Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1950 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and 4 tomorrow. Much colder. tonight,

Hoosiers Still

Sing Low Down Weather Blues

‘Temperatures Sag ~ Sharply, Winds

Hit 40 MPH . LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m... 32 10a. m... 19 Tam... 25 11am... 19 8a.m... 24 12 (Noon) 19 9am... 19 1p. m... 21

"Humidity at 12:30 p. m., 718%.

* Hoosiers were wailing the Weather Blues again today. The dirge, rapidly snowballing into the No. 1 spot in Indiana prominence, if not in popularity, bemoans the expected arrival of more cold out of the northwest,

A low of 5 degrees above zero is| ;

61st YEAR—NUMBER 278

Button Up Your Overcoat, Vas Reuse 5 Above Zero Due Tonight

Low tonight 5, high. tomorrow 22.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1050

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis. Indiana. Issued Dally.

"Red Attack, s. Wi Slay 1000

It's

forecast for tonight. And snow)

flurries are promised for each of

the next five days, except tomor-|

row. Temperatures sagged sharply after dawn today. A drop of 13 degrees was noted between 6 and

9 a. m. after the mercury had| ; hovered at the freezing mark]

from midnight on. Freezing rain turning to snow flurries darkened ‘ the early weather picture this morning. Winds of 35 miles an hour with gusts up to 40 mph were recorded at: the Indianapolis Alrport. Another two inches of snow fell on the central and northern part of Indiana last night. Freezing rains were reported in the southern part of the state as the body of warm air in that territory shriveled before the northwest blast. Temperatures for the next five days are expected to be 4 to 8 degrees below normal, State police reported this morning that all Indiana roads north o Seymour are “slippery and dangerous.” «

18 ‘Accidents

The bad weather brought a wave of 16 traffic accidents in Indianapolis. Two persons ‘were sent to the hospital and two youngsters were hit by cars but not seriously hurt. Twelve acecidents involving only property damage also were reported.

Edgar H. Rice, 43, of 142 W.|_

Ninth St, was in General Hospital following a car-truck accident at 16th St. and Senate Ave. early today. His car struck a Gaseteria trailer truck driven by Frank Salonko, 30, of 1305 W. 234 St. A Methodist Hospital nurse, Miss Beverly Craig, 26, of 2028 Central Ave, was a patient in the pital today "after she was ck by a car at 18th and Me: ridian Sts. last night. The two children struck are

Snow Fun for High-Hatters—

Eight.year.old Johnny Ford, 3540 N. Capital Ave, ae ces he of raw materials for a snowball ‘barrage. His potential oon os orp share his enthusiasm.

Chinese Cavalrymen Slug It Out With U. S. Jet Planes

By EARNEST HOBERECHT United Press Staff Correspondent | TOKYO, Saturday, Dec. 16 i—American troops and ‘planes killed at least 1000 Chinese Communists in hurling back a | daylong attack against the

United Nations Hamhung|

(beachhead Friday, but other {enemy forces exploded a new asisault within 50 miles of Seoul. | The Hamhung battle was a bizarre mixture of ancient and! modern war combined with hand-to-hand fighting. Chinese cavalrymen on Mongol | ponies fought it out with American jet fighter planes. One Chi-

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nese tommygunner thrust his burp gun down the hatch of an | American tank and cut loose. The Hamhung attack blazed {into action before dawn when {2500 Chinese threw themselves |against the American lines with ; jout artillery preparation. The as!sault gained one to two miles in the area eight miles west of 4 |Hamhung by nightfall. on the: bountiful supply | ~ vu = ita Sut 1 oft wich 5 0 erican platoons ly Nigh-hatters, do not to their job of directing a artillery fire against the attack-

Housewife Tells Owen Intimacies |

Testifies She Met Pastor at Age 15

An attractive 24-year-old Des Moines housewife testified today how Evangelist seduced her when she 15 an then took her on a Ia 3 The woman testified, a de: fense objections, at Owen’s trial on charges he contributed to the delinquency of a 16-year-old Indianapolis girl. Special Judge Addison M. Dowling allowed the woman to testify, and said he would rule afterward on the defense objections that her testimony wouldn't establish a pattern of behavior for Owen, 37, and was too remote. She said Owen persuaded her to skip school and seduced her for the first time in a Des Moines

her the previous June and writing her he would “teach me lots of things.” “Went to His Hotel” She said she went to Owen’s hotel room. She said she was a virgin then. She said she

of her clothes. “I asked him If it was wrong

Donald Hayes, 8, of 1240 Windsor

8t., and William Kurker, 8, of 5618

Haverford Ave.

