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FORECAST: Cloudy, windy and cold tonight and tomorrow. Low “tonight 25, high tomorrow 33.
Bell to Seek Ban
On Indiana Pickets
Toll System Being Jammed With Nickels
34,000 Join
Walkout in © % Servites “Watchdog” Subcommittee disclosed today
All Major Cities
Pickets paced in protest
circles before the doors of Indiana Bell buildings in two cities today. The strike of Western Eleetric installers and salesmen meshed gears with the clock at 6 a. m. Hundreds of organized workers clustered poi the Trance downtown, the street, and altho Service, except for peak-load toll call periods, was not affected under the dial system. The embarrassed company was prepared to file. an injunction
Bell en.
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ference with its business. The company in it's Circuit Court suit was to point out that its
workers were not on- strike. This is why the Indiana law for the compulsory arbitration of = utility strikes was not- brought
company did have a rash of picket
into play. : “We have no strikes,” said a 3 company spokesman. But the 2
Either union members or union sympathizers were quick to “jam” the toll system. This was done largely through dropping a nickel into pay stations downtown, dial- 2 ing “211.” and leaving the rereiver off the hook. ‘Flash Operator’ those who did get through
For
when circuits were busy, there was a voice, that of J. G, Harden, radin and telegraph engineer,
which, quite pleasantly, said in a recording:
_{erials as surpius’’
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‘Shortsightedness’'— * -
Air Force in Tail Spin On Surplus Purchases
Farmer Buys $1 Million Supplies
For $6.89; Sells Them WASHINGTON, Nov. 9
for $63,0C0
(UP}—The Senate Armed
that a Texas farmer—by accident—bought $1,209,600
worth of valuable surplus equipment for
$6.89.
He later sold it back to the Air Force for $63,000. The subcommittee said. the sale and repurchase
“most astounding case of shortsightedness” by the Air Force. The subcommittee asked gov“to halt the ma-
was a
ernment agencies unwise sale of valuable
“We hope that this incident impress upon all agenwith surplus the great necessity for exercising the utmost caution and care n. their transactions,’ the ubcomimttee said. The farmer. a former naval officer, who made the surplus equipment purchase actually thought he was bidding on small cardboard computers when he offered five cents each for them. 3 - r INSTEAD, he found he had bought 168 brand new electric fire control instruments worth $7200 each. The purchase was made in 1946.
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The farmer, whose name was nbt disclosed, said he did e not want the machines, the subcommittee reported. but the officer in charge of the th sale forced him to take the machines to his East Texas farm. The Air Force. later
paid him $63,000 for the ma-
chines. cost payer $500,000, he said.
Although the farmer paid
i Davton,
to his farm, the
mittee said.
The
1e farmer as
n an. unsuspecting
boy
subcommittee... saying that “the disposal agency was delighted to unload what thought was a heap of junk
only $6.89 for the equipment, he had to spend $4000 to ship
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country
The colonel in charge of
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which saved
purchasing agency the personnel at Wright Field were delighted to repurchase thiz equipment in brand new condition at a
and
the tax-
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1950
Fliers Smash Bridge Links To Manchuria
Navy Unleashes Air Strike Like Those in War II
Ry RALPH TEATSORTH
United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Friday, Nov. 10— The U. S. Navy's biggest air strike of the Korean war smashed Yalu River bridge links in the Chinese Commumist lifeline from Manchuria
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man said the enemy seemed to be shifting eastward from the heavily “defended Chongchon River line in the northwest, possibly to pr obe for weak spots in the Allied
z Thursday. : American superforts and small: cer planes of the 1. 8. 5th Air Ss Force joined—in the pulverizing z assault on Communist strong2 holds in North Korea and on S$ transport line8 over which ChiS nese divisions moved to join the = fighting against the Allies SU. 8. airmen rah up a score of = two Russian swept-wing jet fightS ers . destroyed, another probably = destroyed, one damaged and one S probably damaged, while two =, Yak-type fighters were destroyed.. = For the third day the Chinese = and North Korean troops faded s back from the front lines and s avoided combat. $ A U.S. Army 9th Corps spokes-
° o n E o = w —- I] at oF g n - ® ® =
z From aboard the carrier Vallev
Jack © Burby reported that Navy dive bombers hurtled out of early morning mists and thousands of pounds of on three international = bridges across the Yalu River : boundary between Korea and Manchuria. Pilots returning from the strike
“Due to a work stoppage we, can complete only emergency calls. If yours is an emergency call, please flash the operator.” Hit the Walks Twelve pickets established themselves in front of -the telephone company’s main building at 240-N. Meridian St. Others “hit the sidewalk” at exchanges and testing centers throughout the city. as the CIO Communications Workers of America called out 37,000 em-!| ployees. of Western Electric Co.; throughout the nation. | An estimated 2000 switchboard m operators, plant workers and ac-
commander of the carrier group, Ing the passenger train left the . Afi te. Mr, Cannon said i said the Navy strike was “the rails and straddled the tracks. No Terminal Construction fo Depend on City a otesting the - 3 biggest of the Korean War in coaches were overturned. . j Based fare -and route - I every way the ‘number of planes, Sixteen of the injured were Providing Money to Match Federal Grant jo will be notified han, the hears TINNY and its importance. It was like 2 will be held.
