Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1951 — Page 1

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STAND BACK, BEAR—Police Lt. Frdd Staggs levels his service revolver at the bear whick last night was "eating dogs” on the near West Side. :

He Didn't Even Growl— : Police Find Bear Here A Pretty Stuffy Fellow

| “YPTVHERE'S a big old bear out in my back yard.” Police dispatcher Lt. Francis Gootee got this urgent call at

. Probe Fires At Circle Theater

Police and fire officials today kept a close watch on the Circle Theater to guard against a new,

| fully combed the area. | And they found a bear, |

IT WAS a big brown bear,

dark, the seven policemen care- |

Washington Waits Report Of Airmen | : By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 29— | United States relations with

Communist Hungary teetered

‘near the breaking point today. Changes of a final break ap- | parently depended on whether the |Hungarian Reds mistreated the

4 four American airmen held hos-

[tage for 40 days. Tension between the two eoun- | tries hit a new peak shortly after {the fliers were freed at the Hun- | garian-Austrian border yesterday. Secretary of State Dean Ache[son quickly banned American | travel to Hungary and ordered Hungarian consulates shut in New York and Cleveland.

i | A note sent to the Hungarian

|legation! last night orderad Hun{gary’'s only consulates in this {country closed by Jan. 1. Mr. | Acheson left open the possibility of further retaliatory action after

U. 8. authorities have interviewed | the airmen about their treatment

{by the Reds. Wants ‘Listening Post’

The State Department hoped diplomatic relations. could be {maintained on at least a limited (scale. This government wants

[listening posts behind the Iron|

Curtain, and a helping hand for any _Americans who might pe snared in the future. But some Congressmen said the Reds had gone too far. “We should take every means lof reprisal we can,” said Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R. Towa). “In addition to closing the

-|consulates, we should give full

Little Girl Spends State to Ask Energy larnessed | . * ' ar apped Chicago Aid To Make Electricity | | LYFORD, Tex., Dec. 20 (UP)— |Five-year-old Neomi Uresti had By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Br tniied » | n ress day to show for five hours spent| , The State loonie Beverage | i | call on the Chicago Crime Com- il histo —has been harnessed to power civilian electric |drainage hole one foot in dia- mission to help the state investi- appliances, the Atomic Energy Commission announced toThe child was rescued lastitorious underworld figures and {night after volunteer workersithe Canadian Ace Brewing Co., {drilled a parallel shaft and heriwhich is registered to sell beer i 3 used {father brought her to safetylin Indiana. Been famed I point white it was to generate power through 2 eros iyunel Gov. Schricker ordered the » 1ghts and to run machinery. = She was pulled near the sur- .,. ..'s cer The Times yesterday ower were produced fo noon-long rescue operation, but| imate association with the old P P : for more than two days at the each time fell back screaming! AEC's 400,000-acre national reactor testing station near | . . ¥4 4 | . ¥ a lany way connected with criminal] One kilowatt is about the power required to heat up an | THE CHILD'S father, Felipe elements, the government Is ex-| ordinary electric flat iron. sat by the hole, saying over and; over in Spanish—the only langu-|

as the tight shaft and ropes Capone gang. pected to demand the ABC reUresti, never left the scene. He] The amount of power produced in the

12 Ft. Underground | + In Beer Probe At AEC Plant in Idaho lonly scratches on her wrists to-| : arabe) CHICAGO, Dec. 29-—Atomic energy—for the first time wedged 12 feet underground in a oCay meter. gate reported links between no-|day, | The AEC said the tremendous power of the atom had In the actual experiment, about 100 kilowatts of elecface three times during the after-i¢. ..°. 0 bréwery's long and in-| tric scratched her. If the: Chicago brewery was in| Arco, Ida. {voke its state beer registration. | ] be sufficient to supply power

