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Tonight they'll be swirling on the Coliseum ice, just two of the performers in The Times Ice-O-Rama. The gals are (left to "right) Judy Shake, 6, of 3709 N. Pennsylvania St., and Mary Beth Newberry, 7, of 6153 Carvel Aw, »
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For Extravaganza By ART WRIGHT Tonight is Times’ Ice-O-Rama
NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (UP)—A {Navy commander who headed a! {guided missiles - research unit! said today that flying saucers, night. | although officially debunked, At 8:15 p. m., Indianapolis ‘really are “space ships from an-|
amateur skaters will begin the other planet.” annual two-hour show which willl Cmdr. Robert B. McLaughlin,
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Paralysis Fund. The ice extrava- Bristol, indicated the visitors ganza will be staged at the Fair: from outer space seemed to degrounds Coliseum. light in zooming over the White There still are plenty of re- Sands proving ground in New served seats for late buyers. Mexico where a group of Navy These tickets will be on sale un- experts ‘and scientists were testtil 6 p. m. at The Times, then at ing secret weapons, the Fairgrounds €oliseum start-| ing at 6:30 o'clock. * Prices are box and parquet| CMDR. McLAUGHLIN said chairs, $1.20; North and South he saw one of the disks in May,! Mezzanine, 85 cents; East End 1949, about a month after five!
Mezzanine, 60 cents. Lowa The skaters will perform un- trained observers, using precision] der brilliant spotlights and to instruments, tracked a strange _! the accompaniment of a 15-piece jece ODJeCt “about 105 feet in diamprofessional orchestra directed by, eter. Ed Resener, veteran showman. Those disks were ‘‘space ships The some 500 skaters will be {from another planet, operated by . dressed in gay costumes for animate, intelligent beings,” every number, : {Cmdr ‘McLaughlin said “in an New Surprises in Store farticle in the March jssue of True Cr DIRCToT of“ thE ¥HoW 1 Mary Maga a
McClean, popular Coliseum skater. ’ and one of Indianapolis’ most Jer Better’ Jerry ; Despite Cold
advanced women skaters. Mrs Leukemia Victim
McClean _conceived the routines for the skaters and trained the Eyes Trip Home By DONNA MIKELS
numbers, -Many-—new surprises willbe’ Times Staff Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 23--Jerry
presented. Trick skating in which ill has his cold today.
Bill Battreall does a “barrel! Jump” is one of the innovations. | On Florida Gambling But despite the sniffles, the 7-{year-old Indianapolis leukemia
Proceeds from the ticket sales! will be.turned over by The Times! to the Infantile Paralysis Fund.| TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb.23 sufferer ‘who has been under .(UP)—The state's swank gam-| treatment with wonder drug bling palaces were idle and un-|ACTH, is feeling and looking manned today in the wake of a Well | Jerry, who was flown to New wholesale crackdown order from york by The Indianapolis Times besieged Gov. Fuller Warren. | which secured the rare drug for Meeting charges that Florida: {him, completed his two weeks >{ has. become a paradise of vice treatment Saturday and is naw) where gambling and assorted sin Under observation. flourishes, Gov. Warren mailed! Doctors Dian to TR evaliale hil 295 letters to law enforcement C23 On Saturday. en they. offcers directing them to “enforce tt his mother, Mrs. Ruby Dun-|
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Plan of Defense Revealed in Trial Of Dr. Sander MANCHESTER, N. H,, (UP)—The defense,’
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All the tenseness of the sectionals in the state high school basketball tournament is captured here in the faces of Bonnie Shaw, 3844 N. Ridgeview Drive (left),
Dr. Central rooters saw their 4 team + lose a close one to Howe High School by two points.
