Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1950 — Page 1

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36 cars 0 Reject Thi

Pup Gets By on3 Legs Patient Dead Before Hypo, - Doctor Says

Reports ‘Mrs. Borroto Showed No Reflexes

By H. D. QUIGG United Press Staff Correspondent MANCHESTER, “A hospital staff physician's statement that Mrs. Abbie C. { Borroto was dead of cancer before

{air into her veins was read into {the mercy murder trial record today. . The statement was made by Dr. Albert Snay, 35, a member of the staff at Hillsborough County Hospital where Mrs. Borroto, 59, died last Dec. 4. It was read to the all- male superior court jury by Chief Defense Attorney Louis E. Wyman, who said Dr. Snay made it Dec. 31, 1949. Dr. Snay had said the nurse on

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Dr. Hermann N. Sander injected

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postattic Daily

duty in Mrs. Borroto’s room Dec. 4 met him in the corridor and) asked him “to obtain a. pulse, as she and several others were unable to do so.” He said that was® shortly after

Didnt ‘Know Patient

{the Sander case” and then realized the patient must have been Mrs. Borroto. When Dr. Snay stepped into the

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“- appeared tome that Mrs. Borroto had already expired. There was no pulse. Her skin was cold and clammy. “I touched her left eyeball. There was no corneal reflex.” - Snay said he then applied a Stethoscope to the chest and eard no heart-soun

; Photo by Bill Oates, Times. Staff Photographer. "Tripod," ' risky two-month- gid rrier = pictured above, will go through life “standing: on his, © own three legs.” Born minus a front leg, his owner, Miss Berths Major, 1746 Olive St., ys he is ful of Ii e and otherwise quite normal.

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Coal Crisis at a Glance— | NATIONAL—Contract talks were resumed ifr “the absence. of John L. Lewis. Government mediators remained pessimistic about chances of ‘an early. bargaining table . settlement of the crippling soft coal strike. Officials talk of drastic gation, possible mine seizure, mounted, “=r 8: res ts case in contempt trial of John La Lewis and the UMW in federal court. : Government officials considered new slashes in rails _ road services requiring the use of coal-burning equip: ment.

LOCAL—State officials said 36 -carloads of coal, an esti« mated 2500 tons, may be made available to Indianapolis today for domestic delivery. Mayor Feeney reported the city" s emergency dis“tribution program’ doing “pretty w receiving fewer calls. Calls for coal at City Hall were definitely slackening. Apartment houses were still . being heated but reported running" very close. One . parochial school was-added-to- the list-closed.

STATE—Three industries, one in’ Evansville and two in Ft. Wayne, furloughed a total of 3400 employees as 3 unemployment spread. Six new” strip.mines signed UMW contracts; bring= ing total number of strippers operating .-in. the, state to 13. State officials said the new contracts youd mean additional coal for emergency use.

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Six More Diggings Sel to Reopen ~~ ~~ | “To Relieve Cris By LARRY PIPER By ROBERT BLOEM Indiana miners today rejected! Thirty-six carloads — \about :

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: TE avoir keeping warm. The 4.year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wedgh her daddy's helper when it comes to hauling a third request of Gov, Schricker 2500 tons — of Indiana coal were

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x concluded then that she was dead, and I turned to leave,” the statement said. “I remarked to Miss (Elizabeth) Rose (a nurse) that- this patient appeared to be gone.” * On the threshold, he said, he met Dr. Sander. “I told him: ‘There is nothing left to be done.’

