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. FORECAST: Windy, showers tonight. Colder late tonight.

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Windy, colder, snow flurries tomorrow. Near freezing tonight.

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1950

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indianapolis, Indians. Issued Dally

PRICE FIVE CENTS

was deserted and cold [below].

Mercury to Dip Industries Recall Thousands As Flow of Coal Increases

Last of Miners Straggle Back to Work After 24-Hour Wait for Lewis Order

PITTSBURGH, Mar. 7 (UP)—The last of John L. Lewis” United Mine Workers straggled back to the pits today as industries hard, hit by the coal shortage recalled thousands: of furloughed workers. Some 200,000. miners went back yesterday. The rémainder,| helby County in Jan-| numbering about 172,000, delayed 24 hours until Mr. Lewis’ telegram thal mn Shelby y freezing tonight after soaring into| ordering work to resume following signing of a new, contract Sun-|qaughter sat at the defense Mexico and northern Texas and “Feeney. cancels local. coal em. |table, and. his immediate family Oklahoma. : Page 3 (was in the courtroom for most

Near Freezing

Showers to Wash Away Spring Spell

Showers tonight will wash

“away two days of spring weather, |

the Weather Bureau said today.|

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The mercury will dip to near

the 50's this afternoon. Mostly! day was read at local meetings. The flow of coal to fuel-starved weather tonight will be accompa- Cities and industries swelled, but nied by occasional light showers. Some retail dealers: continued to Colder weather later tonight a

cloudy ‘skies and windy, mild! will. shove temperatures to 35,!

flurries tomorrow.

the bureau. said temperatures will} average three. to six degrees be-|

a.m. .. 45 10a.m... 52 Tam... 45 1l.a.m... 58 |

| ETE I (Noon) ~~ sald it “would be-three weeks» 9am... 51 1p. m... 55 {fore ‘all the 23,000 steelworkers the week-end. : [furloughed were back at.work. STUDEBAKER SETS RECORD |

to set a new record, President 9 8.-Vance announced today. |

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Judy And Russ Bo

In 2d Watts

Trial Snagged

15 of 18 Removed

Give Fair Hearing

By DONNA MIKELS Times Staff Writer “

COLUMBUS, Mar. 7—The

In the lighted classroom above, Miss Trella Wood conducts her Typing lll class at Shortridge High School today. The promise of coal has brought life to a room which yesterday and last week

OTZENCY vvvvvrnns aiee | passenger trains, cut 50 per cent °f

New York Fuel Administrator

and send them lower tomorrow, Bertram - Tallamy cancelled a Cloudy, ‘windy, . colder weather State-wide brownout which went will bring a few light snow into effect Feb. 19 and had jdimmed the lights on New-York o | city’s White Way. In its .five-day state forecast, Ss Blast Furnaces Resamed Carnegie-Illinois low a normal maximum of 43 Which cut its Pittsburgh operanorth and 53 south and a min- tions almost in half at the peak imum of 25 north and 31 south. of the shortage, put eight idle ~ Colder weather tomorrow will blast furnaces back: in operation “warm up through the week, but and brought coke “become cold ‘again over thé week- to mormal.” = end. | Jones & Laughlin, which was LOCAL TEMPERATURES closed completely by. the coal shortage, resumed operations in

‘Hard Coal - Contract Agreement Predicted

WASHINGTON, Mar. 7 (UP) inter —Union sources predicted today Coffee Experts Doubt /that John L. Lewis would nego-| |

Pittsburgh and A" quippa, Pa., but|tiate a contract with Pennsyl8 Juippa, |vania-hard-coat -operators-betore WASHINGTON, Mar, 1.(UP)=

They "pointed out that a con-! , which laid off 62,000/tract for the 78,000 anthracite SOUTH BEND, Mar. 7 (UUP)- men, recalled freight crawmen and/ Workers traditionally is signed “mppoy testified before a Senate Retail deliveries. of Studebaker announced that shop and maincars in February jumped 99 per tenance workers would / be put “cent over the same month in 1949

shortly after soft- coal negotia|tions are out of the way. !

back to work as coal nigvements coed : oe ISCOTTISH MINERS. HAIL UMW

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Mar. 7

Friends in Need—

Reinstatement of coa btirning TH (UP)—The executive board of the Worker:

s’. Union!

®3HES

When FBI agents arrested Robert Norman, Hey Corps veteran, townspeople at first expresse said he was a former bank employee.