Showing Improvement

Harold Sines, 2-year-old fit-run car victim, showed considerable improvement today in Methodist Hospital, where he is being treated for head injuries. Harold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ohit W. Bines, 18 E. Adler St,

was struck Wednesday evening|him.

near his home. Police are hunting for the driver who struck the child and fled.

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what we were doing, and he said, ‘not, because God understands my heart because I am a preacher’. She said she left before noon {to return to high school for her

hotel in May, 1942, after meeting |

took her dress!

‘From the Heart'—

Clothe-A-Child ‘Shelters’ sa ras Girl Who Twice Lost Parents i,

There Is a Whole Bunch of Fathers

{ers were cut off in the Chinese advance

Friday (Indianapolis time) said the Red attack faltered and 'stopped under the ceaseless pounding of the U, 8. 3d Division's guns

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Contempt In Rail Stri Walkouts Tie

Up War Goods, Yule Parcels

$16 Bilin Arm OKd i in ie

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UP) — The House ‘ Appropriations Com-! mittee voted a $16,845,000,000 expansion of the Armed Forces today and defense officials disclosed plans to ask additional billions to! build the services to more than 3 million men by mid-June. In today’s action the committee voted all President Truman had] asked to meet defense needs posed; iby the Korean War and the march] of communism elsewhere. This sum in addition to buying {vast quantities of arms would {boost Army, Navy, and Air Force|

Tons of Mail, Gift Packages

Freight Being Detoured Around Tied-Up Railports Tons of Christmas gifts |and mail are piling up in post-| fal and express offices here, in the Yuletide blockade by| trainmen.

Snowball Across Nation, Force Partial Embargoes CHICAGO, Dec. 15 (UP) —

Wildcat walkouts by train {men snowballed across the nation today. They piled up vital war.

Passenger service is going through. But freight is being de-|

toured around tied-up railports, tion was officially voted, high Pen-

Hike Summer Goal But before the committee's ac-|

traveling great arcs to destina-'tagon officials revealed that they tions. {have hiked their summer goal to The New: York Central, the between 3 million and 3.5 million

manpower to 2,766,022 by July 1.| goods for Korea and millions

{of Christmas packages, and the

{government said it would seek

contempt citations to end the

stoppage. The walkouts forced partial

Pennsylvania and the Monon reported tremendous backups in, freight, express and mail from! Chicago and St. Louis. Passenger trains slide into the strike frozen rail centers, wait their return trip, and slide out with an engine on the rear. There is no switching. Effect Is the Same Some engineers are reported to! have joined the stay-at-home] trainmen at key points. There is no official strike. The workers simply report “sick.” The ed is the same.

and tanks aided by air support {late in the day.

And Mothers Looking After ‘Lost’ Marys. "1." Chinese broke off contact

By ART WRIGHT This is an’ ‘open letter to a brave little girl wip has

Jerry Owen > hoi. reason to wonder if anybody cares what

has lost them.

Clothe-A-Child headquarters . + « people who have read reports—and have seen—the sufferings and the poverty of thousands of Indianapolis children. : - » » Dear Mar, We ae sand that you cry some nights when you go to bed . when you're by yourself. We're told that when you cry it's because you probably wonder why you can't find a mother and dad who want to keep you with them.

. why some other man and woman came one day and said they were going to adopt you and take you to a new home.

Ta a

Twice she Hes ‘had a mother ind father.

This letter comes from the ‘‘heart” of the Bookie

You wonder whether anybody | cares what happens to you. { Of course, you don’t know. why off, and Owen removed the rest. you lost your first mother and father . .

|with the American front lines, Mr. Burby said, but firing still could be heard in the pitch-black no's land outside

was from the two cut-off ‘American platoons attempting to fight their way back to safety. At norat mal strength each platoon would number between 40 and = men. The Red assault open n a probably. pass maby af Ytem Of | blinding snowstorm which dethe street every day, say “hello prived the Americans of air supto them. port during the major part of the They're the people who love you/day. Later the skies cleared and so much—and little girls like you!fighter planes roared in to blast —that they're giving money to/the Chinese at near ground level. The Times Clothe-A-Child every| Among the attacking forces

Twice she”

‘day now. Because they care what were at least 15 Chinese cavalry-

happens to you. They want you men who were cut down by the to have new, warm clothes, {planes before they could complete They want you to have warm their charge. clothes so you can continue to go| Mr. Burby reported that the to school and be as proud of those Chinese attack dented but did not clothes as all the other boys and break the Allied line guarding the

