Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1951 — Page 1
ndianap
mn
we Ta
olis Times
FORECAST: Windy, warmer, snow and some sleet tonight and early tomorrow, turning much colder tomorrow. Low tonight 25.
HOME |
scuprs owas) 62d YEAR—NUMBER 292
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1951
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice
indianapolis, Indians, Issued Daily.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Families of POWs:
HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES has set up a special telephone service for families of men missing in action or held as prisoners-of war in Korea. The list of 3198 prisoners held by the Reds has been passed on to The Times through the United Press. ; However, Defense Department officials in Washington said they could not vouch for the accuracy of the Reds’ POW list. Checks are being made, but it is a slow process, they said. Verification is taking hours in some cases. In other cases it is expected to take even days. Up until 7:30 p. m., call PL aza 5551 and -ask for the Prisoner of War Desk. After 7:30, call LIncoln 7700 or PL aza 3030.
Reds Vexed At UN List Of Prisoners
° By Unlled Press PANMUNJOM, Korea, Dec. 19 ~The Communists indicated today that they may block further talks on the release of war prisoners, including 3198 Americans, until affer Christmas. Alan Winnington, a Communist newsman who acts as a sort of unofficial spokesman for the Red truce delegation, charged that the list of 132,474 Communist prisoners furnished by the United Nations yesterday was incomplete and useless. He said the list was entirely in * | English, which cannot be trans|lated accurately into either Chinese or Korean, and contained neither “unit identifications nor home towns. Mr. Winnington, a correspon<ident for Worker, charged that the omissions were deliberate dnd said they “probably would delay the talks” on an exchange of pris-school-age children oners until a translated “useable and meaningful list” is provided.
He Gives em Vacation—
Well, at Least Pupils Like the Weatherman
Other Stories, Page 22 The weatherman’s popularity with kept growing today as his latest forecasts called for more cold ‘and snow or sleet.
Tomorrow's temperature was predicted to rise to 32 degrees, but it will turn “much]| : : Fe colder” before tomorrow night. | LOCAL TEMPERATI A low of 25 degrees tonight win| 8 a. m... 10 0 be accompanied by snow and| a. 9 10 some sleet or freezing rain, 8am. 10 11 changing to snow flurries tomor-| 9 8 me... 12 12 row. | : All this meant the 48 schools| test humidity closed today in Marion County, may not reopen before the Christ-|
Truce Talks Recess
The United Nations agreed yesterday to translate the information into Chinese and Korean, but warned that the task could not be completed before Christmas. Mr. Winnington’s remarks, only indication of the Communist attitude while the prisoner talks are recessed, threw cold water on ‘Allied hopes for an armistice between Plymouth and Argos was fore the end of the 30-day trial blocked nearly four hours. | cease-fire line period Dec. 27. mas vacation. Below zero temperatures teased] The Armistice subcommittee Thousands Released only a few central and northern trying to arrange an exchange oi ; Indiana points as the predicted prisoners recessed indefinitely Over the state, thousands of extreme cold wave loitered on its Tuesday after exchanging lists of school children heard the same way |prisoners held by both sides. The good news. At Bloomington, In-| - But weathermen said the let- Communists listed 11,559 names, diana University students pre-up in the cold only means more including 3198 Americans, and pared to trek homeward at noon:snow—from two to four inches. said the prisoners were held in 11 today over icy highways that pro-/today. Much colder weather was North Korean camps. vided