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Dogpatch Comes Here

* Loretta Creekbaum, as Daisy Mae, and Howard Thompsén, as Li'l Abner, will be among the youngsters who will greet Al Capp at Brookside Community Center Friday afternoon.

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Al Capp, creator of The Times Li'l Abner comic strip, ar_rives in Indianapolis today for a round of Pasisgivirg. holiday. appearances.

i Abner Creator Predict Slash To Arrive Tonight

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (UP) The Radio-Television Manufactu Al Capp Will Visit Military Hospitals

rers Association today predicted a 25 to 40 per cent production slash early next year because of material restrictions.

appealed to a court’ “the telephone utility—a

. ‘hike of

‘rate,’ said the by the PSC is correct.” He added ‘that nothing has been done thus far

‘half the utility

Plans to Fight New Bell Bid For Rate Hike

Telephone Utility Is Criticized by Jones,

Public Counselor By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Public « Counselor Walter Jones today said he woul oppose Indiana Bell Telephone Co.'s demands for a new $4.9 million rate in-

crease Criticizing the telephone utility for ‘again asking: for an increase,” Mr. Jones said: “If the company did not like the recent state Public Service Commission order giving them $2.5 million, they should have

the PSC granted ~$2:5 mil rate increase, an average about 37 cents on every monthly telephone bill Yesterday afternoon. the phone company again filed for a

In September,

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rate increase—this time for $4.9 million." If granted in full, telephone bills would rise an addi-

tional 50 cents every month. In a prepared statement, or Bayt said: Deep” Concern “I am deeply concerned about Indiana ‘Bell's request for additional rates. While I do not now know the merits of the case, I intend to make a thorough study of the company's request. I have a great deal of respect for.the

May-

“telephone officials and am aware

that they have a. deep sense of civic pride. However, if the facts warrant the city’s participation in the case, T will not hesitate to do s0.” The utility, cities and towns counties, seeks the revenue increase in order to be able to obtain “a fair return on the fair value of the property.” The principal point at issue now is the proper valuation of the company's property. In its recent decision, the PSC valued the Indiana Bell plant at $88 million. The company contends that a fair valuation would not be less than $121 million. Stands by Valuation Public Counselor Jones, calling the company's estimate ‘'inaccu“recent valuation

which serves 82 in 46 Indiana

“to change the valuation.” When the PSC handed down its recent decision granting the company $2.5 million—Iless than requested-—tele-phone company officials halted work on the §1 million-a-month post-war construction program.

They said they could not afford

to continue. This was also attacked this morning by Mr. Jones, who said: “There was no need. to halt construction. The company is making the public suffer simply because they were not awarded all the money requests ed.

Rex Hotel Submits Corrective Plans

Plan To ‘Chute On Pea To Hunt 21 In Air Crash

ive 8 Children on DC-3 That Piles Into Tetons In Wyoming's Rockies

Mountain Climbers Start to Scale Sheer Cliffs Far Above Timberline JACKSON, Wyo.,, Nov. 22 (UP)--Air Force rescue crews prepared today to make a hazardous parachute leap onto the 12,100-foot slopes of Mt. Moran where a nonschedUnited Press Staff Correspondent uled DC-3 airliner, owned by a missionary group, apparently TOKYO, Thursday. Nov. crashed with 21 persons, eight of them children. ~23—The-South- Korean Cap-——— €Capt—William-L;— Young, head-nf-the- Air Force paras

itol Division pushed. spear- rescue team at Boise, Ida., heads to within less than 10

owe

Alies Drive To Seal Off Border Sector

Fliers Blast

Concentration Of 100,000 Reds

By EAKNEST HOBERECHT

Bill Taking County Homes Out of Politics Is. Slated

New Measure Will Be Introduced In State Senate During 1951 Term

By BOB BOURNE A bill: to take the 87 Indiana county of politics will be introduced in the Indiana Legislature during the 1951 term. The Joint Citizens Committee of Indiana on Health and Welfare Legislation was to decide on the bill at a luncheon meeting

today at the Columbia Club Miss Helen Daniels, secretary of the the measure. The Citizens Committee Raids Show Policy of more than 25 civi¢ and servic organizations, and is a bi- PETIT “3 On Gaming—Ba Two to Introduce Bill

homes

out

Citizens Committee, said

the group probably will approve —— made up of representatives san group.

