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eras | Don’ t Need My Old Shoes Any More’
; Contributions and Donor List, Page 7. HEY didn't find them until after the kids had gone.
Then workers straightening chairs in Times Clothe-A-Child headquarters noticed them in a corner . Hitwo pairs of scuffed, battered, pitifully worn boys’ shod) One worker remembered. She remembered a small boy who came back from the stores with his eyes gleaming with happiness that was almost a reflection of the shining new shoes on his feet.
The Payoff Is Close—
Full War With China He Got Gifis
From Rahke |
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—A direct war with China |
Forecast If Talk Fails
By LUDWELL DENNY
Seripps-woward Foreign Editor
is probable unless the Reds agree to a reasonable Korean armistice and keep its terms.
The United States can not long continue to fight in Korea with its Air Force forbidden to strike back at the
China attempts a military showdown in Korea, she will get a showdown at home. The United States wants a Korean peace. We proved this by making major | concessions in the current truce talks. The enemy in return has made virtually none. . The payoff is close. Even if the Dec. 27 deadline for the proposed ceasefire demarcation is extended for a few days, the enemy hasn’t much longer to make up his mind.
There are three possibilities;
ONE—A genuine armistice, on the agreed line ap- | proximating the present battle front, faithfully observed. | This will be the outcome if the enemy is now seriously hurt and is unwilling to risk extension of the war elsewhere. If so, the American and United Nations forces could be gradually reduced as the enemy demonstrated he was not preparing to break the armistice. In that case, the chief deterrent to an enemy sneak attack would not be so much our smaller force, holding the armistice line, as the clear threat of American retaliation against Red China herself. a yn : y a # This warning might, or might not, be sufficient to prevent an enemy attack—depending on whether the enemy wants a bigger war now. In Berlin such a warning
Mr. Denny
enemy's major bases in Manchuria. If |
| | ! 4 |in the recording of a radio juter) view in which he took part last |
'He refused to give The Times a |copy of the interview, but FCC
{be kept of all such programs.
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{morning. There wasn’t a lighter
Hnsight:
{thinks such tokens of esteem are]
has been enough to date to hold a thin line with only |
token Allied forces. Stalin has not overrun our weak
Berlin garrison—-a far bigger pri — garr gger prize than Korea—because {ers from Fletcher Rahke, which
| were distributed at our party.
he is not ready to take the known consequences.
TWO—The second possibiltiy is a trick armistice. |
Force for quick ground reinforcements from Manchuria, and fast conversion of his North Kerean airfields for jets.
This probably could not bé detected quickly enough by truce inspection teams to enable our Air Force to prevent it. A few days start by the enemy would be very damaging. Here again the major deterrent—if any—. would be the enemy's knowledge that-such treachery would be punished by retaliatory attack on Red China.
What Stalin would do then, of course, is not known. .
If he followed his Bérlin waiting strategy, he would order his Chinese Reds to stop. If they refused and thus forced a larger war against his will, he presumably would cut off supplies of new jets and arms, and there would be far less danger of a China war spreading to a world war. Then we would have split Stalin and his major Asiatic satellite. But obviously there is no assurance of this,
_ | Truman today.
THREE—The third possibility is a breakdown of the |
truce talks. Then a resumption of the old stalemate fighting is unlikely. Enemy refusal of a truce on reasonable terms would bé clear notice that he thinks he can drive us out of Korea
and intends to do so. Unless we were willing to accept defeat-—and of course we are not—we would have two alternatives. One would be to go on fighting: a war of the enemy's. choosing, under the worst possible conditions for us. The other would be to carry the war to the enemy where, when and how our awn superior naval and bombing strength would be most effective. { Korea would not be forgotten. But the war would be won or lost elsewhere. Our major military strength would no longer be tied down: in a sack where Stalin wants it. It could be used to strike
back at the heart of an enemy who attacked us. In any event the present unnatural and costly military ad-
over us must end soon. Either by the honorable armistice we want. Or by a China war— which we do not want, but which we will take if the enemy continues his aggression in Koarea against us and the United Nations. Such a China war would ~not be invited by the United States, us by the enemy-the only kind of defense to prevent endless costly statematé or evens tua] defeat.
It would be forced on.
