Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1949 — Page 1
{ 60th YEAR—NUMBER 261. °°
They Face a Bleak and Homeless Christmas
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Army veteran and his family. j Swathed in bandages because of burns received early yesterday ,.... and pr HOE SHOTIEYE on Te iar was Teportad 10
a2 Atwood, »" ) while trying to save his small home from flames, Clifton w today highlighted the first-degree have an ordinance limiting trains peared that the Communists cate the situation if efforts were latest in a series of Isbrandisem managed to find eight witnesses, made to send a U. 8 Navy ship 5.0 1; “sup into trouble off
Statement of the loss was made Charles 0. Pinkerton, : PSC resumed hearings on the utility's plea for a new émergency,
In two New exhibits Bringing picture up to date, showed:
10 moriths of this year to $570.000.;
go on strike again Wednesday yo. eran whispered through burned
Transfers Drop OF - / midnight. and swollen ips. I woke up about
Since the commission granted Jed by 'U President a return to the 2-cent transfer mittee. y esident © anket and started beating the AS the case resumed this morn- ,er pulled in just before the lim- four consulate employees heid the ship or otherwise in safe hands numbered. ing. after WeeiCH Jecoss, She ited arrived. The fireman on the messenger by the arms while Mr, Qutude of. Communist Chin, 1 ae Sunguatd of the Commue irst outburs n the tWO Detroit train. Charles Glick, saw Ward punched him into uncon- “The detention of Vice Consul nist forces advancing asking for transfers has dropped Time). The decision on whether me in the bedroom. I managed to attorneys occurred when Miss {y, onrushing train and, realizing sciousness. The broadcast sald Stokes for seven hours was just unopposed was reported to within Levy charged Mr. Frick with jis speed, leaned out of the cab the messenger appeared to tfes- an encore by the Communists to 13 miles of Chungking.
brow-beating and screamed at the group, “Look
last July 13. Mr. Pinkerton testi- John L. Lewis, opens its meeting persons here at 2 p. m. (Indianapolis
drop, to let the Dec. 1 strike call stand, coupled with the 14 per cent drop however, may not come for a day i i chen collapsed.” “badgering in fares, brought the total loss in.or So. Mr. Atwood said he could not this witness.”
number of riders to 16.53 per cent. The policy committee last met
early this month. At that time, : : add He said the stove was not very After introducing new exhiibts. it called off a 52-day coal strike hot when he went to bed. He said
its petition left the amount of the proposed increase up to the
It was presumed that a 13-cent,
even temporarily without taking: immediate new steps for more
Denies Jonex! Move ! last week the PSC denied a! Jones to have a private engineering firm study the transit operation here and recommend steps for increasing eficiency so the company could make a profit without asking for new
northern and western coal opera- |5t This structure was destroyed.’ 1 tors are ready to resume contract Jas $700 Invested talks with Mr. Lewis. One opera-! “I had about $700 invested
that bargaining would start, up $500 in furnishings,” Mr. Atwood {again “within 10 days.”
After today's hearing It ‘was’ expected the commission would require several study . and possibly additional hearings before ruling emergency request.
have not met in joint negotiations “T'll start working on the other for more than five weeks. Talks house and try to get it ready as broke off after the operators in-|scon as I can” he said. - He sisted they would grant no im- added that his cash reserve was provements in a new contract. not sufficient to do the job. It
. FORECAST: Cloudy, windy, warmer, gecasional light rain late t
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scopes Conrad Trial Awakens fo Find House in Flames; ome Lawyers Spat
Wife and Two Children Were Absent | Defense ‘Wins Point
Smoldering ruins of a small Indianapolis home today framed op go. Hearing
As Fire Sweeps His
cture of a bleak and homeless Christmas for a’ World War II,
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= State to Probe Anxiety Felt for Ward Tried to Run a Train Suction Until He Quits China port Blockade 4 Deaths of 3 | rose Vncowd | bow reer AR Shanghai
Photo by Henry E. Glesing Pr. Times Staff Photographer,
Railways Cite October Loss.