"Revoked in New York

outbreak of suspected arson. | onsideration to sending their Five minor fires were ex | headquarters early this morn- | than five feet long and irs and to DE haw age Neomi understands—“Don’t! Bernard Doyle, Democratic ‘Heat Wave' for two or three ordinary tinguished at the downtown yng ; re Tor tad our people” cry, little one.” {chairman of the Commission, said homes with all their lights theater in a period of several) Nobody hears so many . Crairman Tom Connally (D. When he asked if she was all he would personally call on viel a turned on, plus radio, television ; Bons yesterday evening and last drunks and cranks as a police | ; h vals ittle mangy—and Tex.), of the Senate Foreign Rela- Pigwt, ,Neomi always RAW ere heron, Sherating Spector Due to Aid and ether appliances running, z . h X { * tions ommittee, was amon » 81. | H AEC emphasized ; Police said “it looked like, dispatcher. | Where it came from, nobody |other lawmakers Wh ral na The child was playing with her|to assist with the investigation. | Ba ASC snp was L ty he arson.” And Fire Inspection Chief “Well, uh , . . Thanks,” Lt. | yet knows. There is no police [breaking diplomatic relations 4-year-old brother, Pablo, and a In Chicago, Mr. Peterson of-| tate ra ic sarily any closer now to an Ralph Foner started an in- goatee said. | report of a stolen stuffed bear. |with Hungary. | Soyain 3 the yeas of Her gang fored je full g 2cilities of the atomic-powered home or autovestigation today. A short while Ia | Neighbors don’t claim it. {father’s home here when s e/ Crime Commission to assist Gov.. Warmer weather and general/mobile primary go "All the fires were on the third _ ‘0, JC later came AL Yeadnuariers the critter | Might Seize Assets slipped feet first and her hands|Schricker. thawing forecast for today and|the he I ol of floor gallery of the big movie “There a big bear out in my | was stationed outside the po- | Courses of action left open to over head into the hole, dug last! The Chicago Crime Commission tomorrow is expected to cut intolis to préduce fissionable materials

house. Four were started in a leather cushioned settee in the

back yard. And he's eating up my dog.”

li room, and ofCe meen |servering diplomatic relations, in-|

| ficers paraded past to see the

{the United States, in addition to/Week to drain a kitchen sink. »

Liquor Authority in 1949 when it|caused by ice and snow. made_an exhaustive investigation

assisted the New York State the number of Hoosier aceidents|for use in weapons rather than

atomic power for civilian use.

men’s washroom. Fire in Stuffed Chair The fifth fire, reported at 6:44

Still another: “There's a big | “bear that ate the dog.” bear running around out in my | “#In 17 years of dispatcher

alley.” duty on the police department,”

§ . m., was in a stuffed chair kept! = ® x = i oe in a closet entered through the | LT. GOOTEE: began to be | Sent anyone to find a bear that [OF TefurD of the C-47 cargo plane| | foo: rec 20 (UP)—a biter) Decauise the owner, Alex-| "Northeast Indiana oan expect, Tremendous Heat wash room. Assistant Manager| lieve it. So he sent Sgt. Ray | 7° yon confiscated by the Reds and pub- N fo ‘witnl ander Louis Greenberg, was “no-|tog and some snow flurries, fore-| The action of ny Jack Stabler told police the door, Peak and his squad to 807 w, | found ome” lication of a full record of the in- t°F orth ! Atlan e form withtoriously connected with the old| casters said. prod powe » cident from Nov. 19 through yes- gales up to miles an hour|Capone gang. | Only one pre-holiday trac experiment was indirect. The AEC

New York St.

As the sergeant and his men crept cautiously into the rear of

is kept locked. i Fire apparatus from several ‘downtown stations was rushed to

A REPORT circulated throughout headquarters that

terday.

} : . ips A “0 b ” az : r the theater to check the blaze in|. Sgt. Peak shot the bear three |clined to say what further action ¥P2in to Scandinavia. Ten ships Ace a “Capone brewery” after : . : : the closel. Damage was minor. | by two other Php Sones Hmes, and the animal bIEX Iralght ne taken. BU their word WeRS SAAR Gof dn American "*4""S" 10. Ohitagn. ~~ ox: ~ | ed 188L Bight when 8 Hit.fuhiactolt Lo , Tre. Firemen were not ca grille : sawdust. was that the case was not closed. ; Linked to HMoodlums on. : ; bea Generated. © other fires. Mr. Stabler told police] Their flashlights probing the Sgt. Peak denies shooting, | The “ransom” of $120,000 was [reighter whose crew was being Fat acar Jin home The reactor was cooled by + hat

that theater employees put them says the report started when he paid by U.S. charge d'affaires

out. : = | jokingly told a switchboard [George M. Abbott. He ‘was auFew patrons were in the gal- Shop for Your | operator -he had “to defend [thorized to deposit a treasury lery section, but the main floor himself.” draft in a Budapest bank for

and balcony were nearly full. | Most patrons didn't know about the fires, and people kept buying) tickets while firemen were checking the one blaze. “A fire in a theater could be, a great disaster,” Chief Fender)

payment after the fliers were re-

Home Sunday. | Timi . ~ |leased, officials said. your Maybe the Thief | Mn. Acheson made no bones

