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60th YEAR—NUMEER 330 _

~ SUN DAY, FEBRUARY

FORECAST: Partly cloudy and warmer todiy: High this atermoon; 48; Tow tonight 30:

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— TEN CENTS’

Jerry Given 2 Inlections Of New Wonder Drug

Plan 4 More Daily for Week

*NEW YORK, Feb. 4—Scientists counted the “gang-

ster” cells in Gerald Dunaway’s blood stream

“ina week.

rte —on-life-for-the-little-

The result will indicate; if the new wonder drug, ATCH, is

wiping out the death-dealing cells

characteristic of leukemia.

The Indianapolis Boy had two 4 Injections today of the muiti-

purpose drug which the doctors

Two other Indianapolis boys are suffering from leukemia. Story, photo on Page 35.

have nicknamed “duz” and will get four Injections each day for the next week. ‘In. another week a new bone marrow specimen will be taken and doctors hope it will show that ACTH is driving the “gangsters” out of Jerry's blood. Looks at Death Cells I looked through a microscope at the death cells in the research laboratory of the Children’s Medical service of the New York University, Bellevue Medical Center. The medical slides of the bone

“marrow of the little 7-year-old

boy were made before he received his first injection of the

~ newly discovered “wonder” drug.

Even to the medically un-

trained, the leukemic cells look - ominous, They loomed up as large,

purplish globular blobs on the stained slides. They Go Amuck For some reason unknown to medical science, these cells go amuck. They become disproportionately numerous, invading the bone marrow’ and causing dis-

~ placement and destruction of the

normal blood-forming tissues. Because of this, normal blood

to anemia, serious bleedings anc eventually, death: “Because ‘of ‘the similarity to with the doctors regarding Jerry's] Jimmy.

cancer, leukemia has been niek- |

named “cancer of the blood.” |

put through almost half a hundred tests per day here as doctors, fight against time to find the an-| swer to leukemia. Unless they find that answer, |

months for Jerry or the other

/ leukemia victims here.

Don’t Know Answer | ACTH may be the answer, or. at may not. The only thing the, cautious doctors here. will say is| | that it has effected some Improve ment in the few cases where it] has been tried. Whether that im-| provement will be permanent, or whether it is only temporary, they do not know, Little Jerry was flown here by The Indianapolis Times for treatment with the new scarce drug. When the new slides go under the microscope in dne week here's what his doctors hope to see: Fewer of abnormal leukemic cells and a return to the normal cellular elements of the marrow. While. this could in no way be regarded as a oure” it would ins

—-dicate -some-—improvement and

possibly a new short-term lease Jerry's mother, Mrs. Ruby Dunaway, 835 Eastern Ave, who was

_.flown. here to. be with her ‘son,

ay and planned another count

{has been in frequent consultation and his

case. . She knows that there may be

temporary. But hope dies hard in a mother. | After three days of watching! {these doctors constantly examin-| ing, treating, and re-examining;

a day on his case, she says she

lcloser to the answer, If Jerry is sparea only a few, months longer, [inother new discovery might hope. Meets Another Hoosier Today during a treatment peri- | od in which she could not be at {Jerry’s side, Mrs. Dunaway went | to the top of the Empire State Building and, up there she met another Hoosier. A woman overheard her saying| she was from Indiana and camé| over to ‘introduce herself. Bhe| was. Martha er of Wayne some 20 years ago, and now employed with the Red Cross. Blood Bank here. Mrs “Dunaway brought Jerry} back -a little scale -model of the Empire State Building. | -wotd-

spell further

gladly give that up to “get well enough. to go. home’ to. his. father.

“On the Inside Pages

Section 1 “Hot olftieat fight seen in county races... ......

D. C. Stephenson renews his

first of a series of articles. ...... "(General news and features, Pages 1 to 12)

Section 2

A department store closes

Block Co. ...

(Editorials, politics, world report, Pages 16 to 23) Times to sponsor basketball game between College

_ All-Stars ¢ and Olympians.

(Basketball results, Eddie Ash, Joe Willlams, Hinkle Basketball Clinic, complete local and national

sports, Pages 23 to 26)

Section 3

“Champion Showoffs,” prize national show;

Other Features “Amusements .i.....+.36, 37 Bullders ....ocecenssire. idl : bo - Business ARAN 41

Classifi As esnaesvve $8, 01 A nuns v0

ppagesesasssveresidd

sleeps . . . behind the scenes at the Wm. H.

