Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1949 — Page 3
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Coal, Steel Strikes. Threatened as Auto Talks Near Crisis
" By Unifed Press The nation was threatened -today by one of the largest industrial shutdowns in history. John L. Lewis’ coal miners gave signs of a general coal walkout Monday. The CIO - Steelworkers were ready to strike at midnight next - Saturday. : A key railroad walkout was in progress. A big rubber. firm wis shut down. Negotiations in the Ford Motor Co.-United Auto Workers dispute were in a critical stage. _The big coal and steel strikes would affect 14 million workers.) An estimated 87,000 employees already were idle in labor disputes. Pension and welfare demands pushed aside wages in most off the controversies. Stony Silence Soft coal operators expected the coal miners to go on strike Monday. John IL. Lewis kept a stony silence, but reports from mines]
across the country indicated a -
general strike was coming.
EAE New Ross, Ind., put out a warm welcome for Jimmy Creed, top pacer, when he returned to "Ji the place of his birth. Shown with him are {left to right] owners Mr. and Mrs. Silas C. Thompson,
Groom Hanson Caster and Jimmy Creed Rhoads for whom the horse was named.
mmy Creed Day" drew a big crowd and the people milled about the homemade midway taking in the sights. But always they drifted to the tent of the famous horse.
* 1. b.3. Industry New Ross Puts Out Warm Welcome For Pacer Jimmy Prof. Found Guilty Speaks Tomomaw.
_ Of Beating Nurse © SRA | Jury Urges Mercy | On Burglary Count |
| COLUMBIA, 8, C., Sept. 17| {(UP) —A jury tonight found| |Prot. Russell B, Maxey guilty of pistol-whiping nurse Ann Plerce with intent to kill, and guilty, {with recommendation of mercy, | {of being a burgular. ,Maxey's wife, who continued to| love the college professor despite {his intense love for Miss Pierce, {sat blinking back tears while the verdict was being read, and a yimoment later collapsed, { { Judge Thomas B. Greneker of| {Richmond County General Ses{slons (Criminal) Court withheld | | sentence until after a hearing, probably early next week, on the defense counsel's immediate mo{tion for a new trial.
Miss Louise A. Bailey, a fore mer staff member of Riley Hos. pital, will be the principal « | Maxey, who had sat affection-| speaker at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow
{ately beside his slightly-built, : : blond wife during the last hours 1 the annual meeting of the
of the trial, stood expressionless Marion County Society for. and dejected in the prisoner's Crippled Children and Adults,
{dock and then was lead to his! s ’ cell, o 8% The meeting will be at the : | The jury spared him a manda- Crossroads Rehabilitation Cens {tory life imprisonment sentence! ter # {by recommending mercy in its —
{conviction of Maxey on the |charge of attempting to burglar- Penny Gum Machines
ize Miss Plerce’s apartment. ‘Hold Gambling Device : Be : MADISON, Wis., Sept. 17 (UP) ‘Report Shows Britain
WIRE . ra. fr A. |with seven instead of four pylons, Observers at the steel center of John H. Lederer, Ex-Times Fate of Air Races -—to prevent just such a tragedy. |
Pittsburgh held ' little hope the
steel companies and Philip Mur- F . ! tH : Di i Chi ray, CIO president, would reach! XeCcu ive, ies n icago
agreement. The government, called both sides to a conference, in Washington and depiored the embittered debate between them. | At Dayton, O., the Goodrich Rubber Co. offered
an attempt to settle a 19-day
walkout by the CIO United Rub-| veteran newspaperman for more {than 35 years, died yesterday in §
A strike against the Missouri Chicago. He was 66.
ber Workers.
improved ness manager of The Indianapolis pension and insurance plans in Times from 1912 to 1922 and a’
the air races, already has an-| nounced that “safety must come first” even though “it should halt| future races.”
Hangs in Balance
Business Manager Here for 10 Years ; John H. (Jack) Lederer, busi- &
To Make Decision
~By MAX B. C00 ~ Seripps-Howsrd Aviation Editer | will depend upon a 1 tion . w oca CLEVELAND, Sept. 17—The| yp.) a closed-pylon course may {future of the National Air Races pe constructed sone distance from {will be determined in Washington populated areas.
{next year to one of five other| |cities which have asked for them.!
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Cripps Back Home,
| Fred C. Crawford, president of Mum. on Devaluation
LONDON, [Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir|' ‘more than any other country in chance that, instead of gum, he'll Stafford Cripps returned home the world,” and that some nudist get a trinket which is more value . ) {from : the Washington financial camps Washington Meeting It is probable thatthe races taiks today, confident Britain is waitresses.” may be moved from" Cleveland on the way toward solving fits| The revelation was carried in
[~A child is gambling when hei | : {puts a penny in a gum ball and: Has 50,000 Nudists (trinket machine, Wisconsin Ate, LONDON, Sept. 17 (UP)—The torney General Thomas E. Fair Sunday Dispatch said tonight that child ruled today. ,
Sept. 17 (UP) there are 50,000 nudists in Britain, | The youngster is taking a.
“naked able to. him than his penny, Mr. Fairchild said. . Therefore, he ruled ‘the mae.
even have
economic {lls but silent on the story announcing a&n exhaustive chines are {llegal gambling de-
uestion of devaluing the pound report on nudism which the Dis- vices designed to “entice” chile|It“1s also possible that the site| sterling, ig pe po ign in|
patch will start next Sunday. {dren to spend their pennies.
