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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Alles Gain 3 Miles in Chasing Reds
MacArthur Calls Chinese Defeat
Bloodiest Yet By EARNEST HOBERECHT
United Press Staff Correspondent
Let's Look at the Records ; Social Agencies Call Welfare Department ‘One of Finest Ever’
Administration Whittled Year's Backlog To 90 Days Since Taking Over in 1948
Admit T
(Third in a Series)
By DONNA MIKELS
A FEW YEARS back the director and hoard of the Marion|
TOKYO, Wednesday, Feb. | County Welfare Department were replaced after bitter attacks on
offensive Tuesday, They immediately scored
|paid experts who conducted
{survey of Marion County's child terested in welfare; to discuss
| their “economy at all costs” policies.
21—Gen. Douglas MacArthtr,
: . | There were mass resignations of conscientious workers in the ordered United Nations 2
{department because they saw human needs sacrificed to cut cor- | . forces to resume their Korean ners. There were criticisms from reliable social agencies and from | ol l ers
Scream me KENY'S Lawyer
a welfare inadequacies,
three-mile gain that put the North|
Korean 5th Corps to flight.
United Nations forces now hold| carding the practices which had a solid line on the south bank|peen under fire, substituting inof the Han River from the central{stead the accepted social welfare front westward to the Yellow Sea. practices recommended in
Gen. MacArthur flew to the survey and by groups which had Wonju battlefront, announced his|peen the most severe critics. of
with the|the “almighty dollar” administraand tion,
“entire satisfaction” United ' Nations campaign, said: “I have just directed a resum
forces.”
American tanks and infantry,
including Negro Rangers,
southeast of Wonju,
North Koreans were thrusting at
mountain passes to the south. The Yanks advanced to the ic hip-deep Chuchon
of Chuchon and pushed north
half mile to occupy a ridge of
hills overlooking the town. Korean Reds Flee
The North Korean 5th Corps, which had smashed seven miles|
‘Comparison With Lake County
south of Chuchon at the high,
river River, waded across, captured the town
. A new director and board took | 0 tion of the Department itself. | Hire ounse ‘cleaned house” dis-|
lover and
|
a
point of its drive, fled before the!
virtually wiped out. {
1 American commanders said]
Today that same new adminis-| year's backlog of assistance ap-| i P-itration is under fire, for follow- y z P Closed Session
tion of the initiative by our|ing the very practices that seemed gated. Today the average back-| {80 desirable when the other administration was in power. It's a
im-lsort of “you're damned mediately jumped off from po-| y :
sitions south of Chuchon, 18 miles
tion is an
{don’t and you're damned if you {do” situation. However, the crit-|ship sos : where the|isism today is not echoed by rep-|from county taxes alone, while cnants joined in a common | lutable private social agencies— | they were awaiting welfare aid./ defense of the castles of their screamed. The crook {they call the present administra-| Yrtion “one of the finest ever.” Perhaps the best way to judge whether the present administraimprovement view the progress made since the 1948 housecleaning; to get the {opinions of unbiased citizens in-|
There hag been a lot written comparing the Marion County
- What the stories didn’t tell is that practically every “fine policy” in force in Lake County is also followed here,
isome of the points of criticism. | First of all, there is adminis-
| | | { | om Since John Mueller and the { present board took over, new of-
fice practices have been
!steal a nickel.
the tuted which have {ment with the same amount of personnel. When Mr. Mueller took office| in October, 1948, there was a|
Merrill, Charles St. Families Meet at
(lungs.
plications pending, still uninvesti-| By ED KENNEDY log goes back no farther than 90 days. This represents a real sav- d Sy of ay funds, since many Charles Sts. were united to-| of these people existed on town- day as eviction-threatened trustee grants, made up| ;
if you
Windows rattled
The welfare grants are paid only homes. + terror,
partially from county funds, the rest coming from state and fed-| eral funds. Reduction of the backlog was accomplished despite the fact] that applications have increased steadily since 1948, |
. ” » - Named to carry the color
is to
torney, Robert H. Orbison. | The nine families met. in a |closed session in l'hotel last night.
|S. Alabama St.
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known today that neither: he nor any member of his family
prisoners from four divisions had
{ ——— been taken in the Red 5th Corps "Fs ; » area, but the corps’ total strength IC p S val 4 p \pared to the local “i ni now was no more than 5000 men. | |B ocal “iron curtain,
Air reports said the entire! corps, cut down by “meat grinder” tactics, was withdrawing en masse
to the North in small groups to escape Allied air and artillery
assaults. ‘
The North Korean withdrawal wiped out the last enemy salient threatening the 8th Army's present line and completed what Gen.