Final Tabulation Slowed by ‘Obvious’ Discrepancies, County Officials Report
By NOBLE
Improper handling of election returns in at least 100 precincts munique from the U. S. 8th Army the Marion County ‘reported only a skirmish between working in the yards, said the) |propriations, Weir Cook was wei I Muncie Killin S 8. collision sounded like “a muffled lcated $150,000 to extend and “percentage of 24th Division and some 200 Com- explosion.” mishandled tally sheets by some precinet boards was the worst on munists in the west coast sector. ployees called ambulances, Hosp way. L record.”
delayed final tabulations of official returns, Election Board charged today.
- Paul Dunn, Election Board pres
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ident, said the
(Other election news,
Improper Returns Handling Charged by Election Board
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the river threw aircraft fire. The ground war lagged. A com-
lan "armored patrol of the U.
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas
Pages MacArthur said the Chinese Com-
. i i , ; ! turns. trom 100 precounting «department employees, He said re an : members of Divisions I and 56 cilicts had to be returned to pre- 3. 36 and 37.) i aay row fou: Sreies nr ine . ti SE ——— agains e ies in Korea anc of CWA, refused to ‘cross the cinct boards ‘for correction .of = Too Cc ai Tr 600.vote ma- o8 = » icket lines. obvious discrepencies, oi Big xe Sat >” masSsed another 500,000 men in pics : 0 Calls on Dials Inspectors of seven of the nre omy in the official return tabu- npancpyria. e 002 alls i ation. rasan ead un te BO: wm hi ; cinets couldn't ‘be found yesterday ° - : The spokesman said up to 60 Their co-operation was designed and-the- Election —Board—sent—po- The 26.600 ma jority listed for 600 Chinese troops already were to hamper or paralyze Jong-dis- jiece- to notify them to appear . Sen. Homer E. Capehart over Alex in the battle zone, tance calls to and from Indian- . A rat ioe : ' i serat re nn ai anit a All local Shaan: before the Board immediately. Camb, Denera . Jrovped io i8 ay. S : S 23. in'today’s tabulation : ’ : : They all came in last night =~ ” made through the automatic dial . 1 ca E Revised totals in other races Buiton 1 Pp
gystem., Many operators on the .early shift failed to report for work this - morning. = They gathered across the street from the main building in obedience to an order from Miss Velma Fultz,
_iarv-treasurer of Division 56, not cinet, 15th ‘ward. was unable to
and six of them revised their returns in accordance with regulations in copying totals from voting machines absentee ballots.
to cross lines sot up by Division 6. ‘MaKe corrections -without open- —~ —ing the machine of that precinet: Mr. willbe ‘sought later today to de-: 4) termine if the Board can reopen
Telephone company officials
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picket lines in 32 states. But no crippling of local or long distance service developed immediately. At exchanges where long distance operators balked at crossing picket lines, their places were taken by executives and supervisors. Wages at Issue The strikers were employees of the Western Electric Co.. manufacturing and equipment -maintenance subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which most state telephone and| regional telephone companies are affiliates. Most workers
telephone are
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Striking Yelopihane equipment “ynstollers rombars of the cio | Communication Workers of America, walk in a circle in front of | Indiana Bell Telephone Co., 240 N. Meridian St. A nation-wide | CIO installers’ strike s3vmt Western
Lum ple
Rabb for Criminal Court 2 . mained about the same as did the 30,000 majority given Frank H ‘Fairchild for 114 for Prosecyior
Surikers Circle Entrance to Bell
were vabout the same as earlier ‘totals with Republican candidates
: i i poling majorities ranging from and the addition of~- 26.000 to 32000.
