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PACE THREE Steel Industry breaks All Peacetime Output Records in 1948 MUNCIE EVENING PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27,11948 The Hoosier Farm Wife Says: UN Observers Defy Dutch Withdrawal Order STATE HOLIDAY DEATHS AT 22 Highway Accidents Claim 14, PRODUCTION IS EXCEEDED ONLY BY WAR YEARS Management and Labor Unity Receives Credit. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (INS) The American steel industry broke The Question and The Claws Are Sharp What is going to become- of Scratchy Allup? Scratchy is a little striped kitten, the kind born out of wedlock, uncherished by his parents, and destined by a merciful providence to be early removed from this world of hardship. At present he is a guest at the RFD farm, but whether he is to beconfe a permanent dweller there, or presently to return to Grace's house from whence he came, is the question.

The main argument for his return is Scratchy himself, too appealing and too frail. In favor of permanent residence are two argu Fires Eight Others. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. r- r- VI a fctf If 1 6 Traffic accidents and home fires placed Indiana's Christmas holiday death toll at 22 today. Mishaps on state roads accounted for 14 of the dead.

Fires took the lives of eight others, including six all existing peacetime production records in 1948 with an output of ments, aged respectively 9 and 5 children, during the period be cream of wheat, milk, lima beans, years. It was the 5-year-old Argu ginning at 6 p. m. Christmas Eve more than 88,000,000 tons. raw sausage, but pounced happily ment who brought him here, an- and continuing through midnight This was disclosed today by the on a raw chicken neck which he nouncing to her enthusiastic 9- last night.

American Iron and Steel Institute which asserted this year's produc year-old brother, "He's mine, but Fire deaths reported yesterday downed, alternately purring and growling. Afterward he bathed himself with charming daintiness and, in the absence of a grand you share him." tion might have been the greatest were, those of Mrs. Margaret Pearl Grimes, 18, and her two children, Jacqueline, 2, and James Edward, SHE HAD spent a happy after piano, leaped lightly to the center four months old. TWO PERSONS SLAIN AT INDIANAPOLIS Accident and Self Defense Claimed by. Accused.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 27. -T Two men were shot to death here Christmas Day. They were Percy Finch and Orlando Bartlett, 37, both of Indianapolis. Police held Coley Watkins, 43, In the shooting.

Officers said Wat-kins admitted shooting Finch In an argument, but claimed the shooting was accidental. Patrick Burnett, 39, was questioned about the shooting of Bart-, lett. Burnet told officers Bartlett had threatened his life on several occasions. Burnett said that while once serving as a police officer he had given testimony which resulted in Bartlett's serving a jail sentence on an assault and battery charge. Since then, Bartlett had borne a grudge aaginst him, Burnett said.

WITNESS TO SLAYING ON VERGE OF BREAKDOWN VIENNA, Dec. 27. (JP) Dana Superina, witness to the murder of an American official, is reported to have been admitted to an American sector hospital on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Miss Superina was with Irving Ross, European Recovery Program official when he was brutally beaten to death in the Russian sector of Vienna Nov. 1.

American sources, who reported Miss Superina had been admitted to a hospital, said it would be at least two weeks before she could be questioned. They said she has not been able to tell a coherent story since she was released from a hospital in the Russian sector last week. noon visiting Grace, her aunt, whom she dearly loves, and whose house is pure enchantment to her. Grace's house ga'ns charm from THEY DIED Sunday when of the kitchen table and spent the night. HIS PEACEFUL hours were short, he was too appealing and the residue left by two children flames destroyed their two-room home a converted chicken house in Terre Haute.

The husband in history of the industry had not the coal strike last April interrupted operations. A spokesman for the Institute said the war years of 1943 and 1944 only exceeded the 1948 production. The 1943 output totaled 88,836,512 while the 1944 figure stood at BASIS FOR THIS tremendous 1948 production was attributed to co-operation between management growing up a few years ahead of winsome. Early the next morning the RFD children. It bulges with and father, Jack Edward Grimes, the children began to shower him beloved outgrown toys, old high- 20, smashed through the thin walls of the structure in a futile heeled shoes, battered books and indulgent yesses to a small child's every request.

