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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1951 Eutersd us Sicond:Clas Mutter at Fostomics
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—Times Photo hy Dean Timmerman blessed Sacrament consecrated
ADORATION—Altar boys kneel before the repository of the yesterday in SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. The faithful, looking toward Good Friday, kept an allnight prayer vigil last night in the church.
el Crosses Recall Last Hours Of Jesus Christ on Earth
‘Devotions on Plaza and in Churches Mark Solemn Observance of Good Friday
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor
Those familiar Crosses high on the steeples of churches Link Up With 'Chutists (a safe landing. Bad weather has
State Aids Back Phony School
Bunker Hill Scandal
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The first hint of a war surplus hespeak a special message today. For today is Good Friday observed as the anniversary cials recommended that a phony of the death of Jesus Christ on a Cross. Ever since that fateful day, that Friday nearly 2000
| years ago, Christian peoples have used the Cross as a symbol | equipment were dropped from 145 Globemaster, which was about 720
Indiana developed when it was learned state offi-|
school be certified to receive millions of dollars worth of valuable aircraft materials.
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_ Mighty Airborne Units, | Gls Smash Enemy
By EARNEST HOBERECHT United Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Saturday; Mar: 24: —A spectacular offensive of U.. 8. paratroopers, tank-| mer!, infantrymeén and planes
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Chief Rouls Reveals Tl Quit | olice Force ‘Soon’
dge of Courage
36th Routed ( fficially He'll
One Allied spearhead thrust t within two and one-fourth miles of the Parallel in Central Korea.
Thousands of American para- : itroopers jumped behind Commu-| 0S dane nist lines 20 miles northwest of,
Terrified “Communists flee death : : om Sik «..o00vniviinns Page 6 Big Sah Dissipenrs Seoul.” Within less than 10 hours| swtoundian they linked up with’ a powerful] BY United Prem American armored column from LONDON, Mar. 23-=A |
the south and sent Red forces : fleeing across the Imjin River. ‘huge U. S. Air Force Globe-| The jump was made by the master II, carrying 53 airU. S. 187th Regimental Combat men, including Brig... Gen. | Team and attached American
{Rangers. It was the seqgnd ana Paul T. Cullen, disappeared
largest parachute jump of the over the frigid, gale-swept Korean War. & ... Atlantic between Newfoundland
Red Resistance Melis. and Ireland today.
| The combined attack unleash®d ' Clouds, rain and win® interfered the full weight. of American fire- with a search for the plane. Ofpower ‘and equipment against the! fitials feared that if it went down retreating, Red infantry. on the rough seas it would not be Communist resistance melfed able to withstand the buffeting before the attack as North Ko-|very long. The men would perish reans scattered to the hills, fled to! soon in the cold water. the north or surrendered. | The four-engine modified C-T4,
Chunchon on the central front did| equipped soldiers, was en route] not even catch up with the re- from Gander, Nfld.. to Mildenhall, treating Chinese. | England, the U. 8. 3d Division The swift currents of the Puk- announced. i han River ‘halted the armored . | spearhead two and one-fourth) 3 Hours Ffom Coast miles south of the Parallel. | It was last heard from Thuyrs-| The greatest airborne assault day, .7:06 p. m. (Indianapolis| jof the war and one of the cam- Time), within three hours fiying| [paign’s most powerful armored| time of the Irish coast.
{task forces made up of mighty, Search planes reported at 8|-
Patton tanks and’ self-propelled|a. m. (Indianapolis Time) they | artillery routed the enemy north had found no trace of the plane
{and northwest of Seoul. which officials said must have run|
The paratroopers dropped on out of fuel nearly six hours! the ssuth bank of the Imjin River earlier. i
'|at 6:01 p. m. Thursday (Indianap-| (An Air Force spokesman said |
olis Time), trapping major -ele-|in Washington there still is hope ents of up to 20,000 Reds north the. Globemaster may have made
‘| dis ; th| Nine hours and 29 minutes jai) jsTupLed eommunications wi jter Task Force Growndon from The plane had enough fuel to [Beau linked up with the para- reach either place, he added.) roopers at Munsan, 21 miles i i [northwest of Seoul. Pick Up Signals
the Azores and Iceland, he said.
