Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1950 — Page 1
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60th YEAR—NUMBER 337
Here are wo real life Indianapolis Valentines. Jimmy Bates, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bates, 1832 Centennial St., and Julia West, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul West, 1208 N. Winfield * are first cousins. Both were born on Feb.
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New Distress Call Spurs C-54 Hunt
Search Swings into Third Week
STEWART McNEILL Press Stal Correspondent WHITEHORSE, Y. T., Feb. 11
—Baffling SOS signals swung the
Far North's _greatest air . hunt
toward the Yukon’s southwest corner today after a second he-
. roic. mduntain rescue slowed the
16-day search for.a lost C-54. Hope .for possible suvivors among the 44 aboard the U. 8. transport was rekindled with reports of new distress calls. =
EASY! MR. McKEE WANTS YOU ON TH!
mote Americans
unity. Speakers n Tindér, state ander, ‘and Lea strict American
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“Constant fixes” based on bearings taken by ham operators and U. 8. Air Force listening posts placed the transmitter somewhere near the 'Yukon-Alaska border. “We'll find them,” an officer said, “if only they'd keep sending until we can pin-point their position.” Planes made a “radio sweep” today of the area. The two-natién search which
“giready “has cost $3 million ac
cording to “conservative” and unofficial USAF and Royal Cana-
dian Air Force estimates, droned —into-its
k-end after another near-tragic- search plane crash. The estimate was based on consumption of several hundred thousand gallons. of 130octane gas, loss of two Planes,
- and maintenance; -
18 Airmen Unhurt A total of sixteen Canadian and
re Kimerieans™ ‘escaped serious” in~ when he' ‘was stricken:
jury in the crashes.
| A C-47 carrying five Canadians
and five Americans “belly-
“flopped” ' Tuesday atop ‘a 7200-
foot unnamed mountain in the Ruby Range 84 miles west of here. After 56 hours of exposure in 80 - below - zero weather, all 10 were rescued by paratroopers dropped to the scene. A lone helicopter made five daring trips to] evacuate rine of them last night
.and the 10th survivor and five
paratroopergwere flown to Whitehorse today. Thirteen days ago, a courageous pliot - struggled six miles through deep drifts on an injured ankle to bring help for his five companions left in the wreckage of another C-47. Aboard the lost plane which disappeared on a flight from Anchorage, Alaska, to Great Falls, were an expectant mother, Mrs. Joyce M. Espe, ‘her infant son, eight crewmen and 34 men returning home on furlough.
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followed «by-15 -hours-the-death
Son and Daughter 0f Curley Die ~
Gets Cowboy Outfit, Leiter From Roy Rogers
Second Leukemia Victim to Receive
Similar Gift for Birthday Monday
By DONNA MIKELS, Times Staff Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 11 — “Yippy----I---Aye ....” That's the latest word from two-gun, rootin’, tootin’, and wild Jerry Dunaway, Indianapolis leukemia victim, who received a box of wild and wooly cowboy equipment today from Roy Rogers. The box of cowboy equipment, including six-guns and holsters, a-real -10-gallon ‘hat, a cowboy vest and a personal letter from-the
screen star was delivered to {Jerry's mother, Mrs. Ruby Dunaway, today at her. hotel. “Hot zippity,” Jerry said as his mother presented the glamorous) gifts. As the multitude of gifts! were unwrapped at his Bellevue Hospital bedside Jerry said, ‘Oh boy, oh boy.”
Work Miners Likely to Defy U.
