Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1950 — Page 9
10 Pct.
Kills 503in © Ist Six Months
{i Rural Accidents
Account for 70% Of Hoosier Total -
Death on the highway struek| 503 Hoosiers during the first six, months of 1950—almost 10 percent’ more than last year. { More men, women and children were injured in highway accidents than ever befqre.
southwest corner of Senate and Washington Sts.
The lonely peanut vendor—with business slow he slumps hump-shouldered on his cart at the
accidents. These figures, released today by|
accompanied by a report that the| state’s traffic flow continues to be! above the previous record. Saturday was listed by the State Police as the “worst day”| for traffic mishaps, followed _|closely by Sunday. From 11 p. m. “ito 1 a. m. were the hours of the highest fatal accident Srequeneys 3% Killed Here
Gs Indianapolis, largest city in the] state, had the most traffic deaths| —34, For a similar period last year, the Capital City recorded 22 traffic deaths. The State Police also noted that | the majority of persons killed on the highways were in the older age brackets, from 65 and older. There were no traffic deaths recorded for teen-agers in the 16 to 19 group. One traffic fatality was recorded for for the 20 to 24 4 age group.
Ed Sovola,
author of ‘Inside Indianapolis,’ is on vacation.
4 Violent Deaths
Civil Rights?
By Robert C. Ruan Listed in State
: NEW YORK, Aug. 14—If the court “pleases, T would like to dissect the recent request of the government that Mr. Pdul Robeson turn in His passport, and in the same breath the jailing of Harry Bridges. Mr. Robeson, on the record, is a rabid ‘hater of the United States as it stands today, and for years a f{revent admirer of the Russian-Com-munist way. Bridges, an Australian, head of the CIO Longshore Union, has been convicted of perjury in swearing that he was not a Communist when he was up for citizenship in 1945. (This is a technical conviction. The perjury gimmick is the only weapon we have today to convict known Communists who slipped in under oath. You cannot convict a man for being one, buf you ¢an send him up for swearing that he ain't. Bridges also has a long record of sabotage-
“wtrKing, the latest big one being the lengthy tieup
that strangled Hawail,) -
Stock Platform Property
ROBESON, who has been endowed with more artistic and financial and physical gifts than the average high-living man of any race or creed, has constantly denounced the land of his birth and fomented troubles even among his own people. He is a stock property on any platform that contains Vito Marcantonio, titular chief of Harlem's Negro ghetto; Hen/'y Wallace, the backslid Rus-sia-lover, and any admitted or tacit Communists who feel a need tn) speechify in Mother Russia's cause, In clapping Bridges in jail (he was out on bail after a convictiot) the judge said he considered him ‘a menace to the nation in -a time of crisis. The same reasoning is applicable to the State Department structure of Robeson’s passport. The loud, liberal argument is that this is the land of the free and the home of the brave, where a man can rear back. and speak. his. piece, no _matter how vicious or noisy. We therefore deprive Robeson of a civil liberty in curtailing his right, as the passport says, freely to pass
“frontiers abroad.
