Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1950 — Page 2

As Arsena Camp for * Dot Hoosier State;

Indiana . . . the

, Training War No. 2%’

Military Installations, Munitions Plants

Uniforms Everywhere

By GALVY GORDON Texas of World War II and 14. That's what Defense Department planners are beginning to say when they refer to the Hoosier state, jam-packed with military

installations of all shapes, sizes and descriptions as well as strategic

war plants, Half a decade ago World Wa.

disarmed, dismantled, destroyed:

and sold many of its precious “side-arms.” Indiana was among ‘the few states in which many installations were left intact.

Corps. Live a Dual Life

Also included in Indiana's gar-

ganized reservists. The Indiana Air National Guard and its 800 airmen and officers

live a dual life. They are state

forces under Commander-in-Chief Gov. Schricker. At the same time

they are a step ‘closer to federal Prices are heading down, however. |nI5t program, " the analysis said.| 4 service, draw most of their commands from 10th Air Force Head- — Quarters

Selfridge Field, Mich;

rison, fot Imifiediately available,

r II ground to a halt. The nation

a | a Coe

Papa's Pocketbook

Today the bulk of the state's : . fighting forces is the 7000-strong Ww Indiana National Guard and in . organized reserves of the Army,

Navy, Air Force and Marine

. Meat Prices Are Only Bright Spot ‘By TED KNAP : “That battered oid family budget

“ure some “men serving has started to take ANOTHEr Dear: signed fo cover throughout the nation and unor- ing.

|. Pummeled by inflation of World {War II and after, pap’s pocket{book is getting some new punches {from the Korean conflict, And it {looks as if the pounding will step up in the next few months. Meat

That's the gist of a Times survey on price activities since the Korean outbreak, seven weeks ago

at gp ERA, ou BEVEN Weghsa a .and.-Continental.. Alr. Command..{0day, The situation, briefly, is

Washington.

Its fighter squadrons and serv-|

[this: - > Retail prices have already risen

Pe Russian Trap

Issues Warning To 450 Groups.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UP)—The State Depa

ation yas “warned 450 _American.®

organizations, g ov er nment agencies and U. 8S. foreign missions against falling for

holm Peace petition,

is being given the widest possible leirculation among American groups at home and abroad, the department the... Stockholm

#4, o”

and a *

islon and obstruction.” : “The Soviet government is at-

outrageous invasion of

offensive to “a farce.”

{ Exploits Fear |

ace Petition! Of ‘Phony’ Plea |

the Communist-inspired Stock-! In an elaborate analysis that|’

influential|;

tempting to conceal its direction of the “Stockholm (petition) cam-| paign and to camouflage the fact that this is exclusively a Commu- :

It added that the “naked resort to force by Communism in the South | Korea” reduces the Moscow peace |

two fields, the On foods, building materials and : BO iors: But Field at Indi- | few other items. hie Separtment 8 analysis said anapolis, and the larger Baer Wholesale Prices Up I fanatures t ie campaign for Field, Ft. Wayne. Also at Stout Wholesale prices have spiraled § 8" is “ _— : e Stockholm petl-| Field 18 the state's only protec- Upward on practically all com-| Jolt 1 Seany designed to ex-| tive radar warning control sys-| moditles, and they are expected |” . er oviet benefit” such uni- | tent set up, although several ad-| to bring retail raises between now, on a) Sentiments as: { ditional units are planned {and fall, with the exception of! : The fear of war and : ‘meats. {atomic bombardment; Mostly Trained Men |. Prices have been inching up.all| TWO: Concern among. peoples As in most states, the majority year put the rise in the past seven Of the west that rearmament may | of Indiana's forces are trained weeks has been in leaps. lower their Itving standards and men, veterans of World War Im That big Sunday dinner you're saddle them with “unendurable” and I, and skilled In the art of having today—it- costs about 10 taxes,

