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The most powerful television station with one of the tallest antennas in United States has been requested for the second TV station in Indianapolis. - * * * ~ An application was filed today with the Federal Communications
“Commission in Washington by
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Universal Broadcasting Co., Inc., owners and operators of Radio Station WISH. C. Bruce McConnell, president of the local broadcasting firm, said the FCC has been asked to approve: A ONE-—A television station with a radiated power of 316,000 watts, the maximum permissable under FCC rules and not previously OK’d for any other station. TWO—A 1000-foot antenna— one of the tallest in the country and what would be the tallest structure in Indiana. THREE—Use of . Channel 8, one of the channels recently assigned to Indianapolis by the FCC. However, he pointed out the
DWARFS MONUMENT—Proposed television antenna for WISH would be Indiana's tallest
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request. i : : Mr. McConnell said the huge] Denied Opportunity To Resign ?, IH 1S Wanamiiting Sie Patrolman Charles E. Jewell east ‘of Indianapolis near the Was fired from the Indianapolis county line. Police Department today for The broadcasting antenna — [sleeping on duty. which would be almost four times| The patrolman turned down an as high as the Monument on the|Opportunity to resign from the Circle — already has been ap- department after the Board of proved by the Air Space Commit- Safety told him “we do not think tee of the Civil Aeronautics Au-{you Will make a satisfactory pothority in Washington. lice officer. Mr. McConnell said engineers| The policeman was charged estimate the high antenna and the With sleeping on duty and using maximum power would just about his private car on a walking double the present TV reception|district the morning of May 30.
d rea around Indianapolis, Many| Inspector Ralph M. Bader an are sets now pT ey Lt. Arthur Huber testified that
aerials would not need them to Officer Jewell had failed to make. , \ |regular reports to police headreceive the station's telecasts. es Rh es ee founa
1 Million Investment ‘ He iy the television project [2sleep in his car at 18th St. and {Columbia Ave.
[round gn investment of It was the second time Patroly : Iman Jewell had appeared as a
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Swedes Call
In Russ Row
‘June 18—Sweden ‘day a Soviet charge that the ‘Swedish flying boat {down by Russian fighters Mon\day had violated Soviet territory,
plane did so three days earlier.
| landed at sea and its seven crew, men, two of them wounded, took to life rafts and were picked up
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1952
efense Plants Scrape
Bottom Of Steel Stocks
Entered as Second-Class Matter at PbstoMoe Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily.
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Air Reserves
Orders Warships To Resist Force
By United Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden| denied to-!
shot
but conceded another Swedish
At the game time Swedish authorities partly reactivated ' the nation’s World War II air observer corps and issued live ammuni-| tion to jet fighters and warships in the Baltic with orders to shoot back if attacked.
Russia accused downed
the
Swedish flying boat of violating, § ht Soviet territory in a note handed
Swedish Ambassador Rolf Sohlman in Moscow. | The note charged that the twin-| engined. Catalina entered Soviet
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Plane Unarmed Although fighters repeatedly signaled the
flying boat to land, the note,
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fused and opened fire on the So-| viet planes.” ; “The Soviet aircraft returhed the fire, after which the Swedish plane turned toward the sea,” the note said. i The crippled Catalina crash-|
territory near Cape Ristn on the §
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Kong will be able to appear at the Indiana Theater when a re-issue of his picture opens there
morrow,
g Expect to Run i Dry Within & Next 40 Days
|| Shutdowns Due | . | Thick and Fast By United Press | DETROIT, June 18 — Defense industries neared the bottom of their steel stockpiles today as scattered manufacturers announced scheduled {shutdowns for lack of materials
to make war weapons. {| Unless steel starts flowing from the mills, most defense contractors will run dry within 20 to 40 days, sources said. {This was the picture of mini‘mum requirements of the weapons program:
| BAZOOKA ROCKETS — The { Oldsmobile Division of General ! Motors said it would be forced to stop production of the 3.5-inch shells next Monday because of , a shortage of seamless steel tubing. Ford said it would have | Close two days later. :
| MORTAR SHELLS—The Lem{cop Products Co., Inc.,, of Cleveland said it might have to shutdown after today for lack of mai terials for 60 and 80-millimeter: | mortars.
| TANKS — The Cadillac tank {plant at Cleveland, which makes | T-41 Walker Bulldogs said it f could keep going for 10 to 14 (days. It has no shutdown plans | but is considering cutting back | from its present 45-hour week.
