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Fall Creek flood waters swirl around pilings beneath the barricaded Indiana Ave. bridge. Po-

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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1950

This truck made like a duck

Ravenswood homes were flooded when White River invaded the 1400 block E. 75th St. by seeping through a levee.

lice closed the bridge today when debris began to pile up beneath it.

67.000 Miners Reject Russ Boycott

Lewis’ Order to Work

Pittsburgh Faces Power Shortage; Truman Still Unconvinced of Crisis

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 16 (UP)-—More than 67,000 rebellious United Mine Workers today ignored John L. Lewis’ “suggestion” that they end their eight-day strike. The holdout miners called for a showdown in their eight-| month battle for a contract. Their walouts cut more that 435,000! tons from the day's coal production. Reports of severe shortages piled up. The Pittsburgh Retail Merchants Association said the eity's coal! yards will be empty within

Miners Reported

UN Sessions

| Push Fight on Ouster Of Chinese Delegates

By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y,, Jan. 16 four vears after he Ryssia clamped an all-inclusive, {boycott on the United Nations... today. . - She refused to take part in the first session of the little assembly

- -— — ee— — ist Stormy Petrel Jack Durham |p y Petrel Jack Durham [ndjana Ave Faces Safety Board Again Co | Career of Indiana Ave. Police ‘Figure’ S { | » By IRVING LEIBOWITZ | Much-Used Bridge The police department has a rebel on its hands—Acting Detec- Declared Unsafe He was cast in the role of fighting his superior officers less than Indiana Ave. bridge over Fall began his stormy police career. Creek was or’ :r closed today “for One year later, his name flashed across the front pages. §ineer M. G. (Ole) Johnson. I - - City police threw up barricades since. The police force itself is divided 3. m., and all vehicular and pe-

i" Has Kept Him in the News for Years p | tive Sergeant Jacque (Jack) Durham. ~ Weakened by recent floods, the Four years ago, Durham was an obscure patrolman pounding a an indefinite period” by City En- ” He has béen in the news ever R S d d at both ends of the bridge at 7 | escue jee e on Durham. Many officers think destrian traffic was rerouted over

8 hours if th edict sub- , Ee ow hee Jredicied Re - - and walked out of three other . he is a good policeman. Others adjacent streets and bridges. city -also faced electric power Chafin at Strikes committee meetings. think not. Mr. Johnson said while there rationing. | The Soviet withdrawal from or rappe ner On Force 7 Years were “no signs of an immediate At Washington, Sen. Scott W. {United Nations proceedings began A former student at Crispus collapse” of the span, he ordered

Lucas (D. Ill), said he had told President Truman that a serious) coal shortage exists in his state. The President, however, said the situation still did not warrant declaring a national emer-|

Won't Speak Out

For Publication By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Hownrd Stat Whiter

WASHINGTON, Jan.

gency and invoking the Taft-|large group of coal operators, It! .. yak announced Russia lago when Sgt. Durham “blew the morning I had a crew out there] Hartley law to restore full pro- was learned today, has in 18) would take no part in further speed tdday In forcing a shaft, 0 on some of his superior to give the duction, Lucas said. | possession sworn statements from , 1 deliberations until Dr. through tightly-packed anthricite gfficers inspection.

Order Backfires

{last Friday when chief Russian] {Delegate Jacob A. Malik walked out of the Security Council after the 1i-nation group refused to vote the expulsion of Nationalist 16 — A { China, i

{coal miners showing they're dis- Tingfu F. Tsiang and his Na-

Attucks and Indiana University, the bridge closed because “city Danger Lessens Sgt. Durham joined the police workmen who examined it today, » force seven years ago. |found at least two rows of piling For Cave-in Crews What transformed this beat pa-'had been washed away.” MAHBANOY CITY, Pa. Jan. 16 /trolman into a celebrated figure? . “We want to be on the safe | {UP)—Rescue squads pickéd up It all began one day three years side,” Mr. Johnson said. “This

He gave a detailed account of “They found the span had been

greatly weakened by recent high

to the possible tomb of Edward Burda more than 100 feet under- graft and corruption on Indiana

