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60th YEAR NUMBER 267

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1910

FORECAST: Clearing, edoler today. Rain ending by noon. Fair, litle change’ in temperatire tomorrow. High today, 43; low tonight, 25. 28,

Entered bs Second-Class Matter at P © Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued y

PRICE TEN GENTS

A-Bomb Probe

Wartime Major Declares FBI Gag Kept Him Silent for Five Years WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UP)—A Congressional in-

Harry L. Hopkins helped Russia get “trunkloads” of atomic secrets and materials out of this country during the war. Chairman Brien McMahon (D. Conn.) of the: Joint committee investigators have | . %y .ou been ordered to dig into the J k f d charges and question the mili-| op Ins rien S tary men who directed the war- Voi Thei D ht

time atomic bomb project. Sherwood Brands

At the top of the committee list, presumably, will be Li ‘ credi ’ running for Mr. McMahon's Sen-| Story In ible ate seat. NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (UP)—

Leslie R. Groves, Lo rl time chief of the A-bomb project, | Mr. McMahon went into action Robert Sherwood, the playwright |

who is believed to be thinking of | as a result of a radio broadcast who also was a confidant of the

last. night in which a wartime | President Roosevelt, today.

Army Air Force officer asserted! that he personally saw several | said he thought Mr. Jordan's plane cargoes of atomic data and | |charges against Harry Hopkins material being shipped to Russia | “incredible.” under the ‘guise of lend-lease. Mr, Sherwood studied Mr. Hop‘Wartime Major kis files and then wrote the

) “Roosevelt and Hopkins.” The man was ex-Mal. George ed knowing Hopkins makes | Racey Jordan, a wartime Maison it utterly fantastic to ybelieve | officer who cleared Soviet lend- that he would have comlease shipments at Great Falls, municated with a major over a Mont, a lump-off pont on the| bli telephone on a matter in- | aerial supply. Joule to Russin. volving such extreme security,” Maj. Jordun 33d that Mr. Hop- M Sherwood’ said. “I also can't kins, then President Roosevelt's’ he 30 ean closest confidant, ordered him by | conceive tha arry : Ph i telephone to rush “two shipments Would have been such a foo as| of uranium” to the Soviet Union” (to put his Initials on a letter suc as | speedily as possible.” The a8 Jordan says.” { quoted words are Maj. Jordan's. | Are Russians Fools? He also linked Mr; Hopkins to| ‘Mr. Sherwood pointed out that “several” - rope-bound suitcases| American pilots and crews kept |

Great Falls base in thé custody ease goods until they reached | Alaska, and didn't] said he opened several of them.|turm them over to the Russians He found one of them crammed at Great Falls. with “top A-Bomb secrets from «And do you suppose the Rusthe Oak Ridge, Teénn., nroject,” he gians would have been such fools R as to let a major open their suitIn that same bag, said Maj. Jor-| cases?” he asked. dan, was a letter written on Puzzled by Wait House stationary bearing Mr. Hop-| Mr. Sherwood said he couldn't King’ printed signajure in one(understand why Maj. Jordan corner. He quoted a paragraph of walt so long to tell his

a time getting these away from to tell a Groves” and signed “HH.” L that jong to ¢ puch vital importance to Groves Silent R of

Gen. Ordves said at his Soh At Wa Norwalk, Conn., home today t®at Burns, he had listened to the Jordan|to Mr. Hopkins when the latter broadcast and said he understood Was lend - lease administrator,

elations were voiced similar disbelief. ; Shea Sut pi na = “I worked with Mr. Hopkins for

“ , commen a long while,” the general said, 1 hear he rest of the story." Gen.| 80d I geyer heard ¢'in the very « ) : vy |B at was no Groves Jala 1 fon'y know if I'll SE Intarests of this country.” mment even ,

i | CANTON, Ga., - — Rep. John DENVER, Dec. 3 (UP)—Be-iywood, (D. Ga.), chairman of the

ward Potter, general manager of gouge Un-American Activities

|Atop Wires

{the wires.

| crashed into a concrete

“Any patriotic Afherican would | =

Driver Killed When Hurled

Seven Others Die In Mishaps in .

