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Russ Ease Up Trucking Ban In Berlin Jam no oo
Queue Piles Up BERLIN, Feb, 7
~ Warns of Russian Aims
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traffic on the Berlin trunk
{accountably eased off. { { Berlin. Helmstedt reported it was {blockade of 1948-49.
{paralyzing border traffic
{from 10 to 14 trucks an hour. © «Still Fretty Bad” “The - jam is still pretty bad,
hour.”
Photo by John Spicklemire, Times, Staff Photographer,
Lt. Gen. Walter B. Smith . . . Russia still wants to expand. n = ” » ” a
Reds to Continue Grab Policy, Gen. Smith Says _ -
First Army Chief Declares They Believe Territery Depth Is Best Defense
: By CARL HENN ; Lt. Ben. Walter Bedell Smith, former U. 8. Ambassador tol
wanted the Berlin highway.
Rundshau.
trains daily into Berlin. If the Allies
of .the Soviet expansion policy. ato . A as Speaking at Butler University’s Founders Day ceremonies, dur- permitted, the paper said. ing which he received an honorary degree of Doctor of. Laws, Gen, ————————— Smith said: a rT
“It iz not to be expected that GOP Keys Drive
Partly Cloudy With 45 Today
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
the frontiers of the Soviet sphere of influence will remain stable, * “On the contrary. the improv-
(UP)— The Russian slowdown of!
highway produced its worst! traffic jam today and then un-|
r Around midday more than 200 . (German trucks were backed up at Helmstedt, 110 miles west of
{the biggest tieup since -the big
Just as the traffic jam was the {Soviet guards and their German ‘Ipolice assistants began passing
isaid Charles A. Dix; U. 8. trans- | port chief in Berlin, “but the Rus!slans are letting through from 10 {to 14 trucks an hour—just about {the number queuing up each
Through an official publication] the Russians invited the Western’ . powers to use more trains if they! to avoid congestion on]
The invitation appeared in the! |Soviet army newspaper Taegliche,
It said there was no blockade of Berlin but that truck traffic) must be thoroughly checked be-| cause of “smuggling.” The. paper said, however, that the Western] , [Allies were running only eight]
i “really: wish to '7 Russia and native of Indianapolis, today predicted a continuation relieve qongestion” they would Sisters,
use all 16 trains daily they are aunt
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Local Dealers Thrown
‘Railroads in Indianapolis,
| The B. & O. has taken e the Pennsylvania 38 cars. .
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2 U.S. Wins Delay Of Phone Strike
| Union Puts Off
Walkout 16 Days WASHIGTON, Feb. 7 (UP)— [Thé CIO Telephone Workers to- | : BA {day agreed to a government rei % Vi 3 |quest to postpone for 16 days the ¥ J ¢ Photos 5y Bill Oates. Times Staff Photographer. {morrow morning. “Not again?" said the amazed Mrs. Robert J. Gebhart, 4813 Farrington Ave., when told she | The postponement was asked! gave birth to her second set of twin girls in three years. With her at St. Vincent's Hospital are (left | Mary Lynn, weighing 4 pounds, 141/; ounces, and Martha Gwynn, 5 pounds, 9'/, ounces. The twins Karen and Carol, celebrated their third birthday Oct. 18 on the birth date of their twin
and uncle, Mrs. Doris Handel, 4556 Brookville Road, and-Donald Boswell of Brazil, Ind.
[System | The new s Feb. 24. [" The union had threatened to pull out 100,000 telephone work: . |ers-tomorrow, And union officers
mT Boy to Get ACTH Treatment
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: (sald If they struck picket ney ing strategic position of the. +6 a Me. 36 108. mM... 39 2 {would be thrown “around every! Soviet Union requires that they: ; Lote ome 88 11 a Miss 40 : ht |seiephone exchange, to make the should be expanded wherever pos-| 8a m..37 12 (noon). 42 |: Variety Club $ strike nationwide. omandig “ sible.” . . . Mm... 38 1pm... 42 | : | ) Heads First Atmy | Assails Democratic asm r * Sponsors Trip to N. Y. substantial wage increase, “al
‘Gen. Smith, wartime chief of staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-|
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Socialistic Trend
eral of the Us 8. First Army; with Bureau-ssaid-today 2 headquarters -on Governor's 1Is-
‘land, New York. -
[Republicans campaigned to re-
: mperatures Wers ex capture ongress today with locgl temp ho!
ent-day position, Gen.