The paratroopers and their, An Army spokesman said the
More than $5 million in war Of sacrifice, selflessness and] from 2-15 to 7p. m. The Knights
surplus went to the Bunker Hill profound love. lof Columbus will sponsor the serv-
> |ices. The Columbians and the St. Crosses of bronze, hrass or Catherine’s Boys’ Choir will sing. Boy Scouts will lead the proces{sion to the stations and the Rev.| Fr. Raymond Bosler, chaplain for | the knights, the prayers. In all services in Indianapolis
“The entire war surplus pro- | gram should be halted until the materials are screened by the Army, Navy and Air Force,” Congressman Charles Brownson (R., Indianapolis) said today. Rep. Brownson, p member of Congressional currently investigating the nonoperating Bunker Hill School of Aeronautics, blasted authorities of the program. “From what I have seen of the Bunker Hill Brownson said, “it is apparent that there was great carelessness on the part of federal, state and local officials.”
| rough-hewn wood will dominate services held all over Indianapolis lin churehes and public auditori-! ums. Altars with Crosses stand on the platforms of the Lyric and |Keith’s Theaters today where con- 4 throughout the United States tinuous services will take place {,qay it is expected that seriousminded men and women will be Those were the hours when the (ninking of our boys fighting and {Savior hung on the Cross. And since 2:59 p. m. was the moment
[from noon until 3 p. m. °
And 1t also is Seoul, ripped through Uijongbu, prayers, silent 3nd swept on another two miles 'he breathed his last breath, Mayor|or spoken, will he offered for the! toward the 38th Parallel. Bayt has urged that all of us|armed forces and for an enduring pause then, if possible. wherever world peace. we are, for a minute of silent]
dying in Korea. (planned that many
Speakers Announced The Indianapolis Church Fed-
the Circle, owned and adminis- eration will sponsor services ‘in ported on the eastern front. No Sign of Craft tered by Episcopalians but really the First Baptist Church from \beloved by the whole city, the Rev. noon until 3 p. m. Speakers in|téam was commanded by Brig| Airways Stratocruiser which fol[John P. Craine, rector, Will hold ,;jer will be: Dr. Jean S. Milner, | 30: Frank S. Bowen. He jumped lowed nearly the same route as gq. services from noon until 3 p. m pray at the “Stations of the Cross” set up in the War Memorial Plaza for Cath-| |olic “Way of ‘the Cross Devotions” |
On the Insid Of The Time
In Christ Episcopal Church on
School of Aeronautics—a school that never had a pupil, opened and was never approved by the Civil Aeronautics Administration or the Veterans Admin- "Dr. Edwin R. Garrison and the | Rev. R. H. Peoples. H. C. McComb, of Vocational dustrial Education, recommended that the federal government approve the non-operating school to receive war surplus. Approved Transactions
After it was approved, Mr. McComb authorized the pick up without cost vital areonautical equipment. He declines to place an estimate on! the equipment’'s value, said he approved 19 documents of transactions school that never opened.
Hundreds of other war surplus | ftems went direct to the school] from federal depots.
Much of this equipment was
state director the & paratrooper himself, landed in| plane disappeared, but got no reChurch Federation sponsored the drop zone in a light reconnais-| sponse. services in-the Lyric Theater for sance plane a little more than| He said he saw no trace of the 'the three hours are, in order: Dr. an hour later. Multi-colored plane, A. Shullenberger, Dr. Robert chutes still were blossoming ——
B. Pierce and: Dr.
(“Where Stands Our Cross?”;
Page the second ‘hour, “The Revelation Two teens at Broad Ripple
team up to write and pro- |Our Tomorrow.” Counter-Spy . Contest tips
the Byiilding costs will continue tp rise ‘for the net few
Peres aan
Services at Keith's
Federation of Lutheran| mpan the heavy tanks of Task 2 1 said Mr. Missouri Synod, will Force Growndon, commanded by ousing XPansIon coon conduct interdengminational serv- Lt. Col. John 8S. Growndon, of in| Pittsburgh, Pa, linked up with the
- i a les Fadin firemen throughout the country” Continued on Page 2—Col. 6 - but made no mention of the gifts
to Moran.
