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SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1040
Polio Sufferer Gasps | Story of His Illness Tp
Weakness and Terrible Headaches Came + | : o f Paro
Herds Valued At $20 Million
Before Paralysis, Iron Lung Patient Says Nn
TT Hee They'll Walk Again, Page 3
TR By HENRY DURAND REDMOND, 2 told to United Press A ‘Range Losses EDINBURG, Tex,, Jan. 22~T want to talk about polio, How it Convict: Talks May Bring Rise got me. How it fetis 0 Hive, . J AB thos lang a With Legislators, In. Meat Prices Didn't know why. No idea I was becoming he **| Tells Nothing New
paralyzed y CHICAGO, Jan. 22 (UP)— Just kept getting weaker. Laid around a day or two. Finally Snow and driving winds in a couldn't stand... on my feet. ( nal hy zero blizzard arose today to beat| Nancy called the doctor. Nan-| back efforts to save almost 1 ¢V's my wife, Doc sent me to Valmillion head of cattle and sheep, |®Y . . . Baptist Hospital at Harfacing starvation on western !ingen. - They said “you have
ranges. polio.” Bad flying weather delayed An Awful Shock the start. of the Air Force's! It was an awful shock. Hadn't “Operation Feedlift,” by which it thought about that.
(Read State Politics, Page 27)
Henry Durand Redmond, 24, To San Benito, Tex. was stricken By ROBERT BLOEM with polio last Nov. 20 and has | Ott Workman, who has rebeen in an iron lung for 68 [5,009 p, C. Stephenson as Indays. He has asked repeatedly |... at 1 wi to tell the story of polio as it /iana’s most famous convict, happened to him. Doctors con- [calmly passed up his big chance sented today. He gasped out [yesterday to blow the boiling
planned to fly hay and cottonseed Seemed like I couldn't breathe. os his mochantont ung) [Parole probe sky high. cake to thousands of starving/They brought me here ...to the ._ ~~ "7" "TY He told investigating legislaValley Polio Clinic. In an ambu- Awful feeling. But nurse said I/tors who visited the state prison In Utah, Gov. J. Bracken Lee lance. Awful feeling, so hard to was getting air, | declared a state of emergency|breathe. , | It's mental and physical , . . didn’t ali when new fallen snow whipped . in this/fight against polio. Takes willito shed any by high winds roads into west-central range- Only my head out of it. Except)... who cracked up. Got to get that. surrounded his short-lived lands. . 7 levery two hours. Nurse opens it/confidence . . . back again. l“hot potato” parole in 1945. Livestock men said the plight then, Breathe on my own then. I've had best of . . . care hére.| Meanwhile, Gov. Schricker of more than half the state's] Today was on my own 16 min-/Special nurse all . . . the time. hinted strongly that the involved 1,616,000 sheep was “dismal.” lutes. Physical therapists helped Don’t know what would . . . have|parole investigation of the past * At“Salt Lake City it was 1a-lime relax. Long stroking massage. happened if hadn't been , . . for several months would result in closed that President Truman {Moved arms and legs . . . as much, this clinic. . a shakeup of ‘personnel through-! made $50,000 available from hisias possible. Changed my body Biggest wish now is . emergency ‘funds to help fight the position while in my lung. | Michael. My bay. Born Dec. 16. snow in Utah, but authorities sald It breathes for me. Very diffi- Never seen him yet. Nancy comes state police into other cases init would only last for two daysicult to breathe... when it’s open. when she can. !volving charges of corruptioff in at the present rate of expenditure. First time it was opened . . . it ‘I'm going to beat... this thing./the handling of paroles. Results Regional Administrator H. By-ifelt like I couldn't . . . get air. Others do. {of the investigation may later ron Mock of the Bureau of Land] ; {be turned over to the Marion a » 10-Cent Ticket
management at Salt Lake City! - Rg. wpe {County Grand Jury for further estimated that it would require Ma |e at east $800,000 to keep sheep) 8 coun :
|action, the governor said.
