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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1950

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Second-Class Matter at Postoffice polis. Indiana, Issued Dally,

Army Asks

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be 1300 men, state selective | service officials said today. . The 1300 figure is a nearGeorgialee Keely average of the 1130 January quota.

said they do not plan to place a jcall in March. veal the number of 1-A’s avail{able to fill the draft calls. How|ever,

" > . . Of Slayi 2 S f pends Night Baby's Cry Saves Six | indiana uote a . | . ofl Probably Will Sleeping 0ff In Smoke-Filled Home | reach 130 : - WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 East Side Tragedy 3 (UP)—The Army has asked Yule Stu or Averted by Minutes that 80,000 young men be By HEZE CLARK and drafted during March, the DeLEDN W. RUSSELL fense Department said today. Faces Court lA baby's ery saved six per- The March call brings the At Beech Grove y : k {total Army request since the beOn Murder Ch (Sons from death in a smoke- {ginning of the Korean fighting to urder Lharge (filed house early today. a total of 450000, By BOB BOURNE { The March call of 80,000 is the A pudgy ex-convict wept tou] Tragedy was averted by a same as that announced previousmargin of minutes at t he ily for each-of January and Februday when aroused from a : lar : . “home of Mr. and Mrs. Clair : : ary. drunken sleep in the Marion | Prior to January : Freeman Sr. 1810 N. Rural St, o lcall was 70,000 County Jail and told he had when their 25-year-old daughter i i | The Navy, Air Force and Makilled his brother and a total was awakened by the child's : irine Corps have not yet. asked stranger. The daughter, Mrs. Winifred Selective Service for draftees and Ethridge Grubbs, 34, insisted Keely, was asleep in the front he did not “remember anything room. Her parents were in a bedsince Christmas dinner” as helroom. prepared to face a first degree In a rear bedroom slept two murder hearing a 2 p. m. today other Freeman children, Clair in Beech Grove Magistrate's (Butch) Jr, 3%, and Georgia Court, Mae, 2, and Mrs. Keely’s daughGrubbs, arrested several hours ter Georgialee, 4. after he had killed his brother,| op 1 pefore 5 a. m. Mrs. fatally wounded a man Who at-'rreely was aroused by Georgia Other Photos, Page 10° {Mae's cry from the children’s . | fempted to aid him and slightly T00m. The house was full of | wounded his wife, was to face Smoke. c Judge Paul Wetter. “~~ Children Unconscious

He is charged with the murder, She ran to the children’s room of his brother, Warnie Grubbs, 28, and picked up her daughter's | without warning or the slightest limp body. The other children 9 standing draft calls. argument, in front of Warnie were unconscious in their beds. ” 2 © | Selective Service will have de-

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More Ice-O-Rama Tryouts Are Set For Tomorrow

Tryouts for The Times Ice-O-

Rama tomorrow at 9 a. m, at the Fairgrounds Coliseum will be held for three groups. They are: (1) All high school students; (2) girls seeking parts (in the ballet number; (3) skaters Photo, Page 15.

of all ages who did not appear at tryouts Tuesday and yesterday. Some 500 amateur skaters again are expected to take part in the two-hour ice show which will raise money for a worthy The Ice.O-Rama will be {held in February. ; There are no charges of any |kind for participation in. the !show, Low admission prices will |be paid by the public to see the { extravaganza. Participants will pay for the materials used in their costumes.

after the show.

(dividual.

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may keep their costumes ernor was urged to replace the Material will be two Democratic purchased in bulk to provide the Hugh Abbett and Lawrence CanDraft officials refused to re- Jowest possible cost to each in- non.

