Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1948 — Page 1
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Tighten Suchow Grip
Spearhead of 100,000 Communists
Strikes at Bastion Fro
NANKING, Nov. 18 (UP)—Five Communist columns totaling 100,000 men were driving on Suchow from the southeast today, and thrust a spearhead within seven “miles of the imperiled Nationalist bastion, a special government communique reported. Nationalist headquarters at Suchow claimed a big victory at dawn after an all-night battle at Pantangchen, seven miles south-|/twisted metal in the jail house
east of Suchow. Despite the victory claim, the special communique distributed by the official Central - News Agency shaped up as an acknowledgment of ‘a hitherto unreported Communist threat to bypassed Suchow, 200 miles northwest of Nanking. Cut Off Railway A Communist flanking swing around Suchow already had cut the trunk railway south of the city, while one of the hottest sectors of the entire Suchow front was reported to be along the lateral railroad 25 to 50 miles east of the Kiangsu bastion. Thus the reported Communist push against the city from the southeast indicated that the prongs of the half moon arc around Suchow were being pressed closer together, posing an apparent threat of complete encirclement. The special communique reported that the five Communist columns were driving on Suchow from the southeast in an effort to relievg government pressure on Communist - forces retreating in the area of Nienchuang, 33 miles east of Suchow. Battles Seesaw The battle in the Suchow environs ended in a “total Communist defeat,” the communique reported. It said the Communists suffered 20,000 casualties in addition to losing several thousand prisoners and large quantities of arms.
TH ry 59th YEAR—NUMBER 221 >
Chinese Reds Cut Off
The India
napolis Times
FORECAST: Rain tonight. Rhin mixed with snow and colder tomorrow. Low tonight, 45-48. High tomorrow, 50.
Nanking,
m Southeast 46 Devices Smashed
Since Nov. |
A mass of springs, gears and]
yard was all that remained to-|
Dulles Takes Over day of a multi-million dollar slot machine racket in Marion County.
y i Put as Sheriff Magenheimer) Marshall S UN Job land his deputies swung 12-pound| b X isledges on a heap of 20 slot may \ 4
g | |chines this morning, a new league Truman E evafes _|of one-armed bandits was report- |
Dewey's Adviser ed forming in the county to take
{over where he old racket left off. a Nv um The 20 slots, worth a conservapointed John Foster Dulles act- tive $10,000 in all, were ordered
{destroyed * Saturday by Circuit ing chairman of the U. 8. delega- |, ice Claycomb. Eleven of them ton to jhe United Nations meet- | ere seized from the Liberal View| mgs nl Ris, dvi foreign | “¢a8ue Club, 2927 Bluff Rd, and| li 5 t Ha: a Ny Ore'an nine from another recreation cenpo/iey Jo Omas it, Jewey cUl-jor in Stenger’s Oasis, 5555 Madi-| ing the presidential campaign, ,,, "sve, in State Police raids | will serve as acting chief of the Their ‘destruction brought the delegation during the absence of total of machines broken up in| Secretary of State George C.\iho county since Nov. 1 to 46. | Marshall. Mr. Marshall is coming mp ege included’ three slots thei home to confer with Mr. Truman gherisf pounded into scrap in a
in Washington on Monday. raid on the Town and Country!
The Presidént also appointed ciyp, 4400 N. Keystone Ave., last] Benjamin Cohen, an alternate night.
delegate to the UN General Assembly, to serve as chief delegate All Take Turn temporarily. Mr. Cohen, a native] Also included in the grand to-| of Muncie, Ind., will replace” War- tal were 20 machines destroyed ren R. Austin who is ill. Nov.. 1 on orders of Magistrate Announcement of the appoint-| Wetter. Six of these were seized
ference between President Tru-|Rear Acton, four from a hall at man and Defense Secretary Five Points, and 10 more from asJames Forrestal. sorted restaurants, taverns and] The Dulles appointment was the filling stations. first affirmative action bolstering|, Sheriff Magenheimer ceremonthis country’s bi-partisan han- ously began the destruction of dling of foreign affairs since Mr. |the Liberal View and Oasis slots Truman beat Gov. Dewey in the this morning. He took a dozen
The propaganda battle of con-| flicting claims subsided, appar-| ently reflecting a like condition]
on the fighting fields. Veteran|To Havana for Visit
observers of the Chinése civil war noted that battles sometimes seesaw for months, and the one
N ter Margaret arrived here today panted: now going on in north Kiangsu| : seemed to be following the pat- On a surprise visit. They arrived |
tern.
