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Health Bill to Overshadow Taft-Hartley
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60th YEAR—NUMBER 201
Socialized Medicine’ Steel Parleys
In Interest, Chairman Gabrielson Predicts
Photo, Page 2 By ROBERT BLOEM | Socialized medicine may overshadow the Taft-Hartley
law as a deciding issue in the 1950 congressional election campaign, National Republican Chairman Guy G. Gabriel-
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Deadline Nears
Union Leaders Say Workers Are Ready for Strike Ford pension plan allows maximum of $100 a month . , . Page 16.
son said here today.
In the recent special congressional election in Pennsyl-
vania the question of national was injected, Mr. Gabrielson said. In the last days of that campaign, he said, the health question “took the ball” from the Taft-Hartley law even in heavily industrialized sections of the district where the election was held. The: GOP national committee head came to Indianapolis to speak at a state-wide rally of Republican Women’s organizations in the Riley Room at the Claypool Hotel this noon. The-rally, one of a series of meetings preliminary to the opening of the 1950 election campaigns, was held under the direction of Mrs. Mabel
compulsory health insurance
The Ford pension dispute was settled today but negotiations to head off a paralyzing steel strike took a grave new turn and the industry be-
Ellison to Head Medical Group
State’ Association
. {a conference for 2 p. m. (EST). Names New President There were no indications of a “TI Need a Doctor” fifth of a S¢ttlement before the steel union’s
series by Robert Bloem, Page 3; Photo, Page 2.
By JOHN WILSON
Dr. Alfred 8. Ellison, South
Fraser, state GOP vice chairman. Bend surgeon, today was named
Study Pennsylvania Vote Mr. Gabrielson said the Repub-| lican national organization was making a detailed study of the] recent Pennsylvania special election to determine the factors in-
president-elect for 1950 of the to any welfare and social insur-
State Medical Association. At the same time Dr. Claude 8. Black, Warren, was seated as the association's new president
volved in the return there to|at a meeting of the house of dele-
GOP ranks. A Republican candidate won.the congressional seat at stake in the election despite a Democratic victory there only last November.
gates. Dr. Black replaces Dr. A. P. Hauss, New Albany. Dr. Ellison, chairman of the Association’s Council for the past three years, will take office
Commusting on recent reports/at the organization's 101st con-
a Republican Nation-
vention next Sepiember at French Lick.
Practicing 25 Years The new president-elect has
such a move would have to await been practicing for 25 years. He conferences with other Hoosier|is chairman of the surgical staff
national chairmanship He had no comment on how the decision on this question might effect possible appointment of the Indiana vice chairman, Mr. Gabrielson told reporters at] his press conference that the GOP was now in the process of devel-| oping a farm program with which |
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of Memorial Hospital in South Bend and past president of the South Bend Medical Society.
Dr. A. F. Weyerbacher of In-
|/dianapolis was re-elected treas-
urer. Named delegates. to the American Medical Association convention in December were Dr. William Cockrum, Evansville, and Dr. F. 8, Crockett, Lafayette. The two delegates will serve for twoyear terms, along with two holdover delegates. Meanwhile, in convention, the
rehabilitation of elderly persons|’®
was discussed. It is imposing new problems on the medical profesgion because of increased life a New York doctor said
Dr. Donald A. Covalt, of New
t York University Medical College,
predicted that there will be- 21 million persons in the country at least 65 years of age by 1980. Dr. Covalt spoke at the final session of the 100th anniversary meeting today in Murat Temple. A record total of 2908 doctors have registered for the four-day convention. The New York doctor told a general méeting that the per cent of elderly persons in the nation’s
to meet the Democratic adminis- population has increased through tration’s Brannan farm plan in the steady advancement of medi-
the coming election. | Dirt Farmers Heard In the recent grass roots con-| ference at Sioux ‘City, Iowa, he said, Republicans recorded proposals of dirt farmers. These proposals, plus suggestions which have been made before congressional agricultural committees, will be the basis of GOP's offered | solution to farm problems, the na-| tional chatrman commented. In his pep talk before more than 800 Hoosier Republican women, Mr. Gabrielson charged there was “too little practical politics in the Republican Party.” “I am stressing the importance
of practical politics beforé Repub-|lutions and a meeting of the
lican women,” he said, “becaus it is my conviction that women are frequently more practical than men. They know from experience that the bést way to keep & house in order is to keep it in order every day of the year.” He urged women in organized politics to do a little “practical missionary work” to build interest and bring out voters in the coming elections,
cal care and science, “Two thousand years ago the average life span was 25 years,” he said. “Today it is 65 years.” He said that rehabilitation “means putting afflicted persons back into a productive economy which is a cold matter of dollars and cents to the rest of the population. Every physician must know about rehabilitation procedures.”