I {about American anger. ‘Was One-Legged

The final straw prompting reA holdup man with a love of|to allow U.S. authorities to visit

This may be the time | dream home is placed on the market, so don’t miss reading over the real estate pages of The Times today and to-

[taliation was Hungary's refusal

ir i Freliinaty . Morrow. Over 100 reliable Isports may do all right with the the airmen in their jail cells. This lieve vandals started the fires, | Teal estate brokers place (Por Of Ice skates he got last

night, but he's going to have aljt could not allow Americans to

their advertising EXCLU- 4 tough time fishing ‘in the hip|apnter Hun d that consular im SIVELY i dia enter Hungary an at the theater until closing time. n The Indianapolis |j,q¢e, rights” accorded the Reds in this

- The twin bill at the Circle in-| Times. Fe got only one boot. : cluded “Chain of Circumstances,” | Boat, Dy of Sullivan reports SOUL UY were not reciprocal. NM : Officials Hear

Two policemen were stationed

5000 DOWN FA YMENT |ed to police he lost $10, a pair|

H . (assets ‘tn this country. further Ships Fighting

{protests to Hungary, requests for United Nations action, demands

State Department officials de-

proved to the State ae] of I ncohol formed him the brewery was once|

In Indianapolis, it'll be mostly. The Idaho ‘was but windy and warm today|an “incidental” step toward this {vestigation resuited in New York and toni ht, with rai timate. goal ARC said {revoking the beer license of the|yqw, g dus’ tomor- iy} te. 1, the x

of Canadian Ace brewery. The in-| cloudy,

Big Atlantic Storm

lashed Britain and the European, The Kefauver crime investigat-| repo Geor explained it like this: ast line today all the way from|ing committee labeled Canadian| W. Brass, been of ed ge An “experimental breeder . re-

transferred to another vessel in a) Mr, Greenberg testified that he! the AEC called a “liquid metal.” dramatic rescue operation. was a friend of Al Capone and Several hours later, Muncie. po- Lal

This heated metal in turn was | ‘The American ship Southland|the financial adviser of Frank Co Arrested James Dee, 50, whose| ~~ 0" reulating radioed that it had rescued 15/Nitti,. known as “The Enforcer,” | /en%® number was given: them in ped SUER Pipes of ng crew members from the Americah/who succeeded Capone as king- y witnesses to the hit-run-death. Steam was thereby oy | A fall on an icy sidewalk sent produced ship Flying Enterprise, in pin of the Chicago underworld. which was put to k LCs erprie | |Beulah Jones, 52, of 1108 River work runni ! . | Mr. Doyle said he would prob-| sve to General Hospital ‘last| Seneratqr turbines. (ably start his investigation in|piont She is in fair condition,| TH® Power given off by the about two weeks. \suffering arm and‘back injuries,|Seherators was sufficient “ta opHe said he knew very little erate the pumps and other reactor ahout the" brewery. He recalled, | equipment and to provide light. however, that someone had in-| and electrical facilities for the bufiamae that house it,” the AEC Snag In Switching The only snag in the experiment was in switching from the normal electric current supplying

the building to the atomic-pow-ered generator.

The Alchofluence

Stone Fence Collapses On N. Meridian St.

About 50 feet of stone fence collapsed at 30th and Meridian Sts. today when the frozen earth thawed and swelled. The four-foot-high fence broke {into pieces and spilled over the isidewalk and in some, spots on

owned by Dion O’Bannion and! Hymie Weiss, two early day underworld figures. Mr. Doyle said, after checking {his files, that the brewery “does {not do very much business in |Indiana.” He declined to say what laction he would take if his inves-

There's sad news for New Year's Eve drinkers again this year.

The Alcoholic Beverage Commission has refushed to extend the midnight closing hour for taverns on the fwestive oc- | cwasion.

Welcome Makes Up ! Bedroom down hall basement suip. of foe, skates and the one Fibber . m_’c atic gas hot water heater, hot air 00tL to a man who robbed-hing * For ‘Lost’ Christmas located 1118 W oth cst “eat *M> at gun point last night. Airmen’'s Story | SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 29 Burtt. Realtor, MA-8581 or WA-T492 Mr. Taft told police the holdup ERDING, Germany, Dec. 29]

[tigation proves the brewery is linked to the underworld,

the street. Also toppled was an

Thoshe who wanna get drink- iron rail on top of the fence.

