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9,1947 ONDAY TURDAY

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FORECAST: Snow

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and rain ending about midnight; slighlty colder late tonight. .

JUDGET!

58th YEAR—NUMBER 235

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You Can't See the Beasts— ‘Something’s Bathing In My Tomato Juice’ ho —It's No Joke, Pal

Many Chances for Germs to Get in Food ——Excuses Don't Make Safer Eating Places

Te Third of a Series. a By ROBERT BLOEM

gwimming around in my tomato juice!” Brother, you don't know how right you are. - Unfortunately, when that’s really the case you won't know it. It's just one of the chances you take, and one of the reasons you have a health department. And it can, and does hap- Sle pen, with many kinds of food and drink. It happens when

that enticing glass of juice is standing right under your (and everybody else's) nose as you mince by

in the cafeteria. It happens when dishes and glasses aren't properly

_'10 (UP)—Army officials announced

washed and sterilized.

= w » FOOD {inspectors can't see the little beasts that swim around in food or lurk on the rims of drink-, ing vessels either, But they can tell by the housekeeping habits of the folks who handle food about what, the potentialities are. | What would you say, for example, about the chances of having. something “swimming around” and wait-| ing to make you sick in this place? The kitchen floor was dirty, It

Woman Beats Off Masked Torturer Brightwood victim Burned With Cigaret

29 Feared Dead In C-54 Crash In Labrador

Snows Hamper Rescue Party { WESTOVER FIELD, Mass,

| Dec,

today that a U. 8. Army C-54

“Waitress, get me a hook and line. There's something which crashed and burned in Lab-

rador shortly before midnight carried 29 crewmen and passengers. It was not known whether there were any survivors,’

| The public relations office at

Westover Field, destination of the|

transport plane, said it carried 10 crew members and 19 passengers. No names were announced here immediately. Crewmen of a B-17 circling the crash at noon reported seeing one man standing, waving his arms. The Army said, however, it was not known whether he was a sur-vivor-or a member of a rescue party, Rescue ground teams, he said, were near the crash, eight miles north of Goose Bay airdrome.

A 34-year-old housewife beat off

an assault by a masked man in Brightwood last night, after he attempted to torture her into submission by burning her hands and chest with the lighted end of a cigaret, She was recovering from the painful burns and shock at her home today. She told police and The Times the man grabbed her around the neck after she alighted from the

couldn't be cleaned because it was ║Brightwood trackless trolley at rough broken cement, the kind that ║Dearborn St. and Roosevelt Ave, brings complaints to the street de- ║ In keeping with its policy of propartment, ║ tecting the identity of women who WALLS and ceilings were dirty, ║ are victims of assaults, The Times is Shelves on which glasses were stored ║ not publishing her name. upside down (according to regula- ║ Hand Over Mouth tion) were covered with a fine layer ║ “I was starting to walk on Dearof dusty grease. The hot water ║ born St.,” she said, “and the first faucet in the employees’ lavatory ║ thing I knew I was grabbed around wasn't working and although there ║ the neck. Then I felt a hand over was soap, there were no towels. ║ my mouth. The meat block was dirty, too. ║“It was near the flower shop on When it wasn't used for cutting ║ the corner. He pulled me toward the meat it doubled in brass as a drain ║ greenhouse. I guess 1 screamed or board on which to set dirty dishes. ║ tried to. I was so terribly frightened

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Chances are the dishes stayed dirty, because the hottest water was 140 degrees. Health officials say, and so does the law, that it must be at least 170 for rinsing dishes properly, : The grill beneath the soda foun tain taps up front was covered with smelly slime, » » » FOOD and ice cream dispensing dippers were kept in a gooey can of water although running water dip-

