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FORECAST: Partly cloudy, colder tonight. Warm

60th YEAR—NUMBER 258

A. Vishinsky Speaks

| SCRIPPS = HOWARD

Strike Wave Grips France: 3 Million Out

Tieup Worst Since 1934; Paris Plane,

Train Service Cut

By JOSEPH W. GRIGG JR. United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Nov. 25-—The nation's biggest general strike in 15 years slowed industry today. Communist and non-Com-

munist unions with a total membership of 5 million joined in calling a 24-hour strike. They! sought to enforce their demands! for a general wage increase and a return to free collective bargaining. All Paris busses and subways! halted service. | All newspapers suspended publication, The national radio was silent except for three scheduled news bulletins, |

Breakdown of Figures First reports from the northern Industrial areas and the channel ports indicated that almost 100 per cent of the nation’s coal miners and dock workers, 80 per cent of its iron and steel workers, 66 per cent of its textile and 30 per cent of its chemical workers joined in the strike. Garbage collectors and street cleaners also were on strike. But thousands defied union or-|

ders and stayed on the job.

". . « all reasonable people "n

*. .. is it not reasonable?"

Telephone, postal, electricity, | ’ - gas and water services functioned! ne MUST agree.” "a ., whatd ya know. They normally. Many trains were run- « « viveryons gree. agreed. t

ning only slightly behind schedule and air lines were operating 50 per cent of normal.

Andrei Vishinsky of Russia as he portrays a not too unfamiliar series of moods in the United Nations at Lake

‘Ready to Fly

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er tomorrow. Sunday outlook: Light rain

or snow,

Low tonight, 20; high tomorrow, 38.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1949

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Dally

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Mercury Due To Hit 20° For Season’s Low Tonig

U.S. Air Force Fr

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om Feed Bag fo Formal Snow Flurries Give ”~ '" Foretaste of Winter; = 3 Inches at South Bend |

Skies to Remain Overcast Tomorrow With High of 38; Cold Air Mass on Way Temperatures will skid to the lowest level of the season ‘tonight, the weatherman said today as occasional flurries of snow feathered down on the city. A cold air mass centered over western Minnesota will {dip south, bringing arctic winds to. the state and a low of 20 to Indianapolis tonight, he said. . a 8 Meanwhile, post - Thanks. LOCAL TEMPERATURES giving snow was reported in

Ward, Aids Out

State Department Plan Would Use

Slow China Train

By OLAND D. RUSSELL Secripps-Howard Stall Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25— The U. S. Air-Force offered today to send a plane into Red-controlled China to bring

6am... 32 10 a.m... 31 “ sr etn 7a.m...35 11am... 31 many northern Indiana coms GOP chiefs rapped in Ward Sa m... 31 12 (Noon). 33 munities 3 case . . , world report . .. | | 9am..+ 31 Rpm. . Page 6. | ] rime r——— rll | Three inches of winter's fluff i » {covered the ground at South Bend out Angus Ward and his con-/| Plainfield Woman and I was falling at Terre

sulate staff if the State De-|

partment could arrange a safe-| condtict from the Chinese Com-! munists.

The weatherman said the snow in Indianapolis wouldn't amount to much and might become mixed with occasional drizzling rain.

Sees High of 38

! Killed in Crash

i “We have plenty of planes in|

Japan on Okinawa to make : x : ine fr" saa" an Thur’ Fors 2 Drivers Hur in | weather experts said partial spokesman. “In addition, there U. S. 36 Collision ove 8!

{the Hoosier capital tomorrow as Was | the mercury edges up to a high of morning | 38. The weather outlook for Sune ay showed light rain or snow lurries with little change in tems

is a naval attache on Formosa

who has a Navy plane at his dis- A Plainfield housewife 1

killed instantly this when her husband failed to stop | , {for a through highway and his ¢

posal. “However, the State Department would have to get in ad-| vance some sort of guarantee)

