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60th YEAR—NUMBER 269 °° TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1949

Wallace Faces Quiz Siis Po g r Seeking Relie In Decatur Township

On ‘Leaks’ to Russ Soviet Got Radar Gear, Says Ex-Major

Atomic Plant

Walkout Moves in On Laboratory, * Home Construction OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec.’6 (UP)—A walkout of members of three AFL construe-| _____ tion crafts building a new| $66 million atomic bomb production plant here spread to-

A Straphanger Speaks—

‘We Can’t Have Our Cake and Eat It Too’

Cannon Agrees With Lebo That Part Of New Transit Program Could Begin Soon

General Eluded (Third in a Series) day to the Oak Ridge National wo g pecti By ROBERT BLOEM Laboratory and to new home con-| . u. s. \ Ins on, Public Service Commissioner Lawrence Cannon says we strap- struction projects. . p 0 eave ‘13 He Charges hangers can’t have our cake and eat it, too. An Atom Energy Commission 1 I went to see him in my rounds to develop a little action on all official admitted that the atomic! i

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 the talk about Indianapolis Railways. |city’s first strike had developed

(UP) — Former Vice Presi- He agreed with PSC Engineer William Lebo that some parts of into a situation that “looks pretty dent Henry A. Wallace “in- the efliciency program now being developed could be tried soon. |bad." |

, | or nd men building 500 houses and| the House Un-American Ac-|business was - talking about the service on fewer streets’ |a pipeline quit work some 18 tivities Committee to tell riders’ reactions to some of the! Of course, we haven't gotten nurs after 250 fellow workers on| what he knows of wartime ship-

efficiency proposals. any action, yet. But if we do, tine atoniic plant walked out, | ments of atomic materials to Rus-

Mukden Today

“Trying to Free “To Be Expected’ might not hurt to think that one| The new group that quit in a ~ 2 Other Americans

out. There isn't much doubt that}, « r Since they will involve cutting| the commission fesls we capt Sispute thay. sivted over Mlleged| WASHINGTON; Dec. 6

|increasing it in others, I reminded Dave Taster Service Pithont Paying|ciuded steamitters, plumbers, (UP) —Angus Ward reported Mr. Cannon that he probably More for it unless the company's|y.... grivers and operating en- to the State Department to-

are cut, . } One other thing everybody 810eeT™:

seems to agree.on as far as I've 350 Now. Idie staff expected to leave Muk‘gone is that no efficiency sugges-| Gordon Molesworth, assistant . : N tions will help if they aren’t tried. to the manager of Oak Ridge den at 1:45 p. m,, Indianap

operations for AEC, estimated olis time. : Boy Indicted for that “the number now idled was| The U. 8, Consulate General Slaying of Woman have to be subsidized by other

about 350, {and his associates planned to . Steamfitters, truck drivers and leave aboard a train that will riders who don’t even use such! Grand Jury Votes service, it isn't efiiclent from 43 Trye Bills

operating engineers, all working take them to Tientsin. out of the Knoxville Building] Trades Council, began the chain- ber of persons in his party at 23. either the riding public's stand-| The craft workers who walked and their dependents. point or the company’s to main-| The Marion County Grandiout on one job today were em- End of Saga {Jury today, in its seventh partial ployed by Hicks & Ingle, subcon-| Thus will end the saga of the

day. Ne- date has been set. Ms Wallace's vas Was! would be seeing some delegations brought into the case in a radio of objectors one of these days. broadcast by Fulton Lewis TIr.| “That's to be expected,” Mr. Cannon told me. Then I reminded him - that, while people usually object to any cut in their own bus service, only: -& very few ever come up to gripe about fare increases. He said the commission had noticed that, too. “But if certain segments of service are losing money. and

The former Vice President immediately said he had “absolutely nothing to do”. with shipments

The radio account charged that Mr. Wallace, as chairman of the board of economic warfare, overrode orders- banning such shipments. The committee has recessed its inquiry until tomorrow when it expects to hear Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, retired, who was in charge of the wartime atomic project. Gen. Groves said last tain it,” Mr. Cannon said. night that Wallace “was not in my chain of command.”

