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“ FORECAST: Occasional light rain tonight, Yomorrow. ‘Low tonight, 36. High tomorrow, 42.

60th YEAR—NUMBER 280

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National Celebrities to Grace Stage; ©

Crosley Auction Headlines Events

By ART WRIGHT Tonight's the night when Indianapolis will open its purse strings wider than ever for the city’s needy children in the biggest Christmas party the community ever has seen. The gala event will be staged on Monument Circle starting at 7:45 p. m. with kleig lights shining ip the sky and nationally-known celebrities gracing the stage on the south

steps of the Monument. — . ... |THE EVENT; Crosley Christmas What brings the celebrities, Auction. here is the Crosley Christmas THE PLACE: Monument Circle, Auction, which will offer valuable THE TIME: Tonight, 7:45 p. m.

til 9 p. m. Christmas gifts to Indianapolis. un ’ 0 CASON: The real joy of the event is the THE ‘REASON: To raise motley

for The Times Clothe-A-Child. opportunity to provide money for ApMISSION: Free to the public. The Times Clothe-A-Child. The — more dollars bid for Christmas gifts in the Circle auction, the| § more children will be clothed through The Times Clothe-A-Child. |

Thrills Millions

Here from New York is Arlene Francis, who has thrilled millions of radio listeners on her national network shows and is a favorite § of movie and stage patrons. From Notre Dame has come Jim Martin, co-captain of the Fighting) Irish football team and AllAmerican player. From the North Pole will be the singing Santa Claus-and his Brownie helpers,

You Can Help Clothe-A-Child

Don’t mis§ the Crosley: : §hristmas auction tonight, Arlene Francis : . . on Monument Circle were « oo at 7:45 p. m. pon RE EWA the Clothe-A-Child broadcast on WFBM from 10:15 p. m. until 1 a. m.|

Telephone your: pledges to, M WFBM. It’s like buying one| 4 extra Christmas present.

need at the Christmas auction] that Gov. Henry F. Schricker and, Mayor Al Feeney will be on the; big stage to help auction off these valuable Christmas gifts: A Cros-| ley de luxe electric range; a Cros-| ley custom de luxe refrigerator with Shelvador, and 10 six-tube| Crosley kitchen radios, | . The gifts will go to the high-| est bidders. Every cent received will be turned over to The Times Clothe-A-Child. Hoagy Joins Group Hoagy Carmichael has agreed to join the group of celebrities to do his part. Hoagy will appear, on Radio Station WFBM during the Clothe-A-Child broadcast from 10:15 until 1 a. m. Hoagy Will make his plea for Clothe-A-Child immediately after his appearance with the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra. On the air with him will be Arlene Francis, Jim Martin, the Singing

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ers. Accepted by Phone Those who can not join in the Christmas gift bidding on the Circfe will get an opportunity to add their help to Clothe-A;Child dur-| ing the WFBM broadcast:-Rledges will be accepted by telephone at WFBM and those agreeing to send contributions to Clothe-A-Child will be announced on the alr. The person who contributes the largest amount through WFBM will receive a giant Crosley UltraFidelity Television set with 16inch screen free. For the first time, Indianapolis will see the giant Crosley Shelva-

(Continued on Page Col. 7) Warmer, Rain Forecast Here

LOCAL TEM.” _RATURES 6am... 30 10a m... 35

7a. m... 30 11 am... 38 8am... 3 12 (Noon). 39 9am... 33 1pm... 30

The Weather Bureau today predicted occasional light rain to-| nigh and tomorrow, | Temperatures above freezing tonight will keep roads in cen. tral and southern Indiana from icing up, but lower temperatures in the northeastern part of the state could make motoring there, hazardous, the bureau said. The mercury will drop to 36 tonight, and reach 42 tomorrow In Indianapolis. Temperatures to-| night will range between 32 in the north to 38 in southern Indiana counties, The mercury reached 37 here yesterday, and

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Sircle Party Set Tonight: Midwest Dope ~ To Aid Times Clothe-A-Child

Mayor Frey Clothe-A-Child Sheds Light or . ° |nesota and Iowa. ‘ Of Hope in Dark Places in won oy cue, wees: SEOBIWOTKEY S Happy Christmas for Many Youngsters i Depends on Generosity of Contributors