Most cafes, stores, banks, offices Success. ; — ene that our fliers could land and automobile was struck by a peratures. and restaurants were open as " ipromptly leave with Mr. Ward! speeding car, state police re-| Despite cold, wind-driven rain usuai. Many firms hired mses § gfeeracker Hacks His Wa {and his personnel. ! ried which lashed the city A and private cars to bring their ; | “We hardly could risk the lives ported [the mercury climbed to 48 shortly employees to work. re {of our men or their liberty, or | Mrs. bye Monahan, 32; ‘Was pefore noon. Temperatures for The Minist. 1 t St ec) t oO $1000 even confiscation of the plane, | pronoun e a e Scene the . 2: me do Suitputt So n 0o ore, e S ver without some sort ut surance |after the car operated by her | enove uo - avéraged two degrees { I'm certain that Con Gene husband, Charles, had been : he Tray Jraveicd Toutes. Bores Through Wall of F ood Market Ward himself would be the last j= BE : ae] Close to Normal 1.00 ge ctxie trains to Paris’ Gare From Neighboring Garage to Gain Entry Bo oh Tol jeopardize : thet Holiday Accidents Leave 158 | In =» broad outline of Hoosier 1.00 Soo hzaire were halted by the 4 gyfecracker who hacked his way into the Friendly Family|that way.” | Dead ... Page 17. vert If prospects tor the next five 1.10 Tr n World | Food Market, 715 E. 52d St. took more than $1000 in holiday Urged by Rep. Judd i ——— tures would stick ity close 10 1.28 : a = or Airlines reported |. oipts from the cash vault. Use of a plane to bring out broadside by a car driven aormal LJuetiy all its flights were taking off and) The burglary was discovered when manager Israel Simon Mr. Ward and others was urged Marilyn Joana Redfield. by Paul K. Byrd of Russellville. Seasonal i Iniding on Schedule a Otly Alr-| pened the store at 7 a. m. today. by Rep. Walter H. Judd (R.| Miss Mohr splif a 1004gound feed bag and draped it around i State pplice said Mr. Monahan The ireuty show a a : field. i BlersaYousl 4 | _ Mr. Simon said the theft happened . time bet sp mM, critie has ba tae ot) herself in the attractive swim or play suit she models while the {ignored a p sign at U. 8. 36 in the southern portion of the British European Airways were VW eanesday, when thé store Slosed ‘ ; partment's go-easy methods in| formal worn by Miss Redfield was made from three of the bags. 30d Lomghurat Drive when enter " state. operating normally at Le Bourget, fF. Thanksgiving haa). ANC] fli handling the Ward case. The girls are modeling for the Feed Bag Style Review, a feature 8. : BY a rted in| Slight tomorrow was the continental air station. Afr/OPEMIng time today. “We at least could try to get of the National Farm Show beginning in Chicago Sunday. The | TTC. Mansbas wa Fig Vin. to be followed little change Franca canceled nine of its 21! Receipts from pre-Tranksgiv- . permission for one of our planes practice of making clothes from feed or flour sacks is so wide- cent’s Hospital with multiple in.| Sunday and Monday and a warms scheduled flights, ing sales were left in the safe, he “ ® {to go for Mr. Ward,” said Rep. spread these days that companies compete in putting out bags juries. Mr. Byrd, less seriously \D§ trend again Tuesday and — At the channel ports of Le said. To Die Toni |Judd. “If, after all the Reds In attractive patterns. Lara hurt, was admitted to Veterans| Wednesday. Havre, Dunkerque and Cher-| Police said the safecracker| jhave done to humiliate our con- J > & >» 2 2» ___ _1 Bi ; Administration Hospital, Cold/ Light snow, mostly in the bourg, dock workers halted all broke through the door of a "— {sular staff and our national pres- Missin Girl C ase Blamed Spring Road. northern counties, was expected work on ships. Tran-Atlantic garage adjoining the store and, Death Watch Mounted tige in China, they now refuse Le / Police said the Monahan car|!0 fall Sunday and vary in liners scheduled to arrive today then cut his way through a wall| us the ordinary courtesy of let- » . ° was virtually demolished when! amounts from one-tenth to four postponed their docking until into the food market. After Escape Plot {ting us send a plane to speed On Too Much Turke Dinner struck broadside by Mr. Byrd's tenths inches. : lomorrow. y | The combination of the safe] CHICAGO, Nov. 25 (UP)— the return of Mr. Ward, it only 3 miomobile. deal] Dockers on March { hat police called . demonstrates further that they . ’ ve other persons are dead! . » bo Several hundred dockers at Le Was Pinched In BP Guards mounted a death watch are not fit for recognition as a! Aunt, Wakened From Holiday Nap, Doesn't today and a number of others Aid War Bride