$10,750 Figure Revealed at Hearing , p
By ROBERT BLOEM
Indianapolis Railways, Inc.. today reported the loss of $10.750
__!may already have arrived there,
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« pos-Howard » Wri | Victims Are Drawn |(UP)—Release of U. 8. Con- WASHINGTON, Nov. 28— Chungking Due 3 | Into Side of sul General Angus W ard and p ,yiety over the treatment To Fall Soon. g | Limited at Gary (Vice Consul William WN. of American consular person- As Reds Near
|Stokes by the Chinese Com- : ; : The state moved today to nod nel by the Chinese Commu-| : : munists at Mukden has not ics in Mukden had only WASHINGTON, Nov. 28
investigate the death of three .,.;;0q the incident as far as in- 2 (UP)—State Department offi Gary women drawn beneath a ton) law 1s concerned, Sen. partly subsided today in spite cials reported that Chinese
’ ; . me i . h.), said of the announcement that the, A rushing express train 88 it a Ferguson (RF. Migh.), said Americans are going to be “de- Nationalist & warships off Swept through a Gary station g., perguson arrived in Hong Ported.” Shanghai today shelled the ast night. : {Kong with other members of the The wife and mother of Vice i i Frank White, director of the Senate Appropriations Committee Consul William N. Stokes were American freighter, Sir John Indiana Public Service Commis- touring the Far East. They ar-igreatly relieved that he had not ARTY, : sion’'s railroad department, said rived at Kaitak Airfield from Ma- been jailed and made the vietim The vessel was hit 12 times, 5 the state investigation would be nila aboard an American Navy of another persecution such as they said. Ah AIS I launched as soon as inspectors transport plane, Angus Ward underwent, | The Sir John Franklin; owned lcould reach Gary. One inspector Release of the two men has gut a more general feeling here bY the . Isbrandtsen Co., of New | not settled the incident as far as yw... that the cheering ought to be York, was fired upon while trying international law is concerned, witnheld until the Americans are 0 run the Nationalist Mr. Ferguson said. safely out of Communist hands. of Shanghai. The . vessel was | Commerce Commission also would The Chinese Communists Sa¥. coy that in mind, questions bound from Hong Kong for probe the accident, they want international .recogni- were being asked why the State Shanghai. |" Five persons were caught in the tion and want to take part in in- Department did not speed up its (At New York the Isbrandtsen rushing air currents as the ternational affairs. If they really preparations for meeting the de. CO: charged that the ship had Michigan Central “Twilight do they should follow the rules. ported Americans’ at Tientsin, been fired upon “without warning.” Limited” roared through Broad- The Chinese Communist radio’ or than let them stay on in (The line sald the ship accom. way Station on its regular run at Peiping, meanwhile, broadcast to oo olled city until some modates 10 to 12 passeagers, to Detroit. Two were injured What purported to be a full ac. o_o" in oieked them up for PU! said it was not known exseriously. count of the “assault” which CTP TE Kong or South 2CtY bow many passengers were Believed ‘Doing 90’ caused the arrest of Mr. Ward Korea aboatd. The crew numbered 48 Witnesses estimated the speed And four members of his staff. . {to 56 men.) Sa, From the broadcast it ap- said that it would “only compli The Phyrmed> " was ihe ,
he said. [It was expected the Interstate
Michigan Central's working time
sm ’ inl , “on. in the city to 40 miles an hour. LF i ito plan how to rebwid on his lot murder trial-of Mrs. Myrtle Con an interpreter and a photogra- from Japan to take off Mr. W 8h al . Fly
place inside the American con- There was still no indication
- 3 | " fat 4528 Beecher St. rad in Criminal Court. 1. pher who witnessed the “assault,” and his staff. | | Temporarily sheltered at the .. or card for emplayees limits speed © “ {Trader was shelled and Lewis Expected am A Toe ATW Mids Jessie Levy, attorney for in that city. to 45. which was alleged to have taken Stil Uninformed Nov. 15 as it left Shanghai.
'a23 S, West St. the family told the defense, succeeded temporar- The limited was 43! minutes ta. how soon the Americans ¢ But this government still ag :
{of being burned out by a fire ily In blocking . Deputy Prosecu-
late. {not challenged the Nat
Dead were Mrs. Rose Nagy, 54, How they all happened to be get out of Mukden.
To Delay Strike Tat Senls oyed their small house. tor Ernest Frick's: attempt to 35. both Mr. Ward, who was ordered de- [Eht 10 halt American ships in wus , i and Mrs. Ruby Winters, 35, inside the consulate, closed for x Or PO 4 . Neat e, Pearl... rade the skeleton of Mra. of Gary, killed instantly, and MANY weeks, was not explained. ported; last Thursday, together od St ght ios ial Natal s. The
4 hi Alice Louise, 3, ‘ i Top UMW. Officers 4nd the shila yw os a bn. Conrad's past life” before the Mrs. Julia Rosenstein, 42, De- The photographer even was able
- : nC He from home at the jury of five women and seve = Phat the recent wage Begin ‘Decisive Talks “© vor jun . yet| © eres ranted pp Begin $ {ime of the fire. Mr. Atwpod be-'men in Judge William D. Bain's Lot & skull Hucts Hm pra [been Inforined when he could ®t Rp Is On in te arbitration proceedings * 4 ee pushed total losses for the first
NEW YORK, Nov: 28 (UPT="{jever —thetr—absence COUIL.
