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62d YEAR—NUMBER 163

Echo of Oatis Arrest—

Hope to Find Bill's Mom Missing for 30 Years

By DONNA MIKELS Will the arrest and imprisonment of Hoosier newsman William Oatis in Czechoslo-

vakia' answer the riddle Bill

was never able to fathom himself —the 30-year-old mystery of his mother’s disappearance? Will the world-circling hue and ery and the attendant headlines produce the word, the information, the clue that: was never found in the case of the woman who “dropped off the face of the earth,” Mrs. Cora Eddy Oatis? These are questions pondered these days as friends and relatives of the imprisoned Hoosier newspaperman get together in his home city of Marion, with rekindled interest in the almost-for-gotten puzzle.

2 Key Points Cited

They wonder if the miles of “Bill Oatis” headlines which have stretched around the world since his Iron Curtain trial and imprisonment might: ONE: Bring forth from selfchosen anonimity Bill's now-eld-erly mother, the woman who fled a home touched by tragedy and never returned. TWO: Produce if not the miss-

when today’s meeting ended at . 3 . ins woman herself, Somentie wie 7:40 pr m. that the conference belives that the United States, Peally happened to Cora Eady _ MRS. CORA EDDY OATIS— will fesume tomorrow. The next | even at the possible cost of really appene a kaa Tragedy set her adrift irom her | meeting was scheduled for 7 p. m, putting more American t Oatis. geay > Sunday, Indianapolis time. \ } feast, | ‘e American. troops in Already the bright glare of home. ® 1 a § J00y 38. : : |IEurope, must rush the building of SMe ch Fh PIR 3 id: Fee

public interest has started ‘piercing the shadows shrouding the

{ tirely. mystery. Iwillingness to bargain on the de- CRASH IN TH Charif{’ : : ~ It has produced the astonishing Yaarcation line and buffer Zonk E DARK—Sheriff's deputies inspect plane. oe oc ag uptodate report that Mrs. Oatis was alive But the Communists have said . . S Fen. Lisen ower, Genand residing. in Indianapolis in they will not budge from their Plane Skips Wires, gratis Eusteisco Franco of 1929, eight years after her dis- demand that it ‘be established C ; h L d | Attlee Sat in Clement R appearance and a year after she lalong the 38th Parallel. rasn-Lanas Here And. dihor Prey il, was legally presumed dead. | About the only hopeful sign : > 18:8 0

May Be Alive 3 1f true, this shatters the theory : accepted by ‘her closest relatives, that she fell ill and died on the West Coast the year of her disappearance, unable to get word to her family. “Perhaps she is still ‘alive somewhere,” commented Mrs, & Florence Dietz and Mrs. Chester . Nelson, Marion, after they heard the report. “Wouldn't it be odd of after all these years she would hear about Bill and come back?” Tragedy first touched the starcrossed life of Bill Oatis when he was 9 months old, in September, 1914. His brother, Ross, then about 2, toddled out to the back porch of the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Charles Oatis, with whom the family lived. As he pulled a string towing a mechanical toy he toppled backwards into a tub

ROSS OATIS—Death tilled his baby gurgles.

of wash water. . |The Red China broadcast said the into the field. will “not hesitate to ask for Baby Dies {Communists rejected the Allied Only 100 feet to the right-of thew me: oC The water ‘was not hot so the {proposal only after “careful and his landing path was a denge a Je, arg nF job out, we baby made no outery. If he had calm study. oo : wood and half a mile to the , re Bs sen ower said. ‘The : Hk ; Earlier, Peiping Radio said Gen./ north. a series of 470 foot radio sure way to get half the results he might have lived. But when Matthew B. Ridgway once stated towers. 3 ne at twice the cost is to drag this he was found sitting playing Ei that to end the war on the 38th Neithe rthe pilot nor his pas SAN program out. If we can’t do this a aa th Parallel was his “highest aim.” gsenger, Donald W. Leeper, 44. of : . . io IT aonshie length. at Perhaps it was this tragedy Gibsonia, Pa., were able to de- BRUSH WITH DEATH—Pilot Theodore F. Wilson (left) and ime, it can’t be done and we'd