" the driving force behind U.S.8.R.| policy. The tendeney to push out Prosram is Socialistic. 1 “its frontiers is present because, They promised that a GOP|35 to 40 south. Russia’s best tactic is defense| victory A Ey put an -\new mean n san con-| \ 1 dopin, a ation” Gen. | duct of foreign affairs and fate Gordon ‘Gray Accepts CC Smith said, - “is. whether ~ the the homefront trend toward U. of N.C. Presidency "Soviet Union will be able to con-|socialism. solidate her hold over the new The pla
tform on which the Re-|
able to make her source of strength weakness.” The —degres—was
Gen. Smith by Dr.
the GOP national committee as well as presented —to-memb p M. O. Ross, several hours of wrangling over president of Butler, on the 95th some of its provisions. anniversary of the founding of But it got tri-partitite ratificathe school and the birthday an- tion in time to win th. approval piversary of Ovid Butler, univer- of about 12,000 of the +faithful sity benefactor. who attended a $1-a-box chicken Cites General . supper at Uline Arena in honor ny Dr. Roy M. Robbins, head of of Lincoln Day. {Frank P. Graham, (D. N. C., _ the department of history and po-| _ Snaris in Senate | litical science, cited Gen. Smith! The three-way agreement appointed to the Senate. 2s = eo, Sreot bretged through the House Ret = Shi £7 plomal, an’ ambassador 0 ublican group and the national] 0 oys seis will.and an author. of. respect. and: committee. but At-snarled- up in’ egion s ip ¢ Y ; er GOORIN Co tp SenAtE: Sen: — Henry Cabot| The ceremony. held at 11 a. m. Lodge (Mass.). objected to several PHILADELPHIA in Butler Fieldhouse, was fol- points, incjuding what he called|—The liner Amer
rather than ’ the House and Senate
late vesterdav after
resigning his government post. Gray, offered —the vr id ec yesterday, announced from Wash
partment of Defense responsi bilities in time,
banquet will be held tonight. Main address af the banquet
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to break a southern filibuster. As finally approved, the plat-|
Tide-OT-Toys.
.___B. Hale, president of ~~ College, ° z = Gen. Smith, however, will not
| to. call it—provided for:
g _ be present for the dinner. He left follows the spirit. and letter ator “Thidianapolis- sh thy after 1p: MIA CAT Al CAE IS iG Es as 3 PR I0H vd AR Te aT
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land * Norway.
Partly cloudy skies will cover {Indianapolis and Indiana today
hower, now is commanding gen-| WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UP)—, through tomorrow, the. Weather yo. York City today for ACTH
{pected to reach 45 today and toIn his review of Russia's pres- chatges that the Truman admin- morrow, with a dip to 32 tonight. Smith istration has failed to stop com- Statewide temperatures ranged t0- ys 41g only known hope for relief
“called the fear of defeat in war stic/day from 35 to 40 in the north the dread “cancer of the munism abroad and its dome He ind Do 55 in the south. Lows from [tonight will be 25 to 30 north and
CHAPEL HILL, N. C,, Feb. 7 i UP)—Army Secretary Gordon peoples she controls and will be Publican Party I§ pitching itsiGray will take over as president, conquests a 1950 campaign was adopted DY of the University of North Caro-ian4 medical expenses have been lina “not later than Sept. 1” after edged by members of the Va-
Y7and entertainment group. ington that he would report even eariier if he could clear his de-isjyh- meeting by B. N. Peterson, The 40-year-old Winston-Salem, 4p, o expenses had been pledged. publisher succeeds Sen..rne membership quickly decided]
who resigned last March when the trip,
Heads for Europe Today
lowed by a luncheon in the new: Republican disinclination to take sails for Rotterdam today with rést of the family in Indianapo-| John Whistler Atherton Student a firm stand on civil rights legis¥itoys for the children of Europe, lis to cheer Tony's recovery from| —..._Center, where. a_Founders Day lation, even if--it- was necessary the first installment of America’s their home in 1064 Oliver ‘Ave. | The initial shipment of 900,000 port will arrive in New York City will be delivered by Dr. Lincoln form—or restatement. ‘of partyitoys will be distributed by CARE at 8:10 p. m. today. From the air-| ILS, Times Staff Writer ~~ ~~ Evansville principles,. as. Republicans. prefer in The Netherlands; Austria, Ber- port Tony will‘ride by ambulance] ~~ NEW YORK, Feb. 7—Don't tell a soul but little Jerry Dunaway i . {lin and the three zones of West- to University Hospital, where he| js going to see the Empire State building today. ONE: A foreign policy "whichiern Germany. Additional millions, was accepted as a patient by Dr.| of of. toys will go later to France, L. Em
shorter work week, and nearly W !a dozen other improvements in|
| ‘Tyrone (Tony) Diggin, 11-year-‘old leukemia sufferer, will fly to
panies. i's 1 Mr, Ching. meanwhile, had ordered all federal labor ¢onciliars to step hs theip, efforts to locals of the Communications Workers Union and the Bell Systems closer to a new contract.
