Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1949 — Page 1
Ruered as Second-Class Matter of Pdstoffice Indjanspoids. Ind. Issu ed Dally ?
State May Operate
Some Coal Emergency
. Schricker Prepares. fo
And Ask to Take Over Pits in 48 Hours Gov. Schicker today declared a state of emergency
_ exists in Indiana because of ‘Workers’ strike and called
intervene fo avoid “great suffering in the state during this
tragic emergency.” State operation of sever
today as Gov. Schricker prepdred to declare. a ‘state of
emergency.”
Harry Geisel, member of the Gdverror's coal co-ordi- | - nating committee, predicted the state would appeal directly
to John L. Lewis for Pees
U.S. Steel Rushes Bid for CIO Talks
Four Other Mills May OK Pensions .
Top IC officials today expected settlements soon—possibly within - 24/hours—with four more major.
“peel companies based on the Beth-
“fehem $100-a-month pension form-|
z tla. ? CIO Presidént Philip Murray
was known to be conferring with various steel officials. His aids said settlements were]
_expected rapidly with Republic “Steel Corp. Youngstown Sheet &|
Editorial, Page 14; details of | pension plan, Page 15.
Tube, Allegheny-Ludlum Ste€l and Jones & Laughlin following the Bethlehem pattern. Within 30 minutes after the Bethlehem settlement was- announced, U. 8. Steel Corp. traditional bellwether of the industry, invited the steelworkers to resume negotiations in New York. Union officials said they would renew contract negotiations with “U. 8. Steel only if assured the company will give in on the com-pany-financed pension principle. It was believed that Mr. Murray | © would rather meet with the] smaller companies first. With the strike settled in its) mills, Bethlchem called in skeleton crews to get banked furnaces
into operation. A week, however,|
may pass before all the 80,000 ‘Betniehen strikers get back on the
8 20, hl, Chief Federal Me- ernment to take over the mines {li order,
diator Cyrus Ching was reported ready to call for renewed negotiations between John L. Lewis’ striking United Mine Workers) and soft coal mine officials.
‘ | without coal in Indiana,
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Crash Aine. Re
IT WAS to have been a day full of gleeful reminisc--ing with time Speedway pals today for Ra. Eddie Rickenbacker. A turned into a day of gloom when news of the Eastorf Air Lines crash was relayed to the EAL president as ‘he sat with his fridnds, T. E. (Pop) Myers and Wilbur
Shaw, at the Speedway office at nobn. - “There is nothing to say,” said the stunned Eddie. It was the second fatal crash of an Eastern ship within several months. On Joy 31, 15 passengers died
FPC May Rule Out Texas Gas Here
Objections Raised To City's Appeal
By DAN RIDNEY Staff Wri
Mines as Measure
Declare Such a Status
the nation-wide United Mine’ upon President Truman “to
A
al Indiana coal” mines loomed
ion to take over “some” Hoosie mines within 48 hours. At an ‘emergency conferlence of industry and govern-
| ment officials in Gov. Schricker’s WASHINGTON. Nowe 1—Possi {office this morning, the president ;qity that the Federal Power {of the Indiana Coal Trade Assocl-|ommission may not approve a ation ptoposed that the statelineir examiner's order giving “take Over several mines to avert panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.| = a disaster.” ithe right to- ‘supply patural gas O. L. Scale, the association to Indianapolis looméd today. l oresident, said that it would be FPC attorneys opposed the plan| 4 necessary to mine at least 100,000 and have had the time for filing] ‘tons. of coal a week to avertobjections extended to Nov. 28 | "serious suffering.” °° under terms of a commission orY Calls It Disaster {der issued yesterday. [Report also was current that’ Gov, Schricker opened the meet- there will be other - objectors ing by announcing that the coal among present clients of Pan{crisis was “a disaster of the first handle who contend that the new | magnitude. » {supply for Indianapolis would He said it would be “disastrous” curtail their allotments. to- shut hospitals and close! Seéven Indiana users of Pan-| schools. {handle gas have asked for more | “Thousands of homeowners are/supply at tariff hearings which » the Gov- concluded today. Similar requests |for increases eame from com{panies using Panhandle gas in the surrounding states. Illinois raised the question of the Indianapolis order interfering with their supply.
