Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1949 — Page 16

Taylor's - didn’t know what Mr. Taylor had said in the way of a threat, but that whatever it was it wasn't as bad as some of the things com-|

fight to send the original Rankin bill back to coramittee. The com-

legislative

.» |fashed thr 4 Hospital aud killed 60 Persons. ss

1cluding 53 bodies recovered from

[blackened shell of the three-story,

To Have Fed 45 Bodies Found At Effingham

EFFINGHAM, TIL, Apr. 8 (UP)

estimated by the Catholic Chancery office. oF ; The known dead totaled B58, fn-

the debris, and five persons who" died of injuries outside the hostal

According to Chancery esti

mates there were eight bodies still buried in the basement of the

the hazards from falling masonry.

"|Only the blackened walls of the .

ancient structure still stood, and some of them were crumbling,

Stored in Basement State Fire Marshal Pat Kelly,

‘lwho conducted a preliminary inhe vestigation yesterday, sald there

was “evidence that the hospital’ had been freshly painted.” He sald there was inconclusive evidence that paints and varnish had been stored-in the basement, ‘where the fire started. The flames leaped upward through a laundry chute, firemen said and turned the hospital into a blazing death trap before bedridden patients on the upper floors could make their escape. § “If the fire began in the base-

rs thrown re and the windows open,” , Kelly sald, “a flash fire of this type could Wappen in five or 10 minutes,” 3 Mr. Kelly sald a tho investigation would be made “after the confusion and. hysteria have abated.” He said persons closely connected with the fire were too stunned to give coherent accounts, :

3 and pared-down version of the ent with the doors.in the core

end lfen rn diay J ri fries Er I h Paint on

on Hospital Walls Believed | Flames That Took 66 Lives |

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' A statue of St. Anthony stands untouched Effingham, Ill., hospital which was swept yesterday by 44 or 45 lives, 13 of them newly born babies.

niche at the a fire that took

Ea Beli CT ra

by flames in its

Hog Prices Hold Steady After Opening 25¢

Hog prices-héld barely steady in mid-

with yesterday's

the : process of elimination. hospital at the time of the fire,

183 New Bables Dead

The number included 103 patwo visitors, seven em-

tients,

The Chancery office compiled its estimate of the dead through It accounted for 126 patients in the

House cided to begin on the ad-| with their lives, as did ministration’s proposed public/1l other patients. But one of housing program without waiting , Miss Shirley Clemmetts, a for the Senate to pass housing nurse, died later at a hospital in legislation. The House Banking Granite Zity, Ill, She suffered a Committee will hearings en "ack she leaped tomorrow, with H Admin-/from the burning building. ¢ ‘istrator Raymond M. as said this

i foreign aid bill, with a score of amendments still a % Labor taw “Rep, Chet Holifleld (D. Cal) said a group of some 1 may reprisals South- ' ern members if they team up with Republicans to block repeal of the Taft-Hartley law.

GOP coalition starts to work on the ddministration’s Taft-Hartley administration Demo-

less than No. ase.

Local Truck Grain Prices No. 3 red wheat. $3.13, No. 3 white corn, $1.31. No, 3 yellow corn. $1.19,

0. 3 oats, 700. No. 3 yellow soybeans. $1.96.

admin- a search for information conoern-

ané1$2000 bond today.

Sends 18 Be fk Mi gt FR arrested yesterday in Vhbera- prices bony whee "adlSeres aa/He told authorities hie refused to

;

G. H. Gillis, 2441 N. Meridian 8t., today asked Red Cross aid in

Cross had received no reports on Mr. Gillis’ relative. :

Student Free on Bond In Registration Case

A 22-year-old Earlham College student, arrested yesterday on a charge of failing to register for selective service, was free under

Lorton Heusel, Gibbon, WAS

Neb, | Richmond by a deputy U. 8, marshal, register on religious grounds, but had notified his local draft board of his intentions to avold registration. : Heusel waived preliminary hearing yesterday before U. 8. Com-

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ols Stockyards today, after opening at prices 25 cents a hundred pounds higher. Receipts estimated at 6500 before trade began later were changed to 7500. Good and choice grades from 170 to 230 pounds that sold at $20 to $20.50 and $20.75, the extreme top price, later sold at $10.75 to $20.25 a hundred pounds. Weights from 230 to 270 pounds moved at $19 to $20, reaching $20.25 in early trade. Prices from $18.25 to $19.25 were paid for 270-to-300-pounders, Scattered loads of 270-pound weights reached $19.50 earlier. Only scarce sales were recorded on heavier weights, . Sows Hold Steady Sow prices held steady at $15.50 to $17 as lightweight hogs weighing from 100 to 160 pounds sold at $19 down. Heavyweight sows received bids down to $15 as odd lightweights reached $17.50. Stag

sales were scarce.

