Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1949 — Page 1
fels In . .
There's a recurring story — brought te life about once a year and always proved a hoax—about ‘4 boy and his troubles with a toilet seat. Now head like a King. But then his
United Press and Acme Telewho offer this visual evidence, Philip Burrows, 2 (if were called, used a saw and says here), detached the toilet
JSS 0th YEAR—NUMBER 271
Dethroned—
Philip Burrows . . . and the seat of his trouble.
seat in Los Angeles home Ns: Los. Ang |The United States
while his mother was upstairs cleaning. . Little Phil walked around the house with it on his
crown ._slipped,. Doctors tried
greasing Phil's head but the
seat remained on. Firemen
an ax to dethrone King Philip.
Clothe-A-Child—
Children of Stricken GI
To Receive Warm Outfits
Can’t Go to School on Cold Days; You Can Help Others by Contributing to Fund
By ART WRIGHT The Times Clothe-A-Child is going to “give a little” to one who The Americans gave so very much during war years. The three children of an ex-GI in a veterans’ hospital are going to the stores to obtain warm clothing to protect them from the is their only means of obtaining these For the mother is unable to work
clothes to keep them in school. and her only income is the $50 . 2 = =» per month pension from the gov- The Times ¥949
tor MILE-O-DIMES
A trained social worker has in circumstances of this former soldier's family, just! as all Clothe-A-Child cases are) checked. She reports the children urgently in need of clothes or they can't attend school on cold days. Doing Double Duty Contributors to the Clothe-A-| Child fund can feel their dollars - are doing double duty in cloth-| ing this fam'y. making it possible for the chil-
former soldier out there
There are thousands of unfor-| tunate children turning to Clothe-A-Child for help. How many of) them will get warm clothes de pends upon how generous the pub-| lfc will be with contributions from now until Christmas. Thousands of contributions are needed.
How You Can Help
JAMAS |
(Continued on Page 3—Col. 6) ALCOA REOPENS PLANTS PITTSBURGH, Dec. 8 (UP) Aluminum Company America today‘ resumed partial! operations at nine plants, for 51 days by a strike of C United Steelworkers, under a new pensign-insurance agreement.
"Hundreds of Homes for Sale
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6-Day Estimate, + 9 Full Lines ..... + $1346.40
® Fifty-one -lines still are to be filled for a mile of dimes / to provide $8976 to buy warm clothing for Indianapolis’ needy children through The-Times Clothe-A-Child. This estimate is made at 8:30 a. m. daily. ® Each line is 88 feet long. There are 17 dimes to a foot, @® The Mile-O-Bimes is on W, Washington 8t. in front of I.. Strauss, Lerners and Clothe-A-Child Headquarters, Firemens' Post No. 42 man the Mile-O-Dimes 24 hours a day.
Confirms Russ Got den Canadian Uranium
OTTAWA, Dec. 8 (UP)—Tradé| Minisjer C. D. Howe confirmed ONE: By sending checks ar today that some Canadian-mined nz money orders to Clothe-A-Child, uranium oxide was sent to RusIndianapolis Times, 214 W. Mary- sia in May, 1043. A check of records showed 500 TWO. By placing one or more pounds of uranium oxide and 500| pa) Tuesday uranium nitrate sold X to the Soviet Union, Mr. Howe , said. This:ore was shipped from! the’ U. 8. Air Force Base all/pne British consul said, however, Baret is a that the Ward party carried only = upply which now : Pe Hin
pounds of
of Great Falls, Mont., he added.
Mr. Howe thus confirmed
Canadian-mined ore was sen
Na : t 10 from U "a =the Soviet Union 1943; om. 1. 8... consul. at. Tientsin;,
“LITTLE CARL” ACCUSED °
FAIRFIELD, Ill, Dec. 8 (UP) “Liftle Carl” Shelton, 30, member of the notorious gangster family, | hundred guests were routed from| today faced an indictment charg- [their rooms at the Kni¢kerbocker ling him with taking indecent Hotel ‘today by--a fire on the liberties with an 11-year-old girl.|twelfth floor. {No arraignment was scheduled./Damages was put at $5000.
