Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1950 — Page 1
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61st YEAR—NUMBER 176 °
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 1950 . :
The Indianapolis Times
FORECAST: Fair and cooler today and tonight. Fair, somewhat warmer tomorrow. High today,
78. Low tonight, 55
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FINAL HOME
“PRICE FIVE CENTS
'SHE SHOUTED ORDERS AND SHOVED US AROUND’
By ROBERT C. MILLER, United Press Staff Correspondent MASAN FRONT, Korea, Sept. 4 (UP)—Led by a girl, a band of Communists raided a U. S. Army radio station today, tied up its seven American signalmen, and - shot them with a sub-machine gun. Two of the Americans came through with multiple wounds. Doctors said both would live. The other five “died. So did a South Korean soldier guarding the station. The guerrillas stole up on the radio relay station during a howling storm. It overlooked the main MasanPusan highway near Changwon, seven miles northeast of Masan.
The 1st class privates related how the SA Communist squad burst into the tent, bound their wrists
burst of gunfire. shouting orders and shoving twenties.”
the first burst.
of the survivors. “I prayed
fell back dead.”
Fair Has Fun for All Ages
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It's fun fo go to the Fair with grandma. Duane Miller, 5, hod a big day touring the Midway ‘and exhibits. Grandma is Mrs. Charles J. Austermiller, 5915-Forest Lane. Here she gives Duane a chance to try his luck in a game of chance, He won a goldfish in a little bowl. (Other photos,
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Hoiday Deaths Heavy in State
Traffic Kills 15, Boy Is Drowned
. death toll/from all over the nation made final adjustments to their stock a" Indiana's highway (fh the end Model racers today in-preparation—for-the South's first -500-mile| stood a is oy hows ed Sil] | stock car race for a purse of $25,000. of the Labor =
75 Stock Cars Line Up For South's $25,000 "500"
40,000 Persons Jam Town of 9000
To See Race by Drivers From 35 States By HARRY McCARTHY, United Press Sports Writer
“The girl was one of the first in the tent,” the soldiers said. “She seemed to take charge of things,
“I saw him out of the corner of my eve,” that they wouldn't see him. They did.: The guy with the gun slowly turned around and fired another burst into him. He just moaned and
250 in Japan
|" The storm was said to have DARLINGTON, 8. C., Sept. 4—Seventy-five speed merchants destroyed
_Jured.
The 75 stock cars, none older than 1949, were to roar around | many hours off. [the paved 1%*mile track for the first time at 11 a. m. (Indianapolis In addition, a man was killed]
by a train and a boy was, drowned. The latest traffic fatalities are:| Lawrence Worrell, 22, Chicago. | “Ovid Pennington, 40, Chicago. Gerald W.- Longnecker, 21, Leesburg:
John Thomas Preston, 14. Del- (1
phi.
Mrs. Anna Ramsey, 70, Angola. John A. Clough, 79, Terre, “Haute. :
The train victim: “Herbert I. Reeder, 41, Ft. Wayne.
The drowning victim: Edsell L.| |
Oapshaw, 6, Anderson. A car driven by Mr. Pennington! apparently blew a tire on U. 8. 41 near St. John and crashed broadside into a tractor-trailer driven by Russell Bowen, 42; Greenwood. Falls Off Truck . Mr. Worrell “was riding with My. Pennington. Two other persons in the car were injured. They were William Bates, 23, and Anthony Nora, 26, both of Chicago. Mr. Bowen also was in-
Mr. Longnecker’s motorcycle collided with .a car on a county road a mile south of Leesburg. Young Preston was killed when he fell from the rear end of a truck while on a swimming trip
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Times Index
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Teen Problems .. ay Women's
|" ‘Wally Campbell
In Serious Condition
{time). The race was expected to] 'continue for six to seven hours. of Trenton, {N. J.,, turned in the fastest time. |Saturday with a qualifying run
‘[averaging-825 “mites per hour nr
{hI8 1950 Oldsmobile. Second fast-| jest run was made by Curtis Tur-| ner. of. Roanoke, Va. at 82. 03 {miles per hour, , Turner got the pole position because he qualified the first day, Ee and: four-other first-day qualifiers: were “lined up behind him, “The cars were to start three across the track and 25 deep. 40,000 in Town The group was the largest ever ‘to start a stock car race.-The race attracted drivers from 35 states, including the winner of the International- --8tock - Car Race from Arizona to Guadaloupe, {Mex., Hershel McGriff of Port: {land, Ore. The iittle town of Darlington. with a normal population of
