CLOSING MARKET THE MARION CHRONICLE AS USUAL FIRST AND BEST QUOTATIONS ON PAGE 2 PRICE FIVE CENTS MARION, INDIANA CHRONICLE, FRIDAY EVENING, OCT. 27,:1950 VOLUME LXXXIIINo. 34. Well Reds Resist Drive Up Western Coast Troops Press For Manchurian Border Four Aged Men Succumb As Missouri Home Burns Harrisonville, Oct. 274 (INS) Four aged men died today in a fire that swept the Cass county home for the aged, in Harrisonville.
Missouri highway. identified "the victims as Richard Freeman, eighty; William Ketner. seventy-nine; James Berry, seventy-eight, and Henry Presley, sixty-five. All died from suffocation, they said. Firemen said all 19 inmates might have perished, it a bread delivery man had not discovered the blaze about 4:30 a.m.
Also praised was Aubrey MacDonald of Richmond, son of the matron at the home, who ran through the three-story, brick building arousing the residents and carrying two invalids from the burning building. MacDonald was visiting his mother, Mrs. Josephine MacDonald, in Harrisonville. The bread man, Lawrence W. Heil.
smelled smoke when he stopped at the home. He drove picked up night watchman and returned to the building. The four victims were among residents sleeping in the basem*nt, and it is believed that one of the aged men may have started the fire by' smoking. George M. Allen, the Harrisonville volunteer department, estimated the damage at $12,000.
There was no panic among the residents. LEASE SIGNED FOR NEW PARK Marion park board members today signed a lease giving them the former Franklin school site at Second street and Butler avenue for a park and recreational area. Clifford Hartman, superintendent of the park department. said the lease. prepared by school board attorney, will be returned to the school: officials for signatures at their next meeting.
The new school, replacing the former Franklin building which was condemned, is being erected at Third street and Butler avenue. Plans have been made for the park department to improve the site and later to landscape the area. This work will be started after Jan. 1, Hartman said. Next spring playground equipment will be installed, including swings, sliding boards and teeter totters.
All will be maintained by the park department for a 10 year period, according to the lease. The proposed park: area is one-half block wide and a block long. At one corner the site the city's water department will erect a storage tower as one of the projects toward the maior improvement program of the citv utility. Hartman pointed out the area has always been without any near playground sites. The nearest.
Longacres park. is approximately one mile away, he added. Tulane Faculty Member To Head Surgeons Group Boston, Oct. 27 (AP)-Dr. Alton Ochsner of Tulane University will serve as president of the American College of Surgeons for 1951-1952.
He was elected Thursday and will take office at the next clinical congress to be held in San Francisco. Those named to the board of governors for three-year terms included Dr. Cleon A. Nafe of Indianapolis. NOBEL WINNER Dr.
Philip S. Hench, (above) of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, is one of the three joint winners of the Nobel prize in medicine for 1950 for work on hormon. es promising relief from rheumatoid arthritis. Probe Holding Of Trucker On Fine Of $1,870. Indianapolis, Oct.
27 (AP) Gov, Schricker today ordered Arthur M. Thurston, state police superintendent, to investigate the case is of a being held Philadelphia in the Elkhart trucker jail to satisfy a $1,870 fine. The governor acted after receiving a telegram from Mrs. Mary DiDonatis asking his help in releasing here husband, Frank Di Donatis, twenty-six. Di Donatis was fined for driving an overloaded truck of steel on Indiana highways.
trucking firm has deserted this Thurston said a "obviously the man." He said he did not know what could be done about the case, but that he would see it there is a basis for legal action. Arthur Campbell, secretary to Gov. Schricker, said that to his knowledge this is the first time a company had "deserted" a driver who been arrested under the state's stringent truck law. BULLETINS NS Washington, Oct. 27 (INS)Defense Secretary Marshall created a committee today to protect the jobs of military reservists and to see that they are not put on active duty when draftees or volunteers are available.
Lake Success, N. Oct. 27 (INS) powerful LatinAmerican coalition called on the U. N. special political mittee today to withdraw the U.