can view was that the situation
was serious enough to warrant| the departure from China of all|
Americans who were not prepared to face grave hazards. (Washington announced that 1250 U. 8. Marines were leaving Guam next Tuesday to reinforce the Marine garrison of 3600 at Tsingtad, and to help evacuate American citizens from China. The U. 8. fleet at Tsingtag normally comprises three cruisers, 12 destroyers.)
Marines Won't Fight
Unless Attacked WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UP) ~Official quarters . said today American Marines at Tsingtao will fight Chinese Communists only if the Reds attack them or threaten U. 8. civilians. Officials emphasized that the Marine reinforcements were ordered only to safeguard evacuees. U. 8. Marine and naval forces are expected to continue training of Chinese Nationalist seamen at Tsingtao as long as possible after the evacuation is completed.
Chinasq Reported . rear.
PT ‘ \ i Full of Defeatism NANKING, China, Nov. 18 (UP)—Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek sent a personal letter to President Harry 8. Truman, it was revealed today. Well-in-formed sources said it probably contained an appeal for a statement of “sympathy, solidarity and support.” Chinese Information Director Hollington Tong said his government did not intend to release the text. . It was believed that Chiang had asked for a flat statement by the President to check a spreading feeling in Kuomintang, China, that the United States had decided to “abandon the Nanking government to its own fate.”
Rain, Warmer Due Here Tonight
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m..42 10 a. m... 56 7a m..43 11 a. m... 57 8 a. m... 46 12 (Noon) 59 9 a. m... 50 1 p. m... 60
Rain and warm temperatures tonight were predicted today by the Weather Bureau. Tomorrow is expected to bring rain mixed with occasional snow. Near-freezing temperatures will prevail by . nightfall, with fresh or strong winds.
{Harry 8. Truman and her daugh-|tion streaming down his face,
5 {liamsburg. They are expected to! Nev s pected. to evertheless the official Ameri [return to Key West before sun- Foxworth and Paul Madison. They hich Indi Purd wn. |completed the chore. The scrap| IU coeds and the Old Oaken Bucket, which indiana and Purdue
Nov. 2 election. whacks at the $500 machines with ' : the 12-pound sledge. Truman S Folks Sail Then he passed the hammer to his chief deputy Jake Green, who pounded away with a will. At HAVANA, Nov. 18 (UP)—Mrs. length, Deputy Green, perspira-
| “Here, I'm out of éondition. You
{guys take over.” The boys were Deputies Harry |
aboard the presidential yacht Wil-
= will be sold to the highest bidder and the proceeds will go to Christmas charities, said the o
Clothes Than Mom, 1. of clas |
: Meanwhile, the plot to replace Says Washington x slots was reportéd hatching] NARI.
- {under the supervision of a new WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UP) [group of “operators” who were —The average husband spendsisaid to be importing ‘expensive’ more money on clothes than his/ machines into town from Chiwife does. |cago and Detroit. The Labor Department reports “The machines ain't here yet,” that in the average city house- said an informant, “but they got hold, the husband's clothing ex-|lots of class. Better than the penses range from $128 to $159 ones they had. New models a year. The wife spends from you might say.” $111 to $139. | Sheriff Magenheimer said he Aside from the incidentals hadn't heard any such rumors that go to make up the average at all. He said amy slots he tamily’s clothing budget, Department found the missus under the hammer. buys a heavy Wwbol coat every| “Of course,” he said, “what four years, and four dresses and happens after Jan. 1 is out of three pairs of shoes a year. {my bailiwick, so to speak.”