United Steelworkers.
lcigaret lighters from an In-,
rectly quote the sheriff’s inter- | view.
the Sheriff confirmed The Times’
gambling tax stamp. |
The enemy would use the lull and inactivity of our Air jay 214. 181g police.
| rings,
“Is it-all right if I leave my old shoes here?” he asked shyly, “I don't need them now.” The scene came back to her as she lifted the bits of sagging leather and looked straight through gaping holes at the floor below.” Where once had been soles were holes, the shape of a boy's running feet. The shapeless shoes still were water-stained, where little feet that day had trod through the bitter cold snow and slush outside. No one knows who left the other pair. But they told
Sheriff Says The Cow Jumps Over the Moon—
Milk Cost Here Zooms To An All-Time High
Standard Grade Price aested: to 23 Cents;
Another story, Page 3 By R. K. SHULL
Sheriff = Smith today ad-| mitted his deputies received]
| |dianapolis gambler as Christ. mas gifts. And thé sheriff said he approved of it. “After all, these deputies aren't. paid much salary,” said Sheriff 8mith, in justifying their accepi{ance of lighters and other tokens {during the Yuletide season. In a Recording
His admissions were 2S roniained
night over Radio Station WIBC.
regulations call for recording to
That's how The Times can di-
I had a tough time getting a {light for my cigaret when I visited {Sheriff Smith's empgrium this
But last night on the radio,
story that his deputies had received cigaret lighter gifts from Fletcher Rahke, one of the many local figures to buy a federal And apparently the sheriff quite all right. He said: “Around Christmaz we frequently receive gifts for deputies. Such gifts have heen received from insurance companies and others as a gesture of good will.
Other Small Items | “We did receive cigaret light-'
Similar customs are. followed by
“We also received some key notebooks and similar small items. After all, these deputies aren’t paid much salary.” In his radio interview, the/ Sheriff did not specify the source of the other Yuletide gifts.
Truman Gets Steel Dispute
By United ‘Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—Federal Mediation Director Cyrus S. Ching referred the deadlocked steel wage dispute to President
His efforts to solve the dispute collapsed after a day and a half of fruitless talks aimed at head: eer ing off an industry-wide strike New Year's Day. 5 To 10 Below Zero— Industry negotiators refused to come up with any wage offer in
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the same story. Soles meant to keep a little boy's feet warm had long since been left on sidewalks to school, playgrounds . . . wherever little boys magically make their shoes disappear. . .. The Clothe-A-Child worker started to toss the shoes away. But then she stopped. For somehow, suddenly, they became a symbol of what Clothe-A-Child really is . » . the bringing of what is most needed to those who need it most.
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* Wimes photo by John R. Spicklemi
I'VE BEEN A GOOD BOY'—When a little boy sits on Santa's knee and says he's been good, the Old Gent's heart is sure to melt right under that silver beard. That's what happens when St. Nick writes his Christmas list for Mike Caskey, almost 4, at the boy's home, 5270 Primrose Ave. Times i is taking » picture trip through Christmas with Mike. Tomorrow, he wraps gifts. for Daddy.)
(The
answer to CIO President Philip Winter's Really Due Tomorrow
Murray's “demand for an 18%;-
cent hourly wage package for his Another Story, Page 30
- Winter weather roared Mr. Truman presumably will
|turn the dispute over to the Wage back into Indianapolis today
vantage which the enemy has | ‘Times Index
|Stabilization Board for recom- with renewed fury on freezing | imended settlement terms and also is expetted to ask Mr. Murray to | withhold strike action. { hour.
| The fast-falling mercury, which |
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here several times during fall.
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES monoxide suffocation 3.
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Latest humidity ........78%
weatherman said cold tomorrow Streets and highways
reached its peak of 40 degrees at om be followed by ‘slowly mod- extra hazardous today as the
|4¢ a. m. today before starting! |downward, will nosedive at 5 to the week-end. He promised pre-,snow and crusted over snow still
| Thus winter will be ushered in nt threats of another rise by Robert Ruark ........... 21 (here officially at 10:01 a. m. to- the death rate attributed {morrow by the same bone-chill- weather conditions, which, ry ing temperatures already seen totals 32.
trary, promises rain or possible exertion.
|avoid travel, or to drive carefully.
temperatures through falling temperature froze melting!
