Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1945 — Page 7

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, ’ . About 12,000 cases are heard annually, involving rich and poor alike ln-minor infractions of the law. Judge Howard plans . to invite community leaders to sit beside him from

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time to time and observe court proceedings.

Veteran politicians have seen the job become a

pitfall for many an aspiring office-holder. It is almost impossible, they say, not to “Step on a lot of toes” during the four-year tenure. oo

Formerly a Deputy Prosecutor JUDGE HOWARD'S. selection came as a surprise to many. He was a late contender—considered for the first time only 24 hours before his appointment. Judge Howard was born and reared in the mile square; he is a typical Indianapolis product. father had a small machine shop, where young Howard learned the boilermaker’s trade. He attended the local parochial schools then went on to St. Joseph's * college at Rensselaer. Later he spent three years at Notre Dame, studying engineering. Following 10 years with the Indiana Electric Corp. the Insull forerunner of the Public Service Co. of Indiana, Judge Howard érirolled in a night course at + Benjamin Harrison law school in 1930 “to have something to do.” The new judge's political life began when he was appointed to fill a precinct committeeman vacancy in 1928. Later he was president of the Young Democrats of Marion county. He became associated with one of his law partners, Henry Goett, during Herbert Spencer's campaign for presecutor. This was in 1934. As a reward for his efforts, Prosecutor Spencer . hamed Attogpey Howard one of his deputies. In 1942; the Republican tide swept Attorney Howard aside in his race, for prosecutor, although he won the Democratic nomination over former Juvenile Court’ Judge Wilfred Bradshaw—the organization's candidate, more recently he was secretary of the Democratic county committee,

Judge Howard *ppeared boyish as @ big Irish grin,

‘Karakteristika’

BELGRADE, Dec. 29.—One of the most insidious innovations of Marshal Tito’s regime is the “Karakteristika”—a secret stigmata used by the Ozna (secret police) to force Tito’s unruly subjects toi toe the Communist party line. The existence of the Karakteristika, of course, is officially denied; yet unimpeachable evi- , dence is available to prove that

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constant dread lest their Karakteristika cause them to lose their right to a job, or their right to first-class food and clothing rations, or worse, lest it doom them to imprisonment or death. The Karakteristika, which means “character reference,” is the nerve center of an organism of * terror which the Ozna is painstakingly creating, with Tito’s knowledge and approval, in Yugoslavia. In the Soviet Union and in Spain today, even as in Germany and Italy before the defeat of the axis, the Karakteristika is a public mechanism of coercion. In Moscow or Madrid, if you have ever been guilty of a political infraction, the facts are duly stamped in your passport, and if and when .you are released from imprisonment, the black mark against your name condemns you to a more or less pariah existence, all the rest of your life.

Five Classifications

. IN YUGOSLAVIA, the Karakteristika is being used in secret, probably for fear of alienating Britain and the United States if it were officially admitted. The fact that it is a, secret, however, merely increases * its power of inspiring fear. Nobody, not even a loyal partisan, can be certain at any given moment that / his Karakteristika has not condemned him to a tragic end. 3 This is the way the Kakarteristika works: Five “phrases are used by the Ozna to classify Tito’s subjects. A Yugoslavs Karakteristika brands

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dependents.

loan applications, now made] easier and more liberal. Maxi- | mum guarantees on reall estate -loans are raised from $2000 to $4000 and approval by VA is no longer required.

Judge Joe Howard . . . invites community leaders to share his new bench--with him.

“I guess I've realized the ambition of every lawyer by becoming a judge.” His pride is understandable. The wiry Howard is tireless; walks his friends into early heart cases. Nervous, he smokes a lot. No gourmet, food is food to this quiet attorney. His serious mien changes quickly, however, when Notre Dame is mentioned. Probably one of the northern Indiana university’s greatest fans, the new judge amazes many with his trips to games everywhere. During the. baseball season, he attends home games of the Indiariapolis Indians, often seeing every game during a home stand. Hockey also gets his attention, as wel} as radio programs and detective stories. But, his greatest interest is his 10-year-old daughter, Mary Burke. He does everything for her. Their home is at 37 E. 49th st. “His other wish is to help his friends,” Law Partner Henry O. Goett asserted. “No task appears too difficult.”