= = = HUSBANDS, the report said, . average one heavy wool sut, Detective Chief's
every two years, one light wool
sult every three years, and ave Sister Dies at bb
shirts and two pairs of shoes a
Pop Buys More
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- A shopping accident Saturday °, The Department said it wasn’t afternoon, today. resulted in the at all surprised by the results death of Miss Mary O'Neil, 3601
|of its survey. Men have been n pMeridian St. sister of Chief of (outspending women on clothes
|“since grandma's day,” the De- Detectives John J. O'Neal. {partment said, but they neyer, Miss O'Neil, who was 66, died {would admit it. of complications in 8t. Vincent's 3 Hospital, resulting fr a broken Liner to Sail leg which she suffered when she SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Nov. 18, Was caught in the revolving (UP)—The liner Queen Elizabeth, [d00r of a downtown department delayed by the U. S. maritime Store. strike, will sail Saturday at noon| A lifelong resident of Indianapfor Halifax, the Cunard Line an-|0lis, Miss O'Neil was secretary to nounced today. If the strike ends P2niel Tobin, president of the Inwhile the liner is en route, it wag| ternational Teamsters Union for expected to be diverted to New 40 years, until her retirement York. about one year ago. | The body was to be removed toDe o /day to the Blackwell Funeral Rita, Aly Leave Mexico Home from which it will oe taken MEXICO CITY, Nov. 18 (UP) Saturday at ‘a time to be an—Rjta Hayworth , and her nounced, to St. Joan of Arc Cathwealthy Indian prince, Aly Kahn, olic Church where services will whose names have been linked be held. Burial will be in Holy romantically since last summer, Cross. : left here today for Havana,| : Besides Chief O'Neal, she fis Cuba, for a week's stay in the'survived by a sister, Mrs. Charles island capital. |L. Barry.
Eviction Order Won't End Life of the English Hotel
Owner Will Move Famed Hostelry Into New
Location at Meridian and Michigan Sts.
By HAROLD HARTLEY, Times Business Editor The historic English Hotel on the Circle may return to dust in
Today's high of 65 will drop to other location.
a low of 45-48 tonight. The temperature is not expected to go above 50 degrees tomorrow.
Mickey Finn— .
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UP)—Mrs. Juanita Cuffie told police that a neighbor, incensed over a craps game dispute, put ground glass in her rice dinner - to get even. When she discovered it about
halfway through her meal, she
said, she rushed to a hospital The neighbor was arrested on a charge of assault with intent to kill.
|permanent guests and his Eng-|
Dr. 8. B, Friedland, operator of the hotel, today announced his purchase of the old Meridian Apartment building on the northwest corner of Meridian and Michigan Sts. He said he will move his
lish-trained staff of 50 employees] The Meridian Apartments were to the new location ag soon as it bought from- Chester Robinson, can be renovated. |vice president of the Fidelity Dr. Friedland, owner of the Trust Co. Mr. Robinson was rephotel since 1943, expects to spend resented in the sale by Howard $200,000 on the real estate and Fieber and Jack Dyer of Fieber remodeling. & Reilly, realtors. Honeymooners Return Dr. Friedland was represented “We have hundreds of guests by William B. Miller, his attorney. who honeymooned in the English| Dr. Friedland also owns the coming back to observe their | Stratford Hotel on W. Market St., anniversaries,” Dr. Friedland|the Michigan Hotel at Michigan
return to English hospitality,|sold the York Hotel at Illinois and
address. We'll keep the atmos-|tel in Joliet, Ill, and the Greerphere the same.” v Lincoln Hotel in Danville, Ill : : Em Cas ‘
(Photo on Page 3) |
ments preceded a luncheon con-|&t & place called the Dude Ranch|
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1948
Sntered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice ally
ndianapolis, Ind. Issued Dall
FINAL HOME
PRICE FIVE CENTS
mth State Restores 300,000
Gals, Glamour and Glory for Goldsberry
nice 0iCut From City Budget
More Police, Pay Boosts Now Possible