(Mad Dog) Morelli

Havre marched to the city prefecture, singing the ‘Internationale” and waving Communist flags. But there were no reports of violence,

over James One other break-in at a mar- today. a B0layp: wore reported, The added precaution came Three juveniles who were break- after two young men were .capThe strike call was issued by ing in Freund's Market, 2659 Foltz tured as they launched a desperthe Communist-dominated Gen-|St- Were stopped when a Jase ate plot to help him escape from eral Confederation of Labor and Jack Baugh, 2020 Holt Ri, heard the county jail where he will be the non-Communist Worker's them breaking a v Sows 2 ot electrocuted at one minute after Force Movement after the gov- boys fled, bu * Rog midnight tonight. ernment refused any general sal- caught one 14-year-old youth who

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t centers, with s through and PUNA «ceessnee

n _| Morelli, 23, was sentenced to die ary increases at this time, [as dio tho stove. Tht Soy im for the murder of a victim killed, Pp ca uties - Everitt Pa oF : and along with three others, when a loth hil + Clothe-A-Chi d year-old boy had two pen and Dight of terror in revenge for in0 ens T d § [pencil sets identified as store mer. forming police about their robPp o ay a {chandise by Carl Freund, owner. ery ac es. {tempt to free Morelli were Erville " 0. t. Rare time aut might St YL. Burdick, 22, and Dominick J. Frank Ingalls, manager, said De Maria, 20.

James Shuffiebarger said the 14-/83n8 of hoodlums staged a wild 7 | The two men seized in the at3 | The holdup was at the Model] 33 W. Washington, a holdup man walked in waving They were arrested as they loit-

INDIANAPOLIS biggest Christmas job started today.

> » . » » ¢ Fudge Headquarters for the 20th” an- a nickel-plated revolver. He or ered Jour She Jak And. Sobfesied ported” giving -the—Reds—an—ex- yon greed to tell Mrs Pointed a third lawyer to defend The other car was operated by. AT LONDON, the British Red nual Times Clothe-A-Child opened dered Mr. Ingalls to stretch out plot after pole I und two 13° cusc for freeing the Americans in py, ott that Sharon was missing Robert Austin Watts in his trial Charles Goldsmith, also of Ft. Cross will meet Mrs. Irving and e at 33 W. Was. .gton St. on the Boor and band over his inch saws, a pistol and a spool of response to widespread public de-/;;. great-grandmother exclaimed: for the sex slaying of Mrs. Mary Wayne, state police said. Mr. and take her to East Grinstead, Sus- . Lb. From now until Christmas Eve, billfold. heavy thread in their car. mand and indignation in America, “Missing? Why, she’s right here Lois Burney. Mrs. Gerber's two daughters, sex, for her first Christmas at Clothe-A-Child will be the haven) The gunman took the billfold, , PONCE oR. hey NA be echoed by The Indanapolis Times with me.” : A hearing was held today on Mary, 12, and Jean, 8 ‘and Mr. home in five years. : of hope for children needing warm containing $5 and a cashbox 8 piracy 10 ald an and other Scripps-Howard .news-| poi and relatives hurried to the petition of Watts’ two lawyers, Goldsmith were all injured. It also will be her last Christe * clothing to protect them from a which contained $2. |2tape. ) ) papers. the. Faucett home where they Warren Brown and Emerson Mr. McEifresh was crushed to mas anywhere, doctors said. | i cold winter. i a St ——_—— | Under Illinois law, conviction Also at a ‘standstill today was found a sleepy-eyed child and a Brunner. asking additional coun- death beneath his car after he ars Irving has cancer and has J us ors en = N C St ik On that Sarge oud permit the the Soule case — that of Brig. bewildered A Po a sel. Judge Barger granted the re- upparenty leat Sontys) and p.on given six to nine months to 1 ' MANY . {Judge to give them the same sen- Gen. Robert H. e, oO fo S : skidded from oa » near|, a ' HOW MANY ot hem will to ew oa rnke [tence of death decreed for Morelli. Sen, RODS BL Soul ue il Mrs. Faucett said she decided Juest and named George Tolen Bridgeport, yesterday afternoon, Hive,

ceive aid depends upon the generosity of the public. How soon | Clothe-A-Child can begin to pur chase the needed clothing will depend upon how quickly cash contributions are received. Send your check or money order ~for any amount—to: Clothe-A-Child, Indianapolis Times, 214 W, ¥ Maryland St.