I don’t remember, The housewife told police her assailant told her to keep quiet, or he would hurt her, “He burned me with the end of a cigaret,” she said. “Three times on the hand and once on the chest. “He dragged me into a lot and threw me down. I pushed him away and got up. I was so frightened, I guess, I could hardly catch my breath. It was all I could do to breathe. I don't know whether I screamed then or not. I guess I did. "When I got to my feet, he

per wells are required by law. Garbage, stored in filthy, uncovered cans, had, to stand around the

kitchen 48 hours at a stretch awaiting an every-other-day pickup. ‘ In the basement, at the foot of the steps, was a pile of dirt more than a foot high shoved ahead by rats as they pushed their way in. Food was stored in sacks on the floor of that basement. That rats

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Rome Admits Ritter Elevation Likely

VATICAN CITY, Dec. 10 (UP)—' Msgr. Joseph Elmer Ritter, arch-’sumed hearings after a week-long inal courts.

bishop of St. Louis, is considerpd

: "frequented the place despite the N red cotton efforts of a professional extermi- °P® of the most likely candidates ving! Made nator was evidenced by rat excreta o one of the eight vacancies in fabric with on the floor. There were roaches n® Sacred College of Cardinals,

lesigns, preholiday use!

~Downstairs

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Amusements, 26; Movies ..... 26 swathed in drapery that I would rather ride in a Eddie Ash . 30 Obituaries .. 17 rumble seat with a well-draped mummy. The well ) Classified 31-34 P, C. Othman 19 turned leg has gone from our keh. It lurks alone, iii Comics ..... 25 Radio ....... 35 unadmired, in’ 24 square yards of calico. Shop Editorials ... 20 Scherrer .... 20 Every time I sniff the dewy drops of scent my Forum ...... 20 Side Glances “0 love has daintily dabbed, earwise, I>rush off to s. huiry in ig Hollywood .. 19, Society ..... 22 the sanctuary of the gents’ lounge and hide there, S. CHOCO Home Page . 18 Sports . . 30-31! quivering and whimpering like a cuffed puppy. For xy Inside Indpls. 19) Weather Map 27 what mere mary can feel at ease when he knows, rrayl 23-25 from reading the magazines, that the lady has

In the basement. Although "most operators and managers are co-operative in trying to clean up their places, the operator of this place made it clear that he intended to do nothing. He pointed out smugly that soon a Democratic Mayor would be taking over “and then you guys won't ke bothering me any more.”

[Glennon to the Sacred College. quarters at Pine

- » " HE ALSO declared with an engaging bravado that his kitchen floor was “clean enough to eat off of.” He didn't offer to prove it, although when food inspectors get together to swap yarns they'll tell you folks have done dumber things than that to prove a point. But 600 or 700 persons a day were eating in that place—maybe you. In one gleaming kitchen, behind

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Woman Faces Trial In Child Beating |

A warrant charging cruelty to a child was filed with the Juvenile Court today against Mrs, Viola Engle of 1019 Carrollton Ave. by police. The action was taken after a policewoman said she found a 10-month-old baby placed in Mrs. En- \ gle's care mistreated. Neighhors of Mrs. Engle told police she beat the child frequently. State Welfare Department authorities, meanwhile, were investigating the case to determine what action could be taken to regulate other homes where children are boarded out,

ment said.

French Cardinal Dies

the death of Pierre Cardinal Petit

members, . Times Index

Markets 15 Women's. “Ruth Millett, 24) Word-A-Day.

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well-informed sources in the Vatican secretariat of state said today. The next consistory for naming cardinals is expected to be held in 1949, Pope Pius XII is known to desire a cardinal from west of the Mississippi River. At the last consistory,

St. Louis was recognized by the ap-|

pointment of Dennis Cardinal Cardinal Glennon died in Eire

while on his way back to St. Louis.

Robert C. Ruark Says— ‘I Refuse to Yield My Ruby Lips Under the Mistletoe This Yuletide’

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 — The

sneaks closer, but somehow this year the Old Man's

heart isn’t in it.