N. boycott against diplomatic relations with Spain. Lake Success, N. Y. Oct.
27 Reliable sources at Lake Success said today that Pandit Nehru has informed Pelping that India will withdraw all support of Communist China at the United Nations ports of the invasion of Tibet are true. Pittsburgh, Oct. 27 (INS) -The U. S. Steel Corp.
replies today to demands by the CIO-United Steelworkers for a "very healthy and substantial" pay increase. Philip Murray, president of the CIO and the steel handed his 1950. demands to John Stephens, U. S. Steel vice-president at a meeting in Pittsburgh last Oct.
16. Since then, big steel has had the union's proposals under study. Out of the return conference today between company and union bargainers may come an indication of what U. S. Steel is prepared to pay, if anything.
Negotiators for the steelworkers and big steel went into their meeting room at 9:15 a.m. (CST). Neither Murray nor Stephens would comment about what developments were likely to take place. An offer, if there is one and it is acceptable to Murray, likely would set the pattern for the union's nearly a million members employed in 1,400 basic and fabricating steel plants throughout the nation. Although Murray 'not stated publicly how much of an increase he expects, most persistent reports put his price at between 25 and 30 cents an hour, on top of the current average of about $1.70 an hour for the industry The magazine Iron Age, bible of the steel industry, this week predicted steel labor would get an average hike of to 13 cents an hour, plus another five cents an hour in fringe concessions.
Murray has listed as talking points five goals in addition to the general pay These include severance pay, elimination of geographical differences, improved overtime. shift premiums, and removal of inequities in iron ore and nonferrous minling. Union May Get U.S. Steel Reply To Demands Today Calumet 1 Probe Is Ordered Gary, 27 (AP) -Two Indiana deputy attorneys-general were due here today to start state investigation of crime in the Calumet. The decision to move into the Lake county situation was announced at Indianapolis Thursday night, by Attorney general J.
McManamon after 8 conference with Gov. Schricker. McManamon said the deputies were instructed to contract the Gary crime commission and to include in their investigation the in which Prosecutor Benjamin Schwartz is Handling a grand jury, probe of his own office. The state investigation followed accusations by crime commission and the Gary, women's citizens committee that the prosecutor's office has been linked with Gray crime. Deputy Prosecutor Blaz A.
Lu- decas resigned, and Schwartz signated another deputy, John Stanton, to conduct the grand investigation. The commission. called this investigation 'a "whitewash" and called for state intervention. McManamon assures the crime commission of "our complete The crime commission and the women's committee base their case on transcriptions; which they say were obtained through a wire recorder installed in Lucas' office. McManamon pointed out that this record would not stand by itself in court and must be confirmed by some of the parties to the conversations.
He said 'his would contact some of the figures named in an effort to get such confirmation. Meanwhile, the crime commission laid plans to forestall the Stanton investigation. Dr. M. P.
Avery, chairman of the commission's police committee, said a petition will be filed Monday in criminal court asking appointment of a special AIR SERVICE HERE IS GOAL Efforts will be. made by the Marion aviation commission to obtain regular air line service in and out of Marion within the next year, officials announced here today. A meeting of the' commission was held Thursday, the first session since the appointment of the new member, Glen Robinson. The commission elected officers for the year, and Robert Comer, secretary, Julian Lett is fourth member. Following, a review of the conference held in Indianapolis this week, the commission agreed make a survey, in the city to determine air.
traffic preference, whether north and south or east and west, and the amount of probable freight or passenger traffic. The commission also petitionled the civil aeronautics authority to make recommendations again concerning a proposed site and to list its requirements. WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau, Indianapolis MARION AND VICINITY Partly cloudy' tonight and Saturday.
Little change in perature. Low tonight 52. High Saturday 73. 3 LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS For 24 Hours Ending at A. M.
Temperature 49 Precipitation. Sunrise, 6:07 A. Sunset, 4:47 P. M. Precipitation Since Jan.