Charges Russ Got U. S. Radar Gear

NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UP)—

redcting walkout late yesterday The State Department previously when they abruptly quit work had understood there were only at the “high priority” K-29 atomic/ 18, The additions were believed

plant now under construction. {to be non-American employees

ing whether certain groups off Criminal Court. 85 ‘would rather pay enough{ An indictment for first-degree homes. [leave only after the Communists to make up the losses or accept Murder was returned against Tne johnson firm has the con- threw Mr. Ward and four others changes which would reduce the Charles Webster, 15, of 3038 tract for construction of a new|in jail on criminal charges and need for higher rates. {Boulevard Pl. in conection with|pion school, hut it was not im- finally ordered the whole group May Curtail Services (the death of Mrs. Callie Richard-| mediately learned whether that! expelled. ’ son. 79, of 330 W. 33d St. [project was affected. ‘ | As the incident neared a close. That's where having our cake Mrs, Richardson was found hile.! Department officials | All three crafts, meanwhile, State partme m Ais and eating it, too, comes in. Helpeaten and unconscious on the : : Con-| th ewed : : ) the effi-! {quit ‘work on a J. A. Jones Con- closed they have ren: a camequipment out of four Russian-|Says it's obvious that if the e ed oor of her home Oct. 21. She gimction Co. project at the-Ne-| paign to free two other Ameribound transports in the spring ot|-.c0CY program is to be carried died Oct. 29 in General Hospital. {ional Laboratory—the nerve-cen-|cans—Albert “Willis of ‘Brooklyn 1943. out some of us who are vsed t0| During a police investigation, ier of atomic research here—and|and Alfred T. Meschiter of KinderBut, he said, a fifth plane con-|P3VIng bus service at our door Webster was taken as a suspect| . a jateral natural gas pipeline taining the devices éluded him |™a¥ have to give it up. {and later confessed that he kicked project to the K-29 plant. and flew to Moscow. One of the efficiency ideas is and beat Mrs. Richardson. Mr, Molesworth said the walkeliminating the Brightwood feeder| Chester Lee Morris, 18, ‘an ib-|sum at the was having ect” ;

George Racey Jordan said today that he ripped secret U. 8. radar

hy o the new service. Mr. Lebo told me yester- mate of Indiana Central State|. : pa gros 4 th closure in his story of an alleged little on ere. day that could be tried as soon as Hospital’s annex at Ft. Harrison, leak of atomic bomb materials Iways €o tion the PSC! ———r and secret information to Russia Railways could pet (Continued on Page 4—Col. 3) Terre Haute Woman

nied and fled with them to Com-munist-ruled North Korea.