« And this, my friends, from one of the sharpest

spin-the-bottle and post office fana

I even had a loaded bottle, once, which would

always stop spinning, in front of Mary. She had dim

for cause. There was a time when

a bundle of dry goods up in your arms, imprint your lips on hers, and feel mildly exhilarated, as though you had just snatched a kiss from a woman,

more. Any time I steal a peck | I am kissing no woman, I am k a production.

inspired trend salesmen, We have got girdles now to

feeling of gay abandon she couldn't acquire short of a session with a carton of reefers. But this ersatz The wired bra has Mrs. Engle was not licensed 0 come in, for double fascination, but I don't fascinate board children, the Welfare Depart- easy these days—not when a clinch with a cutie

allure is wasted on Junior.

resembles a rassling match with a full party hardware.

The amorous swain gets his eyes gouged out on VATICAN CITY, Dec. 10 (UP)— Junk jewelry, and well he might, for jewelry, the Pope Pius was informed today of historians say, is an offshoot of the spurious feminine Fear not fair damsel 1 de Julleville, archbishop of Ro en. Shall not approach thee—without thou takest off The death of the Prench cardinal that barbed wire fence first. Once wounded, thrice left the Sacred College with only 61 °hY, and anyhow, I came away without my pliers,

Scents to Waken the Latent Beast

urge for self-protection,

I RAIN curses on the heads of its inventors. ' They have given

12 doused herself swith unguents calculated to waken

s and got married to a but who wants to listen to an old. goat's reveries? I am going to be chary with my kisses this year,

I fee] like IT am kissing Batten, Barton, Durstine and* Osborne, or a similar collection of

The plane, the spokesman said, carried mail and military cargo 'in addition to its passengers, Canadian air force units were reported participating in the rescue, Handicapped by adverse weather, .ce and snow, a ground party, with dog teams carrying medical supplies, set out from Goose Bay after! the crash eight niles north of the Goose Bay airdrome. Officials here ordered a helicopier, from Patterson Field, Dayton, C., sent to Goose Bay by air to aid in rescuing survivors, Lt. Stanley H. Bear, an Air Forces “paradoctor,” was ordered to accompany the helicopter from here. He will | chute to the crash scene with medical equipment.

3 Die as Small Plane

Crashes in Oklahoma SEMINOLE, Okla. Dec. 10 uP) —State highway patrolmen today teported three persons were <¢illed when a light, single-engined airplane crashed and burned 14 miles south of here.

Greeks Hunt U. S. Plane With 4 Persons Aboard

ATHENS, Dec. 10 (UP)—Greek! iplanes and gendarmes searched the countryside near Athens today for an American C-47 transport, missing since last night with one officerpassenger and a crew of three on board.

Gran “Jury Ending Up Gen. Meyers’ Inquiry |

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UP)—A | Federal grand - jury today entered the final stage of its investigation of the wartime financial deals of {Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, Ret. | Only three more witnesses were scheduled to testify as the jury re-

recess. Government prosecutors said at least one witness would probably be held over until tomorrow, and that it might be Friday or Monday before the jury could decide whether or not to indict. |

Four Officers | Killed

As Fire Sweeps Camp | PINE CAMP, N. Y., Dec. 10 (UP) {—Four officers were burned to death {today when fire et their sleeping amp, where tl.» Army's wifiter “Exercise Snowdrop” 'is underway.

mistletoe season

perhaps Ancient tics of the 1920's. a blond named smells. Mama 1 hold your hand,

But my main you could snatch with lipstick, w brassiere people, No

n a dark corner, Bridgemen, issing a creation, hestitate to yield of the yule,

give milady the WHEN 1 FOR it kills my roma going to smooch am going to be

knight of old, in can have more { box. As 1 tilt the straight at Fatal Siren, Vivid, Dyn

the new look and us a woman 80

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1947

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the latent beast In his tumultous chest? I am a fugitive before the brand names of Dangerous, Tabu, Shocking, Scandal, Anticipation, and

cause Mama done told me never to do no snuggling against innocent persons, like down with gals that was all fired up by them Frenchified

be waving mink overcoats at you,

people and the perfume people and even the wired

am indebted to a New Jersey colleague, Miss Page for the full documentation on why I

