Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1949 — Page 3
FHURSDAY. DEC. 2, i490 _ So
: i to Hit
15-18° Tonight
Cold Wave Sweeps
Into Hoosier State
(Continued Kym Page One)
an all-time high temperature record for the date. Thermometers fell as .cold air spread into Indiana from the west this morning. Occasional freezifig drizzle glazed roads near South Bend and Goshen; Winds up to 20 miles an hour were reported in the northwest corner. of the state. Drops to oe In Indianapolis, fhe ; ; mercury dropped from 40 at 7 a.'m. to 34
at 11 a. m. Snow flurries fell in| “icing conditions are the worst much of northern Indiana and a|in the history of this city.”
few light flurries were expected | here late today. .
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[21 at Louisville, Ky. But fore-
as the ice broke telephone and telegraph lines. Highways in the central Missouri area were danJSsaus. Jrven rallroads were slowed as the ice disrupted their ~|signal and telegraph systems. Amateur radio operators trans. mitted conpfmunications for police, railroads and news services, The eastern portion of the country wd# still enjoying springlike weather which sent the mercury into the 50's at New York and set a new: high of 69 fof Dec.
casters said the. good weather would pass quickly as the Mid western storm moved eastward. The mercury fell fo seven below zero yesterday in northern Arizona and 13 inches of snow fell at Grand Canyon. The first snow in 12 years fell at Ajo, in southern Arizona.
Sedalia, Mo., police said the
Southwestern ‘Bell Telephone
Transit Fare Here
Hiked to 12 Cents
PSC Calls on IR
To Reduce Costs (Continued From Page One). Bartholomew ‘report despite the fact that the report clearly indicated the need for aggressive action. This lethargic attitude can not be permitted to continue if there is to be any hope for the ultimate salvation for this petitioner.”
Cleveland Tied Up
- > By Transit Strike LEVELAND, O., Dec. 22 (UP) —A strike today by 6500 transit system employees set many of
|Co. said 61 circuits were out at
Chilling blasts were to send Sedalia alone. Officials estimated |
the mercury skidding down to|that 8-14 degrees in northern Indiana throughout central Missouri and Union became effective and to 15-20 south tonight, fore-|that 300 poles had splintered night
casters said,
1500 wires were broken]
under the sheer weight of the ice.!
this city's 1225000 residents {thumbing rides and walking, The walkout by members of! local 268 of the AFL Transit by mid(Indianapolis Time), as motormen and = streetcar* nity
Temperatures were scheduled The Illinois Bell Telephone Co. ductors ended: their work shift to remain several degrees below reported 450 line ‘breaks from and returned their equipment. to| frezing tomorrow. A high tem- Quincy to Carthage and 240 from car barns.
perature of 22-27 north and 25-29 Qunicy to Beardstown, Ill.
south was forecast.
|by mederately ‘heavy snowfalls. Local forecasters kept their eyes on a storm center Revel] [Sreat_Bend, Kas., had 6 inches; 40 bus lines 10 streetcar lines and
ing today over Washington and! Oregon. It was expected to bring snow| to northern Indiana Saturday, but only thickening clouds to the! Hoosier capital.
The speed of its southward ‘Services
movement would determin
whether Indianapolis would have| MUNCIE a white Christmas, meteorologists John Thomas
said.
The Great Plains were covered
Kas., 5 inches; St. Joseph, Mo., Dodge City and Wichita, Kas., 4 inches; and Beatrice and Fairbury, Neb., 3 inches.!
John T. ‘Campbell at Gosport
es State Service | Dec. 22-+Services for
(Johnnie) Camp-
[bell who died Tuesday in his|
[Muncie home,
Union members voted to strike| to enforce demands for paid vaca[tions, The strike’ will affect some nine trackless trolley lines serv-| ing 1 million daily Passengers. |
Central Civic League Yule Party Tomorrow
The second ' annual Central} Civic League Christmas show for| | children will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the St. Clair Theater, Approximately 1500 youngsters
THE } INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _
One of the. Wonders. of Yoldtie : 8
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Sampling the fruits of the gumdrop tree are Susan Pentecost,
she ear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pentecost, 1628 E. St. and Charles York, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles York, i Middle Dr. Woodruff Place.