Girl Badly Scalded By Boiling Water

A 12-year-old girl was severely] scalded early today while assist-|

ter- The attempted jail break came

249°

Delay Predicted

dicted today that top officers of jail on Thanksgiving Day, 1948.

{the United Mine Workers early| |next week will postpone their Identify 2 Girls Found In River Slough

threatened strike until after Christmas. | STOCKTON, Cal., Nov. 25 (UP)

John L. Lewis tentatively has se. a new coal walkout for next| Thursday. But he has summoned the mine girls found floating in a San workers’ 200-man policy committee to meet in New York Monday. The committee has power to exIng an aunt in the kitchen of her tang the strike deadline and gov- they dled . will] . ; Donna Mae Raines, of 1249 N. uce’jc Ri-gficials: believe 3 wil [quhe girls were identified as Lawton Ave, received first degree, These officials . believed Mr. Rita Jone both ar Stockton Mins burns on the feet and legs when 1, , plans to ask the policy com- | nechiavo was identified by her ghe dropped a kettle of boiling mitt. 3 water, police reported. i ; An aunt, Miss Shirley Sxales, | FEEES for About 2 monty told police the child was helping re her when the accident occurred. She was treated by a physician at the scene.

CHURCHILL IMPROVES

tified today, but deputies still {were unable to say for sure how

{by A. L. Farmer. They think that Mr. Lewis 18] Deputies believed the girls were luctant to call his miners out driving in a dense again before Christmas. {failed to negotiate a turn in the | roadway that runs alongside the

Burglars Concoct Tale, “ous

LONDON, Nov. 25 (UP)—wins- Explain Safe in Car One Barkley Puff ton Churchill, confined to his ‘ ' LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25 (UP) rk home for two days by a cold, was|«—Two young were at Darkens 72 Candles reported “very much better” by|large today because they told pohis doctor today.

Times Index

Amusements 24 Inside Indpls, 2 ssvsss14/ Mrs. Manners 18 Childs .,.....22 Othman .....21

Sram «23 . 21

(UP) == Vice President Alben

1/box in the back seat of their One of

all 72 candles on his cake with a single puff. The double-deck cake, baked by the hotel chef, inscribed:

{just one year after one man was WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UP) killed when nine men were foiled —Government labor experts pre-|in an attempt to escape from the|

{~The bodies of two teen-age,

Joaquin River slough were iden-

ee to postpone the threatenad prother, Frank, and Mrs. Yanes |

fog and

SEA ISLAND, Ga. Nov. 25 Barkley celebrated his birthday here

hospitalized as the result of highway mishaps yesterday and last

civilized government.” The State Department, mean-

Remember Grect-Grandmother Taking Child

“The Case of the Missing Girl” turned into a case of too much

To Visit Home

: ; ; night on state highways and in While. San Banding u is yun Thanksgiving dinner here early today. «| Indianapolis. For Christmas P rtat » & he M ig Police were called at 7 p. m. last night to the home of Sharon The dead: A, 9 10 Widen Marie Storms, 734 N. Noble St. There frantic relatives told them) Mrs. Gladys Gerber, 40. Phi a 1 An 5 Ha . ; " Mrs. 3 y L - HH : . : It probably will entail a slow 6-year-old Sharon had been missing for perhaps two hours. They Wayne. AMILTON, Ontario, Nov. 28

had searched the neighborhood and homes of relatives but failed

to find her. Police joined the search which id Lawyer Named

went on until 3:30 a. m. today. By Shelbyville Attorney

that time the child's grandmother, Mrs. Alberta Storms, 42, with Joins Trial Staff Times State Service

whom she makes her home, was SHELBYVILLE, Nov.

hysterical. Even police, who had Judge Harold Barger today ap-

Nathan A. McElfresh, 71, Jer- OF )—When Hamilton residents fersonville. learned why Mrs, Jean Irving, 34» Frank Kurnat, 28, Benton Har- Year-old British war bride, wanted bor. Mich. | so desperately to spend Christmas Peter Pfeifer, 46, St. John, |at home this year but couldn't at

John Kennedy, 47, Detroit. Tord Jb they got up a collection

Mrs. Gerber died in Sacred| A local department store came Heart Hospital at Garrett after yp with complete wardrobes for a car driven by her brother, Rob-/ Mrs. Irving and her three chil (ert Pettit, 32, Ft. Wayne, skidded gren. . : on Rd. 27, near Garrett, and Trans-Canada Airlines are struck another car. ranged free passage from Monts Others Injured real to London.