AK’ _Is but a Smear

of eggnog and bear down on an.unsuspecting blond,

cherry, cinnamon stick, ‘barberry, honey, apple red,

turkey red, raspberry, pimento or red burgundy. You Mile-O-Dimes

man, says, cheers to you, too, honey,

gooed. up with Stop Red, Victory Red, Jeep Red, | Banner Red, Rocket Red, Ordfiance Red, Brass Band, | Burma, Captain's Red, Allegiance Red ori Freedom Red. But with Buster back safe, you still have to contend with Wonderful, Heart Throb, Red Rouge, Magnet Red, Merry-Go-Round, Scarlet Slipper—and, of all things, Poker Chip.

the moment is a picture of a damel shying away |

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"BIG PERK" — Indiana Ave, character Andrew (Big Perk) Perkins ducked as Times Photographer Henry

t | Truman's

Glesing drew a bead on him entering court today. The picture at the right shows him in an unguarded momen when he momentarily forgot about the camera man in his absorption with due process of law. ;

Demands Grow | Trial of ‘Big Perk’ Opens For Jury Trials With All-Women Venire

Prospective Jurors Closely Questioned in Requests Threaten

Gaming Case; Atiorneys in Verbal Clash To Swamp Courts The gambling case of Andrew (Big Perk) Perkins, flashy Indiana By NOBLE REED

Recent steps toward drastic

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ing of prospective jurors by the defense, re-

| Ave. racketeer, opened today in Municipal Court 1 with close question-|

12 Fivwer Fliers End World Flight

122 Days, 23 Hours Taken for Trip

ge Curbs, Rationing In Price Plan

Anti-Inflation Program OK'd By Republicans

Senate Group Votes For Credit Controls WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UP) — Republican congressional leaders today agreed on a four-point anti-inflation program. The plan includes curbs on bank credits and voluntary alloca« tion of industrial materials, but ne price or rationing controls, At the same time, the Senate Banking Committee approved, 2 to 4, a bill to restore controls on installment buying _ GOP leaders sald they would try to obtain passage of their fourpoint anti-inflation program oefore Christmas. The Republican program, ignore ing the most drastic proposals sub mitted to Congress by President Truman, would call’ for: ONE: Extension of export cone trols. TWO: Extension of controls over transportation. THREE: Developing a program fo: voluntary allocation of industrial materials, FOUR: Changing federal reserve bank gold requirements in an effort to check the expansion of bank credit. 10-Point Program " The Republican program was agreed on at a meeting of House |and Senate Republican leaders, who | thereby virtually pigeon-holed Mr, 10-point anti-inflation

program. : Mr. Truman's proposals included stand-by authority to restore rae tioning and invoke limited prices wage controls, if such action is nece essary, House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana said the | program would be embodied in & {bill which Chairman Jesse P, Wol« {cott (R. Mich.) hoped to introduce [later today, . |" Chairman Robert A. Taft (R. 0)

TETERBORO, N. J., Dec. 10 (UP) of the Senate Republican Policy

Defense Attorney Sam Blum might have been defending Perkins —George W. Truman and Clifford V. Committee said the measure would

forms in law enforcement and court from the death penalty, from the amount of time he spent on legalities. | Evans Jr. landed +at Teterboro air-| be introduced n the Senate later,

procedure resulted today in a sud- After a jury was selected, the — den increase in the ntmber of re-

case was continued again until 9:30 : quests for jury trials in the crim- a. m. Monday. | an

Perkins is charged with keeping a on Tap Today,

Calendars of the two criminal yom for pool selling and operating . courts were disrupted this week by a lottery scheme and gift enterprise. the sudden requests for juries bY He was arrested Sept. 1 in his esdefense attorneys in 11 cases. tablishment, Perkins’ Exchange, 787

