Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1950 — Page 1
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
is a section of
A corner of the
Reet ha son” order. Unie John ‘Whistler Atherton Center—opened Campus Club on the first floor, which hat fountain and grill and
Vado! lounge. Students are (left to right, sitting): Mary Jordan and<Ellen Smith, both of Indianapolis, and |
relaxed between classes today in
Daniel Glendenning, New Mattinsville, W. Va. Standing are Max McMurtry and Joan Myers, both lndianapolis. The new building | also includes a faculty lounge, cafeteria, bookstore, student organization offi ices and ‘game rooms. \.
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Father" S Death Ends Grief |
Of-5 Years Over 2 Sons
Health of J. A. Temple Began to Fail
Sf
When He Was Told of War Casualties
By GALVY GORDON
Tomorrow, they'll bury Joseph A, Temple, 52, of 22 W. 22d St. but he “died” five years ago when he learned of the death of his|
two sons in World War II.
. Mr. Temple's health really began to fail, his family said, when | two War Department telegrams arrived at his home within a month.
His dedth Suridiy in Méthodist’ Hospital was a result’ of the! grief that only a father can know/
deep down within his heart. In Wholesale Business
| In the fall, he suffered three [broken ribs and other injuries. |
For many years Mr. Temple Byt most of all, he seemed to have was in the wholesale vegetable los the will to live.
‘business, buying from wholesale markets and selling to downtown
+ the family enterprise.
Mr. Temple was in bed suffer: to America for burial. ing from injuries received in a|at his request, they were buried Moving southeast through Mon-
re
the new $1,125,000 student union . Pictured | seat 500,
0 Men, en, 2 Women
i 7 ower “6! Wiis STB w
for use this morni
Members Swom In, Take: Up Duties
Marion County's
Samuel Garrison,
Ham D. Bain and Saul I. Rabb.
Frank W. Wilson, president of McKelvey-Kell cleaning establish-| ment, was named foreman. “lives at 5857 N. Delaware St.
Informed of Duties
qf, ew Jurors were informed ] n ie cme "ona oe By Barrett to Aid Julietta ic officials and inspect public
conditions in
Mrs,
Curry, R. R. 11, Box 308,
{ housewife. thers named to the jury were B. Nash, 1838 Ludlow St. [a furnace installer; Albert 8. Anan In{diana Bell Telephone Co. official, |and Vane A. Jones, 3260 Nicholas| Welfare of the county. taxpayers,” {8t., an employee of the Indiana]
derson, 6030 Dewey Ave.,
Car Co.
Canada's Cold
Heading Here
Freeze Expected
Tomorrow Night LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ..5
7a.m... 60 11 a. m... 62 8a.m... 60 12 (Noon) 63 9a m. .. 60 1p m.. 63
cold air mass sw former fett _A .er the war, Mr. Temple dolor Canada will amble mer | Julletta restaurants. His sons helped me the offer of the War De- tures here to. freezing. by. tomor-. . {partment to return his two sons TOW night, the weatherman said Instead, |today.
Grand Jury of four men and two women, sworn in today at the courthouse in simple ceremonies, immediate-| ly began learning their duties. grand jury deputy prosecutor, closeted himself with the new jury members minutes after they were selected] by Criminal Court Judges Wil-
He|
| Of the two women jurors sworn in, one was a housewife, the other a professional woman. Ld Jacine Olvey, 68 Jenny ne, works as an | the El Lilly Co. rape Martha | HaFTY Barrett, newly appointed superintendent.
is a!
10a. m. .. 60
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1950
Batered as
Secofid-Class Matter at. Postofice Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Dally
rns De Aids To Expect Formosa's Fall
‘A Great and Howling Wind'— it:
Stalin Saw A-Blast, ‘Eye-Witness' Says
Greek's Letter to Chicago Businessman Says Peasants Thought World Had Ended
CHICAGO, Jan. 3 — A letter describing the explosion of the Russian atomic bomb, written by a man. who says ‘he witnessed the blast, has been received by Christopher Janus, Chicago businessman. The letter is from a reputable Greek citizen in Athens, known to Mr. Janus. Mr. Janus has no particular reason to doubt the writer's word. However, the casualness with which the story is told, in a letter, demands that all possible n motives for sending such "a letter should be examined. . = .
