Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1950 — Page 1
60th YEAR—NUMBER 833 = * =
| To Harness Atom to | Ships and Power Plants
| Scientists to Lay Scheme Before Cabinet; ~~ Hope fo Run Off Tests Within 2 Years
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LONDON, Feb. 8 (UP)—The supply ministry reported today | that plans for harnessing atomic energy to .steam turbines will! “be submitted to the cabinet for approval jn about two months. | Two separate projects outlined .for British atomic scientists| will call for atomic engines for ships and for generating electricity | on land. Scientists working on the projects believe they can complete their experiments suc-!
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ministry, which controls atomic | _.. research In Britain, was the most
trial use of atomic energy. The projects probably will be organized at Harwell, the British atomic energy research center! By FBI to Trap Fuchs | No estimate was available on| WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UP)—| the Cost. ‘The FBI cracked the Fuchs atomic
i Times Staff Writer : . {spy case by wire tapping, congres-| The ship's engine project was! aimed mainly at getting isional sources disclosed today.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8—Two atomic energy engine he!
£ th {| No details are available. Mem. little Indianapolis leukemia Navy or ™Me€ hers of Congress who have re- victims were “resting comScientists long have regarded rector J. Edgar Hoover are
the use of atomic energy for ship pledged to secrecy. propulsion as one of the most] But reliable congressional likely developments in the field. sources said the -initial tip-off on . Success in ‘development of Dr. K. E. J. Fuchs, the British atom-powered steam generatingiscientist accused of giving atomic plants would ease Britain's de- secrets to Russia, came from a tap pendence on coal, which is scarce.|of a telephone conversation, at LaGuardia Airport, Informants reported t h a t Mr. Hoover and his G-men have, pe was rushed by ambulance neither of thg two projects would been under heavy fire for wire i, University Hospital, where he's involve any new principles. They tapping - from left-wing groups, pe examined today and pos. said heat released by atomic en- which protest that it is one phase) started on treatments with ergy would be used to heat boil-|of the FBI's “lawless conduct.” 'medical sciences’ new “wonder” ers and produce steam pressure; Investigation Asked |drug, ACTH. oa to drive steam turbines. The National Lawyers Guild, © nearby Bellevue Hospital, T alks With U. S. iwhich was cited as a Communist | . {front by the House Un-Ameritan The big problem, responsible Activities Committee, recently] sources reported, would be to asked President Truman to. wy-{ Which sectied the rate hew druf protect crews around the engine point a citizens committee to in-| ARV ui der ACTH treatment. from dangerous radiation with- vestigate the agency. ay : out, in the case of ship's engines,| In the current issue of the New, So far, doctors say Jerry Is using so much weight as to make Republic magazine, James Law-| “doing well” the project impractical. Irence Fly, former chairman of the| . It was Jerry's at least tempoA government spokesman said Federal Communications Com- rary response. to the new drug start of the projects might de-|/mission, said that “with thou- that gave little Tony's parents
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“City With A Heart” . . . an Editorial. . . . Page 14
By DONNA MIKELS
‘blocks apart here today. Little Tyrone (Tony) Diggin, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Diggin, 1064 Oliver Ave., arrived last night by blane
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the present atomic energy infor- catch one spy by wire-tapping.” | Tired From Trip " mation off the secret list. That, Attorney General J. Howard Arrangements to. secure the subject iz being discussed by McGrath has sided with Mr... 354 expensive hog hormone American and British atomic en- Hoover. He said the FBI has only oyiyact for him were made by the ergy authorities at Harwell. {170 taps and each case involves y, ty Club of Indianapolis, ~The Dally Mirror said work national security. He served no-iyyich ‘flew Tony and his mother, already had started on the ship's tice that the FBI will continue 10 prs. Ruth Diggin, to New York engine project. tap phones at his direction. for the treatments.
