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63d YEAR—NUMBER. 14

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

‘He Died Without

Boy Burning to Death Asks Brother for Kiss fs Cah Drivers

United Press

By DUSTIN, Okla., Mar. 26—A 14-year-old farm boy who kissed his younger brother goodby, “get away from me,”

ordered him to burned to death “without a whi a blazing tractor will get a today. The story of how Richard died in an accident on his fami

here was told yesterday by his heartbroken,

11-year-old brother, Glendell The two brothers were ridin

tor Monday when the front wheel .f the veThe vehicle overturned and

hicle swerved.

burst into flames. Glendell was

but Richard's .legs were pinned under the

tractor, Glendell said he was beating

a Whimper'—

Richard made

then mper’ beneath hero's funeral

Glendell sa.d.

That the gasol

Dale Foreman ly’'s farm near ly tried to lift

ard’s legs with

bors finally pried it off with fence posts..

But Richard, "a sixth grade student and son and Mrs.

g on the tracof Mr. was dead. thrown clear,

on the tractor saw, Okla., his

with his coat, trying to put out the fire, when “He said to kiss him’ goodby, and I did,” He kept telling me to get away from him. , ,

A motorist who saw the accident, frantical-

“He died without a whimper,” Glendell said. Funeral services will Methodist Church. He will be buried at Salli-

Study Slapping Ban on Felons

him stop.

Safety Board Plans | License Policy Shift |

“Then he told me to go away.

The Board of Safety today

ine tank would blow up.” considered invoking a law

the burning tractor from Rich-

an automobile jack. and neigh- [cab any person ever convicted |

of ‘a felony. { | The board plans a revision of] |its policy in issuing taxi drivers’| licenses after a further study of thé law. | The Safety Board also ordered, assignment of four policemen to! full-time duty checking licenses, |

Richard Foreman, already

be hell at Dustin’

birthplace.

County Towns Tell the City

Greater Indianapolis Plan Assailed

Photo, Page 6 By JOSEPH ALLISON “We don’t want any part of Indianapolis. We like our

schools the way they are. We

believe in home rule and we! want to be left alone.”

This was the average opinion! # expressed last night as a record’

crowd of county residents jammed City Council chambers to “advise” the Metropolitan Area Study Commission. The meeting was the last in a geries of public hearings conduct-! ed by the commisison before recommendations are prepared for, the Legislature on ‘duplications and overlapping functions” in! Marion County governments.

Annexation Top Issue

Top issue to more than 700 who!

crowded into the meeting was| the proposed annexation of all} cities and towns except Clermont] to a “Greater Indianapolis.” The annexation plan was only, one of three proposals of the study commission. It was designed, a commission spokesman, said, to provide a government

which other commission groups § had indicated, was necessary. |

That the plan was just-a plan,| and not something about to take! place by vote last night, was not realized by many spectators. In heated tones, residents of] Beech Grove, Speedway, Séuth-| port and rural areas pleaded to! be allowed to continue their own way. Want to Be Left Alone

Many spectators apparently were afraid Indianapolis was about to ‘‘gobble them up.” So intense was interest in the annexation issue that commis-| sioners were barely able to get comment on a proposed countywide purchasing plan, which was up for discussion first. . Almost all speakers on that plan started with, “We want home rule and want to be left alone.” While nearly all speakers ex-! pressed fear of Indianapolis as a tax-hungry monster, many cast longing looks at the city’s sanitation facilities, For many county and small town residents, sewage disposal has become a major problem, not helped by the city’s attitude that city sewage disposal will be available only for those who annex to the city. Only one of the more. than 30 people who spoke on the annexation plan seemed to favor a change in the “Basic Governmental Organization and Function” of the county, subject of the meeting. Heavy applause came whenever speakers talked in favor of their own small communities and “home rule.”

Knute Rockne Memorial Mass to Be Held Sunday

SOUTH BEND, Mar. 26 (UP) —A memorial mass in observance of the death of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's famed football coach, will be held Sunday, Mar. 30, it was announced today. Rockne died in an air crash near Bazaar, Kas., Mar. 31, 1931.

AREYOU |

SATISFIED WITH THE CAR YOU'RE DRIVING?

