Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1951 — Page 1
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[Sues —mowaxz] 62d YEAR—NUMBER 48
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1951
Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Postoffies
Indianapolis, Indians. Issued Dally.
PRICE TEN CENTS
‘I'm Trying Lloyd’
Sudden No End
Family of Traffic
Victim Carries On
By ED KENNEDY Last Apr. 9, three persons were killed near Shelbyville in a two-car afternoon crash. One of them was Lloyd Mobley, 28, 1532 Gimber St.
Mrs. Mobley was humming
as she cooked dinner. The children were playing, waiting for daddy to come home. Then the phone rang. A She wiped her hands on her apron as she left the kitchen to answer. “Mrs. Mobley?” “Yes”
” LJ ” “THIS IS the deputy coroner at Shelbyville. Your husband has been killed in an automobile accident,” came the terse message of death. She sat stunned, then turned to the children with the only explanation that came to mind: “Daddy won't be home for supper tonight.” What then? Lloyd and Martha Mobley had long-range plans for the future. They'd made a down payment on a lot at 1333 Norton St, just a little way out of town where the children could grow up free of traffic hazards.
LLOYD MOBLEY was a welder at The American Foundry Co. He was a good welder. Financial security was assured his family during his lifetime. The little house seemed a reality to the Mobleys on Apr. 9, 1950. It seemed an impossibility on Apr. 10. 1950. But death does not diminish dreams. After the funeral: Martha Mobley had $1300 insurance money left. She decided the house would be built. Her father, Rufus E. Crouch, and her two brothers, Edward and Paul, were not carpenters, but they could saw straight and drive nails. And her husband had friends who remembered. friends who could lay con-
crete blocks and mix cement, » " »
“THIRTEEN-THIRTY-THREE Norton” may not be the dream house planned, but it is a sturdy dwelling. It was begun less than a month after the fatal accident and was ready for the family to move into by August Two months later Mr. Crouch retired from the New York Central Rall-
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Traffic Mishaps Injure 12 Here
3 Pedestrians Hit By Same Vehicle
Four pedestrians, three of them, struck by the same car, were among 12 persons injured in traffic in Indianapolis and Marion County yesterday. All four pedestrians were in fair condition in Methodist Hospital last night. o Shen Thompson, 39, of 1326 . Worth St., his wire, Myrtle, 36, and son, Ricky, 2, were struck by| car driven by Henry H. Sneed,| Is of 2950 Ruckle St. as they. crossed U. 8. 40 at Morris St. | The other hospitalized pedes-' trian victim was 9-year-old Car-! rol McMillan, 5034 Broadway, who was struck as she crossed Col-| lege Ave. in the middle of the, 4900 block. Driver of the car was Ernest Beasley, 25, of 1412 8. Moreland Ave. 47 Arrested Meanwhile, city police made 47 more arrests in the crackdown to reduce the number and severity of traffic accidents. Harold Kirkham, 17, of 2512 Villa Ave, and Harry Jackson, 13. of 2511 Randolph 8t., escaped serious injury when an automobile struck the motorbike on which they were riding, at Raymond 8t. and Churchman Ave. The driver of the car, George T. Ball, 18, of 3999 Southeastern Ave,, was slated for not having an operator's license. 38 Soldiers Jailed Three Camp Atterbury soldiers spent the night in Marion County Jail as the result of a head-on collision in the 8500 block of 8. Meridian St. No one was seriously injured, although both cars were damaged badly. Deputy Sheriffs James L. Eg-| new and M. W. Harmon arrested the driver Dale Palmer, 22, for not having a driver's license, Howard Hudson, 17, R. R. 19, Box 259, an occupant of the other car, is in fair condition in General Hospital, The driver, Robert Barker, 23, R. R. 19, Box 258, was treated and released,’ and another passenger, Bernard Butcher, 19, R. R. 19, Box 263, escaped Injury.
