Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1950 — Page 2

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We're going to get the job done.” National Commander Cocke said he didn’t expect to live in Dawson, Ga., where he is a stock= piser, farmer and businessman, or Indianapolis, while he is national commander. : I'm going to live in a suit case,” he declared as he popped; —— massive hands together. “We are! _ going to get something done.” Commander Cocke said he—and “the Legion—would go all-out for| - a legislative program calling for universal military training in the United States; strengthening of] the Communist control law, and| #& stronger, better federal : civil defense law, : i «x “We want to make America for Americans,” the youthful com-| mander declared. “We want to] . _amake the nation so strong that JRussia will not dare start a shoot-| ing war.” SA ‘Serve Notice’ ‘sv He continued: ; | + “The sooner we serve notice on

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amore satellites , . . but shall hold] Moscow responsible for any fur-| sher aggression and use all out strength to desfroy the breeding. place of all trouble, the better off| we'll be.” {

{; He was bitter in his criticism of | grinder accident in September, 1948, all of Indianapolis read how|a big town with a future. she smiled through the pain, They admired the 10-year-old girl's

#amerchants, brokers, exporters!

and shippers who trade with our

‘ehemies” and “government offi-| Pravery. Ce F. : jhis closest friends. © said. slals who connive- with these! But one man in Indianapolis did more than read about it. The, He sought out bankers to honor; Some people say Al Feeney | Opposition to “blackguards or whose stupidity next evening Mary Toaked n and saw a big man, silver-haired, ojty pay checks in advance of a/might have been one of the most “ i »- smiling, bein yrought "into her — i 4! . 1 permits this criminal trading. smiling, being brough matters, The Times Is republish-| 1020- He installed new depart-powerful political figures in Indi- in the east and ‘center to non-|

<- Earle Cocke is probably the room in St. Vincent's Hospital. lonly man in history who has been Little Mary had never met him— #¥executed” by an enemy firing but he wasn’t a stranger, ‘squad and lived to tell the story.| From that .day the handsome $e was riddled in the stomach bachelor called Mary Helen “my and lung by a Nazi firing squad 8irl” From his own pocket he ..Bfid a German officer put the /Dought her an artificial hand. To

“finishing touch” in his back with help be wi DEF 250001 Jegaones “# pistol. e g Pp 3 :

. Vill Many days his car would pull up Nursed By Villagers in front of Mary Helen's house at 522° Massachusetts Ave. His

kg, then a U. 8. Army captain, driver would leave a little gift or

was found alive by villagers and spursed for 48 hours until help fice # yisit.” came. He has been a.prisoner of '¢® Tor a Ne: Job -war three times and escaped #ach| Found Parents Jobs = time, His third escape was the His Kindness turned what .fererunner of the capture of 592 German soldiers. Following his experiences, in 3 Thich he refused to die, he spent ~14 months in 27 hospital - : -derwent 17 BD ie 3 and. un {Helen's mother and new employ- ’. He was welcomed today at an ment for her dad, Lawrence Dupfficial luncheon spon gan. . te] net on Sponsored BY he Last giitistinas Mary Helen's nerce at the Indianapol {friend learned his’ employeés lub. Bapolis Athletic! a nned to give him a gift. He

Mrs. Willis C. Reed, of Vinita, *sked them to give it to Mary “Okla., new natio: : Instead. The result was the big3) mal president of gest Christmas a little girl ever

She. American Legion Auxiliary, Hlso was honored at the luncheon. Through it all, Mary Helen's Former Airlines Executive mentor asked to remain anony~=Commander Cocke was born in/mous. “I get — in the papers Dawson, Ga., May 10, 1921, the enough,” he said, “this is someson of Erle Sr. and Elise thing I'm doing because I want 3 Adows Cocke. He was educated to» - ] n public schools of Dawson,| Once a Times photographer received an A.B. degree from the dropped in to see Mary Helen in - University of Georgia and re- the hospital and caught. her ceived his master of business ad-|“friend” delivering a big bunch of ministration degree from the roses. He snapped a picture=but Harvard Business School. lout of deference to the man every Upon his election to the Legion newspaperman liked, he. blocked commandership, he was assistant out all but the extended “helping to the president’ of Delta Air hand” from the picture. The cap-/

lof a little girl's life ‘into something that wasn’t quite so bad. And quietly, without telling anyone, he arranged a job for Mary

