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Defense Production Cut By Strikes

THURSDAY, SEPT. a, 1951.

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Meat Probe Here Bure Geely fe. of Week

{rd SB Unies Prem | "The cratkdown on black market ! Strikes of more than 70,000 workers in aircraft, atomic eer operations, which uncovered

energy, manufacturing and transportation today cut into at i2ast one price regulation vio-

4 <hation here, will continue throughthe nation’s defense and domestic production. oor OM of Price Sta:

Management, labor and government officials, meanwhile, pilization spokesmen here an-| worked to head off additional ‘nounced today.’ strikes which could Idle more hold elections at the Alabama The OPS in Chicago reported than double this number, {Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. that 128 agents in a three-state Nearly 160,000 auto workers—| The strikers sought a 25-cent/area including Indiana swooped

oday «Business

Seek

Of War Orders’

HERE'S THE YELP on is dropping invthe laps of the

And the guy in the middle is still where he always

was, in the middle.

70.000 at Chrysler, 21,000 at hourly wage increase. {down on 62 meat packing and v0 40,000 a Ford, 14,000 at! Two Cars Overturned ° processing plants, uncovering 14 Studebaker, 8000 at Hudson and| Two strikers who took part in violations. 4000 at Packard—faced brief lay-'a 100-man brawl at the. Beyer! Here, one meat packer was) offs to keep the motor industry and Welch Engine Rebuilding C ,{found selling commercial grade] within government quotas and be-| Vernon, Cal. faced tion] Ibeef as good grade, the Chicago cause of materials shortages and Two cars were overturned and the OPS disclosed. Three other Indiplanned inventories. factory was stoned in the fight. janapalis meat packing firms were The largest strike in the nation| An appeal for financial aid was inspected yesterday y the eight-week-old walkout{made by 3000 striking AFL ma- Other Cities Included of men at the Caterpillarichinists and aluminum workers The OPS in Washington said Trac Peoria, IIL at the Aluminum ads Manu-ithe check also included South The strikers, members of the facturing Co. plant ffaniiowos, Bene Terre Haute, Evansville, C10 United Auto Workers Union, | Wis. Committees were set up to Golumptis, Mishawaka and FL 19-cent hourly ‘wage in- solicit funds to support the fam-/Bran spent, ® The countered ilies of the ohedbon 1 Actually, the drive here is a with an offer for 10 cents. Fed-| The walkout is in its 12th week. recheck, the OPS reported. Other ‘eral mediators that ne-|It was called July 9 to back up/OPS employees are pitching in gotiations failed to -budgeé either demands for a wage increase, with regular enforcement officers side. union security and other contract’ to speed the investigation. . Jet Production Cut:

a changes. Find 96 Violations i } ji At Columbus, O. federal medi-; Across the nation, the surprise gon nd worid's most ators omni that eral med | survey hit more than 500 siaughWw engine, 8 in at least cities Sapphire 3.65, was halted. at the stalemate was at last broken,” terhouse huge Wright Aerons transit strike scheduled for mid-| violations in 23 cities.

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Bakery Drivers Strike ‘with 30 violations and Detro it] ‘Bakery a drivers in Detroit|% Washington announced. {remained ‘on’ strike against nine

halbaeries. 5 wage oe Wage Sstiiement vas Two Promoted

op , me ne walkout Se By Link-Belt

|p | vacations issue. i ie Dc ea tand C8 5 pot Co., suspended all but defense prog/duction in its Amsterdam, N. Y,, plant because of a series of unauthorized es by members |of the CIO Textile Workers Union. ¢! An estimated 2800 were idled. “| A violence-ridden strike of -iminers at Silver City, N. M., against the Empire Zinc Co. went

their

The big plants got the orders because they could handle them. | They were big enough. And they peddled their work out to the little fellows who were small enough to move fast on feet. quickly, set up new machinery, land get going ina Busey, ” 80 IT'S THE GREAT middle class of industry which has its

{back to the wailing wall. | National Industrial Con-|

The ference Board found that small business had cornered 22.4 per cent of all recorded government, contracts. They did even better with straight military contracts. {They had 28 per cent. Of 683 Air Farce prime contracts, adding up to some $5 bil-

‘Corp.'s DTiNgIng hope that a city-wide The first day's work disclosed 96 Jion, about 75 per cent of the sub-

contracts went to industrial small

“St. Paul, Minn, was reported . ‘smpioying 100 or fewer.

= » ” ON THE BIG END, Motors has the giant chunk, 14.7

fast. GM has a mouthful, and

the beans to Ford. The company which showed the biggest step-up in war business was International Harvester which was 33d in percentage in World War II, is, now 11th. And Boeing Went from 12th to 3d. ” MY FRIEND Mack MaGinnis | passed these figures along. And it made me think of the sick

dis-| The strikers were members of {the International Mine, Mill and

> Vv Mr. Whinrey Mr. Becherer Smelter Workers Union. Their

The promotion of Robert C. rer to executive vice-presi-dent of Tank Belt Co., with headChicago, was anced et by the board. Since 1947 he has been general manager of the company's Ewart plant in Indianapolis. He joined Link-Belt in 1923, just out of Purdue as a chemical engineer. dis- He will be succeeded at the T Ewart t plant by Righad E. win, of Sana we Workers rey, 0 was assistant gene! (CIO) gaid manager. Mr. Whinrey, a Pur. due mechanical engineer, has been with the company since 1925.

