Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1949 — Page 3

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Halting Drive

Along Yangtsze

Cease-Fire Order Issued to Army As Li and Mao Continue Parley

~ consented to a cease-fire and relaxed their harsh surrender terms today after massing three field armies to cross the

Yangtze River.

+ A high source close to Acting PresidentLi Tsung-jen

|r. Polk to his death in the harbor while

offensive against Nationalist positions on the north bank of the Yangtze opposite the capital, Nanking. Official sources said that Communist and Nationalist peace negotiators at Peiping were “movIng closer to agreement,” and one : ‘report said that Communist

self agreed in a cable to Li last Saturday to be more “lenient” in his dealings with the Nationalists. Avoaramg o> front-line dis-

him to an interview with the forMarkos V Mrs. BStaktopoulos is charged with complicity. Soviet Union

“COURT OF HONOR,” a Sov-

secrets, has’ won a Stalin arts

totaling {awarded for books. plays, music,

Communist on-{poetry and architecture.

slaught was slackening today.| Red advance units had pierced to within eight miles of Nanking

and one force reportedly had tried to cross the Yangtze when the steamroller was slowed. .

Germany

ALLIED plans to restore selfgovernment to the Germans

snagged temporarily today on So«

cialist opposition to a loosely federated west German state.’ At an emergency meeting at Bad Godesburg the Socialists decided to stand pat on- their de- ~ mands for a strong, centralized tax authority. The Socialist decision came unexpectedly. Western allied political advisers had expected the So-

clalists to break their week-long

deadlock in the assembly following the delivery yesterday of the long-promised occupation statute.

A FORMER Salonika newspa-

perman and his aged mother go on trial here tomorrow for the slaying of Columbia Broadcasting System Correspondent George Polk, an American. Gregory Staktopoulos, 39, a Communist, and his mother Anna, 68, will face a three-man tribunal and a 10-man jury in the water- - front superior court building two blocks from the spot where Mr. Polk's trussed-up body was found floating in Salonika harbor last May, a bullet hole in the head. Mr. Staktopoulos is accused of being the “finger man” who led

lantic Treaty.

against the Soviet Union.

Great Britain WINSTON CHURCHILL'S Con-

the 1950 general election.

defeat. Party secretary Phillips said the Conservative

The next major round will be the 1850 general election, in which Prime Minister Attlee’s Labor governmerit will be fighting for its life against the Churchill-led Sotiservative regime it defeated

Argentina STATE controls adopted since 1939 have set Argentine agriculture back 40 years, the Argentine Rural Federation charged today The organisation, representing 118 farm groups, charged that {the area under cultivation had declined alarmingly in 10 years.

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Selections

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mer guerrilla chieftain Gen. | afiades.

prize of 200,000 rubles (about

wound up its annual conference early today with a call to the French people to fight the At-

The appeal was included in a general policy resolution. It also re-affirmed French Communists’ refusal to participate 1h why war

servative Party claimed a landslide - victory today in Britain's county council elections, generally regarded as a practice run for

Leaders of Britain's governing labor (Socialist) admitted a major

victory was a “warning which we

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bill. Many H would like to see less money spent, pointed out that the cut could rome later when Congress, in. .another bill, actually appropriates the money.

Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan is expected to come up with estimates this week for Congress >n how much the new farm program would cost. Mr. Brannan was scheduled to appear before the House Agriculture Committee today to answer con-

|gressional criticism that the farm

plan would hurt the farmer more than it would help him.

Timetable Senate Democrati Whip Francis J. Myers of ePnnsylvania said Congress needs a legislative timetable to avoid. a jam during the pre-adjournment period. He plans to offer a resolution this week to carry out the proposal. With Congress halfway through its January-through-July regular session, the rent control exten-| sion bill is the only major item of President Truman's program which has passed both houses.

: Oleo

Chairman Walter F. George (D. Ga.) of the Senate Finance Committee said the dairy bloc has resorted to a “rather desperate

|safeguard” in its proposed “compromise” to repeal! federal oleo (taxes. Yum

The substitute measure, backed 26 dairy state Senators, would

by lift federal taxes on margarine, ‘but would outlaw interstate ship-

on interstate shipments,

Ship Movemenis

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that occurred a few hundred yards from the Fiscus home. “When I leave, no one wil know there has been any activ-

World-Wide Story Recovery of the little girl's bédy ended one of the most dramatic rescue missions since Floyd Collins was trapped in a cave

churches across the country prayed for the little girl yesterday. And hundreds of telephone calls were made to newspapers and radio stations

Was n, D. C., Times-Herald

terday.

Newspapers throughout the

nered the story. Even the Communist Dally Worker in London gave it top play. Scores of people volunteered to

narrow shaft,

down into the pipe when he learned it had ragged, rusty edges. .

$500,000 was employed to reach

well. A Hollywood film studio

provide lighting as the drilling and digging went on methodically night and day. But the entire attempt was something money icouldn’t buy. 2 TL “You can't put a price on it” said Mr, Hill. “No men would work as hard as these fellows. are working or take as many risks for

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near Cave City, Ky, 24 years| | ago. : Thousands of persons in|

of thousands|

asking news of the rescue. The r

reported 9000 telephone calls yes-|

United States and Europe ban-|

go into the well to rescue her! @ Midgets, thin men and jockeys all| | offered to be lowered into the

But Kathy's father, David H. Fiscus, refused to let anyone go!