Overrules Slash Made by County The State Tax Board toe day restored $300,000 to the |City’s budget to expand the {Police Department and give pay raises to all officers. The money restored to the budget was the amount cut out {of Mayor Feeney's proposed police spending program by the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board last September. City officials appealed the ree ductions to the State Tax Board on the ground that the cuts would cripple the Police Department and handicap the city's campaign to curb crime. Part of the $300,000 ordered restored to the budget will go to the police and firemen’s pension fund, which algo was cut by the county tax board. The State Board ordered civil tax rate raised from the $1.756 approved by the county board to $1.806, an increase of five cents to raise the additional $300,000, 50 New Officers Of the b5-cent raise, the State Board specified that 4.3 cents be earmarked for expansion of the Police Department and the ree maining fraction of a cent be al« located to raise more money for the police and firemen’'s pension fund. The additional money for the Police Department will be used to
mI : : RS a Sito > an ge ; i a We ¥ " Ee ih ‘ hire . 50 mete police officers and “Theres glamour attached #6 tollege football and Capt. John willstragglé*tor Saturday ot Lafayette.’ The coeds (left To Tight) raise the pay of all present patrolGoldsberry, senior tackle ot Indiana University, is not one to are Mary Kratz, Ogden Dunes, Ind.; Marilyn Molen, Hammond, (men $300 a year with a separate
pass it up. The South Bend gr
id star is shown here with three
and Eve Graham, Bloomington. to start for the Hoosiers agains
The veteran tackle is expected [scale of raises for ranking offi-
cers. The budget cut made by the
Heller Election Due Grocery Chain Hits Reports
As House Speaker
Democrats May Name Maehling Party Whip
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG | Indiana's Democratic (tors, flushed with victory, were
legisla-|
Of Admits Issuing $145
Last October as Cons CHICAGO, Nov. 18 (UP)—A that it issued $145,800,000 worth was no sign of a “coupon war” Indianapolis. | The “war” between an Ind
hicago Coupon War
Million in Certificates
umer Sampling Program Chicago grocery chain said today of coupons last month, but there similar to the one in progress in
County ' Tax “Board reduced the Bueher, of additional policemen
t the Riveters. The State Bodrd ix still consid
Dailey Faces Tiff Nie ne vi Br a pi rr a Over Appointments tion District and the City Health
Factions ‘in Battle Convicted Slayers Get ' For Control 3d Stay of Execution
A major political storm is rag-| The Indiana Supreme Court
ing behind the scenes between ianapolis chaim and independentirs inne in the Democratic Party
tdday granted two convicted slayers of two Hammond police
the found in the future would” come | ,¢ the General Assembly. wae |
| cat a onaahes. vp he FEocte if that city broke out wh
(House in a pre-assembly caucus: : { {meeting here today. Me ent al al | Mr. Heller, a veteran in the {House, was floor leader of the! S t Pi kl .
[minority during the 1947 session Faces Limbo After
Among the Senators, Walter Ruling on Pricing
Vermillion was considered most| The nickel candy bar, mid-af-likely to continue as head of his{ternoon snack of millions of group. He was minority leader in| Amer ns, may soon be pigeon{the Senate in 1947. holed as‘a pleasant memory. { Faces Opposition The little candy bar is up
| ’
H. Maehling, Terre Haute real eatate and insurance salesman, was| |being mentioned for Mr. Heller's spot as party whip.
jopposition forming against him of cemént. this morning? Among those also| It's like this. mentioned for the post were Von! The Supreme Court ruling on A. Eichhorn of Uniondale, and the “basing point” system of pricLeo J. Stemle of Jasper, both vet- ing and delivering cement will erans of the last session. {practically knock the peanuts out | The back-slapping Democrats of the candy bar business. It may were to lunch in Hotel Lincolnleven scrape off some of the paperland then move into caucus this|thin chocolate, too, if the Supreme |afternoon. State Chairman Ira/Court ruling sticks. |Haymaker was expected to divide; omer J. Williamson of Wil-
{the caucus into House and Senate|}jamgson’s Wellmade Candies, told [bodies after tossing the prelim-i¢pe Senate trade policies subcom{inary bouquets. {mittee that a nickel candy bar
| In downtown hotel lobbies thisiy qc t4 pe just that, whether you imorning, the legislators were
|handing each other one tongratu[lation after another. Spirits were high, and the principal joke was the $300 chairs the Republicans {had provided them in the remod |eled assembly chambers.