Mrs. Dorotny Gardner, State : : said his group planned to Senator from Allen County has Mayor Refutes Rumors miles of the bombed out east J irmen If take off immediately to fly been selected to introduce the coast port “of C hongjin today

bill along with a Representative Of a ‘New Deal’ It here and probably would attempt

from Marion County. Rumors. thatoa “ew Neal” aos was part of a U iited_Xa to parachute to the crash scene. : a o sinssiibabinadi deal Was tions ‘drive’ to .seal off all of Advise . \ The name of the Marion Coun- developing among the gambling northeastern .Korea at the Man- n [as d th er neoud cundItOts ty legislator was not available fraternity here were dispelled en. : 1an e Steapness of the big In taking the operation of the emphatically by Mavor Bayt to- chiitiani and Siberian borders . mountam. Capt. Young said his state's county homes out of poli- ga, y May 3 On the northwestern end, the 2 Others Missing, airmen might be forced to make tics, the bill would establish a He explained the - series -of Allies threw almost the entire 12 h their drop at Jackson Lake at the five-member hoard to appoint the “raids vesterdaVv when more weight of their Air Force against C ute to Safety base of the mountain and then superintendaut. than Ball 5. sozor Of the bn il Communist troops afid supplies 1 EBURNE. Tex. Nov, 22 (UP) climb to the site from there. The board would be appointed gaming spots in town ee tagged concentrating below the Yalu 4 crippled B-36 Superbomber,, Skilled mountaineers were alby county commissioners, but py police squads. to “close up, River Crossings A Me oa hun, trying to limp home on three of ready climbing the snow-covered i i traree at ne u : { : their - choice of members would was ‘an official notice that “no of ee Bora unis. its six engines, crashed in timber- heights of the mountain toward

where the plane was believed to have crashed.

Clouds Hide Peak Heavy clouds covered the upper portion of the precipitous, rocky peak. They hampered any atitempts by spotter aircraft to sight wreckage or survivors. The plane, agparently one

land north of Cleburne today and at least two of the Air Force crewmen aboard were killed. There were 16 men aboard. Twelve parachuted safely. . Two were missing. but believed safely

be restricted. reen. light” w e ee . une HaHa i the oe on ual By a. given to any Rryy. is ou entrmted. rvisie board would have to be a town- “Actually the police action was thrasi nofth the Bp sy n ship trustee, another a county merely a continuation of the poli- the heels The SHEN ang welfare worker, and the others cies of Mayor Feeney,” Mr. Bayt ox e ee. of Se oT professional persons, such as a'said. “In a conference Monday, nists to within artillery range of nurse. doctor, dentist, attorney or I instructed the Safe tv Board and Chong: in Sweep ‘ldown via ‘chute, Swee Two were known dead. One of]

newspaperman. Chief of Police Rouls to continue . COTE ivisi Would Be Appointed the daily enforcement program ne Se Drain them were heheaded by a propel-|

against g ” v lor the sh Ti PHAM, of fe uss on in gin that has been way junction 30 miles inland from The. te v _~ ea cs “pis owned by the New Tribes Mission the coast and 30 miles southeast of Chico, Cal, w and he must be free from politics Declaration of Policy of Hyesanjin, where the 1Tth i ay stared him 19 earth in fog near the a ne

Also the bill “appointment, by purchasing agent for

would ' provide for the board ‘the

The raiding yesterdav, he said, Regiment of the U. 8. Tth Diof & was the result of that dec laration Vision is at the Yalu River border.| home. of policy U. 8. Marines of the Tth Regi-

range early last night.

