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Bolt A Bolt...'Wotta Life’ ...Grounded...Head-On Crash
Rain came down again foday and lightning bolts re-appeared following the spectacular storm early yesterday. Scurrying pedestrians were caught by a Times camera as they braved the down. pour on their way to work.
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Popular Pilot Inks Contract
Calls Tribe Post Best Outside Majors
By EDDIE ASH f Times Sports Editor Senor Al Lopez will be back | at the helm of the Indianapolis Indians next year, news which sets at rest all rumors that the popular pilot would be lost to a major league club.'" Official announcement that Lo-
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contract was made today by Frank E. McKinney, vice president and part owner of the Tribesters, McKinney said the Senor expressed . complete satisfaction with the terms and added, “un-! less I could lead a big league elub of my choice, 1 prefer to; remain in Indianapolis.” Although Lopez's new contract calls for him to return in 1951, Vice President McKinney said the : usual “gentlemen’s agreement.” understanding still prevails, which would allow Al to take a major league managerial assignment next season if an attractive and acceptable offer should be made, Fans Will Be Pleased Victory Field fans will be happy
led them to a close second (one-| of "Miss Page 1" half game out of first) in the championship campaign. through the playoffs. and to the Junior World Series title; and this year to second place again and into the playoff finals. - After the 1948 season here, in which Lopez's Indians made
“Wage and Price 2 runaway of the pennant race, Controls Studied |
Vice President McKinney signed him to a new two-year contract,
Forbes’ ''Test the Press"
Mr. McKinney: said today that, Truman Cautious, | the contract “is at the old terms.” . Since Lopez was generally desig-| Shuns War i Errors
nated as the _highest-salaried, WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UP) manager in the ‘American Asso- President Truman said today
‘ ciation the past two seasons, it’s the government is considering im-
a safe guess he'll still carry that posing selective wage and price prestige in 1951. .conirels, but is proceeding cau-| » JHously > hysie the mistakes of’ ‘orl ar i Columbus Loses Mr. Truman told a news con|ference he wants to dodge what Star Southpaw he called the faddle, travail and : the trial and error of the last Right on the eve of the Amer}. war. He said the nation’s ecocan Association's finals playoff .... program must be carried series,- the Columbus Red Birds ,.¢ in an orderly manner. Jost their star southpaw pitcher,| goiective controls, he said, are young Harvey Haddix. being considered along with all He was en route back to Ohio, phases of the economic program. this afternoon after being notified yo ¢aiq he and his advisers are at noon that he is to be inducted working on plans to meet creepinto the Army tomorrow ati,» price increases, but have, The ace lefthander.,, some time;
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passed his physical Seeks ‘Right Man’ ago. He said he has not found the| The Red Birds and Indians are t man yet for the job of} scheduled to meet: at Victory geonomic Stablization Director. Field tonight in the opener of the [nti] then, it is apparent that no, best-in-seven series. Columbus decision will be made on the Manager Rollie Hemsley said he selective controls. ; had intended to use Haddix in the, Mr. Truman was described yessecond game, tomorrow. terday by Gov. Chester Bowles of | the regular season, Connecticut ‘as being disturbed
: Haddix, | a. strikeout artist. won 18 and worried about the price situ-;
games against only six setbacks, ation. ‘and ip two more triumphs in! The President was reminded. the semifinals playoft series that Gov. Bowles Ee Dhanay t Minneapolis. His season's selective controls on certain basic lis [Soummaditise Sush a7 Iiper. Sesh,
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Five-year-old Terri Jean Stoneburner flattens her nose wis fully against a window pane in her home, 4115 Otterbein Ave. Her oy: are on the lawn just outside, drenched, and she can't
12 Cheat Death In Freak Storm
Davenport Fired, . Occupant Unhurt
LOCAL TEMPERATURES T Hopefuls Sam... 7 10am... 70 Tam... 7 1la.m.. 70 8am... 70 12 (Noon) 75 ane 3 Sam.. 9 1pm... 7
Humidity at 11:30 p. m., 84.
drenched by showers. In one case a bolt set fire to 'a aavenport on which a man was ‘seated. The victim helped carry the burning davenport outside the house located on the east side of German Church Rd.. half a mile north of 10th St. That was at 9:32 a. m. Electrician Hit the same time, a 45 vear - oid electrician - repairman was struck -by lightning as he leaned on a radiator on the second floor of the Gates Manufacturing Co.. 415 W. 11th St. He. wound up with a bump on
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his head, suffered when he was knocked down but not unconscious. The bolt struck a plastic-cov-éred wire clothes line and followed it to the northwest corner
of the seven-room, two -story frame house. The corner of the . home was damaged, .all wiring
was knocked out and plaster and debris littered the living room floor. Present when the bolt hit were Richard lLindstaedt, 26, who was
- to know that Lopez is coming Phot bride BW Tin ax a ming seated on the divan, and his wife, back. In-1948, his first year, he Trvina The Times P e | uf ¢ B. Walten, he Bag he EE Dorothy: his mother, Mrs. Theldirected the Indians to their first . y'ng S ! . age or . ise is 3 arjorie wl ma Lindstaedt, and his grand. pennant in 20 years: in 1948 he aided by Mrs. Terry Nicoloff . . . both are candidates for the title other, Mrs Esther Creager. No
one was injured. The three women were upstairs when the crash occurred. Mr.
