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62d YE AR—NUMBER 336

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y : = MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1952

Polio—‘It Seemed So Fantastic’ to Them

EDITOR'S NOTE: Charles H, Andrews is a writer in Ojal,

Airport Shut As 29 Die In 3d Crash

Photo, and Other Stories, Page § By United Press

ELIZABETH, N. J, 111 — Newark Airport

Feb. was

29;

Low tonight

tered as Second-Class Matter at Indianapolis, Indiana. lssusd Daily

PostoMed

FINAL. HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Landlady’ s Tip Here Cracks Nationwide

ili Cal,’ Whose 10-year: 308, lclosed today after a third airiling Chuck, was stricken with bul- I A abu : bar poliomyelitis 18 ‘months (liner disaster = within two 38th St i ago. The doctors gave him one i “months killed 29 persons and inTD fi chance in a thousand to live, |jured 42, 3 but he did. A four-engine DC-6 was the Here Mr. Andrews gives = {third airliner to crash into heavA first-hand account of his ex- ily congested residential sections periences during the child's ill- of this city, which adjoins New-. — ness—from the day polio struck ark. re Moto Le ti n Y r through the weeks of «crisis to Wo De me Bt Siliorigies Jn r : a ? ashin spo « ; ultimate recovery. According to a Torr Port Au

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt; his story “illustrates one important age-old truth, namely that faith

ity, operators of the airport, revealed that it had received anonymous bomb threats against hoth

Leads to Arrest of

and confidence are essential ” . par NE 2 ing.” its Newark and its: Néw York factors in healing. City LaGuardia airports even in U sa a This 16 the lin} 912 Feties So grave were the implications / ° of articles from Mr. Andrews that rity. Shut down |

Because an Indianapolis landlady wanted a tidy yard,

hook, NO TIME FOR TEARS, Newark Airport, one of the fon ig Relied by DoWogay I°T ty age lit. ithe FBI today cracked a nationwide car theft ring with - . n as | . v Ff s Dy tics Ads the arrest of seven pcorsons—including a bride of seven By CHARLES H. ANDREWS stood the Civil Aeronautic : oe “ {ministration would have ordered weeks—in Tulsa, Okla. HE STORY opens on a the closing if the authority hadn't Mrs. Helen Hubert, 2428 N. 2 day we can never forget. acted promay, Nike | {Meridian S8t., reported to police A E Moonlig Nigh (Jan. 11 that a couple who checked : 9 { p Sunday, Oct. 8, 1 50. Today's disaster plane was lout the first of the year left an ~ . . » | ™ », California. skies wert owned by National Airlines. It auto motor in the yard. She smashed into a four-story apart- {wanted it removed.

brilliantly blue, and as shadows of the giant oak treés around our house lengthened into late afternoon, the monotonous heat of the day hegan to break with

‘ occasional wisps of cool air.

ment house in which 60 families were sleeping two minutes after lits take-off for Miami.

It occurred within the same

square mile of Elizabeth in which |

Detectives and the FBI traced the motor to“a 1850 Plymouth |stolén Nov. i8 from a Cincinnati auto dedler,

Tip Paid Off

“Why don’t we bring Chuck Dec.- 16 and Jan. 22, the first] 3 : " out on .the chaise longue and just -after leaving Newark, the Me The landlady's tip today led to let him. get some air?” I asked second while attempting an in-| the arrest in Tulsa of: 3 Norma. | strument landing. The admitted ringleader, Cleve2 He'd been in bed for four CHARLES HAMILTON ANDREWS—The author, and his son | The newest crash was on a Jang Harton Buberon, 30. : days with ‘poison oak. The Chk after Chuck's miraculous recover \clear, moonlight night. The first -R , 33. doctor had prescribed some Chuck, alte ¢ ets mw ecovery- |erash occurred in good weather, Detective Sgt. Gerald Akeman, medicine for him, but a high large puppet-.doll we had cheerful as we carried him into {too, but the secand was on a who worked with the FBI on the fever persisted. -brought-to cheer up our son. the admittance room and a rainy, ‘foggy -afternoon. -Engine case, said she posed as Ember-

