Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1946 — Page 11

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__ A CAR. PARKED at the lot just north of the corner of Washington st. and Capitol ave, the other day had a 1042 license plate on it. One wag cracked: “Hmm, that guy must have run up quite a parking lot bill by now.” . .. Filling stations on the main highways. into Indianapolis now are displaying assortments of folders distributed by. the visitors committee of the Indianapolis Convention bureau. The pictorial folders list recommended restaurants, garages, parking lots, local hotels, shopping guide information and other tips for vourists. . .. A gas station at 22d st. and Capitol ave. has a sign saying: “No Apples.” The sign goes on to explain. the station is operated oy veterans but they sell gas and oil instead of operathtg- an apple stand. It's just another instance of alert merchants knowing the value of catchy signs, according to one of our agents, who says the station seems to draw more customers than others along the street,

Take Care of G. I. Graves MR. AND MRS. CHARLES ‘M. KNIGHT, 2409 N. Delaware st, think Indianapolis should know about a kind and thoughtful gesture made by the Dutch

Hands across the sea . . . A Dutch girl decorated and photographed the grave of this Indianapolis hero, Sgt. Charles Stanley Knight.

Polish Hatreds

FRANKFURT, Germany, July 9.—I have just come from Polahd, and though it is a sad statement to make relative to the human race, Thursday's pogrom at Kielce was no surprise and the world must awaken to the fact that Poland holds no hope for the Jews. One learns this even without seeking to learn Poland where old hatreds die slowly and terrorist bands keep them boiling. . Poland does not like the Jews or the Russians. It fears tie Russians because of its millions. The Jews are not numerous, especially since the Nazis murdered 92 per cent of those who called Poland home, So it's easy to vent hatred on them. An eminent Jewish doctor of philosophy in Warsaw told me that 60,000 Polish Jews remain in Poland, another 100,000 in Russia and 100,000 in Germany—this of 3,500,000 before the war. That is what the Nazis did. Since liberation 100 Jews had been murdered by Poles, prior to the pogrom last week. It was usually the work of terforist bands mistakenly called partisans, armed remnants of London government Poles.

Pro-Russian Government 1 WAS told the story of Dr. Czyglowoski, a physielan who had worked all day and into the evening on his last patient. A young man murdered the physician, leaving a note: “The sentence of the N. 8. J. has been carried out." i=

Aviation

(Editer’s Note: This is the first of four dis; patches on the future of the nation’s aircraft industry based on an exhaustive study of the key phases of production, small planes, new-born air freight, and how. you'll fly tomorrow.)

n = n THE AIRCRAFT industry, which only two years ago was the nation’s biggest single business, today has shrunk to one-twentieth of its wartime peak and industry experts see little hope that it will approach anywhere near its top production levels again for years to come, Present production in the industry is about five times that of 1937, however. Peacetime military production certainly will be nowhere near the 96,369 planes built for the army and navy in 1944. This year less than 2000 military planes will be built, only about two-thirds of the absolute minimuni® recommended by the air co-ordinating committee to maintain an industry capable of meeting the threat of attack. Nor will civilian production fill the gap. The Aircraft Industries association fixes civilian production for 1946. at $125,000,000. for transports, $40,000,000 for conversion of existing planes, and $50,000,000 for personal planes. Under such a program, aircraft plants have been closed one by one. And with the closing of plants, with workers and technicians scattering, the potential of sudden expansion in plane production is seriously hampered. . Already employment in basic aircraft plants has dropped from 1,383,000 to 150,000. Skills learned under the pressure of war are heing quickly forgotten. President Truman recently gave the problem his personal attention when he conferred with the army and navy munitions board and with representatives of the army ordnance, navy industrial and aircraft industries associations. A spokesman for the groups said the President “understood that certain things must be done.”

Preserve Production Facilities THE ARMY already is taking steps to preserve some production facilities. In line with the recommendations of the air co-ordinating committee it has asked for $14,500,000 for industrial mobilization in 1947. This is to pay the cost of putting certain aircraft plants and standard machine tools in a standby status much :as the navy preserves its standby fleet. Plants the army wants include war department owned assembly plants at Omaha, Neb.; Kansas City, Kas.; Tulsa, Okla.; Ft. Worth, Tex, and Marietta, Ga. In addition, the army wants as standby plants ‘the following units owned by. the Reconstruction Fi-

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday.—I received from the New York War and Peace Memorial, a non-profit corporation which is sponsoring rehabilitation and health centers as living war memorials, a rather interesting circular descrimng what they hope to do in New York City in. memory of the men who fought in world war IL It has always seemed to me that very. beautiful memorials are of value in themselves because of their mere beauty, but if you can have something of beauty and at the same time make it serve the needs of the people who live in'a community, I think you have doubled the: value of your memorial. This New York organization's plan is for a new type of physical health center.