In trouble, : A resident of a lodge near the

winging northward

the big plane was toward its

He would be directly accountable in rapid fire order police squads ment. patrolled 10 miles up the hole base at Fi. Werth's Cajs- Pa Charen. Barns ad je for the purchasing and disburse- swooped down on 4l} known gam- western shores. of the Chosin well Air Force Base when it fell, ~~ engined p ane. gyment of food and other items. bling joints on W. Ohio St.. Illi- Reservoir to Yudam, and mdved about 20 miles south of Carswell ALTOON A, Pa, Nov. 23 Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, for- nois St. and out on Virginia Ave. their main force five miles north. Air Force helicopters were put: (U’Py—Mrs. Edna Greiner, who mer juvenile court judge. and No arrests were made, but po. Marines of the 5th Regiment con. UP Over the hilly. brushy Johnson. with her five children is bechairman of the county homes lice told the gamblers to “stack finued their sweep up the eastern County countryside to search for! lieved dead in the crash of a committee which wrote the bill. yp vour furniture and close this banks of the man-made lake. the missing two men, | missionary airplane near Jack:

joint for good.” F 80 jets, attacking through Tells of Trouble | son, Wyo., lost her husband in Some of the establishments that heavy anti-aircraft fire from both, Names of the dead were with-) a similar crash just four “immune” from the Korean and Manchurian sides held, pending notification of their months ago. Tis He was the Rev. John Mil who was killed

pointed to the “shameful conditions which have been brought to light“ in-too many county homes, were reportedly in Indiana. police raiding activity for some of the Yalu River, hurled 1000- next of kin. “County homes are the only re- time were said ‘to be “closed up pound demolition bombs at the One survivor, a Lt.

Rinehart, ton Greiner,

maining institutions in our state tight" today. bridges linking Sinuiju and An- said the big ship was plagued by! when a Néw Tribes missionary which are operated directly by Police Chief Rouls ‘said the tung. Smoke from a previous at-'trouble all the way north from plane went down in Venezuela politicians. All other institutions, “raids” were nothing new. tack hid the results of their San Antonio | Jast July. The Greiners were

such as Sunnyside tuberculosis. “We have been knocking off strike. sanatorium, have been taken over. gaming spots wherever we find

; He told newsmen that a landing residents of BeHwood;- Pas, near” p Smash Bordér Town at Waco was considered, but was, here. by bi-partisan boards,” the Judge them.’ Superforts smashed at the not attempted because of unsatis-| Mrs. Greiner had left home northeast Korean border town of factory weather conditions. Waco! with her children about a Musan; where there is believed to'is about 80 miles south of Cle-| month ago to do missiona be an enemy troop concentration! pyrne. work in the West. ry and also pounded Chongjin ahead! A (jvil Aeronautics Adminis-| f the advancing Capital Division. {ration DE-3 patrol plane, bound ing overhead and later saw a fire

said. Ie Other F-80s and B-26 light (,. gan Antonio on a routine 8 an estimated 11,000 feet alti-

In smaller counties, where the numbers of county home residents For Turkey Day !bombers, machine-gunned, rocket- airways check, made contdct with tude on Mt. Moran, one of three - 42 and gasoline-bombed troop the crippled superbomber at a Peaks known as “The Needles.” : wrEErsT and rairoads in the ER or Teme

is small, provision is made 8 the bill to combin [romes for sake of economy After a series of Times articles in March of 1948 brought to light the conditions at-Julietta a coun

tv advisory board was appointed. F I M northwestern sector point south of - Cleburne _and| } Double Survival X The board has not met since Supt a in ercury. Thundering broadsides from Sa ye nearby until after the Equipped with scaling gear and Harry Barrett assumed direction Forecast Tomorrow eight-inch un / SIT ® hanuw Trash first. aid equipment, four rangers - guns of the U.-S. heavy oi . t 2! of the home Mar. 1. 1950, -— aiser St. Pail offshore id a The passengers on the CAA of the Grand Teton National Park — : LOCAL TEMPERATURES ruin of haus rocrets ard pul plane had a ringside seat for set out to work their way up the I 1 { al 1 ‘ ry ng alxr OD ‘tar " Head St # | 6a. m., 28 10 a. m... 33 lets from American carrier planes RBProX/ANAlc iv 20 Tnindjes of te steep slopes through deep snow. y uv : | Tam. 20. 01 a mS 90 tank n heavy toll of the wireat. Lon Alter the crash the DCS; They hoped that ‘at least Same STOCKHOLM. Sweden 1 8a m.. 28 12 noon.. 36 ing enemy below C Hong. Seen for A ie of the 13 adults and eight chil. : i 9am... 32 > s crew radioed CAA Ft. Worth sqren aboard the plane might hav Nov. 22 (UP) Harold Rho- | headquarters that they counted cy yived. P Et have

