Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1953 — Page 8

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Vice Scandal Trial Opens In New York Jelke Trial Opens In New Today NEW YORK. UP* - Minot JF*. (Mickey) J elite goes trial today in thia city’s biggest ; v}ce scandal since Charles Lucky Luciano was sent to Sing Sing nearly I*o-years ■ wo. . | The 23-year-old heir td a $3.000< 000 fortune was under* a nines count indictment Charging he 'supplied case society notables with pretty' models, for fees ranging from |SO to s3oo’ per night. The double-barrelled complaint, charging compulsory prostitution and living off the proceeds of prostitution. could result in a jail sentence of up to 20 years or a find of $30,000, if Jelke is found guilty on all counts. ' Jelke's trial’ was expected to differ sharply -from that of Luciapo. For One thing, the girls involved were a far cry dkom such lurid witnesses as “Cokie. Flo,” “Gashouse Lillian” and “Jennie the Factory,” who helped convict Luciano. \ i. The parade of beauties scheduled to testify against Jelke were mink and satin-dad sirens | whp lived in Manhattan’s ’ best pent; house apartment Hotels hob-nobb-. ed with big business executives and drove (expensjye convertibles to and from their “dates," The case’, has given case society a permanent case of the jitters sinde the arrest of Jelke, mainly because of 75 or more “little black” address books seized at t.he time; They, are reported to contain the names of over 1 .QUO political, business.] high society find entertainment world big, wigs who used Jelke's alleged call girl service. ■ Whether they will be. called to the stand was a -matter known only to assistant district attorney Anthony J. Liebier. •••.•}•■ \ \ ' - — ’ I I Contradicts Truman On Russinn Weapons WASHINGTON IT — President Eisenhower, contradicting former President Truman, said today the Fiiitedstates Jias "incontrovertible evidence that Soviet possesses atomic weapons.” Mr. Truman’h remark last week that he still is not convinced that Russia has a workable bomb fired up a Congressional outburst■ and brought an official announcement by the Atomic Energy Commission that it knows Russia has exploded. A-bombs and is stockpiling them.

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Ex-President Truman Back To Simple Life

, Editor’s note: Dayton Moore j] covered the White House for United Press during the . last jnonths <\f former Presi- ■ dent Truman’s tenure, of of- ' fice. Accompanying Mr. Truman on his 18,06*0 miles of political campaigning last fall. Moore had a close-up view of the outgoing President both in the White House and on the road, Moore wenlt to Kansas city and ' Independence, Mo., last week end, and, in the following dispatch, reports oh • Harry S. Truman, private cititen. By DAYTON MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mb., UP —The eldbrlyy man in a light gray hat and blue (topcoat walked unnoticed through the lobby, and got in beside the driver of a small green sedan. , It was quite, a contrast to the exit from the hotel that the jaunty, canq-swinglng man would have made before last Jan. 20. He then was President Tyuman. He is. Harry is. Truman, private citizen. today. . While at his Muehlebach Hotel penthouse offices here when he was Mr. Truman used a private elevator, guarded by secret pervice hgents. A Jane was clearled through the lobby for nis entrances hnd exits. Persons in the ijbbby oftep applauded. I As President, Mr. Tniman\ rode the H miles between the hotel rjind his Independence, Mo„ home tn a large car escorted by a sec ret service detail. He now rides in th» personal Chevrolet of state highway Sgt. ArthuP Bell, who \has l|een\assigned to Mr. Truman. : nearly eight years of rich - but often ■ restricted—living In \the White! House, Mr. Truman has 4ne ‘back to the relatively simple life o|t the upper middle clans in tlje nildwest. y’ IHe appears to be making the switch without any great sense of loss. Jn fact, he seems to getting a big kick of being free of such formalities as having a butj ; —l— *———

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REPUTED “MR. IMG" of the New York waterfront, millionaire William fl. McCormack is shown after appearing 'before the New York State Crime ation ihto waterfront activities. MeCbrmack Hold the commission, which is probing union and payoffs, that he “has no idea” what happened to records of his sompames winch show petty cash payments of $384,908 in five years ‘, McCormack, 63, heads Penn Stevedoring company. (International j ■I ■ Ii? I'.Lu — , r

