Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1949 — Page 1

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Steel Crisis

2 Main Nash Plants, Idling 12,000 Workers

‘New Railroad Service Core Loom; Ching Recesses Talks With U. S. Steel Chief

A major automobile e manufacturer today announced plans to shut down production at two main plants next shortages.

month, because of steel

‘At the same time, a railroad union official predicted additional cuts impending in train service. At New York, Cyrus S. Ching, chief federal mediator, recessed talks with U. S. Steel, but planned to confer with

officials of three other big producers in Washington Sunday and Monday. ' He said that he was remaining in touch with U. 8. Steel. Attbr-

ney General J, Howard McGrath, meanwhile, disclosed

12,000 Face Layoff ‘Nash Motors announced at Detroit that it will be forced to shut down car assembly by the middle of next month at its two main plants at Kenosha, Wis, About 12,000 will be idled.

Murray plans war on left wing

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Nation’s coal supply is gd danger line

Ford Motor Co. has announced plans for cutbacks which will idle about 10,000 production workers about the same time, if the steel strike continues. Hardship and suffering threatened to spread across the nation as a result of the twin walkouts. A railroad union official warned that coal-burning roads would be forced to cut operations another 25 per cent, as they did Tuesday, uniess the coal strike is settled

soon. W. P. Kennedy, president of the Trainmen’s Brotherhood, said 50,000 of his 225,000 members were idled by the strikes... Families Destitute Thomas A. Lewis, a Kentucky state Agriculture Department official, said about 70 per cent of

Kentucky's 55,000 coal miners were “getting hungry.” Ip one county alone, 1500 fam were

reported in “destitute circumstances,” he said. 4 total of 3284000 new claims was received last week and total claims for the week rose 1,921,800. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said unemployment caused by strikes was higher in September than at any time since the spring of 1948. And in that month, the total of 510,000 strikers did not include the 500,000 CIO steel workers who walked out Oct. 1.

Asks Speedy Action The Illinois Fuel Merchants’ Association reported that most down-state Illinois towns have jess than a 10-day supply of coal. It urged the public to demand immediate action by President Truman to halt the strike. Indiana cities were setting up local rationing boards to dole out dwindling stocks of coal and conserve as much as possible for essential users. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey scheduled a news conference to report his plans for coping with unemployment and coal shortages in New York state as a result of the strike.

Speaks on Radio Mr. McGrath's statement that he was studying the President's rights of seizure came on a Mutual Broadcasting system . program. He sald he was- studying whether Mr. Truman could seize the mines and mills but did not reveal whether he had reached a conclusion or submitted one to the President. Mr. Ching broke off his meetings with U. 8. Steel officials after talking with CIO President Philip Murray by telephone “in confidence.” simism nor optimism and said his efforts toward a settlement would continue.

He expected to talk with officials of Youngstown Steel and Tool, Republic Steel and Jones & Laughlin in Washington tomor-

row and Monday.

Community Fund Lacks 11 Per Cent

The 1949 Indisnapolis ¢ Comm

nity Fund

campaign toda 11 per cent short of its $280,000 Returns yesterday boosted the

today. Reports from 10 volunteer di‘totaled

ns yesterda) =| told sheriffs he went to as the Public Division, un-|the night spot at #433 N. Key.| The deputies returned with Mr.|) 48° Alex Clark named & panel appear in 10-gallon hats and cow der chairman Sichard T. James, stone Ave. with his : eS OMe Yak the nie of BOY aos and drive Buicks and the top. hig the first $11,586.08, oD on a he was Leaving and was Herbert Wilson and the state] Ohio investigation disclosed the a total $60,514.53, or 100.9 per|ip eq a ad said, struck the name of Frank Fair-\ Bennett Bros. firm operated in cent of the quota, him ‘uficonscious. child, leaving Mr. Ward. No trial| Indiana, Texas, Illinois, Louisiana, Other totals are: Downtown, “I woke up in the bushes of date has been set. Oklahoma and Mississippi. The $53,831.87; Commercial, $105,211-|,, SE Tol lot,” Mr. McCannon| The defendants are Jack Ens-|federal government has taken no 46; Township, 46; Sa ine $300 ley, club owner; Harold Vance|action in the case. $3,566.31, and Mercantile, $187,281 a missing) dland James McGill. Vance today 465.58. : Doesn't Know Why oig|denied that he was a Showboat Towin Job ha Rob Mr. McCannon said he was un- employes, aa-1ad bewn reported. aT. P PAUL, Oot. 2.7) Charges able to determine why the three AMBULANCE CRASH KILLS 2 ST. EUSTA! Que., - Oct. En i into a po boy

