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Family of 8 Dies In Tennessee . As Storm Strikes SHREVEPORT, La., Feb. 13 (UP) — Tornadoes that hammered three Southern! states today and Sunday, killed at least 45 persons, in-
juring hundreds and leaving | SSS scattered commutities inl shambles, Louisiana counted 28 dead, Texas eight and Tennessee nine, including a farm family of eight. Still-rising flood waters added to the misery and loss of life in| three states. The Red Cross evacuated more than 3000 low-| landers in Mississippi and Louisi-| ana. Three persons were drowned | in Arkansas flood waters. Tornadoes rampaged through sections of Texas and Louisiana Sunday. Then a new tornado hit the little community of Hurricane Hill, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Carroll|
and their six children were killed there outright, probably while a sleep. Their dwelling simply] splintered and fell in on them. i
Bodies Scattered
State Highway Deport ent
Floods, Ice Storm Harass State
Photo by John
Workers help passenger automobiles through’ 18 to 20 inches of water under the Pennsylvania Railroad underpass on U. S. 40 between Indianapolis and Bridgeport,
Willlam Klutts, one of the first
members of the rescue team to! Romping Jerry Brings Joy
reach Hurricane Hill, said that
Pirst aid headquarters were sct up at Ripley, nearby. Hurricane Hill's eight telephones were ° knocked out, The weather bureau warned that conditions are ripe for more tornadoes in other areas of the south. Northern Mississip-: pl and northwest Alabama were alerted. 2 Cis The tornadoes apparently had spent their fury in Louisiana for
-Fastern Ave. Indianapolis, after
spending the week-end here with
his son, 7-year-old Jerry Dunaway. Mr. Dunaway has been pretty worried ever since the little
the danger in Arkansas was di- Jeykemia victim was flown to New York by The Indianapolis
minished by today. ‘on Feb. 2 for treatment with the
Toll May Mount
There were unofficial reports of! injured persons dying during the night, indicating that the death! toll in Louisiana might rise. But | some * slightly injured patients] were being discharged trom | Shreveport Charity Hospital. ! One - Shreveport patient lost a! husband and two children.’ She ‘was Mrs. Gladys Angle, about 35, who was still in a severe state! of shock. { Her husband and two of her!
{new drug ACTH.
|Jerry lett Indianapolis his father
There were unashamed tears in the father's eyes when Jerry's plane started off the Weir Cook runway, After all, Jerry ‘was a pretty sick boy and New York was a long way away.
The life of a child ill of the in-|2®
curable cancer of the blood is measured in days or weeks. As
couldn't help wondering if . . . Had Nagging Fear It was that nagging fear that
children were killed at Curtis, caused the father to seek time off La. She has three other children, the job at Allison Division, Gentwo of whom were in the hospi-| €ral Motors to come to New York. tal with her. Mr, Dunaway spent visiting There still was no over-all es-|20UrS Saturday and. yesterday timate of the damage. But Col. | Mith Jerry and he's going to try
starting back to Indianapolis.
Force's Barksdale Field said de-: struction at the nearby Slack! Air Depot alone would run as
. The father thought Jerry looked better when he first saw him, but he could “hardly believe
La, parents of his wife, and Mil-
, their Trailer Haven, 3102 Madison
high 4s $250,000. {my eyes” when he walked intc
ithe ward of Children’s Medical! {Service of New York University- | Bellevue Medical Center yester-!|
Residents Here Ask About Kin ~!day and saw his son up romping | around.