By Leigh White

him ‘either as trustworthy, reliable, acceptable, reliable, or dangerous. If he is classified as ‘trustworthy all doors are open to him and his future is assured. This fact explains why so many persons in Yugoslavia these days are reading “Das Kapital” and the works of Lenin and Stalin in a frantic effort to catch up with what they regard as the inevitable stream of history, in order to become candidates for membership in the Communist party. If a person is classified as reliable he is assured of being a sort of second-class citizen with a fairly good chance of climbing some day into the new Communist aristocracy at the top. An acceptable person need fear no reprisals, but unless he goes out of his way to prove his reliability he has no chance of advancing in the economic scale.

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Faces Starvation

AN_ UNRELIABLE persons will sooner or later end up in jail unless he denounces someone as an “enemy of the people” or unless he performs some other signal service for the Communist party, in which case he may win the provisional right to be classified as acceptable, - Untrustwortlyy persons, if they are not already

. in concemtration camps, will eventually be arrested

and many of them will be shot, either as collaborators or as “enemies of the people.” Probably not more than 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 Yugo-

'slavs have yet been given a Karakteristika, but the

Ozna is working overtime to catch up with every last inhabitant. If such a reign of terror is permitted to continue, there is little doubt that by 1950, every living soul in Yugoslavia will have a Karakteristika. Meanwhile, a large percentage of ‘the middle class will have disappeared and new Communist managerial class will have taken its place in the leadership of Ths “monolithic” state.

By Maj. Al Williams

one generation, the “old men of the world” have betrayed youtly in their’ refusal to see or accept techriological progress, or provide the proper tools. And

youth is afraid that the “old men” will do it_again. *“ghat steam age thinking by the bis politica bse .

“The true age of man is the value of his mind to the world—its quality, its.spirit, the clarity and vigor of Ma vislon, wad a eagerness for change. All others are “old men,” irrespective of their years. Any airman who has lived at his trade intenstvely

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REPORT ON THE

This is the 39th of 42 install-

Gen. Marshall's report on the winning of world war II.

fulfill its, its, responsibility | for protecting this nation against foreign enemies, the army must project its plan-| ning beyond the immediate future.

have a duty, a responsibility, to

of view, of what is required to prevent another international catastrophe. We finish each’ bloody war with a feeling of acute revulsion against this savage form of human bevavior, and yet » on each occasion we confuse mili- Gen. Marshall tary preparedness with the causes of war and then drift almost deliberately into another catastrophe. This error of judgment was defined “long age by Washington. He proposed to endow this nation at the outset with a policy which should have- been a reasonable guarantee of our security for centuries. The cost of refusing his guidance is recorded in the sacrifice: of life and in the accumulation of mountainous debts. -We have continued . impractical. We, have ignored the hard realities of world affairs. We have been purely idealistic. ” . ~ WE MUST start, T think, with a correction of the tragic misunderstanding that a security policy is & war policy. { War has been defined by a people who have thought a lot about ft —the Germans. They have started most of the recent ones. The Ger-. man soldier-philosopher Clausewitz described war as a- special violent form of political action. Frederic of Prussia, who left Ger. |

In this connection I feel that I|

present publicly at this time my conception, from a military point |.

G. L Bill of Rights Liberalized w New oy FRE

' By FRANK ELEAZER United Press Staff Cofrespondent

WAS HINGTON, Dec. 29.—Hundreds of thousands of ‘veterans were eligible for more liberal loan and education benefits today under the revised G. I bill of rights.

y signed without comment

amendments to the $10,000,000,000 bill to which congress ‘thad agreed after weeks of argument. , } The veterans administration said an extra $15 monthly living allowance for G. I. students will be included in checks {for January, to be delivered Feb. 1. are raised to $65 for single veterans and $90 for those with

Subsistence payments

VA was ready, as well, with a new wi simplified form for

| been deducted from a future bonus. ow the bonus—if any—is not en-|

| dangered. School officials foresaw overloaded colleges by fall with a pos-| sible enrollment of 600,000 veterans. | Dr. Francis J. Brown of the American council on education said uni-| versities may be swamped. ” » OTHER changes in the bill;

The term “reasonable value” _is principal s source of the government's 'melon patch.

WAR .

| many the belligerent legacy which

ments of material selected from i has now destroyed her, viewed war|emergency existed for the United

|as a device to enforce his will | whether he was right or wrong. He |held that With an invincible offensive military force he could win any | political argument. This is the doctrine Hitier carried to the verge of complete success. It is the doctrine of Japan. It is a criminal doctrine, and like other forms of crime, it has cropped up again and again since man began to live with his neighbors in | communities and nations. s » = THERE HAS LONG been an effort to outlaw war for exactly the same reason that man has outlawed murder. But the law prohibiting murder does not of itself prevent murder. It must be enforced. The enforcing power, however, must be maintained on a strictly democratic basis. There must not be a large standing army subject to the behest of a group of schemers. The citizen-soldier is the guarantee against such a misuse of

| power.

