Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1950 — Page 1
FORECAST: Sleet or freezing Tain tonight.
60th YEAR—NUMBER 326°
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1950
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“Skip the Weather,
not worry about the weather."
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"Miss Trula Green and Pharach , . , "Ah, me, ah, me, let's
Pharaoh the Groundion: . Disgusted With Journalists
Complains Too Many Hoosiers Wake Him
To Ask Silly Questions About Spring, Ete.
By CLIFFORD THU RMAN
“1 AN “T a*comin’ out.” “The voice that said it had
throated, all and emphatic bass. The dialect was strictly hitibily. iproject are under way. is a hillbilly. . He's a groundhog, too,
Pharao
D. O. Green in urging Pharaoh ‘to come out. Pharaoh finally did, “All this niff-na bein’ ‘fraid of my shadow,” he drawled, “ain’t acco Hoyle. I-ain't “fraid of and I canstake care of m self with all the rest of ‘em. “Weather? Yeah, I .can sol rt of predict it. For instance, it is as cold .as Billy Hades right now--snow on the ground. Why
whiskers. It was a sort of deep
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should 1 come out'n my hole? “Would you come out, Bub? :
‘Would vou leave ‘a nice warm hole just because’ it's Feb: 2 ard some screwball expects you - to?” . < - . » iy aoe TRULA GREEN pleaded with him. She kept urging Pharaoh to “come on out and talk with the man.” Trula is a junior at
the Pittsboro High -School-and—
Pharaoh is her pet. Pharaoh, incidentally,- is a native of the hills of Tennessee. He became a Hoosier more than a year ago when friends gave him to Trula. “Sure, Bub, I'm-a groundhog,” he muttered. “Every year about | this time you newspaper guys
‘the 79th day of the year and
in’.
“An’, Bub)\don't forget,” Pha- | a twitch of his |
be Christmas n't ask me (ill be on ac-
next Dec. 25. what the weather -count—-of=FH-be-as if you newspaper gu alone.” Pharaoh left then. J appeared in his hole. Life can be a boring thi
Bub’ Pr efab Agency” ‘Justice Knows No Polifcal Party’
Hamill To | efi
286 more days a’'com- |
Plans Addition
| 0f 90 Houses
Gunnison Seeks OK Of 16%2-Acre Project. On Southeast Si de
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"Photos, Page 5 By LARRY STILLERMAN
nison Homes project in Indi-|
_lanapolis will be submitted to.
the City Plan Commission late today. - Good Homes, Inc., ound agency for the New Albany pro{duced prefabricated house, will
Plans for the largest Gun-|
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|seek tentative approval of a 90- -
in: southeast,
{Indianapolis from the commission: | The local firm; oldest distribu-|
{tor for Gunnison in the nation, | |announced today the project will!
een Raymond and Bradbury) It will be known as Good {Homes First Addition.
| The project will cost more than!
{$750,000 It will be built one {block north of the southern city! limits, Riley McGraw, Good |Homes general manager, said. | The frame prefab housing de-/| velopment will be within two
blocks of the proposed 140-unit;
1$840,000 McDaniel Apartments. {The multiple-housing project was approved Jan. 23 by the City Zonne Board. The Plan Commission will act; lon the Good Homes subdivision plat at their Feb. 14 meeting.
L 3 “Plan. for Expansion
The local company also dis closed negotiations for land ad-| rjacent—and near the “proposed | - Good Homes plans to erect 50 more!
{tween 150 and. 200 Gunnisons in {Indianapolis this year. | L. H. Oberreich, president of {Good Homes, said replatting ‘of
|the acreage will bring in all util-|
ities to the 90 homes. St. a St., will be extended three ploexs| {south through the project. {will ‘be constructed according H specifications (for improved streets ordered by ithe Works Board, he said. ; | The development will feature two and three-bedroom dwellings | {in the current Champion line of! Gunnison Homes. They will sell |between $6900 and $8500, Mr. {McGraw said. Veterans and FHA | financing will be available. Each of the 90 lots will have {a~minimum 50-foot frontage, but {elevations will be varied to elim-| jinate" row-type development, Mr. McGraw said. : ~The homes Will be constructed, on conventional. footings with)
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House Destroyed As Family Flees
Short Circuit | Blamed for Blaze
Awakened by crackling flames, ‘a ‘West Side couple their ‘two young children from. their {beds early day and fled to the home ‘of a neighbor, but lost their residence and all furnishings. In other fires last night and early today an Indianapolis man was critically burned and fire{men ere forced to use an in(halator to revive a victim over--come-by- smoke. =
| Deputy sheriffs viamed a wir.