Fred Stillerman
__jocean going size.
behind their backs, then ripped them with burst after
one of
us around.
“It was hard to say what she looked like. All of them were wearing very dark green fatigues with capes which hid their faces. I would judge she was in her middle
One of the Americans was only slightly wounded by
said one
* Typhoon Kills
242 Missing, | 2170 Injured “TOKYO, Sept. 1 (UP) — Japan’ s worst typhoon in 16 lyears subsided and swept rmlessly northward today, lleaving an officially tabulated casualty list of 250 per-| | sons dead, 242 missing and 2170 ° | injured. | National rural police” quarters estimated that at least 300,000 persons were affected with 200,000 homeless. No United States or Allied oc-' cupation personnel were killed or njred, late Jepakts indicated. at Gen. Do! McA e headquarters said military installations escaped damage, and the storm blew itself] out in time for Japan-based planes to head for the Korean battiezone on schedule this morn-
ing. Blows 110 MPH The typhoon, with peak winds of 110 miles an hour, hit hardest in. Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto on Honshu, main Japanese island. It moved northwestward into the Sea of Japan, 208 miles northwest of Tokyo. Then it swung in- { land and hit Akita, 275 miles! northwest of Tokyo, finally pass-| ing out to sea toward the north-| ern island of Hokkaido. Its force! lost, it was listed officially as] merely a “tropical low pressure! area’ instead of a typhoon.
11,145 houses, half wrecked 44,126, and flooded! 'WHOTY oF partially 163,840. The police reported that the powerful wind and high seas sank or damaged at least 700 ships and fishing boats. Among them were several score ships of
Big Ship Strikes
Dies in Home Here
Fred -W-. Stillerman; -pupjl—at;
Public School 66, died yesterday | in the home of his parents; Mr. land Mrs. Louis Stillerman, 4150! Broadway. He was 12,
lis.
i football {€hurch.
games at
ters, Miss Evelyn Stillerman and Miss Paula Stillerman, all. of | ‘Indianapolis.
tomorrow at Aaron-Ruben Fu-|
9000 was jammed with 40,000 persons. Hotels,” tourist courts] and private homes in a radius of i 30 milés were crowded with rac- | ing enthusiasts. The town’s two restaurants of-| fered only one dish ‘for breakfast — ham and eggs — crowds lined up for blocks to get it. _Cars already jammed the highways to the 10,000 seat Darlington International Speedway.
'Man Hurt by Fall
Still in serious condition this morning at General Hospital is Timothy Carroll, 44-year-old window washer who was injured in a fall yesterday. Mr. Carroll, who lives at 2423 N. Kenwood Ave, fell from a-lad-der while washing a first floor window at the Marott Hotel, 2625 Ld Meridian St.
FAMILY OF. 5 KILLED | NEW LISKEARD, Ont., Sept. 4 {(UP)—A family of five was killed yesterday on their way4o church when a fast-moving Diesel train smashed into their car at-a level
neral Home. Beth El Cemetery,
PRIZE FARMER KILLED FREEPORT, Ill, Sept. 4 (UP)
| Kenneth Koertner, well-known
21 : year-old northern Illinois. farmer, was killed” early. today when his automobile crashed into an embankment on a dead end road. He had won many grand prize awards at the Wisconsin and Illinois State Fairs,
AUSSIES FIND THAT ORE DARWIN, Australia, Sept. 4) (UP)—The discdvery of deposits of radioactive ore for the production of atomic bombs - near Katherine, in the northern territory, was announced officially today. 3 REPORT BIG RED TALK ROME, Sept. 4 (UP) — The Catholic news - agency ARI re-
ported today in a tech from Vienna that the Siena orm is
‘meeting in Warsaw to “plan sabo-
tage against the rearming of th Atlantic Pact countries.” of ent geome svat am IRAN BATTLES REBELS : TEHRAN, Iran, Septet (Up The army announced today that
\..The_7733-ton_Tatsuharu Maru.
