Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1950 — Page 1

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Eremon. Battle Downtown Blaze

Firemen atop a neighboring building pour water into burning 363 N. the street strike through third floor windows during yesterday's s show,

Estimate Damage At Least $150,000

“Western Auto Store Plans Early Reopening

By HEZE CLARK Officials of two firms severely damaged by fire yesterday at 36315 N. IHlinois St. probed the flame-seared scene last night in the first move toward rehabilitation of the enterprises. r Damage to Western Auto store ‘ard Rheitone Inc. firms housed f

—— — with “wonder” drugs ACTH. (Another Photo Page 3) Similar tests a week

“was Dunaway. Both the 7-vear-old Indianapolis leukemia victim.and his mother. Mrs. Ruby Dunaway had been hoping today might end Jerry's ‘ney told him. “I'll buy it, even if w hospitalization_ in Children's Medical Service of New York U ni- I have to use my own money. Our mometer versity-Bellevue Medical Center. “This hope was shattered when doctors tock another marrow the end of a

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Photo by Lloyd B Walton

Homecoming for Little Jerry... min te Postponed for Two Weeks

Slight- (But Not Serious) Relapse Causes

Change in Plans for Leukemia Victim By DONNA MIKELS, Times Staff Writer . N.Y. Feb, 25 today postponed homecoming for little Jerry 100 cords of wood at $3.50 a cord zero, a year. Weather Bureau authorities at convinced that eir Cook airport said the ther- the upper reaches of the Bean- rj ou. rr water into the creek, 4 dégrees at 12 and was

weeks

— —— shown what doctors called...

on the three floors of the building was estimated at between 31: 50. 000 and $160,000. The blaze swept the two upper floors of the building after starting with a flash fire in the shop of the Rheitone firm, photo engravers. Employees said the flame was sparked when they poured

hot tar into a sink to seal it. The Civic E

sink apparently contained some fnflammable acid, they said. Heavy Water Damage Howard Hanna, manager of the

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First

Inside Highlights

Section

Former Dist. Atty. Howard Caughran may seek

striking” and bone marrow

test of Jerat most 90 per cent clearance of the

vesterday ’ week's observation “3 treatment Jerry

have heen planning 2a hig home- gheppard

ago had coming

ing, Page 13.

glad too if Jerrv's longer New York will result in improve-

PORECATE.

Generally fair indy;

SR SUNDAY,

avor, City nL : (fficials Meet ~ [On Coal Crisis

Continued Cold Forecast as Bins Grow Empty

Coal Situation NATIONAL Reports persist in Washington=-that--gevernment..§ plans “drastic action” uriless break develops in situation by

tonight United Mine Workers 25 district presidents ference in Washington to cuss deadlock. White House announces President Fruman- plans no--action. today. . in crisis Coal prices soar giddily

Uion®calls into con-

dis-

in strike

forced “brown market.” LOCAL--Weédather Bureau fore: cast— "Continued cold” Mayor Feeney meets today with city officials, Red Cross and | coal dealers to devise means of faking care of “emergeney coal needs . Gov. Schricker meets with UMW

officials tomorrow to ask for re-

opening of sufficient ‘mines to provide coal for hospitals, _{___institutions, =f . i ! By C N 1 HENNY

The .coal crisis deepened today as Indianapolis prepared to en ter a state of emergency. A forecast of “continued cold” sent shivers down the batks of householders with emptying coal : bins. : THiiey Sar The Mavor was scheduled to Ilinois St. as pumpers on eet at 11 a. m. in his office today with city; Red Cross and ae coal dealer representatives to devise some means for taking

Photographer

hose i Sat today “were to! Police Chief FEdwar® Fire Chief Roscoe Mekin; City Health Director

include Rouls, ney,

Mayor Feeney yesterday said he was ready to buy wood for city's coal-less residents. According to the Mayor, an out-

if the city would haul it. “Call me Monday,” Mayor Fee-

reversals in his blood people have to burn something.

There was al- Gerald Kempt.

