Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1949 — Page 1

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1949

- Mercy for ‘A Good Life Together’ Seeks Jobless = Ire Benefits for Steel Strikers

Rep. Klein Asks Governor to |

‘Explore’ Matter Express Kills Defendant Goes to Court

enate Group

By ROBERT BLOEM Rep. Joseph Klein (D. Gary) . v today asked Gov. Schricker to 1 1 1] H Bus | “explore” the possibility of

extending Indiana's unem-| ployment compensation law on West Coast provide jobless payments for striking steel workers in Lake Vehicle Rolls

County and the «Calumet. N Gov. Schricker said he had no] Onto Crossing | ™ In California

immediate comment on the state representative's request. ¥ ONTAR 10, Cal., Oct. 3| (UP) — Seventeen persons)

“The steel strike is still in its infancy,” the governor said. “We| still hope it will not last. long enough to create a serious emer-

te gency but in any event we can-/Were killed when their GI bus) not make decisions like these on|dri a shouted com-| & woh: the spur of the moment.” driver Beaded » ol com | nd basket Requires Special Session mand to “turn left” and drove

Mr. Klein said in an interview|in front of a high balling pas-| that, of course, the only way to Senger train, a survivor said to-| provide jobless pay for steel|day. strikers would be to call a spe-| The dead included 11' Air Force) _ . cial session of the general as-|men, five girls, and the chaperone] 3 sembly to amend the unemploy-iwho accompanied them on a ment compensation law. beach party from March Air A law to make strikers eligible |p, ce Base. The bus had a ca00 ess Pa? Wa Elie pacity of 32 passengers but it| i ter. Mr. Klein said, however, that was Hot Know how “many were, ihe would propose a less compre- | Sr . [hensive law designed only to take| Five persons were listed as in-| |care of situations which “menaced jured, at least one in serious con-| ithe health and welfare of entire !dition: |communities.” The train.

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| “Many of the strikers in the Railroad's “Pony Express” Be iy by "Hiness Livable _ . |circumstances,” Mr. Klein said. brakes in an attemp , to halt it. Contest Launched |this steel strike as Winter comes ye. Air Base. was on a side! y : yon yy EE @® | {excursion to return the girls to! . . | winter as bad as those of the dark W HH WwW J d Ch ». (their homes at Ontario and Up- o By RICHARD LEWIS | depression days in the early 30'8.),y Ca)" after the day's outing, ars ins Ju qe ange; { ® ® A prize contest in conjurttion bag on the kitchen table and went in the sickroom where the morn- 2 100g one. beach, T i t B Th od with the Community Fund was ing sunlight made a bright splash of gold on the hardwood floor. Partial Pay Due ria 0 egin urs “ It’s a contest in which YOU Better and better and better. Your eyes are so full of that old shine.” volved in this national deadlock driver, another airman, was untelevision set . . . a radio-phono- faith that “all things are pos} (laughing, joking passengers had By DONNA MIKELS, Times Staff Writer {eircumstances. There was a pay-| . ‘ | ki ndirefrigerator . . . a home freezer from the long, She developed a kidney condi { People would yell out, ‘furn

» = Ld ! - » - = " ” . Ch D " Vi ege MN i k H Lake County area, regardless of slammed into the bus at 73 miles ‘what we may feel of the merits of an hour ds Engineer A. A. Hall est [ve isiting urse a es ome: strike, are helpless victims of of Los Angeles jammed on the ly i early 300000 people per * Unsure of Way Robert Austin Watts, accompanied by officers, walked through Retired Poli Bedfast 3 Y | y inter oy! The bus, en route back to the rain from the Shelby County jail to the courthouse today. ? etire oliceman as ears {on it looks like we might have a : Prizes Include Auto Finds That He Who Giveth Receives And Television Set MRS. LOUISE SMITH, the visiting nurse, placed her little black especially if the. strike should be| 0". "om ® PC "or FASE OUI | Sgt. Peter A. Grisolia, 21, of} announced today. “Hi, handsome,” she said. “How do you feel? You look fine tegen) “Most of the steel workers in- Brooklyn, N. Y. said the bus| Shelby ‘Jurist Denies Motions for Delay can win a brand new Deluxe four-| - Her presence in. the’ house {aii “althor h it dic hake could not go back to work if they | ’ that th In 2d i rne la in ase door Chevrolet sedan . . . or big heated against the sharp.dhiil of Ser, althoug’ did not sha leg x. Te dust could ne [sure of the way and tha el Hearing of Bu Y S ying Cas the autumn morning, routed the sible to him that believeth.” {take them back under the present gp outed directions. , graph combination- console . . . a shadows that had lingered there J 2 oroa.2 lay {day ere . ‘an automatic washer . . . or wakeful night. tion. She needed rest, but there, “nortja) payday yet next week

Minton for Justice

Votes Against

OK's

Questioning Hoosier Judge .