Even when Grace with wearying affection. They made toys, spools tied to a string, they quarrelled over who should hold him, they chased him over the effort to save his family. He suffered first and second degree burns. is busy ironing or giving music and the ClO-United State Workers house. Scratchy became unhappy lessons, argument asks nothing Three children of Mr.

and Mrs. and the vast expansion program He wailed and wandered restlessly Eddie Mosley of Evansville burned undertaken by the industry soon more than just to be there, basking in the rich, unrestrained atmos This train, carrying the United Nations Good Offices Committee from Batavia to Indonesia's capital, Jogjakarta, passes over a Java bridge guarded by Dutch troops. The UN observers, headed by American Col. William Mayer, were defying a Dutch military order to withdraw the 10 military observation teams from the Indonesian front. This bridge marks the Status Quo Line in Java.

(NEA Telephoto.) about the kitchen. "I think maybe Scratchy ought to death Christmas Eve when after V-J Day. flames destroyed their home. The to go back and visit Grace a while, In 1947 Philip Murray, president phere of Grace's house and making mud pies in the dining room. suggested the mother, and was an victims were Harold Eugene, 6, Herschel, 5, and Sandra Louise, 2.

-t of the Steel Workers Union, negotiated a two-year contract with the That afternoon, in addition, Planes Needed for Three-year-old Ralph Hampton industry containing a non-strike swered decisively by the 5-year-old: "Then that is the day I take my pajamas and spend three days and Norris of Indianapolis died Christ clause. there was Scratchy. It was love at first squeeze on the part of the little girl, and Scratchy was willing to be held, sung to, and put through his games. Through mas Day in flames which destroyed a night with Grace." Rescue Carrier Due Off Greenland Wednesday the converted garage in which he The question thus looms up like The steel industry's outlay for new and modern equipment since the end of the war in the Far East Air Force Reserve WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.

UP) The air force says it lacks enough lived with his parents. the catch in an easy down pay the whole delightful afternoon he Another fire in Indianapolis to December, 1948, totaled $1,400, 000,000. The program is expected planes to provide for the entire air took the life of Ellis Skipped, 47, who died late Christmas night chased marbles, curled up into a tight little striped wad, purred and submitted to petting. The little to be completed early next year, TABLECLOTH LEADS TO when flames gutted his small home. During the first nine months of force reserve with first-line aircraft for training purposes.

C. W. Whitney, assistant secretary of air, made this comment in ARREST AT PORTLAND IN TRAFFIC accidents, Mrs. the year only 3,377,846 tons of steel were exported, a decline of 31 per Mildred Timm of Freeport, 111., PORTLAND, Dec. 27.

(INS) A table cloth in a window a letter to Senator Wiles cent over 1947. Most of the was killed yesterday when the 846 tons went to Marshall Aid who had asked information on FORMER JAP MINISTER 'GETS PRISON SENTENCE TOKYO, Dec. 27. CD Kyodo fn7nf Pr Plans for air force reserve units. automobile in which she was riding with her family struck a culvert on Highway 41 north of Williams- countries with Germany and other bombed-out nations receiving the I.

Whitney said the regular air ment. Must we give up both the 5-year-old and the kitten in order to prolong Scratchy's existence? Or will Scratchy develop sufficient hardiness to withstand the children's love? Nobody knows, nobody knows. MRS. R. F.

D. CHORUS TO BROADCAST. The Delaware County Federation Chorus will broadcast the following program over radio station WLBC at 2 p. m. Tuesday.

"Alice Blue Gown," "Olden Songs," "My Prayer," "I Passed by Your Window," "Winter Nocturne," and "Lord Bless You and Keep You." The group will go to the Madison Street Methodist Church at 2:30 o'clock to sing for the meeting of the W. S. C. S. Aboard U.

S. S. Saipan En Route to Greenland, Dec. 27. (JP) Slowed almost to a snail's pace by lashing winds, this carrier hoped for better weather today as it ploughed toward Greenland to attempt the rescue of 13 stranded air force men.

The Saipan, which left Norfolk Saturday, is due off the rescue launching point Wednesday. Even with improved weather, however, there is doubt that it can keep that schedule. THE SAIPAN was moving along at 27 knots (more than 30mph) until it encountered winds up to force; the Air National Guard and greatest share. Great Britain received only a small portion of nietal. a Zr "certain foreign aid programs" all A few days ago Mrs.

