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PRICE FIVE CENTS

‘Balmy’ Low Of 25° Due Tonight

Iron Bars and an Iron Curtain—

More in City Need Is as Great as Ever—

Sheriff Smith, Peeved Gladdened by Only 3 Days Remain

By Party Story, Says He'llBan Times Reporter

By R. K. SHULL

Retreating behind the Iron Curtain of the. Marion County Jail, Sheriff Dan Smith today tried to. banish The | 4 hols families “found” their Indianapolis Times from his little world of news. loved ones. land St, ate working cvertime

It seems the Sheriff is a bit peeved because The Times! As the Pentagon neared the to get the big job done by rote about the Christmas party (end of the list of 3198 men in Christmas Eve. Hundreds of N tossed for his deputies Monday {the prison camps of Communist children have gone to the stores

] . . : |forces, joy lodged itself in the!/and the final number who will night at the awank Hillcrest Miss Indianapolis | hearts of 16 Indianapolis families| be clothed depends upon the conCountry Club.

[ which have learned their service- tributions received. Among the presents distributed Has Close Call | men are still living. |" The need 7= 29’ gront ‘au vik at that party were cigaret lighters,

| Many others ~ throughout the Among * the children who ye-, VIRGINIA JOHNSON, Miss y . ais carrying the name of Fletcher 1ndianapolis of 1951, had a. nar. State held fast to the hope that|ported_to Clothe-A-Child head-

Rahke, Indianapolis gambler who row escape today. {the list of names is still incom- quartefs were two. little hoys

) , : % {plete or that some error had been/whose old shoes attested to the usually remembers his “friends”| Her new convertible skidded on !made. desperate need for help.

with such Yuletide gifts. Each of a slick spot as she was passing! Officials in ashington re-| The boys’ feet were on the Sheriff Smith's deputies received ig other cars : [iLerston their warning that names ground. There were big holes in o

: E. 46th St. of prisoners were compiled bythe shoes. It was all they had one of the nifty lighiers, : near Willow- @ Communist forces and may belto wear. Today they are ey It seems, too, that “public serv- hbrook Golf J true or false. {and happier because kind people! ant” Smith was irked because Course. It slid ¢ % | Into the early morning hours!took them to the store and bought | The Times informed the taxpay- Off the road into | ers that none of his deputies or the ditch and #§ jailers was on duty the night of tipped against a the party. A few former and spe- Stump. cial deputies substituted. | The beauty Hd

queen was scared State Police Took Over but not even

And state police took over pa- scratched.

Photos, OtheY Stories, Pages 2 and 6; Names of Hoosier POWs, Page 9 By DAVID WATSON

A nation maintained its

lg | [today the relatives of men ininew shoes and other clothes for j, (Korea sought information fromlthem. : | . |The Times which examined the! You can help make other .chil- ‘® list as its portions were released dren happy in these three ways: i |by Washington. ONE—By sending a contribu-

v ig § Additional men with close rela-|tion to Clothe-A-Child, IndianWa iid |tives living here were identified apolis Times, 214 W, , Wi , Her mother, trolling Marion County highways Mrs. Evert Joh Miss Johnson

from the list as Pyt. Tommie M., TWO--By | VanCleave, 3318 E. 25th St. and| during that snowy, blowy night o., " 5010 B, Fall Creek Pkwy.

son of Mrs. Goldie VanCleave,

Red POW List To Aid Need

20-DAY ESTIMATE 421; Lines The Mile-O-Dimes will close next Tuesday evening, Christmas Eve. It will take 172 more lines to complete a mile. A mile would provide $8976 for Times Clothe-A-Child to outfit needy children. There are 17 dimes to a foot. Each line is 88 feet long: Firemen’'s post 42 of the American Legion is on duty 24 hours a day at the Mile-O-Dimes on W. Washington St.

| in front of J. S. Ayres and Co,

and 8, 8. Kresge and Co.

pointment to .take one or more to “the store and buy

children their clothes.

THREE By placing dimes on! Maryland St. the Times Mile-O-Dimes on Wash-|

telephoning PL aza'ington St. in front of IL. 8. Ayres | | VanCleave, brother of Miss Janice 5551 and asking for a donor ap- and Co. and 8. 8S. Kresge and Co.

y Through Times Clothe-A-Child

Only threé days remain for the generous people of | vigil over the prisoner of war Indianapolis to supply the funds to outfit needy children | list today and more Indian- through The Times Clothe-A-Child before Christmas. | Workers at Clothe-A-Child headquarters, 20 W. Mary-

'MILE-O-DIMES

sx erviveriis $6358.00 |

Acme Telephoto.

