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Baby, 2, Goes to Movie With Big Brother, 7—

Little Danny Got Restless And Toddled Down the Aisle

By United Press

MIAMI, Fla. Jan. 19—Little Danny Varcak, 2,

went to the

Tower Theater with his big brother Gerry, 7, today so Gerry could see the cowboy movie. It was pretty good. Danny sucked on his baby bottle for a

while and watched. But then he got restless and got up.

started toddling along the front row. He slipped. The bottle broke.

Danny -fell on a jagged piece of the bottle. It cut an artery Policemen came and tried to stop the bleeding.

near the groin.

couldn't. Danny died.

It cut his thigh

But they

Charge Clark ®

Wastes Use |.

Of Top Cop

By JOSEPH ALLISON | Mayor Clark's administra- | fion has been charged with firing the best safecracking|

investigator on the police | force and assigning him to walk | a beat. | “The Mayor seems to be de-| liberately wasting some fine talent in what looks like a political purge to me,” a State Police officer said last week. “Tom Naumsek is one of the finest safe men in the state,” the officer said, ness walking a beat or doing anything else except safecracking investigations.”

Patrolman Thomas Naumsek|:

was a lieutenant in the detective division until he was demoted in the police shakeup at the first meeting of the new Safety Board.

Highly Praised Patrolman Naumsek’s skill was highly praised by several officers on the state force, as was that of other men also demoted in the transfer of city reins from Demo-|

Of the several state troopers!

queried by The Times on the § only executive officer

shakeup, Maj. Robert O'Neal refused to comment. | “Maj. O'Neal said he was *“stay=| ing out of the department fight” at the request of his father, Lt. John J. O'Neal, former local chief suspended last week for alleged “misjudgment” in investigation] of burglary charges against a prowl car patrolman. Among other officers highly] praised by troopers, who operate| under a strict merit system,

“and he has no busi-|

DOWN IT CAME... On the

victims.

By R. K. SHULL

heads of unsuspecting victims.

2 Pedestrians Injured As Cornice Crashes

(ginia Ave., a news vendor stand-|

principal thorough:

%, traffic flow, “+ [must stop ocgasionally and thus {cut over-all speed,”

$60,000 Sef For Stop-Go Signals Here

Indianapolis motorists will face a new kind of speeding crackdown this year. The city is planning to plaster streets with traffic signals‘ on the belief they will control auto speeds better than police can. This was revealed vesterday by Traffic Engineer William H. |Bilby who said his department will spend about $60,000 this year | for stop and go lights, enough to| equip 60 intersections,

Not Synchronized The will be installed without

signals any

Bilby to the hearts of] local rush- hour drivers. The signal system is designed | to break up long sfretches of ires and halt “40 and 50-mile-an-hour racing, Mr. Bilby said. “The signals will interrupt the make sure drivers)

he explained. The pedestrian also is being considered by Mr. Bilby who said the signals will make it easier to get across the street in outlying districts where traffic is heavy.

Too Much Money

Synchronization, a system by

which signals are linked together and timed so it

is possible to drive at a steady speed without being stopped by red lights, is “out” because of money. While it costs about $1000 per intersection to insfall signals, synchronization costs even- more. Costs are figured on the basis of $1 per foot between intersections.

will be spaced at maximum threeblock intervals, the cost of synchronization cables would exceed that of the signals. With only $60,000 t6 spend on the program, Mr. Bilby said the signals will get priority over cables.

Copper Is Short The synchronization program now under way for the downtown area, however, will be continued.

Will Be 3 for 40¢

immediate plan to: {synchronize them, a step sure to| {endear Mr.

Since traffic signals’ eventually|"

Hey, Straphanger: By End of ‘52 Fare

Lines Lose 6000 Riders Daily in '51

LEEBOWITZ

By IRVING

It is going to cost- more money to ride a bus or street car in Indianapolis this year, That's the gloomy prospect for the eity's transit-riding pube

lic, according to W. Marshall Dale, boss of Indianapolis Rail WAVES. The transit system lost an avers lage of 6000 passengers a day last year and wound up the year with a financial loss of $286,000. Under ordinary circumstances, Mr. Dale éxplained last night, the | compa ny would not propose a {fare increase. However, he said the prospect {of higher wage scales for transit workers probably will necessitate some increase in fares.