Indianapolis residents with rel-. Jerry, who got a whole box of atives in last night's tornado cowboy clothes and togs and a zone today appealed to the Red! personal letter from Roy Rogers! Cross in an effort to learn if this week-end, was up playing | kinsmen were among the dead cowboy with more energy than! or injured. {he'd displayed since December, John Licking, Veterans Ad-|when his listlessness led to hosministration employee, sought in-|pitalization and diagnosis of his formation about Harold and|disease. Frances. Hubbard, Shreveport, | Jerry's mother, Mrs. Ruby Dun-
dred Manlove, 1069 ‘Lawrence The Times along with Jerry, had Ave. questioned the safety of been writing home telling Jerry's her mother, Mrs. Etta Bond,|dad how well he was doing. But, Temple, Tex. : said Mr, Dunaway. 5
Trailer Colony Residents
To Defy Eviction Notice
‘We Will Stay and Fight,’ They Say
_...In Answer to Order to Leave Tomorrow... a By IRVING LEIBOWITZ A South Side trailer colony of aged pensioners, school teachers
AWAY, Who. was. flown. here by:
“I couldn’t really believe it until I saw him.” i Mr. Dunaway helped entertain another Indianapolis = leukemia victim. Tony Diggin, who's receiving treatments with the new hormone drug at University Hospital
re. % Tony had a surprise visitor today. His father, who has had to stay in Indianapolis to keep the fires while To
home - and his mother, Mrs, Ruth Diggin, were in New York, arrived yesterday. Tony-—no one ever calls him by his given name, Tyrone, sent word to the folks back home that he’s having a happy birthday, even if he is in a hospital. Tony also said to be sure to tell: the -Variety Club of Indianapolis, which arranged his transportation and treatment here, that he had received his first shots of ACTH on Saturday and sent the same word to them he was “feeling better.” Another leukemia sufferer, who was flown many miles to New York for ACTH treatment, was. on his way home today. | He was 4-year-old Harold Kra-!
and students prepared today to defy a Marion County , eviction
notice ordering them to move. | Sans
“We will stay and fight,” they said. Officially the trailer camp closed when Owner don notified -the residents they tomorrow. 2 Unofficially, 90 embattled trailer families made plans to turn
camp closed by Feb, 1. The trailer | campers said, however, they were never informed. On Friday, even as Owner Bry-
Ave, into a trailer fortress. aon made preparations with ‘the!
Some Cannot Leave
Walter T. Bry-| were ordered to be off the land)
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Many of the trailer campers can't leave even if they wanted to comply with the order. They are the ones who have no. wheels on their trailers or have no automobiles. : Circuit Court Judge Lloyd Claycombe, issued an injunction Jast October, ordered the trailer
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County Planning Commission for a hearing, a notice was posted to! vacate .the place ‘within ‘three! days. : Mr. Brydon, who acquired the trailer camp from Floyd Jones, said the original notice to move was not presented to him. Refuses to Take Rent He will present his views to the county Planning Commission
fused to take rents from the tenants, in. compliance with the order. 3 But the trailer campers don't want to move. ; Many have children in school.
“Where can we go from here?” an elderly woman asked. She
Six years. The trailer campers, many of them former servicemen, are no longer fighting the eviction alone.
has lived at the trailer camp for|’
Support has been pouring in since the word got out “the Gounity is trying fo force the campers
lout.” : fin | “Someone would think we were ving. in' Russia,” the pretty,
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. w . » a bodies of the Carroll family “were; = % i e ® ‘Rains Start Rivers rier x 0 vie 10 Father on Hospital Visit On New Ri ‘It's Hard to Believe He's Same Boy,’ Dad Says; ew ISe Tony Sends Greeting to Club on 11th Birthday By DONNA MIKELS : NEW YORK. Feb. 13 "Ts hard to believe he's the same boy.” Those were the words of a happy father, Earl Dunaway, 835
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Phones Disrupted Over Wide Area
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Indiana's sixth ‘flood In six weeks and one of its worst ice storms in years plagued large areas in all sections of the state today. Major streams, above flood stage at some points continuously the last 44 days, pushed upward again from rains totaling as high as three inches. Ice covered a wide strip of Indiana and felled hundreds of communications lines. Four tiny towns in Cass coun-ty-——Anoka, Deacon, Adamsboro and Hoovers-—were plagued by power failures and many hours later utilities spokesman said they had no idea when service would
port were closed, there was no electricity, others because roads traveled by school buses were impassible from ice or flash flood water. At 11:30 a. m.. the Indiana) Bell Telephone Co. reported communications completely out between Indianapolis and at least a dozen cities because toll wires snapped from coats of ice. Teletype service was out for
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Hoosier Opera : Charge ‘Sabotage’
Declare Lewis Powe: Co. Here Burns, Bound to Show ©il to Conserve Coal
. . Indiana Operators Say Miners His Good Faith Get Tip Not to Return to Work | Indianapolis Power & Light Co. has started to burn oil to heat one of its large power boilers as the coal shortage grows more acute. | “Utility officials said plans were being made to increase | the use of oil to insure stretching the coal supply as far as possible. The first oil-burning boiler is at the Perry-K plant.
