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59th YEAR—NUMBER 239

A Child's Dream. ~ .. Santa. ci and Happiness

ior Are Jailed in Safety Drive

4 lose Licenses On Drunk Charges

Municipal Court judges today

put teeth in ‘the police depart- A

ments ecrack-down edict on' local traffic violators by handing out 11 Jail terms. The sentences ranged from one day in jail for speeding to 10 days

in jail and a year's suspended Hs

cense for drunken and reckless driving.

Hardest hit was Melvon Carl-|

ton, 23, of 1325 N. Illinois St. He was fined $100 and costs in addition to having his license sus-

pended for one year and getting|

a 10-day jail term on charges of operating a motor. vehicle while Intoxicated and ‘reckless driving. Charles Reed, 27, of the Stone Hotel, was fined $50 and costs and sentenced to 10 days in jail on a ‘echarge of driving while intoxicated. His license was revoked for six. months. Maintains “Spirit” The 10-day jail térms and fines weére imposed by Judge Alex M. Clark in Municipal Court™4, Judge Joseph Howard main-

tained the “spirit of ‘the drivé% ¥ by handing out nine short term

jail sentences on lesser charges. Virgil Lynn, 44, of 802 S. Illi‘nois 8t., was" fined $25 and costs and sentenced to three days in jail: on charges of reckless and drunken driving. Among the violators who received one-day jail terms in addition to fines was Ed 8S. Bohlander, 21, of 1516 E. 10th St. He was also fined $10 and his license suspended for one year on a charge of reckless and drunken driving. License Suspended Woodrow Pruitt, 35, of 1534 Blaine Ave., charged with drunken driving, was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to five das in jail. His license was suspended for six months. Speeders ‘who received one day Jail terms in addition to a fine of $1 and costs follow: Theodore Clayton, 41, of 6031 : James C. Leaiim, 22, 2368. Meridian St.; Frank Shultz, 52, Williamsburg: Ray L. Wade, 37, of 1230 N. Parker Ave.; Howard Werner, 23, of Ft. Wayne, and Rouvert McKee, 46, of 2448 N. Illinois St.

BULLETIN Three bandits armed with pistols, held up the First Federal and Savings Bank of Shelbyville at 12:50 p. m. today. ‘No immediate estimate of loot was available.

Rise Expected In-Mercury Here -

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. m... 32 10a m...38 Ta. m... 32 - 11 a.m... 40 8a. ™... 833 12 (Noon) 42 9am... 35 1pm... 438

A low of reached in Indianapolis this! morning at 6 a. m., after a steady drop in temperature during g 10 “the Weather|

* “Bureau. ~A-rise to 45-degrees-is expected rapped and face annihilation un-

today, which will be fair and windy. Tonight will be colder, with a predicted low. of 25 degrees and diminishing winds. The flow of cold air From the northwest will slow down tomorrow., The. Weather Bureau said tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high of 45 degrees. Elgewhere in the country at least 20°were dead in week-end accidents attributed to the weather.

2 Local Persons

Hurt in Crash

“WE” Yndfanapolis persons: were hospitalized in South Bend today after they were injured in an airplane crash Saturday night. Injured in the crash of a BT 13 near Argos were Ray and Mary Oglesby, 528 W. 40th St. They were in fair condition in Memorial Hospital today. The pilot was John Leyinthol. The plane crashed and landed in 4 tree at the north edge of Argos Saturday night. They were en route from Indianapolis to Lafayette and apparently Rew off their course and into” woods.

Christmas Bird Will Cost More

That bronze-breasted bird which goes into the family oven early

Christmas morning will cost a]

little more than at Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving" prices for tabledressed turkeys averaged around 87 cents with New York dressed at 57 cents. - The best guess of poultry mer-chandisers-is that they will be up| from 5 to 10 cents a pound. * The reason is that there is a genuine shortage and families insist on. turkey for Christmas if they have to do without something else. It's a sure fire market with too few .birds to go around,| poultry men said today.

NATIONALLY FAMOUS FOR FINKE FOOD. sity's offer to head .its athletic

AMQUS FOR STEAK ‘FOR. 36 YEARS. A rs Restaurant, 14 E. Obie. Adv.