{ton's wife while they rented a

“Good idea,” she gaid, “let’s I went over to the desk and doctor had given him a spinal [trouble was the indicated cause try it.” inquired about Chuck. The test for polio. lof the latest disaster as well as $125-a-month apartment at the We were mildly worried but girl in charge gave me a queer Now it seemed unthinkable lof the first. ° N. Meridian St. address. nothing more. Twelve years of look. “Just a minute” she that he could be so quickly | Fifty-mine passengers, -includ- { Charles Grimmett, 23; James raising children accustoms you said. “I'll call Dr. Henderson caught up in the ravages of - |ing three babies, and a crew of {Leslie Smith, 20; J. L. Christian; Pr — to sickness. out. He's in charge of the this monstrous disease. {four were on board. Twenty-two: {Gerald- Foutch, 17, and his 18“i Chuck was motionless on his case.” Norma held up the puppet passengers, three crewmen, and year-old wife, Brownie, who said TPSTER—Mrs, Helen Hu. bed. looking at the ceiling. I Case” What did she mean with its ridiculous funny face. four residents of the building A ;she married him Christmas Day. bert, who wanted a tidy yard, said: by that? “We bought this on the way: were killed, Thirty-one passengers . 9 . . { All are from McMinnville, Tenn. i ; : of “How about some fresh air?” We stood silently waiting. over. Dn it will cheer ay and nine residents were in hos- BABY BURGLAR—Detective Sgt. William Britton maatures Embertson told police e. Tenn, 1 He didn’t turn his head. "I then a young giant with a blond up a little. And also”—she pitals, some gravely injured. the 111/3-inch hole fhyough which a burglar crawled into the State 124 cars in the last year in Indileaned over him. : Autq License Branch, 18 Capitol s Ave. Oklahoma,

“What's wrong?” “My left eye. 1 thing double.”

see everv-

round in circles, I'm dizzy!” I got him, settled on the chaise longue and” Norma smoothed back his damp “blond hair. I beckoned her aside. > “Maybe we'd better call the doctor again. I don’t like the

crew cut suddenly appeared before us. His face was flushed and he looked tired, It must be tough for these.

and I put out an arm to stead her, It was like the end of all eternity. “Can we see him?” The , intern shook his head. “We have him in the isolation wayd. I'm afraid it's out

“ reached hastily in her pocket— |

“here’s a new toothbrush and some toothpaste. fussy about his teeth.”

“You might as well take those things home, * He'd never recognize them anyway. He's a very sick boy, and it may be some time be- . fore he can identify any-

He's awfully |

i Five Missing | In addition, five persons were missing and may prove to: be dead. Several passengers and the

{Coming back.” Other passengers were Koniscious, in the seconds before dis{aster, of the pilot fighting to keep {his plane in the air. Some said he got no higher

Safe Crackings Here

to enter the State Branch at 18 8. Capitol Ave.

Broke in through the front door

and stole a truck-and safe from |

a produce market across from the county jail and police headquar-

lana, Tennessee,

-|Arkansas, Michigan, Georgia and

| South Carolina, Those were all

Ihe could “remember,” he said.