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Schricker Studies Strike Intervention

State of Emergency Call Seen on Coal

Gov. Schricker made preparations today to intervene in the United Mine Workers coal strike to avert a state-wide crisis. He sent State Labor Commissioner Thomas R. Hutson to Terre Haute to confer with.UMW union officials on the possibility of remines. The Governor may declare a

diana, possibly Monday, if President Truman fails to intervene or the weather turns cold. Warm weather today delayed action by the Governor. However, he believes public sentiment is strong enough for positive action soon. Hints at Conference He hinted that UMW union officials and mine operators will be called to the State House Monday for a conference with state labor leaders to “avert a serious breakdown of public services and widespread suffering” if a cold wave hits the state. Mr, Hutson informed the Governor the state could ride out the duration of the coal strike if a few more additional coal mines were opened. Three mines were opened last week to supply state institutions and hard-pressed cities with coal. The mines were located at Attica, St. Marys and in Pike County.

proposal that ration boards be set up in cities and towns. They said toal dealers in their towns did not have enough coal to make rationing feasible. The Governor Thursday asked cities and towns to set up a ration board to cope with the coal shortage on a local level. He had alread appointed a three-man co-ordinating committee, headed by Mr. Hutson, to allocate coal to cities and institutions in short supply. : . The Mayors of Columbus and Peru reported there was not enough coal in their communities to ration. The majority of other cities, however, are expected to wait until Monday before setting up ration boards.

‘Cardinal Seriously Ili

Of Heart Attack VATICAN CITY, Oct. 20 (UP) —Francesco Cardinal Marmaggi,

nounced tonight. The cardinal,

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from Pope Pius,

cern.”

Charge Hungarian Firing Along Slav Border

Yugoslav border Thursday night, but did not cross the frontier.

{three persons, including two

1. |state of emergency exists in In-'

Shun Rationing charged drunkenJes ip. a number of mayors Yesied id wits - ey could not go rrick car, anhageed ith the Governors A passenger in he Me

73, is in critical condtiion after a heart attack, the Vatican an-

prefect of the the Council, has received extreme unction and a special blessing

The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano said the condition of the cardinal “causes great con-

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct. 29 (UP)—The Ministry of Interior announced tonight that Hungarfan troops and frontier guards laid down a night-long barrage of automatic weapon fire along the

The announcement said Yugoslav troops were alerted and waiting on their side of the border, ready to beat off any invasion of their soil. There were

State Traffic Crashes Take Lives of Three

Victims Include 2

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1949

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Crippled Woman, 81, Dies After Mysterious Beating |

Loogootee Youths; Nab Speeders Here

State traffic accidents today had claimed the lives of

Loogootee youths, In Indianapolis, police tightened their drive against speeders. Since yesterday 41 persons were arrested for traffic violations, including 31 for speeding. The dead: Jack R. Bowling. 3 Loogootee. | Andrew Soeders, 18, Loogootee.| John T. mt ioe 2 59, South Bend. Young Bowling died early today in Daviess County Hospital following a collision of his car and a4 truck at the junction of

oung cally injured, died this morning. He was a passenger. State police said the car was driven into

Ralph W. Stafford, 33, Washing-

ton. Hit By Gasoline Truck Mr. Nowakowski was injured fatally last night when his car was hit by a gasoline truck driven by Thomas C. Martin, 30, South Bend. The accident happened at a highway intersection south of South Bend. In the city, meanwhile, 11 persons were hurt in traffic accidents during a 24-hour period ending at 6 a. m, today. City traffic officers said the speed drive was “going right ahead.” One of the speeders arrested yesterday was clocked at 68 mph on E. 38th St., police said. ' Five Others Hurt Five persons were injured early tnrday when a car rammed into a vuhicle being pushed in the 1100 block of Southeastern Ave. and then struck a parked car. A car driven by Henry H. Allen, 28, of 2027 Fernway St, hit a stalled car operated by Glen Merrick, 29, of Whiteland, who suffered head injuries. Allen was ar-

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juries. ers hurt in the Allen car were Dora E. Allen, 25; Jean Rose, 24, of 925 S. State Ave, and Edwin Alley, 23, of 1715 Fletcher Ave. Car Hits Boy, 6 Six-year-old Carl Ford, 4424 Vandalia St, was seriously injured late yesterday when he was struck by a car in the 1400 block of N. Pennsylvania St. The driver] was the Rev. Richard Thomas Kavanaugh, 38, of Cathedral High School. The child was taken to Riley Hospital with a compound fracture of the left leg and a possible] skull fracture. Police said he was crossing Pennsylvania St. when| he was struck. Richard C. Grady, 16, of 1310 Blaine Ave. suffered a possible concussion late yesterday when his bicycle was hit by a car driven by Jean Hodges, 25, of R. R. 3, Greenwood, in the 1700 block of Wilkins St. He is in General Hospital. A police car on an emergency run to Douglass Park yesterday .- struck by a car at 16th St. and Martindale Ave., police said. The driver, Earl Twyman, 33, of 1643 Columbia Ave., was arrested on charges of failure to give an emergéncy vehicle the right-of-way, improper license plates and no certificate of title.

