kitchen Experience.” the Red. forces reportedly opened to GI's in jail as a result of actions ““c\~o1 te predicted for northe Robert Dalziel, 32, of 2264 Win- i; apandon ship in lifeboats.” staff have been working for days A new hair tonic on the market is labeled “Tress Moderne.” a heavy attack on the city of Pao- caused by battle fatigue or shell indiana A riod rr ies throp Ave.; David Alderson, 41, of} ng gern settled in the water as I Preparation for the meal to-| A tree-pruning outfit in Wayne, Pa, submits: “Tree Surgery ting. shock in southern Indiana are expected: to , 742 Greer St, and Harry Lee (,emendous seas crashed. over the ight. fn All Its Branches.” Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek] The Hoosier Republican said the © "0 050 0% 0 Ne or Brown, 2, of 545 Bright St. alliqeqy, | The menu will include mushroom And in Indianapolis, a neighborhood drugstore bravely fights in- and other top Naflonalist military President's action was “in line with | ape gy. on ne employees of the Beck firm. They | 2 # a {soup, roast turkey, braised celery, fation with the slogan: “All Nickel Candies 5c.” Jedders met here to discuss the crit- the activities of one who boasts of ls also ‘held Victor Roberts, 54, of| THE BOATS were swe mashed potatoes, buttered peas, cg { feal Noith China military situation, his close social and political rela- ; 1 1106 Tecumseh St. a former em- ang Mr. Sanabria saw EWeph oo cranberry. sauce, giblet gravy,! AND, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to thank Garo ' Paoting is a vital railroad and high- tionship with the infamous Pen- Royal Newlyweds Take ployee. molded fruit salad, cheese and ‘Z. Antreasian whose picture, “Signs of the Times," captured the $1000 way junction 100 miles south of dergast political machine in his Chauffeur for Ride

lc Jontinued on Page 11—Column 4) crackers, mince pie and coffee.

prize in Ayres’ 75th Anniversary Art Exhibition, It depicts a slice here, home state of Missouri.”

Jack Benny Host afin ——— —- of Hdatapoiis apparently unperceived until an Armenian-born boy = | mliZabeth and Prince Philip left by to live { dst. { To Santa Parade |NE€dY Children Thankful wig lo Joe nor re om wo, mune: an. FPANCE Faces Strike Tieup; aaah. today. % spend te fe OOD, Re te F Ci h terpretation” (in Journalese) devotes an entire chapter (1s p. p) to | Birkhall near Balmoral Castle, sy Benny was official host to or of e-A-Child Drive explain Rain. 7. Gait because there are so many Hoosiers like Talk of Red Revolt Grows he roval couple arrived y-tralh.

him.” in my present Thanksgiving mood, I am

ta Claus last night when | Ba a a hengn) Here's How You Can Give Thanks This Year | A I TN 4.5. tho. Pirabisgh Truckers Threaten to Halt Food for Paris; camel-hair coat, took the wheel of | v . ’ . . .|the car for the 50-mil urney o Hollywood Boulewird tor the we By Helping Provide Clothing Pirates. Communist Coup Reported Plotted in Italy | 0 abet Sat Sabu rode lephant, | By ART WRIGHT And George Oalvers whose whimsical paper, “The Owl and the PARIS, Nov. 27 (UP)~—France phinged headfirst toward a general beside hi mand the chauffeur sat in Re Triage Rogl ~~ It's the “ttle"- things that -make a -happy Thanksgiving inmost PUsSYCAt” the other night, was so diverting that it enabled the | yi i, ang possible chaos today. back. : Indianapolis: homes today—such “little” things as food, shelter, clothing.|’ "Members of ike Indtanapolls Literary Club to complétely”farget Messrs. | °, Eighteen Communist-led unions rejected Premier Robert Schu-

Skelton, Eddie Cantor, Judy Cano-| But there are homes where the children are shivering because they Vishinsky and Maj. Gen. Bennet E. Meyers for a period of 1

va, Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, | don hour and 12 minutes. ; : on't have warm clothin, am an Phil Harris, Jack Carson, Eve Ar-| | Times Clothe-A-Child. 8. These needy families are thankful for The And of this moment, the wreckers have not yet moved in to cart |

den, Kay Kyser, Fibber McGee and A warm-hearted Indianapolis is prepari ng, as usual, to see that no| | off the northwest quadrant of the Circle, Hallelujah. | more were quitting. ho paraded, 0 Any OREN needy child goes without warm ————— —————| GRATEFUL, too, am I for th ity of ‘the hum dt notables paraded. the stor , am or the capacity of the human mind to | clothing this winter. u to outht ‘them with the remember—to recall, for instance, the lovely appearance of N, Merid-

man’s plea for them to stop their strikes. They also turned down his Alice Faye. Breaks Arm

