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Four Persons Die in State | As Homes Burn
Mother, 2 Daughters
Victims at Goshen
A mother and two children and an elderly grandmother perished in tragic pre-holiday fires in the state today. Near Goshen Mrs. Phyllis, Lee Hartsough and two daughters Margaret, 2'2, and Judy Ann, 8 months, were trapped and burned! to death in their farm home. | The father, William Hartsough Jr, saved one child but failed in frantic attenmpts to save the rest .of his family. { At Columbus Mrs. Etta Benham,
whose relatives said was an habit-|+, ual pipe smoker, was burned to| 4 death in her bed. Her charred body| §
was found this morning by a grand- | son, who said he saw smoke coming | from a window of her home, near his own residence. : Father Tells Story of Fire | Officials said only the bed was burned and theorized a pipe might have set the mattress afire. In Goshen Hospital today Mr. Hartsough tried to shake off shock | and grief to recount to authorities details of the tragic fire. He clutched] his only surviving child, Maynard) 5, close to him and ‘told the story of the tragic fire, “I fixed the fire in the coal stove| at about 1 o'clock and went to bed,” he said. “My wife woke me at about 2:30 and ’said she heard a crackling noise downstairs. “I got up and Maynard followed! me downstairs. As soon as I got | down there I saw flames and I shouted to Phyllis that the house was on fire.” : | The father and son’ then both grabbed rugs and tried to beat out the fire, but it was out of control. “When I saw I couldn't beat it out I tried to go back upstairs to help my wife and the girls. The stairway was in flames.” i ‘Carries Son to Safety Mr. Maynard broke a dining room window and carried his sdn outside to safety. Thr rag: "gp t+
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10-Year Lease Fears
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To Rejected Pact
BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UP) — Acting Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett said today the United States is ready to discuss with Panama at any time a new agreement on bases in Panama to defend the Canal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UP)—
{tain a 10-year lease on Pafamanian bases to replace the 20-year agreement rejected by Panama's National Assembly . { In the meantime, however, this | government accepted the Assembly's edict and began immediate abandonment of the 14 defense installations on Panamanian territory out- | side the 10-mile wide Canal Zone | The Army said withdrawal of | the 2000 ground and Air Force personnel involved would be cown|pleted as soon as possible. The Panamanian bases figured prominently in American plans for protecting the strategic Panama | Canal. The Assembly's action caused considerable concern here, Directed at U._S. Government officials believed that An important “factor. in. the. .decision was % campaign by Com-
students. Diplomatic quarters, however, did {not believe the door was closed to a substitute agreement, _ They cited Panama City dispatches which said Assembly leadlers blamed the rejection on the {State Department's insistence that the big bomber base at Rio Hato— istrategically-most important.of the 14—bc leased for 20 years instead of 10.
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i .(UP)—Dr. John Lewis,
aged and ill Presbyterian minister imprisoned for burning
h¥s church, was granted a C Gov. Oscar Rennebohm today.
hristmas pardon by Acting
Dr. Lewis, 73, was at the,State General Hospital here
when the parden‘came. He was brought to the hospital two weeks ago from the state prison, and underwent surgery for a kidney ailment, His doctor said today that Dr. Lewis 1s recovering in good shape.” n ~ ~ DR. LEWIS was convicted June 278n charges of setting a $150.000- 8s which swept the Calvary
munist agitators to whip up ani- - . mosity against the United States, Bread Price | p particularly .among Panamanian :
Predicted: Here
Bakers Report” ‘Increased Costs
Indianapolis and central Indiana housewives are about to gét another kick in’ the budget, this time in the form of a bread price hike. ~Upstate bakers last night anounced increases of, half a-cent to cent loaf, Their action was followed today y a .warning from Charles P. lers, secretary-manager of the In-/| iana Bakers’ Association, that simhr increases would spread to this hrt, of the state “very soon.” gglers of the family food bHudg- ¥ could get’ little satisfaction, “owever, out of the fact that Hoook bakers staved off “UNe Wicrenses mapths, In many other
plained, “the bakers here had suffipient stocks of flour and other ingredients on hand to carry them for a while. '.“They held back on the price Increases as long as they could, but now supplies are becoming exhausted and must be replenished at greatly increased prices to tne
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“We are receiving an Increasing number of calls from bakers that they need a higher price for bread to meet their mounting costs. I
.qcan’t say Jugt when it will come in 4d Indianapolis
and central Indiana, but I am certain it will be very
“soon.”