Acheson sees (12 Fliers Missing
arrive in the big city. He ap- ) : | Long Cold War |
peared tired from his trip, al“|though “he ‘had slept most of the WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UP)— who now lie in hospital beds a Secretary of State Dean Acheson] few
way. The two little Indianapolis boys
In Search for b- blogks apart were patients
| yard in St. Vincent's Be ar wait muses RCAF Sends Plane [iio l "IL," December. end of the cold war » : i th day, doctors gave is not In sight because there is To Probe SOS Calls | On the same day 4
the parents of both boys the no easy way to peace with the WHITEHORSE, Yukon Terri:igy,ve news that their sons were Soviet Union.
tory, Feb. 8 (UP)—U. 8. and Ca-yiotims of the rare, until now always incurable, cancer of the
nadian airmen today reached for!
Eo Mom Syy asa) Ret in tiaspirals
teeived-a- full-Teport-from-FBL Di- fortahly™ in hospitals & few
7-yearcold Gerald Dunaway, flown
pend largely on taking some of sands of taps, the FBI has yet to hope that it might help their son. = 8
Tyrone (Tony) Diggin, leukemia victim, and his mother, Mrs. Ruth Diggin, ready do leave for New York aboard an American Airlines plane. Left to right are Barbara Diggin, Mrs. Diggin, Tony, Tommy Whiteside, a school pal of Tony, and (lower) Michael Diggin.
Talk as Steel Uni iners $500,000 for
Tony Diggin Joins Jerry in N.Y. “re ws ona mo WFR Ta Credited TO Fight for Life With ACTH
Steelworkers Giv
“steel union t
{vote of the USW executive board, In a Jetter to Mr. Owens’ Mr.|U - [Murray seid he trusted the con-
bringing ult ats vay " . United
needed a few more blood donors miniature blood bank, to take the!
:
But he urged the American 12 apoard a C-47 transport that), people not to waver or give UP disappeared while hunting for a
hope of achieying world peace. In an
peace with Russia is “long and difficult” because the nature of the M v ; incompatible with the accomplishment of peace and world
extensive and unusual news conference statement, Mr. Acheson said that the road to
sons aboard. Meanwhile, the Royal Canadian Air Force ordered planes into the| air at dawn to investigate SOS) signals heard the length of the]
“The missing C-47, an American Air Force ship, took off at noon
1C-54 lost 13 days ago with 44 en Doth: ; N h
sgiven only a short to live; te ow they wait, far away from ome in a strange city, as the medical profession fights to commute their death sentences with
recently discovered ACTH. | ! Tr
Both boys are being treated
freedom.” : And, he said, the possibility of the H-bomb ‘does not change! the facis of the difficulty of the road toward peace.”
yesterday with a crew of five and under the supervision of Dr. L.| seven observers along with other|pmmett Holt Jr. internationally! planes participating in the search. i n,wn pediatrician, head of the it was reported overdue last nepartment of Pediatrics at New: night. |York University and director of|
The C-47 had come here from i; Children’s Medical Service of! Elelson Air Base at Fairbanks, nee York University - Bellevue,
Alaska, to join the search which|yso iat Center. was intensified after the code| yii41e Tony missed by two days signals were heard yesterday. lthe chance to be side by side| Point of Origin Plotted | with his old friend Jerry. On Sat-|
. -Rain to Continue
Through Tomorrow
night, obtained living quarters {not too. far from the Vanderbilt!
staying. They'll meet sometime donors, although doctors hadn't call in. |today, during the ‘time they can-|said yet. |
{not visit their sons, { i | Jn the few days I've been Iniare on their way to at least 850.0 of Indiana.” : { —
There's not a Hoosler twang in a check.
