Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1950 — Page 1

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1950

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GM Halts Sales Of '51 Motor Bureau PP@nding Price Control

Permits ‘95 Per Cent’ Wrong Big Mo’ Helps Father and Son Hurt Criti City officials charged today that records in the State : ; ilk or CA

Motor License Bureau showing that 156 City drivers nave 6 Esca p no licenses were “95 per cent wrong.” : ! Red Trap

More than a score of the 156 police officers, firemen and City Hall drivers listed in The Times yesterday on State License Bureau records-as--having no..certificates produced valid licenses today. ! ‘Allies Continue To Pull Back At Hamhung By EARNEST HOBERECHT

The License Bureau records Ly to Restore showed 90 police officers, listed as! War Powers Act United Press Staff Correspondent

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Cars Fight Stop-Order Affects

Chevrolets, Pontiacs = _. And Cadillacs Only

12,000 Dealers Receive Notices; . Vehicles in Showrooms Not Covered DETROIT, Dec. 18 (UP)—General Motors today halts ed the sale of 1951 model Chevrolets, Pontiacs and Cadillacs shipped to its dealers, The order does not affect cars shipped to dealers prior

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“qualified drivers” or those on call to drive, as having no licenses. “That report is 95 per cent wrong,” Police Chief Rouls said

after making what he described! 1s a “complete check” of officers and their licenses this morning. Withholds Proof “I have proof that these officers have valid licepses but I'm not

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Truman Lists 2

Key Provisions

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UP) —President Truman told con-

TOKYO, Tuesday, Dec. 19 (UP)—United Nations rear guards protecting the escape docks of Hungnam harbor

U.S. to Press

to today.

The GM move will halt sales of about one-third of the

)autos made in the United States after today. a

pulled back again Monday

GM sent telegrams to 12,000 Chevrolet, Pontiac and Cadillac dealers ordering the halt

oing to show the proof.” gressional leaders today he soon ‘ : vr Be Phil Bayt said he will ask Congress to restore two/under cover of American checked the 19 City Hall drivers provisions of the expired war planes and the guns of the

listed by the State License Bureau powers act to give the governas having no certificates. ‘ment greater authority in the de“I found that all of them but fense mobilization program, two have licenses,” Mayor Bayt. This was disclosed after Mr. said. “The two who don’t have Truman held a 90-minute meet-

licenses never drive cars. ing with his Democratic

‘Story Inaccurate’ 'were briefed by Defense Secre“The story has proved to be tary George C. Marshall and the

wholly inaccurate. It has been the joint Chiefs of Staff on the Ko- Allied

policy at City Hall to refuse any-rean crisis rnd the world military one a job that requires driving a|situation. car until he produces a driver's. Congressional license.”

conferees

“big earth to carve out a new and {four” congressional leaders. They tighter defense line while Navy

said and on Mr. Truman told them he would roared continuously while United

Battleship Missouri. The entire beachhead could be seen from a ridge only 15 minutes’ walk from the sea. Bulldozers ripped at the frozen

planes rained death on Communist forces besieging the last foothold in northeast Kbrea.

Big guns within the beachhead

“= Price Control ¥ On Packers

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UP) Ceilings on beef, veal and lamb prices were believed on the way today as meat packers’ representatives met with the Economic Stabilization Agency. Pork cuts, which have been

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Navy ships offshore

‘iselling at much lower prices, {probably would escape immediate

The Mayor said the “erroneous ask Congress—perhaps today—to Nations forces pulled back. report” on the licenses may have restore Titles I and II of the first! Military security prevented dea damaging effect upon the City War Powers Act. They said the tailed reporting of the situation!