Counter-Spy, Fletcher; Katy Atkins’ column, classifications _ in The Times National Sewing Contest. .....

(Society, - women’s news, weddings, home-making, gardening, f fashions, teen-talk, Pages 8 to 38) -

Section 4

Western Electric residential boom awaits sewers. Page 38 | + (Harold Hartley's “The Week, in Business” real

“Page 2 fight for iberty ae Page 3

at night but never

Page 15

Page 23

Cees srr lessened

dogs to compete in by Louise

Page 27

HJ erry g -likke—to-go—to—the — top of it too, he said. But he'd]

Acme Telephoto.

Gallant Gerald Dunaway smiles af Dr. L. Emmett Holt Jr. as he receives his first injection of ACTH. Dr. Holt holds the needle ‘formation is interrupted, leading used to administer 15 milligrams of 4 ACTH,

Accused Soy Got U. S. 0K As War Ally

fa race for the hydrogen ‘super bomb.

ject. broke that news to the com-

11943 at the Quebec Conference. Sen, McMahon said FBI Direc-|’

No Check Made “Under Pact by FDR, Churchill

By United Press Congress was told yesterday that the British scientist

Truman Gives Lewis Until Tomorrow to Get Men Back in Pits

Heh

now under arrest as a Russian spy had enough information_to launch the Soviets on.

Shocked and angry members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Committee also were that Dr. Klaus E. J. Fuchs may

"Arrest of American predicted . . . see Washington CallIng, Page 15.

have given the “Russians | “well over a year's advantage” in developing the uraniym bomb they exploded last year. Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, the retired Army officer who ran this country’s first atomic bomb proj-

mittee at a closed hearing. He said that, the German-born Fuchs worked in the project from 1943 to 1946 as “top man” of a 20-man British mission at Los Alamos; N. M., and had “complete access” to American atomic secrets. Chairman Brien McMahon (D. Conn.) said Gen. Groves told the committee that Mr. Fuchs never was checked for security by American officials because he already had been fully cleared by the British. Facts Not Checked Gen. Groves said the fact Dr. Fuchs was not checked here traced back to the Anglo-Ameri-can wartime partnership estab-

“lished by the-late President Rose-{-

velt and Winston Churchill "in

tor J. Edgar Hoover will be ques- | tioned in secret session Monday. ror sald the committee had jved no testimony to Suggest Me any other members of the British mission at Los Ala-

two-year-old brother

Aba back {0 the kids Wm the| 52 second grade at school 15, He's The specimens of Jerry's bone | no improvernent at all, and that! still bursting to tell them about’

matrow and blood specimens are any improvement may be only | his flight out here and how he! g . ) - shook hands with the pilot and|

! helped fly the plane. There are three other leukemic

victims in the ward with Jerry.

Three other children from over

{her bo , spending 15 to 20 hours| the nation may come in next there is no future beyond a few y, Spel g kT ois Dire oie

can’t help feeling they're getting] cepting as many as they can - secure:

ACTH to care for.

Jerry knows that some other! Len she hopes that “children that are “sick lke me” | drug, another new are coming in. So he’s “saving!

up the comic ‘books he's read for them.

There was to have been another |

{leukemia victim in today, a little

girl who was being flown in from

| Guatemala. But death overtook gee. His father, the 75-year

{her on the way to her “last! chance... = = ”

Sees Phone St Phone Strike = As Inevitable

CWA” ‘President

Predicts Walkout

NEW. YORK, Feb. 4 (UP)—

America today said “a nationwide stiike of telephone workers ‘next Wednesday morning seems inevitable.” Emphasis was added by Federal Mediator William N. Margolis, who-said simply; “there-is-no-pro-‘ess,” as union - management negotiations: were adjourned until 9 a. m, Monday, Indianapolis time. However, officials of the CWA | gave formal notification to the Western Electric Co. today of the| intention of 100,000 affected workers to strike Wednesday at 6! a. m. if their contract demands £0 unheeded. ’ Lack of Progress These 100,000 workers in CWA divisions across the country have failed to make “the slightest gn of progress” in months of negotiating with Beil Telephone

Washington. In case of a walkout of the 100,000 union workers, én additional 150,000 CWA members,

{whose contracts expire soon, will

respect picket lines and thus tie! up most of the nation’s telephone exchanges, Mr. Beirne promised. The union is asking better pay,

_|shorter hours and an improved “| pension plan.

