Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1946 — Page 12

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

LAW ENFORCEMENT--LOCAL STYLE Four MONTHS ago a jalopy truck careening madly ; through the streets of Indianapolis crushed out the life of a 10-year-old girl, and sped away. People who saw it happen chased that truck, caught it, found at the wheel Wilbur Howard. Arrested, he was charged with manslaughter, drunken driving, reckless driving, failure to stop after an accident, It was also found that

he had been arrested 10 times before, convicted of stealing -

automobiles, contributing to the delinquency of minors, drunkenhess, and had been let out of prison “on probation.” Municipal Judge Joseph Howard (no relation) held him for the grand jury, fixed his bail at $5000, certainly a rea-

sonable amount in view of the gravity of the charges against

him and his long and vicious criminal record.

s #8 8 yu» Ta PRETTY GOOD, up to there. A quick arrest, plenty of eye-witnesses available to testify to what happened,

all the elements of swift, sure justice. »

»” » » ~ ¥ BUT THIS is four months later. The. sorrowing family ~ of that little victim sits in terror in its "home, armed and in a virtual state of siege. Hoodlums have been threatening her sister if she dares to testify against Wilbur Howard. A face has been leering in at their windows at night— menacing and sinister. The little girl's mother says it is the face of Wilbur Howard. But How can that be? Wilbur Howard was last heard of in jail, awaiting trial on a series of serious criminal charges. Slowly the story unfolds. Wilbur Howard is not it jail. No grand jury has ever heard about him, or about

the little girl who died miserably under the wheels of that

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jalopy truck, away back in May. His $5000 bail had proved inconvenient to raise, and it has been reduced to $1000. In Marion county anyone who can raise $560 to pay a professional bondsman can go free on $1000 bail. Wilbur Howard goes free. : The grand jury in session when he was arrested last spring was too loaded with other cases and too nearly done with its job to hear about Wilbur Howard, or about the little dead girl. The grand jury which followed has been largely ineffective because one of its members wanted to resign, and was permitted to resign, without a replacement ready. And so on. * 8 a a. ao =» THERE ARE a lot of spots, along here, where it might ~~ be easy to point up some individual blame for what has happened to this case, and the blame might or might not ~ be wholly just. We are not interested in individual blame. Let's stick to Wilbur Howard, and the scores and even hundreds of other defendants who don't get indicted and don’t get trials, and who do get out on nominal bail and who, perhaps, just sort of disappear from the crime records and aren't heard of any more-—unless they get involved in another tragedy, somewhere. Fifty dollars, after all; isn't much of a penalty on a manslaughter charge, is it? Whether or not the laxity of some individual officer of Marion county is involved in any of these, it is pretty evident that there simply isn't enough criminal court machinery to handle properly all the crime that cries out for attention. If all the defendants now under charges have Jury trials it would take around two years to clean up just what are in now—and a man charged now would have two years to wait—while witnesses disappeared, and forgot, and lenient courts gave bargain rates on bail because there is injustice in holding a man for month after month without a trial“ Marion county seriously needs another criminal court, with double present grand jury facilities, and very much * faster trials of criminal charges. One court, no matter how efficient it might be, is far from equal to the job presented by a community of nearly Half a million people.

MR. BURCH’S REBELLION You MIGHT conclude, at a superficial glance, that Gov-

had last week from then-Secretary of Commerce Wallace. But it isn't. : True, both are in outspoken disagreement with “official” party policy and with the titular heads of their respective parties. But without regard to the fact that we believe Mr. Burch is right, and Mr. Wallace wrong, the rest of the circumstances are by no means similar. : Mr. Wallace was an appointed member of President Truman's cabinet, the personal choice of the President himself for that post, and presumed to be in it only to carry out the policies of his chief. Mr. Burch is the elected auditor of the state of Indiana, responsible not to Governor (Gates

f but to the people who elected him, and who. now are being

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asked to elect him again, So when Mr. Truman found Mr. Wallace in open disagreenient with his policies he had no other course than to dismiss him, But Governor Gates is not responsible for Mr. Burch’s views, could not fire him fiom his office even if he

8 wished, and would be ill-advised, we believe, to undertake

| any sort of punitive action. 3 The mere suggestion that party chieftains “crack * down” on Mr, Burch for urging nomination of state of. ficers by direct primaries is one of the finest arguments in | favor of direct primaries we have heard. State offices are not the property of either party, but of the pegple. There should be, in the interests of good government, no party machine 80 -powerful it can determine, without consulting the voters, who may hold such an office.

