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1951 DECEMBER 1951 Sun. Man. Tue. f. Thur: trt.

Sat. I A The IMES 1 1 1 1 AM Formerly The Lake County Times THE WEATHER Heavy snow this afternoon and evening, diminishing to snow flurries tonight. Total amount of snow around eight inches. Mostly cloudy and colder Saturday. Low tonight 18.

High Saturday 24. Low Saturday night 8. Out jl jjlx 4 5 6 7 8 II 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 29 2 9 16 30 10 17 31 Calumet Region's Home Newspaper look for Sunday, partly cloudy and cold. Price 5 Cents 52 Pages AP, INS, UP. CP, AP Wlr Photo Hammond, Indiana, Friday, December 14, 1951 Call Sheffield 3100 Vol.

XLVI No. 152 mm eacfiers Under Fire Nom-Residtemt Schricker, Stevenson Open Expressway Link New 675-Mile Oil Pipeline Reactivate Cast Armor Announce Plans for To Twin City War Plant Ore Fleet THvin City Board for 'Home Ruler Kwiat Demands Out-of-Towners Pay for Tuition Construction of a 675 -mile pipeline from Caney, to East Chicago has been started by the Sinclair Pipeline Co. The line will be capable of carrying Inland Lake Shipping Chief Predicts More Tonnage for 1952 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day. jHulli-Million Dollar Contract Signed for Twin City Foundry, (Photos on Page 6t East Chicago's government-owned cast armor plant, the nation's' largest steel foundry, was officially reactivated today, with the signing of a multi-mil "Revolutionary" exp a si Sinclair Oil Co. officials in The East Chicago school board Thursday threatened to demote school officials who live East Chicago were unable to say what the effect would be on plans, both in Great Lakes ore shipping and in steel production, will be put into operation start plant operations in the Calumet outside of the city limits and who fail to move back into town ing in 1952, corporation execu region from the new line.

R. G. Arner. East Chicago re tives told members of the American Iron and Steel Institute in by next September. lion dollar war contract by American Steel Foundries.

Stanley Kwiat, who was re Chicago yesterday. American Steel Foundries, finery manager, was in New. York on a business trip and unavailable for comment. elected to the board by the greatest margin last month, which has plants in Hammond Carl B. Jacobs, raw materials and fleet manager of Inland brought up the issue by demand- Steel predicted a period of THE NEW pipeline will connect ing that F.

B. Bolton, super visor of social science and com at Cushing, to a gathering XTM: 1, fjflafoiw-, -f Ls. -ji and Indiana Harbor as well as other parts of the nation will operate the $26,000,000 cast armor plant on Dickey Rd. It operated the plant during World War H. Announcement of the signing of system running into many oil fields mercial subjects, be forced to pay tuition for his son.

in Texas and Oklahoma, William H. Morris, president of the Sinclair The bov. Thomas, is an outstand rapid expansion for the lake fleet, which now carries more tonnage in eight months than all foreign traffic of U. S. ocean ports in a year.

Earlier in the meeting, Walter Tower, institute president, announced that the steel industry for the first time in history had produced more than a 100,000,000 ingot Pipeline said, the contract was made jointly to Morris added the line would en ing senior at Roosevelt High school but the family has moved to Wood-mar since the start of the son's senior year. Kwiat contended that the boy should pay tuition an Hammond Times Photo of the Cook county board and James S. DeLaurier, publisher of The Hammond Times. Ceremonies were conducted yesterday afternoon at the Indiana-Illinois state line and 177th following luncheon attended by civic leaders and highway men at a restaurant in Hammond's Robertsdale district. able production of oil in west Texas fields to be stepped up about 150,000 barrels a day.

The new pipeline eventually will replace the existing Sinclair pipe day by C. C. Jarchow, president of the firm, and Col. Robert K. Haskell, chief of the Chicago Ordnance district.

Tim CONTRACT covers production of tank hulls and turrets a job which the cast armor plant. HOLDING SCISSORS with which they snipped tri-colored ribbon for official opening of new 10-mile link in Chicago-Detroit Expressway are (left to right), Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois; Charles M. Hayes, president of Chicago Motor Club; Gov. Henry F.