AUTOMOTIVE — International Harvester planned to shut three {motor truck planfs at the close to- |of business June 27. They include its Indianapolis plant and its Ft.
skyscrapers, but an Indianapolis te Ave., near Raymond St. was | entered in The Times Chuckhole Derby. If you have a King Kong stopper enter it in the derby. Send the measurements, age and location to The Times. Despite his being trapped in the pit King
Programs will originate
new station could not be on the] air until at least six months after . favorable action by the FCC. He(lan St. and will be relayed the
WISH'S studios, 1440 N. Merid-| go rat Board
defendant this year before the
Earlier this year he was given
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{and receiver. | | WISH-TV would carry network yt. of his De ile olf jand local programs, with particu-|;. 0’ lar emphasis on sports, education, church and farm programs, Mr, |McConnell explained.
‘Back to Normal’
| Other officers and directors of] {Universal include Frank E. McKinney, Frank M. McHale, Earl Weather Due H. Schmidt, Robert B. McConnell, {Stokes Gresham Jr, and William| H. Spencer. {
“Back to normalcy” tomorrow, said the weatherman, predicting
for this time of year. Lest he be accused of partisanship, he hastened to remind Hoosiers who suffered through a week-end heat wave they were getting a “New Deal.”
Terre Haute Firm Faces Shutdown Due to, Strike
After all, they had “had | TERRE HAUTE, June 18 (UP) enough.” [—The general manager of the] But “Happy Days Are Here
|strike-bound Allis-Chalmers plant {said today the firm faces the loss ‘of a subcontract to manufacture |jet engine compressors. | The firm also threatened to stop work on construction of its new $4 million defense plant unless the strike is settled quickly. Manager M. L. Carson, in a {letter to the CIO United Auto {Workers said the firm was ad-| packaged cool breezes in Invised the Wright Aeronautical gdianapolis even in hot Co. Dayton, O. was instructed weather like this. by the Air Force to “remove all) Ed Sovola, Mr. Inside Inmachine tools from our pilot}: dianapolis, tried. He tells all
Again,” the weatherman said, before dropping politics as too hot a subject.
Cool Breezes Just Won't Sell
You cah’t get rich peddling
by a passing freighter.
Girl Killed,
The Swedish air staff’s press |officer promptly issued a denial that the Catalina had flown closer than 30 miles to Soviet territory.
a k Carle: said, t A plane and its crew members were In Blast at unarmed. . Voices Report { Times State Service
FT. WAYNE, June 18—A prefabricated house was blown to bits by a butane gas explosion early today, killing a 12-year-old girl and seriously injuring three other members of the family.
The body of Carolyn Staszak was unarmed so what is there was hurled 40 feet by the blast.
BO Swedish dor Her father, Aldelbert C. Staszak, owever, the Swedish defense |, 34 year-old machinist, suffered staff subsequently acknowledged nf |first, . second, and third-degree that another Catalina three days| {burns over his entire body. He earlier—on Friday—had lost its) jashed from the house scream- | way in dense clouds and heavy ling for help. He was completely st and found itself 400 feet), ...q his clothes burned from over Soviet territory at Dagerort jig body lighthouse on the western tip of : : Khiuma Island. Found Unconscious The plane immediately headed | First person to reach the scene west and was over Soviet terri- was a neighbor, Cletus Roller. He tory a maximum of only five min-|ran to the basement of the house utes, the communique said. It/where he found Mrs. Ruth said Ambassador Sohlman had Staszak, 34, unconscious. She had
Gen. Nils Swedlund, command-er-in-chief of the Swedish armed forces, also dismissed the Soviet charge that the Catalina had fired upon the Soviet fighters with: “Everybody knows the plane
3 Injured Ft. Wayne
window was hanging In a tree. Clothing and bits of money were strewn about the yard. A new console TV set was blown through a wall and into the yard, its aeriel still attached. According to Sheriff Harold Zeis, the blast was from butane gas used for cooking. The sheriff said Mr. Staszak, who had returned home from work about an hour before the blast, told him,
water heater.” sheriff said.
blast.
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|been instructed to express Swed- been blown there by the explo-
en's regret to Russia for the in-{sion. cident. . : | He carried Mrs.
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over much of her body. Her hair was completely burned off by the explosion.