Donald Shepherd stored her household hSPP ThJrSn te fects at a home near Portland. Not i ai Jilt said, is that the reserve is not THE INSTITUTE spokesman News Agency reported today that former Agricultural Minister Rik-izo Hirano had been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for violating government purge orders. Hirano was convicted in district court here of failing to report his association with Kodo Kai (the imperial way) National Society in filing his application to run for pointed out that the rapidly im i "w'77 considered a mobilization day proving steel production in Europe iiik-iuuing u'uiuiL. io. uiuc, force port.

A two-car collision Sunday at Coburn Corners, southeast of Auburn, killed Mrs. Louise Bry, 55, of near Spencerville (DeKalb County). St. Joseph County authorities continued to investigate the death of Fred Gangs, 77-year-old Misha-waka handyman whose body was found yesterday along a highway near Mishawaka. Coroner Marion W.

Hillman returned a tentative verdict of heart attack, but will give American industry more material next year. Output in Germany increased sharply in 1948, while production in other around 100 miles an hour yes FUNERALS MARK POWERS. Western European countries were found to be missing. While driving by the Heistand home, Mrs. Shepherd said she recognized a table cloth over a window as belonging to her.

She obtained' a search warrant and went to the home. Mrs. Heistand surrendered the other articles. terday. The skipper, Capt.

Joseph L. girl learned all about his characteristics. He doesn't like milk. He likes raw hamburger and can smell it through any number of paper wrappings. And Grace suspects, even through the refrigerator door.

He has a bed, but much prefers sleeping in Grace's opened baby grand piano. Here he amuses himself by plucking the strings or running back and forth over them, which is no help at all to a child reciting a music lesson. Like Grace, Scratchy has a passon for magazines, but instead of hoarding them tenderly as she does, he likes to shred them with his tiny ambitious claws. IN THE UNEXPLAINED way in which these things come about, the little girl decided to take Scratchy home with her. She put on her coat and hat, picked up the unpro-testing kitten and carried it out to the car.

Her mother doubtfully suggested waiting until another time. The little girl did not yell, but just stood there firmly clutching the kitten, with its feet upward, in her small loving arms, and slowly the big tears ran down her cheeks as she murmured: "I want to take him today." Being a mother, and therefore weakand foolish and vulnerable, the mother Services for Mark Powers, 75, of Elwood, were conducted Monday afternoon at the York funeral home Kane, first ordered the carrier slowed to 22 knots. The storm roared on and at 6 SALES1 Xk IFIF in Elwood. Interment was in the p. m.

Kane reduced speed to 15 sheriffs deputies said he may also have been struck by a hit-and-run driver. Beech Grove Cemetery in Muncie. knots. Still later he cut down to Mr. Powers was a former resident 10 knots.

Better weather was expected to of Muncie. JUDITH LYNN PRATT. day. But it seemed likely to get Final rites were conducted at -the worse again when the Saipan passes Cape Race, possibly tonight. While the Saipantook a fierce PICTURES About 125 attractive prints and oil reproductions real bargains at off were $1.60 to $27.50.

MIRRORS Beautiful Plate Glass Mirrors Round, square and rectangular originally priced from $6.00 to $31.50. Piepho funeral home Monday afternoon for Judith Lynn Pratt, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and NAVY TESTING CARRIER PLANE OFF EAST COAST WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. UP) The navy is testing its big, hardhitting fighter plane, the Martin "Mauler," in flights from the carrier Kearsarge off the East Coast.

The single-engine, 22,000 pound "Mauler" is armed with torpedoes, rockets and machine guns and its one of the heaviest planes ever built for carrier operation. It has of 2,000 miles battering, five helocopters and two reached a level higher than the best pre-war year. America's mills produced more than half of the world's steel this year and the industry hopes to boost production records to 90 million tons in 1949. The 1949 goal can be attained, the Institute spokesman said, if the necessary raw materials such as scrap and coal are available and no interruptions of production occur. The record steel production permitted the nation's principal manufacturing industries to turn out a rising stream of thousands of different products for the American economy and employ more persons than in any other period of time.