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RT The 27.000 majority given H fh vent Inspecor, Bead Due Brown for County Clerk, perature of the season secre- was increased to 29,000. . Last Sunday morning: -The-32.000-given-Judge-Saul-dewae27—
Winds are erected, to : reach 20 to 30 mph from the west tonight. The weather is to be gen-
; LA the machine to get “te totals | “no I: erally the same over the ofrike ua from officials re-| state “with snow flurries ! ge turns of 393 precincts out of 395 After Walking Into Car inthe north. The cold Across Nation " showed several major changes A. pedestrian, identified by is expected to continue “NEWYORK: “Nov. 5 ipr. from unofigial_ totals. compiled Arfiy discharge papers-as Harew “through Saterday “Ronis 34000 Telephone Workers early yesterday. = oeder. 46, 2348 College A “LOCAL TEMPERATURES Ftrtick across the nation—at—6.— Lhe record “majority. “of 44.000 was in. critical condition Loday In. Ta a. “today and an. estimated voles given Dan W. Smith, Re- General Hospital after walking 1 a po 33 Tra 'm 35 : ff into the side of a car at Vermont ’ ee fined B BE, —1n 000 long _ distance and local publican for Sheriff; over Sheri ) car at \ Aki 3t 18 [Roan gz i operators refused to cross. “their [James “Cunningham, ~ Democta UV andy M Meridian Ste” Sdn. 35 Yop. nm. 33
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World War II missions used to
The airmen loosed their bombs in downriver dives, and they said’ none of the explosives fell on the by police and rescue workers to Manchurian side, although Com- take the injured to hospitals. munist gun posts on that side of
road conductor.
Bus And
Stir Transit Riders
20 Are Injured
In Train Wreck
At Logansport
Pennsy Streamliner Hits Switch Engine At 50 Miles an Hour Times State Serviea LOGANSPORT, Nov. 9— Twenty persons were injured here early today, seven seriously, when a Pennsylvania Railroad streamliner plowed into an open switch and telescoped an idling switch engine.
Six of the most seriously hurt were railroad crewmen.
The passenger train was No. 37,
¢ fast mail and baggage train on
the Cincinnati-Chicago run carrying only ‘one coach.” There were 17 passeners on the single coach and 15 of them required medical attention. Railroad spokesmen “did not know” why was open. They said were en route from Chicago to determine the cause of the accident.
said they the switch
: reported that the highway bridge _ The diesel-powered passenger s south of the Suiho Dam in central 28 mall train roared into LoS Korea was knocked out tem- gansport on time, railroad spokesZ porarily. Reports on the other MeN said, and .apparently hit an S bridges downriver had not been 2PeN Switch as it came into the S received - Logansport yards at 50 miles. an : ‘Like World War Ir’ hour $ Rear Admiral John Hoskins, The big diesel -lecomotive pull-
for treatment. ‘taken to St. Joseph's Hospital.
hospitals. Carl Reynolds, a railroad clerk!
He and other em-|
tals, physicians-and-At St. Joseph's Hospital: —Hospitalized: Mrs. Hallie Ray, 59. Anderson. J. E. Dixon, 35. Richmond, railroad flagman
Samuel Cervisto, 62. Richmond. engineer; James Stout, 45, Tipton, fireman. Lonnie Reed, 55 Logansport, engineer
Treated and released: Benjamin Saxton, 60, Logans‘port; baggageman. Arthur McNaHan, 45, Fariston,
Mrs. Bertha Fariston. Ky. = Pfc. Charles Sith, 18 « Braden:
McNallan, 29.
~ton—Flar— Cpl. James Offutt, 20, Cincinnati. J. T. Jump, 50 Cincinnati, rail
road brakeman Leo Ryan, 57, Richmond, railLaura Dye, 67; San Gabriel, C al. Wd. Cox, 33, Webster TMs Margaret TIPHpEoH, “3R Chicago, - TMS, Mared RET. a; CATE “SUT - At Memorial Hospital Hospitatized Pete D’Andrew, 24, Logansport, railroad fireman. John Keith, 68, Cincinnati, Railway Express crewman.