Schricker of Indiana William N. Erickson, president out-of-town pupil. tons of steel in one year. BY 1932 nE said the industry's A. C.

SENOL'R, superintendent of schools, explained that a regula line system between Cushing and production would soar to 107,000,000 ingot tons. Pointing to future ex refineries in the Great Lakes area, under American cteei, penormea tion provides that tuition is not reauired if a student lives in East Hint McGrath en auring ona ar including East Chicago. pansion plans. Tower revealed that steel mills will boost output by Col. Haskell said the contract, said the line will be two Reds Refuse to Lift Secrecy Schricker and Stevenson Open Super-Highway Link Chicago when his senior year begins, even though he moves out of town after that.

But School Trustee Jarabak supported Kwiat and demanded that the non-residence practice be halt feet in diameter from Cushing to Salisbury, and 22 inches from To Lose Job In 'Cleanup' Salisbury to. East Chicago. about 3,000,000 tons in iry: iirst quarter of 1952, by 3,700,000 tons in the second quarter, and by 3,000,000 in the third quarter. "Total expansion for the year should be more than 10,000.000 tons," he said. "Only four or five countries in the world are capable of producing this' much in one year, He added that the new pipeline WASHINGTON (UP) (Other Photos on Page 15) Scissors-wieldine governors of Indiana and Illinois snipped a would be operated as a common carrier and will haul crude oil for several other large refineries.

These were not named. President Truman pushed ahead which' runs into many millions of dollars, covers both production and reactivation. Conditioning of the plant has been underway since last year under a letter order agreement. Jarchow said that production, now in the development stage, will reach a peak next fall. At peak operation, the plant will employ about 6,000 persons.

Currently about 2,400 persons are employed. JARCHOW said that 90 per cent or the materials to be used are basic raw materials which will receive virtually all processing with red. white and blue ribbon at the state line near 177th St. yes- ed by an ultimatum to top school officials who live outside of Eastj Chicago. "There is another regulation too" he said.

"That's the home-town rule. I'm suggesting that we start with the supervisors and principals and if they haven't moved Met alone expanding by this amount." today to get his government On Prisoners MUNSAN, Korea (AP) The Reds flatly refused today to lift the curtain of secrecy surrounding their prison camps, but said they would okay the rotation of 5,000 troops a month if the Allies accept other Com aftdmnnn. nnpninsr the first 10-mile link of a 270-mile Concerning scrap, L. F. Rein-artz, vice president of Armco Steel "highway of tomorrow" between Chicago and Detroit.

Gov. Henry F. Schricker of Indi-" ana and Gov. Adlai Stevenson of C00 nrtmpiii told of a "unique and revolutionary" change in the method of delivering scrap to open hearth back into East Chicago by next UIUIV JLyJUi rmii Predict 8 Indies Of Snow; Mercury Will Dip Sharply September, let's demote them to the status of classroom teachers. furnaces.

cleanup campaign1 in full swing as reports persisted that Attorney General J. Howard Mc-Grath's job is getting 'increasingly less secure. Mr. Truman hoped to complete his housecleaning plan by Sunday. However, some members of his staff believed he munist terms for enforcing a Employe Fired Korean truce.

Illinois had led the cavalcade of cars carrying some 125 dignitaries onto the modern $13,150,000 diyided-slab roadway at Northcote Ave. and 177th St. in Hammond, after a police-escorted dash from Ham "IT IS UNFAIR for four or five in tne plant. WASHINGTON (AP) AT ARMCO'S new stcelmaking shop in Middletown, Reinartz. explained that two special elevators at each furnace keep an uninter Labor's -share was estimated at The limited rotation plan was John Stewart Service, long a 60 percent of production costs.

of our higher officials to live out of town at the same time we make new teachers find places inside the part of a new six-point Communist proposal which made little Works manager at the big plant mond Robertsdale district. controversial figure in Ameri rupted of scrap ready for charging in order to take full ad would not announce the blue can diplomacy and a target of impression on Allied negotiators. is Barney Maloney, former assistant works manager in Hammond who was brought from the com vantage of high furnace meltin rates. print of his "new and drastic THERE, AT A luncheon spon- pro Communism charges, was An official UN communique Driving conditions, made hazardous today by driving snow and icy roads, will be worse by tonight. The weather bureau in Chicago predicted that the snow would continue up to tonight and lay an eight-inch blanket city limits." But the board cut the red tape on another form of school boundary: it approved Senour's proposal to permit Washington and Roosevelt Hieh schools students to com action" until next week.