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12 Named for Appearance, Manner

sting

Find in Her Bed . TFORD, Conn, Aug. 12 When Puffing Away at a Stogie : Artists have selected the 12 most distinguished cigar smokers, -

circus grounds. ~

Photo by John "Are those elephants drink

ing

Faster ‘Moving Acts Mark This Year's Circus Showing

Big

Spectacular, With Plenty

Of ‘Old Whambo-Zambo' Wows Fans

By DICK SHULL

The oldstérs got just as big a bang as the kids out of the 1950

killing. They are a potent force. per cent more than it did the SunSummer training sessions and|qay hefore Korea. Chief reason ence-a-month or more drill nights iy the boost in meat prices. Here

keep organized reserve units in| *erack” fighting condition. Active Army ORCs in the state . mumber more than 15,000. All federal forces in the state ~ take orders or are administratied in with the Indiana Military District with headquartors at the half-idle 10/900-man - eapacity Ft. Harrison, less than 15 milea from the heart of In-

dianapolis, Almost all public schools . of secondary or higher curricilum feature active ‘spit-and-polish” Reserve Officers Training Corps units. Some of the private schools, such as Culver Military Acad.emy, rank among the best in the mation with their ROTC programs. : 3 Coast Guard an ‘Orphan’ «The Coast Guard is one of the %orphan” forces in Indiana. It's sole base is at Michigan City. About 200 Coast Guardsmen who “are controlled by the Treasury ent office at Chicago now are in the state. Naval Reserve units are stationed in the larger cities of the state with command function emanating out of the

Indianap- tail prices have fallen two to]

are some average price comparisons: ~ 7 Weeks Ago Now Spring Chicken

$49 $ 65 Round Steak $08 $1.10 Pork Chops $60 $ 50 Bacon $50 . 8.73 Hamburger - $30 $59 Chuck Roast $49 $ 63

Most other meat prices at local

now receiving the analysis include!

million persons, The Defense Department alse has jumped into the counter-at-tack against Russia's “peace of-| fensive.” A special Information| pamphlet prepared for-early dis tribution to American fighting men states flatly that the reall

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stores showed the same trend. Other food items have also risen.

enemy in North Korea is international communism,

Bread f& up a penny to 18 cents and regular milk has risen one! cent to 19 per quart. Trend Being Reversed Don't holler at the butcher. He'll tell you, and he's right, that wholesale meat prices jumped 7.4/| per cent from June to July, and, several more per cént in August. That makes it nearly 20 per cent higher than in June of 1949, ac-|

cording to national statistics by! the Labor Department. But now the American meat institute reports that wholesale price declines are beginning to show in butcher shop prices. In Chicago, which the institute

regards as a typical market, re-|

olis White River Naval Armory. 12 per cent from their July peaks,

Other units are at Gary, Evans- the institute sald.

ville, Ft. Wayne, South Bend, |

5 Per Cent Average

And Armed Forces movie thea-! ters are showing an inf tional picture entitled nism” which portrays the goal of| international communism as the destruction of the United States.

Even Footprints

farm, labor, veterans, women’s and!

Jnforma-ipje of years ago # Commu-| with his

{finger stand on a glass ball.

The 450 private American groups| version of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

With the accent on acts new to this country and two sparkling

interested.

appeared here dressed up with new routines, such as Unus. He's the guy that made the pages of a na-. tional pictorial 3 magazine a cou- &

one-

This season, he goes one bet-

before

civic 0 new “spectaculars” for color, the circus lasted two and a half hours. bined rganizations with a com-| Throughout the performance, it was paced faster than in previous membership of about 50| years with lots of the old whambo-zambo to keep the small fry