which set the bereaved mother scribe their Hngghts as the Passenger Donald W. Leeper after narrow escape. “We can't shin in hearts and adrift. When her husband went By Hit-Run Dri plane plunged earthward, its en- : . inraina” Gen. Np iii a West a short time later to find | y . n river gine dead quit completely. I had to set turn away from the highway into “put — yeh, Need OWer. salt, work she came to Indianapolis | A 46-year-old Indianapolis, “I didn't know what to think,” down.” he said. the blackness u Tu in Be e Ta and worked here during the war resident was critically injured the San Gabriel, Cal, pilot and, The pilot said he abandoned a| “I could see absolutely nothing Ment neede if ey e pac vears at Dexheimer Photo Stu- {last night by a hit-run driver in plane owner declared. . plan to set the Beech Bonanza as I began my landing approach allies) can develop. dios. Shortly after the war she front of 407 W. Washington St. “I radioed Mayday (interna- light plane down on U. 8. 52. after turning away from the Gen. Eisenhower sald he is joined her husband in Arizona, Harry Otis Parker, 46, of 5102 tional distress signal) at about| “I was afraid 1 would kill highway,” he said. fully aware that the $35 billion hopin her family thinks, to re- Massachusetts Ave., was taken to 2500 feet when the engine began someone,” he said. ‘Too many y x7 Re ‘ XR Noe which President Truman has Ping, : : y 10.76 : : . Mr. Wilson and his passenger ggked of ( ongress for mutual deestablish their home. But it did General Hospital. He suffered ato sound like a missing auto- cars jammed the highway."

not work out. Faded but still preserved is a

letter from Mrs. Oatis in July, Marion Chronicle-Tribune opened

MRS. OATIS—One of the last known photos takeh before she vo

WILLIAM OATIS — In high school days when he vainly searched for his vanished mother.

PAT SANDERMAN AND OATIS FILE—A phone call to the

a door to the: past.

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Partly cloudy today and tomorrow. High today and tomorrow, about 85. Low tonight in the low 60's.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1951 4

22d Session ‘If We Drag This Job Out, We Fail'— * On Truce Fails

To Break wm aurry or Get Out, lke

Reach Agreement | To Confer Again

Another Story Page 38 By PHIL NEWSOM

United Press Staff Correspondent

| TOKYO, Sunday, Aug. 12

'—The Kaesong cease-fire con-| |ference got through what was regarded as the crucial ses-

{sion today without breaking down land negotiators again tomorrow to

agreed to try reach. an

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U. S. Arming Europe

agreement. Allied and Communist delegates met for one hour and 40 minutes on the deadlocked issue of drawling an armistice line across Koirea. It was®their 22d meeting {and the 12th on that touchy issue. | As today’s talks got under way {promptly at 7 p. m. Saturday, In{dianapolis time, a dispatch from ithe United Nations advance camp said it might well “be the last. { - It was believed that only a major change by one side or the other would prevent the talks from ending and erupting into| bloodiest phase of the Korean war so far. However, Allied observers took new hope from the announcement

‘Chance in

Willing to Bargain NES

The Allies have indicated a

By TOM HICKS Zooming between telephone lines and high-tension power All members of the United Na- li . inky black tions delegation were flown to Ines In Inky ackness, 3

{Kaesong today from the United|light passenger plane crashNations advance camp because landed in an oat field east of the high waters of the Imjin| Indianapolis last night. River again had prevented en-| The pilot and his gineers from repairing the pon- emerged unscathed. {toon bridge on the road. The pilot related,

{was that neither side appeared {willing to take the step to ‘break joff the talks.

after | ‘Slammed the Doors’ | + Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, senior Allied delegate, told the Communists in plain sailor language yesterday that they had “slammed the doors on every attempt to {make progress,” and a new Red propaganda offensite today made the situation steadily worse, | The newest blast by Peiping Zooms to Right |Radio today described the United The pilot said he zoomed his {Nations stand on the armistice plane sharply to the right to line as “rash and irresponsible.” avoid the tower and let down

his, landing lights for a “dead stick” set down, he saw looming ahead of him a high tension power line tower, Investigation revealed The odore F. Wilson had guided his plane under the power wires and over telephone lines.

Pedestrian, 46, Hurt

broken left leg and internal in- mobile motor. juries. ‘Two minutes later the engine

