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How Long Will VA Hospital Lie Empty?

By R. K. SHULL present equipment, he said, would A modern hospital with the be useless in the treatment of finest medical equipment avail-/TB patients, able is standing empty here. Dr. Smith said when the reAnd no one knows when any-{modeling starts, the contractor! one will come along to occupy|Will have 150 days in which to the 347 beds. ido the job, but so far he knows] Cold Spring Road Veteraps nothing of any allocation of Administration Hospital, 2601/funds or of any contracts to b

its more than 300 patients Feb. 7. Superintendent Assigned Now, according to the Veterans y Administration, sometime in the resentative of the Veterans Ad-| future—they’re not sure when— ministration, Stuart M. Rath-| the hospital will be completely Pone, has been sent here “asrenovated to accommodate tuber- Signed to contemplated construccular patients. tion” as superintendent of conDr. Clifton H. Smith, in charge struction.

of the vacant hospital, said the Mr. Rathbone said he has no

conversion” will require “consider id¢a2 when the VA intends reable remodeling.” Most of the modeling. He is currently occu—ee.....ipied With building a 3$335.000 laundry on the Cold Spring

grounds. He said the laundry is intended to service both the new VA hos-! pital, W. 10th St. and White River Pkwy, E. Dr, and the Cold

Today's News In The Times

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Times Photo by Ben Lawrence WHAT A NIGHT—If W. Ohio St. ever looks like this to you, my friend, you've had a lot more than just "one too many." But Photographer Lawrence did it without spilling a martini on the lens of his camera.

Blacked Out

Weighs Exchange Of War Prisoners

By United Press PANMUNJOM, Korea, Mar. 25 —Allied negotiators met with the Communists under a newly imposed‘ blackout and made a new attempt today to break a

Meanwhile, a Washington rep- deadlock in the prisoner of war]

discussions.

United Nations staff officers submitted a ‘preliminary statement” on a Communist proposal made Mar. 5 to continue negotiations for exchanging prisoners of war on the basis of lists already exchanged. Ther was no indication what the nited Nations command said, since the statement was made in ‘executive However, observers believed it either altered the previous United Nations rejection already or in-

Spring Hospital, when the latter Vited the Reds to alter their

original proposal.

session.” |

Local is put in service again. Page’ Work on the laundry is to start Two nonstrikers beaten in cab violence here .....:....... 2 Co., Inc., local contractors.

Grocer slugged, knocked unconscious by bandit Lilly gift spurs Indiana Central College fund drive GI in Wyoming follows Hoo-

sier cage game by mail ... 8 Prizes are coming in for Times Spelling Bee champs ...... 12 National ~ “Greeter” in bank stickup puts finger on Slick Willie ..... 3 Actress Ann Sterling insists “thugs” spanked her ..... 3 Inventor, 74, comes up with some real dizzies ......... 8 Gen. Gruenther, Ike's probable successor, called “brain of a MAN" eesesvecissrvinansn 13 Sports Page Tris Speaker gives Tribe a Kelping hand ....ic.e0vu0s. 10 Trester Award objectors stand pat on wire .............. 11

Williams gets Stanky's old job. 11

Red Wings favored in Cup OPENEI as ssussasessnsnnans 11 ‘armer Strakis goes to town with 701 Coens ¥ NSA sarees 11 Women's Page

Side-Swept,” the new look in silver patterns ............ 4 TV program poses problems fOr StaAP sens evisissiviccs 4 Oriental touch flavors School 43's fair Prospective bridegroom is shower guest-—Caprices by Christy ceeiiwerenss terns

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Meanwhile, staff officers in the this week by the J. L. Simmons NeXt conference tent disposed of the ports of entry issue and rePresently, the new VA Hospital |Sumed debate on a Communist is paying a‘ laundry bill of $3200 Proposal to names Russia as a to $3300 monthly to a local laun-| neutral” truce inspector, No dry. All laundry from Cold Spring Progress was made. Hospital was similarly contracted! United Nations and Communist to the same Indianapolis laundry. officers took only 20 minutes to Capacity of Cold Spring is ex- decide to make the prisoner talks pected to be reduced from 347 secret. Each side had previously beds to 250 by the remodeling, expressed the view that the staleDr. Smith said. mate might be broken if negotiaTB patients take considerably tors were granted “limited primore space than other hospital-|yacy ized persons so many walls willl

have to be moved to comply with MIG Destroyed

health regulations, he said. . veds BY UN Sabrejets

For example, in wards, must be spaced at least 10 feet SEOUL, Korea, Mar. 25 (UP) from center to center, about dou- One Communist MIG-15 was deble the present spacing. stroyed and another probably de-