Dr, Walter H. Zinn, director of

(UP)—Some 1801 Korean veterans who spent Christmas at sea]

aboard the Navy transport Mar-

ine Adder ‘received an ‘“extra-| special” welcome when the Adder! arrived in port here yesterday. | A blizzard of confetti and ser-! pentine swirled about the troops

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man was in Mr. Taft's car at Capitol Ave. and Washington St. when he returned to it.

(UP)—Four American airmen, | refreshed by their first night's] {sleep outside a Communist jail] lin 40 days, told investigators. to-|

Li vor Store R |day a story which might lead to Store Robbed la U. 8. diplomatic break with

(Of $190 on College Ave. fungary.

terndal—whoops—fraternal

x their story She'll Be Sheriff, Too

er wull haveta go to uh fraor patriotic club, There they can make whoopee until 1 & m. Tueshday,

‘31 Fireman Overcome In Fighting Big Fire | WEST CHESTER, Pa, Dec. 29,

| (UP)—Thi#ty-one firemen were| {felled last night while fighting a

Meridian,

The collapsed section was along 30th, starting from the corner, of in front of the Children's Museum. Mrs. Grace Golden, museum director, said it was fortunate nobody was walking along the sidewalk or waiting for a bus there “because they cer.

the Argonne National Laboratory at Lemont, Ill, who supervised the experiment along with H. V. Lichtenberger, laboratory project engineer for the experimental breeder reactor, said “two or three” tries were necessary before the switch-over came off satis-

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sembarked an ro-| right away. The College Avenue Package, So important wag {fire ‘which raged out of control in| yw |factorily. ey Oa ee sl in To have The SUNDAY Liquor Store's pre-holiday till was regarded that a press conference) STARKVILLE, Miss, Dec. 29|a warehouse for more than ud have bets ale About a month ago, Great downtown Seattle. | Times conveniently home de- emptied of $190 cash last night. (was postponed indefinitely to|(UP)__Mrs. Bill Harpole's father, hours. the walk. « © Britain announced that its Hart<The Marine Adder was the 53d! livered PHONE PL aza 5351 | Lewis Steinberg, 65, of 2601 N. await the arrival of a State De-iprother and husband have been| More than 200-firemen from 10\ well Atomic Research station had Military Sea Transportation Serv-| any time until midnight to- |New Jersey St, clerk in the store partment official flown especially|sheriffs. communities, hampered by fumes, INDIANAPOLIS TRAFFIC [set up an Homi heating unit for ice vessel to arrive here with ro-| night, and place your order. At 5208 College Ave., told police| from Washington to take charge. she will carry on the family|from stocks of blazing plastics, | - CASUALTIES jan 80-room ding, using the tation troops from the Far East.! . The: Times Is Indiana’s |2 Young man with a nickel plated| It was disclosed that the State|tradition Jan. 7 when she is sworn battled the fire in the three-story| (362 Days) {heat from a uranium pile to warm mb Largest Real Estate News- revolver told him to put the Department official, identified in as sheriff of Oktibbeha County, Geprge B. Smith warehouse in| 1950 1951 (Water fof usé in radiators. TEMPERATURES % paper. /money in a sack. The bandit fled here only as “Mr. Klaus,” landed succeeding her husband who could|subfreezing temperatures. The| Aceidents ....... 9141 8381 | But the Arco experiment Dec. 6a m.d 10am... 48 | ! s lon foot through an alley. lat Rhine - Main * Airport from not, under Mississippi law, seek|loss was estimated at about, Injured ......... 3478 8830 (21 and 22 was the first time in 7am ..41 1lam... 44 | + | Washington today. a second term, $100,000. | Killed ........... 62 67 |history that atomic power had 8 a.m ..41 12 (noon) 45 | . Teams of U. 8S. Army, Alr| [been harnessed to produce elec9 a.m... 41 Thanks for Nothing— | Force and State Department ex-| d . [tric power. ¢ Latest Humidity ........ 827% {perts on Iron Curtain countries |

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Would-Be Suicide Subs Hospital Over Her Car

By United Press mand that the County Medical SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29 —|Society investigate the situation. The San Francisco Health De- Dr, Geiger said he did not | partment today called upon the know whether the burns of which !city attorney and Bar Association| Mrs. Butler complained were the for aid in fighting a damage suit result of heat applications for {filed by the 60-year-old celebrated [restoration of circulation as has “living corpse” who was_revived been reported. {after a suicide attempt. ' ’ | Mrs. Therese K. Butler, who| May Ba Barbitustes | was pronounced “dead” after tak-| “They may very well have ling an overdose of sleeping pills, come from the enormous over{has brought suit against thé eity dosé of barbituates she took,” \charging treatment she received| he said. ? tat--an—emergeney Hospital was ~“Howevsr, T do Khow this Mrs. | inefficient. | Butler was in excellent condition a 8 at is_an gxitaciainary thing when she left San Francisco Hos- . that one shou sued for sav- pital on Nov. 13, eight days after “You want to look nice so mother ling a life,” said City Health Di-| she tried to kill Belle Mrs. Butler, widow of a promi-

