Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1950 — Page 1

FORECAST: Clearing and cold tonight Tomorrow partly cloudy and somewhat warmer. Low “tought 50. gn tomorrow 78.

81st YEAR—NUMBER gr ee

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1950

months prematurely.

Big Spy. Drive Hinted by FBI

British Scientist __ Seen Key to Arrests | " WASHILIGTON, June 17 (UP) ~The FBI may be engaged in one of the most sweeping crackdowns! on suspected spies and subversives in the history of the| country. Apprehensive Congressmen won-/ dered just how many Americans participated with British scientist ¥ E. J. ®uchs in an International Soviet spy ring. So far, the FBI has rounded up three suspected members of the apparatus. It was silent on the

many Congressmen speculated that the crackdown 18 not yet over. They were angry that Russia &pparently operated a widespread spy ring in the U. 8. at the very time this country was! helping. her beat back the. Nazi)

manded the vigorous prosecution | of all suspected of being her| agents. { The three Americans arrested | 80 far are: ONE: Harry Gold, 39-year-old | biochemist: of Philadelphia. He] was arrested last month and, according to the FBI, confessed] that he was the go-between for. Fuchs and Russian officials in| .this country during the war. TWO: Alfred D. Slack, 48, a chemist. He was arrested in| Syracuse, N, Y., Thursday night

be tried in Knoxville, Tenn.

officer who was arrested in New

worked on re bomb itself” at] Los Alamos, N. M,, was accused, of /slipping Gold secret atomic

In addition, the FBI took into custody yesterday Dr. Sidney | Weinbaum, 52, formerly of the i jet-propusion laboratory of the!

Ogy, on charges that he swore, falsely he was a Communist. The FBI emphasized, however, that Weinbaum’s arrest had no| connection with any other case. i

Charged Fas Felons) They Walk Streets

® There are 96 persons indicted on felony charges | walking Indianapolis [ streets today . . . free on | bond. vi}

@ That's the startling situation in crime in Mar-

a survey reported in.to-. | morrow’s Sunday Times by Times Writer Bob

- - down deep under Crime - in Marion County to tell you how cases are han-

® The SUNDAY TIMES also brings you: “®WHY BOYS GO BAD | + «+ By Irving Leibowitz, | .& report on the Tipton | situation. {

O®NATURAL CHILDBIRTH . . . A true ex-

perience story by an Indianapolis housewife.

®PARADEMAGAZINE +++ COLOR.COMICS...

2 . WOMAN'S FEATURES | . « . POLITICS

EVERY MEMBER OF

possibility of further arrests, but

_hordes during the war, All. de:

California Institute of Technol-* Peg 0’ My Heart” had a stormy opening in the Brown

fon County revealed in |

y First _

er a—

Man Killed Boy Hurt as

idtims Reported

HELLAS TY A 8

n Hamilton County | { An Indianapolis ‘man was killed and his companion critlically injured early today| when their car crashed into! {a bridge abutment on Fail iCreek Rd. near Shadeland Dr., {Fall Creek Rd. lies a few hundred | feet north of Fall Creek Blvd. | Killed instantly was James. D., Green, 23, of 17151, Roosevelt Ave. A passenger in Mr, Green's car, Clarence Golden Jr. 16, of {1747 Roosevelt Ave, is in General ‘Hospital with two broken legs, 'a broken arm and severe head in-/ | juries. i The crash, which occurred east| of Shadeland at 1:28 a.m; demwoi~| iished the car. { 4 Others In Car Four other teen-agers in the HEULD eSCHped serious injury. They were Marjorie Brook, 17,

it will be a happy first Father's Day tomorrow for Leon F. Cook, 1550 Ringgold $ St. The reason |Anderson; Betty Parlow, 17, An-| is the double take shown here, Michael (left) and Maureen. They marked their first birthday yester- |derson; Lee Spellman, 16, of 2037] day, but at the time of birth they were given only a slight chance to live. The twins were born 21/; | |Winter St., and Donald Spellman,

{19, of 2833 Guilford Ave. | Police sald the youths had at-

I Hardware Swallower Flees Gary Hospital

Surgery Removes Most of Material Taken in Protest—Except Razor Blades

GARY, June IT (UP)—Police and hospital officials to-

day sought an unidentified man who ran away after an operation which removed almost a pound of hardware he swallowed to protest his arrest.