| Hear ‘Gripes’ try roads open this winter, | ; Pays $295,180 . While they were De itil ie In Soccer Pool prison, _ the _ legislative . group)
{heard “gripes” of inmates against - BRISTOL, England, Jan. 22 the parole system. Several prison(UP)—A shabbily dressed woman ers complained that the system clutching a baby stood in the ruins wes “unfair” and that frequently \of her bomb-wrecked home eight! ..... against parole was “cut
Luftwafte hadi, gried” before the inmate
It Takes Time Secretary James A. Hooper of or er the Utah Woolgrowers gece _ tion said that few. of Utah's! Sn Byproducts Head,
1,618,000 sheep have actually per-| Lawyer Seize Film
ished yet. ro J “It takes time even to starve to death,” he said grimly. Ani-| A Times photographer was years ago. The mal husbandry experts pointed manhandled and a film holder, levelled it. even a | ppeared ‘before the prison a Coaeding of the sheep. 4 containing a negative he had ust), ng Ge Uhge. making a Ramage, board for hearing. short spring lamb crop will mean hot Was taken from his pocket! ined to question her. She was; THE Qelegation was Beddad by highe? meat prices and higher|YeSterday by two men at the yp Beatrice Herbert, mother of b a (D. East Chi-
; |Byproducts Industries, In¢., plant! _lcagd), chairman of the house clothing prices, livestock wers: OY P » » plant! four children and wife of Ken-| 8 pointed on pe _|im the stockyards. |neth Herbert, a $20 a week gas/committes on and corIn South Ddkota, Gov. George, The photographer, Henry E. works fitter. {rectionat Institutions. T. Mickelson asked Fifth Army|Glesing Jr. went to the stock- After legislators’ tour of Headquarters to send snow-mov- yards: where the company is lo-| : 3 snd tsi ioning of injs Stuipment and bulldozers toicated, to take a picture of a mates, Warden Ralph Howard ex-
“CHEER UP." Your luck will change some day,” the king wid. . areas where thousands of animals Harold Jackson, 30, of 3172 Ken-| face possible starvation. | wood
Can't Get Through ecord : Ranchers in western South Da~ had been placed under a $500 bond aig 4 a saw whate:
‘outs ‘into snowbound group of horses and mules after| ol "TO o CAME (rue & few dayNipressed no surprise at what they In Two
Kenneth Herbert, still at the “7 just turned them loose.” the
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kota reported that they have been in a f peace court As for I guess una! 0 2ot through 10 766d their [charts of cHIHY bo the wnfmals, **" 10 cents. : inmates made the most of isolated herds since the big bliz- Mr. Gilesing had taken a y opportunity. i tard hit Jan. 2. _* - ipicture of the an in te reo TOP fessors “Test” for Doctor In Nebraska, an organization dering company’s lot when he was| ;
Complaints about the food, for!
was set up to provide bulldozers ched by two men who: were (example, were “just about what
: : approa for farmers and ranchers who! homies later as Mr. Jackson { ; : anyone would expect i sed temo cat ra to sav an Hare tie who sig ewes JUSUOH: 8S ROAS [57ers 0 der e , the general man s attorney. , In Nevada, Acting Gov. CHI, © g perisoit q ey. © [saa Jones conferred by telephone with Mr. Glesing sald Honing wan Washington Regents Brig. Gen. Ned Schram, vice com- r. Giesing A Mr. Jackson| mander of the Fourth Air Force|grabbed him by the coat collar| Shatter Precedent gt Hamihon Fig. Cal, where 18| under the chin while Mr. Stitle} SEATTLE, Jan. 22 (UP)—The cargo planes were po PR Washi Board take off on emergency flights to took. hold of his camera and at- University of Washington a the rangelands. Mr. Jones said he was informed that bad weather would not permit start of the “feedlift” until tomorrow. at the earliest.