Long distance truckers were quit-| The French government was re- .,.. . stairway Sunday. ting in the Paris area, threatening ported to have brought back 30,000

{George Truman and Clifford Evans, yw, White as the two lads played

'port last night, after flying non--Waterman who heard them when

the longest leg of their trip which shop. He ran to the home of his started from Teterboro, N., J. |brother, Edwin C. Waterman, who

Angeles along with a blond * ‘Queen | Returning to the shop, the men of the Van Nuys Festival” and 2500|ctlled to.the two youngsters to

when they sel down their second. White said he opened fire with his

the USC-Notre Dame game?” Mr.| He told authorities he was “talk.

LONDON, Nov, 27 (UP)-—Princess | mainder of their honeymoon at

Philip, bareheaded and wearing a

| offer of a ralse to all salaried workers. t" HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 21 (UP)-— Today, more than 1% million workers were on strike and thousands) Doctors said actress Alice Paye

broke her right arm when she fell

The three-mile long parade was clothing th: Reasons for the plight of these 8 they need. Spend what ci" os 60 years ago when I was a little hoy. Or the security of

studded with bands, drum major-|,, qu children are endless, Per-|YOU can afford to clothe a needy | to cut off the capital's food supply. troops from Germany and North)

et 4: glittering floats. two-pants suits back in 1930, Or, for that matter, the unforgettable | The truckers had become essential tes, clowns and glittering floats. | aq the wage-earner is unable to|child for Christmas. October of 1047. in food distribution, since the par- Africé and stationed them around Ti ; work, often the mother is a widow.| THREE: By laying one or more — | tial railroad strike. Paris, Marseille, Lille, Lyon and) mes ndex Whatever the reason, little boys dimes on the line at the Mile-O- Evansville | Veterans Sons Home From School, Gas workers in Paris were strik- other spots where the Communists and girls aren't expected to under- Dimes on W. Washington St. when | ‘ , ing. Government workers announced were likely to make trouble, | Amusements -34| Movies vreen..34 stand why.” They only know they! lit opens next week. Get Housing Project ‘Rep. Halleck Thankful {they would walk out tomorrow un-/ The French army of the Rhine| Eddie Ash ,...30| Obituaries ....23 are cold. | Clothe-A-Child headquarters will Approval of a 20-unit rental] WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UP)—|less their wage demands were met.'was reported ready to move at once,

Bridge ...... 28) Dr. O'Brien ..28 The Times Clothe-A-Child is the open tomorrow at 2086 W. Maryland 'housin roject 1 tar During the unofficial Thanksgiving! Coincidentally, unconfirmed —re- Frontier guards were said to have Classified ..35- 38! F.C Othman 21 Spirit of Christmas in-Indianapolis. {8t., next door to The Times offices.| 8 projee OF ' velerans. m1 truce on the political front here {ports circulated in both Prance and sealed off the Itallan and Spanish Comics .......39| Patterns .....27 As usual, you will want to par-| How many children will be clothed Evansville was granted today by odey, Majority Leader Charles A. Ttaly—the only nations in the borders to prevent the possible in| Crossword -v...23| Radio ........30 ticipate. Heres how: this year depends upon the cash the Indianapolis office of ‘the Fed- {Halleck (R, Ind) pointed to a ple Cominform that do not have-Com- filtration of a new “International Editorials see. 22] | Society essss..28 ONE: By sending or bringing a ‘contributions received from YOU eral Housing Administration. [ture of his family and said. munist governments-——of revolutions, Brigade.”

Forum .......22, Sports ....30-31 cash contribution to Clothe-A- and all of Indfanapolis, The project; to be known as Kin-| “I'm thankful for them. My twins in the making. | The government said it expected Indiana News 8-9 Washington ..22 Maryland St, Indianapolis 9. in the mails now can be a token of 10 two-story frame pulding ‘with|and they're coming home forthe Communists were planning a It announced yesterday Inside Indpls..21| Word-A-Day . a1 TWO: By volunteering ta r appreciation for a hapes20 units of six THEA, Geni: ,The dey will he a|general strike and coup d'etat i mina oe ¥, * » r i o 5 : 3 ; oe } ‘ | ¢ y

Hollywood ..,.21| Teen Topics ..28 Child, Indianapolis Times, 214 W.| Your check or money order placed kel Duplex Homes, will consist of are freshmen in college this year, Italian newspapers reported that more arvests of Russian Sa fH Ruth Millett. 128] Wom. News 21.38 personaly ome or more children “Day. tess, state FH A roe eo Bappy one for er \