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60th YEAR—NUMBER 304
A Friendly Heart Can Help— i
Mother
Capitol Frightens il Shirley Bender
By JIM G. LUCAS Seripps-Howard Stat Writer
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10— plain
She hoped it wouldn’t show too. much.. She wanted peo-ple-to think she was strong
and brave. She'd come to Washington, she said resolutely, to tackle the State Department, to talk to Senators, to knock on doors and maybe even march up to the White House demanding somebody * “do something,” Because. Shirley who is 25, is the wife of Marine Master Sgt. Elmer C. ‘Bender, a prisoner of the Chinese Communists since Oct, 19, 1948. Another man, Navy Chief Petty Officer William C. Smith ®f San Diego, Cal, also is held. State Department protests have stirred the Communists to report these two men are alive. Mrs. ‘Bender says that's not enough. Sunday night, she couldn’ t take any more,
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ears b WEAR oe wasn't easy oy Shirley Bend.” er to logk brave or angry or anything but scared standing there in Union Station. She'd never been Chinese Communists since 1948. here before, ALL THE “really angry” littie All of a sudden, Washington speeches Shirley Bender had rewas a forbidding place, full of im- hearsed left her when she was portant people who never heard of ushered to see Mike McDermott, Shirley and Elmer Bender. Itiyeteran State Department public was easy, back in Chicago, 10 relations chief. She wasn't pretalk about demanding things from pared to meet anyone like Mike. the State Department—she once! Later she admitted she had threatened a sitdown strike in thought everyone in Washington! Secretary Dean Acheson's officé— was conspiring against her, that but now she realized she didn’t they'd be angry and tell her to go even know how to get there. home and quit making a nuisance First came the reporters. And of herself the photographers. | Mike didn’t. But, she discovered they were, He said he felt like a heel not surprisingly kind. being able to give her good news. They took her luggage; ‘hailed But he wanted her to know the’ a cab and one—he was a friend department was doing all it could. of a friend of Elmer's—said he| Shirley said she was grateful. had arranged a State Depart-| Next, she met Fuiton Freeman, ! ment appointment. * deputy chief of the hina Affairs,
i to eek on her” Husband,
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Her Kindly
. IN the press room she held an impromptu news conference. The Questions were {riendly--how did wsShe feel, could anyone help? ! When she sald she'd like to see the President, there were a < half-dozen offers to speak to Charlie Ross or Bill Hassett, two of the President's secretaries. But now, it was suggested, she had better rest. Shirley agreed she was suddenly “very tired.” Back at the hotel, she talked about her husband. About how good he was, and how she missed nim. : About how Kathy was always going to “get a gun and shoot the Chinese who have my daddy and won't let him go.” About what a lonely Christmas she'd spent, and how sweet her parents ave buen,
HOW, IN Qesperation, she had written Mme, Sun Yat-sen, who holds an official post in the Communist regime, begging her to help, or at least send a letter to Elmer. Madame Sun didn’t answer. es —— the last letter she'd had band.-da
Won ees ar Iter hat ante ay: is S00 "until she gets achivn. in the case of plane was forced down. 5 Nak on Sgt. Henn C. Bender, who has been held by
About how they met at a dance in 1942--he was a second lieu- ‘ tenant then—and how he decided Division. Mr. Freeman showed to stay in the Marines even her all the massages from China though it meant reduction in —~some still secret —— about her rank. About their marriage two husband. ; years later. And, finally, about He told her Elmer was a how soon Kathy starts to school prisoner near Tsingtao. and how little she knows her She wasn't scared now. She father. said she. felt “much better.” LI There was color in her face, TODAY, Shirley Bender she had new poise and confidence. 8¢¢ Senators Scoft Lucas She smiled easily and seemed Paul Douglas of Illinois. sure she was wiih friends. Washington, she agrees goodnaturediv, is “really a madDOWN THE hall she went to house” ‘but people are kind. She'll see others in the China Division. stay here at least a week, every They told her, she said, that they day knocking on another door. planned “several new moves” to Perhaps - she says hopefully — bring her husband home. one day “I'll knock on the right She didn't ask questions. But, one.” by now, she felt “almost wonder-|
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City Fires Two. Red Rose Bouquet Comes. - Temperature Hits
In Power Cut.0ff To, Lovise at Fashion Show pore tie gy
Lineman and Helper Let Out by Griffith
The two city employees accused
DEAR BOSS:
Big day in Louise's life today.
of cutting off light service at an! Milton Berle. Two, for the first time in my life, a maitre d’hotel Indianapolis super market Friday gave me flowers as I left his domain.
night haye been discharged.