|Bond was set at $5000. DENFELD WEIGHS FUTURE
WESTBORO, Mass, Dec. 8| (UP)-~Adm. Louie Denteld, |AlY Khan took a baby's crib with |
ousted Chief of Naval Opera- him today when he flew his pritions, said today he will not re-|Vate plane from Lo
"The Indianapolis Ti
FORECAST: Partly cloudy, much colder tonight. Mostly cloudy tomorroow,
Chiang Flees To Formosa For Last Stand
Defenses Collapse; Plans to Draft Island Forces HONG KONG, Dec. 8 (UP) | —Generalissimo ‘Chiang Kaishek and the Chinese Na|tionalists cabinet today fled {the mainland of China and
'established their new seat of
the island fort-’ ness of Formosa. Chiang left Chengtu this morning in his personal plane as Com|munist forces closed
Dailey Promi
tu's fall was expected in a day
The cabinet agreed to move It also created two « guerrilla headquarters mand all military operations on
» TEMPERATURES
One of the headquarters was established at Sichang, capital of remote Sikang province mountains of far western China. Great Confusion The entire Nationalist position
Travers Heade For Michigan City
along with the defense of Cheng- Canadian Air Mass
(province, and left the city in the {hands of provincial {who were reported ready to join {the Communists. {
Desperado Caught
At Kin's Home Donald Eugene Travers, 'dianapolis desperado, was to be p,. taken to the Indiana State Prison (diana had already passed through “at Michigan City today. |
! He was recaptured yesterday, , five days after his sensational {break from the Hendricks County
The cold mass tha' tu was in the greatest confusion.
| most ’ {vealed that the Nationalist gov- O8t uf North Dakota
ernment has prepared plans to] draft Formosans of fighting age {to protect the former Japanese! |island against Communist as- jail at Danville. {tion of ‘the state tonight
T was seized by state; Fgveis Snow in South Bend
[The Communist radio at Pek-|psjjce when caught napping at a] |ing -said, meanwhile, that Com- pgq)f sister's West Side home. The munist troops in southwestern {09-year-old convicted bandit was inch of snow early today and the, “We won't move until we can {China captured Yamhsien, the Na- hurried back to . Danville and Snow continued to fall | tionalists’ last escape port on the spent the night in the same cell | South China coast, 60 miles south which he escaped last Fri- ward over tne state from Indian-|
State police reported roads in northern and east central In-| p . pot = DG-3 Wreck slick. In the Dunes Park district, ym. highways in . Joseph, Laporte
ties were cov. ered with ice and snow and made hazardous,
. | “I aim to keep him this time,” [Sheriff Leon Bayliss declared. | “We kept him under guard all {night and he slept peacefully. He SEOUL, Korea. Dec. 8 (UP)— [had breakfast this morning withembassy today out talking and hasn't given us a disclosed plans to accept the hit of trouble.” y. transfer of two captive American {Marshall Plan officials from the {yoopers planned to leave for Communis City with the prisoner his arraignment this!
Korean Reds To Free 2 Yanks
liana were snow-covered
yliss and two state ' . Covered With Too @ An embassy announcement said | rollowing Roads in the northern half of Senior Embassy Attache Harold morning in the jail-breaking case the Ligonier district were covJ. Noble would be at a designated border point between North and tentiary no matter South Korea to receive them on|pleads in court” Sheriff Bayliss Pery, in ‘sald. “If he has the nerve to plead were normal. ~~ e captive Americans, Albert not guilty we'll take him anyhow E. Willis of Brooklyn, N. Y., and|and ave him brought back for| throughout the Pendleton disAlfred T. Meschter of Kinder-| trial. I don't want him hook, N. Y., have been held in! here any more than absolutely Communist - dominated ' North necessary.” Korea] for 2'; months.
“We'll take him to the peni-
ere slick in spots
'nofi-Communist
“He never did give u
South Bend and Terre Haute |reported low readings of 23
Ward's Train Due To Reach Tientsin
“*Travels Faster Than Expected
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UP)— American Consul General Ward and his staff, being expelled {from Communist scheduled to arrive at Tientsin at| _ (Indianapolis Time) (Con today, the 3tate Department re-'
{through an eight-inch hole he cut|
{a barred window which the'gied as a result of the ‘sheriff says was sawed from the on slippery highways. Travers denied he had any out- 7 BYSTANDERS jside help and told officers he] walked the 20 miles from Dan- byst ville to Indianapolis after escaping but the sheriff still insists
MANILA, Dec, 8 (UP)-—-S8even
eral others wounded dur exchange of fire between constab-| — ulary troops and a band of welltinued on Page 3—Col. 4) armed rebels last night.