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Sander also was otal Mrs. Borroto “would have Lawrence
‘Rebel’ GOP Unit It was while white-haired chief e e Mi defense counsel Louis E. Wy-| ; Sets Opening Here
‘Is He Competent’
man was cross-questioning Dr. Loverud that the new theory that! Mrs. Borroto already was dead when the air was injected was disclosed. 2 ‘American Way’ to “Have you ever heard of a Dr. Snay?” asked Mr. Wyman. Contest Most Offices (He was referring to Dr. Albert| - The opening blast of the AmerF. Snay of Goffstown, whose jean Way Nepublican Commitname had not figured in the case ioe's campaign against the regu-| previously.) lar GOP organization leadership Yes,” said Dr. Loverud. |will be fired Saturday at the for“Would you say he is compe- ma] opening of the group's headtent? quarters at 46 N. Pennsylvania “Yes. ” | “Is he on the committee to ex‘amine records at the hospital?” “Yes.
The American Wayers at a | conference of their ward leaders! last night set up rival campaign | machinery to fight the regulars! were the in every precinct. OfToto at; The group, headed by Glenn, Jor TIX CA. "Th.) On 'W, Funk, will bring a rival slate
Dec. 4—just before Dr. Sander of candidates against .the reguentered the room, and just before j,. organization in most of the
any air was injected—and if Dr. major nomination races in the Snay made an examination and pay 2 primary. pronounced her dead, he would - Ghajrman Funk said invitations be able to give pretty reliable in- hag heen issued by the commit(formation to the committee, tee to all precinct committeemen
“If Dr. Snay, a member of that {committee, and if he doctor who saw Mrs. B
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Order Affects 36,000 Others in lllinois;
Electric Power Cut
“Hoosier Operator Charges ‘Private Army’ ‘Of Lewis Keeping Miners Out of Pits By ROBERT BLOEM An estimated 13,500 Hoosiers were hit with a three-day,
at ‘week today as International Harvester Co. ordered curtail
ments because of the coal shortage. The Hoosiers are employed in Harvester plants in Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Evansville and Richmond. The same order affect 36,000 workers in 10 Illinois plants also ordered on a three-day week | production basis.
A company spokesman said the JSF Jato DEP eins : action was forced by a cut in the e startling disclosure came use of electric ower in the during cross-examination of the -» Ul. S. Mine Seizure plants, P - {first prosecution witness, = Dr.! N, The - International Harvester Harold, I. L. Loves, } (att! t | Ik action was the latest develope n X-ray specialist, he is staff] | t in a steadily worsenin eck s al Now, Ta ment in a y g president of Hillsborough County; Dig Co ' 1situation on the Indiana coal ‘Hospital; where Mrs: Abbie Ca Later, Green Proposes front. & je - — TE t IGTON o- T Other developments of the day Read Andrew Tully, Page 4 | (— WASHINGTON, Feb, 23 (UF) were:
{—AFL, President Willlam Green lcalled today for government seiz-| {ure of the soft coal mines. Coal-famished states at same time exerted new pressure on President Truman for emer{gency action to end the crisis, | Mr. Green said President Tru-| man has “inherent” seizure powers when the public health and! safety are endangered. Mr, Trusaid recently he does not have such powers “What we need now is coal,’ Mr. Green told a Senate judiciary subcommittee. “We need the minand then they can sit down and ne-
ONE: A Hoosier mine operator charged the nation was being the! 10 States declar coal emers gency, Page 2. |strangled by the “private army” of John L. Lewis while its gove ernment refused to defend it. TWO: As a rapidly growing number of householders ‘sought emergency coal, “Mayor Feeney recommended to the Coal Mer» chants Association that domestie