lconcrete block foundations ‘and ing short circuit for the blaze
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Mr. and: Mrs. Calvin Morgan grabbed up their children, “Aaron, 2 The voice\echoed out from a hole in a bank on’ the farm of Romes in that subdivision as part| run from help dueling when hey were awakened by flames early ig endricks County. A pretty girl, Trula Green, kept. of their proposal to construct be-|
Hy and asphalt tile floors, the which gutted the five-room resi-
firm said. The Gunnison home, made by a {Fires cause $60,000 damage at
Toe Gn of U, 8. Steel Corp., \will be of frame construction with
Knightstown, $20,000 at _Clinton. ni Page 2.
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“Parents Save 2 Sons From Flaming Home Scores Indiana System
~ Of Nominating Judges; . Backs ‘Missouri Plan’
‘Much as | Dislike Saying It,’
Men on Bench ‘Succumb to Pressure’ By IRVING LEIBOWITZ — Superior Court Judge Ralph Hamill has had all he-ean polities: -ridden system of ‘administering justice.” | “He will not seek” re-election.
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~The veteran Superior Court jurist. formally announced ida
s retirement from the bench today in a blistering attack lon Hoosier courts. | “Justice,” he said, “knows no political party.” % "Charging that judges chosen fn | {political campaigns succumb to Ipolitical pressure, Judge Hamill {asserted that political races for ljudgeships were “not necessary {nor desirable.”
Non-Political System He advocated a non- political
5 ~ [system of selecting judges:
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; from politics a “fundamental is-|
Judge Hamill, a noted authorv on divorce cases, sald it would {please him to grant one more di|vore "fhe permanent separation of politics and the courts.” Judge Hamill wili complete his [eighth year as presiding judge in [Superior Court 4 on Jan. 1, 1951, He said he would probably take ha short vacation before re-enter-ing private law practice at that time.
“Judge Hamill
It H-Bomb Soon For U.S. in 1950:
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Truman's Order
‘Fundamental Issue’ - Terming the divorce of courts!
sue” of American deogracy, Judge Hamill declared “the jud clary ‘is the most oe branch of government.” “It protects the individual from the encroachment of his rights and assures him freedoms Whitt the nation was founded upon, reasoned.
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'perior Court jurist. Refused to Run {Atomic experts predicted: toda “I enjoy being a judge.” he said, | {that this country will produse-and “and if it were possible to remain [test its first hydrogen’ superbomb a judge for the balance of my | within the year, {working life, I'd be most happy.” Officials said, héwever, that it | But he refused to run for the) will not be ready for proving at | judicial post in a political cam- the new ato tests scheduled 'paig = (for thissprin Still, they asserted,
‘at-Eniwetok Istand——
i Court. 1942, on the Republican ticket; Judge Hamill was | opposed by five lawyers, one a
When he first ran for Superior in the Paci Judge in, {this countyy is far ahead of Rus« ?
isla in the atomic arms race. Physjtists said the first “crude” H-bo will be 2 to 10 times as
former judge and dean of a law school. “ | pows tful as today's best plutoniIn 1048, Judge. Hamill was um bomb, itself the equivalent of
. * . z = : = REP] COMIDR around and asking | Mighty Mo Move rtical steel corner connectio
|elected to office by a greater nearly 200.000 tons of TNT.
silly questions. ; “How do I know how long winter: will last? How do 1 know if it's goin] to -snow to-
morrow? What the heck, why | don't you call the Weather Bu- |
~ reau?” Pharaoh lives on the Green farm. He's a pet, after a fashfon. ‘A pet, that is, if you let
get. lettuce and. cookies from {
Crula. Trula’s pretty and sort o nice to Rm.