British Atom Scienfist-Spy ~ Pleads Guilty, Gets 14 Years

Dr. Fuchs Denounced for ‘Imperiling

~ American and British Friendship’

By ROBERT MUSEL, United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Mar, 1--Dr. Klaus Fuchs, brilliant British atomic| Dr. Snay said he and Dr. Sanscientist; pleaded : guilty today to giving Anglo-American atomic der discussed the case briefly. . secrets to Russia. He was’ given the heaviest possible sentence of. Dr. Snay’s statement was in14 years in prison. troduced by the defense during ,Lord Chief Justice Goddard suggested in sentencing the German- cré@ss-examination of Medical born scientist and confessed Soviet agent that he would have been Referee Robert E. Biron, the.12th

shot for the same offense in We prosecution witness, ob Stumned Labor waked Dr. Biron:

‘Dr. Fuchs, 38, went on trial in Mr. Wyman. asked Dr. Biron: the historic Old Bailey on iain gy “Do you want to tél this jury British Face guilty plea. Denouncing Dr.| Critical Session

that twice in the United States “|that after you read that stateand twice in Britain he handed to ment before giving your testi-. the Russians information” likely mony before the grand jury, you Fuchs. asa man who had im«{ LONDON; Mar: L-(UP)=The periled American and British newly elected House of Commons friendship,” he gave him the convened today for .one of the “paximum

ron answered.’

to-be of the highest possible value ‘didn’t know Dr. Snay pronounced “You said the statement isi! genterice” “most critical” parliamentary §é8- contradictory? How?”

to a potential enemy. the woman dead before Dr, SanThe scarlet-robed "and bewigged| .- der entered the room?” . “I didn’t recall that he- had pronounced her dead. The state‘High Treason’ Isions in a century. “He ‘said there were barely perStunned and chastened, the La-!ceptible twitching of her facial The Justice. Hungerel. ha hel, BOT ROVErnent: that filed into the] one ‘and STi and| Hyde had admitted a crime only historic chamber Kad only a tech- then he said: ‘I concluded that “technically “different from high nical seven-geat majority over all she was dead,’ ” Dr, Biron antreason. The technicality is that opposition parties. lswered. Britain is. now at peace.’ y. The formal state opening off Nv. Discusses Reflexes In ‘90 tense minutes before a Parliament will becheld next Mon-| Isn't “it true that there are) erowded courtroom; Sir’ Hartley day, with King George's speech| {muscle reflexes after a person is “Shawcross, youthful British ‘at- from the throne sketching the pro-| {dead? Mr. Wyman asked. torney general who won fame in Sram the Labor gover ent hopes’ “A person is dead , When alt] the Nuernberg trials of war crim- to follow. body movement ceases:

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School Bogs Bor ‘Shortage,

\ Centers Open Doors For Morning Periods

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Workers Strike

Picket 14 Terminals NEW YORK; Mar. 1 (UP) —|

can Afr Lines, the nation’s larg-| . He sald the Central and the 8 est domestic service, went Of 4.4 quring the school shutdown. strike from coast-to coast today. ‘Only afterhgon and evening periThe line's flight schedules were ods will be reserved for regular not affected immediately. eters. Mr. Joreas said. : V ys 0 ta advantage o Pe he he cous the offer are asked to bring their ltry showed that the strike was . towels; “trunks; ang yn effective. All were being picketed. The Transport Workers Union| The coal * trike has brought’ (CIO), &epresentatives . of the a measure of smoke control to {4600 maintenance workers, gavé Indianapolis. Contrasted to the strike order at midnight, when “normal” times, when the city | last-minute contract negotiations is blanketed in smog, the air | failed. : | these mornings is clear and | Picketing began at 6:30 a. m.. clean, with eold- chimneys (Indianapolis tithe) at almost all reaching into Bide ky. of the airline's terminals: x : 4 Sa \ Six pickets paraded in front. of | tO E. MeMilan, tos Singleton the airline's ticket. offices here, o e_Times heihas two while 16° ‘marched . before com-| 1arge ein trees” iri his yard “that!

Ie will contribute as firewood to pan fangars a Lacuna r Fied. anyone who will. Come and cut)

Co Lthem- AP Company spokesmen said It CHICAGO-Police stations to-

would - continue. its schedule -0f | day begged coal from one another 201 originating flights “as long after a railroad - confiscated a as possible.” They refused to es- carjoad of codl which was intendtimate how long they could main='gq to fll their empty coal bins. {tain normal operations. { South side stations were in the Some 1356-employees- were on oof5t shape, police said, With at {strike here. {Teast one completely 4 out of fuel,

The union contract expired! Piec.-31; but had “been extended| CHAMPAIGN,” fil. — Dormi-

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Bored by Coal

Parker Jordan, general secretary of the Indianapolis YMCA, Maintenance workers of Ameri- today had an answer for schoolboys with time on their hands.