William B. Griffith, superintend- luncheon I told you about yesterday.
ent of the city’s Gamewell Di- thing after .all,) vision, said- James Earl Smith, a photo will be sent you, but I don't lineman, and Herbert D. Owen, know when. lineman’s helper, were discharged 71t was the maitre d’ Saturday. Dorset Hotel Previously it had been under- who came across stood that the two men had been with the floral suspended pending investigation gift this evening. of a report that they threw the tpa're in the Galyan Supermarket, 1102 W...¢0a an old 16th St. into darkness at the ¢riend and I had instigation of an AFL union or- jst encountered ganizer, John Kelly Jr, Police said that the market has {po superb pianbeen picketed by the AFL Meat ist of the Blue Cutters and Grocery. Clerks snge] Supper Union. (Club. (He's the Stunned by Deed lone New Yorker The cutting of the power oc- Mag. describes curred during the early eveninglae doing “inventive ptanoforte rush hours when the market was \arabesques.”) Aled with wesk-end Shoppers. vol As we left Mr. Kelley followed
M x “ Mz, Gnih sad, ~The gus into the foyer to repeat an in-
Gamewell employees involved de ; vitation to have a drink with him initely were discharged Saturday. in his Blue Angel hangout.
There never was any suspension] And suddenly, at my elbow,
involved. As far as this depart-| ) ment is concerned, the matter is “a8 the little maitre d, thrusting out red roses.
closed Ln “Why?” The little man beamed. } Apparently what “happened; “Mr. Kelley says the lady likes was that a fuse was pulled out- flowers.” side of Galyan's Market, cutting ’ off their source of power. If any- aod guess we'll Bo he poe one had told me that a Gamewell | story Xo-do ’ eye oped in such achon, T woutd Dd You Know that a whole have termed it a falsehood Squad of Ayres’ fashion buyers yr : rein N ? In the Dorset Cafe I was dumbfounded that these where we bere! Lis Patrick, Ed two men should be implicated. ‘ oe There was never anything in their previous actions to indicate such a turn of events.” Meanwhile Albert Galyan,
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Miss Fletcher
» On Reservist
She Finds Ayres’ Buyers in N.Y. |
{ Manhattan's upper bracket de-
Schricker ‘Is an Old Salt’
‘Governor Picks Up Lots of Votes as ‘One of the Boys’ Aboard Panama Ship
By ED SOVOLA, Times Staff Writer
{salt and should be with the Indianapolis reservists on the Pgnama
{ From the moment he stepped aboard the flagship with 17 “squared” away, {company who had never met a Governor and particularly a Hoosier
122, and Cmdr. T. M. Foster, joment forgot to put a film in bis’
governor.
New York, Jan. 10
Predicted in State
One, I had my picture taken with LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6 a. m....57 10 a. m...80 | 7a m...58 Ilam..5 The Berle picture-taking happened at noon—at that Hudnut| 8 a. m....50 12 (moon). 50 (Nobody was killed at that! 9 a. m....60 1p m. .. 49 Print of the ~ — ECT You have a front-row seat at New flood crests—but not as exclusive New York fashion high ‘as last. week's—were fore-
cast for Indiana's already swollen streams as a result of widespread rain last night. Partly cloudy skies and an all‘time high temperature for this date followed an all-night rain signers’ salons, will bring you totaling .97 inch in Indianapolis news of the spring and summer | The new high temperature collections by Monte-Sano and mark for Jan. 10 was set when Pruzan, Christian Dior, Hattle the mercury climbed to 60 deCarnegie and Nettle Rosen- |greeq this morning. The old rec-
stein. ord of 59 degrees was set in 1890 Her reports for The Times |... 1949
readers will continue through | pi 04 waters of the lower Wanext Sunday. See them on the | bash early today ripped through _woman’s pages ea each day. la big levee 30 miles north of Vincennes. The break inundated » White, ath ay Cam Thurston. im thousands of acres of farm land, |
ems to be their home but acted as a further safety! De oe home. valve for the tense, threatened
That Hudnut “meet the man of City of Vincennes. . 'your choice” luncheon was fun The Wabash at Vincennes even if there was no blood letting. started to creep up again today, They wound up with not five but after having fallen following umpteen New York men for the levee breaks from a peak of 26.2 visiting fashion editors to meet. feet to 25.3. 1 shook hands with only Peter Meteorologist Paul Miller now Lind Hayes, cartoonist Peter ¢xpects the Vincennes peak to be Arno, dancer Ray Bolger and between 27 and 28, to be reached television star Berle. Me, I man- Thursday. Barring an unexpected aged to hold on to my teeth. river wall failure, the city is be{There must be something wrong lieved safe. Mr. Miller said the with my taste in men. Only ones water would remain at near peak stage for two or three days. Before the levee breaks, a Vincennes crest of 28 to 29 feet had been expected. Water was up again this morning in Tyndall Towne and other | poarly drained Indianapolis areas, although the levels were below (those following last week's 4.5inch rain The forecast called for partial
