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The Indianapolis Star TODAY'S CHUCKLE Gy Blade: Wk tu tkat blona Inm with Wettee-day?" Seeoed G.B.: "That wa the branet you ma with Tuesday." "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is II Cor. 5-17 VOL. 49. NO. 211 WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1952 FIVE CENTS A WEATHER TODAY Cloudy, Cold TmpmtirH Yesterday High, teLow, (minis The Ml Day In Indiana By Maurice Early; Pensions Available 22,000 To Qualify 300 Units Use Plnn Faced By Problems Conference Called 40 Diners Watch Darin Mighty Brave -Behind Joe's Skirts! Not Free Long I 1 iff' 'I 1 if' i 'ImP Patrolman Nabs Man In 10 Minutes Gunman Takes $101 At Restaurant On East Washington A 22-year-old who boldly held up a restaurant cashier, while 40 diners ate their New Year's Day dinner yesterday was captured 10 minutes after the holdup by a lone patrolman.

Police said Eugene A. Cole, 5115 East Washington Street, walked into the Meal-A-Minute Restaurant, 5712 East Washington, carrying a shotgun. He ordered a chicken dinner from Mrs. Dorothy Collins, 31. 240 North Tacoma Avenue, combined wait ress and cashier, then said.

On second thought, I ve changed my mind. I'll take all the money in the cash register or I'll kill you." MRS. COLLINS told police Cole forced her behind the cash register with the gun in the pit of her stomach. She handed over $101 in bills while diners watched aghast. He then ran out the door.

Police cars converged on the scene. As Patrolman Maurice W. Fischer in an accident car pulled up to park behind a supermarket at 5541 East Washing ton, Cole stepped from behind some boxes and walked towards him with the gun cocked and raised. "I yelled at him to drop the gun," Fischer said. "When he didn't I shot at him through the windshield with my pistol." Cole was not hit but he dropped the shotgun and it discharged.

He surrendered to Fischer and is held in jail on a prelimi nary charge of robbery. The money was found stuffed into his pockets. v. Housewife Felled By Prank Bomb A 44-year-old East Side house wife was overcome by chemical fumes in her apartment last night after teen-age pranksters set off a red smoke airplane crash bomb. Firemen revived Mrs.

John W. Jackson of the Washington Apartments, 8 North Butler Avenue, who inhaled some of the thick smoke. Police said teenagers who had been running through, the halls of the building apparently set off the bomb. It was found at the bottom of a stairwell. Rushville Seeing Double EUGENE ALLEN COLE Hold Up Restaurant Temperature Fails To Take Drop Expected Property On Major Rivers Threatened As Floods Continue Temperatures across Indiana failed to plunge to the predicted zero or 5 above last night and rising flood waters continued to threaten roads and property along the state's major rivers.

A late forecast by the Weather Bureau set last night's low at 20, or slightly above, for most of the state. Today's high is forecast for 30 degrees, with occasional freezing rains and sleet. The return of subfreezing weather slowed but did not stop flooding of the White and Wabash Rivers. The Weather Bureau reported the Wabash above flood stage from Lafayette to a point near Terre Haute. DURING THE NIGHT Terre Haute expected the Wabash to reach the 14-foot flood stage.

For several hours an ice jam at Wabash threatened low sections as water flooded up behind it The jam broke yesterday afternoon and relieved the Immediate danger. Several secondary roads along the Wabash also have been threatened but none were closed by late last night. The Weather Bureau reported the White River was above flood stage at Petersburg. Both rivers continued to rife as freezing rain fell last night at Peru, Lafayette, Crawfordsville and Marion, adding to rising water levels. 3 4 All prisoners not electing repatriation shall be released.

All remaining civilians of either side will be repatri ated after an armistice if they so elect, 5 In order to insure that the choice regarding repatriation is made without duress, delegates of the International Red Cross shall be permitted to Interview all prisoners at the point of exchange and all civilians of either side who at the time of the truce signing are in territory of the other side. In City Hall maintaining he had been cleared of the charge by the FBI. A similar snafu cropped up at Princeton where two sets of city officials were claiming office, both saying they will work today. M. VERNER WOODRUFF, new Democratic mayor, an nounced his city appointees.