{ . ! |" That Monday. Today cards the carload—but T'm thinking of| In his appeal to: the U Bl Was anday y | making them honorary “Daugh- pps sw
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tors Pessimistic
As U. S. Presses Them
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb, 8
asked Gov. Adlal E. Stevenson strike in Illinois.
at 1 p. m. (Indianapolis time) Truman's fact-finding board.
ask ‘Mr. Lewis to send his 4
Murray Hopes Cash | . . { Will Bring Victory | PITTSBURGH, Feb. 8° (UP)! The CIO United Steelworkers to-| day sent a check for $500,000 to John IL. Lewis’ United Mina Workers “to assist the needy! miners and their families in their struggle against. the coal oper! ators.” 1 “The check was sent by Philip Murray, CIO and USW president, and was made out to John Ow-! ens, secretary - treasurer of the! UMW. At the same time Mr. Mur- | ray appealed
to the miners. : | Mr. Murray said his action was. authorized by a telegraph
te. Workers of Second Offer , It was Mr. Murray's second offer of aid to the miners. Last October, in reply to an offer of assistance from Mr. Lewis to Mr.| {Murray's then striking steel ‘workers, Mr. Murray proposed a common defense fund of all
to be on the safe side. Also. there names. and telephone numbers of unions to .aid- strikers. act | Hotel, where Mrs. Dunaway is/was the chance Tony might need any of the prospective donors who
However, at that time Mr. Murray did not back his offer with
members, Mr. Murray asked that their contributions be ‘‘substan-
{ 2 New York working on behalf of sons of Indiana in this area, read-
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Into New Try at Deal .
Truman Board Does Not Require Lewis to Call Men Back Into Pits BULLETIN’
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(UP) — Ray Edmundson, the
man who tried unsuccessfully in 1944 to wrest control of the United Mine Workers of America away from John.IL. Lewis,
today to try to end the mine
WASHINGTON, Feb, 8 (UP)—John L. Lewis and soft coal operators agreed today to resume direct negotiations
, at the
request of President’
The board, set up under the Taft-Hartley law, did not 00,000 striking miners back [to work.
The request-—and agree-
'ment—to resume direct con{tract negotiations came. less than
[two hours after the board began 0 [hearing both sides in the contract dispute. : -
Operators were not too hopeful the new negotiations would be of any use, dent Truman will ‘seek a court order next Monday in an effort to get the miners back on the job for about 80 days.
The operators’ pessimism may
have been based in part on Mr.
Lewis" charge at the hearing that
the chiéf negotiator for the Northern and Western operators is—"a liar by the block.” ‘Seems Fantastic’ Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal, Producers Association, told the board wouldn't be “too hopeful.” 5h TYIt seems to me Tanta expect that bargaining at this stage will get anywhere one side or the other is
ta hg: y stipulatio tions or lI ony Lo
union i ev In the past, have insisted that the uniof several of its
demands—including the “willing and able” to work clause—before getting down to
negotiator for the Northern and Western operators, to accuse him
of uttering a “dirty, deliberate and infamous lie.” : ;
If they coliapse Presi
nl A the operators drop .