Dan Kidney
Staszak to] IKE'S TEXAS HOMECOMING on federal property.
safety. She suffered a compound | Should be one of the best west-
fracture of the left leg, and burns erns on TV, with those Taft Ye, as
rustlers heading for the
roundup,
| ” » ” { Sen. Brewster (R. Me.) want-
“I was trying to light the hot
However, there wasn’t a hot| water heater in the house, the city police and are told to call
A county volunteer fire depart- because the unit lies outside the ment put out fires started by.the city.
Tidal Tow Wants Police
By JOE ALLISON A delegation of Tyndall Towne residents today demanded police | protection for the city-operated! housing development. Speaking to Indianapolis Safety Board on behalf of 474 families
in the outlying housing packet, Robert Golab charged residents are totally without police protec{tion due to “lack of jurisdiction.” Mr. Golab said residents call
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Wayne, Ind., plant making military trucks. Chrysler said it would stop production of %-ton Army trucks at its Dodge plant a weék from today,
. ATRORAFT -— Lockheed Aircraft Corp. said it doesn’t expect a production squeeze unless the steel strike lasts another two weeks. Other aircraft firms indi-
cated they were faced with about
the same situation.
SHIPBUILDING — The New
York Navy Yard said‘ it had enough steel to keep going for 30 days.
OIL — Industry spokesmen warned that a prolonged strike could have “serious” effects on oil output. However, they saw no Juunediate curtailment of military uel.
RAILROADS — Major lines already have laid off nearly 20,000 men in the steel producing areas, Pittsburgh, Altoona, Pa., Cleve-
The sheriff's office in turn tells|land, Youngstown, O., and Chithe Tyndall Towners to call state cago. The New York Central sent |police, located immediately south home 8000 and the Pennsylvania
of Tyndall Towne at Stout Field. | But state police decline to answer calls, Mr. Golab said, be-| cause they have no jurisdiction | Few Calls Answered Less than 10 per. cent of the)
has furloughed 9000.
Expects Shutdowns Thick and Fast
NEW YORK, June 18 (UP) If the steel strike continues another
{calls for police are answered, the two weeks, manufacturing shut. complainifig delegation said. On| downs will start coming thick and
an 84-degree high which is normal :
Returning to the basement of the razed house, Mr. Roller dug under burning debris to rescue 1-year-old Eldelbert Jr.,, who received a fractured skull. All of the injured were taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Ft. Wayne. According to a sheriff's deputy, doctors “pulled a splinter the size lof a lead pencil from Mr. Staslzak’s back.” Another neighbor, Mrs. Edward Meyers, an English war bride, {said the blast which occured about 1 a. m. sounded like a {bombing attack on London dur{ing the blitz of World War II. Located on a county road
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{behalf of all residents, the spokesman requested the board to as{sign regular police protection to}
IT IS NOW UP TO the Senate curtail “numerous” law violations to see that old-age pensioners get Which he said endangers life and
|that $5 raise before their votes Property in that area. {are harvested. Safety Board took ‘the com- | re es |plaint under advisement to deter-
Prisoner Asks Money; imine if it has jurisdiction. But ’
the delegation immediately asked! Gets Week in Jail linterim appointment of three resi- {| LONDON, June 18 (UP)
dents as special police. Once “more Safety Board said it lacked When fe judge SHered to tre! jurisdiction and referred this rejames Drown, 49, go iree on quest to Sheriff Dan Smith. {promise he would not break any ™
| ed “corruption” made a campaign issue—and it was.
more plates in restaurants, Brown replied: | “I am not asking to be dis- Oo ers Stee
fast, the Iron Age predicted today. The national metalworking
weekly stressed that the worst effects of the current strike might come after it is settled. “If manufacturing plants have to be shutdown for lack of steel, it will take two weeks or more to get them started after steel production is resumed,” according to the magazine. Describing the steel market outlook this week “blacker” than it has been for many months, Iron Age said reluctant use of the TaftHartley Act by President Truman was the only hope of getting more than 600,000 striking United Steel
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to $7000 before the explosion.iin jail. Now it isn’t worth $50,” accord-| ing to a sheriff's deputy.