ran a test of the medical service by calling the prison doctor, whose home is two and a half miles from the prison, on a sham | emergency. The doctor, who tempted to pull it out of the pho-/0f Regents today Bred Xhies fag. didn't know the call was a test, tographer'’s grasp. julty members acc of Com: eached the prison in less than
munist Party affiliation. |, In doing $o ons of Mr. Gies-f “Tiree other professors similarly nine nigutes service than most
ing’s fingers was cut In two places. accused were not dismissed but t The photographer said that in the were placed on probation for two DeOPle get outside of prison,” Railroads Balk Iscuffie Mr, Stitle took the lens years, ~|Rep. Churilla commented. of At® Carson City, Chairman shade off the camera. This was The university's action, climax- After touring the prison and George Allard of the Nevada returned later. ling several months of investiga- Nearing recommendations of priPublic Service Commission sald, Then the men released Mr. tion, was described by one of the S00 authorities, Mr. Churilla said that western railroads had turned |Glusing, he said, and Mr. Stitle bord members as . “precedent- De Was “convinced something
down a plea for reduced rates on|demanded his film holders, The shattering in the field of educa-/OUEht to be done to make more emergency shipments to and from Times employee had an unexposed tion.” vive money available here for build-| weather - stricken stock growing holder in his coat pocket. He of-| The seven-man board, headed|!n8s and the other things this areas of Nevada. : {fered this to Mr. Stitle. The at-|by Joseph Drumheller; Spokane, institution needs. Livestock losses also have been torney took it but demanded the voted tu adopt President Ray-| Questioning of Workman, howreported in Colorado, Montana, others which Mr. Glesing had in/mond B. Allen's recommendation ever, revealed only that he had and Wyoming. | his pockets. |to fire Joseph Butterworth, asso-Paid the state’s public defender, 80 far, the heavy livestock) Reaches Inte’ Pocket {ciate professor of English; Her-|the late Frank Greenwald of loss had no effect on prices at| bert J. Phillips, assistant profes- Gary, a $2000 fee for representing the big midwestern livestock| The photographer said Mr. oor of philosophy, and Ralph H.|him in his 1045 plea for parole. markets. Stitle opened his coat and reached Gunqiach, associate professor of That has long been common But the continued loss of West- (Into his (Glesing’s) jacket pocket nevonology. ‘ knowledge in the case. ern range animals was expected 8nd took out the exposed holder ' Tne gigmissal order is effective Wife Ask Bonds eventually to boost meat prices. whith had been made of the ani- pgp, 1 : | va $26:000 An: Donds he ear i Mr. Glesing demanded the un-! 0. hy Womberiiiy Butt jied hr hi Whi of ae ' ’ ; ; er- prison - for ays of freedom Intensify Hunt exposed holder, returned but Mr. w,rth admitted present Comey not paid to iii for F F il of 3 | uitie refused. nist party membership but had parole, he said. It was turned or ramily | Otto Ray, special constable and challenged the regents to dismiss over to his wife, he said. Times State Service an investigator for the Society for them on that ground. Mr. Gund-, Workman was one of three ENGLISH, Jan. 22--State po- Prevention of Cruelty to Anil |ach was shown to have been al- men sentenced to life for the lice and Crawford County deputy mals, yesterday served a War-|jjed with more than a dozen Com- robbery and shooting of Charles sheriffs were continuing their rant on Mr, Jackson and took!munist front’ organizations, but Basch of Hayesville in 1937. search tonight for the family of him before Michael Glenn, Wash- was dismissed on other grounds. Reports of payoff in the case three miysteriously missing from ington Township justice of peace. The regents voted to follow led to revocation of the parole their home here since Jan. 7. Mr. Ray had signed the affi- Dr. Allen's recommendation to and Workman has been in prison Sheriff Marcus O. Lane: andi davit for Mr. Jackson's arrest, retain the three other accused ever since. The Workman case state officers said an Intensive charging the Byproducts mana- faculty members on two condi- has become a major part of the search would open for Thomas/ ger had failed to give proper tions. The faculty members are E. overall probe of parole methods Vandiver, 30, his wife, Beatrice, ghelter and food to 16 horses Harold Eby, professor of English; which burst into the open when 44, and his stepdaughter, Wanda and mules stabled by the com-! Garland Ethel, assistant profes- similar payoff charges resulted Johnson, 16, pany. sor of English, and Melville in similar- revocation in the paMr. Ray sald the SPCA had Jacobs, associate professor of role of Carl Todd of Terre Haute He Esca ed taken corn to the animals which anthropology. 