{| Tryouts for adults and those ignation before noon, demanding | _.__ they have said privately seeking solo and specialty parts that action be taken “at once.” {that there are now enough men will be held at a date yet to be

Asks To Fire Two PSC Members |

Schricker Small Domestic Users Would Be Hit Hardest If Request Is Granted

Company Expects to Lay Out More Than

‘Commissioner Freeman $14 Million on Reservoir, Improvements u os Ouster or : By HAROLD H. HARTLEY, Times Business Editor rg . : The Indianapolis Water Company today asked for a Says He'll Resign $1,010,000 a year rate raise.

By VIN i y oe : ! : Gov JRVING PoEOW I al. The petition filed today before the Indiana Public Serve

i6 fire two state Public Serv-11® Commission calls for an increase just under 25 per cent. ite Commissiohers today op Small domestic users would be hit hardest. aucept the resignation of the Alfred O. Norris, executive vice president, said the ine otic. 4 | Re RL IR Se , crease would put the utility | "Gov. Schrick fo ; {in a financial position to marGob, Suticker relusl in WAMILTONCOUN Py, cet additional bonds for a

: vast improvement program ‘to In a confidential memorandum, | protect against a potentially dise written by Republican Commis- astrous shortage.” sioner Ross Freeman, the Gov- | % ; £ NOBLESVILLE, | During a five-year period bee $ . ginning in 1951, the Company ex- | pects to lay out more than $14 ‘million on reservoir projects and RESERVOR! | plant improvements. v=)| Thirty per cent of the total {area needed has been acquired lon Cicero Creek, a tributary of {White River north of Indianape jolis.

Cost of $10 Million

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Mr. Freeman offered his res-|

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| | The offer of resignation by \ \ Mr. Freeman was the first public show of a dispute that has raged: |

in the chambers of the PSC for ;

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Grubbs’ small home in Camby| Mrs. Keely ran to awaken her livered about 217,000 men to the yesterday. {parents. They, too, were partially Slept Peacefully {overcome by smoke, and it, tock Charges growing out of the Several minutes to arouse them. second . killing, that of H. Neal! Mr. Freeman ran downstairs Shaw Sr. 50, will be taken up and pulled the switch that turned ° : later in Morgan County. {off the stoker on his furnace. ; : SE ; | The slayer, who slept peacefully | MTs: Fctman 2nd Mts. Keely - all night in the Marion County| Opened. L1¢ a owe. " Jail in what officers described as The three a La ea rried the a drunken stupor, refused to be-| hildren onto the front porch, lieve his brother was dead this) o, "4 14 get fresh alr. morning, Indiana State Police where they cou Be. hu Q. ’ Within a few minutes Sgt.

Det. Sgt. Jack Hester sald. {Dulin Judd and the police emerGrubbs, whose Drunk-O-Meter oo... cquad arrived, and a Gen-

test showed 1.96, or the equal of Hospital ambulance drove up. about a quart and a half of wine, * = AL Sour r

state police said, was to he ques-| tioned again before his arfaign-| Price Jarvis, living next door agalm. > 87"! at 1806 N. Rural St. opened his ‘Not Quite Right’ * + Relatives described him .today |

ment. home to them. Dr. Bdward Stumpf, ambulance as “not being quite right” since an automobile accident several] Dif an hour to restore the three

physician, worked for more than months ago. children to consciousness. k Mr. Shaw, 50, “who often passed for President Truman,” was critically wounded yesterday afternoon as he offered to aid the berserk gunman. He died at 3:10 a. m. today, But for his poor shooting. Grubbs, unemployed Bloomington stone worker, could have turned quiet’ Stanley Rd. in Camby into another Howard Unruh episode in which a berserk war veteran killed 13 persons in New Jersey. For several, ¢ minutes the Warnle Grubbs husky, bushy-haired man terrorized residents along the suburban road with a shotgun after he had killed his brother, wounded his wife and a tdtal. stranger, and fired wild shots at a nephew. Later he obtained the usa of

Mr. Freeman said he did not know what caused the house to : fill with smoke. Furnace and {

ly at midnight when he checked it for the night, he said. The children, still sick from the smoke, were being taken on fre- = quent brief walks outside this - : morning, to get the fumes from their lungs. Inside the home, there were ; prayers of thanksgiving. “I give thanks to God for saving the lives of these children,” Mrs. Freeman said. | “I never go to bed without praying for those babies.”

