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60th YEAR—NUMBER 284 9

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1949

Paint Stalin

As Demigod Sets On Birthday

Molotov Blasts U. S. and Britain As Warmongers

Photo, Page 3; Page 23.

Another

By United Press World communism made a demigod of Joseph Stalin on | his 70th birthday today. Ranking Communist leaders promised they would try to deliver the rest of the] world to him, country by country. | Snow-blanketed and flag-decked | Moscow hailed Stalin as a great| leader who is an apostle of peace while Anglo-American ruling cir-

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cles prepare feverishly fOr. a. DOW | bin: “WEP.

The city took on all the trap-

26. High tomorrow, 28,

Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Rain, changing to flurries tonight. Much colder tomorrow. Low tonight,

December ‘Heat Wave’ IR Economy

City Sweltering

Ice cream sales zoomed yesterday as the calendar and the

pings of a holiday. Lavishly dec-| thermometer failed to agree. Bob Wallace, Times photographer, orated with Red flags and ban-| found Louise and Fred Thorman enjoying a brother-and-sister malt

ners, it put on its best appearance against a dazzling backdrop of] Snow, _ Another Workday | For Stalin himself, judging from past birthdays, there was every reason to believe he was spending a considerable part of | the day working as usual. The United States sent its good wishes. So did Britain, and other non-Communist countries. Stalin's two right-hand men, vi M. Molotov and G. M,. Malenkov.!

Mr. Molotov, deputy. premier, assured Stalin that there was no

He sounded a warning that Commnists would not relent in their dream to “socialize” the world. U. S. Blasted Mr. Malenkov, first secretary! of the Russian Communist Party, reiterated Russia's peaceful intentions and said capitalists and Communists - could live side by sider

Molotov said there were

_— countries ripe for com- §¢

munism, but the first task of the faithful was to fight the Social Democrats and other “splitters of | the working class.”

| weather,

during the 66, degree "heat wave.

Construction workers, w

dressed inst expected cold found themselves iam

ng and blowing and mopping

“Imperialistic aspirations and gheir brows, Orville Mitts (left) and Harry Eastridge take a much-

policies/of conquest are alien tol the Soviet Union,” Mr. Molotov] said. “We must not forget the existence of another camp.

“In spite of the fact that the ¥ second World War only recently”

ended, imperialist countries, principally the ruling circles of the| United States and Great Britain, | again are preparing feverishly for a new war,’

Freezing Rains

To Imperil Roads LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am. .. 54 10am... 7a.m .. 54 11am .. 56 8am... 55 12 (noon). 58 fam .. 5 lpm, .. 81

Freezing “rain or drizzle tonight

will glaze Indianapolis and Indi- 2 the | 3

ana highways tonight, Weather Bureau said today. In a special warning, Weatherman Paul Miller said roads will] become hazardous between 9 p. m. and midnight. Tomorrow will be much colder. A light downpour today ended unscheduled spring-like weather

Ahat yesterday tied the heat rec-| ding their coats as the mercury ord for the day. The mercury defied approaching winter.

reached 66, tieing temperatures! for Dec. 20, 1877.

Outlook for a white Christmas Angus Ward's Own Story—

brightened, but no official fore-| cast was made by Paul Miller, chief meterologist here. Indications are that Hoosierland will | gee snow beginning Saturday afternoon, Mr. Miller said, but he was not certain in what part of the state. Temperatures tonight will fall to ,26, and reach only 28 tomorrow. Tonight's snow will fall on warn areas and will not stick, Mr. Miller said. Snow or no snow, winter will officially begin at 10: 24 p. m. today. |

mended break at the Statehouse.

Christmas shoppers, such as

“The heat's got me,” Cam. Mrs. Bertha Elliott, were shed- eraman Wallace decides as he | abandons his hot job: in “favor

of a cool drink.

Every American in Mukden Threatened By Rifles of Red Troops During House Arrest

as prisoner of Russia’s puppet state of Manchuria, Aiigus Ward, former United States consul general in Mukden, tells his story In an exclusive interview with Clyde Farnsworth, Secripps-Howard staff writer. In this fifst article of a series, Mr. Ward starts with the occupation of Mukden by the Chinese Communist forces.