3 Die in Traffic, ~dulent citizen, by court “decision, and therefore is M entitled to nothing except deportation to a coun- an, 60, Drowned “try which “won't take hin, and you can -bury-thd——Phree--traffic—fatalities—and—a+ guy for all anyhody cares. drowning yesterday added to the But Robeson is bound to raise a howl about state's toll of violent deaths in fascism in our midst, and it might be nice to re-/ August. flect that the land he so admires issues relatively) The dead: no passports to its own denizens and fewer to i outside peoples, in time of flagrant peace. That is| Jarry Hutchison, 68, Bass Junc why somebody coined the description “Iron Cur-| ! tain.” Even the admission of information is denied. = Then you might also reflect that we have been quietly at war with the Russians since all the wi. Spear rowed last night walkouts and vetos and Berlin blockades and the "hile swimming in the “Blue
|Hole” in the Muscatatuck River. verrun of China and the Russian- adminis. Re ie in Korea .,State police said. he apparently This friction has caused us fo YeVine our “economy ‘and reactivate a-draft and call -out-the: Marines and send boys to get shot in Korea. 2 mother and her six children This friction will likely result in a full-scale Were injured when two cars colmobilization of all our resources, from property toilided 10 miles north of Winamac. manpower. This friction give the government the Six Children Hurt ! right to uproot the pursuit of happiness for every-|
body in the national interest. Sw y {in a éar driven by Mrs. Fern
Revoke Rights Shannon 41, a neighbor. Mrs,
IF YOU CAN CALL a clerk from desk to Shannon and four of her children duty I think you can revoke Robeson’s right to Were slightly injured. Two other travel abroad. In Russia he would long ago have children, Julia, 5, and Judtith, 8, been shot, coldly, as a nuisance to the interest are reported to be in critical con-| of the state. Bridges, who has used labor for dition. sabotage, is worthy of isolation for the duration. Or for at least ds long as we extend the draft, depend on shipping, and jail idealists for the sin : of draft-ducking. minor injuries. It is regrettable, extremely, that it is no Mr. Hittle was killed at Wina-/| longer possible for every man to be an anarchist mac wien he stepped off one! on his own time, but we have long existed in a train into the path of another. state of war, which puts down the rights of the The aeath of Mr. Kahoe was “individual. If they can draft Johnny Jones, they the second resulting from a can shut up the protagonists of the state that truck-car collision ‘Baturday west Johnny Jones has been drafted to fight against. of Boonville. He died yesterday Hardships on the individual work both ways—/in a hospital at Boonville, except in the holy land of “Russia; Where they His wite;, Bernadette, was killed
Carl K. Kahoe, New Albany. Charles J. Hittle, 76, Kewanna, Ben Spear, 60, Vernon.
Mr. Hutchison was a passenger
The other driver, Norman Hun-| ' nicutt, 17, North Judson, suffered! ; i
I Ta ridges does not count, especially. He. is a frau-
only -worlg one way. : when Mr. Kahoe's pickup. truck
Hoosier Horous
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—The: government. has _ ‘slapped a $50,000 fine upon itself for contempt. Now it’s got to borrow the money from the gov-
" ernment to pay the government's ‘bailiff.
If that sounds peculiar, you ain't heard nothing yet. Even the lawyers are confused. Nothing like this has happened in all American history and, as you won't-be surprised to learn, it involves
the Reconstruction Finance Corp,
~ This mightiest lending organization “slipped. about $4,000,000 to the Waltham Watch Co. a few years back in a vain effort to keep it ticking. The firm. went blooie anyhow. The RFC grabbed the assets. These included $500,000 in cash, 50,000 completed watches and 200,000 watch movements which needed cases before they could be strapped on wrists. ;
RFC Holds on to Cash.
THE U. 8, District Court at Boston, Judge George Sweenéy presiding, ‘at the same time was trying to reorganize the firm and get it out of bankruptcy. The legal snarl petween- all the opposing interests got so complicated that nobody but the judge could understand it. A few days ago he ordered the government's loan ‘agency to turn back to the trustees of the corporation all of its assets. The RFC gave up the watches and movements, ‘but it held on to the $500,000. The judge said fork that over, too. The RFC said no, sir, it was government money, not “WaANHaM cash.” Tt refused TIatly to" “obey the court’s order. ’ And there was Waltham with a -big pile of watches ready to assemble for the Christmas trade and no cash to hire watchmakers.
The Quiz Master
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ent SO. Judge. Sweeney cited the. Reconstruction) Finance Corp. for contempt of court, fined it Ct (d 0 $50,000 as punishment and announced that he’ d|
fix a second fine later to pay the firm for dam-
ages suffered, | I talked to a number of gents involved here, olin g in orea
but none of them was speaking for publica You & can’t blame "em for that; they feared frien =i ing contempt... Their. general - idea... 2 - Shader, CS — to be that they'd appeal Judge Sweeney’ 8 rites Parent ruling. If they do that, no telling when those Another Indianapolis oo has watches will be ready to sell. been. wounded in action in the| Korean War Zone.
The legal situation is what floors them. Here| s a U. 8. court, which forwards what fines it]
collects to the U. 8. Treasury. And here is a U. 8. Pfe. Richard corporation, which borrows what money it needs Stafford, son of from the same treasury. -. Mr. and Mrs,
Or it’s in one pocket and out the other, so o tar| as the -taxpayers are concerned. The fine legal points are beyond me but the law is clear that | nobody can sneer at a federal court, no even a federal corporation,” and get away with it.
