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Nine-year-old Jane Hannah,

Hannah of Griffith, Ind., a victim of the polio epidemic of 1948, smiles as she climbs toward recovery at the National Foundation | for Infantile Paralysis center at Warm Springs, Ga. Jane has been | ot Warm Springs since September, 1949. With specialized treat- | mént she is recovering the use of her back and arms, crippled by | the dread disease. She is one of hundreds regaining health through the assistance of the March of Dimes campaign.

Hope Faces New Threat—

Bing's Oldest Boy Hailed

Gary, 16, Makes Debut on Dad's Program;

Education Comes First, Groarer Insists [blocked when Board President|of the successor to Judge Robert : and City Attorney Curtis Kimmel,| HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 19 (UP)—Bing Crosby sald today that his|Leroy J. Keach found the heavy C. Baitzell who had set today *In Laundry Vote of Vincennes. s

60th YEAR—NUMBER 313 = °°

On Road to Recovery

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By EDWIN C. HEINKE Copyright, 1950, by The indianapolis Times

from the United Mine Workers’ $100 million welfare fund.

Producers of 90 per cent of Indiana's coal said they would not make their January payment, due Friday. Many producers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois told | Scripps-Howard newspaper representatives they would fol-| low the same course. In Indiana the royalty due tomorrow amounts to $250,1000 on 1,258,00 tons mined in December. Altogether among Northern operators, the total is about $4.4 million.

|volt against Mr. Lewis seemed in sight. Opposition to Check-off Grows

|was rapidly gaining momentum to eliminate the check-off ‘systems, whereby the operators collect union dues.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. |

Find Peg in Lock Of Hearing Room

By LARRY STILLERMAN

An attempt to re-enter the Safety Board hearing room was made Tuesday night, The Times learned today. { It was believed an effort was, : | being made to search the room candidate.

Photo, Page 3.

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(Jack) Durham case records and, The President also failed to

exhibits are kept. However, the “invasion”

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oldest son, Gary, must wait at least six years before following in the 81ass hall door wouldn't latch se- his retirement date from the fed-|

Old Groaner’s footsteps as a radio crooner. Gary, 16, made his debut last night on his father's radio show| hearings. { , who was in San Francisco, had to admit that the kid did “a pretty darned good job.” |

over WFBM-CBS. And his father,

Other crooners admitted that Gary's youthful, clear voice sounded just like his old man’s did 20 years ago and that they, were worried about the competition. ; “A Crosby without hair was

bad enough,” Frank - Sinatra moaned. “Now look what we got.”

Gary got off to a good start when a Washington radio executive offered him a job “whenever he is willing?” Offered Disc Spot General Manager Howard Stanley of Station WEAM waited only long enough to hear the youth warble “Dear Hearts and Gentle People” before he offered him a singing disc jockey spot. But Gary still has two years at San Jose Prep School, near San Francisco, then four years of college before him, Bing said. “His future is educational,” “Bing added. “He'll probably go to Stanford or Santa Clara, with Santa Clara having the edge. “It’s the only school around here that can win a bowl game.” But Bing, who paid his sprout] the $25 union scale because “he hasn't heard of the big salaries yet,” said he hoped Gary would be successful. “I could even quit and be his agent,” he said. Comedian Bob Hope, at a temporary loss for words, withheld immediate comment on the Crosby father-and-son show. This was despite an exchange of banter between Gary and Bing

about girls, Uncle Everett, shav-|

ing and kindred topics in a manner dear to the hearts of Hope and Crosby. . 15-Second Ovation The San Francisco studio audience on hand when the show was tape-recorded Monday night gave Gary a 15-second ovation after his song. * Bing, the cast and Bill Morrow, the producer of the program, agreed with the crowd's verdict. Bing, who has three other boys, was busy doing another program and didn't hear last night's broadcast. “But I heard the tape recording the other day,” he said, “and he did okay.”

What Kind Of Home Do You Want?