If you are a little ashamed of its appearance, a- little worried about your safety or concerned about its high mainteance costs now is a grand time to trade it in. All this week leading dealers are sponsoring a citywide ‘Spring Used Cor Sale’, Prices are especially low, quality very high and. trade-in allowances most liberal. Don't delay—oct today.

Turn NOW to the Want Ad Pages of

The Indianapolis |

Bab

ling of union and

broke its paw afd was taken by

Hospital where nurses set the broken bone and put it in a plaster

cast.

Given Dye

By United Press ‘ FT. WORTH, Tex., Mar, 26— The 3-month-old girl who may have only half a heart, will undergo a delicate test today to determine if she can be helped by surgery. The baby, Sharon Bussey, now lies in an oxygen tent at a-Ft. Worth hospital. Doctors say she is in constant pain. A heart specialist who is preparing the child for the test said previous X-ray pictures indicate the right side of Sharon's heart may not be working, or that it might not be there at all. The test will involve injection of a dye into Sharon's artery. X-ray pictures will be taken every half-second as the dy: circulates and outlines the heart chambers, to indicate to doctors how her

Walkout Ends At Kingan's

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A walkout of about ployees at Kingan & Co. today. Maintenance workers returned to their jobs this morning and bacon department employees were scheduled back this afternoon. Return of the 121 maintenance workers- after a one-day walkout ended threats that all of the huge plant wouldvhave to close, idling its 3000 employees. Settled at Meeting The bacon plant, closed by the walkout of some 100 employees was to reopen this afternoon. Settlement came after a meetcompany of-

emended

ficials this morning. The walkouts were staged by members of Local 117, United

'Packinghouse Workers of

America (CIO). But Frank May, member of the local's executive board, said the union had not authorized the strike. ; The employees had protested company plans to revise some jobs in the bacon departmeént.| The workers called it a speed-up but company officials said it was not. a A joint statement said the company agreed to a union proposal about working arrangements in

the bacon plant. i | Kingan is the eighth aegis i\packinghouse i

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in the nation,

With ‘Half Heart i= aids reported Mr, Staf-

meters and the condition of cabs.| |

The ban on ex-convicts was reported to the board by City Attorney Frank Haupt while the board was considering the license application. of a man convicted several years ago of a felony.

The city ordinance also bars sex perverts and persons known to be associated with prostitution from, employment by any taxicab) operator, {

Safety Board President Paull Robertson said, “Our policy in the light of this law should be to reject or revoke all licenses of known felons.”

Rufus Kuykendall, Safety Board attorney, said: “A conservative estimate would be that half of the city’s cab drivers are convicted felons.” ! The Board of Safety under the| previous administration granted licenses to ex-convicts whose] : records had been clear for sev-| eral years. : James Courtney, Safety Board 6 member, said: “I don’t think it's| exactly fair to penalize a man] forever for a mistake he made many years ago. clear.” The board postponed setting a| definite policy on taxicab licenses, | for ex-convicts pending further into a barber shop west of the study of the law by the city's city early today got a close shave legal department, and the barber got a $1000

trimming. Cabbie Beating State police Weren't sure Case Confinued

whether George Parrott, 45, of 725 Fayette St., or his brother, Cases of two Red Cab Co. em-| ployees, accused in the gang]

Jeffro, 35, of 2145 Harlan St. beating of a striking driver, were | continued today in Municipal] Court 3 until Tuesday because the complaining witness was still! in Methodist Hospital.

Released on $1000 bond cM C th S were William Spaulding, 33, of 950 Highland Place, and Eldon C ar y le Suddeth, 32, of 1440 N. Park Ave. Preliminary charges of assault and battery with intent to kill have been filed against both. John Stafford, 35, of 626 E.

12th St., said they were among Names Benton

six men who beat him Sunday night at 11th and Meridian Sts.| AS Defendant By United Press |

WASHINGTON, Mar. 26—|

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bruises. Rockville Rd. was a shambles, |

was shattered.

United Press [eicpholo,

KITTEN IN CAST—Katherine Sarantis, 10, of Rochester, N. Y., autographs her kitty's cast. The cat, Fluffy, 6 months old,

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Katherine to Rochester General

ford’'s condition as good today. Suddeth already was free on!