rernor said. | State officials predicted that | schools will be closed within a | week if no way is found to supply them with coal. Representatives of coal produc-
ing companies said the , coal Concerns Involved
noon by TWA Cons
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Port An
Pilot of Flah Believed Rips Tail
x ko % ok
union for Eddie
“when a stunting Navy Bier. plowed io the plane neat New_York. “And now this . . .” said Eddie. There can be little said until we know the facts.” In Indianapolis to address a meeting of the American | Legion, Capt. Eddie was to return to New York this after tation: "Maybe I'll transfer at Pittsburgh ind go on to Washington,” said the former Speedway. owner who sold out to : Anton Hulman and Mr. Shaw. 41 don't know . . .*-
lision of an Eastern Air Lines at National Airport.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 Cross said today it believed
Renews iam
"and a P-38 fighter plane.
ter Plane
onfused; - = ff DC4
Fails to Follow Control Tower Orders; Craft Rams Passenger Plane From Rear BULLETINS
: ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UP)~The safely division of : the Civil Aeronautics Board said 52 persons died in the cole
four-engine plane and & Ps :
(UP)—THe American Red only two persons survived
a collision today between an Eastern Air Lines transport
A spokesman for the Red
Cross said the survivors were in critical condition.
[For Study of IR
‘Hearing for New Fare Increase Opens
- BULLETIN N. Taylor Todd, a bond holder in Indianapolis Railways," Inc, told the Public Service" Commission today that “Indianapolis Railways is very close to receivership.” He sald there was a serious threat that the company might default on its bond interest payments and that the Railways’ bonds are now quoted on the market at $54 for each $100 bond. “Very few could be sold even at that price,” he said.
passenger plane carrying 53
Erick Rios Brivoux, nautics in Bolivia, was pilot was killed.
By ROBERT BLOEM Asst. Public Counselor Walter Jories Jr. today renewed deman before the, Public Service Ce ‘ihission for: « private effici Hey Study of | Indianapolis Rafiwaysi| Crew members aboard the! ne The’ ‘motion came as ‘the utility Shattered transport were Capt. George Ray, Pilot
operied a plea for its sixth rate increase since 1945. The commis-| Charles R. Hazelwood, and two sion did not rule on the motion fight attendants, one a woman, but ordered the company to start ht 12:20 p. m., - 23 bodies
giving evidence.
‘| fighter plane piloted by a Bolivian go 'lided and crashed near National At least 23 persons, perha
is had been ace
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UP)—An Eastern Air dLines
persons apd a twin-engined ronment official cole
§ said one of the passéngers aboard p. George Bates (R) of Salem, Mass, occurred as both planes were coming in ¢" The P-38 dived into a lagoon near the south git
The transport was a DC-4 carrying 49 passengers and four crew members on Eastern’s Flight 537 from Boston to !New Orleans via New York and Washington.
to land. Then the P-38 pilot for landing instructions. s0 in broken English which the tower employees had aimeulty ) "me
yards were depleted. Retail coal dealers said that there is only “a week's supply of coal left.”
Urges Plea to Truman
'R. H. ‘Sherwood, Indianapolis coal mine operator, asked Gov. Schricker to appeal to President! Truman to end the strike by in{voking the Taft-Hartley Act. He sald there was “no other way to settle the issue.” United Mine Workers officials, led by Indiana Chief Louis Austin, | were present at the meeting. Mr: | Austin called for the federal gov-
“lock, stock and barrel.” He accused mineowners {seeking to “destroy labor,’ {added that the only fair way the | coal situation could be eased
of
Failing in that, Mr. Ching may|yoylq be for the federal governask President Truman to obtain ment to step in. 8
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Fire Destroys House Southwest of Here
Fire destroyed a -four-room
frame house at 3137 McClure St. southwest of Indianapolis. one was injured.
Ralph Denhart, his wife and two sons, Larry, 7, and Steven, 11 months old, escaped as the| blaze swept the residence. Source] of the fire was an overheated fur-
nace, sheriff's office reported. Damage was estimated at $3500.