MacArthur described as a Red
jest of modern times.” % American losses were light in the drive that took Chuchon, Army and Navy jets and British
(Continued on Page 3—Col.
National Guard Wing To Move to Ft. Wayne
The 122d Fighter-Intercepter Wing, National Guard unit ac-/seats still to be sold are in tivated Feb. 1, has been ordered|gections of the Coliseum.
. 3 lapolis daily newspaper is called For Big Ice Show every month by the Welfare De- : partment to send a representa3000 Reserve Seats Open for Thursday
Some 3000 good reserved seats I ellis they sida an 4 moved to the street at any hour. AY Duran Hashebal seach) still were available today for the|p, goo "oon LO 4 he Their cases the hands of is & Red Tunes Ies-D-Ruma, the polio ben- |i cdi tre ranting © or re. the sheriff, who, under Indiana defeat ranking among “the blood: (efit skating show which will be ; law, could evict them at-anytime.. Dame Upiversity, succeed! staged at 8 p. m. Thursday in| YOKing of Welfare grants, so-| : RO . ; = the Fair Grounds Coliseum. { The tickets are available only| 1sh at the Marott Shoe Store, 18 E.| g) Washington St. ‘They will be onl.
| or firm, are connected with the eviction story being printed in The Times. He said that every-
For instance tne “open” board | meetings in Lake county as com-
|The truth is that every Indian-|
demning him for acts, which both he and his brother, Wil liam Allison, president of Marion County Commission are innocent. ns :
tive to the board meeting, a practice instituted by the present administration.
If the newspapers accepted the
i Leyla.
Pledge War Chest ~~
called “iron curtain” items. There, , | They are not indigent, A ‘war MOunced today.
|are no secret or executive sessions,
|chest to finance the fight ‘was Now ' to the comparison of Pledged and the people who were
Photos on Page 13 Marion Counties:
economies” ‘between Lake and being charged with failure to pay rent went into their pockets and
| |sale
to move from Stout Field to Baer
Field, Ft. Wayne.
Air Force spokesmen said this side mezzanine, 85 cents; east end!
chairs,
Prices are: box and parquet| (Continued on P 8 —Col. 2)! : north and south — 8 " }through to. victory.
there until 4:30 p. m. Thurs- | day. The Coliseum boxoffice will i be open at 6.p. m. Thursday. Mw underspending its budget,
Every seat is reserved. The
$1.20;
cers and airmen now undergoingiclude tax.
- move will affect most of the offi- mezzanine, 60 cents. Prices = (ity Is Stuck
| The dress rehearsal, Field. They said the move Was|hig practice session for the some|{iJ" necessary for training expansion. 500 skaters in the production, was With the Goo The date of movemerit was not peing held today at the Coliseum.
preliminary training at
Stout |
released, but it was indicated it
would be soon.
On the Inside Of The Times
Indianapolis Servicemen's Center plan open house for civilians on Feb. 28. , . . Organizations. . ... Menu and recipe by Gaynor Maddox. .6,
Indianapolis man shows collection of relics from all VU. 8. and many foreign wars What is the significance of radio station call letters? John_ Lester tells of some fascinating combinations... Ed Sovola, reporting from the pedometer front again, says that a housewife will walk 6% miles a day. ... . Earl Wilson. , . » Harmon W. Nichols. . , Features of Thursday’s Ice-O-Rama .... B--r, a liquid which high school boys and girls are not supposed to know about—an editorial. . . . Two Indianapolis policemen’s wives vent their feeling about the Indiana General Assembly... News of business and industry. . . « Harold H. Hartley. . . .
Page
‘the best show ever.” This is the
fifth year The Times has staged’ i the Tce-O-Rama. A 15-piece pro-| Critical stage as rain ‘mixes with]
y fessional orchestra will provide the gruel ih alleys and unpaved
A last-minute checkup on the [15 acts, which include big produc-| indicates Thursday night's show will be the| most exciting yet staged. | Costumes are more colorful, the skating routines are more difficult and every phase of the Iee-0-
tion
numbers,
the musie.