Reverses Stand After Receiving Jurist's Letter By EARL RICHERT Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — Senate Judiciary Committee today approved, by a vote of 9 to 2, the nomination of Federal Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana to be an associate justice of the U. 8. Supreme Court, Mustering their strength, jue diciary committee Democrats succeeding in reversing a Republican sponsored move to call Judge Minton before the committee for questioning on his views expressed while as a Senator in favor of the Supreme Court packing plan. The committee accePted a letter from Judge Minton as adequate to cover the matter involved. Judge's Position In the letter to Acting Chair. man Harley M. Kilgore (D, W. Va.), Judge Minton wrote: “As assistant majority whip of the Senate (when the court packing fight was on) I was a strong partisan and supported the ad-

SHELBYVILLE, Oct. 3—Robert Austin Watts today asked for was characterized by ‘partisan » {left,’ or ‘turn right’” Sgt. Gris- and was granted a change of judge after the Shelby County Circuit! ghip of any kind.

ministration. I do not deny this. The record was made and I stand upon it.. “I may have made mistakes. I likewise may have made mis takes as a judge, but I think no man can point to one of my more than 200 opinions in the past eight years and truthfully say it

{was no rest for her between the .o iho situati : jolia said. “Just before we were Court judge, who once sentenced him to die, had: : “When 1 was a young man any one 4 50 prizes worth more 4 B., ide {sickrooms. : Jeo, ay ins Ne hit, someone said, ‘turn left, and ONE: Overruled eight of 10 defense motions. ° {playing baseball and football, I an ’ : Ie nr ars. pion } 8-88 {eral weeks, {I closed my eyes because I was STW Détied Watts” npplication to be let-to bail by setting strongly Wupported My “team T t This Ta Sontest . wh to, sTnIIRC from fe, +H « | WHAT becomes of a family in| “However,” Mr. Klein contin- Sleepy.” [mediate (rial date... lous trials, Judge Harold G. Bar|" then a partisan. Ddut: later enter. There's nothing to buy... * ny » Indianapolis when these things ued, “even if the state does not! Body Cut Free | SHAPE Jechined fo sign an nied eight of the nine when 1 referced games, 1 had he and you don't have to give to the he has been ly-, happen to it? want to act now to amend the! Then he was thrown from the Order of habeas corpus by setting Ber overru'ec eight o {team. I had no sides. The same Community Fund to compete. ing.on his back | . ® | There was only one answer unemployment compensation 1aW bus by the crash. immediate trial date. ‘and steadiastly 8 Setined b post- | was true whe ft the politic The contest is sponsored and for three years, ¥ [the visiting nurse who could re- I believe we should explore the The bus driver, identiMed ten-| Lé8alistics bogged down the pone opening of the new trial. arena and a ed the benc

paid for by the General Motors

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» {lieve the burden on Mrs. B.

{situation and have the facts and

opening of Watts’ second trial for

It was when he set tomorrow Cases must be decided by ap-

x : i 3 household where » ; ¢ tatively as Gordon C. Crimin, was as formal trial date that the de- plicable law n the RY... Dealers of Marion County to Rit Ras ahi * Mrs. Smith, the blue uniformed figures ready if the need arises. |pinnead in the wreckage and the November, 1947, slaying O23 lo A or ipl AS Saw and upon the record AIL OR bring to everyone's attention the, : nurse from the Visiting Nurses Gov. Schricker, in discussing i, res had to be used to cut|indianapolis housewife Mary Lois|fe » e righ * vital need for and the humani-{téen an active { Association. washed her hands/hiS talk with Mr. Klein, raised | Burney, in Shelby County Circuit Plea for change of judge. Sticks to Record ONE and widel | » 'C |his body free. ; tarian work of the Community, I ely {then unpacked her black bag. {the question of whether Indiana's Engineer Hall said he was Court this morning. However, | Motion Granted Promptly “I have never approached any DERS Fund. nown Indianap- | “We carry most everything in huge unemployment reserve could | : {formal trial was scheduled to

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olis family.as though to test its faith, the arrival of the visiting nurse is an event. - ® =» = | EVENTS have become fewer tient.

said.

these but the kitchen sink,” she

Mrs. Smith looked at the pa-| Good care had prevented] in this household since Mr. ana|Ped sores, and that was a victory

stand the jolt of adding striker | benefits. { “If this thing spreads and we have shutdowns because of a steel | shortage we must not forget others who would be unemployed |

All you have to do to compete Mrs. B. celebrated their golden "e¢ause Mr. B cannot turn iniyng who already are entitled to!

is to complete in 25 additional] words or les§ the important state-|

Fund because . . fn any number of entries.

| Mr. Also The Times is presenting policeman 34 years.

today the first of a series of stories about the Red Feather agencies ‘the Community Fund supports with the dollars YOU contribute. In those stories, The

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wedding anniversary last year) with the calm understanding that

B. was an Indianapolis ys

Old timers yc 2 ms and feet.

| “How does that feel?” {Smith asked.

|at headquarters remember him! {as one of the grand old men of ithe force.

