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Yule Shopping Promises to Break Record

Size of Crowds

Years in_ Stores . Here An unexpected upsurge of Christmas buying and throngs crowding downtown Indianapolis department stores today brought optimistic predictions of anticipated recordbreaking holiday business, In half a dozen downtown stores, particularly in the toy, lingerie and men’s furnishings departments, harassed clerks confronted crowds, they said surpassed all early post-Thanks-giving crowds in previous years. Business was brisk ‘at L. 8. Avres & Co, Wm. H. Block Co. H. P, Wasson Co. and SearsRoebuck Co. today but spokesmen | for all were still enthusiastic over record-breaking sales of yesterday. ’ % “It is too early to predict today,” one department store executive declared, “but it looks like another record day.”

Ahead of Last Year

Store officials explained® that the holiday rush usually reached | a peak during the week before! Christmas, but several agreed today that the 1949 shopping ¢rush had already surpassed the early days of last year. The orders for yesterday, the day following the Thanksgiving holiday, were said to have been considerably more than for the peak days of 1948. While there was some decline today after yesterday's peak all stores concerned were satisfied with the vol-

ume of business and optimistic as to the future. | P. T. Bear, superintendent of|

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Photos by Lloyd Crowds of hurrying shoppers streamed across downtown intersections on their way to and from stores.

'4 Horsemen" and '7 Mules’ 300 Join Hunt

In Secret Talks Ride Again at Notre Dame

Feted From Campus to Hotel and Smoker

To Smoker in Reunion at University By JIM DAILEY, United Press Sports Writer !

Meet in Virginia os Strike Deadline Nears

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UP) «~The government has held secret joint conferences with John L. Lewis and major northern coal producers in an effort to head off a new coal strike, it was learned today. Federal Mediation Chief Cyrus Ching met yesterday with the J/nited Mine Workers president! and Frank Amos, chairman of the northern operators bargain-| ing committee. They conferred secretly for three hours in a hotel; room in Winchester, Va. It is not known, however, how much progress was made on new contract for the coal fields. « Deadline Is Near The deadline for a new coal] strike is midnight, next Wedpesday. Mr. Ching returned here late yesterday and was ready to report on the Winchester meeting to John R. Steelman, President Truman's assistant. 1 The Winchester meeting is reported to be only one of a series! of such conferences. Mr. Ching went to Virginia earlier this week for what his, office called “a brief rest.” When he left the capital, Mr. Ching told newsmen he felt there was nothing more he could do in| the long-deadlocked coal dispute. But, informed | Ching has held with Mr. Lewis and operators while “resting” than he| did while “working.” |

BEST APPEAL DATE SET | BOSTON, Nov, 26 (UP)-—The

the coal Nevers,

SOUTH BEND, Nov.

26 Their

fates were lined and their

figures portly, but théir names stirred memories.

The “Four Horsemen” and “Seven Mules” rode again, but this'(UP) — Three

time in stiff-backed chairs in {ront of linen-covered tables.

Twenty-five years after” the 192 coached by the late Knute Rockne galloped to fame on the gridiron, his home since yesterday, and au-|

they vere reunited to see the 1949 counterparts of the Irish, now coached by Frank Leahy, meet an age-old foe in Southern Califcrnia: Southern California wasn't on the 1924 schedule. The aging series began two years later, but Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen reached the heights against

a such worthy opponents as Army

and Stanford. Horsemen Ride -Again “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again,” began the story by Grantland Rice. that gave them their name. “In dramatic lore they were known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher: Miller, Crowley and Layden.” ‘

That was the day in 1924 they |

were compared to a cyclone as

they rode over a great Army

team, 13 to 7. They appeared in Notre Dame's

Layden intercepted two passes for touchdowns to lead his mates

to victory. | Today, as Harry Stuhldreher, ment said today. | hletic director of the Univer-| appeal of Robert H. Best {rom sity of Wisconsin; James Crowley, |

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sources said ‘Mr. only. Rose Bowl game, against a more conferences|great Stanford outfit of Ernie extreme northern Hoosier counand pencil-thin Elmer {ios 1ate

Notre Dame football team,

dinner on the Notre Dame campus just to talk to each other and a few friends. Knute Rockne, a hard taskmaster - for every. man in 1924, was not present. He was killed in a Kansas plane crash 18 Vears ago. | “The Rock” ‘not present bodily, but in spirit he was there. Nobody choked up noticeably on mention of Rockne's name, but the moment. of silent prayer before festivities began no doubt contained a special message from each.