. Luncheons Scheduled Events this morning were to Include the final meeting of the Association's house of delegates which will vote on proposed reso-
'gan grinding toward a com-
plete shut-down. Top government mediators |stood by, but maintained a hands {oft policy when U. 8, Steel and {the union voluntarily scheduled
11:01 p. m. Indianapolis time, strike deadline Friday. Steel executives were reported to have met this morning and decided to hold firm to their position that workers must contribute
{ance fund. | At New York, union officials met briefly with Bethlehem Steel Co. When the meeting recessed, the union men said a walkout appeared inevitable, Steel firms across the country started banking furnaces, emptying 6pen hearths and closing coke ovens in preparation for
closing. All Cutting Back U. 8. Steel said all of its 27 iron furnaces in the PittsburghYoungstown district will be down within 24 hours. Wheeling Steel announced its steel furnaces will be empty by midnight tonight. Bethlehem, Inland and other com-
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofiice Indianapolis, Ind. lssyed Dally
PRICE FIVE CENTS
2 Missing Italian Fliers
Times’ Reporter Set to Demonstrate
(Editorial, Page 22)
¢ By JIM HEYROCK NOT ALL of the newly-in-stalled parking meters will jam with a simple twist of the wrist. But those that won't jam by turning the crank require only a piece of a match stick, a tiny. wad of paper or a cigaret butt, ; Times photographer. Bill Oates and I “set” five meters yesterday in front of the War Memorial on Vermont St. Numbers of the meters were 140, 142, 143, 144 and 146. ; With the various methods, the time remains on the face of the meters indefinitely.
” . . WE ARE now prepared - to demonstrate our method to Chief of Police Edward Rouls, who says, it can’t be done, and Mayor Al seconds longer to jam, Feeney. > On the “short” turn of This is what happened on the crank, the handle kept slipping five meters yesterday: The first one worked by the ing, first method. I dropped a penny in the slot, gave the crank a full bring un 10 minates time. [solved I stuck a match stick beThe crank stuck. I listened. tween the crank and lock on There was no ticking sound.
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This meter was easily jammed, requiring only the prescribed one and a quarter turns.
Reported Alive At Sea
|OK, Mayor—OK, Chief—Step Right Up, See ll. S. Rushes
The second meter took a few crank down and the meter failed] ON to tick off the time.
a ” » . the rhe third, fourth and fifth ma- [there is always-the danger of the {back and the meter began tick- chines required the same treat-|{crank slipping that fraction of { ment
{back of the meter. This held the proof than any.
What a Cinch It Is to Gyp the Parking Meterspjanes on Hunt
Off Bahamas
‘We're Drifting, We Can Survive,’ Says Radio Call MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 29 (UP)| —Coast Guard rescue planes were sent to an area 500 miles east of Nassau in the Baha« ma Islands today to search for two Italian trans-Atlantic 78 soporied alive and drifting on the wreckage of their plane, The Coast Guard rescue control center here said it had been ade
It took a few seconds to jam this, which required a match stuck behind the handle.
Variety is offered. You can stick the match on the other side with the same result.
THE meters that jam radio had picked up a message simply by turning the crank, peiteved to be from the lost filers
. an Inch and set the meter to The match or wad of paper can|ticking.
r . = =» . drifting near Bahama Islands, T TH was eas be placed in the little hole op-| The handle can't move with a i Our position BUT E problem ily posite the lock, aso, with the match jammed between the crank We can tb hd same result.
and the meter, Bring on your meter, we're ready to demonstrate.
chief, Seven minutes latitudé. Short on Food
The match method is more fool-
panies also were cutting back. Republic Steel, in conference in Cleveland with -the union today, {duplicated U. 8S. Steel's offer—6 cents an hour per man for pensions and 4 cents for insurance, if employees contribute. The Sites, the company gala, would employees’ surance ts and result in an immediate take home pay increase of 1% cents an hour. The union promptly rejected the ofA Bethlehem offered 4 cents an hour for insurance and agreed to a study of the pension problem. This also received a prompt turn down. The union insists welfare and insurance funds must be completely company financed. William Margolis, No. 1 trouble
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Strike Blast Wrecks Tipple
By United Press Renewed violence in the striketorn soft coal fields of western Pennsylvania was reported today by state police. They said a part of the tipple at the Cloverleaf Mine of the June Dale Coal Co., in Clearfield County, was extensively damaged last night by a dynamite charge or some other explosive.