Cadet Found Guilty. EDWARDSVILLE, I, Apr. 28 (UP) — Paul H. Baker Jr, 17-year-old cadet at the Western Military Academy, tonight was found guilty of first degpee murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the slaying of Mal. Harry E. 8uhre, the school's quartermaster.
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Death Brings to a Dream
BRIGHT SPOT—A present on a lonely Christmas.
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‘|cattle price cuts May 20.
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ling. |agency officials appeared to be
‘two weeks, {for the housewife’s inspection a
Price of Beef To Be Slashed 8 to 9 Cents
rs to Feel
Airliner Blows mn Aboard Are Killed
od pi Oct. 1
BY ROBERT F. LOFTUS United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28—| The government put preKorea price ceilings on beef | from the farm to the dinner| table today in a series of] orders intended to save housewives $700-million a year. The orders affect practically every family in the nation, well as some 1,300,000 retail butchers and 25,000 meat packers, slaughterers and wholesalers. school spellers. Wholesale ceilings go into effect, She is Gretchen Gosdidier, an
9, retail controls May 14 and|eighth grader at St. Patrick's May 9, re y schéol. Her sister, Carol, also an
eighth grader now at St. Patrick’s, won the title in 1950.
Gretchen Grosdidier
Awarded Times Title By ART WRIGHT The 13-year-old sister of last ag|year’s champion of The Times Spelling Bee today is the champion of Marion County grammar
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But the slashes will not be felt in the butcher shops before Aug. R 1. And their full impact—8 to Dt ale i arshy Sergs cents on the pound—will not be (Christ The King Catholic School. felt until Oct. 1. Marsha competed in The Times On those two dates the cut in|spelling bee the last four years the price of beef on the hoof willland last year was spelled down in be passed directly to the con-|{the semi finals. sumer. Other Winners Listed In the face of bitter opposition| Other winners of prizes in the
from the congressional farm bloc finals yesterday in the World and at least one cabinet member, War Memorial were:
Price Controller Michael V. Di-| THIR Salle ordered a 10 per cent cut— an Dan e eston, 2 about 3 cents a pound—in the Marjorie moved to Indianapolis price that may be paid for live|last fall from St. Paul, where she cattle in the stockyards; fixed had previously competed in spelldollars - and - cents ceilings on|ing bees but went no further than wholesale and retail beef prices,|the preliminaries. and set up the machinery for beef/| FOURTH—Nancy Zore, 12, a
rationing if that should become Seventh grader at Holy Trinity [Catholic School. Nancy has been
: lin the spelling bee each year the See No Rationing \past five years and last Fa was This is the first time since spelled down in the finals. a> World War II price regulations| FIFTH—Annette Hay, 14, an that aspecific dollars and centseighth grader at Flackville
{ceiling has been .put on any. food. School, Wayne Township, Annette
Beef was put under a ceiling be- has ‘been in the spelldowns the
cause it is .the only food now selling above the farm parity Continued on Page 3—Col. 2
It Runs in Family—Sister Top Speller Wins County Title
SPELLING CHAMPION—Gretchen Times 195i gold champi Carol. (Another photo, Page 5).
v Grosdidier on's pin from last year's champ, her sister,
of 1950's
receives The
Up,
Craft Crashes InWoods South 0f Ft. Wayne
5 of 8 Passengers In DC-3 Are Hoosiers
Times State Service
FT. WAYNE, Apr. 28 With a flash brighter than lightening a DC-3 United Airlines plane exploded in mid-air 16 miles'south of here
and crashed in a'woods carry-
ing 11 persons to their death tonight. The Cleveland - Chicago plane was on its final approach to Baer Field, when a sudden electrical storm swept the runways with winds up to 80 miles an hour, _ Another commercial craft, & TWA, about to touch down on the runway, was waved off with the
CAGO, Apr. 28 (UP) UahacAs Lines announced to-
liner that crashed, killing all’ aboard: .