1........38.62 In. TEMPERATURES IN OTHER CITIES Atlanta 34 Chicago 62 51 Denver 40 Evansville ..........68 52 Fort Wayne ......59 48 Fort Worth 62 Indianapolis 53 Kansas City 87 Miami 82 Minneapolis 56 New York .......53 38 Pittsburgh 37 St. Louis 67 San Francisco 70 55 Washington 39 YOU DO IT THIS WAY Mrs. Herbert Becker of West Twenty-six street was in the courthouse today, so she stopped to get instructions on the voting machine to be used in the November candielection. Serving ps instructor is Ray A.
Benjamin deputy county clerk, who is a date for the clerk's office. (Chronicle Photo). Horace Heidt Program To Include Local Talent Three artists train the Marion ants Sunday night will compete ally broacast program of Horace GOP SETS TWO EVENTS TODAY Republicans will wind up the tonight busiest with week two of their meetings. campaign The he Green township patty workers will sponsor a carryin dinner at Point Isabel and the Young Republicans will sponsor a dance at the Hotel Spencer Mrs. Clarence Ber dum, Munformer tenth district vicechairman, will speak at the Point Isabel rally following the introduction of candidate.
It will be the final in a series of township meetings. The Young Republicans dance will be staged from: 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. in Emerald room at the hotel with Enusic being provided by the State and district officers the organization will be guests along with members from the several counties in the fifty district. A Halloween theme will be carried out in the decorations by the committee composed of Miss Patricia Sandermart Miss' Barbara Koons, Miss Wanda Trout, er and Ray Benjamin, Miss Joyce Wiley, William FishThe ticket distribution was in charge of a committee headed by Mr.
and Mrs. J. Price. Tickets will be available at the door. $30,000 Blaze Lestroys Lumber Company Plant Anderson, Oct.
27, (AP)-Fire of undetermined oridestroyed Markleville Lumber Co. plant ad Markleville today. Markleville is in Madison county about 12 miles Mouth of Anderson. Commodore Markie, owner of the company, the damage $30,000. He aid only the company's books were saved.
area will be among contestin connection with the nationHeidt's youth opportunity program at Memorial The program presented as a benefit for the cancer fund under sponsorship of the Marion Elks lodge, will begin at 7 p. and the broadcast over a national hookup will begin at 8:30 p. m. Harry Shildmyer, general chairman for the event, said ticket sale will continue Elks club lobby through Saturday night and tickets will be on sale all day Sunday at the coliseum. He said approximately 500 seats originally were available and some remain all price ranges.
More than 60 artists discovered through auditions and as the result of the Heidt programs, will appear on the here. Among them will be Ralph Sigwald, called the "Caruso of the who drew tremendous applause two years ago when the Heidt program was first presentled here Another at the feature coliseum. will be the Pepperettes, whom Heidt discovered when he presented his program at Nashville, Tenn. The three girls, Evelyn Weatherford, Jackie Joslin and Joan Cherry, natives of Nashville, formed their trio when they sang, for Youth, in and around Nashville for more than a year before they appeared on the Heidt program. Truck Crashes Through Gate, Rams Into Train Winchester, Oct.
27 (AP) -A steel-laden truck crashed through a warning gate Thursday and a fast New York Central passenger, train at a crossing N. Krauff of Tiffin, driver of the truck, escaped with minor injuries. The New York St. Louis passenger train was halted long enough to determine there was no damage and then proceeded to St. Louis.
WRITER DIES WRITER DIES Schenectady, Oct. 27 (AP)- Clement Wood, biographer, historian novelist and poet, died Thursday night in Ellis Hospital at the age of sixty-two. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE Herman Norman (above), forty-one, bridge worker Sand father of eight children, is recovering from burns suffered when a fiery shock of 66,000 volts of electricity short through his body in Los Angeles. A down the pile driver, through a cable to a truck, and burst exswaying pile driver severed a power line, the electricity flashed plosively, just as Norman walked by through a pool of shallow water. He was enveloped in flames.