So did the Republican controlled council. Woodruff charged that the council wouldn't meet with him to discuss appointments and the council said the mayor "wants to make all the appointments himself. Offices to have two bosses due to the mixup are the city attor ney, water, park and street departments and sewage disposal plant. Kill 6 As 1952 Opens Rensselaer Man Becomes 1st Victim On State Highways Fire, and traffic struck at Hoosiers on New; Year's Day killing six persons before 1952 was 24 hours old. Albert Lehman, 63 years old, Rensselaer, became jthe first traffic victim of the year when he was struck and killed by a truck as he walked along Ind.

53 near DeMotte, in Jasper County. Knofel Eickelberger, 40, Paoli, driver of the truck was not held. He told state police he did not see Lehman on the. road in time to avoid hitting him. MRS.

VERA STEVENS, 58, 1805 North Illinois Street, was killed when she ran in front of a car at 3957 Southeastern Avenue. Mrs. Stevens was tak ing a rug to aid a mired motoristrfwhen she was killed. William T. Boston, 43, 677 East Drive, Woodruff Place, died in Mercy Hospital, Elwood.

State police said Boston lost control of his car on Ind, 37 and hit a utility pole. Indianapolis' second fatality of 1952 came at 11:15 p.m. with collision of two cars at the intersection of Walnut' and East Streets. Killed instantly was Frederick E. Winnefeld, 40 years old, 6844 Ferguson Street, custodian at Broad Ripple High School.

Police said that Winnefeld was a passenger in a car driven north on East Street by Fred J. Kues-ter, 49, of the Ferguson Street address. Kuester's car collided with one driven west on Walnut Street by Robert E. Poole, 401 South Harris Street. Winnefeld was thrown from the car when the door on the passenger's side flew open.

He landed 20 feet away, suffering head and internal injuries. He was dead when police arrived. POOLE, A SAILOR on leave, said his brakes suddenly failed and he was not able to stop for the intersection. Police said hydraulic brake fluid was gone from his car and were checking to determine if the brakes were operating before the accident. Poole was not held pending further investigation.

Police said that Poole's car careened across the intersection and crashed against a filling station. Thus, Indianapolis started off 1952 with a blacker safety record to date than 1951 when 65 persons were killed on city streets. No city traffic deaths were recorded here last, year until Jan. 6. LOUIS 3.

DENZER. 91, a retired New York Central Railroad machinist, died in General Hospital of third degree burns received when he set hs bed afire while smoking. Denzer lived at 133 North Sheffield Avenue. His death was the second caused by fire in Indianapolis. Mrs, Vivian Burge, 26, 701 Marvin Street, also died in General Hospital of burns suffered Dec.

26 when she rushed back into her blazing home to rescue her 15-month-old son, Harry Eugene Burge Jr. Throughout Indiana state po lice reported reads were clear of ice and snow. Traffic was heavy, they said, but orderly. the crew of 40 and 10 passengers to abandon ship Friday, but stubbornly stuck to his bridge alone. As long as he was aboard, the ship was property of its owner, the Isbrandtsen Company of New York.

If he abandoned ship it would be classed as a derelict and anyone taking her in tow could claim extra salvage' money, The 16th survivor from the In Today's Star Police puzzle over deaths of two young party-goers-Page 2. Ex-sultor slain by rival for hand of Baltimore 17-year-old Page 16. Illinois comeii from behind to swamp Stanford, 40-7, In Re Bowl clmsh rage 21. Comics ...21) Editorials .12 Radio-TV Society Sport Theaters Nine Others Killed In C-47 Crash Air Force Craft Hits Mountain In Central Arizona Phoenix, Ariz. (AP) The wreckage of a missing Air Force C-47 plane and the bodies of the 28 persons aboard were found yesterday on the face of a central Arizona mountain.