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President Joseph A. Beirne of the! C10. Communications. Workers. of

companies, Mr. Beirne said at

WHITEHORE, Y. T., Feb. 4 (UP) — An SOS apparently sent from the interior of British Collumbia and X column of smoke 75

miles west of here today revived|the infant started choking when

ible surviv-gne gave him a bottle. Shé ran

iors aboard a U. 8 Air Force to a next-door nelghbor and noti‘transport missing nine days. The U. 8. Coast Guard's weath-

R rescue squad worked 40 minutes

mos were spies. Nor did it get

informed |

Photo by Lioyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer. “So you want fo make an issue of #7" essen’ s Glory B, one of the Indianapolis entries in

Hey, Bub, Don’t Call Me SourmugCrackiown

Under T-H et Is Indicated

Union Leaders - Believe Workers

Will Go on Strike y U Press * The White House yesters day gave John L. Lewiguntil Monday to get his soff-coal miners back on the fivesday week or face a possible Taft. Hartley crackdown. : ‘But all indications from the coal fields were that the United Mine Workers will chey the “wink and a nod” Mr, Lewis gave them earlier yesterday and close the pits completely on Monday. In that event, President True man is expected to proclaim a national emergency “and ‘iyvoke the no-strike provisions of the Taft-Hartley Law. ; The White House issued what appeared to be a veiled ultimatum a few hours after Mr. Lewis rejected President Truman's 70-day coal truce plan and warned the f-executive-not-to

law, Ignores Request President Truman had abled

“the Westminster Kennel Club Show in Madison Square Garden, Feb. 13 and 14, has ne takers. |

Other pictures and stor and story on Page

Yidence Se xual Dr, Fuchs was al

At’ per authoritative quar- | ters said that Dr. Fuchs may be; in ‘partial secrecy as a se | curity measure. A magistrate ordered Dr. Fuchs| held in Brixton prison until Friday, when his case will be heard in Bow St. Magistrate's Court. magistrate will hear Dr.|

Fuchs’ answer to the charges and,

then decide whether he should be abandoned their houses today as a for trial,

If the 12 Judge rulés in favor of a ~Fuchs’--case-- probably: a r- the beginning Feb. 28 at the ‘Bailey Criminal Court.

- Family Scattered

old’

Ohio Valley Flood M

Victims Returning.

Arkansas Valley

Faces New Threat CHICAGO, Feb. 4 (UP) —

Families in the White River low-|

lands of Southeastern Arkansas

yords, -Many flood evacuees-in- the Ohio}

21.

arquis of M

700 Guests Attend

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UP) of Milford-Haven.

A group of 700 guests viewed

ithe rites. Not a cabinet officer or Supreme Court justice was. among.

into them.

their homes. In the Mississippi and Ohio| valleys more ‘than 34,000 persons,

Police beld ‘back curious Wash-| mngtonians who lined a strip of Connecticut Ave. outside the.

Dr. Fuchs arrived in London in| {some of them veterans of almost church.

the early 30's as a student refu-,

Prof. Emil Fuchs, a Protestant {minister, spent nine months in a! concentration camp. - | One of Dr. Fuchs’ sisters com-| mitted suicide after an unsuccess-| ful attempt to flee German-occu-| pied Czechoslovakia. His friends in Frankfurt have

|the greatest faith in him.

“No one who knows him will] ever. believe that he Sommitied; any crime.” said one friend who. has known him since he was 15.) _|__The Fuchs family is now widely! scattered. Dr. Fuchs’ father is now In Leipzig. His sister, Elizabeth, 40, brother, Georg Karl, 41, lives In| Davos, Switzerland. Dr. Fuchs! mother died in 1931, +

Mrs. Raub Named ath 4 Tea ; Probation Chief Mrs. Laurel F. Raub, widowed mother of an Indiana University junior, has been named. chief {probation officer of the Marion {County Criminal- Court, | Mrs. Raub, already in the pro{bation department, was elevated {to the top post by Criminal Court | Judges William D. Bain and Saul (I. - Rabb to replace George C. Christ. - Mr. ‘Christ resigned recently to enter the private practice of law in Indianapolis. -Mrs. Raub, who resides at 1653 N. Talbot Ave, is a former accountant. Her son is Keith J. Raub, who is completing a premedical course at IU. She is the first woman-te hold {the chief probation officer's job! {in Marion County and few other women are in similar jobs elsewhere in the country.

Infant in Care Of Sitter Chokes 1 A two-months-old baby, Dale Manburg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Man 3736 N. Meridian St, choked to death late yesterday while in the care of a baby sitter.

