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HERO RETURNS—Pyt. Thomas Shields-stands by the Teadrared coffin of his brother, Charles. | Military Services Set |For Cpl. Charles Shields

Youth Killed As Police Surprise Trio

By United Press EVANSVILLE, Dec. 13—Police

said today they shot and Killed Gene Gregory, 17, Princeton, with other kids, but sometimes when they surprised three youths with each. other. It was just one apparently trying to rob an auto .¢ 4p. ways the brothers have of

agency. : . : Patrolmen James Baumeyer Showing they're buddies. Charles was two years older,

and Clayton Patterson said they fired at Gregory when he made a but by the time Thomas was 6, move as if reaching for a gun the age difference didn’t matter. last night. Two bullets struck They liked to do the same the youth in the head. things and spent much. of their Police. went to.the auto agency time together. Movies appealed to to answer a burglar alarm and a/both, and so did roller skating. telephone call. from a passerby. There were no arguments over girl They said they found Patterson friends. As Thomas put it, “The and two companions, a 15-year- girls Charles liked were too old] old Princeton youth and a 17- for me.” year-old Evansville youth, near the agency. Gregory ran, officers said. The other two youths were turned over to juvenile authori- Was sen ties. Gregory was the son of Mr Only 15, but he had already en-| and Mrs, Luther Gregory, a listed .in _ the ‘Indiana National ton. " Guard. t el e————— Charles’ outfit was sent to Ko-| a rea. Shortly after landing there, Derail Stalls Traffic jre was in the bitter fighting in Shelby St. traffic was rerouted the mountains surrounding In-| for two hours this morning in chon. Acting in his capacity of] vicinity of the New York Cen- company clerk, he was serving as tral roundhouse by a derailed a messenger. diesel engine.- The rear wheels, On July 30, 1950, just eight | of the engine jumped the track at days after he landed in Korea, | a switch, stalling a line of pass-! Cpl. Shields was killed. | enger cars across the Shelby St. Wanting to avenge his brother's crossing. death, Thomas enlisted for active]

By LLOYD WALTON

First Separation Then came their first separa-| tion. Charles enlisted in the] Army. After finishing basic, he

They Know About Cold— |

Ft. Harrison Gls Give Lift to Clothe-A-Child

Donor's. List, Page 18 |

By ART WRIGHT MILE-O-DIMES |

Because soldiers at Ft, Harrison have experienced bitter cold, 13-Day Estimate seen buddies die in zero tempera- 271; “Lines............$4}14.00 tures in Korea, } - : a, two more Clothe Every dime contributed to The Times Mile-O-Dimes buys

A-Child youngsters are happy in warm clotohes ‘today. clothes for Indianapolis’ needy

Those soldiers sent three of children through The Times their buddies to Clothe-A-Child Cot Chg headquarters to take two boys It will require 60 lines to

to the stores and outfit them. The money they spent was raised among the men of Headquarters Detachment, 5027 Army Service Unit at the Fort. The money came from donations by the soldiers—many veterans -of the bitter Korean War—and by putting on a company carnival. There was no sentiment among the soldiers. They did it for a sound reason:

Some of them saw buddies ‘die in Korea's cold. All of them real-| ized the suffering of men who| You can hel have been cold. They agreed it ways: shouldn't have to happen to little children, {tion to Clothe-A-Child, IndianapoThat's why the Times Clothe- lis Times, 214 W. Maryland St. A<Child fund was staged at the. TWO: By telephoning PL aza Fort, a drive headed by 1st Sgt. 55561 and making a donor apCharles O. Johnson, Sfc. Samuel pointment to take Clothe-A-Child Cohen and M/Sgt. James Wilkins. children to the stores and buy Soldiers know how miserable it the clothes they need. *1 is to be cold. Do you? a THREE: By adding your dimes The Ft. Harrison unit did some- to the Times Mile-O-Dimes. | thing to help protect Clothe-A-|. There are only 10 more shopChild youngsters from the biting ping days to do the job before cold. Will you? * ; |Christmaa.

make a mile worth $8976. Last | year the Mile-O-Dimes went over the mile. More than a mile is DESPERATELY needed again this year to answer the pathetic pleas of the needy children who are shivering in the present cold. Give your dimes to the uniformed city” firemen at the Mile-O-Dimes on W. Washing- | ton St. in front of L. S. Ayers & Co, and 8. S. Kresge Co.