an excuse for beginning the|forecast again tomorrow. | It was agreed that the subcom: Yule holiday a half-day early. The new snow, turning to snow mittee would meet again after Around Indianapolis, bad rbads/and sleet in the south by late both sides had -an opportunity to shut most schoolrooms tight. |evening, was forecast as highway study the twp lists. A meeting The only public schools stilljmaintenance crews and city was arranged tentatively for 8 open were those in the city and street workers toiled to get traf- p. m. in Center Township. Eight Cath- fic moving again. State police olic grade schools also were reported hundreds of vehicles % closed. They are Holy Spirit, |stalled in deep drifts yesterday. Yule Is Happier Christ the King, Holy Name, St.|, Highway crews worked their
JRES
a. Mm... 15 a.m... 16 (Noon) 20
83%
|way through drifts late vester- This Year for Aquinas: Rural schools elsewhere in the! ville. Authorities said drivers, {| will be happier this year in the early start to the Christmas holi- Where they kept warm and days because of school bus trans- home of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra M. Death Toll Mounts * . ’ Meanwhile, the weather scan Injured Sailor S Poul Eugene Clements, reported
Ann's, St. Joseph's, St. Lawrence, | St. Mark's and St. Thomas/day to free some 75 vehicles stalled on Ind. 421 east of Shelby- Soldier's Parents te—particularly in ‘the snow-|left their cars and trucks and y ate Ja north y also had an|tramped to a small country store| THE CHRISTMAS season virtually bought out the stock. | Clements. 1215 E. Ninth St portation. provieins They know their son, Pfc. i toll mounted to 24. i x! : i tion last Dec. g James T. Hamill, 66, died of a Brother a POW . 28, is a ‘prison-
heart attack after shoveling snow er of war—and
the London Daily"
from his driveway, at 5155 N. Capitol Ave. He was a realtor with Jack C. Carr, Inc. Exposure was blamed for the death of Mrs. Teresa Allen, 80. Her body was found in her home at Clinton yesterday after neighbors reported seeing no smoke
from her chimney since Saturday.| Samuel Grabill, 31, Goshen, was|
crushed to death whenithe truck] he was, driving slid into the path of a freight train. The Nickel] ‘ Plate crossing on U., S. 31 be-!
Double-Take
By BOB BARNES
decent abut let:
“My wile is YOY ot with the »
ting me £0 3 bo
A BAILOR hospitalized after a tour in Korea today heard ‘the good news that his longmissing soldier brother is reported as one of the surviving prisoners of war.
The missing soldier named { on the Communist list is Pfe. Donald L. Havlin, son of Henry Havlin, 2845 N. New Jersey St. Although the family has received no official notification, the serial number on the Red list matched that of the 19-
| year-old Hoosier serviceman.
The news came to the missing soldier's brother, Darrell E.-Havlin, 2008 E. Maryland St; in his hospital bed at Camp Atterbury. He was hospitalized after returning home on leave. He has been serving with the Navy in Korea. Pfc. Havlin, formerly of Monrovia, has. been’ missing since Nov. 29, 1950. He if the brother of Mrs. Virginia Cummins, 3715 Grand Ave. and Kenneth and Larry Hayvlin, 2342 N. Central Ave.
MILE-O-DIMES 19-DAY ESTIMATE 41 Lines... $6133.61
The Times Mile-O-Dimes—to provide money to clothe Indianapolis’ needy children — was
2 #
day. That's $2842.39 short of the
| for The Times Clothe-a-Child. Will YOU help fill those 19 remaining lines . . apolis once again can be proud of the “Merry Christmas”
children, in which to do the job. Can we count on YOU? (The Mile-O-Dimes is on W.
Ayres & Co. and 8. 8. Kresge Co.) ©
12-19 1a'mrbuns Syndicate
Story, Donors List, Page 5
Inside The Times
The battle of the books is under way. Local librarians are pickin the "50 notable books of 1951" Sadie 8 Did you know the course of the weather may lengthen or shorten
sees
your life span? ....