These requests boosted to 149 the y,,4iap Ave, The case was set for| LOCAL TEMPERATURES

number of cases now awaiting trial ¢yja] three times in Municipal Court| 6a. m..... 27 10am. .... 8 before juries in Criminal Courts 1 3 pefore Attorney Blum asked for a| 7a. m..... 27 1am... 28 and 2, jury trial, 8am... ..28 12 (Noon). 28 Defense attorneys in these cases Dodges Photographer |-9a. mm... 28 lpm.....29 explained that public pressure on! mq. 40-year-old defendant dodged! - the judges for “stiff sentences” made newspaper photographers and spar- | Temperatures are expected

it necessary to present thelr cases yjoq his muiti-carat diamond ring before juries. before an all-woman venire of pros- bringing a mixture of snow and During recent weeks, both erimi- ,. tive jurors, {rain, the Weather Bureau forenal court judges, William D. Bain Attorney Blum began his objec! casts, ) fion at the outset’ when Deputy Streets may become slippery, the 9 Prosecutor John A. Carson, trying bureau said The temperature is jhis first jury case, and City Prose- exvected to drop tonight to 22 Gelcutor Henry Coombs began piling Brees, * llottery tickets and other gambling! The State Highway Department 'paraphernalia on a table before the reported two to three inches of snow venire, around Fowler and over the entire “1 object to this display of eyi-‘LaPorte district. In the northern dence before it is introduced,” thun- Part of the FL. Wayne district, roads dered Attorney Blum, noted for his. Were reported slippery, in many courtroom histrionics, places, Cautions Jurors Rain mixed with sleet was reportAttorney Blum cautionad the ed In the vicinity of Crawfordsville prospective jurors that “the state Babylonian Nights in a Harem, be- can make a mistake and file charges

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there in Crawfordsville.”

Stop Soviet Now, (He apparently referred to the indictment of four high state police Marshall Warns

in Monteomery Countv.) LONDON, Dee. 10 (UP)--8ecre-An avid listener in the front row f State Marshall warned the was Archie (Joker) Young, another ary 0 n r Big Pour today that they were top-ranking Indiana Ave, character . “wasting time when there is no time and crap-shooter “par excellence,” to waste” unless they were willing

Young to Face Trial to stop the Soviet Union now from|

Young, charged with keeping a taki from Germa sets he es-| room for pool selling and operating i at $500 000 ny gd {

a lottery scheme and gift enterprise iy ' Mr, Marshall rejected the whole Was an official visitor as well, His concept of reparations from current) case was one of 31 jury trials set production and sald the United |

15ed to say that if you let them the next thing yeu knew they'd

quarrel with l'amour 1s caught up ‘hich has outstripped the girdle

who take a lot of outstripping. 1

my ruby lips, even in celebration

TIFY my courage with a puncheon in Court 1 for today after prelim- States would not be a party to any inary hearing in other Municipal ? “ ntic yen to think that what I am cours. . PAL such program “as a price for the isn’t really a pair of lips at all. I unification of Germany.

smeared up with a half-inch of

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un in the kitchen, raiding the ice- | DAILY ESTIMATE chin and look down, T am staring ® At 8:30 a. m. today, n

Apple, Pink Ice, Brilliant, Trilling, lines, or Forced to Quit School amite or Bravo, and as Miss Bridg- . ' i $3440.80 The Times’ Christmas The war is gone, so I haven't got to get all . By ART The Times MILE-O- X

Harry was a top student in his DIMES is located on the wag a Op

sidewalk in West Washing~ ton in front of the L. 8, "Ayres Co. and 8. 8, Kresge Co. It 15 open 24 hours a day. It takes 60 lines of

trade places with him for anything

brothers and sisters,

Har won't get Getting tangled up with this much factory-built dimes, each 88 ft. long, to | ry 8 : anyway. He Had to quit school to allure is just too much for a guy with tax worries makey-a full MILE -O - find 3 job. Some kind of work that and a slightly hardened artery. In fro#it of me at! DIM ~ $8976.00 — every .

dime! of which will go to

clothe a needy child. keep the family from going hungry

i ¢ . digato ¢ .