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Brings His Brother Home

duty.

| 30-day furlough to come home for

| ters at Ft. Harrison will act as

t to Japan as part of the|is lowered into the earth. occupation troops. Thomas was|words will be spoken by Chaplain

land Mrs. Logan Steenbergen; the

{the | nance plant.

ONE: By sending a contribu-'

Uncle Sam Calls Tuffy In for Chat

The affairs of Isaac (Tuffy)

{issue a court order for the -Feturn |of Mitchell's records, seized Tues|day in a three-way raid. | Simultaneously, however, Proseleutor Frank Fairchild reported | Grand Jury investigation of the squat, swarthy Indiana Avenue | kingpin has been snagged by re- | fusal of six “obstinate” witnesses {to testify under subpena.

Inot deny Mitchell’'s-appearance in {their Federal Building offices, but [they refused to specify the sub{ject under discussion. However, Mitéhell yesterday |displayed to raiding officers a receipt for the government gam-

‘ready had bought:-one. And In[ternal Revenue has authority to call in any taxpayer for question-

{records for examination. i Under 1905 Law | Mitchell's lawyers | tioned for return of his records lon grounds they were seized il-

{his “offices” without warrant. The raids were conducted un{der a 1905 law unearthed by | Prosecutor Fairchild. It permits {raid and seizure if any police

| officer reports to the police chief,

rceords and their location.

Germany with a tank unit, Carson had not properly sumbody has been re- moned Prosecutor Fairchild into

turned to Indianapolis for burial. court. It arrived in San Francisco Dismissal on such grounds may

aboard the ship Beloit Victory, leave an opening for the attor- 13 (UP) Mildred Bailey, 44, one and was sent from there to New neys to file another petition with-l,e yo firgt and greatest of the : ; ae. modern white blues singers, died Prosecutor Fairchild said six of ast night in St. Francis Hospital.

York. The Army gave Thomas a out delay.

the funeral. Yesterday he ac- the nine witnesses called before companied the flag-draped coffin the Grand Jury yesterday claimed

Mitchell took another turn for

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|. Mr. Fairchild asked - Judges {Rabb and Chamberlin to add the weight of the court to his au--“ROTI, Th order to Nqueeze anc: swers out of the reluctant wit{nesses. : Internal Revenue agents did

‘bling tax stamp, proving he al- |

{ing, or to summon. books and:

had peti-| |

| legally by law officials raiding)

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{in writing, the existence of such,

Judges Rabb and Chamberlin today threw out Mitchell's petiHe took basic jtraining at tion on a technicality, saying lawCharles and Thomas Shields Ft. Benning, Ga., and was sent to'yers Sam Blum and John (Kit)] ‘were like a lot of other brothers.| They liked to fight. Sometimes] -Charles

| Also this morning, Criminal] {Court Judges Saul I. Rabb and BE | TO Ee toe

BYE-BYE Magdalene Adams, 31, fainted at High Point, N. C., when she

— Red-haited Mrs.

got “two-and-a-half to four years for bigamy, She lived two years in the same house with two husbands. She is the mother of four. ;

Miss Bailey, Noted Blues Singer, Dies

MILDRED BAILEY — She made the ''Old Rockin' Chair"

amous, POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Dec

She entered the hospital one week

from New York to Indianapolis. their testimony might incriminate “yi. pajiey first came to pub-

Military Funeral

Tomorrow at 1:30 p. m. Charles Promised immunity. will be buried in Sutherland Park Cemetery with full military hon-

ors. Six soldiers from the Indi-! y ana Military District headquar-| J L fh | A Long Rap pallbearers and will fire a six-gun| a salute over the grave. | 2. : i :

A bugler from the 35th Army | Band will blow. taps as the coffin | Last]

Major Frederick S, Zeller. Charles is survived by his| mother, Mrs. Helen Shields, 435 | E. 9th St.; his brother, Thomas;|

the maternal grandparents, Mr. |

paternal grandmother, Mrs. Fron-| nie West; five uncles and three! aunts. Thomas is getting ready to re-| turn to Germany to finish their]

Ordnance Plant Blast Kills One’

Times State Service LAPORTE, Dec. 13 — One worker was killed and two others injured early today by an explosion on the shell loading line of sprawling Kingsbury Ord-

lawless life.

