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Rail Firemen Stalin's Ace Call Walkout For Thursday

By United Press

LONDON, Nov. 6—Marshal

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—The Brotherhood of Loco- Lavrenti Beria, all-powerful motive, Firemen and Enginemen today called a strike for chief of the Soviet security

3 p. m. railroads.

A union spokesman said walkouts were ordered on the

Chicago & Northwestern,

Louisville & Nashville, and the Terminal Railroad Associa-

tion of St. Louis.

With the Army in control of the roads and railroad] workers technically in the employment of the government, | the government was virtually certain to seek an injunction

to halt the walkout.

In calling the strike, Firemen Chief D. B. Robertson!

said the “strike action is the only course left open to obtain long overdue increases in wages and improved working conditions

He said the strike may” spread to other railroads across the country. Some 75.000 firemen would be involved nationwide strike Mr. Robertson said the dispute with the railroad which began two years ago “hopelessly deadlocked.” He said seizure of the railroads, which were taked over by the

Army to prevent a threatened strike In- August, 1950, has had the effect of ‘sheltering the railroads and handicapping the employees.”

Want Wage Boost The firemen are asking a 34cent an hour increase for vardmen, a 195 -cent an hour increase for road men, and a 40-hour week for vardmen. While the carriers have agreed to this wage increase, they have also demanded a change in four working rules which the firemen have refused to “accept. Mr. Robertson said that the trainmen were willing to arbitrate contrdversy but the railroads refused and the government apparently is unable to perpt this reason-

the “entire

able means of adjusting the dispute.” The carriers, in/ turn, have offered to arbitrate the working

rules but not the wage increase. Will Move Troops Two other: railroad brother hoods—the Conductors and Engineers—are also involved in a wage dispute with the carriers but have not threatened strike action at this time. The fourth operating brotherhood, the Trainmen, settled with the carriers early this year after staging a wildcat walkout for which they were fined $101,000. In strike instructions going out to his men, Mr. Robertson told them they were to handle and transport war materials, troop trains, hospital trains, and milk trains but not to move mail trains

2 Teen-Agers' Deaths In Car Ruled Accident

PAOLIL. Nov. 6 Dr. Ivan R. Clark today a verdict of ac two teen-agers their parked automobile Donald Raymond Lampkin, 17 Paoli, and Bonnie Hendrix,

UP) Coroner returned idental death for dead in

found

Marengo, were found dead in their car yesterday. Dr. Clark said

they apparently. parked with the motor and heater running and were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes,

On the Inside

The Chinese Reds captured a hill

(Local Standard Time) Thursday on four major system, said tonight that the

Red army “stands ready to strike, a deadly blow at any aggressor.” Beria, head of the ‘Soviet In-

the Baltimore & Ohio, the terior Ministry and of the MVD (secret police),

made the main speech at a cere- @® monial meeting in the Bolshoi t Theater in Moscow celebrating the 34th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. He repeated Marshal Stalin's

Pi h { Fi { . warning that “a Socialist country ’ in the conditions of capitalist enon | BIQ cciement must be ready to defend itself.’

“The Saviet army, armed with high morale and fighting spirit,

Marshal Beria

The rail strike. due Thursday, will touch only a few here at the start. But in a coupie of days it will have most of the big lines tied in Knots, and, freight and express The audience of Politburo memwill be as tangled as a cat with bers, generals and marshals of the a ball of yarn armed forces and leaders of the The Brotherhood of Firemen and Communist - Party cheered the Enginemen cut transportation at statement with such tremendous

a vital point, St. Louis. The big 2Pplause that East-West traffic of 20 lines are handled by the Terminal Railroad Association there. It's on the

blow at said

any aggressor,”

before His voice could be heard.

strike lst had peace as its goal. He pointed : Cog to Stalin’s words that the Soviet Thin Backing policy of great economic works

Then the backup of freight will Was come. And the layoffs of lin ly not directly affected. If freight and Britain began rearming can’t move, and passenger lines right after the last war.

are strike-stymied, call boards for NOW.” he said, “we see the re-| other lines will be quiet. armament of Germany and Japan

Of the four struck roads, in- !§ 80ing on and, strange to say, cluding the St. Louis Terminal, France, whose people have expethree do business here, and the rienced the horrors of war, is takB. & O. has a single track line IN& part in these preparations.” from Hamilton, O., to Springfield, Re SS Ill.

" The Chicago & Northwestern ' {in rail lingo, the C&NW)

comes only as close as Chicago

and Peoria, Ill, and the Louis- . ville & Nashville comes no closer than Cincinnati and Louis-’ d S Ul S ville. But they all book freight - out of Indianapolis.