LETTER,
howling wind which lasted
THE written about five minutes.
compatriots saw it too, and am concerned that I haven't seen them since.” - Ld » » Mr. Junds_j8.in the im “IT WILL amuse you lo
ges SOF ay Lr. rk? Bremer: Rm fran samp Re “not far on Seite Btalt looked very tired, but satis.
thought it was the end of the world.
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mobile, which he’ purchase in 1948. His business keeps him i" contact with hundreds of\ foreign business and military men and diplomats. ” = ~ DESCRIBING the explosion, the Greek letter says: . “There was the same mushroom effect that you had. in Bikini,- only there was one mushroom on top
there, incluéd'ng Molotov and several Germans, “The Russians obviously knew everything you did at ~ Bikini. Donkeys, sheep, snakes, an microbes were used for experimental purposes. “Three Siberian lifers, in- >. cluding a woman, “volunteered” to be exposed, but I
of another. A few seconds haven't confirmed this, I after the explosion the counted gover 75 planes ‘in . ground shook, a whole the air during the explosion,
and for some reason they carried cakes of ice
mysterious large
mountain seemed to move, and the sky was aflame. “Then came a great and
3-Point Program Outlined
Li Grade of Garden Food for Patients Among Plans of New Superintendent By IRVING LEIBOWITZ
A three-point program designed to raise the standards of Jult-| etta, the Marion County Home for the Aged, was pledged today by |
Mr. Barrett, one of twelve major appointments made yesterday | {by the Democrat-controlled County Commissioners, succeeds Daily | McCoy Mar. 1. Se — | “Our first duty is the welfare | suming control at the Home. At/ of the patients,” he said in an- Present, Mr. Barrett is state dis-| nouncing plans for the Home. tributor fora national equipment; “Our next duty is the economic firm. In another appoinment - anPlans Outlined | nounced by Fred W. Nordseik. | Mr. Barrett's plans for the 50- | new president of the Board of] "year-old institution that serves as County Commissioners, Dr. Oscar| {the home for more than 500 men D. Ludwig replaced Dr. A. M. |and women, the elder poor of the Hetherington as County Health county, are part of a program he officer, {instituted when he was head of Julietta from 1832 to 1942. “I have no plans for any The plans include: {changes at present.” Dr. Ludwig ONE: Put the Home's farming |said as he took office today. on a paying basis, reducing over-|
Replaces Ging
Robert 1. Carrico, chief deputy, head and giving patients better prosecutor under Prosecutor! grade garden food. George Dailey, replaced Scott
TWO: Modernize the hospital | |Ging as County Attorney. facilities of the Home. Other appointments were THREE: Institute ‘fire evatua:| John Linder, assistant county tion. plans in the event a fire] attorney; Dr. Gerald Fisher, starts in the old portion of the! |Juliegta physician; Leo J. White. building. ) (highggay superintendent; Robert] Plan Florida Vacation Hathaway, weights and measures| Mr. Barrett said his wife, a inspector; Willlam Wilson, car-| matron, would penter: Miss Virginia Bratton,| {aid him. He asserted that ‘We claim clerk; Mrs. George Katzen-| are. not. going into Julletta . toiberger, commissioners’ secretary; make. money.’ Dr. J. J. Briggs, jail physician Mr. and Mrs, Barrett expect Dr, Cyril Carr, county dentist and| to leave for Florida shortly for | Clarence Meister, county garage
fall off a ladder when news side by side in a military cem-{!ana and the Dakota's, the mass a five-week vacation before as- | superintendent. reached him of the death of T-4/etery in France. a
Eugene R. Temple, the first of his sons to perish in the war. Eugene was among more tha
800 American soldiers in the ill<{Were in service, he was a clerk]
fated 66th Army Division who met their death on Christmas/had worked for a local extermi- | Day, 1944, when a German tor-/nating firm. : pedo ripped apart the troopship Leopoldville in the English Chan-
nel.
. Member of Lodge He was a member of Brookside Masonic Lodge No. 720,
A month later. cime the news|Sahara Grotto and the Indiana
of the death of his second. son, Pfc. Albert Karl Temple, Third
Army killed Jan. 25, turning from a patrol. Falls Down Stairs
Infantryman,
The shock of the two deaths caused Mr. Temple, who was still| Shellman, wearing a cast on his leg from the fall, to tumble headlong down tomorrow in the a flight of stairs from his bed-
room on the second floor.