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| He quoted miné chief John L. Lewis as serving notice that “the mine workers would fight it out to the bitter end.” Says It's Beyond State
settle the strike gathering that the state coul ease the situation by working ou a plan of mutual co-operation be-|
erators. He called on the state to make; a survey of all mvailable stock-| piles above
tion on a “ jest first” basis.
ing and hardships”
state could make its limited supply stretch. Meanwhile,
xy
[They said they would have to|
.16-17|shut hospitals and schools this|
{week unless the state intervenes.
hit the state, =
Mrs. Manners
wi
Indiana companies ‘wanted a
Demand for the efficiency study counted for. Of these, 11 were at
el The Marsh order ruled out the re
Waltér Leckrone, editor of Tlie Pany supplies J Indianapolis Times, asserted that| it is beyond the state's power to He told the| the groufids” that Indianapolis is pointed out. “Stalin also has uni- ror much
tween labor officials and mine op- without cost to the city or gas command and
Mr. Leckrone said “great suffer-| could be days to present a plan for carry-| _ Amusements. 10 Movies «.... 10/avoided during the strike if the/ing out the order which was is-
mayors of cities | 14/and towns: pleaded with the Gov- things shaped up today they may, Editorials .. 14 Side Glances 14/ernor to take immediate action. or may not do so. |
total boost on peak winter days from 38,628 million cubic feet in gg 1948-49 to 45,300 mcf in 1949-50. . Concerns involved in the hear- Loapr, Eddie Ric oo cher ings are Indiana Gas & Water Co., Bloomington-Bedford Indiana
[Gas & Chemical Sor: ’ ern ‘Disabled Gl Ask Little Give Much’—Rickenbacker
ton-Vineennes Southern Indiana Captain, Hefe fo Get Legion Award for
Gas & Electric, Evansville-New-| burgh Ohid Valley Gas Corp., Tell Aiding Véterans, Favors Unification By LARRY STILLERMAN
City-Cannelton Boonville Natural Gas, Boonville and the City Gas {Co. at Linton. d FPC Examiner Edward B.| Marsh, who wrote the Indianapo-| “The / Panhandle tariff and allocation said he today in an interview. hearings.
alternate proposal of ‘supplying Indianapolis from a Texas Ga Transmission Corp.-Texas Egst-, {ween the services, we destroy a (ern (Big Inch-Little Inch) ok- | valuable national defense,” he as-| {up which was backed by Indian-| serted. “After all, the basis of our apolis city attorneys And the| économic success is free enterprise Citizens Gas & Coke tity. The |. . . free competition” {latter-will handle * 1h eity distri- | He disavowed unification for) |bution, regardless of which com-|U. 8. forces as one-man rule. lemplo 1 GI natural gas. Cites Russ System [PTP.Dyees SY mel 3 Build a Lines The Mapsh order was based on (top man,’
cord in employment of disabled veterans, 211 we destroy competition be- ~
. to win the peace . | first thing is air power. »
Capt. Rickenbacker high, he said. [the pdtyral territory -of Pan- fication, the same as Hitler had." an4q reasonable security. handie, that the company would] American unification, he sald, turn, they hdve much to give bufld “its own connecting line, should come in integration of \capacity, ability and loyalty.” central supply! Capt. \utflity, and that it can supply the headquarters, (required amount of gas beginning [World War IL" |with 10,000 MCF July 1, Don’t stymie competi-: ition,” he warned. His observations of foreign jet commercial-aireraft paralleled his [concept of fundamentals and comsued Oct. 17,-1949. But fio order Petition. British and Canadian {becomes finally official unless the experiments with jetliners is comcommission itself approves. As mendable, he said, but Americans t will be equally ready with better era | equipment. | Capt. Jets in Early Stages
- LOCAL TEMPERATURES “Nevertheless, jet commercial | pa today. flights are five tn six years away,”
$4 W. un B Be Me vs 41 he stated. “Our Constellations 85 1 ty ny sland DC-6's are still capable of | 2 (Noon). 46 making the long hops. 38 1pm: 48 "But everyone wants to get] where he is. going yesterday,” he| quipped. “We'll take him there , and in jets when jets. are eco-. nomically feasible.” In accepting the Legion citation, Capt. Rickenbacker warned that development of air power| should be the main objective of the U. 8. in any attempt to avert war. “We need a Navy and an Army; but first v first we need alr I’ power, * he
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In Indianapolis for the 1953.
The - company was given. 120
in 1945, Capt.
Wilbur Shaw. and T.-K: (Pop Myers. Capt. ed the track for 18 -years.