Some of the acts which Bavel . - : were ait! INISSOUIF S

Wildcat Strikers

Transit Workers Taken Off Payroll

CHICAGO, Aug. 12 (UP)—The

{wildcat walkout that has stopped

- ® | public transportation in St. Louis Fred Hanlon {in

defiance of an anti-strike law. | Bus drivers for 16 New York

Information received here from ter and puts a cane: in between lines ended a three-day wild-

abroad, officials said, discloses himself and the glass ball, then, have twirls five hoops on his limbs. “signed” the petition by putting This all takes place atop a seven-

that African natives notches on long sticks. Other! signers in various parts of the |world have indicated. support by| foot-prints, fingerprints, and X-| marks. . Communist sources claim that 213470,566 individuals have| signed the various Stockholm pe-| titions thus far. This is regarded as a wide exaggeration, although it is know that mililons of signatures have been gathered. |

Many signers, however, have

Terre Haute, Muncie, Michigan | The bureau of labor statistics changed their minds after discov-|

City and Anderson. Organized

Per approximately 6000.

¥Gyrene” Indianapolis 16th In-|

. fantry Battalion, slated to “face, ..¢ packing firms, attributed

westward” Aug. 28, have other

of fivelering the true nature of the pe-| Dreams Come True, tition. The State Department has| for children from 9 to 90 and 2| been advised that in Copenhagen, to toothless, which is about cor-| rect. In typical Ringling fashion,

{has reported an average “men in blue” in the state MU” | por cent decline in. the

wholesale |

{prices of all meats, the institute Marine units, including the 500- jp fo

The institute, a representative

the high July meat prices to lo

stations in South Bend and FL .....\v huying by some people

Wayne, with a total strength of more than 1500.

at a time of seasonally low supplies and exceptionally strong de-

The. 434th. Troop. Carrier Wing 4»

at Atterbury Air Force Base, CoJumbus, is the stat's sole organhoa ROTI RR by the 1400 airmen and officers of the 434th is currently ‘being used as a summer training base for 500 Afr National Guardsmen from Minnesota. Atterbury to Be Busy Camp Atterbury, under firm Pentagon orders to receive 25,000 _ troops by October and be ready —for 10,000 men of Pennsylvania's ational Guard Division by Sept.

prvation, about the isze of Indianapolis. A 3000-strong civilian work force will whip the camp into peak wartime shape in the near future, . Other strategic installations in the Arsenal of the’ Midwest inplude: : Allison Division, General Motors, Indianapolis . . . largest producer ‘of jet, turbo-jet and turbo-prop “aircraft engines and tank transmissions in the nation. Naval Ordnance Plant at Infilanapolis. Naval Ammunition Depot. at Crane. Jeffersonville Quartermaster

pot. . Indiana Arsenal at Charlestown. Jefferson Proving, Grounds Ordnance Testing) at Madison. Other. vital manufacturing plants now working on war orders or capable of converting to fulltime production overnight are too numerous to mention. In mothballs, though probably not for long, are Freeman Air ¥orce Base at Seymour, already . partially dismantled ‘When “stop” orders ¢ame through last week, and the 2100-acre Bunker Hill Naval Air Training Base at

Indiana is doing its part.

Democratic Veterans Yo Plan ‘Campaign

Campaign plans will be out-|

"Mined by Marion County Demo-

eratie War Veterans at a meet-| ing tomorrow night at the Indi-| ana Democratic Club, 211 N. Dela-

ware Bt. : % The organization, composed of 1800' veterans, will form one of the top units of the Democratic " Party's battle ®f the ballots this fall.

. Sheldon A. Key, president, will de at the meeting and Tony J ‘conduct an entertaln-

ST,

18 a rambling 43,000-4¢rE Fes

Because there are few middle-

men between farmer and grocer, 1 a SH REG 3 4

BU CRASH Rr other commodities,

In boosts may not hit the public's pocketbook for several weeka, of even months, ’ That is the studied opinion of

Prof. George W. Starr, director of the bureau of business r search at Indiada University,