Reports Fesler Resigns at OSU

COLUMBUS, O,, Dec. 21 (UP) -—Wes Fesler, football coach of]

ence co-champions, has resigned j,,,q6 4 couple of blocks away.

his post at the Big Ten school, the Columbus Citizen reported today. | The aewspaper said Bidney G man, present coach at the Uni versity of Cincinnati, will take

unless Fesler.reconsiders.

ill-| Consul William N. «there to stay with her, at us. Shooting continued in the city

over the Buckeye squad next year Were all arrested on Nov. 20 last|tor days after occupation of Mukyear an

TOKYO, Dec. 21

Move Off Till |

After Holidays

PSC Likely to Rule Tomorrow on | Fare Hike Plea By ROBERT BLOEM |" You traction stop holding your breath. There won't. be any big economy moves by Indian\apolis Railways until after (the holidays. | Railways President Harry Reid] |told me so today. He said the economy drive would wait in any, |event until after the Public Serva| |ice Commission rules on Rail-|

ways’ petition for an emergency, fare increase.

_|_But_even if the PSC. rules..toe fi Tmorrow, Mr. Reid said, he and the

{other company officials are going, to be too busy hauling holiday| crowds to move quickly. Inci-| dentally, tomorrow looks like the day the PSC probably will rule. Higher fares by Christmas! I " Query About Delay | | Our conversation came about] {because I went over to Railways | to ask Mr. Reid what ever hap-|

He had said before that the!

{long recommended moves to nel —terease efficiency and cut operating’

costs would have to await thie] rate decision. But when the two

{PSC members said it wasn’t nec | essary, Mr. Reid told me there = would be some kind of a move. E E_lwithin a week.

The move, apparently, was ‘a change of mind. Mr. Reid said he had held “meeting after nreet-| ne on starting - the efficiency drive but it had been decided to wait and see what the PSC had to say. ‘It's all a matter of doing what's best for the company, Mr. Reid said. | “It's my responsibility to keep the sheriff out of here,” he com-

mented. it fairly clear that he thinks I'm too Jmpasiant. It's a delicate situation, he

pened -to-the promise he made me a week ago last Sunday. =

Gets Big Kick Out of Santa's Knee

pany : saving money the better off it will be. So the way it stands now, looks as though Indianapolis Railways has lost the chance to;

good that by this time tomorrow

economy program. Has to Know Standing Mr. Reid said he had to know

economies that are going to be; necessary.

stop worrying about the sheriff; for a while and start worrying about economies. He said his board of directors {is on call and will meet tomorrow afternoon, PSC order or no PSC jorder. He implied, but didn’t say, {that if there is an order the board| will get right busy authorizing thim to carry out whatever econo/mies the commission orders. After the holidays, that is. How {long from now is “after the {holidays ?

Red Gunmen Kept Constant IR Paints Bleak Guard Over Consulate Staff once Picture

lanapolis Railways, Inc, {painted a bleak picture of its fi- | hanclal condition today in its {monthly “report. to the Public

ae a sne—— wt |Bervice Commission. En route to America—and freedom—after more. than a year |

‘The report showed the utility {had lost $508,000 since the first lof this year. Losses for Novem{ber alone amounted to more tha $25,000. Included in the loss fig[ures were $101,000 in wage in-

— |creases and $143,000 | AS TOLD TO CLYDE FARNSWORTH, Seripps-Howard Staff Writer| {hikes granted i on:

There was not one American in Mukden | [ployees in state arbitration pro-

during our house arrest of about 13 months who was not threatened ceedings last summer.

at least once by Communist guards with “firearms.

That included even my wife,

According to the report, the riders paid in $300,000 less for the

For five out of the first six months of our arrest I remained first 11 months than they did durOhio State University’s confer- in our office on Chung Shan Boulevard while Mrs. Ward was at our |Ing the same period in 1948. Total

80 I sent Vice aise:

Stokes over

She was alone, saw us, they would aim their rifle

Mr, Stokes was there when we

cordons of

armediden on Nov. 1—fights

between!

collections for the period last year

Even when we looked out| {were $7,825,000 as compared with of the ‘windows and the guardsthis year's collections so far of

8 $7, 322,000.

CHINESE REDS MASS HONG KONG, Dec. 21 (UP)

Fesler is at Pasadena, Cal., pre- guards were thrown about’ the Communists and small bands of Chinese. Communists are mobiliz-

paring his Buckeyes for the Rose American consulate Bowl battle Jan. 2. Athletic Di-|residences. from | whom any official announcement |den about 100 feet square.

rector Richard Larkins,

and staff diehard Nationalists,

At my house there was a gar-|erate, but not normally. When|

must come, also is.in California. Mrs. Ward or Mr, Stokes tried to/one bullet came very close to me. here sald today,

Reports have been

business concerns. He reportedly now has tendered his resignation vp university officials.

floating leave the house merely to walk|l was turning my automobile around in Ohio for several weeks|in the garden, Communist soldiers around in the street and I guess that Fesler was considering at- would throw the bolts of their|it was too good a target to ignore. | tractive job offers from private (rifles and shout:

“Go back into the house.” At my office it was much the shot came

Gloves Tickets

| A day or two later I was driv{ing home to lunch and another For Christmas

uncomfortably close.