Curtsies Are Out—
Model for Margaret's G Says It's Agony to Wear
Neckline ‘Okay,’ Miss DeBoisson States,
But Rest of Dress Is Too Constrictive
The model on whom Princess Margaret's |Communists provided was mak- |gw-down Paris dress was fitted said today she didn't think it {Ing the 700-mile trip from Muk- wag too low in the neck for anybody. But she'd like to know how the roval princess manages
8S. Consul at Tientsin |said the .special train carrying {the Ward party passed through | Tangshan at 5 a. m today and! was expected at Tientsin five
The American Freighter Lake{land Victory is speeding to Tien(tein to pick up the group
The special train which the PARIS, Dec. 8 (UP)
sin faster than ex-
2-Day Food Supply The white tulle Christian Dior gown whose neckline shocked The British Consul in Mukden Queen Elizabeth is “just agony” reported the train left about on tg the North China except [News Agency in a dispatch from Ghislaine de Boisson said. Mukden said the Ward special pulled out five minutes ahead of again for anything,” said the 23-| (Indianapolis year.old model whose cousin is a Communist deputy. She had to stand on tip-toe for [the fittings, she said, because Marlittle taller than she.
“I wouldn't wear
time, at 1:40 p. m.
The regglarly scheduled trains om Mukden to Tientsin require p to-four days for the journey.
go the! two days’ food s statement of Maj. George Racey! win be sufficient
10 Jordan, former U. 8. Lend-iease| expediter, that a shipment of]
kle Basketball In Sunday Times
® Tn next — Sunday's Times: Tony Hinkle, dean of Indiana College coaches, pre-
, The State Department's report
| Alfred T. Wellborn.
AGO FIRE ROUTS 200
»- Appear “exclusively De Boisson - said.
dresses I can breathe in.”
® The Butler mentor tells you the model |
Sunday why basketball is “the habit sport.” '
No one was hurt.
KHAN BUYS A CRIB
| @ Every article in the series LONDON, Dec. 8 (UP) —Prince|
like « sitting on “the IN. Y. WARNED ON WATER : NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (UP)~— Another Sports Exclusi Residents here were warned today
ndon to Paris! .
“Ttire unless he decides it is best His Wife, Rita Hayworth, is in| naly de- | Lausanne, Swilzerland, awaiting , | \a birth. » J, }
|"“for the Navy and natio ..fense as a whole.” r
shortage could turn Manhattan indicated today ih a into a ghost town, Water reser-
irs are less than half full,
SUNDAY. TIMES
Entered ws Second Class Matter ot Postofies Indianapolis. Indiana, Issued Daily
mes uome
Low tonight, 15. high tomorrow, 35.
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Owners Deny Ranks Broken
‘Little Fellows’ Make
with the exception of a “few
|get a contract on which we can Snow flurries stretched north-|OPerate” ome of them said, “And re havent seen such a contract yet." -
but conditions on U. 8. 30/ifr's office reported foday aniuyrqs defended his falure to aerial ‘spotter had sighted the give relief the commissioners wreckage of a DC-3 non-sched- had ordered to the unemployed Marion County uled airliner which disappeared veteran, his sick wife and their State police at Connersville re- during a rainstorm last night Infant child. {ported a heavy snowfall north of | with seven persons aboard. Sheriff Bayliss said Travers/U. 8. 40 In the vicinity of New| A Coast Guard air observer They were taken there when an had always been an ideal prisoner] Castle. | American freighter loaned to the during the several weeks he was| South Korean confined awaiting trial for armed ever. said flurries .in Indianapolis Cal. government was sailed North by robbery and auto banditry on a/tonight would not be sufficient to] Air-sea Rescue Headquarters at lits Korean crew, which mutinied change of venue from Marion whiten the ground. ,were aboard as C /
|sighted the wreckage of the! air-
Local weather forecasters, how- liner on a low hill near Pacheco, !
(Hamilton Field reported the ob-
The mercury dropped to 31 at gor ver said “t ianight last Bight in INAIANAP- ite ut the wines soon Gon OF of trouble,” the sheriff laughed, olis and stood at 27 at 8 a. m. but I reckon he was sawing all me he was here.”
b iggling| Ft. Wayne, 25. Travers escaped by wriEgIng The Eastern storm left five per-| appeared on a hop from Oakland
with a hacksaw blade in the top|sons dead in Canada as it lay a|t0 Sacramento, 90. airline miles of his cell block. He then climbed blanket of snow 18 inches deep injaway. hohe airline would not re/down two floors to escape throughisome areas. In New England. six|lease the names of the three crew-\ uv. “mawerds then sald that Mr, Questioned about this inaccessicold, mostly men and four passengers aboard.| Njedermeyer had refused to work bility Mr. Bawards. said:
wreck scene, Ground [parties left for the site.
and! The DC-3, owned by California |Arrow Airways of Burbank, dis-|
Also missing in the same general area was a private plane,
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Ameche Makes
~~ Hit as Altar Boy
| SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, Dec.
|8 (UP)--Movie star Don Ameche {served as altar boy at mass this
{morning shortly after he arrived {here by plane from New York.