. * i ‘Little David’ In Oxygen Tent ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Aug. 12 (UP)—"Little David” Walker, who said, God asked him to be an levangelist, today lay critically ins {jured under an oxygen tent after {smashing into a water skiing. } . | “Doctors said. the 15-year-old {youth's condition was “slightly {improved but still eritical.” Little

{David suffered a fractured jaw,

brain concussion and head lacerations yesterday when he fell into the wooden piling. - He had turned to wave at his mother who was on shore taking motion pictures when he lost his balance and tumbled into the water. Little David was skiing be"hind ® speedboat piloted Hy his father, the Rev, Jack L. Walker, i NORWAY GIVES SHIP OSLO, Norway, Aug. 12 (UP) —-Norway has placed a 10,000-ton ship at the disposal-of the United Nations in Korea, the foreign office announced today. The ship was. not identified. io

wholesale [ANd effort.

piling while

¢ "Supply Association;

r example, papers had to quit publishing names of those who! wanted to withdraw from the pe-

“All kinds of nice people are getting sucked in,” ment official sald. only

note. It suggests measures

It “says

Outavith. nama tATRRUS.. LUIS

” RAL R EAE “extreme” . {undertakings, such as dispersion! lof cities and construction of yas® fashioned along the same lines,

foot stand.

¢at work stoppage of their own accord, | Gov. Forrest Smith ordered all 13200 streetcar and bus operators

Bubbling over with more en- in gt, Louis taken off the payroll thusiasm than a sailor on a freeiynder a state law which prohibits

| beer party, Francis Brunn goes strikes against public utilities. He

through his juggling routines inigajq the state will not negotiate jig time. He has his act paced 80 with “lawless elements.” .

fast the average watcher ends up|

Bus drivers on 16 lines in the

with a case of tired eyeballs. His Bronx and midtown Manhattan is: basically the same routine asicalled off their strike, staged with

last year.

Main Parade

According to the program, the Of the grievances whi

{the opposition of their union | leaders, and agreed to arbitration ch caused

main parade of the show, “When |the walkout. Their stiike forced

entrance in

into the

TROON BNA Th NAIR NOMA A Elephant Feafur The finale for the big show was

itition, because the list was too! color, representing a conglomeration of things dear to Americans. Floats and more floats, one depart- girls, clowns and animals, pour tent and around

Practicality is the book's key arena. Everything from + boys’ nightmare of goblins to the

RELNAROR, 8. S8 otmpmessarerust amends wong tio: RA ¢

the t tittte 2"

" is designed 450,000 persons to seek other

2 means of transportation. Contracts between AFL

{unions in Swift, Armour, Cudahy and Wilson were put on a day-to-

with day basis.

A definite agreement was reached to end a two-day walk-

crafts at two atomic projects at ~ Oak Ridge, Tenn., but union offix ? 3 OR dissatisfied pickets attack beat him. ; ; John L. Lewis, United Mine

underground facilities, 1s beyond only elephants instead of floats Workers ‘Chief, raised a touchy

its scope.

were the predominant feature. If In telling planners to gear for you can picture a bigtop full of

by reporting the union's health

several different kinds of atomic elephants, with a girl in zebra-| and welfare fund is running out

shows that even under the best

weirs fetense conditions At Teast 25 per’

cent .of the enemy's attacking planes will get through. |

. » Six Attending » » Trade Meéting | Six men from Indianapolis are attending the National Institute for" Commerical and Trade Organizations Northwestern University, Evanston, Il]. They are: A N. E. Bess, executive secretary of the Indiana Restaurant Association; Willlam H. Book, executive vice president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce; Harry P. Cooper Jr., secretary of the National Association of Mutual. -Insurance--Companies; -CarlW. Nagle, secretary-treasurer of {the Indiana Lumber & Builders’ Robert W. Palmer, staff member of the C. of C., and Robert W, Walton, sec- | retary of the Indiana Association of Ice Industries. 3 i

The session opened today and | will continue through Friday.