{last major United Nations foot(Continued on » Page 8$—Col. 2)| hold. in North Korea. = » ”n

No Pictures...... (An Editorial)

PATHETIC little story came to light at Clothe-A-Child headquarters today. A mother had asked

You probably don’t know, either, why that new mother and father took you away from your

history - class; because she was afraid she would fail that sub-' ject. They were intimate again the next Sunday, when Owen asked her to skip Sunday School and come to his hotel room, she said. {The woman said she cut school the next few days and went to his hotel and spent each day with

Wrote Several Times

After Owen left Des Moines, he wrote several times from California, asking her to come out. 8he said he would write intimate letters addressed to her in care of general delivery, and impersonal ones to her and her mother

In June, 1943, she said, Owen sent her some and she went

inew home after several years-and 'said they wanted to have some; one else adopt you. Two sets of mothers and fathers in a few short years . wonder you cry once in lle But, Mary, even mothers and fathers do things sometimes that people don’t understand . . . not even grown up folks. Maybe there were a lot of reasons . . . not one of them having anything to do with you. 80 don’t you cry about the two mothers and the two fathers you have had . .. and lost. You have a whole bunch of mothers and fathers that you don't know about. They live right here in!Indianapolis. You

iow TV Show to Aid sClothe-A-Child

@John Ramp, DodgePlymouth automobile dealer, will devote his firm's WFBM-TV program tomorrow to raising funds for The Times Clothe-A-Child.

® Throughout the telecast i from 2:30 until 3 p. m., ! hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise will be auctioned

for clothing her children desperately needed, and an ap-| \pointment had been made to clothe them. Then, suddenly, | she sent word to cancel it. They'd manage . . . somehow . . she said, without the clothing. Inquiry quickly revealed why. She had heard the o/children might be photographed and their pictures published in the paper to exploit their need. At any sacrifice she wanted to spare her children that cruel and needless shame.

» . ” » DON'T worry. The children got the clothes. And their pictures won’t be in the paper. In the 21 years The Times has conducted Clothe-A-Child, more than 30,000 Indianapolis children have been clothed through it . . . and not one picture, not one name, not one identity of any child ever has been made public. It is a policy so long and so firmly established that we don't recall even a question ‘about it ever arising before this year. Since the misunderstanding did arise this year, perhaps out of the different policy of other organizations over which The Times has no control, it may be appropriate to republish the ironclad rule which governs Clothe-A-Child operation. It is:

Tila Reseiving others to do so. to be publicly ever worthy,

The Times identified, nor to raise funds, nor

WE'VE. had to turn down, over all those

THE TIMES will not make or publish pictures of any child receiving aid through The Times Clothe-A-Child fund, the name of ay sich Shilo, vor poruit

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many well-meant proposals that would have violated that rule from kindly folks who wanted to help . . . but hadn't | ” “quite thought it through. Happily, we can’t recall a single} Btls" intore the Tule sue they emit WAY a it

clamped a swee em! {all but first class mail 32 western and southern states. The order came just as the Christmas mail rush was building up to a peak here. The post office had its biggest

The Indianapolis Post Office, : -» IS, To

day was expected to have crested again but the embargo made the situation very doubtful. Under the embargo, the post office this morning began refusing to accept parcel post for states west of the Mississippi River and south of the Ohio River. Kentucky was removed from the embargo list today. The order affects. all parcel post, second, third and fourth class matter except newspapers and first class mail over eight ounces. Postmaster George J. Ress said

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Parole Violation Issue Barred

Expect Stephenson Hearing to Wind Up

A quick end to the*D. C. Stephenson extradition hearing in Minneapolis was expected today| as the court blocked all attempts to raise the issue of whether o not the ex-Klan leader violated! his Indiana parole. District Judge Frank E. Reed ruled that the only questions at issue was whether or not Stephenson was a fugitive from] Indiana and that a warrant had been issued for his return. The judge said that the Minneapolis court could not hear. any evidence on the parole violation charge. All but one question asked by Stephenson's attorney, Frank J. Warner, were blocked by objections raised by Otto Morck, assistant Hennepin county attorney who is representing .the state of Minnesota.