Now, after he has confessed, the farmers and the merchants and the housewives want to come to. his aid. -“He's just a little confused.” .one woman said. ‘Everyone makes a mistake sometime.” — . ow ~ - n . MR. HEUSER, who is married and has a child, is taking his _ arrest philosophically. “It ey give me another

down,” he said. “If not, I'll . just take my medicine.” : Tomorrow Heuser intends to

sent “greetings of solidarity” to-| day to John -L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers of America.

Town Willing to Forgive ‘Gl Student in Bank Theft

‘He’d Be Ruined If We Turned Against Him Now,’ Says Goodland Bank Cashier a Times State Service * ; | GOODLAND; Mar. 7—This small farm comm by the theft of $500 from the Goodland State Bank b old college student, is willing to forgive and forget.’

SCHOOLS TO REOPEN

trustee, said today. They are the Albert Walsman, Margaret McFarland and William Evans

hry Selection S* Be: sees

For All-Star Game

Because of Inability to

\blunt outspoken honesty of] Bartholomew County Ifolk was the main stumbling block today in impanelment| .. (of a jury for the trial of Rob-! _lert Austin Watts,

The. venire called as prospec-|

{tive jurors in the second trial of

{Watts for the 1947 slaying of {Mary Lois Burney in Indianapolis

| farmers.

Watts previously was tried and

and there are few folks who

haven't -discussed--it..or. formed

an opinion. 18 Jurers- Excused —

cused, 15 were removed on their

fair trial.

from the regular panel of 50.

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than a jail cell, .

out of his breast pocket.

{opening trial yesterday. No Relatives Present

the trial. | |during that time,

| The 1948 jury's death sentence {was nullified by a United States

| Supreme Court decision granting Were | the 27-yearzold former Indian: still rationing supplies to high-| 5011s city truck driver a new

trial. 3 This second trial finally got under way yesterday in Bartholo=

}Coitinued on, Page $—Col. 8)

Early Drop in Prices

Food ind us try representatives said today there is a continuing

for an early drop in coffee prices.

[Agriculture Subcommiittee which

[resumed hearings = on . coffee

| prices.

|dent of the General Foods Corp, and George V. Robbins, green

| Maxwell House division of the

fcompany, disputed a statement] |by Committee Counsel Paul Had-|

Jack Carson Arranges Funeral for Father

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today to make arrangements to bury his father, Elmer L. (Kit)

a heart attack. . The elder Carson, 69, was an {insurance exgcutive in Milwaukee,

pearance tour in New York.

'Ex-Child Film Star

He told the FBI that he used “the money to pay<debts, He said his /i/(G1 allowance -was in-- : return to St. Joseph's College | gmofent. at ne Renssalaer. Tala * _ Bank - Cashier Willlam H.

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‘tof suspicion In the death. of her fiance, Charles McCarthay. |

euse “bond following his arraignment 7] yesterday. SE -jthe coming nuptials. !

farm-|

{is predominantly made up of]

Many of thesé farmers have| friends in Shelby County where)

sentenced to death. The Watts] “case has been kicking around these parts for three years now)

. ’ i & “ge : > » . ¢ * What's more, they speak up| Repetition of Disaster land say so. From the 18 pros-|

pective jurors who have been ex-|

{this morning looking more as if {he had stepped ‘out of Esquire

He wore a gray flannel suit, a blue “bold look” shirt, matching {blue socks and a loud red and blue tie, His shoes weré shined] “to—a high polish—and a natty northern areas and

| In contrast to his first trial, [there have been no friends or rel(atives at Watts’ side. In his first}

force today in Indianapolis. grag recordemaking 10-minute {session last night, City Council cleaned up ifs two-point agenda, put out the lights and went home. Question. of possiblé decontrol of rents here was shunned like

shortage of coff ee and no hope]

Edwin T. Gibson, vice presi-|

—director—for the

{lick that world- coffee supplies] {are ample. Mr. Robbins, who re-| The three Center Township cently returned from Brazil, said ¢ll chambers in obv reopen tomorrow, the outlook is = for “greater|

scarcity” the next few months.

Carson, who died yesterday after

Cleared in Fiance Death.