Ice ‘Threatens North State Roads

| LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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today may ice highways already slippery in northern In-| diana, the State Highway Depart-

While Indianapolis enjoys fair

his life sentence for treason will sales promotion executive; Don and somewhat warmer weather| be heard by the U. 8. Court offMiller, U. 8. attorney for the tonight and tomorrow, northern!

Appeals Dec. 5. | Times Index

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Amusemnts, 7, 9 Inside Indpls.. ered

Books ....... 8 Mrs. Mann Bridge ...... 3 Movies ....7, 9 Churches .... 4 National Aff. 10 Crossword ... 8 Needlework .. 3 Editorials .,.10 Pattern ..... 3 For. Affairs .10 Radio ....... 8 Forum ......10 Side Glances.10

Cleveland area, truck company executive,

and Layden, counties, already covered in spots they by snow, can expect snow or rain|

will be honored between halves|late today and warmer weather!

Last night, as some fought

back the tears, they and the; “Seven Mules" were feted from in campus to hotel and smoker to, smoker,

Attend Alumni Blow-Out They attended, among other things, an alumni blow-out an

of the Southern California game. tomorrow.

The mercury is expected to dip 25 In northers counties and 30 the south tonight. Indianapolis [temperatures will drop to 30 to{night and reach 42 tomorrow, the u said. ; | | The Highway Commission re-

{ported ice in the vicinity of! Gardening ... 3 Society ...... 3a party to meet the press. But Goshen, South Bend. La Porte, . Hollywood Hammond,

wee 9 Sports sevess O@arlier they had a Gulet little! Valparaiso and

SATURDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 26, 1949

*|were searching through the Sacra-

Rep. Wagner also demand-| ed "an immediate embargo on all shipments of a military or similar nature to waters or territories controlled by Communist China.” Sgt. Bender and a Navy electrician, William C. Smith of Long | Beach, Cal, were forced down while on a training flight and were taken prisoner by the Chi. nese Reds near Tsingtao Oct. 18, 1948. | Brig. Gen. Clayton Jerome, Marine information director, said

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| Lash U. S. Protests Congressman Lashes hioan Calls on State Department to Demand - - » » In Gl Slaying Immediate Release of Flier Held by China Reds WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-—Lashing at “our panty-waist | Calls Case ‘Brutal’; protocol pussyfooters,” Rep. Earl T. Wagner (D. 0.) today, By Border Sentry |diate release of Marine Flier Elmer C. Bender of Cincinnati. BERLIN Sgt. Bender has been held captive by the Chinese Reds for, } “= more than a year. ‘Maj Gen. Maxwell Taylor per- : ey . > {sonally protested to Russian 1 Shot Rival’ | : . ’ the shooting of -a U. 8. Air § - Force sergeant. He denounced {brutality” by a Soviet sentry. | Ahr , {| The U. 8. Commandant in Ber- Says Victim Ran Over punished immediately. and wat, Him With His Car | henceforth “Russian sentries wili| With my wife and he ran over me {be controlled in the irresponsible With his car. ; 1303 Trowbridge St., explained to The slain soldier was 8-88. | holice the 1:30 a. m. shooting of was shot through the head last! today that the Marine Corps had! night at a Russian checkpoint on|2131 gece Aum Dy an De negotiated with the Communists) f other American soldiers and A \farie. 30 departure from China Apr. 13 in | German girl in the car with him|""o, ™ Sri 000 was treated for 20 effort to get the two men Slain by Sentry injuries in General Hospital and| Thereafter, Gen. Jerome said. a | Gen. Taylor said Sgt. Staff was removed to Veterans Administra. the State Department was urged [riding in a plainly marked offi- Road. His condition was reported get the men out. But so far its | cial car of the U. 8 Air Force, critical, {efforts have been unsuccessful. | Walls as his assailant and ad-! « ; checkpoint to ask directions. Wit- We have every reason to be- | mitted he had been out with Mrs, lieve that both men are alive and {drive into the Soviet seclur, but | instead turned around and started A in the Sho Bar After more than a year of trying {shots were fired, and Sgt. Staff co at 10:30 when my sister, their families.” {slumped dead over the wheel. |Eyelyn Spangler; came in,” Walls! Marine Corps headquarters here