. LJ Ld IN ORDER to establish an international system for preventing wars, peace-loving peoples of the world are demonstrating an eagerTess to send their FePrestritaiiis to: such conferences as those ' Dumbarton Oaks and San Pane with the fervent. hope that they may find a practical solution, Yet, until it is proved that such a solution has been found to prevent wars, a rich nation which lays down its arms as we have done after every war in our history, will court disaster. The existence of the complex and fearful instruments of destruction now available make this a _ simple truth which is, in my opinion, undebatable. - » - SO FAR as their ability to defend

{themselves and their institutions was concerned, the great democracies were sick nations when Hitler openly massed his forces to impose his will “the “world. As sick as any was the United States of America. When President Roosevelt proclaimed, on #

free education —after

veteran had to show his. training |quest—if he could show a need for|was’ interrupted—is removed. Now |s further extension. |

~ Veterans’ Benefits Increased

substituted for “reasonable normal value” as a lomh requirement. Time for making ,a guaranteed loan is raised from iwo to 10 years after the war. The existing 25-year age limit on| which the

any veteran may get a year’s school- | ing plus as many years as he served, with a four-year maximum. Business and farm loans are! broadened to cover most ordinary purposes. The veteran is authorized | to buy a building lot out of proceeds | of a home loan. Subsistence for disabled scholars is raised from a minimum of $92, monthly to not less than $105 " ® = | MEANWHILE congress will be | confronted with a blunt demand by | President Truman for a further ex[tension of the second war powers {act when it returns from its holi|day vacation next month. | Mr. Truman made the request yesterday in signing a six-months {extension of the act which is the

By Gen. George C. Marshall

Security and War Policies Confused in U.S.

September 1939, that a limited States we were, in terms of available strength, mot even a third- | rate military power. . { The German armies swept over Europe at the very moment we sought to avoid war by assuring ourselves that there could be no war. The security of the United States of America was saved by sea distances, by allies, and by the errors of a prepared enemy. - . . FOR PROBABLY the last time in the history of warfare those ocean distances were a vital factor in our defense. We may elect again to depend on others and the whim and error of potential enemies, but if we do we will be carrying the treasure and freedom of this great nation in a paper bag. Returning from France after the last war, with Gen. Pershing, I participated in his endeavors to {persuade the natign to establish and maintain a sound defense policy. Had his recommendations been - accepted, they might have saved this country the hundreds of billions of dollars and the more than a million casualties it has cost us again to restore the peace. - ”-» - o WE MIGHT even have been spared this present world. tragedy Gen, Pershing was asked against whom do we prepare. Obviously that question could not be answered specifically until nearly 20 years later when Adolf Hitler led the replenished armies of defeated Germany back into world conflict; Even as late as 1940 I was asked very much the same question _ before a committee of congress. Not even then could 1 say definitely exactly where we might have to fight, but I did recall that in past

fought in Latin America, in France, in Belgium, in Germany, in Russia in Siberia, in Africa, In the Philippines and in China, -I.did not anticipate that in the near future American = soldiers ‘would fight in the heart of Burma and in the islands of the vast Pacific, and would ed - §arrisoning

LOTTERY TRIAL

IS POSTPONED

Hearing to Be Resumed on “Jan. 17.

Trial of three.Indianapolis men, charged with operating a lottery and gift enterprise and keeping a room for pool-selling, was Tecessed yesterday to Jan. 17. : The defefidants, Bruce E. Fessler, 23, of 2716 Baltimore ave; Edward Cody, 40, of 531 8. Temple ave, and Howard Wilcox, 40,-R. R. 8, Box 115, are alleged to have

hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of business annually, selling baseball ottery tickets-to the public through agents. They were arrested during a raid on the Hoosier Novelty Co. 122 N.| East st, Dee. 10. Police confiscated an estimated $40,000 in “moon” “lightning” pool tickets, a “green 000k” containing amounts | won, names, addresses and social |

g. [security numbers of persons alleg- |

edly winning over $500. After the testimony of five of the approximately 200 persons subpolice officers who were on the

cessed the case.