tells local realtors
‘Atom Crew’ never be more than one driving distance from their super-bombers
{Hoosier lawmakers, home for early Easter miss House roll-call and chance to cut $22 million from budget Grade school basketball playoffs open tomorrow, . . . Olymps play critical game . Tribe drops in exhibition
Other Features: About People ...... “ee Amusements .. Frank Anderson
congressional committee investigating war surplus “deals” is trying to find out| non-operating school has profited at fedéral ex-
three hours
{Keith's Theater. The Rev. Her-
bert Berner and the Rev. Walter | Littman, both of Cincinnati, 94 preach. Choirs from the churches
tresses snsen
Admits ‘Mistake’
Mr. McComb, who was berated | in Washington by Rep. Herbert C. | Bonner (D., N. C.) during a punle hearing on the case, admitted that he made “a mistake.” “If I knew then, what I know now,” he said, "I would not have approved the school.” Rep. Charles Brownson Indianapolis), a member of the investigating the Bunker Hill School surplus acquisitions, said the state's handling of the Bunker Hill war surplus deal was “extremely sloppy.” In Washington,
Continued on Page 2—Col. 1
Catholic Churches of the city
[this morning furnished the scene| | for the Mass of the Pre-Sanctified.! The Host, as the title of the Mass pe ne: aster. indicates, was consecrated yester-Three-Hour Services were their 1 | scheduled as well as “Way of the] forecast tha devotions and Adoration The Most Rev. Paul C. Schulte, archbishop of Indian|apolis, pontificated at the Mass of [the Pre-Sanctified at 8 a. m. today 88. Peter and Paul's Cathedral. age-old verse known and sung by generations of Americans sums up a conception of the Crucifixion, of Good
of the Cross.
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Gets His Divorce
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Mar. 23 (/P)—An Air Force soldier who hiteh-hiked 5000 miles from Alaska today had an uncontested diNp from his wife who, he said, x because of the
| “See, from His head, His hands Sorrow and love flow mingle
|Did eer such love and sorrow
Or thorns compose so rich a
|combat cargo planes, mostly C- miles southwest of Iceland when |
{119 flying boxcars. Twenty-six last heard from, had only enough /-
{of the planes r d back to Ja- Hh op mec |pan Lani ini nen id Just Bb Toman fie as nti Accuser of Oo Dwyer Balk
(equipment, and flew back to the! (ply a few search planes could | drop zone.
{powerful United Nations forces] ; {smashed into Communist rear, istry SRI) Shere Were sing
| guard north, northwest winds and the 50 7d unite ill holding out south temperature was about 45 degrees
Task Force Hawkins, a second Fahrenheit. Weather in the
massive armored column from search area was cloudy with frequent showers.
Gen. Bowen in Charge
Manston, England, Developed for International Association of Fire Fighters, AFL. The U. 8. : i e U. 8. 8th Army reported He charged the union with “hypocrisy” and said it knew about lice Department operations is not
Probers Find 2 Lost Witnesses
Crime Hearing to Resume Tomorrow
| $ jons, it is 1 ed limited advances on the central Tescue operatiohs, if is equipp
{front against light resistance. Only aggressive patroling was re-
with his men in the third group. that laid out for the Globemaster, | Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, said he sent out many signals in commander of the 8th Army and the area where the Air Ferce
Roy Ewing around him. : Brazilian Airliner 3 “Operations are going well,” ciation, S both places for the first hour is Gen. Bowen told Gen. Ridgway. Crashes, Three Drown union.
Gls Seize High Ground RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Mar.
captured all high ground around
| ridges and put up some fight, hitting the drop area with mortars land artillery.
were Brazilians.
willl Eeir and Warmer Sewer Suit Dismissal
Within Week Likel Mr. Forecast for Easter Final hurdle to ey on tian 24 hours after Mr. O'Dwyer
dollar housing expansion on In- now afnbassador to Mexico, reig ex- peated his denial of Mr. Crane's r pected to be cleared within a contribution to him and said he week, Mayor Bayt said today. had no intention of resigning his An injunction suit against the ambassadorship. Mr. Moran quit his $15,000-a-vital main sewer construction, year lifetime post as city water may be dismissed within that supply time, the Mayor declared. on the demand of Mayor Vincent
This action, coupled with the Impelliterri. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, whose | Board, will permit immediate be- 1948 campaign chest was reported ginning of Jpernul than $50 mil-/to have been sweetened by $3500 of the firemen's money, and Mr. | tonight and tomorrow will have lion sewer and disposal plant y i
Impellitteri threatened today to| diminished. v long-term construction project kick out any city or state job]
in any way connected]
Fair and warmer . .. . , That is the United States dianapolis’ northeast side Bureau forecast fo Hard-working observers did evel best to hring up a t wouldn't dismay the anxious ones who have planned beautiful frocks, bonnets and!