To Berlin Russ ‘Protocol Pussyfooters’ By OLAND D. RUSSELL, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Staff Sergeant Killed demanded that the State Department insist upon the imme-| Nov. 26 (UP)—| {headquarters today against {the killing as an act of nounced Hiishand Says {lin demanded that the killer be {steps be taken to assure that I shot him after I caught him Is of their weapons.” Thus, William E. Walls, 33, of y {John E. Staff of Ramsey, lll. He [ =o. “vo wtin McIntire, 30, of ol {the zonal border in Berlin. Two, ind his home With his wife, Anna up until the time of the Marines Were uninjured, {a severe shoulder wound and face freed, o 'killed by a Soviet sentry while tion Hospital on Cold Spring repeatedly to do all it could to | The soldier drove up to the Police said the victim identified - Can't Get Them Returned | nesses said he was directed to Walls before he lapsed into un- well,” said Gen. Jerome. “But | back into the British sector. Four pauern across from the Mallory W® can't get them returned to E | Gen. Taylor took the unusual told “When 1 asked her informed Rep. Wagner last Oct.

psian headquarters to deliver his'in a | letter of protest. He was told that man.

{were in Tsingtao in Communist {the Soviet Commandant, Major)

‘Drove Over Me’ custody. Although the departGen. Alexander Kotikov, was ili “I went out to the car and ment is “continuing to press” the {and could not see him. The pro- grabbed the man by the head, Chinese Reds, no further informa: {test was delivered to Col. Alexi|trying to pull him from the car. tion has been received Yelisarov. 8 2 He knocked me down and drove | Gen, Taylor said St. Staff was off with my wife still in the car.| | shot when he turned his sedan The rear wheel ran over my left greasman, # swauch SppOrtes u {around and started to “return leg as he drove away. I bitter denunciation of the State | peaceably toward the center of “I then went to my own car, Department. Berlin,” adding: drove home and got my shotgun, ! pe jek d tired” R “It is difficult to understand the I waited until after 1 o’'clock,! am. y an 1a i ap. sehseless brutality of a sentry when I saw the car drive slowly Wagner said, “of the pusilianimous | who would fire upon a member of by the house and turn into the efforts of the State Department the armed forces of a friendly alley a block away. 1 waited a officicls who have not heen able nation under such circumstances. few minutes. and then went io Fears oa Bender's Telgnse, Urges Speedy Action around the house.” : ang enc: ih is ae a “I trust you will appreciate the Walls told police he found his ™ = . x aa seriousness with which the United Wife and Mclntire inthe car Not only am 1 femanding States authorities view this act, with the lights turned off. He S&% Benders elease al : and will take immediate steps to 521d when he approached with the Comes From, my distytet: ta 40 punish the offender. shotgun his wife got out and ran the release of some 140 other “I shall appreciate being kept into the house. Americans, including Gen: Soule, informed of the action taken not|, 1 told McIntire to get out that Who have been Seiincd del nt |only to punish this crime but also I was going to take him home and Chinese Reds — Ro take . is to assure that in. the future Rus- C8! Police because he was molest- In thumbing t eir noses a om | sian sentries will be controlled in \N8 my wife,” Walls continued. panty-waist protocol pussyfoot“He wanted to argue about it and ers.

B Walton, Times Staff ‘Photographer

For Lost Infant

» v J yr edpomsile use of theif! i nim in the face several times Others Make Appeals Police Believe Boy Gen. Tavior's statement was “ith the barrel of the gun. Marine records show that ap- : " ; , _ ‘Gun Went Off |peals have been made to the Kidnaped or Drowned the 57st oficial word that a Rus “Then I don't exactly know, State Department for Sgt.