"This method eliminates long sored by the Chicago Motor Club, fjre(j fey the state department the two governors, highway, off l- jfTV1-4. 0aA pany's Verona, Pa. Division controller is William McKnight of the Chicago office who was for trains of scrap buggies having to be dragged into and through tne made no mention of rotation and said the proposal showed "little significant departure from the unacceptable proposal of merly works auditbr in Indiana open hearth shops, with possible cials and engineers of both states, iau -vvvu officials of Lake county cities and after the government highest towns of Cook county, 111., had out- loyalty review board ruled there lined their hopes for greater high- "reasonable doubt" as to ways of the future. Harbor. plete semesters at the schools they start them, if they move into the nther school's district during the interference with furnace oper over the Calumet region.

Although the president told newsmen yesterday he knew of no pending cabinet changes, a new development came to. light in the relations between Ir. Truman and McGrath. IT WAS learned on unimpeach ations and repairs," he said. Dec.

3." semester. With colder weather forecast for REINARTZ said the new method In Stockholm, the Swedish for Saturday and Sunday, ice already is the result of tests which showed monies opening tne caiumet jx-i -SZi'V, iq7 eign office said the U. Si had asked Kwiat was unsuccessful in an attempt to get board permission for seniors to have three extra days' -t lamuus viutiaaia vase ui n-rj, that steel production could be in formed on the highways will do AMERICAN" Steel Foundries designed and built the plant in 1942 at a cost of about $26,000,000, about half of which went for epecially designed equipment. Peak employment in World War II was around 4,200 persons. The wartime output of the plant, operated by the Army Service Forces if Sweden would join a neutral inspection commission to help police creased 15 to 20 per cent or more vacation before the Christmas A.

that Service gave secret documents no melting. The school holiday begins. Senour point if interference with charging could be cut to a minimum. temperature low able authority that the president had conducted an independent investigation of T. Lamar Caudle, the ousted assistant attorney general, without McGrath's knowledge.

This source said Mr. Truman re a Korean truce. It said Sweden has made no decision. north over the new roadway through Lansing, Calumet City and he board said suspected of rd out that the board would be violating an Indiana statute if it Returning to shipping expansion on the Great Lakes, Jacobs told for tonight was forecast at 18, but tomotr ow night it will drop to 8 above zero, the approximately 200 steel men to 130th Chicago, where the road joins the Doty Ave. runaround, REACHING its decision, the of Lake Calumet.

issued such a directive. THE PURPOSE of Kwiats's pro NEGOTIATORS have not agreed for a time, totaled more than 70,000 tons of armor castings, chiefly tank turrets. ferred to this investigation when he who attended the conference that on how an armistice would be en told reporters' that he had been more ore-hauling ability is needed Gov. Schricker, at the noon ded a state departments own loyalty The plant includes some 90 acrps on to Caudle and was ready to fire to match expansion" of th- steel forced. The Allies have indicated posed three-day gift was to permit seniors to work in department stores during the pre-Christmas security board which had been fa ication luncheon, called the new road link, still under construction him before Caudle popped up as and Sunday will plummet to 2 above.

the key figure in the tax scandal vorable to Service on the basis of the same evidence. located along the Indiana Harbor canal, about 30 acres of which are under roof. The plant is equipped with six open hearth furnaces. they might accept a Communist proposal to use representatives of neutral nations for behind-the-lines huainess rush. east of Calumet Hammond, and expected to be open to traffic inquiry by a house ways and means Service labeled the action as "a "We can do it," he insisted.