Seeks to Blast Ex-Mate’s Story

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UP)— The defense kept the wife of former Government Economist Wil-

lim W. Remington on the witness stand for the third straight day trying to weaken her charge he

Georgia Mae Freeman

Sentence Two In Check Thefts

Members of Ring Enter Guilty Pleas

Two of five members of a $50,000 check theft ring here were given five-year sentences today

‘Warmer Weather

(warmer temperatures tomorrow. Jan, 16 in Michigan City for the

{stoker had been working perfect- bie: : |

several months, : | The Times learned that in his | confidential memorandum, Mr. : {Freeman leveled serious charges | |against the other members of the | | commission. | « Called ‘Gravest Charge’ { Yesterday, when Gov. Schricker learned such charges were! imaking the rounds of the State-

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w New Watts’ Plea

Rehearing Asked in Death Chair Fight

Robert Austin Watts today house, he said: | made another 11th hour move to| “This is the gravest charge escape the electric chair as he leveled against this administra-| filed for a rehearing of his ap- tion." | peal to the Indiana Supreme| The commissfoners, who pass) - Court. : ; {judgment on billions of dollars of| By CLIFFORD THURMAN Today was the last day that|utility transactions every year, Old Doc Weatherby eased his Watts could have petitioned theihave antisipatad a blow-up for 1a | CO! to reconsider the opinion many months. .. . thermometer from Hoosierland “li handed down 20 days ago. At! cold mouth today and announced !

None of the commissioners the crisps past that, sme, Ihe, coun bE Sent of comment oe

lly ime this editi tt ; ; omew the time 8 on went to He prescribed considerable County court which -sentenced press. doses of cloudy and much warm. |Wwatts to die and refused him i er weather today and tonight, new trial. with more cloudiness and still} Watts is now scheduled to die

A NAPOLIS Plant now under construction

| | i | The White River Purification | {will be more than 90 per cent : finished by the end of 1951, the | | petition said. The White River project, which includes the purification plant

| . {and the proposed reservoir, will Sketch shows location of pro- | cost upward of $10 million. Al

posed new water company res- ready spent is $1.6 million. ervoir on Cicero Creek, a #rib- | Other important projects, the utary of White River. It will be [petition said, include the exten-

. Due Here Tonight LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.. 13 10a m...21 Tam..12 11a m.. 2 8 a. m,. 12 12 (Noon) 28 9a m...17 1p m.. 30

Humidity at 11:30 a. m: 637%

tion headquarters and its Fall Back of River ‘meter (%-inch). night of 18. Tomorrow's kizh| ynpless it reverses itself and today resulted in the freedom of | Main body of U. 8. 8th Army cubic feet up to 2000 cubic feet.

part of improvements totaling sion and improvement of the disStation boiler plant, its distribu8th Ar Pulls Creek Pumping and Purification Station. : The rates asked will mean an increase nf 7.6 per cent for 971 per cent of its 105,000 customTi Probe Fre Allied Airmen $1.72 Per Month ‘Times Probe rees Slash at Reds ’ For these customers the presr | . , ent minimum is $1.25 a month i igh température tn the In-1047 sex slaying of Indianapolis TWO iN Theft Case BY EARNEST HOBERECHT unless they use more than 500 was fore- nousewife Mary Lois Burney. | A gix months investigation by| Dec, 29 — The spore feet of water. Above that cast at 30 degrees with a low to-| Final State Court Action Times Reporter Yr oo TOKYO, Friday, Dec. 29 — The they pay 18 cents per oye nat was forecast at 35. |decides to reconsider the Watts'| Th 4 ltwo men who had served seven completed its withdrawal behind € new charge for 3-inch a last ght was 13 degrees case, there will be no further stays ni nthe after a “faulty trial” [the Imjin River line 21 miles meters would be $1.72 per month in the ty, Bu dropped io 12/of execution from the Indiana wiljiam Gilley, 32, of 914 Con-|northwest of Seoul Thursday Minimum, up 47 cents. Above at Ph " Rarecas ers Jrom **d Court. ‘cord St. and Elmer Purdue, 39, while Allied warplanes hit back |that, the new rate would be 24 y upward curing If it refuses the rehearing peti- of 619 W. Coffee St, were e-|at the Chinese Reds. [cents per 100 feet, up 6 cents from