The automobile industry alone, one of the largest users of steel, produced more than 5,275,000 trucks and automobiles, nearly a half million more than in 1947. Mrs. Jack Pratt, 812 Abbott St. In torpedo bombers lashed down with cables on the hangar deck escaped damage. terment was in Elm Ridge Ceme tery.

MRS. EMMA HOLCROFT. Purcell Predicts 1949 Spring Will Be Chilly Affair RUSHVILLE, Dec. 27. JP) Mark Purcell, who looks to the winds to foretell the weather, sees a chilly spring for Indiana in 1949.

The Rushville weather prophet, who has gained a wide following in the state, yesterday completed his first spring prediction. Purcell, in making a forecast, records the direction of equinoxial winds for the first three days of THE SHIP'S doctor reported a third of the crew seasick. Services were held Monday aft yielded. Scratchy came home to Through it all, officers in charge faster than nf "Onoratirm ToQ ana a speea iasier man a range more 300 miles This Week Only All Sales Final Al PAINT STORE the farm. There the 9-year-old ernoon at the Eaton Methodist Church for Mrs.

Emma Holcroft, 83, of five miles southwest of Gas il.i I1UUI Argument immediately accepted The navy said the tests are expected to last several weeks. effect the rescue of the stranded ton. Burial was in Black Cemetery. him, with joyous outcries. The children fixed Scratchy a bed, food and water, all of which Phone 2-3140 119 W.

Charles airmen. But this confidence did not mean the officers felt they had an easy declined. He declined bread, egg, job. Barkeeper Buys Paintings 'Just Like Rockefeller' a season and from this information EIGHT BABIES BORN ON CHRISTMAS arrives at an estimate of the weather to come a quarter of a Capt. William V.

Davis, in charge of the actual flying operation, said rescue flights will be made only in clear weather. And the "windmills," as the helicopters are called, will go up only if winds DAY empty wallet and wanted to barter year in the future. a watercolor for a meal for his From the readings of Tuesday, wife and himself. BANNER-WHITEHILL do not exceed 40 miles an hour. NEW YORK, Dec.

27. (INS) It's nothing unusual to see con-noisseurs'at a 57th Street art "preview" lining up at refreshment table or bar. But at the Joseph Luyber Galleries you'll find the table turned an art patron behind the bar! AT A PREVIEW, Held mixes 'em (Poor visibility yesterday pre for the palate with the fine art vented any attempt by the air force to rescue the stranded air Wednesday and Thursday, the Rushville seer concludes the first three weeks of spring will be mild; the next month will be colder, and the balance of the season will be mild, but perhaps not as mild as the beginning of istry he expects from a painter's palette and he knows how to STORE HOURS: TUESDAY 9:00 to 5:00 men it was announced in He is Louis Held, and his mixing pick a "winner" for his collection Walnut at Adams spring. and serving the champagne punch Many of his pictures have jumped isn't merely a lark. While he isin value since he acquired them a genuine collector of paintings, because the artists have risen in Purcell added he could see "no Dutch Contend UN Ball Hospital was the scene of eight births on Christmas Day, five girls and three boys but as far as can yet be determined not a one has been named "Merry Christmas." The first Christmas baby, a girl, was born to Grady and Luella Poss of Yorktown.

Others were born to Samuel and Mary Elizabeth Morris, 3307 W. Buckles a girl; Reed and Joella Voran, 18 Berwyn a girl; Walter and Mettie Wormer, R. R. 6, Muncie, a boy; Archie and Lucille Davis. 1003 S.

Elm boy; James and Ruth Ann Robinson, 315 E. Second girl; Francis and Wil-lamae Vannatta, 1436 W. Fourteenth girl, and James Ramona Crouch, 358 Princeton boy. really warm weather during ne no Tycoon. ine evening jame spring." worK at me gaiiery neips augment The amateur prophet, using a Held's collection includes "big his modest earnings as a cafeteria Plays Russ Game TOKYO.

Dec. 27. (JP) Dutch formula he has disclosed, has been among them Walt Dis counterman. From these he sets' names issuing winter and summer fore ney, Grandma Moses, Revmgton Arthur, Luigi Lucioni, Reginald A New lhn casts since 1918 with the help of three Rush County weather Ambassador Hendrik Mouw said today the United Nations has become "suckers for Russian propa Marsh, Sol Wilson, Maurice Beck aside a small" sum each week to buy art on the installment plan. In ten years, Held has acquired more than eighty paintings, water-colors, prints and sculptures.