Arbitration Law Test Postponed
itreatment in University Hospital. “{ His trip will mark the second mercy flight from Indianapolis in
[less than a week to carry a boy
blood.” Gerald Dunaway, a former bedmate of Tony's in St. Vincent's Hospital, was the first to leave for injections of ACTH, the mirlacle drug. The entire cost of Geriald’s flight to New York and his {treatment is being paid by The) - {Indianapolis Times. Now it is Tony's turn. His trip
Surprised—And How All Lines Protecting pa “# Fuels for Hospitals;
No Shutdowns Reported by Industry
~-to seize coal in transit to keep steam lines going.
| ~All lines are protecting coal co The New York Central will put into effect an additional one-third cut in steam drawn service Thursday, clipping the icrack Riley, the Cleveland-St, Louis Special, and the Clevelands.
Cincinnati Special from its sched. jules. 5
has about a seven-day supply was reported canvasing customers todcy preparing to seize fuel.’
/ice is the deepest cut yet in sched ules. | years that the Riley has ~ {nationwide telephone strike that skimmed through thy farm lands : {had been scheduled to begin to- of Indiana on its deluxe Chicago |shutt'e,
{by Cyrus 8. Ching, chief of the president, sald in’ Chicago today | Federal Mediation Service, to per-/that his road would probably curs {mit more time for collective bar |tail some of its steam passenger |gaining in the contract dispute service next {between the union and the Bell steam with Diesel runs.
trike deadline now is seize coal belonging to the In» |dlanapolis Power & Light Co: and
a possible.
its contract with the Bell Com!
in Confusion; ped
starved for fuel, have begun :
ight to 12 cars of coal and
nsigned to hospitals.
Canvasing Customers The New York Central which
The reduction of steam serve It is the first time In 1
Paul Féucht, Penniylvania vice
week, combining had te
The Pennsylvania has
had a hard bargain to drive, with IPL. : : rt Proud of Service ' Even in hours of crisis the rails roads, proud of their service.:ars highly competitive. They hold off taking customer cargoes as long
The coal dealers said the seizure of cars on the rails had created .& state of confusion im “-- industry. ] TEE plant had the greenhouses on the South Side ith Rundrégg of thousands of ollars- in early erops uring were ay pr ay ” The railroads do fot take without permission. The law says that the customer must be in agreement. + > ¢ But if they cannot move the coal for lack of steam the cus. . tomer doesn’t get it anyway, one official, pointed out. No Shutdowns Yet At the NYC offices it wads ade
By ROBERT BLOEM Postponement of the national .Lelep deadline today, istaved off a showdown on the effectiveness of Indiana's compulsory arbitration law, :
riety Club, Indianapolis theater} {
Underwrite Expenses Tony's case was presented at a
ng keep Robert J. Geb- | publi 445 N. Illinois St., which side
*|chairman of-the group's “Heart -—
| Fund” from which payment of the Congratulations added to meat cutti
hart busy at Storey's Regal Food Market, de he manages. The Gebharts' new daughters bring to 24 the num. [Pn ber of children in the 17 homes in the 4800 block on Farrington | Ave. The babies, born Sunday, spent two days in incubators...
New York Sightseer—
Jerry May Get S
invokes fit. appeared likely to be)
) ito underwrite all the expenses of raised is whether-a picket line!
“We want the child to have his {chance to live,” Mr. Peterson said.
Tony: will leave Weir Cook *Munic
stay off work.
= pal -Adrport-at: 3:45 pom:
' tween Indiana Bell Téleph 2 taccompanied by his mother, Mrs. Tepe to
{and the two major Indiana di-|
neak Peek
Feb, T CUP) Ruth Diggin. His father, THOMAS, ua = amd ped ane a Mo gy mg io eI lot I ican Defender F. Diggin, will remain with the| At Empire State Building Tr [tonal tie-E40 Communion]
: y | {pany and unions. began negotia-| [tions only Jast week and are now| iin recess until 2 p. m. Thursday.| | “Since there is no dispute so! (far, neither side has asked Gov.