Humidity at 12 noon 63%

” So Off again-on again weather.

13 parac ‘hutes in the area around

din bought a ‘punch of im- ' | ithe B-36.

‘ported Bulgarian grapes

Chief Ranger Paul Tudge said, ‘however, he doubted that anyone

Bomb i in Car

Spring Hospital at 1 30p. m will devote the balance of.the day in the : to soldiers at Camp Atterbury. nadian troop train and a pasPlans Visit to Hospital senger express’ in a At 4:30 p. m. Mr. Capp will be snowstorm. Fifty- -eight;p at Atterbury’'s military hospital were injured. i where the patients include ‘Ko- The dead included 14 soldiers rean War casualties. of Canada's special United NaStarting at 7:30-p. m. Mr. €app tions brigade and four trainmmen, will make a rotund of Thanks- tHe locomotive crew of both . giving service club shows there, trains. et henule wi Rescuers working ‘in snow and Times carriers at Loew's Theater below zero temperatures. Searched “At noon, the Til Abner creator for two missing soldiers. will bring all the lore of “Dog-" Fifty-one Soldiers; 40 of them patch’ to the luncheon of the stretcher cases, and: six passenIndianapolis Real Estate Board B'S and a baggageman aboard in the Washington Hotel, Mem: the passengertrain were injured.

head-on crash of a Ca-

ersons

: ws et siwic : : : PA Nuwking ce]. (Continued con Page 3—Col. 2) ebration will start at 2 p. m. ing the shelter house ‘of the Brookside Community Center. The City Park and Recreation Department has arranged a program of

mountain!

The known death toll rose to-.

i the Rex on

reports, Corrections, Outlined Charles ‘E. Bacon, ‘building

commigsioner, said today’s drawings outlined corrections for most of the deficiencies in the building. but mors detail is needed. Specifically. he said. there must be another exit. The building now has one exit which might become sealed 1mm case of fire he decla In that event, he added, Slared a ‘drop ladder” would be available for emergency exit, . Ralph Fender, chief of the Fire Prevention Bureau, said the building has partially passed fire inspection. The operators were to meet later today with Mr. Bacon and full report is to be forwarded to the Safety Board. City officials moved to inspect

games and prizes for youngsters wearing the best costumes depicting the “Dogpatch”: charaeters of the L'il Abner comic strip. Mr. Capp will make his appearance at 'the center at 2:30 p. m.

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‘Exchanges to Close

All exchanges in the country | "will be closed tomorrow, Thanks-

giving Day. TRUCK DRIVER KILLED ¢

BURLINGTON, N. J, Nov. 22 (UP)—A man, identified as Norman A. Shelton, 24, Newport News. Va., was burned to. death

4 today in a collision of two trucks

at a railroad grade crossing. The other truck driver was hurt.

