Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1949 — Page 1

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1949

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; ? Photo. be Bob Wallace, Times Staff Photographer. Mrs. Mary Ward McGrath, 9, Indiana's oldest active Gold Star Mother, offers a prayer for her only son fallen in World W. tee, Indiana Chapter, American War Moth before the viget ing of the Armistice in 1918,

Parade Marks Truman Leads in Tribute Armistice Day To Nation's War Dead

Places Wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier; City Observes | Military Leaders Stress Need for Peace '. . | V NG a Minute of Silence WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UP)—Bareheaded under a hazy N Downtown streets were crowded nation’s war dead today at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. with paraders, shoppers, and vet-| While the mournful notes of “taps”

.Her son, Robert, 21, died in northern Italy I5 days

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ar |. A resident of Lafayette, she is chairman of the Gold Star Commit.

vember sun, President Truman paid silent, solemn tribute to the ship before the accident.

sounded over the ever- -in- plane fell on the farm of Claus?

3 Feared Killed As B-29

Falls Near Brownsburg Angus Ward

Chinese Reds Ignore Always Dignified Diplomat U. S. Protests on oiling Of Consul General

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—Accusing Angus Ward of® beating up a Chinese employee is like claiming Gandhi Career Diplomat, 4 Aids Held Incommunicado For Month in Manchuria on ‘Fantastic’ ' Charge

was a big bully. Angus Ward Alive—or Else ++. an editorial . , . “Page 2%.

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Plane Apy Aopears Strange Case of Afire In Air Ward, Ex-Valpo Student,

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Several Believed Injured; Possible Collision Suspected

At least three persons were reported killed and several

Mr. Ward, former Hoosler college student. is a tall, dis-

tinguished individual of 58 with a Van Dyke beard and an affinity for Rembrandts and Ei Grecos. He's the kind of guy the British had tn mind when they coined -the- phrase about dressing for dinner in the jungle. Er By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—Angus Ward, U. 8. consul | general at Mukden, China, and a career diplomat of 25 | years’ outstanding, service, has been languishing in a Man.

others injured when an Air On Mr. Ward, a sword and crimson cloak would look good, but fisticuffs woiild be beneath his dignity. He has churian jail—incommunicade—for a month. With him ‘are four members of his staff, two of them

Force B-29 crashed and, burned in Hendricks County, | always observed the diplomatic amenities regardless of circumstances. American citizens. tained thelude the two other

|near Brownsburg, about 20 ® a ‘a » x @ {miles northwest of Indianapolis, HE WAS born in Alvinston, Canada, but his parents The State, Department in-| {American citizens — Ralph H. [sists that the charges made Rehberg, a clerk, and Shiro Tate

today. moved to Chassel, Mich, when he was just a child and lagainst the prisoners by the/sumi, a mechanic of Japanese de-

Several persons were seen to! he became a naturalized citizen. parachute from the burnifg plane He went to high school in Chassel, then attended the two alien consulate Chinese Communist government— Scent, and and {that they beat. up .a Chinese embloyees, Franko Cleogna

before it disintegrated in the air] University of Valparaiso, in Indiana in 1913-1914 before goua sel in pieces three miles ing to work as &n engineer and salesman for his family's south of Brownsburg. Twelve lumber business. University records show he studied com- | worker—are “fantastic” and “ab- Alfred Kristan. {surd.” All five are being held for are | Yet the Communists have re-raignment before a ‘people's

persons were believed on the ship. merce and engineering. . 2 ‘fused to let anyone see either Me, Court” on the charge they as-

Witnesses from the BrownsHe served as a first lieutenant in the Army in World b 8 » A MIG airport said they counted War I, then stayed in Europe to work for American relief | Ward or-any- of his. staff mem. Saulted a Chinese worker named bers. Chi Yu-heng, formerly employed

seven parachutes drifting down i Finl 4 i R And they have ‘gnored a for- at the consulate.

from the burning plane. The : wa parachutists were blown north by From 1920 to 1923 he ran an export and shipping business before joining the Bureau of internal Revenue as a {mat protest, presented a week ago! Specifically, the formal count iby our consul general at Peiping deciares that Chi was beaten up

the wind. timber valuation engineer. He transferred to the State |demanding the prisoners’ speedy by Mr. Ward and his aides after

Collision Possible | The plane was identified as a {bomber from the 830th Bomb! | Squadron, 509th Bomb Group | based at Roswell, N. M.

those de-'

Main part of the Air Force!