Arbor ‘Gumdroppicorum
} of the Wisp valley. —— Bom
Towns Isolated will. be held at| Over the nation, a severe ice|1l a. m.’ tomorrow in Gosport storm left. scores of Midwestern after services at 4 p. m. today| towns isolated this morning. And! |in Meeks Mortuary here. Burial at least 14 deaths were counted Will be in Gosport. He was 49. in the past 24 hours as a result/ Mr. Campbell was owner of] of harsh weather. [Campbell's Oasis. His wife; The bad weather was blamed | Myrtle Kelley Campbell, and two for the deaths of three persons sisters from 8 from Gosport, survive, poisoned by-carbon-monexide-gas + when their car skidded off a road and the tailpipe rammed into a snowbank near Klamath Falls,
Get Bonus Checks
IZ Christmas bonus checks of one Ores week's salary were presented to Two soldiers were injured ompigyees of the Richman Broth-
fatally and three others werelerg Co. at their annual Christmas hurt in an auto-truck crash neariparty last night in the recreation Randlett, Okla. The truck skidded room of “the store, 22 E. Wash-| on a slick road. {ington St. k Freezing rain spread a 15-inch. A buffet dinner was served to! layer of glaze ice over portions employees, their families and [guests. A program followed, with were left com- Santa Claus bringing gifts for pletely without communications children and adults. : ;
STRAUSS STORE HOURS
Santa to Friend Indeed Library.
THES “WEEK
are expected for the two-hour showing of a comedy and cartoon | films. Santa Claus will distribute gifts and candy to each child. A bicycle and complete outfits | of clothing for a boy and girl will | | be given away in door prizes, The | . showing is free to all children.|
Is. Rare In These Parts
One of World's Finest Examples of Strange, Exotic Tree on Display at Public Library
The gumdrop tree (arbor gumdroppicorum) is one of the wonders of Christmas. i Rarely seen in this latitude (or longitude), it grows on the top Friend _in_ in Need Plays +of-a-filing-cabinet-at-the Spades-Park Branch-of Indianapolis Public,
The tree will bear gumdrops only when appreciated by children
with a sweet tooth. The gardner at Spades Park branch is Miss fugosiar . Charge
argaret Griffith, junior librarian. The trunk and branches of the “Sale of Discarded War Goods _ Cited
arbor gumdroppicorum bear gum BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. Dec. (UP)—Mr. and Mrs. Jerry! Foster, invalided since an Easter IM automobile accident, had expected | a sad Christmas for their three children. Then merchants sponsored a [‘Jerry Foster Day,” and put| lcanisters in 70 stores. Boy Scouts (held a candy sale and ini ‘sold pastries. -The project netted he {$1800 for Christmas
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drops in a mouth-watering vari: 8 |ety of colors and flavors. They are} small, standard gumdrop H-on— the tree. But ie ‘moment-they “ripen” and fall off| they become large and luscious— Fogters! {about the size and consistency: of marshmallows: $ "The s fruits-of the tree:
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122 tUP)}=Yugoslavia —celebrated|
"Colleges Well On GI Tuition
VA Head Approves
Non-Resident Rates WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UP)
[—Veterans Administrator Carl R.| |Gray Jr.