More than 45000 miners were Satisfied with policies of John L. 4; nq)ist delegation had been idle in Pennsylvania. 6000 in West Lewis. ousted. ground. Ave, to the newspapers. The ex- floods in the creek. The middle Virginia, 5200 in Alabama, 5000 in| These statements emphasize Shortly after noon, they reached pose launched one of the biggest support,” Mr. Johnson added, “is the miners’ funds are| Protest Chinese Presence to within 18 feet of where Mr. shakeups in the department. just about out.

in Tennessee. exhausted or running low, and

In three committees today, RusMr. Lewis’ suggestion that the that the miners want to work sia again protested the presence

miners return to a three-day work full time rather than continue of the Nationalists.

week actually backfired in Penn- with a succession of three-day

miners on strike than there were Strikes or “no-day weeks.” last week. The statements embody Mr. Lewis refused to comment M0St tangible evidence on the “revolt.” He was reached Produced that the miners at Springfield, III.

Pickets Fan Out y Workers to get a new labbr conThe showdown movement cen- tract c

tered in the Uniontown, Pa., area, the m where the big minés of the steel companies are located. Operators reported that none of the ypion leadership “captive” mines were operating. | However | Pickets fanned out through the [ewis , fields and quickly closed other when mines. The pickets traveled in men groups of five to 10 and had little]

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is oblique or inferential. men tell in these statets of how they have been prevented from going to work

so far vention. of

Soviet delegates walked out of sylvania. There were 15,000 more weeks interspersed with scattered the special committee on Statelessness and Related Problems, the the Subcommission on the PreDiscrimination and are the Protection of Minorities, and weary of the unprecedented long the Committee on Procedures of time it is taking the United Mine the Economic and Social Council. Russia has boycotted the Little arrying greater benefits for Assembly, the year-round interim committee of the full General AsThey seem to be losing their sembly, since its establishment in traditional reluctance to criticize 1947. form

countries

Tucker Calls

revolt against the Lewis leadér- by Preston Tucker, were charged bad conditions again.

The seats of the Cominand Yugoslavia the criticism of Mr. also were vacant today.

“The wooden supports installed under the bridge several years ago,” he said, “acted as a dam In recent weeks, quite a bit of rubbish and debris was washed down the stream, and its constant slamming against the supports has made the bridge un- ‘ safe.” Plan Further Inspection

Burda has been believed trapped Sgt. Durham was never forfor three days in a collapsed given for this by some of his coal mine. fellow officers.

With the danger to themselves Earned Citations slightly lessened by the harder- Citations and commendations packed coal, the rescuers were came his way for performance now advancing at the rate of two “above and beyond the line of feet an hour. They believed they duty” when he apprehended burmight reach Mr. Burda by to- glars, robbers and a rapist. : night or early tomorrow. Despite the vigorous one-man Nothing has been heard from !aW enforcing job Durham brid the 25-year-old entombed miner Va8ing on Indiana Ave. he besince a cave-in locked him in the Sazne alu in police departine 8 riday. brother ent al " BA er ry bn ys A the 60- He was suspended for failure foot level of the mine was rescued to take his hat off before a suvesterday. nerior officer. He was suspended | : | or failure to make an arrest. | Again, he was suspended for “inubordination.” One suspension

gineers would have to give the bridge a closer examination before they can determine ‘how long we will keep it closed to all traffic.” During the 500-Mile Speedway classic, the bridge serves as one of the main aterial highways leading to the race track. Whether or not it can be repaired and be ready for the heavy