One winter night in 1942, helthat was just fine.” slipped on the ice in front of| just

The nurse gave the elderly man ment: “I give to the Community| theirs had been a good life to- ® SPonge bath. He is a big man, 8 g 1 {but she turned him easily. When she was finished, the nurse and, rs.. B. arranged pillows under

compensation under our law,” the Governor said. The coal strike, he added, appears to be a more immediate problem. . At the same time State Labor

picking up speed after clearing Ontario when the bus appeared | at the grade crossing near On-| tario International Airport. The bus stopped, he said, and then! started “creeping slowly forward! toward the tracks.” | “I began to blow the whistle,” he said. “When I saw that it wasn't going to stop, I slammed on the air brakes, but it was too late.” ! Railroad officials said the cross-

starts Thursday.

{granted by Judge Barger who preIn rapid order attorneys for sided at Watts’ first trial. {Watts filed nine motions aimed! He named a slate of three judges me.”

This motion was immediately: case except to try to find the

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Times Special

EAST CHICAGO, Oct. 3—' Rain-drenched pickets, milling

| Commissioner Thomas R. Hutson ing signals were still operating before plant. gates in Indiana's

to investigate the situation caused

The seven girls on the trip,

by the coal shortage in those|only two of whom survived, were

Nurse prepared to go to Washington, When they arrived to investigate sleeping steel belt today had

{Ind., Jasper and Tell C the crash. “Fine,” said Mr. B. “You know per-and- Te ity today x

more than 1000 supervisory workers imprisoned in the I nland Steel Co. mill. !

[two days for defense and state

Steel Pickets Trap |agree on a new judge.

[tion immediately but the defense

Dailey, offered to make the selec-

took the two-day delay. Earlier

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presented on

answer in the law to the question

the record before

Judge Minton said that at least

to|threé other nominees to the Supreme Court, all of whom were The state, headed by Mariort|confirmed. also had {County Prosecutor George S./the Supreme Court packing plan. {The committee, he said, did not {see fit to query any of these men

{on this matter. He did not name the defense protested the three.

advocated

Jenner Absent Senator Kilgore will report the

Minton nomination to the Senate

pected within the next two or

csi Texans on Guard today and confirmation is ex-

three days.

For 100 MPH Blo [Mich.), one of the Republicans

Sen. Homer Ferguson (R.

{who wanted Minton to testify,

Times hopes to give you inform-| z= = = cities. {members of the March Air Force, ation that will help you create a Ee oupital and. Tryse y WHEN Mrs. Smith went into| {Base Service Club, a group that| Pickets at other plants were winning SUEY. t pout a that fall. {the kitchen to repack her bag and, (entertains airmen. {allowing supervisory employees ou’ll find a new story about a i {confer with Mrs. B. the patient] rere | Yntand i | It was the first of a series of . . . to come and go, but at Inlan t i of | : : | different Red Feather agency BY Hsasters Which: Dros down the SiShed and said: , Killed in Florida Loe gates were sealed to every-|

The Times every day . . . along with an extra coupon to make it easier for you to enter many times. For further details about the

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family’s financial The

independence. | » B.’s were substantial con-| 1 HeY treat you right,

to Indianapolis q - s {Community Fund. These days, a|

You know, she is a good one.

. age Nribatore he | There are 25 visiting nurses With Million dle

of the Association. They | {make an average of 400 visits a|

|. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Oct. 3 (UP)—An 83-year-old man

lone except the drivers of U. 8. Mail trucks. {

|was killed yesterday when he fell The offices became hotel rooms

from the roof of his two-story

{with hastily set up cots scattered!

Cities Give Shelter | To Coastal Refugees | CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Oct. 3,

{winter residence where he was re-/apout. The plant had plenty of (UP)—Hurricane winds of 100-|

{pairing hurricane damage. He peat, light and water, and gro- mile velocity, and possibly higher, ed! r

Community Fund Contest and Community Fund agency, the month The visit is for 45 min-| Doubt Early End to |was Morton E. House, a retir moved toward the south Texas!