Heavy -digging and drilling] joauipment valued at more than|

started on opposite sides of the|

donated powerful flood lights to| =

any amount of money.” “They are doing it for a little

can put it.” he added.

Fog Halts Refloating Of -Ship Carrying 45 LONG BEACH, Cal, Apr. 11 (UP)—Fog interefered today with efforts to refloat the S88 Steel Chemist which grounded at the south end of Nichols Island, 80 miles off the southern California coast. The Coast Guard sent the buoy Tender Diligence to aid the

45 crew members and passengérs. Among the passengers were Mr. and Mrs. Alfred

Burma.

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KATHY FISCUS—The world hed prayed that she might be

A ” DAVID FSC U S—Anguish grips Kathy's father as he hears she has died . ;

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" William The abandoned rescue shaft of keeping a gaming house and!D. Bain granted Petillo’s petition dug 85 feet deep with poweriviglating the beverage act, afterifor a transcript of the tril. shovels, would have cost $50.000, they entered 26621; Northweste- ‘ price ern Ave, early Sunday and found rdce track of the entire job well over $100, at a Michigan 4 000, If It had. | & poker game in progress,

And Mr. Hill said that no price r could be put on the bravery and house and disorderly Sunduct. room June 29, 148.

MRS. ALICE FISCUS — A mother's faith never. wavered until the very end.

DR. PAUL HANSON-—Fam-ily doctor breaks the news of Kathy's death,

Seek Reactivation Of 84th Division

The Indiana Reserve Officers Association concluded its two-day convention in the Hotel Beverin yesterday with election of officers and a resolution asking reactivation of the 84th Infantry Division, Lt. Col, Lee C. Huey; Air Reserve, Indianapolis, was elected association president. Other offi. cers chosen were: Col. Chester Lichtenberg, Fi. Wayne, senior vice-president; Lt. Cmdr. David L. Evans, Ft. Wayne, and Lt. Col.

vice-presidents; Col F. Jay Nimtz, South Bend, judge advocate; Capt. William Michell, Indianapolis, surgeon, and Maj. Robert Pfeiffer, Richmond. chaplain. ’ National council commitiee members elected were Capt. Pierre Boucheron, Navy, Ft. Wayne; Lt, Col Howard N. Willoughby, Army, Fred R.

Swocewts iy. 4

Saga of Death ina’

4 SAN MARINO, Cal, Apr. 11 m.—-After ste i x S A{UP)—The three-day dramatic 1 Wa into the | saga of 3-year-old Kathy Fis- | shaft, the worker ) | cus’ entombment in & 14-inch | down the ym “\ | shandoned well: deepen the hole with pick and i ny ran to .a . 4 a. m.—~Workers finally com~ abandoned water well during a pletéd digging and the: foot race in a vacant lot. shaft and remainder of her mother, Mrs. Alice Fiscus, was . ! who police. - Fire 5 a. m. — Lateral tunnel Apr, 11] he nile, whose: crying voice 30 a mek : of wat of try- could heard, by dropping de rush organ- 6 p. m.—Clamshell cranes ar- 10 a. m. — Water was suffi all labor, rived to dig and half an hour | ciently pumped out so muck the two- later the child's voice was no | could be cleared; but quick. longer heard. sands. and minor cave.ins that the Saturday forced installation of shoring. trapped near- 4 a, m.—A pit dug beside the 1:55 p. m.—Shaft shored up in an old! well reached 65 feet and work- and five minutes later, cutting lunteer rescue ers tunneled from the pit into | of the side of the well casing the scene. the well's pipe shaft was started, wa Raymond! 11:30 a. m. — Cutting of a 6:03 p. m.—Raymond Hill, in leader almost! window in the well casing was | charge of redcue operations, ane use he was an completed and her dress and | nounced that Kathy had been Fiscus {amily naet of her arm were believed | located. handle prob- ted. 8:21 p. m-—Dr. Robert Me- - omplex Jy Noon — Fear of cave-ins | Cullock was lowered down the caused abandonment of a pit | rescue shaft. Freely and a rotary well digger started | 8:58 p. m.~—Announcement was and ad-! digging a rescue shaft. made that Kathy was dead. * 745 p.m =e 30-inch rescue | 9:52 p. m.—~Kathy's body was Fiscus feet. i to akilled shaft reached 104 | brought the surface. a = Police Arrest 12 [Petillo Tries thousands of dollars . .. [For Freedom Again hinery was donated Kelly Petillo, former winner of help. the 500-Mile Speedway classic, to~

Twelve men faced arraignment

Police armed with a search| Prison for assault and battery would warrant arrested Clarence To- With intent to kill, re rain, 866 W. 20th St, on charges

Five others were arrested on tharges of visiting a gamingig,wniown Indianapolis hotel

equally notable

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