made a multi-million | dollar ruling today in favor of! [schools charging non-resident tul-| [tion rates for certain ex<GI stu|dents, Mr, Gray affirmed the legal right of the VA to pay the socalled non-resident tuition rate for veterans studying under the GI Bill of Rights even though
“Isuch veterans are residents of|
the state in which they are going to school, The decision settled fears of hundreds of institutions that they might have to pay back to the government millions of dollars collected by charging such nonresident rates.’ The government's General Accounting Office, watchdog of the
92 ber of the Communist
PA : i Tala gE" the non- resident rate was Sart 3 even though students lived in i R Ta state. GARY, Dec. 22 = Mr, Gray sald that the, GAO| Northern M. Kg raised. the question of legality judge today was of payments “undoubtedly” A he ay cause of a lack of clarity in ‘VA in’s 70th birthday when he regulations. was arrested last night on | 7 .| @& drunk charge, O'Dwyer and Bride Sail He vas released on $20 ! “4 | cas nd pending % On Secret Honeymoon | Police said they did not + FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec.! (UP) — Mayor William! O'Dwyer of New York and his| -party. > bride were honeymooning at an| [undiscloseqd spot today after sail-| ¢ E [Ing from here fast night in the Finicint $ Rainbow Ti lyacht Almay IL Run Canceled : Some of the usual “sources” or ay said the mayor and the former! Cancellation of Finian's Raine Sloan Simpson were headed for POW,” musical play originally Cat Cay in the Bahama Islands, scheduled for Jan. 5 through 7 at |about 60 miles east of here, Oth-| th ers sald the honeymooning cous e. Murat, was announced ple intended to fish in the Flor. PY Vincent Burke, booking mans ida keys. |ager, The couple were married Tues-| Mr. Burke said there still was day morning at Stuart, Fla. They a possibility the show might plan to return to New York Dec. come here later in the season, 28.
- - —— ———— ————— set, YULE FILM SCHEDULED Meanwhile, a day has been Children at Riley Hospital were addéd to the Murat run of to see a Christmas film showing gician Blackstone, who will op
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Treasury, claimed that the VAjat 2 p. m. today in the occupa-| here Sunday, Jan. 8, with m ines had overpaid the’ University. of tional therapy ward. The films and evening performa pes, ine Wisconsin, among others, from were donated by Ideal Pictures, stead of Jan. 9, originally $7 million to $8 million because Inc Iplanned, Mr. Burke sald.
STRAUSS SAYS:
STORE HOURS TOMORROW (F (Store Closes Saturday at 4 oO lock 7
FRIDAY) 9 _H(L & Re
= — — an the 3 of 118 eighth ATmy Day anniversary
~{the-Spades-Paric tree within-easy:
HERE IS HELP, AID, SUCCOR and ASSISTANCE!
Each of our salesmen on the Men's Clothing . Floor [The Second) has been appointed a : committee of one—to assist (on request) any man
who desires helpful guidance in
gifts for the ladies. Or gifts—period.
You many desire a single gift—or to send a
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tre “eC tr aw wit h
only oncé a year, during the war supplies. Christmas holidays. The most fa-| The charges were made at a vorable location for an arbor meeting of high officials, ingumdroppicorum is one frequent- cluding Tito, at the National Theed by youngsters. ater last night by Gen; mar
bh [KTreacic, political ‘chief of the Police re ‘Seek 19-Year-Old |
my A he gumarop
today inthe wake of charges: pHEAL S31 Russi trisd to Keep Marshal —— army --weak--by supplying. inferior and discarded!
[Yugoslav Army. Gen. Kreaclic said that the {Pendleton Escapee . | Yugoslavs refused to continue Times State Service buying Russian war supplies bePENDLETON, Dec. 22—Police Cause “we knew what it meant today were searching for a 19-| [to be dependent. year-old Indiana Reformatory in-| {other course, that of building up mate who walked away from alour military industry with our prison work detail here yesterday OWn forces,” he said. afternoon. Bought Old for New
Charles M. Dulworth, Tipton,| “We bought quantities of equipwas working in an orchard out-| ment, for example artillery, enside the reformatory grounds| gineering or signal corps material when he disappeared. Sentenced as new, while it was in fact old to 1-10 years on a grand larceny | war material freshly repainted. conviction June 14, he would! “In exchange for dollars and have been eligible for parcle in 80d they sent up gunpowder May, 1950. {which wag unusable, which in the
- FORDS' ‘INVADE HAIFA © ty “| TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 22 (UP) 'stamp and date and Ee —The Fordl’' Motor Co. has com-| with the remark ‘This Gunpowder pleted negotiations for a truck Has Been Discarded.’ assembly plant in the port of| “That is why we did not want Haifa, it was disclosed today. The to remain at the old level but detrucks will be assembled from cided to move ahead and build up parts manufactured in the United ‘our military Industry with our States. lown forces.”