Last 24 Hours A Hoosier motorist was fatally injured last night,

when his overturning: auto-| mobile hurtled his body into a mass. of telegraph wires] 'between poles on Ind. 9, near| Alexandria. | Cut down by Alexandria fire-| men and telegraph linemen, Ron{ald Bryant, 35, of Muncie, died shortly afterwards in a Muncie hospital, state police reported. Police said the car driven by| Mr. Bryant apparently was going at a fast rate of speed when he lost control and it looped end! over“end on the highway. { The driver's body was thrown clear of the wreckage and into

Other ' Victims

Seven others were killed in| Indiana highway mishaps within] the past 24 hours to bring the | |week's total traffic fatalities to 235. iN

Two Hagerstosh. én were instantly killed e -automobile in which hey were riding

on Ind. 38, near “Richmond, ulvert. Cecile Chapman, 55, anid Ralph Grissum, 50, were dead when | state police arrived at the scere, There were no witnesses, police said. Mrs. Georgia Allison, 37, East | Chicago, died at a Vincennes hospital last night of _ injuries she received eaflier in the day in | a head-on collision. A car driven by her husband,

{ Don,-struck-a car driven by Vin

cennes Mayor William L. Betz Mayor Betz sald he was forced ‘nto the wrohg lane of U. 8. 41 when - the. car ahead of hie stopped suddenly. Mr. Allison suffered a broken | leg. Mr. Betz and his wife were only shaken up. «Pedestrian Killed A n, Thomas E. Reed, 73, of Shelburn, was killed instantly last night on Ind. 48, a mile west of U, 8. 41, near Shel-

Sats police said he hie be Walked along the

A victim yesterday was James Short, 77, Rolling Prairie, He was

killed when struck by a car while ap

walking along a road near Rolling Prairie. Theodore Edwards, 20, and Conn J, Collins, 23, both of Hinsdale, Iil,, were killed Friday in a crash on U.S. 52 north of Lebanon.

HOOSIER DROWNED

the 8. W. Shattuck Chemical Co., »| Committee, today ordered his said tonight that the Russians|.;mmittee’s investigators to check ordered all the uranium “the¥|inte the statements made by Mr. could get” from his company but|jordan. received only one shipment. “It sounds: fantastic, " Mr. Wood

|said. “I can’t understand andl ge ye the—Major waited so long—an It's Bali Ha'i to Barkleys, Who

until after Mr. Hopkins is de dead. ” Clothe-A-Chilgd— Stop ‘South Pacific’ NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (UP)—

Vice President Alben Barkley and his bride arrived three minutes late for the hit musical “South Pacific” tonight. The applause was so great that the show was started over again ~—just for the nation’ s top honey- |

mooners. the public's generosity tomorrow s 4 8 {clothes away. MARY MARTIN and Dickson) Fastham,

Pinza, had_just started on the] 'Clothe-A-Child. first act when the Barkleys ar-| How many more: shivering Pinza has been out, ijieq will be taken to the stores of the show for the past three|y. Ciothe-A-Child shoppers be: days because of a throat ailment, tore Christmas depends upon how | As Mr. Barkley and the former | much money the public adds to, Mrs, Carleton 8S. Hadley walked the - Clothe-A-Child Fund. How| down the aisle, the roaring ap- many more days others will have plause caused Miss Martin and|;, omer the cold weather will Mr. Eastham to give ‘up. They | jepend, too, upon how quickly bowed to the audience and left |i hose dimes and dollars are given. | e stage. | In a moment, the music started Insley Firm Gives $500 again and the show ent on. It will be possible to outfit 58| children tomorrow only because |

58 Youngsters Will Get Clothe-A-Child Outfits

First Group to Be Taken to Stores

- Tomorrow; Future Ones Up to Donors By ART WRIGHT Fifty-eight needy children will be saying prayers of thanks for

night when they put their warm]

Poor Relief Doled Out On Hit-or-Miss Basis Here

Mother Soon Learns Foods Cut off It She Angers Trustee’ s Welfare Aids |

Moods Govern Scope of Relief

BY DONNA MIKELS DON'T MAKE ‘em mad or they won't give you anything.” That's what. relief clients will tell you about Center Township Trustee investigators, They are almost a law, unto themselves. They grant or reject relief, increase or reduce orders, depending on moods—or maybe because their feet hurt, Overworked because of heavy case loads, often they spill out

pent-up frustration on the de-, | fenseless who plead for help.

Here's what happened to one young mother. Fern Bernice Hockersmith, 915 E. 8t. Clair 8t., was left on her own with daughter Carol May, four months, and a son, Robert Eugene, 3, when her husband “got into trouble.” Raymond Hockersmith had: been in trouble before. But this time the charge was serious robbery with a $5000 bond. His relatives who had looked after Mrs. Hockersmith and the child during previous “scrapes” couldn't do. any more. ‘Mrs. Hockersmith went to

Marion County Department of .

