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: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 195]

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Brac. of 2-Alarm Blazes Chuses $300,000 Damages to Buildings

Fireman Walter Rolley of No. 11 Company probes

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~Times Photo by Henry E. Glesing Jr

~Times Photo by Bill Qates

= Firemen battle smoke and flame in the Schwart: fire. This view is on Fayette St. between 10 |

and | Ith Sts.

‘I Remember'—

Rode to 1918 Fire on Bicycle

Last Night's Blaze

On Identical Spot

: By HEZE CLARK I remember... I stood with Chief Roscoe McKinney last night and watched flames leaping into the air above

the ‘Schwartz Sectional System,

421 W. 11th St. I remembered another fire in exactly the same spot and in the game month, 33 years ago. Chief McKinney remembered ® too. It was the big Indianapolis fire of 1918 and one of the most spectacular in history. It destroyed what was known as the Industrial Building for a loss of $1.5 million. *'The night was almost the same fis last night, only colder. It was 30- below zero then and had been mleeting. There wasn't any motorized fire apparatus in those days. Only horses and old-time fire engines. I rode a bicycle as a police reporter and sometimes I could beat the horses to the fire. I think the City Editor called frie out of bed. I have been called put of bed so many times on fires d.can't remember all of them. “~Anyway, I remember well that

X fell off my bicycle several times.

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Firemen Find

Weather Big

Foe in 15-Hour Battle

Second Call Comes

at Instant First

Fight Is Ended; Men Change Shifts

By HEZE CLARK

Flames knifed skyward and black smoke billowed high above sleet and windswept Indianapolis last night and early today as two

two-alarm fires caused $300,000 damage.

Indianapolis firemen battled the combined foes —

the wreckage at Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. |

fire and

weather—for more than 15 hours as flames swept the Schwartz

Sectional System, 421 W, 11th St, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.

plant, 59 S. State Ave.

Fire Restquaters at 2:25 a. m,,

Blass Firm Loss Exceeds $100,000

‘Fireproof’. Structure

Scene of Inferno Damage to the Pittsburgh Glass Co. was expected to exceed $100,000, although Phillip G. King, general manager, would not hazard an estimate before the blaze was extinguished.

Breaking out in the southeast

corner of the practically new ‘fireproof” building, the flames spread rapidly 125 feet from the east and north 100 feet. .- When firemen arrived, the section of the building used for storage of paints and plate glass In cardboard wrappings was a roaring inferno. Eire Chief McKinney and Asst. Chief Gregory left the earlier fire to rush to the Pittsburgh concern {and both ordered a second alarm, {plus extra pumpers. The brick building, equipped {with a sprinkler System, was con-

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BULLETIN

Four city firemen were hurt, two critically, when Pumper Co. 26 truck crashed into a

Troy ‘Ave. and Brill Rd. The injured: Donald Bollinger, 26, of 1714 West St., Vincent Mar. | tin, 38, of 4748 S. Meridian St., Joseph McGhee, 25, of 1251 Shelhy St, and Walter Souther, 23, of 2 254 u nion St.

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the second alarm sounded -- ex-

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'Fire Returns To Old Scene

FireAs the first fire “rung out” at men changed shifts but laboring

The spectacular $200,000 fire

which destroyed the Schwartz Co., jrecalled a blaze in 1918 on the {same site which resulted in $1.5 million damage.

An 11-year-old boy, James Stanley, 945 Fayette St. - was credited with turning in the first alarm last night. Young Stanley, a newspaper carrier, said he saw flames leaping from the building, ran two blocks and turned in the alarm. +1 broke the giass and pulled the switch,” he proudly told firemen who congratulated him on his actions. Orders Another Alarm

The fire ripped through the story-and-a- -half office and warehouse building where cabinets for hospitals and drug Stores are manufactured. Morris P. Schwartz, 711 E 34th

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Sectional Schedules

In Times Tomorrow

® The IHSAA’s big show is at hand, . .. And The Times has the tip-off. . . . Gét the sthedule for each of the 64 high school sectional ' cénters in tomorrow's Times. . , . It will be ‘in all editions. . . . Read Jimmie Angelopolous, The Times’ high school sports ace, for the lowdown on the local sectional. , . . Kurt Freudenthal of “Jnited Press,” covers the state picture, . In tomorr ow's Times.