Test Today

blood flows and the condition of her heart, Findings from the test, expected to be analyzed by tomor- Cap driver, William Green, 39, of, Mr, Benton is author of a Sen-

row or Friday, will indicate 10/920 N. Alabama St., was placed ate resolution asking an investi-| doctors. whether Sharon’s heart on the critical list in Methodist

condition can be corrected by sur-| Hospital last night, gery. Sharon’s twin sister, Karen, by two men Monday night at 26th and a 3-year-old sister, Mickey, and Harding Sts. was libeled and slandered by Mr. are being cared for now by Mrs.| Another Red Cab driver, Mar- Benton in the latter's efforts to! Bussey’s parents—Mr. and Mrs. vin A, Cook, 28, of 122 W. Ninth oust him. Mr. Benton on Mar, 18 Jack Johnygn of Darbyshire st. told police two men slugged waived his senatorial immunity Derby, FEngland—who came to him near 2260 N. Temple Ave. from suits for libel by Mr, MecFt. Worth last fall to be with yesterday afternoon and took his Carthy. their daughter and her family, |taxi. It was recovered a few| Mr. McCarthy's suit was filed

: blocks away. |in federal district court here. He [] Mr. Cook was treated at Meth-!later told a news conference that Today's News ® In The Times

battery charge in another inci- Wis,) today filed $2 million,

dent. Mr, Stafford also was the ,. : : complaining witness in that case | 10E] and slander suit against

Mr. McCarthy charged that he,

ndist Hospital and released. lhe intends to serve as his own A company taxi was reported lawyer so that he can cross exon fire early today near the home amine Mr. Benton under oath durfof its driver, George Rider, 52, of ing the trial and in pre-irial exc 2659 N. Harding St. Police said|aminations.

UNKINDEST CUT—C

was driving. |

He told police he was slugged to remain in the Senate, 'gem-studded

‘Drive-In’ Barber Shop woh Gives 2 a Close Shave

Two men in a car that crashed; The car broke off both barber |

chairs and shoved them to the rear of the shop. The old-fashioned clock on the wall stopped at 2:30 a.m. The barber, Claude Dishman, 533 Ripple Rd., estimated damage to the shop's interior alone at $1000, Witnesses sald damage to the

Both escaped with cuts and building was even more extensive

laude Dishman and what's left of his barbershop.

Steel Strike Felt Certain

By United Press WASHINGTON, Mar. 26— Top mobilization officials split into warring factions over steel prices and wages today as direct union-management con{tract talks resumed after a three-

month break. Thé CIO United Bteslworkers,

But the shop at 4216 —=about $2000. ’

On the front of the demolished

The plate glass front window CAr, state troopers sald, hung a strike for Apr, 8, demanded that

mailbox bearing the address 2906 W. 33d St. : Warren GG. Randall of that ad-

!dress told The Times today the hourly wage Increase, plus 8%

mailbox was missing from in front of his home.

Both Parrotts were caged in

{the County Jail, charged with be-|sions with the United States Steel

“ . {ing drunk, They'll appear Friday Corp. at Pittsburgh today, and {night in Speedway Magistrate|in contract talks with other steel Court,

Wilks Estate Jewelry

To Go on Auction Block develop unless or until the

NEW YORK, Mar. 26 (UP)—

jewelry from the estate of Mrs. Hetty Green Wilks will go on the auction block next month, The

Meanwhile, a nonstriking Red Sen. William Benton (D. CoBN.).|jeqqiry much of it inherited in|

bracelets, 48 diamond rings. and 33 diamond cluster brooches. Mrs. Wilks, daughter of -the fabulous Wall Street

leaving an estimated $95 million

lestate, about $39 million of it in

two checking accounts.

Reds Reject Red Cross

‘Germ Warfare’ Probe

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Mar. 26 (UP)-— Russia today rejected an offer of the International Red Cross to investigate Communist charges that American forces are waging germ warfare against North, Korea and China. Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik repeated before the United Nations disarmament. commission the propaganda charge that epidemics had heen started. hy germ

weapons used by United States forces fighting for the United Nations,

{who have called a nationwide

the steel industry accept the |Wage Stabilization Board's recommendation for a 17'%-cent

cents in fringe benefits, | Union officials planned to press {the demand at closed-door ses-