BUILDING THE OTHER WORLD TH] shortage of building materials in the nation’s history: ! y: The Russian Ukraine is getting from us—through F. iardia’s UNRRA—a fiber-wallboard plant costing ( 8 gypsum-wallboard plant costing $208,000; a lock plant costing $268,000, and brick - making

costing $212,000. Byelorussia, also a member e : Union, is getting a $203,000 gypsum-wall- * |

need homes, £00, £0 Uncle Sam is sending |

build them.

. vernor Gates has about the same kind of revolt on his | i hands from State Auditor Burch that President Truman

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Hoosier Forum

"Neighbors Signed Mrs. Carlson Petition Without Understanding"

By W. H. Richards, 127 E. New York St, The papers of last Tuesday told of 60 persons having signed a petition to deprive Mrs, Josephine Carlson of her right to rent rooms to men who had fought to defend the homes of those who signed that peti-

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» . ” ’ We have the highest employment in history if we count the strikers as working,

for the welfare of the whole community I am writing this letter unsolicited and merely because I stand for right and justice a “AM OPPOSED TO C. 1. O BUT CANNOT GET OUT" By Link Belt Employee, Indianapolis I am one very unhappy and disgusted member-of the great C. 1. QO When 1 joined this labor-loving union little did I realize I was forfelting my freedom of even having a change of nrind. Now I find that I am a lifetime member without one ray of hope of ever becoming free again unless I quit my job and lose all my seniority, and stant from the bottom on beginner's wages. Our union dues have been raised to $1.50 a month, I signéd no agreement the effect that 1 was willing

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where. This was a decidedly unfair action, and I am of the opinion purpose of providing a livelihood for herself and her family and to i studies at Butler university, if not it will interfere with the peace and that letter to the White House from for these residents andstheir chil. SPeech, perhaps we should refer to | seen the roomers entering and leay- | Wallace peace plan is just some if divided in three or four houses tarian vote, Ld » n {caused Mrs. Carlson to open her { war effort by opening her house tb woman who with her baby had : I am sure that those who signed that this good and worthy. weman hood who would be so unjust.te-an

that some one person went about with that petition and that most of those who signed did so on his oy her request without realizing the injustice of it. The facts are these: Mrs. Carlson is a widow, who, with the double provide homes for 15 persons wht could find no housing elsewhere, ' seven of them being ex-G. I's and : VIEWS ON | who may be forced to give up their permitted to remain in her home, THE NE A S s er house available to Jus side hey house availa | By DANIEL M. KIDNEY . | g It is claimed by these people that No matter how you look at it, quiet in the community, forgetting Hefny a Nasinee proved that he that these boys went overseas with |'S & 8reat “gliberal | just that purpose in mind, to per | 8. % x | manently establish peace and quiet! After his New York BP A C dren. {the senator from Florida as “Red’ Neighbors have, said that they Pepper. would not know that Mrs. Carlson | M iy ed had a rooming house had they not! Many Americans think that [ing the house. Surely the 15 per. MOre of his hybrid corn. | {sons ate not more inclined to cre-| 8.8.14 [ate disturbances because they live, . Democrats are afraid they can't | in one large house than they would (Win elections” with only the vegeof their own, | Ameri ‘ . . ! erican seamen drove —enemy The crying need for housing has gg i th a | been stressed by newspapers and Ships og us gos ating the War. (radio ahd“ it was this need that U. 8 | house to help relieve that condition. {She has never intended to establish {a permanent rooming house, but! | had only in mind to help in the | servicemen, considering this her i duty to our country. | Mrs. Carlson was called upon one night at 9 o'clock by a hysterical | been evicted. Mrs. C. took her in {and kept her several months while her husband was stationed at Ft. Harrison. that unfair petition’ on sober second thought would gladly sign another one asking that the decision of the zoning board be reversed and hould be permitted to carry on the good work she has begun. I can not belleve that there are 60 residents of any respectable neighborhonest woman whose only crime is that she has done what she could Side Glances — 1

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tion, when {it is impossible for these ex-G. I. veterans to find homes else- |

