Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1949 — Page 8

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* SUNDAY,

were killed in accidents across the nation. Traffic accidents took 106 lives. Fires killed 25 persons. | And 23 died in miscellaneous mis-| haps,

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Family of 4

Dies in Crash

Of Car, Train - Accidents Kill ~~

6 Others in State On Christmas Eve

A family of four was killed in a train-car crash‘ at’™ Anderson last night to boost Indiana's mounting toll “of accident vie- + tims. to 10 as the Christmas holiday opened.

Other traffic accidents claimed

three lives, including an Indiah-| apolis man. olis than was killed in a hunting accident and two Anderson men| died in a plane ¢rash.

Another Indianap-

| "By Christmas Eve, 158 persons

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blockades at four intersections| Paul Thompson, Ma last night Christmas Eve revelers.

to check on tipsy| The state dead: William L. Roberts, 75, of 3999

Aurora St.

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was slowing for a scheduled stop order was effective

ter St. town.

wife. - 3 their|"®

ham, Ala.

Winslow.

Pepsi-Cola truck at Prospect Sts,

Joseph H. Keely, 10th St,

gauge

wire fence. was the left side of the head.

with whom he was hunting rabbits were about 200 feet away at the time. The accident occurred on the Ernest Cooper farm, 8 miles southeast of Greenfield. .

instantly when a car loaded with

Albert L. Hook, 63, of 2118 Dex-! Charles Mrs. Corabelle Jarrett, 39, his

Annajane Jarrett,

daughter.

Charles Jarrett, 5, their son.

Leland W. McPherson, 30, An-|_The -derson.

Alva Carter, 39, Anderson.

Mrs. Mary Doak, 22, Birming-| 5°00 in order to conserve the {country’s shrinking coa! supplies. |

Miss Lotta Ann McClain, 21,

oon.

He suffered fractures ‘of both

legs and head and internal in-| juries. The driver of the truck was be affected first. But the govern-|the wife of Prince Aly Khan, was mer Marine Corps -officer, said|Co-operation Administration next 28, of 2604 W.'ment may also have to reduce reluctant to undergo an- opera-/the document was written for the year, as compared to the current freight traffic, Mr. Johnson told |ation except as a last resort. She U. 8. Army by Mr. Guderian after|§3 778 million appropriation. Con-

reporters.

Hunter Killed Mr. Hook was killed instantly!

in a hunting accident near Green-|

eld. His singlearrel shotgun ent off as he imbed a barbed He

struck - in

Three nephews

Mr. Hook

The Jarrett family was killed

hristmas gifts was struck broad-

side by a New York Central pas-| senger train at a crossing in An-| derson,

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Seek to Conserve Coal Supplies

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UP) government expects to]

lorder cuts in passenger travel/TUary, without having to under

Chairman J. Monroe Johnson!

‘© |of the Interstate Commerce Com-/a condition. which had Mr. Roberts, a retired butcher, mission said today that if the threatened her with miscarriage was. fatally ,injured when he United Mine Workers continueiand made it seem likely that sur- taken already,” Sen. stepped into the rear of a backing their three-day work week, he gery would be necessary. State and will: have to issue an order next| yesterday . after- week directing c¢oal-burning railroads to curtail their operations after Jan. 1.

He said passenger traffic would

The commission issued similar

coal conservation orders during | this fall's coal

strike, It rescinded them last month when UMW President John L. Lewis

sent the miners back to the coal SaF€an baby, and her mother was chief-of-staff in 1944 and 1945 pits to work three days a week, ll! for some time after. {the Nazi During the two “holiday weeks they will work ohly two days a week.

Little Progress So Far Little progress has been made

toward drafting new wage-hour contracts. for the soft and hard coal industries. The old contracts expired last summer. The government contends that rajlroads have béen especially hurt by the production decline.

The commission yesterday gave

railroads with critically low coal Christmas in western Europe this his recommendations. I am afraid xisting sup-| year, but thanks to the Marshall that the

lies, . | It ordered railroads with less

|than a nine-day stockpile to noti-|a decade. ) [ty the government immediately.