at a press conference. , l ——————————————— . Mr. Jordan was a lend-lease ex- | He didn’t know what the out-| ° Dies of Burns Two U. 8. notes to Russia have pediter in 1943-44 at Great Falls, “Ome Of such & petition would be. 2.Dgry Christmas TERRE HAUTE, Dec. 6 (UP) produced little, Now the U. 8. Mont, alr base, shipping point {Oro on “felt that unless attempts T # lida —Mrs, Belle Arrick, 83, Terre ambassador in Moscow, Alan G. thousands of cargo-laden planes “Lae to carry out an effici- + AVE FIOHAQAY mau, died today in Union Hos- Kirk, Sng Teken V5. the Suse Yer ’ , it will never get ’ I pital of first degree burns. son hy Explaining the radar incident, wr, Yanan & gta diann's prt erns , and oNauor P Mrs. Arrick was burning trashithe Soviet deputy foreign minMr. Jordan said that he became| "gui 1 got the tmpression from|day period during the Christmas in-her back yard yesterday when ister. : : talking with Mr. Cannon and with holiday. |she threw chicken grease on the] The United States apparently NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (UP)— [another commissioner, Roscoe| Holiday revelers will ‘have to!fire, hospital attaches said. The!intends to build up as much presMrs. George Racey Jordan, wife | Freeman, that if there is a loud purchase their Yuletide “cheer” fire flared up, and ignited her|sure as possible to free Mr. Willis of the key figure in the investi- \ohjection, the objectors ought to|before Christmas Day or go with-|komono, She was burned about'and Mr. Meschter promptly. It gation of atgmic leaks to Rus- pe ready to take their choice. lout it for 48 hours. |the arms and face. . {was understood the two are reasia, refused) to accept a “very | If they'd be willing to get more] Bernard E. Doyle, chairman of crepe erent {sonably well off, although they heavy package” delivered to her | frequent sefvice on another line|the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Tj Ind [needed food and clothing. In the Beaux Arts Hotel today. - and walk a little farther to get it, Commission, announced that no imes index Officialls here also awaited a The package carried no re- [there's a chance the price of rides lfquor will be sold Dec. 25 or 26. AIDS ~ —_— 10 My Da 5 reply from their sixth formal pro-| turn address. |won’t have to go up so fast. He said due to Christmas falling Bride cmen 6 To ay arty test to Chinese Communists over Mrs. Jordan ordered it sent I've been in too many Railways on Sunday, Monday following _ Be c.evee ; Hoye rr 2 the detention of William C.| to the hotel's package room. hearings to get very optimistic.Christmas is the legal holiday. | anata RT bituaries... Smith of Long Beach, Cal, and! Hotel officials opened it. It gbout rates being cut. The ABC ruled that the same | i _ pid dd 3 Chan xzvee18 Elmer C. Bender of Cincinnati contained eight jars of plum. | Question Posed order applies to the New Year's gonirs & ‘a )Rudle »+++++:18 and Chicago. The two naval filers Jelly sent by a friend. | But if the straphangers just holiday. | Eon .s | pani seenes 5 have been held in Red China since (won't stand still for having to| Foreign Af... .14|Sports “lenin Blane a forced down more suspicious when a C-47 transport/ walk a little farther in some; ’ "as than 13 months ago.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

! . Forum ......14|8avior’s 8try 13| China's Communists, prodded plane anived at the base pe oq] Cases. we may hear the question:| ga m... 32 10 2. m... 36 Hollywood ..10, Weather Map 15| by rising American oi were Sous strange gadge ns Would you rather keep on pay-| 7a, m... 33 11 a.m... 39 | Inside Indpls 13| Earl Wilson. 8 arranging final details on trans-do-it. ing more and more for slow serv-| 8 a. m... 34 12 (Noon). 41 |Mrs. Manners 2¢ Women's .... 8 portation for Mr. Ward and his. While the plane waited to have ice on a lot of streets, or would| 9 a. m... 36 1 p- m... 43 [Movies ......10 Your Job ,.. 8/staff from Mukden

the Russian Red Star painted on it, he said, he telephoned Wright Field at Dayton, 0. and” asked the security officer, Col. C. H,|

Gitzinger, whether Russia was! . getting something new. Opera Star Will

He said Col. Gitzinger ex-| i : claimed, “rip it out of there” when, Sing Here Tonight informed that mechanics had said! By HENRY BUTLER : “Many - people tink eet ees a J

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Lily Pons Dreads

Terrible Moment Before Concert

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it was radar equipment. Three more planes arrived in| vonderful life—no work. But eet rapid succession, Mr. Jordan said, | ees not true.” i rnd he tore the radar equipment| That's the way Lily Pons, in a | out of them. | French accent as heart-warming He said he learned that a fifth | a5 Courvoisier cognac, describes plane left Washington piloted by the artist's career.

Angus Ward |§

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|day that he and his consulate!

His brief message put the num-| &

He added that the Commission report. returned 43 indictments tractor for John -A. Johnson -&|18 consulate employees who haved would be very interested in learn- nd 21 no bills in the general term<Sons, Inc, on construction of been® under house arrest for a? .1 500 practically completed new| year. They got permission to| SF

Entered as Second-Class Mattes at Posiofice

Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily

poor relief. - »

poor relief food orders.

the case the trustee wrote off as “unworthy”... -* ‘ Joe, in March of this year. had been {ill for some time, hospitalized 31 days at Methodist Hospital, and later for a month at General Hospital. Prior to his illness, according to his widow, he had always supported his family on his earnings from E. C. Atkins Co. The family owned their own home ahd never asked for public assist ance. ’ “When he was alive we helped the poor ourselyes,” the gray-haired widow recalls. “Every birthday we gave the church a penny for every we were old.”