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OK Bill Paving

- Way for City

Sewer Plans |

$50 Million Program Can Be Financed

Under Measure | By NOBLE REED A House-approved bill paving the way for Indianapolis | to finance a $50 million sewer! construction progyam during, the next 10 years was passed! by the State Senate and sent]

to the Governor. The bill authorizing Indianap-| jolis to issue revenue sewer bonds! {to be retired from assessments from water users was passed © to 0. Another measure, raising n-| {dianapolis’ bonding limits from| the present 2 per cent of property | {valuation to 4 per cent, also| {was passed by the Senate, 40 to {5, and sent to the House. The first bill is expected to become law within a week, giv{Indianapolis the right to start |immediately with it vast sewer program.

i a JN Drunk Drivers | The long-delayed, controversial] 'bill providing mandatory jail! {terms for drunken drivers was: finally passed by the House of | Representatives here today by a ‘vote of 82 to 10 and sent to the, (Senate. The measure, as passed, con-, tained amendments providin g stiffer penalities than were origi-| nally proposed when it was intro-! duced. The penalties now call for} Jail terms ranging from five days

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Allied Troops Ashore at Red

form Port Roar Big Mo Leads Attack:

B-29s Plaster Camp With 480 Buildings

| Yanks Spare Civilians Used as Screen | Before Wiping Out Raid Near Seoul -

Heart Full of Loveliness

By EARNEST HOBERECHT, United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Thursday, Feb. 15—South Korean Marines hit

the Reds with an amphibious landing 130 miles behind the {ies in northeast Korea Wednesday and smashed to the (outskirts of the big port of Wonsan. U. 8. 8th Army headquarters said the landing was madunder cover of a furious naval bombardment at the north |end of Wonsan harbor, The U. 8. 10th Corps abandoned Wonsan to the Red: last December. Wonsan is 107 miles north of the 38!} {Parallel and 85 miles east of the North Korean Communic feapital of Pyongyang. But the three-day-old Communist offensive in central Korea broadened and gained momentum. The Reds: ONE: Flanked the road hub of Wonju, where the U. 8. 10th Corps is making a stand after an 18... mile withdrawal Monday and Tuesday. TWO: Threw three suicide squads across. the: Han River-in the Seoul area in daylight. All were annihilated.

Open up your heart and you'll find beauty . that' fhe message conveyed by Jackie Pashley, Butler University coed River Forest, fh as she posts Shesush a heart and asks, "Won't you be my valentine?”

I've Made My Own Way’ poe

—Times Photo oy Henry BE. Glesing Jr {

Young Fugitive Spurned. Freedom

School Planned

To Release Slayer

"A 16-year-old confessed killer who escaped from the Indiana Boys’ School has fled from frees

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"Don't Send Me to a Home,"

- THREE: Returned to the air an sent seven: Russian-made MIG-15 jets against B-29 Super. fortresses blasting a 480-building Communist military camp in North Korea. The B-29s completed their raid undamaged after hitting the camp with 220 tons of bombs, Crewmen

Penniless Woman Pleads

Tells Welfare Authorities She Slept

| . claimed one Red jet plane damaged. | + With Dogs Because She Had No Fue | First reports said U. S. Marines were involved in tl »

A “battered. penniless old woman, who slept with her dogs Wonsan landing but this later proved to bean error. ‘Xe

‘bation officials not to send her to an

dom, a school official revealed. If d pro‘because: her raom was unheated, today sibbon. are and. pro Navy spokesman in Tokyo aid, uly, South. Korean Marine .

Wiley E. Senteney Ir. Tt a car and escaped with two {other boys late yesterday, would 'have been released from the in-

four months. That was revealed today

i Superintendent Windell Fewell as|" Ny all my life.”

|police throughout the state were! alerted to watch for the escapees.

| Behavior ‘Good’

{and we were hopeful of his re-|

'habilitation. Hé would have been! ‘had no teeth and only one eye,|

{released on placement

record continued good,” {Fewell said.

Haute, state polite told the. su-

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little place. I'll stitution at Plainfield fn. three or Sa, have My own little place, Ill Corp itor her $2-a-week

'go to a home. I've made my own FoOom.

‘make of the woman when called to the corner of Massachusetts Nadn’t seen nor heard from Ave.

“His behavior had been good, where she was reported ill.