220 IN PRISON STRIKE PRINCETOWN, England, Dec. 24
% (UP)—A strike by 220 prisoners in
4 the mess hall of famous Dartmoor
nrison was reported today,
{from the hospital. * “dections of the country bread went A Té-year-old civic I9adér and a up 1 to 2 cénts & loaf early in No- youthful sledder also were injuredifact and trickety have come to be vember, in traffic mishaps last night, 4 “At that time’ Mr. Ehlers ex-|
Presbyterian Church in, Milwaukee last Jan. 25. | Gov. Rennebohm said he believed Dr. Lewis. would stay at the hospital until he has recovered | Dr. Lewis. was sentenced to one to: five years at hard labor at the Wisconsin state prison. The state charged he set the fire because he. wanted a larger and more.imposing edifice than the church where he had preached for 17 NOLS...
Boy, 7, Girl, 5 Topple From Car Turning Corner
ere Rm ee ————— A —— IT ——— A’ FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl who toppled out of the back seat of the family car last night Is in critical condition in General Hospital today. Sandra Turner daughter of Mrs. Evelyn Turner, 504 Dorman St, was rushed to the hospital after she and, |
her 7-vear-old brother, Robert, fell out of the car at 21st St. and Bosart, Ave. . ” ” THE TWO children apparently
were playing with the door of the car, as the father, Arthur Turner, turned west into 21st St. The car door flew open and: both children
{were thrown to the pavement. : “Wak tremted
“and released
. . » ALMUS RUDDELL, president of Indiana Central Rubber & Bupply Co., is in serious condition in Methodist. Hospital, The businessman and civic leader was injured when his car was struck broadside by a truck at 82d St. and Allisonville Road ; Sheriff's deputies said Mr. Ruddell was driving east on 82d. As he entered Allisonville Road his car and a truck driven by Hollie House, 25, Gordon City, Mich., collided. The truck driver was not hospitalized. n » ” SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Richard Parker's sled excursion in an alley near his home at 241 N. Richland
Ave. sent him to General Hospital
last night for first aid. He was sliding fromi an alley into Richland Ave. his sled and a car
driven by Richard Woodson, 101 |
Koehne 8t. collided.
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Pardon Granted Pastor Declares Lies
Diplomatic quarters’ believed today : | i : {the United States might yet ob- Who Bu rned Churc Are Employed 3 4)
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Pontiff Laments Failure of Big 4
By J. EDWARD. MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 24— His Holiness Pope Pius XII warned the world today that the ‘sinister light of new conflict” already was flashing on the horizon, He deplored the failure of the Big Four conference in London
which he attributed “to Internae
tional insincerity and mistrust. The Pontiff in an ominously sole
emn Christmas Eve broadcast said Europe. and the world were at a turning point of their destiny in a
'crisis whose gravity was unques-
tionable. The world Is further than ever from real peace, definite recovery and over-all justice, the pontiff sad. He indicted international deception and lying as dignified to a new strategic system. “
Falsehoods Glorified “The supporters of falsehood and of .discord,” he declared, “with all ranks of profiteers whom they carry {behind them, are rejoicing at the |llusion that their hour is near. “The brand on the brow of our time and the source of its disrup« |tion and decadence is the tendency {every day more obvious toward in- | sincerity. : “No. Today it amounts practically {ty -» wystem. It has been ‘raised to ithe distinction of a strategy in \which the lie, the garbled word of
{the accepted weapons of offense which some people wield with the | skill of professionals, even boast{ing of their competence.” Nowhere did the Pope mention communism difectly. But he did say that his strong words were intended for those “denying the doce trines of faith in God" and of the “propagators of fallacious intene tions” studying to “drag their: peo= ples on the path ofg ruin.” Sowers of Discord In a clear reference to the recent Communist-led disorders in Rome, {the Pope spoke of “messengers of a | conception of world and human society founded on disbelief and violence, who have turned themselves into sowers of discord.” | © The church, he said, cannot ut {tear the mask from: the “forgers of lies who come forward as wolves in sheep's clothing, as founders and pioneers of a new golden age.” Again without naming the Unitéd Nations, he said, in deploring the titanic struggle between “two opposed spirits who dispute the world,” that: “If hatred is enough to gather around the spirit of evil men which everything indicates would eémr must divide one frcm the other, {what could not love do to“gather in
