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60th YEAR—NUMBER 241

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Sheriff's ‘Cowboys’ buert Places

State Witness Bares Figure on Lower Traffic Costs

A State telephone expert charged - before the Public Service Commission today

Garage Chie | Want My Bicycle Backs Charge || HIDES. 0f Councilman

Cunningham Says Accidents Result of Personnel Short ge By BOB iil A sheriff's garage supervisor today charged that] *cowboy driving” by deputies] _, is responsible for wreckage of | “county sheriff's cars. |

Willjam Stockdale, superfin-| tendent of the county garage, added his criticism to those of] Republican County - Councilman

phone Co. will save $6 million within five years. , Allen K. expert from the Cyrus Hill en-

{reduce traffic costs from $10 mil-

| system is completed. . Completion by 1954

. Bell Telephone officials said ‘the {manual-to-dial transition will be [completed by 1954: ie | Mr. Hamilton was one of two (telephone experts who testified {Indiana Béll was making money jon the eve of making more money. Public Counsellor William Steckler used the testimony for concerted assault on

“Crash by crash report of sheriff | car accidents , , . Page 8. |

Frank Fairchild who yesterday said Sheriff Cunningham’s deputies were wrecking more county cars in traffic accidents than any] previous administration. { Sheriff Cunningham defended the traffic record, blaming the| high -accident- rate. on the neces-| sity of sending cars on "“crosscounty, emergency runs” because of shortage of personnel and equipment. The garage'superintendent, however, took a different view, “It's just their damn cowboy’ driving,” he said. “We replace

rate increase.

(telephone. company's

log of telephone orders. Phones for All

{phone “over the counter” “without a wait,” he added.

Chicago firm, James-M. Honaker

testified earlier that the over-al

of improving.”

pot-holder handles he learned to make while a patient at Riley Hospital: “it sure made goin’ to school

sal joints than we ever have had! ever, the sheriff's office issued a {3516-in 1949. This, he charged. . i 5 SL * . oy { Both telephone experts said beMeeting with Sheriff Cunning- | d ¥ E St | B k | : 2 3 se « Fleads Tor ris oroien bike | *, garage and Chief Jailer Harry hamed; sioners a week ago to come,over Whizzing around Devil's Hill, to and from Mars Hill school and oc‘However, the official accident | . : In one acci-| dent a deputy lives with his folks, Mr. and Mrs. casier.” Phil smiled. -

more transmissions, more univer=| to before.” | 4 ge f gS ° Blames Work | Phillip Nelson Johnson . , . "May | have my bike back; please?” At almost the same time, how-| "RR Tc a 8 : » * ° . {was not in conformity with genstatement blaming “poor work- ‘. s Y 4 | - > ting manship” in the Ee for acci- A Little Boy Po 10 ic im eral increases of the company dents. - : {the past 10 to 15 years. ham this morning deputies comDe es pmpossible’| He Just Can't Hold Out to Walk 8 Blocks 3 and : To School; It Was Gift From Daddy | BD ——— ~ ook said he was “as i. to | $ i . ask our boys to drive the cars.” | IT WAS A BRIGHT RED and ivory bicycle. . “We asked the county commis-| The kind of a “gee wilikers” bike that sends young scamps 0 - aving cand try to drive any of these casionally down to the store for Mom. cars,” wr, Cook said. “So far they| _-For four weeks it was this kind of a wheel for Phillip Nelson haven't done®it.” (Johnson, a 5-year vietim of polio. » » THEN TWO WEEKS AGO, the s selves e Peporie Themselves Dlaced some, was stolen from the porch of ship in the garage 14636 Gadsen St, where Phillip whose brakes : failed while he was on an emer. | L-aWrence Julnson Sr. and his big gency run, said he had just taken{Prother and kid sister. was. gone.

Hopefully Phil said, “I thank you from the ‘bottom-of my-heart|

| -Phil looked and looked for his

the car from the garage that day. | vs ] Easter gift. So did. the neighbors.. He said he checked and found thei "a the police; too, BE

coal” crisis.

old... and have to. walk eight

~, 29 y recorded 22 accidents with. Y blocks to school.