"We subcommittee. The weather Saturday and Sunday will be shock, a surprise, an injustice" and the nolicv makers. industry's blast 'Today," he said, "Inland has 14 Continued on Page 13 Los Angeles Feels 2 Earth Tremors I LOS ANGELES (INS) Down SNOW A high official and intimate of said that on the basis of his record But Jarabak opposed the plan, inspections. Red delegates said international partly cloudy. as far cast as Indianapolis Blvd.

next May, "a great contribution to solving the problems we face together in the transportation field." there could be no doubt of his saving the president said Mr. Truman learned through independent chan Morning rush hour traffic of ia- Since the end of World War II, the plant has been retained by the government as a reserve industrial facility, and used partially for storage of surplus equipment by the War Assets administration. loyalty. Red Cross inspection of Communist I'd rather not have to vote on The Amerasia case developed dustrial workers was slowed to a snail's pace by the icy roads which prison camps was "out of the ques town Los Angeles was shaken by more than six years ago. The maga this idea because I need high school girl clerks in my store for the holi-Continued on Page 13 AND GOV.

STEVENSON sees tion." made some of the viaducts virtual two sharp earth tremors at approximately 5:52 a.m. CST today. Thv naain rofiuoii tn turn cvpr the Calumet road link as "the cul- zine "Amerasia" was edited by Philip C. Jaffe of New York who ly impassable. i iU nels of Caudle's activities while heading the justice department's tax division.

Mr. Truman determined to fire Caudle if these reports were true. THE PRESIDENTIAL intimate said Mr. Truman ordered an i-. es- Struck by Car as There was no immediate report became acquainted with Service after the diplomat returned home dreams which, should result in a LINES OF CARS almost two of damage.

Seeing Eye Dog future major network of super She Mails Letter Radio stations and police report from one of his tours of duty in highways" in the Chicago-Northern miles long clogged the Indianapolis Blvd. viaduct over the Gibson yards Blind ed several telephone calls from persons following the shocks. Is Going China. COOK Mrs. Maybelle Haefker, Indiana area.

of the Indiana Harbor Belt R. R. (AP) A prediction that the new Chi lists of Allied prisoners unless the UN. command first accepts the Communist idea of exchanging all prisoners. Rear Adm.

R. Libby wanted to know why. He asked: "Is it because your list contains just a handful of names and you are ashamed to give it to us?" 68, of R. R. 1, Cedar Lake, was injured seriously shortly before A who MONTCLAIR, N.

seeing-eye Cinder trucks of the state high cago Detroit Expressway, when dog Find Burglar tigation entirely independent of the justice department. Proceeding through rather unusual channels required more' time than an ordinary investigative process, this source said, but within 48 hours way department were on the high complete; will cut more than faithfully served his master for 12 i himself eoing blind and way not long after daybreak, but liding in Stove DALLAS, Tex. (INS) It took SUBSEQUENTLY a number of classified government documents, chiefly from the state and navy departments, were found in the Amerasia offices. Jaffe, Service and four other persons were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage. hours off the motorist's driving time between the two cities was made by Charles M.

Hayes, president of the Chicago Motor club, will spend the rest of his days with nothing to do but relax. Thp zentle German shepherd dog, not in time to precede mucn oi tne heavy traffic to the Whiting and East Chicago plants. six detectives, searching a Dallas after the president received a re drug store for a burglar who touched off an alarm, almost an Continued on Page 13 Mat, acted as the eyes for Harold Trowbridee. blind proprietor of a THE REDS complained the great majority of prisoners held by the UN would not be returned if an noon today when she was struck by a car which had careened off the highway into the parkway that divides Route 41 south of Cook. Mrs.

Haefker was preparing to mail a letter when she was hit Her condition was described as "serious'' at St Margaret hospital. Martin McLaughlin, 50, of 8500 Fulton Chicago, driver of the car, said he was forced off the road by a truck. The accident occurred in front of Mrs. Haefker's home. hour to find their man.

port convincing him that the preliminary story of Caudle's outside activities was true, he ordered McGrath to get Caudle's resignation immediately. Schools throughout the area were all open, but the office of County Superintendent Cecil Grayson said it was possible that many of the Montclair news store. Trowbridge The culprit was discovered yes Continued on Page 12 terday, hiding in the store's stove in an oven. rural schools would dismiss pupils This apparently accounted for the They hustled him away to the early today. Indict Tataren wide divergence in the attitude of city "cooler." i File Motion to Quash Charges Against Kovacik CROWN POINT Joseph Sullivan, attorney for Mayor Andrew Mr.