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erans of three wars today as In-'creasing graves in Arlington National Cemetery, the President

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dianapoljs observed the 31st an-'siared down at the he stone walk leading tothe Unknown Soldier's

niversary of the signing of the! Armistice which ended ‘World| War IL The: traditional one minute of | silence, a tribute to the nation’s; war dead, was observed in homes,

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- offices, stores and downtown | streeis at the request of Mayor. Feeney. Stores and

Tomb.

cemetery a 10a. m.,

Proposes Study 0f Conservation

Speaker Suggests National Board

By JOHN WILSON Establishment of a commission to study

years ago. |

The President, “a captain

{from his business ai were open as usual. But banks, city, state and most federal of-| fices were closed. -Only the par-! cel - post, registered mail divisions of the 4av at the 31st Indiana Farm hat over his heart. main post office remained open. ti 1 A parade of Indiana veterans Buréau Tonvestion. | Hass of! Minute of Silence” .thrée wars. highlighted the Evansville declared there should When the must finished, forse ceremonies. . Begins at 10:25 Led by motorcycle police, the! “10th Air Force Band and Indiana National Guard troops, thousands of paraders swung down Penn--sylvania 8t. from St. Clair St. at 10:25-a. m. The marchers moved south to Washington St., west to Illinois; 8t., north to Market St.; east to the Circle and north on Meridian

land con-

Photos, Page 23 - “|silence. |governing all uses “ot land re re-| sources. } “The restoration and conserva-

{tion of our land resources is the

low flowers.

nation,” the Rev. From the commission's report, and remained motionless he said, Congress should formu- an Army bugler sounded “taps.” ‘late a coordinated conservation Bt. to St. Clair. iprogram for the future. Its pur- quickly back to his Heralding. the moment of pose would be to keep. a balance George N. Craig, of Brazil, Ind, silence, four F-51 fighter planes petween the nation’s needs and American Legion nationa’

| Mr. Truman ‘arrived at the few moments before (Indianapolis time) the hour when the armistice ending the first world war was signed 31

ing {that first world conflict, stepped in ing open car and walked with quick artilleryman’s steps to yp hg the stone parapet facing the tomb. The Army band struck up Rational}. national anthem asthe Pres- to special delivery and! servation was proposed here to- ident held his black Homburg

the drove to th |be a strong national Tand" policy [Chief “Executive bowed ‘his head she ; 8 aan

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Then he carried to the edge of. the tomb a large wreath of yel- heard the: plane,”’

After placing- the wreath at the| basis of all our future life as a base of -the tomb, the President | Mr. Hass said. stepped backward several yards] while |

When taps ended; he walked| car- with|

One. Motor. Seems. Afire “When I first saw the plane it] jwas flying northeast and one! piotor seemed to be on fire,” Mr. Linton said. “Men were jumping ont with parachutes. “When it was just about over-| (head it went to pieces, and we tad to watch out for falling deris. Pieces .of the ‘ship were BY down. all “around. The. main part fell in my pasture, near