Auto License with about $140 in a Saturday |

I examined the eye, felt his young interns, having to break She choked up and had to | head. Still hot. : the bad news to parents day in whisper the Re Oe 1 a DLewardes. Miss Maney Taylor, Had Headquarters “Well,” I said, “let's try a and day out. This young fel- write him a liftle note to let him | 2, were hardly are minut The group set up headquarters breath of fresh air.” low was very uncomfortable. know we're here?” | The plane crashed two minu a) oin Oo a I ge {in Shawnee, Okla, where it Ws He shook his head sadly. The intern jammed his [ooonie b Skea nd Was on ' maintained a complete I LIFTED him up to sitting : a 8 8 hands in his pockets and rou a a oi om runwa A midgzt with gall and a short removed several concrete “blocks! {with cutting torches, a welding position ‘and put his arms “IT'S . GOING to be pretty studied the floor Gespairingly. Stan] u es ~ a ¢ wap. temper is the picture given of a from the side of the building to unit, a set of motor number dies, -around my neck. Norma held — hard to tell you this,” he said au d as 2Y.0F 5a tt oi and Safecracker probably responsible/gain entry, then took the trouble blank checks and bills of sale to the back door open as I took softly, “but your son is a pretty “POLIO strikes fast,” he said, eh - i spy of down.” ToT most of the week-end safe to batter open two safes. Their disguise stolen cars. him out to the chaise longue. sick boy. He has a rare form .,,4 there is a period of crisis |stoppe Sg EE I the DUrglaries which netted about net was negligible. Emberton tried to take all the His 70 pounds of boyhood of poliomyelitis known .as bul- pan we can do nothing but Foal on far right engine $1000. N She theorized after all the plame for the thefts by telling muscle seemed to weigh 700. bar.” work and wait,” [turning in reverse. The pilot; A safecracker or crackers: |work, they went on a rampage. [officers the others believed he . Dad, put me down,” he The dim hospital corridor . He gazdd sorrowfully at Wayne G. Foster, radioed the Slipped through an 111%-inch! Burglars also knocked the bot-/ was a legitimate auto dealer degged; “everything's going rocked. Norma turned gray, the toothbrush and puppet. control tower: “Lost an engjme. hole in a jagged window pane tom out of a safe and made off from McMinnville.

All were charged with trans-

{night raid on the Commercialin,rting stolen cars across state

Credit Co., 225 E. Ohio St.

Ace's Wife

(lines, a federal offense.

Sgt. Akeman said today that |Emberton, Mrs, Julian and three

DETECTIVE — Gerald

Akeof the other men under arrest man, who worked with the FBI,

a ” thing or anybody.” {than a few hundred feet and Miss ters. . . recked 1950 Plymouth/ looks of this.” of the question.” He took out | v i ’ bought a wrec ym She bit her lip. “He's never a handkerchief and wiped his It Just didn’t seem possible, Taylor said it was 1000 to 1500 Ransicked and made shambles Cries Lie late in November from Brian's ¥ been like this before. I'll go call forehead. “It won't be neces- He'd been sick the day before, feet. Then, suddenly, the hpavyiof the office of the Capital Glass A Ai F Service Station, 302 N. West St. 0 ay S CWS * right away.” x sary for you and the rest of Yes—but this. It was incred- plane “dropped like a shot” aso. 432 8. Missouri 8t., after bat- 1 Ir rorce Motor Switched

; ” t it. ¥ wv We were fortunate in having your family to be quarantined, ible. And as we turned in a 'ON€ passenger pu tering open two safes for only a . 1 Th a family doctor to whom iy they don't believe that does any Stunned silence to leave, the Jettisons Gas handful of change. They switched its motor withj n e imes days or holidays meant noth- good. But seeing the boy is Intern touched me softly on ' Capt. Foster jettisoned his gas- Toted Out Safe | that of the stolen car, the: detec: X ing. He arrived quickly, re- _ impossible.” the shoulder. oline and it showered down og ; tive said. Local ial “3 moved his gray suede gloves aw “Better stick close to your the roof of an apartment house. In the license branch looting, { Mrs. Hubert said the three Page on de > Poo k . . phone, just in case ,.." {The plane wavered on, skimming the burglars bent two iron bars iyoung men joined Emberton and Select i and began a ¥¥stematic check. IT SEEMED so fantastic. | h artment Select jury in stabbing at resting Réflo¥es, eves, oars. toroat Just thé afternoon betore-T had (Copyright, 1951, by Charles H. Andrews) |roof-tops. It barely cleared the'over the rear window, slipped ; Mrs. 2 an ih their ap TA BI i eg Bs 2 TY adi EI if£2" he ; . . . roof of an orphanage in which through the small hole in the four days earlier. ! Do lac in Neck feel stiff?” he asked. brought him in, pdle and dizzy. NEXT: To Live or Not to then toted the safe con- Emberton tried to get them a Dope black market ‘case

Chuck nodded. “A little.” The doctor straightened. His immobile face scarcely changed as he sald: “Better take him down te County Hospital for a little checkup.” We were incredulous. “Why, Doctor, what's wrong?” He drew us into the kitchen. “It could be one of several things. But the one particular | thing I want to check against |

But he had remained fairly

Live.