® Do you want to buy a well-built . pre-war home near schools and transportation? Or would you prefer a brand-new home farther out? Or would you like to own a double to give you a home and income, too? ® No matter what kind of home you want to buy, you'll find it advertised today inthe REAL ESTATE ADS in The Times. Tarn now to the classified columns for a

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|“ Brookville Rd. Accident, Remains Grave

lcurely at the end of Tuesday's'eral bench in Indianapolis. Asked at his press conference Find Peg in Lock . |this morning about the Indiana Mr. Keach today said he dis-| Senate race, the President refused [covered a wooden peg had been {po say whether he has made a

4008. This prevented locking, he the grounds that he does not in-| said. | Will Mullery, City Hall night hjs home state. watchman, removed the peg with| {an icepick when summoned by| Mr. Keach. Mr. Mullery told the|

Golden Glovers Battle Tomorrow

® The third session of Times - Legion (olden Gloves will be staged tomorrow at 8 p. m. in the N. Pennsylvania St. Armory. @®It promises to be the most exciting night so far this year. Tickets will be available in advance until 4:40 p. m. tomorrow at:

® Bush - Callahan Sporting

Supporting Allison In Missouri he is openly back-

City Hall Tuesday night, how-| pig ever. “Anyway. all important docu-imajority leader, re-elected in Illiments of the Durham case are in pig the vault,” Mr. Keach explained.

press conference that

. Failure to send the judgeship Hearing Drags nomination to the Senate today As the hearing moved slowly added to the anxiety of backers into the third day, Mr. Keach said [of William Steckler, Indianapo-| that unless the case is concluded lis, who were frankly disap-

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1950

three-day week and a new determination to bring the Oper-| i awers. The reason: ator-John L. Lewis fight to a showdown. 'day week an

wasiSend to the Senate the «ato AF] Is Winner

laundry | breeze.

Store Union-CIO months.

tomorrow, 28. Saturday outlook—partly cloudy.

ithey would continue to hold out on the pension fund pay- } : 'ments until the three-day week was eliminated. The other Big Indiana and other Northern coal operators today) ae will wait until next week “‘to see what the Eastern oplined up with Southern operators in withholding payments rators do.”

Entered as’ Second-Class

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Matter at Postoffice Indiana. Lisued Dally

vided in the contract which expired last June 30, but making no commitment as to the welfare fund. ea It was understood the operators also were spurred to this action by Mr. Lewis’ step in blocking the seating of

Several companies in Indiana reported checks for the their own nominee for the welfare fund board, Charles

“Operating Costs

The move is the result of growing bitter feeling over the Lr. 0 fund have been made out but still were in cash | Dawson of Kentucky. “John L. Lewis put us on the three-| d we can't afford the payment.”

Ohio Company Pays Into Fund

Most companies in Ohio said they had not yet made a

Run Too High” 'decision on whether they would make Friday's payment,

One operator said: “Operating costs are so high as a but the indications were that many would not.

{result of the three-day week that we can no longer continue |to pay tribute to Mr. Lewis. all of it anyway.” In Pennsylvania, coal operators were withholding payments because the December production represents coal the Old Ben Coal Co.—would make the payment. And the Throughout the coal region, a full-fledged operator re- mined after the union began signing the so-called “Kentucky president of this company is said to be a close friend of agreements.” These agreements, hailed by Mr. Lewis as breaking] Many of the operators said they would continue to with- the back of operator opposition, recognized a new board of dividuals stopped last September, the Northern operators ‘hold payments until Mr. Lewis’ three-day work week was trustees to administer the fund—a board not acceptable have been making their regular payments into the fund. |eliminated. There were Indiana reports also that a movement to the operators.

However in Cleveland, H. T. Schmidt, president of

The miners were not getting| North American Coal Co., said his company would continue

payments. It was reported that only one company in Illinois—

Mr. Lewis. Although the pension and welfare payments to in-

Indiana operators ‘paid $400,000 on Dec. 20 on 2,004,500

Since the signing of the agreements, some of the coal tons mined in November.

companies have posted notices at their mines saying the In both Indiana and Illinois, half of the operators said men were working under the same wages and hours pro- piration of their contracts with the union June 30.

Alex Campbell or any other]

Southern operators stopped payments upon the ex-

Hint Plot to Get Truman Non-Committal Hoosiers to Seek Still No Emergency, Durham Records On Campbell Backing Flood Control Aid Truman Tells Press

Declines to ‘Meddle’ in Hoosier Campaign; |

Delays Naming Successor to Baltzell

By DAN KIDNEY, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—President Truman wants a

Democratic Senator elected from Indiana this vear, but Another Story, Photo, Page 17. - | he refused to say he is backing

President Says He Will Act in Coal Issue Only if Situation Warrants

By United Press said today there still is no national

- Congress to Get Plea For Increased Funds

LOCAL TEMPERATURES President Truman

6am... 15 10 a. m,.. 18 , Tam... 15 - 11am .. 22 emergency in coal supplies and he has no plans at the Ra. m...16 12 (Noon) 26 present time to intervene in the coal contract dispute. am... 17 1pm .. 20