1945, while re-/key, Mich.; his mother, Mrs.
Restaurant Association.
Ida | V.. Temple, Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Grace T. Cooper, Memphis, Tenn.
Wald Funeral|
Washington Park.
On the Inside Pages
Both parties predict gains in '50 elections: ...ccovessvesss.. Page 2 Place of family in society changing........ (Society, women’s news, patterns, menus, doctor’s advice, = Pages 5 and 6) Guerrillas harass Reds, Chiang aide says . .., World Report..Page 11 Symphony musicians find it tough making ends meet........ Page 13 : (Inside Indianapolis, Frederick Othman, Page 13) The Day in Business, by Harold Hartley.....ccove0 The Bowl Games . . . kicks pay off for Ohio State. (Joe Williams, other sports and pictures, Pages 15 and 18)
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vesvnes Pagel resus PAge 16
talready has invaded the northern! ._ A native of North Salem, Mr. edge of Illinois. Temple had lived in Indianapolis Havre, Mont. fell to 36 below nimost of his life. While his boys ®8rl¥ this morning.
In Indianapolis,
mercury will fall to
Survivors include a daughter, corp ROU 8 who was|Mrs. Georgianna Medley, Petos- TS AUSSIE HEAT
SYDNEY, Australia, Jan.
(UP)—A heat wave which sent! 4 {temperatures as high as 115 de-| for a man of the cloth to answer | Jury Weighs
Indianapolis, and Mrs. Sylvia T. Srees in New South Wales eased —grew out of the recent arrest S nders Case
Temperatures at]
occasional rain and mild weather rons! M yr Ki ih 4 at Hotel Lincoln. Previously, he| be followed by snow and fall-| ére on erc 1 in S |ing temperatures tomorrow. The : 50 by the |toNIght and Tower throughout the jday tomorrow. Freezing weather! was the forecast for tomorrow night
Opinion Split Among Clerics Issue
Arrest of New Hampshire Physician in *
Death of Woman Provokes Varied Comment
. Indianapolis’ clergy today stood divided on the question of mercy killings. For the most part, the clergymen felt the giving and the taking of human life was “the sole province of God.” } But some said “sometimes there are circumstances to be considered.” The delicate question—delicate |
today when the mercury dropped|of .Dr. Hermann N. Sander, a
Christian Science rites at 2 p. m. |30 degrees.
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feelings or petitions from citizens sway its decision in the “mercy death” of one of the doctor's paThe state charges Dr Sander |teNtS: : + 8 Superior Judge Harold E. Wesinjected a-dlethal charge of air Cott matricted he. all-male Hills-| into the pain-wracked - blood-|phorough County Grand Jury of stream of the dying woman. . 21 members who will hear evi-| Since his arrest, townsfoli;igence in the case of the 41- -year-| civic. and church leaders have old physician. accused of giving al rallied to the doctor's defense. {fatal air injection to a dying canThe pastor of one large church cer patient. {said he would have- to take his| “It is not for you as grand stand against Dr. Bander. ; {jurors to say what you think the]
{things. You can't be put in the|said. “You will take the law as| {light of approving murder. If I|given you by the atforney-general {had to take a stand, I'd he and the county solicitor.” against the doctor. But I don't! | want to be quoted.” , Another pastor sald he was in
‘my sympathy has long been with {the importance of arranging it
HE pathy withthe *doctor in so doctors could, under carefully
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the peasants prayed. They ers poured the water from the lunch {buckets, the signal, and went home. They had nolhing to say.
|—Dapper
13,000 Miners:
In Wino Go That Nation Needs
On Strike
Most Indiana Pits Working; Lewis Opens Midwest Split Drive
By HAROLD HARTLEY Time« Busines Editor John lL. Lewis began a pincer movement today to ‘erack the solid front of the big Midwest coal operators, In Illinois 15,000 fused to work. but
miners rein Indiana
both strip and deep mines were
Oct. 14, states, “Yes, I ac- “As the glow in the sky digging coal. The one exception tually saw the explosion, faded away and the great was the Viking mine near Terre and it was not where you smoke rosé, it got cold, Haute. thought, Beveral of your damp, and dark. Some of - At the Viking mine the work-
reported for work, then
traditional strike
el Hew hg og Uh, KEK, bar oe 1
(answer no questions but’ i was po a A |evident that the signal had gone turned to work today to complete . fled. The whole gang was lout to cut the lapart, others limped along on two days’ work this week, three days next the legislative record on whic week.