STUNNED—Mrs. Agnes Sasser, 22, stands shocked with her husband, Pfc. Bill Sasser.

‘Modern Enoch Arden—

Northern Area to Get Snow, Ice

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a m.. 32 10 a m... 33 Ta m.. 32 1lam.. 34 a m.. 33 12 (Noon) 34 9a m.. 38 1 p.m... 35

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Latest humidity ....... 98%

The city thawed out today, Temperatures headed for the high 30s and might reach

40, the weatherman said. He predicted a low of 25 tonight. Tomorrow will be colder, but no zero weather was in sight. The Weather Bureau warned that roads in the northern third of the state would be glazed with ice. Snow, sleet and freezing rain were predicted for that part of Indiana. All Roads Bad

Early today roads were bad all over the state. Snow fell on the northern half of Indiana and drifted in some places. Rain covered the southern half, froze on the highways but melted as temperatures rose, Indianapolis had snow mixed with sleet: and freezing rain. After daylight it changed to rain. Snow and colder was forecast for the state tonight.

’ Ice Js Threat Whether today's rain would stop in time to keep central and southern roads from becoming a

when hundreds of motorists got gajd the car would have turned Lafayette; M/Sgt. Ivan Glass-! - fd - / | ' | glate- of 108 Wa 0 the a aver and Turt her daughter hadioerk cor of Me By poh wos Clothe A-Child Contributions | weatherman didn't Kew. A lot In spite of the fact that stateit not been for the stump, | Glasscock, 124 N. East St. and] previous Balince «++814,586.68 Mr. and Mrs. Miller Woman Rewe oO 9 me ang. toll police confirmed the fact nol Mother picked up the queen Pfc. Robert P. Montgomery, son| [ Keller .....veovaiv... 50.00 / r rose to 29. sheriff's deputy cars were on road|and drove her the rest of the way Of Mr. and Mrs James Mont- Employees of Fashion {Employees of Jefferson ¢ y Police blamed blinding snow patrol that night, Sheriff Smith/to Butler University. gomery, 2829 Sturt St. | Dry Cleaners, Inc. .. 50.00, National Life Insur- | Dea Mate | S POW 3 for the death. of Jesse E. Chrisinsists he had two deputies on - Missing Since 1950 [Bridge Dept., State : le ies Cm nites sensi 82.50, f ; tophel, 65, New He died road patrol and two at the jail. ; Since July, 1950, Pvt. Van: Highway Commission 40.00' Challenge Gauge & Tool | Bog ok Feast : iam {today When car hit a truck One, ot hig worlgers, however (Greece Elected (Cleave has been missing in action. The Holkm Samba Club “pO Ane Seioais 35000 Gd BRIN TROT The first’ er her ‘sebond husband who head-on of Goshen on said all the ‘deputies and jailers! . |He was among the first troops to —Indianapolis ...... 10.00. 1. D: Crowe .......... 10.00 “Enoch Arden” case of the Ko- oe with her in a machine Ind. 119. 5 were at the party. To UN Council ‘|meet the Communist onslaught y po ~~ 1.00 mployees of Thompson | rean War turned up here toda¥ record unit at Ft. MacPhear- |- William Thomas Chaney, 17, Today the sheriff posted an : at the outbreak of the Korean! Name . AL ) Bros, Pattern Works 20480) en a 22-year-old woman, Who gon here, and blurted out the Lyford, and Bob J. Clark, 18, official order to his staff that] * PARIS, Dec. 20, (UP)—Greece action. Yo Name J... .e0y.0. 100 Clara Mae’ ..ooiovnen, , S00 remarried after her husband pews He was stunned. |Roseda , died In a car stalled The Times was to be given NO/ywae elected t6 a seat on the! Nothing has been heard from International Harvester (¥. & W. Management rted killed in Korea “Phe Defense Department |I0 & snow drift two miles west of a | .year- | Truck EB ‘Works, By TRY Svein 10.00, Was repo fhe e ns pa left information the 23-year-old soldier since then. | ' i 0.00 d he is listed a8 a Com {ol Walter was Clinton. They a . United Nations Security Counclli “py "30 "00" UL tat ‘nis Machine Shop, South. Allison Pay Roll Em- | Jeasngg rer gh 3 hme Tragments at the |the motor rumning after Pigeon-Holed Order today after a bitter fight In which brother, Pvt. Jimmie VanCleave ern Division ........ 16.00, ployees ............ - 4000; Mun et dont Know what 10. that dio me day,” (Off Ind. 163. The exhaust pipe When The Times asked to Russia backed its White Russian has twice been in Korea and has A Friend ............ : 2.00 Deipliite Cun or onayey 259 do ‘stammered Mrs. Agnes sobbed Mrs. Sasser. “You have l0dged iz - wnow and a the photograph that order, Sheriff republic (Byelorussia). The Vote(Searcieg for Jum diligently when Anonymous, Southport, : |Standard OM Company "| Sasser. “I haven't been able to no idea how I feel. I just can’t CAT With monoxide fumes, Smith ordered it taken down from|was 39 to 16. NY rd does ‘he kiow that his op bagi io pe 25.00 office Employees .... 35.00 think it a) through yet.» tole hetleve Falter .. sn alive-1 Gas 0 + 3 Children i | : 1 : eceive - . the bulletin board and pigeon-| As a result, Greece Will repre-| rather, Milton, has died since he A ak a aw. Gonway, 2.00) Wi, Pe BA Depart * x « Here in Ii. _.cnapolis, thres chilholed in his desk. sent eastern Europe on the -coun-|went into action. ; | Christian Church. +. 10.00 Bint na gar, ge sreees 10.00) ment: informing her that her . THE Brgwn-eved beauty 4nd tien were Overcome yesterday : He admitted that the original|cil during 1952. Sonic, hols Sepving Bis S6C- inhib Krueger: ...... 1.00 North Side Indianapolis | first husband, Pvt. Walter her Husband Je ay te nazi utp order barred ‘all Times personnel] The victory for Greece—and the ot ne RE yyy Vas Shel Memory of Lt. Wal- Real Estate Board .. 42.00 Dixon, was wounded in. Korea BF * things through.” ‘The Nichols, 42, of 725 N. Noble St. from receiving any information. United States, its sponsor—came Eb. for AIR. ™ on ae rl ter South ors 2.00/A Friend ............. 5.00" May 18, 1951, and died the next ,, ,... "hepartment said the {was driving with his children— Now, however, he explained, he,on the 19th ballot. Sep J We! Bo Je Oke {In Behalf of Mrs. C. E. ~ Anonymous ........... 1.87, day. matter has been sent to Gen. Tania, 7; Cinda Lou, 5 and Mi has amended that order to ex: .Some Latin American countries! = oo _Scheuring, Employees [Shipping Dept. Cornell { a Matthew Ridgway’'s headquar- |chael, 2. They were treated by a clude only this particular Times had refused to support Greece be- Sgt. iasscotk has never seen) of Emerson, Scheuring Pubifier ............ 50.00, THE WOMAN who thought ters for investigation. |General Hospital ambulance doc reporter from the news sources inicause they thought that they had his daughter { Tank & Mfg. Co. .... 62.00 Tuesday Afternoon Club 3.50) she was a widow, a native of Enoch Arden, a fictional |tor. : the sheriff's department. been. treated unfairly in the allot-| "gp 01/0 y ot he her birth he was Indianapolis Machinery Co. E 8908, T. 8. U, T. | Cullman, Ala, collected her character, was supposedly lost | In Richmond State Hospita “Routine reports,” he explained, ment of seats on United Nations sent into action and was laterr & Supply Company A G. 8S. opaiiniiii 2.60 husband's $10,000 GI insurance ¢ sea. He returned home to buildings, temperatures dropped “still will be available to other ang other international bodies. reported missing. | Employees .......... 73.001 Mouery of Mother 20 go 80d remarried. hth find his wife happily remar- to near 50 degrees. Crews worked Times reporters. | Nothing was heard from the A Friend ..t.......... 5.00 Marine Reeraitors <ul She was going through the ried, Hg went away without around the clock to repair the [soldier until about two months N° Name Z ........... 7.00 'arine Recruiters ..... 60.00 Communist prisoner of war ist telling her he still lived. boiler. An auxiliary boiler was Sh iff- hod this |ago, when his wife, Juanita, re. I? Memory of Capt. Rob- | iy Glass tereveians . 30.00 wednesday when she ran across Asked which husband she hooked up to help two locomotives eri mi ceived a letter from the prison _ ®t FE. Ensminger ... 5.00 1s i Jopy Lo Dept. Jos! her husband's name. , Will stick by, Mrs. Sasser sald, keep 1750 mental patients “as C Hy N camp. Smglod *renies . 5.00! sir. ay Wes Leslie "Yl “I'm sure it's the same Dixon,” “I don’t know. Rill and ay comfortable as possible.” . {le M. Bell ........... . 00 BA de he said. “The serial numbers not even be married, ’ ames poned ensors 'J' Gives Them Hope Again Fall Creek Civie I Tucker and Barbara. . 10.00) © wo n’ » Four G Post ® e a That meant only more wo] ater Night Sague Nancy Buchottes ...... Toe Tateh. just don't now what 10 40 Four Indiana high school