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CREW : Capt. E. K. Swallow, Hinsdale, Ill. ' . ot, Often B..R. Miler,
Mr. DiSalle’s aids said they saw| no prospect of rationing at pres-| ent, and they were confident that| enforcement agents already mow ing into the major livestock centers would prevent any largescale outbreak of black market -
are confused as to what a ceili
The chief concern of price.
the danger of a meat strike py| thi the cattle growers, which could have explosive political effects. low. But they were hopeful no such, strike would develop and con-| fident that, if it did, it would not!
lan oR Post Pricts of Price Stabilization directive] printed in type nearly half the Retailers will be allowed about size you're reading now. until June 3, to post] He admits it confuses him. The housewife has neither dicomplete price chart showing rective or posted list to go by. their legal ceilings for each cut She looks at the cash register
The housewife wailed it's
ing prices.
Confusion Admitted The business man has an Office |
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of beef. receipt when she es through Retail prices are expected to a lines dl ctl Eg {stay just about where they are “Oh. no, it can't be.” lor a shade lower in some areas, ’ ’ :
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ng price is.
Indianapolis business men and their consumers were questioned week regarding their knowledge of price control. “What is a ceiling price?” was the question. “too high”; ” Neither could pin point ceil-|
the business man, “too
On the Inside Of The Times
Forty-four Republicans and 22 Democrats have their hats in the ring for eight nominations in each party up for grabs in the local primary on May 8... by Noble Reed Israel's open door policy is luring 1000 immigrants daily another letter from
Prices? Just Ask and Reds’ 1st Team People Hit the Ceiling
After months of controls, Indianapolis retailers and ng.
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By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Sunday, April 20 —
Rain-drenched allied forces braced for the “second round” of the {Communist offensive less than {four miles above Seoul today but {abandoned Chunchon and with{drew south of the Pukhan River
cago. Stewardess Beverly Ellis, Chicago. . PASSENGERS Bend. :
Miss Ann Lehman, South Keith L. Farr, Niagara Falls,
Y.
Miss Barbara Scheidegger, South Bend.
M. J. Oyer, Ft. Wayne. H. Clive Allister, Ft. Wayne.
Mahon, FBI agent,
Cleveland.
ill-fated craft, by tower operator James L. Miller. “Suddenly there was an explosion out in the clouds, brighter than the lightning. It was at
in Central Korea. United Press Correspondent, mo Rutherford M. Poats reported, from the 8th Army headquarters) that “the first round of the Com-|
juntil Aug. 1, because the original
{10 per cent cut in livestock prices
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Sweating Over Budget She knows what it means. More sweating to trim the budget. “I don’t have a magnifying
globe- -circling Dr. Sumner munist spring offensive has end-|
{stock producers’ |predicted tonight that if the gov-
|unchanged, black markets in beef
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MOMMY'S HELPER—Big sister feeds baby.
City Police Set to Begin Radar Study in Columbus, O.
COLUMBUS, O., Apr. 28—A full schedule awaits Indianapolis police officers who will visit here Monday. They will study the use of radar and other devices to ald in traffic control and accident prevention. A tour, set up by The Indianapolis Times, its sister Scripps-How-ard paper, The Columbus Citzien, and Columbus city officials, was
outlined today by Ralph Wolf, traffic engineer of the Ohio cap- had 15 traffic deaths. This year to
ital city. |date they have had six. Indian-
lis h h 23 deaths. The Indiana State Police plane, | *P° 8 25had 13 4 aL, bearing Indianapolis police Capts.| Mr. Wolf pointed out that the Jacobs and Robert Batt) Audry Jacobs She radar devices also make graphs and Indiana State Police Capt.| lon traffic flow and are used to {Kermit Lewis and Lt. Earl Smith, | determine speed zones and the will be greeted at Port Columbus gelection.of one way streets. at 8:30 a. m. Wednesday The Indianapolis Will See Device Used mes ol. have Me won, Me Safety Director Don Cook and OT abs COE ar aa So Mr. Wolf will take the Hoosier merce’s Safety Council, and a officers directly to the scene of ,..4ar technician in Indianapolis a radar unit in operation. to conduct a demonstration. Then the officers will go to| In Indianapolis Chief Rouls Police Court where speed viola-|plans to put the visiting unit to tors will be tried on the basis of |the test by making actual arradar evidence. rests % Yiolatcrs, foia'to Tas r. Wolf will explain to IndianWgoilhgi i Moy Suined 0) apolis officials techniques used
ere. jsinee. ie pe Noe. intros; | Authorities here boast of the
{most mechanized police departAfter court the officers will dis-| ment in the country, all of which cuss other safety devices being| will be shown to the visiting Inemployed in Columbus, techniques diana officers. which, in the past year, have re-| After the inspection tour the duced death rate from accidents Indiana officers will return home -/ more than 50 Jo cent. to prepare for the demonstrations
{market operations.”