Relaxation Afforded

THE building will be 500 feet in diameter and

* will #nclose an indoor beach surrounding a large

circular swimming pool. The interior will be lighted by a sum of ultra-violet rays, with purified and

air-conditioned atmosphere. In a congested area

such as New York, this will mean a great deal to those .who cannot seek rest and change away from

their work. \ Si ps 1 was discouraged on receiving Sore the other

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sts. thinks he can identify a mysterious, raucous bird which bothers the residents of 37th and Pennsylvania sts. He says he'll bet even money that the bird, which

is a night hawk or a “byy bat.’ The night hawk, he says, has a squeaking voice. However, when it drops

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cémetery near Maastrich, Holland. The Hollanders have taken it on themselves to care for the graves of American service men there, including the grave of 8gt. Charles Stanley Knight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Knight. The Knights read in a Morgan county paper about ta Dutch girl who had written to an Indiana gold ‘star family about the grave of their son, who was a friend of Sgt. Knight. Remembering the two Indiana men had been. stationed together, Mr, and Mrs. Knight wrote to the girl, 20-year-old Jeanne V. Kan, of Cadier en Keer. Miss Kan-went to the cemetery and decorated Sgt. Knight's grave, then| sent a picture df it to the family. Both the picture and the kind letter which the Dutch girl} wrote are highly prized by Mr. and Mrs. Knight, , . a

Another group that deserves orchids for patriotism | PF

are the girls in the drapery work room of E. 8. Ayres & Co.-~All during the war the girls made aprons before GS adler working hours and during their lunch | hour. ey sold the aprons and with the funds furnished a day room at Wakeman hospital and purchased bed lamps for Billings hospital. the war over, the girls are still making aprons and they have about $1000 saved. They plan to use the money for either veteran hospital or charitable purposes:

Bird ‘Mystery Solved?

A BIRD FANCIER who lives at 33d and Meridian

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a AFL sow h and nally complained to us, said confidentially that a “ball pat” is what he'd like to take to the bird. . . Indianaf university has a .novel plan for the display of the! “Golden Book,” the school’s tribute to its service men and builders of Memorial stadium, Memorial hall | and Memorial union building. The book is to be put | on display in the union bullding in a glass case. A| building employee will turn a page of the book each day. This will allow the book to age uniformly and | also allow a different page to be shown each day. '

By Jack Bell

This is typical procedure. The present governnient| and the Jews worked together against the Nazis dur-,

ing the war and the government now is sinterely i» §

friendly toward Jews. This gives anti-government leaders power, because the government also is pro-| Russian. Time and again in casual conversations) prior to the referendum elections, I heard such | statements as: 5 | “Why they even permit Jews in government positions.” “He may be a good officer but he's a Jew.” “Jews were dominating our cultural life and the government wants to let them do it again. Why should a Jew have a job that belongs to a Pole.”

Jews Seeking Exit “BUT THESE Jews in the government, aren't they honest and efficient?” I asked. | “Oh, ves,” was the usual reply. “But Jews don't belong in any government position.” The frantic rush of Jews seeking exit from Poland | since the pogrom is only a hastening of what was going on already. No Jew wants to remain in Poland. He knows he can have no life there. He has one thought, one -hope—Palestine. And he is pursuing that hope with the zeal of the crusaders of old. It is |

By Marc J. Parsons

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This is the first of a series of weekly articles by

Heze Clark, veteran Times

police reporter, on famous

crime cases he has covered in more than 30 years on this beat for The Times and its predecessor, The Sun.

realty dealer and pro-wet booster slain by a local option foe? Was he a holdup victim? Did he commit suicide?

Mr. McClelland said this man ran

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lat top speed from the east end of|Sheny, train caller for the old |the temporary bridge, crossing the Peoria & Eastern R. R., “another canal near the car tracks. ing to a story I wrote in the Indi- | conversation. They then sat down

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19, 1913, | Times, Mr. McClelland insisted “the|and coffee.

something new and startling in this torn civilization. | after first editions of the afternoon | motorman . of the streetcar leaned . {out

| “After finishing, they went out. {The time was about 1:45 a, m."”

