Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1949 — Page 1

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Wild Triplets Lay First Solus On 1949 Times Mile-O- Dim

Line Forms on Washington St.

By ART WRIGHT The true spirit of Christ-mas--giving for others—officially. gripped Indianapolis today when ‘The Times Mile-O-Dimes opened on W. Washington St. For the fourth consecutive year the bright-eyed Wild triplets started the “mile” as they imid their dimes on -the sidewalk in

front of the L. Strauss Store. The three little girls were more

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"The Times ‘Mile-O-Dimes has moved to a new location. Because of the construction at the front of the new 8.8. Kresge Co. store, the “Mile” is now in front of the ¥.- Strauss store and extends east to Clothe-A-Child headquarters at 33 W. Washington St.

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alert than ever to their important Job in behalf of Indianapolis’ needy children . . . for téday they were only 27 days away from their fourth birthday;-which comes on Dec. 29.

Officiating with Jean, Joan and Jame at the opening ceremonies again were uniformed city firemen of Firemen's Post No. 42 of the: American Legion. Chief “Has Big Role Fire Chief Roscoe McKinney filled an important rele, too. The chief transported the triplets and their mother, Mrs. Floyd R. Wild from their home, 1132 Spann Ave. to the “Mile” in his official car. Mr. Wild missed the -ceremonies because he was at work. The chief helped the triplets place their, dimes end .to end just as thousands of . generous. persons will do in their attempt to stretch the coins a full mile to gather $8976 before Christmas Eve, The firemen will be on duty at the Mile-O-Dimes 24 hours a day regardless of weather, They will | help the public 12y the dimes on e line and make change.

fire department posts. The public will have to put 89,760 dimes on the sidewalk line to complete a mile of coins, Last year 103,845 dimes were received. Each line at the Mile-O-Dimes is 88 feet long. It will require 60 full lines to make the mile. There are 17 dimes to the foot. More dimes will be required this year if The Times Clothe-A-Child is to receive enough money to buy clothes for the thousands of needy children appealing for help. The Clothe-A-Child headquarters at 33 W. Washington St. on is receiving more requests for aid wr 4

than §ihas 1g JnaRY years. The Wild triplets as they spared The Times Mile-O-Dimes foley for the: fourth consecufive

Wi dt ie year. For pictures of the girls as they appeared i in the three previous years, see Page 25.

youngsters——if any—will be disue em Ward and Staff Whe Hoppait J Hits New lic opens its purse stri Jo Re li ef Mone

Every cent received at. ie Mii.

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fllion on direct relief next There is ample time for th ol m py ” . They are spending Mile-O-Dimes to “grow” far above, year . "Tem Fa the “mile.” The “mile” wil bel Mukden Departure nearly that much now. emperature Falls

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open around-the-clock untill Set Wednesday To 22 Degrees Here

- sald he had to arrange a “down payment” before he could even, um 0 gall “Iget into the hospital Soe emer:

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Trucker Charges ° A 41-year-old Indianapiie trucker today said- he had

been held “virtual prisoner” for two days in General Hos-

pital, because he couldn't ar-| Two wo Truckers | range forcash to pay his bill.

Roy Hawkins, 337 N. Park Ave.

gency treatment Nov, 24.

And, he added, his release has, been held up two days becaiisé he couldn't pay cash on the - for his hospital bil, “The doctor told me Wodniotan! I was ready to be discharged,” |

Mr, Hawkins said. “But he told Tractor-Trailer me he wouldn't sign the release}

until I paid my $68 bill.” “Hit. Near Kokomo Another patient sharing a : id Sats Servi room, George Marshall, 322 Park- KOKOMO, . | — Two way Ave, corroborated. Mr. truckers were burned to death Hawkins’ statement, He said he

heard the doctor tell Mr. Hawkins 11 the head-ot ‘collision of two, {his discharge would be held up heavy carriers on U, 8. 31 until he paid up. 'near here today.

8 Rare Beacedure 3 | Sheriff Jesse Owens of Tip. awking’ employer, Jesse ms | [nn ee Fesident ‘of Capttod) Hf na Lather Base i of Wabash . nsfer Co. called the hospital " |! procedure “terrible.” ans Kenneth Mann, 27, of Scott,

ich, “This man’s landlady called me MC wee Thanksgiving evening and told me, Both budies we v badly charred, . he was in terrible pain,” Mr. Skin- {gasoline truck opbrated by Mr Donald ner-—said:—“He had a tooth collided. with a a duce a ——

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Mr. Skinner said he called the, "™Y hospital and was told Mr.

straight siretch of U. 8. 81 seven hospital called again ang askey miles south of Kokomo. Apparmadg before er, hg yh of $he burning pos! admitted. vehicles indicated |

traveling in opposite d The tanker was ‘pay|DY the Gas & OF Cou

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Safely After -- An Indianapolis man was killéd ill recently and was and his wife seriously injured to- Methodist

Pilot Halts Fire : lday when their tractor-trailer apolis, skidded on an icy highway near: FT. WORTH, Tex., Dec. 2 (UP) Steubenville, 0.