the day, however. The mercury yy

|dipped to 6 above at Weir Cook |r. on, there will be no further legal jeased from their bonds as Prose-| The United Nations withdrawal the present rate.

ecourse available to Watts ineutor George Dailey dismissed abandoned the major South Ko-| The remainder of the increased

was a Communist who delivered a ‘top secret” munitions formula to a Soviet spy courier. Mrs. Ann Remington testified vesterday that her divorced husband. on trial for perjury for denying under oath he ever was a Communist, gave secret data on an explosive in 1942 to selfstyled Communist Agent Elizabeth Bentley, She said that Mr. Remington told Miss Bentley to ‘be sure that 3 oy to Russia as soon as Pos-itnege two men would justify the! . \court in imposing an even more | Mrs, Remington said her eX- severe I added. | Bushand SXplained he Jn ome The activities of the ring, Es on garbage.” Mr. Rem. Pashed early ‘this month, were: ington was working for the War - {Production Board at the time. Says He Joined Party She testified that he was a; party member in 1938 and “ab-| jured me to secrecy” and that before she married him. she made

fore she married nim she mec Buf Coming It

I Guertioned by Defense Attorney| Headlights Hide William Chanler, Mrs. Reming During Daytime

ton said that she was not in love, a gton when (hey! By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—When 1 first heard that the General Mo-

“He wanted to marry me,” she |said. “I respected him. He said tors Corp. was building an experimental —th

in Federal Court. Edwin V. Altes, 23, of 1132 E.| Georgia St, and Enest Liford| Jr, 24, of 116 S. Noble St. plead-| ed guilty to five counts of a criminal information charging! mail theft. ; In passing sentence, Federal] Judge William E. Steckler said | “there are entirely too many] mail thefts going on now. “The long criminal records of!