Fr. Cirlaco Berasategul of the
San Jose Church — the oldest
church under the American flag
and the original resting place of Ponce de Leon. said: “Ameche {was the best altar boy I have ever had.”
Today is the Day of the Im-. y ‘ne a at 1 i 3 y,| Mr. Elson 105U his job DECAUSE would move into another fown-
|maculate Conception and . Ameche, a devout Catholic, asked a newspaper photographer at the
But the rest of their measure- airport where he could go to ments coincide—33-inch bust, inch hips and 21-inch waist—Miss De Boisson said. And all those places, the ‘model said, are encased in whalebone. “I could hardly breathe! around the hips!
33- mass
The photographer introduced Mr. Ameche, who does not. speak
mother hustled her right off to’ \ LTR the family dressmaker, Normal ‘The Indianapolis baseball club ®Arly action by the company to get started on an efficiency Hartnell, tp have her bosom €ov- tsday wold Pitcher Clyde Shoun, Program. . veteran southpaw, and Outfielder “The princess can have It” poy Weatherly, also a veteran, to “I like/the Oakland team of the Pacific
Coast League, .
ENOUGH COFFEE SEEN
BOCA RATON, Fla. Dec. 8 his-own point of view. Mr. Reld's{comics ......4T Radio ...s (UP) — There should be more point of view is that the rate de-\majtorials ...28 Ruark . thaln enough coffee for Americans | cision must come first so the cOM- good .....# .14!S0CI8ty. ‘cs sty through the first half of 1950, a pany knows where it stands. A —Commeree-
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romises Probe Of Relief In Decatur Twp. Weatherman Predicts Indiana Mine
Mercury Will Plunge To 15° Here Tonight
Swirling Snows Slow Traffic In Northern Part of Hoosierland While swirling snow crippled traffic in northern Indiana Killing in Strike | Nationalists’ last mainland cap- today, the weatherman warned temperatures would skid to ital from three directions. Cheéng- the lowest level of the season throughout the state tonight. in Indianapolis, forecasters said the mercury to 15 degrees by morning. Thermometers were Standing pat today. to hover near freezing tomorrow and peak at 35 as heavy clouds shroud the city.
Other parts of the nation al- SMall disaster operators.” ready shivered under the impact of Arctic winds. Temperatures nlummeted to 15 below zero shortly before dawn at Minot, N. D., the coidest spot|periods when coal is scarce, . | “They get in and make hay,” cutor Dalley sald immediately |said “the spokesman. “The pub- after the hearing. “The statute Intensely cold air roiled south |'l¢ Will buy anything it can get, provides for fatlure tc per across the Canadian border on |*° the marginal operators have a duties in office as well as misconOne cold mass cut|Mmarket. {across Canada through New Eng-|
Periods, They Assert
Irfdiana coal operators were
Officials insisted there had bert Edwards was ordered into Commissioners’ Court this been no break in their ranks
A spokesman for the produceys : : : said the little mine operators COMPly with their orders in who cannot prepare their coal for a disputed relief case. sale or clean it “mop up” in strike “There is misfeasance in office
| “They don't mine enough coallis indicated here.” ‘ {land and shrieked eastward onto to scratch the surface of the de-| = Mr, Dalley sald he had not been mand. And they don’t count/informed of the hearing this was to much in the coal economy. ing “paralyzing” weather to In-| Note ‘Big Nolse' “The unions make a big noise Biit He yald he would have one
about the little fellows signing of his deputies present a ther It was to bring low tempera- Up.” he said, “enough noise to! ros Shere Court
res ranging from 10 above zero/make it appear the operators’ near Lake Michigan and near ranks are disintegrating.” 15 degrees in the southern por- The operators were definite. {They all said they had been con{tacted by Louis Austin, UMW! {district chief, but the big employSouth Bend measured nearly an ers are standing together solidly.
carrying-only the pilot, which was, The cornmissioners told him the He 4 that he Delleves relief anders. were killed and sev- Overdue on a flight from Glendale law provided that while he might applicants have to ing an to Hamilton Field hould exercise
Spanish, to Fr. Berasategui, who does not speak English, and the actor offered to help the shortAnd handed priest at 8:30 mass. . I. Mr. Ameche is here for tomorcouldn't even sit down in the row's opening of the Caribe Hilex- ton Hotel, owned by Conrad Hil-| 5 ton, who has a chain of hotels in| Agrees That Expert Suggestions for mother, the United States. . the queen, apparently didn't care —————
a * care , —— ren Margaret sprung te secret: Shoun, Weatherly dy ordered dress on her, her rv Sold by Indians .
