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3 A TCP STAR-NEWS 1 iL iction 'AYT ADS WEATHER TODAY Cloudy, Warmer Temperature Forecast Lou, 85; High. 65 The INDIANAPOLI "Where the spirit of the Lord it, there it Liberty" Cor. 3-17 Call ATlantic 2411 VOL. 51. XO.

229 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 20, 1951 Ap Dllt Ctrrltr ltli anlyi: IS pt fce In Muma Cmntr it tlwwhrrt la Indiana. I 0 FLAMS 1 Jubilant Anti-Red Prisoners Free 'Lei's Go 2-Headed Baby Slips Into Home Life As Town Rallies To Family lvwOV.I It i te.i mams coming, though aware something is wrong, ore (left to right), Mary Lou, 6 years old; Connie Sue, 4, and Shirley Ann, 2. (Star Photo by James C. Ramsey) Three tousle-haired girls, wide-eyed with wonder, stare ot the two-headed baby sleeping yesterday in their Petersburg home. Enraptured over the home- Weir Cook Airport Fale Hinges On Action Today By Mayor Clark 9 0 By Horse And tion of knocking out Terre Haute.

They believe the 113th Jet Fighter Squadron of the Air National Guard will be welcomed in Terre Haute and resented at Weir Cook in view of the consistent antagonism of local aviation commissioners. Raymond F. Thomas, president of the Terre Haute Aviation Commission, remarked Hie offer is so good it hard to believe, according to Doherty. Funds for the base will be awarded hy the Bureau of the Budget on Feb. 1, according to headquarters of the Indiana National Guard.

The guard will complete a survey of the Terre Haute field this week and forward it to Washington at once. The proposition presented Terre Haute yesterday and rejected earlier by Indianapolis will provide land purchased by the state and deeded or leased to the city. THE NATIONAL GUARD will construct, a runway Search For Owner Gels The nine-day search for a 'coon dog rejKirted trapped In an underground tile ended yesterday with the dog still missing and its owner's ears burning with a sermon on the way he had "wasted his time." Diggers uncovered their last section of the 12-inch tile which runs a quarter of a mile under the farm of Dr. Earl Fence near Avon and found it so clogged with roots that a rabbit couldn't have wormed its th rough. Three stale troopers who had supervised operations went with Lester Jackson, tin dog's owner, Jn Today's Star Ike's "no favoritism" rule serves all, llalleek says Page 5.

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Page 17. Comics ....181 Society Editorials Radio-TV i. IS i Theater ...11 1 IluggyP with a parallel taxi strip and such other improvements as a hangar covering 52,000 square feet, a motor service shop, armament and supply storage, paint shop, parking apron, underground fuel storage tanks and such additional roads and utilities as required. Land for the buildings, some 40 acres, will be deeded to the stale. The investment at Indianao-lis was expected to total ultimately.

The cost at Terre Haute will be less because the field and runways are better, according to military officials. As at Indianapolis, all traffic would be controlled by Civil Aeronautics Administration to avoid any conflict between military and commercial traffic. The same procedure is employed at other cities where National Guard planes operate from municipal airports. That answers the specter of safety raised by the mayor and his aviation commissioners. Dog Fails; Lecture to the Ferree home to report that the search was over.

"I BELIEVE YOU owe all of us an apology." Jackson was told by Dr. Ferree, who is confined to hii bed by a heart ailment. "I understand you have a wife and children," Ferree continued. "My advice to you is to get rid of your 'coon dogs, start attending Sunday School and take better care ol your family. "You've wasted a lot of time out here." After hearing Dr.

Fcrrce's sermon. Jackson signed a paper drafted by the state troopers, agreeing that there would be no more digging and that, a SI, 000 bond posted by Governor George N. Craig could be released. JACKSON A RAILROAD brakeman who lives at 1fi09 Wilcox Street had insisted that the dog chased a racoon into the tile on a Sunday hunting trip with Jackson's son, Danny, on Jan. 10 and had not emerged.

A nation-wide sensation developed when Dr. Ferree, a retired veterinarian, expressed doubt that, the dog was in the tile and refused permission to dig. Dr. Ferree relented Sunday when Governor Craig posted a bond to cover damages to the Ferree property, but the digging was delayed until Monday when the doctor refused to permit Sunday work on hu farm. Start Trek To Refuge On Formosa Panmunjom (Wednesday) (UP) Jubilant, singing Chinese and North Korean prisoners marched to freedom today in a dramatic climax to their three-year battle against return to communism.