IU roth TE stroyed today in a high-altitude Traffic Violators air battle hetween 32 American

‘Contribute’ to Library 'S8abrejets and 60 MIGs east of

S BLOOMINGTON, Mar, 25 (UP) au

Thunderjet ~Traffic violators at Indiana first Communist ‘niversit fe unwittingly University have unwittingly made al A&t

pilotz spotted the tanks seen in

a month and destroyed

Truce Parley 56th and Shadeland

Is Traffic ‘Hot Spot’

By JOHN V. WILSON

Military and sheriff’s officials|he received a reply from N. F. some employees to other depart-

nal. A month later, Lt. Owen said

Fear Kingan's

Urges Probe

Of Water Bill

Paid by

But Without The Hat He's Not Like Henry |

DEMOCRATS handed the Re-| puplicans some bad political news! today-—they claim they have an-

. Strike S reads: Schricker coming up the political ladder.

Following in the footsteps of Henry F. Schricker, the only! politician twice elected Governor! of Indiana, is Ware Edgar. f Just like the Governor, left Edgar: | to- ONE—Comes from Knox, Ind. | TWO—Edits the Starke County Democrat, THREE—Is beginning his poin- litical career this year by running| the for Joint State Senator from| Starke and LaPorte Counties as the & Democrat; | However, the 37.year-old bud-| ding politico has not yet started

Shutdown as

Three Departments Now Out Here

About ‘100 workers ‘their jobs at Kingan & Co ‘day, and the walkout

|threatening to spread. The work stoppage - now volves three departments in bacon plant. | Company officials said {strike may spread and force the ;entire plant to shut down. idling its 3000 employees. S————— The 200 workers in the main-

Mr.

ltenance department were meeting, 7" asldent; “id today, {today, and Kingan officials said] e charges apparently are (if they join the walkout, the plant| 3 for rental of fire hydrants and

{use of water mains

will have to close. Maintenance|

workers handle vital functions : “ like heat, light, power and ma- | chine repair. : ‘Unauthorized’ Stoppage t 2 Men Caught,

Kingan officials termed the| work stoppage ‘‘unauthorized,”| 3d Hunted By United Press

Ipointing out a 60-day strike no-| DANVERS, Mass,

[tice had not been filed as required Three men looted an armored

Mar, 25

{by the Taft-Hartley law.

This was confirmed by a com- truck of $600.000 toda ) oday In the missioner of the Federal Media- biggest cash robbery since

{tion and Conciliation Service Brink's. Ine. (here, He said he understood the Within two hours two men were

{walkout was a “wildcat” and that la representative of the union’s in- yelzed In New Hampenire and a ternational was trying ie get the Everett Mass. 2 employees back to work. Tn 3 | on in the walkout were in in Pe H., some 80 Imembers of Local 117, Uniteq|Tlies north of busy Danvers Packinghouse Workers of Amer. | Square, Where the robbery octea i En ” curred, one man was wounded and . captured with his companion aft-

| Kingan's issued a statement hase [that the walkout followed work a3 ghway .. by a state

(revisions in the bacon slicing de-| “you 'hile. In Everett, 15 miles

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City

Gl Works Board

Will Ask PSC Hearing

Believes Charges Are Too High

By JOE ALLISON A battle between the city and Indianapolis Water Co. loomed today when the Board of Works said it would seek a new hearing on water charges before the Public Service Come mission. : “We want to know what the city is getting for $474,915 a year,” Howard W, Sams, board

many of which are rarely used,” Mr. Sams continued. “This seems to be just protection charges and you can buy a {lot of fire insurance for $475,000," {he added.