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for a conference aimed at open-|on their way to Tndianapolis tos ling more mines to supply coaliday for the renei of coal-short {for state institutions. | householders. Roscoe McKinney, vice presi-| ‘The coal was made available {dent of the United Mine Workers to the city for domestic distribye

ition early today by state coal exe SPRINGWVIELD, Til, Mar. 1 pedir R. Hutson. Origa e Mine inally there were 41 cars of coal | Workers and the Illinois Coal jon track at the mines but when ‘Producers Association today Mayor Feeney claimed them he extended their contract from [found five cars already had been Feb. 22 through Mayr. 31 and shipped: ‘out on other orders. |. ‘the; union ordered its 10,000 | The Mayor said the coal was miners back to work immedi- “green” and would have to be ately. cleaned and : processed by local dealers District No. 11 at Terre Haute, agreed. 0 aie The coal on Sad

fo ay Vish YM( During Shutdown

hat the coal shortage has closed

enate Avenue YMCAs would make]

their full facilities-available to non-members from 9 a..m. to noon |told the Governor nothing could 'pagis.

{be gained by a conference. “The miners: have had two bona fide orders to return to; to spot’ the cars with local deals

| Leukemia Victim: {work and didn't return,” MT. arg who will sell the coal at mods ° Ar ‘Doi Fir we | McKinney told ‘the Governor. lerate prices, Mayor Feeney said.

He added that the miners have Jerry and Tony

Making Progress

Of ‘Medium Grade’ : Arrafigements are being made

a - contract and that he didn’t {know what mere district head- VU. {quarters could do, the Governor | |sald.

8. cities brownout to save dwindling fuel \.... Apartments here scrape bins for

| oal savhencness Page-B “Times Special Proposes Supervision | | Fearful Dilemma . ,.. an edl

NEW’ YORK, ‘Mar: 1 & Coil) Goy. Schricker said he pro-| torial .......seec00.. Page 14 {tionsof two Indianapolis leukemia! posed that two large mines -be|

[victims under treatment here were [reopened, with the state supervis- cated it “was available from res — =

serves piled up by the state Sreppited initangedatotiayis ing the olitput to channel the coal, £0 p p.by which

“ [into “emergency chanfiels. It ‘not be needed for institutions Seven-year-old Jerry: Dunaway, | He said that he had the agree- |because of the opening of major is. reported. in. good. condition. atiment: of “mine: operators to. the SHEP Mines in the Brazil ares. Children’s Medical Service of New plan -under which the miners] [Fo nares: Bellevue Medical) OU ork Nudes arms of of their] ‘ha problem in the ity for several 7 FAVOrEtEPIogIess disc {stipulation that the provision the rdays. Under the present half-ton was so Wi by doctors of 11-] 'a new contract, when made, be rationing program it was esti. year-old Tyrone (Tony) Diggin atiretroactive,:: [ated he supply would covep University Hospifal. | “We dre not giving up hope,” PP iad ‘Both youths are receiving treat. the Governor said. “We'll y. Program Going ‘Well ments with the new “wonder” drug again, but I don’t know yet alohg| Even before the new supply was ACTH. what line.” £ lannounced, Mayor Feeney des Both. Boys Teceived a flood of 8ix additional Indiana strip scribed the emergency program mail from over Indiana today. mines, including two major pro- as getting along “pretty well. Easy Gwynn, disc jockey on/ducers in the Brazil:iarea, today |

to relieve the tight domestic coal

“Red Cross wag

Mr.Hutson described the coal ] said they will not work without as of “medium grade.” He indie - .