Wreckage was scattered over a five-mile area. Department foreign service in 1925 and was sent to MukHalf a dozen ambulances from den as vice consul. : {surrounding towns rushed to the| ua 5 . 8 =n |scene. Fire equipment was sent HE WAS consul at Tientsin from 1926 to 1934, when from Brownsburg, Pittsboro and! he went to Moscow as an embassy secretary. He became | first secretary of the Moscow embassy ‘in 1940... but was shifted a few months later to he consul at Vladivostok, and was named consul general there in 1941. [release the Chinese had been ordered to Before returning to Mukden in 1946, he was counselor Besides Mr. Ward, ‘do work beyond his strength. » of the embassy at Tehran for a year. State police said there was al — No Official Note From Mukden Authorities possibility the crash had a u. §-¥ Ste i clo R eported * Yet, altho ugh the arrests apparently took place on Oct. 11 used by a wilson witha} ee epor te (the day of the alleged attack), the State Department up to today a ane x sivtiane. 1 ying, P had received no official notification from Mukden authorities that ante he uns ene rong IN Agreement on Pensions uw s cst tbe mpraenes | CL at a small plane, with black i Department ; \body and yellow wings, was Major Provisions of Bethlehem Plan the State De nt Oct. 28 from Mukden, signed by a member - ispotted, ide down, about fi hee of Mr, Ward's staff “for him, iported Mr, Ward and his | miles EE yy, opaut ve) Believed Adopted; 2 Points Still Debated | No word, either, has been re- members still were in ail. lcrash scene. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11 (UP)—U. 8. Steel Corp. and the CIO ceived concerning Mr, Ward's wife,| The arrests were a climax to a One of the survivors of. the United Steelworkers were reported in agreement on the major pro-/wn, was with him in Mukden, Campaign of harassment which {B-29 crash was quoted as sa | visions of a pension plan which will end the 42-84¥y strike of 18 rey have. 50 chilldien. the Communist . there were 12 persons aboard the! 170,000 workers, |carried on on against Mr. Union sources said the company, by far the biggest of the Earlier, reports of the arrests the consulate ever since nation's steel producers will accept had been heard in San Francisco te captured a year ago. i {an approximation of the plan from the Chinese Communist At that time, Mr. Ward's aie | worked out with Bethlehem Steel radio in. Peiping. Then, vhen the set was confiscated, although he cor. last week, [telegram from Mr. ‘Ward's aid was permitted to send uncoded This would establish pensions stated that Mr. Ward--had. _He and his staff were of $£100-a-month for workers jailed for “two or three days,” the/placed under virtual house arrest, tars to Coal Area: over 65 with 25 vears service and State Department hoped that he with Communist guards both ins set up an insurance program had been freed. {side and outside the two resi. costing the company and the But two days later, in a second, "dential compounds and the cone= Await Fuel Output workers’ each 2'; cenis an hour broadcast, the Peiping radio re-‘sul general's office. . . an. From Indiana Mines Tried to Return to U. S. Since Last May HAROLD H. HARTLEY Times Business Editor

Two Undecided Points Industry sources indicated that Then, last May, the State Department instructed Mr. Ward to

only two points have separated close the consulate and return to the United States. He has been

rm.” | “empties” to Indiana mineé t0- may have been settled and an that he would be permitted to leave, he never has been able to get Three injured were brought in day. The coal rush is on. agreement may be announced transportation out of Mukden. Veterans Hospital on Cold , | following a meeting of the union's When it first heard about the arrests, the, State Department Spring Road Their identities Yesterday the mites were slow {international - policy committee! said it was waiting for a report|™ Q . » C > kin and the extent of injuries couldn JaLueg: og Niaer hao 10 he late today. |from Edmund O. Clubb, U. 8. con- ment as the d Bf arelgs Seve t » . mot be earned. immediately.“ \PUmPed ou’ oL the Ble, Bt 156) Ties points were: a angactment._an: hod. Up 48. model.” Since he eryn Snyder, tal r ’ Rh : yaer hungry for every car they could ONE: Protection of the Fights] Xe ny Att