II since last June, Fred was other sizable ships were sunk in Alifelong resident of Indianapo-that area; while 44 vessels were
{dama, He was active in school, sports|
sank in Kobe harbor after” her anchor chain- snapped and she crashed into a floating drydock. {She had beeh~sétieduled to’ sail for San Francisco yesterday. Authorities at Kobe said 20
maged. |
{houses by the hundreds. On the]
Besides his parents, survivors ‘coast tidal waves 10 feet high are two brothers, Lawrence Stil-|
lerman, Times real estate editor, |
{pounded the shoreline.
‘city Sunday night, but no damage [ Yeported.
. Services will be held at 2 p. m. (FLASH FIRE KILLS 2
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (UP)—|
|last night when a flash fire] swept through a newly-painted | {apartment where they were cele-| {brating a house-warming. Five of | /the injured: were children. |
{RECIPE FOR ‘JAM’ WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 UP) - State Department officials esti-| mated that Russia is using at least 1000 “jamming dévices” to] keep the Voice of America’s “War of Truth” from reaching the Rus-| sian people.
‘RADIO 0 ACTOR ENDS LIFE HOLLYWOOD; Sept. 4 (UP)—| Radio actor Frank Graham, 35, found dead-in his expensive auto- | mobile with the picture of a beau- | tiful woman near, his outétretched | hand, apparently’ committed sui-| cide by breathing exhaust fumes, officials said today. He was known | {as the man with 1000 voices.
REDS BAN WITNESSES $ BERLIN, -Sept. 4 (UP)—The East ‘German government. banned the rel known as Jehovah's Witnesses today, cusing its members of ° ‘espiona, ‘
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He told his story slowly, pausing AEE when the pain from his four wounds became too much. “There were seven of us Americans and a bunch of Korean guards up there,” he said. “The storm blew down the guards’ tent, and some of them came to our tent. We had no warning of anything. “Then a Korean came into the tent, pointed a crude looking .45 at us, and shouted in English; ‘Get up.” We started to jump him when another Korean came in, and in a minute the place was full of them. We-didn't have a chance.”
The other survivor on the next couch took up the
story. “They rounded us up and herded us into a corner of the tent where they took ropes and tied our wrists behind our back.
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Huge Crowd Expected at
Ford Offers
~ Contract Runs For Four Years
By CLIFFORD. THURMAN
Practically everybody -— but EVERYBODY-—-went to the In-| diana State Fair yesterday and ‘everyone else” show up on the grounds today.
Fair Board officials anticipated] the Labor Day crowds would set| theIT old contract today be
eo |fOre it expired and wrote a! State Fair Awards, Page 2 new one.
{new records as the weatherman!
fair visitors. {Henry Ford's $5 a day innovation,
An estimated 125000 were on for it had never happened before
Paid ad-| Lin- the motor. industry. officials
ithe grounds yesterday. missions were 121,209,
said, and the grounds thronged runs for five years. It gives 110, iwith veterans and service men | 000 employees a 19.4 hor hourly stormed Angang early this after
who were admitted free. The fig-} ure topped by highest number of paid {sions ever before listed for a)State Fair Sunday.
Traffic Tangle opened until Next. Jan. 1, gave The record Fair crowd was re-'hourly rated employees a flat corded on Labor Ijay, 1946, when eight-cent immediate cost-of-liv-161,798 paid to enter the gates. Traffic was in a hopeless tan-|getting five cents additional. gle throughout the afternoon and| Boosts Pensions... ‘(early evening yesterday with 38th| Worker pensions, all company
admis- prices.