Miss. Margery Reitman, 22, of 5226 Crittenden Ave., told police

fied police and an ambulance. Police .and a Fire ‘Department:

{lower reaches but no areas

lanpual floods, had abandoned|

floodwaters. ! Skies generally were clear from

tof

i In Northeastern Arkansas, {some of the 23,000 flood refugees ‘in the state began leaving their] temporary shelters in tents of with relatives and “friends; ana: headed homeward. Livestock Lost —Farme TS Teported” “large num-= {bers of livestock lost in the St.| {Francis River floods of north-|

area river waters were threaten-| ing.

Iives In Cambridge, Mass. Asser -Arkansas...-

About 12,000 persons have been Imade. homeless along Ohio River tributaries, and some were able to return as the Ohio dropped. some threatened points. : In Ohio, the chief inconcenience| was flooded roadways. Along the Big River itself, towns were lit<| tle affected behind their miles of] flood walls. Almost 10,000 persons driven from their homes in Ken-| |tucky by recent floods, but river, {levels no longer were on the. rise! there. Farther south, the Mississippi was running high along its levees

seemed at a minimum. Expect Ohio River Crest Wednesday

EVANSVILLE, Feb, 4 (UP)— The second Ohio River flood crest in two weeks was expected here Wednesday but weather observers sald it would not reach the proportions of a major flood. Elsewhere over the state, the Wabash and White Rivers were] running above normal in Were in T. eT : A stage of 45.5 feet was. predicted on the Ohio here. Floodwalls which protect the city from crests up to 50 feet, however, were expected to handle the water with no trouble; Two weeks ago the river hit 46 feet. Other points along the Ohio also were unperturbed a crest. Some lowland ing -was| {expected and it was believed! plantings -would- be delayed in ibottomlands. No evacuations were ‘planned or anticipated, Observers, said.

GIVES MIT $1 MILLION “i . CAMBRIDGE; Mass., Feb: 4

slane of matching color, Her

were

their|

ut the!

The interior of the church was

.old their homes or were cleaning massed with white blossoms and {them up from the muddy ravages fern. The altar was banked with!

{Easter lilies, buddeligs and snap-| {dragons. American and British!

{the Rockies to the Atlantic and flags flanked the altar. A 20-| gen, Robert A Taft (R. 0.) told lonly- in- the Southeast Arkansas|

voice choir sang. The bride, whose father died! when -she was a child, was given in marriage by her uncle, Hough-

ton ‘P. Metcalf, a Virginia orchid! ~tpresidential- campaign.

and racehorse fancier. The Bride's Attire ~Bhe: Ware. AR afternoon-length. -gown of —~dove-gray; Pal tie slik covered by French

the-face hat was in renaissance style with hand-pleated miniajiu ure fans of the same lace. “The dress Peter Pan collar and simple lines with straight skirt and romantic over-skirt of lace and tulle. She wore an orchid corsage. With her marriage, the 26-'yéar-old bride acquired the title of Marchioness of Milford Haven. But she intends to ' keep her American citizenship. The! 30- -year-old Marquis used) to escort ‘Princess Margaret Rose and Sharman Douglas, the daugh{ter of Ambassador Lewis Doug las, in London society. :

‘Mercury to: Reach

through Louisiana, but danger 420 Hig h Today

Sg will have a high temperature this afternoon of 48 as the Hoosier State's truce with winter continues, the Weather Bureau said last night. Partly cloudy skiés today and tonight were expected to become increasingly cloudy tomorrow. Slightly chillier weather tomorrow will bring the possibjlity of light rain or drizzle to” Indianapolis tomorrow and snow flurries iin the northern portion of the state, forecasters said,

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| "OF REAL ESTATE ADS

(from 700 to 1000 homes | for sale!) .’. . adver-’ tisements from pacts: .. cally every major real ~ estate. broker aha home

Weds New York Socialite

Bride Givan Away by Her Uncle

son today became the bride of David Michael Mountbatten, Marquis ®

The great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria and the New York and Washington socialite exchanged vows at 3 p. m,, Indianapolis time, in the National Presbyterian Church. flood waters rose toward their.

| Radical Congress

-oti~ radical -than-the-

was styled “with,

~Ipllot apparently was buzzing the

swer his appeal by Saturday noon [to reopen the mines Monday for |e days to let a fact-finding board review their dispute. The operators accepted. But Mr. Lewis {made ‘no reference to the Press dent's request. Cautioning the. President . |against invoking the Taft-Hart. ley Act, Mr. Lewis skid, “It is:a travesty upon justice that they (the miners) should now be slugged by a legal blackjack to satisfy the overwhelming avarice of their reactionary employers.” a strike, :

iiford-Haven

Capital Ceremony;