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Two Hoosiers Die In Korean War
One From Here Listed as Wounded
The Department of Defense to day announced that two Indiana men were killed in action in Korea, One man was previously
{Barkley to Speak wice in Indiana
Vice President Alben Barkley oe make Democratic: campaign peeches in Indiana Oct. 18 and ain Nov. 4. State Democratic Chairman.Ira
ceived official confirmation of the speaking schedule but announced that arrangements would be made for a mass meeting in Indianap'olis for the Oct. 18 speech.
{ Lightning played some strange tricks and two men § counted themselves lucky today. while Indianapolis was
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Here are Terri's toys, dripping wet. The scooter leans on the tricycle for support and comfort in a "cold" world. The sun mav appease in Five minutes but fig how being a Foy | is a forlorn job.
William Oates and Henry E.
Glesing Jr, Times staff photographers,
A bump on the head received when he fell is 45.year-old
Horace B. Houshour's. memento Dr. Harry Hoegemeier, Geral
hit today by lightning,
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Howpits
Top Reds Flee Seoul To Socane Marines
Sqt. John J. Everson ‘washes South Korean mud from his hair at Ft.-Lawton, Seattle, Wash., after hitch hiking an air ride from
Taegu. He's on emergency furlough to ‘go to his father’ s bedside at Wheeling, w. Va.
Gl in Race With Death To Reach Father's Side
Given an Emergency Furlough by MacArthur; Will Reach W. Virginia Home Tonight
SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 21 (UP) A soidier lack of sleep, anxiously paced the Seattle airport waiting for a plane to speed him to his dving father, 8gt. John JI. Everson, 26, who three days ago was near the front linex in Korea. was flying to Wheeling, W. Va. where his 69-year-old father, Carl, clung to life in hope of seeing his son
once again, Sgt. Everson's wife also was Marshall Takes
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reported ill with pneumonia. But he talked with her by long distance last night and said she was “all right.” His son had suffered a serious head injury a few days ago while
(writer for the Evansville Courier,’ ‘died here yesterday. He was 46. i He had written politics for 15 i years. He resigned ‘from * the [Courier in 1943. Mr. McCormick: ' the Democratic member of
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Sunday night. Red Cross and - Army officials put in a rush call MADEL INE CARROL r. WED to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's NEW YORK, Sept. 21 UP)headquarters in Tokyo. ‘Actress Madeline Carroll, 44. and Sgt. Everson. a member of the Andrew Heiskell, 35. publisher of Ist Corps Headquarters, was Life M ne. were married’
County voters located at Taegu. He was given somewhere in Europe within the 30; Ohio 17. cr pEst two weeks, b; Wa learned (Get. 2¢ dnd Washington U. of
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“suicide troops.” fort was expected within hours
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Civilians in City Ready to Revolt;
Yanks, British Pour Across Naktong | By RALPH TEATSORTH, United Press Staft Correspondent | TOKYO, Friday, Sept. 22—-Seoul became a capital with. out a government today as Red leaders fled north to escape capture by U. 8. Marines. They took their GI prisoners along, Front dispatches, however, made it clear that the Marines, closing in from two sides, had not vet entered Seoul [proper, Sxcept,. perhaps, for small probing patrols.
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Indo-China Border
French, Viet Minh Fighting Spreads SAIGON, Indo-China, Sept. 21 (UP) Communist forces were reported massing in strength in
(mountains along the Chinese hor-
der today as French Legionnaires and Viet Minh rebels battled in various sections of northern Indo‘China
in Legionsires and North African
Goums advanced slowly but surelv toward Donghke, near ihe Chinese border. against stubborn rear-guard fighting by Viet Minh Capture of the
“A French army communique announced yesterday that Dongh ke had been recaptured hy the
Legionnaires. But today a French army spokesman said the claim was premature, Forces Delayed
French forces have heen de laved, he sald by ambushes knocked-out bridges and barri-
cades within sight of the Foreign Legion fortress
Reports from the front indicated that the Viet Minh Com munists who took Donghke
Monday afier fierce fighting, were drawing from the fortress to- —_ the nearby China border As fighting broke out in various
sections of Tonkin Province, Viet s
fail. The offer was accepted .to-
day ‘by the special services sec-
tion. which handles recreation. for the troops. Games Bowl are:
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Lt. Gen. Lemuel C. Shep.