Manvil F. Brown, 42, of 5955 Rawls Ave. and his son, Cpl. Durward L. Brown, 21, of Hanscom |

controls. The livestock division of the

traffic safety program, “It has been insinuated that members of the Police Department and other City employees do not have licenses to operate cars,” he said. ‘Stories such as this éncourage disrespect for law.” Checks List of Firemen Fire Chief Roscoe McKinney said he checked the list of 47 firemen shown in the State Bureau record as having no licenses. “I found all of them had licenses except two, and they never drive any kind of cars,” he said. * Seven police officers who were listed on State Bureau records as having no licenses showed them to Times reporters today. They were: Sgt. James R. Langsford, Detective Thomas Naumsek, Otis Tiner, Philip Sanders, Lt. Edward F. Moore, Patrolwoman Betty Meagher and Lt. Kenneth Luke, Refuse to Give Names A score or more of other fire-

|power to authorize any govern-

[President needs them to co-ordi- within the beachhead but there;

nate the mobilization program. Titles Explained Title I authorizes the co-ordi-nation of government bureaus “in the interest of the more ef-| ficfent contentration of government.” This would empower the!

President to transfer government Centrating north of Hungnam in

agencies, | Title II gives the President ment department or agency ro volved in the prosecution of “the ‘war effort” to make contracts and changes in contracts “without regard to the provisions of; law” relating to contracts “whenever he deéms such action would facilitate the prosecution of the war.” i Speaker Sam :- Rayburn told; newsmen after the White House meeting that Congress would not! adjourn until the excess profits! tax and appropriations bills, now| in the Senate, are out of the way. !

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Air Force Field, Bedford, Mass., were critically injured yesterday when a Baltimore & Ohio freight train crashed into their truck (above), at the Audubon Road crossing. The truck was carried half a mile to Ritter Ave. Police said the father was driving. He was pinned in the wreckage for more han 2 minutes. Both Mr. Brown and his son remained in critical condition today at St. Francis ospital.

were indications that the defense| now rested almost entirely on the U. 8. 3d Division. Attacks Ease Off Communist attacks against the beachhead eased off Monday. Air) reports said the Reds were con-|

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Girl Is Amrested Stalin Works on N Of Europe Over Rearming

Plays on Differences Over U. S. Policy to Get Tough With Russia

By LUDWELL DENNY, Seripps-Howard Staff Writer BRUSSELS, Dec. 18—Stalin has sucgeeded in throwing

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a line of hills that run down into! the defense perimeter. |

Plumes of smoke from warning |} Owen [ase equipment and shell bursts ringed the beachhead. = : All troops, even command post} Judge Says Ws ‘For. Her Own Good’

and staff personnel, were warned oo Sleep with their weapons and! shoes handy in case. . : night attack a driving, “The rat grhep im iri] toe United Nations forces into the, )*) ought charges agaist Most of the defense and foreign ministers ‘attending the Navy fighters roared out tol vAngelist Jerry Owen was or- Atlantic Pact defense conference here today. blast the Reds despite ice-covered dered arrested today and placed flight decks on their carriers and '? Juvenile Center “for her own gusts of wind as high as 65 knots. |

One pilot said he was forced 10 2 Written statement order-|is not in sight. to make an emergency landing

{ing the arrest, Juvenile -Court| on a small airstrip near Hungnam Judge Joseph O. Hoffman said: | Franceant viher European

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ithe fear of “another Korea in Europe’ into the hearts of, 0 PAK uP

The 12 Atlantic Pact Allies are supposed to be rushing,

Farm Bureau Federation has

called a meeting with packers to-| morrow in Chicago to seek ways! of increasing production, holding | down prices and avoiding manda- | tory controls, | ESA officials were expected to

voluntary controls, : { The government, in fact, may | {ask for voluntary controls on all | prices and wages some time this) | wee | said. 1 The government also was ready. Ato clamp compulsory wage con‘trols on one : rollback"

prices. : Prefers Honor System It was reported that the honor |system will be used on most con-

- preparedness against such threats. But speedy rearmament (41s until the fledgling Economic|

{Stabilization Agency can build up| la “police force” to enforce them —

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illion auto workers, fis rollback on, ay

|in sales “pending examination of tthe discriminatory order of “the Economic Stabilization Ageney affecting passenger car prices ine cluding possible effect of order on wages." Te GM's other two automobiles—Oldsmobile and Buick—were not

included in the order. Their 185%

{models are not scheduled for introduction until next month. ° | Ford, Chrysler and Nash—the {other auto companies affected by

In Indianapolis, General Mo=

| tors dealers were sitting tight.