President Leroy Commissioner Tony

Street Red

Keach, Maio,

cells, Dunaway's

emic

and Coal

‘for their friend. EveryDesperation Calls “We hope to get a for those who have to have it’ Mayor Feeney said. only 30 or 40 pounds.” Desperation calls continued to pour into police headquarters yes-

they're

Pictures on planned homecom-

stay in

governorship. .....Page 2 ment in his condition. tend and last IR, Oe : x Yesterday, however. after-one SE 3 0 [3 { > Fo : ry ‘ alls A ditor hear plea for week without the drug. Jerry's investigate the calls. All help. A new Times bone marrow showed “slight evi- - the bin they said—no coal In e bins feature. ......... Page 12 dence of relapse” Cw i Oth | 5 Doctors had expected some re- A list was being compiied ( er ocal features, lapse. possibly one to one and a the detectives’ ofifce, at police _Stories, Pages. 2-12). p p headquarters with

BPE COR DRL JELLY. Showed.

to merchandise there totaled he-

ldid not ‘reach the store. The-loss. sume injections of ACTH in heav- oo WILMORE. Kv., Feb. 25 (UP) ‘was attributed to water damage. . First in a jer dosage immediately. They {hose needing coal jotted down Asbury College students red-eved Project Falls Through vestigation of disloyalty charges More than three feef of water — ..,..q Page 13 said Jerry's homecoming - NOW ,¢ ap increasing rate. “and wearv after ‘almost three A little more than a year ago against some State Department was in the basement. ruining f G g 7. would be at least another tWO The grate of emergency pro- davé of singing and praying. to the federal government came up employees, He expressed confi stock which included radios, bat- ‘Saga o ene tratton weeks away. claimed by Mayor Feeney will be- nighf refused to heed a college of with a plan to flood an area east dence that all workers would be teries, sporting equipment, lawn- Porter bv Lorene M. It was bad news for Jere. He gin at midnight tonight. ficial's request to recess their of Bloominglon It would have cleared of any suspicion. mowers and bicycles. Before flee- of 1) d Carl has been feeling much_ better © “Were hoping the emergency marathon faith demonstration. Made a lake with a 105-mile shore- . The charges were raised hy Sen. ing the building, employees tossed a ; ce an ~al after a little bout with a cold and in induce people who have wur- Dean J. B. Kenvon zasked the line. The residents of Belmont Joseph R. MeCarthy (R. Wis $1000 into. the office safe and Henn. «..........Page 16 he is homesick for lndianapolis. plus—eoat-to-calltus-the-Mavor ctridenis. or racess their testi Which would have been flooded, Mr. Acheson told a news cor rescued credit records (Editorials, Washington Call. So .is his mother. But she sald g3id That's the wav we got 150 mony to God until 7 p. m. to. raised a dorm’ of protest. and, ap- ference that as far as he could Ralph McGrew, divisional man ing. Fair City, World Report, the -extra stay is worthwhile “if {one for General Hospital Fri: night, but 10 to 15 remained in parently the project. fell through. find out Sen McCarthy was reager of Western Auto. and Harold Fd Sovola. Radio, Amuse- it Will make Jerry better longer.” gay. and 20 more tons vesterday.” Hague auditoriim after he issued The proposed lake would have peating complaints made two Powell, district supervisor of the ments, basketball sectional The little boy who was doomed = Meeting Postponed the request. Thev were quickly re- 2 shoreline of about 40 miles vears ago. At that time. Mr. Ach firm, were to arrive here last scares, other sports, Pages 14- to death when doctors discovered Meanwhile. a meeting Between joined. bv. 250 other students, who whuld drain an ardd of about 75 eson said. all accused employees , night from Cinciunati to super- 26) he was a victim of the incurable (,,.. Schricker and representa- had departed square miles were cleared of suspicion vise inventory and rehabilitation hi d . ] cancer of the blood was flown 10 yi cc of the United Mine Workers so _ No one hag. mentioned much ~~ Mr. Hanna said the store will Thir Section New York gn Feb. after The pictrict 11. scheduled for 11 a m REJECTS LUSTRON PLEA about how the lake will be Missing Plane Found: probably open within three to six Katy Atkins and Louise Indianapolis Times secured the 1. Governor's office. was post- WASHINGTON. Feb: 25 (Up) financed. Mavor Lemon said that weeks, if a new roof on the gy. 4 pag new and hard to get ACTH fOr (nad until tomorrow morning. The Teconstruction Finance a half-million dollar bond issue 8 Bodies Removed third floor is replaced by then , him. The meeting had been arranged Corp., today rejected an 11th- will he made . ENSENADA. Mexico. Feh. 25 Cleaning and oiling of equipment. columns. ........ Page There was also disappointing so, Gov. Schricker could renew his hour plea to postpone foreclosure He indicated, hos wever. that “a (yp, Eight hodies were re will keep the entire force busy (Other news of interest to wom. TRWS yesterday for Tyrone (Tony) plea to open two or three mines of.its loans to Lustron Corp., and friend of the city” has loaned , .4 today from the burned for two weeks, Mr. Hanna said. Diggin. Doctors at University Hos- _ oo (nce of fuel for hospitals. save the the city enough mon@y to begin wreckage of a Mexican commier

Building Loss $50,000 Owner of the building, Harry Berke, vice presicént of Rosner Furniture Co.. Florida. H. 8S. Donor, uncle of the owner and secretary of the Ros-

ner firm, said a conservative p estimate placed building damage at $50,000.