wih
{ ng: | 1 “Help wanted.” Advice to > nice enough to be former Ins! “Two youngsters suffering Home Sellers diapians, {from leukemia have been flown ® A reliable Real Estate Like one of the drivers fromito New York for treatment. Broker is in touch with ol BT hel “The Indianapolis Times has many real estate’ BUYy sent a representative along to IRS at all times . . . make so many trips to Bellevue "0.0 an arrangements. i Biulgh chnsjatent Neu daily he flipped off the meter, | Tney need blood badly fori paper ldvertising : and “itis' one's’ on’ me.” Ino sala, these two kids. : ; other methods, It will I you can donate blood, Pay.you to have 4 brojise
“Buy something for the kid: I : a at Ea : —.sell. “your home. His assed through Indiana once andPlease call Donna MIkels, Vamsi = ol 0 0 ion: wilt
|thing. New York is peopled by, {former or near-Hoosiers or people
mgs 1 re) was plotted to be 100 miles north was the last out-of-state leukemia. By Wiss » IM ‘of Edmonton, Alberta, several victim the municipal hospital os ins ‘hundred miles south and east of could take In at this time. For > to t i : Chait wii Sontipue tonight andy ere. 3 that reason, little Tony is being] = said today mr 7 The signals came in “strong hospitalized at the University | : . “SHIT weather Will hold temi-| 8nd clear” again last night, RCAF Hospital. peratures. to a low of only 35 to- operations headquarters ae ve
night, after the mercury dipped! Officers refused to say the sig-
£ EB" to 31 early today. Tomorow's nals heard in Whitehorse were] : temperatures will reach 40, | the same as
of Chou, Mhiew WL cover ort ain search area today was|0n hand to meet Mrs
be preceded by rain in the ex. near Aishihik, Yukon Territory,
treme. east iomorrow morning. | 100 miles northwest of here. |
Nine days ago, a U. 8. Alr| Temperatures will range s tween| Te plane with six men aboard
30 and 38 tonight. |crash-landed south of here.while|
3 rb -__,s |Searching for the missing trans-| Red-Faced Airline Pilot
port. No one was killed, howRuns Flagship in Mud
ever, DALLAS, Tex. Feb. 8 (UP) TRUMAN TO MEET PRESS An embarrassed American Alr-| ~ WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UP) | lines pilot wound up in the same President Truman will hold a - cament as the battleship news conference at 3 p. m. (Inissouri’s skipper. |dianapolis Time) tomorrow, : : / The pilot's DC-6 flagship. :be- : : :
me ek ne i 5 ae Get Gloves Finals
sengers were transferred to an-/@m ' ; : a is other plane after a long wait. | 9€afs Downtown | = ® Choice - seats: for the | ve hanang i
A tow truck pulled the plane from. the Tain-soaked turf. championship finals of | © el * The Times-Legion Gold- ’
Times index en Gloves Boxing Tournament will be
yours if you get them
However, the mothers of the
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‘those ~ heard —inrtWo--boys plan to -get--together Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Taylor, Craw-| pinoy 4048Y,, The Red Cross, which was Diggin last|
"Fhe signals were picked up by urday, 10-year-old Billy’ Anderson, n ’_|derbilt Hotel.” Sam .. 31 10am... 38 e signals ‘were picked Tea Ep rit was nice.” . jderbilt Hotel. -~ =~ = | {listening posts from Nome, Alas- Laurel, Tenn, leukemia victim] : a7 - —— bri tA 0, os Hoa 38 ore, Cal. "The oFigin WAS accepted at Bellevue, Hel “Help Wanted" — | The. calls should start coming — Hewitt save you time,
in today. 1 was worried because] get you a good - price,
“I am sure that each of you have a true appreciation ‘of the dire need of the mine workers and their families,” Mr. Murray
Lewis Jumps Up Mr. foove quoted Mr. Lewis as having told the coal operators some time ago that “I have
{saild, “It is imperative therefore {that our union and. its members {give to the UMW the fullest meas-| lure of support in their valiant| [struggle against these powerfull interests, }
is “The war which ts being waged! "George Love, T Hold that that {against their union can be dirécted is a dirty, deliberate and inagainst your own and ail other; = =
{unions by the same combinations
—be-mbney-well-spenti-r of wealth when they deem it ex-| -Ipedient to do 56.” |
—Or like Hooslers-in-the Sons-of 1 nave to start early Inthe morn=| Indiana of New York City. Learn- ing to visit Tony and Jerry. and! matters a r e “properly ing that Jerry needed blood in the make SrTangements ford his handled. bank in case he should require surprise coming up for the chil-| transfusions, they went Fight to dren in the Bellevue ward. En Q Gall Spe of jue xeliabie ork. : ! “But here again those New York-| __—vertising in the classified 1 called Philip D. Taylor, for- ers nice enough to be Hoosiers pages of today’s Times. merly of Bloomington and son of saved the day. | You can be sure that he The girls on thé switchboard of will look out for your fordsville,. now. with the Newithe Vanderbilt said not to WOITY.! .. ... best dnterest, om mi York Telephone Co. I told him I' They'll turn- the board into al
make sure that all legal
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Loot in Garbage Can
{~~ PHOENIX; Ariz; Feb. 8 (UP)! “David L. Cole; chairman of Mr; fact-finding board,
j=Two men held up the Bank tof Douglas today, locked up seven employees {with iried away in a large, sheetdraped ‘garbage can. = = | The men casually: carried the
" {ean down the street through
| work-bound pedestrains and es: |Saped in an automobile with Cali{fornia license plates.