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Treated and released: Wendell Kuhr, 34, Covington, Ky., mail clerk. C. Bedwell, Rossmoye, 0.
mail clerk
© GOP Rule Ma
Legislative Road for Labor
Compulsory FEPC and Arbitration Act ‘Repeal Proposals Here Appear to Be. Lost
. By IRVING Organized labor in Indiana
through any new labor legislation in/the new 1951 Republican-con- publican John E. Babb.
troled state legislature.
Two of the main Democratic labor proposals appear doomed.
They are: ONE: |instead of the present Joluniary
TWO: Repeal of the Utilities Compulsory Arbitration Act, ‘often called Indiana's _no-strike law. | Democratic officials put the blame on labor for not, getting ‘out a big Democratic, industrial vote. Final returns from 127 races for Senate and House seats in ‘the election showed that the GOP took the House away from the Democrats and kept control of the ‘Senate. The Republican election Jland-
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffise *
inspectors
taken to Memorial Hospital here Four others were may provide a new terminal building for Weir Cook Airport here. |
Taxicabs were commandeered depends on the city providing funds to match the Federal grant.|
The passenger train left after a up heavy anti-'three-hour delay, carrying those treated and released from the
“temporary -
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, [ Ti "IN I ; search for a buried body is part! Noy <3 i P) a. Luis ure. of lie investigation in the To Prevent King's Escape : ndia, Nov. board of direc Lora. of the influ- (Continued on Page 2—Col. 1) (UP) — The Prime Minister oF
New compulsory Pair Employment Practices Commission
leaders and union
Times
Indianapolis. Indians. Issued Dally.
oute Change
Sete &
Fare Hike Plea
PSC Chairman Steps Down ~ At Hearing
‘Crowd Overflows Into Corridors
At Statehouse By IRVING LEIBOWITZ # Indianapolis. Railways toe day hit a road block of public i protest against higher fares and curtailed service. . Hundreds of transit riders j jammed into the small cone . fines of the Public Service Comes mission hearing room to the transit firm's bid for a fare i increase and curtailed service on six established routes. Gov. Schricker entered the con= troversy when he privately ordered PSC Chairman Hugh Abbett, Democrat, not to preside. Although he continued to hear. evidence, Mr. Abbett turned his usual pre= siding poegition over to Lawrence Cannon, Democrat, During the hearing Mr. Abbett disqualified himself. He told & packed hearing room: “I don't want people to think a statement I made to the news. papers about a fare hike will prejudice the commission.” Adjourns Session { At noon, the commission ade I the hegring until an une
The Public Service Commission room couldn't accommodate protesting Arden citizens. Here, those unable to get inside, crowd around the doors.
'51 U. S. Funds May Give Weir Cook New Building
tion available in 1081 | a a Federal appropriation for airport’ construc a 'n auioits wate ot
y the utility ‘supporting a fare
TF erenee, { The transit firm proposed nine !different fare Increases, ri from a flat 13 cents to a flat 15 cents for a ride. The present fare is 12 cents plus a two cent transTer Shaige charge. me Three exhibits concerned antice ted increases in labor costs and Batol exhibit concerned an an< Haipated increase in operating
‘Whether the building program will actually be undertaken:
Although preliminary plans call for “extensive remodeling of the present terminal and increasing passenger spaces, further further growth of local air transportation Re may hinge on acquisition of a complete new building. i ’S Allocated $150,000 ] Under recent Federal aid ap
widen its main instrument ae final exhibit showed the
Hint Authorities
~ Looking for Body
By DONNA MIKELS
Times Staff Writer.
—There is anotherfund totaling Ls $480, 000 earmarked for the re-| ‘building “program.