Opposes PSC Hearing

Alfred Norris, executive vice president of the Indianapolis Water Co., said, “We would prefer not to have a new hearing {before the PSC. “However,” Mr. Norris con~ tinued, “we feel the ¢ provides something all of Indianapolis benefits from in better fire protection and lower insurance

rates, “I think if the ; gets into the ma eh oa ly, they will find the charge is a fair one considering the fine fire protection rating Indianapolis

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partment and reassignment of], or here, where the robbers’ stolen car was found abandoned,

{today renewed demands for a'Schafer, trafic bureau director,| ments. The statement called the|, .. xo police combed an area

/traffic signal near Ft, Harrison saving a survey showed there was|

{to avert a growing acciden

spot.

t hot-

A similar request was made]

jinsufficient traffic to warrant the| |signal. To determine the status of the]

to the State Highway Commis-/request now, The .Times called]

sion six months ago. action has been taken.

son and Westeran Electric traffic play a dangerous speed. game at 356th St, Shadeland Ave, “The situation is really rc

But no the Highway Commission.

Twice a day heavy Ft. Harri-

plant high-

and

ugh,”

sald Sheriff's Lt. Willlam Owen. “At times, cars are backed up from Shadeland into Ft, Harrison waiting to €ross the intersection.” ** Post Commander Col, E. P

Beyer said he is “very concerned.”

He estimated 2000 workers at Ft.

Harrison cross the intersect

jon at

8 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. daily,

Since ‘the traffic huild-up,

three

persons have been injured in five tion

accidents during the rush hours.

Luckily, no one has heen s+ yet.

| After a meeting last September, mated Ft, Harrison will employ a was news to his office;

Col. Beyer and Lt,

Chute Fouls, GI Dies In Exercise Longhorn

By United Press FORT HOOD, Tex.., Mai A paratrooper of the “aggr 82d Airborne Division fell

- feet to his. death today. H

the first real casualty of the 17- of World War II units, put down To Dime May 1 10

day “war” that 115.000 me

killed

Owen wrote minimum of 6000 civilians, plus a! heen informed of a difficulty, the Highway Commission, seek- large number of military person- not of a walkout, ing installation of a traffic sig- nel.

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1000 and shrouded his body in it.

fe Was

'n are

fighting in Exercice Longhorn

The trooper was in the first wave of 3000 jumpers. His para chute fouled and he struggled desperately to open his emergency parachute The trooper's hadv sent up a as it half-buried itself

dust cloud

Michigan Bishop Is Lenten Speaker

a valuable contribution to the three of the historical documents, it was an- F : In -— nounced. todav., ighting on the ground was Campus traffic fines paid by light. Indiana University faculty .mem- — — BT bers enabled the IU. lihrary .to | * acquire the journal kept by a Coste lo. Waives

Navy chaplain on the last cruise of the famous frigate ‘Constitution” in the War of 1812.

Right to Jury Trial

Fines assessed against faculty] NEW YORK, Mar. 25 (UP)— members are used for the pur- Gambler Frank Costello has

chase. of library items, and stu- Waived his right to a trial by jury dent fines go into a scholarship and will face retrial for contempt fund. of a Senate Investigating’ Committee before Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan next Monday. Costello's attorney, Kenneth: M, Spence, moved for the non-jury (UP)— trial yesterday after telling the

Triple Hindsight Fails to Save Him DETROIT, Mar. 25

Arthur Wyan, 27, who appeared court he believed the only ques-

in court on a speeding charge tion involved was one of law. vesterday, told Traffic Referee! U. 8. Attorney Myles J. Lane Rollin Shull he couldn't possibly agreed to the non-jury trial. have “been driving 40 miles an Costello, charged with conhour. : tempt of Congress for his walk“I have three rear-view mirrors out on the Senate Crime Investiand didn't see a cop.” Wynn said. gating Committee here last year, "What you need {zs more fore- was tried once before a federal and less hindsight.” ‘Mr. Shull in fining Wynn $25. -la verdict. % » .

| The Rt. Rev. Russell 8

Hub-

bard, suffragan bishop of Michi-

gan, was to

“Twelve Steps”

preach on adopted by

the mem-

bers of Alcoholics Anonymous at noon today through Friday in Christ Episcopal, Church oh the

