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62d YEAR—NUMBER 272

Lays Break | In Fighting on Misread Order

Situation in Brief iful EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS — Gen. James A. ecorafions Van Fleet, commanding United Nations ground vith : : : hs. senl. forces, said he had issued some new combat instructions based on the fixing of a tentative cease-fire rder NOW line by truce negotiations at Panmunjom. The

instructions, passed down by word of “mouth to the front lines, were distorted. Gen. Van Fleet apparently told his troops not to be too tough. As the men in the firing line received the word, it was not to fire at all unless the Reds fired first. Gen. Van Fleet has now issued a clarification of his | order. The essence of it still seems to be: Don't stick your neck out. ON°THE FRONT--The artillery received orders to do some firing. It did. The infantry contented itself with non-aggresive patrolling. The Reds made some slight attacks on the eastern front. PANMUNJOM—The truce negotiators continued their | work. The Communists backed down slightly on their demand that foreign troops be withdrawn from Korea immediately after the conclusion of an armistice. They suggested instead an agreement for gradual withdrawal. ar WASHINGTON —Officials said that the United Nations and the Reds might work out an informal, if not formal plan for gradual reduction of foreign forces.

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By United Press TOKYO, Friday, Nov. 30—United Nations ground troops on the Korean front were told yesterday that the war is still on. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commanding

forces, announced that instruc-| tions which he issued were misin-

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order. lto the front. Clanifyiog Instructions mow instructions were based have been sent out, be said.| he fine of a tentative ceases Though he would not say so, they| on the ngo a ae seemed to be that while the war|fire line, which would becom is on officially, the Allied ground| permanent if an armistice is forces will fight only when the agreed upon by Dec. 27. Communists attack. Seems No Doubt After an informal cease-fire, By the time the instructions there was some artillery fire on reached the front, they had bethe western front. The Allies re- come a cease-fire order, insofar

pulsed two light Communist at- as ground fighting was con4 tacks on the eastern front. cerned. Continue as Usual “Action is being taken to clariMore than 300 Russian-madefy these instructions for those MIG-15 jet fighters, the biggest officers and enlisted men who

display of Red air might since! misinterpreted the directive.” Gen the war started, were seen Over yan Fleet said. northwest Korea, There seemed no doubt that One MIG and three Americal yp, original instructions were for F-86 Sabrejets were damaged Inthe ground troops to ease up, to vo dogfights In which the United | oo rt nothing and to fire only if States planes were outnumbered .. upon. There was some inDearly eight to ope. An F-51 dication that the resumed Allied Mustang, hit by ground fire, artillery fire was due actually to

crashed in flames. oA : ia misinterpretation of the ‘‘clarTruce negotiators continued tying” instructions.

Uni WOR BL Parmuvem. The The latest 8th Army commua demand that foreign troops nique reported the two Commuleave Korea as soon as an armi- nist attacks on the eastern front stice has been concluded. They But aside from that it reported suggested gradual withdrawal. from all fronts, western central What happened at the: front!and eastern: “No significant acwas that Gen., Van Fleet's in-| tivity was reported ... as United structions to troops were Nations forces maintained posipassed by word of mouth, in-'tions and patrolled.”

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Truman Gets Chance To Tell About Foul Up

By -MERRIMAN SMITH {American public—that he has sent United Press White House Reporter ino orders to the Far East on KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. 28—in,y and when to stop the fightPresident Truman will have anno He also wanted it emphasized opportunity today to give his ver-iypa¢ “there can be.no cease-fire sion of the extent to which ground i, Korea until an armistice agreewarfare has subsided in Korea. ment has been signed.” Mr. Truman will meet with re-| po. heard last night from the porters at 3 p. m., Indianapolis pnerense Department about a time. He was certain to face briskigtatement from the headquarters questioning about the latest Ko-{of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway that

rean situation. : Ineither . the Far Eastern comMeantime, the President wanted ;nand or the 8th Army had

one thing made clear to the ,.jered a cease fire.

Eyeing reports from Korea that Double-Take

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of Korea had been told to shoot only when shot at, official sources pointed out there had been lulls in the Korean War before. They said a cease-fire was something much more formal than the current situation, Press Secretary Joseph Short took cognizance of the unofficial cease-fire talk yesterday after a story from Seoul by the Associ- | ated Press suggesting that the | White House might have called {a halt to ground fighting in Korea. Mr. Short, at a hastily sum'moned news conference, made this brief statement: | “My attention has been called |to the following Associated Press story from Seoul: “ ‘Orders from the highest | source, possibly from the White | House itself, brought the ground | fighting to a complete, if temborary halt Wednesday, Associated Press Correspondent John Randolph reported through censorship today.’