A cowboy made his way up the steep mountain, 65 miles northeast of Phoenix, and re ported "bodies and wreckage were scattered all over." The plane, carrying 19 West Point Cadets, a crew of four and five other passengers, vanished in a storm Sunday. The wreck-aqa was sighted from the air yesterday." The plane smacked Into bluff on Armer Mountain. A GROUND PARTY, headed by 1st Lt. Donald C. Humphrey, sped to the foot of the mountain and set up camp about five miles from the crash scene before dusk.

Rock and Icy slides prevented the airmen in the party from going tip the mountainside last night. They plan to set out about 7 a.m. today. It wai estimated it will take at least an hour and half to reach the wreckage on horseback. The C-47, which took Dff from Hamilton Air Force Base, Texas, was last heard from at 3:34 p.m.

Sunday when the pilot radioed for landing instructions. He reported he was near Phoenix. The plane was not heard from again. THE CADETS were returning to the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., after spending Christmas vacation with their families in northern California. Among the other passenger was a woman, WAF Sgt Jeane Garafalo, 20 years old, Plain-field, N.J.

She was going home to surprise her mother. Pilot of the plane was Maj. Lester Carlson, flying safety officer for the Fourth Air Force. The co-pilot was 1st Lt. Walter Boback, 29, former Los Angeles County (Cal.) deputy sheriff.

A passenger was 2d Lt. George Ahlgren, a member of the University of California crew that won the Olympic rowing championship in 1948. ing departmental promotions. Fire Chief Roscoe A. McKinney, Hancock's predecessor, is to be retired.

Acting Police Chief John J. (Jack) O'Neal was reassigned to captain of detectives, and Inspector of Detectives J. Richard Jacob was shifted to police captain. Paul J. Robertson, Republl can, was elected chairman of the three-member Safety Board.

Chairman of the new Board of Public Works and Sanitation 1 to be elected Jan. 7. AFTER THEIR Inauguration, new City Council members elected Joseph E. Bright president and! John A. Schumacher vice-president.

Committee chairmen are Schumacher," public health; Charles P. Ehlers, finance; Carter W. Eltzroth, public works; Glenn W. Radel, public safety and aviation; J. Wesley Brown, parks; Joseph A.

Wicker, law and judiciary; Christian J. Em-hardt, city welfare, and Guy O. Ross, election. Also installed during City Hall ceremonies was Mrs. Grace M.

Tanner, Indianapolis' first woman city clerk. New Year's Day Inauguration ceremonies at the County Courthouse were 'highlighted by the induction of Joseph N. Myers, Democrat, as judge of Municipal Court, Room 1, and Dr. Golden P. Silvers, Republican, as county commissioner.

Jesse A. Hutsell, Republican, was elevated to the presidency of the Board of County Commissioner. Others taking office Included Max M. Plesser and Harry Herman, as county attorneys, and Daily F. McCoy, superintendent of the County Home at Julietta.

POOrmO-SIDING-INSULATIftlf RALPH R. aCKDER SONS OH WA. 1411 tot rpODAY 22,000 public employe A in local units of government In Indiana will start to qualify for Federal old age and survivors insurance. ROSS TECKEMEYER, executive secretary of the Public Em- 1 Retirement Fund, said that' only S00 units of local government have brought their employes under the pension system, i They are in 60 I counties. The great majority of the government units, including most'of the 1,000 townships, decided, for the time being, not to pay extra tax" for the pensions.

UNDER THE PLAN, the employe pays 1V4 per cent of his wages, up to $3,600 a year, and "the local unit of government pays a like amount All units of Marion County government, including its county institutions, are now under the pension plan. RULINGS HAD BEEN obtained permitting all employes to pay the tax for 1951, thereby giving them one year additional coverage under the revised social security law. That would have permitted employes 2 years eld or. elder to qualify for the maximum pension of $80 a month after working 18 months, providing their wages was $3,600 year, UNFORTUNATELY for the employes, only 20 units of government decided to pay the taxes for 1951, Teckemeyer said, UNDER THE FEDERAL law It is optional with the units of government whether they enter the pension plan or not But there Is a good reason why the units of government enter the plan. One thing Is that government Jobs do not pay as well as those In private Industry.