Aviation leaders here have long.
company had : ing a nine-month period this year, ~~ Overflow to Corridor = - When hundreds of city resis dents overflowed.into the corridor,
contended that air transportation MUNCIE. Nov. 9--Muncie p : has outgrown local facilities. : ’ PO" Gov. Sechricker sent his ‘secretary, pas Xi & 1 ‘Indianapolis. Is lice today arrested Jacque -La- Arthur Campbell, to open the e sal dia i : : . : ili Se irra operation Duron,—participant in a struggle General Assembly chambers for
the hearing. The PSC adjourned the hearing for 15 minutes and re« opened in the Assembly chamber,
with facilities adaptable only to in the office of his physician-fa-a two-line volume. ther. Monday which resulted in
SR ie Biv Salus has the death - of two Terre Haute Before the PSC hearing was
] > brothers. two hours old, the following rapid Be I a for 136 Police Chief Harry Nelson said fire developments took place: will start its first scheduled op- Jacque. 21, was being held on an, ONE: The company temporare eration here next. month. open charge for further investiga- ily abandoned its efforts to cure Other Indiana fields included in tion of his role in the bloody bat- tail service until the City Board 1951 appropriations are Hulman tle waged between Dr. Jules F.-of Works completely approves ths i Municipal Airport at Terre LaDuron and Ralph and Seibert route changes. The city has apHaute, Evansville Municipal Air- Carter. proved many route changes but port, and Gary Municipal Airport. “We E ; hasn't completely indorsed all of At Evansvitie, mew; high inten- fight,” Chief Nelson said. “We're them. Utility will later present sity lighting systems will be in- going to have them—at head- evidence—for— Toute—changes;—& stalled to place that field on a quarters this afternoon to, see if| spokesman said. feel comparable ‘to. Indianapolis they can identify the son as the. TWO: One commissioner, who its handling of instrument one" they saw.’ 'declined to be named, said no nie Chief Nelson would not dis- route changes will be made at - Taxi and parking Strips will_be close what action the witnesses this time. He added that he had paved." saw performed during the fight. plenty of influence to prevent the Gary will receive aw ights—a which the doctor, says occurred changes in the event the other. : -terminal-building and when Ralph. 35. and his brother, two commissioners refused to Bo —a.parkigg apron will. be paved... ~-Beibert. 27. tried to extort $750 along with him. Terre Haute will receive apron trom him by means ef blackmail THREE; LF; Public Counaslor Wale Jones demanded that the-
have = witnesses to the
and taxi ‘improvements and a threats. ” ‘ter new road, will be built to ils’ Tacque nas told police he only commission | hear tach, o of the six terminal.” : attempted to hold one brother in
al iy a chair while the other struggled (Continued on. n Page 2—Col. 6)
ARGENTINE EDITOR DIES 2 with the‘ physician. Meanwhile, speculation that a Closes Nepal Borders
strategic Nepal ordered its bore
ential newspaper La Nacion, died f a -h rt ailment her last night. i JL 8 heart alitnent here 5% ‘World's Richest Cop’ ER a
MM | d Goes Into Retirement 'vana and 10 members of his y ean ar a oe The family to India.
CHICAGO, Nov. 8 (UP)- Nepal, a tiny buffer state bee
ies richest cop” went Into on yh dia and Communist-ine retirement today—on a $2613 ,4404 Tibet, has been torn by pos pension. litical troubles said to have Capt. Daniel A. Gilbert, chief arisen over the king's sympathy
of the state's attorney's 50-man for a reformist faction seeking police ‘force, resigned after his ‘a representative democratic gove LEIBOWITZ : overwhelming defeat in the race ernment in the country. may have a fough time pushi Ng tor .Cook County sheriff by Re-| ‘SHUTS DOOR TO 0 REDS | LONDON, Nov. 9 (UP)—Russ When questioned by the U. S.iqan writer Ilya Ehrenburg and Senate Crime Committee before ogg other Communists and lefts the election, Capt. Gilbert said|ists will not be allowed into Engs amassed his fortune, esti- land for the leftist “World —at $346,000, in stock and igraif market speculations, and by betting on political elections.
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Shae gave the GOP control of the! Senate by: the bamest majority— 26 to 24. The Democrats lost de‘spit the fact they had a 15 to 8 margin in holdover seriators, GOP leaders will have clear cut power in the House of Representa | tives where Republicans capture three-fourths of the seats. Only ‘one incumbent Senator! lost in Tuesday's smashing Re-| publican triumph. He was a Re-| publican and one of the staunch] organized labor supporters in the; state legislature State Sen, Wil-{. -.
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