Local Stocks and Bonds

{dence in New York that a new he Asad would be signed Beton brass workers in Connecticut

were in session. No strike date was set. pending the outcome of the discussions

mationat| Hog Prices Here "Show a Drop

Barrows and gilts dropped 15 cents over yesterday's averagh In trading at the Indianapolis kyards today. Trading was moderately active with choice I a0 pound hogs 8. Pe . . ringing at Sows, steers jmbery_of, of the AFL Bugariand heifers were about steady > respected the early. Ur s picket cet lines, éstablished were moderately active

Sheep % ip repair work at Mobile, ER

was curtailed by the 2- 4 ~0ld walkout of 2000 work- : members of eight AFL gins, who petitioned the NaLabor Relations Board to

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After Spending Spree Two 13-year-old boys were in r,i Juvenile Air custody today after a spending spree on what police com-| described as stolen money. The Oaklandon lads were found PHiin the bus station here last night, pockets jammed with yo- ; pi . zach yos, candy, gum, cap pistols and Local Truck Grain Prices comic books. They had $19.13 left of $55 police sald the stole] Truck wo J Tuesday night from a grain ele- | vator office in Oakiandon,

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people. They're in the same boat. The very rich get taken care of because they're rich. And the very poor get good care because they get it free. But the middle class earner is stuck. He's neither rich nor poor. He sweats. % Sat.

AND THAT'S WHAT some of the war-sick middle class industries are doing, sweating it out, hoping the government will toss a few bucks their way. . They're sticking like glue to

General |

Reshuffle

Harold H. Hartléy

war orders. Defense money. very big and very small,

mate of Estes Kefauver at the’ University of Tenntsage,

AND ON ‘ThE WAY he told how Sen. Kefauver came to be ©

They could shiet| called “Old Ironsides.” .

Mr. Stokely was a junior when Mr. - Kefauver was a freshman. {And their living quarters were| {heated with fireplaces. So it was! the freshman’s job to start the! | fires. i

BUT THE SENATOR-TO-BE was a good sleeper. He bundled up in the covers, and burrowed in. 80 they got a stick to poke him in the ribs. That worked for Then his ribs got tough enough | {so he could take the stick. He! {didn’t budge, no matter how hard the jabs. And that's. where he got the name, “Old Ironsides.”

Five Night Stand JA NICE NOTE from Gus Raymond who with some 5400 helpers

per cent with Ford holding 4.2 make all of the telephones for per cent. This gap is leveling off the Bell System. smoothrunning Western her crib when she would not stop

The

now, I think, they'll pass more of Electric plant, one of the finest

in the world, is going to “have the folks in.” That will be the

families of workers. r " ~

FOR FIVE NIGHTS, Oct, 8-12 he is going to show the families just what their bread-earner does to get a weekly pay check. The plant won’t be lying flat on its back. It will be perking right along to show where telephones come from. If you live on Western Electric dough, you ought to go. There'll be eats, too, free. 3

This Kid Laughed

ARE E DAYS when your world tu upside down? If you think you've got it tough, listen: At the airport yesterday there was a little German boy, 5, a displaced person. He was alone, spoke only German. He was on his way to Chil

ctvilian lines, fighting it out

terials. ory that, 1 think, is a losing!

Color Cracks Shell

COLOR TV WILL get a try-

"lout today. It wil be quite limited.

Almost no one will see it.

os |And that's meant as no offense «ito tHe 50 or more who will be :'' invited to the official housewarm{ing of WFBM’s new building at

+1330 N. Meridian. WEHFBM is actually putting color “pv on the air for two short per-

*liods a day, 9:30 to 10 a. m,, and

13:30 to 4 p. m. x»

2] AND I CAN hear the howl now “trom 130,000 TV set owners who “will get nothing but sound, no| ! ipleture, during the test.

If the color test hecomes per-

.imanent, and T don’t see why it

should, it means that the tele+lvision owners in the center of the

state will be deprived of a full hour’s use of thelr sets each day.

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And thrifty Hoosiers aren't going to pitch out about $3.5 million worth of TV sets, then buy

“them all over again, just to get

color. Color TV may be a flop In Indiana for years to come unless

H the programs can be aired “two

ways, black and white and color,

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body sees. My private guess is that the

s.' [station 18 making the test purely +...|as enterprise, to show both the *** public and the FCC that it's lead«ling the way ou out here whefe the +... corn grows tall 4:3] Bute wouldn't bet a nickel that +++: /the path leads anywhere. Just i inow it's a detour, not ..|highway.

ws ‘Old Ironsides’

not the main

YESTERDAY SOME 500 members of the Executives Club got

i crossed up by the weather man.