{ Easier Going

At the 18-foot = mark, the

rescuers found the end of a rope followed an-

They had y.nt growing out of an alterca-

< i i : hie . it il y city administra- . josie getting the miners to go they put the blame on their local No Witnesses avhich they thought would lead ther FN ne ver pra flow of anticipated traffic, Mr. another center of rebellion was|o. district leaders. In nearly all (y1CAGO, Jan. 16 (UP) —At- oe ir B a. that had been used Durham was rewarded for “his Johnson said, is a matter for A%| cases, district and local leaders no " . y Mr. burda. | ’ . . speculation. 7 7 f A © /s h S : - rampaign b 3» Doman Wes t Virgmia. are #ppointed or approved by the pores a the eight Crendants As they neared their coal, ion Clean) eiectiny Ever since the regime of former ckets closed eigh mines in the 1 ewis organization. als and associates o p. mail| veteran miners working in relays? raeant Mayor Reginald O'Sullivan, plans Fairmont area, including two| g vevg py reporters and others er. associates on broke into the harder-upacked >¢rSeant. i for replacing the antiquated Bethlehem Steel pits and fively, 410" 0a] fields hav how fraud and conspiracy charges un- i, acite in contrast to the HIS Promotion was recom- + 0 have been discussed. mines of Pittsburgh Consolida- 8 have Shown eynectedly rested their cases to- in mended by Chief Rouls, approved 5" J hey . \ia) TPOTe rank-and-file. dissatisfac-|q ith i jt. Previous slippery coal which had "5 Fol To CT nd carried. City officials, however, say they tion Coal Co., largest commercial |, than In any previous crisis ay Without ‘summoning wit- required more timbering. An air- 3 ‘ Sa on a Carpio are prevented from building a coal company. - of the past 20 years. However, =o co powered coal shipper also was the unothicin ndorsement of! bridge because of a pending { : However, thousands jammed none of the miners will talk for Attorneys for. each defendant brought into use. Mayor Teens. mation failed to suit which prohibits the city from . Into local union halls during the 1001100 for fear of being then renewed motions for ver- giate Mine Inspector Ben Rei- halt the s I sions floating a bond issue for its conJ week-end to vote to continue the dicts of acquittal. The judge did a e suspensions. ! . walkout. They took the UMW'’s thrown out of the union and thus : noehl emphasized, however, that! |. 1.10 of last vear, he was struction. } traditional stand of “no contract; Ut Of Jobs. mot rule immediately. the progress still was “slow” and | cnended on a charge of lying The bridge construction: city | rork.” 0 ’I All of this does not add up to a! The eight defendants. headed that the rescuers might encounter to a superior officer oe inci. Officials pointed out, is only in- { no work. : PR cidental to a city and county-wide i

For Ulcer Victims

that the closer to the danger point.

Rules U. S. Can Bar War Brides

WASHINGTON, Jan: 18 (UP) ~The Supreme Court ruled today that a war bride may be barred from entering the United! States if she cannot meet the “test * of security.”

Ordinarily foreign brides servicemen are admitted without red tape. But the high court today over Gen. Henry Harley (Hap) Arnold, America’s No. 1 war-

pointed out that entry United States is a privilege, not terday. a right. {

ship, but does seem to indicate with mail fraud and conspiracy no accurate map of the mine and leadership is getting in their attempt to produce a were not even sure where Mr.

revolutionary automobile.

Gen. Arnold's Death Ends Long Fight for Top Air Power

‘He Was a Great American, We Shall All Miss Him,’ Says Secretary Johnson

of By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW, United Press Staff Correspondent SONOMA, Cal, Jan. 16—An Air Force honor guard stood watch

into the timé airman, who died of a heart attack at his ranch home yes-

Ill for the past several years, Gen. Arnold died quietly and

If aliens cannot meet the “test|without pain. His wife, Eleanor, was by his bedside.

of security,” the court sald, the, It was the fifth heart attack government can properly exclude Gen. Arnold hal suffered since them. his first one in 1944, A friend, Justice Sherman Minton read Dr. Russell V. Lee of Palo Alfo, the court’s 4 to 3 opinion. Justices said Gen. Arnold should have reFelix Frankfurter, Hugo L. Black tired then. and Robert H. Jackson dissented.| “But things were hot and he Justices Tom C. Clark and Wil-/decided to take his.chances with lam O. Douglas did not partici-the rest of the soldiers and went pate. |back to duty.” |" Dr, Robert L. Mollenhauer

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Frank H. Bartholomew, United Press Vice President for the Pacific Division, was a perfriend of Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold. He was with the general at a dinner party Saturday night, a few hours before. the veteran airman suffered a fatal heart attack.

of ‘Society in order to establish a

There's New Hope Sonoma officially listed the cause gcholarship fund.”