{sian sentry had fired the fatal shot. Earlier today investigators) said they did not have positive proof of who fired it. Two Rus|sian soldiers and a German po-

COURTLAND, Cal, Nov. 26 hundred persons searched today for 22-mopth-old David Dunnigan, missing from

what happened. The gun went off Bender and his companion by and I saw him covered with Sens. Robert Taft (R. 0.), Paul blood. I told 2 man who came out| Douglas (D. Ill), Majority Leadjon a back porch to call police.” er Scott Lucas «(D. Ill.) and Mi- > | Police said Mrs. Walls told nority - Leader Kenneth Wherry Lceman Were on duty at the... she thought her husband (R. Neb.). P ’ {was working, and she had been Gen Jerome said Sgt. Bender drinking and dancing in a tavern|is carried on the Marines’ payroll with Mr. Mcintire. She sald Mr. 54 “missing,” and that monthly McIntire was taking her home, sjjowance payments are made to along with Walls’ sister, when he his wife. The sergant had an first approached the car. %utomobile in storage at San After the first encounter, she Diego, he said. After some legal said, they drove around town be- ¢ormaities, the Marine Corps learlv today as she looked down C3use she was afraid to go home. ’ Meanwhile, state and city police, aa a pone: ly Police were investigating the (Continued on Page 2-—Col. 3) Mrs. Cart told police the holdup fact that Mr. McIntire had a s Ta

mento area, where a taxi driver... £175 she was counting Sawed-off shotgun, a rifle and a Rouls Cites Rules

reported seeing a small child with, 2 {aple behind the bar while Supply of ammunition in his auto-

two men in a car. her husband, Arthur, was bank- mobile, They said, however, he The fire department, Red Cross, ing the furnace preparatory to apparently had not threatened to Extra Caution Needed In Winter Traffic

Boy Scouts and some 200 volun- closing for the night. shoot Walls fo S f D i | ; = FOr ddié UFivin Safe driving rules for winter

teers searched the flat, sandy farm land in widening circles | were emphasized today by Police Chief Edward D. Rouls.

around the Dunnigan home all The Indianapolis police chief

thorities feared he may have been) abducted or drowned. Blue-eyed David was last seen playing near his house by his mother, Mrs. Thomas Dunnigan, shortly after lunch. The Sacra- - bi mento River is only 150 feet away,| 1 want your money. all of It.” and sheriff's deputies said they| Mrs. Lois Cart, wife of the own-|

h " { x rer of the Little Brown Jug, 2648 Jrowd Depin diegsing it the child N. Harding St., heard those words

Tavern Keeper's ‘Wife Robbed by Armed Man

Wealthy Woman Recluse Stabbed to Death in Home

Police Seek Clues and Motive in Mystery Slaying of Widow on California Estate

night. Shortly after midnight the party had covered an area of about two .square miles. The Air Force at McClellan Field was asked to provide floodlights to supplement the flickering torches and flash-| lights of the searchers, | ARE Ay Eo THauutu as Jound Stabhed to death in, her home with her seven tion while driving on snow, ice | half-stary ekinese dogs and a cat, police said today. or during the storms: of\ winter Christmas Story Officers sald the death of Miss Irma E. Copeland was-a “‘com-| in an ei N plete mystery.” They found her lying beside the kitchen door of The six rules for J In Sunday Times her small but well furnished home on : five-acre estate. safely ged She had beéri stabbed seven] - he times and hit on the head five| times. The coroner's office said]

{by the police chief were:

He said he had been unable to! ONE. When starting your reach her by telephone for “sev- On ice or snow get the feel of eral days” and asked authorities the road. Test your brakes. {to investigate, Mr. Copeland was! TWO. Reduce speed when road {understood to be flying here.

® The story of Christmas will. be told in colorful drawings starting tomor-

Frain | she had not been raped. LE. In THE SUNDAY | Deputies said they were unable

{to find any clues. Miss Copeland

® Artist Kreigh Collins, hag been dead “at least two or who has an international |

reputation as an illustrator [gad of Bible stories, depicts the | Neighbors said beloved Christmas story so that youngsters, too, can understand it.

® Look for the story of

{about his sister, Neighbors said| slippery roads. lights in the she was “something of a recluse” {been on day and night for several rarely had visitors, {days but that this was “not unusual.”

They said they understood she!

Christmas in the Mita | The dogs and cat apparently Francisco physician but had re- on streets, McCoy strip in.the color had not been fed for several days. sumed her maiden name and that, FIVE. Use moderate braking comic section , . They were taken to the county she was independently. wealthy. in icy weather, Normal applicaTOMORROW : “{pound. She raised flowers commercially tion of brakes may lock Miss Copeland's body was found on her estate, +a + |and cause skidding. i In ———= lafter her brother, Frank Cope-| There was nothing so far to in-| SIX. Have tires with good!