They went to lunch where Sen. soupy weather shooed his plane

troit,

through the graciougness of Bill

Has ‘no color, sets. And from what I hear people: or iare pretty... well... satisfied... with what they have.

AND WFBM MAY want to sell time instead of

Kefauver was to appear. But

out of Dayton to Ft. Wayne, then to Toledo, Then he hopped 91] De-

I was on the’ waiting committee. And rode out to the airport

Stokely who had been a room- 3

where he was to be adopted. I

with the war industries for ma-|don’t think he had ever seen his

inew “parents”, and surely- not {their land.

. » » AND HE DIDN'T know their ‘ language, or what they ate, or how they dressed. Was he crying and afraid? Not at all. He was laughing and trying to jabber and play with the passengers in the station. And they were playing right back. To him it was a lark. = = . - HOW MANY OF US could do the same, not ata, but at 25, or 457 Next time you get a bad break, think of that little German kid. He had a jolt which knocked him half way around the world. And he was still laughing, Could you?

Man Who Beat Daughter, 2; Gets | b Months, {500 Fine §

Indianapolis father who We he brutally slapped and | belt-whipped his 214 - year - old daughter has been sentenced to six months in jail and fined $500 and costs. “I'm only sorry I can't give! you ‘a more severe .penalty,” Juvenile Court Judge Pro Tem Mary Miller Dale told the 23-year-old man yesterday. | Paul Madison, 3221 E. Michi-| gan St, admitted guilt to a charge of child cruelty filed by his wife, Pauline. His wife, expecting her third

child next year, said Madison ap-| enraged and| 3 whipped the girl when his wife! | called for the girl, Dolly, and their, .

parently became

ison to return to their trailer home Tuesday evening. Madison told Mrs. children had misbehaved while

the family was in a restaurant

earlier in the evening. Previous Arrests

Madison has a record of five| |

arrests since 1946 on charges

\varying from drunk and disor-|?

Dale the

awhile. [derly conduct to child neglect |

and drunken driving. He told Mrs. Dale yesterday he was on probation from Muinicipal charge. Earlier this year he was

Court 3 on a traffic

{fined $30 and costs and lost his

a charge of drunken driving. ° Madison's wife, Pauline, said her husband had broken his daughter's leg nearly two years ago -when he snatched her from!

crying. Drop Mental Exam Original plans of hie {Court officers called for Madison to be ordered to General Hospital| |for a mental examination. Judge Dale said that plan was dropped when Madison said he had undergone a mental examination last year. Mrs. Dale said! the report of that test did not! warrant committing ‘ Madison to a mental institution. / Madison declared in court that the mental test consisted of a week in Marion County Jail, where he was seen by a doctor once for a short period.

Station Operator Routs Thieves With Gunfire

A Cumberland filling. station operator thased two thieves with his revolver early today, possibly wounding one. Harold Redmyer, 57, told deputy sheriffs the men escaped with $40 to $50 from the soft-drink and cigaret machines, a $40 watch, a spotlight and one new tire. Mr. Redmyer, who lives next to! the station, said he was awakened, at 1:30 a. m. by an alarm set off’ when the thieves pried open a station window. He ran outside and fired four shots. One the! men screamed as if hit, he" said.! Then both ran west, :

Boy, 9, Struck by Car, Killed Near Spencerville

A 9-year-old boy was killed near! Spencerville in DeKalb County yesterday. The child, Michael Spencerville, stepped path of a car driven by Donald

Kummer,

E. Lohse, 19, Auburn.

into the;

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SEEKING A REST—Movie

Actress Barbara Payton folks fo

| reporters on her arrival af a Minneapolis airport en route to visit

| relatives in Cloquet, Minn. With | who appears a little bored.

her is her 4.year-old son, Denny,

"Nurses Told to File Memes With State Civil Defense

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Fall Creek Parkway Guard Rail Planned

A guard rail along South Fall {Creek Parkway from Delaware to Meridian Sts. will be installed

'within two weeks, the Park De-|

‘partment announced today. The safety measure was de‘signed by Darrell Walton, Park {Department engineer, to protect {the drive as a result of Increased traffic caused. by the Pennsyl-| |vania-Delaware Sts. one-way system. Indianapolis Railways, Inc., will provide 200 feet of street car rail ito be used for posts.

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100 Atterbury Patients _ {To See Grid Games

Nearly 100 patients of Camp /Atterbury’s U. 8. Army hospital will attend two of Indiana's top collegiate football games ths weekend, Twenty-seven Korean casual ties, many of them in wheel chairs and on crutches, will travel to South Bend in an Army bus to watch the Indiana-Notre Dame game. Two other Army busses will take 60 hospital patients to Lafayetté where the soldiers will watch the Purdue-Texas clash,

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