Two vmts stsrn hf vuai civen "rnllpr- vanes. er, Jean Liberte, Paul Cadmus, and ganda" in dealing with the Indo Jon Corbino. FACTORY AT VINCENNES nesian fighting. "Which only goes to show," Held In a press conference, chw' hi n-nniitinn: at DESTROYED BY BLAZE suggests as he leaves Luyber's with VA REPORTS 108,800 IN head of the Netherlands legation! a newly-acquired painting by here, said the U. N.

was "playing VINCENNES, Dec. 27. UP) mm. WAAY Firemen battled sub-zero weath VETERANS' HOSPITALS WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.

(JP) Morris Blackburn, that you don't have to be a Rockefeller to have er and chemical heat in a $100,000 art and beauty in your home." The Veterans Administration esti fire which destroyed the Tumble- the Russian game" by its cease fire orders. "The big question," he said, "is whether the Dutch Indies, the vulnerable part of Southeast Asia, can resist the Communist tide in the mates that about 108,000 war vet Brite Corporation plant here yes terday. erans are in hospitals this holiday Village. Held explains his art collecting: "It all started when I was a kid in Toledo, Ohio. One day I wandered into the Museum of Art there, and a whole new world of beauty was revealed to me." Held was making $10.00 a week as a bus boy after hitch-hiking to New York when he bought his first picture.

He got it for a dollar from an artist who came into the cafe sension. The thermometer stood at three But if you think Held is unusual, consider the assurance given by Laurence V. Burton, a business executive, that art has added years, not alone beauty, to his life. Eight Instead of blaming Hol- Of that number about 50.000 are orient. degrees below zero but the burn ing factory, a manufacturing place long-term patients men and worn- land for the present action, I think en who've been hospitalized for a the world in the future will thank years so far.

for airplane metal polish, sent out waves of heat that caused damage wr or mnrp. rlOlianu. rf BURTON, WHO lives in Scars- The agency chaplaincy service a block away. The heat burned through four More than 50,000 different things are made of rubber. dale, N.

and has a farm in New says it wouldn't be a bad idea for the public to drop in on those vet teria with empty stomach and ton, is an amateur oil paint inch hoses used to fight the flames and blistered the paint and broke erans who are able to have visitors. er. His spare-time career in art ime WASHER started after a complete break Welcome Pardoned Son glass on the car belonging to Vin- cennes Fire Chief Dewey Shepherd down in 1935. His doctor warned him he had only five more years to live unless he took up a hobby so absorbing he could forget all Firemen saved the adjacent Baltic Mills grain elevator and a bin containing 29,000 bushels of corn. aHout business.

"He hinted none too GWALTNEY SERVICES TO Burton recalls, "that unless I rode a hobby hard, I might as well wind up my affairs and purchase a very BE CONDUCTED AT CHURCH small plot of ground. Painting be came that hobby." 1 it95 At Only Funeral services for Stanley Gwaltney, 72, widely-known Harrison Township farmer who died Saturday at Ball Hospital, will be His training at the University of 1 1 Illinois and at Yale was in science, Roaches, Rafs Mice Effectively Controlled by Monthly Service. Dial 2-4481 Arab Pest Control Co. ICE HOCKEY Akron Saturday Kite, Jan. 1 Toledo Sunday Nite, Jan.

2 Whooooooo JACK and JILL IA 1 so Burton had to find all the an swers for himself when he took up art. In "Week-end Painter," just pub conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Pleasant Run Church, west of Muncie on the Jackson St. Pike.

Interment will be in Jones Cemetery. Friends may call at the Kimmel mortuary in Gaston until noon Tuesday. Surviving are a son, Eugene Gwaltney, of Washington Town With Pump Check the Low Price of America's Greatest Washer Value lished by Whittlesey House, he now passes along his experience and advice to make it easier for every Tom, Dick and Harriet who is trying to ride the same hobby. "I get a bigger kick out of painting than anything else I can think of," he says. "I paint pictures for fun, to please myself and I hope my wife." ship, and one grandson.

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L. Boggie, at Lebanon, after reaching their home Deo. 24. (AP Wirephoto) 5.