icompanies later, Officials Gloomy

K Sought to Stage oast-to-Coast

$ : |parring from driving a taxi-| OXli n 9 alc $3 &

Club Seeks. Wednesday Pahst Show

Want Program On May 28th

By JIM HEYROCK Times Sports Writer

CHICAGO, Mar. 26 — Offi« cials of the Hoosier Boxing Club, Inc., Indianapolis’ ‘news est professional fight promo« tion group, were here today to complete plans to bring one of the Wednesday night television bouts to the Hoosier capital. 2 Bob Wormser, head of the Ine dianapolis group, met with heads

of the International Boxing Club to work out details to bring a “big-time” fight to Indianapolis May 28, two days before the 500« Mile Race. If the Indianapolis group and the IBC come to terms, the fight would be televised from coast to coast, but would be blacked out in the Indianapolis area. The bout would be on the program sponsored each week by Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Today's discussion was to ine clude opponents for the bout and financial arrangements, The fight would he staged in the Coliseum. It would be the first promotion for the new promoters. Final discussion on plans for the Indianapolis bout was sched uled after tonight's’ television bout in Chicago Stadium.

Bloomington Will Televise Derby

Bloomington’'s TV station, WTTV, will carry the Kentucky Derby at 5:15 p, m. May 3, ace cording to Program Director Robe ert Petranoff, WFBM-TV will not know until later today if the Derby will be picked up here, but there is a strong possibility, According to the Indiana Divi

But government officials expected little real bargaining to in-

|slon of the American Telephone | & Telegraph Co., there is a cable connecting Louisville with

{dustry is assured of substantial Indianapolis from north to south,

price increases to compensate for

$100 bond on an assault and Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. An estimated $300,000 worth of pigher wage costs. Some officials predicted gloom-|

ily that the strike will come off on schedule, and knocks defense production schedules into a

: | |Wilks from her brother, Col. Ed-|in the dispute is seriously imgation of Mr. McCarthy's fitness ward H. R. Green, includes 50! paired by the “family fight

cocked hat. They said the gov-| 1936 by the frugal-living Mrs./ernment's ability to make peace]

To bring the Derby into this area, AT&T will Install transe | mitting equipment in Louisville and receiving equipment in | Indianapolis to reverse the send- | ing procedure.

Burglars Were

among Its own mobilization agen-| IN Wrong Pew

cles. The backstage row broke into the open Monday night when De-|

zation Board's settlement recom-| mendations as a ‘serious threat” to the year-old effort to curb in|flation. | WSB Bristles Wage board members bristled with anger, and Steelworkers President Philip Murray struck] back, accusing Mr. Wilson of trying to reverse the board in favor of an “Industry-dictated” settlement. Mr. Wilson tried to make peace with the board and the union yesterday by issuing a placatory statement in which he acknowledged that the hoard’s recommendations should serve as a “basis” [for the forthcoming wage megotiations. While he eating his officials regarded his a8 a “retraction.”

denied that he was earlier words, union

gtatement

City Hall Coughs Up $500 Lost for 2 Years

ANYTHING, in time, can be found in City Hall. Ne Two years ago the Ohio Oil

| to

Some burglars went to church here last night. Others, who did

financier fense Mobilizer Charles E. Wil- their dirty work in a laundry, Hetty Green, died Feb. 5, 1951, son denounced the Wage Stabili- made a bigger cleanup.

The First Baptist Church, 401 N. Meridian S8t., and the Nazae rene Church, 1621 E. Washington St., were burglarized for a total loot of $24. That was taken from an office in the Nazarene Church, police were told. Yeggs failed to open a wall safe at the First Baptist Church, although they knocked off the combination and tore away a section of the wall. But a safe in the Excelsior Laundry, 1432 Broad Ripple Ave. yielded $166.45 to burglars wha battered it open. Police theorized that they used tools stolen from the Shell serve ice station at 1428 Broad Ripple Ave., also broken into last night, Nothing else was reported misse ing from the filling station.