Page 9
Ses sss stra ssrsrssrnnnrns
Andrew Tully lifts a quizical eye at three Congressmen men-
tioned in Washington's tax probe The Defense Department is wondering what has happened to 7844
missing Gls not listed by the
Other Features:
Amusements s.eoesesssss 10 COMICS + uprrorresvronpes 27 Editorials 16
. Forum 4 arold Hartley shsnnnene 17 IF n Hollywood cnisrsensen. 10
i MOVIES sscscsssssvicncen 10
i
EEE EERE EEE ER 16
oa
16 Reds esssantanansvesnanrs 17
Sls srr ssa sree
i
Radio, Television ....... 18 “Robert RUBTK vusvsaeess 15 34 80v0la .uvivisannisis 1B Sports ....i ve. 0 122 Earl WHSOn «.isvivveness 1B Women’s sosrsesaniunns 6,7 What Goes on Here teen 19
19 lines short of a full mile to- | | money a full mile would raise | . 80 Indian- |
it | provides for the poor, shivering |
There are only five more days
Washington St. in front of L. 8. |
6
alive. Last Christmas was clouded with the Defense Department an- § nouncement he - § was missing after fighting at a road block near Sunchon. His last letter, Nov. 23, 1950, said he had been sleeping on frozen ground and eating frozen food. Members of his outfit, the Second Engineer Battalion of the famed 2d Infantry’ Division, had been getting Christmas packages “on the run’ as they moved forward. The 23-year-old soldier is a veteran of five years in the Army. He first enlisted in 1946 and served nearly three years
Pfe. Clements
on occupation duty in Trieste, 4
Italy. His parents have not seen him since he re-enlisted in August, 1949,
Never Gave Up Hope— [
| By CARL HENN
“I'M SO HAPPY — I wish every mother could be as happy as I am this morning.”
| That was the reaction of | Mrs. Helen Grubbs, 1324 Ringgold Ave., to news that her 20- | year -old son, Pfc. Melvin R. Heath, was still alive as a _ prisoner of war in Korea. “We never gave up hope,” said Mrs. | Grubbs. ‘‘We wouldn't give up. hope, because we got a letter in March | that “Dutch” Pfc. Heath wrote to us Jan. 1, after he was captured.” Mrs. Grubbs, who is a matron at VanCamp Hardware & Iron Co. went to work as usual today after receiving the Defense Department telegram last night, and hearing the news on the radio. “I guess I should have stayed | home today,” she said. “Our telephone is probably ringing off the wall.” But Mrs. Grubbs found heartWaring friendship at work, 00. : ’ | ~ “The news is all over the | plant,” she said. “I work with _ | a wonderful bunch of people. | They've been crying right along with me, for happiness.” | _ She had to sign Dutch’s pap~ ers when he enlisted at 17. He sailed from Seattle Oct. 19, 1948, and was taken prisoner last Dec. 1.
|
A City of Joy and Sorrow— 11 Local Gls Identified As Red War Prisoners |
WASHINGTON, Dee. 19 (UP)—The White House advised an attitude of “skepticism” today toward the prisoner of war lists released
by the Communists in Korea. Photo, Page 2; Other Stories, Page 17
y DAVID WATSON
NDIANAFPOLIS was a city of joy and sorrow today.
~ While teletypes clattered in the Pentagon, wives and parents of servicemen here scanned the newspapers and huddled near their radios for word that their loved ones still lived. .. Although Pentagon lists today were running several hours be the prisoner of war names released in Tokyo, 11 POWs from Indian-
apolis have thus far been identified.
The Defense-Department warned, however, that the list of prisoners
submitted by the Communists is subject to error:
Tears of joy welled from th» eyes of a Beech Grove mother when The Times verified from Defense Department lists the serial number of her son, listed as an inmate of a North Korean camp. “It’s the most wonderful Christmas present I could ever have, said Mrs. Juanita Jackman, 113 N. 6th St., Beech Grove.
William (Bobbie) Runyon,
Other parents felt nothing but an emptiness within themselves upon learning that names dear to them
Said one sister:
Dreams Come True—
‘Oh, Thank
A MARS HILL mother today said, “Oh, thank the Lord,” when told her son was alive and a prisoner of war in Korea. “Oh, I'm so happy,” said Mrs. Grace Kendall, 2945 Lockburn St. “The Defense Department said they couldn't find any trace of my son after he was missing in action." Mrs. Kendall was notified Aug. 14, 1950, that Pfc. Richard Kendall, 21, had been captured while fighting with the 24th Infantry Division. Appeared in Dreams She said her son had appeared in the dreams of several in the family, to say he was still alive. “H& never appeared to me,” Mrs. Kendall said. “But I never gave up hope.” In his last letter home, which arrived June 1, 1950, Pfc. Kendall told his mother he could have come home but was reenlisting for another term “to
Wife's Glad To Know Gl Is Really Safe
IT'S GOOD to know for sure he's safe,” the wife of Cpl. Stanley Furnish said today. "I got a letter from him Aug. 8 saying he was well cared for and had enough to eat. But I'm glad it’s official now.”