Aly Khan Avoids Crash

As Plane Motor Stalls LONDON, Oct. 20 (UP)—Prince Aly Kahn, husband of Rita Hayworth, had a close brush with death or injury today when one engine of his two-motored plane cut out a few seconds after it took off for Paris. The De Havilland Dove heeled over in the air, faltered, and then limped back to land safely at Croyacn Airdrome outside Lonon. Whether the prince was piloting the plane was not determined im-.

no casualties,

robbed there early this morning. Sheriff

Deputies Visit Showboat As Guest Charges Beating

Officers Get ‘Polite’ Reception in Search

For 3 Accused of Attack on Sullivan Man

The Showboat dine and dance night spot cruised back into the ring (Police report today after a patron charged he was beaten and

mediately.

's deputies thereupon guicted the picture

and looking for th

, searching the premises and the culprits, The beaten PAS John W.‘McCannon, 30, of R. R. 1, Sullivan,

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They all look so pretty on Halloween night. Goblins in houses—they look so scary— I like the jack-o-lanterns because they're so me The ghosts looked so scary that I jumped up and Black bats flying through the ‘witches brooms.

down And ran home to mother, clear across town.

Sights and sounds of the season moved Lanny Allen, 10, to take the poem which appears below. Lanny is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray HALLOWEEN Witches on broomsticks and jack-o-lanterns bright, Black cats screeching down the dark alley,

I like Halloween

so very much

Teachers Study

Proposed at Meeting Hoosier teachers returned to their homes today after considering a proposal to streamline their state organization. The proposal, offered in a series of amendments to the group’s constitution, would create a representative system of 700 delegates to pass on organization business matters.

See Hoosier Profile, Page 7; Editorial, Page 10.

“Under a constitutional

provision, the amendments were

1950 meeting. The two-day 96th convention closed last night after Miss Thelma, Ballard, Marion grade school teacher, was chosen as the 1950 president. She will take office Jan. 1. Ostheimer Unopposed George F. Ostheimer, principal of Indianapolis School 12, was elected vice president. He was unopposed for the office. : Miss Ballard won the presidency over Miss Charlotte Carter, principal of Indianapolis School 51. She is the first elementary teacher to head the association. At the ‘concluding session last night in Cadle Tabernacle, teachers were warned another United States depression would help the Communists to overrun Europe. Leland Stowe, author and foreign correspondent, urged continuation of the Marshall Plan beyond 1952 to forestall any such Red army threat. Mr. Stowe also suggested a broad spending program and increased investments of American capital to help relieve the dollar shortage in Western Europe. Delegates adopted a resolution to take the office of state superintendent of public instruction out of politics. The proposal urged the office be appointive rather than elective.

Judge Selected

In Showboat Case

Palmer K. Ward, Indianapolis attorney, today was selected as special judge in the Showboat raid case. Three men arrested in the raid by sheriff’s deputies early this month requested the change of judge. Yesterday Municipal Court

B; “Who’s missing? ers very That was the s

known” and that they “couldn’t be found.” “We're not ducking or running out at all,” Mr, Bennett told The Times. “In fact, we're very much in business.” Ninety-two counts were Treturned against members of the Bennett family and R. B., Thrift in 10 indictments covering the period of 1946-49. They were accused of the sale of $156,945 in unregistered stocks and leases to numerous Dayton persons, mostly doctors. Indictments Follow Probe The indictments followed an investigation by the Ohio Securities Division and the Montgomery, O., County staff, according to Prosecutor M. B. Heck. Indicted were Mr. Bennett Jr, his three brothers, Leo, Gene and Byard, and his father, John E. Bennett Sr. Mr. Thrift was indicted in the signing of papers connected with the alleged illegal sale of stock. The ,“missing” Mr. Bennett said he had been in his Antlers suite for the past five weeks. He said he planned to remain in the city “until Wednesday or ThursHe said .the family orig-|® inally hailed from southwestern Missouri. Brother Leo, he said, now is in Tulsa, Okla.; brother Gene is in Ft. Worth, Tex., and his father lives on a farm near Carthage, Ind. Mr. Bennett identified Mr. Thrift as the auditor of the Bennett “investment firm. Indiana Charges Dropped Similar charges of illegal sales of unregistered oil stocks against the Bennetts were brought here by the Indiana Securities Commission last December. They were dismissed by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark. Thé Indiana Securities Commission said today similar charges against John, Leo and Gene Bennett still were pending in Wayne Circuit Court, Richmond. They were filed in April, 1948. Of the Dayton indictments, Mr. Bennett said he had “no commént” ‘other than “we are not guilty.” The Bennetts are well-known figures at the Antlers Hotel. They