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Dust Storms Lash

In 1930's Feared

CHICAGO, Mar. 7 (UP)—Dust own statements that they didn’t | storms blotted out the sun over| “It would indicate to me death believe they could give Watts & much of the Great Plains today had resulted from other causes, es | However, there was still a|and Soil “conservation experts back-log of more than 250 pros-| warned that another dust bowl 2 pective jurors. That number has| might develop unless rains came Dr. Ford sald that research -|been summoned as a special panel | soon, . Cit “IA EEEE A IUrY 18 Hot REIetEd | Pwo big fires—one In Texas,

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Hypo Didn't

Kill Woman,

Expert Says

At Heart of Case Against Dr. Sander MANCHESTER, N. H, Mar. 7 (UP)—A medical wit(ness testified at Dr. Hermann N. Sander's mercy raurder {trial today that 40 cubic cenitimeters of air were not {enough to kill a person. Dr. Richard Ford, "pathologist

| Pathologist Strikes

ithe witness stand after the docitor’s loyal wife, in a brief, dra-

male jury that her husband had {been worried and tired at the (time he injected air into the veins of his cancer patient. : Dr. Ford performed a 10-hour lautopsy on the body of the patient, Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto, 59, several weeks after she died. He struck at the heart of the patient’s murder case by stating: “Forty CC's is not enough to

- ibtock “the -arterial-system-leading:

[to the human lung.” {Defense Attorney Robert E. Booth asked him that if a medical record stated a person died jeasily after an air injection, if that indicated the air actually killed her,

than air,” Dr. Ford said. | Says 200 CC's Needed

Indianapolis boy te be sent on a

Pair Faces 25 Years With Her Fine $10,000 And Red Aid's $20,000 Court Refuses to Dismiss Charges After Jury Finds Indictment Flaw

| ~NEW YORK, Mar. 7 (UP)-—A federal court jury con

victed Judith Coplon and Valentin Gubitchev on three ‘counts of a four count espionage conspiracy indictment today. ; : - The jury of six men and six housewives acquitted Miss . Coplon on the second count of the indictment which charged’ her with attempting to pass

Jerry and Tony |government secrets to an une lauthorized person.

Both Doing Well | te verdict read to the

court by Jury Foreman - John

+———-tlose-stamped;—addressed— or Harvard University, went to In N. Y. Hospital JHomer after six hours and 24

meme os minutes of actual deliberation Times Special ‘was as follows:

‘matic appearance, told the all NEW YORK, Mar. 7—Things| FIRST COUNT: Both defend=

are looking up at University Hos- ants guilty of conspiracy. pital for Tyrone (Tony) Diggin, | SECOND - COUNT: (Naming ' {Miss Coplon only) innocent. the second Indianapolis leukemia) pHYRpD COUNT: (Charging sufferer to be flown to New York |Gubitchev with attempting to refor treatment. : ceive and obtain U. 8. secrets) | Tony is .up and walking guilty. : {around, doctors say. He is doing] FOURTH COUNT: (Charging best of five young leukemia suf- Miss Coplon ‘with attempting to

ferers taking treatment in Uni-|Pass governments secrets to

versity Hospital together. Gubitchev with the knowledge

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| JERRY DUNAWAY, the fipgt| detriment .of the United States.

and-to-the-advantage-of-a-foreign-

mercy flight, had little change to country ) guiny.

report, according to his doctors. He still hopes to leave Bellevue Medical Center soon for his return trip to the Hoosier Capital.

was returned at 10:47 a. m: (Indianapolis time), as {the defense was fighting in vain {for a mistrial because of a typoParry. was flUwE to New York Sraphical error the jury found in

r treatment with the new. won-| => PY bt the Indictment, |der drug, ACTH, on Feb. 2 by 25 Years Maximum |The Indianapolis Times, ‘Miss -Coplon faces a maximum | _ Tony, whose trip was under-iSentence of 25. years in prison

jconducted on animals indicated written by the Variety Club of and a $10,000 fine. Gubitchev's

in 25 seconds” to kill a human.

(said.

‘men brought them under control. | “What is it?"

The dust and flames that hung| {over the plains: were kicked up|

“I do not think so.”

eomaiaides take «200 £0--300--cubte: Indianapolis; folowed-Jerry-in-a’ { , {centimeters of air “deliv ‘with-| fey \ {the other in Nebraska—swept the! eliverad with-ltew days,

Watts himself strode into court 2p e———————————— grasslands before thousands 6f, “I have an opinion.” Dr. . . Federal Judge Sylvest ye volunteers and professionar fire-| pion, Fora 7 or 8 in 100 Seeking ge Sylvester Ryan

bo | Dr.- Ford said “a fatal dose of

|years and $20,000 fine—=$10,000 on each of the first and third counts.