corsages for Easter morning. | It won't be too warm on Easter | freeing of funds of the Sanitary
Works Board, which has blocked
Sunday, but as far as is known| now, the predicted showers of
A low of .35 degrees was fore-|Nere:
it i sible for the Works Board cury will climb b mpos ry tomorrow. ke to proceed with construction be-| siderably tomorrow night, but clearing skies weré promised for Sunday. -
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Sheriff Honors Student Who Enters Narrow Drain Pipe Three Times to Save Child
REDWOOD CITY, Cal., Mar. 23 (UP)—A skinny 15-year-old high school boy proudly wore an Honorary sheriff's badge today, his reward for rescuing a baby who fell into an 18-foot drain pipe. ; Alvin Julian, was lowered head down into the hole and pulled 13-months-old Dale Hensley to safety 30° minutes after the baby fell into the holé. It was hjs slender build. that permitted Julian to . The drain’ pipe was-only a foot’
Says Rumors
3 : in . | “Constant fumors circulated fo? ; save the baby. n "Yen past ‘several months tha¥ I y stevday when his ‘mother, car in an auto court with
’ : ~The child fell into. the hole Mrs. Juanita Hensltyv, parked h a friend. The baby stevped out of the automobile and Mrs. Hensley lost sight of him for a moment. Suddenly she heard a wail. he had fallen about 10 feet into the foot-wide hole, Mrs. Hensley called the fire department and the sheriff's
A frantic search disclosed
Americans striking north from capable of carrying 200 fully’ bin» ann IN HURRIED conferences, authorities suggested and methods of rescue. have meant breaking down the sides of the hole, possibly suffocating the child with dirt. A crowd of 200 persons gathered. Sheriff Earl B. Whitmore asked several to help. Three boys were lowered into But none could reach the baby. Finally, young Julian, who is 5 feet 8 inches tall and and is Sequoia High School's 120-pound boxing champion, volunteered. Julian lay down on the ground, his head over the hole. Sheriff. Whitmore grabbed one leg and Police Lt. William Faulstitch the other. They began lowering the youth.
u » ” Ld ~ JULIAN wormed his way down the tight shaft, forcing nis body past obstructions in the bore. began crumblin
discarded several of them would
the hole, one after another.
At one point the earth g. Then he kicked a leg. The officers pulled Wa ands were empty. Julian caught his breath as the child began whimpering faintly below, Mrs. Hensley clenched her hands in agony. . Again Julian was lowered and again he was raised. On the third try, he was so deep only his*ankles were There was a long wait—10 minutes. Suddenly spectators saw one of Julian's ankles twitch-— the signal to haul him up. Slowly the officers raised the This time, he held the baby in his arms. sobbed her thanks.
Mrs. Hensley
—— ing bitterly recently about Re-
n paign about to open.
* ® » ¥ * Elsewheré along the front otherlo2 Sent out, over the tarbulent At Quitting Firemen % Unio
Crane to Keep Post as Vice President;
Defends Contributions in Political Drive + By BARBARA BUNDSCHU
United Press Staif Correspondent : . Crane—former fireman who I The U. 8S. Air Force sent a charged before the Senate Crime Committee that he’ had given Nis move to replace Chief Rouls specially-equipped - FB-29 Super- $10,000 to former Mayor William O'Dwyer and $55,000 to his friend had anything to do with political fortress from itz rescue base at James J. Moran—refused today to resign as vice president of the Pressure.
NEW YORK,
with radar, a dinghy, collapsible hig political contributions all the rubber rafts and other equipment. time, Crane telegraphed Union si . « P., Redmond, who The 187th regimental combat, The pilot of a British Overseas President John P. R ’ “You were fully aware of Local candidates and considered it a local matter . . . your hypocritical action is a self« exposure of your unfitness for the office.”
Also Heads Firemen's Unit By United Prose
WASHINGTON, Mar. 23—The the department who would make has ‘good chiefs,” he said. ‘Right now found at least two more elusive I haven't the slightest idea who I “missing withesses” and plans to will name chief.” question them next week, Senate sources said today. The witnesses pected to “consider” for the new were not’ named, The witnesses were understood tor J. Richard Jacob, Inspector to have figured in the Cleveland Ralph Bader and Capt. Michael phase of the crime committee in-' Kavanaugh. They are among 17 per- 1 sons sought under special Senate on any of these men as possible They probably appointees. .