By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 13—Waxey

yordon, famous beer baron of the prohibition era, was sentenced to 25 years to life in Sing Sing prison today as a narcotics peddler by a judge who described him as “a malignant cancer in the community.” > The possible life sentence was handed down by General Sessions] Judge Francis L. Valente because Gordon, whose real name is Irving Wexler, is a fourth offender.

Junior F. Martin, 23, North Judson, was killed—-the first fatality at the now-bustling ordnance plant since July, 1940. The two injured workers, Morris Madsen, North ,Judson, and Jolly I. Black, Knox, were reported not hurt seriously. Few details of the. explosion! were released. Officials said the cause of the blast was not determined immediately. «1 The Kingsbury plant is one of!

{down the curtain on his parasitic, lawless life,” Judge Valente said. Gordon pleaded guilty to the

Don't call a good bargain a "steal; some thief may heed your appeal . . . a roundup of 1951 Looney Larcenies ........ New Catholic high school to be built in memory of Indian Gl who was denied burial in an "all-white" cemetery............ Ed Sovola uses the Circle as a twentieth-century Circus Maximus . +. For details on these zany, goings-on, read ‘Mister .. Iinside’s' column for today '.........c.i iii ini How much will the federal fax scandals cost the U. S. in foreign prestige? Some pointed comment by Ludwell Denny. ..... 28

Other Features:

Robert Ruark ........

Amusements ......0004 38 27 Bridge ...cccancicsnnes 18 Songs of Christmas ... 27 Crossword «c.vcasssse A Society ....evvvinveins BAHOrIal8 w.vaseenenisi: 28 EG SOvOIR ivuvieevsens 4 Food ....vessvaraesnas 18 SPOrta ......0nessvee fd 43 FORM .oovernsnvsnnase 28 HArL WON .oneeese 21 MOVIES ..vaivereeesses 38 WOMEN'S ....viesseess 716-18 ‘Radio, Television ....., 34 What Goes On Here ...

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them, although he already had lic notice as a singer with Paul Whiteman

and subsequently

toured the country with various small jazz combinations.

ous “Squeeze Rose,” ‘ "Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry.”

The songs she made most famwere “Old Rockin’ Chair,” Me,” “Honeysuckle and “Arthur Murray

Miss Bailey, part Couer D’Alene

; . |Indian, was born in 1907 in Tetkoa, Wash. She attended school |in Spokane, Wash,

where her

{brother Al Rinker teamed with * Bing Crosby in the famous {Rhythm Boys.

Stock Market Talks

Of Closing Yule Eve

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UP)— The nation’s stock and commodity exchanges may close on

| Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24.

Governors of the New York Stock Exchange meet after th

close today and are expected to discuss closing.

“His latest offense should ring

four major munitions install- narcotics charge after having! ations in Indiana. . | been caught red handed. a Inside The Ti A fy Page’

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An exchange shutdown is anticipated in view of the long holidays granted federal employees and New York City employees at

WAXEY GORDON , . . A the Christmas season. It was bé-

lieved the market would remain open all day on Dec, 31.

' Truman Will

5 Envoy Again

L |reconvenes in January. ¢| Mr. Truman originally submit-

Pay Contract ‘Will Expire On Dec. 31

{ By EDWIN A. LAHEY | NEW YORK, Dec, 13 | (CDN) ~—Philip Murray will |ask for and get final author. lity to strike the steel industry on New Year's Day.

He will get the authority en i Monday when he meets with the {policy committee of the Congress jof Industrial Organization's Steel- | workers Union. { Mr, Murray has summoned the

Name Clark

By United Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—| President Truman said today {he will resubmit to the Sen-| ‘ate the nomination of Gen. | {Mark W. Clark to be the first! {U. 8. Ambassador to the Vatican.

| He told his news conference he/ {will do’ so as soon as Congress)

she nomination 10. the-Senate. {committees members. to: Pitts B Ta Tew Hours Betore ¢ HH TR, POE TRE URI I a TR

gress quit for the year. The Senlate went" home- without acting on the nomination, which kicked up a nationwide furor,

Truman Vows Speedy Purge

"Another story, Page

By. MERRIMAN SMITH.