Expires Apr. 30 union’s current contract [with management expires Apr, 30. Sometime in the next few weeks, - the transit management {and union leaders will go over {a new contract, Mr. Dale said he {i would want to time any wage in« ‘| crease with a fare boost in order to keep the company out of the fred.” | The probable new token fara | will be three for 40 cents, which i “amounts to 13-and-a-third cents a ride. The present token fare is

The

i But the plan for the area from

{Maryland to North Sts, and from|

{Senate Ave. to Alabama St, (however, is. periled by growing |shortages of copper. : Other major project for Mr. Bilby’s office this year will be a street lane marking program. He, has proposed a year-around lane-| painting program and also has scheduled tests of a new mate ing method. The new system calls for the|

nailing of four-inch plastic -disks! B-25 Blast Kills Six

to the streets. Expected to last!

jour years, they will first be used

for gghool crossings.

two for 25 cents, or 12-and-a-half {cents a ride. The flat 15-cent fare holo. by. D . would remain untouched. 2 mes photo by Dean Timmerman, | Before a fare boost is granted, , SOMEONE HAS TO LOSE—There was no joy in Southport's rooting section when the Cardi- however, the state Public Service nals’ high school basketball team “struck out" last night to Speedway in the eounty finals, 41 to 38, / Commission must decide if the

at the Fieldhouse, (Story, Page. 11). [transit system merits a fare hike, = |Usually, the PSC approves withe | ® 36 Men Die

[out delay an increase in fares lif it is based on a wage Increase, BULLETIN SEATTLE, Jan. 19 (UP)—A

Not So Dark In ’51 B-17, with eight men aboard,

“No Screams or Cries at All'—

Mr. Dale said that while the {company lost money last year, it put new and better busses into {operation, took the bus jalopies loff the lines and improved service. Railways has lost money for a

Injures 61 in AF Prison |

were former Capt. Michael Kava-| Farts of a heavy iron cornice Ing near by, was hit on the head |

ny by a small piece of the metal, He ‘Wh | nagh and former Lt. William — weighing several hundred J 0% BEC" eeier a | Da | pounds last night crashed down A B-25 light bomber pancaked on when it exploded.

Miss Wib Both officers were reduced to) lon two unsuspecting city resi- |nystertcal bbels. Joo sma od top of an occupied Mather Air] “I was covering men with! sergeant in the shakeup. | dents standing at Penney) talwa it appened ea eanu [ores Base disciplinary barracks blankets when I feit the wind of | Sgt. Kavanagh is an attorney, 8 ylvania, , va ng for a bus on the . : y, killing six persons and in-|/the explosion,” he said. “There and a graduate of the FBI police|aBd Market Sts. southwest corner. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UP)— Yoga, 61 others. were no screams-or cries at all training school. oan way, lok Wibhels 24; of hr heavy cornices, from the [Former Sen: Bunton gs Wheeleh The plane struck the main ‘The Pathetic Thing’ Why. the Wast n was knocked Vinton-Pierce Building, tumbl on who helped expose ey ? ST SEATTLE Core: Lt Hovis a, oe graduate flat when part of the falling about 15 feet and te bid] the Teapot Dome scandal in the|Pullding of the correctional and If it had happened 15 minutes EATTI E, Jan. 19—A Korean holders received a total of only oli ie .. metal struck her the back mid-20's, may be as rehabilitation center only a few earlier, there .would have been airlift plane homeward bound $750 in dividends of the FEI school and spent six on the back of pieces on the pavement. ay be asked to head a h ractically in y en jminutes after 39 prisoners had practically no one in the building. with military passengers crashed At present, Mr, Dale and his

the head and right shoulder. Sh {new drive against federal - months at. the Northwestern Uni- 8 e gainst federal cor . onths a a /as rushed to St. Vincent's Hos- | Mr. ‘Hawkins, standing at the ruption, it was learned today. {filed back from a late lunch. Ten They had just come back from into the sea off British Columbia staff are exploring a system of

By United Press Ma), Scholten said one man |

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 18 was standing on top of the plane number of years, However, 1951's

(financial picture wasn't as dark {as 1950, when the company lost |$46,000. “Nobody is getting rich running Indianapolis Railways,” Mr, Dale asserted. He pointed out that since 1932—19 years—the stocks

was reported two hours overs due tonight while taking part in

rescue operations for the Korean airlift plane which crashed off the British Columbia coast.