Newspapers Join In Race News Ban

NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 26 (UP) —New Orleans’ three daily newsepapers announced today -that they would comply with a request from Police Supt, Joe Scheuering discontinue publication of racing information, but they dise

Local its interior was burned out, Mr. Benton accused Mr, MecPage — —_ {Carthy last year before the Sen3 i fate committees of waging "a camDemocrats scurrying to fill . CAAL y ~- |B 4 party ticket .............. 3 Hidden Mike \paign of fraud and deceit” and 17 Workers at International lof committing perjury during his Harvester stay off jobs.... 9 Broadcasts [campaign to prove that the State County auto -toll blamed on : . Department is infeated with Com= puny”. patrol sh... 19 Bring Blushes munists. Charges Malice National DERBY, England, Mar. 26 In his complaint, Mr. McCarthy Frommy Manville to wed No. 9 (UP) Novelty shopkeeper charged that Mr. Benton as a _-a nightclub singer ...... .3] John Stevens concealed twn former Assistant Secretary: of Secretary of Army at front | Microphones in the doorway of State has ‘defended various per- : lines ™ “Or eration Long. | his shop to pick up comments sons in the State Department horn” p g 5 of passersby, who stopped to against charges of the plaintiff Nia Critter tr te: 1. + Y inspect his wares, (McCarthy) that they are ComThree ansils mug in ‘hideout y However, today he discon. munisty—ant or pro-Communists ad (rts try nected the microphones, be- and that their ‘presence in the F . | cause the ‘broadcasts’ em- State Department is dangerous oreign | barrased his wife, and detrimental to the interests Page His shop is opposite a dance. of the United States.” French gendarme’ kills GI in hall. At night the microphones He said that Mr. Benton “in Jove triangle ......v.ie00 5 picked up the whispered con- carrying out this malicious purArms program stepped up by versations of lovers huddled pose” of unseating him, professes MEXICn o.viviiviviiteini 20 in the doorway after the to be acting in good faith but dance hall closed. that he is motivated by “ill will ’ ——— ———————— and malice.” Women $s ' It said that Mr. Benton's “mal‘age ice and 111 will” against Mr. McCotton's in the 'h2 social whirl }1 Carthy “has arisen and. been Park Mothers preview garden caused by plaintiff's action in extour flower mart items.... Ul - posing as pro-Communist friends

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New Swiss hankles

Other Features:

Amusements o..... “oes 15 Details Charges Comics ..ovivissnnnss 42, 43 offensive against Chinese He said in these ‘circumstances CIOSSWOrd sisdduioneny 43 | Nationalist forces near the Mr. Benton “acted as. a defense Editorialg ...3.40044 veer 24 es . . witness for persons attacked. for Harold Hartley .eqseieees 30 Chinese Communist border, security and. other reasons and = In Hollywood . assess 15 it was announced today: has used every means at his comRadio, Television caeeese. 28 aaa Lo mand to protect persons whe are Robert RUAIK scaseenses 23 had security risks in the State Ed Sovola...... senses 23 LOCAL TEMPERATURES Department and elsewhere.” Sports... ceeseeness 33-35 ga. m..3 10a m,. 34" Mr. McCarthy's complaint reEarl Wison seeeseesees. 23 7a m.. 32 11. a. m.. 38 [viewed in detail Mr. Benton's] Women's 11, 12,13 8 a. m... 32 12 (Noon) 41 (charges against him as presented)

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RANGOON, Burma, Mar. 26 (UP)—Burmese troops | | have opened a big-scale

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of the defendant (Benton) in the State Department and in exposing other friends of the defendant! for security reasons.”

to the subcommittee last year,

Co. submitted a $500 check |agreed with his reason. with a bid for city gasoline, | The Times-Picayune, New Ore Anbther firm gol the con |leans Item and New Orleans tract. The check. given as a | States announced the decision in guarantee of good faith, was {front page editorials, but they

¢ |said they did not believe the pube i |lication of racing news contribe i luted to handbook operations in [the city.

; | Fair Listening Ahead | [For Short-Wave Fans

| WASHINGTON, Mar. 26—Tha severe storm. in the ionosphere that for the last few days has _ ‘caused shortwave. radio broad- | casts to be disturbed by weak | signals, fading and blackouts will lend tomorrow, radio forecasters lat the National Bureau of Stande

to he returned. jut the check was lost, Oil company representatives made .s0 many trips to City Hall they hecame embarrassed and gave up. : Because the check was certified, the company couldn't touch $500 deposited in a bank to cover it, Last week, as the city took new gasoline bids, the check turned up, . . It had been filed away with old bid forms in the city purchasing office, and was found

in government, where you get

by City Purchasing Agent Fran- |ards predict. cis Truitt when he probed old money back instead of pouring Radio signals are expected to files for information about b it in," said an .oil company (come through fairly well Friday “Maybe this is a new ~ spokesman, through Sunday, 3

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