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1951

TEARS IN THE TUB—The fact that a last-minute reprieve has been denied her is written |

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plainly on the face of this nine-month-old miss in Rome, Italy. She's going to be given her bath,

despite her tearful protests.

Caudle Admits Fee Of $5000 in Air Dedl

terpreted as being a cease-fire Cr Te from the rear Photos, Page 24; Editorial, Page express permission of Attorney

28; Another Story, Page 38.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — T. Lamar Caudle testified today that while still serving as the government’s top tax prosecutor he accepted a $5000 commission in the sale of an airplane to a man representing two persons under indictment for tax fraud. Tre ousted assistant attorney general told & House Ways and Means Subcommittee that he accepted the commission with the

Radar Use : On Speeders Draws Near

Erection of radar zone warning signs will begin tomorrow, Capt. Audry Jacobs, police traffic chief, said today. He said the job should be finished in three to five days. The will be put up on the main highways leading into Indianapolis. When gill 34 signs are placed. the police department's speed-measuring equipment will go into use The decision to use radar to help catch speeders was made last summer after The Indianapolis Times sponsored a demonstration of -the equipment here by Columbug, O., police. Capt. Jacobs said that %tickers for speeding will be issued as soon as the signs are up. The signs will be put up by a three-man téam from the Police Department and the Works Board. The street

signs

signs for the police The Works Board. in addition to approving assignment ofga man for erection of the radar signs

acted to increase Indianapolis Railwayvs' share of the cost of re-

surfacing Illinois St, .

Earlier this year, the transit company agreed to pay $2500 on the basis of its responsibility to

maintain that part of the streets in which they have street car tracks. The Illinois 8t. tracks were covered up when the street was resurfaced. The Board ordered its attorney, Byron Hollett, to negotiate an increase in the trolley firm's share of the cost.

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General J. Howard McGrath. “I don’t see any reason why you shouldn't accept,” he quoted Mr. McGrath as saying. Mr. Caudle said the transaction took place in the fall of 1950.

Knew Him Slightly The sub-committee, which investigating steadily widening scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, earlier had heard that Mr. Caudle was favored in office with cut price minks, bargain automobiles, commissions on oil deals, and a free television set. Mr. Caudle said the plane, a Lockheed Lodestar, was sold by W. A. Stonnell, to 2a man named Larry Knowl. He said he knew Mr. Knowl slightly and referred him to Mr. Stonnell after Mr. Know! telephoned to ask if he knew where a plane was avail-

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He knew Mr, Knowl was “very interested” in a New York tax fraud case against Samuel Aaron and Jacob Friedus, but did not know his exact connection with the case at the time, Mr. Caudle said. : Subcommittee Counsel Adrian W. DeWind said Mr. Know! was an investigator for the two taxpayers. He also introduced into the record a memorandum from Justice Department files identifying him as such. Mr. Caudle pointed out that the airplane transaction came after Mr. Aaron and Mr. Friedus had been indicted and it had been determined to send their case to trial. ® Mr. DeWind told the subcommittee the two men subsequently were tried, convicted and sentenced to prison terms. Mr. Caudle said Mr. Know! paid Mr. Stonnell $30,000 for the plane. He said Mr. Knowl needed it for in oil business he was organizing in Kansas. ‘Would You Know? “Do you have any idea why Knowl would come to you, the Assistant Attorney General, for help in buying an airplane?” Mr. DeWind asked. “I simply don’t know,” Mr. Caudle replied. He added, however, that Mr. Knowl probably knew he had done a lot of flying and was interested in planes. - As a matter of fact, he said, he received a lot of inquiries at one time or another

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from people who wanted to buy”:

airplanes, Mr. Caudle said he didn't know very much about Mr. Knowl at the time except that he had been in to see him once with John W,

Caffey, an attorney for Mr. Aaron |}

and Mr. Friedus, Mr. DeWind said Mr. Knowl

{was convicted of embezzlement in

the federal district court for the eastern New York district In 1939.

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State traffic slaughter 8 per cent higher than 1950 for nine-

month period . . .

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Ex-grocery clerk operates one of the largest canning firms in

the country with a Sam Goldwyn can't bute than Jumpin

Hall "impressive" .....