8 Mrs. Sioneham, Part
Owner of Giants, Dies i SANFORD, Fla., Feb. 20 (Up) “als. Stonehgm,
la
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Short stories “About People” 15|
IU’s Big Ten dream house blown down by Illinois. . . . State high school cage tourney opens today. . . . . Joe Williams discusses the New York basketball scandal situation
About People .icivvienen 15 Amusements .....vi00000 9 Births, Deaths, Events... 2 Bowling ...covvves senses 17 Erskine Johnson ......«: 9° Comics ..covivinees sesee 3 Editorials «.ovivsvnviees 14 Fashions ...ocvevin beeen T FOPUM «sve siveninnnens . 14 Harold H. Hartley ..v... 15 Ruth Millett ....,.... ess BF Teen Problems ......... «1 Radio and Televigion..... 10 Bd BOVOIA +svevinierisna 13 “Sports i... dashvaanen 16-18
Joe WHiams .vsvisvinsns 17 Earl Wilson «.rivssnveses 13 Women's .ocosvacenssissesB, 7
aassebarsansnsrnne 16-18 Other Features on Inside
10 —Mrs. part owner of the |G ld
Charles
your present needs . , . or if you wish to live in another locality, NOW is the time to sell. The demand for hpmes is good, which means that a sale can quickly be made.
® TURN NOW 90 THE CLASSIFIED ESTATE COLUMNS OF TODAY'S TIMES, SELECT A BROKER, AND CALL HIM FOR AN APPOINTMENT.
reliable brokers are capable of completely handling the transaction for you. They know the market conditions and trends, sultation entails no obli-
These
gation,
® There is also a good de-, | mand for vacant | farms, income and business properties.
New Yorx iants baseball club, was found runderstorms tonight and toead im her hotel room early toay. She died sometime during the | night of a heart attack, it was an18! nounced by club officials.
One statement published wag, purses and came up with hard{that “at the time Lake County earned cash. Some had taken time off from Marion County was overspending Work to be there. Others were {$1,131,000.” That is entirely false, |tired from a day of toil. United,
Notre Dame post. Jordan, 40, came here
determination to see the case
spent two hours making statements and presenting facts to their newly-engaged attorney. “Never in my years as area rent attorney here, or in my priv-| |ate practice before or since, have 288Tegation. {I come across a case which! Wi h N - {seemed so unjustified, either it o Freeze in {legally or morally,” Mr, Orbison
Si ht Mud Thick isaid after the session. ght, ons First Area Attorney
Photo, Page | 15 | Mr. Orbison, who is 42, has ketball coach.” {been engaged in the practice of] By RICHMOND BARTLETT gag P
the last
that|
1942 until he entered the Navy|at Notre Dame.
in 1944, He returned to private, Krause
|roads. “I wish it would groaned Tony Maio, Indianapolis nal Court. {Street Commissioner, “The phones|
are ringing themselves off the with his wife and two children. [the Marines, No freeze is in sight, however, |
according .to the weather bureau.|, .¢ area rent attorney for the
Office of Housing Expediter. |
Mr. Gould was helpless to act in|
65,
morrow may dilute sticky Hoosier soil with as much as one inch of rainfall.
{called The Times about the “hog in the évictions. pen” in front of his home at 1131
REAL
licensed
A con-
lots,
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$1.3 MILLION ESTATE LAFAYETTE, Feb. 20 (UP)— the case at present because of a Henry W. Marshall, president and {legal maneuver being employed editor of the Lafayette Journal | Eight-year-Eight-Year-old Billy Wagner and Courier, left an estate valued °
Robber S-c-r-a-m-s SOME DAYS you just z can't
as
fled in
A HALF hour later, his nerves] |standard in their counterattack calmed, he tried again. At S. Alajon, Landlord William T. Allison, bama and Prospect Sts., he closed | (was well-known Indianapolis at-'in behind Hazel Scheid, of 1009
Again he took hold of his vica downtown tim and used what he thought Even as they would be the magic words. But,
{met, five of the group faced being alas for him, the lady turned and| : group EAS Baw his handkerchief-covered face of Albert M. Thayer
‘advance after one last pre-dawn department with Lake County’s—unfavorable comparisons citing # ~ land s-c-r-e-a-m-e-d! : banzai attack. The attacking/Lake County's economy practices, open board meetifigs and other] Robert Allison, of The Alli- |= 4 onin no fled Ike a frightened force of two companies was| Procedures, | son Realty Co. Inc, wanted it [0 wn Not a nickel did he make.
