Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1950 — Page 2

r il ‘Loved By So Many'— a Council Nain Honors Ernie Pyle In Pacific Island Services |

Correspondent Called World War II's Greatest By Roy Howard, President of Times

Inspector Job

Emergency Session Called to Discuss |

Fund Requests called him “World War II's greatest correspondent.” Marion County's all-Republican| Mr, Pyle was correspondent] County Council must decide today for Scripps-Howard Newspapers whether the county will remain and the United Features Syndi-, without a health inspector. cate, { Auditor Ralph Moore called an A chaplain read a brief blog- - emergency session of the Council raphy of Mr. Pyle and a wreath this morning to discuss appropria- WA8 placed on the spot where a tion requests from the health and Marker has been erected in Mr, building inspectors departments, Pyle’s memory on Ie Shima, a the Juvenile Court and the Marion few miles off the northwest coast County Home. of Okinawa. iin The county has heen without a Following the henedicton. a health inspector since Jan. 1 when a bugler of the 29th Infantry the Council slashed the health de- Band sounded taps. partment budget, ’ ‘Loved By So Many’

Complaints Pile Up “All good men live on In the For four months, complaints memories of their loved *ones,” have piled up in the health depart- Mr. Howard said in his memorial ment concerning the health prob- message. “Ernie's distinction was lem. Many complaints told of to be loved by so many, Few if dirty restaurants, garbage strewn any were so widely known, so along roads and filth spilling out highly regarded by the millions of septic tanks. of men in war and to their folks No health inspector was avail- back home who had never seen able to check the unsanitary con- him. He seemed a personal friend ditions or attempt to alleviate —~1ike a brother or the boy next them. door—because in some strange G1 and he wrote some of The health department has re- way what he wrote seemed to best stories of the war when he . quested a $2250 appropriation to speak directly for them and to Wrote about the rough, tough day fill: the position for the remainder them . . . to day routine life of soldiers in of the year. : “Like any GI he. too, was ‘he field. Julietta, the Marion County afraid when he came under fire, Many of us who were war corHome for the Aged, has requested yj, toa, was lonely and homesick. T* Pondents are proud that there $3386 for salary raises. He, too, was shy and frustrated. "°'¢ men like Ernie Pyle in the Seeks $5000 Fund And he, 100, found it hard to correspondents corps. He gave us The county building inspectors’ speak. 2 $a) 2 hi WO oan pot department urged council to ap- “But somehow he could say it rate away * Tesh; propriate $5000 for salary raises through writtén - words—all the ° :

Sunnyside, the county's tuber- . : : hopes and fears and doubts and Wells Pays Tribute culosis hospital, made a request longings and the dreams which y

tiny Pacific Island today for war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by a Japanese sriper’s buliet five years ago today.

Ernie Pyle we Sm millions. He was a friend of the Columbus Man Dies

"of $31,538 to construct a resident are part of man.” To Ernie Pyle home for physicians and for other ) . Times Rtate & improvements. Earnest Hoberecht, United p Ji tay serfs.

Prosecutor George Dailey urged Press manager for Japan, sald council to appropriate $2000 for in a message from Tokve

-special investigation... nsmarntoneo BATTAL on bs AB, the hero of

President Herman B Wells, Indiina University, sent the following telegram today. to Ie Shima where memorial services were ‘to be held for War Correspondent Ernie Pyle: .

[ever at his alma mater and his ideals and work will be carried {on by our Ernie Pyle Memorial | footsteps.”

Rail Strikers Plan Hit-Run Tactics

Enginemen Working On Walkout Details

| CHICAGO, Apr. 18 (UP) | Railroad firemen and enginemen have decided to strike to enforce demands for an extra fireman on diesel engines, a union spokesman said today, but they are expected to stage “hit-and-run” strikes rather than a nationwide walkout. ~“Top officials of the Brotherheod of 4.ocomotive Firemen and Enginemen went into their fourth day of secret conferences today to work out details of the threatened strike, “Determining when, where and | how we are going to strike is the

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Brannan Pledged - ‘Free Audience’

Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan was offered a readymade audience today to hear him expound ‘his. proposed farm program. The Indianapolis Press Club's Gridiron Committee, sent the sec: retary this telegram: “Unnecessary to use United - State: tax money to hire-an Indianapolis audience to hear you Advocate the Brannan. farm. subs sidy plan A large audience waiting ‘to hear you will be provided free by the Indianapolis Press Club at its annual Gridiron Show May 18 Moreover, club will pay for your ticket. RSVP.”

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‘IE SHIMA, Apr. 18 (UP)—Memorial services were held on this tor led Mrs. T. E. Kinsler to dis-| Who iren-inside,-police said-today.

‘Roy W. Howard, president of The Indianapolis Times, in % message sent from New York and read here at the special services,

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| u. S. Hints Use 2 Children Dead T oll ra Of *Nerve Gas’ =~ In Refrigerator VY In Future Wars HAPEVILLE, Ga. Apr. 18 2 More 'Teeners Die —

(UP)-—A small red sandal lying - sha in front of a discarded refrigera- In Train Car Mi P

Mother Discovers K Crash

cover the bodies of her two chil-

Mrs. Kinsler had been search- Key Sunday night stood at six toing over the neighborhood for day, with the death of two more two hours for Cindy, 4, and Gay- teen-agers. : | land, 5, when she saw the boy's sandal yesterday, She opened the Four were Rilo waeight ig Ehe Society last night. ice box and found them crouched accident at est Main St, i inside, crossing. Two others died in Jay The military concept of an The tots apparently crawled County Hospital here yesterday. into the box and suffocated when Doctors today still held hope of the door swung shut. § saving the only remaining surMrs. Kinsler said she missed vivor, Miss Mary Janice Cochran, [the children when they failed to 16, in critical condition. {appear for lunch. At the time [Latest victims of the tragedy . vention ishe called them they were in the were Miss Beverly Gilbert, 18, . (box. less than 10. feet away. Red Key, and Richard Lord, 16, . n.-n