500-mile train trip to Tientsin, from which ‘they might go by ship to Hong Kong or South Korea and then be flown to the United States. Still No Assurance {| ‘There still was no assurance that the Chinese Reds were permitting the.rest of the consular staff and their dependents, including Mrs. Ward, to come out with

the Consul General. notify the only relative who had

Mr. Ward and his four aids, not bee ontacted, Mrs. P who have been in jail for a month, “igi of 506 Fenn earl officially have been ordered “de-/g). ns great-grandmother.

thought the girl would turn up somewhere, were beginning to be worried. Finally Mrs. Storms decided to

tary attache in Red-controlled to stop by and take Sharon home Jr., Shelbyville, to Watts’ defense

with her for the night. When she Staff. went into the Storms home she He set Dec. 1 as the new date found 21-year-old Patricia $0) arpalgament Sx Walls. indi t , Sharon's t, tak ormer IndiSor il ing 3 anapolis city truck driver will be “I shook her and told her I brought into court to enter a plea was taking Sharon home with me in his second trial in the Burney

slaying. and she sat up and sald all Once ¢ot and sentenced to

according to state police. Mr. Kurnat was killed instantly and his wife, Margaret, suf- : . fered a broken hip when the car Trousers in Alberta he was driving skidded on the] EDMONTON, Alberta, Nov. 25 highway six miles east of Gary|/(UP) — Alex Gregoraschuk and crashed head-on into a truck. thought he still was A 4-year-old daughter suffered when he awakened to find a broken arm- according to state pants with $36 in the pockets

Nanking who has been ordered to | leave but has been detained by| the Communists for two months {on the ground that he has not {fulfilled all their red-tape requirements for an exit permit. | Army Secretary Gordon Gray { has indicated the Defense Depart(ment finally is taking an enliv-

‘Fishpole Thief’ Grabs

" ve. ‘sliding out his . Shed Jttrest | Gen, Soul's ge- ot one Seat grad monte die, Watts won a new trial trom," ‘Mrs, Kurnat gave birth to an- But police sald it was no But negotiations are still in the Rome and they were sound asleep they 4 tour! iy Jhter other onli 14. he. hoapstal. last hr pr. Ls on the |hands of the State Department While the search went on. aight. ; away with. ral 3 | whose spokesman has said there] The child's aunt told police she Bal indictment. However, he Was| Mr. Pfeifer, postmaster at, St. AWAY stye | has been no change In the situa- didn't yemember any part of the Te this Syne Ana (Continued on Page 3—Col. 1) long pole king A tion since Oct. 26. {conversation with Mrs. Faucett. | = = i hoisting out san

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“I was sound asleep, I guess” (she said.

Fat Man's '100-Day Fast’

Coal Car Jumps Track

You're Invited

Police wrote off the case as “tho much Thanksgiving dinner.” | TERRE HAUTE, Nov. 25 (UP) On PARADE Tour Cootome. Officials Is Interrupted by Death Omelals blamed a broken

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Percy Coplon Dies in 93d Day of Abstention; |Centrai {day in which a coal car

Delay Old Santa Weight Hod Dropped From 357 to 247 the track ane sidesnined 4

| SYDNEY. N. 8, Nov. 25 (UP) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Nov. 25 (UP)—Percy (Fatty) Coplon— boose of a second freight & —Santa Claus was turned away j, the 93d day of a planned 100-day fast to shed excessive weight— a parallel track. No one, from the Island of St. Plerre by 4.4 pore early today. | jured but trae was halted {customs regulations today but he He fell in the bathroom of his home about midnight and died oo La {promised to be back. 20 minutes later.

The 52-year<ld round man, who had complained he could not

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