Authorities said the crossing|The ICC will restrict coal ship-!| was guarded by flasher - lights. ments from the mines until sup-| Cause of the accident was not plies for those railroads are built immediately explained. The train up to Nov. 14-Dec. 12 levels. The;

in Anderson at the time.

died in the crash of. their small BT-15 plane north of Anderson CIty showed a 361-million-gallon only fear and hardship for 10 Broadcaster’s at 2:19 p. m. yesterday shortly after they radioed the Anderson airport they were having engine w

Pinned in Wreck Mr. McPherson and Mr. Carter

troubte,

8 two minutes before @ #aid the engine was not running smoothly, Witnesses . plane circled back toward the ersburg, retired as a butcher three with the help of American fuel, (day to enjoy-Christmas after an field, then nosed into the ground. months ago. He was a member materials and machines, provid- attack of “war jitters” brought on

“Thetr--last radio report, the cras

said the!

rise today. Chief Engineer Edward Clark said no further re-|’ strictions were planned to save

FABOULTT ——

nh. ‘bankment and plunged in the river, :

last midnight,

NEW YORK'S WATER RISES

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UP)—|

The reservoirs serving New York

ater. 1

Mr. Roberts, a native of Veed-|

The victims were pinned in the of the Moose Lodge. wreckage. Mrs. Doak died in Clark Coun- Cora Simpson, Veedersburg; and

ty Hospital

at Paoli

yesterday/three i : five hours after a car driven by Rooker, Mrs. Wilma Tavenor and |Shipmepts of fertilizers, improved brating announcer went on' the her husband ran off the road Mrs. Martha Tedrowe,-all of In- seeds

Surviving are a sister, Mrs.|

grandchildren, Robert |

and hit a bridge abutment. State dianapolis. | police said Mr. Doak apparently

fell asleep at the wheel.

Miss McClain died in Good

Funeral arrangements are

'pending at Stirling Funeral Home. food lines and rationing in most

Mr. Hook, a native of Bartholo-|

Police and Firemen Aid Beech Grove Needy

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IANAPOLLS TIMES .

Truman Faces Armed Arabs, Jews Guardspunky Boy Rough Going IN CONOTRSS «| sve ptm Sakis, Dee, 24 101s ms Chris

Taft-Hartley Act

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UP) —President Truman next month again will ask Congress for TaftHartley Act repeal, the Brannan plan and compulsory health , in-

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Borders in Bethlehem Area (Son's Sifts Echos of Church Bells Float Across Hills ~~ [Jackie Kno, 8, will be hon \ . Sa ~ Christmas after all. And he + From Tiny Town as Hundreds Visit Shrine |i; ring a cowboy gun and holster under his Christmas tree. Jackie, the son of a Japanese gardener at Farmington, Mo., entered Bethesda General Hospital here last June, suffering” with - _.. nephrosis. . Physicians gave him : small chance to survive. But Jackie surprised the doc- . tors. He showed a powerfui will to live. He walked out of the hospital under his own power. : He left the hospital loaded with gifts he received at Christmas

To ,* but in the hills of Judea, where once the shepherds tended their. flocks, troops watchd over a No Man's Land. ° The armed lines of Isfael and the Arab world were still drawn on" the glopes’ and men with tommyguns peered through | the night for tregpassers, But |= woman oe the hills remain | & few stars broke through the the men could hear

urch bells floath overcast and even the Little of chi 8 floating UP | Star of Bethl * from the. little town below. Bethlehem shone dim

‘Bethlehem was visited agai. | 1Y- In thé past year the ‘Glass by meh of many nations who [Star In the city ‘square had gathered at the shrine of | been brightly lit by electricity,

‘Expected to Seek

Repeal, Farm Plan

Twenty Beech Grove families will have Christmas dinners today through the annual efforts of Beech Grove police and firemen. ‘Containing more than $15 warth of groceries, the baskets were y to needy families! Aiding In. the distribution were (left to right) Bud TempleCity police, meanwhile, set up| ton, Ray Baker, James Bright, Police Chief Dud StraMon, Santa Claus, Fire Chief Robert Fletcher,’ " Wilcher and Mayor Richard Byland, who supervised the police and fire cheer

Natural Birth

| {document and there are amazing sional approval in 1950.

surance, ¢ But his chances of getting them appeared to be slim. One admin istration lieutenant predicted that Democratic leaders in Congress will give only token support to these planks of the ‘Fair Deal” in 1850 because of bittér opposition in both parties. This will not stop Mr, Truman from bucking his opponents with {ypical persistence. He alsp will plug hard for rent control extension and his civil rights pregram, including a fair employ{ment practices commission and lanti-poll tax legislation. . | hile s« | -He will gain much wider sup-| * |port, however, for his #&nticipated | - az recommendation that some war-| ) {time excise taxes be reduced. But then he will stapt the tax fight all over again by asking that other taxes—probably thdse on| corporations — be increased to make up the excise revenue loss. Early Approval Seen

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Charges Infuences Army

Senator Says Book

Rita's Doctor Seen Expecting

LAUSANNE, Switzerlafid, Dec. 24. (UP)—Friends of Rita Hay-

Christendom, despite the armed borders. There were not so

many as in other years and { those who kept tradition came | not on foot or donkey-back, |

but in jeeps and cars,

More than 300 diplomats and |

United Nations officials made the pilgrimage from Jerusalem

over the twp roads opened for |

five hours. Half of them journeyed ovef the main road held by both Jewish and Arab forces, the others over the “Burma Road,” held by Arab Legion, “under a heavy with occasional showers.

than the diplomats and United Nations personnels-were able to get special permission for the journey.