In private employment all employes are brought under the pension system. So It has been more difficult to get competent workers for public service. Permission for local units of government to Join the Federal plan was granted by the 1951 General Assembly. SPREAD OF THE Federal plan will bring all public em ployes in Indiana under a pen sions system. There are already 14.000 state and a few local em ployes under the state pension system.

About 22,000 teachers are protected under their own state plan. Police and firemen have their own pension systems, There are special pension funds for the stafe police and employes of the State Board of Accounts, FREQUENTLY THE tenure of public employment is short when local administrations change. In such cases a person who leaves private employment for public work continues to build up his pension reserves In event the unit of government qualifies. TECKEMEYER AND the state administrators of other states find they face many administra tive problems in getting the new pension system in operation, FOR THAT REASON he bas called a conference of the state administrators to be held at Indl ana University Jan. 7 and 8.

The conference was approved by the Social Security Administration in Washington and aliwi by the Council of State Governments. THIS IS THE first such conference to be held and will be sponsored by the Indiana University school of government and business administration. Speakers will Include Alan M. David, assistant to the 'director of the Federal Security Administration, Prof. Richard Lomax and Prof.

J. Edward Hedges of Indiana University; Frederick N. McMillan of the Wisconsin department, and Wilfred Bradshaw, personnel relations director of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. SPECIAL GUESTS will Include Governor Henry F. Schricker, Herman Wells, president of I.U., and O.

C. Pog-ge, director ef eld age and survivors Insurance, Federal Security Administration. Clark Pledges 'Best Administration Possible' Allies Agree To Korean War Prisoner Exchange Million Chill, Thrill To Rose Tournament Annual Pasadena Floral Parade Coldest In 33 Years Pasadena, Cal. (AP) The coldest Tournament of Roses in 33 years chilled its pretty-girl riders yesterday but thrilled an estimated 1,500,000 spectators with breath-taking floral beauty. Millions of flowers, painstakingly woven into majestic floats that glittered in a 4-mile parade, depicted "Dreams of the Future." Unknown thousands of Americans saw the pageant on television.

WORLD PEACE was an idea stressed in the flower fantasies of many entries in the 63d annual festival. Religion, prosperity, justice and freedom were represented and there were chuckles, too, along with earnest thoughts. South Pasadena's Republican float, "A Rosy Dream," showed the GOP elephant shuffling into the White House and the Demo cratic donkey walking out. The National Young Republicans' "Inteeritv in Government" float had a 10-foot floral elephant iif fighting pose, with boxing gloves Romance keynoted several en tries, including the top sweepstakes prizewinner bannered "Every Girl's Dream or tne ru ture." This float from the South ern California Floral Association had a bridal party of 10 standing in a garden before a huge heart of roses. Flying Enterprise was landed at Liverpool from the rescue ship Arion Monday night.

He was George i 33-year-old greaser from Cleveland, O. The body of one crewman and all other passengers and crew were picked up by other ships. Members of the Arion's crew quoted Miterko as telling them: "Capt. Kurt was simply wonderful. He insisted on staying with his ship to the end.

Please, God, protect our skipper." Eight other crew members and seven German passengers, including four women and a boy and girl, were landed at Rotterdam Monday midnight by the American-owned steamer, Southland. CHIEF ENGINEER George Brown of Baltimore said the ship was badly buffeted on the dy after Christmas and the storm steadily grew worse. Other survivors said they were ordered from their cabins last Thursday and had to spend -2 Mayors Rushville, Ind; (Spl.) Rush ville had two mayors yesterday, both doing business in City Hall. Russell Coons, Democratic incumbent, refused to give-up his job. WILLIAM WINSHIP, Republican whose 38-vote margin in the Nov.

6th election was increased to 40 in a recount, was sworn in to office and immediately set up shop. Coons vowed 1 he won't quit until he receives a court order. He has filed a civil suit against Winship charging fraud in two city precincts. A hearing on this suit is to open tomorrow morning in Rush Circuit Court. SOME OFFICE HOLDERS declared they would remain in office along with Coons.