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agree with a word that you

say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

donate 50 cents more each month to the Communist party, but nevertheless it is deducted. If the great freedom loving C. 1. O. decides to raise our dues to $5 there is noth- | ling I can do but pay. I have no Rrivilege to resign, | | Where, oh where has my four free-| doms gone. of many different organizations and | have moved my membership to dif- | rent churches, but not once have] I been refused the right to do so. | If some of you faithful C. I. O. members can please help one who! hates the very sound of C. I. O. to get out of thi$ trouble-making peace | destroying, freedom-stealing organ-| ization, please let's hear the answer. | Why should any organization | want to hold a member who is so opposed to its un-American, Communistic ways of conducting things? | When I open the Bible to the | book of Revelation, I am made to] wonder, is the mark of the beast! the ynion label, the C. 1. O, or the hammer which ever it may be is the same—com-

and sickle; the definition munism, ” ” 5 “FOR BURCH'S STAND IN FAVOR OF DIRECT PRIMARY” By George: Allison, Mooresville The writer noticed your editorial of Sept. 18 on the subject of “Return to Direct Primary” referring to a speech delivered by A, V. Burch, auditor of state, at Muncie sefore the Lions club. T have known Mr. Burch for a great many years. 1 have -always found him to be courageous and = dependable and above everything his word is good. He is known to be a fearless leader. It is the talk of our town. I want to commend his through your paper for an American stand. Let us have! more suc men in government, I want to thank The Times for the interest which you manifest in | such leaders. You are to be congratulated. Appreciate your editorials.’ » » n “CRIME FOLLOWS FAILURE TO IMPRISON OFFENDERS” By J. R. FA Veteran, Indianapolis | 1 take The Indianapolis Times be-! cause it always prints the facts | regardless of whom it may involve. | After seeing the principles and | reading the article on the front) page of The Times headed “Tr icker Free on Bond,” 1 can readily un-| why so much crime! prevails in our —fair.city, Here is a man convicted ten times and stilil free to run at large. Had our judges put this lawbreaker in the proper | place this little girl would be livNg today. But instead they pin on a medal and turn him loose te do he same thing again. 1 am afraid if 1 were any kin to this child, | Prosecutor Rabb would have, a lot] { explaining to do. ~

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| | “VETERANS SHOULD HAVE { DECENT HOMES TO LIVE IN" By William E. Clark, 371 Bell st. | K. Cardinal, evidently you were! one of the lucky people who had| the chance to keep your home ur=1 ing the war. Many of our young boys and men had to make the sacrifice of selling their homes before going into service, so that *his| country would be safe for people like you. But if some of my budwho were’ killed on Okinawa and Guadalcanal could see your notice in. the paper, I. don't think they would have as much’ respect for it as they did the Japs. Mayhe you can suggest a better place for” these boys to live. After | boys fought for their | country and are only asking for al place to live,

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,DAJLY THOUGHT He answered and said unto | them, Well hath Esaias prophe- | sled of you hypocrites, as it is | written, This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.—~Mark 7:6. "a » Some hypocrites mortified - men, that held down their heads, were ike the little lnages that they place in the very howing of the ‘vaults of churches. | that look as if they held up the | church, . but “are hut , Baeon,

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" } MRS sie

THE APPALLING NUMBER of centenarians in our midst (see any recent newspaper) calls for some= body with the necessary patience to dig up the recor for longevity around here. I am not unmindful of my duty. One day back in the spring of 1800 just after

the United States and Spain had signed a peace treaty, leaving us with nothing more. to look for in the way of excitement, Michael

| Shea laid down and died. He was

117 years old. As a matter of fact, he was dlder. Had Mr. Shea lived one day longer, he would have achieved the respectable age of 117 years and 6 months, So far as I know, it's the record for longevity in Indianapolis. To be sure, Mr. Shea had no birth certificate. He didn't need any. His knowledge of Ireland during the, days of Daniel O'Connell dovetailed so perfectly ith the detailed information contained in the Encyclopedia Brittanica that nobody asked for proof of Ris birth. Michael Shea said he was born in County Kerry ber, 1781, just six years after the birth of a neighbor's boy who turned out to be the great “Irish Liberator. Mike said he ought to know because he and Dan O'Sonnell attended the same parish school. After that, the two boys went their separate ways— Dan to school France, and Mike to a local blacksmith who taughd him the art of horse-shoeing,

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WHEN DAN WAS YEARS OLD (in 1800), he was regarded as one of the most promising political leaders in all Ireland. Those were the days when the subject of Catholic emanci sion, said Mr, Shea (check for confirmation). Twenty-ni was passed and under its provisi eventually sought a seat in parliament. up until then Catholies had nob parliament. By this time Daniel O’ vears old; and, by the same rule, Michs 48. The two men hadn't seen each otheiwi were kids in the old parish school,

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years later a bill s Daniel O'Connell Seems that

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—A five-way battle royal

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among natural gas, petroleum, coal, artificial gas, and state's-rights conservation interests is being waged under cover, sideshow to disposal of the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines running from Texas to New York. Sixteen bids to buy or lease these $147-million war babies are now before the war assets administration. Six come from concerns wanting to use the pipelines for transportation of natural gas from Texas, Oklahoma, and Loiusiana fields to the Phila-delphia-New Jersey=New York areas that now consume artificial gas. The other 10 bidders propose using the pipelines to carry petroleum or its products.

