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their 250,000 members after a breakdown of White House “peace efforts.

a. m. local time Monday on all major railroads. Government seizure appeared to be the only practical way left to prevent it. Mr. Truman told his weekly news conference, however, that he has not decided just what to

White House had received assurances an hour before the call

Analysis of Issues at Stake, Page 24. that there would be no nationwide strike, the Preident said. He said he would have a state-

the situation. A reporter asked if he considered the unions’ action a ‘“‘double cross.” The President replied that le would not permit words to be put in his mouth. He said reporters

ment. A——gpokesman—for-—the union would not comment on Mr. Truman’s statement that they had gone back on a promise, But he added that the brotherhoods, by setting the strike date for Monday, had “intentionally provided every opportunity” for the President to summon railroad heads to Washington to make a settlement. A settlement "can be made” under those SiS soos,

frequently have “that top officers of the roads -~4n-on-negotiations;-instead-of the

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carriers’ three-man bargaining committee of “lawyers and juniors.”

Have Power of Attorney Members of the carriers’ committee have reportad they. have legally-executed power of attorney from each of the nation’s big railroads The Chief Executive told reporters that up until about one hour before the strike call was issued late yesterday, he had definite assurance from the unions and the railroad management that there would not be any strike.

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nation hal re trainmen’s and conductors’ unions went back on a promise

The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors late yesterday called a walkout of]

The strike is scheduled for 6

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Harvester Strike Ides 10,000 Three Big Plants Hit by Walkout

By HAROLD HARTLEY imes Business Edito The three big plants “ot Inter-

national Harvester Co. in Indiana were strike-sealed today with 10,000 United Auto Workers-CIO {holidaying over a deadlocked contract. Picket lines went up at 4 a. m. at the Indianapolis truck engine iplant at 5565 Brookville Rd,

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shutting off a $230,000 a week payroll. The line remained peaceful, allowing management and office help to go through. Tomorrow is [payday when workers will draw

workers will receive three days pay for their work this week. 7500 Others Quit In Ft. Wayne where the com-| pany is working on a $11 million contract for military trucks, 4500 walked out and 3000 left their jobs at the Harvester refrigerator and freezer plant in Evansville. The total shutdown put 26,817 out of work in

an increase; a new grievance procedure and increased vacation

pay. . Company Mails Report Last night the company direct mailed a report to its production workers in Indianapolis urging employees to “make themselves heard” in the strike issue, reminding tiem that the duration of the strike is “up to the indt-| vidual.” The strike officially went into effect at 7:30 a. m. as the union’s| contract with the company expired. Morris McCoun, Brownsburg, financial secretary of UAW Local

He said it happened so suddenly and so unexpectedly that he| could not say this morning what| action he would take to cope with the strike. He explained that he would have to. :study the situation .and| announce his course of action|

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Major Lines. Affected |

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those with an a of | business over $1 million. A Na-/| tional Mediation Board official said the unions probably could keep “every wheel from rolling” | | even on smaller roads by plcketing of terminals, The same official said there was |

almost no chance that the Presi-|

dent” would try to head off the! strike with..a. simple injunction: He said that in his recollection the government had never sought a no-strike injunction against a rail’ strike Without Sst setsing |

An Ediforial—

The Trains Must Roll

AFTER 17 months of apparently fruitless negotiation, the managements of the nation's railroads and the officials of two railroad unions have failed to reach an

- agreement.

Their falliiro- sigualived by a nation-wide strike call for Monday—comes at a critical moment in our nation’s

life. The unions realize how

they expect to be saved from the consequences of their act by presidential intervention in the form of federal seizure and operation of the Tails. Meanwhile, it is obvious that if a strike occurs, it will halt the in-flow of materials to our war plants and the outward movement of finished war goods to the Korean War front—where at this moment some son of a'rail-

road executive and some son in imminent danger of death.

EVEN IF A nation-wide railroad strike is averted (President Truman’s immediate reaction to the strike -call was to take no-action); the threat of this strike cannot but comfort our enemy and dismay our few reliable

friends in this world. These disputes between ployees long ago passed the

side could judge the relative rights and wrongs. In addi"tion to simple matters such as hours per week and cents per hour, they involve the most complicated rules, and

interpretations of rules.