LE and escaped! $116,250 in cash they car-
400,000 coal miners in the pilm of my hand.”
That was as far as Mr. Love
got. Mr, lewif jumped up and shouted across the table:
famous ie.”
“Mr. Chairman, I'd like to finish,
! Lewis Sits Down’
{Truman's broke in and asked that the ine {terruptions. be stopped. ...... “Mr. Lewis, Mr. Love, we in
don’t ‘want to deal “Why not?” Mr, Lewis “Why not?” But Mr. Lewis sat down and Mr. Love then continued with his statement.
shouted,
agi LA Railroads Prowl for Coal
As Seizure Victims Howl
"Further, Puts Two Tra
Railroads were going up and
New York Central Juggles Schedules
ins on 3-Day Basis down their customer lists today
hunting coal which could be seized with the least harm to shippers.
of Customers. were howling. but
ea Ea Ruark a ry 1aran i 3 > mory. box - office Friday | * : Sports savecesannsencadd?; 18 night, 1” , i Weather Map .....coevet 18. For Jim , igh's. story | a § en a © Earl Wilson ..uveeeedeees 34 Friday s-nals, nw Par fo Ls Sarid grind iE Te : "Lo. puts by Bill Oates, Times SIs Photosravbe, . WOMENS irtier:esecers S __—wmuwliuen ¥ "0 Good luck, Tony... fam ily and friends wave as the plane roars sastward. hx ie NE x » = W . a 3 > 3 RR co - 1 A - 1 . re 3
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{the railroads have the right to seize the coal, and notify customers
(later,
usually too late. Under the law
i The New York Cegtral had rejuggled two more trains on its
{steam schedules. | {| The Detroit-Cincinnati trains) {were on a fhree-day week, Mon-| day, Wednesday and Fridays,| with one run filling in on Tues-| |days, Thursdays and Saturdays. The New York Central had |seized ino coal in transit in this - |territory, - although a few cars, {had been taken in the { district. : | Railroads were stretching out] {freight frain lengths to the last ounce the big locomotives could pull. Some freight trains were running 70 to 80 cars long, and running behind schedule. | Diesels were pulling as many
- “las 16 heavy passenger cars.
No More Seizures
The Pennsylvania -had seized| customer yards. no additional. coal since the 38
least one instance had to be re turned to the customer. : But the Pennsylvania had not cut its running schedules. “The Jan. 8 cut was enough,” said a company spokesman. The B. & 0. was still able to keep its hands off customer foal
Harrisburg after seizing from eight 13
cars the day before yesterday. Asked about. future seizures, a spokesman said: “Who knows?" The coal companies were in a dither watching customer coal on the rails trying to protect it against seizure. With ears cupped against telephone receive
ers, they were watching it almost :
mile by mile from the mines
‘But: where the railroads “had
cars taken the day before yes- seized coal, they had beat the coal
|terday. But ‘the push-pull with the customers was at high heat. {Cars marked for, seizure in o
‘dealers to’ the punch: The coal ;
was taken ‘before ‘found it out.
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Mr, Love interrupted, saying
Again Mr. Lewis interrupted: . | “I say to you, George Lave, ‘that you're a liar by the clock.”
"here, "Mr. Cole sald.” ~~ |.
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