32 degrees was |Chinese. Communist radio coun-| pg,

Mary ‘Jo Phelan, 3. 501 Markwood Ave.

Joe Loudenback, 2. | 3701 Fletcher Ave.

4616 E. 35th St.

he has existed as long as the

Many children have ask

Anita Louise Mapdor, 18 months.

Santa Claus and Mary Beth Yarling of Anderson A “But | am a good little girl."

‘Randy Walt, 3.

ONCE A YEAR, children like Gires-year-id Mary "Beth Yarling of Anderson make a pilgrimage to tell a

very old man what is in their hearts. -

The man in whom they confide their secret wisties § is

so venerable, indeed, that his origin is lost in the mist of ~ the beginnings of mankind, of children and of wishes. It is recorded somewhere that Santa Claus is the product of the collective imagination of children and that

re have been children on this

earth, and that is quite a long time.

ed The Times why it is that

Santa appears in many places at the same time—in department stores and on the streets.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948

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Mayor Warns

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"WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UP)

Sumner Welles Warns

- Former Communist and Man He Accused ~Appear*at Federal Grand" Jury Hearing

Chambers Documents

Publish,

~—Former Undersecretary of State

Of Crackdown On Gambling -

No ‘Go 0 Sign’

{Given Here, Feeney Says

Police Push Probe x

Sumner Welles has advised House spy investigators that publication of some of the stolen State Department microfilmed d6cuments surrendered by ex-Communist Whittaker ‘Chambers would be harm-

* Of Basketball Parlays

Any attempt to organize a

1254 Madison Avid.

Jackie Nefi, 5. R. R. 14, Box 146 ‘:

ful to the nation. Mr. Welles gave the advice vestigator for the House- UnAmerican * Activities Committee, at a conference late last night. In New York Mr. Chambers and| Alger Hiss, former State Depart-| ment employee,

about the documents. investigator,

also entered the

| {grand jury room. He sald he was] [delivering some “documents” to be offered as evidence in the in-'

vestigation. The “documents”

+ were believed to be the films,

Welles to be “Invited” Mr. Welles was undersecretary of state during the years 1837 and-1938--the time in which the

' {documents were filched from the

Charles Carter, 5. 1999 N. La Salle St.

Photos by Henry E. Glesing Jr; Times Staff Photograber,

, EVEN, have asked if there isa Sante Claus.

Pamela Joe Cook, 4, Anderson.

. children who believe in These are some of ~childpén who came © town to speak to Santa Claus. They had many things to tell him, One might see here sifaply the ‘Santa who inhabits the Wm. H. Block Co. But Mary Beth, little Charles, Joey, Mary Jo and others saw much more than that; i as they all are with the special vision of childhood.

Trap 22 Divisions,

Chinese Reds Say,

Counter Nationalist Victory Reports

| NANKING, Dec. 6 (UP) — The

/tered -government claims of vic-

the{tories at. the. approaches. to. Nan-|

[iing- today with-the-assertion that! 22 Nationalist divisions have been

less they surrender. Pro-government reports said that Kuchen, 130 miles north of Nanking, had --been .. recaptured and that Chiang Kai-shek’s forces were “driving the Communists: in retreat tothe northwest. But the Communist radio promptly broadcast claims that three, Nationalist army groups, had run headlong into a Com-| munfst trap as they fled southwest from fallen Suchow, and now were surrounded on the HonanKiangsu border, Identify Units

tified- the encircled troops asthe Second, Thirteenth and Sixteenth | Army groups, totaling 22 divisions under three Nationalist generals, Communist forces occupied Suchow, former defense bastion 200 miles _north of. Nanking, last week. Government reports said the city was evacuated 80 that forces there could move south to aid in fighting nearer Nanking. If the Communist claims were true, it would appear that the at-

from Suchow to fight their way southwest to a junction with other Nationalist forces in the area north of Pengpu had failed.

erin Protection |

For Yanks Due Soon By Seripps-Howard Newspapers SHANGHAI, Dec. 6—U. 8. Ma’ rines are expected to land any

hand in the protection of Ametican lives and property. At is understood billeting accommodations~ have been set up to. care for 2000 men out of the 5000 stationed in Tsingtao. How {soon they will come probably will {depend on the rate of Chinese military déterioration north of the Yangtze,

Accepts Pift “Offer WASHINGTON, Dee. 8 (UP)— (Capt. Tom Hamilton, U. 8. Naval | Academy athletic director, accepted today Pittsburgh Univer-

iprogr

The Communist broadcast iden-|®

tempt of the Nationalist troops|

day now in Shanghai.to take alfor you.