BRO Hun was snowed. under by federal The Immediate effect Will be {avas here today.

on the B&O's grain-to-the-east . . and coal-to-the-west shipments Operators of the Printers

The blockade at St. Louis will pool sent out the word last night! tie up the NYC and the Pennsyl- that no more bets will be taken vania freight at the Mississippi —at least for a while.River. Gamblers said that with the, Both the NYC and the Penn- printers folding, there was little! sylvania can do a fair business chance others could keep going. into St. Louis if they follow past They pointed out that printers patterns. The trains are backed thrived while others wilted into the station, and headed out through local crackdowns. Only with no turn-around. those affiliated with church or ‘ ———— pt fraternal groups, which are exRunaway Pappy Given empt from the new federal taxes! Six Month S t seemed confident of continuing. - entence A pool operated by one trade A "minaway pappy’ was sen- group was reported allving itself tenced to six months on the In: to a fraternal group in an attempt diana State Farm yesterday for to beat the bite. contempt of court growing out of The new 10 per cent tax and £50 his failure to support two of his gambling stamp Have already children killed most big bookies, two major _ Court records revealed John W. pools and several numbers operColeman, 29, of Mooresville, Was ations here. Police threaten $3351 in arrears in court-ordered tougher crackdowns on the basis support payments. they get The children are by his previous , wife. Coleman's present wife has complained he has failed to support their three children and has filed suit for divorce. Coleman has been sentenced to jail twice before but was released

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BLOOMINGTON, Nov. 6 —Clyde B. Smith, Indiana

of information stamp purchases The U. 8. revenue office here reported no gambler has yet bought a stamp.

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Mrs. Sylvester Bayt (a sister-in-la

Declares Russ Ready for War

stands ready to strike a deadly] Beria;

Beria tried three| times in vain to resume his speech!

Beria said Soviet foreign policy|

incompatible with rearma-| § es ment, but said the United States

inated coffee and doughnuts to

{according to {Democratic vice chairman,

Report ‘Normal’ Voting

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POLLING PLACE ON WHEELS—Voters of 16th Precinct, 18

moving van. Larry Baker, 6243 Commodore Drive, is one of them. The van's at 21st St, and Arlington is 1.3 inches.

Ave. Poll Inspector Sanford Mattern is at left. Gamblers Say t's 2 to 1—

Weather Makes Clark

Another gambling tery DIG Favorite to Win

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ to an observer who toured the East Side, West Side, all around City: : the town, Republican Alex Clark: In all sections of the city, was a heavy favorite to win to- there were a number of carsj day's mayoralty election over and trucks covered with posters Democrat Phillip Bayt. urging voters to elect Judge! Republican politicians feel that Clark. Outside most voting if posters, workers, cars, trucks places, there were two or more and a hard-werking organization Clark supporters. In many places, can win an election, Judge Clark especially on the North and East is as good as elected right now. gijjes, Mayor Bayt had no workBut Democrats hope that Mayorigrs out. Bayt can “pull a Truman” upset’ pagy Irvington, normally & the straw votes and the polls. 'penyplican stronghold, was reGamblers Shift Odds ported voting normal. In the Tth

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Both Parties Are Confident

Other Stories on Pages 2 and 15, Photo on Page 24

By NOBLE REED Despite snow, sleet and slush a *normal” volume of balloting was reported at polling places on the North,

East and West Sides in the city election here today. Voting in many South Side

{precincts were reported “average”,

or slightly lower during the first five hours after the polls opened at 6 a. m. Election officials predicted if

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More Weather Marks Set Here and It's Going to Get Colder

By TED KNAP Records fell like snowflakes in Indianapolis today as winter's advance guard started to dump 3 to 6 inches of new snow on top of last night's fall of 3 inches. Big, swirling flakes cushioned central Indiana, slowing traffic and sending pedestrians after their overshoes. For change of pace, the skies tossed in sleet and rain, some, of which froze. Snow which started at 10 o'clock last night piled up to 3 inches before turning to sleet and freezing rain at dawn. Snow swirled thick again as workers jammed toward 8 o'clock jobs, then gave way again to rain. The weatherman said that would be the pattern for the rest of the day. Although the mercury stayed “near freezing, most streets were kept from icing] poCAL TEMPERATURES by heavy traffic. Accidents) 6a. m..28 9a m..31

Tam... 2 10 a. m... 31 were scattered, and only two aM Hom. wu persons were injured.

‘Most Unusual Snow’ Latest humidity ....... 93%. The weatherman said today’s

snow was ‘most unusual” For

example: | ONE—This was to be the heav-| Nov. 6 in

iest snowfall on any Indiana history. Previous peak

” for the day was 4.4 inches in 18886. } 0 S TWO—In the past 24 hours, -

more snow fell than the average!

‘mited Press total snow for November, which By Ui

| ST. LOUIS, Nov. 6—A raging THREE— Today may break the SHOWSLONE Swest Jorincasiw a all-time record for any November paralyzing blanket of Snow over day—8.6 inches on Nov. 16. 1932. a wide section of the Midwest The snow was heaviest in the and smothered St, Louis under a central two-thirds of Indiana. Yecord fall . Farther south, it was mostly rain, "ppye transportation was disand northern Indiana didn’t get rupted. Many schools and facits white coat until morning. tories were forced to close In a State highway crews chugged pet from Kansas and Oklshoma out with snow plows and SCTapers into Illinois and Indiana. as well as sanding trucks. 1! St. Louis was buried under 11 roads were passable, officials sald. \jnehes of smow, the deepest for but travel was very slow. |Nov. 6 on record. It was still | The weatherman didn't get 2 snowing late in the morning. single vote from Hoosiers going, Storm deaths since last Friday to the polls this morning. Trudg- stood today at 201, including 155 ing through 3 inches of SNOW dead in weather-caused traffie acalready on the ground, they ran cidents, 19 in fires started: by into sleet, rain and more snow. overheated stoves and furnaces. The early onslaught of winter The remainder came from exsent city and county road work-iposure, freezing and miscellaneers scurrying for the sand trucks. ous mishaps.