instigation of The,

By ART WRIGHT rn Jouowed rt Building Partially -2 _ and found this note tucked = most of it chilly, will highlight Black c 1 ds A |could have lived through such a. Indianapolis will be Thanksgiv- duction Authority of drastic limi- P Fire Insp ction among the stems: “Greet- ithe Thanksgiving holiday .and ac at eadas NGryi crash. He said there’ was no ing host to Al Capp; famous cre-i = "ol ce of cobalt Il asses | pe ) ids 15 sour free country. week-end, the Weather Bureau in- ; S an eg . Buck to Highway Death doubt _hat the bldze on the mounator of -the Li'l Abner comic strip villars. zoods. Rex Hotel operators. through : dicated today. : y ST. LOUIS. Nov. 22 (UP) tain .was caused by the plane's which appears in The Times daily a Ts» dleel-hafdening min. the building. commissioner today Luck to you. Light rain and some snow. is; : = tharos Fe x {or an Al wreckage becausg the fire was and Sunday. ov reral important in re submitted plans to the Safety ares BSL tov-4ompnt Tena Ft. Worth Woman : on pen ay which chased it spotted at an elevation above tim. Shortly after his arrival to- to "ol Nl Lal and Tv Sts Board in compliance with an or- Bell Aftorneys’ Sak . ir he IAREING to snow Expectant Mother across .a highway near suburban | berling. night, Mr. Capp will . entertain paris tof der to make the building conform To B k D na a dip 1 the mere ury. Friday P a orher Overland : 3 The misgion group was sched~ war veterans at Billings Hospital with local Sonstineon codes. rea own Witness is due for much coder weather. pr "WORTH. Tex. Nov: 22 eden Gene Bengel said the Wed to conduct a religious meetduring their pre - Thankégiving ! The hotel, 470 S.. Meridian Attorneys for Illinois Bell iTele- OV¢ the state... © (UP)— A Ft. Worth’ night. club or shaking its Pers ‘menac- Ing at the Grace. Bible Mission in party at 7:30 o'clock. 1100p | rain ras St.. was the. scene of an investi- phone Co. today crogs-examined., A J Sh lemperaiure o % 5 IS operator and his wife were killed ul iy St the at collided with his Billings, Mont... ]ast night and A Capp with present—ehatko ion-several wesks 880. hy 16D: Sven. B. Hansell. public ULES. 0 eno apn EE RIED today when T bomb exploded ir automabile and sigs killed was due there at 7 p. m. (Indian: —tatie drawing. his _ 5 “ADIEF -—r sentatives of the BoRrd Or A etiarv IR An eTro Ft HEE An: RSE Err Eh Sea SHAE EE re ——— ere Apa THAR - characters for’ the soldiers and Kills 187i in Canada Health. building commissioners down his testimony’ hefore ther 2a rin io oe a i Side apartnrent-proect— rrr es eT EE ~Calttorats other groups he will visit: office; Juvenile Aid Division. and state Public Service .Coammission Downtown enheratutes 5 “i The ‘victims: of ‘the blast were Be in a Better earlier in the afternoon. and last At 9 p.m. today Mr. Capp will ‘Fire Prevention Bureau. At that op. the utility's ‘depreciation fig- fheip-low rsmce early -vesterday Nelson Harris, and his wife, af WHS Teporied over Idaho at 2:40 entertain-at the pre-Thanksgiving 9 Missing, 58 Hurt time it was declared unfit for use res. morning at 7 a. m. today When|.y,..tant. mother, Mr Harris Home Before the Tn. _ dinner-dance in tile Broadmoor a, as a hotel or rooming house be- In earlier testimony, Mr. Han- the mercury touched Potton at head was blown off and ‘his, a four rangers headed by. Country Club. . In. Head-on Collision cause. of bad health, moral 4nd <q); a witness for the public said. “! degrees. : oot body mangled. Mrs. Harris, whose Holidays End {Blake Van Dewater carried ropes Mr. Capp will devote Thanks-' oo OOPS. B. C. Nov. 22 fire hazard conditions. Illinois. Bell's depreciation rate Across - the *nalion. a rather child was to have been born next x 4 . ~~. land other scaling equipment. giving Day to war veterans. He (UP) TT t Idi wg . Two weeks ago the operators was “too high.” : typical ‘Novan ber assortment of week, died en route to the hos NEW LISTING ; El entertain - patients. at C ‘old’ wenty so jers and civil were ordered to submit plans for The telephone utifity is seeking weather” oa Thanksgiving Day. rita . ; WESTERLEIGH . . ; Slopes Very Steep and ans were dead or missing today correction of faults cited In’ city was forecast Police said the bomb had been” WITH & JKESSLER BLY AREA Chief . Judge said the - slopes

a permanent $1.8 million rate fncrease for service in Porter and Lake counties in Indiana.