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Munieipal Jrvont queing 9 the Indiana. Any further appeals the burglary charges against rean border stronghold of Kae- rate structure follows the same Ba rE " p to ¢ Ge iwould have to be made to the them. |song, an 8th Army spokesman Pattern, with the bulk of the ingrees yok Tor the iitiré stat {U. 8. Supreme Court and Watts| Both men were sentenced in announced. Kaesong is two miles crease falling to the smallest was for milder weather tanas Hie |would also have to seek stays of 1949 to one to five years in state south of the 38th Parallel and meters. night and t i er today, 10- execution from them to continue (prison for reported participation 10 miles northwest of the Imjin.| The large meter users had to 2 hi a a Oh thern| DIE Dattle to. escape the death in the burglary Sept. 11, 1948, of | Troops tentatively identified as Pay an increase on Mar. 10, 1048 areas pnd 35 in Spor ar chair. [the Frosty Dipper Ice Cream Co., (from the Chinese 4th Field Army And they would get another inforecast for today, With tONIGN'S whieh tevered the Tochiin of the 1222 Oliver Ave. moved into Kaesong and pushed crease under the proposed rates. low ‘marks fixed at 15 'S5L 5 which reversed the decision of the Found Asleep In Car on in force two miles south, to a Asks Fai jo arks fixed a and 20 in}1948 Shelby County trial in which| They were arrested by patrol- point 33 miles northwest of Seoul. r Return ie Same areas, |Watts was first convicted and men investigating the break in., Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's |g oe company is asking a “fair Cold Wave Heads Ziel, mm, he, Barinoomew Eh ‘men were found sie I hosaquarirs reported nat Te og esscnable earn” wich Mr ounty ria n wh ch ie was con- 3 car across the street from the China has thrown her power into) "he corm per cent. T d E t C Jvicted a second lime, {ice cream store. {the Korean conflict on a full war gy. "5 pany said, if granted owar as oast | , After their original trial the footing. : crease, the estimated reBy United Press _ |CLICK MUST DIE re {case was appealed to the Indiana | Give Reds No Res turn would bring them at present A record-breaking cold wave, Gov. Schricker today denied a gypreme Court and a new triall Two of the five Chinese field | OPerating costs “nearly a 6 per swept toward the Atlantic coast/t.. OL execution to Franklin yas denied. armies already have been com-|ocni. OF an estimated gross intoday, causing many deaths ana Click. sentenced to de in the elec-| After investigation by Mr. Lel- mitted to action, backed by an $8 tome of $5,805,000. forcing some industries to cur-| Lo chair at Indiana State Prison powitz, Judge Saul I. Rabb of pion war budget for 1951 The company said that since the tail production for lack of fuel Saturday night for the sex slay-|criminal Court 2 agreed upon a| Gen. MacArthur's report said | ast general rate increase was ; ing of a Ft. Wayne high school} .aring to decide upon a new : granted Dec. 30, 1932, it has never The blast of frigid air was) op hearing po {the full 4th Field Army of 171,000 | realized a “fair and Yea ble blamed for 31 deaths in the last" a trial. Orde New Telal |men, with an extra eight to 12|retyrn.” Sonable two days. Many deaths resulted FE rders ew lr [North Korean divisions, will b&| 1p addition t from heart attacks incurred by| Put on Chill | Aner Bearing Evidence co. iin position to strike at Seoul any million in ho amately 310 victims who over-exerted them-| ' 4 iti ft 1 x | ; . bine the TE TW. on ROCHDALE, England, [statement of the defense at-| I. a tind gave ely a the ompany expects t.self The lowest temperatures today| Dec. 28 (UP)—Thirty-six |torney, Thurl C. Rhodes, that hep 4s no rest, Superforts, light| plete aout of common and were in Ohio and Pennsylvania| Spinners at the Marland | “did not give the men proper; i... fighters and carrier| The ro sald “the Increase where the mercury dropped to 10| Texans Mmm In week sn jSounsel,” Twig Rabb ordered a planes blasted the entire Com- requested will amount to approxis and 11 below zero in the pre-| | : munist buildup area Thursday. | y btm dawn hours. { thermometer . reading fell The case was dismissed today Kaesong and other cities along (Continued on Page 3--Col. 8) The cold pushed far into Dixie| from 70 to 69 degrees. A because of “insufficient evidence. {the main invasion route south m———— rent and threatened to spread a sheet labor - management agree- - | Originally the incident came to trom Pyongyang were hit with a Th E w | ment at the mill says room the attention of The Times in ng Ee ee vl e casy ay temperature must be ‘kept [through the sister of Mr. Gilley, | : : : lets designed to knock the Red To Successful > Home Selection . NEW Haring 5155 WINTHROP

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offensive off balance. i { The air attacks included a {Superfortress raid that pounded! four towns on the invasion high-| way south of Pyongyang with 102 tons of bombs. | Russian-built jet fighters of the| Chinese air force rose again to challenge Allied airpower. Ameri-' {ean jets knocked down two of) them. A third was damaged. i ~The air attack also lashed out) {west of Seoul along the 38th] {Parallel to Yanggu, within 35 miles of the east coast. | Hunt Weak Spot Gen. MacArthur's headquarters said the Chinese 4th Field Army had 19 divisions massed in four corps abreast along the 38th Parallel, waiting for the momen to strike.

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