By United Press

yore Same Qiustitute. ni pital where her condition was same 2pot where he sold news- It was understood that Attorney! minutes after crashing, the plane luhell That's the pathetic thing.” today killing 36 of the 43 persons zone fares that would be equite vention division of the traffic de-| {described as “fair.” P years, said: |General J. Howard McGrath is|®Xploded. ; je fire department used one aboard. able to all riders. A zone fare partment. | Bryan Hawkins, 42, of 925 Vir- ‘The wind was blowing pretty| considering him for a job as! Capt. Jack Rose, public infor- 0 : s trucks to knock down the Seven were saved when they system requires patrons to pay One officer said: “It seems In-| hard. | super-investigator, with “broad |/MAation officer -at Mather AFB, fence surrounding the discipli- broke free of the wreckage and for the length of their ride, disnepois: has invested a great “Then, wow, the stuff started/and unfettered authority” to find Sid the six dead and 61 injured aly area. {managed to stay afloat in ice Unlikely This ¥ deal of money hm sending ese NEWS Inside falling all around us. We were|and prosecute all cases of “mis-|\ncluded inmates of the disci-| Capt. Perry Brand, of Evans-|cold Hecate Strait until they were| Rjjcey Thin Yea! men to school. Why does the city| lucky one of those big chunks|conduct” in the government. (plinary barracks, rescue, and oc- ton, IIL, said “everyone pitched pulled out by rescuers in a row- For example, passengers who waste their training?” —~ didn’t hit us.” Mr. McGrath and other.officials lcupants of nearby classroom in, pulligg: out the victims, boat. ride from the Circle to 16th One of ‘the demoted oicers' 1 HIMES Toda The piece of cornice that fell| declined to comment on the pos-| The three . members of thel “We a them along side the 4 Washed Ashore Street would pay only 10 cents, said last week, “Surely, if they| was a strip of cast iron about|sibility that either Mr. Wheeler or/plane’s crew escaped with injuries, py al fas niorimate be A Canadian official. at thei Tor JSU0 t0-35th Siteet, anothes look at merit school examination | six feet long and one foot high. William . E.. Leahy, prominent |although the extent of them was) hey were De Rpg: while lacane radioed. that # was ba. B Senls Wola he ated Baking

Capt.|

Local It varied in thickness from one-|Washington attorney and an an-|not known.

grades they won't demote! lHeved all 4 cy (another officer).” Page| fourth to one-half inch, with two other reportéd top choice, will be One Man on Top Brand: sad. rate |of the A oo. Street I5 Cents, Any Hie But the officer, who had one| Hottest fight for control of po- cubes of the same material. tapped for the job. Maj. Howard B. Scholten, base ‘It Was Horrible’ oF died of exposure or injuries distance would require another § of the highest grades for his| litical machinery here in 20 City firemen removed other Mr. Wheeler said he had not|chaplain, said two of the plane] “I was blown right back against before they could be rescued. cents, : rank, was demoted. years 100mS ....... o|loosened portions of the cornice been offered the position, but that|crew left the wreckage under their|the fence,” he said. “I didn’t] Air Force officers at the scene Mr. Dale explained that if was RY he had been asked to recommend|own power. Maj. Scholten said know what happened at first. said a “through sweeping search” doubtful. whether the company

Examination of merit system|The tr ee whose fruit i lists of officers eligible for pro- s the ot Hy 15 gesth motion under the 1935 police| 17 g. 31 ” merit act reveals that four {oy GOP

and barricaded the area to prevent further mishaps.

would have all the details ironed out in time to put it in operation this year,

someone for it. the plane was ‘sitting halfway|Then we went back in. We pulled was made of the area and it was “I told them, offhand, I could/down into the building” when he|two out that were all done. “safe to presume - all those undlrusgies over not think of anyone,” he said. first saw it after the crash. | “Then we pulled another man accounted for are dead.” : > ‘I'm an FBI Man’ Asked if ‘the job would appeal| “It was sitting there quiet,” he out,” Capt. Brand said. “It was, Four bodies were recovered =