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ler serve the family meals.Jj At the White House, Mr. and Mrs. Truman had jmanyj?«rva.nts at theft call? fn—their comfortable; two-stqry “gingerbread” home at independence they have on1)! , one full-time servant —Vletta Garr, a Negro maid and cook. She has been with the for yedrs, going to Washington wjth them.. \ As President, Mr. Trumap ,-h|fcd a valet to take care of his clothes. He now carries his suits, tWofor three at a time, to Kansas Cltyiito have them cleaned and In contrast to the large office staff he had in Washington, Truman is starting here with orily Mips Rose Conway, his personal secretary for many years, and her assistant. They have a backlog of tens of thousands of letters piled Up tn Mr. Truman’s three-room suite of offices in the Federal Reserve Bapk Building here. Mr. Truman settled down today in earnest to answer his maM. After stirring up a full-blown Wntrbversy over whether Russia has tnie' atomic bomb, he said that time being h*e will not comment on public affairs-. Mr. Truman has been getting up an hour later than he did ib the? White House —6:30 a.m.7 Tristead of 5:30 a.m? Most momfngk he takes a 30-minutes walk acejomf panied by an Independence policy officer in plain clbthes and sdrtfetimes some newsmen. !•', Chatting with reporters on I thd walk. Mr, Truman points out local landmarks involving himsielf —duch as the drug store where he worked in his early teens, He said it got the whiskey trade; of' the church-goers Who did not want to be seen going into a saloon. j School children have been geti ting his autograph, but with thd comment-:, “This is not worth iwtoy* thing now.” Mr. Truman says that he still], carries the same amount of pocket; money as he did When president, "about three or four dollars." Mrs? 'Trumqn handles his big spending', ‘he says. ’ * ’! ' \ uki

AFL Leaders Meet ‘|j In Closed Session Top Labor Issues To Be Discussed MIAMI BEACH, Fla. UP —The crime-riddled New York waterfront situation was due for a going oJler today as the American Fdd*of Labor’s executive coulncil began a series of closed-dobr meetings which will affect millions jpf rank and file workers. ii ■; The meeting here during the next 10 days ate the first the Republican administration add the first under AFL President George Meany, who succeeded the late William Green.' Meany has steadfastly declined to say what will be discussed at the meetings. Other union officials have indicated, however, 'that such labor Issues as the New York waterfront situation, amending‘the Taft-Hart-ley act, wage-hour benefits, price controls, social . security reforms and a merger with the' CIO would be aired. Secretary of labor Martin Durkih will attend certain sessions of the winter meeting. , • ; ■ The I union IS faced with a seriSus problem in the New York mterfront. Meany has said the executive council would take “some action” on that matter but he pointed out that Joseph Ryan, president of the ■ Longshoremen’s tinion, was not a member of the executive council. The council has been accused of a ’’wait , and see” attitude on the Longshoremen’s union, which is jfurrently under fire,from the New York crime commission. But sources close to. the council said the AFL will “definitely take a stand on the question during 'the Miami Beach meeting.” _ , Dave Beck, president of the International Teatnsters union, also is pressing for a cleanup of the : longshoremen. Be|ck isn’t a member of • the executive council but Daniel Tobin, retired president of .the teamsters, is, and is expected to voice Beck’s objections to alleged corruption in the ILA- \ * If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try * Democrat Want Ad. It bringa result*. 1 ' ' ' I'M I - rl Trade In a Good Town—Decatur!

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Queen Elizabeth IF » ■ Visits Flood Scene t ;■ ■ ; Eight Americans In . List Os Floods Dead -., | ' ■ a ' HUNSTANTON, England UP — Queen Elisabeth 11 came here today to view the damaged, a. great North Sea flood that killed at least eight U. S, airman or ,plembers of their family' and almb|t destroyed* this “little corndr of jfmerlca?’ , The queen walked unannounced through rescue headquarters (where British and American women were feeding survi|qr.Y. of the deluge. ShjC was accompanied by her husband, the dufcfe: of Edinburgh. 1 4, i Thirty-six Britans here and at nearby Heacham died in the flood. Thirty-two ,Britons and nine Americans were massing. \ The queen heard tales|of heroism as she talked with ei(y officials and American soldiers J who had waded neck deep in ici' .water in search for more bodies. | \ City councilman R. “istewart Murdie told her Ihat airman third class Reis Leming; 22, |Toppenlsh, Wash, performed fCat of heroism." | Murdie said Leming ffngle-hand-edly brought 27 womerl and, chil-*T dren to shore in a rutjby rubber’ dinghy Saturday night |rbm ! their' flood-isolated homes. \B| -

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