Steer and heifer prices ranged from 25 cents lower on weights above 1000 pounds to 25 to 50 cents higher on weights below the

figure, Small lots of high good and choice steers from 1200 to 1300 pounds sold at $24 to $24.25. A load of high-good near 1000pound steers reached $25.50. Bulk of high-medium and good 700 to 1000-pound steers, sold at §23

{to $2385. Medium lightweights

sold at $22 to $22.75. Good heifers moved unevenly at $23.50 tc $24.50 as common

Visiting Pastor -

morning trade in the Indianap-isteady as good beef cows moved

Higher

and medium grades brought $20 to $23. Cow prices remained at $18.50 to $20. Common and {medium grades sold at $16.50 to $18.50. Canners and cutters moved at $13.50 to $16.25. Odd shells sold at prices down to 812,

Bull prices rose as much as 50 cents, Medium and good heavy sausage bulls sold at $19.50 to $21 and $21.50. Good heavy beef $21.50. Good heavy -beef—bulls bulls sold at $19.50 to $21 and brought $18-to $19, ~~ Vealers held steady at $30-to $31 for good and choice; $20 to $20 for common and mediums, and down to $12 for culls.

Lambs Hold Steady

Hardly enough native fat lamb sales were recorded to establish a trend, stockyards officials reported. Prices were quoted steady. A few mixed weights sold at $28 down. : Fed western lambs held steady as two loads of goed and choice heavy 108-pound weights reached $30.50. A deck of good and choice 93-pound shorn westerns in No. 2 pelts sold at $29. ot Blaughter ewe prices remained steady at $9 to $13, commons and mediums at $6 to $8.50, Estimates of receipts were hogs, 7850; cattle, 1150; calves, 350, and sheep, 600.

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Rocket Evneriment

Fatal to Navy Veteran

MEDFORD, Mass., Apr. 6 (UP) «A 20-year-old Navy veteran was killed and a 19-year-gld friend injured today when gunpowder with which they were experimenting

Scores Atheism

. The Rev. Willlam A. Simms of Battle Creek, Mich, struck a blo at atheism today in his noondal sermon . on “The Goodness of God” in Christ Episcopal Church on the Circle, ; The Rev. Mr, Simms stated that intellectual -atheism-is impossible and deplored the fact that ‘many persons live without God in this

“We believe that God is because we judge God by ourselves,” he explained. “We know that nothing in us secures ultimate sanct u You

Victim of the blast was David Taylor, an engineer for a Cambridge radio station. His companion, Andrew H. Stewart, was hospitalized in “good” condition. Mr. Taylor's father said the youths had been working on a “rocket thing.”

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Meets

trative fusion of the French zone with the Anglo-American zone, expected within the next three

-outlining the powers to’

pation forces which will remain in Germany indefinitely. ; Rugsia has suggested another Big Four meeting on Germany. But Acheson has taken the stand that there will be no more such sessions until the Soviet blockade of Berlin is lifted. U. 8. officials had expected Russia to relax the Berlin restrictions! this spring. So far, however, there has been no sign of such a move.

United Nations

THE East and West clashed day..over.. the. recent trials churchmen behind the .iron curtain. Australia and Bolivia proposed that thé United Nations General Assembly investigate the trials of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty and other churchmen in Hungary and the trial of 13 Protestant leaders in Bulgaria, Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of treason. The Protestant

‘Poland, a Russian satellite, fought the proposed investigation, Polish Delegate Juliusz KatzSuchy told the UN Steering Committee that the organistaion has

nal. affairs of Hungary and Bulgaria, )

Romania THE state took over 2832 pri-

cluded pharmacies, laboratories, drug and cosmetic wholesale

prises.

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ceived the bad news today in he Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget message-—less meat for the year, and at a higher price. Sir Stafford Cripps announced increases of ‘four pence (about 7 cents) a pound in meat. The British ration is only 10 pence worth of meat each week. The chancellor announced a reduction of six pencé per pound in the duty on tea and a small

Britain =F MEAT-HUN G RY Britons re-|-

U. S. Game Wardens

Work in Disguise

Federal undercover men are in five areas tracking down illegal duck hunters, the Fish and Wild Life Service announced today. The service, which has its own brand "of “G men” said it may send more agents-igidisguise into two additional areas. ; The regions cannot be revealed because, sald David Gascoyne of the service, illegal hunters can be rous. : He said that last February two isguise—

of service agents—not in di

to break up illegal duck traps in Chesapeake Bay.