Mrs. Bertha Furnish, 138 N. Highland Ave., said she last saw her 22-year-old husband last Christmas in Washington. 5 - = HE WAS SHIPPED to Korea Jan. 9 and was reported missing in action Feb. 12. Cpl. Furnish, originally from Scottsburg, was recalled to active duty Oct. 17, 1949. He had served 2 vear and a half in the Army and was in the reserves when called.
&
‘I'm Walking on Air’
Although she is the mother of eight children, Mrs. Grubbs said there are only three at home now — herself, her husband, George, and 15-year-old Robert Grubbs, a half-brother to Melvin.
The five daughters are all married. Mrs. Grubbs expects them to help celebrate the good news tonight.’ “I'm so happy,” she said. “I tell: you, I'm just walking on air.”
was among those listed.
t
he Lord’
Pfc. Richard Kendall
see what is going to happen over here.” The youth was 17 when he enlisted. He served at Ft, Knox, Ky., for a year, then applied for duty in Japan. “He wanted to travel,” Mrs. Kendall said. “He had a good time in Japan and Korea before the fighting began.” Pfc. Kendall's father, Kendall, died Nov. 17. His mother is busy in Mars Hill caring for four grandchildren, whose mother is recuperating in General Hospital from injuries suffered in a fall recently.
Firm
had not yet appeared.
radio turned
“We have heard nothing yet. until the (radio) stations went off the air,
on, waiting for some word.”
We“sat up until 2 this morning,
We went to sleep with the
Reports that a son and brother still lived came as no news to one family, who had received two letters from their soldier in a North
behind hidden here
Her son,
Son Wrote Parents From POW Camp
MR. AND MRS. JAMES MOORE were steeled for Defense Department information today which said their son is a Communist prisoner of war. Pfc. Martin Samuel Moore, 21. of. 19 N. Bloomington ° Ave. had written them from Prison Camp No. 3 north of ‘the 38th Parallel. A soldier with the 35th Infantry, he had enlisted last year and been a 5 : is oner for Ff Moore about nine months. His last letter was received Aug. 27. He told his parents he was “doing well," and that the POWs were doing all they could to help get a peace settlement. Pvt. Moore's family, however, said the words he wrote did not always seem to be his own. Pfc. “Moore first served in Korea shortly after the end of World War II. He remained in the reserves and was recalled to service ‘at the outbreak of the “police action” in Korea.
a5
2
His Name Was On the List—
Had to Cry
THE MOTHER of a 19-year-old Beech Grove youth broke down in tears today when notified by The Times that her son was listed as a prisoner of Red forces in Korea. “I feel awfully good about this” said Mrs. Juanita Jackman, 113 N. 6th St. “It's the most wonderful Christmas present I could receive.” - ghen she began crying so hard she couldn't talk for a few moments. “We called him ‘Bobby’,"” Mrs. Jackman said. “The Defense Department notified us last May 22 that he was missing in action.”
Pfe. Runyon
Awhile
Mrs, Jackman said her last word from Pfc. William Runyon was a letter arriving Apr. 26, in which he instructed her to withdraw $75 from the bank "for him and “have it ready when I
land in the States, because I have my orders to return.” But “Bobby's” artillery position was over-run by Communist troops before he could be shipped back to the U, 8. He was serving with the 555th Field Artillery when captured. Mrs. Jackson said Bobby's letter outlined his plans to go first to Texas, to visit the wife and child of a friend who had died in action, then to Michigan, to see the mother ‘of another friend missing in action. Pfc. Runyon has a 6-month-old brother he has never seen, as well as a 21-year-old sister at home.