Mr. Crane also is president of
the Uniformed Firemen's
He told reporters that Mr on| Paratroopers quickly untangled 33 (Uyp)—-A Brazilian airliner mond did not {of the Cross;” and “The Cross in| their gear and gave chase. They crashed into the bay at Floriano- Crane testified on Wednesday to polis while coming in for a land- whom the political contributions The Franklin College Choir will| the valley, taking 50 prisoners in|j,o jate yesterday, drowning were made. 'sing during the first hour service the first five hours. three passengers. Eleven other 11-14 in the Lyric Theater and the sec-| The Communists stiffened after persons, including four crewmen, ond hour, in the First Baptist they had retreated behind the y..e rescued by fishermen.
Gerard Purcell, recording secretary of the UFA who is under indictment for grand in connection with disappearance
arrest warrants, will be questioned Monday. Those who figured in the Cleveland aspects, and for whom warrants were issued, T. Hass, Shaker Heights, O.; Morris Kleinmann,
larceny
told him by were Samuel
the $10,000 O'Dwyer as
detrimental Louis Chagrin Falls, O.; Morris (Mushy) Wexler, Cleveland, the Angersola Brothers, George and John, CleveO'Dwyer Repeats Denial Moe Dalitz. demand: and Continued on Page 3—Col. 2
Now Sell Winter Clothes for Cash
With Spring in the air the time has come to put away
commissioner Winter garments.
ECONOMY of SELLING all your winter items that you are not likely to use much, if ever again. NO NEED TO KEEP YOUR MONEY TIED UP! Fdér ONLY 56¢ you can run
holders cast for tonight, but the mer-| 10e injunction action has made a 2-line_ “Clothing For Sale”
| with gangsters. Mr. Crane charged in his tele-|
cause it was unable to sell bonds. 8ran® that Mr. Redmond told him Construction now underway was«by telephone yesterday "you did
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Has Been at Odds With Mayor Bayt By NOBLE REED = | Police’ Chief Rouls, head of | the Police Department here three years and four months, announced formally today he. . will resign soon. 3
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am planning to resign were well founded,” Chief: Rouls said.: “T’ have planned for some time to take another job. The date of my resignation will be sent to the |Bafety Board at a later date.” {| The chief declined to discuss his plans for “another job,” but it has been rumored variously that he has been negotiating with an industrial firm here on a plant protection program and also that he might take a post with the federal government. hy Eek Chief Rouls’ forthcoming resignasson was forecast in an excilisive story in The Times a week ago while he was \vacationing in Florida. \ Announcement of his intention to resign followed eriticism from Mayor Bayt this week that he (the Mayor) was “not satisfied” with the way the Police Department was being run recently, £l Followed Accident # Mayor Bayt's blast at the § followed a train-crossing trattis 3 3 crash in which five teen-agers were killed, “I have asked the Police De partment to enforce the speed {limit law on trains here and if | {Chief Rouls won't get it done, I'll - "% (get a chief who will,” the Mayor {said last Wednesday. re This precipitated a flurry of {comment from Democratic Party leaders who have been complain.
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| publicans holding key jobs in the | Democratic administration, espe{cially with the mayoralty éam-
‘Voted Democratic’ Chief Rouls is a Republican, but said he has been voting Democratic since he was appointed chief by the late Mayor Al Feeney, Mayor Bayt today denied that
“My disatisfaction with the Po-
{political in any sense,” Mayor | Bayt said. “Nobody has put any |pressure on me to remove the |chief. I certainly would resent it if anyone would try to dictate who {I appoint or fire. Nobody is going to tell me who to appoint to any job." : Mayor Bayt said he had not yet given ‘‘any serious consideration” to a successor to Chief Rouls. Several ‘Good’ Men “There are several officers in
The officers Mayor Bayt is exe
chief appointment include Inspec-
The Mayor declined to comment
POLICE CHIEF ROULS-— Stepping out.
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 23 (UP)—The Army today reduced its April draft call from 80,000 | to 40,000. 1
WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 (UP) ~— The Atomie gy | Commission anounced today | that it will build a | secret production pla rado for wor
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