polis residents to contribute to The Times Clothe-A-Child to provide (nce among which highness of
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PE views, nobility of sentiments, mutual (UP) ' d y Clothe-A-Child's job for 1947 won't he completed with the dawn of gc frerings have established among day ana, evVershristmas. Times shoppers will be taking more children to the stores them ties far stronger_and tighter mont . the day after Christmas . , . and for as long as money is received. than - divergencies which might sout!™ * establish Last year children were clothed g,4q thirty-five of them were out- separate them? erab! Score Ye tor two’ days after Christmas vim fitted yesterday. Of that number | ~ Wall of Hopelessness No additional money sen to 1® 49 were guests of “donors—those in- “It is to millions of men ready the s your pat Times on Christmas Day, dividuals who take children to the to adhere to such a world league houses | Indianapolis has “Tes pon ATA ores and spend Their own “Honey whose. foundation is the Bethlenem lines s OUY MOV generously to this year's Clothe=A- 0 "buy clothes messdage~whose indivisible leader is # phoon . I {Child need, When shappers began vesterday was another big day the King of Peace who appeared in 1 Whidb ever 0 Oltheir last before-Christmas round for cash donations. Topping the the manger that in this hour we id the nr of the stores today, 1242 children cree rvddress our fervid exhortations.’ ‘hal yn) TO TH had heen clothed. One hundred (Continued ~n Page 7—Column 1) His indirect reference to the faile . _ ure of the London conference cams Fam sincere T 0 of 1947 Yea rs A Oo (Continued on Page 7—Column 17) Even nto Yo r Y ! rr - 3, 4 ELG . I Cemetery on the east slope. They of-Rachel, an ancient reminder of Goes One Better Y.a0nar ~N Well-MAR oid the bodies of men who were the valley of the shadow of death : togethe your col killed by ‘a bomb at the Damascus into which each woman who is with On Yule Trees a 2 Gate, child must enter. A 4 to'1 exasper On the west slope thére are; It was here that Rachel, wife of WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 UP) mall ’ da buried: four Jews whose convoy was Jacob, died in childbirth while the Realtor Clarke Datel sot mad when it. Je how 1t h ambushed last week near the Pool family was moving to Hebron. The he read that Elliott Roosevelt was of Solomof tomb was nearly 2000 years old on Selling Christmas trees from his Thre every em on down the shiny macadam the day that Mary and Joseph family s Hyde Park estate for $1 nel . oad vou. come to two dark|/turned off the high road toward apiece to make Christians out of. ” me uding plotches—the blood of two young Bethlehem tree dealers. * Thee lla Arabs who were shot down a week Tts solid square walls and white ~The late President's son accused killed selimg— go tonight dome- couldnt have looked much the dealers of price gouging. clash: bilit “a nv different than they do today, Today, Mr. Daniel posted. s sign Negev anu y HALF WAY through the journey a sn = on some property in nearby Mary~ : . ou. come to the Well of Rest.| AT DUSK you eome to: Bethle- land where he owns 500 trees. It o : ‘AL L OF Fhere, tradition says, Mary and Jo- hem. The streets still wind nar- read: “Time ’ kph paused on their way to Beth- rowly past shops: men still loaf in, “Free Christmas tree—to make # ' 2 and grat bhem. the doorways: children still scam- Christian out of Elliott Roosevelt.” - 4 v . ¥ The same worn boulder is still per up and down the broad rock tow Smeciatts Ati | *% ] . ve 4 : we offer ere, still shaded by olive groves. steps between the. street levels. Nylon-Masked Bandit ¢ , : ; "his place is aptly named the Well Their mothers still shout at them : ¢ Classst vo wishes ta : Escapes With $20 : : . , r ¥ f Rest, for under the olive .to be careful of ME « of, ' : ‘ : ; Comp ue igh Sy for the Jranches off the road there is peace’ But the most important thing— A bandit who peered through a " Editor . 3 ’ l l nd quiet. . ‘ untouched by time—in Bethlehem thin nylon stocking pulled over hia Po i : : of your COLLY The noise of trac on tite high- is the hope of peace that was head last night held up Mrs. Lue aS UN ¢ : * RH ’ ye ; ay comes only as a faint hum; |brought here ages ago when twolcille Green, 50, manager of Jghy ‘Home . gy y h i : 5 ord ps a : pot ah # wn ; tired travelers slowly made their| Model Ice Cream Co. 727 E. Miche N I . a i . 'L. STRA|ON FARTHER it is ®ime to turn| way toward a manger ii the late fgan St, and escaped with $20. Ruth . ‘ te = | It the mai road toward Bethle- evening twilight of the first Christ-| A lohg, black overcoat added to + Movies ‘ pm. That brings you to the Tomb|mas Eve, i the oddity of his attire, 5 : he . . : ; . o : ry i. : ? “Lod i