coal industry starving one section while
Loading Furiously | Railroads had cars clustered at|
{the Indiana mines loading at a| Democratic 81st
[furious pace. They needed coal! {to run their trains, and coal cus-' {tomers were screaming to have {orders filled. Little industries in Indianapolis were cutting the strings to old suppliers and were shopping |
|in the open market, buying coal |ing and foreign policy hung over|to be critical of the U. 8. for faillanywhere they could get it, atthe legislators. On all three major|ure to act to prevent the loss of
___ (slightly higher prices. They
<< feared plant shutdowns.
The big operators were of the
opinion that Mr. Lewis was try- routine. Members, back from aniits strategic importance to U. 8. ng to play one coal field against 11-week vacation went through another, hoping some big opera-|the usual opening-day formali.|ment added. tor would break ranks and sign|ties, swore In a few new. mem-|
the “blank check _ contract’
{which operators claim they have huddles on strategy.
{never seen. | Hugh White, UMW District 12 president in Illinois, said all companies which have not signed the new contract will be per- | mitted to resume the three-day week next week. But those who| have signed will be granted the] full week. He said about 25 independent] companies (not members of the association) have signed in his jdistrict. The new’ contract calls |for an increase of 95 cents a day, {from $14.05 to $15, and an in-| crease of 15 cents a ton (paid by | |the public) for the welfare fund, bringing it to 35 cents a ton. Still on Job in State Most of Indiang’s 8000 miners were on the job. At the Snow Hill mine near Terre Haute a machinery breakdown sent them home, but it was not charged up as a strike. .
The Southern Coal Producers
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® 1950 will be another recordbreaking aviation year. ® That is the prediction of Max: B. Cook, The Times. and Scrippe-Raward aviation editor. ® Jan. 1, 1949. Mr. Cook made 25 predictions. During the year 23 came true, one partly true. Mr. Cook's appear on
1950 predictions
Page 15 Today
Maragon Indicted By Grand Jury
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 John Maragon, un once boasted easy access to the White House, was indicted by a federal grand jury taday on charges of lying to Senate investigators. Mr. Maragon, pal of Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman's military ald; was Indicted on four. counts of perjury arising from the Senate inwvesti|gation of “influence peddlers.” The: indictment charged that: "ONE: He lied on Jily 28 when | he told the Senate Investigating [Committee he hag no bank ac-| count in 1945.orF 1046, except one! in the Union Trust Co. here. TWO: He also lied when testified that from 1945 to uy] 1949, he did not negotiate any | government matters for private, businessmen and did not receive, any money for such work. THREE: He lied about his business connection when he took | employment in the State Depart-| ment on a mission to Greece. Mr. Maragon contended he was. not| employed by anyone else at the
time and had left the employ- & Co,
ment of Albert Verley Chicago : pérfumers.
FOUR: He lied when he testis
fied before the Senate subcommittee that about three months) rior July 28; 1949; he borrowed $5000 from his m in-law,
Sew
| Soon afterwards, Mr. _called his
Shen
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Disputes Contention
Island for Defenses
Calls It of No Strategic Importance; Cites China's Weakness as Sea Power TOKYO, Jan. 3'(UP)—The U. S. State Department has notified its attaches that the loss of Formosa, island re. doubt of the Chinese Nationalists, to the Communists was to be -anticipated. The department said the public must be sold on the idea that the island is of no strategic value in order to pre.
~~ |vent the loss of prestige at Congress Opens home and abroad. : A document containing the dee |partment’s instructions on how to |erase the “false impressions’ of ye on’ |those pro-Nationalists interested : | been circulated here, it can be Truman Delivers | disclosed today. Message Tomorrow | The document was prevared y g [the State Department's public afBy LYLE « en ls area ney. _advisory R. ot pe FES a
lin a “Save Formosa” drive has
a Gn et am Rainlof ole. department and of some other government offices. ‘Mistaken Conception’ The document said there are h | “pro-Nationalists (principally in h ti ill pass jud ent in the United States) who consider the pation wii > 8 Judgm | Formosa a redoubt in which the The second session of the|8Overnment could survive, and Congress was, tend to create an impression that gavelled into session at noon.| [the U. 8. is delinquent . iit falls Vice President Alben W. Bark-| 1° ‘save Formosa.