{On End of Ail
|to eat and a bit more.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1950 Cae
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Tories Caution British Voter
Labor Rarely Mentions Help Of American Dollar
"Lyle C. Wilson, United Press 1 Washington manager and veteran observer of U. 8S. politics, arrived in London this week to cover the British political campaign and general elections. As United Press’ chief political writer, Mr. Wilson has covered every national U. 8, election since Al Smith ran against Herbert Hoover in 1928. By LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 11 — The! g& American dollar and the Mar-| shall Plan were blazing like| . a spectacular Broadway sign-| board tonight over the Brit-| ish national election cam-| paign * Campaign orators shouted about food, jobs and gasoline. | ou Their supply In an impoverished! = * nation depends greatly on loans °° and grants from the United: Frases son States. Speakers for the Labor Govern; ment rarely mention the Marshall! Plan of American dollars. The Conservative opposition is| banging away at the theme that the United States is subsidizing the British economy right now. They follow that up by asking ——= {what the Laborites plan to do after 1952, when the stream of | American aid dries up. : Labor spokesmen argue only that all hands are employed and that under a “fair shares” system the available food;- gasoline
Federal Court Would
are divided by rationing and con- fines for contempt of court, But trols among the people. Secure in Job There has been no report of any acknowledgement of American aid in the Labor Party's platform in most. speechds of its leaders. ‘Neither does it appear that the British man-in-the-street realizes the dangerous significance of his/ sional showers on Indianapolis country’s persistent dollar short- today, the weatherman said last age. The man -in-the - street doesn’t use dollars himself, and /DI8ht. {he is secure in his own job which] pays him fairly well in British Peratures would probably con-|
tinue through Tuesday. money, which buys him enough The mercury was expected to
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Occasional Rain Forecast Today
15 Hours After Sister
BOSTON, Feb. 11. (UP)—Leo| F. Curley, 38, son of former Mayor James M. Curley collapsed and died tonight-while preparing for the wake of his sister, ‘who died unexpectedly earlier in the day. i The death. of the mayor's son
of his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Curley Donnelly, 41, who was
CHIT today. He saw his dad, "Earl
Another Roy Rogers box was reported en route from Houston, Tex. to Tyrone (Tony) Diggin, the other Indianapolis leukemia victim who is in University Hospital here.’ The box was timed to arrive Monday on Tony's 10th birthday. Jerry’s Dad Arrives Jerry had more than one big
Dunaway, who arrived today to see his son for the first time
1 rise—to 45 {degrees lower than - yesterday's high reading. A low of near 40 {was forecast for tonight, Off-and-on showers were fore{cast for the whole state throughout the day. Maximum tempera-
+ Conservative champion Lor Woolton, who managed the na-| tion’s food during the war, broad-| cast his party’s principal speech | tonight. He warned that the na-| tion must produce more food.
Takes Same Slant
“Another of the things I'm sure 35-38 north and from 40-45 dehas worried you” he said to his|grees in the southern portion of nation-wide audience, “is to know | the state. .how..we -are. going. 10. get..enough/ food after Marshall Aid ends. I!
John L Lowis van N0 alternative.”
Miners Can Put U. S. on Spot If Each Strikes on His Own
To Cite 400,000 Individuals for Confempt
WASHINGTON, Feb. J1 (UP)--If the soft coal miners refuse and other luxuries and necessities/'to call off their strike Monday, their union may have to pay stiff
that m i} leave thé go ment with the problem of how to ccpe with a eae Sinem who
The United Mine Workers Union has paid $2 million in con-
Overcast skies will spill occa- Personally was assessed $30,000
He said almost springlike tem-|
this—aftermoon; three}
tures were expected to range from |
Entered as Second-Class Matter wt Pustofies
Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Dat
Be Hard Put
|temapt of court fines for defying back-to-work orders from thé courts in the 1947 and 1048 strikes,
UMW President John L. Lewis
{for his part in those walkouts, {although the union paid his fines: | In both cases, the strikers | yielded on orders from Mr. Lewis after the government convicted their union and its president of contempt,
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UMW Chief
Also Offers
To Meet With Owners
Under Injunction Terms
Points Out No Other Course Is Open;
Some Workers Declar WASHINGTON, Feb. 11
Monday. But the United Mine Wo that he was acting only unde Hartley court orders slapped
tions of the court.
riven back to work by the ° Hartley Law. If the. miners refuse to
Miners’ Leaders Express Doubts
Workers Fight
Taft-Hartley Act
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 11 (UP) Rebellious soft coal miners today defied the government to get them back to work by injunction. District and local presidents of the United Mine Workers said they would follow the instructions of President John L. Lewis and order the men to end their 8 immediately. In the majority of cases, however, they were doubt. ful that the men would obey. John Ozanich, president of the Robena, Pa. local of the H. C. Frick Coke Co. said his men voted earlier a to stay out. Told that Mr. Lewis has ordered them to comply with the federal court order to resume work, Mr. Ozanich said: “I don’t see where this is going to make much difference. Howéver, we'll hold another meet
But I don't think they will go back.” ‘Up to the Men’ Michael Honus, Uniontown, Pa., secretary-treasurer of Dist. where the rebellion against the Lewis-imposed three-day week was centered, sald he would try
and see what they want to do.
e War on T-H Act (UP)—John L. Lewis yielded
reluctantly to two federal anti-strike injunctions today and ordered his 400,000 soft coal miners to return to work
rkers president made it plain r the duress of the two Tafts on him earlier today.