If you've ever wondered where those dollars you contribute to also waThe Times Clothe-A-Child andthe Mile-O-Dimjes go. -here—is— your peddlers. One man was arrested

Lucille Greenburg, 3750 Carrollton Ave.; Barbara Ziegler, 240 S. Audubon Road, and James McConnell, Gary, add coins to the “Path of Pennies” in Jordan Hall on the Butler University campus. Conducted for three days under sponsorship of the Spurs Club, sophomore women's honorary, the dropped to 28 downtown and 21 ' path" collected 9401 pennies. The $94.01 will go to The Times Clothe-A.Child Fund. Miss Ziegler

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| $500,000 Haul Likely; Reveal Dope Peddled To Students

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police staged a series of |sweeping raids today in an

LJ attempt to break up a arg Poke Howard ring that has peddled nar-|

cotics to addicts—including col-

{Tege and high school students— : throughout the Midwest. S | U e | At dawn today, the raids had

| netted 26 prisoners and were still

|going on in neighborhoods ° NS {throughout the city. : or erm | Police sald “hundreds of ’

[thousands of dollars” worth of] narcotics were involved and that {the haul of illegal drugs proh-| ably would exceed the $500,000

worth taken. by New York au- Ignored by Schricker |thorities in a recent raid.

| The officials said they hoped Municipal Judge Joseph |to seize more than 100 prisoners Howard was reappointed to | by nightfall. the bench in Municipal-Court

| In one” éf the early raids, the . officers seized a grocer who once Room 3 for a second four-|

served three years for ‘selling Year term by Gov. Schricker 1500 grains of heroin. today. Find $10,000 In Heroin He was first appointed to the Another man arrested was bench in 1945 as the Democratic!

Reported Opposition By Feeney, Dailey

{found to have $10,000 worth of judge in the bipartisan criminal!

{heroin in his possession. He was division of lower a I

{seized as he sold a quantity of county court. —_ eR the drug to an addiet who also H1§ sélection was arrested. {had been expectA special squad of 50 federal | ®d by Marion § agents. especially. “imported” to, COUnty Demos :] Chicago teamed up with 25 city |erald, TEI police. Smasher Wty into[ udge Howard “ritaeol@lf most of them on the Was the organisprawling South Side. sation choles of | District Attorney Otto Kerner my 3 ir said the investigation that re-| 1) an Pe oh sulted in today's raid began five ky an an i I months ago. He said the special ones Eg Judge Howard | squad of agents were brought to | the city in “two's” and three's” Pposition to the appointment to work on the case because they| "3% For on Fe would not be recognized b, { BTOY . {narcotics sellers. y local) 4 na Prosecutor George Dailey. Assigned to Teams | R ve appeared in the open, In the raids, two federal agents | Judge Howard succeeded John (and a city officer were naneas. McNelis in 1945 when he was! {to each raiding team.’ One of appointed to the bench by Ralph (the agents would make a nar-|Gates, then Governor. ) {cotics purchase, after which the! (city patrolman. and the other or Indianapolis agent would make the arrest. Notre Dame University and the The raiders were armed with Indiana Law School. He is well {mo=+ than 50 complaints giving! known for his activities in the | them the legal right to stage the American Legion and the Ancient! | raids, |Order of Hibernians. | | The Investigation into the drug... He is also active in the Moose trade here started after quanti- lodge and Knights of Columbus.

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‘and marijuana began turning up has one daughter. at college and high school cam- 37 E. 48th St. puses in Illinois, Wisconsin, Min-

Ito Chicago sources. | » {| One fairly-large quantity of| |drugs “was found in a student's! 0 | p |possession at the University of) Price Boost Brings