DETROIT, Sept. 4 (AP)—|
It was as revolutionary a step| head. Promised cool, clear skies ideal Yor|in the motor industry as the late
Masked Girl Directs Slaughter Of 5 Trapped Gls
“They pulled them tight, and T remember taking a sharp breath because of the pain.”
A doctor cautioned him
casing his shattered leg. “They lined us up, and hollered ‘Oh, Lord. Here it
about exerting himself. He { assured the doctor he felt fine despite a plaster cast ens |
all of a sudden somebody comes.” The next thing I
knew I had been knocked flat on my face by the slugs.
The survivors lay quiet
even when the killers came
back and sprayed the huddled mass of bodies with an-
other burst.
“That was the one that broke.my. arm,” one-said; |}
looking at the splint and bandages on his right shoulder. “After, shooting us they ransacked the place, tearing
up everything in sight. Then and left.”
they threw a grenade at us
*
Stabs By Reds At Pohang All But Cut Off Port
Marines Ro
ut Enemy
Mop Up Enemy af Pusan Gateway;
- Foe Pro to Lose Punch on Other Fronts __By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent
{off this port.
State Fair bo New Pact In Bridgehead Push
TOKYO, Sept. 4—Communist shock troops aAptared was expected to Ford. Motor Co. and the CIO a bitterly contested town southwest of Pohang today. They |Auto Workers Union tore up, ‘stabbed southward five to six miles beyond, all but cutting
The mountain town of Angang, eight miles southwest,
a few hours after they
wage-pension package. But it ; about 30,000 the Poses the threat of nigher ‘car Ton But the enemy came back alley. in force to wrest it from the afternoon The new contrast, superceding Yanks. And they struck swiftly | that the Ford's present wage agreement beyond it, virtually enveloping was counter-attacking “to restore which was not to have been re-| Pohang.
Better Luck The Americans had better luck
ing boost with skilled workers {at the other end of the northern
front. There the 1st Cavalry Division was fighting its way back into a walled town some 12 miles
8t. jammed as far west as Capitol financed, were boosted from $100|D0rth of Taegu, where the enemy
Ave. Policemen fought a losing/to $125, including social security, battle to keep traffic moving./to give Ford employees the highIt was equally jammed withi*flest retirement pay in a major the gates. Even those having industry. special parking stickers were unable to get near their designated!
Patterned after General Motors |
agreement, workers will get an| lannual four-cent hourly increase
More than 20,000 attended the for’ the next four years for a! | Kasan Mountain, just northwest river bend where the
afternoon performance of Irish total of 16 cents. Base pay will Horan’s Hell Drivers. Thousands fluctuate with changes in the cost
had jabbed a spearhead down the so-called “bowling alley” beyond Tabu and within less than 10 miles of Taegu. The walled town, according to ja front dispatch, apparently was | Kasan, an ancient fortress atop
lof Tabu. A 1st Division spokesman said
more packed the Coliseum for the of living index, with wages re-.the main road between Tabu and
final periormiante of the Bob viewed quarterly, as In the GM Hope--Show. “ : 8 ~ragreement.” ” Today's feature activities in-| John Bugas, Ford industrial
clude judging of 4-H colts, Gold relations manager, estimated the Medal Calf Clubs, Gold Medal | annual cost at around $50 million.