In telegrams to the UMW'’s district leaders, he said he had “no alternative” but to pass on to them the instrucs
Reports from the coal fields indicated strongly that the angry miners would defy the court and continue a strike that has pushed the nation to the edge of economic crisis, Mr. Lewis himself told President Truman last Saturday that it was “questionable” whether the miners could be
‘legal blackjack” of the Taft
reopen the strikebound pits, Mr. Lewis may have to prove to the courts that his backs to-work orders were not really a velled signal to continue the strike. He and his union already have {paid $2,130,000 in contempt of
“court fines “for *detying such Ine {junctions in ths past.
Mr. Lewis enous up his instructions to UMW local offices with telegrams to leaders of the coal Industry offering to meet with them here at 10 a. m,, Ine dianapolis time Wednesday | to resume contract negotiations, President Joseph E. Moody of the Southern Coal Producers Ass {sociation sald his group “cers
trike tainly will try to co-operate with
ged
Lewis” in setting up new gaining conferences. Mr, was the only one of the industry negotiators in
ington today. Mr. Tewis sotéd hours atfer the gover claimed a national gency and obtained Hartley injunctions ordering to call off the strike and alleged “illegal” contract mands,
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Truman Warns Federal Judge Richmond Keech signed the two orders bi a few minutes apart following a warning from President Truman that the national health and 4| welfare will be imperiled if the strike is permitted to go on.
most of the teeth. It was a 10-
“Reports from the coal fields this time indicated that many if not| all the miners are in a mood to ignore district court injunctions
to persuade the men to return ut was pessimistic. “We've been trying to get them to go back but they won't go,” Mr. Honus said. know, our men said they will not
{and stay on strike. In case that mood continues, the
80 back without a contract,” | Bruno Olmizzi, Latrobe, Pa.
[government, which requested the pist, 3 representative, was more injunctions because the nation is (optimistic, |desperately in need of coal, will] “ot course ir that's his orders, Lag 10 Ngiire some Way of per-| (at's it He said, “it's up to the]
think you've every reason to
Inside Highlights
|suading or compelling the miners| men but I believe they will com[to work as individuals.
{ply with his orders.”
day restraining order forbiddi a strike until-hearihgs have been held Feb. 20 on the government's application for an 80-day Tafte
“As far as I Hartley injunction.
The other, also obtained under the Taft-Hartley Act, limited ite self to forbidding the miners to strike for certain “illegal” des mands, including the union shop, a for-union‘men-only welfare fund; and-on-contract-clause-prow
“willing and able.”
The second injuction contained *.
viding that they work only when ”
rhage while
stricken with a cerebral hemor-
telephoning inher
apartment this morning.
{since the boy was Howg le here| ”
ago for —— Pnedical t treatment.
The cause of Leo's death was not revealed immediately. Leo, who served as trafic commissioner during his father's last
‘term-as-mayor, had been at his bone marrow. tests on Jerry today.
2 homes
‘ {They ‘were a pointer, a mixed,
sister's apartment with other {members of the family, preparing for the wake of Mrs. Donnelly
The former mayor, who himself] is in. failing health, was in se-| clusion with his two surviving children, George, 32, and The Rev.! Fr. Francis Curley, 8. J. Three of the mayor's other chil-! dren have already died as has Mr. | Curley’s first wife, The former mayor and governor, however, has| been remarried and has two stepsons.
Calls for Dogs Swamp SPCA
Indianapolis yesterday opened its heart to more than a dozen homeless dogs. Officials at the voluntary contribution supported SPCA shelter reported they were literally “swamped” with telephone calls following a story in The Times Friday that some of the larger dogs would have to be put to death because: of crowded kennels, ? By last night more than 500 calls had been received from Indianapolis citizens who sought to save the lives of the doomed dogs. Nine of the large dogs were adopted and already in foster by yesterday evening.! Several other smaller dogs had been adopted. Only three of the out-sized dogs remained at the shelter last night. 5°
hound and a black mixed shepherd. 8SPCA
had Mothers: tickets to shows to oc-
While doctors declined to make an official announcement, his parents were advised tonight that
divulged no change in his condition after a week of ACTH injections. CMY. and Mrs. DUHAWEY SE ‘the doctors were indefinite and made {no positive announcement concerning Jerry's condition. Jerry was scheduled: to remain {in the hospital for one more week for ACTH treatments.