Round Up Workers ~ Thousands Late Caught on a day off for the| The storm was heading directly

election, city street workers were | toward the Great Lakes area. The rounded up by radio. telephone weather bureau warned that Chi-

The city’s gambling fraternity precinct of the 25th ward, more weather conditions improve later and police. ‘Many of them were Cago might get 8 inches of snow.

yesterday installed Judge Clark than 150 voters went to the polls {,45y before the polls close at 6 pulled out of election polls where! _ they had volunteered to work.

as a 7 to 5 favorite. But this by 11 a.m. A morning, as snow, sleet and rain GOP - worker 1. Earl blanketed the city, the gamblers house, who was hauling voters to boosted the odds up to 2 to 1. the polls, said he expected a total They feel the bad weather will vote of 300. : work to the advantage of Judge WEST Regarded as heavy Clark as he is supposed to have Democratic territory, it is voting a better working organization!"normal”™ In the 6th Precinct of than Mayor Bayt. ~. ithe 19th Ward, about 170 voters The voting ranged from light, went to the polls by 11 a. m. out in many Democratic strongholds of a total registration of 858. Mrs. to heavy in many Republican dis- Opal Kramer, Democratic worker, tricts. said she expected a big turnout to-

However. Republican’ precinct night after Allison's and other Brown, Election Board president, prepared.

workers on the North Side openly plants close. said they had no way to telling] NORTH-—This Republican terwhether or not thé usual Repub-'ritory has been voting heavy in lican voters were voting the GOP poet spots and normal in others. ticket. 3 Husbands seemed to be bringing One North Side precinct cOm- their wives to the polls. Around mitteeman, Walter Bridgins, sald gytler University, voters came he expected to do “some hustling! ut earlv and heavy. this afternoon™ to get out a big- SOUTH Like the West Side, get vols. , ; Democratic workers are expectOn the. West Sige. a bakery do- ing a big Democratic vote after,

: the local industries shut .down election workers and voters in .. . the dav. A few South Side

the Tth precinct of the 19th Ward, ,recinets, notably GOP worker Miss Dee Coats. pq ,McNulty's neighborhood, is expected to go Republican by a

Here's how the election looked few votes,

HIZZONER VOTES—Mayor and Mrs. Bayt c heck in with challengers Mrs. John Bercik (left) and

w) before voting. »

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A 69-year-old poll worker dropped dead just outside the polling place at 3404 E. New York St. about 6 a. m. today. He was Sol Puckett, 224 N. Gray St., worker for 25th Ward, 9th Precinct. : p. m. the total vote would reach between, 125.000 and 130.000. However, County Clerk H. Dale

said if bad weather continues all day the total may go below 125.000 compared te 132.000 in the 1947 city election here.

Claim Clark Leaders

Republican elect fon officials said their check of ‘some voting machines that had to be opened for mechanical trouble, indicated Judge Alex Clark. GOP nominee for Mayor, was leading in ‘the

early voting by “substantial margins.” Mr. Brown, a Republican leader,

said * Irvington precincts were

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Thousands of St. Louis residents were late to work today as City Street Commissioner Tony Streetcars and busses ran hours

Maio combined work with poli- | behind. tics. He directed sanding crews Schools were closed. Trains ran

from telephones at County Demo-/UP to three hours late and aircratie ras, y lines canceled all flights west, Both city and county street! oc. tinued on Page 5—Col. § crews were caught unawares even ee ero tv——————

though yesterday a heavy snow Bunker Hill Station

was forecast. They had only : few trucks out by 8 a. m. To Change Tenants Bunker Hill Naval Air Station,

Transit officials were better Crews were out In site of an ill-fated aviation school trucks at 1 a. m. and which never had any pupils, will enough sand to keep be leased by the Navy to a new busses within five minutes of tenant. schedule. They started around! The Navy announced bids will again at 7 a. m. be taken Dec, 3 at Great Lakes By morning, Terre Haute had/Naval Training Center. The 6 inches of snow, and Blooming-|ledse, based on $1 per yeéar rental, ton, Crawfordsville and Martins- Will be awarded to the “most ville tied Indianapolis with 3 favorable” offer, inches. The tenant must agree to exState police said they were av- pend all but a certain per cent eraging 250 telephone inguiries an of the income from the station hour about road conditions. on maintaining facilities there. Travel was slow in most of the; The 2158-acre station and the

seven dumped

state as the storm hit Indiana'school were investigated early from. the southwest, traveling this year by a Congressional comnortheast. mittee.

FIGHTING THE CHILL—While the Mayor votes: inside, party workers do their best to keep

warm outside the 10th Precinct,

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19th Ward, polling place, 2832