Seoul, Oct. 27 (AP) over snow and tortuous summits Communist frontier. The forward Believe Wreck Of Plane With 4 Aboard Seen FIVE VOTING SITES SHIFTED Voting places for the Nov. 7 election approved today by the board of county commissioners disclosed five changes have been made since the primary. Warren Kiser, Democrat county chairman, who submitted the list voting places, changes.
were necessary in some instances to provide additional space for the three voting machines which have been assigned. 14 The voting place in Center was moved to 615 East Sherman house andois South Washington street Center 8 a wares street will be used. In Washing ton 1, Wagner's garage on North Meridian street will serve as the voting place rather than the township school. A change also was made Franklin township with the voting place shifted from 1530 clid avenue to a storeroom at Euclid and Butler avenue. The Sims township voting place also was moved from the city hall to the high school gymnasheDemocrat said and they Republican have completed the boards which will serve in each of the precincts The Democrats will name the inspectors and each party name an equal number of judge es, clerks and sheriffs.
KING GUSTAV IS STRICKEN Stockholm, Oct. 27 (INS)Ninety King Gustav of -beloved European royalty--collapsed dur. ing a cabinet meeting in his suite at Drottningholm palace today and there are grave fears he may not recover. Court circles admitted extreme concern over his condition. A brief bulletin said that the king is "extremely tired" and a more comprehensive communique is to be issued later in the day.
Crown Prince Gustav Adolphus. arrived at Drottningholm palace' and other members of the royal family are expected later. King Gustav was' seated in his chair the head of 'the council table when the collapse occurred; Members of the council res marked afterward that he api peared fatigued. Despite this he was interested and attentive' as Foreign Minister Osten Unden reported on his recent visit to the United States when he attended U. N.
assembly meetings; The brief bulletin telling of his collapse made the first mention of the fact that King Gustav's heart has been affected by his long illness. OUTPUT DOUBLES. Washington, Oct. 27 (AP) The bureau of labor statistics reported today that the hourly output for each man in the nai tion's mines more than doubled between 1915 and 1950. A TIRED TRUMPETER Found that the easy way to get top cash for used musical instruments is to sell them through Chronicle-Tribune Want Ads.
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New Orleans, Oct. 27 Wreckage, believed to have airforce from a twin-engined trainer which vanished with four men aboard, was found today on Lake Pontchartrain at New Orleans. Searchers aboard a surface craft located parts. believed to have been from the missing plane over an oil slick a mile northeast of the New Orleans took off from, a.m. in dense airport, which the plane fog.
A fisherman found a landing light floating in the water A half-mile from the field. The plane, a 5-7 Beechcraft, was from the Scatt air force Illinois. It landed at New OrE took leans off late early Thursday today for night, Craig and field, Selma, Ala. The. men aboard the craft were not identified.
'An air force spokesman said the four included a lieutenant-colonel and a major, who was the ship's pilot. The CAA said it had received unofficial reports of a possible crash, but had no direct word. The Louisiana air national guard said a flight plan had been filed. for' the ship, but officers could not disclose details or say how many persons were aboard. First report of.
the possible crash came from New Orleans police. They received a telephone report from lake front idents that a plane was heard taking off, and then the motors went suddenly silent. REPORT FEWER WOUNDED DIE Washington, Oct. 27 (INS)The army announced today that the mortality rate among Amerlican wounded in Korea will be about one percent as compared with 4.5 percent in World War II and eight percent in World War I. Gen.
Douglas MacArthur was quoted as saying that "the army medical service has been so far superior to that in the 17 other wars with which I have been' connected that there is no comparison." The report was given by Maj. Gen. R. W. Bliss, army surgeon general who has just returned from a month in Japan and Korea.
He, said he talked for two. hours with MacArthur. Bliss said that the incidence of disease in Korea has amounted to 50 percent of all hospital cases as compared with 86 to 90 percent in World War II. He said there has 'not a case of the diseases against. which we immunize, which includes cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, typhus and typhoid." TWO DIE CRASH Jeffersonville, Oct.
27 (AP) Albert L. Senn, twenty. six, New Albany, and Mrs. Dorothy Mae Parker, twenty-three, Glasgow, were killed Thursday in an accident two miles north of Jeffersonville on U. S.
31-E. Lester Weibbel of Louisville and Mrs. Parker's husband, Eugene W. Parker, twenty-six. were injured critically.