For Forging Checks

cars since the first of the year... ; JACKSONVILLE, Fl: ov Only one month, Augusk: passed] -“I-whs operated on in August A ACKSOR VIL Er ia i. ture of 65 tomorrow. or = : _land my daddy bought me a new dyes § Six Above Normal i without an accident being re bike- to-ride-to school. because. looking chap” today whom they! corded. , wily hy POETRY aid ‘had ‘© w 25 One deputy was responsible for C20't hold out to walk eight a nay Cashed between . 6 degrees -ahove normal three accidents before he was blocks, and - somebody stoled It checks. y transferred to a job inside the * ° .. and I know they don't Officers nabbed. Shields Gard Weatherman said. jail. Four other deputies were need it-as-bad as. do.” ner Lawson, 41-year-old parolee a drivers in two accidents each. | _ 8 & -m- of San Quentin Prison, late yes- 36-58 north and from 41-67 de However, in many. of the acci-| BEFORE THIS, the bike stayed terday. He had with him his own 5/8 In Je southern

dents, mishaps occurred when in. Phil's room just itchin’ to take. printing presses. and. 4 supply.of through Sunday. other “vehicles failed gto give its Brttoncnosed: Hitie mast on‘ihecks written SRRINSE largest sheriff's car right-of-way as they new Mars Hill adventures. utility ‘companies, police said At were bound on emergency runs, When the doctors took the cast “He told us that while in San

rough Safurday, weather éx perts said, should bring ratnfal

occurred when cars were on fast'he could ride, Phil fixed ‘er up prison newspapet and that's where 'N¢ State to "13 inches ‘locally.

} pagne, he stood | hours in the reception line with i Ambassador and Mrs. Alexander i He shook people's hands and

! got anywhere near him with any-

runs from widely separated points, like any tow-headed sixth grade he learned about printing,” police

such as Ravenswood to Southport. boy would do. He added horns and said. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

- me - 1 6am... 48 10a m,.. 58 ' . . — v Ta m.., 47 Mam... 62 ‘Wherein Mars Join- the Soviet Bloc Sam. 50 12 (Neon) 64 9a m... 55 1pm... 66

Cold War Fizzles When 2 Andys Swizzle Russ Embassy Wine Like Pub-Crawling Pals

laging nudge and velied at a guy {in what looked like an admirals funiform. NeXt thing I knew this

Czechs Release

Vishinsky Turns on His Best Glamor When Reporter Gives His Thirst a Lift ; {admiral was pushing his way

By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer through the crowd with a bottle WASHINGTON; Nov. 8—Next time I drop into my oe njoest Woking wie iis favorite saloon for a little something against the cold I hope, Mr. Vishinsky grabbed the botnobody minds if I bring Andrei Vishinsky along. jue like a veteran, = } } ot : There were no glasses around For my dough the Soviet foreign minister is one of the but that didn’t stop him. There icest drinking companions : : were a million demitasse cups nic dt g panio 2 you could bump into right in front of him. He picked ser ———— For that matter, there's no reason why Andrei should up -d& couple, filled them full of Amusements- 10 Obituaries ..

not féel the same way about | guards ved To SUT They in wine and. handed me one of them. Bridge ....... 6 Othman ....

8 (UP)-<=-8amuel Meryn, 1]. 8. Em

a Czech prison.

by his Viennese wife.

“Here's to you” he toasted Canasta 5 Patter _ 8 ..“T didn't know Junio: was plan. Catholics—erdinarily Democratic Mavor Feenews coal rationi board toda ¢ that Andrei seemed interested. ) : ! renesy & BTR evar «I dign’t know Junio. was plan , [ayor Feenex's coal rationing board t y set up procedure me. RT ther eeter ted through the amazed interpreter. Childs .......14 Ruark ....%.13 ning. on robbing him,” Bryant YO!r$-——may not vote for Mr. through the Indianapolis Coal Dealers Association for getting fuel I'm..the guy who fixéd it!my invitation. I don’t know ydu bit you have Editorials ...14 Radio ...... 7 sobbed to the jury. {Lehman because he defended Mrs.| into empty bins. :