Double-Take

By BOB BARNES

will be proud of her little MAM. rector Dr. I. C. Geiger, “but we, don’t you 'must take care it will not happen nent San Jose Hospital superinagain.” | tendent, was pronounced dead by Says She Was Burned a physician and dispatched to the | Mrs. Butlér asked $533.70 dam-|city morgue. However, a flicker |ages for burns of the abdomen, of life was detected by attendants 4 arm, back and leg allegedly re-|and she was rushed to the hospital | ceived from treatments after she| for emergency teratment. was found apparently lifeless in| She was treated at the Emer|the bathtub of her apartment. gency, City and Stanford HosDr. Geiger sald he asked the|pitals before being released finally |city attorney and San Francisco Bar Association to give opinions {on the legal lithits to which he and ‘his staff can go in saving 1a life without being sued. Phrasing his announcement of | the, decision to fight the suit {with astonishment, the health | director $34 he would also de-

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ered. “ke . Mrs. Butler will receive a bill for the “extraordinary” care she received, Dr. Geiger said, as a counter measure to the suit. - . He sald the treatment she received cost the city “hundreds of dollars,” . C-

Nov. 24, apparently ‘fully recov-|

[took turns questioning the four (fliers, one at a time, on. their {imprisonment and secret one-day {trial in Hungary. | Hungary turned the men loose |yesterday after the U. S. paid [$120,000 in fines imposed by a {Hungarian military court be- | cause they flew by error over the Hungarian frontier. | The airmen were driven across {the Hungarian-Austrian border to Vienna, whence they were flown to their home air base here last night for a joyful reunion with {their families and friends. | The airmen are Capt. David H. | Henderson, Shawnee, Okla., pilot; |Capt. John J. Swift, Gléns Falls, IN. Y.; T/8gt. Jess A. Duff, Spo(kane, Wash, and Sgt. James A. Elam, Kingsland, Ark.

Churchill Meets Cabinet

LONDON, Dec. 29 (UP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill held a last cabinet meeting today on the eve of his departure for an “anything and everything” conference with President Truman in | Washington.

‘Times Index

| “Amusements ..i0..00.0 6-9 Churches «.vssvesiseres 4-8 COMICS sassrsssanseess 14 | Crossword s.es.esnsvee 6 | Tditorials «eeveesssaee 8 FOrUM ..ossannssnasnes 8 | Radio, Television ...... 5

Society .vseessrecenes Sports .isessesaiessend10-11 WOMEN'S cconvsrsarsnns 3

"Taxi Driver Sought ; In Hoosier's Death

. | CHICAGO, Dec. 29 (UP)—Police searched today for the taxi © |driver who picked up Frank C. | Lohmann, a South Bend brewery | official, at a nightclub a few hours before his death early Thursday morning. Coroner A. L. Brodie ordered an investigation after an autopsy revealed that Mr. Lohmann had been struck on his right temple before his body was found on a side street. Mr. Hohlmann, a chemist and “I brewmaster for “Drewery’s, Inc, drank and chatted with friends for . about four hours Wednesday ~| night and Thursday morning before he entered a taxi, police said. @ :

Messenger Reports $1413 Daylight Holdup

| A daylight holdup of a furniture store employee which netted the lone bandit $1413 in cash was being investigated. by police today. : i Ca Samuel Day, 36, of 1815 Boulevard Place, messenger for Peo. ple’s Outfitting Co., reported to police he was held up at Pearl and Pennsylvania Sts. by a re-volver-armed man who grabbed a canvas bag containing the money

“MIDGET MARINE—Ten-year-old Johnny Eger of Portland smiles and ‘learns to salute as Sgt. William R. Bay of the Indianapolis Marine Rorting Station helps him try on his new uniform. Sa. J. C. Rybicki of the Muncie office and Lt. James M. Hayes of the Indianapolis station are all smiles, too. Portland Mayor Albert Abromson wrote President Truman about Johnny's desire to

be a Marine. The people at Marine headquarters. in Washington bought the uniform, Now John. Also 304 fed. the holdup was |. my, a polio shut-in, is an ary corporal. : ee $1148 tn oe Mian.