raid, Judge John L. Niblack re-

NEW YORK, Dec, 20 (U. P.).— | Capt. Eugene Dale, 29, died today | from three bullet wounds inflicted .{ yesterday by husband of the beautiful blond model he had hoped to marry. It was believed that charges filed yesterday against Capt. Archie Miller, husband of pinup girl Pay Hancock Miller, would be changed from felonious assault and violation of the Sullivan gun law, to murder, Millér had conlessed that hie shot The shooting, which occurred in Mrs, Miller's apartment overlooking Fifth ave. early yesterday, came after the model had, told her husband, who recently returned from the European theater [of war, that she wanted to divorce him to marry Dale, Pacific war hero and survivor of the death march from Bataan. _ Dale was sitting in the living

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Wounds Inflicted by Rival ~ Are Fatal to Pacific Hero

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room of Mrs. Miller's fiat when the farmer Powers ‘model informed her husband, in a conversation in the adjoining bedroom, that she

divorce.

the living room with a German Luger automatic pistol he had| brought from Europe asa souvenir and pumped three bulléfs info Dale’s head, chest and abdomén, Dale died at Roosevelt hospital, where he had lain in critical condition since the shooting. - The shooting was witnessed also by Mrs, Miller's sister, Frances Hancock; 20, and her-flance, Arthur Gormley, 20, -a merchant marine cadet. Mrs. Miller fs 24, and her husband is 25. Miller is a rative of Bellevue, Tex, and now is on terminal leave from the army after serving 18 months in the denal, corps overseas. Gormiey disarmed and powered Miller aftér “the ng, during a struggle in which the enraged husband inflicted a scalp wound on Mrs. Miller with the butt of the pistol. Brilliant War Record . Dalel a native of Enid, Okla, had a brilliant war record. He served on Bataan in the first days of the Pacific war, and was taken prisoner when that American stronghold fell in April, 1942. Hé survived the death march from Bataan, lived through three years in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines, and escaped when an American submarine torpedoed a LJapanese ship on which he was being transferred to the Japanese home islands )

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Then he led a band of Pilipino guerrillas which aided the Ameri-

ticles. He was presently stationed at Mitchel field, as an air force officer. | He met Mrs. Miller when he re[turned to the United States some months ago to take up his duties at!

[Mitchel field. « She had married Miller about two He was commended for develop

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authority for its setioning, allocation and priorities

programs. i Rep. Earl C. Michener (R. Mich.),

high-ranking meniber of the house | Thomas is president of the C.1.0.

Judiciary and rules committee, said |- he was confident that congress | would agree to the President's Te-|

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THE PRESIDENT signed legisia- | tion: Ending the taking of strike votes | by -the national labor relations| board and appropriating $2,388,000,|000 to meet deficiencies. Directing an investigation of ways | to increase the capacity and se- | curity of the Panama Canal. Poy Authorizing the export-import

bank to extend its operations to

include the Philippine islands. Creating a dental division in the navy department's bureau of medi- | cine and surgery. Providing for the appointment of an additional number of commissioned officers in the regular army. Granung Rastus L. Davis $100 in| payment for $00 watermelons. {Some soldiers got in his water-|

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areas across the entire land and water masses of the earth. ~ ~ . FROM this lesson there is no alternative but. that this nation must | be prepared to defend its interest against any nation or combination of nations which might sometime feel powerful enough to attempt the settlement of political argu-

ments or gain resources or territory | by force of arms.

Twice in recent history the factories and farms and pegple of the United States have foiled aggressor nations; conspirators against the peace would not give us a third opportunity. Between Germany and America in 1014 and again in 1939 stood Great Britain and the USSR, France, Poland, and the other countries of Europe. Because the technique of destruction had not progressed to its present peak, these nations had to be eliminated and the Atlantic ocean crossed by ships before our factories could be brought within the range of the enemy guns. At the close of the German war in Europe they were just on the outer fringes of the range of fire from an enemy in

. ~ - . GOERING BTATED after his capture that it was a certainty the eastern American cities would have been under rocket bombardment. had Germany remained undefeated for two more years. The first attacks would have started much sooner. The technique of war has brought the United States, its homes and factories into the fron! line of world conflict. They escaped destructive. bombardment in the second world war. in a third. ; . It no longer appears practical to continue “what” we once conceived as hemispheric defense as a satisfactory basis for our security. We are now concerned with the peace

of the entire world. And the peace]

can only be maintained by the strong.

Next: Universal n ‘military train. ig ing.

YUGOSLAV REDS I SPREADING HATE

Writer Finds u. Ss. Britain.

Propaganda Targefs.

By LEIGH 3 . Times Foreign Correspondent ‘BELORADE, Yugoslavia, Dec. 29. —Officer candidates in the Yugoslav Communist army aré being taught by their political commissars that a third world war is “in-/ evitable.”