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now said no arrests had been made in the explosion but that authorities had “several good leads.” In addition to the tipple, the cleaning plant and power generating plant were damaged heavily, according to R. D. E. Smith, president of the company. He also reported that his trucks were stoned and several shots fired at the cleaning plant. = Violence also flared at the
general council. Luncheons were scheduled by the U. 8. Naval Reserve Medical tuberculosis committees, 1
were to present scientific papers
this afternoon. They were Drs.|—A 20,000-pound James F. Balch, Donald J. Wolf-| penicillin consigned to Rio de|Went to Washington's city-owned 29 (UP)—China today indignant-
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Officers and the state and county Penicillin Shipment Four Indianapolis physicians Leaves Terre Haute
TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 290 (UP)
State Police Lt. Frank L. Gar-|
strike-bound Bell Aircraft plant| {at Niagara Falls, N. Y., when
shipment of|Plained that 75 UMW workers
Governor Meets (Tiny Manual Converter
“Insufficient food. Radio inop= erative, We have seen no search
GOP Fires Five
| Planes, We, will send further ine " ' . °TWA said its Rome office State UMW Chief Produces’ TV in Color Ward Chairmen icc oe ies ei | - Screen Viewed Though Special Device i ne ars : Su Raquest. 1a» Lewis Austin Has | Which May Cost as Little as $5 | New Leadership "|ueres toe serene tr the mas: ¢ y WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UP)—The Columbia Broadcasting use’ to the radio being inoperas No Comment’ iy System came up today with a tiny converter which, held in the hand, ‘Cleaning House I meant’ the fiers could send Gov, Schricker tangled ~withiwin change -and-white television pictures to color. Five Republican ward chalr-|signals but not receive. Lowi te United Mine Work- cas device - the invention of Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, director of men have been fired in the first| The Coast Guard had no fure But it was not the bushy-browed | color TV he. § development, who Invented Columbia’siot a. series of party shakeups Shep MOrmation esorpt te pos John L. who was called on the! the Bahamas capital.
| ! | green carpet to the Governor's|, I, Selibles 4 lndXs hang an! : jer. Weighing about eight ounces, : are Jewis called fu by he an the color converter is 4! inches | Austin, Terre Haute, chief of |In diameter, It contains a small Indiana's 8500 United Mine Work- motor which is run by plugging ers. the connecting cord into a wall The two met in a short con-| electricity outlet. | ference shortly before noon. The, The motor whirls a tiny color {talk behind closed doors lasted|disc containing the three primary less than 20 minutes after which |TV colors, red, blue and green. {Indiana's Lewis stalked out with|This disc is synchronized with the! |the other Lewis’ traditional: “color as broadcast. | “No comment. Before the hand converter can| Coal Piles Dwindle be used; the receiving set must be | The conference came as Hoo- 343pted to receive color broad-| sier coal piles dwindled danger- aqts in black and white. There ously, in the second week "of a ha5 peen no estimate as to how, nation-wide “no pension no work” |mych that adapter would cost. To coal strike. {use the gadget, the spectator puts | The Hoosier Governor em- the machine before his eyes, and| { phasized, however, that he Was peers through a 1%;-inch lens, he not trying to step into the na- gees color TV while others, view- | tional coal strike but was pri-| ing the program from the same (marily concerned with “keeping set, see only black and white. | Indiana's institutions warm.” CBS officials believe the hand | The state's 22 benevolent and|converter eventually may be sold | penal institutions have less than for as little as $5. 55 days’ supply of fuel:left and ne coal piles of public institutions, . . | industries and private homes are China Denies U. S. at the “critical” stage, he said. . | The Governor said the confer Applied Pressure
ence was provoked by two “in- BULLETIN -
cidents” at Indiana coal mines. : “Gets Call for Help WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 a In both cases it involved union (UP)—Nationalist China warelegations “visiting” miners who " | had remained on the job and in SHips have halted three Amer. |both cases stoppage of all work| lcan merchant ships traveling | (resulted. between Shanghal and Hong Kong, the State Department announced today.
He said”the Mayor, Ralph I. Burris, Washington, Ind., called him last night requesting the
Governor's help. The Mayor com- LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Sept.