much in business.”

Young Poet Captures Halloween Spirit

ncil in hand. Result is n, 3216 Kenwood Ave.

Pumpkin faces glaring make sure I won't dally. Skeletons dancing on top of the tombs,

Because of the pumpkins and cider and such.

Firm Member Says Indicted Bennetts "Still In Business’

“Who's Missing?’ Asks Securities Salesman In Denying Family's Whereabouts ‘Unknown’ fs

JOHN V. WILSON

tement here today of one of the “missing” members of the Bennett family, indicted yesterday by a Dayton, O., grand jury in the sale of unregistered oil stock and gas leases. From his suite in the Antlers Hotel, John E. Bennett Jr. scoffed at reports from Dayton that his family’s whereabouts were ‘“un-

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day when the aged victim of

Air Tragedy Laid {To Radio Failure

Pilot Unable to Get Azores Guide Signal

PONTA DELGADA, Azores, Oct. 29 (UP)—The crash of an Air France Constellation in Which 48 persons died was blamed today on apparent radio failure and a consequent effort to land on the|® wrong island in the Azores. Investigators who flew here after the crash said the radio evidently failed after the pilot sent word that he was landing at Santa Maria field in five minutes. {Instead he smashed into a 3600foot peak on another island 60 miles to the north a little later. Marcel Cerdan, French boxer; Ginette Neveu, French violinist; 11 Americans and all others aboard, were killed bodies of C:rdan 8nd Miss Neveu were among those identified. Most were burned beyond recognition. Pilot Misses ‘Ta:

Maria,” a French official said. Rescue

from the mountain peak the bodies of the victims, They were wrapped in white sheets and placed in the nave of the tiny

Washington, Oct.

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air force to 58 groups.

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Truman Blocks Air Force Expansion

Signs $15 Billion Military Spending Bill (UP)— President Truman today signed a $15,585,863,498 military spending He said, however, freezing a $615 million sum provided by Congress to expand the

he

The extra sum was put into the fiscal 1950 military spending bill over the previous objections of Mr, Truman, who favors a 48group Air Force. He contended that this is all the nation can

The Senate, for a time, went along with the: President, finally yielded to the House which insisted on 58 groups. In signing the bill, Mr. Truman

“Increasing the structure of the/colopel on Gov. J. Strom ThurAir Force above that recom- mond’s staff; William Bruton, 25, mended in the 1950 budget would{of Jackson Springs, and James be inconsistent with a realistic Roy Thomason, of Greenville, and balanced security program which we can support in peace-

He said the extra funds for the Air Force also would upset orderly|—Five persons were killed and 19 planning for the three services—| others seriously injured last night Navy and Air Force—|when an express passenger train “based on a unified strategic con-|rap into a bus at a grade crossing

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oi at nearby Algarvia, at the foot of the rocky peak. Most of the bodies were found _|still strapped in seats in the burned - out wreckage, workers said. Soldiers and police remained to guard the wreckage on the mountainside some 10 miles above Algarvia. An Air France spokesman said the bodies would be sent to France as soon as possible. Transatlantic service continued. Another Air France Constellation bound for New York, as was the one which crashed, Santa Maria airport today. The 48 persons killed in the crash included 37 passengers and a crew of 11,

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3 Students Lose Lives

As Train Hits Car

COLUMBIA, 8. C,, Oct. 29 (UP) —A Seaboard Line streamliner, the Silver Meteor, crashed into an automobile near here today and killed three University of South Carolina students. Coroner William A. Plott identified the victims as Walter H. Smith, of Columbia, an honorary.

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5 DIE IN CROSSING CRASH MESSINA, Sicily, Oct. 29 (UP)

on the Messina-Syracusé city line.

