Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1951 — Page 3
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Funeral Pyre for How Many?
INFERNO—Above, the burning wreckage of the B-50 bomber which crashed
ment house in Seattle.
Heat Slows Hunt For Dead as B-50 Hits Apartment
By United Press SEATTLE, Aug. 14 the melted
Heat from wreckage of a B-30 bomber that crashed into a frame apartment house,
11 persons
killing.at least and injuring 12 others barred firemen today from séarching for additional victims,
Estimates of the number of
dead still ranged as high as “20 to 30”"—the number of tenants unaccounted for, But Assistant
Fire Chief R. B. Rogers said estimate that there more than fHve to gtill in there.” The search was postponed last night when the heat of the debris and metal kept firemen from getting close tn the .white-hot of the wreckage.
“We shouldn't he seven bodies
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Gasoline Catches Fire Half of the three-story, 49-unit building was destroyed when the big homber — its
dicular nearhyv
¥ wings perpento the ground—grazed a brewery then crunched
,Into the apartment house.
An instant of high-test flame, Fire lic ACIrnss then the whale forth into hlaze. Frenzied residents
later. 4000 gasoline
gallons burst into ked the roof structure
and roared
taken com
eave) Expert, 87, Prefers Plane to Covered Wagon
tle immediate effect in Indian“You can't beat flying.” the one in a covered wagon, he apolis. | Those are the sentiments of met his wife-to-be. Virgil Shepard, of the IndianSamuel Cooper, 87, of 2516 N. “My mother and I came here apolis Red Cross Chapter. said Alabama St., and he should know. when 1 was 7, with a neighbor. today a «conimittee studied the He has traveled from Indian- possibility of a combined fund
in almost includHe has horseback, auto, bus,
apolis to Decatur, Ill, every type of conveyance, ing a covered wagon. made the journey on by horse and buggy, train and plane, On his first trip to Indianapolis in 1872, he traveled by wagon, Time required. two weeks, l.ast week-end he made his first trip by plane to Decatur in an hour and 20 minutes. “You just can't beat flying, it's wonderful,” says the travel authority, One of the highlights of his trip by air was a few minutes in the dockpit. On his first trip to Indianapolis,
I'm 79 years old. I have nothing to live for. Let me die.’ Some of the tenants leaped from windows and fled down fire escapes in a mad seramble to flee. Others never knew what hit them and never had a chance to escape.
‘Seemed to Come Apart’
“The whole ‘building seemed to come apart,’ said John F: Thomas. 24, who leaped from the third floor to get out of the buildIng “For a minute T didn't know what to do. My wife opened the door and flames shot in. She shut
bletely by surprise—~dashed from it again, The fire escapes were their apartments to escape the blocked, 1 finally opened a winflames and crumbling wood. dow. : » A young "mother who was “By then the lames were comcaught in her flaming third-flonr| "8 into our apartment. 1 leaped apartment tossed S-months-old '? the ground, about 25 feet down baby into the outstretched arms On the hill behind the apartment
of her husband below: Ted Bell radio station the first to arrive at the said he saw an elderly victim be ing led to an ambulance “He muttered over and
standing 25 feet news director for KRSC and one of scene
over
Julia threw 1..caught our:
me and Jumped
the baby at him.- Then she I'he of 8ix, three Air Force men and three Boeing engineers, and five residents of the apartment house were known | dead
plane's crew
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Annexation Plan
Forth Objections
Expected strong opposition to | Indianapolis’ 10-year annexation | plan adopted yesterday by the | Plan Commission failed to appear ‘today. | County residents, expected. to form the biggest bloc of opposi-
| tion, either were silent or expressed approval. Ted Schillenberg of the commisgion, who prepared the plan, said today he had received a number of - calls praising the proposals and several who objected that
|areas where they lived were not included. 3roups ardinarily active in battling any move toward adding county property to city tax rolls have failed to comment as yet on the program which calls for annexation of 18 square mjles to Indianapolis within the next 10 years,
Red Cross Explains New Fund Rules
An announcement by the Red Cross National Headquarters today which changed rules governing local Red Cross chapters ticipating in federated community fund raising drives will have lit-
into an apart-
y : 1 WW, We were going on to Ohio to ‘see raising project here last vear and
my mother’s people.
over in bor's fa the rel house
that evening.