- dustrial agent for the Central of identified the anonymous visitor] Georgia Railroad. In addition he only as “a man whose name is as operates a 1200-acre farm where Irish as Miss Dugan's.” he raised peanuts and blooded! Today, pecansp it no longer

cattle. | : Dailey Dismisses A Three Days Lottery Indictments Cough IsYour Danger Signal

Indictments againit two Indi-| anapolis lawyers and three others Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble’

on charges of conducting a lotto help loosen and expel germ laden

tery pool were dismissed by

Prosecutor George 8. Dailey in phlegm and aid nature to soothe and Criminal Court 1 this afternoon. Po raw, tender, inflamed bronchial The cases against all five de- membranes. Guaranteed to please you fendants were thrown out of OF money refinded. Creomulsion has “court once in April. 1949, by stood the test of millions of users. Judge William D. Bain in Crim- CREOM ULSION 1 inal Court 1. He sustained a mo-| go Chast Colde, A : tion to quash the-indictments on Cougha, h- Acute Bronchitis the ground that they failed to show sufficient’ facts to make a. ‘criminal charge. oy However, the Indiana Supreme Court, acting upon Prosecutor Dailey’'s al, reversed Judge Bain's dedyeon and sent the cases “back to Criminal Court for trial several weeks ago. °

and evidence on which the ‘indict-I ~ ments were based have become. 16 so weakened that the state could A got obtain convictions: at a trial. BARBECUE ITY The indictments were réturned SAUCE Feb. 17, 1949, charging five de- /i fendants with operating a lottery ode from on. HitiE] pool enterprise.. ahaa own 1 The defendants were Thomas i. ii whe fluted // H._ McNulty, attorney and prom- oeum-packed (.]/ fnent Republican politician; Ed- pote. Does wonders 2a ward R. McNulty, tavern opera- for ribs, souces 2 tor; William B. Miller, attorney; .ond sclods. R27700 78 Ralph Hitch, professional bondsman, and Hugh Flynn, an _ ac- CATSUP & countant. i

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take Mary to his downtown of-

iseemed to be the biggest tragedy |

Mary vin Dugan and nd: : Feeney's Big Heart Made Russia that we will not fight any! Maimed Girl Smile Again

~ His Kindness Eased the Tragedy Of Losing Arm for Mary Helen Dugan

‘By DONNA MIKELS When little Mary Helen Dugan lost her left hand in a meat- wave, and sald, “Indianapolis is |

Bucked ‘Organization To Win Mayoralty

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{speeches three times a day. The . 6-foot, 200-pound Feeney,

Notre Dame, teammate of Knute Rockne, convinced the voters they needed him. Although he was a constant worrier, he did nat get rattled. He had snapped a football to . lquarterback Charles (Gus) Dorais for forward passes to Rockne against Army in 1913.° He had five years with Jim Thorpe’s immortal Canton Bulldogs.

‘Knocked : Off’ Gamblers

He was experienced in public affairs. As Indiana Safety Director, under Gov. Paul V, McNutt, he knocked off big gamblers till he was eased out of a job: During the two terms he served as Marion County sheriff he badgered the local gamblers out of the county. The biggest fight of his political life came when he ran for sheriff against Charles Lutz and lost—until he demanded a recount and won. : : When he took office as mayor he viewed the city’s shaky financial shape, the records of a crime

All it ‘needs is a push.”

Promotes Republican

ing that photograph and naming; the man who wanted to help a| little girl without fanfare. ~ | That man was Mayor Allice ruined by politics. Feeney. :

~Lines-and had been generai—in-| tion Hes published tn The: Times | == 2m

Does It Pay? . ® You save almost nothing by doing part of your own ironing. STERLING'S ALL-FINISHED dcesn’t cost much more than a egesere——— partly-finished service—and it includes everything

—even the SHIRTS.

iment heads with strict orders for efficiency and honesty.