Takes Cage Post BE At Notre Dame
Jordan of Loyola To Succeed Krause
| . : {| CHICAGO, Feb. 20 (UP) statement was not that of a 18kis : year-old boy. | “If Dr. Donahue fabricated that!
has part of the statement he prob-| | tir le ES.) > the : ged.
lawyer char ad Ernest Maholm, the {the |
yola. University here, n named cage coach at Not
(Moose) Krause, Loyola an-| 3 : defense lawyer who entered the! | The Rev. Richard E. Tischler, case at the request of Kelly's 8. J., athletic director, announced Mother and sister, spent considthat Jordan, a former Notre Dame erable time in describing the star now completing his first sea- homosexual angles of the case. He son as Loyola coach, had asked ¥iSorously attacked the slain law'and been granted a release from Yer morals.
1 ntract take the his loyola eohtract 10 ta ton County prosecutor, was sched-
‘April (uled to make the state's rebuttal
last
mel High School, Chicago.
Jordan was captain of the Irish! ® ; : {law since 1933. He was the first basketball team in 1934-35, and (Rama has the cast talking about| The mud’ plague of Indianapo- area rent attorney for OPA here was a teammate of Krause during | lis and environs is reaching the/and served in that post from his sophomore and junior seasons
will henceforth devote {practice in 1946 and was recently his full time at Notre Dame to his | named a deputy prosecuting at-|duties as athletic director. freeze,” \torney for Marion County Crimi- became head coach at the Indiana {school in 1943 after George KeoHe resides at 126 E. 48th St., [gan died. Krause later entered; then returned for: Also present at the open meet-|the 1946-47 season. He became ing was John J. Gould, the pres- athletic director in early 1949,
Eviction threatened tenants of the Merrill St. "row" and Charles St., met last night to nap
- - insti- | tr \ avinea "be [1] EVICTION ROW 722 psn ot ov roo production in the intake depart- ! ’ C {to women screaming. Yesterday {he was routed from two stick-up |attempts by ladies with lusty
His first attempted holdup was {of Dorothy Schrow, 26, of 1614 {Leonard St. She was walking near. The banners of Merrill and Wright and E. Lincoln Sts.
The crook slipped up behind her! and took hold of her arm. “This is a stick-up,” he said.
she
Calls Coroner ‘A Disgrace’
Case Near Jury, State Demands Death Penalty
By JOSEPH ALLISON Times St&f Writer
GREENFIELD, Feb. 20—
Thundering demands for the| ‘death penalty were countered |§ by sharp attacks on the ‘state's evidence and on some ‘officials in the closing hours
of the trial of Earl Michael Kelly today.’
While the lanky, 16-year-old
Indianapolis youth squirmed in;
'his chair and looked pale, prose-
|
cutors the die in the electric chair for ‘his part in the June 10 murder,
known Indianapolis attorney.
this morning demanded
widely
In "arguing for the defense,
however, Harris Avery, court-ap-| pointed attorney, attacked state's evidence and branded Hamilton {County Coroner C. M. Donahy “a disgrace to the coroner's gf fice and to Hamilton County.” | i
Challenges Statement
Mr, Harris was attacking a | ; written statement by Kelly de-| tailing ‘the crime on a lonely! | Hamilton County “lover's lane.”
He insisted to the jury that the wordage and composition of the
\argument. ally as replacement for Tom Hag- Argumen : (The fact is that both counties they gathered strength from their gerty. who went to Loyola of) Case Nears Jury
New Orleans. Previously he Jaa Juige Samuel 0 been 13 years a coach at Mt, Car- shortly ore the noon recess After the closed session they y that “we probably will go straight His record this year includes 11!through with this,” indicating the {victories in 23 games, with a|jury would get the case before the! {squad which had only one expe- noon recess was declared. {rienced holdover from the 1949-50 mercy . . . Jordan said he decided to leave showed absolutely no mercy in Loyola only after “serious con. murdering Albert M. Thayer.” sideration. Every athlete wants to coach at his alma mater, and Melville Watson thundered this IT have always dreamed of return{ing to Notre Dame as head bas-
He!
“Nonpayment of rent has been at $1.3 million and willed nearly $20,000 to veteran employees of 7) the newspaper.
{ i
Noel Neal, father of the Hamil-
Judge Samuel Offutt remarked
“Anything less than death is and this defendant
Hancock County Prosecutor
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Truck-Weight Bill Blocked hy Debate
Talk of Railroads
Delays Penalty Action BULLETIN
An attack against the $500,-
000 civil defense program for Indiana was launched in the House of Representatives today. Rep. Robert Justice, Logansport Republican, charged the bill provided “entirely too much dictatorial power for the Governor and proposed that the appropriation be reduced to $150,000.
By NOBLE REED A two-hour debate, in which
railroads were accused of trying to run truck lines out of business lin Indiana, regulted in blocking temporarily passage of a truck-| weight penalty bill in the House of Representatives here today.