Loss to the Rheitone firm was estimated at $80,000 for equipment. Company president Jack Rhoades, of near Martinville, wass on the scene last night inspecting damage. : ] Police barricaded sidewalks near the burned building to pro- * tect pedestrians. from possible fame debris. ’

Good Samaritan

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Parmenter, 3636 W. 14th St, yesterday offered to house 2 _ small family during the coal

shortage. The couple- said

they could provide housing for parents with one small . . - child if such a family found fteelf without coal and heat.

is vacationing in. .

RE Second. Section - tween $20,000 And $30:000 “FITe7rn Fg of Crown Hill.

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| ~Earl- WHSON vvivasinaion 21

four per cent relapse.

pital home,

dosage of ACTH at least tempo- : Pages 39-52 rarily.

He, has put on weight in what yw jdoctors said was a healthy gain. gungiy conference

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ng an official car.

“The physicians preared tore Page 5

least a return

be at can

said it. will month before Tony

institutions and farms. The Governor said the meet They planned to double Tony’ S ing had been - postponed because Thomas R. Hutson, Commissioner of Labor, had been unable to conMeanwhile Tony is feeling fine. 4 .¢ 5 representative number of

state executives

county poor

The swelling arqund his.face and * Gay" Schricker said he had body has begun to Tecode. been offered 20 cars of carbon coal (poor quality) by a Louis-

ville (Ky.) dealer for $13 a’ ton at the mine. ‘Turned Him. Down’ turned him down”,

Hits “Sheriff's Car, Then Collects Ticket

An 18-vear-old motorist collect- “I Gov

stop-for a traffic signal at North of fuel. and Delaware Sts. He struck the Hugh Abbett, PSC chairman sheriff's car broadside. There said the Municipal Electric Power were no injuries; and both ‘cars Plant, Crawfordsville, will parwere driven from the scene. City tially curtail power output tomord police investigated. row. At the tire of ~'Mr. Farmer's ‘ticket cited him Tor permission to do se. Mr Abfor failure to stop at a preferen-.bett said, utility Fepresentatives ‘tial street. The sheriff was driv- said only a 10-days’ cogs supply was left, > 1) aN

continied cold. High

midnight

‘down “Board of Saf ety

15 and 2

little coal tion a

season Jan. 7. Highest mercury reading at the impound water. airport station yesterday was 21. t0 a rise of .nine degrees during the Griffey were entire day. police hazardous on all roads north of water. in Indiapapolis.

applicati on

enipers ue

Indianapolis

expected,"

FEBRUARY. 2, 1930

TECH'S 1950 INDIANAPOLIS SECTIONAL CHAMPIONS—Front: (left to right) Reserve Coach Powell Moorehead and Head Coach Herman Hinshaw. Second row: (left to right] Myron Moriarity,

Charley Englerth, Joe Sexson, Ernie Cline and Frank Morton.

20 to 235.

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Ente ered as Second Class Matter at Postoffice

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PRICE TEN CENTS

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Back row: (left to, right} Bill Roepke,

Dean Throckmorton, Dick Wills, Don Dobbs and Les Nell.

Those asked by

needing” coal police vesterday to

Emergency Coal Numbers Flooded

were

call RI-2214, LI-5200 or IM-4514, all numbers in-office of Indian-'|

apolis Coal iation, immediately with calls.

numbers,

call

Merchants Assoc- | Association switchboards

swamped |

were

If you find it impossib'e to get through on these

the

detectives’

bureau at police headquarters and your name will be placed This number is

on a list,

RI-1391,

low

corded througt plavmates Virgil a climb to only Cross Executive Director VII j5the southern port tone expected. credited with the discovery of the fs planned is Association ‘Executive Yetary mn northern sections of the sate plan Ss ) ’ « , very.thing had been in readiness for Harry Rogers. the high reading will fall between Jerrv’s return to Indianapolis this week. But like his mother