Tony received his first injec-
{tion of ACTH today in Univer-|
sity Hospital and was reported resting well and in good spirits tonight. Thrilled With Letter
Jerry was thrilled With his personal letter from Roy Rogers. It read:
“Dear Gerald; :
“I hear tell you are a fan of mine and I sure like to get to know all my fans. ; “I am sorry to hear you are laid up sick. Now hurry up and get well because and sure would like for you to come out to California and visit us when you are better. : : “Then I'll sure see that get a ride on Trigger. Until then, Trigger and I are rootin’ for you. “Many happy trails, “Roy. Rogers.”
Me Dunaway and Mrs. Ruth Diggin ‘have been visiting while not at the bedside of their sons. Several New York radio and television shows have offered the
cupy their evenings while waiting g apd hoping for their stricken
RECRUIT GETS LIFE TERM
"TOKYO, Feb. 11 (UP)—Récruit Miller
James J. Diamond, 26, Sioux Fatls, 8. D., was sentenced today to life tm
I Labor Party campaign has gotten|
sonment for the mur-! ro
worry.”
— First Section — P Story of William Dudley Polley: federal -parolee . first in a series. Page 5
on-warned of rising. co | costs if production cannot hiked. | Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, a con-| servative campaigner who is a leading lawyer, took the same) slant in -a speech’ at-Tamworth. He tied into what he called “the new Socialist dreamland.” “At this election” he said every elector should erossiexain-| ine each party through their can-| didate and ask him: “ ‘How is your policy going tol affect the rising cost of living| and the safety of the employ-| ment of our people when Mar-| shall Aid is finished in 19527 » Lambast Churchill Labor speakers continued to| Fletcher. .. Page 29 lambast Conservative Leader) . Winston Churchill for his hint] Fourth Section
earlier in the week thatia Con-| ® servative government would find Exclusive real estate ad vertising. . . . Business
a’ way to increase the gasoline,
‘Second “Section The Hume Mansur Build“ing wv how-it-affects your daily life. . . . Start of another series. Page 13. Sports. ..... .
Third = Section: |Katy Atkins and Louise
"eens
ration. | news. ........Pages 41- : Prime Minister Clement Attlee | age: 55 and others fired back at Mr. Chutehill this question: Other Inside Features Do you prefer food to gasoline? It takes dollars to get both. On| About People ......i.....10 which shall we spend our dollars?| Amusements ..........22,23
That is about as close as the Builders ........eeieser. 43 to the question of dollars and 2
American aid. Classified sovevvesosee 4455
The Conservatives are chiding] Club +4s.ves snsevennss 30, 33 them for failing to credit thel Crossword ...veveceessses You! Marshall Plan and other foreign | Editorials ri ald for much of the margin by| fanaa which the British are able to live|: FAashioms ...ccicveieesss 35 in austerity and to have jobs all] FoOd ...ovsinsavsenncnnss32°
around.
East Side Woman
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Inside Indianapolis .,.....17
Dies in Auto Crash | Mrs. MANNETS .vovsesnsesell Miss Rosemary Dorn, 29, of Novel sass vdannarrnaiany 38. 341 N. Hamilton Ave. was killed | Sthman sesissiereivereerdl; instantly last night in a tafe pliPe oes fo
accident on Rd. 34, two miles west | of Brownsburg. Miss Dorn was a passenger. in| an au bile driven by Paul A. , 534 N. Tibbs Ave. State police
Real Estate wevvevves 41-43 RUATK sevesarnsinsssnesesd? Society «iesdiisiansiind, 40. Sports cedisusenssnsers 25-28 TONS covsinsssnsnssssns dl Weather Map sisnssanensi lf “Earl WHsen ..ivieecssess23
turned over several
lder ot a Japanese gir.
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road times. Mr. Miller was uninjured. |
, World Repost Heredagaisi dS -*
Technically, the federal Henry could hold each striker individu-|
| In the Missouri-Kansas fields,| Mr. Lewis waited more than —Atlat, president of Dist. five hours before
|14, sald all miners were directed|to the court.
ally in contempt. But it would ap- “to follow Mr. Lewis’ instructions pear physically impossible for the ang 1 believe they will.” Coal
Pages 25-28
government to indict, try, and punish 400.000 individuals.