Visiting Nurses Association, is] i ! another entry blank, turn to Page y utes. In that time, the nurse or-! of. 6 ry 8 one of the mainstays of the! ganizes the sickroom routine for! Steel, Coal Strikes f tM i Ind i farmer of Monroeville, Ind.

family’s morale. ithe wife, mother or relative, PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3 (UP) — | 2

Three years ago, while still an checks the patient's condition. sithough 100,000 miners resumed Bi T A A by 3 1

coast today as rich agricultural jand industrial sectors hurriedly

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invalid from the fall, Mr. B. suf- keeps his chart and makes her work today, the nation’s labor!

fered a stroke, report to the physician. * | picture r 1 {set up defenses for the big blow. | In Area Forecast nn. Families: who are able, pay 52} ale dary with neatly) ° ® { Generally, calm prevailed de-| LOCAL TEMPERATURES THE CONTINUAL medical ex- each. visit. Many families cannot ang oa) strikes. First 10-Cent World Series spite a new. advisory from the : a. m.., 59 10 a.m... 63 [pense drained the resources of Mr. PAY Si oe. ney pay waa! they] Observers said early Settiossnt] {U. 8. Weather Bureau in Houston a.m... 60 11a m...68 |and Mrs. B, and Mr. B's police/°aR and the deficit is. made up by| *. B- i {and New Orleans that the roaring; 8 a.m... 60 12 (Noon). 64 [pension was not enough. Theirithe Community Fund. {of either strike was doubtful. | 6-5 Odds Favor Yanks Over Dodgers With storm center was- only. 105 niles,

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Hoosiers who danced to. the tune of near perfect fall weather yesterday paid the piper today as showers blanketed most of the

daughter and her husband came! * = 8 to live with them to help. >t

Under X-ray and radium treatment, she is bed-ridden, too.!

There was a second sickroom in| i cS than it has now.

ito handle the load of the 700 new! Th daughter developed Cancer. yatients a month. Twenty years OCCUrTing simul

Government officials said they THERE. are not enough nurses| Were virtually powerless to ease

the. spreading impact. The strikes, eously for the

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Lopat Likely to Go Against Roe in Opener east-southeast ___By LEO PETERSEN, United Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK, Oct. 3—The Big Town was all excited about its’ {ago, the Association had 11 more first time in history, packed the first 10-cent World Series today, but to the New York Yankees and

|greatest- single wallop ever dealt Brooklyn Dodgers it all seemed a little anti-climactic.

of Brownsville, southernmost point in Texas. | _. The path of the wind is north-| northwest, at about 12 miles per hour, according to the advisory. Near the center, the velocity is!

said he was “not satisfied with the outcome of the committee's proceedings this morning.” He did not say, however, that he would fight the Minton nomination om the Senate floor. Sen. William E. Jenner (R, Ind.), judiciary committee memr, who previously had ane nounced he was inclined to favor Mr. Minton's nomination, was not present at today's session.

Vandenberg Operated On

ANN ARBOR. Mich, Oct. 8 (UP)—Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) was operated on

at University of Michigan Hos.

pital today for a lung lesion.

state. Weatherman Paul Miller said intermittent showers would fall on the Indianapolis area the remainder of the day, tonight and | tomorrow, _He said rain would probably extend into Wednesday. | | | |

the household. The strain on Mrs. B. began to' (Continued on Page 3—Col. 6) |

em eT TT mame an aw -— |

Some of the Association’s func-| the American economy. i1 Million P | bruising pennant race triumphs to think about the series. But a Shipping St : on Pay Lvs (little time—two days in fact—will have cured all that when the| qui aS a at | Both strikes, which cost nearly umpires call play ball in Yankee ——— | standstill. [200000 Biel Jud Soul workers| Stadium at 12 noon (Indianapolis| - Tribe Leads Royals f millon y In Wages, Time) Wednesday for the first, «Raq hot” after scalping the started over pension disputes.| game of the series. | Stontreal -Rovals an. the

| j Government tervention in. thei” wy, rain of history-| score of 5 to 1, the Indianap-

| MARION COUNTY GENERAL MOTORS DEALERS’ CONTEST |

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The brilijant autumn sun which thie

i They still were too battered, weary and worn out from their ociimated at 100 miles per hour...

Alerted also were the prosper- home in Grand Rapids, Mich. {ous centers of oil, industry and) {agriculture such as Galveston, here from Washington Sept. 26 | Houston. Freeport, Port Arthur for a physical checkup -to deter~

Physicians said he was doing “all right.”