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“LOOK, Bub," Pharaoh said, “let's skip the weather question. Let's” talk about som®thin’ —1Tike the H-bomb, President Truman or John L. Lewis" eye= brows. Think I'm stupid? I ain't Bub, I get around. “Born in the hills of East ‘ennessee, I was, and minded y own ~business for years. 1 never ‘heard of temperatures, Jrecipitation, hurricanes and tornadoes until they brought me up here. Winter used. to be a season of rest. I just curled up in my hills and went to sleep.
A. “Now.leok what I've git to
contend with. Every year about this time these dern Hoosiers start poking in my ribs and asking foolish questions. “ ‘Is winter over? they ask? . Is it gonna rain any more? Must I plow next week? What the heck? How do I know what
they shbduld do? Me, I'm Just a
groundhog.” Pharaoh looked “over shoulder as the cold winds ruffled his fur. He blinked his eyes . as the sleet neppered down. He ‘wrinkled his brow in thopght. SE ®.® = “IT’S LIKE this, Bub” he drawled, “down in Tennessee I | “might. be able to- predict the weather — mayoe : I could tell you somethin’. "Not here in Hendricks County, though, ‘cause the weather ain’t predict‘able in Hoosierland.
“Why, Bub,” he drawled,, “there ain’t a hill in miles of ° here. A feller can’t Sleep all
wintér on account of he has to come out’n his hole. and sleep in the _hayloft during -the rains. “It's cold today and hot to ~ Morrow: ight ‘and . fatr In the . morning. There's a win dblowin’ now but "in a minute there'll be a dead-
calm, - “You want a- prediction, Bub? OK, OK, OK, ri give you one.
As Sailors Cheer
Tugs Free Battleship After 15-Day Struggle
joi hing floors; roof and celling. denice: “of Mr. and Mrs Calvin
‘Morgan and their children, Aaron,
~N o Basements
Each utili an or g age. Equipment will! linclude kitchen cabinets, double] sinks; forced-air -oil -heat and
ome will feature bath
room, but no base- |
jand. David, seven months, Havana St. in Ben Davis.
on
flames at 3:50°a. m. today and
Mrs. Morgan was awakened by
{found the entire rear of the house
(ablaze. Carrying one child and
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 1 (UP). | automatic hot water heater. Elec-|clad In her nightgown she ran
| The USS Missouri was grrenched
A._.great. cheer.
‘went up from a TR
BELT jas scores of salvage vessels and tugs. pulled the 45,000-ton battlewagon off Thimble shoals. Despite driving winds which threatened fo push her agroun again, the vessel was pulled by| the stern to the channel only 1
stuck.
wide channel especially dredged, the ship was torn loose from the sand bar and guided into" the: regular Hampton Road channel from which she strayed on Jan. 17. = “Fear Hull
trical kitchen and\laundry appli-|
ances will be optional in the pur-} chase
ent colors: Colonial design trim, company officials said. \ Construction will begin as soon! as tentative approval is receive
and exterior:
d/ Most of the units will be ready hurned.
for occupancy this spring.
000 The land for the project was|an feet from where she had been) ipurchased by the Wellcraft Co., (he h
Ine. a sister firm of Good Homes, | of Wellcraft, Good Homes have!
for more than 14 years.
Sleet or Freezing ' Rain Due Tonight
“The homes will featice aifterpastel
to the home of a neighbor, while
her husband carried out the othe r
3 Kire. Ah Stas
Three companies of the Wayne Township Fire Department extinguished the blaze after the. initerior of all rooms had been Mr. Morgan, 26, told lofficers he had only $1000 insur-| on the home, much of which’ | built himself.
He timated damage to the
Three times before the Navy lnc.~Edward Crafton is president residence at $3500. . +had- failed to..free the Mo... But today, aided by a 150-foot~ been a Gunnison distributor here) ‘operator fox P. R. Mallory
Mr. Moxgan is
| Charles Brunson, 79, of 539 S. {Hlinois 8t.. was in eritical condi{tion in General Hospital fwith burns sufferad in.a midnight] blaze after he fel sene heater. in hiy | Other residénts ‘of
artment.
over a kero-| operations and a’ maximum hum-
e building
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6a m... 28: 10 gn [went to his aid when crawled
Damaged Then the tugs began towing her!
air, ~
his :
eight miles down the bay into the Norfolk Navy Yard for repairs. |
aged by a rock. ’ The ship, lightened of thousands of tons of oil, ammunition and other ‘gear. floated high and jskittish as-she-hit the deep water. A thousand salvage workers had labored through the night to prepare her for the big ‘effart!