Well, sir, you never saw a guy » 800d. open American face and Food . perk up a ey did. a Sy like good American faces. Here's Forum terpreter's translation was some: 0 YOu. thing formal to the effect that Mats a Soviet Bloc In Indpis. .. Mr. V. would be delighted. | As for me—good, wholesome, Mrs. Manners 8 Wilson To me, however. it sounded capitalistic me — I found myself Movies like Andrei was saying: “You said mumbling something about here's ~ it, Kid where's the whisky?” “ito the Russian revolution: t So Mr. Vishinsky took my Ah” ¥ild Andrei, “this 1s more capitalistic arm and we Tought like it. We were much closer. toour way through the throng. We gether during the war when we didn’t trample more than three hdd a common enemy.” or four widows en route, until] “Sure I said, “maybe we ought we came 40 the bar. {to invade Mars so we'd have a There, I admit, I was stymied. cOmmon enemy again.” ; The place was eight deep in| ‘Oh said Andrei, being cute, thing drinkable. —- - {thirsty people. The pearest we! “haven’t you heard? The Martians By the time I wandered back|.,,.3" cet to drinking materials are on our side. It's a Soviet ~ from the paviar ne he looked was the big coffee urn set up next bloc.” oh ap. Lite t sorry it {hs lto-a miniature church (ves, I said! “Izzatso?" I asked. being cute, church) on the big buffet table. too.” “Did. they replace

Yugoslaobvious suggestion. Nobody seeitied to give a hang via?" / “J

vseense 8 Society ..

so that he finally got a drink at| 2 vee ben 14 Sports

his own party. ov It was at the annual shindig put on by the Russian embassy “to celebrate the October revolution. Mr. Vishinsky was working awful hard, ile everybody élse swigged vintage Scotch and rare chamthere for two

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PER r a Mave In I told that I had a thirsty foreign igs Mr. Vishinsky grinned. break’ that started him on t nim. “you've been standing there ister. in tow, -. ~~. cue I grinned. : : ® PLUS . . fondling limp hands all night, | But that's when Mr. Vishinsky| We had another drink: Sunday reading pleasure. ‘How'd you like me to buy you a pulled his rank-—and if you ever| And anothdr: "

[find yourself in a strange town | It was a swell time. They ought

nice tal Kk?" i grin after hours be sure to look him to have those revolutions more

interpreter logked at me

The rp! new best-seller fictio “as if I'd called Joe

Stalin a bum. up. i : often, : ( writing The Times, 214 W. Maryland St, or ordering from welfare of the le, he wanted|near Linton, , = - : A couple of strong-armed body-!. He gave my arm an encour-| In Russia, of course. hs , , your neighborhood Earrier or newsdealer. ! kl tobe part of 1 7 i ; | The commission also

that the Indiana Bell Tele-

Hamilton, telephone

gineering firm of Chicago, said {that the telephone company ‘will

{lion to $4 millien when the dial

Indiana fired the fatal shot.” Bell's petition for a $3.5 million

_.Mr. Hamilton reported that the financial Couch today began final-argu-{condition will be better when they ments for the state in its case complete’ installing a’ huge back-

Mr. Hamilton said this would worker. { probably be completed by July 1, 1950. By then anyone in Indiana would be able to purchase a teleand

Another state witness from the.

lcost of adding telephones in In- the boy tugged nervously at an tdlania rose from $200-in 1947 to identification bracelet as he heard

for to send him to prison for life.

fore leaving the stand that the address to the Morgan County

{company’s financial condition was JY J ; “sound and had good possibilities at 10:45 a. m. today. Fifteen min-

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Only 2 Degrees Below Senteney.” Record; 70 Tomorrow

: The Weatherman's forecast to- po But now the bike and all that day was a boon to householders Would not ask for the boy's life.