Circle. Bishop Hubbard, who has considerable work with AA, today. on the following steps: ONE-—"We admitted we powerless over alcohol—tha lives had become unmanag TWO-—'"We came tn b that a Power greater than selves could restore us to s THREE "We made a de to tutn our wills and our

understood Him.”

done spoke three

were t our eable elieve ouraAnity Ci&ion lives

said court jury which failed to reach over to the care of God as we

The | ‘call shuttled through five offices {before a spokesman admitted “a traffic count might have been| imade.” { When Mr. Schafer was reached today, he told The Times:

“According to law, there must

changes ‘necessary, fair, table and entirely proper.” Max Semenick, president of Local 117, told The Times “I can’t tell you why they walked out.” He insisted it was not a|in an attempt to pick up his trail strike, and refused to discuss the/on the city streets, : issues. It was not known immediately

Quit Last Wednesday

Actually, last Wednesday, the company that chase. said, when the 75 employees of However, hoth were brought to

€qul-| where another suspect was

lieved to have holed up.

be-

Bring in Hound

{whether the two New Hampshire rental {men were involved in the robbery, jhydrants, for a total $86,784 a the walkout began since police refused to discuss Year,

{The present rate was estab(lished in 1932 and has not been {examined by the PSC since. | Before that time, there had (been a $45-a-year charge for each hydrant. The present rate is more than $67 a hydrant each

A bloodhound was brought in|Year,

The charges to the city cone sist of; Yo ONE-—Twelve dollars a ear

for each of 7232 fire

TWO-—A charge based on the size and length of water mains,

be 500 vehicles per hour during he bacon slicing department re- Dover, N, H., for questioning in| fOr an annual cost of $388,131.58,

an average period to warrant a signal at the intersection. When

ported for work and then left the Danvers robbery —the biggest the plant. They were joined today since Brink's, Inc., was robbed of!

Those figures total $474,915.58, That amount of money would

we made our first check, there PY Workers in the bacon skinning |g1 219 000 at Boston in January, | buy 45 million gallons of water

were not that many.” Mr. Schafer said he didn't wish to be considered “unfavorable” to) signals and promised to run an-| other check “within a couple of weeks.” { Col. Beyer warned the intersec-| will become increasingly|

and bacon molding departments, | qs |a

putting a halt to the sliced bacon gis Trooper Clifton Hildreth

operation, wounded one man in the leg. He They have reported for work , "I " each morning, but left in a few, *d set up a roadblock when mingtes: (warned by radio that police were Company officials sald the chasing the pair. Trooper Hilwalkout was not previously pub-|dreth forced the men’s car off the

licized because they hoped for highway and, when they tried to

year, based on the rate for 100,000 cubic feet per month or more.

The water company said today 1.3 million gallons were used on the two-alarm five-hour blaze at Block's Washington St. Store Jan, 22. ’

Mr. Norris defended the water

thazardous with the completion of gettlement. the new finance center. | State Labor ‘Commissioner! When it is completed, he esti- Thomas Hutson said the walkout

and was plan-| {ning to assign a conciliator to the argument. { The last time Kingan's had a {strike was in 1948, when the plant was forced to suspend operation. That was part-of an industry-wide] strike. Kingan’'s is the eighth largest] packinghouse in the country. Its bacon output alone averages buddies broke 50,000 pounds -a day.

parachute

His emergency

in the dirt. the

Pay Phones Going

open

The 82d," one of the toughest

3000 fully equipped men in minutes, Air Force transports flew over the area in Jormations

It will cost 10 cents to make a telephone call from a pay phone

of 1R, emptying out men and in Indianapolis on May 1. equipment in less than two Oficials of Indiana‘ Bell Tele; minutes for each plane phone Co. said today thes expect One jumper tangled in his para- tn make mechanical changes in chute and fell to some 75 feet the coin telephones at that time. ahove the ‘ground’ before his: Circuit Court Judge Linyd Clay- © emergency pack blossomed out combe gave the company permisHe wag réported shaken up'ssion to rate local pay calls five hut “all right.” At least 20 nother cents. The 10-cent charge—is in men were hurt, effect in some cities in Indiana Two .other parachutes failed, now,

one lowering a jeep and the other a 105 mm. howitzer, The equipment was shattered. The mass jump came after waves of fighter-bombers supporting the make-believe aggressor attacked lines of the U. 8. defending. force. Some 50 hedgehopping F-47s and F-51's swept