Arab legions stood guard in |

Bethlehem's stoned streets;

narrow, cobblegr - * The night was somber, Only

worth said today that her doctor now believes she may be able to bear her expected baby haturally, late next month or early in Feb-

New pressure also will be built up to push the year-old, “point four” program. As proposed in Mr, Truman's. 1949 legislative gram, the plan would guarantee

By Guderiain Is Guide

WASHINGTON, Dee, 24 (UP) {—=Sen, Joseph R. MecCarty (R. |Wis.) charged today that the

a Caesarean. {Army is using a “blueprint by|

They said Prof. Rodolfe Rochat 6X-Nazl Gen. ‘Heinz Guderian ‘as

ors abroad and provide for send-

Moscow Gay Even vro- If Christmas a fair return to American inves- | All Unofficial

examined Rita last night and ® 8ulde toward putting America’s found her recovering well from Peacetime economy under military] thrice control, | “The - first

ing technical “know-how” backward areas of the world. A bill to appropriate $45 milhave been lion as a starter toward developMcCarthy ment of these backward areas is |said. “I have seen the Gpderian/expected to get early congres-

steps

~ . ’ FOR two weeks the {gynecologist had been ready to now operate at any moment. | The Hollywood actress,

Swiss parallels between it and what is| Other foreign aid items face being done under the guise rougher sledding. Mr. Truman is of unification.” ‘ said to be considering a request

now| The Wisconsin Senator, a for-|of $3.2 billion for the economic

frankly admitted that she was World War II. He said it is a re'afraid to face the ordeal for a|view of the reasons for Ger- duction of about $1 billion from {second time, {many’s defeat and what might| this year’s figure. | The princess's 5-year-old daugh- have been done to avert it. |

{ter Rebecca, whose father was] Two Prerequisites I i Actor Orson Welles, was a Cae-| Mr. Guderian was the German SMP Puts Out Blaze,

as Heads Back to U. §S..

regime was plunging . . ltoward disaster. Sen. McCarthy NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UP)— lead |The New York city fire depart{said that his document has be-. 3 lcome a “bible” for top-ranking Ment today reported the merlu 8. A officers {chant ship 88 American Inventor “or py . {radioed that it has extinguished a

“Guderian laid down two pre-| requisites for a successful military| fire in its No. 2 hold and is head-

establishment,” Sen. McCarthy|In& back to its home port at said. “They were a general staff Staten Island, N.Y. - directing all the armed services| Marshall Plan / and assumption of santiol by the| : f ailitary over the civilian economy! Does Its Bit Jail A actual outbreak of war. | "WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UP)| “In this country, we have set up! {—It isn't going to be- much of a a general staff along the lines of

gressional sentiment favors a re-

Europe Happier This Christmas

rest is due to follow.” | Plan it will be a happier one than! Sen. McCarthy said he will that stricken land has known in make “full use” of the Guderian {document when the Senate conMarshall Plan officials said the siders the nomination of Adm! flow of American aid that has Forrest P. Sherman to be Chief of been pouring into the continent|Naval Operations. for the past 21 months is show-| Adm, Sherman was elevated hod ig results, that post after the service squab-| That help will be reflected this ble over unification and while Christmas in more warnith, more Congress was in recess. The Senfood, more jobs and a rising ate still must act on his nominasense of security for millions of tion. young and old who have known!

years of war and reconstruction. - >

That is the consensus of re- ‘War Scare’ i

ports received by the Economic | 1 Co-operation Administration here on 3 tle. 8 from Its agents in tee Blamed -on Bottle shall Plan countries. ) Industrial production through- Ao] out western Europe has speeded 24 (UP)

QUFRBEC CITY, Quebec, Dec. Residents sat back to-

ing more goods for the continent's bY a tipsy radio announcer.

domestic and export markets and Shortly before Prime Minister more jobs for its people. | Louis 8t. Laurent arrived here

