Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1949 — Page 1

FORECAST: Cloudy, coder tonight, tomorrow. Low tonight, 30: High tomorrow, 45

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1949

Witarad us Second-Class Matter at Indisnapolis. Indiana.

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Charge 5 Men With Jobless Pay Frauds

Unemployment Claims Division Launches Crackdown Campaign Indiana's employment security division today served notice of a “crackdown” on fraudulent unemployment claims as it began prosecution of five Indianapolis men. In affidavits signed by D. K. Sadgebury, assistant manager of the Indianapolis local office, the men were charged with collecting unemployment benefits while they were gainfuly employed. All five men were charged with violation of the state employment security act before Judge Joseph) Howard in Municipal Court 3 today. The cases were continued to the afternoon of Dec. 12. False Certification Charged In each case the defendant was alleged to have collected unemployment benefits by falsely certifying that he was not employed.

tol Ave., received a $20 compensation check for the week ending

John W. Clarke, 2835 N. Capi"

cost Hoosiers $2 more next year.

Sept. 10, the same week in which

Housewife Pleads Guilty

he drew $38.44 from a private employer, the affidavit states, Others charged were Leon Bost, 1901 Union St. for claim-

To Savings Bond Fraud

Admits Cashing In on Both Originals And Duplicates of U. S. Securities

A 45-year-old housewife guilty in Federal Court to defrauding the government of Mrs. Irene Farmer, 2564 8S. Dorman St, admitted cashing 16 uu 8. savings bonds after she had applied for and cashed duplicates, } of the bonds, Ill with pneumonia and convalescing from an operation, Mrs. weak and spoke!

Robert €. Baltzell, After the arraignment, Judge | in September. The Indiana Public Service Maurice Graston, assistant /Commission today rejected a propurchased on the payroll plan by! The survey of the company’s her husband, Theodore Farmer. {financial condition and operations |

Farmer appeared in a murmur as she a = Railways S Baltzell allowed her to return home to her sick bed. She was U. 8. district attorney, said Mrs. | posal to have an independent surFarmer in 1944 borrowed money | [vey made of Indianapolis RailWhen Mr. Farmer noticed the Was sought by Assistant Public, absence of the securities, Mr. Counselor Walter F. Jones Jr. to|

questions asked - her by Judge indicted by a federal grand += Rejected 1] PSC on the bomds, which had been Ways, Inc. transit system. _Graston said, his wife told him accidentally burned.

fare increase. .

1 Mayor “Feeney termed the PO] in cleaning out a drawer, At his, oon outrage” and said the

urging, she then applied for and|eommigsion was “avoiding their received duplicates of the bonds.'responsibilities to the citizens of Mr. Graston sald she cashed Indianapolis.” the duplicates in November and| PSC refusal of an independent| December of 1944. The original survey was interpreted by utility | bonds were cashed last year, he men as an indication the commissaid, with the proceeds going to sion would boost the transit fare repay the loan, lin Indianapolis to 15 cents or a

Ceoi13aeent, twosforsd-guarter’ tole Lobaugh Granted I { 6-Month Stay lourvey by professional engineers

Gov. Schricker today granted and accountants, the PSC sald a

h, convicted on NeW survey would only duplicate Ralph W: Tabagh, é-month. several of the similar surveys confirst dergree murder, a 6-month g,.104 in 1944 and 1047.

stay of execution.

rite. Cites Previous Surveys

ing $20 compensation the week of May 21, in which he drew $16 wages; Howard I. Perkins, 405 Douglas 8t., who drew $10 compensation and $12 wages the week of Aug. 20; Willie H. Ross, 1108 Sheffield Ave. and

Wanis to Be a Pilot

Boy Crash Survivor Only One to Use Belt

Pulled From Wreck After 34 Others Die

OSLO, Norway, Nov. 23 (UP) — Isaac Allam, 12, only survivor of

children and seven adults died, said today he would like to be a pilot. The boy was being treated at the Drammen Hospital for an injured arm and skinned nose. He alone lived through the wreck of a Dutch airliner bringing the

North Africa.

no order was given. His report of the crash: was relayed by Gabi Banon, French political student and special representative of the camp to which the children were being taken.