fusion, because the Defense Department warned her to be Cau- Employees of the Polk

(An Editorial) p ous in her appraisal of it. But Sanitary Milk Co. ...

HERE might not be much news about the Sheriff's now the family dares hope again. yn giana Reformatory

2 : we rs. Glasscock, with her son Inmates from Their office in The Times for awhile. 1~ Persons! Funds

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300.50 A- S. T. cess st rasan. Employees

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Elder A. Pennington

of Wallace Tool & Die Co. .....

naturally, the news of arrests, and raids, and the other! : routine of the Marion County Sheriff, which he customarily She Took His Place— | puts out, and. which is a public record legally open and ¢ y available not only to all newspapermen but to anybody | They Were Very Close | else who wants to look at it, and which we will examine

kids' bicycles; * Judge Scott McDonald of Municipal Court 4 imposed the stiff penalties after polite testified Bush had stolen “and

pawned more than 35 bicycles. i {| Today's conviction was his |

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too whenever we wish to see it.

He did not mean the real news of his office, which he has tried without notable success to hide from the press and the public ever since he got his badge.

Such as the news about the time when he secretly and

illegally loaned out a prisoner in his custody to a brother!

sheriff in another county who killed the man. Such news ery in San Franas the truth about the riot of prisoners in the county jail Seco ah the the other day in rebellion against the treatment he gives her iv ly Pfc. them, - X i Robert P, MontThat news is never in the “reports” he wants to hide| i gomery. Just see from us. But we've generally managed to get it anyway—| Bojores™ s 2 id i i er mother, rs. and we still will, g Florence. Mont

After reconsideration this morning Sheriff Smith modi-

the report of the jolly party. For his information, which seems almost as vague as the manner in which he runs his office, let us remind Sheriff | Smith that no sheriff and no other public servant dictates the assignments of this newspaper. Mr. Shull will continue to report on the sheriff's office. He will continue to tell! the truth about it. : We doubt if the Sheriff's ban will cause any real

- shortage of news from there.

An Indianapolis woman who

Joined the Marines after her brother was reported missing in action, today will learn he's listed as a prisoner of war. A “special delivery” was sent off yesterday to Marine Pfc. Dolores = Montgom-

close—just two years’ difference in their ages. She's 21. He's 19.” After her brother wag reported missing In action in Korea last Apr. 27, Dolores “talked of nothing” but enlisting in the Marines. She enlisted 11 weeks ago, Just before her 21st birthday. {stayed home from Technical High Pfc. Montgomery wrote haine | School yesterday, awaiting - the Aug. 5 that he was in an enemy message that arrived. The famprison camp, but the Army had ily of the soldier who went to Konot confirmed his capture until {rea last January includes three

MARINE DOLORES MONT. GOMERY , , . The letter she wanted, : /

We have enough now to last for quite awhile.

the POW list was announced yes: other brothers, Randall, James terday. : and Clarence Montgomery,

The GI's brother, Rodney; 18, |

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fourth on that charge.

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Tony Maio’s Kin Get Jobs Back