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Gen. Arnold left four children. clotting. of arteries giving blood The first to arrive yesterday was |Lt. David L. Arfiold, who {is stationed at March Field, Cal. Others

flood control program.

mn with two officers, ended up | - (Continued on Page 4—Col. 8) Alley Paving Contract Gets Works Board OK

The Works Board today approved a contract for $1284.60 for {the concrete pavement of an alley south of Prospect St. from Harlan 8t. to Churchman Ave. The contract was awarded to Raleigh Burk, 3815 Massachusetts Ave. ) PLANE KILLS 2 COUPLES STERRETT, Ala, Jan. 16 (UP) ~Two couples from Chanute, Kas., were killed when their light plane crashéd on a mountain near here Sunday.

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Burda was.

Burial in Arlington For Heart .Victim

vision as to the part air power was to play in the war.” Gen. Arnold attended a dinner party Saturday night, his first public appearance since a severe heart attack last October. Dressed in a dark brown suit and dark shirt with a miniature Afr Corps insignia in the lapel, Gen. Arnold showed the unfailing good spirits which won him the nickname, “Hap,” in his West Point days. List of Guests [ Present at the party were Wal-| ter LI. Murphy, who recently re-| tired as publisher of the weekly Sonoma Index-Tribune, to which Gen. Arnold had contributed articles; Adm. Charles M. Cooke| Jr., a fellow rancher in the So-| noma Valley, and Mrs. Cooke; | Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Tevis, Mr.

Gen. H. H. Arnold

Mr. Johnson said the city en-|

Sunday points to. new “hope for persons with ulcers . , . tells others how

| The Air Force in Washington on their way were Col. Henry H. {announced that its former com- Arnold Jr, who is stationed at {mander would be buried in Arling- Leavenworth, Kas., and Capt. Wil-

responsible for building the great {American Air Force,” said De-

and Mrs, H. G. Makelim, Dr. and | Mrs. Fred Butler and this cor-| respondent and his wife. |

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day. Mrs. Arnold asked that no flowers be sent. In a statement] released by the Air Force, she

contgibute to the Air Force

{ton National Cemetery. The date liam B. Arnold. from a base at| "nse has been tentatively set for 2 Banana River, Fla. A daughter, “He contributed much to the win-| 4 {p. m. (Indianapolis Time), Thurs-|Lols, is married to Cmdr. Ernest ning of World War II. He was 2 did not Snowden, a Navy flier stationed great American. '

at Corpus Christi, Tex.

Tribute by Leaders

News of Gen, Arnolds death man of the U. 8. Joint Chiefs of he looked unwell... He was pale

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While the rest of the party had| cocktail or two, Gen. Arnold| He ed continuously great pm We shall all 4ng made much of the fact it + ‘ : was his “first night out.” Gen, Omar N.' Bradley, chair- Nevertheless, friends thought

kit A naan JWR ted “that anyone wishing b t tribute from top U. 8. Staff, said he admired Gen. Arn- hrun and Bu vesitno g BIGGER SUNDAY TIMES, 0 memorialize Gen. Arnold should military 5 old's “broad concept of the Air a5 almou, ghruaken In stature; ai Sunday + « « 1's only 306 nap RR - | Asal “More anyone éli¢, ie Was Force's mission and hi | (Continued on Page &—Col. 8) |__ ed :

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today in crossing water running-board deep at the south end of

Low of 20° Due Here Tonight

Streams Continue to Rise But No Serious Danger Is Expected

the Harding St. bridge over White River. The bridge was closed last night.