But there is one thing the people do undérstand: That is, that in time of war—and we are at war—

there can be no nation-wide

has got to be done: The trains have got to move. *

98, said facilities had been established to care for the pickets Line Up for Picketing

Inside a temporary union headquarters across from the plant's main entrance at 5565 Brookville {Rd., men stood patiently in line signing up for picket duty. ion..officials..explaified they. did not strike until this morning ated bas Doesitis pes TIER Steet A Pr when asked their| § {opinion about the strike, were!’ general in their replies. : Earl Teare, 2006 Station St., a Sore et, said-“if-it-isn't settled , wages might be frozen, and it will never be.”

URGE OK ON GEN. SMITH WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UP) —The Senate’ Armed Services! ‘Committee “today unanimously recommended that the Senate confirm Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central In- | eifigasice.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1950

critical the present is, but blows.

peninsula, springboard to the island of Koje, a scant 20

of a railroad laborer may be [Allied supply port. | The Communists ptished out on

> » » Pusan. It appeared to indicate!

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day on one of the largest chemi-| cal works in East Asia at Konan | |in North Korea. + Other B-29s attacked ‘militaryIndustrial installations, secondary railway marshaling yards and key railroad bridges north of the 38th Parallel. To the north, other enemy divisions were limping back from the gates of Taegu after losing hun-| dreds of men in a day-long battle to break through the beachhead and overrun the former pro-

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The blows presaged a full-scale attempt to crash (through to Pusan and cork the beachhead bottleneck. The Reds. jabbed a spearhead down the Tongyong| The casualties are:

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War Casualties

TEN ‘Indiana soldiers were re-| [ported missing in action, wounded, | land Injured today by the Defense | | Department.

The enemy also was giving ground on the east coast. Korean | miles southwest of Pusan, the Republican and some American | Mrs. Greta Phyllis Bugg, 7135 E. [troops were beating the Commu-|14th St., Indianapolis. {nists farther back from the Po-| 2 {hang area where the Allies ‘have Lallie. McDonald, Jeffersonville. |

a broad arc 30-odd miles west of [their best airfield. Billie R. Crabtree, Afr Colors like chartreuse are the

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Mr. Symonds

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ..61 10am ..7 | 26th 8t., Indianapolis. Tam..68 1lam..7T | Pvt. Jerry L.” Turner, brother 8am ..68 12 (Noon) 80 |of Adrian C. Tiirner, Muncie. fam ..7 1pm... 82 ‘Wounded

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reported Red { Mrs. Mary M. Lykins, Winchester.

Missing in Action

Pfc. Jack McDonald, son of Mrs.

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Correspondent | Force, son of Joseph H. Crabtree, a possible flanking drive south! |Gene Symonds reported from the| Nashville, of the beachhead, using the Southern front that the Commu-| stone. - ~were on the move. An of- Clifford, Eikhart.—— Meanwhile Superfortresses fensive to crack the U. 8. 25th! Pvt. Charles E. Smith, son of dropped 200 100-pound bombs to-| {Division defenses appeared immi- Mrs. Jencie E. Smith, Mishawaka.

Pfc. Clyde R. Clifford, son of T.| Pfc. Early P. Lykins, son of

Ret. Eugene 0. Crayton, son of Mrs. Evelyn L. Crayton, 610 W.

Cpl. John E. Holman, son of Mrs. Hazel Schneider, 6054 E. 21st nt | | 8t., Indianapolis.

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anti-Communist regime in * Iran, reports Clyde Farnsworth in the last of his series on that vital nation.

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On Near North Side

60,000 Gallons of Fuel, 7 Parked Cars Destroyed; Buildings in Area Evacuated

A spectacular $200,000 gasoline fire injured four men, destroyed a petroleum bulk plant and threatened homes and business places on the near North Side today. A series of major and minor explosions rocked and destroyed a building, seven parked automobiles and 60,000 gallons of gasoline at the Crystal Flash Petroleum Corp. bulk plant; 358 W. 16th PI. The hospitalized injured are: : John Latimore, 1823 Highland Pl.; Methodist, critical, Willard Patterson, 2602 E. Washington St.; Methodist, fair, : Charles Riley, 50, of 2342 N. Pennsylvania St., General, serious. John William Daughetee, 42, of 531 S. Laclede St.; General, serious. Within minutes after the fire began, Methodist Hospital set up an emergency ward to handle victims, Hospital and funeral home

Telephone wires and a 4000« ambulances prepared a shuttle| voit electric distribution line cole

service to the fire. {lapsed as utility = poles were _Flames. shot. 300...1a...400. feet, PUrned near the plant. They were capped Several by & thick black cloud of smoke| Without telephone and electric

service in a 30-block area bea en roomed 1000 eet MIEN een 16th and 21st Sts. and