The first of the prisoners who rejected repatriation marched a mile and one-half from their neutral one camps to Allied control at 8:52 a.m. (5:52 p.m. JCST Tuesday). The transfer was orderly. Communist commanders made no attempt to interfere with the historic operation, despite charges the return was a violation of the armistice.

The Reds, in a last-ditch attempt to win back their soldiers, began broadcasting "come home" appeals to the TOWs during Ihe night and continued as the compounds rapidly emptied. "COME HOME. This is your last chance. Come home." the loudspeakers blared. "When the Indians open the gates this morning, everybody turn north and dash for freedom." Communist commanders charged only last night that the release of the prisoners would be "armed abduction." Five of the 2,000 Chinese and four of the 1,000 Koreans taken from compounds by 11 a.m.

asked to return to communism, Indian guards said. Several compounds were burned to the ground by the prisoners. Prisoners inside the compounds waiting for freedom snake-danced in writhing lines, waved banners and shouted patriotic songs. THERE WAS NO report of the 317 Allied prisoners, including 21 Americans, who elected to stay with the Communists. The Reds, who wanted the POWs held for a Korean peace conference, had indicated they would not accept Indian delivery of the POWs.

Chinese prisoners were the first to reach the United Nations control. They moved down a barbed wire lane to waiting trucks. From there the freedom trail led by truck and ship to new homes on the Chinese Nationalist island stronghold of Formosa. The North Korean prisoners wore delayed one hour leaving their compound because they resisted Indian efforts to free them one by one so those who wished could choose communism. They finall.v poured across the line to South Korea in a jumbled mass of several hundred men.

The Korean named as the first, man across the line was greeted by South Korean Prime Minister Paik Too Chin. Also present were U.S. Secretary of the Army Robert P. Stevens, United Nations Commander Gen. John K.

Hull and Eighth Army Commander Gen. Maxwell Taylor. THE KOREAN SOLDIER, Pvt. Chong Yong Sung, 35, of Sariwon in North Korea, said he had planned to lead the men in his eomX)und in a breakout if the Indians had not. released them by Saturday morning, the armislice agreement deadline.

Hull said everything was "going smoothly" so far. The Indian command hoped to turn back prisoners at the rate of 1.500 a hour, completing ihe job by 11 p.m. (8 a m. CST Wednesday i. In the first two hours of the transfer, American Marines soldiers and Nationalist Chi-rese officers had loaded 1 Chinese onto trucks and sent them off to the west coast port of Inchon and the sea voyage to Formosa.

The Koreans were loaded into boxcars and were to be taken to relocation centers on the east and west coasts of South Korea. President Syngman Rhee hailed the return of the anti-Communist prisoners and said they had given the Reds the "most rebounding ideological defeat in their history." "We are proud of you," Rhee said in a special statement to the prisoners, "and we glory in your fierce rejection of the fallacies of communism in the face of the terrific pressures that were applied against you." Building Will Clear Slum Here Ry BERNARD V. WYNV Indiana University will huild a 57,000,000 medical science building on a lfi-acrr plot of ground adjacent to General Hos-pital as a part of a new slum clearance project soon to launched hy the Indianapolis Redevelopment Commission. The commission will adopt a resolution Feb. 3 declaring the area a slum and begin immediate acquisition of land, Paul L.

McCord, commission president, revealed last night. The acreage termed one of the city's worst blighted districtsis bounded by Coe, Hiawatha, Michigan and Lockt Streets. McCORD SAID Indiana University, which long has wanted to expand its medical center facilities, will construct a multi-million dollar building on part of the slum site. The remainder of the ground ill be available to James Whit-comb Riley Hospital and General Hospital as well as the medical center for any future use. University officials last night confirmed the project and announced they plan to let construction contracts totaling $4,500,000 this spring for tha five-story structure.

The medical school presently Is housed in an old and overcrowded building on the east side of the center facing Michigan Street. It will be converted into classrooms when the new building is completed. J. A. FRANKLIN, vice-president and treasurer of the university, said the new building will be constructed of reinforced concrete with a brick exterior "in keeping with other buildings on the campus." Franklin said it will cost an additional $2,500,000 to equip the building which will be devoted mostly to laboratories and for teaching and research.

Pointing to the overcrowded classrooms in the present training site, Franklin said they now are cramming 1150 students in classrooms designed for only 40 students. Franklin said the new building will enable the medical school to admit more students and probably eliminate the necessity of training first-year students on the Blonmington campus. THE UNIVERSITY asked tht 1053 General Assembly for 000,000 for the project. The law-markers granted the $1,500,000 for construction purposes. The redevelopment, commission had planned to keep the project under cover until the Feb, 3 meeting, but Mayor Alex M.