” ” » ¥ MR. ADAMS came home from. General Hospital ‘on Mar. 4 and-died two days later, His last request was that he be buried beside his mother's grave In Tennessee.

that had dwindled to almost nothing during his long illness to pay funeral costs here and to carry out his wish. Two months later she had exhausted the savings and she went to the Township Trustee for help, ~ Like other Decatur poor relef applicants Mrs. Adams had a hard time finding the trustee, When she finally did see him, she says, he told her she was “unworthy” of help.

His widow took his $1000 insurance policy and the savings’

If You Die, You Die, Widow Quotes Trust Called Hor Unworthy of Poor Aid 5s : | ha:

Mrs. Emmar Adams, 3016 8. Roena St, is one of relief applicants Mr. Edwards refused to help in 1949. Here is

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

many poor

256 Families

Trustee Cuts

Mrs. Emmar Adams ; , + “unworthy” of Decatur Township |=

Ee = need wil move £0 i “Township 46

two or three days at a time,” “1 do that washing,” Indicating an overflowing bushel basket of clothes, “and iron it all for $3. Dy . y yn»

“I'LL DO without before get down on my knees and beg him.” During the months Mrs. Ad-

‘ams was seeking and receiving

“ poor-relief the Decatur Township trustee was paving his wife, Sarah Edwards, a $100 a month wage for acting as “investigator.” At no time, however, did the “Investigator” call at Mrs. Adams’ home or perform any service in connection with the case.

Waits to Fill Lilienthal Post

KEY WEST, Fla. Dec, 8 (UP) ~The White House announced today that President Truman will wait until Congress convenes before appointing a successor to David E. Lillenthgl as chairman

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Clothe-A-Child—

Times Fund Will Help Girl Whose Parents Are Blind

Maj. Gen. A. I. Belyaev, chief of| Migs Pons “will sing here tothe Russian purchasing commis-| night in Cadle Tabernacle when sion in Washington. {her husband, conductor Andre

The general got and ty Kostelanetz, takes the reins of an ew right ov (the Indi - Moscow” Mr. Jordan said. ndianapolis Symphony Or

” |chestra. didn't land at Great Falls. The Kostelanetz family, includ-

indicated that he supposed the|,, 4," cedar Mop dogs of

This Year She'll Have Warm Clothes

Thanks to Generosity of Readers By ART WRIGHT

Anna lives in a strange world. She doesn’t have the things other | children enjoy . . . and no orié could. tell her why, “pn ! You can't explain to a little girl why her father is blind, while the other children’s daddies take them to the movies, Neither can

“Mr. Edwards asked what 1 | did with the insurance money,” Mrs, Adams relates. “When 1 told him he said I ought | to have let the county bury my | husband and kept the money to live on. “He said my four boys had to