{ -—

remanded both defendants to jail

|Jobs During February jiunekiately and said he would WASHINGTON, Mar. 7 (UR) pputics them. at 9:30, a. m,

by a severe cold front which air is an all of none phenomenon.” Seven or eight workers out ofi The fourth count of the indict-

It was a complete change from | Visibility Reduced

{the outfit Watts wore on thel yyemiity over large sections

{of Kansas was cut to less than

50 yards,

Forty cubic centimeters of air

|

{dinary measuring glass for a bar-

The dust storms were moving tender.”

eastward and southward after throwing a hazy curtain over embolism is “quite rare.” wide areas of eastern Colorado,/ He said he had examined the Jobs for new faces in the 1aboripecqyuse copies of the indictment ‘uary, 1948, his wife and small southern Wyoming, eastern New/case records of 60,000 autopsies market. and that only 44 were recorded

{as due-to air emboljsm.

he said, would be the equivalent employed in February, not in- denied for the second time a moe |of about an ounce and one-third, (cluding the 372,000 striking soft tion for a mistrial because the or “somewhat less- than an or-|c0al miners.

touched off blizgard conditions in|He explained that the air either every 100 were looking for jobs ment carries a maximum sentence

ort Shireatensd folkd] s or doesn't kill regardless-of last month. {of 20 years fop Miss Coplon. Shae {blue handkerchief was peeking|dispe springlike temperatures the condition of the person who! sens could have been sentenced to {over the Great Lakes and East. receives the injection. oo The census .Bureay - sstimated

{death in war time. that 4,684,000 persons were un-| purore the verdict Judge Ryan

|jury found a typographical ¢ | The figure was the highest in/jn the OR 8 phical exrot

[eight and one-half years. It un-i yeonard Eoudin, attorney for

Dr. Ford said death from alr derscored-the- difficulty eonfront-iniss Coplon, moved for a miss

{ing the nation in finding enough tris] and withdrawal of the jury

[furnished the defendants charged {Miss Coplon with “unlawful pos-

DB rr o————t————— A SE Ths imperil - ul, isession”. of. certain. governmesit Soil conservation experts said . Lhere were 12 proven cases of Cleanup Successful, ! 3 :

{papers, although the original in-

frankly that they feared another the kind of air embolism in ques- Gary Housewives Say |dictment wording on the second

[County jail, where Watts has poor soil conditions on lack of of air present.’ been a prisoner since Dec. 24, said moisture. his family has not visited him| Louis P. Merrill, regional direc-

southwestern Kansas.

Council Keeps

Lid on Rents

Rent controls were still in (Continued on Page 8—Col. 4) 'year ago started the campaign,

a plague.

Neither Councilman J. Porter |Seidensticker, who favors con{tinued controls, or Donald Jame-| (son, the city’s lawgiver who wants

{immediate decontrol, offered to}. the fed

Dring the subject- 1c -the floor] 4 eo Turner found him pacing the inner corridor of a Suite of

government office. Mr. Turner began pacing the opposite side of tending the meeting, left the coun-| the corridor and the following conversation ensued. ious dissap-| = TT E—— HE PRA BUCY

for discussion:

A sprinkling af landlords at-|

His wife since has sued for di-| dust bowl such as developed dur-|tion.”” he said. “In ail of these

by the Interstate Commerce Com- : ; ‘a {cases there were 1 antities f fom 19a mission, awaited ICC approval. |vorce. Officials of Bartholomew ing the 1930's. "hey blamed the ore large quantities housewives who launched a am- Possession.

. Frank Reed, president of the! Merchants Asso-| said it would be about two -weeks-before large supplies of good grade coal were avallable for local domestic users. He said Chicago Merchants

’

! Dr. Ford said data on experi- . {ments with animals indicates that [OWT fective | ; y wi is ad been effective, tor of the Sofl Conservation Serv- 2 medium sized dog will die if it

ice at Ft. Worth, Tex., warned that about 2.6 million acres were “very dry” in New Mexico, western Texas, the Oklahoma Panhandle, eastern: Colorado and|

|air. They (dogs) will tolerate

eight CC’s per kilogram or one and -two-fifths pounds of body

(weight, the withess said. | It was on this figure-that Dr. {Ford based his estimate that it {would take 200 or 300 CC's de|livered to kill a human.

| - Dr. Ford was -asked: what -4t;emaorial_seryice for Miss Mary, {would indicate "if a. person who |

recefves 75 cubic centimeters of!

GARY, Mar. 7 -(UP) — Gary count said she was in “lawful

paign to wipe out vice in this steel! Chief Prosecutor John M. Kelsaid today that their efforts{ley Jr. said correct copies of the t indictment had been served on the They said more than 500 gam- defendants or their attorneys blers had been arrested after the Shortly aftér they were returned campaign was started. They com-|PY a federal grand jury on Mar, plained -that the courts had con- 10. last year. :

victed only 40 per cent of thenf, Defense motions to set aside the however, y pe verdict” will- be heard on Thurs-

| Five hundred of the housewives, day.” fis organized as the women's citizen: AS the “jury returned to the committee, met last night in a courtroom, -Miss Coplon leaned. | forward in her chair and placed G Co Iteacher, Her foréarms on the council table, Cheever, Gary schoo | Gubitchev remained seated back.

hos 1 i whose murder during a holdup ®'in his chair.

