Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1949 — Page 1

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10th Air Force Components Arrive in 9-Below Weather

By LLOYD 3 WALTON o by w 3 WITH THE U 8. 10TH ‘AIR FORCE AT DENVER, Colo., Jan. 20—All Operation Haylift bases are now in operation, it was announced today as components of the 10th Air Force arrived here at 2 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) in sub-zero weather.

sent word he was authorized to use every available plane in the nation to aid snowbound Plains states and starving and freezing livestock :

We were greeted here by 9-degree below zero temperatures arrival * as the mercury dropped 18 degfees during the night. ‘At noon today it was) 6 below. Plane Impaired As we took off from Offett Field, Omaha, Neb., the plane lost a piece of cowling from one’engine. It was repaired here at Lowrey Field today. Gen. Williams said he is confident the 10th, now supervising all operations in the stricken area, can handle the job. He sald the current problem is not in getting the planes but in finding landing fields, Haylift has into Operation Snowbound, With weather forecasters predicting clear gkies for today it was expected the huge lift opera-| tion would get underway this

Gen, Harry H. Johnson, 10th Air Force vice commander, was due here at noon today. for an inspection tour. Alerted in Six States National Guard and Fourth Air Force planes working in the lift and on rescue missions are operating under the Tenth's direction. The Tenth is on the alert in western Kansas, Nebraska, Wyming, the Dakotas and Colo-

OPEFALION of the HayM ] 100 tofis of hay from Field at Ft. Riley, Kas, to Casper, Wyo., where it will be

Flicker Fliers Flounder as San Amid Mud and Fog ¥ lear

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There's a story behind them.

the picture mission.

. They finally hitch-hiked home. En route from Petersburg to Cannelton yesterday afternoon, the carburetor of Lt. Pride's L-4 iced up. The plane was forced down in a cornfield near Otwell, where it promptly sank in the

jshed the ship on to a county road. They used boards to bridge a drainage ditch, re ” » . ON THE highway, Lt. Pride warmed up the small ship while neighbors blocked off the road

Olion either side of a 500-foot

ER Es Rag ei aks ES PEs 15

were lent by the Fourth Air Force on the West Coast. ‘wAt - Kearney, Neb, 10 C-82

stretch—which ‘became their runway. On either side, within five feet of each wingtip, were lines of telegraph poles. The length of the “runway” was determined by two power lines running across the road. 3 Lt. Pride started the ship well behind the first overhead wire so that he would have speed enough to get up and over the second wire which stretched

“Flying Boxcars” took off, dropping hay directly to cattle yesterday afternoon. Ranchers doubted the effectiveness of this, adding that it was better to truck it to the stock. Ranchers in Wyoming and northern Colorado also were both-

from the poles over the road. ‘Cow.

| “WE HAD to tip the wings a dragged 50 feet and was pinned yy,gpita), Evansville, and Indiana little to miss the poles and I|under the motorbike.

Local Boy, 3, Show Real Talent for Judo

Irving Commings, 23, of 206 was covered by insurance.

| think we cleared the second cross {wire by a good two feet,” said | Lit. Pride.

Mr. Oates was . under the im-

ered by the raids of herds of deer | pression they cleared it by inches.

and elk who have come down out|

of the mountains to eat hay dropped for cattle. F-51 planes are being used to scare the elk back in the mountains.

Schricker Names 3 To Board of Health

Gov. Schricker today appoint: ed three new members to the State Board of Health and reappointed Dr. J. T. Oliphant of Farmersburg to the board

. ¥ . ¥ Dr. Harry Rost of Richmond| MR. OATES and Lt. Pride sald Kicks Out Window, Hurt

was appointed to succeed Dr. David L. Johns of East Chicago. Dr. Russell W. Lavengood of succeeds Dr. James L.

L. Walker, a New Albany architect, replaces Howard V. John son of Mooresville as a lay member. .

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| Ten miles north of Martinsville,

the gas indicator was sitting on the empty peg. It was getting |dark and fog was closing in.

got out of control

| Ho landed neatly on the farm|who said he wasn’t dead but had| lof Lazur Motz, R. R. 4, Martins been “knocked out.” ]

ville. a. { Mr. Motz said, “Howdy,” and

mud to the wheelcaps. i . With the aid of sympathetic;

FORECAST: Fair, colder tonight, temperature near zero. Sunny, warmer tomorrow. High, in low 20's.