lives southwest of load. of employees participating in the The Chicago; Milwaukee; St. .COMpany’s. Paul & Pacific with headquarters pension plan. This plan is limat Terre Haute, filled 344 cars, |ited to ‘workers earning over about.half a day's quota. {$3000 a year. 0 get a personal interview with| Now 56, Mr. Ward is a tall The Pennsylvania Railroad | TWO: Inclusion in \ the pension — put was turned down and 6 feet 3 inches with a straight moved 70 cars from the Bicknell|plan of workers who have retired had to leave the protest note at rand dignified figure; -and-a-gray-territory. The New York Cen-|within the past two years. It is Chou's -door. {ing Van Dyke “beard. He is tral, -IHinois Central. B.& 0, and | reported the company doubts the: Meanwhile, there has been no known as a man of deep courtesy Nickel Plate, all big roal-haul-|iegal right of the union to bar- acknowledgement of the note. {and as a stickler for the niceties ets, were in the scramble. gain for persons who are-not in Neither have there been any of protocol. Blut today, Armistice Day, a|the company’s employment. |acknowledgements or apologies! paid holiday, slowed production at! Negotiations to end the strike from the Chinese Communists for. membg¢r him as a thoughtful suthe mines. Miners were expected of 13,000 Allegheny Ludlum Steel other indignities to which Ameri- perior who always let his staff to werk tomorrow, even though!Corp. workers were resumed here can diplomats have been subjected know that he thought their. jobs it “is “Saturday -at- regular ‘time. today after a one day recess. No sinee the. coming of China's Red|important and always saw fo it

who! Pittsboro scene after saw the flaming boniber pass’ er her farm. Saw Fire Underneath , “1. was gathering eggs when I. Mrs. Snyder! said: “I looked up and. saw smoke coming out of it. Men were bailing out in parachutes. “Then I saw fire on the under-

livered a note of protest to Chi-(1925, he has gained a reputation

partuent said Mr. Clubb had tried viduals in that finicky business.

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Holds Deputy Off

The Trailfoads Were speeding yp." company and the union. They trying to do 86 Since then, but despite assurances from the Reds

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of the Indiana Air Nationalinature's ability to produce. mander; Ted Marks, a Battery fn Guard flew northward over Me=| Improper Use of Land buddy from the first World War, A Time of Crash he Reve-.Mr... Hass said as and his armed service aides. * Gov Schricker, Sen Capehart, many ROI “OrOBIE™ UME "ITO d Vie ih Ll Pera" h f Thrice e : Tove t yD "5 improper use of the land as from down, civil military and govern-| Mayor. Feeney, Maj. Gen. Paul L. nprom Farmers must adapt Ment leaders called on Americans, C arges Officer Was Wiiliams, 10th Air Fore com- th lves to the land on which to dedicate this Armistice Day to _At Party Earlier mander, and. Adjutant Gen. Rob-| oe. A A ’ ( they live, he said. the nation's battle-fallen heroes. By PHILIP ¥. CLIFFORD Warning by Sherman County Councilman Frank H. - Faifchild charged . today that

inson Hitchcock reviewed “the = yoo ro some of our land as parade. inconsistently as a preacher would : Adm. Forrest ‘P. Sherman. Deputy, Sheriff Herschell Brown naval chief of operations, warned was not on duty when he wrecked

Marching units included the ” ' be serving at a saloon bar,” he American Legion, Veterans 'of| .. i;ed4 “Our first line of de- 8 Pa- that if the nation is “to enjoy! a squad car last Sunday morn truly lasting peace, we must re-|ing.