INDIANAPOLIS—Weathermen promise temporary flood relief | after swollen waters damage Indiana Ave. bridge over Fall Creek and cause the span to be barricaded as “unsafe.” Clear but cold weather, dropping as low as 22 today. INDIANA Clear and cold today, cloudy but warmer tomor« row outlook prevails for Indiana, offering no new threat to waterlogged communities along the swollen Wabash. Vincennes and Terre Haute remain chief danger points on the flooded stream. An around-the-clock patrol of the levee at Vincennes was maintained, THE U. S.—After the stormiest week-end in 50 years, the U. 8. Weather Bureau at Chicago warned nation might be in for a series of severe storms. A prolonged cold wave that could break | all records may develop, forecasters said, if a vast body of cold | air moves in from the Yukon. 5

Water from yesterday's heavy rains eofitinued to raise

bridge a preliminary. els in Fall Creek, White River and Big Eagle Creek today,

but the Weather Bureau anticipated. Forecast for tonight was cloudy, cold weather, with 'a low of 20 degrees. A high of 40 was forecast for toe Morrow. One lane of traffic through Harding St. bridge over White

said no serious flood danger was

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ..18 10a. m. .. 28 River was closed as water 7a.m...18 11am. ..28 flooded Harding St. for several, 8 a.m... 19 12 (noon). 29 blocks south of the river. 9a m...200 1lp.m..30

{ Reinforce Levee Marion County work crews were called out {o reinforce a levee on the east side of White River at 79th St. and River Rd. as water began seeping through last night. Several families in Tyndall Towne were evacuated by firemen. Water from Big Eagle Creek forced five families to evacuate in the vicinity of Harding and Troy Sts. Winds Cause Damage Heavy winds accompanying the rain blew out a large window in the Club Paradise, 1233 N. Pennsylvania St. Al Walsh, manager, sald damage amounted to | $200. The White River water gauge

at Broad Ripple Dam stood at 5.38 feet at 8 a. m. today, a rise of .88 feet in the last 24 hours. At Keystone Ave. and Allison. ville Rd. Fall Creek measured 3.18 feet today. Yesterday's total at 8 a. m. was 2.16 feet. High points reached during flood waters two weeks ago was 3.90 feet. The Weather Bureau today said White River probably will crest at 7 p. m. tonight. Crests generally will run about two feet less than those experienced Jan. 6, weathermien said. Police checking all lowlands along Big Eagle Creek said the creek currently lacks 3% feet of its height two weeks ago.

Indiana Key Trouble Spot In Flood, Blizzard Areas

| Vincennes, Shawneetown Peril Increases | After Heavy Rains Over Week-End Co)

Bad weather dominated most of the nation today, with Indi as one of the chief trouble spots in the flood and blizzard-swept U, Fed by new rains the swollen Wabash and Ohio Rivers pounded at weakened levees and spféad over additional lowlands along a

300-mile stretch of the soggy Midwest. The flood zone stretched from north central Indiana to the Ohio's junction with the Missis- — 8s junctic cade to keep the water out of

sippi River. but the historic cities ppl Rive "i 1e historic Dresser, immediately west of

»f Vincennes and old Shawnee- Terre Haut Sev 1 f points homes Troops Still on Duty 2 Families Evacuated The Wabash River reached a The Whitewater spilled out of high of 28 feet at Vincennes its banks at Richmond yesterday this morning as more than 1000 and firemen evacuated two soldiers and National Guardsmen! ¢amiljes. maintained round-the-clock levee Indiana weather was blamed | patrols. for two deaths. Frank R. Pres. The Red Cross stood ready t0 ton, 42, of near Brownsburg, a

| evacuate some 5000 residents of [the city's lowest section should (Continued on Page 4-—Col. 1) {the levee break. Soldiers have al-|~—— rnp —— jready built a secondary defense Times Index wall of 76,000 sand bags along a the WPA-built wall. | Amusements. ., The nation's other flood dan) {ger spot, Shawneetown, reported |that the Ohio rose to the 54 foot (mark there today and would go (higher as the result of yesterday's heavy rains. } Rivers Again Rise The Indiana Weather Bureau sald the pelting Sunday rain would send flooded Indiana rivers and streams back up again to-| day but that only two spots would get higher crests than reached) {previously this ‘month. These were Vincennes and Terre Haute. At Terre Haute the Wabash (was expected to crest at 252 today. Mayor Ralph Tucker said volunteers were out until 2.3. m, today, erecting a sandbag parri- , pprantiey

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