Others, like Police Chief Lawrence Sutherland, quit under protest, taye Wiley was sworn in as Winship's police chief; John Geraghty became clerk treasurer; John Hughes, city at torney, and a few city council prepared to move in officially, Also to be considered at the hearing is a charge by Coons that Winship was convicted as a World War I Navy deserter. Win ship has denied the accusation, Maxim Litvinov Dies London (Wednesday (UP) The Moscow Radio announced today that former Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov is dead at the age of 75. Litvinov, former ambassador to the United States, bowed out of power and public life with the appearance of the iron curtain after World War II. Torn Ship day and night in the passage ways. Finally ordered to aban don ship Friday, the passengers jumped into the sea one at a time, each accompanied by a crewman.

They were picked up by lifeboats after 10 to 30 min utes. The Weather Joe Crow Says? II a I In more than 100 towns greeted the New Year to the tuno of "The old gray 'mayor, he ain't what he used to be." Indianapolis Cloudy and cold er with freezing rain or sleet, ending late tonight or early to morrow. 4LSCO AUTMlNirM STORM-SCREEN Wtndowt nd Door Call MA, toe Captain Rides It Out Alone On Storm rictures On Pages 3 and Youthful Alex M. Clark took office as Indianapolis mayor yesterday promising "the best administration possible" but warning that high Federal demands on tax will hamstring some desired civic improvements. Addressing cheering Republican Party workers and friends who crowded into the rotunda of the City Hall to see him installed, the 35-year-old mayor declared: "MANY OF THE things that we want for our city will, of necessity because of the financial demands from our national government have to be postponed.

"It is my belief that until we can effect economy and a change at the national level to the point where we can retain some of our tax- money and some of our local self-government, many of the dreams, desires and hopes we all share will have to wait." Mayor Clark's first unofficial act was to soundly kiss the city' new first lady his attractive wife, Margaret. His oath of office was administered by her father, M. W. Welsh, Vin-cennes banker and attorney. STEPPING BRISKLY into the duties of mayor, Clark called a meeting of his new Board of Public Safety to recommend appointment of Battalion Chief Joseph Hancock as fire chief; Capt.

John E. Ambuhl as police chief, and Capt Howard L. Sanders as chief of detectives. The board Immediately approved the recommendations. Chief Hancock and Ambuhl both pledged strict adherence to the merit system in recommend Munsan, Korea (Wednesday) (AP) Allied delegates today agreed to an "all-for-all" exchange of Korean war prisoners.

But in making the proposal, Rear Adm. R. E. Libby told the Communists they must strip the Re4 Army of all former South Korean troops who have been "conscripted" into Communist fighting ranks since their capture. The Red delegates who heard Libby read the six-page Allied proposal previously had expressed fears that the U.N.

command wanted "man-for-raan" exchange. THE ALLIES HOLD about 120,000 prisoners and the Reds maintain they have only about 11,000 prisoners including 7.00& South Koreans. In addition, the Allies suggested that each prisoner should be given the right to refuse repatriation. This right of choice, however, should be supervised by the International Red Cross to make sure that "the decision of the individual is made freely and without duress," the Allies insisted. LIBBY ACCUSED the Reds of "incorporating into your army many thousands of our soldiers who fell Into your hands." On the subject of repatriation, the Allies proposed: Prisoners who elect repatriation shall be exchanged man-for-man until one side runs out of eligibles.

THEREAFTER, THE side holding prisoners shall exchange them one-for-one for interned civilians and others who elect to return to the opposite side. London (AP) Capt. Kurt Carlsen rode out New Year's Day alone on his hurricane-beaten, heavily listing ship, the Flying Enterprise, 250 miles out in the Atlantic. The storm, fhich sent three sizeable ships to the bottom and took at least 63 lives at sea and in Western Europe, was abating and seamen said the ship had a chance 'of surviving the six-day storm. When the hurricane struck, the Flying Enterprise was en route from Hamburg, Germany, to New York.

The United States destroyer John W. Weeks was expected to reach the scene today to relieve the United States Navy supply ship, Golden Eagle, which was watching over the helpless vessel. But there was no hope that a re.icue tug would arrive before today, THE S7-YEAR-OLD skipper from Woodbridge, N.J., ordered i A A.