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‘One Man's Woman' Faces Lonely Hearts Racket Count

* ‘No One Put a Gun on Him,’ Says Matron

In Reply to Charges of Idaho Ex-Admirer

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. 20 (UP)—An attractive middle-aged|the Indiana Academy of Social woman was held here today on federal charges of conducting a|Sciences today. lonely hearts racket by mail with men in other parts of the country, Hazel E. Thomas, 47, of Fairfield, Cal., was charged with obtaining money from men in five other states on promises of marriage, although she already was married. U. 8. Commissioner Adellia McCabe ordered her held $1000 bail after preliminary hearPostal Inspector George Rolfe told the commissioner that he was checking to see if more

under

A complaint from Hugo Burkhardt of Notus, Ida, started the Inspector Rolfe . Burkhardt complained $275

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The- veteran pilot, Jean de la Noue, a distinguished French airman, apparently thought he was

crews brought down

landed at !

Youth, 15, Is Held

in Case;

Robbery Motive Hinted |

$40 In Cash Missing From Purse; Friend

for Questioning

Police had another unsolved murder on their hands to«

a vicious beating died.

The victim, Mrs. Callie Richardson, 81, of 333 W. 31st St., died at 10:25 a. m. in St. Vincent's Hospital. Juvenile Aid Division authorities, meanwhile, held & 15-year-old youth in cust youth in custody a as a suspect.

She was discovered uncons scious by neighbors last Sat« urday morning, sprawled across her bed. The elderly victim, crip pled with arthritis and nearly blind, never regained consciouss

ness, Scent Foul Play Police suspected foul play; anes a grocer sald that earlier in week an unidentified man a driven to the grocery with her while she cashed a $40 Sheek vo However, the grocer says boy held by Juvenile Aid gy the authorities is not the person who drove re with her. An empty purse was found on the woman’s back porch after she was found un Police Inspector Jack O'Neal theorized that a robbery-attack resulted in the woman's injuries after a medical report set forth that the injuries were too serious to have occurred from an ordi nary fall. The 15-year-old boy was arrested after a friend told police the youth had spoken of striking an elderly woman. The informe ant was also picked up for gues tioning last night. ;

Windy, Colder

over Santa Maria when he sent WW “|the last message. But he was Due Tomorrow over Sao Miguel Island. LOC. ATURES "He off his course and ap- 6a m,,. 10 a. m... 59 Vining dio difficulty] 7 a m... 44 Pama 6s or he would have caught the] 8a m... 51° ‘68 t signal from Santa 9 a.m... 58 B Noon)

Fair weather was predicted by the Weather Bureau for Indian. apolis and vicinity tonight, but tomorrow will be windy and colder. : Cool breezes out of the north will drop the mercury to 45 tonight. Temperatures will reach only 60 tomorrow, and skies will be partly cloudy. Indianapolis residents again grouped through fog and smoke thism or nin g. Although the Weather Bureau reported only smoke blanketed K the downtown area, residents along Fall Creek and White River found driving difficult through drifting fog.

"Popped at Poker

City police are looking for Popeye. He's the guy who popped Joseph Starkey, 50, of 1441 N. Alabama 8t., in the face during a poker game early today at a N, Illinois St. poker game. Starkey didn't like this treatment so. he reported to _ police that a man “everyone knows as Popeye" beat him up.

As Waterwings in Crisis MYRTLE BEACH, 8. C, Oct, 29 (UP)—Danny Moore's rubber pants more than lived up to ade vertising claims, his happy pare ents said today. The 19-month old’s britches held enough air to keep him above water when he ‘fell into the Little River near here and floated downe. stream. Fishermen plucked him* out and found he was unharmed, Mrs. Don Moore, Danny's mothe er, said the. tight elastic around his waist and chubby legs kept in the air and transformed the pants into waterwings.

Earlham Man Heads

Social Science Group EVANSVILLE, Oct. 20 (UP)

Prof. Claude Stinford, Earlham College, was elected president of

Thomas Murphy, Notre Dame; C. Ray Keim, Manchester Col= lege; George Blake, Franklin College, and James Peeling, But-:

Assistant U. 8. Attorney Harlan Thompson said Mrs. Thomas admitted writing to other men in Houston, Tex. Seattle, Wash, Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Monte Vista, Colo. He did not disclose; their names. Mrs. Thomas obtained. the visti from

names of her alleged Cupid's Destiny Mr.

Thompson said. Her first letter to Mr. Burkhardt, he said, started

ler University, all were elected - vice president. Nearly 100 social science teache ers attended the two-day meeting at Evansville . College. = They picked Ball State, Muncie, as the site of the 1950 meeting.

Times Index

Amusem’ts. 7,9 Your Job i.e Books Mrs. Manners.

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