They had a few cars bub deliver them. They didn’t know wimt to charge— P. W. Hanna, city Chevrolet sales manager, said there are about 200 new Chevrolets in

| town, but dealers cannot sell (urge the meat industry to adOPt! them at pre-freeze prices withe

out offending the government. And they have had no orders to deliver cars at freeze levels, Ford ‘Mator Co. went along | with the freeze. W. W. Cume | ming, district sales manager, {got oft a telegram to all deals ers telling them to accept the ; i the law,” he said,

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watching. Its new models —— out, won't be for a month. By that time, sald one big dealer,

it will all be settled.

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the price rollback--had no coms

Iprobably in late March or early ment. | April,

men and policemen and some City| “All 1951 model passenger cars

‘Hall drivers called The Ti a congressional [while United Natiohs and Com.| “This girl was released in Jan- countries differ with the| a vers ca e mes an

” » » : Atlantic Nations uary, 1949, but was not taken off United States on a firm policy|

The conferees

{munist troops batled for its pos- When ESA has the manpower shipped to you on and after to-

' sald they had their licenses. Some of them, however, refused to give their names, One police officer, Roy Gillum Jr., offered to prove he had a license by checking the Broad Ripple branch office of the Mo-! tor License Bureau. Marie E. Lodge, manager of] the Broad Ripple bureau, reported her records showed that she had issued a license to Officer Gillum this year. ; ‘Can't Understand’ “I can’t understand why it isn’t on the records at the State-| house,” she said. License records on those listed| as having no certificates were be-| ing rechecked at the State Motor

{nothing unusual about the con-

also included Vice President Al-| ben W. Barkley, Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois, and House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack. They would not comment on the military phase of the conference, | beyond saying that it was an] elaborate fill.in on the military situation. { Present with Mr, Marshall and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were | Army Undersecretary Archibald! Alexander, Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter .and Navy Secretary Francis P. Matthews. Mr. Rayburn said there. was)

ference, . He pointed out that Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had met

ito enforce its orders, it was said, day if accepted by you will Bev,

(Continued on Page $—Col. 6) unjustified wage or price increases upon assignment and will remain

- {probation and she was released toward Russia. A /with the understanding that she It looks as if there will be more| erman I

would co-opérate to the fullest ex-

months of delay, pending a Big

|will be rolled back, probably to

tent with the Juvenile Court in its Four conference with Russia and efforts to help her and to prose-'a far-fetched hope of getting an! Acheson Warns cute adults who were responsible acceptable compromise which Of Defense Lag for any act of delinquency which would make preparedness unnec-! \ she may have committed while on essary. | -. BRUSSELS, Belgium — The probation.” This is the French position. 12 Atlantic treaty nations to-

In the first three days of the And even the British are unlikely 48¥ formally approved a plan

City Marine Unit Is Cut to Pieces

1 . » » , 16th’s Disintegration jattorney, Joseph Mazelin, refused joint effort to talk the Kremlin simy of 35 10 50 Sivisiohs san oe t { ; J ari Told to Families Herel? testitv in any thing which out of aggression. | can — Gen. Dwight D. ElsenBy FRANK BARRY [Ig on : Jitters Increase | ower. Like a reeling boxer, pawing, Immunity Lifted | The jitters were increased Sat- —— ’ ? urd b 's . blindly at a giant, remnants of, Although the teen-ager Was peaive lng oiia’s notes to, BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. 18

old 16th Marine Battalion of In-|granted immunity from prose-sanine pono Britain warning! (UP)—The defense ministers of