Mr. Thorp, owner of the restau-|his intention to take his life what

Falk's wife, Mrs. Frances Falk, | rant, recited a similar version. Heidid you think?” “I thought he was acting the

river, connecting W. Washington st. | said her husband left home in good | described the stranger as “five feet,

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county coroner, who within a days were feuding over the case. " Ea n

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| handing {money and his watch to her. IT HAPPENED in the wee hours, suming this to signify he expected] MEANWHILE

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while the air was refreshingly cool | to be in dangerous company that developments harassed police. ~A for August. ‘Indianapolis was sleep- | night she lay sleepless with worry mysterious caller, giving his name

THE ARMY and navy munitions board, which 1s|ing and the waters of the White and was awake when detectives nothe top over-all co-ordinating agency on industry mo- river lapped between wooden pilings | tified her of Falk's death.

bilization, is expected to formally approve the air] co-ordinating committee's and the army's recom-| mendations. But standby production facilities will not solve the military airplane production problem. Combat planes the army wants five years from now must pe on the drafting boards today. Even with the speedup of war production, few, if any, newly designed planes | reached the battlefields during-world war IL | Robert A. Lovett, former . assistant secretary of| war for air, told the senate surplus property committee: “1 think that it should be noted that in the air forces there was no air frame used in Tombat by the United States army air forces which was designed subsequent to 1940. Secondly, there was no aircraft engine actually in combat which was not designed at least five years previously.” Recognizing this, the army and navy are seeking approval of a combined expenditure of $250,000,000 for experimental work in 1947. In spite of cutbacks in other military aircraft appropriations this approximately equals the estimated expenditures for experimental work this year and the actual expenditures | last year. ; A senate subcommittee holding hearings on a| proposal to establish a national air policy board reports that-it now will take the U. S. two years to rebuild its productive capacity to the point ft was only last September. The committee says that aerial experiments abroad threaten to dissipate America’s natural defenses. | The rational air policy board, if established, would make the first over-all aviation study since the socalled Morrow board of 1925 whose proposals resulted in the air .commerce; naval aviation and air corps acts, the legislative basis of the nation's present air power. The proposed board would study: ONE: Means of assuring continued technical pro-| gress. TWO: Co-ordination of federal agencies now con- | cerned with either military or civilian aviation. THREE: Peacetime air force requirements needed | to maintain national security. FOUR: Methods of industrial mobilization in| event of future emergencies.

Tomorrow: Air transport and the small planes.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

day that the trial of the Columbia, Tenn.,' Negroes was to be mov#d to a place where the tension and anti-Negro feling is, if anything, stronger than it is in Columbia.

Fear Between Groups THE FEAR among the Negroes, to which apparently not only the civilian population but the lawenforcement officers of the state reacted, is very unfortunate. Throughout this whole case, I have been wondering why we could not understand that, among the men in this community, there were numbers of Negro veterans. They have fought *in the war. They often felt, durihg their war service, that there was discrimination against them. And to come home and face the difficulties of readjustment and of finding a job is as difficult for them as for the white men - This trial, therefore, should bé™ conducted under the most favorable circumstances. Every fact should pe carefully checked and verified. . To move the trial now to a place where tension is greater seems to

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'A .38 caliber slug had ripped into

of the emergency span, rigged after | the 1913 fiood had washed out the bridge (the|

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lanterns fiickered in the gentle midsummer breeze. A shot rang out. It was heard) by several persons, among them Ed | Akers, nightwatchman on the | bridge project. Mr. Akers thought | the report came from a fiour mill not far away. Police Sgt. William Dever, passenger on. an owl car clattering across the temporary span, also heard the shot. He leaped from the car, almost into the arms of Mr. Akers who had strolled onto the bridge to conduct what he thought would be a routine investigation. » ” ” THREE OTHER persons, identi-|

enbeck-Wallace circus, then playing Indianapolis, also converged on the scene and were first to discover the victim. Frank Falk, 58, lay on the boardwalk in almost the exact center of the shadowy bridge. Sgt. Dever summoned what in those days was referred to as the “emergency automobile.” . Then after rechecking Falk’s limp form, he placed another call—to County Coroner Charles O. Durham. { Falk was shot through the head.

his skull behind the right ear, ranging downward and out under the left ear. He apparently had been walking west on the span, and fell backward, one hand dangling over the qpen-railed ledge. His brown derby was powder-burned by proximity of the death weapon.