J Sccused of taking bribes from a,

“First Call to Needy

quarters with their ankles bare per.”

-A-Child this year. Among’ the first groups was one| little fellow five years Dl aI his’ “brother, “too—whose wo shoes were pulled over their t Ty stockingless feet. “Put on your coat,” one 1ittre: boy. was® told -when it was time

to take him to- the" store for] new;

clothes. ‘I Don’t Have One’ : It ‘was pathetic to hear his reply “I-don’t have one.” Not ‘even a threadbare coat;-although most everyone else outside was

collar pulled up. None of the children in this family of five had a coat ... nor hat. Two of them came to Clothe-A-Child headquarters at 33 W. Washington St, wearing pajama pants instead of warm trousers. Those are only a few of the examples of where Clothe-a-Child dollars are going this Christmas, now that the job of outfitting the needy children is in full swing. How You Can Help YOU can help cover these bare heads, shivering shoulders and tender feet in these three ways: ONE-+-By sending your cash contribution to Clothe-A-Child, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland St. Your donation will be listed in the Times under whatever credit you designate. TWO-—-By laying coins on the Times Mile-O-Dimes on W. Washington St. in front of L. 8. Ayres & Co. and 8. 8. Kresge Co. .Uniformed: members of Firemen’s Post No. 42. of the American Le{gion will lay dimes on the “mile”

THREE—By volunteering as a donor to take Clothe-A-Child children to the stores and spend your own money to buy the clothes they need. You may make

ing RI-5551.

OK'S ASHIDA’S ARREST TOKYO, Dec. 6 (UP) — The Japanese House of Representatives voted 140 to 120 today. to grant, the Tokyo district court authority to arrest former Premier Hitosht Ashida and two| other Diet members on bribery charges. * Mf.4 Ashida had been!

fertilizer company,

Clothe-A-Child Aids Boys Without Stockings or Coats

Of Pathetic Thinly Clad Children

By ART WRIGHT Little children are showing up at Times Clothe-A- Child head-

The first call for the needy children to report for new, warm clothing has brought out. heart- -rending evidence of the increased

wearing a coat, many with the .

a donor appointment by telephon- t

ifront tooth, , Lo

ds Boys Hunt 3 Youths in 9 Safe Thefts

Brings Turnout. ; ; Yeggs in ‘Collegiate’ ‘Sweaters Scared Off A trio of youthful safe-crackers [today were _sought by police in | connection with nine bold ‘burg-

laries Hes yesterday. Three .yeggs .in Sollegiate-typei

and. with shoes “thin as: tissue

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The Times 1948 'MILE-O-DIMES

Three-Day Estimate

8-Fulb- Lines ius $1198.80 The daily estimate is made at 8:30 -a. m. The Times Mile-O-Dimes - opened last Friday .at 10 a. m.. on W." Washington St.. in front of . L. 8. Ayres & Co. and 8S. 8. Kresge Co, : Each line is 88 feet long. There are 17 dimes-to a foot. Sixty lines make a full mile, a total of $8976, The Mile-O-Dimes—which collects your coins to be used for the "Times Clothe-A-Child is manned 24 hours a day by uniformed members of Firemen’s Post No. 42 of the American Legion,

Push Search for Missing Girl, 13

City and state police were asked today to join in the search for a 13-year-old girl who disappeared Saturday after a singing lesson. Barbara Egan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morse Egan, 2306 Talbot Ave. failed to return to choir lessons: from“a shopping expedition Saturday morning. :