4 LaLa Dunkirk. HER HUSBAND said he moved Killed right In ihe. accident now the refrigerator outside the house M OY n a, s vide an opportunity at the smaliwhen he got a new one a short NE ar ar driver: Miss ®t logistical cost. to reduce a time ago. pi . a potential enemy's will to resist " . Lora Rombeck, 16, and Miss MarI never realized how danger- y ! np tha Jane Cochran, 13, all of Red 9 ous it was.” Mr, Kinsler said. Key. and Ronnie Lee Johnson, 17, 2ut the enormous destruction of Fire Chief J. B. Nunn estimated "~ " 77’ his economy,” the general said. Dunkirk. | the children had been in the ice Gen. McAuliffe. warned, howbox for more than two hours. |ever, that “we are not the sole Another child, Ronald Eugene, §, possessors of the offensive and was playing in the yard nearby when his brother and sister were found

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might and destroying his industrial potential has been drasti{cally altered since the end of | World War IL” Gen. McAuliffe

Methodist District Adds 3292 Members

. gases, The Indianapolis Methodist Dis- wy trict announces that 3292 persons Gen. McAuliffe, famed for his {have joined district churches as FePly of “nuts” to a German surnew members over the past con- Fender demand at Bastogne in ference year. Over the same period, Methodist TE ers Son suviot Teper} have not yet been proved in war. ceived into membership by. con-| But he said that the U. S. canfession of faith; 957 by transfer NOt ignore such trends.

from other Methodist congrega- vey " a tions; and 647 by transfer from GOVERNOR USES HIS BEAN

other denominations. Dr. 8. L.| LANSING, Mich, Apr. 18 (UP) Martin is district superintendent. —Gov. G. Mennen Williams of wr eee Mithigan is sending a present to OES UNIT TO MFET governors of the other 47 states Southport Chapter 442, OES, --a package of beans. It's part of will observe obligation night at 8 his campaign to sell the 100,000p. m. Wednesday ton Michigan bean surplus.

Of Crash Injuries Times State Service COLUMBUS, Ind., Apr. 18Adlen Eudaly, 40, R. R. 4, Columbus, died yesterday in Bartholomew County Hospital, Columbus, of injuries received in a motorcycle accident Saturday. Mr. Eudaly was driving the motorcycle when it plunged over a 30-foot embankment three milea north of Columbus. Scott Hubbard, 33, Columbus, passenger on the motorcycle, was killed instantly. ’

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DETROIT, Apr. 18 (UP)— America may use a “nerve gas” Times State Serviee to smash a future enemy's will PORTLAND, Apr. 18 — Death to resist without bloodshed or

Jol} from a train-car crash in Red destruction, according to Maj. ACTH and cortisone—are Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, chief acute leukemia cases,

He described the bloodless war-| fare'to the American Chemical Pearson and his colleagues, Drs. L. P. Eliel and T. R, Talbot Jr, of ‘the Memorial Cancer Center| “ and the Sloan-Kettering Insti-|

nihilating the enemy's military

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| Doctors Report Value of ACTH, Cortisons

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Lies in Giving Clue to Cause of Disease 4

ldoctors reported today.

The frank evaluation of the

| By PAUL F. ELLIS, United Press Science Editor ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Apr. 18—The “wonder” hormones — bringing . relief to about two-thirds of but are not curing the disease, a team of

drugs was made by Dr. O. H.

He said that “good responses”

tute, New York City, to. the were made in 13 of the 30 cases,

American Association for Cancer and “some

‘Research here,

The scientists said that ACTH,

response” in eight

cases.

and cortisone will prove. their, He reported that four children

1 value not in the treatment of Obtained a second remission with (told the society's 117th annual gigease; but in giving science the hormones, but that in most

{knowledge of what causes dis- Patients resistance appeared to

ease—knowledge that in

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time develop rapidly and that second “THE WEAPONS developed. or may. bring cures of the most of responses could not “be obtained -a8-good-as-

The doctors said that no adult

Dr. Pearson sald that in a se- patient has had a second response

leukemia—cancer of the blood stream — the hormones had

| brought relief to 22, but that no

i remission so far has lasted longer than two months, and some remissions have been as brief as three weeks. However, even a short remission is a long time.

The doctors reported that in four of the patients the hormones brought second remissions—that is, the patients received benefit a second time. In all, of the 30 cases treated in the last six months, 11 are still alive, The average life-time expectancy of a person diagnosed as suf-

fering acute leukemia is about six| months, Dr. Pearson said that 10,

adults and 20 children, all suffeéring acute leukemia, had been

treated with ACTH or cortisone at Memorial Hospital.

to a dying. person’

and thereby obtain victory with. ries of 30 patients with acute to the hormones, and that ACTH

appears to ring a remission sooner than cortisone. ACTH is a hormone from the pituitary gland, the master gland of the body's glandular system. Cortisone is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands.

Police Identify Body

Found on Canal Gates

A body. found this morning on the rubbish gates of the canal was” identified as Mrs. Maria Northern, 50, of 914 Meikel St. Police identified her through a piece of .paper- clutched in her hand, with her name and address and address of relatives. Relatives said she left home about 7 a. .m.. today. The * body, found about one block west of West St. by an Ine dianapolis Water Co. employes, was-sent to City Morgue.

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