Producers Want Industries

SUBMISSION OF FINAL DATA in connection with the bids was due Sept. 16. Sometime early in October the war assets administration is expected to hand down its decision on who gets the prize for what use and for how much. . Conflict ovef use of the pipelines for natural gas or petroleum and its products arises from a curious and cragy situation. Every day, an estimated billion and one-half to two billion cubic feet of natural gas is “flared” — meaning burned off and wasted—in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kansas. It would probably not be practical to save all of this gas. Industry estimates are that-perhaps half a billion cubic feet a day could be used. With the two pipelines alread” built to connect this source of supply with the eastern concentration

What Types Do

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—MTr, 1946, has a busted nose, bat ears, two chins, porcupine hair, a mouth like Joe E. Brown's, and, for all I know, lordosis, which the corset advertisements say is an unsightly bulge around the belt plus a sway back Or else, he weighs 97 pounds, uses both hands to

lift his toothbrush, and stays off the street when the wind is blowing. -

America,

Van Johnson and Sinatra

I HAVE BEEN DOING some heavy research, lately, on what makes the girls go oooh-oooh and wiggle runners into their nylons. To succeed with women today, the Young Man of Manhattan, or of Blistered Foot, Kas, must resemble either a gargoyle or a cadaver—the first to incite fear, the second to inspire sympathy. z Somewhere in the shuffle, the lad with the Grecian nose, the chiseled chin, the even smile and the curly blond hair has been Jost. Wearing a two-day beard and a face like William Bendix, the post-war Lothario will do better than two Valentinos riding a Stutz bearcat with ah uninhibited muffler. The two most heavily endowed gentlemen in the land teday are a snubngsed, named Van Johnson, who is the prototype of: the healthy truck drivéf, and a fugitive from a transfusion. Frank Sinatra—a_ weedy youth whose bow ties cause him to sway in the middle like a topheavy birch sapling. During an. excursion to the fleshpots, I sat in

| a nightclub here and watched a flock of females

go nuts over a man. The candidate for this frenzied adulation was a young guy from Oregon named David Brooks, who sings. Brother Brooks has a nose which looks like it had recently lost a decision to a mallet. Even with

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| “ ~ Well, when Dan O'Connell was sent’ to parliament, the people of ‘County Kerry gave him a great send-off, begorry. The procession with a bana at its head, and everybody cheering, happened to pass a blacksmith = shop in front of Which stood a man whose face was

50 covered with soot that only his best friend could have recognized him. Just as the head of the parade

reached the shop, Dan O'Connell happened to lock

in that direction and whom do you think he spied?

Sure, Mike Shea, his old parish schoolmate of! more than 40 years ago. The parade came to a dead stop on Mr. O'Connell's order, said Mr. Shea, and the two talked for more than five minutes recalling the days they made life miserable for the old parish priest. After that, Dah always looked up Mike when he came to County Kerry.

Mr, Shea stayed in Ireland until he was 82 years old. Then suddenly one day he packed up pnd came to Americg. He sald he wanted to call on his children who had preceded him. Mr, Shea didn’t marry until he was 50, (Seems he postponed everything as long, as he could.) For about year, he lived in Ohio with his daughter, and then in 1864, he came to Indianapolis. During the remainder of the Civil war, he worked at his old trade at the Arsenal here. When Mr. 8hea was somewhere around 95 years old, he took a sudden notion to chuck the blacksmith business. From now on, he said, he was going to do nothing but loaf and vote. At the.age of 115 years, he cast his last vote for Willlam Jennings Bryan. He walked to the polls alone and unassisted. When the ballot was handed him, some smayt-aleck said:

Loyal to His Party

“WELL, POP, ARE YOU going to vote the straight Democratic ticket?” “I do-not know what you mean by the straight ticket,” said Mr, Shea with great dignity, “but I intend to vote the Demacratic ticket, be it straight or erooked.” When Michael Shea died, his old pal, Dan O'Cone nell had been resting in his grave for. more than 50 years (check Encyclopedia Brittanica for cone firmation), ®