“Please don’t send me to a Rote/ plese the bs _yéariold were involved. ..«. SRE oF “Th 't gi ents there.” woman. ey won't give me my old-agé payme Bi: g Mo Helps Cc over Lan ding

“I want to get a pension—just a few dollars a month—so 1 ; The South Koreans occupied two islands in Wonsa 1 _ harbor at the same time they landed on the beach. TH" landing was covered by a massive Allied fleet offshore, inbut cluding the Battleship Missouri, with its 16-inch guns, an: hes cruisers and destroyers. liv-| The 8th Army announcement of the landing gave nclothing, com Ith angther man, as his immediate indication whether it was a hit-and-run raid, His address is different from reconnaissance in force or an attempt to seize a bridg

“My two dogs kept me warm,”

she explained. Police hardly knew what to She sald ‘she was married

yesterday husband in 24 years. - For

and Noble St. last 12 years, she had been

She wore dirty

(parole) (was nearly deaf and walked With ners byt he had listed her as a head in (within three or four months if his'a cane. She told policemen she gependent on his welfare appli ead in North Korea.

Supt. had been four days w pout food, cation. two days without wat The stolen car was recovered for some dirty water in a pan,” about 10 p. m. last night in Terre and had no money to buy coal oll (Continued on Page 3 —Col. 2) Communist 3d field army was reported to have made 1

Wonsan is one of the main Communist supply bas: -

“except “He hasn't come around much for the eastern part of the fighting front. The Chine

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perintendent. Senteney and his companions, also 16, were in a group of 13 boys working in the! school bakery yesterday afternoon. Instructor Rhola Proffitt didn’t notice them slip away.

Took Doctor's Car

The boys entered a nearby parked car owned by the schoo! physician, Dr, Louis Downey. Apparently they wired around the ignition, Mr. Fewell said, and were driving away in a few minutes. Cottage officers saw the [trio dfive out of the school {grounds onto U. §. 40. Escaping with Senteney were {a Marion County youth whose mother now lives im Indianapolis, and a Richmond youth whose father operates a filling station here. Senteney was 14 when he and another 14-year-old boy looted several cars in the Fountain Square area. In one of them they found a loaded revolver. Senteney suggested they take the gun to sell it. Instead, they used it to hold up James Kelly Brooks, 27-year-old packinghouse worker. at Olive St. d

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He's a Real Slicker—

Winter Kicks Up His Heels SIE Bo On Slippery Floor of Ice

More Sleet and Snow Are on Way With Low of 20° Forecast Tonight

By CLIFFORD

Old Man Winter gleefully tripped the light fantastic over Hoo-

sierland today in a swirl of sleet and

What's more, he wasn't expected to finish his shivering dance,

within the next 24 hours,

{cold weather was predicted for tonight and tomor Temperatures were scheduled to remain unc aid with a low] of 20 slated for tonight and a ——

high of 28 tomorrow. Icy highway conditions existed

{throughout the state, according {to a survey by Indiana State Po-

lice.- Snow and sleet glazed roads: in the north-central portion while freezing rain covered the south, The band 0 sleet from New England to Texas to- fr

day while the Mid-Atlantic sea- Winds.

board waited for the end of their

midwinter “heat wave.

breezes are to be replaced by been promised for tomorrow.

Times. Legion Golden Gloves Finals Friday . i. 8 P.M,

State Trooper Describes | Scene of Lawyer's Murder

which he photographed it one hour after it was discovered along-

tification.

without emotion as the officer de- reach the murder scene and who scribed the brutal beating under returned Kelly to Indiana from which the Indianapolis attorney Springfield, Mo., where he was died.

peared for trial yesterday. slouched in his chair most of the nerson probably would be on the

— headquarters there after the U. 8. 10th Corps withdre. J * last December. “The Communist attacks : across the Han in the Seoul area apparently were designed to throw the Allies off balance just as the Allied Wonsan landing Introduces Photographs at Trial was aimed at confusing the Reds. Of Young Kélly in Greenfield Two enemy attacks were thrown across the river we: :

By JOE ALLISON, Times Staff Writer of Seoul shortly before noon. In one attack the Reds a - GREENFIELD, Feb. 14—-Charles Epperson. Indiana state police vanced behind a screen of Korean civili ;