Panic Broke Out The boy said panic broke out

of them tossed around Inside the plane. got a bump on his nose his face hit the back of the seat in front of him. He told doctors earlier that “a * saved him, and the doc-

William ht 1152 N. Sheffield Ave, both of whom were charged with $20 compensation for en in which they earned $31.50 on outside jobs. “There's been too little respect for the truth in making claims here,” said Mr. Sadgebury, who joined the Indianapolis office in October. “We ask these applicants three separate questions to determine if they have performed any work for any wage in the period for which they're claiming compensation. Threatens Prosecution

pgnt the transit firm's: proposed |

belief that all you have to do is

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an airplane crash in which 27

Jewish refugee children from |

The boy said -he was the only child in the plane who fastened = his. safety belt before the plane crashed on a wooded hillside = south of Oslo Sunday. He said = none of the others did so because

_ Allam . ‘ Sscapid death trap.

Norwegian|told by Hilding Martinsen, who

with another lumberjack, T. Ha-

gen, was the first to reach the

plane.

“We were searching the woods

when suddenly we heard a noise

there under the tail was a child. “He lay stuck beneath the, earth and the plane, with his face pressed against the earth. He could not move. Pieces of aluminum and parts of a chair had! irapped him.

“Hagen ran tor help and I

Ward Release Climaxes Drive 0f Newspapers

Times, Scripps-Howard Battled to Free Imprisoned Consul By Seripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 —Release of Consul General Angus Ward and his four

aids from a Chinese Commu-|

by The Indianapolis Times and

. |other Scripps-Howard newspapers

on Nov, 11.

that our consul general in Peiping had deChronological story of Ward case, Page 3. livered a note of protest té Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou En-lai in .Peking on the subject of Mr. Ward's arrest,

The department said our representative had tried to get a per-

, rview with the foreign like someone weeping,” he said. sonal tite

“We came upon the plane, and

minister but was turned down and bad to leave the protest with Mr. {Chou’s doorman. Obviously if this timid approach, was to be continued as a pattern by the State Department, Consul General Ward might stay on in the Chinese jail no telling how long.

“They have ample opportunity

to give the true facts and if we)

{learn they haven't we intend to [prosecute.” {

makes. fraudulent

Hable to $20 to $100 fines; 80 qutnyP

imprisonment or both. stitutes a separate offense. Mr. Sadgebury said the five | laffidavits brought into court to-| {day were but a few of the pending cases. He said several more are (ready to be filled and that other “suspicious” claims are under inestigation. “This is going to be a drive,” he said. “I don’t want blood but I'm going to put a halt to the

come In here and sign your name to draw jobless pay.”

Mew! Train

Lobaugh was sch3duled to die|

in the electric chair Saturday. It| | |

was the Governor's third reprieve for the former Kokomo resident.

Lobatgh in 1947 volunteered in- | formation that he had killed three women in Ft. Wayne in late 1944] and early 19045-Miss Billie Haaga, Misy Anna Kuzeff and Mrs. Dorothea Howard. In the murder of Mrs. Howard he was convicted and sentenced to die. Subsequently, however, the! case has been tangled by “con-| fessions” of other men to the) slayings first admitted by Lo-| baugh. In announcing today's reprieve, | Gov. Schricker said that an in-| . vestigation into the case has not been completed.