He Appears to Be Coming Along “After ACTH Treatments for Leukemia
‘ By DONNA MIKELS, Times Staff Writer
The American “Airlines trans-
{arbitration wheels in motion. | Even if there were no state law, | It's a big secret. A doctor here at Children's Medical Service| CWA spokesmen sald today, thers L. Emmett Holt Jr, New York or New York University-Bellevue Medical Center who's a speciallchyld be. : e University pediatrics professor. |“buddy” of the T-year-old Indianapolis leukemia victim is going 0 Indiana
Bell before + 1 The} | Dr. Holt will supervise Tony's arrange it. ge Mar L The
to do as well as he has been since | Contract here was not opened
York. ‘
gis 'Like Cornfield Conference, Says Capehart to Gates
The House unanimously passed Both Join in Nationwide Broadcast of
and sent to the White House to- ~ Aims Set Forth in New GOP Statement
day a bill to exempt-Bister ElizaBy DAN KIDNEY, Times Staff Writer
beth Kenny from compHance with U. 8. immigration laws. Sister ; WASHINGTON, Feb. 7--“It's just like the cornfield conference, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) beamed as he greeted forme
Kenny, famed for her treatment of. infantile paralysis victims, is an Australian citizen. She has! been a frequent visitor to the United States. PUNCH IN ‘STROMBOLI - “HAMMOND, Feb. 7 (UP)—A bar here reported a heavy de-
Uline Sports Arena here last night.
Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaér, were seated on the
# treatment received by Jerry Duna-|
‘Gov. Ralph Gates at the GOP dollar box supper which packed the
The Senator and the dean of the Hoosier Republicans here rostrum
case, just as he is supervising the| Jerry's been wanting to see the his admission last Thursday. (Officially until Jan. 1 and the
{ |way in Bellevue Medical Center, World's tallest building ever since, He's still pocketing away pis{ Tait Hartley 2 prohibits a |New York University. his mother, Mrs. Ruby Dunaway, winnings every day by eating all|f . p days of that -.s.TF=“,@jso.iLP-P LS L I - went to the top last week. He's of his meals. And he's learned The : y \ ; deadline, whether Feb, 8 : {memorized the details by study to be pretty brave about his four GOP Pays Dinner Tax ‘of, the little bronze replica she daily injections of ACTH. OF Feb 7 some other date But Democrats Won't Nowsps ners
before Mar. 1, would : 1 ibought ‘him as a souvenir. So far, hs treatment with the 416u¢ 350 employees nt i Bs Sesion. Tnwepd : new “wonder” drug which doctors i SA + | WASHINGTON, Feb. T-—Each , Jerty's mother had promised t 1 thousand Repub- li of the severa , thousan epu "you, get
Electric Co. in Indiana. A numm he could go to the top “when » licans attending the Lincoln Day Jerry got to thinking that was
and participated in the nation- y wide broadcast of principles as set out in a new party statement. Mr: Gates, now Republican na-| tional committeeman, State] |Chairman Cale Holder and State/ Ment program last nigh Vice Chairman, ‘Mrs. Mabel] The (Fraser, were supposed to be] seated under the Indiana Ban-| ner as in a convention hall. But other ticket holders had filled that space and so the Hoosier high command had to sit beneath the Alabama sign
‘ mand today for its “Stromboli cocktail”—a concoction of Swedish kummiel and Italian vermouth.
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fought before final approval b Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge
d triumph for the Taft-Hallec school of political thinking. An
ithe greatest ovation from the bo standing. oer crowd:
Sen. Capehart’s reference Was Jenner
to the grass roots GOP meeting gar] Wilson, Bedford; Ralp
{It marked his entrance into party | | politics and this year he is seek-| ling re-election for late term. : | -“All' factions of the party are “inunited- behind him- and he de-
Supplements ‘Statement a second Sen- national committeewoman, {had to pass on the final draf
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| spirit in the state as in “as per-|
barbershop quartet from Elkhart” which was part of the entertain. that the $100 is considered a “do-
statement of principles tional Committee. That makes the out of the way at once, so it largely represents the midwest dinner free to donors and, therethinking of the party and was|fore, also tax-free.