'from the prison last October. P are kept at the plant gor onme > : : awaiting slaughter. He also sa i i 4 | d A b d From Siberia he removed a wooden trougn DINIE F1OHIAAY ArTESTE * a Ins SAVE from the lot which the animals * e J a Seiten [184 arta. ent In Narcotic Raid on Coast he lived to tell the story. Stitle Denies Cruelty “ The constable said he went to| San Francisco Accuses Well-Known Singer ® Beven years of “living like t at 11 al A béasts,” of watching fellow the lot at 11 &. wm. yesterday Of Possessing Vial of Opium prisoners beaten, shot down ound the water container empty. vi . » 4 and tortured He sald it was also empty at|——————=g— (Photo, Page 7) ' 1:30. p.m. WHER. NO POLUIMIOR REI | eee tins oe es—— Tr ———————————— i —— © Seven years of back-break- |at that time he had it filled by SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 (UP)~Dusky blues singer Billie ing work, of freezing i sub- (some employees of the company. Holiday and her agent were arrested In a ““Tenderioin District” zero temperatures, of starv- | Last night Mr. Stitle told The hotel room in downtown San Francisco today and charged "with ing on the Russians’ prison [Times the animals were fed by| possession of optum. : ' diet.” all three shifts of employees at The 20-year-old star of radio, night clubs and recordings was the Plant 24 hours a day. TWO|pgoked at the Hall of Justice with John Levy, 40, of New York
® Bill Newton's got the whole astounding story from a Czech political prisoner of the Russians. The Indianapolis Times and ScrippsHoward staff correspondent has writtén it just as it has been told to him by Dr, Frank Polak, graduate of the University of Prague.
drums of water are ng Los Angeles, and both were ica otqTrroni a federal institution proviaed for the animals, he r40040d on $500 ball each. at AO an Va ar | . Police charged a vial of oplum of drug addiction, appeared at the | He said The Times photograph- was found in her apartment. Both city prison for fingerprinting and jer had refused to give up his promptly denied they knew the hooking In a-black dress beneath camera. When Mr. Stitle was opium was there. Ja $7000 blue mink coat. : informed the .photographer re-| , five.man squad of officers She wore high heels and a jctfved a cut ‘finger he replied, ruided her apartment in the Mark perky hat and was flanked by What did he do, bite it? [Twain Hotel in San Franco's Levy, hatless and coatless in the
“I told him I didn't want him t-life area. San Francisco weather. had the bac of anti-Jenmer \ Bridge ......23Fo0d .... 0.4 ® This bitter,: realistic ac- | yi Mr. Ste. said, ene White, federal agent, said | Throughout the proceedings Miss forces. ing iia all Sesarding 10 Who's DOS Business ....48| Foreign Afre. ‘count of life in a concentra- hold of ‘he camera. the detail found the song en-| Holiday remained virtually si-| The new chairman succeeded WD and see say the CAPtal Capers22iForum ...... tion behind the iron no struggle and he chantress in the bathroom, wash- ’ Rue J. Alexander, Pine Village, =o % “opi” Tiong time till curtain De putihed 1a over eo ig Nar hands hehaath the medi But Levy indignantly denied who was district chairman at the} J o's ;
at Michigan City nothing they! ® know. He declined| = t on the political = again blocked lung. Been my home 63 days. power. Lots of it, Like a flier scandal and. rumors of payoff|
. . to see/out the state's prison system. |} He is studying a long report by ©
general manager of Byproduets, So %Orks: won a soccer pool. I warden said, “and the legislators
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~ Owners Blamed As Packs Roce Out of Control Don’t let this scare you, but the worst outbreak of ra« bies Indianapolis has seen in 15 years is festering today in Indianapolis in the dog packs racing through the city. This isthe consensus of Ine dianapolis and State Health of
ficials, They are worried about it, but appear to be powerless to control the threatened outbreak, {due when the mating season gets under way next month. dn the first three weeks of this month, i1 cases of rabies were re« ported to the City Health De. partment. There were six lagt weekend.