1921, in which she said she planned to leave Arizona to seek

® work in California. The dispirited woman said she wanted “to come On the Inside—

home but am afraid I could not get work.” She added that she would come

if her family thought there were WwW - Roll it. across the bottom two and a half. “All are in better shape than jobs available. With the letter is Ne $ and Features $2. > 1 10 With those two brief » words inches deep a few years ago,” Gen. Eisen2 Dinars, ith the writingom the Sermon of the week, 'Born Again’ 9 janother edition heads for the a new chase was short and power said. ac oo faded to make out any- ' seeseassssavney press room. ex hadn't noticed it. His figures did. not show the thing but_the last word “home Memories of Grandma and early Indianapolis. ..... i] Another page one-—history— He recalls the big stories of strength of Soviet satellite counsick.” a1 . . . . . |9 has been made. the last 40 years. The headlines tpjes Bot then fate again took $12 Million in new. hospitals nearing completion here Behind your page one are re- of all wars in this period. were! Here are some of the other hand. The next word was a wire, More tall tales of the Ozarks. .............. crests 16 porters, rewrite men, copy readers laid by him highlights the committee collec= reporting that she was in the and editors all over the world. When President Harding died ted in its survey trip of Europe: hospital and asking funds. She : 3 1 Also behind your page one to- Alex worked around the clock : . ' “onservativ 8. f - 3 Ales orked aro 8 el ONE: British Conservative sent back her diamond and pearl Sports, Editorials and Theaters 1 3 day--—amd for the past id ye The paper kept him at a hotel 1eader Churchill declared that earrings to replace the loan, with Notre. Dame 4 thumbs dow heating. cadets I is another man -Harry Joses downtown and he'd scamper over the policy for defense of the West a promise to write later. ° a 8 Jurns 1MumMbs cown on chea ng es Alexander «= Journeyman, printer, and get a little sleep bewteen must be determined on estimates The next word was a Christ-| Yanks win in | 1th, Brooklyn and Boston split........ Il. and .known to all as x editions. of the relative stockpiles of atom= mas card that December which High school football practice opens Wednesday. a 12 Copy Pours In On big prizefights the paper ic bombs held by the United the family has kept. “Some of . ; . put in a new page one after every States and Russia. these days when things adjust, The Wright Angle ...... Cierra ensnsnns Eee 13 When the big stories break, round Qnnviis thomas} 1 : the wire services and local re- 1118, La : TWO: Franco, Spanish chief of mse yr am vom ng heme 10 Full Ménu of golf fourneys......ssvirsnsenssesse. 13 porters pour in the copy. Dozens The Dempsey-Tunney fights gate. described his nation as a see you” Mrs. .Oatis wrote her : Gh "3 tones drove us nuts,” he laughs now. |:pegeiged country” unable to give mother. She gave her address as tate tennis tourney at Broadmoor...........u.u.. 14 of compositdrs and typesetters eseiged « : 8

mere Editor's Notes ......i00. Continued on Page 2 —Col. 5

Look Over the -

Women’s Section .

. . . page one are his. From the dozens Keeps Things Goin ¢ eral war, but that Spain could Home Today Indianapolis Home for the Aged, story and pictures. . 27 |of trays of type he picks the Ty : g . produce a 2 million man army In today’s BIG Real Estate | Picture story of Broadmoor Country Club. ......., 27 scheduled stories for the front alive a 8 tor la provided it gets equipment aid. n today's eal Estate | . . : a . page, lays them in the form and con oli ely 8 3, 8 THREE: President Vincent AuSection ‘of Forthcoming American Legion Auxiliary Convention. . 27 Shaces Thoth Ot oy Joi can read helps keep things popping around|, SHEER: President, Vincent su. The Indianapolis Ties . them easily. A plan for the con- 2 Times, admittance to the Atlantic Pact you will find hundreds of | Real Estate and Business ve 37-39 tent and make-up is furnished In his time at The Times he’s would alienate many Frenchmen homes oftoreq For Sale | by the news editor. pre Jajiey More than 50 young men because wheople Ste always led y v ’ wy A } trade. by ideals,” and Frenchmen never You are suo to find several | Cp senirg] hits only the huxury builder. Selo a Lg Saw Paper's Name Change So “My boys have gone far and|would tolerate stationing of homes that will be much Indianapolis couple build their ‘dream home'........ 37 Alex rolled his first front page *® are doing swell,” he says with Franco's troops on their soil.

more suitable for your family | than your present quarters. |

EAST "KESSLER BLVD.