openings in today's story by Louise Fletcher, Times’ Woman’s Editor. Tomorrow, semi-annual
Louise, on her | whirl through |
(Continued on Page 2-Col. 1) Battlewagon
Jan. 10—The Governor is an old
President Forgets About Vincennes
"Times Washington Bureas WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—Presi{dent Truman failed to include any {funds for improving the flood wall at Vincennes in his $42 billion Reservists had a fleld day with budget, although $40,000 was their cameras. All except. one yoted by Congress last session jman. He, poor boy, in the ex-/ts draw up the plans. ‘So Rep. James E, Noland (D. camera. {Ind.), whose Seventh District inHad three good shots of the cludes Vincennes, will go before He grinned before I the House Appropriations Comran out of film, {mittee next week and ask that This is a championship reserve $400,000 for the Vincennes flood lepew in a lot of ways. Four men| Wall improvements be included in the food control appropriations
they get back if you are doubtful,
Men from the ship's
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“Any Kind of Help'—
Town Board for aid.
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New Flood Crests |
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Entered od se pecan Cla Matter at Postoffics snapolls, Indians. Issued Dally
10, 1850
I lood Victims
Speedway « Seeking Help
Town Board ol Special Commission To Take Action By MARION CRANEY Approximately 150 irate Speedway City flood victims poured into Speedway Town Hall, 1450 Lyndhurst Drive, last night to petition the
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With no appointed leader to guide them, the group's hardesthit victims of swollen Big Eagle Creek asked for “any kind. of help” while others demanded action by the board and Speedway City As a result, the complainants and ‘the board forced a commission to plan a solution. The commi.tee will meet tonight in the home of D. A. Hoff, 5318 W 11th St.. group chairman, to decide what steps to take.
Damages Calculated
A spectacular early morning
and badly damaged two other buil The blaze, estimated $100,000 in machinery, ing at. 1701 N. Sherman Drive. Two Indianapolis fire department officers were injured one critically, in a wreck at E, 10th St. and Arsenal Ave, as they raced to the scene of the Chief Complaint conflagration.
The chief complaint was flooded The leaping flames,
basements and yards in the area ~ Photo, Page 2 around 10th St. and Lynhurst —————
visible . for
etl JDijee... Familie®who could pot miles around. drew a crowd of
Fi RAAT AMng trem can
died ited mass - i ar fire men: as 14 fire vehicles from six stations were called into use. Firemen were unable to prevent the fire from consuming the buiiding in which the blaze began. When théy reached the factory about 6:40 a. m. the blaze was already far advanced. While greatest damage occurred in the assembling factory, firemen said a new but empty building 200 feet long and 40 feet wide, situated to the northwest of the factory, also was almost totally burned. . The third building. just north of the factory in which the fire broke out, sustained considerable roof damage, Steel rafters buckled and twisted in the flames, An unofficial estimate of build{ing loss ran “in
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$50, All: buildings on the two-block-
arpund. cot oll or dren ves set up temporarily. Those {who /did-not have heat watched wall paper and plaster fell off dampened walls of their homes. | Before the committee was appointed, the residents charged the Town Board had continuously failed to help them during past years. The committee, which will meet tonight, includes Mr. Hoff, {William Sipe, 5233 Ford 8t.; Paul Kurkey, 5334 W. 11th St. and J. O. Sharp, 5302 Carlton Way. At the reuest of Paul Lindley, 1658 Christopher Lane, board president, Mr. and Mrs. Kurkey opened the meeting by preducing: pictyres of their caved-in hasement wall. D. M. Donaldson of 628 Olin Ave. then showed copies of past petitions for flood control in the Big Eagle area dating back to 1948.