«Romaine Dahlgren Pierce Simp-

borough once remarked during a ~jeourtroom brush With Mr. Lewis _ that the mine leader uses. Jans. ‘Udge no more pointed 2s “a wink and a nod” signal'to strike,

Personal L Periled, Taft Says

Warns Against More

took it that way, too. It issued a brief statement noting that Mr, | Lewis’ letter rejecting the “truce plan was the last word Mr, Tru. man has had from the union chieftain. “The President's further course will depend on the state of em~ ployment in the mines on Monday,” the White House said, “Mr, Lewis’ letter said nothing “about

WASHINGTON, Feb, 4 (UP)—

young Republicans tonight that unless a more conservative Con~ gress is elected in 1950 there may be little to fight for in the 1952 Addressing a banquet of the jobs.” Young Republican National -Fed-i President... Truman's. aide: gle eration; Taft warned that “if we ready have advised him that the elect a Congress in 1950 more Coal shortage resulting “from

our whole program of individuat{ week has reached the crisis stage, liberty is lost.” | And the President has gone on

restatement of Republican - Party lo use t principles. — expected to be re- tle as he likes.it. Heased laté. Monday after approv- ~ In Defiant Mood al. by the Republican National] The miners, however, appeared

‘/Committee and the policies com-|to be in a mood to defy the-Pres

mittees of House and Senate Re- ident and extend the présent pare

the Truman administration’ 8 pro-|down Monday. {gram is diametrically oppgéed to. Hundreds of the Republican philosophy of UMW - district freedom, equality and liberty, Will Determine Fate

“I think that what happens | the 1950 elections will avermine ithe fate of the nation for many! {years to come,’ Mr. Taft ‘said.

‘miners yisited headquarters at |Fairmont, W. Va., and demanded that District President Ceol Ur~’ p| Daniak end the Lewis- iiposed three<day week. “They were pretty sore about

I'm sure the three-day week is Mr. Taft indicated that the y forthcoming policy’ statement done for in Northern West Vire. i would: ginia- and. these men say they

. are going to see that it is,” Mr, Fie” ne Bn, no rp, ag : pan. ic T. .G. ‘Gerow, president ‘of the farm subsidy payments. Illinois Coal Operators Associa~ TWO: Oppose tax exemptions yi . said he . understood: from for certain preferred institutions.|. r * reasonably reliable sources” HREE: Favor no important ¢ha¢ ; the 24,000 United Mine

change in the Taft-Hartley La- v®oriers in Illinois would not ree

bor Act. port Monday. FOUR: Approve federal aid to “Mean as Can le” education. William Blizzaed.. president of

FIVE: Probably oppose most United Mine Workers Dist. 17, other encroacliments by govern- Charleston, W. Va., said his men ment.on the rights of the indi-|were “mean as hell about the way vidual to make his own way inthe operators walked out on us a democracy. at Washington.” Sede BL | “They're just as mean as .can ! own.’ In Crash Near Lowell Lee “Burkey, president of the "men Stale Service (Maxwell, Pa., local of the H. LOWELL, Feb. 4—Lt. Joseph Frick Coal Co, “predicted that Mr, Frank Ross, 27, a Marine Corps Lewis’ reply would result in a Reserve flier, wag, instantly killed general strike. here today when his Navy fighter; John Ozanich, president of the {plane crashed ona farm a -half|2300-man local at the Frick Ro Imile east of Lowell. {bena mine in. Fayette County, | Navy authorities said Lt. Ross Pa.-said he “hoped” there Will {lived at Glencoe, [Jl and was a general strike. Mr. Ozanich’s stationed at the Glenview (Ill) miners have been among the |Air- Station. He was flying .the'leaders in the three-week rehel{Navy Bearcat fighter on a rou-/lion by 105,000 /United Mine |tine flight, Zuthorities said. ‘Workers. ‘against the three-day Witnesses told investigators the week. . “You can bet we'll do every.

Lowell airport ‘whem he Tost con-of-bis- plana,

/" Ozanich said.

| the miners with the Taft-Hartley

The White House apparently

ithe return: of the miners “to thelr

He hinted that the forthcoming, record that he would not hesitate Taft-Hartley law, lite

\publicans—would emphasize that tial strike into a general. shuts...

how things went at Washington, .

ng hae Sr ee

Federal Judge’ T. Alan Goldse