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‘Sleet” or freezing rain tonight | miy make driving hazardous on Indianapolis streets, the Weather
‘Bureau said today.
Temperatures will ‘dip to 30, {but- reach 40 tomorrow, under cloudy skies. Although no official warning was issued, the bureau sald the precipitation could glaze roads.
A total 12.36 inches of rain |
imadé January, 1950, the wettest {January on Indianapolis records, | Ibut’ failed to beat the _record! {total for any month—13.12 inches in July, 1875. Previoys record for January was 10.2, set in 1880. Slippery spots on southern and central Indiana highways have made driving hazardous, the State Highway Department sald today.
Snow and" freezing rain have};
spotted roads with ice south of. a line through Crawfordsville, An= derson and Noblesville.
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Breaks Leg in Fall
| An icy street cost Mrs. ‘Betty |1saacs, 56, of 3016 N. New Jersey | {8t; a broken leg today at E. New York St. and Euclid Ave. She van in fair sondition in General Hospital ~ '%
{from the room as burning kero|sene spread across the floor, The! {fire was extinguished with minor damage to the building.
Restored by Inhalator
An inhalator restored . Guy Darden, 25, to consciousness yesiterday afternoon after he was overcome by smoke from a {smoldering mattress in the home of Dr. Walter Bailey, 2828 N. Cap{itol Ave, Firemen said the blaze was started by a cigaret. Firemen yesterday afternoon | went to 4500' ‘Allisonville R4., to iextinguish a fire in. a blower mo{tor in the home of Mrs: R. H. Wyatt. Another fire yesterday _ afternoon damaged the home of Fleyd Overy, 25, of 523 Perry Ave. an estimated $2000. An overheated, stove started the blaze.
INJURED IN FALL ON ICE’
Mrs. Florence Boyer, 82, of 310 E.. 11th St, from General Hospital treatment for hip ‘injuries’ re-| “lcetved in a fall on the ice
crossing the: street near her home | yesterddy. =
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TRUMAN TO MEET PRESS. “WASHINGTON, Feb, 1 (UP)— President Truman will held a news conference at.8:30 a. m.(Inpolis time), x
has been released]
“Trace Faint Radio Sign
‘number of votes than any candi-/
But the power of later “refined”
A blackened stove and table identify the kitchen in the past. chaired remains of the Morgan home.” All five rooms ‘of the |
As Clue to Lost Airliner
Squadron of B-29's Joins in Hunt
For Craft end 44 Missi
* WHITEHORSE, signal “intercepted on the distres
wth 44 persons aboard.
At the same time, a squadron of Btoday the St. Elias range, 175 miles west =
of here. Officers said today was ideal for
ber of observers would be in the
The - signal, uncoded and of short. duration, was heard in an area extending along. the eastern end of the British Columbia-
{Yukon border.
That sector straddles the route the lost C-54 was taking on its flight from Anchorage, Alaska, to Great Falls, Mont. : Expresses Doubt RCAF Air Commodore M. Costello, . co-ordinator of the twonation search, expressed doubt that the signal came from the missing plane. “let me point out,” he said,: “fhat the - signal was weak but clear, of very short duration and, inot coded as ‘it would have betn if it had come from an automatic signal sent by a Gibson Girl type emergency radio transmitter.” B C
om. Costello. sald the report
Senate -OK's Welsh | As ‘U. S. Attorhey Yes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UP
After \ratthew B. Welsh of Vincennes! today received Senate confirma-|-
8 attorfiey for the southern Indiana, \district. ’
Mr. Welsh will succeed District! | Attorney B. Howard Caughran of ‘Indianapolis. No date has been
{get for the new U. §. attorney, to take the ‘oath and assume the {duties of the Office. :
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Yukon Territory
ing in Yukon * Feb, 1 (UPI-—A faint radio s frequency hetween Ft. Nelson;
a punch press | British Columbia, and Smith River was investigated today by a & Co. Search plane In the SiX-d&y BURL TOF & 1. 8. air transport missing’
29 bombers was to search was “one of fifty we Yave. received and of course must theck thoroughly.” . ‘Earlier, he said the signal was
investigated and a report that it
might have come from the lost plane was “erroneous.” He said, however; that he ordered the investigation continued when Ft, Nelson Search Master, Capt. Eugene Nogar, insisted that the signal was genuine. . Scores of U. 8. and Canadian planes spread out over.the Canadian wilderness in search for the - C- 54.