‘Armed Men Searched Houses of Staff by Night

You still ean have TimesLegion Golden Gloves Boxing

Times Index DURING THE first 20 days of the occupation we didn't move, .Lournament tickets for enbemmmmmmmmmmesn _ around the city any more than we had to, and afterwards we weren't _ DIiStmAS presents. Mall orAmuse. oe SETH 15 Needlework. - 10 allowed to do. so. ders received now will get Bridge ..... 10! Novel ...... 17 The only identification we had were.our American passports immediate attention. Comics .... 31 Othman .... 17/and consular cards. ~The Communists gave us nothing. Lacking Prices are: Ringside, §2; Editorials .. 18 Pattern .... 10 proper identification, it was hetter to stay at home. downstairs reserved and first Food ..... . 11/Radlo ..... 12| My house was searched three — reine | TOW balcony, $1.50, Prices inForum ..... 18/ Ruark ..... 17/times during the first week of sulate, were searched by night, clude tax. Gardening... 11 Side Glances 18 November. They came-by day- and the searches were intensive.” The tournament will be Hollywood... 14|Soclety ..... 9|light and I believe they were| gearchers would come in groups | held in the N, Pennsylvania’ Inside Indpls. 17 Sports. .. 20, 21|looking for arms. Houses oocu- of two or,three men. They were St. Armory on five successive Dr. Jordan. .. 11| Teen Prob. .. 10|pied by my staff in the Standard armed when they visited my| Friday nights, Jan. 6, 13, 20,

Mrs. Manners 13 Earl ‘Wilson 22/011 ‘compound, 9/Shan Road and close to the con-~| (Continued on x Page 3-00. EY

My Day «... 11iWomen's ...

just off Chung]

27 and Feb, 3.

take any voluntary steps to| economize. Chances seem very they will be under stern orders | from the PSC to get busy at thel

| By VIRGIN

Gable-Stanley Leaves Hollywood Gasping Called N

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Fostofos

Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Daily

Wedc fing”

Movie Star, 48, Marries Douglas Fairbanks’ Widow in Surprise Ceremony af Ranch

Photo, Page 28

The screen lover, n wife at a dude ranch’

honeymoon. Catching the whole town of guard, he rushed Lady Sylvia to {San Luis Obispo, picked up a marriage license from a SIEgtIng| girl clerk and was saying his * Do's” at the Alisal guest ll in Bolvang before anybody knew what was happening. His housekeeper thought he was “out to lunch”; his studio didn’t know where he was, and a lot glamour girls were wondering if he'd call for a date tonight. | { Swept Off Her Feet | “I've had this in mind for some {time,” he said after the ceremony {in the library of the guest ranch.) [“But I just suddenly decided to} pop the question. “I asl.ed her yesterday if she'd marry me. And she said ‘yes’ His English bride, who gave her age as 39, sald Mr. Gable swept her off her feet. “I answered ‘yes’ as fast as I possibly could,” she gasped. This was Mr. Gables fourth trek to the altar and the one his friends said he'd never take. They said nobody would ever make him forget his third wife, Carole Lombard, whose death in a plane. crash eight years ago sent him, crushed and bereaved, into semi-retirement for a while. (Miss Lombard, a native of Ft. Wayne, was killed on her trip back to Hollywood after a war bond rally at Cadle Tabernacle, Indianapolis, at which she sold $2 million worth of bonds.)

Mr. Gable's studio said the

———

IA MacPHERSON, United Press Staff Correspondent

at Encino in the San Fernando! [Valley late last night and would] stay there until they leave for

UAW Posts #25, In Effort To Ca = Dynamite Plotters

In Box Like

Wrap Bomb

Charge Called Big Enough fo Wreck Building DETROIT, Dec. 21 (UP) Angered by “a campaign of terror” ag the union and its officers, the United Auto Workers today posted -&

Ue Matters of General Know on NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UP)—

Scientific data found .in governHOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21—Clark Gable’s dashing elopement with ment girl Judith Coplon’s purse

how the company stood before the late Douglas Fairbanks" widow, Lady Sylvia Stanley, had the at the time of her arrest had been tackling anything as big as the film colony still catching its breath today.

known generally for upwards of

{ f [newlyweds returned to his home| with atomie

{Honolulu on the Lurling tomor-%

row. It sald reservations for the! boat trip have been made.’ Their wedding yesterday after. noon looked more like something out of a movie horse opera than | a film star's union with a tit

of| English beauty.

