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Twin Blizzards Russ Continue Batter Midwest Checkups on And Northwest Berlin Trucks

Pickets Shut 28 Mines; Steel Starts Cutbacks

Canadian Wind | January wettest Lift Blockade

On U. S. Trains Rips Minnesota | On Record Here

In Red Sector

i i 10 .. 62 Russian border ards ‘ime ~—A twin set of blizzards ham-| 53 mo"! : iam... £0 ad a er guards io mered the nation today, lash-| 3am... 80. 13 (vow). 81 |yegpern truck, traffic into

ing the Midwest and Pacific Berlin today but removed reNorthwest. | The Weatherman tod 8 ¥igtrictions on trains in a Six-

Minnesota caught the full chalked up this month as the 44y.014 on-again-off-again blockfury of a storm which swept] {wettest January on Indian- ade. across the Canadian border on apolis records. Fur-capped Soviet troops made winds of 60 miles an hour. | exhaustive inspections of docuThe far western storm pum-! Last night’ 8 1.21 inc hes of ments, travel permits and identifimeled Washington state and Pda. rain hiked the total since Jan.

cation papers of German truckers, ho after ripping across British 1 to 10.44, nearly four times the “tempting to reach Berlin Columbia.

normal downpour and almost a through the superhighway checkThe storm paralyzed the Cana-

quarter-inch more than the pre- Point at Helmstedt. dian province, bringing transpor- vious record of 10.2, set in 1890 Each inspection took about 15 tation to a standstill, forcing] Showers tonight will be fol Minutes

permitting only four schools to close, and hampering lowed by much colder weather to- {fucks an hour to get through. ! communications. morrow, the forecast said. Freez- [-st night there were 104 trucks Both storms were the result of ing temperatures are expected by lined up waiting to pass. By this! a vast mass of cold air straddling tomorrow afternoon. morning the lineup was reduced the northern portion of Canada.| The Weather Bureau said last And as they poured southward night's rain will cause a few new into the United States, they minor. crests in headwaters of! ‘ i brought intense cold waves along Hoosier rivers and slow their fall routes into Berlin reported no with them. further downstream, but will not 4¢/ays. Truck traffic from Berlin Temperatures were expected to seriously affect the slow, steady to the West was reported being

Report No Delays ! Other checkpoints on secondary

passed through the Helmstedt drop far below zero in many areas recession. Kk Doi by nightfall Tonight's showers will boost Checkpoint with little or no delay. , {the record 10.44 inches nearer the _ Ine regular Berlin-Frankfurt

Heavy Snow Falling ‘all-time record for any month in U. 8. Army passenger train passed Weather Forecaster J. E. Hov- Indianapolis. A total of 13.12 through the Soviet rail checkpoint de at Chicago said the Midwest ; .... "ode July, 1875 the 2! Marienborn without incident blizzard was expected to be the wettest month on record. last night. Western officials said most severe of the two rail service was back to normal

Before dawn today, heavy snow today. was falling throughout Minneso- Ur es Observance The German Socialist Party in ta, portions of the eastern Dako- the Western sectors scheduled

northern Wisconsin and up- eight meetings within the next 10 per Michigan. : days, one in each borough of RusNorth Dakota bus lines were liar ine aw sian-occupied Berlin, to protest forced to a halt. Airports were ! the on-and-off blockade. snowed in and automobile traffic : Airlift Ready Sheriff Asks Owners

came to a virtual standstill, even| Communist Sources To Pen Dogs Up | “provocation.”

ir city streets, About 20 Grey- | hound passengers were forced to Sheriff James Cunningham to-| Frankfurt reports said a new benches last night at Bismark, day appealed to Indianapolis and plan to reactivate the Berlin air

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sleep in a bus and on depot lift has been drafted and is avail-! able in case the Russians shut off all traffic in and out of Berlin

Jamestown, N. D., was heaviest Marion County dog owners to hit by snow, with a 10-inch fall keep their dogs penned up. adding still another layer to the| “we're swamped with tele- a8 they did in 1948. 33-inch blanket on thé ground. iphone calls complaining about The new plan is almost identiScores of schools were closed dogs loose and in packs biting cal with the old airlift except throughout the three-state area. people” he said. “We don’t. haye that the new German governwith 30 closed in Minnesota 2l0Ne./ine men or equipment to handle Ment would take over some reHighway conditions were eX- ,ir the calls we get.” | sponsibility for ground opera- -

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character in front, like the slick chicks, failed to Impress the judges.