Public Welfare but this agency has no funds for emergency relef. Mrs. Hockersmith was sent to. the Center Township Trustee's office.

food order, The goes on record as “normally” granting $9 to a family of three

| with an extra milk order for

children under 6.

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1 the ropes.” She iat Ths mow could ask another agency to act in her behalf or that she could peal the grant to the County Commissioners. So ‘she fed the children less and “made out.” .

fice could furnish rent money, it did not. So Mrs. Hockersmith lived with “in-laws.” She made a couple of moves from one home to another. The first two times she notified her “worker” in the trustee office at once.

The last time she moved to |

another sister-in-law and didn't report her change of address until the end of that week. That was when she made her worker peeved. The worker cut off the food order. “She sald if I could get along without telling her I moved I could find food the best way I

| knew how, Mrs. Hockersmith

said. ~ Finally “telephone calls from the welfare office and Mrs. Hockersmith to the trustee brought reconsideration. The investigator Yeinatated the order,

BUT when she aid she cut it to $6—to “teach her a lesson.”

Mrs. Hockersmith is getting |

| by on the $6.

They are the youngsters who earlier, in the day will make up the substituting for Ezlo|g 4 group to be outfitted this Christmas time through The Times

The Times 1949 MILE-O-DIMES

5 FULL LINES......§748.00 That was the amount downtown shoppers had laid on the Mile-O-Dimes last night . . . and late evening pedestrians were adding still more. The Mile-O-Dimes was less than 48-hours old. It opened at 10 a. m. Friday on W. Washington St. in front of the L. Strauss store, the Lér-

MR. BARKLEY and his bride put their heads together and laughed uproariously at the following lines, pronounced by a Navy captain when he was accused by a young lieutenant of being middle-aged: “It is a common mistake for

— boys of your age and athletic

ability to understimate men who have reached their maturity , .

grown man attractive, strange as it may seem to you. I myself am over 50, I am a bachelor and I do not, by any medns, consider myself through.”

Basketball Clinic By Tony Hinkle

® The Times sports section scores again today ... with the first of a. series of “inside basketball” articles by .Tony Hinkle, Butler mentor ‘and dean-of Indiana college basketball coaches. © It's like being invited into the “locker. room” to learn the “inside” story of the cage spot. ' ® Only in The Times will you find Tony Hinkle’s exclusive

+|staff has saved up some $600 for ~ Young women frequently find a

‘| Dimes on W, -Mashieqon St.

age ie

of the contributions received by| mail and at the Times Mile-O-Dimes 806 far this year. ‘These include generous gifts like the $500 from- the Insley Manufac-| turing Corp. 801 N, Olney St.,| which. tops today’s list of contrib-| utors. Employees of the Insley corporation are going to do even more for Clothe-A-Child. The

ner Shops and Clothe-A-Child Headquarters, The Mile<O-Dimes will be open today and 24 hours every day until Christmas eve, regardless of weather, Each line | 41s 88 feet long . . . there are 17 dimes to a foot . . . 60 | lines make a mile ... a mile of dimes would bring $8076 to | buy warm clothing for Indianapolis needy children through’ The Times Clothe-A -Child.

CONTRIBUTION 8

a special Times Clothe-A-Child fund to spend on some 20 needy youngsters when they take them to the stores from Clothe-A-! Child headquarters within a few

She buys a quart of milk a Jay for the four-month-old infant, Every time she fixes a bottle for the baby three-year-old Bobby wants a glass of milk too. One time he reached

| for the forbidden bottle and almost tipped it over. Now he

doesn’t reach anymore, He either cries—or just sits and looks. Somebody told Mrs. Hockersmith the other day she had the right to ‘askifor a milk order. But she doesn’t plan to do it, She remembers: “Don’t make ‘em mad.”

‘Colder Weather Expected Today

A new cold front was expected to whistle eastward through In-{

idianapolis before dawn toda

bringing chijlier temperatures,

ut temperatures today will not 1 Ibe as severe as those of last rat class emergency on its hands. cold wave, the Weather ! De public hag a fair to middling]

{week's {Bureau promised.

their,

~ SHE was granted BO Center “Trustee's office’

‘will ‘think of some of the expert

morning showers and

| !

looks but doesn't roach as his mother, Mrs. Fern Hockersmith, fixes a bottle for baby sistor Carol. Ha knows there's not enough fo go around.