Lt. “Glen B. Pride, pilot [left] and Bill Oates, Times phetographer . . . exclusive pictures of Indiana floods. : . »

Times Photographer, Pilot Forced Down Twice,

Hitch-Hike Home and ‘Yawn’ It a Day THE FLOOD pictures on Page 2 or today's Times don't tell the amage whole story of Hoosier weather and flood conditions. the first floor of the brick and

Times Photographer Bill Oates and his pilot, Lt. Glen B. Prid of .the Indiang Civil Air Patrol, were forced down twice during spreading into the living room

SATURDAY, JANUARY

Cold Early Morning

Blaze Routs Family of Five

Nurse Injured in Drop From Second Story; Dog Gives Alarm

By HEZE CLARK

family narrowly escaped serious

clothes.

daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Edgar M. Roberts Sr., 3358 Ruckle St. suffered seared hands and arms and minor bruises when she dropped 14 feet from a second4 | story window to safety. Other members of the family received slight injuries and were given first aid at the scene by police and firemen. The barking of “Vicky,” 1%-| year-old Boston bulldog, awak-! ened Miss Roberts, a supervisor of nurses at General Hospital,

parents and a brother and sister. First Floor Damaged Fire 4d was confined to

stucco residence. The fire, of un- - {known origin, started in a cloak closet under a first-floor stairway,

Struck by Boy Badly

roliton Ave.

Marcus, Enterprises, Inc. Ave.

ler car was going rollton Ave.

Victim, 14,

leus, ) N. : im} very critical condition at St. VinRFs Despiia today ater the motorbike he was riding struck by an automobile at the{house to a concrete-floored porch. intersection of 58th St. and Car-|He

and kitchen, The sister, Miss Betty Gail Roberts, 25, groped her way down a smoked-filled stairway and ran next door to the home of Daniel D. Dobrowitz, 3360 Ruckle St. to call firemen at 3:09 a. m. Mr. Roberts, 54, kicked out the

Hurt

Son

Mar. them.

ry was {Window on the south side of the broke Virginia Ann's fall when she dropped from the

The victim is the son of Mannie Window. head of

Marcus

# Fireman Finds Dog 2741 Central

Fireman Ed Minch of Station

operators of the Zaring|2g ¢ v Ritz and other theaters here. ound. the pet, “Vicky. hiding Police said he was struck by a car driven by Merle Miller Jr., Da nl Vnesncarned are 17, of 6145 Primrose Ave, a stu- . dent of Park School.

Witnesses sald the youth was|p.ioad received first aid for a

riding on a motorbike and was cut left arm. Mrs. Roberts suffered westbound in 58th St. The Mil-| iy on her left ankle and her

under Virginia Ann's bed, ap-

Mr. Roberts, assistant division engineer of the New York Central

south in Car-|,.ir was slightly singed by the

| Young Marcus ‘suffered severe "5: { {head and leg Injuries, hospital

rginia Ann was in fair con-| {dition at General Hospital today.

|officials said. Police sald he was|, oraquate of Welborn-Walker|

N. Arsenal Ave.

State Teachers College, she was! |a captain in the Nurse Corps! Shows | during World War IL | Mr. Roberts estimated damage! of fire and smoke at $4000 which | probably feels

—

{today his three-year-old son will be the death of him yet. Bootblack Found |

| At 11:40 a. m. today the police Dead in W. Side Alley

emergency

{gation police met

| He sald he had been

!with his- son,

squad Lt. Pride decided to sit down heart attack report at the Arse-| {somewhere before the situation na) Ave. address. Upon investi

Irvin Jr,

The body of a man tentatively Jamtiied as Harold (Shorty) Me-! |Wayne, a bootblack for a W.| Mr. Commings| washington St. barber shop, was found early today in an alley laying | "eA 714 W, New York St. play ne Police “ald he had apparently)

received a

0 lasked if there was anything he grabbed his right thumb and CCllaPsed or lay down in the alley,

uld “do.

[they had left their car at White {Cloud airport, Greenwood.

Which is how the exclusive {The Times. |

{bent it back. Father fainted.

taking his shoes off -and placing them nearby. An autopsy was| being made by Dr. BE. B. Alex-| ander, .

| Wiliam Fink, 11, 2226 N, Illi-| |

| * The boy was cut when he| |

[kicked out a window while lying| Repeal of Taft-Hartl { flood pictures appear today in in ped, his mother, Mrs. Barbara Re oy Act

| Fink, said.