State

read

rt May Be Close To Zero Today

Clear, cold weather was due for turn Indianapolis _A slight relapse which doctors said of-town wood dealer offered 50 to night's temperature drop to near season

today

temperat PR out the state with water to hold the city for at least voir

20 degrees. At the Weir Cook weather sta- water shortage. snowfall of was recorded yesterday, “even If It'S the previous record fall for the hodied in lakes west of the city. water would be about 10 feet. recorded at one inch on One at a time the city found that

Tamer of Praying...Students

L. S. cqaliatio ns Set Today +. Refuse to Quit

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ed a (raffic sticker direet from Schricker said. “We coul ldn't have | Sheriff James Cunningham last used it anyway.’ : find from 700 to 1000 night when his gar eatlided we A second Indiana utility veszter- homes * from which to > : [the 1950 Oldsmo ile driven DV day appealed success! ully to’ the choose!. Your big "SUNthe sheriff. . Public ‘Service Commission or y IME , The officer “said James L. permission’ to make a 23 per (¢nt DAY TIMES now brings Farmer, 705 W 32d St., failed to reduction in eutput due to lack you the GR EATEST . SELECTIONS OF HOME

. VALUES ever offered to Times ‘readers!

Sunday!

Tell

. every all your

{ friends that THE REAL

Sea mdar Neon Lunches,

TIMES. ite water from Griffe? Creek it has urged member churc hes to » reservoir, and the new lake would press for direct East-West nego- - — only Supplement. this method. tiations on THe H-Bofrb-Charters er oh Ohio. © Central Several vears age the city, .real- of “a “gigantic new effort for 14:00 AN. i 2 SA : zing. that the Griffey Teseryolr peace.” ~ iQ “l \ &

Hours

“ -ESTATE ADS are NOW IN THE :

ATA TC RTVATRTEY Th TA. The

Propose Lake to Provide Water for Bloomington

Mayor Lemon, City Engineer Ross Buck Would Flood 1800 Acres of Land

(First in a Series) - By BOB BOURNE, Times Staff Writer

| BLOOMINGTON, Feb. 25 Bloomington desperately needs ‘water. Thomas I. Lemon, the city's 35-year-old mavor, was elected on

the promise that he would solve the problem. He says he has found the solution. The plan involves the. daming of Beanblossom Creek northeast of Bloomington. A Jake would be formed, more than five billion gallons of precious water. would not hold .out forever, built The plan would flood 1800 a pipeline to Beanblossom Creek acres of the most fertile land Ing igiance of 14 miles. Monroe and Brown Counties, and * 28 families -out of their homes. nse to date, but After hiring a Chicago engi- great value now. neering firm, Mayor Lemon, and would call for: no new pipeline. his city engineer, ‘Ross Buck, are ppe 400m wortd be built. bethis new lake In (yar two natural ridges. and the

12 miles impounding

blossom valley is the answer to would be conirolied. The water

the perennial water problem, would he picked up from the! T00-Year Supply “stream and pumped by the oid The lake would supply enough pipeline into the Griffey

City Engineer Buck 18 “The valley where the new dam ‘a natural. It has ridges on hoth sides which nar-old-timers recall row down to within a distance of

solve the g00 feet at one point,

100 vears.

Bloomington five other attempts to

It began back in According to Mr. Buck. the 1892. : ‘dam would be about 40 feet high The -first attempts were em- gnd the average depth of the

The water would take in 1800 the lakes leaked, and would not geres of land, including two cemeteries, one church, and about In 1925, the city completed the 50 mijes of county roads. lake-reservaoir, five miles This “big project” (Tomarfow:

north of town. “The p plan ‘In action. )

reported driving impounded one billion gallons of

ne Many thought | it was too Acheson Welcomes No one could foresee the tre- Disloyalty Probe

mendous growth in the city and

Secretary of State Dean Achewelcomed a Senate in

supply of water ran-out and luck-

ily rain came the next day. son today

the project ugtil. the band issue is made. The. first year of the administration of Mayor Lemon was 1948, The energetic executive knew the water shortage would have to be brought to an end. He hired Mr. Buck and told him that- his job

cial airliner found in a canyon after being missing 10 weeks. © The DC-3, owned by Naviera » Commercial De Ensenada, dis appeared Dec. 9 on a flight here, from Gusymas, Sonora, with sev-| eral hundred pounds of lobsters. Natives found the wreckage, yes-

was to find a solution to the targay 200 miles south of here water problem Bloomington's Sm———————————— emesis. Rem Curb to Industry Reveals Faster Jet ) Manv citizens believe that the EAST HARTFORD. Conn. Feb shortage of water has kept major 25 (UP)—A new type jet engine industries from locating in the said. to be the fastest now flying university city in the United States, was unveiled Mavor Lemon, Mr. Buck and today by Pratt and Whitney divi-

the firm of Consoer-Townsend & sion of United Aircraft Corp. .De-

Assoeiates. of Chicago, investi- veloped under the auspices of the gated three <ibilities and de- Navy, the engine. called the J-48 cided upon the flooding of Bean- Turbo - Wasp, ajready is being blossom Bottom. * used in Navy and. Air Force The -Beanblossom project pre- planes. sents: the cheape¢ method of Fiasttam————