IN INDIANAPOLIS
INDIANA WEATHER" . Westerly to northwesterly winds will flow into the state, lowering temperatures to from 8 to 14 degrees in thé north and to from 15 to 20 degrees in the southern portion of Indiana by Tomorrow morning. Generally cloudy weather tonight will be followed by partially clearing skies tomorrow, . Maximum temperatures tomorrow will range from 22 to 27 degrees north | A
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bja; Chester, Novella Worley, and from 25 to 29 degrees south. alabama orator. . Doroths’ Bishop t. Franels alter, ro sho Sea Weather Map on Page 30. “yin Patricia Hurrie Temperatures in Indianapolis one At Genorsi-—Cliftan, Harriett Conn; Low- | year ago today: High, 36; 10W,/26. At Coleman — Kenneth. Mary Kimball J . william. Beuty hilhon Evel 4 t hodist {lliam, Evelyn Counts [EVENTS TODAY Jatnen, Frances Dever: Enos, Betty ShuMarien County Tuberculosis Asyselation maker; Priedebald Marillyn Dsubas Christmas Seal Campaign — Throus Russell, Dorothy Patrick: Sherman Christmas Joan Hazelwood: Lester, arie Fran Christmas Choraling au Monument Cirele lin William, ns Buchanan; Gerald, y ous aturday y Li Real batate Board— Noon, Washington At ri Vincent's. Andrew Mary Mihal | Advertising Board Noon. Athletic Club Dr. Arthur, Alice Richter: William [North Indianapolis Co-operative Club — yoo, 00 Gabonay; Dorothy, Richard Noon, Marott | Howard: Robert, Rita Jackson: Charles, ———— | Cornelia Binkley; Charles. Louise 8inEVENTS TOMORROW | rman, Marion, Marshad Marion County Tuberculosis Association] Eloise Jordan: George. Wanda Kelly. | Christmas Seal Campaign — rous Thomas, Margaret Reckley
nda Christmas Choraling en Monument Circle
Girls At Home Charles; Mattie Parker
the purchasing of
ee Baturda Jos N Kiwanis Clube ly Y€iaypeo! East: Carl, Beulah Price. 1206 Central hange ub, Noon, Liaypool Warren, Lillian* Bullock. 27 N Keys! one Optimist Club—Noon, Sever /arner, Marilyn Bleet.. 722 West; English Speaking Union—Noon, Athletic Korless. Josephine Morton 1 CaroClub. . line; Chris, Mary ones, 3507 Prospect
Franeis—Robert, Betty Johnson
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DEAR MADAM:
WE TRUST you'll not think it prosumpuous-—it |
celebrating Marshal Stale
know Mr, Wring as a mem-
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considerable about the man (lucky man!) who! is to receive your Christmas Greeting.
CATERING TO MEN for. something like 96 years—we can be expected to know
q about the male—
his reactions—~and what makes him click arid what makes.
THEY'RE DIFFERENT—yet how very ; much alike—We have never met a man (a marvelous : mixture of divinity and devil] no matter how absorbed in his work—or in himself—who didn't glow at a
regard for him—
A WOMAN pays him the
compliment of catering to his preference—if the gift
label that he knows and respects—and that
indicates a masculine source—and if enclosed in it js Your
card—he just beamg—he sdems
transported—he murmurs to himself or sudibly
about how wonderful life is—what a j
grand worl Id it is, etc.!