Post, Nev. : He said if the Supreme Court's
“|will be sold only in retail estab- | : lishments near the candy factory. | Other topics of discussion were! |, ” = the cigaret tax which the Demo-! So far as I know,” Mr. Wil
crats have pledged to repeal ang /liams warned the subcommittee,
“no manufacturer of a known[the soldier bonus which they have| ~~ J candy bar will ‘be able {pledged to pass. Biggest question ive.l Yocal market” was “where is the money going to Survive in 8 10 mn i
a PSC OK's Bid for Sale a oa LIL i Bet ort of Dunkerque
Series D. First Mortgage bonds PARIS. Nov. 18 (UP)—8trong Dean H. Mitchell,
forces of ‘French troops gnaiihe Pu oe
president of Co., an-
security guards were rushed to-|
buy it in Bangor, Me,, or Painted’
decision is not changed through Reports reached Bombay today {legislation, the nickel candy bar
en the chain mailed coupon books worth’ $5.50 in trade to every home. The'independent marchants immediately offered to honor the chain's coupons, and the battle was on. V. 'S. Bauman, sales manager of the Chicago chain, said his firm “started the recent coupon wave in Chicago, Oct. 14, as a consumer sampling program.” “Nobody started any kind of a war, but one other chain, without issuing coupons, did meet our coupon reduction offer on 10 of the {items listed,” Mr. Bauman said.
[Uctions on cheese, soap, paper napkins, salad dressings, soap flakes, macaroni, ipuddings and chocolate. Carl Bromann, secretary of the Associated Food Dealers of greater Chicago, said his organization filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission Oct. 26 about the issuance of the coupons and he expected that the commission was investigating.
He said there was no price war {underway but that the association {considered the coupons “unfair.”
aun, — ~~ ju Report 500 Drowned BOMBAY, Nov. 18
However, there appeared to heiagainst a Wall. 204 of, stone, buts. He said ar xs coupons ; got oH i? Ui
(UP)—
that an estimated 500 persons were drowned when a steamer capsized in the Ganges River at Patna in Bihar province.
VeE come assignments in the Hea a stay of execution to Jan, forthcoming administration o Presecutor-elect George Dailey, it nl SXetution of Rat nen was learned today.’ postponed from Nov. 29. It was One of the planks in Mr.|the third stay of execution for ‘Dailey's campaign platform wasithe pair, originally scheduled to {an emphatic pledge that his|gie in the electric chair at Michie “hands will not be tied” by any gan City, Ind, state prison _last special privilege groups, poistical Mar, 19. : or otherwise. He announc a The Supr he would make his 30 or more|them a pre ane Too Reig Save staff appointments “‘without pres- again stayed execution to Nov, sure from anybody.” 29. Twelve days ago, Brown and But the ink was not even dry Bedgley petitioned the court for on the vote tabulations of Mr.|a third stay. Dailey’s election when factions
ay ee behind the scenes began a fight- Remove Rent Controls
to-finish, struggle over control of oF seme ~f**~appointments. IN Montgomery County The. crux of the tussle isscen-| - WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UP) {tering around the assignment of|—All of Montgomery County ex‘two special investigators from|CePt Union Township and the the Police Department to Mr. Portion of New Market within Dailey’s staff. Just why these as- Scotts Township today were re. signments are important to cer-jmoved from rent control. tain political groups has not been| The action was taken by Hous« explained. ing Expediter Tighe E. Woods. But the rumor going around.the| Surveys made by the housing Police Station is that two lieuten-|28ency, he said, showed that the ——— demand for housing has been (Continued on Page 8-—Col. 8) reasonably met in the Indiana: defense rental area, and in two other areas in Centreville, Miss, and Logan, Utah.