ton. THREE: The local association, . meanwhile, announced many local dealers would have to stop stipe plying commercial accounts altos Believes Miners Willing Lg by She eid o Se week, -Green sald he felt certain + Deatierad Cite : tri state, ticularly Ft. Wayne, ree striking miners would go ET more serious situs tions. Ft. Wayne authorities ree ported to the state the city was “desperate” ahd many people were “without any coal at all.” Find ‘New Source’ | - FIVE: State officials announced they were receiving coal from a “new ° source” for. hard-pressed | state and other institutions. SIX: Two major suppliers of electric power in northern Indiana were expected to certify to the Public Service Commission today that their coal was at the 20-day level and that cuts in service are necessary. SEVEN:
Mr, the
took over the mines, Some miners (have said they would return under a ‘bona fide” government seizure-—one in which profits would go into the U. 8. treasury] instead of to the mine owners. | Seizure legislation is being pre{pared by Rep. Cleveland M, Bai{ley (D. W. Va.), who said he ex{pects the measure in the House today, John IL. Lewis and the coal op-| |erators met for: 90 minutes this {morning and recessed. until 23 ip. m.; but there was no sign that
| the contract talks. Mr. Lewis and the operators Schools were to. be closed tomorare reported to be less that $1 row for the sectional basketball apart on money terms, tournaments. The order was dee Neither side commented afte scribed as. “an opportunity to the morning session. | save rapidly dwindling coal.” : One Indiana coal operator
Move dy fove Today Unlikely charged the United Mine Workers
| would you say?” asked Mr. Wy- and party workers to atterid the 1 5 . | Despite renewed suggestions ers pot remaining on strike (headquarters opening Saturday «Photos by John S8picklemire. Times Btaft Photographer. for government seizure and pres- against Lewis’ wishes. -He said Mr, Phinny objected, saying: from 2 to 5 p. m. when candidates Earlene Wright, 4005 N. Kitley Ave. gave Bonnie a bear hug | sure for some kind of presidential (ney were being prevented from “ ‘We Expect That’ will be introduced. when it looked as though the Lawrence. Bears were going to tie action to end rite ereasinkly| working, despite public back-tos I assume you can produce evi- 9 gong to |Brave crisis, the White House said work orders, by a “private army.”
Led by Ingies Men The committee leadership is {composed of associates of James W. Ingles who was ousted from
dence that Dr. Snay said that.” “In due course we expect that,” said Mr. Wyman,
game, turn to Page 31).
Mr. Wyman asked: freeze -today on -the Northeast! (UP)—Former Secretary of State later. Why should a doctor use a states from Pennsylvania to James F. Byrnes has urged the! Roachs’ death was the first in prerile syringe if death is inevita- Maine. “manufacture of more bombs." boxing this year. In 1949, 19 The storm caused five deaths. Speaking aside at a Washington professional and amateur boxers
“I don’t naw,” shtd Dr. Lov--
erud. Police said most motorists Day banyuet here last night, Mr. died from ring injuries throughseemed to “be staying off the Byrnes said it is “the primary out the world on opt wr that it would greets and highways or the toll duty of the government to afford’ Dr. Vincent Nardiello, New ence’ would have been higher. York State Athletic Commission
an adequate f “No, sir.” ( equate defe) ense.
In re-direct examination of Dr ‘Loverud, Mr. Phinney asked: “Can you tell us any reason for injecting air into the veins of a person who is dead?” “No, sir,” Dr. Loverud replied.
physician who attended Roach
Legation to Quit. “Sofia throughout the night, said the youth suffered “a laceration of
PRAGUE; Czechoslovakia, Feb. the brain.” Dr. Nardiello said (UP)—Donald R. Heath, Roach was placed under an oxy-
American minister to Bulgaria. gen tent during the morning, and said by telepnone today that the 4iaq4 at 11:50 a. m.
The New York metropolitan ‘area was hardest hit with a one and one-half-inch coating of freezing rain. It snarled air, rail and motor transportation for the 11 million residents.