The mew supply was expected

inals;, unfolded as: much as. could! Today's se&sion to elect al “Have you ever seen a chicken! “be told safely © the most serious crime of its kind in British history. He left no room for doubt that! the product of the best brain he Fron and British research— [righuy reshumey, cabinet to dea and achievements made- possible Wit! e crises ahead. , by the expenditure of billions of WO: Re-election of Mr. Attlee, _ dollats~had been presented to 2S a of the Labor Party by! the Kremlin on a silver platter. There had been spéculation that [OF Labor members of : the new,

House of Commons. Dr. Fuchs’ betrayal extended into," THREE: A warning by MF, Att-

atom DOMDBE, ob as well 28), to Labor-members that they| Indictment Changed is to stay in power with such a Mr. Bhawcross “disclosed that small majority. Dr. Fuchs was being accused of FOUR: An appeal by Mr. Attfour instances of passing infor-lee for the mation to “go through mation to Russian agents, rather together.” He promised that th than the two indicated at a pre- government will “go forward with liminary hearing Feb..10. {firm determination to- carry the To the earlier charges that he country through in this difficult; ~transmitted invaluable data’ in period.” . Boston in February, 1045, and in| Berkshire, England, in 1947, the TRUMAN NAMES JUDGE. prosecution added counts of .pass-) . ‘WASHINGTON, Mar. 1 (UP)— ing information in Birmingham,| President i -an today nomEngland, in 1043 and in New Yorkiinated Gov. W. Lee Knous- of

British Parliament- came : after; {these “developments: - ONE: Announcement by Prime!

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__between "Dec. 1, ‘1943, and Aug./Colorado to be a federal district!

1, 1944. {judge for Colorado, He Will reDr. Fuchs pleaded guilty in a sign the governorship to Succeed low voice to all counts. He stood John Foster Symes. - in the »risoners’ dock in the mid- tient dle of the courtroom, one hand COLLISION KILLS FIVE _ in a pocket of his shabby brows BLOOMINGTON, Ii. “sult, | (UP)—Two cars collided headLawyers sald the number of lon on a eountry road east of counts did not matter in the heing; De® 1ast night, killing five pertence, since Dr. Fuchs ‘sons, and injuri tried only on one indict sixth. All were A © ——————— re < . PROBE BABOTASE A ATTEMPT a EASTON, Pa. 1 {UP)—|BURNED YO DEA A.wave’ of r sabotage Pema ica ant Finney, Ind. M

| almost shouted.

Mar. 1/

1 (UP el a je death| a small

man asked. “Yes,” replied Dr.. Biron. “When a chicken’s head. is ¢ut!

s of Minister Clement Attlee of a|Off, is the body dead or alive. if tract,

lit is. still moving?”

“There is life in the tissue, " Dr.! Biron answered.

‘Can’t Answer’

the parliaméitary Labor Party, “Just tell me, Dr. Biron, 1s that

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chicken still living?” Mr. W

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o Are Home: Prices

Going Up or own? @ Does it really make any difference? © Aren't you “buying a. HOME OF YOUR OWN for security, eomfort,~ greater: “happiness? . . , and mot with the thought ‘of mak a profit! If so, NOW is ways thé right. time to ® Turn now to the classi Aled columns of today's - Times for an outstanding

selection of homes for CC aVERF homes ~ [Carithers, Winder, Ga,, widow.

of what he talled Speaker ‘inthe ancient ritual of With-its head cut off?” Mr. ZWylfor two months by mutual agree-|

ment. Included in.the union de-| | mands was a _ 20-cent-an-hour wage boost. - Under the old conwages ranged from 92} | cents to $2.14 an hour.

New Jersey Phone Facilities Seized

[the facilities of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. at 11 a. m.

today to prevent a strike of 12,000 NeW attorneys to proceed with

‘operators.

{| The seizure was made ‘under ithe tate's utility anti-strike law | which forbids strikes that may |create public ‘hardship. -Long. drawn-out negotiations. between the company and Divi{sion 55 of the Communications | Workers of America (C10) broke down early today. = -

Gov. - Driscoll said he would

{choose an administrator to op-

erate the telephone system today. | He also will name three arbitra-| tors to settie the wage di¥pute.

Plans To Wed Mar. 27

ST. LOUIS, Mar. 1 {UP)—|

{Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt!

lannounced today that he will be “on Mar. 27 to Mrs. H. A.)