He found the morale of the po-

lthe 600 men, only one Democrat

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In Strawberry Print Percale

A zipper-quick and easy-to-wear dress ' of 80-square percale, merrily splashed

with strawberry prints . . . pertly

flounced at the her. Flattering round

neckline, 18-inch concealed zipper,

self-tie, belt.. Red, blue, or lilac. Sizes

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Ayres’ Pinafore Shop, Fourth Floor

his own publicity and making

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« i 5 llies Advance sioner’s office was -ordered to de- ‘Wh ‘Front stroy it “gratis permit” stamp| Whole nt, and collect all fees. (Continued From Page Ome) | Mayor ordered the mayor's the Hesle of the Rorean peninsula automobile sold. He would use Jeet ang bY. spearty coa ja 3 Yom the his own ®ar—a big black Cadillac enemy infiltration of their flanks.

He declared an open door to the Divisions eliminated two-thirds of Ea ia two-mile-deep wedge driven in press at his office and closed itiy, seq line between Kunu on only at intervals. the Chongchon and Tokchon, 23 For the first time in 10 years, miles to the northeast. 4 streets were beginning to get| : paved. Cinders were spread aver| Erase Red Threat icy streets. Other improvements) were begun. {counter-thrust near Tokchon virHis street commissioner, Tony tually wiped out the gravest Maio, found he had to run up two threat to the Allied line. The Com: flights of stairs because the eleva- munists had driven two miles tor was too slow when the Mayor through the South Korean posicalled. . tions yesterday and forced ReBefore he went political, Al was Publican troops to abandon Toka salesman, the operator of fa- chon itself. ther's furniture store and a pro-| The South Koreans struck back fessional football player. {hard today. The 6th Division {rammed ahead almost 3500 yards

He also coached several Cathe- ; {in a frontal attack on the bulge dral High School football teams— while the Tih and. &th Divisions

TN a aE od ori Watlot either flank struck northeast Hewtenant and “had a heck of a and northwest respectively in an attempt to encircle the Reds.

good time. 2 { Tokchon itself was a No-Man’s-His greatest hobby was fishing. and alternately held by the He would fish anytime, ahy place, gouth Koreans, and” Communists. but he seldom went farther afield “We could go in tomorrow

He never went in for liquor or tobacco, but didn’t object when! chums “got all charged up” —his favorite expression about one of

without the high mountains to the north,” an American military ad-|.

|viser with the South Koreans

ana if he wasn’t so: uncompromisling, so thin-skinned, so fierytempered, and so. frank.

existent in the west. However,

{were spotted moving across thef

way. churia and heading south.

—without a city-paid chauffeur.| : South Korean 6th, 7th and 8th|

The powerful South Korean)

ing Koehler's Market, 10th. St., early today, two youths| jthan Lake Shafer or Tippecanoe. 'morning if we wanted to, but it/confessed several c might easily become a death trap burglaries to Police Capt. John Sullivan.

[Clair St., was slated for a pre-| o the northwest liminary hearing front offensive ranged from heavy court 3 today, and a 16-year-old|

(companion was turned over 0 o¢ stolen merchandise at the

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Mayor Feene (right) is shown with Msgr. Henry F. Dugan a few minutes before his death. They were attending the ansual communion breakfast of the Daughters of Isabella.

2 Youths Admit Store Burglaries

caught the two ) young men in the market. They“ admiKted havi entered the building after bre: ing a skylight. y Capt. Sullivan said Christie ad mitted they had burglarized Sablosky’s Department Store at {Massachusetts St. and College In. Mun I recently, as well as the Pile Boat Co., 1518 E. Washington St. Police recovered a large quant=

Caught in the act of burglariz2402 E.

other recent

Ross Christie, 18, of 520 E. St.

more Communist reinforcements Juvenile Aid Division. St. Clair St. address. The loot ine

Responding to an American cluded several radios, a rifle, seve

Among| But Mom Feeney liked him that Yalu River frontier from Man- District Telegraph burglar alarm eral leather jackets and other |shortly after midnight, police!clothing.

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