» » ” IN FALK'S hip pocket was found a .32 revolver with all chambers loaded. It later was identified as one occasionally toted by the businessman when he ventured forth at night in the dimly lit city. The only other gun Falk was known to have owned was found at his home, 3156 E. 19th st Police immediately suspected robbery, but this theory evaporated when they learned Falk's pockets had remained untouched. In addition to his wallet, the dead man carried a book on the National City bank showing a deposit of $2000. The only clue was a transfer from an English ave, car to a W. Washington st. car, punched for 7:40 p. m. Time of Falk's death was

| established at about 2 a. m. i n o o :

‘A DEVELOPMENT, later deemed | important, turned up almost imme- | diately ‘when E. W. McClelland, en- |

and,Heat Co., said he saw a hatless,

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regular W. Washington st. bridge. | poy had been. murdered by. somes t was under construc one with a revenge motive but were present one) “lunable to throw further light o tion at the time and red, coal-oil the subject. g n| were tangled and that actually he

Meanwhile, business associates said Falk, who owned a hotel and mule carline in Brownstown, -had- incurred -many enemies there by participating fervently in a bitter local option battle. Some acquaintances said Falk also had owned a saloon on Indianapolis’ South side, in addition to other rumored enterprises, but this information never was confirmed. Nor was the rumor that the fam-

ily had hired private detectives to trace the assassin ever verified.

What was thought to be the first

“break” in the Falk case came on the third day of investigation when {two men stated they saw the victim | weapon. with another man shortly before the shooting. serted they saw Falk enter Thorp's restaurant, 1330 W, Washington st.

Both witnesses as-

|as Hancock, phoned both the Falk [home and police headquarters, in- | sisting the real estate dealer had taken his own life. There were hints that Falk's financial affairs

| was insolvent when he died. Police | pushed the suicide theory, but Coroner Durham pooh-poohed this as simply “an easy way oufy’: In order to establish or disprove {suicide, I and several other crack swimmers launched a diving expedition beneath the bridge, where the water was only eight or 10 feet deep. 1 personally covered every square inch of that White river bottom under: the bridge. Police dragged the river with magnets. The only thing we turned up was an old file, no gun. Since Falk's own gun -was fully loaded; this left police still without a suicide

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son at police headquarters and declared: eo “Falk told me four weeks*ago he was going to ‘commit suicide. He told me he was going to a bridge someplace and use a deadly poison

drop oft the bridge. He said he did not want to disgrace his family as his youngest daughter was going to get married.” Hancock said he had known Falk all his life, asserting he

used liquor moderately, “taking a

glass of beer now and then.” Police asked Hancock: ’ “When he told you the story o

irits, but she was. mystified by 10 inches tall, slightly dark .com-|fool,” Hancock replied. “When he He emptied his plexioned, wearing a dark suit,|told me the secdnd time, I thought few billfold of all but a few dollars, [smooth shaven” adding, Fr had a | peculiarly flattened nose.

| he meant business. . . { ” . » HANCOCK said he advised Mrs. Falk not to hire private detectives “because I felt sorry for her. Every piece of property he has is mortgaged. That's what he told me. He had his life insured and if he committed suicide the probabilities were that they wouldn't get any insurance. I understand Falk had $20,000 life insurance.” !

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House slowness in seizing the Chalmers recommended a month ago by Sec~ retary of Labor Schwellenbach-is linked up’ with the bituminous coal dispute.

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Delay in Seizing’ Allis-Chalmers Linked to Coal

By FRED W, PERKINS WASHINGTON, July 9. —

strikebound

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; government seizure has failed to produce a

ull settlemént. ’ : The coal mines were drafted into government possession May 31. In the following six weeks there has been no positive move by either the mine owners or John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Work« ers, to return to private operation. That will require assumption by, both parties of the labor contract signed with the union by Interior Secretary Krug. The operators declare this agree ment was reached without their

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seonnection’ i the coal and .the Allis.-Chalmers case is charged by Walter Geist, Milwhukee; Allis-Chalmers president. He asserts that the unions which struck the seven Allis-Chalmers plants—the C. I. O. United Electrical Workers and the C. IL O. Farm Equipment Workers—are determined td force seizure of these properties so they can follow the Lewis pattern of insisting that the government make a labor contract before production is resumed.” Labor department officials have accused the company of refusing to bargain collectively. rim President Truman has shown dislike of the seizure process. But he used it in the coal case because Mr. Lewis repeatedly had shown his ability to cut off the nation's coal supply. :