Gary Switchman Wins $80,000 for Lost Arm

CHICAGO, Apr. 6 (UP)—A jury's verdict today gave Charles W. Springfield, 23, Gary, Ind, switchman, $80,000 ‘ for the of his right arm.

terday that Mr. 8 eld was run down at night by an unlighted string of cars in the Kirk yards at Gary. The Elgin, Jollet & Eastern Railroad, Mr, Springfield's employer, was the defendant, :

Plan Play Center NEw LIEBON Inde Apr. 6—

The local volunteer fire depart-

velop a six-acre plot of land east of the school house as a community recreation center and several hundred dollars have already been obtained in a subscription tb finance the enterprise.

reduction on sugar duty, although the price to the public will stay the same. He announced increased prices of four pence per pound for cheese and: meat, one pence for margarin, and two’ pence for butter, a The increases, he said, would boost the cost of living index less than two points.

Soviet Union

THE government organ Izvestia accused Finland today of violating the pact of friendship, collaboration and mutual assistance signed a year ago. :

France

THE government disclosed that saber-swinging Moslems had

; itangled in a fierce skirmish with

French troops in the French African Sudan, Mar. 26. Reports sald eight were killed and 24 wounded.

Sweden

SWEDEN and Russia announced a new trade agreement

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indpls Water ei A com 11% lesser amount of Russian’ paraftodos Water 4%% pid 104 ja. oil and minerals. ndpls Railways com hen § +] > $ Jefferson National Life com uw | Greece i Kinean & Co com 3% COMMUNIST guerrillas pushed Hineoin Goan Si is a strong offensive against the Mane AsghaT x [government troops in the Gram(Nat, omes Ino 3% ofd y 8% mos Mountains -of northwest N b com {3.4 Greece, after capturing six key PRLS err, 13'* peaks in:a lightning attack. Buble Ber 81°F Siu Chi Pub Sarv ot Ing Js" uw China a age ok were adjourned. until Saturday siokely-van Samp ng Li BE ive the Nationalists more time Terre Malleabls +... 8% 10 |t0 study undisclosed Communist| U 8 Machine com Leo 1% 2 demands. fMnited Telephone 6% ofd .. 97 “an * Union Title Co. cain nae

Burma : . REBELLIOUS Karen -tribes-

.|men. called off their revolt against :»{the government of Burma today .jand pledged support to the anti‘Communist regime of Premier

Thakin Nu. The came at a time when Mr. Thakin Nu

-| seemed ready to turn to the Com-

munists for support to save his

{tottering regime.

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Hoisters Union To Drop Appeal.

"6-Month Fight - Nearing Its End

The six months’ old court fight

Portable Engineers and its interinational union organization, appeared to be near an end in the Indiana Supreme Court today. Officers of the internationai union had appealed to the Supreme Court several weeks. ago obtained by Local OF ‘Court here to prevent international officers |from interferring with the local’s activities. Lynville Miles and Julian Pace, attorneys for Local ‘103, filed a motion to dismiss the appeal on the. ground that all controversial matters between union officials had been settled. Cecil Taylor, who had been appointed receiver for the nnion' pending litigation, also joined in the dismissal mofon. :

{an injunction

Endurance Fliers Past Two-Thirds Mark

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Apr. 6 (UP)—Pilots Bill Barris and Dick Reidel passed the two-thirds mark today in their effort to break the world’s flight endurance record of 726 continuous hours in the air. They refueled their plane, the “Sunkist Lady,” over Municipal Airport here last night after coming from Miami, where they had flown for over a waek. ‘Mr. Barris and Mr. Reidel are returning’ ‘leisurely to California, where ' their = endurance flight started more than 500 hours ago.

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[Negrly 900 Cars # : * Checked by Police Nearly 900 private automobiles have been check ed for mechan ical defects by city traffic officers in a three-day old safety campaign, On Monday, 444 cars passed {through the test lanes set up on North St, between Pennsylvania and Meridian Sts. Yesterday, 445 cars were inspected. ; Safety crews reported they ha found seven vehicles operating with faulty brakes; eight with bad. head lights; seven with improper tail lights; three with no horn and two with loose steering gear. Drivers with defective equipment were told of the repairs jneeded and were instructed to re-

turn for further checks when corrections have been made. :

Church Group to Hear

Indiana Prison Chaplain

Miss Irene Duncan, chaplain of the Indiana Woman's Prison, will address the afternoon session of the Woman's Society of Service tomorrow beginning at 1:30 p. m. in the Broadway Methodist Church. : Mrs. Charles Harris will sing solos and Miss Winona Hatfield will lead the devotions. The 10:30 a. m. session and nbon sandwich luncheon will precede the program.

Ohio Brakeman Killed

DAYTON, O., Apr. 6 (UP)—-C. \T. Smith, 28, Hamden, 0. a brakeman, was killed today when the engine and séven cars of a Baltimore & Ohio west-bound freight train derailed after colliding with a semi-trafler truck.

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