Three relatives of City Street

ul : but the soldier's parents live here. | of 'M Paper Company ...., 115.00, i ommissioner Tony Maio, who Or, maybe, gam, there might be. : Not all of Indianapolis’ serv. 17, Mem a 5.00 Dan Owens ....... soe 00 1 heft Case ¢ Som suspended ton their street The other night, while Marion County IBO(Orists lessens: families received such| women's Auxiliary of Eo S| jobs temporarily by the Board of floundered helpless and unprotected through one of the Fmne” Hers - eno §o&| the Indiadapolis Traf- | Today's Total .......5 1,616.90 eer (2 consecutive MOUS Of Works a week ago, were reinworst snowstorms in years Sheriff Smith and all his merry Meshulams, 3140 College Ave, Fini 0 Ue TOTAL TO DATE ..$16,155.58 pry today reported ft was hope- Stated today. - : deputies made whoopee at a gay Yuletide party, leaving}, In ther Desrdesperate sestch Michigan Street Post ——— [lessly deadlocked and was ee en or eT? Taig . the county’s roads unpatrolled. |son, Morris, they sat nearly six! soq eRoceiving Bo pt. 10.00 Bike Thief Gets {iissed, jurors, including two, that the three workers had been The Times published the facts. [ours 3: he family radio while Plant 5, Allison Divi- 1 80-Day Term women, were unable to agree on a ADSEn [rom thelr jobs “proved to 8» =» ‘nu = 1 sion G. M..C. 000s. 50.00 |verdict for Henry Brooks, 32, of * . : tuph 3 dist were read, In Memory of John HERBERT BUSH, 23, of 1827 |1615 Alvord St., charged with the, The three workers reinstated SHERIFF SMITH retaliated (he hopes) by posting] Their boy, who went in the, Purky. oiieeesnrss 5.00 Bellefontaine St, today was Sept. 25 theft of $190 from Stop “ere Dommico Maio, father of an order in his office that henceforth Times reporters Were | ATMY three ye a: went OVer-ia Friend of Children. . 2.00 fined $200 and costs and sen. |& Shop supermarket, 28th St. gud|StFeet. Commissioner Tony Ha; to be barred from all news reports and records. He meant, ported missing Dec 1 Yas re Novi CHEOWB veers sn : 5-00 tenced to 180 days for stealing (Capitol Ave. . :

| Jurors reported one man and Ly {one woman held out for ac, Brother in aw. board {quittal, but the woman changed ward .Asardner, hoard presi-

{ : senteeism of the workers were Bt all-night jury session in some found to be exaggerated:

Brooks’ accused accomplice, {25th 8t., is awaiting trial on charges of grand larceny and auto banditry, CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 20 (UP)—| Brooks, who will be retried, Egyptian terrorists blew up a faces possible maximum sentence railroad bridge linking the Brit-| of 10 to 25 years if convicted on ish army garrison at Suez in the these same charges. Canal Zone with its fresh water Throughout the trial, Brooks in-/supply, Egyptian sources asserted sisted he was not at the scene of today. the 9 p. m. theft. His girl friend,| Earlier terrorists tried to blow Marina Amos, 914 S. Illinois St. up a British supply train and testified he was at hér home from!carried out bombing and sniping| 3 p. m. until 8:57 p. m. attacks in the Canal Zone.

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Plc gomery of 2829 Times . . . that's where you'll . Ra : : : s : i; find the vast majority of the fied his junior grade iron curtain. At the moment, it seems,| Montgomery Sturt St, who better home values offered | ; it applies only to one Times man—R., K. Shull, who wrote “Dolores and Buddy were very fs LE For Sale.

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coming holidays? , . , Try | "Apple Charlotte" ’ y y "Christ of All Nations" . of the ancient story of Bethlehem ........ drain sdb How Much Harm Can Steel Do? Fred Perkins gives a lucid . . "inside" story of the hottest issue on the labor front today.. 26 High-flying Crispus Attucks faces its first real test against Howe tonight, the only team to best the Tigers in regular season | play last year .... :

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- Amusements .......... 3M Robert Ruark ......... 25 | Eddie Ash .....c00 xc 40 Society .......s...003, 13 | Crossword ........o..s 39 Ed Sovola ..eeivviinee 25 Editorials Crass branene 26 Sports cessssnssesnavasdO-41 In Hollywood cress nnnn 3 Earl Wilson srssevsans’ 25 Radio, Television sane 3% Women's aes aensaten 14

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basketball games scheduled for tonight in the South Bend area were postponed today because of hazardous traveling conditions. Officials announced postponement of Ft. Wayne North at Mishawaka, Brazil at South Bend [Riley, South Bend Washington at Culver, and Stillwell at North Liberty.

‘Dodge Heiress Hurt: ‘When Her Jeep Upsets

| CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin {1slands, Dec. 20 (UP)-—American heiress Mrs. Christine Cromwell Hoffman was injured today when a jeep she was driving over turned.

Double-Take

By BOB BARNES

Nelson Rudolph, 27. of 2306 E. Terrorists Blow Up