The Shoun sale was outright, -ydecided, is lucky she belong online Weatherly deal [the receiving end of royal curt-| - . |stes. "She'd never make it.
“conditional.”
it Gardening Deed each befor, early action—a day or two? A Inside Indpls. Tw oD the Naponal Coffee TAssociation rm | Earl
1 Commissioners Give
Edwards One Week To Comply With Order
Trustee, in Court, Defends Failure To Provide Aid for Niedermeyer Family ‘By DONNA MIKELS Prosecutor George Dailey today promised an imme diate investigation of alleged irregularities in poor relief in | Decatur Township. ia ik : His announcement came after Decatur Trustee Her
morning to show why he should not be cited for contempt of court. Comissioners gave a Mr. Edwards one week to
{as well as malfeasance,” Prose-
duét and that seems to be what
{morning in time to be present. i Deputy to Attend Hearing
hearing tn Commissioners’ Court this afternoon when Mr, Edwards is ordered to appear in another appeal case, that of Mr. and Mrs. John Elson, 3318 Lockburn St. The Commissioners, who sald Mr. Edwards has been quoted to them as boasting “neither the Commissioners nor the Governor can tell me what to do,” ordered him in this morning in the case of John Niedermeyer, 3314 8, McClure St. o The Commissioners’ Court had
cause why he should not be cited for contempt of court in failing
i : £ 3
Ln Mr. Ed-
" by social se! One point on which he. He sald that Mr. Niedermeyer criticized ‘by both had never completed filling out and social agencies was his original application for poor! tenance of ‘office | relief, business esti Asked why he did not appear ; at the original hearing when Mr, Niedermeyer appealed to - the commissioners for help, Mr. Edwards said: | “My trustee office is only a | part-time job. I don’t have time." | Charges Refusal to Work: [West to the near North
“That's all our office is sup- who re | posed to be but we have to take/, = apy to be;
[time,” Commission President Wil} £ [liam Bosson Jr. said. : ‘Can’t Leave My Business’
{at the Decatur Township school y Ry {to earn the order. spend all my time out there.”
|require relief applicants to work|a little effort to get help. Ke lat the school to earn the order, people off the trustee roils, (he had no right to make this re-/says. ; quirement where he had been or- a Edwards has xh Tot oh other dered by the appeal court to pro- ideas about keeping relief rolls vide aid. ype |low. In 1949 he confined his lst Mr. Bosson then {interrupted to about a dozen families. Three the hearing to give the trustee a!of these got help week's continuance in which to'Marion County comply’ with their order. {ordered him to help them and in | The Elson case, to be appealed two of these cases he did not this afternoon. was described in'grant the full amount the yesterday's relief series in The missioners ordered. It was this Times. The' Elsons, their neigh-| latter practice that brought about bors, and. an independent social today's contempt hearing. agency which tried to intercede Favorite Economies for them with the trustee allege that Mr. Edwards would not ro Tg fy 4 J: Edwards kept nia food or fuel to the family after cue applicants one order if they -
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of {liness. | Mr. Elson was hospitalized and ship. In er could not work or draw unemploy-| ecatyr into Center Township, These ment compensation because he apr was not released as being fit to (Continued on Page 3-Col. 1)
A Straphanger Speaks— ; IR President Promises
Early Action on Program:
| Efficiency Will Never Work If Not Tried ir
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“TFifth of a Series
~_By ROBERT BLOEM. President Harry Reid of Indianapolis Rallwiys today promised
He agreed with me and with the state and city officials I've talked to about it that nobody ever will know how the expert suggestions for efficiency will work if they aren't tried. ‘oe But he wants to wait tintil the tom 4Public Service Commission de- Times Index cides on the €mergency rate in-| __ . |crease request it's working On.| amusements 40/Othman res 3 | Everybody looks \t things {rom Bridge ......14/Pattern settle .e
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