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esident of Eastern Airlines, Capt. Rickenbacker was here to Utility’s operations.” yé an American Legion award citing his company’s outstanding
told Legionnaires. * ‘We o must have (Continued on Page $=Col. ¢) ‘out clearance, first things first to avert war) . and that |
Of his company's efforts to aid| disabled veterans, he pointed out| that 52 per cent of Eastern’s 8000
“The spirit and workmanship of Hitler had unification; he Was ,,; gigabled veterans is a] “They do not ask . only opportunity In re
Rickenbacker advocated {crete trucks struck this morning, “like we had in |a more specific national policy by| thé federal government for the
1950| “Let each unit develop its own bwin of disabled veterans.
und for distribu-|and running to 25,000 MCF by | weapons. first Sters Union,
[time since he sold the Speedway Rickenbacker With a 10 cents an hour wage |
planned to visit the track and increase. reminisce with old-time . cronies,
Rickenbacker op- Hospital, the Larue Carter Hos-| officials said,
Rickenbacker spoke to a plant on Shadeland Ave, |Coterie club luncheon before de- 9oors” are being poured, the new [Was not a factor in the crash. The one man who was still alive, rting for his New York office Kresge store, several schools and 8k
was backed up by Ed Knight, (the Alexandria, Va, Armory, 10 on at the Alexandria Hospital and counsel. The proposal originally one each at the Washington ny was made last June ‘by Coun-/morgue and at Emergency Hosselor William Steckler but the |Pital here. commission substituted a study to] Among the. first bodies recovbe made jointly by commission ered from the lagoon where those engineers and representatives of of a woman and a child, about the utility. 1 year old. “The utility is like a patient {that has been receiving medicine|ity said the transport was gliding | from a doctor,” Mr. Jones said. in for a landing. Mr. Brivoux; the “It is now apparent that the do¢-|CAA said, had asked the control tor’'s medicine is not doing the tower for landing instructions}! tpatient.any good and the time has and was told to follow the DC-4.
/S. can have unification of its armed forces; but it|come to consult a specialist—in| Perhaps misunderstanding his also presided at the must retadn the spirit of competition,” Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker this case a private firm of experts nstryctions, Mr, Brivoukx pushed!
to study the efficiency of the nis jyttle fighter in: behind the airliner too soon, the control] He proposed that the PSC take tower reported. . [no further action on any increase) "It ¢aiq4 he started to land withovertook" and rammed into the transport, shear. ing off its tail. Both planes plummeted.
Up for Test Flight
The EAL operations office here said the plane was commanded by
Construction Hit By Truck Strike Capt. George Ray. *Othre tn the
A truck drivers’ strike hit the wood, O. Oryhuela, flight purser, building industry today, tying upjand Helen Gilbert, flight attendmillions in big and little con-/ant. | struction, The collision was witnessed by "1 Drivers of Ready-Mixed. con- scores of persons at the National | Airport which lies across the Po-! throwing about 1000 cement fin-|tomac River from Washington, fishers and carpenters out of work.| According to CAA employees in The 100 members of the Team-|the radio control tower and other Local 716, ‘are re- information gathered by CAA of-| ported asking a new contract] [ficials, here's what happened: ' Mr. Brivoux took the P-38 off | from the airport for a local test| Big construction which came to] [flight u visual flight rules. Under-visual flight rules, CAA the pilot's instruethe Western Electric Corp.| tions wereto stay below the cloud | where celling. They said the Weather!
) /a standstill included the Veterans |
pital,
y was overcast.
The Eastern plage was cleared!
ithe new city garage. = nr »
Instead of doing this, the. Buliviah continued to come rafght .in from “his relatively Ligh altitude over Alexandria. He
The Civil Aeronautics Agios down his landing gear.
The tower employees called to him by radio to make the “360”, Then, fearful that he didn't understand what they’ meant, ‘they shouted, “turn left.”
for the runway without acknowl {edging any of the radio calls. He stil was well above the DC-4 when the tower told the Eastern Air Lines pilot to start a “360” immediately. The Eastern pilot responded, but just as he started
the transpdit. “God-Awful Crash”
Eyewitness accounts varied, Walter Taylor, of 310 East Bells
Eastern airliner was coming in as, though it were about to land. “Suddenly it began to go again,” he said. “Just at thie point, the other J right into its back. “The big plane crashed "WR one just went all to
Aen St, said he did ness any dive by the lane He said that he tern Air Liner coming then turned his head for a seco “When 1 loo back, I one God-awful smash with | (flying through the air,” he An ambulance attendant he carried out of the
{he died before we-could get into the ambulance,” ag said,
But the P-38 continued to head j
to make his turn the P-38 hit
Yitonte Ave. Alexandria, said the
saw the
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