—— port at 9:14 a, m, (Indianapolis

Time) today.

The installment buying controls ion which the Senate committee

| They completed in 122 days ‘23 acted expired Nov, 1. hours and 4 minutes their flight! President Truman urged their

around the world in the smallest restoration as part of his 10-point

iplanes ever to attempt the trip.

|emergency program, There was

| The pilots, both veterans of the! likelthood of a strong Republican |Afr Force, took off from Teterboro battle to defeat it on the floor of |at 10:10 “a. m. last ‘Aug. 9 in the the Senate.

{100-horsepower Piper Super Cruis-!

Three Republican and six Demo-

ers “City of Angels” and “City of cratic committee members teamed

Washington.”

|to approve the installment hill, All

Flying wing-to-wing across oceans four dissenters were Republicans,

and terrain never before spanned to,by such tiny afrcraft, they circled Dart (R. Ind), who made two une crawl slightly above freezing today the world on a 23,000-mile route Successful efforts to reduce the efe

with stops in 21 countries.

The smallest plane previously to _imake the round-the-world flight ¢®nt down .and . 24 months-to-pay

They included Sen. Homer Cape

fect of the bill, He first tried to write in a 25 per

was the late Wiley Post's Winnle @mendment and then sought to pre= Mae, a 575-horsepower Lockheed vent installment controls until oute Vega. It was described at the time standing installment credit reached

as “the fastest thing on wings.”

6 billion a year—far above the

Mr. Post plloted the plane twice Present rate of about $2,500,000,000,

on fn

1933.

Mr. Truman and Mr. Evans had '®quired a one-third payment .and ..

15.500-mile course, in eight days in 1931, and in just a week in

Enacted During War The controls were enacted during the war. In most cases, the controls

no interest in speed. They took time 2 limit of 15 months in which to pay out for sight-seeing and sat out fOr consumer goods,

stretches of bad weather at several

stops.

The bill did not specify the cone trols, but would leave the entirs

On the most dangerous hop of the duestion of controls up to the Feds

eral Reserve Board. It was likely

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TIMES OFFERS $75 IN PRIZES—

® Amateur photographers

will get $75 in prizes for pictures of the Christmas decorations at the circle

monument. ® The Times is giving the amount as a Yuletide special in its weekly Amateur Photo Contest. Read the rules , .., then send in your pictures.

Turn to Page 19

Boy Breadwin Clothe-A-Child to Aid Him

When ‘Pop’ Ran Off; Fund Now $2689.90

WRIGHT school, But not today.

The boys and girls who envied his scholastic standing wouldn't

this Christmas,

Because Harry doesn't have a father to sign His report card any more. “Pop” ran away from Harry, his mother and his five younger | y xd

a report card, ing purchased from the generous to The laid on the Mile-O-lwill bring in a little something to Dimes on W. Washington. St. by Indianapolis residents and visitors. | For Harry and his brothers and «sisters are typical of the hundreds of needy children. who would suffer

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invoke its wartime provisions, Mr. Taft said the conferees agreed that the House would push the bill to passage first, > He said legislation to restore ine stallment buying controls would be considered separately from the Ree publican anti-inflation bill. Mr, Taft said he did not know ‘whether Congress would act on the installment buying bill before Christmas.

International Harvester ‘Anpounces Price Hike CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (UP)—The {International Harvester Co., which reduced its prices nine months ago in order to combat inflation, ane nounced today that the plan was a failure, 3 The company said it would hike prices on most items to a point 3

{per cent higher than they were at the time of the reduction.

(12 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT) SHOPPING DAYS LEFT

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