THE BIGGER SUNDAY TIMES |land, of Santa Monica, Cal, called dicate robbery

or any other mo- treads when possible. sheriff's office from his home. tive, said. assure better braking

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| Chief Aid of Ward Seized, Held as'Sp By Reds in Mukde

step of going personally to Rus- where my wife was she told me 7 that the State Department had parked car outside with a/learned on July 28 the two men

Thiz has aroused the Ohio Con-\«amoved” from the consulate

| general at 9 a. m. Saturday morn-

| THREE. Keep snow and ice |four-and-a-half-room home had Who. seldom left her home and off the windshield. Keep defroster and $104 in cash in a surprise {and windshield wiper ‘working. on the back room of the tavern. FOUR. Use chains when! Arrested and released on $100 was the former wife of a San treacherous snow or ice Prevails he

Good treads

Freed Consul

Reports Arrest

Of Assistant

Vice Consul Taken’ To Court Without Warrant, He Reveals

By JAMES E. ROPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 —William N. Stokes, American vice consul at Mukden, Manchuria, has been seized and held by Chinese .Communists, the State Depart

ment was informed today. The information was reported

to the State Department by

American Consul General Angus

Ward, Mr. Stokes’ chief, who hime self was released by the Communists only earlier this week. Mr. Stokes, according to word from Mr. Ward, was taken to a Communist “court” without a war rant for a hearing in connection with “spying charges.” More than six hours after his seizure, Mr, Stokes had not returned, Mr. Ward said. : Mr. Ward reported the incident from Mukden to American Consul General 0. Edmund Clubb at Peking, who in turn transmitted the report to Washington. Status Not Certain Mr. Ward said it was not known whether Mr, Stokes, from Staten

Island, N. Y, was held as a de-

fendant, or as a witness, Mr. Ward said efforts to communicate with Mr. Stokes have been unavailing and that he had not been

permitted to accompany his vies

consul to the | The State

Departsient immedi-

ately branded the spying charges as “ridiculous and abso! false,” and ordered Mr. Clubb to file “the strongest protest” with Chinese Communist authorities in | Pelping. Mr. Wand said Mr. Stokes was

ing, China time (7 p. m. Friday, Indianapolis time), and that Mr, Stokes had not returned at 3:45 p. m. Friday, China time (1:45 a. m. Saturday, Indianapolis time). Mr; Stokes had not been imprisoned with Mr. - Ward and our other consulate employees, and had sent Mr. Ward food during his imprisonment. bers of the consulate have been virtual prisoners of the Chinese Communists for a year. Mr. Ward reported that he had been unable to obtain any infore mation of any kind on Mr. Stokes’ detention, and that he had been unable to determine “in what capacity” Mr. Stokes was taken to the court. Seek to Speed Departure The State Department has been trying to speed the departure of Mr. Ward and his entire staff from Mukden, Mr, Ward and four aids were opdered expelled by the Chinese Communists after being convicted by a “people's court” of beating a Chinese. The State Department wants to get the entire staff out. The State Department indicated that it regards it likely that Mr. Stokes actually is being held on a spying charge. It termed the treatment of the Vice Consul “unwarranted.” It sald it was ase sumed that the charges are the “same fantastic charges,” which were leveled by the Communists in a North China news agency re«, port. last June. : The department at that time stated categorically that no mem(ber of the Mukden staff had been involved in espionage activities. The department today reiterated “categorically that any allegations that members of the Consulate General staff at Mukden engaged in espionage are ridiculous and absolutely false.” | The seizure of Mr. Stokes raised a serious question as to whether Mr. Ward would be able to com-

LOS ALTOS, Cal, Nov. 26 (UP)-—A well-to-do 60-year-old urged motorists to-exercise cau-|ply with State Department orders

to close his consulate and bring ‘home his entire staff.

4 Rounded Up In Gaming Raid

| Four men were arrested and a

| large quantity of gambling equip

ment confiscated lute last night

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three days” when found, they were able to learn very little) 12 times more distance to stop on} Police said they seized a dite

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