Hand Takes Stand

George W. Hand, Indiana deputy attorney general, was the only witness on the stand at the pening session of the h ye the only question not blocked by objections, he told the court that Indiana wanted to bring Stephenson back to the state to face parole violation

- In view ‘of the court's consistent ruling, a quick windup of the hearing was expected. Earlier today, Mr. Warner ew a sharp retort from Gov. Schricker on the Sharge 4 that the defense attorney had been denied

to proclaim that goal in his speech

day of the yeéar yesterday. To-|

orl a selective basis,

men. President Truman is expected

on defense mobilization tonight. In view of the new objective, defense officials said they e: to ask Congress for $2 billion to $5 billion in extra funds before next June. This would shove the military Judge for the ‘year ending next

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Truman Outiines

embargoes on the U. S. mails and Railway Express.. The embargoes were expected to be made more ‘drastic as the walkouts by meme bers of the Brotherhood of Rails way Trainmen spread. ‘At Washington, Attorney Gen< eral Howard McGrath said the government would ask contempt orders today against the strikers in Chicago and “probably” in Cleveland. 4 . Hit 6 Other Cities A Pennsylvania Railroad spokes« man said that some engineers

The en TID Void

Speaks Tonight on Red AS on Curbs

the American people tonight the price they must pay to resist Communist aggression. The only comment on the message was from Attorney General J. Howard J. McGrath, who said the President's subjects “are extremely important.” The President, Mr. McGrath] said, talked “in a general way” about the “tone” of the speech in which Mr, Truman is expected to jar the nation from any busi-ness-as-usual attitude in the world crisis. Mr. McGrath and Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin left the meeting after an hour, but other members remained behind. He was expected to call for national unity against the Communist threat to world peace in a nation - wide radio-television broadcast at 9:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). His formal declaration of ag national emergency probably will {be made tomorrow morning. Mr. Truman also was expected ito announce the beginning of wage-price-rationing controls on Across-the-

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Rail Embargo Hits

Carnegie Steel Plants CHICAGO, Dec. 15 (UP)-The i125-mile Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad, which serves more than 200 war-vital industries employing thousands of workers, today embargoed all traffic. { The effect upon the industries {along the EJ&E right of way was immediate. The mammoth Carnegie-Illinois steel mills at Gary and South Chicago, Ind. began “folding! up,” a Carnegie spokesman said, with 1000 men laid off at South Chicago and “a lesser number” at Gary. The two mills employ a total of 37,000 workers.

Wounded Gls Flown Home for Christmas

Sree there was no work for

them. 2 At least six additional cities

In st. Louis, 13000 workers were laid off today because of the walkout, The layoffs included 7500 workers at three automobile plants and 5000° extra postoffice employees who had been hired for the Christmas mail rush. A Southern Pacific spokesman at Los Angeles said a few men were reporting off sick, but that operations were normal. The number reporting ill was consid« ered normal.

War Supplies Aboard

tial embargoes or “hold orders™ in Chicago where loaded freight trains were lined up in yards. Al public relations man for one rails road reported that he was as« signed to a freight yards to help lin switéhing freight trains carry+ ing war equipment. William Curley, Illinois Central Division - superintendent and chairman of the Chicago Superintendents Association said: “There are no doubt component parts of munitions and arms in the cars that are standing on sidings, and there may be entire cars of completed weapons.” Sam Vander Hei; vice president of the Railway Trainmen, said as new reports of, walkouts were received: “The stampede is on. I don’t know what effect a citation for contempt would have on the men, I can only hope it will influence them to go back to work.” Suggests a Fine & suggested that perhaps a

fine against the union would bé

“something the men could understand.” He said he has been attempting to get the men back on the job since the walkouts began with hundreds of trainmen reporting sick. . Union leaders said the walks outs were similar in some ways to

MOBILE, Ala. Dec. 15 (UP)— ! UP — Times Index

began

The military air transport service flying wounded GI's to

AMUSements ..,ceavssese 23

Fourteen railroads issued pare

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Births, Deaths, Events ... 31 BOWHOE sovevrncnsvrtons 44 Henry Butler .....ocoeeee 23 Christmas Story tes eniny 27 Comics aa ae SE 51 Crossword ...osvsesecines 40 Bditorials ....cvcovenvinn Harold H. Hartley....... 30 Hoosier Heroes ...ceseees 40 Jim Lucas Faainevensens Mrs. Manners

their homes for Christmas visits today. Each patient who can travel, many of them wounded jn Korea, will be given 10 days at home and then returned to Brookley Air Force base here.

Peeled!—

+ HUNG NAM, Northeast . Dec. 15 (UP)—A young American GI strugback to his billet with

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