Taft and Ike . .. Our Fair to ‘him, Mr. Wheeler said “I don’t!said.. “That's what gave us the horrible. He was black on one shortly after the crash. Four 120 Persons Injured He Said and He eligible for promotion schools]

[ CIty covnivvinnnniiiiiennnnn 21 know. - I haven't it a'courage to go ahead with the side and red on the other,” Capt. other bodies were washed ashore thought. I doubt. it.” rescue operation.” Brand said. when the tide changed, As Footbridge Falls BURY, Eng. Jan. 190 (UP)-, since they have not been on the! Page Landed in Clink Y, Eng., Jan. 19 (UP)—A force the required three years.|GOP sets campaign fund“goal |.

| footbridge collapsed tonight under Two others did not take the Of $4.2 million......navs 3

Cait Ee any FBI man,” police sald 4 . Il d hi h h y i the weight of a home-going foots cen em eed 2 em H@ Pulled a White Sheet Over the Boy's Face

promoted to sergeant and two to lieutenant were not eligible.

‘Clark Remembers Two of the sergeants are not

given

National

' These People Know the Value of Blood—

ball crowd, plunging more than

Sun returns to “sunny”

examination required. val row h The two lieutenants were listed fornia after storms ........ 300 screaming people onto the as eligible for promotion to That 154-group air force will jon on charges of: railway right-of-way shortly bes sergeant only, ranks they al- be two years late .. . Wash- Disorderly conduct — Swayze, Picture on Page 3 E. Garrard, sister of Mrs, Almost the first thing that hard-hit ones. Most they bring [Ore an express train was due. ready held. 7 ington Calling ....ccoudlsss 21 128, stood in front of a tavern at, By ED KENNEDY George Kish of 749 Sparrow happens to a wounded man through. Police said 120 persons wers _ Explaining promotion of two . | Michigan 2nd La Salle Sts. of Times Staff Writer Ave., Indianapolis. brought here is the transfusion But when one dies you get the injured —47 seriously, of the sergeants, Mayor Clark Women's \ticers said, swearing at people and ITH THE 7TH.DIVI- There are 17 doctors and 18 Of at least a pint of blood. yo, feeling of this war. The 3 : sald last week, “Remember, they Page inviting them to fight. i SION IN. KOREA nurses in the unit, and 60 other While life Yow slowly back comments are bitfer. One died f EC Jue In me cour om Boys Club Jus on the - Resisting an officer—(To wit,| (Delayed) — The nurse Sficers 274 men, gv hase nigh Ming men cut away this morning, The medics lost A Home or Your men, assistant balliffs in patrol} br Se Dou a ais eitee SILLEging / Patrolman Harold) "wiped a tear, the doctor surgery equipment, can be The nurses, American girls © ° night nigut ‘B t'V | ti y pal Court 4, Sunnyside Guild's amily laley il he SUPpey and. fu Mook his ‘head and a GI moved 15 to 20 miles in a few JHIASL IE Cle ROSIER BF a i many hoe es! Yalenune an one doctor said. In the captain ranks, the five! teams .........ivevscacens 21 police said.) Ppe i patient said “damn.” hours, Jen ms ii but stl jendey div She'll just love it! Right men broken to lower grades all| Italian furniture in the Baws. 0 ; These people, in the business n eir treatment of the sick He and the nurse used everyhad merit scores higher or less\B ids and engageients.s... 30 City vagrancy — (Indianapoliy| Then a ward attendant drew of saving lives, know the valie and wounded, wash them thing in the book plus some | TOW Is the'right time to start than a point below the highest -of | B anc engag *** v7 catch-all charge.) a white sheet over a boy’s face. 4¢ plo Have you doubted gently. For many, it's the first prayers. The men in the ward | shopping for. THE HOME the two men promoted. 0 h Feat . Police said the local FBI office An American soldier was dead. that blood is'in need here? bath in weeks. acted unconcerned, but they t that wil be suitable for your Average score of captains de:] ther Features: |told them it never Heard of The scene was the 200-bed At the laboratory, just a few Somehow, the girls manage watched every minute. | ‘girl and you for many - * moted was 87.2. That of captains Amusements 99 93 |SWayze. He gave his address as hospital tent of the 8029th Mo- 4 oi" 4, the receiving ‘ward, 10 Keep looking well. A dab of But everything failed. That's | yuitts {6 cove, promoted was 84.6. Eddie Ash Cas riraneihiie 12 12043 N. Parker Ave. Do egal apical there is a list posted of more makeup, a touch of lipstick, when the doctor shook his head, RANCH-TYPE STONE ; vesvarsencrase < ch 18 8UP- . (nan 30 people assigned to the Well groomed hair and plenty - the ward man drew the sheet, | 1 ares. Three eat-olq, On Soprok