Judge Sues for 48¢
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich,
* {Nov. 18 (UP)—Municipal Court bal Ti authorities said today that Judge Stadium Ahead by $2
John La Rock plunked down a $3] CLEVELAND, Nov. 18 (UP)— court fee to file a suit for recov-| The huge Municipal Stadium here, ery of 48 cents allegedly over-|Seating some 80,000 persons, has charged by Michigan Bell Tele-{80ne into the black for the first: phone Co. time since its opening in 1931, it
Produces Big 25,000 Square Yards
CEDAR LAKE, Ind. Nov.
of thé Northern Indiana Pubiic/farmland is bulging up 15 feet in what soil experts described [Service Co. has been accepted,{today as an “agricultural phenomenon.” | About 25,000 square yards of earth has bulged 15 feet higher
‘than the surrounding land.
Hoosier Farm Bulges,
Above Surrounding Land at Cedar Lake
was disclosed today. Aided by record-breaking baseball and football crowds, the Stadium this year has a grand total of $2 in the profit column, Commissioner Paul Hurd reported.
On Inside
U. 8., British “honeymoon” on Palestine appears to + be over ...........Page 2
Corn Crop
of Earth Rises 15 Feet
18 (UP)—Henry Huppenthal’'s
Mr. Huppenthal, himself, described it as “an eruption of the City Council to study anti-
the next few months, but the time-glorified name will go on in an-
night to Dunkerque, where 2000 striking dock workers barricaded themselves behind the locked iron gates of the port. The longshoremen’s strike scheduled to paralyze all French ports next Monday already was effective at the channel port, and the situation there was described |as -serious. Strikers seized port entrances and locked the iron gates which were put up by the Germans during the occupation. They reinforced them with wire, barrels and packing cases, and pushed freight cars up behind the barricades. )
tsaid, “and we still want them to/and Delaware Sts. He recently REP. DELANEY DIES NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UP)= even if it has to be at a new|New York Sts; the Woodruff Ho-|Rep. John J. Delaney (D.N.Y.) . died at his home in Brooklyn to- The Sunday Times
day. He was 70.
?
| The proceeds from the sale of ithe Series D. bonds will be applied to the cost of the construction program now under way, Mr. Mitchell said.
$10 Million Baby
@® There's drama in junk - . +. and it's worth millions of dollars in Marion County. i ® You may think prices | are high in America, but they're higher in Turkey, as a Hoosier bride-to-be
discovered. ® These and other features — and 26 color
comics—you'll-find in
phosphorous and hydrogen.
earth’s core.” He said he was puz-, zled, but not annoyed, because the erupting soil is richer and produces bumper crops.
stem of the plant could not support the heavy yield.
#n » = A “BABY eruption” occurred 8 Has {about 100 yards northwest of the MR. HUPPENTHAL said the land began to swell 10 years ago, Ar8e: bulged Section, wits the b {same type of soil coming to the Rich; black earth has eens, thrown atop the clay by the phenomenon, and Mr. | has been able to produce morei, shed upward by @n under-! than 110 bushels of corn to the ground stream, or spring. The acre. larea continues to swell actively, Wind py, a hetiand Jige Stacks appear frequent alo e earth's surface. depth of six feet. Chemical anal-| ~ The undefground stream theory ysis: showed that the raised earth ;. supported by the fact that is silt loam with an excellent con-ignajis usually found near bodies tent, of organic matter, nitrogen, or water, populate the Huppen-
' thal farm, although the nearest Mr. Huppenthal said the rich- lake is four miles away. ness of the loam was shown when
Mr. Huppenthal said geologists!
smoke programs in - Pittsburgh and St. Louis ............Page 8 Photos of Sonja Henie's ice revue at Coliseum rink ............Page-19
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