Russian. for. Thank You?...

SN TC SM A RII

Judy's Sweetie Pie ‘Speaks No English’

But He Can Rip Off 'Go to the Devil’

“DON'T you lke a good

Wonders Why Americans on Subways laugh?” Always Have Nose Buried in the Comics ~~

“Phey have no humor.” “Well, I've got to write a

|____After Valentine Gubitchey disappeared for a long time from | ®t". ~~ = eral courtroom ‘early today, United Press Correspondent “Thank vou.” 3]

pointment, when their favorite| By LEO. TURNER; United

topic failed to get an airing -be-|

fore the council.

As matters stand. the contro{versial measure will remain in |its pigeon hole until the next HOLLYWOOD, Mar, 7 (UP)— {regular council meeting, Mar. 20: Comedian Jack Carson flew here! eT

‘Atom Cooking C

‘Color of Diamonds LONDON, Mar. 7° (UP)—British atomic scientists have dis-

Wis., for 20-years until he came|covered a way to change the to Hollywood six years ago. The color of diamonds to red, blue,, “pot deactor had beeq on a personal ap-| yellow or green, The Daily Mail |said today. | = The scientists cook the dia-] “What are monds in atomic piles at the big Harwell Ttomic- Research Center, The. Mail said. The dispatch “. HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 7. ¢UP)— claimed the cooking didn't dim! “What are ~ OtRMIAN +.0sss0veseseres $1 I Former child film star Mae Bower the diamond's sparkle and didn't] you doing to" ham, 45, was clear today make it radioactive.

| through the reporter pacing the

“In America when you- say ‘Rood luck’ people always say thank you. Don’t they do that in Russia?” “No. Now I try to get into courtroom.” w’ :

Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Mar, T—Valentine Gubitchev looked straight | «hood luck”

opposite side of the hall. “In Russia it is bad luck to

“Why don’t you pick up that telephone and dictate my story | say ‘thank you’ when someone.

| for me?” “I don’t speak English,” Mr, “Dictate it in Russian.”

wouldn't it?” Mr. Gubitchev grinned. { + “What are you going to do when the trial is over?”

| pends on the jury.™

you going. to . do if you're/acquitted?”

on

I. : : The experiment was made on| “I'll write a Mr. Gubitchev

|six diamonds which were cooked story.” W © A coroner's jury ruled -yéster- from one-half “day to 10 days. : i ; . day that] Mr. McCarthay, who The gems now are being studied “YOU going to be newspaper. would have been: her fifth hus-/at Cambridge University to de-; man all your life?”. Mr. Gubitband, choked to déath on a fried|termine just what shade will re-| chev asked. -— egg during’ a party celebrating

sult from specified periods of “Oh,-maybe I'll go into busi-

cooking.

ness for myself sometime. But

{ ak

says ‘good luck.”” ‘ “What do they. say in Rus= sia?”

Gubitchev said.

! “You think it wad be a good story?” Mr. Gubitchev asked. “They say ‘go to the devil.” ” hanges “It” would be unbiased, |— Ti. ooo mimes

i | e——_—— - what are you going to do?” * “I think I will keep working ‘Roy Rogers Comic for the government. I won't go | * * . into business for myself,” he Strip in Times ie said with a grin. oy Rogers, king of the Mr. Gubitchev walked up and SOwhEys: is Bow = He down the hall again. ras - © “Yeu see the bald headed tion-packed comic strip juror?” he asked. “When they starts next Sunday in picked the jury the judge asked The Sunday Times. : him if he had~read the news- | 9 Every Sungay Jou Tl ses papers. He said ‘Only the head- Ro 5 ee ty Li ios Hnes.’ ” A. i ¢ “Do you read the newspap- section of The Times...

Mr. Gubitéhev walked up and movie here in exciting down the hall. ~~ Si adventure” in the Times’ “Only the headlines,” he fin- daily comic page. - ally answered. * @ You've asked for it sss |

“Do .you read. the-comics?” how here it is. . . . .

“Why do you call them com-- JRO RO : ics? I dee people in the subway, Ce i reading the comics. Why do they DAILY AND SUNDAY: all read the comics?” ~~. | EXCLUSIVELY IN THE TIMES

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