School 51s

Ravag ed

As Vandalism es

Photo, Page 3 A whirlwind of vandalism left

m, Friday.

|60 children were sleeping, and

house,

{ The plane seemed to explode | with the impact, showering flames

{over the roof. But only the heavy |Ashjian Rug Co.,

{landing wheels and their gear [struck the building.

|... The top floor of the apartment recovered early today at 24th and] [found inside School 8 about 10:30 house broke into flames. p. They admitted! occupants of the apartment hit | breaking in two buildings that directly were killed—Irving Zah-|in sight of city detectives and the,

The

glass, {smashed into a second apartment, four and a ‘half blocks| east of the first. |

taining more than $500 out the rear door. The safe was carried from the) scene, police believe, in a panel truck stolen earlier 457 W. Place, The truck and lotted safe were|

Manlove Sts.

Burglars with gall worked with-|

from the) 16th]

§ |sald. But when she told him only apartments were available, Em-|

"lin the second of his two bed-

room in the building, Mrs. Hubert

berton put some beds for them

rooms. The motors were switched in| the next four days, the landlady | said. The youths left then and she never saw them again: 1 Mrs. Hubert said the other |

closes with death of doctor. National

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Chicago doctor accepted money for a phony 4-F ClassifiCRatiOn + .covscavssuas Charges vast military stores

Foreign -

waste billions. ....ccve0veeee 11

Page motor had lain in the yard since | Aystrian fown buried by snow,

is-polie.? Boao (the “interior of “School 5 in &'jignt, Farlier they had broken ler, 29, his wife, Marylin, 27, and county jail, to break into the Sam, [ate November: IIT resins 7 un '» shambles today. linto and generally ransacked their 4-year-old son, Monte. Rose & Son Produce Co. They | Emberton paid. for the wrecked The body of King George is WE WALKED up thé hospi- | At least 23 school break-ins/School 18, “tossing ink over| Capt. Foster and his co-pilot, (took a truck and a safe with = car with a $150 check that, borne in stately procession tal steps t6 the main building, | have been reported since Jan. 1, jumbled records in the principal’ s|C. E. Sinclair, "were among the about $300 in cash. 5 2 i bounced, 8gt. Akeman learned. | to Westminster Hall..,.... § afraid to hear the doctor's ver- Costing the taxpayers more than office. |dead. The flight engineer, I. R.| Detectives believe this was the, : TW |He later made it good, Editorial - ] dict. 52000. Wanted Basketballs (Shea, was missing and presumed work of the same group who MISSING IN ACTION—Mai. | Another Bad Check torial Page Clon : Norma nervously clutched a | When Custodian Ulysses Hall |dead. : entered the license branch. | George A. Davis, world's top | mrperton also passed a $35. Page brick 4 reported for work at California, A 13-year-old boy was caught Joseph 0. Flue, inspector . of According to Sam Rose, 5779 jet ace was shot down yester- bad check to a chain block ‘and ‘Giving. blood is one tHing litional i : and Washington Sts. this morning in. School 4 yesterday. He told the Civil Aeronautics Board in (Central Ave., owner, the burglars d > Red K Alab St. whith most. housewives can do.” further 1 he found: police - he wanted some basket-/the New York region, rushed to proke open the front overnead S2Y by ed airmen in Korea, tackle Bri on aoama detective . Hoosler Forum........ 10 home : Double-Take @ The glass smashed out of the balis. th ¥ Ae nt § the Unilon County Sourmouse and door to the building at 221 E.| the Air Force revealed today. exe nge e moLors, Dan Tobin, president of the . o A 4 wo other boys were caught in set up headquarters is first Maryland St. and loaded the office Story " a eamsters Union, says to-' By BOB BARNES front. door. a break-in at School 26. |move was to impound. all records Sel nto the company ofice| Another Story, Page 11 Both checks were printed Budi day's scandals Say just a The glass in all classroom’ Damage to school buildings so/of the plane and passengers. |which was parked in front of the LUBBOCK. T Feb. 11 (UP) bore the name of Emberton Mo- peniy ante " 10 doors shattered, the r o om s/far this year has been almost, building. P Stra? Dorris - Bad dhitgud tor Co., ik ng Sgt.) ray ale 2) sa ere 8 na Suc o . . 4 (thorughly ransacked. $1000, ‘but money and equipment. The truck was recovered last today that the Air Force lied, |Aheman strength smashed by the Ko-