United Press White House Reporter WASHINGTON, Dec. 13— | President Truman, in a grave imood, said today he will take

{report to them that there ig virtry. before the present contract {steel wage impasse to a crisis, Says Accused Not Ching’s Baby _ 28; Robert Ruark, Page 27; Fred steel deadlock with his staff. He By. United. Prise | steel industry representatives to | week to stamp out corruption in But the final solution is not in | ployees. would blow a large hole in the al[told his news conference: The Hollywood, Fla. business-| 8p this wage dispute will ultihow big they are.” with Abraham Teitelbaum, Chi-| Wilson, President Truman, and {other point, he noted that he had Mr. Teitelbaum has told a; Mr. Murray has not even | past. tax scandals that Naster and Na-| increase. But before even the des|have demanded that Mr. Truman $500,000 and warned he would go made it plain that it couldn't jury John W. Snyder. | There's John L. Again ‘that FBI Director J. Edgar HOO- py the Internal Revenue Durens bilizers is only partly attribut-

Bert Naster | tually no possibility of writing a new contract with the steel indus- ® Tax Fix Story is: 5. ' 5 Mr. Murray’s action brought the "Concocted, |rm, me mm rm {no longer ignore. RRR IB een TMA... CRING, . federal. coneiliOther stories, Pages 10, 14 and ator, has already distussed the Othman, Page 28; FEditorial, is expected in a few days to sumPage 28. /men the union leaders and the ; : : : | Washington in the hope of reachdirect action—perhaps this WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—Bert ing an eleventh-hour agreement. | K. Naster, accused . with Frank {government by curbing fhe Out" Nathan in an alleged $500,000 tax Mr. Ching’s. hands. | side s f federal em- i , side activities o shakedown, asserted today “it's What the steel negotiators want | Promising to move quickly in very evident now” that the whole ready rickety structure of eco[his clean-up drive, Mr. Truman shakedown story was “concocted.” nomic controls: now in force. | “Wrongdoers have no house man testified that he never at any mately have to be resolved by | with me, no matter who they are, time discussed money or taxes Mobilization Chief Charles E. He also said he anticipates no cago attorney who once “sprung” the Wage and Price Stabilization Cabinet changes. Then, at an-ithe late Al Capone from prison. |people under them. dispensed with the services of House Ways and Means Subcom- spelled out the steelworkers’ deseveral Cabinet officers in the mittee investigating government mand for a “substantial” wage Gives No Details than, who lives in Miami, offered ultory negotiations began in | Some congressional Republicansito “fix” his $130,000 tax case for| Pittsburgh, the steel industry |fire Attorney General J. Howdrdl¢, jail if he didn’t pay. talk wage increases without | McGrath and Secretary of Treas-| Other testimony has developed price increases. i Sot delat nis fact that soon after Mr. Teitel-| Mr. Truman not detg S baum says he told the pair to “go specify the role " | The glumness on the part of SR Of action OF He to hell” his case was re-routed; yigon and his economic staver will play in the government ,n4 wound up in the Justice De-| ble to the steel crisis.

| housecleaning. partment with a recommendation { - | They are conscious of the fact | The President conferred secret- yn,¢ ne prosecuted for tax fraud.| a Murray and the

both Mr. Me rarer ane Mr. er Self-Possessed [steel industrialists get Sirough | The President told newsmen no ier seemed much more self. | Preaking up their elaborate 'that his program, in general, will las framework of economic controls, | consist “of two parts: possessed as the witness than he john L. Lewis and the coal op- | ONE—Legislation to meet the “om Yesterday. d hi tt _jerators will just be coming 'situation. This will be outlined in Today as yesterday his ‘attor- 5 qung the bend. his state of the union message to ney, Jules Yablok of New York, The United Mine Workers conCongress next. month. demanded that photographers|¢,,.t expires Mar. 31. TWO—Direct presidential halt, the flashing of bulbs which| (Only one thing can be said for Naster said got him confused.| certain, Whatever Mr. Murray

tion which will come shortly. The President said corruption Naster then proceeded calmly, gets for the steelworkers, Mr. ; Lewis will want more for the

will not he an issue in the 1952 With frequent advice and occa-| election campaign: that it all will sional prods in the back by Mr. miners.

be cleaned up and the present Yablok.

ac-

furor will be past history by Naster denied Mr. Teitelbaum’s Ching Steps then. story in full. All the President would =ay “I never discussed money with