Other Features:

Joe Ferguson , “That statement by the. As- Henry Butler calli Mme, Aadre.Uuli's recital in Caleb Mills

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untfl an armistice agreement fs! AT signed.” | “Amusements ...eeeverseo 30 MOVIES civesassenrinsees 30 Mr. Truman, according to the| Bridge ..... crervievaianns 8 PRUBR ‘corivsrsnsrivense ars ven best White House information! Henry Butler ..ivcseevee 30 Society tiiasesivinnnna 8 does not communicate directly (Crossword resrarasea B38 Ed Sovola vesasenvens IT with any commanders in the Rditorials ..... dsassensis 28 Sports ...... sersveene 41-43 | field, but channels his communi- |, Radio and Television .... 29 Earl WHSON cocveurss . OT | cations through the Joint Chiefs * Food ...... ttsvasessrsas 8 Women's ......... . 7

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Jury Starts Deliberating Jordan Case

By JOHN V. WILSON The fate of Porter Jordan. who faces a life sentence if found guilty of slaying Richard Decker,

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Wherry Dies;

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: | Back in ‘42 By United Press

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29

|—Senate Republican Leader {Kenneth *S. Wherry of Ne- in the vast blood program saving

braska died today.

He was readmitted to the George Washington University Hospital . early today for treatment of *‘respiratory = complications” following

an operation last month. Mr. Wherry had been ailing for three months. His last appearance on | the Senate floor was on Aug. 317 -nearly two months before Congress quit for the year. Early in October, he was hospitalized for what was described as a ‘respiratory ailment” and then underwent an abdominal operation. He ieft the hospital late last month and returned to his home in nearby Alexandria, Va. to convalesce.

Elected in 1942

| Mr. Wherry was elected to the Senate in November, 1942, de-

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At home and overseas ,,. on the ground and in the air... Indianapolis is playing a key role many lives of wounded GIs in Korea. Nearly 10,000 pints of bhiood

have been donated by Indianapolis citizens since The Indianapolis Times launched its campaign to promote the Red Cross “blood for Korea” program. And over on the battlefields of Korea, an Indianapolis GI has perfected a unique device that permits utmost use of life-giving whole blood &nd plasma.

Owned Sheet Metal Shop

He is Cpl. Vance D. Funk‘houser, 1225 Herbert St., owner of a sheet metal shop here before ‘he joined the Air Force in September, 1950. Assigned to the Third Air Rescue Squadron in Korea, Funkhouser quickly saw that rescue of badly wounded men was hampered because blood plasma could not be administered while the rescue helicopter was airborne. So he put his civilian talents to work and designed and built an aluminum shield with two spring

type clamps to secure a 500cc }

plasma bottle above the litter in

all-male jury in Criminal Court feating the late Sen. George W. the helicopter.

2 early this afternoon. Jordan and his wife

their deliberations,

Special Judge Earl RB, Cox read tan party promoter. master of

the jurors 50 Instructions. Skips Final Plea

Jordan's attorney, in a surprise move, made no final argument to the jury, The defense attorney, T. Ernest Maholm, announced: “We do snot. wish to burden this jury with any further argument.” This followed Deputy Prosecu-

tor Gh Daily's final summation in Which he charged the defense with playing up the

“sympathy angle” by “parading” Jordan's family as witnesses before -the jury. Earlier, the jury spent one hour inspecting the neighborhood near Jordan's rooming house, 822 Harrispn St., where the 20-year-old Decker was shot to death early July 1. Check Distances

Jurors concentrated on measuring the distance from Jordan's porch to the sidewalk where Decker fell dead.

They also inspected three homes in the neighborhood involved in the case.

Judge Cox ordered the panel to visit the scene upon the request of Jordan's attorney, T. Ernest Maholm, at the close of the case late yesterday. Jordan is charged with second: degree murder, He did not testify during the trial. But his wife, two Air Force sons and two young daughters took the witness stand in his behalf yesterday.

Mrs. Jordan, who appeared ex- |

tremely nervous during her testimony, collapsed on leaving the courtroom. She, was revived by

her children.

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JURY VISITS SLAYING SCENE—Criminal Court 2 jurors inspect the rooming house at 822 'm Harrison St. where Richard Decker was killed.

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Norris, and was re-elected in

1948,

He solved an additional problem by designing the mounting

: . Long before he first was elected 50 it can be attached and réas the jurors left the courtroom to the Senate Mr. Wherry was moved as quickly as emergencies

to go to lunch before -beginningiknown as “Lightning Ken™ be- Tequire.

cause of his ability as a Republi-

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THAT MANY MAY LIVE— Cpl. Vance D. Funkhouser,

critically wounded soldier can Teceive the life-giving plasma on

The device had to be formedithe battlefield and during the heceremonies, and salesman of auto- entirely by hand because of lim-|Jicopter flight back to the hos-

mobiles, implements, real estate and coffins,

He also wag a lawyer and an

undertaker. And he was a cheer

leader at political conventions and rallies. He was born at Liberty, Neb.. Feb. 28, 1892. He spent most of

his early life at Pawnee City, a

small town in southeastern Nebraska. He was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1914, and received a law degree from Harvard in 1916.