Resume Hearings Two Winners Are Picked On Bell Rate Hike For Finals Next Month

Silly Things Fail to Realize Meaning Of Dressed Poultry ond Balk at Attire

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Things went foul for these two hens held by E. W. Stoller

Steckler Presses i Dial Service Fight |

Fowl Fashions Get the Bird i in Show Here Bands Cross State Lines

‘And Pull Miners. Out As They Report to Work

77,000 Diggers Continue Walkout in Revolt Against Orders by Lewis PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 24 (UP)-—Hard-hitting bands of United Mine Worker pickets spread rebel strikes against the UMW's three-day week today. Coal shortages already have forced four steel companies to schedule. production cutbacks.

Times Staff Photographer eft). of Woodburn, and Arthur meetings would-be considered a Geoglein, New Haven, during regional Fowl Fashion Show today at the Claypool Hotel. The ducky

The pickets, moving through Pennsylvania fields in large groups, closed 28 mors U S Intervenes mines last night and today, . . More than 77,000 miners have joined the calkouts, which UMW President John L. Lewis n [ys er d ordered ended. cible Steel Co.. Its mines . cloud, furloughed 500 steel work-~ Strike Scheduled ers today and placed 1000 more To Start Tomorrow on part-time schedules. Two open oo . . . hearths and one blast furnace at DETROIT. Jan. 24 (UP) The j15 Midland, Pa. plant were shut federal government intervened in gown. Chrysler Corp. pension talks to- Republic Steel Corp. cut back day to try to ward off tomorrow's j1s coke operations 22 per cent scheduled strike that would idle ate yesterday. Youngstown more than 105,000 workers in $iX gheet and Tube Co. began bankmales, WW 4 at [M6 A blast furnace at Brier Hill, tations recesse a 11:15 p. me (Indianapolis Time) Cross State Lines it was announced that Federal Sharon Steel Corp. said it will Conciliator E. M. Sconyers would reduce its blast furnace operations join negotiators in last hour talks about 25 per cent next week une It was the first move on the 1888 more coal is obtained. part of the government to fore- At the Vesta No. 4 mine % ative Je stall a walkout. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. No progress was reported by Southwestern Pennsylvania, they either the CIO United Auto Work- Stopped buses carrying the miders or the company. Chrysler Inight shift to work. The mine |workers are set to strike at 9 closed. 'a. m. tomorrow unless their 10-| A motor caravan of 150 to 200 cent welfare package formula for Pickets roamed the northern West, $100 pensions and other welfare Virginia fields near Shinnston, benefits is accepted. blocking mine entrances and ‘Eat. Rest. Think’ dumping coal trucks and bins, A walkout by 89.000 production Eight state police and deputy workers would immediately idle Sheriffs were assigned to trail the a total of 105600, the company Pand. announced. Seventy - nine thou- The pickets

estimated at 200.