They would not!

, on American. industry and free

CHO, Charges Big Auto Foe | With Collusion

By FRED W. PERKINS . + WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—R. J.

‘ United Automobile Workers but is in the background here in the ‘General Motors fact-finding in quiry- because Vice. President Walter Reuther does most of the talking. However, Mr. Thomas emerges today with the charge that the General Motors case has developed collusion between big manufac~ turers in opposing .the union's demand for a 30 per cent increase in hourly pay. “There is definite collusion be-' tween General Motors and Chrys. ler,” asserted Mr. Thomas. “Ford is sitting it out on the sidelines, waiting to see what happens in the G.M. case. All of them, and . also the smaller manufacturers, are in sympathy with ‘each other. All the others are waiting on GM." .

. ” . THE SITUATION as reported from Detroit and other motor centers supports Mr. Thomas’ claim that “they're all waiting.” Also, it raises the question whether the union's announced strategy against the automobile companies has backfired. This strategy was to strike General Motors, Ford and Chrysler one at a time, in the hope that each of them would

‘ capitulate under competitive pres-

sure. But 40 days of the General Motors strike has not produced the result hoped for by Mr. Reuther. Ford is in sporadic production, while Chrysler is offering less competition... Genefal Motors jis paralyzed as to autosMobiles by the main strike, while the interruptions in Ford and Chrysler and other production are charged by the companies to smaller strikes in ‘feeder’ plants, » » ” THIS, plus other factors, adds up to the probability that if the other companies are waiting on the General Motors cutcome, considerably more waiting is in prospect, One factor leading to delay in the General Motors case is the withdrawal of corporation spokesmen from the fact-finding sessions being presided over by Lloyd K. Garrison, i : The evidence being received by the board comes all from one side, without contest from the corporation at present, but if might become highly vocal if attempts were made to force on it any recommendations from the board. ’ ' . » »

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pointed out by Walter Gordon Merritt, New York lawyer and spokesman for General Motors, © Mr. Merritt charged that the union's demands; as stated by Mr. " Reuther to include question of - prices and profits as well as of wages, constituted a “radical ideology” and a “a broad attack

He asserted, “it is an ise of ideology ‘and. ‘national policy which really belongs to congress the Teal issue 15 not one of wages ipetween General Motors ; and it8 employees. The employees | f are being made pawns in a larger game, "

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GI's Ought fo Have Civilian . § Clothes Now |

By RUTH MILLETT } .THE senate small business-com-~ mittee is holding conferences with top government and ¢lothingyin- ~ dustry men to bring about an

It will be a war between “the, immediate solution of veterans’

Soviet east and the “reactionary” west, -they are being told, in which | the Yugoslay army is destined to take a leading role. ° Since Britain and the States have been officiilly - sub=| stituted for Germany and Italy as the principal “enemies” of what | Communist dialecticians now “popular democracy,” the latter are Tmeking a systematic effort to teach young Yugoslavs to hate us. Reliable non-Communist parti-| sans, who swear to the truth of these assertions, say that they are being forced against their will wl participate in—what-they regard as | a gigantic plot to Sovietize all of Butope—by. the ‘Nazi method of “peaceful _pénetration”’ if possible! and by force 1f ‘necessary, . Their testimony’ is borne out by | the official treatment accorded to Americans and Britons now in Yugoslavia. Stigmatized as agents of “anti-democratic” powers, we are being shunned these days as if we had the plague. Persons who dare to fraternize with .us—and the great majority of Yugoslavs would like to—are being blacklisted for future punishment as “traitors” to “popular demoecracy.”

CMDR. J. W. GEL GELLER ENDS NAVY. SERVICE

» L&. Cmdr. John W, Geller will re-

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sume, his practice here after 39 months service as a dental officer’ in the navy, Dr. Gelier was stationed at Jack- | |sonville, Pla., San Diego and Guam.

years ago Hts fi Florida, but had lived He way commetien tur doveiop. 13 pals & shor} Sine. before | Wied 40 gunnery instructors

clothing problems. Must be thie senators have been listening in om some of t he conversations of re“turned serviceWhen two or more of them meet for the first time after. getting back home-—what do they talk . Fd about? Their war experiences? > Their travels? Their plans for

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WELL. net at first’ ‘Joe looks Bill over and says, “Not a bad looking suit, where did you get it?” = And Bill either admits it was one he had before the war— which is why it fits a trifle snugly ~or boasts that he has an old triend in the clothing business whe took care of him. e talk shifts