» ” THE miners went “back to work upder the government in this case after Mrg Lewis so directed—he having exacted a promise from the administration that ft would sign a contract for the period of government possession. His ability to force a contract that was admittedly more generous than the operators were prepared to grant’ is said to have planted the idea among other union leaders that this technique can be used in other industgial fields. This procedure, if followed generally, could mean the end of collective bargaining--leading eventually to the government's making all

" " - IT HAS been pointed out that the present coal situation is a perfect set-up for this huge industry to be forced into nationalization or socialization. Either Mr. Lewis or the operators could bring that about by continuing their refusal to deal with each other. Mr. Lewis has shown he's in no hurry. He has left Washington on a month's automobile tour. So federal seizure of the mines is likely to last at least several weeks. Operators generally appeared willing to work under the new coal price schedule of OPA, which raised average prices of bituminous coal 40% cents a ton to compensate for the increased labor costs.

Other real estate men likewise revealed—off the record—that Falk had publicly expressed his intentions of -committing suicide. These | threats, they say, became so COm~| mon they were considered a joke. | They also asserted Falk had en-| deavored to take out a $30,000 in-| surance policy and have the suicide clause deleted. ” . . A CHEMIST, Arthur Foutz, testified Falk had talked to him about the effects of poisonous acids. But by this time, friction between Dolice, who were ready to scratch the Falk case off their list as a suicide, and Coroner Durham, who stuck to the murder theory, was waxing hot. The coroner announced he was making an independent “investiga~ Lion. “I'm bound by the evidence to proceed oh the supposition that murder was committed,” Coroner Durliam said at the time. “No emptied weapon was found on or Inear Falk, and until one is pro[duced the murder theory is stronger [than that of suicide in my estima- | tion.” | v " ” ” | MEANWHILE, the case became enmeshed in what appeared to be a | series of personalized cross-accusa-|tions and fabricated stories as in-| | dividuals involved attempted to collect debts or launch their own private investigation. \ One witness said he had seen two men idling on the bridge with guns shortly before Falk was shot. Another said he saw two men dart from the bridge as Falk fell. As an

conflicting stories to the coroner and police, was arrested. After considerable commotion, he was released upon insisting his accounts of the crime were “all a’ joke.” Meanwhile, Coroner Durham voiced possibility someones may have taken advantage of Falk's public “suicide” boasts to murder him, and thereby avert suspicion. ” " . MRS. FALK never swayed from her conviction that her husband had been killed. “Mr. Falk was murdered,” she said. “There can

willing to. discuss the case until I gain strength, but I want the world to know that I believe in my husband and I believe he met foul play that awful night on the bridge.” If Palk was slain, and if—by some remote chance—his slayer is still around, he may be interested to learn the case is still ¢arried in police files as an unsolved murder, not suicide. But now it's sunken into

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Home-Violation Can't Warrant Tragic Murder

By RUTH MILLETT THE JUDGE who freed .Capt Archie B. Miller, who had confessed that he killed his wife's sweetheart when he found him in her home, is reported to have said after handing down his verdict: “I think any red-blooded American would have acted as you did under similar circumstances. 1 don't think it is necessary to make an example of you for society.” It would have been better if “any red-blooded American” had been left out of the discussion.

. AM n BECAUSE SO many homes are being violated today, we dare not assume that murder is the natural reaction of a red-blooded American to the tragic, though common, situation. Under the circumstances, we had better start talking about “civilized behavior” instead of “red-blooded reaction.” We had better hold up as a normal reaction something less violent than murder. Just how should a husband (or wife) with red blood in his veins be expected to react to the violation of his home—in a time when such an occurrence is not an uncommon thing? Isn't it high time we figured that out?

” ” ” SHOULDN'T WE give human beings an intelligent reaction to strive toward, instead of talking about red-blooded reactions?

and wives are red-blooded Americang, we are going to be in for a lot of murders. ? For American homes are violated every day. Our divorce trials testify to that. :

MICKEY ROONEY’S MOTHER IS STRICKEN

Mrs. Nell Pankey, mother of actor Mickey Rooney, was in St. John's hospital today for treatment for what the young star described as a stroke.

Goldwyn-Mayer studio in his picture since being discharged from the army, left for the when he was advised of his illness. He said hear condition was

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