Breaks with Norris

During the first 14 months of World War I he bought mules for the Army's remount division. The last six months of that war he was a naval flying cadet. He served in the Nebraska state senate from 1929 to 1932. He was as a devoted follower of the late Sen. George W. Norris. In the 1930s, Mr. Wherry ran for governor of Nebraska and U. 8. Senator, but was defeated. He was named Republican state chairman in 1940. In 1942, he broke with Mr. Norris and ran again for the Senate. He was opposed by Mr, Norris, running as an independent, and Democrat Foster May, an Omaha radio announcer. Mr. Wherry won the three-cornered race, polling 80.000 votes more than Mr. Norris,

Crushed by Slate TERRE HAUTE, Nov. 29 (UP) Stephen Law, &5, Brazil, a coal leading machine operator, was crushed to death yesterday in a slate fall at the Victory coal mine near here.

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Force immediately had 24 addi-|

tional installations made from Cpl. Funkhouser’s design. Now . . sands of Indianapolis blood donors and the ingenuity of an Indianapolis GI . . . even the most

« thanks to the thou-!

i pital. (On a television program from New York last night a Pennsylvania Air Force lieutenant was ‘credited with inventing a similar |device, but an official Air Force release credits the Indianapolis soldier.)

It'll Make a Child Smile— Times Mile-O-Dimes To Open Tomorrow

Clothe-A-Child, Page

By ART WRIGHT Will you give a dime to help make a ragged, shivering child smile this Christmas? You can do just that at 10 a. m. tomorrow. That's when The Times Mile-O-Dimes opens, At 10 a. m. on the sidewalk in front of the IL. S. Ayres & Co. and the S. S. Kresge Co. stores. The Wild triplets will lay down! the first dimes. It will be the sixth year in a row they have opened the Mile-O-Dimes in behalf ‘of Indianapolis’ needy children who look: to the -. Times Clothe-A-Child warm clothing :

Jane

starting

Jean and Joan made their appearance at the Mile-O-Dimes in 1946 when they were nearly 1 year old. They afte the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd R. Wild, now residents of Greenwood. Uniformed city firemen will attend the opening ceremonies with Fire Chief McKinney,

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Mayor-elect Alex Clark, Mayor Christian J. Emhardt, city pejlice and other officials, The pub{lic is invited. { This marks the sixth year that {Firemen’s Post No. 42 of the American Legion, and other city firemen, have manned the Mile. O-Dimes, They will be on duty 24 hours a day to make change and assist the public in placing their dimes on the sidewalk. The Mile-O-Dimes will remain open until Christmas Eve. Last year a generous Indianapolis laid down 102,701 dimes to send the project well over the mile. A mile of dimes is worth $8976. There are 17 dimes to a foot, 60 lines make a mile, and each line is 88 feet long. Every dime contributed is spent by Clothe-A-Child to buy warm clothes for the needy children. * Urgent pleas for help are piling high at Cilothe-A-Child headquarters, 20 W. Maryland St. If these needy children are to receive warm clothing for Christmas, it will be necessary to obtain as many-—or more--dimes than the public gave last year, Another way to help clothe Indianapolis’ needy children is to send a dash contribution to/Clothe-A-Child, The Indianapolis Times 214 W. Maryland St. Although Clothe-A-Child headquarters is at 20 W: Maryland St., The- Times office is the mailing address. If you prefer to take one or

{more children to the stores and - .spend your own money to shop

for them, telephone PL aza 55351 and make a donor appointment to take the children at a time con-

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Has Close Call On First Hunt

James Durham, 25, of 302 E

{Minnesota St., will never forget

his first rabbit-hunting trip. Scouring the countryside near 76th St. and Ind. 421 today, Mr Durham was walking beside his two hunting pals, Dave Bucy, 18, of 836 Harlan St, and William Cox, 18, of 2122 Woodlawn Ave, As they trudged along, the 22caliber rifle carried by Mr. Bucy was discharged accidentally, The bullet hit a rock, ricocheted

(off and struck Mr. Durham on the

lower part of his right knee bone. It then dropped into his shoe. The surprised hunter had only a inor wound to show for his

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