Bishop Holt, who married Vice!’ i and Mrs, Alben W. .Nov. 18,-said that,

ui Barkley - formal announcement of ; ‘his’ own|

will be 1 fade ih Want

" Forum:

Bishop Ivan Lee Holt |

~tories and fraternity and - sororily; houses will be given coal

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Judge Spikes Mistrial In Espionage Case

NEW YORK, Mar. 1 (UP)—

| Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan denied a defense motion for a misTRENTON, N: J., Mar. 1 (Up) trial in the conspiracy espionage “I can’t answer that. There is|—Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll seized Case of Judith Coplon and Val[still 1ifé in the tissue.” [tace tough times ahead if “Labor; | repeat; doctor; is = chicken

entin Gubitchev today. He then ordered Miss -Coplon’

her defense.

The government hoped to rest its case against the former gov- ike a. lion today. and - the Russian

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il, tered 27, after aipping to Ki at|

radio station WIBC in. Indianap-| were - scheduled for; reopening; olis, has been broadcasting re- under newly signed Fn? quests that listeners of his mo ~plan’™ agreements. ing show write to Tony and that| n.. ~. contracts bring to 13! {afternoon listeners send cheering the number of mines operating

cards and letters lo Jerry. under temporary contracts,

: . ; Thomas R. Hutson, state labor March's 1st Sting

commissioner said. To Be Prolonged

Their output, however, 18 only a small fraction of the amount LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...25 10a m...28

of coal needed to check spread of industrial ‘paralysis and suf5 “fering in the state because of the Ta.m .. 24 1la.m.. 2% 8a. m:.. 26 12 (noon). 26 D:a. Meo 2 1pm .. 26

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fuel sh shortage. _Additional “Indiana schoo were closed and industrial operations curtailed today.

Closes Refrigerator Line

Shortage of steel, shortage of coal. caused Servel Inc., of Evansville to close down its household refrigerator produc-| tion line; laying off 3000 employees. Production of industrial refrigeration equipment continued. Two Ft. Wayne radio manufacturing companies curtailed operations because of the coal shortage, Capehart - Farnsworth laying. off 250 Workers and Magnavox 150.”

March blew into Indianapolis

Light snow flurries sharpened the windy weather. And the Weather Bureau said it isn't due to let up. : Fair and somewhat colder weather tonight will plunge temperatures to 18 by morning. Continued cold weather tomorrow will hold the mercury to-a_high of 30 under partly cloudy ‘skies.’ The Weir Cook Airport weather bureau reported winds up to 30 iiss an ces x na HIGkRIng. All public and parochial schools | hour. ~The mercury today fet D Fi. Way ne and schools in Allen \far below yesterday's high of 45. Sous Y vers 30: close after tor At 11 a. m. the mercury: regis-| 0 | Enough Tuel was on hand at the Ft. Wayne high jehools for froth one to two weeks, but clals decided to close the schools

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TRAILER FIRE KILLS 3 4 HILLSBORO, O., Mar. 1 (UP) -Three elderly persons perished in a flaming trailer on their farm TRUMAN TO MEET | [near hers early today. The vie WASHINGTON,

and Press President ma

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- SPRINGFIELD, Til, Mar. 1 (UP) = United Mine WorkerPresident John L. Lewis left here today. Asked whether he was going to Washington, he threw his hands in the air and,

sald: “ls have. nothing to say”

'He said the city was having “ne trouble” finding takers for free supplies of wood culled out of city parks by saw trews yesterday. “Folks snapped yp that bargaii jin a hurry,” the Mayor said..

The Mayor said he had res

ls 8 ceived no. desperation calls

|industries but had received seve [eral offers of reserve coal In |case hospitals or other institu. ‘tions in the city run out. Be {. Red Cross, taking e calls, reported a let-up in | /numbér of calls late | Although - swamped by . wave this morning, ar giv was not expected to match the call-a-minute pace of yesterday, _ City schools and schools Center, Franklin and La ¢ townships remained closed. ; “St. Philip Neri became the-nret

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