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jcember, there were 40 cases of | rables in the city. That was higher |
than the total in 1947, There were 215 cases reported during all of 1948, nearly a record. City and State Heulth officials fold The Times they cannot trol the epidemic unless they can contrel the dogs. And they not control the until
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One of the occupants of the ear first two weeks of Februleaped to the road with a 45-cali- ing nd Sirs Feb. 12, when Fort. \ ber automatic in his hand and|. ye win officially be 100 years! demanded Mr. Tuchman's wallet. 14 there will be a penalty for off - Pp oti The current outbreak of rabies -Season rodv on
$300 From Purse every smooth-shaven chin in began more t a year ago. It ago by plied, the bandit took $390 from “ww | Blamed for Dip {a U. 8. Health
When the businessman com- gight, was predicted two the purse and fled with his com! THE BEARD Committee, com-| The egg market in Indianapolis veterinarian who worked awhile panion in their car. of John Price, chairman, Will break two cents lower to- with the State: Health Departs Mr. Tuchman is a partner in Forrest (Chalk) Brown and Jack morrow. {ment, and then was assigned in Tuchman & Sons Cleaners, 3014 Hudson, says a fine of $3 will be, Egg producers and distributors the East, : College Ave. [imposed nonbearded = male Will drop their wholesale price! He predicted It would s The safe in a service station at| citizens after Feb. 12. Local busi- from 48 to 47 cents for Grade A|from the Garfield Park 2743 Massachusetts Ave. was nessmen will have to ante up $35 large loose eggs and from 51 toin a steady line northward until opened and $900 stolen late yes- extra if they can’t stay away |49 cents in cartons eggs, it was the whole city was foul with terday, station manager Jess|from the razor. learned yesterday. ~~ irables. The records of the Hearn, 37. of 2148 Oxford * Retail prices range from five Health Department show
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And besides the, fine, any man/ tha reported to police. who hasn't got his growth going|!0 six cents above the wholesale. did. About $700 was in checks, he/ by the time the big day arrives| Dr, Kempf said the red line said, and the remainder was cash.|is liable to be tossed into the The heavy off-season egg pro-irables crept in a wide curve from A new employee, who started horse trough by the whisker duction by farmers who started{the Garfield Park district into his work yesterday at the Pad-| committee. 3 their flocks earlier this year is the shacktown areas abutting the dock Tavern, 135 B. Illinois St.| It's easy to see that Fortville blamed for the drop. {downtown district, disappearéd with $80 of the tav-| means business. Every inhabl-| Country run or “current re-| From there, it moved into the ern’s money when he was sent to tant is going to do his (or her) | ceipt” eggs are near the govern- West Bide, then northwest. Some.