“Sleep in Chairs”
to keep warm. Our children must which was located there before, sleep in chairs so others can geil Allied. Inc., took over the prop, a good night's sleep,” sobbed gers:jerty for truck work in 1937 Josie Sharp of 5124 W. 10th 8t. | Two trucks. a school bus “and | “What would we do if a dis- gnother truck body weré de- | | aster similar to Coatesville struck |/stroyed inside the factory. Many, | Speedway,” asked Mrs. Oak Raf-|gther vehicles, parked near the (erty, 5228 W. 10th St. assembling building, were pulled Food victims gained some gr driven td safety. |Grain, Indi Food Control Covered by Insurance srain, Indiana 00 0 i Commisison engineer, made an un- C. L. others). president |expected appearance and offered | Allied, at fas covered. bY
|what aid the state could lawfully equipment give. | insurance,
“Any financial aid must come Firemen managed to bring the
from “the federal government, blaze under control svou. $3. m Marion County or Speedway City, but said one of the building Mr. McGrain explained.” But we probably would smolder all aay. will be glad to sit down and offer The accident in which two " advice in any way we can,’ he Officials were sent to Genera added Hospital occurred about 7 a. m on the E. 10th St. bridge over “They Walk Away”
Pogue's ‘Run, just past Arsenal A lengthly question-and-answer
Ave. period followed formation of the Acting investigating committee.
Battalion Chief James When a Surface, 48, of 4905 Young Ave. board memb ~ asked whether the Was being driven to Brightwood
ople of SpA iway weren't help- in response to a second alarm by peop P ! P Lt. Jason Baker when they found
flood victims, one lady answered that: themselves unable to go to the “Our neighbors help us —sure. right or left around a halted trol-
ley on the bridge. Witnesses said a semi-trailer going west on 10th St. blocked the path to the left of the trolley. The fire department car struck the trolley in the rear, jamming Chief Surface in the seat next to Lt. Baker, He was unable to extricate himself and had to be pulled from the car by police who investigated the collision. There were no injured on the trolley; which was able to pro=o , ‘ceed. The back of the trolley was (Stewart, 4858 W. 13th St. heavily dented: The chief's autoThe board offered to meet with
" mobile front was smashed in. the committee and work out some
Taken to Hospital plan of action for the future. Chief Surface and Lt. Baker
were taken to General Hospital in an ambulance.
But people north of the B&O railroad tracks, not affected by high water, come down, look the situation over, shake their heads, [turn around and walk away. Wé just live on the wrong side of the tracks.” Board members who heard the complaints included Mr. Lindley, Wayne Baxter, board clerktreasurer, 1609 Christopher Lane; 3. W. Schoenewey, a trustee, 1957 W. 16th St. and R.
4 FESCAPEES RECAPTURED ges hae Jan 10 JP critical condition. He suffered a ward at the Firland Tuberculosis broken right leg and head injuries Sanitarium tied up their guard Chief Surface suffered a fracand escaped in a snowstorm last tured skull and facial cuts. His night. They were recaptured an condition is serious.
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Hutson Off Plan to Break Coal Deadlock
factory building of Allied Truck Equipment,
excess of
Lt. Baker was said to be in,
a Fire Chief Roscoe McKinney di-
see
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
at $100,000;
Glow in Night Visible for Miles
destroved the pal Inc, 3810 E. 16th 8B
fire today
dings.
cause of which had not been determined, ruined ah
tools and vehicles in the build-
rected fire-fighting activities until 9 a. m., when his duties were taken over by Assistant Fire Chief Arnold Phillips. Day-crew firemen arrived at the same time to relieve night shift workers. Chief Phillips said hoses would continue to pour water on the smouldering ruins all day. His men ran.steel cables arqund large.
East, Ws xeaid Ata fo fhe scent. eect ns. .0f. the factory, Federal . Foti ap ip ha. Saiek..- factory, Pedra Lx
Wats Jig Vien Ry pulled down by tractors. i The fire caused a major traffic jam, delaying hundreds of automobilists on their way to work. Many pulled into Brookside Park and sat watching the fire. Police were forced to reroute cars going east and west on 16th St. and north and south on Sherman Dr.