S troit, who died later in Mercy to take a photograph of the vic. teres tirOREH U. 8. authorities op Sop. of ungKi
Hospital of a skull fracture. tim sprawled on the floor of the in Peking that he had not
2 wigs , enc LL ragv's ~The broadcast. identified the away. era a Caen Sie Saved to a ODN COLT Comber The iuged_pers Mr Nags, 1 MOU SI BSA i an ted by the Shae 3 Workers Union today begin a Aad Been Hunting old ‘brunet Indianapolis house- .. "oo 0 ond back injurfes, and year-old messenger employed by ~that-—Ro~ MISIUE
turned late Saturday and built fire in the stove,” the war
The 200-man union policy com-'an hour later and the head of the bed was blazing. I grabbed
walls. The roof fell in the front room and started falling above
get out tha back door just as
determine what started the fire.
Believed Reluctant hand and leg burns, He said he !/mes married Mrs, | He is known to be reluctant to! believed he received most of the put his men out of work again injuries while asleep. Cor —— two-for-a-quarter fare. was the before Christmas. So far this e foundation and part ol the (Continued on Page 3-—Col. 8) or framework for a larger and more Oi, a NY abreast of them, One by one Ward pressed me down the wife of the vice consul, sald presumably for Che least the utility would accept. year most of the miners have Damanent home was undamaged. — p ly for Chengtu whers
worked only a little more than Mr. Atwood said he had been
1150 of the 232 working days. working on the house about a, 6 a. m.%. 36 m... 36 . 38
year, while the family lived in the
i 1s. There also are indications that small cottage on the rear of the 8 a. 0 a.
i tor official predicted last night the house that burned, and about
said. “Nothing was insured; I Mr. Lewis and the operators lost it all
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Tots Who Must Stay Indoors on Cold Days | “I was just building it ai I
When the social worker called on the “X” family to investigate ,... ciothing.” an appeal for Times Clothe-A-Child help she found misery in every nn, Atwoods plan to remain at nook of the tiny home. { The four little children certainly did need help. What clothes , h ‘ors ficiently to were on their backs weren't clothes at all. They were rags. Even He eT iLmamy. y though the room was chilly, the children were barefooted. They .1 pope” he said. “I can get! § don’t own shoes, the mother sald.|pien"gegling with for 20 years.some sort of home ready for| 53 The children's sickly complexions pyery ‘year there are thousands Christmas.” of children seeking aid. Last year] ; “
By. ART WRIGHT “Now everything is gone, even
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Claude, 53. Mr. Conrad died two days later in General Hospital sald Rep. Walter H. Judd (R. closed in today on Chungking, o d ascended the platform and ap- and later returned to demand Pp ' from a bullet “would alleged to parently did not see the approach payment of wages, severance pay Minn.), who has followed the case wartime capital of China. have been inflicted during a quar- .. speeding limited rel with his wife. ,
Blocks Prosecution Move Miss Levy raised her objection roared past, #ts speed sucking the to admit their crime,” the broad- curtain call, when the deputy prosecutor at- passengers into its side as it came cast asserted. “But the evidence “Rubbing Our Noses” .
. i : “ g _ wife, is on trial for the fatal v th nsulate for 13 years. He date was set for the second group a . nr —— TWO: That the number of fare- series of meetings to decide I had deen hunting and re shooting Mar. 15 of her husband, Otis Hurley, 32, Gary, whose hand the consulate 10 CHUNGKING, China, Nov,
paying riders for October Was ypetner 400.000 soft-coal miners 1452 per cent below October of
was mangled. was dismissed on Sept. 27, the ordered out. 5 Ch Ne : Witnesses said the passengers Communist broadcast alleged, “I won't feel good about it.” (UP) 8 Co t armisg
and a dismissal fee. with close interest, “until they're hours as a last frail citadel of the The Detroit-bound train, how- The broadcast asserted that either on hoard a United States overwhelmed Nationalists seemed
tify with a scar on his forehead. what they considered a brilliant! One Communist band was re.
out, it's coming fast.” “Evidence Obvious” performance ‘in the Angus Ward Ported at Nanwanchuen, or South A moment later the limited “The defendants first refused case. I hope they don’t take % Other 1 Spring. a Mtiles AU) .