in the current “save that lump of

‘Sunny spring-like skies were ex-

brake drum had been put in : jif you help me to get my bike pected to bring a high of 72 this tke Then Phil wrote to The Times: |. ase!” Ben ol you, a cidents In Year | “Will you please help me to, "X et De aii |2egrees below! the. ail time iii guilty A check of official accident re. 1621 IY wike bask? r ) . Lugs Printing Plant for the day set in 1945. > ports shows that .deputies have, ..' 0 2 Polio victim. 1m 12 years | Continued cloudless skies will summary,

~+be accompanied by a low of 42 | ; g tonight and a maximum tempera- Ave, Indianapolis, sat beside him.

isteq @ record ballot. The New vB ili h Temperatures will average 3 to a lavender handkerchief as she Polls close at p.m. {Indianapolis 1] Ing : arc

for the heard the prosecutor hrand her, next five days over the state, the son a cold-blooded killer

The mercury should ra: ge from state and defense were delaye counties fense attorneys headed by Joseph

Heavy: showers late Thursday th block: the: prosecution's. recom-,

. with red-light and sirens. Some off Phil's right leg and fold him Quentin he was publisher of the [OM three-fourths of an inch over

U. S. Embassy Aid

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Nov.

bassy clerk arrested on espionage charges, was released today from

A spokesman for the American Embassy said Mr. Meryn already had left the country, accompanied

+9 he intentionally took part in the «13 robbery-siaving of Mr. Brooks. |

nes BI 1 115-16 the alley. when I heard thé shot.|OVeT school aid a few months ago Hollywood ...10 Teen Prob: ... 6 I had my back turned,” he whim-| With Frances Cardinal Spelman. | « 3 Weather Map. 4 pered 11 «. 6 from Marion County

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| With this accusation, Mor-| gan County Prosecutor Hugh!

against 15-year-old Mitchell K.| Bryant, being tried in the slaying of an Indianapolis packing house

48 Bryant, with Wiley E. Senteney| Eg Jr, also 15, is charged with | murder of James Kelly Brooks! in ‘a South Side Indianapolis alley | in the course of a holdup. i Accused. ls Nervous | gis inns 1" Alternately pale and flushed,

the prosecutor summarize the ‘evidence ‘by which the state hopes

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Mr. Couch, conversational tones,

speaking in soft, began his

ry of seven women and five men

Verdict the

Urges Guilty

He told the jury state ~But it. is your sworn duty” Mr. Couch admonished the jury, “to.bring back a verdict of gujity.| However cold that may sound to it is your duty to find him

Lehman-Dulles Senatorial Battle

Accepted as Test of Truman's Fair Deal

: " ‘By CHARLES LUCEY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer : SLY 3 iia Serribie EUR ors WASHINGTON, Nov. 8-—New York and New Jersey hoisted the lad’'s mother. Mrs, 800d stout straws today in tests to show how blows the wind on the! of 1527 English Truman Fair Deal. i The result may point a possible trend for the 1950 congressional | election. Early voting pointed to . —~—

» Elaine Bryant, At times she nestled the boy's —— head on her shoulder: She tw

Time. ’ a Both statés had closed camboth the PAigns in which many issues were Burns Bo l 4 unrelated to-pdrty doctrine. But y 5 De- political glory-shouters were cer- - | tain to set.down Democratic vic-| = Hezlep James Clark, 2'5-veéar- | tory as high indorsement and Re- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jamés publican victory .as stern repudi- C, W. Clark, 115 N. Traub ‘Ave.. cation: of the: THUAN PrOQRAM. [waa critically Buried. today. BY Ks pp sia hmanirit I be given by the judge to the jury. In New York, Democratic Ex- pan of boiling starch, { Bethlehem formula 2 Argue Over Law Points Gov. Herbert'H. Lehman Is trying -pye otittd, - grandson ‘of -Hezé| The second offer _ give the For more than an hour Mr. Kiyv- to latch onto a U, 8. Senate seat cari, veteran police reporter for union the choice of keeping _the

ett ‘and Marion County Deputy DOW held by" Republican Jahn The Times, plunged his right arm Inland retirement income plan, C*hief Prosecutor Robert L. Car- Foster Dulles. h :

In New Jersey, into a pan of hot starch as he . k i A w! guaran- - rico argued before Judge Omar Gov. Alfred Driscoll, seeking re- tumbled from a - “hair "in hich the company: says n O'Harrade en points of = law re. e16EtioN. is” ‘opposed by -Demo- kitchen of the home. .