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bosses by Chairman Innis last Air Base. night followed the organization S Predicted Tuesday of a new GOP commit Piohe SW Sirs Tie Cant. tee composed of party leaders Bario~ lopposed to the regular organiza- glio. The plane last was heard tion setup. miles Go Slightly Lower blast of the regular organization miles south of Argentia, NewCHICAGO, Segt. 20 (UP)—The against attempts of the insurgent|foundland. ; |Way Republican Committee,” to Italy Reports to, choose from near-record SUP- sot up a rival faction of | 1 PTY picked Up of it at slightly lower prices, Chairmen Removed Agriculture Department analysts The ward chairmen removed |The Italian radio said
|said retail
said today. in the shakeup included Frank The American Meat Institute Huse, former County Treasurer, counters’ will bein the fourth ward; William Yae“loaded” starting in December as|ger and Jesse Hutsell in the sixth the result of bumper corn crops, ward; Edward McNulty, 14th a 15 per cent larger pig crop last ward and Frank Light, first spring and 24 per cent more cattle/ward. on feed lots last month. The new chairmen appointed in An expected shorter supply of [their places were John Hart, lamb will be offset easily by the|/fourth ward; Carter Eltsroth, “largest supplies of turkeys and sixth ward; William Johnson, chickens in history,” a packing 14th ward and Norman K. Goode, firm executive said. {first ward . Consumption to Rise Other ward bosses given offiThe meat - institute - estimated Cia] approval under the Innis the per capita consumption . of leadership included: meat over the country will aver-| Harry Alford .and John Mcage 160 pounds during October | Gregor, second - ward; Elmer through July, a figure exceeded [Johnson and Harold Kohlmeyer, since the war only during the last third ward; John Goodnight, quarters of 1946-47. {seventh ward; Charles Bohne, 22d ereeipeapteereriehaneert errors (ward; James H. Powers, Franklin Township; Cowboy Hat String Perry Township; Hoyt Moore, De-
Costs Life of Boy, 5 |catur Township, and Hiram Gard-
ner, Lawrence Township. PUEBLO, Colo., Sept. 29 (UP) | First Major nd —Mrs. Velma Wells noticed her| Chairman Innis said the ap-5-year-old son, Ray, standing byinsintments were part of an over-
a tree in the back yard when she, plan tp streamline operation
Harry Harmon,|.
ram, Karl M. Koons and James O.|Janeiro, Brazil, will leave here to- mine in Pike County where 14(!¥ denied that the United States
called him into supper last night
of the Republican Party in Marion
Ritchey. day on the first Constellation Dr. Charles C. Crampton of|plane to visit Hulman Airport. Delphi, “Family Doctor of the| Trans-World Airline officials
AL Playoff (If Any) re. ar font sn ot fainkwid the plane was » combination
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Goes to Boston
CHICAGO, Sept. 29 (UP)—Any nécessary playoff game for the American League championship will be played in Boston on Monday, a coin-tossing ceremony in the office of President Will Harridge determined today.’ The coin was flipped once, and determined only the site of the
game. ‘ NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UP)— President Ford Frick of the National League announced today “that in the event the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers tie for the National League pennant they will meet in a best of three playoff series with the first game at St. Louis on Tuesday. The second and third games will be played at Brooklyn on Thursday and Friday.
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_|on the romance, but gage his con- borough House residence with the sent after the Princess Royal young Duke of Kent to attend the
jammed Mayfak’ 22/the new countess, unlike the row North Audley St. hoping for American commoner who married the newlyweds 33.041 the Duke oF Windtor: Wil be wal fh fora) sammy:
and freight airliner. at 6:30 p. m. Kenneth McFarland, The shipment will be transferred
schools, will speak. | York, they said. {
Royal Family Sees Refugee Wed to Earl of Harewood
King's Millionaire Nephew and Auitrian
Bride to Make Home in St. James Palace
By GERALDINE HILL, United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 20—The Earl of Harewood, millionaire nephew of King George VI and 11th in succession to the British throne, married an Austrian refugee pianist in St. Mark's Church today before the royal family. The 26-year-old son of the king's sister made Marion Stein, 22, the Couness of Harqwood in the first marriage of a commoner into the inner e of t ouse of jravics Towed Windsor since the Duke of Wind-|¢o, at Bt. James Palace, Where sor wed America’s Mrs. Wallls\tne young couple will make their Warfield Simpson in 1937.