A spokesman at Mercy Hospital said the man, whom he declined to identify, had swallowed:

Five small bed springs. Six double-edged razor blades. Twelve pieces of flexible steel from bed supports, Nine pieces of bent wire. Two crushed light bulbs. One crushed salt shaker, Four needles. . Three safety pins. Three spoons. An aspirin box. # tJ ” ’ » » THE MAN swallowed the assortment of hardware last March while being held in jail. He said he did it to protest “the trumped-up charges” on which he claimed he was being held. He was released from jail after a subsequent investigation cleared him of guilt. A week ago, he began suffering from pains in his

abdomen and was taken: to-the hospital where doctors oper:

ated to remove the material. The surgeons managed to retrieve most of the metal except for a few razor blades and several pieces of wire which had moved too far into his digestive tract. Then they sewed him up and began feeding him a diet of cotton fiber, mashed potatoes and sulfa drugs. » ” . p » » -

YESTERDAY, while still convalescing, the patient left the hospital without an official release from the doctors. Hospital officials asked police to help find him—and— bring him back so they could be sure he'd recover properly. They said the only explanation the man gave for swallowing the articles was: “I was fo mad ‘about being tossed in jail that I guess I went a little crazy.’

and charged with giving Gold highly-classified information on a t | secret wartime explosive. He will] n e nsi e * THREE: David Greenglass, 28, Of Th T a former Army non-commissioned © { m £8

York yesterday. Greenglass, who | The Indianapolis Children’s Museum has nearly 1000 pre-

pared exhibits which may .be borrowed by religious groups for display, Emma Rivers Milner, Times Church Editor, reports. Also other church events , .. Pages 4 and

J data. Katherine Cleaver, first petticoat prexy of the Advertising

Club of Indianapolis, classifies two scholarships to the University of Southern California ‘among the “lucky breaks” of her career. Her rise to success is outlined in “Hoosier Profile.”

County Playhouse last night. Henry Butler's review of the play is slightly stormy also. .....o.ovnnvnrveinnnn. Page “I define middle age roughly as the period between 1 21 and 110,” say the authors of the fun-poking book, “How to Guess Your Age.”...... FAR were seuvae Eire vor Page What price sanity, eh?” Robert Musel interviews novelist Gerald Kersh who says he does his best writing when he’s out of his mind." Other Book Page features include a review of the biography of former jazz king Mister Jelly. Roll Morton. and. a.sculpture.. piece; by A Herron Art School BrBAUALE. ryan rnin yieia Page

{ Peter Edson reports that Crawfordsville Busitions leaders

c.are. planning a- political education and reform movement similiar to Anderson's American Guard, The Hoosier Forum, a Memo to Congress and columns by Earl

- Richert and Ludwell Denny are on the Editorial Page..Page 10] “Comedy, Comanches and ‘Caged’ will head tHe first-run

film line-up for the coming week.” R. K. Shull previews next week's movies. A horse has been hired to impersonate Gary Cooper in an underbrush sequence. . . . Erskine Johnson. . .. ......... sire Svea RETR Page

Bourne. Mr. Bourne gets {| Homer E. Capehart Jr., son of Indiana's senior Senator,

will wed Harriet Holmes this afternoon in Sweeney Chapel, Butler University Bridge results . . . a midriff sun ‘suit pattern . . . on the Women's Page.ii...: ie. Page

dled in the courts. Two-time losers to the weather man, the Tribe hopes to

take -the-Kansas-€City-Blues tonight.- Complete" ore

news on the Sports Page............... beensens Rag Amusements .......... FP Erskine Johnson .....,... Births, Deaths, Events, Hoosier Profile .........: : Ship Movements ...... .2 Mrs. Manners .......»... 2 Books +. ov wr wns FR MOVER tessa icine, Bridge ..... sesasnrsrvnsn 3 Obituaries ......... sesene 2 Church News ......00... 4, 5 Pattern ......... shessnes 3 COMICS ©. itasssesrnesss 14 Rafe ..........: crvnress B Crossword .cesvscseesssss 8 Side Glances ...vvev0v04:10 Editorials +.eev.sviin. s10 Boclety .......iieivndienee 3 FOrUm sivsnnsinvserrsinslO Bports .........cceenusaee B Gardening rtresigereeeed Women's Sianesmsenner se 3

LATEST IN SPORTS | Fire, Blasts Hit U. S. Army Depot

{tended a dance last night at {Tonys Bait House -in Hamilton 4 joer and were driving toward | Indianapolis. {| Mr. Green was the last of five, {sons born to Carl and Nellie Green. Four other boys died in ichildhood. The elder Greens came, ito Indianapolis Sunday from {South Carolina to live with their,

son. who moved: here a. year ago;

an Worked as Mechanic | Mr, Green was a mechanic for) {Cecil's Auto Bales, 1718 Roosevelt Ave. He was a navy veteran of| - | three years' service. Young Golden, #n of the senior| Clarence Goldens, attended Technical High School and has been working in a restaurant recently. {He and Mr. Green left their] {homes about 8: 30 hm.