412 E. 10th St.,| wrote home to-| day that he had] been wounded in| the right shoul-| der. According to the letter he was hit. July 26 while; {fighting with the 25th Division. |Mr. and Mrs. Stafford received: no |official word from the War Deartment.
More Care, Fewer Jams
IT ‘IS not for me to editorialize, but a number of the RFC’s critics, including Sen. J. William ~ Pfe: Stafford Fulbright (D., Ark.), long have held that it would | not be getting into constant jams like this if it! were a little more careful the way -it lends. the! taxpayers money. par “Others, INeTiamg "Jesse Yones, the “RFCE ox-| chairman, .claim the time has come. to give this Station Hospital at Yokohama, corporation a decent burial. I don’t know what Japan. Judge Sweeney thinks, but at this juncture I'd be ® = =
willing to hazard a" guess. ‘New Casualties | The Department of Defense to-
?2?2? Test Your Skill ?? day announced the following Hoo-
2 |sier casualties in Korea:
What is the Holy Crown of St. Stefan? It is Hungary's most venerated national treasure. Its upper part of gold plates supporting a cross (bent by accident) was given by Pope Sylvester II to King Stefan I, Hungary's first Christian king, nearly 1000 years ago. Fifty Hungarian kings have been crowned with the Holy Crown. A A it true that if a dog is born with a set of dew-claws it means that it is not a purebred? - Even the purest of dog strains have dew -claws, * They are those extra sets of claws that offen appear on dogs’ legs, SLR b
Was ‘Pocahontas ever presented at the Court -of King James? Pocahontas became the wife of John Rolfe, and within 10. years of. the founding of the Virginia eolony was presented at the Court of Ring James .@s Lady Rebecca.
| MISSING IN ACTION: - What was the first wedding held in the White| Pvt. Howard F. Cedars, son of House? 9 Oscar Cedars, Crawfordsville. It was during President Madison's administra-| Pfc. Everett T. Endris, son of tion, when Miss Todd—a relative of Mrs. Madison Mrs. Wilma A. Endris, Crown —became the bride of Rep. John G. Jackson of| Point. : Yugina : WOUNDED: ‘ 5S 0» Pfc. Merrill L. Liltpop, son of
: 1 For how long has it been the custom for the| Mrs. Emily Lillpop, Corydon. Marine Band to play at inaugurations? Pfc. William J. Osborne, son of At thé second inauguration of James Monroe (Mrs, Bonnie M. Osborne, Burnetts‘the Marine Band played at the entrance and exit ville, White County."
Pfc. “Stafford is in the 128th
Ha Sheromeyer os Son Of Indianq, Leads U
He Was to Have Retired in Year By GALVY GORDON Times Staff Writer PERU; Aug. 14—The boy whomore than 50 years ago ruined one of Mother Howard's deli-
cious cakes by spinning a top on it has since sprouted the
largest pair of wings in all Hoosterdom. He is Lt. Gen. George E.
Stratemeyer, wartime chief of-
staff on the Air Force, who today is commanding general of
| the Army Air Forces in the Far And virtuatly-seven- out-of 20...
Biss ponsibi ing and fro
of strategic t line dghter sup-
the Indiana State Police, were POrt of the slugging Marines and
Army ground Torees in - South Korea. : .. n MRS. RICHARD ‘A. HOWARD, hardy member of one of Miami County's pioneer families and herself 89 years old, has forgiven the childish prank, of her “other son.” —*t's-about-—the—only thi George ever did that was eve a little out of line,” she said. And the keen-witted Perumatron should know what she is talking about. She has known and loved like her own son the three-star airman since at the age of 4 he moved to Peru with his recently widowed mother. The families lived side by side for many years. Only sons of the two families, “Strat” and Richard R. Howard, now president of the Howard Sales Co. Indianapolis, carried a 600customer newspaper route for the old Chronicle in their adolescent days. They did well for themselves and for the Chronicle. v And when the late Charlie Winters, publisher, saw his
{-echanee he plugged both of them
for military academies. Due to his efforts, and those of a Sen-
ator-friend.of the family and the
Miss Nell Pefferman, cousin of the general, Strat was accepted for West Point. Dick, however turned down a similar chance to go to Annapolis. In the summertime the duo fished and swam and played on Miss Pefferman's nearby Mississinewa River Valley farm which boasts the coolest, Seas: est best-tasting spring water | Miami County. When Gen. Stratemeyer left
_eramps or a heart attack.| Peru following his last visit hi Mr. Hutchison -was -killed--and|-100k with him to the Pacific a.