man while attempting to crack a) safe at the Nick Kerz Dept. Store, ,, 3518 College Ave. : Police said that the tools and methods used by the young-ap-| pearing safe-crackers are “Similar to other cases Sunday.” Crash Through Door ~ H, B. Lynch, 52, Kerz store repair man? said the three men who were attempting to break into the safe, crashed through a plate glass door as he approached. He said they appeared to be “In their early 20's,” “Three Squads of police found a 20-pound sledge hammer, two pleces of pipe and a pair of snips near the rear door en where the men apparently had entered. . One of three safe-cracking jobs discovered this morning was at the Merchant's Plant of the Polar |Fuel ‘and Ice Co., 317 W. 16th St. Finds Safe Missing “Max Lehman, Pennsylvania St., told police he opened the office at 6 a.m. and found the safe missing. He said that $150 was among the safe’s contents. Yeggs also visited a tavern at West and 10th Sts. early today and took the safe out with them. Owner Isidore Marcus, 45, said the safe contained $30 in change. Also missing, he -reported, were ciga valued at $15 and $2 from the cash register. An attémpt to break into the Her parents told police Bar-| Davies . Fire. Brick..Co., 321... W,

[10th 8t., was believed thwarted bara had never run away from| home. They expressed fear she! | {Continued on » Page 3 Col. 5) The girl left Wilking Music| Co. after a singing lesson. Saturday. She ‘was to shop for o return for choir lessons at] BRONXVILLE, N. Y. Dec. 6 11:30 a. ‘m, | (UP)—1t yoy want to live to She did not return to the studio. (be a hundre “do everything,” when she failed to come home| Mr. La Salla celebrated his| Saturday night. Her parents 100th birthday last night. He checked the homes of friends and attributes his longevity to the her. ercises daily, drinks plenty of Her Meseriviion: B-feet-2; homemade wine, smokes black weight, 125 pounds; wn_hair;|cigars and sits up late two or

‘the government.

‘day’ “morning by. ‘a ‘maintenance

i» Hiss denied the

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State Department. He will be “in-

vited” to appear before the com-

mittee at public hearings starting tomorrow. Mr. Strioling refused to com-

“iment on his conference with Mr.

Welles. But from other sources it was learned that the former diplomat had been “very emphatic” in his advice not to disclose all information contained in the mierofilms of the documents. Fa microfilms were taken from pumpkin on the Maryland oo — of Mr. Chambers. Hearings into the case begin again Jorprew. And a likely wit. ness 8 Dhdartioretary of State Lovett.

ini Summon Sayre Rep. Richard M. Nixon (R. Cal.) a member of the House Un-Ameri-can Activities Committee, said he would recommend that Mr. Lovett be’ “called” some time after the hearings begin tomorrow, pre-

portance of the stolen records. In any event, Mr. Nixon said, the committee definitely will sub-

{pena former Assistant

of State Francis B. Sayre. In that

State Department superior of {Alger Hiss, a key figure in previous hearings on Communists “in

The microfilmed” documents were turned over to the committee Thursday by Mr. Chambers, who has said he was once a courier for a Red underground among - federal employees in Washington. He had .concealed them in. a hollowed-out pumpkin|

Exposure Promised -The--case stems. from--previous testimony in. which Mr. Chambers, now a senior editor on Time magazine, charged that Mr. Hiss was a member of the Commu-~i niiét underground ii his State Department days prior to 1938. Mr.

filed a $75,000 slander - suit against Mr. Chambers. Committee investigators an-

viouncea Saturday that they know

went before al federal grand jury for questioning

William Wheeler, a committee

sumably to - testify -on- the im- 8

post, Mr. Sayre was the immediate!

Gov. Gates Invokes

charge and has!

to Robert E, Styfpiing, chief in-

Ex.Communist Chambers

'Ex-U.S. Aid Hiss.

Anti-Strike Law

Names Mediator In Phone Disp Gov. ‘Gatés today

‘the wage dispute between workers and the Indiana Assoclrated I Corp.-by-invoking ithe 1947 -Indiana- public utility anti-strike law, The Governor, acting on a petittion from “ the “Communications Worke¥s of America, Indiana Div; 1, appointed Frank = Kolozar, ‘South ‘Bend. as mediator. The company, which operates {telephone service. throughout most of northern Indiana, has 568

who stole the papers from. the State Department and that the thief or thiéves will be exposed

at the hearings starting tomorrow,

Sight Survivors 0f Air Transport

37 Aboard Plane .

Down in Pacific HONOLULU, Dec. 6 (UP)—A| Navy Privateer Patrol reported today it has sighted the survivors of a U., 8. Airforce transport . that crash-landed in| the Pacific 1000 miles southwest of Honolulu with 37 persons aboard. The Airforce said the bomber messaged at 4:20 a. m., Indian-| apolis Time: “Circling survivors. Can ‘remain on station approxi. mately three and one-half hours.” The Navy ‘estimated’ the cargo ship Zelima could reach the .sur-

apolis Time.