Chl 53 Greets City at 5a. m.

37-Degree Drop In 12-Hour Period

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 88 mr Bh. 0.8m... 54 A . 58 11a m..55 8 a us 58 12 (Noon) 85 9a m.. 53 1p. m.. 56

——— a Sar erates Smeaton te i Ae A es et A

The mercury shot down to a | chill 53 degrees af 5 a.m. today | {after sizzling at an even 90 yes-| | terday afternoon. The 37- -degree| | drop came in a little more than! {12 hours, Many citizens donned topcoats {and sweaters as cold air swept jdown from Canada in the wake! {of a violent “electrical thundertstorm at dusk yesterday. The weatherman predicted a gradual! warming -up this afterinoon but sald the temperature. ‘would remain under 80 degreea. Last night's storm was an encore performance to the one) which struck the city at almost the same hour Thursday. | A brilliant display of vertical (lightning lit up the horizon, accompanied by driving rain and winds that reached a velocity of| {35 mph in some sections, with guests up to 45 mph 50 mph. Winds at Danville Winds up to 50 mph. were reported in Danville at the peak of

A freak accident as a result of 5 the storm sent 13,000 volts of electricity through the body of a Richmond policeman and left him

- Slater, 36, fled with her 1l-year-2iih critica) conqition 14 Reid Me old son Roland as flames Tore ing earlier were found Sate atter| ’ 'aq high in the one-story frame cot- fleeing their . homes autoOfficer Richard Wambo was hig fooblle and foot.

morial Hospital.

shocked when he attempted to (move, traffic victim Willlam Red-

eturn rning From Dance.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffics Daily

— —————

Idiahapoiic Indians. Issued

\ Cat Hi sin Politics | eeps Foot i in oor |

Latvian Refugee Flees Red Terror:

90, Now Safe With Children. Here

Finds ‘Wondrous

Peace’ in America

By GALVY GORDON FULFILLMENT of age-old destiny in a Baltic grave or to live put her time remaining In Indianapolis? That was the question faced by one ‘of Indianapolis’s new-

est residents, 90-year-old Mrs. =

Bertha Ziberts, Latvian refugee from the Russian lash, who arrived in the city yesterday, The care-worn, stooped, but proud citizen of Jalgava, chief

| inland city of Latvia, wrestled

with the question’ many months, Devotion of her two childre August, 52 and a daughti Ella, 51, brought her the latter choice and with them to Indlanapolis. When the Russians marched into her city In late 1940 for the avowed purpose of ‘protecting” the Baltic Sea, Mother

df 22 years before, provided well for his beloved Bertha. » » ~ ; SHE OWNED an apartment house. Her two unmarried children were prosperous in the operation of a small grocery store. } In a few days, Red “protec-

tion” turned into a reign of -

terror. The apartment was seized, the store confiscated. The Slavic “big heart,” however,’ permitted’ the family, stripped of earnings and possessions of decades, to find ‘¢mploynient’ in another store. The trio worked long hours for the: privilege of sleeping in the store's back room. And they considered themselves fortunate. Other friends had no roofs overhead, slept in woods

or surrounding hayfields. o

CUSTOMERS sappered one by one. Long standing friendships dissolved as scores of neighbors were spirited away to Sibeéria’s frozen wasteland. The Ziberts themselves were on the suspect list for their devotion to God and the Lutheran

| Church,

It was an act of mercy, the family declared, when occupying Germans took them with their forces, retreating before the second great spread of Stalin's forces to the west. The children came close to being Russian victims again as

they dickered for permission with the Germans to take their aged mother along. fa 8 » A YEAR AGO, friends in a displaced persons camp in Ger-

many, which the Ziberts called -

home, brought them news.

TE WEA the possibility of

strong, healthy, politically-ac-ceptable refugees going to America, land of the living. But the children refused to leave without their mother. While they argued with resettlement authorities, they wrote scores of letters to the Indiana Lutheran Synod.

The Hoosier branch of the

church made an all-out effort to surmount the obstacle and coveted visas arrived eight months later. ; PE n » GRIEF STAMPED in the deep lines on the face of

Safe ‘at last . . . Berta Ziberts, 90 (center), flanked by her daughter, Ells, 51, and son, August, 52.