Final . arguments by

-'when court convented today.

onan x : a : : WO : \ . 2 i { { = y ; : 4 y ) | Sm a ——————— . 1 : —— + : . . : : tate Urges Crib of 3 Generations No. 1 Lompany [ie 1erm - . ali Sill Listed Winds Up Arguments “Hoosier Plant «in Holdup-Slaying -of- Offers Union _ Packing House Worker | Two Propositions By PHILIP F. CLIFFORD PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8 Times Staff Writer | | a MARTINSVILLE, Nov. 8—| | (UP) —Republic Steel Corp. “This boy is as guilty as if he jand Jones & Laughlin Steel ‘today granted the CIO United [Steelworkers pensions and in. |surance agreements sending their 83,000 - workers back to work. The settlements came within a few hours of each other. Obe servers believed the end of the {39-day steel strike was at hand, although U. 8. Steel was still a holdout. The new agreements were vir. tually the same as that reached last week with Bethlehem Steel Corp. granting company-paid pene sions of $100 a month and con« tributory insurance programs, | The signing of the three independents — Bethlehem, Republie and J. & L.—returns 173,000 empiovees to ‘work. However, Republic officials pointed out that its operations soon will be hit by the coal short age due to the mine strike. They {said supplies on hand will not {last more than three weeks. Three generations of babies slept here ... . A 60-year-old “The Pifiet Ih LABqUAES . oi utes later he completed his argu- fib is now the bed of Deborah Lynn Cook, 3-months-old daugh- ing to the union, differed only in » y : . . language from the Bethlehem iment. ter of Mr, and Mrs. Willie D. Cook, 1101 N. Oakland Ave. The | iran: re Republic settie~.. . | “There can be no question of ..p belongs 40 a neighborhood friend, Ray R. Fiscus, 1833 Now- |ment included a minor difference Bryant's participation in this rob- i . : in the insurance plan. : lbery that ended in the cold- land Ave. for whose uncle it was purchased 58 years age. Mr. | Republic employees will cone | Monded siaying ot Mr. Brooks," Fiscus, who is now 47, used the crib as an infant. It was also the tribute ah average of 3%; cents Mr. Couch told the jury. : ‘ ' . 3 {an hour per man toward insure “Whether he fired the shot or bed for Mr. Fiscus’ four children and grandchild. |ance with, the ny cons not Bryant stands as much in the , B N B ’ : !tributing 21% cents. 10 ihe Bethlespotlight of “guilt as does Wiley To Be or Not to Be'— 'hem agreement, the company and ego +o T ‘employees each contribute 2% Politicians Eye Trend for "50 «sour * ‘ } T | Elsewhere negotiations were in : < 'progress or pending with Inland, As N.Y. and N.J. Vote Today Foirion Sets Tue Wea: : ing. Allegheny-Ludium, Great Lakes, Colorado Iron & Fuel, and ‘humerqus smaller firms. apoyo Only -big--holdout appeared te. -: {be U. 8. Steel Corp., giant of the industry, A corporation spokesman said its officials are not in" contact with the union. . Pour Back to Mills | . Within = 20 - minutes after the {J. & L. settlement was announced {shortly before midnight, Indiantapolis time, workers began pours ing into “the mills. Heat ‘was {turned up in the coke ovens, blast furnaces were charged and open {hearths were fired. wo ] At East Chicago, Ind; Inland Steel- offered . the union a two-’ L. Kivett of Indianapolis sought plan pension proposal, one of A: DOR-contributory pension.