Into Dispute

{today about the FBI chief was him at any time under any cir-| : WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UP)

that ,Mr. Hoover would do his cumstances,” he testified. <I duty as he always has. {wasn't interested in Teitelbaum. —The government today stepped Hails McKinney I didn't like the man and wanted into the wage Sispuie mi be } naus Mr. Truman said that Demo- no part of him. {tween the stee y {cratic Chairman Frank E. Mc-| “It's very evident now that million-member CIO steelworker’s

»» funion. |Kinney described him accurately Teitelbaum concocted his story.” : | . { , {when the chairman said he was «* Can't Recall Federal Mediation Chief Cyrus

| S. Ching announced he has or“angry at being sold down the Naster also flatly contradicted joreq BR trouble - shooters ' to river.” earlier testimony by his alleged | pittshurgh late today to meet

Who wouldn't feel that way, the accomplice, Nathan, who has said | “President said, when a man takes | Naster once told him he ‘advised | an oath and does not live up to Mr. Teitelbaum to hire a lawyer! it? : named Dillon and that this might Be Asked whether Mr. McKinney cost him $125,000 or more. jSiyee M. Mills and Aeting Sen would continue as chairman of He said Nathan called him colthe national committee, the Presi- lect from New York and told him| |dent said quickly that McKinney he--Nathan--was being accused | suited him right down to the by Mr. Teitelbaum of trying to] ground and that he, the Presi- shake the Chicago attorney down | dent did not put people in places, for $500,000. Naster said Nathan & {then pull ‘the rug from under #8sked what he knew about this.| [them whenever thé newspapers ‘I told him I didn’t know any-| (disliked it, thing about it, and why was he!

m—————— me calling me?” Naster testified, . He said h uldn't 11 what. Mary Gets Wish e sa € couldn recall wnat. To See Her Daddy

with top officials of the steel companies ‘and the. union. They are Assistant Mediation Director

Double-Take

By BOB BARNES

Nathan's answer was. ELWOOD, Ind, Dec. 13 (UP)

Report Plane —8ix-year-old Mary Kurtz, who told her mother repeatedly she Crash in Alps

wanted “to go to Daddy,” died in her sleep yesterday of an in- { curable kidney disease. Mary, whose father was killed in a traffic accident last ‘New Year's Day, was paralyzed since birth. Recently she developed a second ailment and Swiss frontier. | doctors told her mother. Mrs. | mn, rajiroad stationmaster at

Zueresa Kurtz, there was no y,goona told police by. telephone! + hope, that the playe was flying at about | Santa Claus came to visit 118,000 feet - when “it suddenly

M y hen she be- : came critical, | | opped put of sight ater lnving Heqrt Attack Fatal . —— — . To Coal Firm Head

Louis Layton, 60-year-old owner of Crown Coal Co., died of a heart attack today at Sherman Dr. and

Hogs Don’t Get to Hog It— | Pleasant Run Blvd.

This Is a Sweet Town Hi And It's Stuck With It oe dersmen,m:

| afitomobile, They said he stopped PAWHUSKA, Okla, Dec. 13>; TUCUMCARI, N. M, Dec. 13 the car to fix a leaking line eli IER tsi nd I | 2 na-| . trail Of ‘molasses aquiried .on ® ing a torrent of water cascading| Mr. Layton, 4802 Farrington (downtown street when a valve gyer a two-block area that washed Ave, was taken to Blackwell's {broke in a tank truck. lout sidewalks and wrecked homes. Funeral Home. More than 300 gallons of mo-! At least four persons were He is survived & hig. Jue, | (killed, police said. Letitia, and a son, Harry, of ~ lasses made a stream iwo Tout At least three houses were Indianapolis. .

By United Press NOVARA, Italy, Dec. 13—Po-| lice repotted today that a large! unidentified airplane had crashed! on the Italian side of the Alps| northwest of Novara near the!

STEELY-EYED , . . Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching.

wide and four blocks long. wrecked, slabs of sidewalk were — mis A farmer offered to let his washed out and debris carried © LOCAL TEMPERATURES hogs“lick up the mess, but City from two to threp Dk ad | 6am. 16 10 a m.. 18 ‘Manager Henry Bowen decided '"C 8 res were knocked oul.. 4 4 m.. 158 HH sm... 81 ‘he'd rather spend $100 cleaning What happened fo the water $a m.. 13 .12 (Nun) 82 tank? 9am.13 1pm?

[it up than let a load of pigs run

1 Officials suspect it was blown | loose, ox . “4

up. Latest humidity «.:c0ee 4%