Truman and McGrath toward Snow swirled by 20 and 30-mile an hour winds and whipped by iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii Caudle. McGrath told the house For Murder in removed Mat's harness Wednesday and officially retired him. BUT TROWBRIDGE won't replace his trusted friend instead, he will use cabs or human guides to help him when he travels. About replacing Mat, Trowbridge says, "You can't do that any more than you could just change one child for another." trucks and cars made visibility investigators he knew nothing about the "outside activities" of A Christmas poor, but there were few reports Double Slaying Caudle which the president found S. Kovacik of Whiting, today filed a motion in Lake Criminal court of and none involving serious injuries during the New York Waiters Threaten Strike NEW YORK (INS) Some 150 of New York's best known restaurants were threatened today with a Sugo-estion incompatible with his official du CROWN POINT The first de ties.

Mr. Truman, when asked to quash the indictment for malconduct and misfeasance in office which have been leveled against Kovacik. about McGrath's testimony, replied gree murder indictments were returned by the grand jury today against John Tataren, 35, of 4729 Calumet Hammond, confessed Police said the traffic was so slow that accidents would be sternly that he does not keep books Mat, who has guided his master an estimated 8,000 miles, has lost the sight of his left eye. A cataract strike by 12,000 waiters and wait Sullivan appeared before Special for McGrath, only for himself. Judge George Cohan, a Gary law at a minimum.

YESTERDAY, Stanton caused resses unless a five-day week if granted by the weekend. now is clouding the dog's right eye, yer. the prosecution nor the indefinite continuance of the killer of his wife, Betty, 28, and daughter. Judith Ann. 4.

WHEN IT WAS noted that Mc the defense touched upon the third trials of Mayor Frank Migas and Grath said he saw nothing wrong Tataren, who has been confined Make Christmas shopping easy fey giving The Hammond Times to your out-of-town' friends Just call Sheffield 3100 and Santa's nimble helpers in The Times circulation department will expedite mail subscriptions to just about any address in the world. in jail since the slayings Dec. 6 in indictment returned against Mayor Kovacik conspiracy to solicit a bribe. about Caudle's activities, Mr. Tru man said quickly that no govern Police Chief Martin Zarkovich, both East Chicago city officials, because of the "system" of pro tem his home, was scheduled to be examined today by Dr.

James P. ment employe should have outside interests and he is going to do judges. Migas and Zarkovich were sched Birdzell of Crown Point, and Dr. Weeks, psychiatrist at the state AS A SPECIAL judge, Cohan was something about it. In his State of the Union message uled lor a hearing yesterday on motions to squash grand jury prison in Michigan City, chosen by both sides to hear Ko-vacik's case.

He is not a pro tem Warden George McCormack of to congress next month, the president will propose long-range reme indictments for malconduct in of STORES ARE OPEN EVERY NIGHT UNTIL 9 P. M. FROM NOW UNTIL CHRISTMAS OPEN 10 A. M. EVERY DAY judge, a system of appointment the county jail disclosed today that Today's Times Crossword Puzzle 45 Church Page 22 Classified Ads .4..

48-51 Comics 46 Editorials 44 Obituaries 47 Radio and TV Programs ...47 Sports 41-43-43 Theater Page 45 Uncle Ray's Corner Voice of the People ..44 Wishing Well 4(5 Woman's Pago S5-36-37 fice and misfeasance arising out of dies and safeguards against cor that has aroused the ire of Prose cutor David P. Stanton. gambling operations which flour' Tataren attacked a fellow prisoner in the bullpen Sunday. He said Tataren had to be pulled away ished East Chicago. ruption by requesting some new legislation.

He probably will repeat his request that congress provide for a public declaration of income Inquire about special, low Christmas rates for college students and men and women in the armed forces Telephone Sheffield 3100 NOW! iHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimtiiiiiui In his attack on the pro tem system, Stanton told the court from the man whom he was chok ing. The malconduct and misfeasance charges against Kovacik are in connection with alleged gambling in Whiting at the Main Cigar store, 1332 119th and at Nardi's Cigar store, 1612 119th St. (Judge Harry Long): by. all federal officials making more Outside of this one disturbance, SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS "I object most strenously to your than $10,000 a year including mem' 8 the warden added, Tataren has bers of congress and the judiciary. 1 Continued on Page 12 been a docile prisoner,.