! STRAUSS SAYS: TRADITION WITH A TOUCH OF TOMORROW) tlaté this month at a meeting] Can Be Staged Elsewhere : ite
called by the Civil Aeronautics| The Cleveland National Afr| ; ; | Administration Races which has the race sanction : : - haz the power to stage it any- } Attending will be representa- where in the United States.
Immediately after the race a
He left The Times in 1922 and § {went with the Hearst newspaper | chain in an executive capacity. He § later ‘took a position as business manager of the ‘Milwaukee Sen-|
Pacific Railroad, that has. dead-| ened the commerce in an 11state Midwest area, entered its second week. Wages were not in dispute. The issue was the union] _ demand --for - settlement of 282)
~ aE mr y Seating]. rion as A (tives of the air race mandggment, | s : Sn, . . was a grievances at a ost of $3 mIINOA.T™ yi] qerer was retired for the! _|Nationgl" Aeronautics Association, cry went up to kill the races for| : rs I~ : a. Trinity ~~ ‘No Benefits, No Work’ {last two years after suffering race judges and timers, and rac- | the future. But now the armed ¢ 5 : es : re The coal miners were raising stroke. At the time he was al ing pilots. |services, pilots and aviation in- =» da . s wife, the cry of “no welfare benefits, advertising executive for the Paul | The situation’ arising from the | dustry representatives insist that| ¢ : ; ; » daugh- no work.” Miners left the pits in| Block natienal advertising firm. | wagte death or Bill Odom worlds | oo Janes Jetiorm 2 important : : ; . nApOlS; Wyoming ahd Jan 2 Spokes OS > he Tyee famed flier, a mother and child and Fi I ay - 1] " ¥ + man ndiana hinted a “little a e . . ’ ' e - 11, Car- work stoppage coming.” In West-| funeral home, 1359 Devon Ave. JohnH. Led {during the Thompson Trophy sight as to where its billions spent : rett A. ern Pennsylvania, a union of- Chicago. ohn. Il. Lederer |Race on Labor Day will be dis-\on military aviation are going. :
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ficial -said he would not be sur-|
prised .if the men did mot work|and a sister, Mrs, Walk Callahan, Monday. Att Carmel, Ill.
The steel crisis brewed over
He is survived by a son, Jack, OIL. MANAGER TO TALK {cussed. CAA. investigators will re-| Compared to other events, such F. McK. Blough, Indianapolis port their findings on the cause as the annual Indianapolis auto manager of Standard Oil Co. of of the disaster. Air race officials races, the national air races over He was a member of the Murat Indiana, will speak at a dinner will outline precautionary mea-|the "years have not had a bad
recommendations by a Presi-| Temple, Order of the Mysticimeeting of the Southport Lions sures taken before the race—such record in point of lives lost and
dential Faé¢t-Finding Board for Shrine.
company-financed pension and) social security benefits. The steel firms and the union were embittered and-a government official called their “debate by telegraph messages deplorable.” The CIO Auto Workers .and the Ford Motor Co. held week-end meetings toward getting a new contract for 115,000 workers. The company was reported as having offered a new pension system, but -- the ‘position of the: UAW on the! Presidential board veto of fourth round wage .increases was not known. The. setting of week-end talks was interpreted to mean that a crisis might be near in the Ford dispute. UAW President Walter} Reuther and Ford negotiator John 8. Bugas refused to com-| ment. ’
Mrs. William T. Jones | Dies at Her Home
Services for Mrs. Mary Alice! Jones, 2146 Station St., who died; Friday in her home, will be held at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow in Shirley Brothers Central Chapel. Burfal will be In Anderson. She was 76. { Born in Gallatin, Tenn., she lived in Indianapolis 33 years.| She was a member of the Hop-| kinsville, Ky., Methodist Church. | Survivors include her husband, William T. Jones; two sons, Art| and Paul Jones; three daughters,’ Mrs. Ray Baldwin, Mrs. Helen Jefferson and Mrs. John R: Cos-| tello; a brother, John Sudduth; a! sister, Mrs. Blanche Boyant, all ' of Indianapolis; seven -grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
“Five Held in Stabbing, Victim Called Critical |
McKinley Northington, 42, of 1634 Ogden St., stabbed above the heart during an argument, was in critical condition in General Hospital last night. Two women and three men were held by police in connection with the stabbing. Police found Mr. Northington lying on his porch with a wound in his chest yesterday afternoon. Police said the wounded man {identified one of the women- as his attacker. Witnesses said the stabbing occurred during an argument. ’
Shows Visual Aids Henry M. Stoeppelwerth; of the Indiana Visual Aids Co., Inc, .will demonstrate training pro-| grams aids to members of the Industrial Training Association of ‘ Indiana in a dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow _..in the Marott Hotel.
Premier Cuts Vacation ROME, Sept. 17 (UP)—Premier Alcide de Gasperi cut short his vacation today and returned to Rome to intervene personally if necessary in the eight-day-old ‘Italian maritime strike,
Article by Dr. Potzger
Dr, John E. Potzger.of the Butler University botany department faculty, is the author of an article, “Reading Tree History In Pollen Dust,” in the September issue of American Forests.
Probation for Death Try -
BATH, England, Sept. 17 (UP) —Ronald Boak, 19, was placed on ._probation today after being found : Sully . attempting B commit swallowing phenobarbitone tablets.
{Club at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday I
{as realligning the pylon course property damaged.
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