A s+ Chester Burkhead, - 27. of - 126 ns yon A Reif, BUN "peimont Ave, died when the | ner on a B-36 superbomber, came ‘big truck went out of control and,

” for some practice at parachute (rammed a bridge abutment. The| : Jumping yesterday. cab was left hanging on % Bus | Flying at 3000 feet. et Reif, bridge above a creek.

{of Bay City, Mich., looked through His wife, Louise, suffered win

a port of the big plane and saw na) injuries. She was taken tof Accident Killing

t? Bhat the No. 3 engine was on! Christmas Eve, when the money ars oenpmrIi———p a ai spen LOCAL TEMPERATURES i {Ohio Valley Hospital at Steuben- Mentioned is swept from the sidewalk. World Report, Page 6 . Are Jetsons Who need relief 6am...28 10a m...28 (fr tville, Not Even Daily estimates of the side-| groan nT To Tr ge ting it? Are there hie | AM. 11 he Engines No. 4 and 5 already! Mrs, Burkhesd's brother, Corl BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dee. 2 walk contributions will make it| Sierg on the relief fois? Sam. 22 13 (Noon, 33 |Tere feathered, and Sgt. Reif geile Adams, said the couple was {(UP)—A grand jury which spent possible for Clothe-A-Child to| The State Department announced| ® Who are the reliefers® How | £2 W:- 3 13 (Nom). 88 didn't wait around to ask qués-{ married here. three weeks ago su, days studying a Greyhound budget the money so that Times today that Angus Ward and the, ~— 90 they live? What do they | di Pa Jom, Ned : | Mr. Burkhead is survived by an| heft _ : : shoppers can take children tol y i need? | An arctic cold .wave ripped cated a warning to his g year oid son by a previous mar. crash-fire that killed 18 perrest of his U. 8. consular staff n| ® How does the trustee sys- mates, dived through an esca the stores and shop for them be-| 1 "6 SYS" | through the ' state last night, | ot Scape riage. ~— 1406s last summer ignored the fore Christmas: | Mukden, Manchuria, will leave for tem work in administra- | plunging temperatures to the PAtch and pulled the cord on his| — eee G8.85 AY IS report today. 7 There are two other ways for the United States by Wednesday. . tion of relief? lowest level of the season in In-| Chute. 14S fer Little The report, handed to Monroe | On the public also to contribute to, The department said a Ota For the first time since The | dianapolis early today and leav- SGT. REIF landed safel But v Circuit Judge Q. Austin East, ‘He i Clothe-A-Child: “/munist firm in Mukden is arrang-| me. Pippen brig ing six Inches of Snow In South! yu, gia the plane. Hey, Children’ covered only only-a routine jnvestiga- |, yi Bayliss sad. unly ONE: By sending cash conti! - 7 | Bend. { \ | J on o condition of butions in checks or money ofders| ing rail transportation for the| tions last fall, it will pre- | Cold northwesterly winds blus- \ Lt Olive Jehatther, phe »- The birth and early ie | county ate (lime of the getaway, to Clothe-A-Child, Indianapolis 8roup to Tientsin. There, an sent the full picture of re- | yoreq through most of the Ohio fet a8 tout the lage | story of Jesus is The Times | It.Said nothing about Wayne Sic three hall Times, 214 W. Maryland St: Con- American commercial ship will Hef in Marion' County. [Valley ‘breaking seasonal tem.1'P8uisher lo put out the biaze,| ;

tributions will be listed in The ® It starts Sunday in—

pick up Mr, Ward and the others. perature in many communities.

Times under the contributor’s . THE TIMES | The cold air at noon today was name, as “anonymous,” in the and take them to Yokohoma, | centered over Western Pennsylname of an organization or group, Japan, or possibly Pusan, South vania and New York. or in memory of a person or or- | Korea. Id gar For three houry last night after ganization. Mr. Ward and others of his {sundown the mercury in Indian.