BN + The President told his weekly news conference that he Three Hoosiers left here for iS in constant touch with the coal situation and gets daily

Washington today to seek more]

Margin Over CIO Union is 2 to 1.

lodged in the catch-lock of the|choice among the Democrats, on| Photo, Page 2; Harold H. Hart-

ley’s Column, Page 20.

|terfere in party affairs outside of The AFL walked off with the today, in al

unions

The vote was two to one. The final count of the National

(board president yesterday he saw ing Emery Allison for the Demo-| Labor Relations Board gave the ino unfamiliar persons re-enter cratic nomination and did say at| AFL 1272 votes, the CIO 566, and he, for no union 54. Thirteen ballots wants to see Sen. Scott Lucas, were disqualified.

The resounding victory for the

{AFL comes at the end of a running jurisdictional battle with the

Wholesale Department

covering nine

etail,

Both sides signed statements at-

testing te the fairness of the elec-

Goods Co., 136 E. Wash- i o . , ‘ BOOS Cou 18 8, 3 ash [today it will be postponed until pointed when he wasn't nomi tion, but Joseph Romer, CIO g : around Feb. 7. nated on Tuesday when the name|)., 4 t first refused to let his South Ringside and re- | ’ ee eader, a rst refuse $ | At least four more witnesses of Matthew E. Welsh, Vincennes. witnesses si served. sses sign.

{and a statement from a Los was sent up as successor to B | Angeles, Cal., police prisoner were Edward Caughran as U. 8S. at[to be heard as city evidence to-| torney at Indianapolis. day. The defense has yet to call chi (any of its 27 summoned witnesses. | hohe ourt nd 5 Lorneyship “Neither I nor the board can... ) i tri ! spend all our time on this hearing] ana district. now,” Mr. Keach said yesterday. Reports are current here that “This isn’t the only business be- Mr. Caughran may be named tq fore us.” the bench. He is in high favor in | Mr. Keach will leave Saturday some quarters here because he relon a two-week business trip East./fused to quash the Arthur V.| Defense Attorney Henry R. Brown WPA fraud case after his Wilson cross-examined

® Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co., 209 W. Washington St.—Balcony reserved. ® Sportsman's Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania St. — North and West Ringside and reserved. ® Prices are: Ringside and first row balcony, $2; downstairs reserved, $1.50. Prices include tax. ® The Armory box office will open at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow when general admission tickets go on sale at $1 for adults and 50 |

ville, died. He was Mr. Nolan's

(Continued on Page 3—Col. 2) assistant and the Justice Depart-

B U L L E T | N [torneys from here to get the case|

, {quashed. AUGUSTA, Me., Jan. 19 (UP) Matthew J. Connelly, presiden~—A red sedan, bearing Indiana tial secretary, is among ‘those license plates and carrying six thoroughly familiar with ) ) ¢ matter, He was a great admirer) | men, was sought by state po- or Mr Nolan as U. 8. attorney. | lice in southern and central Maine today. Occupants of the car, last seen between Rockland and Thomaston, were wanted for questioning in Bos- If he doesn't name Mr. Steckler,| ton's $1,500,000 holdup. (Earlier | who is strongly supported by| story, Page 3). Frank M. McHale, Democratic | national committeeman from Indiana, and National Democratic Chairman Willlam D. Boyle Jr., it may be some Hoosier lawyer

cents for children 12 years and under, in addition to the reserved chairs.

Child Crash Victim Fights

or Indiana judge who has not

For Life; Driver Fined $25 been prominently mentioned for

in: : : Chri |the piace. Condition of Girl, 6, Hurt in Pre-Christmas [a aly Senatorial andl

|date in the congressional delegation, Rep. Andrew’ Jacobs, In- | dianapolis Democrat, was pleased at President Truman's hands-off licy.