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The principal's office a sham-|taken has more than doubled the |bles—records strewn over the €OSt to taxpayers. {floor and eggs smashed on the Included among school loot in walls, desks and floor. |January were- two movie proIjectors, films and screens—taken

rean War avdescareannasass 10 Women's

{night in the 900 block of Locke |When it said her husband, the| But the lead of the tidy iand-| [St., and the looted safe early to-'world’s leading jet ace, didn't|jagy led the FBI to Tennessee / day in the canal near 17th St. want to come home after he shot then to Tulsa. According to. Miss Clementine/down his

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fifth enemy fighter! Jackie Switzer, Eligible Escort

; | Six fire extinguishers empty,| comfortable retirement and Byrne, secretary-treasurer, 5912 plane. i a {their contents squirted in the loss. was estimated. at 3 pr aen - protection against devalua- ‘Central “Ave, quick - tempered ? Her husband, Maj. George A.| Get lce-O- Rama | of TOMOITOW. «vs vvisansiens. 8 by |corridors,” on blockboards and) a pa ke, Be tion of fixed retirement in- |burglars retaliated with vandal- Davis Jr. was shot down over) . Additional Symphony Fund i over desks. come is to own your own (ism after their attempts to loot northwest, Korea yesterday after Tickets Now workers tessecsiiccasniiee 8 io | The cafeteria looted of the eggs Global Firefighter home. Buy YOUR home NOW the Capitol.Glass Co. were frus- bagging his 10th and 11th enemy | WCTU Group Institute ...... 6 4 (used as ammunition by the St F h BI and enjoy the extra comforts, trated. jets. Tickets to the Times Ice-O- |A new formula for effortless y | vandals. ops renc aze conveniences, independence | She said thieves laboriously had] Mrs. Davis, expecting a third| Rama show Mar. 13 in the Fair | entertainment, Caprices by | Ask Mors Protection PAU, France, Feb. 11 (UP)—| and peace of mind through child in May, became hysterical rounds Sotaeum are NOW | Christy ..c.cooasvsepscises ¥

the intervening years, as well as later.

Clubb Gets Clean Bill

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UP)

Sports

Declaring the situation “very|MYron Kinley, one-legged “Flying

: Send orders to; Ice-O-Rama \deplorable and very costly to tax-| Fireman” from Texas, stopped his

band had ben shot down, Tickets; Indianapolis Times, 214

when she learned that her hus- | Page

her book 2... Let payers” Supt. of Schools-Herman '251st oil fire toddy when he| Located SEER NAY CITY and |—The State Department an-| “THE Public Information Office W. Maryland -St., enclosing | Butter and Notre Dame meet “Anot ake care of him” L. Shibler said city police have|plugged a flaming leak in one of| 5°44%, for imm poss. is thie lovely nounced today that its loyalty of the Air Force released informa-| stamped addressed envelope | tonight .....c.ieiieeesenens 18 vo. 'been asked to reinforce the Spe- France's biggest oil fields.’ | Lee. Fitch, "ity plehty cabinets and /and security board has given ation ‘that said they (Maj. Davis and check or money order. List |The Press Box, Angelopolous. 13 cial roving squad of six watch-| Mr Kinley arrived on the oil! it 5. 336s Puli bsmt.. 1-car gar clean. bill of health to veteran and three other Fourth Wing first, second and third choice of |Caps* Reibel keeps pace with . men who keep tab on the city's feild at 8:30 a.m. and plugged ” SDISKENZIE REALTY “eo. os diplomat O. Edmund Clubb who aces) did not want to come seat locations. Tl enlers. ia ee iain seein 18

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was under fire last year before home,” she said. ithe House Un-American Activj(ties Committee,

|80-0odd schoot’ buildings. the leak at 1:45 p. m.

| “Our district cars are keeping, He will leave in a few days for a special check on schools as they| Wyoming to take care of an-oil make * their rounds,” said In-fire. Ame Leolin Troutman,

as my husband was concerned.| I hdd .a letter from G. A. after (that and he =aid the decision

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