IN WASHINGTON ... By eter Edson

Battle on Texas-New York Pipelines

of consumers, saving wasted gasses now being flared would seem to be a logical measure for conservation in the national interest. There are, however, & num ber of strong opponents to any proposal for this use of the pipelines as carriers of natural gas, and they're all in there pitching to prevent western gas from being piped to eastern users. Leading the fight are the local-pride conserva tionists from the producing states. They oppose letting the east benefit from their natural resources. Instead, they say eastern industry should come west, where gas is cheap, and use it there. Second in opposition are the coal producers and the - eastern manufacturers of artificial gas. Arti ficlah gas is made largely from coal. If this use of coal were eliminated, it wou'* mean less work for the coal miners. reduced sales for the coal operators. Third are the strong-national-defense advocates, who shout that the pipelines should be kept ready to transport petroleum products from west to east in case there should be another war and a submarine menace that would interfere with tanker movements between Gulf ports and eastern refineries.

Gas Supply Is Plentiful

THE WAR ASSETS ADMINISTRATION, In a policy statment last January, seemed to give prefer ence to use of the lines for petroleum. Natural gas now being wasted could be saved 4 and sold at profit, bringing greater prosperity tot producers, cheaper and perhaps petter gas to cons sumers. There is no shortage—there's enough to supply the whole U. §. for nearly a century, if it could all be used,

| REFLECTIONS . + . By Robert C. Ruark

the Girls Like Best?

his head back, an extra chin is discernible. He closes his eyes when he sings and twinkles lazily, in & knowing way, at all the girls, What Brooks puts out has no relation to sharps and flats. He is peddling goosepimples on female spines, and every dame in the joint would just love to rumplé his hair. I guess poor old Valentino was about the last

.nationwide heart-throb-who could be called pretty,

Rudy Vallee moo-éd into a cardboard microphope and ensiaved millions—and him with a voice as monotonous as a running faucet, a face like a tired sheep and a stage personaljty like a deepfrozen fish, Boyer panicked them for awhile, and hé was selling & bald head, & pair of bedroom eyes and a trick accent. Jean Sablon, recently, knocks them cold singing French they can't understand through a set of teeth which, if they: ain't false, were left there by a forgetful friend. Old Gable, -of the flanged ears, is still stirring half-shamed tremors in librarians’ chests, and Clark never was beauty into beetlé brows; a low hairline and a thick neck,

Watch Out for Ruark ABROAD, CHEVALIER, who is pushing *60, still is selling his anthropoidal lower lip for high fees, and shortly will be singing through his nose over here for still loftier ones. Not being a psychiatrist, I can't tell you what curdles the cuties, but I know that beauty doesn't awaken the best in them. I am thinking, momentarily, of re-breaking my nose to resemble the late Louis Wolheim. When the hair retreats’ entirely, and 1 have added chin III—dont shove, ladies, the master will have a kind word for all,

+ « By John A. Thale

British Are Facing Palestine Dilemma

JERUSALEM, Sept. 23. — Time appeared to be running out today for Britain to declare itself flatly, one way or the other, in the Palestine crisis. As an alternative Britain might find itself facing openly declared warfare by both Arab and Jew, Little optimsim is felt here today for a successful outcome of the talks now going on in London between British officials and leaders of the two races, who both claim this centuries-old civilization as their natural homeland, : :

Both Sides Restive

NEW TENSION is apparent in Jerusalem whose barbed-wire-lined “streets and . wire-ringed buildings already give it an air of a city under siege. Both Arab and Jewish factions appear to be growing - restive at continuation of the policy of trying to please the Arab without annoying the Jew, and vice versa. Extremists of both factions have statted stepping up their pressure campaign” accordingly, : 7 Jewish officidls have*flatly demanded that Britain release certain Jewish leaders from the detention

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camp before a delegation will go to London, even to discuss a plan for the future of Palestine. “The Arabs never will approve a divided Palestine or a Jewish state established in it,” say Arab leaders, dg

Trouble for Peacemaker ~ IT 1S obviously impossible to make peace between

the tenant of a home and the man who wants to evict him and live in the place himself. Frequently,

‘the peacemaker himself gets fn hot water with both

sides. But Britain must gamble on something that will

leave its position fairly strong here. The Suez cahal ES

is vital fo the British empire. Palestine is considered by British military strategists to be “vital to the defense of the canal. : ara Apparently Britain does not covet the Middle East for itself. But Britain is also quite likely to ba willing to spend -some “blood, + sweat and tears” to prevent it from falling into the hands of another great power, .

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