Durham Profane, Witness Says
Charges Retort Aimed at Inspector
cers
today that
“Water has. flooded basements square area are owned by (the (yack) Durham told a pelice in|so bad neighbors must double up Marietta Manufacturing Om. 4
|speetor, “You go-to hell."
Otte Attorney Jesse W. Peden :gnole the Kieghonts of [used the testimony in an effort, vars, ng
show Durham was “insubordire
| Capt. John M. Ambuhi, former|torover.
{Inspector Donald Tooley and Lt.
|Geoge Sneed made the statement
{on the witness stand as Durham
{appealed the Safety Board deci-
[sion demoting him from detective sergeant and suspending him for 60 days. Testimony Conflicts But the testimony of the po-| lice officers conflicted. Capt. inspector at the time Durham was suspended for not taking his cap off before a superior officer, said
Capt. Ambuhl sent for Durham who was reportedly drunk on traffic duty Capt. . Ambuhl later testified:
that another officer sent for Dur-! ham-—-‘"not me.” Both officers said, however, that Durham was “not drunk on duty. Lt. George Sneed, the officer who brought Durham into police headquarters at the request of
superiors, said that Durham accused the officers of “trying to frame’ him,
‘Framed,’ He Says He quoted Durham as saying: “I'm tired of being pushed around and framed.” Earlier, Judge Lloyd Claycombe overruled a motion by the City of Indianapolis to dismiss the case and return a verdict for the city. In his -maotion, City ‘Attorney Peden said the Safety Board's decision was ‘not tainted with fraud, capriciousness or illegality.” The motion was prepared by Corporation Counsel Edward Hi Knight and City Attorney Michael Reddington. and was signed by Mr Peden. 20 ON BUS DROWNED COLMAR, France, Jan. 10 (UP) Twenty persons drowned today and 28 others were injured when bus plunged into the RhineRhone canal.
Congiliation.. ro SPR dA rh {to get the miners and Operators
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‘had Gov.
Tooley, who was police)
Fire Razes Truck Plant; Urges Dispute 2 Hurt in Run to Blaze
Be Submitted To Board of 3
Wants All Sides To Agree Findings Will Be Binding
A three-man fact-finding board was urged today by Thomas R. Hutson, state la« |bor commissioner, to end the coal deadlock. Mr. Hutson sent a telegram 10..Lyrus. Ching. director. .of. the.
together. ‘He recommended that: ONE: The miners and opera= tors agree to put the coal tie-up in the lap of a fact-finding board to be appointed by President Tru« man.
TWO: The miners return to
{work on a five-day week during
the 45 days the board is gathering information. THREE: The miners and ope erators agree to accept the find« ings of the board as a means of settlement. Mr. Hutson said his proposal Henry F. Schricker's “blessing.” “The mine situation is hopes {lessly deadlocked,” said Mr, Hute ison, “and the fact-finding pro=
Three high-ranking police offi- cudure seems to offer the best testified in. Circuit Court possibility for a break in the coal Patrolman Jacque crisis.” i | coal
In Indianapolis, however, home JAisers had long to
| yards ; ~AHomé bin ji but users had been:
__ Knows His Weather J. 8. Weber; executive secretary {of the Indiana Coal Merchants Association, reported that too little of the coal coming through is fit for domestic use. He said {about 80 per cent of it is suitable [tor industry, utilities and ralle roads, John L. Lewis, who knows his weather, seemed to be counting on the six weeks just ahead, usually the coldest part of the winter, to pressure the home coal user into the howling stage. . “It is a war of nerves—a cold .war, in more than one sense, 4 (#ald one “dealer. .
Demands $1400
For Street Bump
The City of Indianapolis was named today in a damage suit over one of the many bumps and chuck-holes dotting the street
|system.
The Home Charm Cleaning Co, filed a $1400 damage suit against the City in Buperior Court 3, charging that a “six-inch bump" on Martindale Ave. resulted in a three-car accident Aug. 25. 1948, In the complaint, 8. J. Kagan sald: “Julius G. Thompson was drive ing a truck ‘en Martindale Ave, near 23d. St., when he hit the bump causing him to hit another car which bumped a third
vehicle.” In a letter to Mayor Feeney, the attorney said he understood that the bump has since been
repaired. ST. LOUIS ART ORITIC DIES ST. LOUIS, Jan 10 (UP)--Arthur A. Kocian, 74, bne of the
best-known art critics and dealers in the nation, died yesterday of & .
heart attack at his gallery.