” =» At the same ume Iaiane Janohe [Janiopces
Single Telegram To Return to Pits
Held Insufficient
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13--the coal crisis depend on how
this week and on what their
Pickets Raid
Diggings That lgnore Union
Federal Officials Feel Confident * Strike Will Pass PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13 (UP)~John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers today defied
President Truman’s court ore der outlawing the coal strike today and sent pickets into
John L. Lewis’ back-to-work or- { y : der to Hoosier mine workers was, ving gr TH Alters Stand They said checks of the mines, which still are closed down, re-| o vealed that the Lewis order was The United Mine Workers, With} eing secretly countermanded or, 400,000 members, will be pros-lin many instances, not delivered to the miners. themselves, at all. | ‘Pay No Attention’ | One major operator f that state UMW official
president, John L. Lewis, . Calls Injunction
Clause ‘Unfair’
By DAN KIDNEY Times Staff Writer . WASHINGTON, Feb, 13-Al-
ported h ad though he went on record weeks
court if enough men refuse to obey the return-to-work order of Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech, and continue their strike in the face of a declared national emergency. Mr. Lewis isn't necessarily free from prosecution, it was said, even though he has informed
ials. to invoke the Taft-Hartley law Joga) 5 Aine un ion Sema. follow. In the coal strike, Rep, Andrew ing,” the operating official said,/Jacobs, Indianapolis Democrat,
“which contacted the same per. today issued a condemnation .of
. He termed that part of the
1 that under the court order he, that the real orders still were “has no alternative” other than not to work” to Instruct them to “take all ap-' One Indiana operator relayed propriate action” to end the this report to 11th District Con-
gency injunctions are obtained “unfair, inadequate and danger-
strike. ous procedure.”
shown the telegraphed order to 880 as wanting President Srtani |
Taft-Hartley law whereby emer!
gressman Andrew ‘Jacobs, Not Quite Enough Another operator sald a sys- : ‘tematic check of many mines over nr + wis must 98 <0 nAderatly, ne state revealed that many structions are obeyed and to dem. Miners pd beens vnuble te oponstrate his sincerity, a responsi- ‘act the ofiicials . . i ble government official said. [Posed 10 deliver the Lewis order , ito . that he union Sent empeciied Louis Austin, Dist. 11 President take “all appropriate action as! of the UMW, could not be reached
An hia, Terre Haute offices for may be necessary” to see that the . men resume coal production. It! comment on the operators’ re was sald that this specification is POTS: not likely to be met merely by the’. Spending $100,000
“It is unfair because it forces workers to work for wages and terms fixed by the employer and for the employer's profit,” Mr. Jacobs said. But the greatest unfairness is the practical effect, which is to break the strike and thus inure to the employer's bene- . Called Inadequate “It is inadeq 'e». because it does not settle Lut merely post/pones the emergency.
dispatch of a short telegram.
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Denton Seeks 2d Term; Still Wants Judgeship
wi Himes Washington Bureaw > | WASHINGTON, Feb, 13 An-
In its oil announcement here the Power & Light Co. pointed out that it had built up the largest coal reserve in its history early last year, anticipating a coal shortage. a Oil burning, the statement sald, can carry only part of the load.
nouncing his candidacy for a sec-' By using the costlier oil fuel now,
the fields to close non-union mines. | The strikers closed all major pits, including those in Indiana, land then moved against the smaller non-union pits in Penne sylvania and West Virginia. 3 |, At Richmond, W. Va., Sheriff John Bell said a band of about
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300 pickets raided the Donegan {Coal & Coke mine and beat thres men.