{nols St, was in fair condition in|

t * Marion | Mr, Motz drove the photogra-| General Hospital today, after he O | od Wyatt of Ft. Wayne, and James Phir and pilot to their automo-ireceived cuts in his home. n insiae e,

asked by Truman . .., |

other news of Con- | BreBB’ ....ciiiiiiae Page 2 Ice-O-Rama seats still | available for extravaganza . . . sales approach record ..... Page 2| A pictorial survey of teeners at “White Whirl” . .. on the page of interest | towomen .........Page$ |“Murderers” of Masary rule Czechs by terrorism «+ + last of a series. .Page 7| {Book reviews with Robert W. Minton . . . a regular Saturday feature. ..Page 8 {Soviets charge U. 8. seeks to rule world . . . Around the World . . . a digest of today's news...Page 11 Other Inside Features Amusements. 5, In Indpls..... 2 BOOKS ....... 8| Inside Indpls. 5

Bridge ...... 3 Labor .\.....10 Churches .... 4 Movies .....59

Comics ......16/ Pattern ...... 3 | Crossword w+ IRAdIO sssusse B | Editorials ,..10 Side Glances.10 {Foreign Aff...10 8 vores dT Forum ......10! Weather Map 11

| Five persons of a North Side SH

Miss Virginia Ann Roberts, 30, |g

who sounded the alarm for her|

window in an upstairs bedroom! 3 \ ; and led his wife, ‘Ruth, 54, onto |#®

Classified 12-15 Needlework .. 3!

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Edgar M. Roberts Jr. « + + broke sister's fall from second-story window, :

SLICER. on La a ,

Vicky, Boston barking Bos lb

ment report today.

time and again by: the same)

forces which are working again : i " to blot out hope for an end to | as

the dirt and filth. | Attempts by

the engineer's! . staff to carry on their work are rashes Brid g beset by a law that Is contra-|

dictory, incomplete and obsolete, | he charged, and does not permit successful administration. Mr.

that

ordinance, adopted in December, bridge 1945, inviolate for a period of |

three years. parently died

“Breach of Faith’ |

The railroad industry and In-

the hearings were called to de-|the New termine industry reaction to pro-gomery posals for a new ordinance on model ordinances in general use. Mr. Wolf went on to say that

[it was significant that the com-

mass vy persons un wOCAl Woman purposes u

mitment, known for bas been fulfilled. “It is almost beyond belief that geaq

nknown, |

the arrogance to exact the last. gan st. minute of this period of immu-| . nity,” Mr. Wolf reported. The dead: “ ... there must be some final

hot a handful of selfish men can pital continue to block the desire of this community to remove_the

United States.'” Employment Factor Another factor blocking effec-

Mr. Goins,

ment, according to the report. Throughout the year Dec. 16, 1047, through Dec. 15, vacancies resulting from normal resignations bave stated, and it has been both ime possible and undesirable to fill the positions until some assurance of| Hupp,

have beén received. Asks New Ordinance The future of air pollution con-| trol, the

ending trash fires, rajlroad smoke | curred. control program, and an adequate staff of trained smoke personnel

Hollywood .. 9 Womenis“..,.. 3 4

free of political obligations.

Entered as Second-Class Matiek st Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily

Zero Due’

ran next door fo call firemen.

Let Smoke Control Backers "5. ... vu roe. whe Speak Out, Wolf Demands

Combustion Engineer Attacks Present Law as ‘Contradictory and Obsolete’ Tay ledtned

If effective smoke control measures are to be had in Indian-ning 22 minutes before apolis, the voiced support of its advocates must be heard, Robertifound dead three miles L. Wolf, city combustion engineer, declared in his annual depart-

Times State Service LADOGA, Jan. 29-Two Wolf added that public/doga residents were hearings in March, 1947, revealed one-car accident on a county | fumes secret commitments had{road near here early today, as| steaming wallpaper off the wall been. made to keep the present their automobile crashed into ai, the home of John Whitesell,

Joseph Featherstone, 30, apinstantly of a broken neck, and Tom Davis, 27,

| driver of the automobile, died|¥D? 18 preparing to move in the

{Young St. address from his home t Cu | ! diana coal . producers charged | oO Ce top In Culver Hos 1: R. 16, Box 319; Charles White, { |31, of 1803 Wilcox Bt., who owned breach of faith, he sald, when 4riving crashed into a bridge on ' County | road” one hair|liam Hall, 51, of 4119 Spann Ave.

