Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1945 — Page 7

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rejected, 5-3, a Ferguson proposal which would give individual mem-. bers the same guarantee. ) #® =» 8 ' : FERGUSON and Brewster de manded that they get as much

debate. Barkley took the attitude that Ferguson and Brewster were displaying a lack of faith in Mitchell. He reminded them .that Mitchell served as solicitor in the Coolidge administration and as attorney general in the cabinet of former President Hoover. He ssid Mitchell, although a Democrat,

ministration, never voted for Mr. Roosevelt in any of his campaigns.”

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ugh in the ' committee seethed today with a political fight’ involvSor the “whole ing allegedly missing or destroyed government records and ek ovo of the personal papers of the late President Roosevelt. A The Democratic majority on the 10-man special conRi ia even 0 : |gressional committee staved off, at least for the time being, | democracy. ‘maki any individual probing into a wr The a Nl Ee v a Early in his youth, he asserts, he gambled himself pla Democrat the mis- and it brought him grief. He doesn't oppose It plot She pine principle but beeausé of its vicious results. os tening that Very mannerly and mild, “Mac” is the “gentleman Ba chief” His face deeply-furrowed with wrinkles, he en gives the impression of frowning even when he’s smil5 ing. He seldom resorts to profanity. - est. an But he's a police officer of the old school. He got : around plenty in his day, when he pounded beats, A first in Irvington, then in virtually every heighborlabor pledge to hood in Indianapolis. NETS Hie unre When policemen Tude house that some pertinent files and rec- Senator Owen Brewster * to-house canvasses of : MeMurtry, * : ; Ta In addition to fat Police Chief Jesse : Ui of She seis) SUIS OLY SA Ley Wen conankly he P08 Sd Var dos h - barked ‘strenuous routine afforded 3 1 : reard bere and en a a, ls et ame anoaed Streetcar Strike—Then Floor in 13 a rt RE ie an Intormal ae ch a host. YOO And. Yar. G4 Tiel to regard con: i McMurtry believes today's force is handicapped by later when the late George (Cap) Coffin, then chief, Roosevelt papers are missing be-|to follow through on such leads Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart (R. at will. the this lack of personal contact with the populace. He instructed him to give headquarters a coat of paint. |CUse “we haven't gotten into that|without gettinc specific commilttee| Cal.) voted with Brewster and Ferions, with thinks & copper should be on speaking terms with all yet.” approval in each case. guson. nen. rr as ven as bankers. Underworld The year 1913 was the toughest of his career. He was TWO—A promise by Senator Al-| They wanted authority to probe > uo | contacts, he points out, are essential to effective crime called off the paint job, leaving it half finished, to, wr. Barkley (D. Ky.), commit-| government records to see whether] BARKLEY was supported by public service solution. devote full attention to the big streetcar strike of tee chairman, that if any papers|any were missing. George and Reps. Jere Cooper (D. ns and pgwer . ; : was civil war” he re-|are missing, the committee and not| Brewster said he was “reliably In- |v, |, J Bayard Clark (D. N. C) I'S N that year. “That practically formed that two files public's A Remote Contro System ow membered. ' Then, a few months later, came the|individual members, will look into) — Son sald they mere and John W, Murphy (D. Pa). ih. 2 alm to “IN THE old days, we went. into churches and gevaseating 1913 ficed. ~~ Susie: of the FOC and pails Senator Scott W. Lucas (D. IIL) primary dives alike,” says the chief. Nowadays, he bemoans, ois first beat in Irvington, it snowed all win THREE—A warning by Senator DB i i fv|and Rep, Prank B. Keefe (R. Wis.) agress. An ex | fund cars patrol the beats via a sort of remote con- yng the. street. lights tumbled down. all over- the dis-| Walter P. George -(D.* Als) that partmen i. B0th declined 10 enti fy | 40. ToD Tan. uy aflairs trol minus the personal touch. trict. Mae still has little spreckied bruises on his|the investigation promises to pene- a Ta Brewster and Ferguson carried rd ed’ %0 i While Mac is now squeezed in a vigorous feud be- nickeneq ankles from pounding the beats. His|trate the most confidential records BARKLEY refused to authorize their complaint to the senate floor. Sutattaingd to tween Safety Board President Remy and ex-Police 0. ect assignment was the bicycle corps, though. ~ |of the late President and that Re-| Brewster and Ferguson to make in- Brewster said they wanted the senHSMRWEIRG 30s Chief Clifford Beeker, he says he tries to avoid poli- ~ «we were the hottest thing on wheels in those |publicans seeking freedom of In-|dividual investigations. He thought ate ‘and the rest. of the | world to mith an ties. “It's too dangerous” he observed. He's for 8 guys» he whistled, = ° ~ eto are fring with/a more orderly case could be as-|know “the extent to which our ca. «oe on. police merit system “only if it's really on the up and Afterwards he became the first officer in Indi-|grave responsibilities. sembled if such tasks were delegated | pacity to serve is circumscribed.” am unions. up and not a political tool.” v anapolis to drive what now are called squad cars bu * ss to the committee counsel, f . =» oy: labor McMurtry is a Republican, but some Republicans then were called Fords. On the mounted force, he| IT ALL started as a fight over| Attorney General Willlam D. Mit- THEY said there were two prina Suhail, look askance at his former position as second in com- pranced a horse up and down Capitol bivd.,, says he|rules for committee procedure chell. cipal impediments. One was an Political vl "mand to former Police Chief Mike Morrissey, a dyed- “never stayed on a horse any longer than I had to.”