M|Taegu_ was open:
lies, 8 p. m.
i: |
lambs and poultry in the live stock and poultry buildings. Thrill Rides Crowded Entertainment features included the free horse show. in.the Coliseum at 1 p.m. Another] horse show, with Tex Beneke's Orchestra supplying music, * is] slated for 8p. m. and-an admis sion will be charged. State Fair Follies will be pre-| sented on the big stage dn front|
Jof the grandstand at 8 p
Cetlin & Wilson's Midway
The typhoon tore up rail and carnival continued to be a popu- Position.” and took part in baseball and [trolley tracks in Osaka and ‘blew lar spot as thousands of Labor . Tabernacle|the tops off the flimsy Japanese Day
fun-seekers crowded thrill rides and the shows; Tomorrow will be Governor's {and Legislator's Day with special
the|
‘Tokyo was on the edge of the {features planned for the Chief four years, for a total of 16 cents and Donald Stillerman: two sis={storm. Strong winds fanned the | Executive and fate. lawmakers, (an hour.
(Gates Open- 7 ‘A. Mr Daylight | Saving Time, Close 1 A. M.) .TODAY—LABOR DAY.
Judging—Gold Medal colts, 4- | Burial will be in Two were killed and 10 injured H colts, Brown Swiss, all Gold
Medal steer classes, Gold Medal calf clubs, Yorkshires Durocs, Rambouillet,” wool, Gold Medal’ lambs, poultry. Women's Building—L. 8. Ayres & Co. style show 11:30 a. m., 3:30 and 7 p. m. Coliseum—Horse show (tree), 1p m. Grandstand «— Grand Circuit | races, 1:30 p. m. Coliseum—Horse Show and Tex Beneke’s orchestra, 8 p. m. Grandstand—State Fair Fol-
~. TOMORROW—GOVERNOR'S AND LEGISLATORS’ DAY. Judging—Percherons, grade draft horses, Shorthorns, Polled Shorthorns, milking Shorthorns, Holstein-Friesians, Poland Chinas, Chester Whites, Shrop- | shires, Corriedales, Dorsets.
Ayres & Co. style show, 11:80 a. m., 3:30 and 7 p. m.
Coliseum—Light ha rness
horse judging 1 p. m.Grandstand — Grand Cireut | | Races, 1:30 p. m. —Loliseum—Horse show and | { Tex Beneke's orchestra, 3 p. m, Grandstand—State Falr Follies, 8 ” mn
Women's Building—L. 8. |
Ey Gary. > Ww
| With the added cost, Ford executive Vice President Ernest | Breech declared that “the impact of this action on product prices) 1 be clearly established now.” But he warned: I “In the long run; wage increases ican be financed only out-of in|creased production. It is clear {that increases in wages in excess of actual gains In productivity must be reflected ultimately in “price increases if the company is} to maintain a sound economic
{ {cannot €
Patterned After GM
it was threat: fened by a Communist pincers clamped on Tabu, but the threat apparently was easing with the counter-attack. Everywhere on the western and southern fronts, American infantry and Marines were rolling the
|changed hands three times during the day. | Except for enemy gains at| Pohang, the big Red push launched last week to drive |
{the United Nations into the sea! The new cost-of-living contract appeared to be losing its punch. Tank-led American troops
They're Off, Too
Congress today: Senate and House in recess. No committees.
: ¥ i 3 i Fo mi on BB [BCA
ist Cavalry Divison
the original positions” in the area
of Tabu. A spokesman for Gen. Maes. Arthur reported” that “headquare ters did not regard the Tabu penetration as serious. The enemy, is being contained, he said.
1st Marine Brigade drives along the river line which buckled une
1der the offensive last week.
The Marines pushed more than a mile cioser to the river in the sector west of Yongsan, In the
enemy bridgehead had been built up. . > Troops of the 24° Division yong, main town in the bridge. head; after all-night fighting in which they drove the Commu« nists out of it three times.
lenemy back toward the Naktong Cancel Day 0ff
and. mopping--up-- before -Masan; the successfully defended gate way to Pusan. Reds Push Back ~ United Press Correspondent Robert Bennyhoff reported . the
swiftly changing. situation on the
‘Pohang af ponte as after Wing a — on the American capture of Angang, he sent another saying the town
| Patterned after last May's Gens! eral Motors contract, the new Ford pact provides annual four-| cent hourly boosts for the next
| The contract, running from {Sept. 1 until June 1, 195%, is not | {reopenable. I The contract gives an eight-| cent hourly increase for 110.4%} employees, effective Sept. wages to fluctuate one cent an! {hour after that with every 1.14! change in the Bureau of Labor | statistics’ cost. of living index.!