|glass,” said one business man,” I haven't read it yet.” | Another: “I've read it, but I !still don’t know very much.” | Then there was the grocer who read the instructions and thought! he understood. “I think it says I can charge a 25 per cent mark-up over cost. If cost goes up I believe we can go up. But for years, due to special overhead in our location we've had to get 29 to 30 per cent markup. We're still getting it,” he stated flatly. ‘T'll Be Damned’ can be expected. , A butcher said: The American Meat Institute, “I'll be damned if I know what regarded as the voice of the Mid-|they're doing this time. The stuff west packing industry, expressed, comes to me from the packer. concern more mildly, saying that!My prices are still going up in controls will lead to rationing|some cases. Unless I'm careful “which everybody knows the pub-/my quality will go down. I just lic does not want,” and that the mark it up in the usual way and! longer controls stay, “the greater sell it. That's all 1 can do. If you opportunity there is for black don’t see me here someday write to me at Leavenworth.” H. C. Conway, director of re-| A restaurant operator search for the National Livestock, equally confused. Prducers’ Assn. said that “as it|, 1 Was In the Army tlie last stands, the cattle and meat mar- time. If this keeps up I'm going
_iback. Before Korea I was operat-| ket willahu over to a black mar- "5, "a “food ‘cost of about 45
per ce: N Mr. Conway per cent. Now it is always over 50
said that ‘the x per cent and sometimes it hits chances are” the order will cur-|gg per cent. That means the dif-|
tail the supply of slaughter cattle, ference between profit and loss. and that many will be “thrown on| “We were well-known for fine grass” rather than shipped to|roast beef sandwiches. Now 1} feeders for fattening on grain. don’t even buy beef,” he pointed | He predicted that “a lot of them out. won't come to market until next| “Then take hamburger. I used year.” Not Enough Margin “It will materially curtail tne flow of grain-finished cattle from| the Corn Belt,” he said. “It does| not leave enough margin for the producers that they can afford to put grain into the cattle.” Mr, Conway predicted that the order will shift the beef market “to an up-grading proposition— choice beef will be sold as prime, ete. “You can look for much the same as we had during OPA days,” he sald. “We may not have as many slaughterers oper-| ating in the black market, but| the supply’ will be curtailed and| distribution of beef will shift over to at least a gray market basis.” The AMI expressed hope that the new regulations will “help stabilize meat prices and prevent further development of beef short- -
Black Market Feared in, Beef
Growers Expect Slaughter Cut
By United Press CHICAGO, Apr. 28 — A liverepresentative
ernment’s new beef order remains
was
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L. Martin Virginia Ann Johnson, popular Broad Ripple coed, wins “Sweetest Girl” title ....... 3
Henry Butler reports that six starlight productions are planned this summer, opening with the popular “Song of Norway” on June 26 .... 2
Names and pictures of this year’s winners in the annual Times’ sewing contest
North Side Realtors pass $1 million mark in sales for single week . . . Harold H. Hartley reviews “The Week in Business” 43 Other Features:
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Home Show Here Will Close Today
All across the front yesterday! and early today the Reds held back while bringing up a “second string” of five to seven army
|corps — possibly 200,000 Chinese
and 50,000 North Koreans—for
28 the next great assault.