ous . i. ) pe sand are employed in 1 i appeared at J & L's No. 5 mine pected to ER azirdous Sgt. James Payne, city dog | tons. such as movement of The Public pr Ah office Fashion got the bird--or vice versa—this morning in the Clay-, ployed in 14 Michigan, | is morning. They talked to throughout ‘lowa, ' pound head, joined Sheriff Cun- reight today renewed its efforts to get pool Hotel, N the morning shift andthe men Michigan and northern Illinois. [oe cp, “on asking. oity “and (2 | a ITT It came duping the Indians Grain & Feed Dealars Associatiol egotiators began roundsthe ¢ iningham in asking. city = and before the: Public. Servier Com- ping Helock talks to “avert nome. Miners from West Freezing rains laid a sheath of’ - Moth $400,000 issi l convention . . . when the Poultry snd Fgg National Board spon ” : Ton tions of those county residents to obey “quar or's vit mission evidence that Indiana N IR 1 Fowl Fashi fh Th PENS picket lines in Georgia, Cali~ Virginia. and Ohio ranged into ice over many section antines” which have been in eftect oy, Fil T Bell Telephone Co, would improve sored the North Central Regional Fowl Fashion Show. e fornia. Indiana. Delaware. Kan. Pennsylvania to help ciose the states. . just beginning since June 10, 1049, er rim ossed Out its financial position sharply by 18 Aearching for the 10 best-dressed fowls jn the nation. 2 nat ed SA. mines. With ihe nea) a - ‘Getting Careless’ | TULSA, Okla. Jan. 24 (UP). increasing dial serv fee, Ten birds SHichens ducks and ident. respectively. of the Hoosier When they Tecessed at noon U. S. Steel Pits Close a and 40 miles an 'A woman whose daughter's name Ihe evidence was introduced as tirkeys mode ed n ho N y ced Association. the only comment was “we're go- The rebels moved into Indiana . i £ ig. y J g ‘ORT ni y puly - Alexandria. Minn. The quarantines make it a mis- was used in a movie title has hearings ere resumed on, ne In- hag costumes th nd won Elected 0 serve two-year terms ing to eat and rest and think.” County in central Pennsylvania demeanor to allow a dog to run Jost her suit for $400,000 dam- diana Bell petition for §3.8 mil- state priz , on the board of directors were President Waiter P. Reuther of and closed six mines there Drifts Block Highways loose. Indiana law also requires ages. hod in jicreased rates. PENT contest which win Ralph Snyder. Taylorsville; D. the UAW said the union's demand Less than 13,000 of the 90.000, A § v : fo Ss y 2 n . Wi TNers 1HCN : The western storm was de- dogs to be penned or chained. U. 8. District Judge Royce Sav: mer rere .- he om compete with eight other regional W. Burres, Willow Branch: C. B. of a 10-cent wage boost was its who joined in the Lewis-opposed scribed by residents of the Fraser/ “We have had more calls in 2&0 iy BITS, Calla ¥ ISera tended to show im rove : ih pe winners next month in Kansas Dunnington, Crawfordsville and ‘rock bottom” offer. wildcat walkout in six states last River Valley in British Columbia the last three or four days than sult against Paramount Film FOCEC 0 ¢ ing power which City. were Susie Q. Rifle in E. W. Stoller, Woodburn. “Either Chrysler takes it or we Week. were back at work as ore as the most severe “flash bliz- ever before, Sgt. Payne said. Distributing Co. after he and a F Utihiy earning power w Her . i tails tufile nd Pris — strike tomorrow,’ he said. dered. zard" on record “People are getting careless be- jury saw the movie, “The Strange Would follow additional conver- Southern Belle ruffles and Pri . U. 8. Steel Corp, reported that “ rhirty mile - an - hour winds cause of the adverse publicity the Love of Martha Ivers.” sions from manual exchanges to fila Pinafore On polka Oars ond Glo es Ti ef all but one of its 13 subsidiary ) | A > i rin diz xe <. evelet embroidery. Susie Q.. plac- } Vv ck ! : : owfall into/dog pound has been getting. Mrs. Ivers alleged the film vio- dial exchanges vele : B I$ C 00 S Nl l mines in Pennsylvania were whipped a Sot i ked high- Sgt. Pavne said he TH for lated the privacy of her daugh- The exhibit was prepared by an ing first, was dressed by Mrs closed. However, it reported suf~ — ring to charges made in public, ter. Martha. But Judge Savage employee of the Cyrus G. Hill Co., Micheline Riffle, Shenandoah. Sale Downtown ficient coal supplies on hand te a traffic was grounded and in court cases and in newspaper said any injury the girl sustained which is assisting Counselor Wil- Iowa. Priscilla was, dreised by continue full operations this week, 1 tr sportation slowed advertisements by private citizens Was purely imaginary liam Steckler in the public's op- Mrs. Mary Pitlanish Washing ORingside and reserved longer Three deaths were counted in and members of humane groups - position to the ae nerease . ton. Mich : ask seat Pari or the fourth Jones & Laughlin said it would ) . . . . Reason for S rejection o Show A Dizzy Tas . gO oO e Times-Legion the northwestern storm. An aged that he was mistreating dogs. Times Index . j CY : Semester and Staff } ; maintain full operations, at least Vancouver, British Columbia, Dr. Gerald Kempf, city health the ‘exhibit at that time was & pynning a fowl fashion show Golden Gloves BOXINE | until the first of February. man. tired from bucking the wind director. said this is one of the Amusements ..... eeesess 13 DUILDer of errors in the evidence. ;. ..onoh to drive a real fashion Changes Completed ournament are on sale A state-by-state survey showed and senow, died of a heart attack season when dog packs are diffi- Bridge ves 4 At today's hearing Mr. Hill. ow director nuts. Who ever a RR now downtown. 