Foreign Wars, Spanish-American fense is not in Europe or the affirm our determination never to! This was the incident that

War Veterans, auxiliaries to the) Grand Army of the Republic, [cite but on the farms of AmerRainbow Division Veterans, Jew- compromise with latent dangers touched off a squabble between fsh War Veterans and the Mili- joa Ire thin 4000 Blosser farm that can lead to war.” x {the sheriff's office and employees tary Order of the Purple Heart. meeting in the Ano lel And at Cleveland, Lt. Gen. at the county garage over me Others participating were |The convention will close tomor-| George Robert L. Eichelberger chanical condition of all county high school ROTC units, Ameri-| {row with a business session. {pointed to dangers in the Far cars, can Red Cross, Salvation Army, | East that still confront the na-| Mr. Fairchild, who launched an Boy Scouts, the Thomas Carr| Last night Allan Kline, pres- tion's security. He said the independent probe after he “he. | Howe High School Band and|ident of the American Farm Bu- United States must “assume a came dissatisfied with Sheriff Pike Township Band. reau Federation, told the assembly protective obligation until Japan| |Cunningham’ s investigation of ihe re mt his organization doesn't want can look to its own defense.” |accident,” sald he would file SAILOR KILLED IN CRASH [government to guarantee farmers, At Montgomery, Ala, Navy report of the case at the next ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Nov.|a profit, Capt. John G. Crommelin said it] meeting of the county council. 11 (UP)—James Kearns, 19, Ev-| “Government guarantees of js the “patriotic duty” of every| “I have two eyewitnesses to the : “ " erett, Mass, sailor, was killed and| profitable farm prices lead to |American to keep informed on |accident,” Mr. Fairchild said to- Why is the Fund “broke two other sailors were injured se-|stabilized mediocrity in agricul- the state of the armed services. |day. “They are employed by the today? riously today when they automo-|ture,” he warned. | Capt. Crommelin is the naval Belt Railroad and were on duty bile crashed into a tree near here.| “It Je government gusfatess officer who kicked off the unifica- at the Churchman Ave. crossing Don’t Miss The SOCAL TEMPERATU Suppo at profitable levels, it/tion row. Apparently in defense at the time Deputy Brown , io o CAL TEMPERATURES must then distribute the right toiof his own actions in the case, he | wrecked the county 7 y FIRST Full STORY Re nation Yoiay, eee, Tam. 0 Hab. ¢8 produce on an n_‘squitable’ basis. said there is no place in Aue Informed of t Mr. Fairchild's Mr. Truman will give Mr. Chap-| of coal miners’ pensions

8a m., 61 12 (Noon). 71 (Continued on n Page 2—Col. 1), can democracy for a “yes-m. 4 man a recess appointment to the fam. 64 1pm. 72 This ‘was the nation's time-out (Continued on «Page 3—Col. 5) in Yndiang top post in the next few days. | by

m——— for paying respect to those who | i Edwin C. Heinke

The miners’ contract, one hauler progress was reported. said. provided "no: overtime nnitl~ CIO President Philip Murray"

i ay s | yi e a sixth day has been worked in called the union negotiating com-

anv exlendar-week: * Most of the deep mines and, TRIELEE tod" CToRea-doot meeting a downtowm hotel. A joint

strippers’ were reported idle : ; : A session with the company under their paid holiday clause expected to fololw.

which includes Armistice Day. . yy However the Blackhawk mine,| When U. 8. Steel settles, 384,000 of the 514.000 steel wdrkers

2) who went on strike Oct. 1 wil be back at work. Another 115,000 still will be idled by strikes against steel firms, some of {which were closed later as contracts expired. Another independent producer, | Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. [gesired with the steelworkers | early today.

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$8,250,000 Pension Fund For Indiana Coal Miners . . . GONE

What became of the money? Why did pensions stop?