Korean prison camp. _ He wrote that he was well, and that peace was being sought from “both sides.” But the words were not always his own, and the shadow of close examination crept from between the lines. The joy of “finding” their boys was not something to be kept
today.
Over the backyard fence and by telephone, the families shared their news with neighbors. Telephones jangled as well wishers offered congratulations. Others asked: : “Have you heard anything yet?" _ Like “wildfire” the word of one proud mother’s happiness spread through the plant where she went to work as usual today. Despite the upsurge of hope throughout the state and nation today, most families of servicemen will be disappointed. The Communist list of prisoners of war accounts for about onefourth of the 11,042 officially listed as missing in action by the Defense Department. The department is making public 3198 names of POW’s.
Now Family Lives in Hope—
Weeps—But With Joy
. By BILL FOLGER THE SERGEANTS mother wept with joy. His father said: “It's the best Christmas present ever I got.” That's how Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cable received the telegram that the Reds reported their son a prisoner. “We had lived in hope :and
- in fear,” Mr. Cable said today
in his home at 218 Concordia St. Cae : Thirteen months ago. Sgt. Thomas Cable had béen reported missing in action near the Manchurian border. But his friend, Pvt. Charles J, Allen, came home from Korea early “this year with high hopes that the sergeant was still alive. Pvt. Allen, a former neighbor who lived at 826 Bates St. had joined the Army with Thomas Cable and was one of the 17 who returned from the battle in which the sergeant and more than 100 others disappeared. Both volunteered. Thomas was 17 and had just graduated from Manual High School. After the sergeant was re-
> Sgt, Thomas Cable
ported missing, his 8-year-old brother Marvin Leroy asked every day if any word had come from the Army while he had been in school. Today it did.
‘Only With the Grace of God'—
‘Answers My Prayers’
By OPAL CROCKETT “OUR PRAYERS are answered,” sobbed Pfc. David Montgomery's mother when told today her missing son is alive. Missing since last Apr. 27, he u was on the prisoner of war list. Asked if she could talk about it, Mrs. Lloyd Montgomery said, wralk . . . 1 could shout. My son is coming home to us. Pfc. Mont- “It's an angomery swer to the prayers of my family and friends. Just now a friend called and said ‘I'm praying for David.’ ” And it was an answer to David Montgomery's prayers. He wrote in his last letter, received four days before he was reported missing: “Mother, it will be only with the grace of God if I get home.” David, now 21, enlisted in the Army on his 18th birthday. Last January he was wounded in the Far East and evacuated to Osaka, Japan, hospital. He returned to duty with the 24th Infantry Division, 21st Regi-
4
ment, Mar. 1. He wrote his parents he had been promoted to corporal, 8 Starting to the rear echelon for relief, he was ordered back to the front—and then reported missing. 3
David, son of Mr. and Mrs,
Lloyd Montgomery of 2717 N, .~ ~
Dearborn Ave.; is a brother of Capt. J. Edward Montgomery, B-26 bomber pilot now in Korea, and James, Roy, Robert, Stephen and Sue Montgomery, all of Indianapolis,
There's Good News Awaiting 2 Sisters
A message to two sisters:
Mrs. Dorothy A. Pipes and Mrs. Mary Jackson, both fore merly of 434 N. Blackford St. are being sought by the Depart» ment of Defense to receive information. = Mrs. Thelma Leslie, their landlady on Blackford St., is holding for them a telegram which lists their brother, Pfe. William H. Hall, as a prisoner of war in Korea, Pfc. Hall formerly was missing_in action. The two women left no forwarding address when they moved. Efforts to locate them are unsuccessful so far,
These Hoosier Gls Are Listed As POWs Of Communists
(Names following those of [Brother of Mrs. Dorothy A. Pipes, L. Davis,
101 N. Carver St,
servicemen are listed as next land Mrs. Mary Jackson, both of Greensburg.
of kin.)