Clark prematurely revealed the plans at a meeting of the National Association of Home Builders which he is attending at Chicago. McCord explained that the commission usually does not publicize promised projects before passing the declaratory resolution lo prevent, speculators from grabbing the land and demanding exorbitant prices. McCord said the land will be acquired piece by piece and the area resold to the university. He pointed out. that there is no "emergency" and persons residing in Ihe area will be given plenty of time to relocate.

McCORD SAID also the commission is considering acquiring, 900 lots on the Northeast Side for development into single and multiple family dwellings. The 160-acre area is located east, of Douglass Park between 25th and 30th Streets. But this will not be available to private builders until 1955, McCord estimated. The redevelopment commission since its inception in 1915 has spent $1,750,000 in slum clearing projects. PROJECT Ihe Planner House program, is 99 per cent completed and the second project just south of Washington Street and west of White River is nearly ready for commercial and industrial building, McCord said.

The commission turned Project the former slum area between 15th and 16th Streets west of Flanner House, over to the Indianapolis Park Board feff construction of a city swim ming pool. By CAROLYN' riCKERING Star Staff Reporter Petersburg, Ind. Still Shocked, but facing the future with optimism, the courageous parents of Petersburg's two-headed infant began tidying up their new living quarters yesterday after a strenuous, yet rewarding, first night at home with their babies. For the "twins," Donald Ray nnd Daniel Kaye Hartley, Monday night's "homecoming" was uneventful. Completely oblivious of their row bassinet, a first meeting with their three jubilant, yet bewildered, sisters, and the tender, first touch of a loving mother's hands, the boys slept blissfully.

BUT, SLEEP eluded 44-year-old Cecil Hartley and his 27-year-old wife, Margaret. And the sandman bypassed the Hartleys' bright-eyed, inquisitive daughters, until exhaustion sent them to a restless slumberland long after the clock had ticked past its midnight toll. Three pairs of blue eyes, which spoke without words the happiness they lelt within, peered from beneath the bedcovers when "mommy and daddy" and the "buddy-boy" they had hoped to romp with, arrived at the modest apartment Monday night. Sheer bedlam broke loose as Mary Lou, 6 years old; Connie Sue, 4, and Shirley Ann. 2, leaped from their beds for a first, longing look at the "heebies." The hour was late for girls so young to be dancing with joy around a blue and white bassinet.

But, mother and dad, who know all about childish curiosity, wanted the family reunion to be "as normal as possible." THOUGH THE parents were exhausted from the difficult events which led up to their bringing the sons home, and the trip by ambulance from Indianapolis, there were no harsh words or curtly-announced commands for the three little girls to return to their beds. The two younger daughters, ogling their brothers with obvious rapture, quipped about "buddy-boy's" tiny little hands, the shocks of sandy hair and his "itty piggies." But, Mary Lou, the oldest and already taken into confidence by her parents of her brothers' malformation, said very little. Only when she climbed on the lap of a reporter did she release her innermost thoughts. "Why does he have two heads?" she asked, her weary blue eyes longing for the right answer. Satisfied that had been "God's will," she scampered off to bed but sleep didn't come until long after her younger sisters had drifted off to dreamland.

IT WAS AFTER midnight. Three little girls were sleeping. The small, still breathing of the tiny boys on whom nature had played such a nasty trick, scarcely could be heard. But, for Cecil and "Peggy" Turn to Page 3, Column 7 their earlier statements that they favored a state office building, only an unrecorded few answered with "noes" when the question of withholding action on a special session cam1 up. Republican Speaker of the House James D.

Allen of Salem moved that consideration of the office building issue be deferred until exact data on the site, sie and cost of the proposed structure could be presnnted. Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, Senate presiding officer and legislative commission chairman, put the motion to a voice vote of the approximately 110 of 150 legislators who attended yesterday's session. NECESSITY FOR the structure was stressed by State Senator Clem McConaha of Ccnterville, a Republican member of the State Office Building Commission and the State Budget Committee. "If a private firm wer- trying to operate under conditions under which we expect our state government to function, the question would who would be in firs? tn enforce laws and Turn to Fagt Column 4 By BRUCE R.