based mile east of New Market. |

Frankfort Music Student,

Two automobile drivers were today following a head-on this powerful lobby should have crash yesterday on Ind. 20 near

Walter Goins, | determination ‘as to whether or|died last night in General Hos-

Mrs. Marjorie W. Hupp, 39, of 16315 Washington Blvd., who died

of being the dirtiest city in the early today in St. Vincent's Hospital,

a student at the {Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, was driving south near tive smoke enforcement is the in- 96th St. when the car apparently ability of department employees t0/ went out of control and swerved count on continuity of employ«/into the path of the vehicle driven by Mrs. Hupp. ; Mr, Goins was taken to Gen1048 eral Hospital where he died a i/few hours later. taken to the Goodwin Funeral existed, I) tome, Frankfort. : Mrs. Hupp, wife of Arthur F. purchasing agent | tenure and continuing program Fletcher Trust Co, was taken t0/Indianapolis Carden Study Club. St. Vincent's Hospital suffering She was a gradudte of Butler! from chest and head injuries. Bhe University. died at 4:35 a. m,

Bhe was a Tabernacle Pres rian Church brother, Paul and the Welfare Clb and the Zionsville.

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Virginia Ann Roberts . . . guffered in

ight;

Temperate | Plunges to 7° { Here Overnight

|grees above set this morn

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Flood Waters | in State Crest, Start to Fall

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am... 9 am... 8 * Tam... 8 ils m... » "0 8am... 7 12 (Noon). 9 Pam... 7 ipm.. 1

ing, the Weather Bureau pre-

dicted. Clear weather is

Seek Motive i Caubie’s Slaying

Driver's Body Found Slumped Over Wheel

EVANSVILLE, Jan. 20 (UP)— Authorities sought a motive today for the slaying of a taxicab driver whose body was found slumped over the wheel of his cab In a residential section last night.

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Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mitchell

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TROT Itracted by the cab's blarin VE RE eg

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the cab’s front seat, but the gun was

Coroner Vie Conen conducted an autopsy, police traced the activities of Mr. Shrode during his hours. i

Shot at Close Range picked up a

For 40 years there has been talk of cleaning up the “filthy short one followed by a long one.| tod air” in Indianapolis, he said. but effective action has been blocked she jooked out and saw the cab,

Thinking the driver was answering a call and had the wrong address, she went to the door. She) saw Mr. Shrode slumped over the ‘wheel,

Fumes Overcome

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1o.|Three in Home

killed in al

late yesterday while

30, of 4745 Young Bt. Fumes from the gasoline |steamer overcame Mr. Whitesell,

[the steamer, and his helper, Wil-

A police emergency squad gave {the men first aid.

Die in Crash

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21, Frankfort,

The body was

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Mrs. Margie Ww. Hupp “re second victim of collision.

for|

will be

Besides her husband, she Is sur-

Three men were. overcome by|

According {0 tentative arranger} Mrs. Hupp, a native of Zions- ments, funeral services rt continued, de-| i. Jived in Indianapolis follow-|held at 2 p. m. Monday in Flanpends on achievement of severaliing her marriage to. Arthur F, ner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial issues, Including a new ordinance. Hupp 13 years ago. She was en Will follow in Crown HL vocal demand, the finding of ad- route to Zionsville to visit her| ditional smokeless coal sources, parents when the accident oc- vived by her S-year-old daughter,

and seph County, Dunes Park district. Balance of the district is reported

normal. Packed snow and ice also cove roads in Steuben

in spots. ee

Engineer Hurt

In Train Wreck LOGANSPORT, Jan. 20 (UP) rallroad engineer

with a shipment of meat going from Chicago to New York were derafled on one lane of a double track. 3 Part of the derailed cars were shoved on the other lane, In the path of a westbound freight. Engineer C. E. Ferguson, Los - gansport, jumped out of the locos = = motive cab when he saw his train was going to hit’ (he derailed He suffered back injuries, Rallroad officials blamed a burning journal box for the de railment.

Today's a Big Day

For Kansans January 20 is a

Betsy Rose Hupp: her parents, ber of the Mr. and Mrs. Jess Walden, and - Walden, i of