~ President ~TFruman--once- “pro-|
«| posed drafting strikers into the,
Army to compel them to return | to work - ~—during the 1946 raiiroad; “Istrike—but Congress shoutéd the idea down, ‘
Effort to End Coal Shortage Cut Short - The single-handed effort of an Indianapolis man to end the coal! {shortage came to an end yesterday when police arrested him for, selling coal from his truek without a license or scales. William Camplin, 48, of 508 E. Michigan St, Apt. 17, was offerling Indiana coal at $10 a ton’
|when police arrested him at the [corner of Washington and East | Sts. 3 | Mr, Camplin, who said he picked up the more than six tons ‘of coal from a mine at Spencer,
Business .....eesee004.41-43 will appear before Judge Alex M. back
[Clark in Municipal Court 4 to-! {morrow to answer charges of viog [lation of city coal ordinances. A ppt ct
Fire Causes $4000 Loss at Grocery, Club
Damage estimated at $4000 re-
{partially destroyed the J. A, Yansel grocéry and the Francisco Crefti Club at 601 8. East St, Cause of the blaze, discovered by a motorist, was undetermined. Firemen said there was no one in the building at the time the fire was discovered. 2 © Flames started on” the first floor and ate into the clubrooms upstairs. Mrs. Mary Micheli, 625 8. East St, owner of the two.|stery frame building, ‘estimated
sulted from fire last night which;
{operators in the area expressed ithe beliéf that the -men would iwork-a-full- five-day week, ~~ Still for Lewis At Springfield, Ill, Hugh White, (ist. 12. president, .sald. it..was (his “personal opinion” that the {miners would stay on strike. Joe Serdich, president of a Grant Town, W. Va., local which led a rebellion against the three{day week also doubted that the {miners would return, “We know Lewis can't do anything else but hand down this order,” Mr. Serdich said. “This 'is' not a revolt against Lewis, it's |a revolt against the Taft-Hartley {Act, The minérs are still 100 per icent behind Lewis.” © At - Uniontown, Pa. miner. were surprised at Mr,
Then he sent a batch of long telegrams to the UMW officials in the fields notifying them that he was ‘required” to tell the
stressed the compulsion under which he was acting. 2
as Wires Operators. “This office,” he said, {alternative other than to.instruct you and all other agents of our union similarly situated to take appropriate ‘action. as may be necessary to insure that the ins structions of ihe court are caryied out, ? FYou are Hereby instructed ‘to act accordingly.” The UMW chieftain struck the same note ‘in his telegrams to the management representatives, “Obligated by this (second) ine
several junction, the United Mine Work«:
ers of America informs you and
Lewis’ reuest but said they would! all coal operators and associa-
still hold to their “no contract, no!tions . .
work policy.” “All the boys want is a con-
. that we will meet with you . , » he wired .the operators, Mr. Lewis was served with the
[tract,’ said Joe Bosl:~, 52, a miner|formal court papers shortly after
at an H, C. Frick Co, pit. f ‘Want a Contract’ {| “I don’t think the boys will go We're fightin’ for something now and we wan: to win i We want a contract. I have si
-{children and you know what it!
costs to keep a family like that.” Another miner said he was too surprised ‘to make up his mind. “I'm - just an individual,” he said. “And I'm hard up, too. Whatever the rest of the ‘boys decide to do, I will.” A miner with 30 years service
UMW leader's request. “No contract, no work. We've been going back and forth into the mines but what did it get us? We want a contract.”
QUIRINO REACHES HOME
(UP)—President Elpido Quirino returned today from the United
the damage,
eration. ; i
ekpressed terse defiance of the|
MANILA, Philippines, Feb. 11]
States where he Underwent. an op-/,
midday. IIs accepted them from a.U. 8. marshal without a ‘word {and went off to lunch,
Lewis at Age to Retire
1 But He's Too Busy PITTSBURGH, Feb.. iY (UP)— John L. Lewis is 70 years old to morrow but he'll probably be too busy to acknowledge that he bas reached retirement age. © The head of the United Mine Workers is tangled up in twe {court injunctions: a rebellion of
{miners against being forced to end their strike under the Taft Hartley Act, and the strong stand of .coal operators not to give in to UMW demands. Although Mr. Lewis reaches the age for retirement - Sunday,
‘miners -to-get-back to work. He
“has no