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Mr. Wyman then rose and . 8 8 43 members of the American le- {indianapolis lasked Dr. Loverund whether he, THE ice knocked out the elec gation and = their dependents Time). . » had any idea how much air it tric 3d Ave. elevated railroad y 14 leave Sofia by train tomortakes to cause death. The doctor [OF four hours. The ice coated roy, Rail Strike Tivettens
{said he had no idea. tracks shorted out electric cir-
the score with the Hornets. (For complete results of last night's [that no presidential action seems
Riding Mine Fields “Throughout the country and in Indiana, too, armed men are
likely today. Presidential Assistant John R.|
__ Superior Judge Harold E. Wes-. 55 Derailmen : Steelman was expected to give. her oe fretds-to-keep- . Teott said the witness could an- we Tay CRAIPRERSHIp- 3 ear! t- Rips Up ~ Middleweight Dies. ‘Mr. Truman an up-to-the-minute a this operator said, swer the question, and Dr. Lov-. ago supporting the new county 2 Tracks on Pennsy Of Rin Ini [fill-in later today on the “coal “In- some sections of the couns erud replied, “Yes, sir.” chairman, John (Jack) Innis. LOGANSPORT Feb. 23 (UP) 9g juries | situation try independent mines have. to Mr. Wyman then asked Dr. 7e will bring out a slate of Six - cars of * p - . ———| Mr, Green told the Senate sub- have more armed guards with Loverud if the term “pronouncing ! ix “cars of "a Pennsylvania Earlier Story, Page 31 [committee he is not sure that hi th they have her dead.” would be the same as candidates against all those sup- Rgilroad freight train were de- the government should seize the {machine guns an y NE “HOF The a sircrpoitetde by. thew innis leadership: I ER BT ER SST NEW QR Fly 28" POP PRA HE A RAT Rag ners. cos BEAN oh Operations. ha: g thei living from contestants for Prosecutor K : sald. “Yes, sir,” replied Dr. Loverud. ang Sheriff all the way down the 20d West tracks for six hours. Middleweight boxing star Laverne read “stories showing the coall He charged that local mine un “Did it ever come to your ticket.” Mr: Funk said. A. 75-foot torn-up stretch on Roach. died today from {injuries shortage is “at a critical stage jong in Indiana were not even knowledge that Mrs. Borroto was ._. ‘ _ the westhound track was repaired Suffered when he was. knocked in -some places.” He said this permitted to have their regular without pulse for some time be- by 6 a. m.. and Pennsylvania offi- ut in a bout last night. shortage could be solved “by theljoca) meetings. He said he doubts fore Dr. Sander came?” Five Persons Die ¢ials said traffic would be re-' The 24-year-old former Marine BOvVernment taking over the prop-| aq. that most people realized the “No, sir.” " 'sumed on the eastbound track, from Plainview, Tex., fought the erty and operating it for the mgp¢. -Hartley law still has not “Mr-Wyman then-asked severar AS fce- Storm “Where 780 feet were torn up, by fatal maten with Georgie Small TpEOptETT - 3 ~ been brought into action.” ji questions about the purpose - of . HOOT. of New York on his. birthdav He.saia he does not think that “All there is now is a tempos sterilizing syringes and needles Grips Northeast . R— —— He was knocked out in the 1c ¢ Mr. Truman needs Congressional rary injunctién while the governs Ang was told it was to make. TT k f and final round, and taken d,- Authority to do so. ment studies the need for an 80s. them free from any organism = NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (UP) —A Asks for More Bombs rectly from. the ring to St. Clare s Mr. Green discussed the coal day Taft-Hartley injunction.” 'that might cause infection. Then gigantic ice storm slapped a deep] CHARLESTON. 8. C., Feb. 23 Hospital, where he died 14 -hours ¢''%!8 during. testimony on a bill = “If the American people really, .