Ww By Tunt don? Donors ering ol staff were ordered out of China. vo gn 5" A ghost ewe! groups who take ome or more after the Communists accused er Scape : y | Rusts sent the mercury tumbling Shildren to the stores and spend him ‘of beating up -a Chinese. {to 22 by 7 a. m. today, Sian tering} oI orn money 1 buy the cloth-igince then, the United States has Three inmates of the U, 8. Peril. the previous cold weather record ing the children need., Donor ap- | eri : Di may be made for store Pee eo the Communists to ar- io eiary gt Terre Haute received OF the Season, 23 degrees on

nge speedy travel accommoda- tMHov. 22. Shopmns Bours of anyday, id tele- {ions for ‘the group, which has ladditional sentences of One year, At Weir. Cook Alrport, tem-

[been held ‘idler house arrest for in Federal Court today when they| peratures dipped even lowér. A

20th Year of Service more than a year. admitted attempting to escape on! reading of 20 degrees at 7:30 a. m,

Times shoppers will begin tak- Bo ing children to the stores next to Peiping today that the Com-/ Judge Robert C. Baltzell refused mark reached Nov, 22.

munist mayor of Mukden had'a plea for suspended sertences on Temperatures in the wake of week and will votinué thelr dally ordered the Americans. to leave/grounds the Fert “as pent 24'the whistling cold air included) pre.Chiristmas shop ng Pou od | PY 8 a. m. Mukden ‘time next days in solitary confinement. the nation’s low, 1 degree above long 28 contr itions are on or Wednesday (6 p. m., Indianapolis’ “If we gave suspended sen zero »f Madison Wis: 11 at on, ATs narvios bo Inds. TI e, Tuesday). |tences on attempted escapes it/Chicago, and 16 at South Bend. anapolis’ needy children. It also | wouldn' t be long until everybody] It was still snowing this morn-

was trying to get out,” the judge Ing at South Bend and weather is a year when the need for Soviet Reply commented. |observers in Indianapolis said

gb The prisoners were captured be- snow flurries fell here during the Conrad was slated to get the case was ignored ‘in the. report, Mr, “Bd ; urgent it has ever been. Tans Unsatisfactory’ {fore they got off ny ured bes [ night. . |e today. » | Cranmer walked smilingly away, Market for : Homes hi. 28 contributions are BERLIN, Dec. 2 (UP)- “Maj. after scaling a fence with a Weathermen said the Intense! Mrs Conrad is accused of the | presumably to return to an indus- © On Sunday, Dec. 4th TheNOW, an Gen, Maxwell Taylor, U. 8. com-| | ladder. {cold was to he short-lived. Fair (fatal shooting ‘of her husband, {trial plant job he took when the, Times. wil FOIE * - Two Were Wounded | skies in Indianapolis the _re- Claude, 53, during a domestic ar-! a | | bus company suspended him. pl To special interest to: CLOTHE-A CHILD mandant, announced today that! quo of them, Grady Let Me: Malnder of the day were to be gument 'n the homie af 635 N. -— those who want lo. buy, of: CONTRIBUTIONS o8 he had received an ‘unsatisfac-' Daniels, 22, Marietta; Ga., and|accompanied by a high of 40. A | Noble St. last Mar. 15. { Du k: | to Rate sell & home i 2 Previdus Balance. «+++ $220 00/t0T" Boviet reply to Mie protést/ William T. Wiseman, 35, Decatur, low of 24 was forecast for to- Defense Objects FL) =| Yunke i ADRORYTIOUS «vvsresvassess 2.00 Against the: fatal shooting of an ll. Were shot and slightly wound-| night. “Were it not for her addiction ~ {N B k th ll Teams @ This section will contain Lucky .....ve Sesanssesees 20.00 American’ ed. .The third, William Jones Jr.,!| Light afternoon rain and a high to drink.’ Deputy Prosecutor % aske a ’ news and pictures pe WoL. Bridges ...cooo0ieee merican - soldier Wy & Russian oy of Terre Haute, suffered a. Jeg Of 45 were forecast for the Hoo-| Russell White declared, “Myrtle : | "® What are the chances of to real estate and : In memory of Eleanor . 10.00 sentry a week ago. injury when he jumped from the sier capital tomorrow, Conrad would not be here today. | your favorite college basket- business. It will have pages. J Philathea Sunday School Gen. Taylor prote £m usly fence. | . Picturing Hoosier weather pros- Her whisky - inflamed ' brain | * ball teams? of real estate ads offering 8. / Class, West Michigan last Sattirday: to | #i 4. Jones and McDdniels were sery- pects. for - the next -five days, caused her to kill her hysband.”| ® How do they rate national wide variety of homes, for’ Methodist Church ...... 5.00 wari afiinet En ling time for violation of the na- Weather experts said: tempera- ise Levy countered by charg-| y? . : sale, plus all of the regular: ANOBYISOUS «..vivsiseiess 10.009 e shooting of (8 0 vehitle theft act, tures would average two {0 five yo the state with “substituting 0 : i dia Classified Columns. Helen M, McMahon ....... 500 S{aff Sgt.” John Staff of .Ramisey, (Wiseman had been sentenced to degrees below normal. 1a smoke . soréen. for fact” and| of The aga n ot arr hobyg the In memory of Sgt. Russell TIL, at a checkpoint on the zonal death in. 1945 By an Army court tat mothotets ag hONt the | shouted. “they have falled miser-| ASWOrs thee questions L. Roberts .......co00e 28.00 550der in Berlin, {martial in. France for desertion, ® AO age ruth [ably to prove the charges of their, Days to shop in? There's . . be su EH aiessiavoinsiansine 10.00 eit {north and from 25 to 46. south. supplied hy Dick. Dunkel apd | ges | In their reply, Gen. Taylor said, encaps, larceny and carrying con- ‘seasonal weather tomor: Score. “his ‘rating chart. ~~ regis fo ‘the Russians contended that a cealed ‘Weapons.- The Penalty row was to’ be followed by colder| Judge Bain Allowed. the prose-| But Dilly’ Dawdle scorns ‘em. | ® Wor Brat column on 1 __ Today's & total easseneed:® 90.00 50rder guard was firing at atthe later was Hfe-tmpris- Sunday and Monday and a ret and defense two hours ~So-there- ® Sorry day 2x ! basketball YT: “tia ax lires of the Air Force car in which onment and hen veduced to 81x to normal Tuesday and Wednes- for final arguments when the case When Pally Dawdla mourns hationa aon. lt dat... A 5” vas i |years. day. ,