Our 30-Year War

On Communism

® The United States has fought a strange and stormy 30-year war against a ‘movement dedicated to our nation's overthrow. ® The story of this struggle is a tig by Peter Edson, The Times’ distinguished Washington Soirsspondent, who . forecasts where

gle against i t lead us. :

oe It's a story for every American , . . starting ; . . BUNDAY : in the

| BIGGER. SUNDAY es

| hearing chambers of the PSC at

PSC pointed out that two pre{vious surveys were made by the transit firm and the other by the Chamber of Commerce. - Mr. Jones, however, sald the surveys were “not independent and possibly told only one side {of the story.” The public hearing on the proposed rate increase will be re- | sumed Monday in the special

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakfa, Nov. 283 (UP)-—Work-ers In the Plazen Skoda factory are building a new locomotive as a birthday present for Soviet Premier Josef - Stalin, the trade union newspaper Prace said today.

KILLED BY STOVE BLAST MITCHELL, Nov. 23 (UP)— Elmer Terry, 59, a stone quarty missioners that the hearing is in worker, was burned fatally yes{the nature of an emergency and/terday when. & kerosene stove ex{that any increase in rates given Pladed. in his make-shift tent

10 a. m. It was pointed out by the com-

| now will be’ only’ “temporary.” . home, .

» John Wendell as,

| month.

His death brought to 40 the number of traffic fatalities in the city this year,

under the number of traffic deaths recorded last year at this time, I urge motorists and pedestrians to be extra careful over the long Thanksgiving vacation starting tonight,” Chief Rouls sald today.

“Don’t forget children are home from school this week-end, also,” he warned.

Four Hurt in Three Crashes

Two motorists, an automobile passenger and a pedestrian were injured in three traffic accidents investigated by police here yesterday. James Collins, 6, of 554 Chuse St., lay seriously hurt in General Hospital today. He received head and back injuries when he was struck by a car while running across Oliver and Warren Aves, yesterday. Driver of’ the car, Joseph Underwood Jr., 1534 Hiatt St, was not held by police. A motorist ‘and a passenger were slightly injured last night in

Pleas of Children Who Will Be Cold

Are Already Being Received by Mail By ART WRIGHT

at 33 W. Washington St, one of the biggest tasks in, Fecent years will face:the kind-hearted residents. More money than ever will. be needed to meet the pleas of children who will be cold this winter if they are not outfitted by Clothe-A-Child.

When The Times Clothe-A-Child headquarters opens Friday]

Times Clothe-A-Child Drive Will Plan Bigger Campaign for Contributions

children dressed” for Christmas

Pleas such as these algsady have

ter is “nearly naked” because now {the mother had been forced to e.|quit work because of an injury.

A war-veteran whose little daugh-|

Chief Rouls Issues Plea For Safe Holiday Driving

Death of Pedestrian Injured Last Month Boosts City’s 1949 Traffic Toll to 40

"Death today of a pedestrian hurt Oct. 12 and injury of four The. laws covering payments, persons in three traffic accidents yesterday brought a warning from

Police Chief Rouls to drive carefully on the-long holiday week-end. 635 Eugene 8t.; died in General Hospital} Each | (today of injuries received when he was. struck by one car and run claim for each separate week con- | over by a second while crossing New York St. near Bright St. last

graphic description of what it's like .to undergo a Manchurian winter.

Mukden, Lt. Gen: C. King. Gen. King, from his experience in Mukden, thought Mr. Ward and his aids were being held in the downtown Japanese-built central police station probably in small: basement cells ATR i

Cells Even Lack Beds He recalled that -these cells

la two-car crash at 54th and Illi-

nois Sts,

Police arrested Fred ~“hipman lot Falmouth, Ky., on charges of “Although this figure is 16 operating a car under the influ ence of liquor and reckless driving- when he was struck by .-an|

auto driven by Henry Shriver, 6958 Warwick Rd. section. Returning From Game

Shriver auto.