(R.| Mass.). It turned out.to be quite
That section and all others were| Se. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) got
| When the final draft was done,’ - Sens. Capehart and William E./ joined Reps. Halleck
(which be staged. or .his Wash- yarvey = New Castle, and Cecil |ington. Ind, farms back in 1938. arden in expressing approval. |
Mrs. Harden also is Republican
so x, both as a member of the House
—— |scribed the present , gop party’ (Continued ‘on Page 3—~Col. 4) | TEI wresdesFornenr 0
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nation” ‘to the Democratic Na-
‘won't slow down his homeward! Journey. the The doctor can’t quite arrange gion Bhe trip to the top of the building for Jerry. But today when no one
‘hope: may combat life-destroying ber of these employees are workwell,” But yesterday leukemia is proceeding as planned. ing gt the Indiana Bell exchanges t While doctors aren't willing 10 here fristalling equipment. Were pr dollar box supper here last night ,p0 “tye she had also promised talk with too much optimism, they they to picket the local ~ Bell. paid a 20-cent federal admission he ‘could go home. on |say Jerry has had no unfavorable ——— aE when the Democrats hold H "The Next Best Thine m jreaciions 0 te few boys in (Cuntised on Fae 3G y * Der - e's so anxious to ge ck to; ; | 1 : 3 Eo dae Part Star 30. Bast Lis werd who have never seen the Couneil Opens “Hearing it will be tax-free. = + jern Ave, and his brother Jimmy i,oq))y a city hospital, for use ot ON Emergency Funds | The reason, as Sen. Owen Brew- that he doesn't want to walt & Ney york City residents. Jerry Marion County's “displaced chilster (R. Me.) sadly explained, is Second “after I'm better” to Start.|\ ., ,qmitted only after The In- dren” became the top priority| So he decided he'd like to get| 4... 0011s Times made special ar-.problém of County Council today the Empire State building detail), , oonants to secure the new and'as it opened an emergency exrare ACTH for him, and then only penditure session at the Court after special dispensation. from House. New York Hospital Commis-| The Council, which has abso-| T . . {lute control of the county's purse, strings, began hearings on num|erous requests for appropriations
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Greathouse Demands
Amusements «s+sev.0..10-11. lig looking he’s going to do the + k : . {to operate the county totaling di BIMEE . seeesvreenainiss T Inext bast thing. = ° . $60,000 for His Office |5100,000.
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He's going to take Jerry out County Treasurer Charles A. The hearing opened with recomof the children's ward for a Greathouse demanded $60000/and recreational director at the |“test.” Only he and Jerry know from county eouncil today to re- mendations to reinstate a dietitian, {that they arent really going to organize his office. Children’s Guardian Home and to ‘an examining room: | Claiming that the outgoing ad- increase the salaries of Juvenile
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directly out at the big stone and ,... of the past treasurer.” "BOSTON, Feb. 7 (UP)—Ted
jsteel skyscraper. i The secret trip will take lace flate today after the doctor has tions in “the -treasurer's office his 1950 contrast with the Boshis rounds, if the day which ware abolished in the last ton Red :
4 } 1 - is clear and if Jerry. continues session of the County Council, |mated $100,000, Tr 4 x Sr : ; a > Fuss feck
The law prohibits strikes in The big coal dealers were trys c utilities, at least when one Ing ta find out where they stood. or the other in a labor dis- IReir customers faced shutdowns The question unless they could get enough to keep going.
-iviolates that-law when it-causes/Up- and there had been no shuts... . {non-striking utility employees to downs, but the uncertainty of
. (coal “delivery was beginning to | ~80 far there is no. dispute be- drop like a shroud on busy
Schricker to. set .the complilsory | Worl on a full week, {the Taft-Hartley injunction, that
no. direct. strike..against the earliest, and possibly later.
Mr, Greathouse asked council Williams, most valuable player pound packages carry a 6 cen for the restoration of eight posi- in the American League, signed|d 3
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mitted that the road was “pretty darned close” to the seizure status. The division uses about U5 CATE TN day ’ind has been gets ting as high as 80 but some days it drops far below that figure.
coal yn av er.
Factory boilers still had stea
plants trying to deliver orders, ome The railroads were silent about the rest r° the week insofar ag seizure was concerned. "= But a spokesman fo: one big railroad indicated they might have to keep taking coal off their rails until the mines go back to
Under the.nofmal procedure of
would be about next Monday at
Truman Board Calls Disputants
. By United Press : The fact:finding board in the soft * coal dispute today sums moned John L. Lewis and indus try officials to start presenting their side of the case tomorrow at 9 a. m.. Indianapolis time. David L..Cole, chairman of the board set up by President Truman under the Taft-Hartley Law, told newsmen the board “hoped to get through’ its report befors Monday. : As soon as the board reports, President Truman can seek a federal court injunction to get the striking soft coal miners back to work for about 80 days. Meanwhile, industrial _ shut downs increased in tempo as the soft coal miners threatened to carry on their ‘no contract, ne work” strike even if the governs
(Continued on Page 8—Col. 8)
A. & P. Raises Prices On 3 Coffee Brands
NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (UP)= The Great Atldntic & Pacific Tea Co. today raised retail ‘es Om its leading brands of coffee .3 to - 4 cents a pound. ; a : The two lower grades, 0’Clock and Red Cirele moved 4 cents to 63 and 66 ce: pound and the Bokar. cents to 68-cents a
Dealers thought the