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Assistant Public Counselor Walter until Dee. 1. = the “whole house was in flames” tempted to read into the record abreast of them. against them was too obvious, “But they will if they think! oasrvers A fall of cross-examination Most observers believe Mr. Ln uC" 0 yakened bythe that Mrs. Conrad once went un The engineer. M. L. Redding. (00 overwhenming they can benefit In any Way BY will give the Communists & clean The utility has asked the PSC tee to postpone the strike for eat. der the name of Mrs. Myrtle told authorities he did not realize yard —who—fed the —assanit-it—They delight in rubbing our sweep of the Nationalist capitals “ z y : ; > a 1 | He was treated at General Hos- Simpson. Mr. Frick said he was his train hit anyone and he kept ... admitted he used both hands noses in the dirt to demonstrate since they pushed down from grant a new fare increass but a ys. |pital for severe facial, arm, foot, attempting to show that the four- going. to drag Chi down the stairs but to all Asiatics that Communist Manchuria and carried the Red
Conrad had The w.iting passengers were then claimed Chi fainted and fell China can do as it pleases with ban tirely China. ! . 8 ner en across lived with a man by the name of lined up in single file along the down by himself.” the ‘Great United States. ™ i Chiang Reported Gone Charles Simpson. He sald she ben- six-foot-wide wooden platform Chi was quoted by the Com- From her home on Staten Is- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
when the speeding limited came munist broadcast as testifying: (land, N. Y., Mrs. Jadwiga Stokes, was reported to have left today,
they were sucked against ‘the against the stairs and then she was overjoyed at the news the fleeing Nationalist officials
sides of the cars. punched my left eye. I then lost of her husband's release and the were setting up shop for the time | George Poppa, of 1701 W. 15th consciousness.” possibility that he might be home being. , ) 11 a.m... 45 |Ave, Gary, and his wife said Sr ———————— |soon. | Ten military planes stood by
they were twirled around by the : She said she had first heard at Pai Hsi-hyl Airfield .at the Gulf Breezes Hike inc news trom the State Depart. disposal of what government ment. She:.and her mother-in- leaders remained here.
Temperature Here aw. Mrs. Lilian Cavoti, with, The rumble of gunfire already
n Sure Sign Christmas Is Near -,.| Warm gentle Gulf breezes fanned whom she lives, had gone through|/was heard in Chungking and:
Indianapolis today, bringing occa- & distressing period from the time the city was taking ‘on the air of sional light rain and the prospect they heard of Mr. Stokes’ deten- mixed defeat and ' anticipation of mild “springlike” temperatures tion on Saturday. ‘which such cities as Nanking, through Wednesday, As for further steps tc get the Shanghal and Canton had ex. At the same time, Ft. Wayne or perienced as the Communists reported a low temperature read- (Continued on Page $-.Col. 8) drew near.
ing of 23 near dawn and snow
Surieg were falling in South Reds Held Ready to Harass
he weatherman said occa- * “ i ligh f sional light showers wou tail [Mj OIP@ Americans in China
early tonight as heavy clouds Some 200 on Shanghai Blacklist
remain overhead. ° He predicted the mercury would Seen Due for ‘People’s Court’ Trials
a a. Shia. KIL4FRO0R, Some By CLYDE FARNSWORTH, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Ante and To ue da higher HONG KONG, Nov. 28--Out of 400 Americans remaining ia gree "| Shanghai, more than half are reliably reported to have been blacks
tomorrow, listed b h A mild low of 42 tonight was }isted by the Communists for trumped-up prosecution in: “people's
ts expected to be accompanied by Sols: a Rartially. eleariog: skin Meanwhile, they are to be denied exit'permits, it was said. The
utd charges against them are to range “fTrom mistreating servants or
| employees to spying. | . Such a repetition of the A ‘with this correspondent. He i» Where Are Prettiest Ward case pet a grand AIA oy trustworthy character known ¥
. . to be expected unless premature © Me. Office Girls? + + + [exposure of the plot upsets its Consideration for the personal | ® Every city, — Indianapolis |TUifliment. Word of it has emked BEY Onl Testor
tacts is the only reason included-has its share of | Lhrough sources close to Shang-| pretty ome girs But hal Communist authorities: and|sey of those in” shanghai wi
there's one city that has 'has\been passed on to U. 8. State gisciosed vast me the prettiest office girls of | Department representatives, a a the making. any . .. say Band Leader These sources established their! For many Sha Vaughn Monroe and Sing- | veracity by disclosing one week hal Commun : er Nelson Eddy, in advance the impending arrest rule by ® PARADE of Consul General Ward in Muk- timidation or i Magazine is uk a going to give us a look at den. At that time they said the Servants, employees a some of these “prettiest” Mukden case would be only the anion Jes Are Antic
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