ported pickets out in force, “ree {questing all mines to close. In {Armstrong County, the troopers [sent in reserves as a 100-car cara. {van of pickets started a foray {through the mine districts. They {sought to intercept the band and break it up. eh The police said the pickets had “mn ‘opera~ sim
was no indication, however, of ims
would develop within a few oe
| “It is dangerous because, being |mpey pointed out that
inadequate, the procedure, like |dope, never satisfies. It calls for ‘more and more. At the end of {the 80 days, assuming the strike isn’t broken to the satisfaction of
the employer, there is nothing
was Mr. Lewis’ 70th birthday and that last year the miners ‘stayed home to celebrate it. a However, that was the first time Mr. Lewis’ birthday brought
lett to do but have another shot|pyute
of injuncion. - This ultimately
ond term as Eighth District Con- the utility hopes to stretch the SPells a complete forbiddance of
holiday in the soft coal mines.
; Miners Avoid Pits;
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sons with the word not to pay any|the emergency provisions of that!" penngyivants state police re ‘|subordiuate and district officers| attention te the official order— *tatute.
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The miners were not in a holi-
fessman, Rep. Winfield K. Den-/coal supply over the existing/fuch strikes.” hy Evansville Democrat, said ro i 8 Mr. Jacobs, who is a freshman day that this in no way indicates! The company currently is (n. member of the House Education that he is not still seeking ap- stalling additional oil conversion @nd Labor Committee, pointed out pointment as federal judge for the facilities which will cost an esti. that he had expressed these opinSouthern Indiana district. mated $100,000. _- |lons at the time the Taft-Hartley Next to William FB. Steckler, In-+- While miners continued to “de. L-8W was being written and. he dianapolis, Mr, Denton has been fy” the Lewis back-to-work or- Was then a lawyer with some ex-
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Business Booming at N
Newest segment of the E. 10th St. and N. Arlington Ave. business district.
Joe Guidone Parlayed Faith in His Adopted -- Country Into 10th and Arlington Area
By VICTOR
The humming business district at E. 10th 8t. and N, Arlington Ave. has one man to thank for its prosperity, He is Joe Guidone, Italian immigrant who has parlayed faith Montana In his adopted country, vision and determination into a modern - suburban business area in Indianapolis. : Today 10th and Arlington is one of the many mushrooming ¢ shopping areas popping up over Se———— :
the city as citizens admit the old home town has grown up. They take advantage of mearness to home and ample parking space. The outlying area didn’t always echo to the merry ring of the cash register. For years Mr. Guidone fought out his dream almost alone. Today salesmen, store owners and residents call the area Joeville or Guidoneville. He is known as Mayor of 10th and Ar-
n. Nine Shops Added In May the last of nine new businesses moved into $50,000 worth of mddern structure fathered by Mr. Guidone. Added to the shopping center ‘were a theater, haberdashery, appliance store, fabric shop, optometrist and insurance office, bank, bakery, jeweler and a dry. goods store. i : = _This began to fill out the onestop shopping area in Mr. Guid-
most prominently mentioned for der, Hoosier coal operators said Perience in union affairs. . the bench as successor to Judge the issue now was no longer one Gives Temporary Relief
“Today the validity of these
obert C. Baltzell. — 5 “opinions is becoming obvious to
lof wages and contracts.
® ew East Side Center [iiuiiniers {those who believes that the law should not be enforced. At least fib hs 2 ’ or it gives temporary relief in the
meantime, Congress should endeavor to fashion fair, adequate and safe legislative remedies. “Such a remedy would be to require the parties to bargain and contract in multiple bargaining units, but with contract expiration dates staggered rather than industry wide in order that a strike in one unit would be small _{enough in scope to create no national emergency.” s
{everyone,” Mr. Jacobs declared. | 26Teements Mr. Lewis
TexIsting” emergency. But In the.
day mood. They bitterly de. nounced President Truman's Taft-Hartley injunction action. “Lewis’ birthday, or not,” Joha Bell, Uniontown, Pa., miner, de~ clared, “I don't work until we get a contract.” ; It was Yeported in Washington, - | that Mr. Lewis has upped his {wage and welfare fund demands. {In, the so-called “Kentucky signed with a few independent * operators, wages were boosted 95 cents to $15 a day and welfare fund royaltisn raised from 20 cents a ton
" Whistles Sound : sources indicated Mr, Lewis was ready to ask $15.50 a day and 40-cents-a-ton when ne gotiations resume at the govern ment’s direction, TEA UMW Dist. 17 President Wile liam Blizzard said he would sign no more “Kentucky” agreements with the operators, pending outcome of the court proceedings
The mines lay dark
“When the work whistles Lg.