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Cpl. ‘Williams | Killed in Action | (Story, Page 3)
The latest Hoosiers to be added to the Korean War casualty list.
Killed in Action:
Cpl. Donald R. Williams Jr, |
” lson of Mrs. Ruby B. Massey, 3526
IN. Denny St. |
{ Jsuided Cpl. James E. Barkdull (Army), son of Mrs. Margaret W. “Bark-| ldull, Box 112; Daleville, Cpl. John W. Shanklin Jr, (Army), son of John W. Shank-| lin 8r., Crawfordsville. Cpl. Carl R. Funk (Marine), icennes. tei | Second Lt. Ralph {hare husband of Mrs.
or. of Mrs, Andrew M. Zimmer, oleottville. |
again was in Communist hands, and the enemy was pushing {southward with patrols even farither than the five to six miles [gained by- the main column. Angang was reported going up "in smoke and flame. One Communist {perhaps 1000 men was heading south of Angang across the Po-|
hang-Yongchon-Taegu road, trav-|
{eling due south along a secondary
south of Pohang. Another column. west of Ang also was driving south, Mr. | Bennyhotf reported.
battalion of |
To Clear Garbage
Volunteers Man: Pickup Trucks
Volunteer drivers caneeled their day off today to man gare. bage pick-up trucks in the fifth day of. the city Sanitation Department employee strike. . About 12 trucks swung into districts north of 424 St., where | collections are scheduled on Mondays ~during normal operating | periods. About 200 sanitation workers ‘walked off the job last Wednes« day to enforce their demands for 15 cents an hour more in wage increases. They are members of
1: road toward Kyongju, 15 miles the State, County and Munici«
pal Employees Union (AFL). Volunteer drivers: from othes city departments also collected refuse in some sections yesters
Another Pohang outpost, Kigye, day.
eight miles northwest, | reported aflame Monday night,! |as were other smaller villages between Angang and Kigye, Pohang Shelled A spokesman at Gen. Douglas {MacArthur's = headquarters sald; he did not think the Communists {would be able to hold Angang| and maintain their threat of { Pohang. He siid the penetration there, appeared to be an infiltration and] the main lines still were about {three miles north of Angang and jade: fairly solid. Bennyhoff - reported that _ Er, had trained consider-| able artillery fire into Pohang. A U.S. Infantry platoon com-| {mander in the Pohang area re{ported that in a tank action north|
Ison of Mrs. Ceeillia L. Funk, Vin- of the city yesterday he identified
{with field glasses what he !
E. Sullivan thought was a 60-ton Stalin tank. ‘Ralph These giant tanks have been re-
ported previously in Kores, but (the reports r had been supported official The only other danger spot
also was!
Guard Drivers Meanwhile, Police Chief Rouls ordered ‘motorcycle officers on the job to guard equipment “and ‘drivers during the Labor Day. week-end. In the city personnel ’ |department, job application - receipts are on the increase, Mayor Feeney has ordered new workers hired to replace persons {refusing to return to their jobs as requested by sanitation officials,’ The Mayor said strikers may be allowed to return to their sta/tions, but employees hired during
the Naktong promised to restore
‘The U. 8. 24 Division and the
fastened. a. firm. grip. on. Change
{the collectiop ‘emergency will not
{be fired to make jobs for them.
After complaints from several ee
{neighborhoods, a sanitation truck
(was assigned to the Dog Pound
to pick-up:dog and cat bodies, {These collections are part of the 3 Sanitation Department |routine. ! i LOCAL TEMPERATURES ; 6am ..58 fa m.. 60
Tam ..5 10a m.. 3 8am. 59 1a m.. 81
Humidity at Sam. caves ¥
ars