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porting this division.

A doctor, a nurse and GI .medics had just fought a long,. hard— but unsuccessful— fight to save the life of a young soldier wounded in battle.

Such touch-and-go fights are

waged ‘every daw. Most are won, but many are lost—some

of bright smiles are all part of ang the nurse, a veteran of two | Deine Tavie nated on 8 cure. theaters in World MAA

. : War 11, MA-2379 - The wounded don't complain. turned quickly to other work. BR uc ~E SAVAGE CO.

Those who are minor cases are nro “Circle To MA-8781 stand-by donors to cover , moved right on back to the “WH AT THE hell,” 8aid- one " periods when .the bloodline Tear area hospitals. Only the = of the patients. from the States fails. * = serious ones stay here, and then “Damn,” said another. A helicopter detachnient is only a week or 10 days. By “For what?’ asked a third, ! -stationed here and is only a few then they are well enough~to. ‘and threw. a deck of cards |

unit. This is the emergency blood donor list. They are people from within the unit who have volunteered to be

§athe i oom, possibllit ies

He Knows Now Where He Went

Start vour heme hunting now through the Real Fstate Section of today's Times. There you will find by, far the

JA. J. Livingston <iceceee 36 Potomac Patter ......... 18

on the floor of his cell, it was |. Radio, Television teneesss 16 I Today's Times prints the names| of them because soldiers fight- minutes flight from the for- be moved. across the bed. tind discovered today. , : Real Estate ...... 35, 36, 48 of hundreds more Hoosiers who| ing for their lives still hw ward battalion aid stations. oe. : One of the guys started talk- ident ection of Rigid ; “We don't know what was Robert Ruark .......... 19 overpaid thelr income tax since| blood from -clvilians back in “ow THE VITALITY of these ng: Indianapolis néwspper. ~ ¢ in Slaney’s mind,” said War- | Records ......cveeeseess 18 .77043 put’ forgot to tell Uncle Sam| the States. ; ALL. CRITICAL cases are Youngsters is-amazing. One day t isn’ t fike "the last one, cludin he abave. sample ad) ; oe den John J. O'Brien, “There | Sermon of Week v.eoaeee 8 their latest address, iri w "4.0 y flown back. by the 'copters., they are more dead than.alive, as he said. “Thé guys.’ Many Wo the homes are ples was no way for him to get out.”.. d Sovola .it..iiiiees.. 19 Tomorrow's ‘Times will list). MAJ. JESSE BROWN, ‘who Less serious cases come back, A. few days lates you see the knew where they were going or | tured to - help .you ehooss

same guys sitting up, talking, °

Sports ..iv.heeseeeees 11-14 playing cards or tossing quips

ra Teverhagh 35 at least where they were trying | 4 Cram ae %

has been in the Army Medical to get. There was a Berlin to. |

Corps so long he can’t call any-

in ambulances. Often the men brought in are

more easily the ones youd:

Slaney, serving a four-to-nine- i. like- to personally inspect, and

more names of persons to receive _ year burglary sentence, had. I

the unclaimed fax refund checks.

~ tunneled an. eescaie route’ | Women's . .........as 25, 34 place home, is the Sommaidig Ja 4 in their white snow suits , at the nurses. -° © ba taken and there : x | What Goes On Here “,... 18 am ve officer of MASH. ~ than not patches of The doctors, nurses and ward Tokyo. But what gd Re World Report esessssss 21 "Shad one a ond ala a whi i. (Saige: had of fu nd jective do'we Bavet™ Rd