|quickly resolved itself along party Brewster and Ferguson forced aexecutive order by President Trut P.A. C's in-the-woo] Democrat. He was an inspector under He went to the detective division in 1922. It was test vote in yesterday's committee man regarding disclosure of code-_ ) fear P. . Morrissey. In those days, the town was a bit more there that he met the man who was later to boost his| Brewster and Ferguson com- session. Brewster suggested that|cracking information by governamendment 4 lvely. | candidacy as chief of police, Will Remy. Mr. Remy| —— — : : oon he Alesse 1s & detective, bok 3 uniform man, wis then Molo eounty DrOviic. He asked jot a . | + . . ities sunteacta detective division man to assist him in running down ©. Stevenson, { f S / T I bh dC od S I NV It 1 cag, a 1V} ov wurdsress supe J. Bu for murder. Mac was that man. He arrested Steven. |’ $ 4 ob At * you can work as chasing bookies and son, Mac and Rem have been boon friends ever| J S O fD k Par f B b, ticket sellers and never catch anything more than a since. y vet o ay ur orivark on Fart o omic pom dent; spoke out lot of criticism. It's simply not apprecigted.” Chief McMurtry doesn't believe’ there is any such * * By JOSEPH L. MYLER nmittee’s action. The city’s No. 1 cop would like to return to the thing as “crime waves.” He claims as long as he can China Uprising United Press Staff Correspondent I to check back sub-station system whereby four district headquarters remember, the newspapers have been resorting to WASHINGTON, Nov, 3—~The facts seem to be that the British and se 8 we, would be located in outlying neighborhoods. He routine crime news to brighten up dull days. And By RICHARD W. JOHNSON | Canadians do not, as of today, know precisely everything there Ia to thinks elosely-knit sub-stations would tighten re- his friends say he doesn’t fret under criticism. He| yaieq Press Sta Correspondent know about the $2,000,000,000 business of making atomic bombs. > house military sponsibility on_the force. still has a good appetite, something a lot of past YINGKOW, Manchuria, Oct. 20 - ‘They share with this country all the scientific knowledge necessary re JEgltis 40 The chief likes to reminisce in soft, mellow tones. police chiefs have lacked. (Delayed) —Vice Adm. Daniel E.|to atom bomb production but not—by reason of eircumstance—sll the version of the . After he received a broken leg playing football with a Mac is a conscientious office-attender and & home-| Barbeys flagship, the Catoctin, | requisite industrial engineering information : TEWsIten on the professional team at Tipton, he joined the Indian- body. He goes to headquarters early in the morning| anchored off this sprawling Com- In recent weeks considerable conder the impulse apolis police department in 1911. Football had been and can usually be contacted there by anybody at|munist'held Manchurian port to- fusion has developed, attributable in| British and Canadians never saw kes In the midst his only occupation until then. But fumbling around any time. He dislikes “cafe society.” day. But there were no troop land- part to President Truman himself, | one important bomb project plant for a more stable-sounding’ trade, he wrote “painter” He frequently retires before 10 p. m.. But last {inee pending a conference between |as to just what extent Great Britain |in the state of W A ow, though it is on his police application. About the only thing he'd Thursday night he remained up a little later with|perpey, tiie commande, of the Red |and Canada share the bomb’s In the government's original dis0 look inward at painted before was a sprained thumb—with iodine. friends. The occasion was his 62d birthday, _|army garrison, and Mayor Wang |secrets with the United States, closures about the atom bomb last , administration, . © © “7'| Tien Chung. > ara olor in this confusion Is that) August, it was stated that atomic : "| Coincident with Chungking re-|there are kinds so-called | bomb knowledge was communally ; that the Soviets had opened secrets. One kind, which scientists| held by the United States, Britain .J|Rich Monte Carlo By Nat A. Barrows) Soi hd res ri” One ind, whi, nie bi : . , =| with the purely scientific knowledge| Subsequent testimony before conMONTE CARLO, Monaco, Nov. 3.~Tiny Monaco, Those lucky enough—or clever enough—to get into eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's cen . : sovereign principality dedicated to gambling and Monaco find lush luxury, Which sxisiz ia few otiier| 5% government, Bey sent emis. | WHich wom; \uin the Bombs sree Sreional sommitties etined, hity= tourists, looked across its frontiers into France and places. Shops bulge with articles almost saries ashore to arrange fo ie | Besse | overr to cloud the issue. An determined that it did not want an American G. I elsewhere. Food to the praise of & gourmet [oonierence tomorrow... Foc Industrial Seated... ‘Navy Day speech. Président Triman “occupation burdens the tables at the Hotel des Paris—at a smack- Saw Soviet Treeps The other, which for the time be- | appeared to indicate that the bomb hig good price, starting at about $20 a meal—vintage| From the decks of the gunbost,/Ing seems closer to being a resl| partnership was not a complete one wines , . , silk stockings (remember) . . . smart! which carried Barbey's representa-|secret, has to do with the indus- Committee Criticized Clothes . . . watches . ,, jewels... silverware... it's tives 30 miles up the shallow Liso|trial processes for producing the| =. "0 © military here if you can pay. . *|river from the anchorage, I saw not |bomb's - ingredients and the me-| oT was criticized eavy Gamblers Still There Red army—but many Chinese sol-|0ther words—the - industrial engi- that the si-important AND IF you haven't got money, this isn't the! giers wearing uniforms of the Com- |Deering that put the scientific | PrOPOsing commission te place to be. munist Sth route army. Units of | knowledge into practical use. 00 Part i Sperai2 In the somber Victorian gambling rooms of the une sth route army are engaged In an effort to clear up the con-| = | easino, an incredible flotsam of international in civil war with the central armies. | fusion, Rep. J. Leroy Johnson (R. Chet Holifield (D Cal) Old ladies In silk, black market operators, cold, hard- |e oa 0 "0 or yesterday's re- | knowledge about the atomic bomb— | ** nt” the here blonds. adventurous civilian tourists-—all are| ory by Sao Tang Pao, offical organ | MAJ. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, huad of (% “Seriously decent” pat of the Chinese Nationalist army,|'® war departments Manhattan tomic energy which ' You watch them toss bundles of franc notes around actures the