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get small change for the bills, darndest to make Centennial Ment support price of 35 cents on!how it appeared on the East Side, ported last night. {ingest celebration since Cephus !n cracking plants for canned and Health Officer sald. Total day's receipts of $88 was Fort founded the town back in|Powdered eggh sold to bakeries, Round Up Strays | Davis Cleaners collection station ‘ . fn {City Dog Pound, said his at 1701 Southeastern Ave. last, THERE'LL be a pageant and |] € Colonel {have rounded up 85 per cent night by a holdup man who en- A pag. , Jusen ue a Cutan : : tered the store at closing time, [Ma . re' an ex : running in packs have owners and : |of old carts and wagons and old Killed ‘in Greece tags to prove it, he sald. An attempt to holdup Leo cretly planning their costumes.:—~A government spokesman said Sgt. Payne's squad of four men Schuster, owner of & grocery al gyeryone is to dress the part. tonight that Lt. Col. Selden R. and two dog wagons continuously they left the store last night was the way it did 100 years ago. |Officer, was killed by guerrilla clan, Sgt. Payne shares the Health thwarted by two vigilant men Ernie Lawson, publisher of the rifle fire yesterday when the Officer's fear of what's coming been held up a week before. | weekly, and general chairman of riding as an observer was forced their animals run wild. The bandit stepped up to the tne celebration, has been so busy down near Karpenision, 125 miles! The dogs. he sald, are * to drive away. James Meador, an yhoved. His beard is only a week employee who had left the store g)4,
Anthony Heneghan, manager, re- Week, Aug. 21-27, the rip-roar-| farms. These are usually used! “It's all over town now,” taken from the manager of al1849. |dairies and ‘contes tioners. Bgt.- James Payne, head of the strays. The you Holdup Folied cars. Men and women are se-| ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 22 (UP) Complaints on dog packs keep 939 Division St, and his wife as For one week Fortville will look Edner, 30, an American liaison moving through town. Neo with shotguns. The store had portville Tribune, community Greek war plape in which he was/if the dog owners continue to let Schuster car as the couple started pjugging it, that he forgot and northwest of Athens. up” now. That means trouble. ; " » jar d's sini, Carmen toons vm wm ve we Oy the Inside
{trom across the street and they | ning whe the beards are {moved in with their guns. udged.” i . " . | Mr. Hughbanks fired once at } yr» {First Ling of Defense ... . a picture story of our the bandit as he fled. He sald] THE BEARD Committee has| military reservists ....... %y deen era eae PIRES he heard the holdup man scream. announced that four prizes will They'll Walk Again... i i [Later police arrested two men at!be awarded, as follows, (1) Long-| y lio vieti 8 how Riley Hospital helps Henry and Division Sts. 85 sus-/est beard. (2) Most attractive] POHO VICHMS .....viivninnrnnsiainininias Page 3,
beard. (3) Most novel or unique (General news and features, Pages 1.12) beard. (4) Longest “handle-bar”| junior Vaudeville . . . a picture story of drama at . moustache, from tip to 4 : Ollie Berry Head Awards norom Up ta Ub i be Shortridge ’ Pass an ann Page 18. | 6 h Di t 4» t GOP purchased from funds collected (Society, women's news, fashions, food, gardening, Pages 14-24) ot Isiric from the sale of $3 “shaving per-/ pockets to Moon? . . . a picture story of Indiana's
Eu mits,” but beavers are ; L SHAWFORDAVILLE, Jan. H in such quantities that mobody| Part in rocket development ................ Page 28 | eatrm an of the Boone county| may be forced to pay the fine. Editorials, politics, world report, radio, movies, Pages 26-48)
Republican committee, today was| You'd think the wives =OUFiHusband-wife team wins first prize in Times bowlelected sixth district GOP chair. have something to say abou inn: tom : beards. being grown, but enthusi- ng rney "Mr. Berry, who had the ‘asm seems 10 have made the men| (Sports, Pages 37-40; Classified advertising, Pages 41-47%; of U. 8. Sen. William E. Jenner, reckless of consequences. on ness news, Page 48) ;
defeated Gilbert E. Ogles, Green-| a AA e REN en ihr Thowdawn battle for] TYE BEEN married 23 Other Features on Inside Pages
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