TEMPERATURES
weer Brat 2 2 Blind Men Dredge the Ohio for
| tools intended for the firm were boss today fought to raise 146 |ordered diverted to other manu-|synken automobiles from the Ohio |facturers. He said the Air Force River. : is putting pressure on Wright to| Diver Bert Cutting and Salvage [get into production somewhere Expert Thomas Strickland Sr.— | else if necessary. |both blind — agreed they faced | In his letter, Mr. Carson told “several months” of dangerous |Raymond Berndt, regional UAW and backbreaking work. | director, “unless you immediately | But they were happy and en{demonstrate to us your willing-!couraged by their success yesterness to negotiate in good faith day when they managed to lift for a long-term’ contract,” work three cars out of the water and on the new plant will be discon- onto dry land. ‘tinued. | “The three autos were part of a The pilot plant started small- cargo of 150 shiny new cars that {scale manufacture of compres- were lost during a storm last De|sors, and construction of the main cember when the barge which was /plant was to be finished late _this carrying them floundered and | summer, $e went to the bottom. ~
Mr. Cutting, a veteran river diver, donned his diving suit and helmet and was lowered into the river where he made his way to the second deck of the triple deck barge. He hooked heavy lines onto the three cars and the salvage crew—with the aid of a series of blocks and tackle—hoisted them onto a flat barge. From there the three cars were hauled on shore.
Thomas Strickland Jr., who is working with his father to raise the sunken cars, said Mr. Cutting’s blindness made little difference in his underwater work. “You can’t see down there anyway,” he said. Young Strickland said that Mr. Cutting, who has been blind for
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43 of his 53 years, had wide experience in river salvage work and has been a diver for-14 years. The elder Strickland said the operation was a “big gamble.” The Hartford Insurance Co. tried earlier to raise the cargo, which was worth more than $250,000, but abandoned the attempt and sold the cars to the Strickland Co. after spending about $50,000 to raise a single Dodge sedan, Thomas Strickland Jr. declined to reveal the price he and his father paid the insuramte company for the sunken cars but said “we paid just enough.” He said they hoped to make $700 to $800 on each car raised. Mr. Strickland said the motors of the three ered yo
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Plymouths, Their roofs
good shape.
could be put
“some charging.”
sank. Mr. Strickland said
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charged unless you are prepared {Gumpathy’
Laundromat Shown your convenience (eight miles north of. Ft. Wayne, to give me a 5-pound ($14) note.” {“the house was worth about $6000 The judge gave him seven days
terday were in “perfect condition” ing the latest steel wage negotiand could easily be put in running ations but that no figure was de-
Water pumps were used to flush | silt and mud out of the cars; all were | caved in and upholstery rotted! but the tires appeared to be in
The crew said the batteries assurance of another hearing on in good working prices was given the industry, condition with no more than Benjamin Fairless, chairman of
There were still 83 Plymouths, Dodge and DeSoto autos on the
barge. Another 64 were scattered zr. putnam said he believed over the river bed when the barge nat during the last wage negoti-| he x
feared the current may have scat- men “ready and anxious tered some of them as far as “a business” but that the
{Workers back on the job in time 'to prevent extensive shutdowns, WASHINGTON, June 18 (UP)| ~Economic Stabilizer Roger L. on, steel production losses from Putnam sald today the steel in-ithe current wage impasse will dustry has been promised “friend-| amount to about 8 million tons of ly and sympathetic” considera jngoteor about 6 million tons of tion of a price increase beyond finished steel. If production is not (33 a ton If it negotiates a Wage resumed this week, the total loss {contract with striking steelwork- will eventually amount to more
ers. ' Mr. Putnam told a news con-| PaR a month's output.
[ference that he and Acting De-| fense Mobilizer John R. Steelman, {discussed a $4.50 per ton price] |hike “among other things” dur-
Slayer of Mother
Begins Life Term
MILWAUKEE, June 18 (UP)— Sixteen-year-old John Schulz was taken to Waupun State Prison yesterday to begin serving a life
{cided on. Mr. Putnam said Mr. Steelman (has “let them (the steel industry) know it will get a friendly
{and sympathetic hearing” on prices if they settle the wage dis-|éntence for killing his mother. pute. Schulz also was sentenced to
| Mr. Putnam said that when the two concurrent 14 to 25-year
ert, 11, and his sister, Kathleen 6. Schulz was sentenced in Mu-
|U. 8. Steel Corp., said, “Well, after
we've got - to trust somebody. Let's get to work on a settle- | ment.”
|ation session the Pittsburgh steel to_do| “New York crowd” was less willing. oy
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