HUNT Star Staff Reporter Petersburg, Ind. If the Cecil Hartleys wish to provide a normal home for their two-headed baby, the townspeople of Petersburg stand behind them 100 per cent, Mayor Ray Green declared yesterday. Residents of this Pike County town, home of Indiana's medical rarity, turned their conversations anew to the newcomer yesterday, his first day home from the hospital. UP AND DOWN Main Street, on street corners, in drugstores, cafes and business marts, the newly arrived baby was the "talk of the town." "We are behind the Hartleys 100 per cent, if they want to care for the baby themselves and keep it in their family," Mayor Green said. "Naturally, we want to honor the wishes of the parents." Green said opinions of the townspeople unmistakenly were divided sharply, just as in other parts of the country, since the baby was born Dec.

12, A large number of persons heartily agree that the Hartleys should care for their infant with two head along with their three little girls, Mary Ixw, 5, Connie Sue, 4, and Shirley Ann, 2. Cecil Hartley, 41, and his wife, Margaret, have stated repeatedly that they will care for their new offspring at: home, shielding the baby from curiosity seekers, freak show promoters and circus managers. "That's the way ue want it and 1 hat's the way it will be," Hartley said. Albeit J. Dosch, owner of Dosch Cafe, said the town's 80 merchants already had participated in preliminary discussions for helping Hartley, a S50-a-week laborer who will have to struggle to make ends meet.

POSSIBILITY of a county-wide assistance fund for the family had been discussed by-Turn to Page 8, Column 4 The Weather Joe Crow Says: Indianup oils Railways calls Its new bus ex- preM service a "splendid sue- cess. re waiting to hear J. Q. Straphang er express himself on the express. Indianapolis 1 and mild with occasional showers and scattered thunderstorms today.

Tomorrow cloudy, colder with rain changing to snow. Indiana Mild and cloudy with occasional showers today. Cloudy, colder and rain changing to snow tomorrow. ---t- t- rvrTxiwTi. itiwil it By LESTER M.

HUNT Indianapolis still has a chance to beat Terre Haute in accepting state and National Guard funds for airport expansion, it developed yesterday following a conference of Adj. Gen. Harold A. Doherty with the Terre Haute Aviation Commission. The commission was favorable but deferred action until Mayor Ralph Tucker retur ns to the city, Doherty said.

He expects official acceptance tomorrow. The fate of Weir Cook Municipal Airort hinges on vVhethcr Mayor Alex M. Clark calls a meeting today as requested by the City Council Monday night. In Chicago last night Clark declared he would move as quickly as possible on his return to Indianapolis this morning. Wheiher a meeting would be held this afternoon or evening, he was unable to say.

"I IIO NOT WANT to assume responsibility for the safety factor," 1he mayor remarked in emphasizing reference to the subject by Acting Mayor John R. Barney in a letter to the council. Barney's letter recommended that the oiler of Governor George N. Craig and the gqunrd be accepted but stated the mayor was not passing on the question of safety, raiser) by Ihe Aviation Commissioners Irving M. Fauvre and Fred W.

Sommer after all other objections had been dissolved. Doherty was enthused by the reception he received at Terre Haute. "It was a pleasure to talk with people who were sincere and co-operative," he said. "They really want it." Doherty said that even if Clark should call a meeting today and his aviation commission accepted the Federal contract, he would still forward Terre Haute's acceptance to Washington if it is i tomorrow. He added that, he is not, engaging in any of the Indianapolis maneuvering and ha? no intention of attending Clark's meeting today, if one is called.

IF BOTH CITIES should accept, the choice will be made by experts at Washington on the basis of military effectiveness, probably with some consideration given to future relationship. Military officials made no secret of the fact that they have lost confidence in ''le good intentions of Indianapolis and are suspicious of any proposal made with the inten Special Session Call Rejected By Legislators By AL G. McCORD Indiana General Assembly members yesterday failed to act on the new state office building despite a warning by one of their leaders of deplorable safety and health hazards in the Statrhouse. Calling of a special session of the Legislature to approve spending S15.OO0.nO0 from the state's SS2.000.000 surplus to build the critically needed structure was rejected following a day-long meeting of the lawmakers. The bipartisan Legislative Advisory Commission, which conducted the informal get-together, decided not to ask Gov-rrnor George N.

Craig to call the special session, after a voice I vote by legislators. ALTHOUGH MOST senators and representatives stood by TODAY'S CHUCKLE "Thanks very much for the beautiful tie," aid Junior, kissing Grandma dutifully on the cheek. "Oh, that's nothing to thank me for," she murmured. "That's what I thought, but Ma said I had to.".