Robert Flaugher of Falmouth, Ky., passenger in Mr. Chipman’s car, received leg injuries. Mr. Chipman, who failed to stop for a preferential street, was

{fined $50 and costs and had his {driver's license suspended for six

months in court here today, He admitted operating a car under the influence of liquor. Judgment was withheld on charges of drunk and reckless driving. Levi Collins, 925 W. 20th St., received head lacerations when

{the truck he was driving was hit {from the rear by a tractor-truck

operated by Robert Alexander, 909 8. East St, at 16th St. and| Senate Ave. Mr. Collins’ vehicle collided with Lamb: 2040 Central Ave., which a truck’ operated by Norman was waiting in line for a signal change. Mr. Collins was treated at Methodist Hospital and released. , Mr, Thomas was struck by a car driven by Delbert B. Sweatt, 954 N. Pershing Ave. on Oct. 12 while crossing New York St. to miss the Sweatt auto, a car operated by Estel Smallwood, R. R. 1, Jamestown, Ind. ran over Mr. Thomas and gragged him 24 feet. \ The victim had been in the hospital since the accident. He had received broken arms, hip

will and head injuries.

REPORT SOVIET AR!

‘at the inter-

Mr. Chipman told police he was returning from a professional basketball game at Butler Fieldhouse when his car was struck by the

lacked running water, toilet facilities and even beds. In his opinion, the Americans were being fed nothin

on at least one occasion. Mr. Farnsworth also cabled Gen. King’s suggestion that the Russians were trying to drive a

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147 of U. S. Consul

By Seripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—With the release of Consul General Angus Ward and four of his aids, 147 American members of U. 8. consulate staffs are still left im Communist-controlled areas of China. . Among them is Brig, Gen. Robert H. Soule, who is unable to leave because the Chinese Communists won't grant him an exit visa. How other Americans in the Red-controlled areas are faring is not known. They include 36 women and 27 children. Most: of them are ‘in citiés which have been in Communist hands for several months. “The State Department has yet to explain why the consular personnel has not been removed from uch areas; areas. The breakdown of American official personnel still remaining a/in Red China:

woman. Nanking--20 men, 11 women and 13 children. Shanghai--26 men, 2 women. Peking—18 men, 17 women, 12 children.

‘pared

Staff Still in China

Mukden—7 men and one;

Tientsin—6 men, 5 women, 2

Order Group To Leave C in

All Believed Unhoeneds

Court Levies Damages For ‘Assault’ on Coolie

Consul Phones Peking Colleague That He and Associates Are ‘Up and About’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UP)—Chinese Communists: have freed U. S. Consul General Angus Ward and four of his aids from a Manchurian prison and ordered them de='

ployee at the consulate, The court then commuted their prison sentences to deportation. They had been jailed since Oct. 24. The State Department instructed Mr. Ward, the other four, and his entire staff to leave Mukden “forthwith.” Officials said they are confident the Communists, who previously blocked for a year the departure of the staff, now will permit all of them to leave. No one in authority at the State Department was preto say at this time what effect, if any, Mr. Ward's release will have on any move to get the U. S. to.recognize

the Army to leave. But he cannot comply with his government's orders. The Communist regime will not

the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, as the State Department awaited word from the 30 nations it had asked to intercede ‘with. the Chi-}, nese Communists for the release of Consul General Angus Ward and four of his aids in Mukden, Manchuria. The officer who has not been permitted to leave Nanking is Brig. Gen. Robert Homer Soule, military attache to the American Embassy. His wife and anugtites are mab him, Filed

No Charges No charges have been brought

”

against in Nanking, § cities, thwarting the State Department’s efforts to close down consular offices in some places and reduce staffs in others. A Defense Department spokesman said orders for Gen. Soule's departure from Nanking had gone to him more than two months ago. The general promptly applied to the Communist authorities for an exit visa. It has not yet been granted. ‘Flimsy Pretext’ “We are aware of Gen. Soules case,” sald Secretary of the Army. Gordon Gray. “But it hardly seems to be an Army matter, or even a Department of Defense matter. Any decision will have to be made by higher authority and I have no doubt that higher authority is acquainted with all the facts.” Secretary Gray said he hoped

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Must Pay Damages

LONDON, Nov. 23 (UP) — The Gra

tab! ioday tha thers war Tour Bovis trial explosions of atomic bombs between July 10 and Oct. 1. It gave no source for the report.

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