Illinois campus at Champaign and| ~ New Union Demand

traced to Chicago PITTSBURGH. Pa. Dec. 17 (UP)~—~The CIO

and gave information that aided

Santa Claus, Gov. Schricker, ©f School three days this past week because he didn’t have shoes Ti 1 d United Steelavo eney and other celebri- tO keep his feet warm, : ; imes index workers planned today to ask May r Feeney and For the 16- yes, s-ix-t-e-e-n neighbors Int bitter struggle. A 7g , Wage increases of U, 8. Steel subWFBM will broadcast the Cros- children in one family whose ‘fa- : oy ve Bac eeeen ‘a P Indpls. ... 2 giajaries which raise prices in line lev Auction on the Circle from ther can earn no more than $25 CONTRIBUTIONS B RY sersavs 3 nside Indpls. 7 with big /steel's $4-a-ton basic 8:30 until it closes at 9 p. m. The Per week no matter how hard he Today's total ....... «eo. 8 593.00 Ca seeses o Your. Job....11 steel boost. station will present its special tries. Total to date ........... STITT pth oro 19, Mrs Manners.11 H., Charles Ford, direcior of Clothe-A-Child program from For the widows, whose only in-! tae a drink because he has seen Crossword... 8 Needlework ’ 3 , 10:15 o'clock until 1 a. m. come is the small amount they the heartaches caused by his OWN | Bditorials : ‘10 Patte . 3 delphia, revealed the union's Paul Roberts, WFBM head receive from a wefare agency. father’s alcohol stupor . . . the poreign Aff..10 Radi TR sures 5 stand, asserting there was “no liner, will be master of cere-| For the blind parents who are at-'jittle girl who asks little from her ts. ign - BLO oreo 2 need” for any company to inJ girl who Forum ...... 10 Side Glances.10 monies at the Circle auction. Gil- tempting to make their children a < eRe i crease prices to meet recently bert Forbes, popular news com- “see” that life among generous (Conmtipued on Page 2—Col.’ 6) Gardening ... 3 Society ..... + 3 granted social insurance and mentator of the station, will de- « #& =a » = a Hollywood .. 9i8ports ..... +» 8 health benefits. ’ scribe the event for radio listen: Meanwhile, two more steel

|companies fell in line with U. 8. | Steel in adjusting prices upward land U. 8. Steel's President Ben-| jamin Fairless said he would be glad to go before congressional | investigators to defend the price Increases.

Seek Price Boost

|dustry’s price boosts was sched- | {uled after Christmas by both the {Joint Senate - House Economic | Committee and the House Judiclary Committee following {warnings from Congressmen and |labor experts that the move {might start a new inflationary spiral. { Mr. Ford sald that the only |U. 8. Steel subsidiary so far seek{ing a price boost of its products |was the American Steel & Wire {Co. of Trenton, N. J.

Mrs. C. R. Dortch Dies in Home

Mrs. Helen Andrews Dortch,! wife of Carl R. Dortch, director] of governmental reséarch for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, died today in their home| at 3533 Lesley Ave. She was 32.| Born at West Newton, she was| a life-long resident of Indianap-| olis. ro | A graduate of Decatur Central {High School, she attended Cen-| {tral Normal College, Danville. She wad a member of the West Newton Friends Church. Services will be held Monday in Royster & Askin Mortuary. Burial will be at West Newton. Her mother, Mrs. Edna Andrews, and her husband survive.

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{ties of heroin, morphine, cocaine] Judge Howard is married and handed the owners, Irving and He resides in| Robert Crouch.

the union's District 7, in Phila-/ from Schneck Memorial Hospital|

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Shirley Hangs Out Officials Act Yule Welcome Mat * 2 For Px-Husbend _ After Chinese —— | HOLIAWOOD, Dec. 17 (UP)~-| Shirley Temple's doorstep will 1is-| . : ‘ play a Christmas welcome mat out for her divorced husband, p | S but the former child star refused today to comment on a possible reconciliation. \ Warn Other Craft » Actor John Agar returned here, yesterday from a personal ap-| As Communists pearance tour which kept him out| of court Dec. 5 when his famed| Tighten China Hold ¢ young wife divorced. him. WASHINGTON, Dee. 17 e would not talk about Miss| Temple's testimony that he was| (UP)—The United States to-, a heavy drinker and flirt and day officially proclaimed the once almost drove her to suicide. Nor would he say whether he|3PProaches to Shanghai 3 would try to win her back. zone of danger and warned ” . =» i i ahi stay 3 WHEN MISS TEMPLE heara| A) American shipping to ’ that Mr. Agar had sent two im- away from it. EPR TH ported French dolls for their daughter, 11-month-old Linda 8u-|blockad “Just say that I plan to be home on Christmas and that he’s welcome to come and see the the State baby.” resulted from those whic: S0L 7 DLAC EO Hl WIR CT pint of Stal said she didn’t \"want to comment

on this, You understand, I just don’t think I should.”