that would apply anti-trust Jaws
to labor unions, (Continued on Page 8—Col. 85),
Light Snow Flurries Due; Temperature to Drop to 22
6 Persons Injured in 57 Accidents on
Ice-Covered Streets and Sidewalks Here Occasional snow flurries and freezing weather will continue through tonight and tomorrow in Indianapolis. A drop from today’s high of 35 degrees to a chilly 22 tonight is scheduled. * The thermometer. tomorrow will Little change is expected Saturday. Streets and highways in cen
not rise above 30 degrees,
Arr————— ee eet rr v va tral Indiana becamé fairly clear 1 4 J The state’s second witness was -CUits. STATEHOOD ACTION DUE WASMING TON, Feb. (UP) today following rain, sleet and LOCAL TEMPERATURES William L. Cain of Manchester, Before the elevated rail line WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UP) py net om a shocial emergency SNOW which caused 57 city acci- 8 m.. 23 10.8 mo. 38 |a_ funeral director and operator| temporarily shut down in Man-| __pouce leaders said today they , 1p Pod oe to Slngraom Y! dents and six injuries on glazed 1 & MM .- 3 n A. Wy +4 35 of au ambulance service, |hattan, the train wheels sent out wij) ¢all up for House action next rd a re railroad Streets: and sidewalks. 3am... 8 12.{uoon). 36 Ah: ios | showers of sparks, lighting up Tuesday and Wednesday bills t0 joric The Brotherhoods of Con- Mrs. Esther Downton, 30, of 92 ™ 3 A liam S. Green, Mr. Cain Poke night sky: .grant statehood to Alaska. and g.ore’ and Trainmen have 634 Fuller Drive, was taken t0 cchools were closed in Lake
Police said some worried persons who sighted the blue flashes telephoned headquarters reporting: “We're. being ‘atom-bombed.
fied that when he and his 18- Hawai.
year-old son took Mrs. Borroto from her home to a hospital last "Nov. 20 she “probably ‘weighed 60 to 75 pounds.”
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UP). RE DS CRITIC 23 CHU RCHILL The Army and ‘the Air Force LONDON, Feb.
day.
He ‘said After her death he ‘What shall we do?” today anpounced that joint Moscow said today, that Winston gAnother ‘bus noted her body was ‘“extremel Ty maneyvers ‘will be held in late Churchill's proposal emaciated.” y Cornelia Otis Skinner A A ay nye fot Big Three meeting was a eon. STogsesamination. Deldhse To “Address Luncheon Pope Air.Force Base and Camp ont SC bankrgptey” 8 e Cornelia= Otis Skinner, distin- Mackall. ance.
whether “there was any fl . her arms.” . y. flesh; of guished actress and author, was at very much,” Mr. Car re. in town today to address a noon y ne (iu ncheon at the Athletic Club.
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added that her face was, jPusken, sponsored” by the Indianapolis a Mr, Cain testified on dir - nsore y : A eel ex {Round Table of Christians and s
program, today’s luncheon was Satur hatchery will’ be flown that President Trunian - is con-|
3 (UP):-Radio Pridge over White River.
for a new trolley Were involved In rachis “con- at almost the same moment else- as on the Where. Anglo-American al- from either mishap. |
i WASHINGTON, Feb, 23 (UP) with an injured wrist. Part of the Brotherhood Week A brood ef 100 chicks front a De-'—The White House said today near her home.
called a strike for 6:00 a. m. Sun- Methodist Hospital in fair condi- County by eight inches of snow,
tion after the buis on which she. was riding skidded and hit a utility pole on the Washington 8
The State Highway Commise sion said all roads in the La Porte and Ft. Wayne districts were icy today. * Icy spots extend as far south Crawfordsville and. Anderson, No injuries were reported the -commission = reported, but Hr P conditions are expected to ime - A slip on an icy sidewalk sent prove today. | Mrs: Ethel Pratte 37, of 2271 Heavy rains earlier in “central | Adams St’, to Methodist Hospital and ‘southern Indiana had little She fell effect on current flood stages in | lower streams, according to the * Freezing rain, snow and sleet Weather Bureau.
and a frackle§s
cross the Atlantic Ocean to the! sidering ‘a spring trip to Wash- made highway driving extremely A few crests may remain a mer: home and farm of. Pope ington... State for a dedicatton| hazardous. Nine inches’ of snow, Pius XII in Castle Gandoflo, Jay, ceremony, at Grand Coulee dam, was Reported in South Besa/ga
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