‘herd Jr., commander of the ‘Fleet Marine Force in the ' Pacific, sald in Tokyo it. probe
ably would take a week to clear
out Seoul. He aaid it was essential that ‘South” Mountain in Seoul be
taken and that it will be a difi-
cult nut to erack. The mountain towers some 750 feet above the city. Down on the Pusan beachhead, 150 miles south, American and British troops poured by the: hundreds across the Naktong River, Tabu, north of Taegu and on the road to Seoul, “is clear and our hands” the 1st U, 8, Cavalry reported. Tabu has heen the scene of seesaw Sgting | for weeks. ’ Looting Repurted . United” Press Correspondent Robert Miller, with Marines across the Han at Seoul. quoted prisoners and refugees as saying that Seoul was under martial law and that the Communists had commandeered all streetcars to evacuate the wounded. They said South Korean under ground units had sabytaged the
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UP)—President Truman said at his news conference today it was up to the United Nations to decide whether United Nations’ forces in Korea go hee yond the 38th Parallel,
city's utilities ‘and were preparing mass uprisings to coincide with Marine entry into the capital . They said the Reds were carry. ing out wholesale looting. 3
He said he would probably ar- reported missing. One Indiana- . Minh forces were reported by range for a Democratic rally at polis man was listed as wounded. playing with other children. at WASHINGTON, Sept, 21 (UP) Army sources to be preparing for The refugees aaid that ComEvansville for the Nov. 4 -ap- Another was reported missing. Fort Boag. Sud in Seattle GA. George C. Marshall was a mass attack. perhaps an all-out munist. dignitaries governing the pearance. { . ; ow . ’ ? . ) © sworn in as Secretary of Defense offensty /e to seize control of Indo- city had sped through town in The Vice President's extensive KILLED IN ACTION last night after hitchhiking from *%9 y ina large. cars and disappeared, leavcampaign itinerary will cover the 2d Lt. George Kopscick, hus- Taegu te Pusan. then getting at 5:45 2. m, {Indianapolis HME) “hese sources said French ing only military personnel to be entire month of October and up to band of Mrs. Mary V. Kopscick, rides on military’ planes to Tokyo today and immediately conferred troops had inflicted “heavy cas- seen on the street election day, Nov. 7. He is sched. Gary. : and then to Seattle. with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ualties” on a jet Minh battalion (Communist general headquarled to make 30 ‘speches in 15 hi our eneE oa dr. son ot Red Cross Aids The 69-vear-old soldier-states- Near the town of Thaibinh, 48 ters also had been removed from states. {1S a al, Ridgeville ~ . a ed he MAN, confirmed yesterday by the - the city. © In order to cover the vast dis- (Previously reported missing.) For a while it appeared he Senate. wasted no Ume in taking (Continued on Page ?eeCol. 7) How both the Soviet 4 tances between speeches he will IN would be stymied after coming “ene WAS or ! lowever. doth the Soviet 43 travel by pi » Se NIURED “half-way around ‘the globe. He Over the helm of the nation's Butl Gi 1000 Communist Chinese embassies Wavy yvane =. Pfc. Charles J. Weldy, son of felephoned his family that he stepped-up defense program. ut er ; ives were reported still in Seoul with Times Index : {Irvin _V. Weldy, Bremen. couldn't “hitch” a cross-country The oath was administered by Grid Tickets to 238th no indication that they intend to Amusements 2, 21 { MISSING IN ACTION ‘ride on an Army transport and Felix Lakin Delense Depart Tomes sists’ Sotvice leave: Ss hacia: Tank r= Cpl. Earl E. McClain son of he didn’t have enough money to ment general counsel, and was , 9 Deaths Events:.; 22+ © ike LEE Lo SRR SL ddl atid 50 on CAME _ATTERBURY. Sept. 21. 0 apne od tata Soviets B Tu y ° ‘buy. a commercial airlines ticket. held privately in the Pentagon Saturday afternoon recreation d a ridge seresssescsnsiani, 12° (Continued on Page 2—Col. 3) ped Cross authorities made ar- “in .accordance with Gen. Mar will be. no problem for at least wa T-34 tank captured Thurs. Comics cesesnsansenansss 43 : “ rangements to fy the sergeant shall's wishes." a Defense Depart- 1000 Gls of the 28th Division day contained Soviet log books Crossword orodsaiiided 3 Former Evansville home. He was expected to arrive ment spokesman said. ner Bo lL REO x as Wri : {tonight. The spokesman said Gen. Mar- Butler University of Indianap- , ar Sven hs ; Brskifie Johnson ........ 21 Political Writer Dies The sergeant's father operaigs shall would have no further state- oi. hay offered the 28th ICanap army ys until mid-July . when Nadie rye Bi | EVANSVILLE, Sept. 21 John a convalescent home at Colerian. ‘ment today with regard to his 1000 free tickets for each of its Dai To ill Rota Rosa Othman s:............... 33 8. McCormick, former political O. When he began to weaken plans. awa four home football games this pune army
The informatién is being fore warded to the United Notas, American prisoners of war alse were said to have been taken out of town to prevent their Tec by the advancing Marines. 3 Marine commanders
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