23 SPCA Dogs Get (5 fiom: The operators said
‘New Homes After
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. ing owners over the week-end as In Montana Car Crash the SPCA shelter was swamped
BOZEMAN, Mont. Feb. 13— with requests for the animals. An Indiana youth and six other| The week-end brought 37 new
PETERSON
‘Hoosier Among y 4 Dead 9°8* found new homes and lov-|
ers simply failed to show up. In Missouri and Kansas, UMW { Dist. 14 President Henry. Allai | said yesterday he had instructed {his men to work today and added
_| TWENTY - THREE homeless that he believed they would. They if
{ In Illinois, even maintenance crews, which customarily work during walkouts, failed to report {this morning. F. B Dangerfield, superintendent of .a Peabody
State College students {were killed early today when their automobile smashed through : a guard rail on a canyon road {beauty shop, two doctors and a and plunged 40 feet. dentist's office. ; John W. Stinchfield, of Evans-
complete. Within 30 days it is the others were native Montanans. hoped construction will begin on ~— {three more stores housing a
cleaner, shoe shop and possintyl What Happened fo
women’s . apparel. A restaurant er. » . Mussolini Family?
will follow. in short order. A survey made by the Fletcher, * What has become of the surviving members of
Trust Co. before establishing its) branch in the new area indicates, ‘ ” further growth for the commu- he Jamily of aly 3 war. nity. Architects currently are : -* planning for 1951 for Mr. Guidone., .® What do they think about Projected for next year is an- the world today? other $300,000 plus development ® What does peace-time on some three and a half acres) Haly think about them? located 98 the northwest corner. | ® What are their plans? Present thinking is of a U-shaped Big Which Smo likely win! . * The SHAWerS Are per house a furniture store and Mr.| © 1950 you get those Guidone’s market In the two ARSWers. in PARADE wings. Dia ae Zo : The center section will be avail- = - MAGAZINE next Sunday > able to six or eight other busi- PARADE MAGAZINE nesses, none of which will be in " Comes With
But the master plan still is not|ville, was among the victims, All|
es . {mine, said he could recall only { el the Shelter, however. one other time in 50 years when
{problem of placing 18 of them in| Maintenance men were included
in a strike. good homes. The remaining)’ 2-Weeks Supply |pumber ‘were “put to sleep”| ,. -p : :
4 : " Brownsville, Pa., idle {either at the request of owner | miners spent the day sorting twe
{or because of Bealth conditions. | truck loads of second hand cloths | A SPCA spokesman said hun- Ing canned goods and sugar sent dreds of telephone calls from to the Robena local of H. CG |persons anxious to give the dogs Frick Coke Co. by a Brooklyn,
Sixty hotel guests and 25 YMCA
'good homes poured into the shel-|N. Y., local of the Electrical Workers Union. )
Delay in the transmission of Mr. Lewis’ back to work order was blamed for some of the idles ness. Telegraph facilities in mine
ing areas are slow. ° : With less than two weeks supe ply in the nation’s coal bins, steel mills, automobile plants, utilities; railroads and heavy industry in’ general faced possible total shuts down. : wid Federal Judge Richmond B, Keech in Washington issued a temporary restraining. order against the UMW on Saturday
jter office after an appeal for! {homes was made through The| Indianapolis Times. iy “The kennels were cleared Sunday,” the official said, “but of course the problem of homeless dogs goes .on forever. We have others to find homes for now.” New arrivals at the shelter included 13 Friday, 14 Saturday and 10 Sunday. “1
85 ROUTED IN CLUB FIRE | TROY, N..Y., Feb. 13 (UP) —
residents fled their rooms today when fire destroyed a nightclub which adjoined the two buildings. The flames were confined to the club. No casualties. were re-
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