Three-ysar-old Bobby Hoekersmith

A Shaphanger Spear is

is that out of millions of words nothing veloped in the way of improving service or holding down fares. ; The company always contends it wants to give excellent service

at’ lowest possible rates. It tN also ‘would like to make a profit.! will do and won't do about some

Both the city and the PSC say gulelt steve to get things moving. they want to help the company can some ae good service at reasonable things Railways can do to get the rates. {ball rolling. If he does, I'll go | How It Stacks Up {back to Railways and tell Them

Yet with everybody saying they| What he said. 'want the same thing and seeming, I also want to talk to the Ito work in that direction, we keép| raftic experts, the PSC members, going in the other direction, What! Public Counselor William Steckleach one says and what each one ler and his ussistant Walter {does are two different things. Jones. William F. Lebo, the PSC |" 80 I've decided to see if there engineer working on the -efisn't some way to get everybody, ciency study, saybe can help us get some action oa what they say they Waals Wants to Find out

The idea isn't for me to tell aS ow the situation 100kS ip, em what to do. 1 just want to There's no shortage of sugges-| COll, PUY UIC SAR Te done and tions for improving service and at! It's too late already to keep the same time cutting down a few | fares from going up Another [little expenses. - Two major effl-| notch. The PSC is going to order ciency surveys already have been that just any day. I don’t want | made. Another one is under way. | [to kid anybody into thinking }— City and PSC Feud |thefe's any early prospect of reBut to get anything done on|versing the upward trend of fares. {these suggestions takes the best! The way things have been golefforts of everybody. Instead,|/ing for the last four years a lot {there seems to be a full-blown|Of: riders probably would settle | feud on between the City admin-| {for just one whole year without |istration and the PSC. They call {another increase. ©; [it a “misunderstanding.”

| Between these two stands the) Kentuck Group {company. It clearly doesn’t expect] {much help from the. city and t

{is in the form of rates. (utility's officers are rel {scared stiff of what the riders]

{sible

| assistance, Some reliefers also re-

Times Survey rows 2

Loopholes,

‘May Be Miscoleulated

Costs Go Down Instead of Up; wi No Systematic Methods Used ar —_Unirt of 'u Series of Aisles; Editorial, Page 34) 10

By RICHARD LEWIS i A major portion of Marion County's $1 million poor relief bill for next year, the biggest since 1940, may have | been miscalculated.

Nearly four-fifths of the

for Center Township relief—was based on the prediction

bill—the $840,620 carmarked

of hard times this fall and winter. The bill is $191,050 more

than the cutrent $649,570. Predictéd hard times did not develop in the first half of autumn. Instead of going up, relief costs went ‘down, They dropped from the summer peak of $490.000 in August to $44.000 in September and to $43,000 in October. Times Survey To determine reasons for posreatmatts:

error in relief

es surveyed re township. . township, It was the first survey of this kind in 10 years, vom hat

plaints are

The survey showed: estima

relief while waiting for welfare

ceive pensions. SIX-Families in identical distress situations do not receive! similar allowances within the same township or in the same neighborhood Reliefers complain that their allowance for food, rent or medi-

al care depend on the whim of the lnvestigator. These com-

ville 22, Hillsdale 7.

GOP asks earlier voting

only sure relief from the rec suggestions for helping them. Union Guaran

lv The outlook isn't improved any! y the fact that Mayor ¥Feene ; . and President Harry Reid of Rad. | PIKEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 4 (UP) |ways aren't exactly chums. The —John L. Lewis won the first |Mayor doesn't like Mr. Reid. 1 round in his’ ‘divide and conquer’ | haven't seen any very convincing tactics today wien: a group of | {indications ‘that Mr. Reid likes Eastern Kentucky small mine {the Mayor any better, owners agreed to his contract de- | Emergency Stressed | mands. The Public Counselor's office, | In exchange Mr. Lewis agreed | {charged with representing the {to give the operators a union riders’ interests, has lots of fight! guarantee of continuous produc-| but no teeth. Big bark, no bite,

The company sa pany says it has a ion to Washington Monday. to

meet with Mr. Lewis and sign the agreement. One of the group sald

|emergency, too, If Railways is in| [they agreed “to sign In the dirk”