C10. BLACKLISTS 67 WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UP) The. CIO today put 67 members of Congress on its election black- rashed head-on during the rush

_ enemy bombers can get past our éan get the general drift of the air defenses. Military experience ctose-out—

ficiaries. He said that coal produc-

Brazil Rail Crash Kills 8, Injures 50

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,

Aug. 12 (UP) — At least eight persons were ‘killed and 70 injured when two commuter trains

list for failure to vote “right” nour today near the suburban on a single issue important to payuna station. :

the labor organization so far in

Fifty of the injured were taken

the 81st Congress. All but four te hospitals, 13 of thém in a seri-

were . Republicans,

make it,

Sen.

Robert ous condition. Rescue crews were A. Taft, (R, 0.), did not quite still /searching the wreckage for | . additional casualties.

_ jarrest on charges of “lascivious| TRUPIE

{waited on the street below until

Times Staff Photographer. | returned home about midnight. : it or bathing in it?" asks Water Boy Jay Halstaad, 6, of 1736 N. King Ave., as he apprehensively | “counts the “buckets a Tad must fill ¥o keep the ponderous pachyderms happy and earn his way into the Big Top on the Speedway

ego

Mr. Chapple urges on the basis of Mr. Malik’s state-

Sh 00 Mrs. Hilda West Douglas is the|i,;, she's lived many lives before

early Thursday morning -after out is Edgar 8. DeWolfe, of New FP Ianp

come. York. them,” she said, “and I may make the grade as a lama, if I'm patient,”

r » ” x apartment for about three weeks. Lillian Peyton watched New York City employees for half

Find Man in Bed ’ > an hour terday as they bailed Vice squad police said they muck Bn Wy sewer. Then she asked them what they were looking for, It was a ring, they told her. : “Oh, I found a Hog near here esterday,” she said. . a : Xr wag the one tiey were Took Mrs Mary

American Museum of Natural ‘Miss Wilcox and Mr. Wheeler History and lives in a pleasan When they saw the lights go off,| they said, they rang the doorbell. clad in pajamas and a dressing t gown, answered the door, Officers | "8 for. x :

Manhattan.

Smith, oldest resident of Green-

* =» up, Ky. died

the warrant, -

about it—she’s cer-

“Pll get to Tibet in one of

Mrs. Gordon is a curator at the. - -

little apartment in the middle of =

. Po Wills Claxton:

entered and found Mr. Wheeler in her bed. : The charge of “lascivious carriage” dates back to colonial times and is used when a married man and an unmarried girl are found in a compromising situation. Miss Wilcox, a graduate of Northfield Seminary, Northfield, ‘Mass: was a WAC ‘captain on recruiting duty during War II. Friends said she was plgmp when {she joined the force but had lost {weight and was now “shapely.”

It might have been a record for combat bombing missions when Staff Sgt. Hewitt P. “Buck” Dunn, Norfolk, Va., took part last week in a B-29 strike in Korea. It was his 106th mission—two in Korea and 104 in Europe in World War II. : » = »

From Ashland, Wis.,, editor John Chapple has asked that the Justice Department issue a warrant charging Jacob Malik, Rus-

age of 101. Smith’s 12 children are still alive, She is survived also by 91 grand. children, 234 great-grandchildren and 40 great-great-grandchildren,

NEW FATHER IS 9%

MONROE, Ga., Aug. 12 (UP)— A healthy, six-pound baby girl has been born to parents here whose ages total 140 years. The mother, Annie Mae Griffin, is 50 years old, Her husband, Roy Griffin, is 90.

|state cracked down today on a

and {CIO unions and the major meat

the whole troupe is fired from the Packers expired and negotiations salvos of splash and fOr 120,000 members of both

t--of - painters and -other AFL!

ed and

subject in the coal mine industry]

Following, the 5:30.D. 10, Abow,, mount of royalties needed. last night, the circus pulled up! stakes from its W. 16th 8t. loca‘tion and headed for Terre Haute! where it will play today.

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