PBY sighted two sets of flares 2 miles apart. The B-17 dropped a| lifeboat 100 yards away from where the first set was seen last night,

to tell in the darkness whether! {the survivors were able to reach| it. ; The transport went down yes-|

motors out, It c¢

had met with foul play. * . a ‘Aged in Would Christmas presents and planned Her family appealed’ to police| Francesco La Sala said today. relatives but found no trace of | fact that he takes setting up exblue eyes, and a o Sappeq three times a week Playing cards.

tary passengers an seven.

a crew of

bomber T|

vivors about .2:20 p. m,, Indian-|

Earlier, ‘a B-17 and a Navy|

However, the crew was unable |

|Editotials Vy

FOF} affected by the dispute. The petition was signed by Union President James Orr, who said the union ‘was taking this action “to settle.the dispute without a work ‘stoppage.” Under. the . law which affects only public utilities, the disput over contract issues between company and union may be subject to conciliation. If no agreement is reached in 30 days, the issue then goes to an arbitrator! before a strike can called. In filing the petition, the unjon maintained that an impasse had [been reached in negotiations, Iwhich have been going:on since | March.

Barkley to Speak NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UP) {Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley will discuss the coming Congress at a.dinner of business {and financial leaders at Town Hall on Dec. 15, it was announced.

{cache of more than 400

:!chines out of. private clubs in. the

gambling syndicate in Indianapolis will be met by a vigore ous police raiding campaign, Mayor Al Feeney wartied today following reports of. a

transfer in lottery pool Heket, operations last Saturday.

given anybody to take over any kind. of gaming operations here and none will be given so long as

AI'm Mayor,” Mr. Feeney said. ~~ «

Meanwhile, the police department disclosed it had been cone ducting for the last 10 days a secret Investigation into reports of syndicated betting on Indiana high school basketball games. Officers said they found one pariay cards on basketball games during

the last week-end.

Police Set Trap B Acting on a tip, officers laid a trap for one man rumored to be the principil ‘distributor of the pariay cards. The trap fell through, however, when the distributor failed to show up at the appointed time. Later, however, the officers obs.

{tained a license number of ane {other distributor and raided his

found

joasketball pariay cards and sev-

they more than 400 high school

thousand bank clearing ticke

Police sald he refused fo a vulge the source of the tickets and sald he no longer “handled* the parlay tickets He refused to comment on the Dec, 3 date on the tickets. Officers confiscated the tickets but said there was insufficient evie dence to arrest the distributor. Trace

Source Inspector Leo Troutman sald he has assigned Officers Harry Yare brough and John Sullivan, spe clalists in gambling cases, to trace the source of the parley cards on basketball games. In his warning again: ate tempts at organized gambling, Mayor Feeney referred to a transe . ‘action last Saturday in which one: group of operators “pulled out” of the lottery business and sold their interests to another group which believed it had the “blesse ings” of the administration. “I am alarmed about some res - ports coming to me that there is

Hottery operations,” Mayor Fee

“There has been no ‘go sign’ >

ney said. A “We -are. not going to apolis, regardless of who the ope ratory might be -Police Chief Rouls, meanwhile, ordered oMoers to clean slot mas

city. id found slot machines in two Amere fean. clubs in the course of other investigations The chief said he had received phone éalls informing him other private clubs have. slot machines.

passed on to patrolmen with ore ders to “clean out” every club, Confirms Suspicions The basketball parlay find, con« firmed what police have sus since the start of the 1848 Hoosier hardwood season — ted - gamblers have a firm toehold-in Indiana basketball, The parlay card listed odds on 25 high school games, including such large schools as Technical and Broad Ripple of Indian apolis, Bosse of Evansville and North Side, Ft. Wayne, and ranged down to tiny schools such as Jasper and Oolitic. At the start of the season the head of the high school athletics commission urged police to “bear down” on parlays and betting on high school games.

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