Other Features:

Storie. Yanch bungalow: 3 Barms. Amusements .,...... 22, 23 Movies . +vsess0s 22, 23 Later he worked for the Dally had type alk over three floors of broke on the truck. It pitched ried in 1918. oq * |belfeve they. can‘ “sup with the 3042 baths, den and alsilies room; Automobiles ......ves... B2 our Fair Oty -« o.oo inva se 21 Times and now for The Indian: the building.” the chase out the door to a stair- If He Started All Over |devil safely with a long spoon." tifal carpets’ and drapes, dishwasher Bridge ....... ssiveress. 28 Pattern ................ 34, |apolis*Times. The hundreds of pieces of type way: ; Mr. Churchill expressed impae Brae atomic EATARS doars: verx Henry Butler .....i.ess 22 Potomac Patter ........ 26 Speed’ and accuracy are his represent the lines you read. They, The type broke and under the When asked what he would do tience with Mr. Attlee's governs CAS. w.

arge corner lot;

handle, o trade for snail farm. Capital Capers .......... 36

ar Classified ..... 24, 25, 40-51 Realtors , Cir Hpatys a-1ate CIIDE sisi vviirnsnnvose 28

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Radio and Television .... 18 World Report «u..c.scevs 21 Robert Ruark ........... 19 Real Estate .......... 37-39

‘Mr. Page One on Job 41 Years—

By ED KENNEDY

set it in type. Then comes has to be met. Alex is the man deadline. The eight

the deadline. It

to meet the columns of

{41 years ago today. Then he was a printer for the Indianapolis Sun, forerunner of today's Times.

keynote. But in the rush of ‘get- are placed in a form called a

ting the edition in, “boots” do chase and locked tight. Heavy every direction.

happen. Alex recalls that once pressure keeps. thém from mov-| ‘he laid two eight-column head- ing about~There is no bottom in|

passenger $

the landing, that when he turned on

Harry Alexander

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Times Photos by Dean Timmerman.

were on their way to Pittsburgh, “It was one chance in a thousand,” Mr. Wilson said of his

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'Alex Usually Hits the Make-up Deadline

In all his years, only one Speedway paper has gone in without Alex behind the page. This was two years ago when he was laid up with a heard attack

pride.

N. Bosart Ave. They were mar-

pressure of the chase flew in if he were starting all over again 41 years ago he replied; “It was raining type from the “Why, try to get page one in third floor down,” Alex says. on time after you editorlal guys

: \opean defense problems yet put

paper came out with a white strip planes

Alex lives with his wife at 938

| FIVE: William L. Batt, Ameri-

Senators Told More Gls May Be Necessary

| General Reports

| Russ Are Stronger By JOHN L. STEELE

United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

anti-Russian military bastions in Western Europe or “get out” ene

state have been obtained by the United Press. : The views were solicited by members of the Senate . Foreign Relations Committee on a European trip last month and were compiled in “highlight notes” by {the committee.

comprehensive documents™on Eu-

together. Meet Ike Twice

{| Gen Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Atlantic Pact Army, met with the legislators in Paris on July 9, and again on July 22 He told them the time may come when he will need more than the six American divisions -about 344,000 ground and Air Force troops in all—which the ‘Senate voted to approve. And he sald that if this time comes he

better get out.

fense—will cramp improvements in living standards in this country. Russ in Better Shape

But he said that poised against the West is the constant threat of a Russian army of some 4 mil|lion men organized in 175 divisions and backed by 20,000 war

its people the freedoms of press and assemblage granted here. Franco said that it would depend on “circumstances” whether :Spain would participate in a gen-

| FOUR: British Prime Minister | Attlee told the Senators regard{ing Spain that some people still

ment for its reluctance to es« {tablish full relations with Franco. 4

{

{lines acrpss the top of the same the chase, but the frame is set on |

Another time he grabbed off a write the stories too long and ¢ Production chief assigned to {page. Each said exactly the ii cart known as a truck. new chase .as soon as it came in send them out too

late.” he the Pact organization, said U. 8. ' |expenditures will make possible

from today’s Timms Real Editorials ..iivvvveneees 20

] Records ....eesaessss 22-23 Estate pages. . . this is just Fashions sessrssnnsansse 30

Society EE 32.

many hund reds ; Forum anssrsannsese esses Spor ts esssnssnenvenss 11- . : 5 Alex's experience of spilling a the shop. Alex always wanted the replied. et. ” ii of the city, sn a) Gardening ..;s.eeveesse. 34° Earl Wilson rca 3 “Spilling a page of type is the page came one day on the old best for his one, = So as a salute to Alex and his Continued on Page 2—Col, 1 and éou : Erskine Johnson ........ 23 ~~ What Goes cssssssess 5 |CONStant fear of a printer. . I Sun. He was moving| Without . checking, he merrily 41 years behind the front page -.— Te en.

“I only-spilled one in my life,"!it back into its place in the com- went about getting in the this one ends now so he.can get Charler's - onl rte . = recae"Aes. “And when dd 1 poring room. Suddenly a role Much to is Conmarnation” aon wl —on Uma i

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