We stopped were unable to make any positive this recommehdation. course, all He pointed out : . , new Red Cross rule they may gathered at the participate in federated drives in the husiness and industry
the home of mily,
neigh-
that under the
and, of atives One of the only
youngsters was the girl I -eventu- divisions Under any circumally married.” stances the Red Cross would be Rack in the davs when Wil- required to conduct their own liam Henry Harrison was stump- house-to-house canvas for funds. ing ag. a presidential candidate, Any such combined effort in Mr. Cooper made another trip to the business and industry field He came on an Would also have to have Red
Indianapolis.
excursio
dianapolis to hear Mr,
speak.
train was 75 cents, Moved Here in Mr. C
of India
living in Indianapolis since 19086. 23 consecutive
For had ret
his mother on her
10. She
Since then he has been returning!at 687
Cross included in the name of
the drive,
n from Decatur to InHarrison The round trip ticket by
Loses Jewels \ Vellved At $900 in Trash
ooper became a resident Mrs. W. C. Freund put a diana in 1895 and has been mond watch and bracelet valued at $900 into the trash collection years he this week.
1906
irned to Decatur to visit J.,ast week she laid her diamond birthday, Sept.iwatch and bracelet on some pawas 94 when she died. pers#in the kitchen of her home
West Dr., Woodruff Place.
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‘World Report—
U. S. Looks for Russ to Stir
By United Press 1’. 8. authorities predicted that Russia's “decision to attend the Japanese peace treaty conference will stir up a row almost certain to increase friction in the troubled Far East. Diplomatic © sources said the Kremlin was sure ta try to split the United States and Asiatic nations on the peace pact, and probably would convince some Asiatics that the United States is trying to impose .a ‘‘white man's” peace, Officials were certain, however, that the treaty itself would not be changed much in spite of the Soviet maneuvering. i
n o o
a PRIME MINISTER SHIGERI YOSHIDA of Japan summoned his cabinet into an urgent session to discuss Russia's decision to join the Japanese peace treaty conference at San Francisco. Earlier, he saw Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway at the occupation commander’'s Tokyo headquarters.
The first A-bomb landed on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing 78,000 persons. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killing nearly 74,000. U. S. troops landed on Japan's home islands on Aug. 27. One reason for the great shortage of grain in-India, according te U. S, agricultural experts, is that monkeys destroy a lot of it. , Since some ‘Indians consider monkeys sacred, American technicians have found it a touchy problem. > Some Indian villages have appointed monkey get paid for their work. But what do the catchers do with their monkeys? “They take them over and turn them loose at another village.” sald Horace Holmes, agriculture expert. ” ” y GOV. "THOMAS KE. DEWEY of New York will extend his Pacific tour to inspect Alaskan defenses. He js due back in New York Aug.
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5 n n TRAN studied a new Rritish blueprint for settling their oil dispute but gave no inkling whether it was acceptable. Details will not be disclésed until the next session, the date for which has not been set, » ~ = TWO THOUSAND French Moroccan troops sailed from Oran, Algeria, for Indochina te join in
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Fails to Bring ¢ Trouble at Treat Parley
'he had "no information on reports Britain is preparing to conduct] an atomic bomb test in Australia. 6 » n ~ " FIFTEEN French soldiers held as prisoners of war in Russia for seven years, were processed today
for a return to their homeland, They asked that their names be withheld. ~ » n ! THE Mexican. supreme court
was expected to hand down a de which. may determine whether President Miguel Aleman nay serve another term despite a constitutional restriction limiting tenure of office,
Draft Board in s This Man y - e’s in Korea DRAFT Roard 49 may eall James Ellis Belcher a draft dodger, but if they really want him thev'll have to go to Korea. Induction or ders for James arrived at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Al bert Westbrook, 2369 Tibbs Ave. last week, The orders were dated Wednesday. Now, M Ts Westhrook is de bating whether to forward the orders to James who is serving as a private first class with thé 626th ‘Military Po lice Company in Korea. or the board continue to wonder,
Pfe. Belcher
just let
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JAMES enlisted in the Army
July 18, 1950, He was wounded in the right leg by mortar fire near feoul on Feh. 12, 1951, and spent
three Osaka Korea
months in a hospital in Japan. He's heen back in since May, James, Technical
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