gallon jug full of the “best water in the world.” » » ~
HERE ARE the salient |
dates and facts in the life of this tall soldierly-looking Hoogier general described by friends as “an Eagle Scout from the word go.” Following the death of his father, a wholesale milliner in the city of his birth, Cincinnati, O., Strat came to Peru. For a number of years his family occupied half of a double house at 135 E, 6th St, It was home town for his mother, the former Belle Rettig. : When she died three years ago, Gen. Stratemeyer flew his
- mother’s ashes from California
to the family burying ground here. > The local boy who directed air operations in the China-Burma-India Theater was graduated from West Point a | Li ]
y Spaatz, who also did well for - himself in the Air Force. Gen. €Carl-Spaatz was Air Force Chief of Staff before his retirement. Wings first came to Strat in 1916 on completion of aeronautics school in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. During World War I he was
‘a test pilot at Kelly Field, Tex., |
and later, served five years as; an air instructor as West Point. Still later he attended Command and General Staff School at Ft. Leavenworth, joined its
| faculty and went on to be
of the President. It was such a good idea that IL DUTCH OFFER TO FIGHT has been done ever since. ITF
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Old Testament called the Septuagint?
tion affirmed that the tramslation was made’ bhyoffered for service in Korea. The seventy emissaries from Jerusalem for Tie Getaehment will total about 400 II about 285 B. C.
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I'HE HAGUE, The Netherlands, = Aug. 14 (UP)—Army authorities, Why was ‘an early Greek translation of the said today that 330 men had vol-| |unteered in two days for the ma- . The Septuagint was so called because tradi-Tine and infantry companies to be |
» Estimate Less ‘Force War Effect on ~ Civilian Goods
Slight Tightening in Steel, Autos Seen; Rest to Be Plentiful
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UP) ~Government experts’ agreed today that the Korean War may not affect the production of civilfan goods as much as they first {expected Military and civilian economists, after a second look, came up. uh Shese. revised. Lredictions... A EVER output: = a needs will be stepped up from the ourrent level of 2 million Tons a year to only 5.5 or 6 million tons. AUTOMOBILES —C. E, Wilson, | president of General Motors, pre{dicted that auto production will be cut back only about 10 per cent {in 1051. He sald that manpower ~_ |shortages may be more serious - ~(than’any scarcity of steel.
2S LUMBER-=<THe Defense Departs: ment predicted that it will need |18 billion board feet in the next year, leaving 33.5 billion board - | feet for civilian use. Private in- , dustry experts gay this will be | enough. | TEXTILES -- Production facili {ties were described by industry {spokesmen to be sufficient to
U. S. Air
ages of nylon and bed linens, [they sald, are the result only of {scare buying. -FOOD-«No scarcities are anticiipated in any lines because of the
A general with a heart + + « Lt, Gen. George E. Stratemeyer. |huge size of this year's crops.
\ CIGARETS Manufacturers graduated from Army ‘War westward to the Far East In |... oot forsee an ssibl . College in 1939. > April, 1949. age ay possible short on The 59-year-old Bible-reading :
FOR A BRIEF spell in 1942 \ All along the line, these econhe was air chief of staff and - the third star blossomed on his shoulders fn 1945 During. the unification row, this “adopted son” of Peru and
general was to have retired in ‘the next year. {omists said smalier-than-expected oI wife, Annalee, stately military requirements coupled s beauty whom he married lwith reduced demand for conion rly after cadet training, Is [Sumer goods because of credit with him at his Tokyo head- restrictions are expected to ease (the situation,
{meet any immediate need, S8hort- —
me
-Mrs—Howard- insisted on an quarters - equal role for the Air Force In But mor One Commerce Department exthe unified command. He be- Stratemeyer: {inds himself mov- [pert sald that “a lot of misin-
formation is around.”