ley presided in the Senate and| 1! Said there are groups In the
b{ Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas [United 8 States “who are Inclined
in the House. | Ludwell Denny, Page 2; World A double filibuster threat and} Report, Page 11. the major issues of taxes, spend-
"Read Charles . Lucey, Earl
Richert, Page 2.
issues the administration was onthe island to the Communists.” the defensive: This is “largely because of a | Today's opening session was | mistaken popular conception of
defense in the Pacific,” the docu-
Never a Sea Power
‘bers, - and. engaged in many iene oaa.df the dsland 1 witely
Message Tomorrow cd The fireworks really start to-| ODS there have deteriorated un-
morrow when President Truman Ser ihe Nationalists adds weight ’ appears in person before a joint 10 expecta ion, 3 sa {session to present the first of ord Joeymen said Formos: [three annual messages within six| Po C2 %, geograp ly days—The State of the Union stratesical y, is a part o Chioe.. a Message which is expected to re- a Wo Fe way Sapeeisty |state, in large. part; the Presi- gw e of mposian on bad dent's big spending “Fair Deal”| = a ng Bua |program. Friday comes the. eco- y Revel n a sea power, the docu[nomic report and on Monday pointed out that Formosa budget message. would be of no strategic ime The White House said tomor-|POTtance to the Chinese Com.
|row’s’ 5000-word message Was an munist Jroe] Jorees. War
ready except for final mimeo- “In the areas of insistent dee | grapher. | Tomorrow, too, will find the mand for U. 8. action, particu.
larly in the United States itself” [the document added, “we should bill to repeal federal taxes on Ae. . mje pen hat oleomargarine. ‘ a, By week-end, the Senate may be | sending troops, supplying
floundering in a dairy states fili-| |dispatoning Bava! units or taking
{Senate buckling down to the first order of business—debate on al
buster. And just around the |. corner. for sure is the Senate| good Lor nl a asarial Southerners’ filibuster against a
Fair| regime. y “(B) Inv Practices Commis: in. long. term venture. producing at best a new area of bristling stalemate and at worst possible {involvement in open warfare.”
bill to create a Federal Employment I ston. Deep Overtones This session — actually a con(tinuation of the one which began last January—will have dee - [litical overtones. Bristling Tate. Formosa Urges u. S. ments from returning House and TO Come to Defense - | Senate, members foreshadowed an| - TAIPEH, Formosa, Jan. 3 (UP) angry session. {= Members ‘of “the Chinese Na+ Four ‘hours before the session|tional Assembly appealed to the ~ |began, President Truman joined democratic nations of the world [some members of Congress in|at a rally here today. to with congressional prayer services held hold recognition from the Chinese annually on the opening day of Communist government. They alse "Congress. The President went to! asked for U, 8. aid against the : the National™Presbyterian Church. Communists. ? Truman| Other members urged that Gene congressional “Big| eralissimo Chiang ‘Kai-shek ree {sume the presidency of the Nae
(Continued on Page 2—Col. 7) tionalist government.
_ Balanced Budget No. 1 Task
Of Congress, Hoosiers Say
Schricker, Gates, McHale and Holder Call
For Action as 81st Session Opens
By ROBERT BLOEM ’ Four top leaders pf indiana’s two major parties agreed today that Congress” should consider balancing the budget as its major objective. As the second session of the 81st Congress: opened, the fous men were asked for snap comment on what they would consider [the main legislative issue. They were Gov. Schricker, former Gov, Ralph Gates -who is now Repu b- | ——————— lican National Committesran, | man Frank McHale, and GOP | Democrat Nationak Committee-| state Chairman Cale Holder,
— 2 fifth ranking political leader, emocrat State Chairm I "Be Thrifty uid not be reached In '50
Haymaker, could not be ® Why not pay that “rent
for- comment. - Gov. Schricker put it this way: money” ‘back to yourself in 19507 That's what you do
“I hope Congress will balance the budget. It may crimp thelr style a little but I think it is Ime portant. i when you are BUYING “The international situation, of . YOUR OWN HOME . , . just [course, overshadows all other take it out of one pocket and |problems in ‘long range imports put it in the other.. ® Turn to the classified columns now for an outstanding selection of HOMES FOR
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