May Delay Action

It also has been reported that |the President may not act on] |the judgeship for a week or more, |

A 6-year-old girl continued to fight for life today as the result |of a pre-Christmds accident in which she was thrown from her {mother's automobile when it was struck by a reckless driver. po | Mrs. Jeanette Morrison, 47-year-old Indiana Bell Telephone Co." {long distance operator, of 48 N, Jefferson Ave. was fined $25 and It 18 ab appropriate position

| for him to take,” Mr. Jacobs costs this week in Municipal Court 3 by Judge Joseph Howard on| “ ‘i ' lcharges of reckless driving apd ~~ |said. “But I 'was not surprised,

failure to stop for. a through|shoulder and multiple other in-|88 I was assured quite some time [Teture Her ates license was| juries. She was just recently re-| 380 that was his position. |suspended for 60 days. + |moved from 8t. Vincent's Hos-| Only a week ago Mr. Jacobs) | The penalty was the result of Pital and physicians report her conférred with President Truman | a Dec. 10 crash at Brookville condition is still critical. at the White House and after-

Road and Emerson Ave. when At the time of the Municipal Ward said talked a car driven by Mrs. Morfison Court hearing Mrs, Morrison ag-! politics. {crashed broadside into an auto- mitted she had been drinking but! =] 'mobile driven by. Mrs. Helen police sald a Drunk-O-Meter test N- ¥. TIMES UP TO 3¢ | White, 31, of 4858 English Ave, [registered less than the specified] NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UP)-- | Thrown From Car 35 per: cent, |The New York Times announced ‘Both Mrs, White and her The driver said her brakes today that the newsstand price {daughter, Paula, were thrown failed to hold and two witnesses of its weekday editions wilt be |from the car, Mrs. White is an|said she struck the curb twice/raised from three to five cents in’ ‘expectant mother. within a half block before crash-| the city next Monday “because of |, The child, sullered a fractured|ing nto the White ear at. the continued increasing costs in all skull, a broken arm, a broken intersection. : phases of operation,” : A % yi : » . " ! ' ; fs . Y

they “hot,

that’

The votes were counted on two

tables, and stacked in bundles of {50 each, the AFL on one side, the CIO on the other.

As the final votes on the last

table were counted, and it was apparent what the result would be, Mr. Romer advised his witnesses, Mrs. Evelyn Robinson and William Chapman, not to touch their pens to the paper.

He charged that the election

Acting/ predecessor Val Nolan, Evans- (Continued on Page 3—Col. 8) (Continued on Page 4—Col. 5) | Adm. Forrest P. Sherman to suc-|

|ment had to send out special at- Griffith Awarded 30-Year Pin

Theodore B. Griffith (left) . . . receives 30-year service pin

from Robert Riley. Theodore B, Griffith, president of L.. 8, Ayres & Co., today completed 30 years of service with the store.

‘In a ceremony in his office, Mr. Griffith became the 44th Ayres worker to assume the 30year pin as it was presented by Robert Riley, employee activities representative.

Mr. Riley was chosen to make

{flows

When Mr. Campbell left for Ft. Wayne a few days ago|flood control funds from Con-| Lald Ral, a reports on supplies. had a presidential thank you note for his Justice De- Eres [astieularty: in . the hb. S He said there is no emer- — (een a . :

where’ The" ‘tontrover#ial Jacque partment service here. APS 3.

gency—although many Con |gressmen and industry officials have urged. that the White House seek a court injunction to put the miners back on a five-day week.

The delegation included Joseph - Perry, chief engineer of the Flood Control Commission; Richard 8. g Robertson, commission secretary, : Eligible for $8500 Even the government's own

Annual Pay labor officials believe that presi. trom its 28.60-foot crest yester- BOSTON, Jan. 19 (UP)—Adm. dential action will be necessary day morning, and the current ous E. Denfeld, irked by hisin a few days. crisis seemed past, but officials Custer as chief of naval opera-| Mr. Truman said that he, and he hoped for funds for a long range L008 in the unification squabble, alone, will determine when and if program to prevent future over- 25Kked to be retired from the Navy| an emergency exists. He said that {today after 41 years’ service. if he decides there is an emerThe group asked Gov. Schricker| His retirement gency, he will move against John to accompany them to tell an Ap-; Wii! become ef- L. Lewis and his United Mine propriations sub-committee what | fective Mar. 1 Workers Union. Separate Action

he saw on his flood inspection | A Navy pokes Ioan in Washing. | | Action by the President would 3 be entirely separate from the

tour of Vincennes last week. ton said Adm. rhe eker Unable to Go to, Denfeld will get | court move started against Mr. accompany the delegation. He ar- paogzT A | Lewis and the union yesterday by ranged a conference for tonight , ov" po gajd | Robert N. Denham, Genera) Seuns {tions Board.