Accuses Union 0f ‘Coercion’

Firm Seeks Permanent

Ban on Picketing

An AFL union was accused in Superior Court today of. attempt- A ing to “coerce” a local laundry

Fail . R. Lustgarten, attorney

, made|N @ shellec the charge in an effort to make by Chinese Nationalist permanent an order restraining| the union from picketing the plant at 2043 N. Harding St. “Join or be picketed,” Mr. Lust-

garten said was the ultimatum government the Chinese tionalists

| Lynn G. Miles, attorney for the {International Association of [Cleaning and Dye House Work-|

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Local Man Dies

In Columbus Jail

An Indianapolis manwas 4 American {found dead In his cell in the Bartholomew County. Jail at Colum-| ope » bus early today where he was *® andsten the only Ameri . _|can shipping firm which has sent |being- held on a drunken driving yossels in defiance of the Nacharge after a highway accident.|tionalist order, State Police {identified him as| Prior to the Bir John Franklin John L. Stewart, 37, of 1404|/incident, the Isbrandtsen line's Bates St. He had been released Flying Cloud was fired on and

On Nov. 30, the United States

at Seymour yesterday afternoon y formally protested to the Na-

after the auto crash and taken to {the jail police said. alist government the

Bartholomew Sheriff Richard |°f the Franklin and asked ase Thayer said a Columbus physi: Surances that there would be no clan was summoned late yester- further such attacks, day afternoon to. examine Stew- 1nere haa been no official art even though the hospital had | TePLY from the Nationalist released him. The physician, Dr. |[0ther than the warning that the J. K. Hawes, - conferred with |Telease of the Franklin should not County Physician Dr, William | P® regarded as a precedent.

Wigsman about Stewart's condi-|

tion. Stewart remained in jail Burglars, Thugs

Treated for Cuts |

Sheriff Thayer said he touna| N@E $2500 in Night

Stewart daad.al.0:50.a.-m- A wave of burglaries and hy

The body was taken to the Flan-| agan, Reed & Hall Funeral Home | pro toned ver indianapolis 10t for examination by County Cor-| ary L A0d Surly Jody as th oner Joseph Dudding of Hope. $2000 3h Soa ched more. than The sheriff said Stewart had, B Sash, shecks and.gouds (from stores, homes and persons.

been treated for cuts on the fore-! head and on the bridge of the poe Frelje, manager of Hook's

nose. Both injuries had been | DRE hom, 0 JSallegs lt clamped, the sheriff said. He| valued at $500, missing when he

added there were bruises on his opened the store this morning. He

(Continued on Page 2—Col. 3) Said It was taken by intruders

© who sawed through two iron bars in a rear window to gain entry. Look for It James Denton, ho of as . Radio Shop, 1008 N. Belle Vieu Again Tomorrow Pl, told police someone threw a | rock through his front show win § That handy, stream- dow and took three table-model ned, easy-to-read REAL radios valued at $120. ESTATE SECTION, with Twenty-three cartons of cigar PAGES OF REAL ESTATE |ets and two cartons of candy werd ADS plus, news, pictures, (stolen from the Rainbolt & special articles on general [Baughman Market, 116 E. Raybusiness, local real estate mond St, according to Mrs. Mare and home building activi-® |[guefité Lantiff, employéer ‘She ties . . . a separate section [discovered the theft upon opening of the big Sunday Times [the store this morning. TRE designed for the conven- | Soldier Loses Wallet: Jence of home buyers, home | p25 oh Wyte, 25. ) foc. sellers, home uilders, | ’ “ A housewives and business- |containing $101 and identification +. men. | papers was missing from the bu ® If you are not already a |reau in his Lincoln Hotel room subscriber to The Sunday [this morning. He said he left the Times, call RIley-5551 any- [room ‘door. unlocked. pe time before midnight to- | Sigma Chi Fraternity men dis. night and a copy will be [covered a green cash boX eon. delivered to your doot to- |taining $75. cash and $700 in morrow morning; Or, get a checks was missing from the copy at your nearest drug |nouse at 442 W. 46th St. early store. (Continued on Page 2-—Col. 7)

‘CALL IT TREASON’ .

. . NEW TIMES NOVEL BY GEORGE HOWE . .

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