He was particularly critical of
came chief of the Air Defense being spread
Command in 1947 and faced
Hoosier Air Guard Digs In For First Full Day of Du.
| High Altitude Formation Flights on List 1h —Of Training Events of Grayling; Mich. HL Shes Besos, Suiskly. Nel oa ~ By -LELOYD-B. WALTON Thnes Stafl Writer ~unnecessary buying. i GRAYLING, Mich., Aug. 14-—Officers and airmen of the Indiana! Air National Guard dug right in this morning to open the first uy ‘ y {day of their two-week training period, Little David The next two weeks will be occupied by the pilots flying thetr| F-51 Mustang fighters on radar controlled interception missions, high R ecoveri ing f rom {altitude formation flights, air-to-air and air- -10-ground gunnery | Skii iing ‘Injuries
practice, dive bombing and rock-| ———sm——————— let firing. morning and had the camp - — rs mn | Ground readiness. fish PETERSBURG, Fla. Aug. {have their hands full keeping the Four other otheers and eight! 1 (UP) Evangelist “Little [planes in perfect ying on oR more enlisted men volunteered David" Walker was reported toand seeing fiat e guns are IN their services to take part. in!day on the road to recovery from {proper firing order. the advance work. serious injuries in a water-skiing
Fly to’ Grayling Lt. Chaleff who is the baseball Accident. “Yesterday the 113th Fighter . ach and assistant football The 15-year-old preacher Te'Squadron of Indianapolis and coach at Manual High School is 84ined consciousness last night the 163d Fighter Squadron from i, charge of recreation and ath- nd asked Immediately about Ft. Wayne rendezvoused over De- 1.i;, facilities for the summer Plans for an appearance in Toron\ fiance, 0. and flew in formation... He has arranged for movies to, Canada, his father said. at about 20,000 feet to Grayling. ,nq wil set up excursions for the A The two squadrons comprise n..., i, several lakes and resort “WE THANK GOD for bringthe 122d Fighter Group which is area during time off duty. ing him out,” said the Rev. Jack commanded by Cot-Allson- Max. Plana ar Gro Water: Our--prayers-—have well of Lawrence, Ind. The planes an hunnery Pract on (ime Deen answered.” . |made a “fighter sweep” over To- _CONSICerate a en Qn A Fr He sald that David spoke not-
will be devoted to air*to-air-gun-[ledo, Bay City, Mich., and ended practice. This means “the. mally and could move his limbs.
ing with forward pushing advance bases in Korea.
customers of possible shortages. {He noted that one Washington [tire store mailed post cards to its |regular customers .last week {warning that “tires will be scarce” . land automobile owners had bet-
crew members will
v nery. . y with a spectacular simulated Asa. Bre Physicians said ‘he fractured his & ) i 4 CW ye ri i ¥ p a AY d
EA A Under ‘the direction of
Eugene P. Wilson, R R. 17, “a a 6x30 feet. It is towed hours.
{ {634, Indianapolis, the headquar- by 2 F-51 at the end of a 600 i oy Wegin preaching at fhe | ters. of the 122d fighter group pe, {country and Europe. He is schedy ithin two! The tow targets and the ma-| [Was in-full operation W uled to go to South Africa and |hours after the men arrived in/chine guns are eared for by the India in the near future, but the-
camp. Maj. Wilson is ‘executive armament section. Tech Sgt. plahs have been delayed by the officer for the group. John W. Greén, 4429 Farmsworth, accident. } Put Camp in Order . is the armament chief. He has 13 Capt. W. C. Templin, 72 §. menih ie asa: Stat Sgt. Jack | VALLEES EXPECTING | Fourth. St... Beech Grove; 1st. Lt. F. Straug, nthrop Ave. and| gpRINGRIBLD, Il: [Boris C. Chalelf, 2718 Koehne COrp: James Jordan’ 3336" W. 10th! (yp) __ Crooner Rudy Vallee said St. and Capt. Cecil P. McClana- St. were the advance men for the today he and his wife, the former han, Ft. Wayne, were in charge armament séction. They arrived Eleanor Norris, are expecting a of an advance detail of 14 men here Friday to get their equipment child early next spring. He is fillwho arrived here Thursday ready. ing a singing engagement here.
It's Fishing Time Along Banks of White River
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Waiting for a bite . . . John Armin, wit N. Centennial St., Faborinai Junior gr is one of many. patient fishermen who fry the fubulent water Road. The young lza. Walton of White Rivur maar fvesclam at 1th $4, and ends his home.
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a few retailers who are warning «:
Miter fill their needs quickly. Noth... .
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