The King at first had frowned crossed the street from her Mai-
Lord Harewood’'s mother George VI's sister, interceded. The King's consent is required for|will leave for a honeymoon in ap marriages in the House of Paris, Venice, Rome and Capri. findsor. . J \ The King's approval means that thousands
comé in the stately castles and
miners had remained on the job to supply city utilities. He said the striking miners talked the cityemployed workers into leaving the shaft. The other “incident” was at
|superintendent of Topeka, Kas. to a Rio-bound ‘plane in New|the Mulzer Brothers Mine in
Spencer County. There a delegation of 300 striking mineworkers
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had instigated China's charge be-| He was still in the [Sule pout fore the United Nations that Rus-|tion a few minutes later when ) sia threatens the peace of the Far she went out to see why he hadn’t| Fe sald co-chairmen will be East by aiding the Chinese Com- answered. . (named in most of the larger munist armies. The boy was dead, hanged ac- Wards and that six assistant “That is .a falsehood.” Dr.|cidentally by the string on his county chairmen will be appointed Tsiang told the Assembly. “China cowboy hat which had ety co-ordinate party operations in has taken this action of its ownlon a low branch of the tree he six councilmanic areas of the free choice and decision, /had been climbing. ‘county.
County,
The Forgotten Men of Marion County— Paul Brown Managed to ‘Get Sprung’ ‘In-Again-Out-Again’ Burglary Suspect Hly LUSERTY, bowevar, wis A squad in « police radio ¢ruiser picked him up ofi the morning Fifth of a Series { " ) otin a car with another man. The By PHILIP F. CLIFFORD JR. two were charged with vagrancy of Paul (In-Again-Out-Again) Brown, on Mar. 29? lar tools. Criminal Court Judge William D. Bain? The following day, Brown Judge Bain's investigator, Lem Glidden? He doesn’t know.
No One Concerned Is Sure Just How A . short lived. Couldn't Seem to Keep His Freedom of Oct. 14, while he was riding WHO AUTHORIZED the bond reduction and admittance to bail |and suspicion of possessing burgHe doesn’t know. Special Judge Harry L.. Gause?|
freedom on low bond was can-
He sald: “Naw. T don't know|to $7500. From then, until Mareh
{the matter. i got sprung.” was mysteriously reduced again Martin Worrell, of the Capitol . to’ $1500, Brown “sat it out” in Indemnity Insurance Go.? | Originally, Brown, who was un-| ju He remembers signing the bond der indictment for second degree ” \oqntime, however, charges of and taking Brown from the Purglary and auto banditry for ing y
{Marion County Jail. But
| “Who Authorized Brown's Bond?” trips in and out of jail, when his
lon the details. {This was the result of a habeas yrrogted. He was
THEN oF. COURSE, there 1s fore Judge Bain. He was released {Paul Brown, star of the mystery. under the low bond that day.
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celed. Judge Bain upped the bond Both teams were rained He has no clear recollection of nothin’ about it. I only know I/20 of this year when the .bond[b
like Which he was arrested May 2. poih men were dismissed in Mu), |other members of the cast of 1948, began one of his numerous nicipal Court for lack of evidence. | TWO DAYS after Brown's re-
| Mr. Worrell's memory is vague bond was cut from $5000 to $1500. lease last March, he was again i charged with corpus hearing, Oct, 6, 1948, be- vagrancy and suspected of carry-
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under the new leadership of Near-Record Meat Chairman John E. (Jack) Innis. The appointment of new ward ian Air Force Capt. Camillo Prices Expected to f The shakeup was the openinginortheast of New York and 180 nation’s housewives will be able/STOUP, known as the “American plies of meat this winter, much workers. / MILAN, Italy, Sept. 20 (UP)— today
an Italian amateur radio
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rubber liferaft and in “desperate” condition. The broadcast indie cated that the life raft was in the Bahamas area. The Italian radio gave neither the amateur operator's name nor the date the signals were intere cepted. Ba Ar IT
Set Minton Hearing For Next Monday
Times Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 20-—Sen, Harley Xilgore (D. W. Va.) said today the Senate come mittee would meet at 10:30 a. m. Monday to consider further the nomination of Judge Sherman Minton to the Supreme Court. He said the Justice Department his been asked to notify Judge Minton. The committée voted 5 to 4 on Tuesday to call Judge Minton before it in closed session to |see if he still holds the views he |oXpreseed in the U. 8. Senate in favor of the Supreme Court packs ing plan.
Yanks, Sox Tied As Boston Loses; Indians Trip Again
ost is the baseball picture toe y: :
. w 5 American and’ New York went into a first-p tie when the Red Box lost to W! ington, 2 to 1, last night amd the Yankees beat Ph Tto 5 New York plays Philadelphia to day and Boston's game at Washs infteq was postponed because of