- mended instructions which would

¥: the tees the stéelworkers substanpack | Dally more than the Galion is asks

garding jurisdiction of “thie court cratic State Sen. Elmer Wene: His other Ja her 'ing in. its industry-wide pattern. over the boy. Deep- Differences turned at the time. She imme. | The company said that both Mr. .Kivett insisted the jury be - In broad terms, the New York{dlately stripped a long shirt] :

| : , = , Thild’ i 8 ente: group . linstructed that the case could Senate race is a test on the Fair flgave from. the child's arm, pre- Juss are Spplen ted the have been tried by the Marion Deal. On the domestic front, Mr. ve are sy Hous burns. worker would contribute. County Juvenile Court on a Jesser Lehman has promised to uphold . ° 2r¢h also sp ashed on his face) Under the non-contributor : offense. He said even if the boy most of it and Sen. Dulles just 29 Jock but these burns were TR , ay a were acquitted the case could be as certainly will oppose much Xo gi Nau, ee would —have to have 15 years returned to the Juvenile Court of it. : ’ ¥ mt 3 . fof Sisposition, B a But there are deep ana bitter pital father is swimming coach Fie! Miture lm r. Carrico, however, ar . $ Ss 8 >: } gued personal, racial and religious dif- at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Sion the company said:

that such a move would be “tan-|ferences in this contest which ws tamount to double jeopardy.” The wil] sway untold thousands of ° ° . Rationing Procedure Set Up ’ Li By Feeney's Coal Board

judge said he would Tteserve de-' votes today. cision on the arguments. - Members Have 950 Tons of Fuel to Parcel Out; Limit Placed on Delivery System

. . Supporters of Mr, Lehman who Mr. Kivett’ rested his case im-|js Jewish, have sought to blister mediately after the youth testified Mr, Dulles, a leading Protestant in his own defense yesterday layman, with charges of bigotry. afternoon | ) The boy steadfastly denied that| Jaz denied Thi a prom,

Also, nobody knows how many

home —down| Eleanor Roosevelt in her dispute Including a new allocation from. thé Governor's fuel commission

this morning, the rationers will have: approximately 950 tons of = Indiana coal to parcel out. no A Issne More Remote | The dealers -announced their’ : If Mr. Dulles wins, the Demo- own stocks will be gone by the two tons sent to the Post Office crats. could say these. personal week-end éxcept for a small sup- In Kingman and five carloads messin issués did it .and that this was ply of coke for hand-fired fur- each to Muscatatuck State School “ino--straight--out Pair Deal test.!5aces and certain types of stoves. and. the Madison State a But if Mr. Lehman wins the One Ton Limit | These allocations were from } , {Democrats are sure to see if as seholders who, are out of Newly-mined supplies at the Mop = hich comes with your BIG- approval of the Truman program. Selionse to erp their own PH gan* Mine en opera / Sunday, is chock full of ex- | In New Jersey the Fair Deal ¢, arrange for a ‘ration, the under special permission by issue Is. more remote. The Tru-poard announced. ' Limit. for any United Mine Workers to supply man administration hasn't done one delivery will be one ton. institutions only. mye to help Mr. Wene. But Re- rivers will be instructed to in-| Mayors over the state were cus pu icans certainly will see aly na0t bing before completing de Huds about continued offers from Driscoll victory as public endorse jivery %ind no delivery will be|Saul Ganz of the Marion Coal

atment of GOP tenets. |made where there is a good sup-| Co. offering Pennsylvania coal in The New York rade provided ply already. carload lots. ag as X 4 is

a campaigning trial run whieh| The state fuel commission re-| The Marion firm, = my Dave waste at Wooo ported allocations of one TO-ton in advance and “the welfare state” as [carload, of coal each to Terre $6 to ; ton mines . 11950 war cries." : | Haute, Decatur and Elwood 3 ads a he i | The reaction indicated Mr. general relief. : Dulles. wasn't getting anywhere ‘with’ such talk. And Mr. Lehman grabbed the idea that if thatf meant a state looking after the

was running

| The boy's trial was venued here .

men, too-—have wanted to presenting facts. that might

with the law story of the great fighter's “big he road to fame and fortune.

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