Indianapolis Pfc. David Montgomery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Montgomery, 2717 N. Dearborn St.
Cpl. Stanley Furnish, husband of Mrs. Bertha Furnish, 138 N, Highland Ave.
Pfc. William (Bobby) Runyon, son of Mrs. Juanita Jackman, 113 N. 6th St., Beech Grove.
Sgt. Thomas Cable, son of Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Cable, 218 Con+ cordia St.
Pfc. Melvin R. Heath. Army RA15418206. 7th Div. ChiangSong. Son of Mrs. George Grubbs, 1324 Ringold Ave.
Ple. William H. Hall. Army.
ae a
{434 Blackford St.,
Pfe. Paul Eugene Clements, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Clements, 1215 E. 9th St. Pfc. Donald L. Havlin, son of Henry Havlin, 2845 N, New Jersey St.
Pfc. Richard Kendall, son of Mrs. Grace Kendall, 2945 Lockburn 8t., Mars Hill.
Pfc. Martin 8. Moore, son -of Mr. and Mrs. James Moore, 19 N. Bloomington Ave.
“Pfc. Junior A. Alford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abner J. Alford, 1561 Carrollton Awe.
Other Hoosiers - Pvt. Harold L. Davis, 20, Army. RA 16311996. 1st Cavalry Division. C - Wife, Mrs. Frances
{ | Pre. Willlam M. Beyl. Army. |[RA15228237. 2nd Chemical Battalion. Pyok-Dong. Mrs.
| Sgt. Otis L. Heagy. 'RA15253225. 7th Div. Chiang|Song. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L.
|Heagy, Walnut St., Curtisville.
| ©Opl. Leroy V. Baumgartner. r! RA15199050. 24th Div. Chiang-Song, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil H, Baumgartner, R. R. 1, Monroe.
Army.
Pfc Richard K. Davis. ER 15419627. 3d Div., ChiangSong. Husband of Mrs. Dorothy M. Davis, 13%; Main St, Cambridge City, Ind.
M/Sgt. James OC. Goelzer, Army. RA 37130859. 24th Div, Chiang-Song. Son of Mrs. Mihnie B. Goelzer, 616 Culbertson Ave,
Mary Pace, 605 High St. Charlestown.
23014116, 1st Cavalry Division. Chiang-Song. Mrs. Helen
Cpl. Marion E. Perkins. Army. RA154117942. 24th Div. ChiangSong. 8on of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Perkins, 4623 Beechwood, Lawrence, Ind. ° Pfc. Edgar M. Oliver. Army. RA15254102. 24th Div. ChiangSong. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Godfred Burdette, R.R.4, Orchard Rd., Evansville. Sgt. Thomas L. Cable, Army. RA15418177. 25th Div. ChiangSong. Mrs. Dorothy R. Christie, Montezuma. Pfc. Lawrence Bailey. RA163114351. Tth Div. Song. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, R. R. 2, Claypool.
Army. ChiangGroyer
New Albany, I
a . 2
Pfc. Jess Hardesty Jr. Army.| Lt, (1st) Waldron Berry. Alr | Force. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sher-
M.| Hardesty, 439 N. 9th. St, ‘Goshen.|""*5-H. Berry, Seymour,
Sgt. Wiliam 0. Boyd. Husband of Mrs. Virginia Lee Goodman Boyd, Bruceville.
M/Sgt. Gilbert Christie. Husband of Mrs. Dorothy R. Christie, Montezuma.
Pfe. Jack R. Davis, son of Mr, and Mrs. Elmer Davis, Kokomo:
First Lt. Howard H. Eichelsdoerfer. Son of Mr. and Mrs, R. M. Eichelsdoerfer, Shelbyville,
Cpl. Robert D. Wilson, Army, RA16310557. 2d Div. Chi a
of 1321 8. 15th St, Terre Haute, Pfe. Richard L. Barney, Army, RA22975191: 2d Division. ¢ :
Ti
»
ry Bat Gr”
Song. Son of Mrs. Mabel man, 8. Mi }