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dianapolis are taking a beating|cution by the state, the immunity Germany as a violation of the 1 | ! 8 day approved formation of a 55 in the cold and desolation of was withdrawn today in a state- Potsdam pact and other treaties Sy Pr western European

North Korea, iment by Deputy Prosecutor

{trial, the girl, with her personal to go all out until after one more 0 Organize a western European |

|against rearmament of Western the 12 Atlantic Pact nations to-|

License Bureau today in an efforton a number of occasions with Members of the strong contin-

} —which of cour ‘Thomas Faulconer. bs se long since have army, including Germans.

to determine why some licenses! do not show in the permanent! files. ’ wie] Three police officers who didn’t have licenses went to the State-! house early this morning and got! them. They were: Donald Murphy, Emanuel Gebauer and Walter F. Reynolds. ‘ i Records show that the licenses; of five police officers have been| suspended for one reason or an-! other in the past. | These included: Thomas Will-| mer Harlow, Philip Odell McGee, Millard T. Swain, Daniel T. Veza and Thomas Williams.

Dutch Unit in Korea SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 18 (UP)—

A Netherlands detachment of less;

than battalion strength has gone into training with the U. 8. 2d Division for combat, it was announced today.

DEATH RATE HITS LOW NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UP)— The American death rate declined to an all-time low of 9.6 per 1000 in 1950, Dr. Louis I. Dublin, chief statistician of the Metropolitan

‘the congressional leaders and the President.

12 HURT ON SUBWAY NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UP)— -At least 12 persons were i slightly today at the 125th St and Lexington Ave. station when a crowded express train tried to leave with some doors open.

Mr. Inside’ Hits Big Time Parade

®Ed Sovola, The Times’ " “Inside Indianapolis” columnist, has hit the big time again.

® The story of Ed's exploits is featured in the current -issue of PAGEANT Magazine, :

@In Fred Beck's monthly feature, “The Passing Pageant,” Sovola is described as a columnist who “leads a gleeful, gigglefull life , . . a literary clown who bubbles in

gent of Leathernecks, who left! here so confidently in August,/overruled a motion to free Evan-

Special Judge M. Dowling today tariza

broken by Russian remilition of East Germany. This obvious diplomatic move

gave an indication of the outfit’s gelist Jerry Owen on a moralsipy Stalin, however, is not the disintegration in communications charge, and the trial moved Into rea] basis for Europe's fear. That to relatives here. Although the its second week.

At the same time, the U. 8. charged her allies were not doing enough to prepare for a possible Communist assault. The foreign ministers were to!

{their Dec. 1 levels. . | The auto manufacturers and the {CIO United Auto Workers were {united in their opposition to the government's compulsory ceilings lalready imposed on automobile iprices. | UAW President Walter P.| |Reuther charged the government {“discriminated” against the auto {makers by singling them out for {the first compulsory controls. Economic Stabilizer Alan Vallentine ordered the controls after the auto makers refused to cancel recent price increases of $60 to $195 on their new 1951 models. . Mr. Valentine was reported, meeting with top industry and] labor officials in preparation to asking for a voluntary “freeze”

the property of General Motors Corp.” the telegrams said. “They are not to be sold until released from consignment,” the telegrams ordered. f ‘Your Property’ Th “With respect to 1951 passenger cars already delivered to you by divisions of General Motors prior to your receipt of this telegram and with respect to which title has passed to you, these sre

your property,” the dealers were

told. ; “The disposition thereof in the light of price regulation No. 1 or any future government action must be determined by you,” the telegrams said. Pris The General Motors’ action was the first indication of how the in

on prices and wages.