43,000 miners idle in Pennsyle just “as he asked a fire captain cult to control - “ Co Ce took the stand with a “corrected” heard of a human model trying Indianapolis high schools will ®Prices for next Friday vania, 17,000 in West Virginia just as anas Cheeses anaanaans . ores aie , : es on schedule tomorros i ! ) ri 3 , for a ride home. He warned that a dog cannot na a ” set of figures The rejected eX. +0 eat a co-worker's costume? But open on schedule tomorrow afte night's session in the N. 10,000 in Ohio. 6000 in Alabama A snowslide swept a Pacific run loose without being exposed Childs ..ceeevees sesennes 12 hibit indicated a profit of 7.3 per that's what Model Future Biddy a four-da vacation’ [or semes Pennsvivania St Arm- and 1000 in Kentucky (Gireat Western locomofive and to the danger of rabies. OrosSWOrd svvevesssesees 22 cent over 1949. had the company with egg-trimmed frock tried ter change and staff meetings ory are: Ringside and There was no violence. None boxcar into Seton Lake, drown- Otto Ray. former Marion Ooun- Editorials ..... veeessess. 12 OPerated entirely on a dial basis. \, 45 10 the popcorn string Co ) iret row balcony. $2 union strip mines. which were ate ing Engineer Alex Munro, 43 and ty sheriff, now investigator for Fashions ........ Cees 5 The new exhibit scaled that po- ,,ound Daisv Duck's neck Elementary schools have nos downstairs reserved tacked by pickets last week, gene Firemdn Harry P. Seymour. 25, Animal and Owners Protective Foreign Affairs ...... ... 12 tential return on net invested , . of the three turkeys — been closed } $1.50. They're available erally were closed because of rain, both of Squamish. British Colum- Association. said packs can he FOFUM ov vveeeennrnnnnes 12 (Continued on Page T—Col. 1) hamming it a< all men dn Although inventories have -not at » . . bia. Divers sought their bodies prevented by keeping females Inside Indianapolie ...... 11 TL : ' tried to take off for the ceiling. been completed since last re- co ®Bush-Callahan Sporting Reports Trainmen Vote todav penned. Mrs. Manners ...... . R . . . . Onlv : one of the turkeys Was ports six davs ago, 8s hoa! of- 1 0 o : , . . . The cold that swept into the en -— MOVIES .......eirrennes A Mail Clerk Held n Bail tractable. Pilgrim Pete seemed to ficlals said there {is no indica ot ‘o 138 oo en For Nationwide Strike Northwest erased the threat of 2 DIE IN N. J. CRASH Needlework Cena Ir J On Theft Charge have had a bad night and was on ha con stocks are in worse South Ringside and Re- PORTLAND. Ore. Jan. 24 floods for the time being. All LAWRENCEVILLE. N. J. Jan popman Ciera esararans A Rushville mail clerk today a little shaky in the kn condition v He ome ue as corved UP). W. P. Kennedy. president rivers were reported receding. 24 (UP)—Two persons were ki : Trent ao was free on bond awaiting Fed. The rest of the models were been used since then, supplies rm. Fe Err . of the Brotherhood of Railway p e Killed g oF F In Illinois and Indiana, where ini Radio .....coeievnnnnnn. “ - rat 18 t co-operative. Cowgirl have been received they said m-Roe Sporting Goods Co a f and 11 others injured today when ety eral Grand Jury investigation of just not co-0f OWE ‘n 908 W Was Trainmen. says union members floods forced 6000 persons from r : Society ..... . venues N : —- Slick Chick Sadie. Prince Cg., 200 W. Washington heir ’ t th a Washington-to-New York bus Sports ....... een. 1441 charges he rifled March of Dimes Cassie. Slick Chick Sadi M To Report This Week St Balcony Reserved. are voting “almost unanimously" their [omes in the bo nox to rammed a parked tractor-trailer Earl Wilson «...eees... . envelopes. Albert, Uncle Sam and mime New reports on the total school } in favor of a nationwide strike. all streams were returning on New Jersey's super-highWay' womans .........oo.o... 5 Louis R. Bobrink. 43. confessed Henny Laroy--all of them re- supply are expected this week @Spoxisman’s Store. 126 He said the trainmen want the their banks, although a few roads o5 No Hoosiers were reported 83 your Job |! g [taking $8.50 from two envelopes sented being dressed. Maxwell V. Bailey. business di- N. Pegnsylvania - St 40-hour week and “equalization were still closed by high water. casualties. hdr after inspectors arrested him Silly things. If they only knew rect or said ) North and West Ringside of pav.’ Strike ballots will be . tt - eee Q “wv oe I. vy : . ) o “dress ally ( sal i Str 1 Sunday. according ‘0 u. S Dis- what geting ora Grade schools made the normal and Reserved counted at Cleveland Jan. 31. oo. A rorney, Howard B. ¢ augh.- ial a Hon m, Auburn “and semester change without halting - - Oo a ’s eat er Fotocast thet ret hi ose The! D. W. Crutchfield, Yeoman, were classes. High schools closed after Our Complex State Government— thefts stretching Syer the past vo oo f WA gn classes iast Wednesday for the ’ ou nths, Mr. Caughran said. re-elected presic © reguls / — . gular two-day holiday I hev remained closed vesterdayv end i e oover oar rg e