Thinly clad Allied troops trudged tonight toward Manchuria's troop movement was from Korean west coast across the spiny peninsula to the sea of Japan. In the west coast area, U. twenty-fourth division and other Allied troops crossed the Taeryong river in force 50-miles north at northwest corner of of Pyongyang in a drive aimed. ea. some points they met resistance from well dug-in Reds.
Smoke poured from every village within five miles of the front as U. S. planes and artillery hit the enemy positions. Elsewhere and generally along 4 the Korean front line the shivering allied troops met few enemy soldiers but braved wintry blasts. -r Behind the forward most troops, however, Red forces put up a fight.
A- U. S. eighth army spokes. man here said the South Korean first division had beaten. back an attack by a Red force containing "Chinese and North Korean elements" 50 miles south of the border, The battle raged all day around Unsan, directly south of Chosan, the only Manchurian border point reached by United Nations troops.
At nightfall a U. S. eighth said first divarmy headquarters, spokesman ision had beaten back the attacking Reds and driven them west of the town. At Chosan, where 4 the ROK sixth division was perched on the banks of the. Yalu river opposite Manchuria, not an enemy soldier was visible.
The river forms the boundary. But hungry bands of bypassed North Koreans popped up in scattered areas. Two battalions of U. S. and ROK marines were rushed south of Wonsan port to stop a marauding band of 4,000 Reds striking from the Diamond mountains.
That is 30 to 40 miles from the big east coast port where U.S. marines and infantry and ROK marines began landing Thursday. An American marine battalion from Wonsan landed at Kojo. battalion of South Korean marines landed farther south to spring a trap around the terrorists, led by a Red Korean briga(Please Turn to Page 2, Column 1) CA IN FAMILY DIE IN CRASH Fort Wayne, Oct. 17 (AP) -Three members of an family were killed early today.
in an automobile-truck collision six miles northwest of Fort Wayne on U. S. 33. The dead were Russell Middleton, forty-one, a foreman at the Elkhart Brass his wife, Emma, thirty-nine, and their fourteen-year-old son, James. Another son, Richard Middleton, twenty-two, and his wife, Theresa, twenty, escaped with minor injuries.
They were brought to St. Joseph's Hospital. The Allen county sheriff's department said the automobile driven by the elder Middleton, went out of control on a curve, struck a semi-trailer truck driven by Glen Peaco*ck, forty-nine, Ludlow. Falls, and crashed into a second truck driven by Fred Gregg, twenty-three, Delaware, O. The first truck jack-knifed and turned over, and the second truck plowed into it.
The drivers were only shaken up, but the wreckage blocked the highway. Worker's Arm Is Freed From Pipe After 9 Hours Chicago, Oct. 27 (INS) -Rescue workers won. a dramatic nine-hour fight today to free a worker whose right arm. was trapped and held fast in a fourinch.
steel drain pipe. For a time it was feared that amputation might be necessary to free Stanley Kielma, twenty-one, and a surgeon was rushed to the Barrett division plant of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corp. 3 More than 40 firemen and fellow workers labored through the night in an effort to free Kielma's arm. Firemen said the -harden'ed steel of the drainpipe was so tough. that acetylene torches could.
not cut it. His arm finally was freed by using grinding wheels and hacksaws to remove the main part of the pipe. 2 During the first stages of the rescue operation, Kielma had to remain standing for three hours. A Later the hopper in which the pipe was located was unbolted and over. Kielma was swathed in blankets and althered to lie' down.
Firemen said he remained cheerful and exchanged quips with them during most of the rescue operation. He was not informed that rescue workers were considering the possibility of amputating his arm. He was given two shots of morphine by the plant doctor and kept liberally supplied with coffee and cigarets by his fellow workers. After his arm was released from the pipe, Kielma was rushed to Alexian Bros. Hospital for treatment of his bruised arm and wrist and observation.
As he was taken to the hospital, Kielma had one last quip: arm better be. all right by 11 p.m. because that's when I have to be back at work. And I need the dough." F. 4r 4.
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