Rewind! Teserye water for URGES H-BOMB TALKS

the. 35.000 “citizens of the univer- GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 25 sity city, w (UP) — The: World f

the city

hackboard

recep. flapping and handshaking. was a similar ovation for Sopho~

ple, Title

Sexson Leads 0

Green With

18-Paint Total

East Side School Captures Crown 2d Year in Row

Sectional scores, Regional pairings, Times All" Sectional Team, Roundup of State Games, Photos . . . Page 23. 3

omplete

By BILL EGGERT Bill Roepke's high-arching ump shot—that had cham-

pionship written all over it— gave second straight Indianapolis Sectional basketball title last

night

Tech high school its

his hack directed at the Roepke jumped, wisted and scored. He added a ree throw to give Tech a hard-

With

Other sectional triumphs by Franklin Township at Greenfield and Speedway at Dane ville will make the Indianapolis regional here next Saturdhy a 75 per cent Marion County. affade, ody Teche the local winner, will meet Franklin Township in the second afternoon game after Speedway gets a crack at the favored Anderson Indians. . Elsewhere in the state, Hop slerland’s only unbeaten quintets, Richland Center and Tell City, got through the sectionals vietorlously and state defending champion Jasper was kayoed hy Winslow's Eskimos, 64 to 46, at Jaspey. -- -- earned 38 to 36 victory over a fighting Broad Ripple team before a jampacked audience of 14.983 fans. It was the senior guard's ofly field goal of the game and ad-

This pipeline has been of little y anced the East Side school to the would he of class of 64 sectional winners that The new plan Will move into regional play next Saturday afternoon.

It was Tech's 11th sectional

championship. It has been runnerup seven times in the 32 Indianapolis sectionals to date.

Sexson Gets 18 White Roepice got att the backs there more Joe Sexson, Tech's 8-31 forward: He tossed in 18 points ond was Fyually valuable with his reboundng. He accounted for 10 of Tech's f Ere -quarter 14 points. He addel five in the third quarter and three more in the final eight minutes in one of the best performances turned in by a sophomore in this sectional. Ripple, the “sleeper” team in the sectional, eventually lost out at the free throw line. The Rockeis equaled Tech in The number of field goals, but had a sad night at the charity line making good

“only six of 16 attempts,

Anvbody's Ball Game

with eight of 15.

THe ROCK: Who Had advanced

to the finals after sidetracking Decatur Central. Ben Davis and (Cathedral. didn't catch up with Tech until the fourth quarter and

from there on it was anvbody's

game Dick Camphell. Ripple guard, sent hiz teammates into a 30-29 ead. Sexson-tied.it.up.with-a. free throw Ripple go's the nad again and ech tied it up again at 32-32. After John Campbel-had missed wo. free throws, Mvron Morarity sank one of two free tosses to give Tech a 2 lead Sexson again came fo the rescue with a two-pointer but Warren

Sparks and Dick Campbell pushed into a_36-35 lead with 41 to play Goes Into Act Charley Englerth and Sexson each missed a field goal attempt as time ran out. Then Roepe went into his act

Ripple

Se onas

“with a shot that he never aimed.

Tech went-to work early on the seoreboard piling up a handsome

23, Col. 8)

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(( ontinued on Page

“Arrest Rebel Leader Feb. 26 -

SINGAPORE Sunday, {UP)—Capt.- Paul (Turk) Westerling, leader of. the Indonesian irregular army, was arrested here todav for -sjolating emergency travel restrictions, it was ane nounced officially (Earlier story in Werld Report. Page 15).

NOBEL WINNER DIES BROOKLINE, Mauss, Feb. 25 iUP) —-Dr. George Richards Minot, 64, co-winner of the 1934 Nobel prize for his discovery that

"liver will cure pernicious anemia, :

died today at his home.

QUAKE HITS VENTURA VENTURA, Cal; Feb. 25 (EP) —. A sharp earthquake hook Vensurrounding

tara. County and areas today. RE Elis yore, -

ported. x t

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