Mother Ziberts comes from a variety of reasons: Death of ber youngest daughter, followed in eight years oy the passing of her husband; brutality and near starvation at the hands of the Mongolian

Germans, and, finally, rigorous life in a DP camp. Most of all, they came from a promise that will never be fulfilled. A promise to join her

husband and countless genera- |

tions of her family in a family cemetery in Jalgava. Today in bandana and traditional costume -of —~Jaigava,; Mother Ziberts sits in her new home in Indianapolis. She Ia too old to learn English. Her eyesight is too weak to permit reading or needlework,

But to her has come won- |

drous peace

] Escape Blaze Two Women Die as Flood

At Kernel's Lake

- Storm Indirect Cause

Of Fire at 2 Cottages

escaped from

VRE AR ars ra EA veal ya enn Page 7 the storm with considerable dam- tages at Kernel's Take near Clerage to trees and telegraph wires. mont early today during a’ fire

storm.

Hits Seven Ohio Towns

.Four-Hour Cloudburst Leaves Area of 25 Square Miles Nearly Inundated

CROOKSVILLE, O., June 17 (UP)—A deluge of muddy water DalS, Including the presidency of swirled through seven towns in three southern Ohio counties today| Five children and two adults following a four-hour cloudburst that left a 25-square-mile area two blazing cot- 8lmost completely flooded. One woman was drowned when the flash flood swept through her home at nearby Tropic and another woman died of a" heart attack in Roseville when docindirectly caused by last night’s‘tors were unable to make their way through the swift-moving

Her hair singed, Mrs. Gwen Water.

tage.

Her screams roused neighbors | dick, 20, Milton. Mr. Reddick as fire spread to the adjoining.

3 “Was struck by an automobile cottage “where t2-year-old Mrs.

whilé repairing high tension wires Josephine Lahr and her four blown down bw the wind, The children were sleeping. They es-

offiger received the shock when caped without injury.

the! of his cap came in contact with a power line. In Terre Haute, a truck driver,

Dan Kinnaman, told police that | The fire broke out shortly ter

Lights In the Hilltop section on the south shore of the lake wers

{cut off by the storm at 7 p.

{lightning struck the street di-| {power was resumed about 3a. m

‘rectly in front of his truck caus-| Indianapolis fire officials said ‘hel, ing him to hit a parked car and blaze apparently was caused by|

9. crash into the plate glass front of a super-market.: | The electrical storm | caused {widespread damage in Case 8 County. Electrical service was ini terrupted in Logansport as 2 Lutiity poles toppled-tm the wind. 8

an overloaded electrical circuit Cottage Destroyed

estimated at $9500 hy Mrs. Ray-| mond Brisentine, owner of 10 cot-

thrown

Beveral families reported miss-

Miners Escape

Miners working in the big Mis-| eo ithe hear Here escaped from the shaft when one of them dis- named Otha Scott covered water coming in the main ‘agreed today. entrance.

Prisoner Flees Headquarters ‘A-la Houdini

ESC APE ARTIST Houdini had | ference with State Chairman imothing: ow-<¥ SHpPery “Wtspect Ham To Preitter RIF GOV. local police Made known his decision.

. Scott, 25, of 1823 Massachusetts

Dirt barracades were quickiy Ave, slipped out of a virtual

| slight.

The body of Mrs. Alice Adrian, |

up and only a small “gtrajghtjacket” at police head-| |amount of water poured Into the|quarters today. Seven officers) { shaft-Damage, officials sald, was present were left scratching their {eollective heads.

They don’t quite know how the!

50, a semi-invzlid; was found in| prisoner did it. a tree after the water receded ‘this morning. Mrs. Adrian was explained, something like this: swept away when the water The Slater coltage was de- poured through her house while! |stroyed and the Lahr's was par- her husband, John, and neigh-| ox tially wrecked. Total damage waa bors were moving furniture to higher ground.

It happened phlice hesitantly

SCOTT was ational for ques-

tioning about a larceny ml Acre, Oil Heat,

morning at —439--W.—Nortihr — §

Mrs. Stella Owen, 60, died of Patrolmen Donald Murphy and § Suburban {tages In the area. She credited | a heart attack when her doc- Carl Williams put him in the paA Mother at 10 -

Wayne Township and Indianap-| tor was unable to get through the trol wagon.

CHARLESTON, Miss., June 17 0lis fire crews with preventing, high water SurTounding her Rose-|

(UP)--Ten-year-0ld Sarah Lee {Moore and her’ three-week-old baby were doing fine today. County health officials said the young girl gave birth to the pre-

mature infant May 25 in an old: ‘old Joan Lahr has had for four the floodAlthough it was lying on,

tenant farm house.

on eye-dropper feedings In a, make-shift incubator, warmed {with heated bricks.