with Congressman James Noland that if the admiMr. Denham formally accused

(D. 7th District) ral had resigned, In" testimony before’ the com- phe would have |Mr. Lewis of demanding three | specific illegal contract terms.

mittee, headed by Rep. John Kerr eiv \ (D. N. C.) the delegates will sup- received one Adm. Denfeld port the general flood -control yo14 a news conference at 1st He Cg Federal Judge Richprogram already submitted for nuova) District headquarters that| ond . Keech to grant an inneers. These recommendations — penqing approval of his retire-/ yo. =r oo. drops his allegedly illegal demands. This case will be

ppclude continuation of the one ment and its effective date, he ver flood wall a ew any, Ae Y:! said, he will continue to reside at argued in court a week from to-

the Cagle’'s Mill Dam and other his Westboro home projects ’ a : . ___|day. The 58-year-old admiral was — yr. mu man said Mr. Denham’s

In addition, the group will seek __ . en-| to have approximately $440,000 assigned desk space in the § action had nothing to do with

A \ eral inspector's office of the dis- |p. amount of coal on hand. H added to the engineer's budget for , n hand. : g & trict’s Fargo building. |said Mr. Denham acted on what

The Wabash at Vincennes had | fallen more than 11; feet today!

a special flood wall along the , | Wabash River to protect the _1here. he said, he will com-he thought were violations of the Ceorge Rogers Clark Memorial Plete his affairs before quitting Taft-Hartley Act.

The active service. | Asked if he had given his blesspresent wall was the source of the] Deferred Confirmation |ing to Mr. Denham’s court move, flood threat which has kept hun- Adm. Denfeld announced his | the President answered that it is dreds of troops and civilians on decision to retire a day after the not his business to bless or uns Senate deferred confirmation of bless Mr. Denham. | He did say, however, that Mr, ceed him as Chief of Naval Op-/Denham had been in touch with erations and a month after he|/the White House on that part of ‘himself rejected a high overseas the coal dispute. Mr. Denham said {yesterday that the White House

command. { | The Navy on Dec: 19 made pub- (had made no objection to his

lic Adm. Denfeld’'s refusal to ac-| action. an Eh p cept appointment as commander-| oan Tieng Walkouty major |in-chief of American naval forces | eo coal operators to withhold in the Eastern Atldntic and Medi- royalty payments to the United Lterranean, with headquarters inj... Workers = Welfare Fund n the Senate yésterday, tne] sed, new Sdubts stop int ty of Adm. Denfeld’s ouster|cat” walkouts of more than 88,500 :t. 27 was questioned, and miners. [confirmation of Adm. Sherman’'s| ‘Mr. Lewis’ lieutenants were in {appointment to the Navy's high- the coal fields with a back-to-est job was delayed. |work order, but they admitted - ; |they didn’t know “what will hapn.”

Plan Group Probes ™

day week. | The Marion County Planning New violence was reported to{Commission were scheduled to

da. An “enormous” ast wreck ( consider two controversial mat-of the a iu Brothers Shovels ters this afternoon. Co. at a The proposal to build a $400,000, Uniontown, Srivping Wing Near trailer camp in the 3100 block of, Houses were shaken and win{Madison Ave. has brought con-|dows broken in a 15-mile area. |mderable objections in the past. : T | The ers want to build a num. imes ’ ndex ber of cabins and other buildings Ti | § jon the site. Amusements ARLEN RERERY 114 The second matter also has Bridge Cress avs tesa a nu nEn 10 f [brought bitter objections in the| Comics i imnintit {past. It {s a proposad to build a| Crossword ....c.ssisveses | service station on Kessler Blvd,| Editorials «i.seisesnssss 18 at 52d St. Property owners in-| Forum ..ssdsnnvssssnscns 18 Gardening Inside I

and downtown Vincennes.

(sist a filling station would mar {the beauty of the neighborhood. The commission also was slated to re-elect Harry W. Claffey as president. a

the presentation because he has served 66 years with the company, longer than any other employee. In all other similar Setamonies, Mr. Griffith awards Mr; Griffith entered the serv- LOCK PUP IN STOLEN CAR ice of the 78-year-old firm in

January, 1920, as research di- ; (UP)-Police searched recor. He was named presi~ {an thief who. left a dent in 1940, after the death of || in a stolen car for Frederic M. Ayses iho feed ae wale, ¥ ow pra

Mine Owners In Indiana Halt UMW Welfare Fund Payments

All mines were closed today be.