. from Boulevard Pl. to Mill St. ate eles, pone smoke! Indianapolis Power & Light Co. spectators to the scene. officials sald power was resumed

Police swung into action quick-|!0 90 per cent of the customers

truck was unloading in the bulk ~tplant,

| THE HEAT from the plant was|

within an hour after the cutNy. Dlocking off Sn ava Jom 150 off. Power was switched to other ; 1 circuits

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from an opened i and Yaauin fire from a spark. As the flames spread quickly, 20 employees dashed to safety. The rapidly spreading flames engulfed four large storage tanks, containing an estimated 60,000 gallons of volatile fuel. A pgseries of small explosions 3a bd the fire began, shattered the air as seven auto-| mp. Chief Roscoe McKinney mobiles, parked in front of the (ook personal charge of the 22 plant, caught fire. |pleces of fire apparatus which Twenty-five employees of the ¢ {fought the three-alarm blaze. R. C. Parks Co,, at 320 W. 16th] Chief Gets First Aid PL, vacated the plant, and per-| mh chief was given first aid sons living in nearby dwellings or burns on the neck and face. began splashing water on their ys was scorched by the intense homes to protect them from the] {heat as he approached the fire

ht Phone officials said several hundred subscribers were affected. Leakage from a partly submerged tank continued to feed the flames for two hours after the fire began. + Witnesses said valves on the (tanks probably had been left open as the workers scurried to safety

heat. {too closely, but was not forced to Raliroad Ties Charred retire from action. The intense temperatures| Sixteen storage tanks at the

charred ties on the railroad track rear of the plant appeared to be . adjoining the bulk plant, and set out of danger as firemen seemed

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[Fire Sidelights— Flaming Gasoline Pools

Peril Firefighters’ Hose

- One Squad Rescued When Nearly Trapped;

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“Rlazing pools and streams or gasoline for a time today threats oii ened the interlocking maze of hose firemen were-using to fight the

[fire at the Crystal Flash Petroleum Corp. One squad of firemen was fighting -the flaming puddles when

David Pennycuff, Times shaff Phatosrapher. snapped this picture just as a gas Yank inside the flaming Crystal Flash Petroleum a second burnipg stream threatened to flank them. Cor “exploded; sending an atomic-like cloud of dents smoke" and vivid “orange flames mushrooming | T1000 “feet inte the air. Cal 9

Red Jabs Presage Big Pusan Push; Foe ‘Sneaks

Enemy Activity at Port in South

Hints at Move to Cork UN Bottleneck

By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent On New List of TOKYO, Friday, Aug. 25—Powerful Communist forces

moved up to the southern front today and struck feeler|

Another Squad. of Arefghters. came to their rescue and best | back the threat,

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» » THOUSANDS of spectatois| “I gotta go now, there's a joined frightened ocupants of| fire

houses at the fire, i Before the reporter could get

At the height of the blaze, The in Be met Suestion, she- ad Times called Albert Hardnett, 2 8° 8 3 who lives at 322 W. 16th PI, fiext| THE POLICE Department mo{door to the bulk plant. bilized quickly. It sent its emer- {| Mr. Hardnett said he and two gency squad and all available lother members of his family were squad cars to the scene. The en-

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“We're in a hurry,” he said. te fm— He added that while the fire YORK’S COUSIN MISSING might not get to his home, which, CANTON, O., Aug. 24 (UP)— is of concrete, the family feared Pvt. Alvin York, 17, second cousin | explosions, lof the famed Sgt. Alvin York of ® {World War I, is missing in action Mrs. Brooks MeClain, who {in Korea, the Defense Depart. lives upstairs In a two-story {ment notified his parents today. framp house at 3251; W. 16th | rele en

139 E. Market St, MA-2374 ® This is one of several hundred Homes being offered For Sale in the" Want Ad ‘pages of today’s Times. If the home you are now Hving in doesn't ' measure up to your needs or require-

street from ns. plant. |

'so intense that it cracked the {windshield of a Fire Department {pumper ‘parked about 75 feet away. Fire trucks began running short | of gasoline to operate their pumps and an emergency tank ments. NOW is & truck rushed in a new supply. | time to BUY one goad

Bight off-shift firemen came | does. Turn. now to the

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~~ Bervice to Restoration of the remaining service will begin as soon as pos-

11 Telephone Co. dis ; repair crews to work on telephone cables, Tele-

fire to piles of coal owned by|to be getting the blaze under “IMethodist Hospital and stored | control.

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