(years, The child was reported thriving a bedr

spread of flames.

Insurance partly covered the

loss,

Spared by the flame and water

was—a=prayerbook which 18-year-

oom dresser which was scorched and soaked, the book

| was. untouched.

Yo eet I ae VOORHEESVILLE, N. Y., June termined what started the fire. ooiner or To oo 11 next Call Bridges Stateless’ a

WORLD-WIDE NEws [27 (UP)—Two warehouses at the They were being fanned by

trong wind.

miles away.

Black clouds of smoke poured] NEWPORT, R. 1, June 17 (UP) | a om the building as fire fighters. —Capt. Robert Hudson raylor, FEATURES FOR jexplosions which could be heard!from Albany, Schenectadly, Guild- 42, planning officer at the U. 8. born Harry Bridges as a stateless

alae MELBOURNE, Australia, June! INAVY MAN SHOOTS SELF {17 (UP)-—Immigration Minister until 11 p. m. Harold Holt said today that the

were una and escaped the flood by climbing trees.

ville home,

Many Climb Trees

Thousands of residents in the

The paddy wagon arrived at {11:15 a*m. in the enclosed courts! yard at police headquarters. Officer Williams said four pris! rich coal-mining and pottery-mak- Oners left the wagon and that four ing area fled their homes before Prisoners was the number he! waters, Many refugees escorted to the second floor of ble to reach high ground the police station.

But when he looked around in|

the turnkey's office, there were

This pottery-making city of Only three:

3000 and nearby Roseville (1400) were hit hardest by the Houde burst, which began at 6 p. (Indianapolis - time) and

government regarded Australian- TRUMAN STARTS CRUISE

se A RH

NRA on he

» n » A

OTHER officers, however, {declared they saw only three prisDe oners leave the paddy wagon and (head upstairs with Mr. Williams. | Police believe Scoft may have, istayed in the wagon, lying on

WASHINGTON, June 17 (UP) the floor; as other prisoners de-|

THE FAMILY. es started in warehouse Salem rushed to the depot. {suicide during the night by shoot- ship was revoked yesterday. Mr. the Presidential yacht Williams-| . IT'S ALL IN No. 8, 8, Re to an adjoining! “The whole of one building ing himself in the temple. it was! Holt refused to prejudge any burg shortly before noon today . THE SUNDAY TIMES ER in flames : he other is burn- announced today. A Mie gave attempt to to return ? him to his native/ for a week-end enlise onthe : pinto ls sad. i Twas ot do ling,” one witnefs said. . ime Fesson for the suicide. {land. Potomac. i

oR Rh 0

|erland Center, Altamount and Naval War College, . committed person. Bridges’ American citizen. ~-President Truman left aboard parted.

When the wagon was parked

in the police garage, he have let himself out dnd thr

i ope ne snr

Wil Not Sek

i | York state, retired from the

| nal Revenue Bureau today to pere

As Governor

Cites Poor Health;

Way Still Open for Presidential Bid ALBANY; N.Y, Jine 1T (UP) —~ Gov. Thomas E, Dewey, twice Republican presidential candidate and two-term governor of New

wars today. 24 as But he left the way open for ] yet another try at the White House,

£53 Hh fig i

gd of

three Hin was

g i

tk i

{Investigation confirmed. it. Finances Important The governor said the financial future of his family also played an important part in his decision, His $25,000 salary as was comparable only to that of deputy major of New York. He found it difficult to make ends meet, | . He had had many private of {ters during the last year and a

large universities, an insure Pn company, one business coms pany and a number of offers sug= gesting law partnerships, he

Gov. Dewey made known his ~ |decision to Republican state leaders yesterday, and he also talked with members of his cabinet. Hwo of them prominently men[tioned as successors—Lt. Gove Joe R. Hanley and State Compe trotler Frank C, Moore. Mr. Hanley held a long cone

‘Senate Crime Probers

To Get Income Tax Data WASHINGTON, June 17 (UP) —President Truman directed the | Treasury Department and Inter

{mit the Senate Crime Investigat~

ling Committee to inspect income (and other | tax returns.

5-Rm. Brick,

5-RM. BRICK—1 ACR! heal JH ge. 3.5 ofl Hi'sim9 MERIDIAN REALTY NI-6090 ® If you have been dreaming of moving out to the edge of town someday ... + where the cool breezes blow and you have a bit of ground ...perhaps the above home will interest you. It's just one of many - advertised in the classified colums of today's under classifica-