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DAMAGE IN FIRE AT FT, WAYNE

PT. WAYNE, Ind, Nov. 3 (U. P).

CHOIR TO SING ‘THE HOLY CITY’

Raiph Fitzsimmons, 21, of Ellington

ment of the two Indiana members

for individual members to set +themselves -up as private: detectives land go cruising around in govern{ment files on the outside chance {of finding something pertinent. The debate ended with George's warning about ‘the responsibility any member would assume in delving into the personal papers of Mr. Roosevelt. George said he did not want that responsibility on -his shoulders. He doubted the advisability of any committee member assuming or accepting that respon: sibility as an individual,

False Alarms;

Pester Police

Three false fire alarms were turned in, air was let out of a tire and a bean shooting youth played havoc with patrons of a theater last night, At 11:20 p. mi, yesterday, the first false fire alarm was turned in at Maryland st. and Kentucky ave.

turned in from McCarty and West sts. A 15-year-old boy, seen riding a bicyle in that locality, was questioned,

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threw the whiskey bottle which plerced little Mike Schuler's eye, has been offered by Senator Capehart,

Both the Senator ahd five-year-old Mike, son of Mr. and Mrs. Laverne FP. Shuler; 2012 Wesbrook ave., are patients at Methodist hospital. Senator Capehart is being treated for a broken ankle -and lacerated tongue, received in an automobile accident Monday. Little Mike is bravely awaiting the outcome -of an operation which doctors hope may save the sight of his injured eye. A sliver of the

when the bottle was hurled from a speeding truck, also on Monday.

(GOVERNOR NAMED "ON FUND GROUP

Governor Gates and Edgar H. Evans will serve as members of the National Laymen’s committee of the

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was made by Frank M. Totten, national committee chairman. Mr.

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Sack of Beans|

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convention: here of the Internationa 1° Association of Machinists ovverwhel m -

O. and Russian trade unions are participating, Similarly, by a large majority, they approved the international efforts of Secretary of State Byrnes and Britain's Foreign Minister Bevin. The resolution praised those officials for seeking to protect the rights of small nations, and cited Bulgaria and Romania as example of little

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he 2 3 i “Drama Seen in "Rail Stations « By RUTH MILLETT RAILROAD stations are happy “during the war years, Little Tam ily groups huddled together, telling a boy “goodby.” Wives and girls clinging to their men, and holding back tears until they were out

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it is different today. The family groups are meeting trains te welcome their boys back home. Proud and happy and excited. on» . AND the men who swing off the trains and head for the faces they have searched out in the crowd have & different look, not lonely Eor homesick or scared. E

There is an ease, an assurance about them which they didn't have when they left the same station two or three years ago.

Of course, here are still sad pictures, too. The men who did

AND THE ever-present remind« er that many of the families who a year or two or three or four ago saw their men off will the joy of meeting a

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