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; support me. He sald. we'd take | yoy explajn why mother also is blind . . . and of! sick with Plane lopped at some other IB 1ypetan breed, arrived here yes- them to court and maké' therf. | PI seizures of aan " eda 1efine rm Raid he personally | teTdaY and found shelter in_the I sald to him: ‘Mr, Edwards, my | CONTRIBUTIONS Anna has never known afiys BEVer had seen radar equipment | C1aypool after being turned down boys have got families of their Previous Balance ... $1,120.75 [thing but poverty. For her fabefore but that mechanics at the °Y, 8 dog-excluding club. own. They're poor people and it | 4 ),n, Chapter Tota ther earns the family living in base told him that was what the| AIWAYS phen 1 Sriive 1m 3 takes every dime they can make | Delta Kappa Sorority 7.50 |one of the few ways a slightiess . a |ceety, I look for a place for zee to live. | ‘ man can work by selling “strange gadgets” were. He sald dawks® Miss Pons sa Children on McPherson «va ® “ { ul ys. } . nn 1 brooms. The \ 't work _ they were “installed and ready to, “yy.," yocent, more sad than “ALL HE sald was he abso- | Slrent t Mother n " | because of Hy ao et go to work. funny, highlights the real loneli- lutely was not going to help me. po N ol led ’ Christmas, too, would be unA . ness of the artist. The “dawks” | ‘If you starve, you starve and if Tn iw 15.00 (happy except for a ‘very impor China Civil War . [are good company for Miss Pons |_you die, you die’ he told me.” No Naito. omer 2.00 [tant service in Indianapolis’ Yule : . yg [OR concert tours. | Mrs. Adams said the trus- | (0 FEO stele tl © [tide giving . . , The Times ClotheSeen Nearing End They drink not, neither do they | tee, who runs Edwards’ Poul- Ph we fon L apter A-Child." Anna's story has. been ° HONG-NONG: Do-§ (UP) {smoke. Miss Pons js by throat try House, 827 Ft. Wayne Ave, Sorority vs appa 5.00 [brought to the attention : of ) NG; 0 AUF) == land teary-eyes allergic to cigarets. then offered her a job at | ST TW ***°° ore . Clothe-A-Chi 's going Mao Tze-tung, president of the/In the Anxious hours preceding a’ 50 cents a day picking thickens, W._B._Kalkes Cattle 25.00 10 receive and ney for Communist government of China, |céncert, Miss Pons finds some re- “I WIth “Hér wages tobe paid in| pany AY “00 MRS : : told his victorious troops today|lief in walking the dogs. eries. She said she refused | Howard Cavan oi 1000 (oontinucd "on Page S-Col : 1 Rr P & Rick 2.00 | . Spat oh Sea time aT he pa nour irsyousnges if this and later went to the Mar- i od ch Y- reed 300 | uw J phenomenal an yond . ef. 3 + . fon County Commissioners to co LEE ALAL Hig a 1 tment 1 them to turn to agriculture and) Miss Pons says she is “toujours” he Pons and Andre Kostelanetz, appear tonight in Cadle Tabernacle with the Indian. | gg Foi ho intercede. Kappa Delta Phi The Times 1949 “i Industry. : ¢ was broad. | [€TYous and even sick all day be- 4 lis Symphony, here contribute to the Orchard School's paper and magazine collecting drive. Or- | The commissioners heard her Sorority. oo... eer, 500 Ane , c by the Pel ir Toy. | tore a public appearance. chard collectors are (leff) Jerry Thompson, 706 W. 43d St. and John lomo. 5360 N. Pennsyl-.| case and ruled that. Mr. Ed- | B..HE Mifourn ...(..v- -300 'MILE-O-DIMES pol Time sg tionalist defenses crumbled A101 | enicrast but nothing oud. eating vania St. . : a "| wards must give the widow an | peiimg Bnd nn, Ty tattle aa $1047.20 a broad front in #outhwest China. ; © ; “ . «| $8 food order for 12 weeks, | ‘no ¥ ‘ . mote] over to the Communists. “I doficest ~ahé Th ‘vopper lduring her working Be any With a reporter. She's real and|rings sort of framed the lumi-| for 11 weeks but: that her-order Today's total = 144.50 | 8:30 a, m. dally, The Mile-O+ wr tamu or emaat| Which may be a dietetic orgy of “If you don't keep improving “ell in ways that make a scribe nous, dark brown eyes. Ye aS Erotuy whi wenn | DiS ha 17 dimen to 8 foot: | south of Chiengty, ne new Na-|toast, tea, soup and fruit compote. season after seasop, you're just happy in his interviewing assign- On her left lapel, she wore the _ a . yf. Total to date $1,274.50 each line is 88 feet long, 60 tonallst capital, to attack up| Try (het on your waistline. . =. |ptf-Att.” she says, in a Way Iment.. |rosetts..of the French-- Legion She did riot seek heff from | DIRECT §—— 1 Inetmake.s mils witth the Min River valley and. pocket your waistline is as trim can't describe, any more than Ii In a simply-tailored suit, with d'Honneur. She's an officer, him again, or take the matter | Alliance of Universalist . an estimated 80,000 ‘troops re- as Miss Pons’, you're doing O.K. can describe the way she whistles button hat ornaments, Miss Pons formerly chevalier, of that won-| again to the commissioners. Women of treating from Chungking. | | Only she's got still further prob-through her Selth to the dogs. |yesterday was a knockout, The dertul outfit. is +eeeers 1 Chg