Clothe-A-Child—

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.jmany of its men have see

16th did -not go overseas as a unit; n action the last few weeks. Others are still at Camp Pnedleton, Cal., and at other bases. One of them is Sgt. Eric J. Matzke, 21, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Chatt, 60850 E. St. Joseph St. Sgt. Matzke, graduate of Tech-

{nical High School, phoned his

other from a Marine hospital in akland, Cal.. where he was evacuated by air with wounds suffered near the Chosin Reservoir. Said Matzke to his mother:

jcomes from Russia's vastly su- add their okay to the plan to~The. Indianapolis. high school perior strength; plus: Korea. night. That left. only one problem girl originally claimed Owen To these Europeans Korea but a big one: Getting the Ger- | “spirited her away and seducedimeans Stalin's readiness and mans to agree to provide 11 or {her during a six-months’ tour of apility to use the Russian force 12 divisions. [the eastern states. x {for the final stroke unless he! Both Secretary of State Dean |, Defense Attorney Henry Coombsigets what he wants without! Acheson and Secretary of the (began calling witnesses to prove world war. Army Frank Pace told the 12 : —— i Korea also means to .Euro- governments their rearmament (Continued on Page 3-=Col. 4) 405 “that the United States od are inadequate. . 5 slatted Shallenging Stalin be-, Mr. Acheson warned that in ore she had sufficient strength this “exceptionally grave” hour, ‘Buying Jams 3 to enforce her moves and is now each member must step up its Stocks’ Tickers icaught shorthanded in Asia with- arms program. " » {out enough guns or troops to sup+ Mr. Acheson and Secretary of NEW YORK. Dec. 18 (UP)— port Western Europe effectively. the Army Frank Pace opened a | Tickers ran as much as five min- The time Is passed when U, 8. major campaign at the opening

Christmas Hopes of Many

Depend on Next Six Days Hundreds of Children Are Praying ; You Will Give Them a Helping Hand

By ART WRIGHT

Misery is coming dangerously close to Christmas Day.

Only six Times Clothe-A-Child shopping days remain

before Christmas.

S-1-X days in which hundreds of children with threads

“Thank God, thank God that I utes late during the morning

talk or promises can stiffen the meetings of the Atlantic Pact bare clothes will continue to hope—and pray—that Clothe

{dealings today as investors and

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Bray Appoints Aid Appointment of Don R. Kendall,

‘speculators scrambled to accumiilate stocks. | Prices advanced in all departments of the list with emphasis on the war stocks. | Railroad issues advanced mod-| erately to a new high in their average since July 29, 1931. | Transactions in the first hour

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Improve Your Family Housing By Early 1951

| Council to get Europe to begin to {match the all-out preparedness program already launched in the United States. Mr. Pace advised the defense {ministers of the 12 pact countries ito speed up and increase their |rearmament programs. if they ex-

pect American help.

save some innocent little boy or girl from a miserable Christ mas without warm clothes. Want to know how serious the!

amounted to 1,080,000 shares, ® We sincerely believe that

Life Insurance Co., said today.

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Another Zero Due,

Then More Snow LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.. 3 10a m.. 13 Ta m.. 4 1la m.. 17 8a m.. 5 12 (Noom) 21 9am... 7 12:30pm 28

Old Man Winter today was doing his level best to hang on to Indianapolis until time for his official arrival at 4:14 p. m. Friday. It is still just fall in Hoosierland, A

home owners who are not now living in the home they really want . the home that will be comfortable and suit their needs for years to come , . . should by all means sell their present home and buy a more suitable one.

® The best and easiest way to do that is to call one of the over 200 reliable, licensed real estate ~ brokers who place their ' advertising in thé classi- - fied columns of The

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situation is . .. how great the need” : : We're looking at a letter from a little girl: “I am writing for my two little brothers and myself. We don't have a mother. She is dead. We live with our grandparents. Now, our grandmother has passed away. The future looks very dull. No Christmas at all in sight un. less we get help from you.” The telephone rings at Clothe-A-Child headquarters. A kind woman who has children of her own reports: 5 : “We took a little boy to the store and bought him some shoes:

A-Child will still get enough money to help them, too. S-I-X days in which youl

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