Food, too, is more plentiful, from Ottawa last night, a cele-

ahd farm machinery from [air with word that the govern-

the United States have resulted Ment had declared a state of

bigger crops and an end to €Mergency. ‘ in bigge op “Mr. St. Laurent,” the broad-

western European countries. caster said {over Station CKCV),

Wishing

- MOSCOW, Dec, 24 A festive air prevailed through-

out the Soviet Union today al- |

though Christmas is no longer a legal holiday here. The snow-blanketed city twinkled with brightly lit

“yolkas”-—with Russian version |

of the Christmas tree. Western diplomatic colonies in Moscow will celebrate Christmas with all of the traditional ceremonies and merrymaking: Catholics celerbrate two masses tonight and three more Christ. mas morning and Protestants will hold services at the Amerlcan and British embassies, ” ¥ . THE AMERICANS--the largest of all the Western groups here—will gather tomorrow pt Spaso House, residence of Arbassador Alan G. Kirk, to sing carols-and to dine. a There is no Santa Claus In Russia, but there is a similar

figure—a white-bearded “Grand-|

father Frost’, 7

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but the ravages of war had cut off ali of Bethlehem's supply.

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and love ond peace. To olf of you—a hearty MERRY CHRISTMAS! ~~

odrich |

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parties. One of the gifts is a cow=" boy outfit, and Jackie wants a

gun and holster to complete }t. _ oe

Christmas is everything wonderful—to the giver and ww

those who receive; to father, mother, sister, brother,

son, doughter—to all who believe in laughter

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Samaritan Hospital at Vincennes yesterday of injuries received in & two-car ¢rash. Thursday. night. Woman Charged The car iff which she was a pas-

senger was struck ata downtown’

intersection in Vincennes. The

driver of the other—ear, Mrs.

Nellie Johnson, was charged with failure to yield the right-of-way. State police reported finding the body of Homer Claude Dawson, 30, Petersburg, vesterday in the Patoka River in Pike County Btate Forest, He was killed Dec.

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any CLOUDY AND ELOUDY AREAS

Today’s Weather

COM IO EOW. | A week oS SED ; TODAY AND TONIGHT—T

mew County, had been employed in: the metal shop of Chevrolet Body Division here for the last

[16 years. He was a member of . 713.shelyes are filled with. new mer-| Lu as “Ichandise produced with machines] NEWSPAPER and radio sfa-

Evergreen ~-Masonic Lodge and Unity Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Ruth; two "daughters, Mrs. Maxine Pollard and Mrs. Marjorie Strohler,

both of Indianapolis; a brother, Elizabethtown; four sisters, Mrs. Josie Guinn and|in Londan’s Picadily Circu Mrs. Alma. Helt, both of Elizabethtown; Mrs. Lucy Stine, Green- ting. field, and Mrs. Rilla Hunter, Co-| 18 when his car ran off an em-;lumbus, and five grandchildren. [the recovery job is not completed. his broadcast.

Harrison Hook,

“has asked all his cabinet to remain in Ottawa and has called all members of Parliament for .a special session.”

The rubble of war is being replaced. by new buildings, once(gaping store fronts now sparkle

{with shiny glass, and empty, =

made possible by American help tion switchboards promptly were and a continent's will to live. jammed by calls from listeners | “A few pleasures that were non- fearing a new conflict. One man |existent a year ago -have re- said a station told him “it may "turhed like the Christmas Nghts mean war with Russia before s¥7un. Christmas.” “The announcer was not a¥ail{able today, and station officials The reports to ECA agree that|said they had no way of checking “He apparently

[rationed cigarets, and new cloth-

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Fotocast

hout Great Plains. Rain. is expected |

was having a truly merry Christmas,” one station official sald.

Trend Still Upward § In Jobless Claims

The Indiana Employment Security Division said yesterday that an upward trend in claims for jobless insurance pay continued through last week. « “Y | Initial claims increased from 12,439 the previous week to 14,085, Director Everett. L.. Gardner said. This was a 13 per cent increase compared to a jump of 50 per cent during the earlier week, Mr. Gardner said contipued claims went up 9 per cent from § 40,847 to 44,439. : Most of last week’s new claims pie came from workers laid off In a hs temporary shutdown at Stude2 oy baker Corp. South Bend. Te Large numbers of claimants ia BET, were. called back fo work last aig weéek and, general holiday emCg « 0 Iployment glided the overall situa- © ~{tion, Mr/ Gardner said.

| JumBO SIZE HOT TAMALES

MADE FRESH DAILY WITH "4 QUALITY BEEF AND IMPORTED SPICES

| DREXLER'S TAMALE 0. |

ted to rise approxi-_

Since we can not shake each one of ~ you by the hand and give you our best wishes personally—We want to

take this opportunity to express our hopes that this Christmas and the coming New Year will bring you and

yours joy and happiness.

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