Mr. Ward reported by telephone Sept. 19, twas one degree lower than the .

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{thro Steel Christmas story told in strik- |Cranmer, 22, Indianapolis, driver | Shrough, 5

then started No. 4 engine again.| 3 of the bridge ** marks indicated the He landed the plane without| INE skefches in... (OF she bus imich hit u th of ginal hal bolt fh aa cut at the theo mishap at Carswell Al Alr Base. “The Story of ng in Hop | :

" {here last Aug. 10 and burst into - The Bavior “1 ha had lanned to take C Jury Du Every day for 18 days this | Rattion trapping the PAMSENEETS »yichigan pan myself this » outstanding picture story of. | {ing,” the sheriff said. “I rad | Mr. Cranmer. at least one pas- =F on ry jhe" firm Christmas will be |senger survivor and several, to start as soon. oon. as he had THE TIMES lofficlals testified during the Jury's. (Continued on » Page cl y

Starting Monday ', | session. The jury investigated thei __ 0 e ase 0 ay ernst peepee |CBS6 . AftEE 8. cOrOnOr's report Tings Index «

blamed Mr. Cranmer for negli Bitter crossflows of accusations Don’ f Miss Leech \gence in the accident and a pd Amusements. 20 “Novel sevens 18 filled Judge William D. Bain's

{senger told authorities he believed Bridge ..... 14/0thman sxe 28 Criminal Courtroom today as the Article Tomorrow Mr. Cranmer dozed shortly betore| (Comics ..,.. 47/Pattern vs. 15

murder trial of Mrs, Myrtie Con- [the wreck. {Crossword "+ 23 Radio carves 21 rad drew to a close. @How America's two | Asks What Happened Editorials .. 28 Ruark ..... 28 The comely Indianapolis house-| Strongest military weapons Mr,” Cranmer was sitting in Pashions ,.. 14 Side Glances. 28 wife, huddled in the arms of her| ~industrial capacity and fi- [the courtroom when the Jury re- Food ....... 14! Sports «ie sBT08° daughter, heard herself described! nancial strength—are being |ported. Tense and waiting. for Forum .. + 28 Teen Talk .. 13 as “a chronic alcoholic” by the! neglected in the United {word on ‘whethér he would face|Inside Indpls, 25/Teen Prob... # prosecution -as her counsel, Miss| States will be revedled in a ~ criminal charges in an indict-\Dr, Jordan .. 15 Weather Map 35 Jessie Levy, thundered protests at/ special article by E, T. ment, he sat there even after the Mrs, Mannérs 18/Earl Wilson. the state's case, Leech on the editorial page | |jury walked out and the age) Needlework . 14 Women's ... 1

seven. men hearing the first de- “What happened?” ‘he asked! {gree murder case against Mrs. | a newsman. Told that the case Another New Feature

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