Pressure Eases
The Allied command estimated that the original” enemy striking force of 350,000 men had suffered more than 40,000 casualties in the] offensive. Communist pressure decreased almost everywhere across the 85mile battle line yesterday after rolling United Nations forces back | up to 40 miles or more in the first! five days of the offensive. The Allies made almost no withdrawals on the western front]
2500 feet two and a half miles south southeast of the field That's right where the United plane should have been,” the operator said.
‘It Just Happened’ “I never heard another word
17 ed. The Chihese lirst team DaSiover the radio. Idew't think the
{skipper ever knew what hit him. We had been talking, then it just happened. He gave not the slightest indication that he was in any kind of trouble.” The main part of the big plane fell in flames into a woods on the farm of William Spinn, ac cording to witnesses. It apparently hit a ditch which ripped both engines from the wings and tore the body apen, tossing the passengers into the | woods. {Parts of the plane and bodies were scattered over several acres, state police reported. Crews Comb Woods It was doubted if positive iden{tification of the bodies could be made before morning. The woods, being combed ‘by
yesterday and no contact was re-rain-soaked police and disaster
ported to the central and east crews, searched through the night,
central fronts. |The scene of the search was about
Although there has been no heavy attack in the central sector since last Wednesday night, United Nations troops quit chun-| chon and pulled back far to the south to straighten the line below] the Pukhan River.
Get a Holiday
Chunchon, eight miles south of the ‘38th Parallel and most fm- | portant city to fall to the Red! offensive so far, was abandoned |because it was exposed to flank lattack from the west as well as frontal attacks from the abandoned Hwachon area to the north. United Nations’ infantrymen on {the new defense line running north of Seoul and along the Han {River to the east got a holiday from fighting yesterday—but not
State Day today will wind up from its misery.
{the 1951 Home Show at the State
[Fair Grounds. | Exhibitors and suppliers in the
They waited in muddy, waterfilled foxholes within sight of the |city for the Reds to renew their assault, No one believed the
model house will begin returning Communist offensive was fin-
{merchandise to their places of
|ished.
{business after the doors close to-|
{night. The noon, today and close at 11:30 p. m. CDT).
Dies as Hone Burns
PRINCETON, 1Ind., Apr. 28 (UP) — Willlam Wildt, 52, was burned to death tonight when fire
show will open: at 12 Stockyards Fire Damage
Is Reported at $200
| Fire destroyed the interior of |one room at the Exchange Hotel {at the Union Stockyards last night. Damage was estimated at
Quick alarm by John Baxter, {assistant manager, was credited
destroyed his 2-room home near | with preventing a more serious
(here. Coroner Robert Kendall] said the blaze apparently was
| caused by a kerosene lamp explo-|
sion. Mr. Wildt’s
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at the time of the blaze. 4
[blaze like the one in January that {caused $75,000 damage. The blaze, of undetermined or-
wife and nine igin, broke out in a locked room, crash children were at church service used by the janitors to change (
their clothes. &
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a mile from Yoder. The plane, United’s flight 129,
{was enroute from . Cleveland to
Chicago and was scheduled to land here at 7:30 p. m. The explosion took place at 8 p. m. State police at Ligonier said they had difficulty getting dis-
{aster crews to the scene because
static electricity was so bad in the area that radios were blanked out.
Rope Holds Off Crowd
They said the wreckage was a great distance from the road and they set up mobile communica~ tions equipment from the Wreck. age to the highway, Crowds of spectators throsiged to the scene and officers were forced to rope off the area 100 feet around the main part of the still smouldering wreckage. The tower operator said he had been in touch with both the TWA and the plane which crashed. “I was planning to bring them both in on the southwest runway. TWA was clear to land with United to follow. Then the wind hit like a flash. I waved both off and switched them to approach for the northwest runway. “Before either could get back into the new pattern I saw that it would be impossible to land them. Then the static got so thick I don’t know if the rest of my instructions got through. 1 ordered TWA east at 3000 feet and United east at 4000 feet,” Mr, Miller continued, hen came the flash and the :
The TWA A plane lane went, am. te 4 — Ye