Yanks Hold Back Their Fire

The Yanks held, their fire until the civilians dropp: | I ll Ot 3 to the ice and the Reds started firing. They hit the Cor oad, and details concerning iden- lowed Jhat of Worth Sant. oon. ministe with the massed fire of artillery, mortars an! The lanky. sallow defendant sat Sheriff, Who was the thin] man to i. eS alier wacHineguss: worian lines ar ' were taken into custody. Eight Communists tried to fiback across the river. They fell through the ice and di: - appeared. : Another 900 Reds drove 10,000 yards into Allied

technician, today introduced photographs of the scene of the murder of Albert M. Thayer as the trial of Earl Michael Kelly, 17, entered its third day.

The technician described the body, the circumstances under

arrested. | His testimony concerned the condition of the battered body. Kelly was dressed in another pre gaig the print of » heel mark

Deputy Testifies

lumberjacket-type wool Shir 1» was visible on the attorney's positions across the Han east of Seoul, Puerto Rican day and the same summer-weight ¢orehang. n nti 1 ¢ ht them in an gray slacks he wore when he ap- \Miss Frances Neal, Hamilton! 4 continental Ameri ps Sug

enveloping trap as they approached a divisional command post. About 250 Reds were killed and many more wounded.

Times Cooking School's Last Session Is Tonight

Emergency Meals Prepared by Homemake:This Morning; Prizes Topping $1000 at Stag:

He County Prosecutor, said Mr. fp-

#y and nervously fumbled his stand most of the afternon.

More than 50 persons, mostly

testimony fol- “== (Continued on Page 3-—Col. 8)

TRUMAN TO MEET PRESS WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UP)

Mr. Epperson’s

dianapolis time) tomorrow.

Times Index

About People Asa 20 The final session of The Times Cooking School will be held : Amusements ............ g (8:15 p. m. tonight. Frank Anderson ........ 19 The night session will give homemakers and husbands the ; THURMAN Jimmie Angelopolous .... 18 last chance to attend The Times Cooking School. Births, Deaths, Events .. 11 Today's early session started at 9:30 a. m, Snow confetti. Bri dge San Er eiiy 8 | As at previous sessions, more than $1000 worth of valuable mer: Bowling ..... seasas sess? 19 Shalidise Eis wl Je given “Phil emergency meals were preparc’. More sleet, more snow and continued Benty yer sesenneans 3 co electric range that “broils| meng She Jecipes gene - Crossword ...... Beans : 11 under glass” a Presto Cooker, a 's Fated ots e poe gg — —— | Editorials .............. 16 |Vornado fan, a Youngstown Gar-| pit be Lckus LD Xe J ox LOCAL TYMPERATURES Forum a an tarn 16 “Ph ope. or a ae tresecrasenns ses oto, o. Page 5 "| Turvey Apple Pie and Planke | 6a m..2 10am... 28 t Clyde Farnsworth ....... 16 a, meri | Ground Beef. Tam.-3 1am, 2 | Harold H, Hartley....... 20 bage Disposal unit, hundreds of | At the Tuesday afternon se - $a m.. 22 12 (N toon) 25 Jim Lucas ....iv00sii000n 16 baskets of grocerfes, glass ware, qo Mrs. Eva Lytle, 82, of ¢ Sa. m. .. 23 Needlework ,........ ~+» 8 cutlery sets, Bruce floor waxers, West Drive, Woodruff Pl. wi Frederick C, Othman .... 16 'and many of the dishes of food the eldest lady in -attendan: Humidity at 11:30 a. 'm. 771% Pattern 4». .ci eo sivas 8 prepared on the Murat stage bY aps 7. F. Nalen, 2515 Station St. stretched ~~ ; Radio and Television ... 12 . the home, economists. “A eezing temperatures “and stiff Robert RUATK ..cvivvens 15 The four grand prize winners ag ln one as en mar fi Ed Sovola «iivavnnininns 15 of The Times Recipe contest will sq years. Murs. Alberta Brid:*North Central states are. stilll Sports ....evevesvees 18, 18 be announced at the night session wate, 2022 Bellefontaine, and Mr. Mild shivering. but some relief has Earl Wilson ............ 15 [and the prizes awarded. WOMEN'S ..uivussniniss 5,8 |" At thie ie morning's : session. (Continued on. 0 Page §~Col, 3

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