"op |10 degrees below zero tonight and cipitation the first of the week oe- remaining. Jrisé to no more than 18 degrees curring as light rain or snow. -
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Above are one of each of these pairs of shoes. Between them are 18 dimes, representing the 45 lines of silver already stretched out at The Times Mile-O-Dimes, The empty lines represent something else, the yet unfilled lines needed to bring the Mile-O-Dimes to the 60
lines which will make a full mile . ., the mile that will be many miles of happiness and warmth for other little feet like the ones that once belonged in these shoes.
Harold Hartley, Page 0 Milk prices here zoomed to an all-time high today with a 1-cent-a-quart boost. The new price is a cent higher than the peak of 22
‘cents for standard grades set in 1948 and tied this fall,
laccording to C. Winfield Hunt,
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{secretary of the Milk Foundation lization explained whenever ths
{milk and dairy products Dec. 19, Y
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| pay boost.
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fire 3, ceiling on wage increases under exposure 3, drowning 2, and train the Wage Stabilization Board's ——
{all-time
of Indianapolis. farmers’ price goes up a certain Borden's, Polk's and other ma-ramount, retailers can apply for a jor dairies today “were raising] {comparable increase. prices on standard grade milk | to 23 cents, on,
sey milk go 26 cents, Spokesmen said the hike was] due to. an 83-cent increase per; last 17 hundredweight since Oct. 15 in the| November. 19 price paid to farmers. The in-| crease brings that price to $6. 26. |
lits average of 21 cents,
was recorded in
sold at seven cents.
Prices on milk hovered around homogenized 19 cents in 1949 and 1950, dropgrade to 24 cents, and on Guern-| ping from the record 1948 with
Lowest price for milk in the
1934, when regular
‘Boost Second This Year | The retail price boost was {the second this year. Milk went up one cent a quart)
Double-Take last October, to 22 cents on : a standard grades. 12-21 2 ree Tar
Today's hike way the second |. since controls were placed on![
By BOB BARNES
cents a quart on standard grades | was recorded in September and, October, 1948. That year the price, started off at 19 cents a quart, ! jumped to 22 cents, then dropped!’ to 21 cents in August. The 1948 Cc PA, average was 20 cents, i a
Subject to Kapfroval
The increase is subjgct to ap-
proval of price control officials - in Washington. prema The dairies’ applications have eights are a einch . been sent to Washington for con- “Figure Sights best Sau A skater sideration. Klookinoe County. The local Office of Price Stabi- "
@ Living Costs Set Record
By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-—-The government reported today that the cost of living has hit a new high, giving 1,250,000 railroad workers a 4-cent hourly!
1950 h The pre-record price of 22 ps a”
The new high also raises another notch the government's
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cost-of-living formula. The Bureau of Labor Statistics!
MILE-O-DIMES
olice, the State Highway De- reported that both the new and 21-Day Estimate ron and local SLs all 01d consumer price indexes for| 45 Lines .......... «+ -$6732.00 {i warni torists to/NOV..15 hit a new record high. | Sse Dgs 10 molorisis 10 The new index reached 188.6 per) the next three days if the gens cent of the 1935-39 period which became | is calculated at 100.
Fifteen lines are needed in
erous people of Indianapolis | are going to provide a full mile The new index showed that re-| for The Times Clothe-A-Child,
tail prices of goods and services| The Mile-O~Dimes closes:
bought by medium income urban| Christmas Eve. Last year the | families averaged six-tenths of! oi es stretched more than. a mile.
| 15. The Mile-O-Dimes is on wi
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UP) is based on the rise in the old |—-Mystery man Henry W. Grune- index over the past three months. In Indiana, 11 have died from, wald appeared at a public hearing The increase will fnean a total But Christmas Day, on the con- heart attacks following weather of House tax investigators today, increase of 11 cents an hour colTraffic accidents have but refused during an uproarious lected by rail employees under an Ww with warmer weather, The contributed 8 deaths, carbon session to answer any questions, escalator agreement since Apr. 1.
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Washington St. in front of L. 8. Ayres & Co. and 8. S.9Kresge Co. Uniformed city "recruited by Firemen's No. a of the American are on duty there a day,
The railroad workers’ increase
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