Before a gathering of 25 rela-| tives and ranch guests in cowboy |boots, levis and 10-gallon hats, the great lover and the ex-chorus |girl marched down a makeshift |aisle to the Rev. Aage Moller, In the background, a handcranked phonograph wheezed ou the wedding march, The couple "stood before a stone fireplace crackling with. a winter fire. Mr. Gable was just as nervous as any bridegroom. He fumbled the plain, gold wedding band, his hand shook and his broad-shoul-dered frame trembled as fearfully as if he hadn't gone through this three times before. Wears Blue Wool Dress After the knot was grabbed the new Mrs. Gable for a seven-second kiss—a sizzler that was every bit as romantic as any he ever gave Lana Turner for the screen in the two decades he has been. pleasing’ the fans. | It was the fourth marriage for Lady Sylvia, too, and she was ra-

(Continued on Page 3—Col. 1)

‘Within Tse or Three Days'—

You Said

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Dec.

But, Rita, Yesterday

That—

21 (UP)—

Prof. Rodolphe Rochat, leading Swiss obstetrician, said today that Rita Hayworth’s baby will be

The movie star, wife

February.” Prof. Rochat made

a reporter Yesterday she expected the baby

born “within two or three days.”

of Prince Aly Khan, told “in

his announcement at his

Montchoisi Clinic. He said: “Predictions for the birth to cour “before Christmas remain correct, but it is impossible to fix the exact date, as there are always variations of two or three days before and after.”

“It can happen at any hour now,” Prof. Rochat

said, .

tied, he|

w 48 and gray-haired, married his fourth | |20 years, Dr. Edward U. Condon! is pe sterday ‘while & phonograph ground out'testified today at a pre-trial hear1 guess what he “meant wis that the wedding march. Then he sped. off with her for a secret ing. © |after the rafe is hiked he can|

The data had nothing to do research, he said. Dr. Condon, director of the Na-

tional Bureau of Standards for

the Department of Commerce; pi

sald descriptions of geophones, Geiger counters and cyelotrons {which the FBI was alleged to ‘have found in Miss Coplon's {purse had been known publicly

led for many years.” 8 The government charges that Miss Coplon planned to pass the t information to Valentin Gubit-| o

chev, a Soviet citizen and former United Nations employee. Miss Coplon, a former employee {of the Justice Department, and] IMr,' Gubitchev "are / charged with)

long. | An anonymous ‘telephone call {led to the discovery. Jack Pick-

¢| conspiracy t to commit espionage. | (Continued on n Page 8~Col. 2

RCA Union to Outfit 400 In Clothe-A-Child Drive

Biggest Donor to Times Campaign In 20 Years Contributes Nearly $10,000

By ART

WRIGHT

The Times Clothe-A-Child's biggest supporter outfitted its first

of a group of 400 children yester Local Union B-1048 L.B.E.W, RCA-Victor Division took 100 chi

day.’ (A. F. of L.) employees of the local Idren to the stores last night from

| Clothe-A-Child headquarters and outfitted them with new, warm

clothing for the winter. The union members will take 100-more tonight, 100 tomorrow night and 100 on Friday afternoon. This biggest dongqr support in the 20- -year history of Clothe-A-|

The Times 1949

MILE-O-DIMES

19-Day Estimate 40 Full Lines ....... $5084.00

It will take 20 more lines to complete a mile. A mile will provide $8976 to Clothe-A-Child to buy warm clothing for the hundreds of needy children still depending upon YOU. Last year ‘the public contributed $10,384.50 to the Mile-O-Dimes. You have only. . until Saturday afternoon to match that needed goal. There are 17 dimes to =a foot. Each line is 88 feet long. Stop at the Mile-O-Dimes today and give your dimes to the uniformed members of Firemen's Post No. 42 of the American Legion to help at-

YOU,

Child Is ‘possible because the un~ fon members this year contributed nearly $10,000 to their own fund for The Times Clothe-A-Child, What the final contributions will. be at the RCA-Victor division won't be known for. another day. | Every cent raised there will go tfor, warm clothing for Indian- | apolis’ needy children who appeal | to Clothe-A-Child for aid. | It is a victory year for the|union. Last year they clothed |about 250 children and spent some | $7000. Never have they or any organization raised a sum for

CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions .........51047519 Mile-O-Dimes .....es.: 5,984.00 1,287.50

TV and Radio Drive.. Total to date + :.....517,746.00 List of Contributors on Page 8 Clothe A-Child a the $10,000 they expect to have

they complete their “big boost” to~ The Times Ctristenas service

tain last year's mark. /|over, the union |" Indianapolis’ needy chil- [gin contributing nickels, dren are depending upon i ——— Pl + |(Continued on

$25,000 reward for the cap. =