The measure, up for final pas-
{sage as a “save-our-roads” plan,
{Another story, Page 18; ‘Calendar,
Page 5, :
|was sent back to second reading for amendments.
The bill would rgquire trucks
and their cargoes be impounded {for overweight violations. In addition it would require the. truck {line to pay higher license fe {after the third violation.
After 10 violations, the bill
{would require that the truck line) * (Continued on Page $—Col. 4). » —
$155 THEFT REPORTED
Thieves pried open the lock of| |a storage room at the East Side| | Motors, 2401 E. Washington St.,| last night and made away with! supplies and ‘equipment valued at! $155. The burglary was reported {by owner Bernard Segal,
Four Basketball Stars king *19,000 .--in Bribes Over 2 Years
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Sherman White
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1 Adolph Bigos :
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LeRoy Smith
{Count Off
BURTONWOOD, England, ~Feb. 20 (UP) Pw. Edward W. Griffin of Far Rockaway, N. Y., is having trouble trying to convince
ea _U. 8. 3d Air Division police
| here that he is not a wise guy. Whenever he is asked his number he raps out smartly “123456789.” True, too.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m.. 40 10a m.. 43 Ta m.. 40 11a m.. #4 8a m.. 40 12 (Noon) 45. fa m.. 42 Ip m.. 85
| Humidity.at 11:30 a. m. 99%
Long Island
Players Fixed Seven Games
Nation's Top Scorer Among 9 Arrested In Betting Scandal
(Read Jos Williams, Page 17)
By EARL WRIGHT United Press Staff Correspondent .
NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (UP {—Four Long Island Univers sity basketball stars admitted today that they took $19,000 in bribes from gamblers to. juggle the scores of seven g over two seasons. , ..
h Bigos, Eddie Gard Sherman White confessed
took bribes for throwing games last season against ‘North Caro
PEORIA, TL, Feb 20 (UP)ws
| Members of Bradley Us | sity’s basketball team have.
voted wu
situation there, School Presis duit David Blair Owen said to-~ ay. bo
ayy
lina State, Cincinnati and Syra<
| (cuse. The Syracuse “dump” was
| |admitted they juggled the scores
in the National Invitation Tournament, fs
Bigos, White and Leroy Smith
of the games this season aga
5 (Gard each received
Fr—————" for throwing the game to Cin-
day that the three present
the team this season. Sunday he confessed being the ens between the CCNY players an Salvatore Sollazo, a 45-year jeweler accused of being the ring’s “payoff” man. 3 After the seven fixed games, Mr. Hogan said, the players became frightened - and - decided not to throw any more games. They even refused to go through with one “deal” already planned—the Duquesne game. All of the fixed games wers played at Madison Square Garden
ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 20 (UP)=A bill doubling the maximum sentence for persons whe offer or give bribes to athletes was introduced in the legisiature today. The legislation, asked for by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, would increase the sen tence from five to 10 years for such offenses.
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in New York. The players face {Jail terms from one to five years {and fines up to $10,000. | Chief Magistrate John M. Mur(tagh set bail at $15,000 for White, |Smith and Bigos, Gard is in protective custody at his own request, {The players were attempting to raise bail after the arraignment, ‘Fixes’ Tolled Off | Mr. Hogan tolled off the “fixes” {this way: : { On Jan. 17, 1950, Bigos and $1000 for . throwing the game to North {Carolina State, 55-52. After the if game, White went to the pair and {said there was something suspi« fcious about their play. So they cut him into the deal. ‘ { On Feb. 23, 1950, Bigos, Gard {and White each received $1000
lcinnati, 83-65. | On March 11, 1950, the trio re{ceived $1000 each again for {throwing the game to Syracuse, 80-52, in the first round of the |National Invitation Tournament, } Then came this season. On |Dec. 2, 1950, Long Island beat |Kansas State, 60-59, although (favored by four points. White land Bigos got $1000 each and {Smith $500 for staying ‘under {the point spread.” i On Dec. 7, 1950. LIU beat Denver, 58-56, in a double overtime, although a big favorite. Tha |same payoff prevailed—$1000 for {two of the men and $500 for | Smith. : | On Christmas Day LIU beat
strategy to fight the eviction orders. Here they compare notes. (Another photo, Page 5).
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| Polio Benefit : . Times Ice-O<Rama . . Skating Extravaganza . . Coliseum, Thursday, 8 P. MM.
| (Continued on Page 3—Col. 5)