PSC Argues Today

For New Phone Hearing

The state makes a new bid today for a retrial of Indiana Bell Telephone Company's $7 million rate increase case. Oral arguments were scheduled

the area to “soften up” for the before Cireuit Court Judge Lloyd R2d. D. Claycombe by Public Counselor . The “enemy” hurled his might Walter Jones Jr. and Patrick

against the defending units along Smith, utility attorney.

flee afoot, fired.

He had pa, vaile of Boston, who was but| wounded,

main charge, saying it at least partially represented the cost of larger mains required to service fire hydrants. and Joseph William| He refused to say the entire Kelley of Woburn, Mass. The $475,000 yearly represented actual men were in a tan Hudson. Vaile|€08t8 of operation and installa. was hospitalized but was not in|ton Plus a reasonable profit. gerious condition. In addition to the $475,000 The robbery occurred while spent od fire hydrants and three guards of the U. 8. Armored, ¢1, 000 le i between sar Corp. were drinking coffee ter Ppt oi Saar for in Ropes’ Drug Store, They had| on as an ian a dmgs. a4 ust made a aelivery at the DAN"! for water used to flush the streets,

Sipping Coffee The pair was identified as Nor-

vers

Open Crackdown On Taxis Here

First steps in a city crackdown on taxicab business have been |outlined by Police Chief Ambuhl Tawn Marshal F¥arl Gentry and the Safety Board. aaid he radined state police tn The men will take their new top Mr: Willkie for violating the assignments within two or three posted 20-mph speed limit on days, Safety Board members ine U. 8. 40 here yesterday, dicated. Exact time will depend v ~~ on clearing up of a legal question WOULD YOU Other steps given preliminary, consideration. yesterday were sete ? . "ay . ? the mechanical safety of all cabs AUTOMATIC CLUTCH? J an increase in taxi license

about the licenses of five taxis. LIKE A CAR WITH AN ting up of a safety lane to check fees.

street

Rep. Phillip Willkie Faces Speeding Charge

Times State Service CAMBRIDGE CITY, Mar. 25 ~ State Rep. Phillip Willkie (R. Rushville), will face a speeding charge this week.

BUT you can’t afford to spend $2,000 or $3.000 for @ new cor. Well, don’t give up—just turn to the classified pages of today's Times. There you will find most every kind of an eutomatic clutch on cars that are specially priced during the big ‘Spring Used Cor Sale’ now going on full blast throughout the city, Hundreds of cars with oll the modern improvements for

Italy Mob Masses Before U. S. Embassy

ROME, Mar. 25 (UP)—Police used tear gas, clubs and streams of red-dyed water today to dise perse 6000 shrieking, stone-throwe 'ing students who massed in front of the American embassy shout=

the Lampasas River and drove The State Public Service Com- you to selert from. {Ing “down with the United six miles through “American” mission demanded a new trial ‘ $ | States.” lines. after Judge Claycombe awarded Turn NOW to the | In'Naples a mob of 10,000 broke re nome rene the huge boost Jan. 25. His order through - a police barricade to LOCAL TEMPERATURES . increased pay phone calls to 10 Want Ad Pages of |march on the United States confa... 9R Jam. 5 oe anit Mayas Iong distance The Indianapolis Hs. disdiers marked the sec 7 wi+33 1 a.m... 55 ER : 3 er 32 XuiMu en | The PSC has indicated ft will TIMES * |ond day of riotous protests, in Sa m.. 4% appeal the decision to the Indiana . . | which students from 12 to 25. : : Supreme Court {f the motion for |NDIANA'S LARGEST USED (AR GUIDE years old demanded the return of + Latest humidity «.......43% Gp .| Trieste to Italy. A

|a new trial is turned down i

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