Satish ed With You Present Home?
® If you have been a “‘renter” for very many years the chances are that there are many things about your present home you would like changed. And why . not . face the fact | that you will NEVER have things just the way ‘you want them until you have a HOME OF YOUR : OWN!” ® The time to puy that . home ‘of your own is NOW: Prices are far be- ~~ low the 1946 peak. Se
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election is greater. than at anytime since the war. Financing is liberal. Turn now to the classified columns of today’s Times for an outstanding selection
‘date In the Marfon County eleg- models will “be limited mostly, tion. they said, by the capacity of the { iairplanes or missiles built to des The Buperior Court Jurist said [VER aie, og {he was grateful to the Republican os if rth in tte: of : {Party and the citizens, f Marion! seconds. ym om 3 mats {County for their Fupport in the
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Russia Knows Officials familiar with nucleag developments said President True ‘man's-order-of yesterday that bomb production “be carried fore swapdorpmesin-titre 1 assure: U. 8. atonii¢c supremacy for the present at. least, But they emphasized that Ruse sia, knows the scientific theory ine volved in the H-bomb and can be expected to go all out to catch up, “Mr. Truman's order said in ef fect ‘that the Atomic Energy _. Commission must now take the hydrogen bomb: 6ff the drawing board-—where it has been pers .
He said it was 2 ike possible | rist to hdve very definite ot the: ‘operation of “the -pEovernment. “But Judge Pamill said “(here lis no political way to decide a lawsuit.” | “As much as I dislike saying, t.” Judge Hamill continued, “the! {fact remains that some of our ‘judges succumb to political pres-| sure.” Judge Hamill said he favored a proposal similar to the “Missouri! Plan.” "He explained it was a. waystem-whereby-&-group-of-pro-fessional jurists and lawyers select three qualified men and the —.. governor selects one.”
Many Rewards
The voters pass on the judge’ 8 ‘merits at the next election, Judge]
the engineering mill at the ABC's bomb production laboratory in Sandia. N- M. f Sandia is where the new weds {pon will be changed from theo linto fact. Scientists—said the firs
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Hamill explained, by voting to. retain or replace - him,
| test bonib should be Mody: ia something under-a- year,
“|upsurge in. maridht histo
‘Military Delighted 23 It was no secret that the mile. tary was delighted with the" prose pect of getting a new and more
Despite his’ vigorous objection to the present political court sys: tem; Judge Hamill said there are many rewards to serving on the bench. powerful weapon. ‘In the weeks of “Many times,” he Siid, ™there Sub. rosa debate which preceded is a chance to make the path of Mr- Truman's order, the military iife a little smoother for a lot of had mobilized key Congressmen people.” behind the H-bomb project... The judge’ added: " Official fources said: “We're not kidding ourselves, ONE: Cost of. the H-bomb we_need a system where men run. Project will be low: The ABC had on their records as jurists and brought it up to the engineering lawyers—not as politicians.” - phase béfore asking’ the Presi« . “Under our system of selection, dent to okay production. the local judges follow the chang-' No new plants will be ‘needed ing of administrations, national to make the bomb. The primary {and state.” © materials—heavy hydrogen and { Judge Hamill lives fn 6033 the light metal lithjum—are {Pleasant Run Pkwy., with his wife plentiful and cheap. A scientist jad their daughter, Pamela. (said the cost should be kept
within $10 ‘million. and $100 mile Stock Market Hits |" Three-Year High
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (UP)— ‘United States Steel common (stock. the leader of many an
TWO: The presidential order means that the AEC. is to go {ahéad witlr the H-bomb but Ne {at the expense of the present proje | ect, The commission will continue ito speed prequetion of Arp
{the share market to new high| “ " oe ‘ground for more than three a of the H-b by today. | Roweyer powerful it becomes, will The company reported a new not “burn up the, atmosphere [20-year high “in net profit for the oceans.” It will not t He {1949 and raised its dividend from earth into a star nor will so ‘cents, a_ share: to 65 cents a duce i radio-ach
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afer the vows yu gooning