: His wife awaited word of the operation at the Vandenberge’

The 65-year-old Senator flew ;

|| '$ brought a maximum temperature | |coal dispute appeared unlikely,i,,ying pennant fights will be olis Indians try for their third |and Beaumont. 'mine whether he would require : of 80 degrees to the city yes-| COMMUNITY FUND CONTEST io ere) ean (Chief forgotten by then and they Will straight tonight in the Little | Galveston island, where high an operation. i terday = afternoon, 7 degrees, tos vie [to mediate the steel issues ioipe out for some more of base-| world Series. [tides are battering the sea wall,] His physicians in Washington | above normal, will. be hidden | P.O. Box No. 1681, Indianapolis, Ind. | |sometime this week. [balls Jury 2nd gold ANY hel Mel Queen is slated for mound |was turned into a refuge for were reported to have been urging , tomorrow. The mercury will rise 3 wr ord, | The three-day-old CIO United Tira NY YORK Overnigut ell ig duty in the third meeting at {hundreds of residents from un- him for months to undergo an to 70 tomorrow and drop to 62 to-| (Complete the following statement in 25 additional | |gteelworker strike was costing thea 6 to 5 favart | Montreal. The Tribe leaves for protected lowlands. (operation. But he postponed it te night. forecasters said. | words or less) steel Industry an estimated $20| Neither Baar ies Casey Stengei| Nome at 6:30" a. m. tomorrow | Beach hotels behind the sea see major foreign affairs issues Rains beginning late last night, ips . . : : | million a day. The soft coal in-lof the American League Cham- and arrives in Indianapolis at {wall were jammed, and publicicleared through the Senate. brought more than one inch I I give to the Community Fund because | dustry was losing $10 million |pion Yankees nor Burt Shotton, | 6:55 a. m. Wednesday. The buildings were opened as havens. of water to some Indiana com-| I . daily in business as a result of who led the dust-raising Hooli- [0Urth game of the Little World |Many lowland farmers brought munities. Crawfordsville recorded | | [the two-week-old United Mine gans of Brooklyn to the National! Series is slated for Victory Field their livestock into the city, Times Index 1.95 inches; Lafayette, 1.37; Mon- | Workers strike. League flag, had had time to ‘Wednesday night. {where' residents readily put) Heth; 1.14, and Logansport, .98 | S10 President Philip Murray's think about the series. {Details of major league and empty lots at their disposal. ; Th . strike cal brought out 514,000 Indians’ games, Page 15. The Galveston cit: ditorium, enient RR I I | steelworkers in 24 states and Busy Praising Players : courthouse ad al ye a Alisements Bi 2arrige lg Public Hearing Today | choked production to less than| They still were patting jtheir morning with the dope indicating, eq into sheite Spans ih | store ~ or. | five per cent of normal. Some Players on the back for comingthat he probably would go with pr te She Ts r: anditory Comics ......19|Novel ....... T liti On Housing Authority. | | v | [500.000 fabricating plant ~em- through yesterday on the final Ed Lopat, a stocky southpaw. th a capacity of aoc um, Crossword ...10/Othman .....1 aitlies, A public hearing will be held | mh “ ployees are scheduled to join the|day of the season to win out—| The baseball experts were bet- |. a capacity of 3500, was Editorials ...12/Pattern ..... § in the City Council chambers at L | walkout by November if their the-Yankees with a stirring 5 to 3iting that Shotton would sena °Prned bo the public. Fashions «... 5 Radio cereal : 7:30 p. m. today on the reso- . companies fail to meet the union Victory over the Boston Red SoX,|Preacher Roe to the mound. - he huge ~multi-million-dollari Food .....s.. 5/RUATK sseesesdl 5 Notion to empower tiie mayor Name ! demands. and the Dodgers with a 10th in-| Ag usual, all tickets were sold plant of the Dow Chemical Co. at|Forum ......12/80ciety ccoees 4 . 16. appoint commissioners . fox | | The only bright spot in the ning 9 to 7 triumph over the 5,4 gcalpers already were de- Freeport is still awaiting other|Gardening ... 5{Sports ....15, 18 i City DE AuttorHy ini I Address otherwise gloomy labor picture Philadelphia Phillies. |manding premium prices. The|advisories before ‘closing down— Hollywood ... 8 Weather Map 14 . Eventual positive a ction oi the : | was the Sehoduled return to work| Neither cared to discuss series!stadium figures to draw capacity an operation costing thousands in Indpls. ... 2 Earl Wilson... 9 move - would provide —tow—tost | | - - itoday of Pennsylvania's nearly pitching plans although Stengel crowds of around 70,000 for each|of dollars. In the town of Free-

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