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‘Dear Dad: | Was a Bad Boy'—

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| Stood in a Corner’

Father Recalls How Son, 10, Dashed Out After Coming Home From School CHICAGO, Jan, 24 (UP)—"Dear Dad," said the note in the little boy's pocket, “I was a bad boy in schodl today. “1 was throwing spitballs and had to stand in the corner in the library. 1 want you to sign this nate: Your son, Terry.” At the bottom was the scrawled signature, “Mr. Moore.” Albert Moore, a stationary engineer, saw the note after he went to a police station to report that his son, Terrence, 10, was missing.

HE SAID the signature on the note was not his. He said -his son came home from school late yesterday, threw down his books and ran out again. He mentioned no note. “Police took Mr. Moore to an yndertaker’s. The body of a little boy killed during the rush} hour traffic on Lake Shore Drive was there, The note had been found in his pocket. "Mr, Moorg identified the boy as his son.

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Shortridge High School

When the last inventory was Welter of Duplicating, Unnecessary Services made last week, Mr. Bailey said , . about 10 days coal supply was Revealed by Study of Public Agencies available for the elemental — buildings Additional coal has Last of a series <ince heen received and some has By ROBERT BLOEM —— heen used. They use about one A “little. Hoover Commission” could find plenty of ways td carload of stoker coal each day. Simplify Indiana's state government.

Few experts on government, however, believe that such a come mission could recommend much that would reduce its cost. The answer to that, the experts believe, lies in cutting state services. 80 long as the public wants certain things from stats pus Attucks: seven days for Man- government or has grown so used ual, and eight days each for Tech to them that they think these

and Howe services are necessary. govern- A ment is going to be expensive. of domens of independent boards, For example, the welter of bod Salons. 2h so forth. No. duplicating and unnecessary ser- though rows wn mien this =

Home That Fits vices performed by a multitude of i little boards and commissions are In extra administrative, budgets ing, bookkeeping, housing and

Your Pocketbook a minor part of the cost of state supply.

e If you are in the market SoVernment. Still most officials closely come {or a home. turn now to They surround the government nected with such administrative with an iron curtain of mystery. problems do not feel that evem the classified columns of | Thay make, it impossible to trace outright elimination of a hundred today's Times, You'll find duties, functions and responsi- such boards and commissions HUNDREDS OF HOMES bility. For these reasons they are woyld save much money. FOR SALE today potentially expensive. What it might do is simplify and evervaay! But a study of their budgets the structure of government so FVeryday indicates that many bring in the voters and their elected reps You'll find _the home that more in fees to the state treasury resentatives could keep track ot Ttw your—pocketbook;— than they spend. Even the study i; One such possibility lies nit where you want it. Yes, - and advisory commissions, most budget, itself. in The Times is NOW ‘the of which serve virtually no ‘heces- | During the last General an

The high school =upply stood at six davs for Washington; nine days for Broad Ripple; seven days for Shortridge: six days for Cris-

government involved in the coms plicated, disorganized structure

newspaper with the sary purpose, receive only A REAL ESTATE ADS, hen from the treasury sembly m most budget publicity

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