Previous Balance ....... $524.25 The weatherman said wind-|®® Pad a shape as its officials] yeh out knowing the exact terms driven rain this morning would | 58Y the riders, may wind up with o¢ Mr. Lewis’ demands.

nothing to ride, {" The group represents about 100

more dimes on Times Mile-O-

i wil Today's to date

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Insley Mig, Co-op. ...... B500.00| days. | In memory of Grandma and vanish by noon, ~~ Three Ways to Help Boba Ziegler . 2.50 re. are three ways in which! In Mommory of Maggie roo) - provide this help Faves at hontid: EE I ory SE ATH -Coow i gin sens ys ime You wil ONE — By sending checks of "LCI or wiiiayy | REAL ESTATE-BUSINESS-money rs—for any pe ; Hon that to Clothe-A-Child, Indianapolis ition Ea pr seoal will be of great interest to TPO By solmteering af do: In Memory "of -dadk -anq seller ho “maker, business. | nors. Donors are individuals or rats Blas" ys : 34 man, ’ organizations that take one or Mm. , AAA —_ This section will Appear | more children to the stores and & Mrs. FL. To coves BY SUNDAY it The spend their own money to buy the Mrs. Geo. Murchie ......, . 8.00 Ey nay 8 clothing needed. Appointments to . Memory “of Ruth Fox « You'll find pages o take children to App stores may Shima ......veesei00s0 5.00] Teal estate for sale ads, news, made for shopping hours of 0. P: Welborn ........s. 2000 Pplctures... sve in one day by telephoning RI. 5551. il convenient section! “to THREE -— cing one or Today's “total it now.

Even swinging from a bus hand small mine operators. which turn,

Market’ for Homes ™" “like a monkey is BA hah out about 2. million tons of soft,

walking from six to: 60 ~1eoal-annunily: 1 don't claim to know anything Admits Meeting about running a raliroad. If the, The U demands 8 nclude al | PSC bosses don’t know more than 95-cent daily wage Increase, a 15{I' do they should get into some/ceént per ton Increase in health | |other line of “business. I think and welfare payments, an eight {some of them would like to dohour day, portal to portal, and a stronger willing - and - able work | ; sinune, A member of the Southern Coal |

| that anyway, ! He'll Talk to All But out of all those suggestions

and-able demand as giving. Mr, | arth Io ok uy. re pny Lewis “absolute control over coal | talk to Mr. Reid and Vice Pres- production at the mines. idents J. P, Tretton and Marshall yMw the

Dale it. . 30 who represented

at the Pikeville talks;

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gh pi dah dive ge 4

I'm going to see Mayor Feeney

would firm the settlement too, I want to find out what bo term. x wv

To Keep Mines *

Southward Ho! Fashion compass turns to land of : . + « Louise Fletcher's Counter-Spy, : with spotlight on luggage. . . . Katy Atkins" reports on Christmas parties. .......cc00uea

the sun.

(Society, women’s features,

ing, teen talk, travel, Pages 17-32)

Section 3

The operators will send a dele- ‘Surgery restores health to mental patients. . ..

Indianapolis challenges

“home of prettiest girls.”

(Editorials, politics, world

. Pages 33-44) x on Hinkle's Basketball Clinic . . . first of copyrighted articles... covvisairrerees-

“¢Petatly of Notre Damp's

column, Joe Williams, the Press Box, other sports

news, Pages

‘Section 4 | Home pricesTeveling off , . . real estaté and busi:

Ness NEWS. ..,eveppuene:

(Classified Advertising, Pages 52-62; radio, Page 3) na tor stepping up efficiency. -there| PTOGUCEES Interpreted the willing-| ‘Other Features on Inside Pages :

Amuse. ..42, 43 Editorials ...34

| Business .49, 50/Food ......4.28 N Samuel Caddy, president of {Childs .......34/ Forum La oman

08 suis lassified ,52-61 {Hollywood , veed2 Elbe... sev sees24|Ingide Indpls.

On Inside Pages—

Football: Notre Dame 27, Southern Methodist 20; Evans. 4

Basketball: Illinois 60, Butler 56. (For details see Sports, Pages 45-48)

Section 1 j "| Discord mars Indiana GOP meeting , . . Young

{Generdl news and features, Pages 2-16)

Section 2

BHO. inva sannny sus

gardening, home-mak-

Hartford, Conn., as report, nm, stage, a series ° i

victory, “Eddie ASWs 45-48)

MIL Pages 4,10 snd 8

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