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it — that these are gifts. that will warm his heart—
plurality of remembrances to relatives near MARRIAGE LICENSES; fsi Faslice Fiek, Viren. Visio * at’ J ' ‘| Gerald, Alice Hylt Robert, Maril and far—to office personnel and personnel in 8. E = aot Pare: Vee, Bip oe i 2 i " general—Your requests can be taken care of Her an E Sean, 3 x Ee Rig ghar- AV Coleman Charles Lorene Pigley tly. and thoroughly. ‘ Morace "& Howey e sh. 3088 Washimeton yuri ner, Coraitsre red, Roberts promptly ughly Blvd; Cathryn ‘Kuemmich, 43. 3161 N Rightmeyer, Craguieis: Roscoe, Hele : i . \ James D, Mabel Rhodes; Robert, Mary | OUR CLOTHING MEN have been specially briefed Bert Natalie 24, 1016, Morris; Katie M Wagoner. Rovert, Mary , Eile snare; | . . . . Gerald Ulrich, 21, H Betty A ' thmeyer on selections throughout the store—including pconacd. 20. aad SHEL 7A AH end EL LS Behusim | P.S. Our the Women's Specialty Shops on Third and- $5¢, Run Pkwy. Georsla W. Shaw, 20, Aususta Foreman, ~~ Mr. Rarsdell- Fourth Floors—even to the DEXDALE nylon Narman Frazee, 2 Juan NAT a | “on the T rd { er us. : 16. 18 Olly . Blate, cared Floor Women's stockings 50 Gear Jo.2 PERFUMES 10 ho ames v. Clond 3 Hg Se: parce Nell} Hays 7 at 837 N. California comment}—C so Dail der. 23. RR. 11, Box 203-L; |marvey' J. Boyd, 63. at Vet h Sho J also as E. Bolander , Box , at Veterans, emphy - able and: willin entrancing to a woman's olfactory sector—BLUM picioris MC Miller 32, ig Good Heridsan; of A"Laverne Cato, 30, at BU. Vincent's -— 9 . Janet C."Ocheliree, 43, 1513 N. Meridian nto — ven desirous CANDIES that give the taste bu sa real Ropert pt aivinany +4 8 Em erson; , resronary Tht fo al 761 Liecing * * y k ! 3 U cere of being of service thrill—They are informed on packaging’—mailing dobt cial. =. afl § Bitter: pe OSE A heringhage Methodist. to perplexed data, etc.—they are prepared to relieve you Offord piiideg, 48, 10 N.” Abama: Moyne, 3038 N. Capitol males! Wh * Craig M wu LE 2394 N Delaware; Chiaries } Newton Shaw, 65. at Long. prone- | y of all routine matters—enclose your card if Emma L. O'Neal, 28. 2346 Broddw [Barbara Ellen Brown, 2 at Riley, pneu rv » bid v should you 2 {Mervin D. Heald. 52, 1014 N. P yivania; montis shudder ~ when you wish!® . co (rarest, H Riches. 20, 1228 Comer: Artota| Bette Daggett. 64, at Methodist, eoro- | +h . h ’ ‘ Dar a a 3. ia nila, N_ Tiilnols: Minnie Lannis, 78, at 3438 Guilford, ne are’s. suc *If you wish to crash through—have your gift go forth Lillian») Mason. 38. “Ton N: Tinos phritis
help at hand! in a Strauss gift wrap—a rich glowing RED for the men—
a wondrous heavenly BLUE for the ladies—There is a nominal cover charge for this touch of luxury.
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. DIVORCE SUITS FILED
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New Yi James, Georgia Bracken, 14" earcinom , Bhefeld raalia A ice, : { Bi y 1 Pron pial Sadie’ Munn. 3 11, Colum- IP Geteratia, h sh uy Broadway, iti.
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and the warmth will radiate to the Person whose name is on the Gift Card == {Aya Hollywood commentator says— "and we DO MEAN YOU")
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