Oscar L. Chapman! To Succeed Krug

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UP) {~-Oscar L. Chapman, now Undersecretary of Interior, will succeed! |F.~A, Krug as Secretary of Inte|rior, the: White House announced (today. President Truman accepted Mr,

27 Bruised inN. Y.. Subway Crash

NEW YORK, Nov, 11 (UP) Twenty-seven persons were | bruised and shaken today when a + SUbWEY ram backed-into-a-dead~

Exclusive Interview Boy Recovers After gave their lives in the struggle Times Index

'5 Minutes in Tank sed th h that. future A With Tito Today LOGANSPORT, Nov, 11 (UP) Dy ous ope their sacri: Huse The inside story of what

~A 25-month-old boy was in fair fices in vain, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia

for peace. And speakers ex-! - psi ansuiichetbuioniinn esse4:30 Mrs. Manners 20 Bridge ....:.14 Othman .....23 {Childs .......24 Pattern .....18 i i Comics ......43 {Radia ugeess 33 far Exclusive fe” saasess ed in Editorials ...24 Society sari ld] a Fashions ....14 Sports....36, 37 THE INDIANAPOLIS js track and smashed into &

Food asesssia ll Teen wand? TIMES - bumper block, throwing passenForum ......24|Teen i Mod n floor. | Gardening : Were treated at

+15 Weather Map 28’ “SUNDAY

| condition at Memorial hosiptal . today after being foun con- | scious in a water fank ” oa: Harold Greer said her Dean apparently bad been un two feet of water for about f five minutes artificial rapiraton. $04 to [the boy,

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“Now We Know

TEHRAN, Iran, Nov. 11 (UP)~The Iranian aver ment has decided that Iran henceforth may also be ar howe by ita historie name of Persia.

his country’s clash with the Soviet Union 1s revealed on the editorial page today by Times ' Columnist Marquis Childs after an exclusive in- - tarview with ‘the Marshal Hallywooy ...30, Ear! Earl Wilson.. 8 "Belgrade. aside Tndpla: 38, Women's weil,

- regime

brought against Angus Ward

that individuals who did particus 8. consul larly good work got full credit. Visited Art Galleries

John Hail Paxton, UU general in Sinkiang, China. s most: northwesterly. province cis mow. A connoisseur of the arts: Me. safe In New Delhi. But it took Ward spent much of his free tims

was him apd his party 30 days to cross visiting art galleries, concert halls

the Himalayas by caravan when and theaters. He speaks several the Reds refused him access to languages and “is. recognized as any other means of transporta- one of the few experts in the tion.: western world on Mongolia. He is also an old Russian The U. 8. consul general in hand, : having served both in Shanghai, John M. Cabot, ‘was Moscow—as An embassy secre. not permitted to leave Gntil a Chi- tary—and in Vladivostok, where nese merchant had * ‘guaranteed he ‘opened the U. §. consulate. Mr. Cabot against “bad debts.” The vice consul at Shanghai, thorities kept searchlights beamed (William Olive, was arrested by on the U. 8. consulate every night Shanghai police for “obstructing during - Mr. Ward's three-year {a parade,” and beaten severely be- tenure, [fore being released. | Now Angus Ward, a man who But none of these incidents was has served his country in the “0: stunning as fhe charges] [trouble ‘spots of the world for |25 years, Nuddles in a dank Mr. Ward is known among hisj Manetian Jail. - 'colleagues at the State Depart-| That is, * he's a alive,

Mukden Jail No Picnic Site, Far East Travelers Agree °*

By OLAND D. RUSSELL; Seripps-Howard Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 11-—-To anyone who has ever

Mukden, Manchuria, the thought of going to jail there is £08 uncomfortable as can be imagined

There's always been something . slightly eerie and §

Held Up as Model

“{about the conglomeration of east and west that makes up

less and forbidding Chinese city on the | barren agricult of South Manchuria. = Mare . than in any other city government is’ see of Manchuria, a Western visitor/Dle on the face of to Mukden ‘gets the impression Prestig: in the Far East, that he's. a million miles from Ee ion nowhere-and-ustally he's anxio of - to get on with his business and tion, is perhaps clear out. tant In such a a man million or mil

At Vladivostok, the Russian aus

nounced that Mr. Clubb had de- joined the State Department In

present contributory diplomats as one of the iese Communist: Foreign. Minister. among dip A aaa Chou En- lai on Nov. 3. The de- most dignified and correct’ hails