‘Don’t Worry—'

Errant Motorist Says He |

near the crash were very steep and fhat he doubted that éven a 3) para-rescue team sent by the 4th -. Air Force Rescue Squadron would : be able to parachute to the site’ because. of the rugged terrain. Aboard the plane were 10 adult passengers, three crew members

The mercury was -expected 10 ,1,nteq in the Harris car.

3) The blast was heard in downtown Ft. Worth, and. broke ‘wWinee dows in apartments and houses {in the surrounding neighborhood. Top Blown Off First arrivals at the scene said

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the top was blown from the car ey ey ror rurtiset and the eight Deserves lt—Judge Obliges ... 7: mum me od rd ish eS on The one nearby resident said. “He ap- "W.-M. GRAVES. INC, . nai . peared to be blown all to pieces YoRratms REALTORS mountainside shortly “after the Sentence Totals 720 Days on Farm Fie wommar JUOREQ #5 If she was’ = @The above ad Je just one, Lune was Fears, died out shortly And $462.50 in Fines on Six Charges just ‘getting into the car. She was of ‘the HUNDREDS of" “gr5unq observers at ranger : : : : i still breathing when the ambu- fine home bargains you headquarters at J age: r a Dunisiupen: I lance attendants picked her up.” wil find advertised For enny Lake, ames 3 0 ? Broadway. made this suggestion Mrs. E. W. Beeman said w Sale [n the classified > this morning to Judge Joseph Howard in Municipal Court 3 : . Sau] women Nacas of The Times. (Continued on Page e 3—Col. 1 “Don’t worry.” Judge Howard ‘said. “You're Boing to get it.’ “(Continued on Page 8—Col. 3) ‘Read these ads every dav Ti I d fi Judge Howard then imposed a sentence totaling 720 days en, and vou CAN bet settled imes index the Indiana Brate Farm and $462.50 in fines. ‘Garbage Collections in a. bettefl home for the ' About People ..... aii ts t was the heaviest fine for a — coming hdlidays 3irths, Deaths, Events .. -§- traffic violation in the. memory ria driving, $50 and cos sts Listed for Turkey: Day ne hore. are still Bridge ....... a ¥ ; ‘cinta an 8, . w of Municipal Court bifictals, Resisting an officer, $25 and If vou like to sleep late on holi- many homes offered For Henry Butler .....siieve 8 Arrested Last Night costs and B0.davs. Ay days and you live between Wash- Sale in the Times Want - Canasta tessevsesscaness B | Wall was arrested last night. Fajlure to stop after an acci- ington St. 10th St. White River Ad. pages, the forecast Comics It trian 19 {after an auto accident’ at Sher- gent. $100 and costs. and 180 and the eastern city limits, you for 1951 is an increasing F a seevaseninaeee 12% 'man Dr, and East, Michigan St. days have work to do tonight. scarcity in the housing hie teieresssssnsese 8 The charges on which Wall was judge Howard ordered that the That's assuming you want your -. # markét. This will result’ Harold i. Hartley, oo: 12 {convicted today, and thé Sen- crate farm sentences are to be !fash-and garbage picked ‘up_to- in_higher prices. You will Lutes Preernes 4 [tences invoked, were: served consecutively. “The farm MOITOW. be wise to choose Now | Mra. anes 111mm i 0 . " vy: | sees O quor, and costs and” of twh years. seHedules Thanksgiving. First col- Tt iit | Frederick C. hadir 4

days on the state farm. Wall's police record showed he lections will start by 7 a, m., and Drunk, $100 and costs and 180 was convicted of driving under the area will not be covered again days. the influence of liquor last May 27, until the following, Thursday. = «o/Charge .of Resisting "At that time he was fined $20 and - James Bookedis, superintendent Driving without an’ operator's costs and sentenced to 20 days in of the sanitation plant, said regulicense, $50 and costs and 60 jail. Hig operator's license was lar collections are made on all days, Siler : revered -for.one year, (holidays except Christmas.

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