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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
'FRUSTER JONES
HE TIMES has carried several articles in the past few days which reflect "inefficiency in the local courts and prosecutor's office, cases of repeaters who pass through
juvenile and criminal courts, then bob up again in the police line-up. Latest of these is Fruster Jones, suspect who has
receive lenient treatment, and
38-year-old murder been arrested twice for each year of his
life. That's right—Fruster has been arrested 76 times.
And he has never served a
jail or a prison term.
Fruster even puts to shame Howard Pollard, who is to
be tried on a murder charge soon. only 18 times. Fruster has
year, and he's now at name was on the police blotter five times.
arrests go back to 1981, when
Pollard was arrested been arrested 10 times this liberty under bond. Last year, his The other 61 he was arrested (but not
convicted) on burglary and grand larcency charges.
This man boasts what our reporter describes as “a wide circle of friends, political and otherwise” and says that
“his political connections, though chiefly Democratic, have |
strong bi-partisan links.”
sunday) by |
- » - - » » » i HE day before The Times revealed the background of the Fruster Jones case, it carried another news story emphasizing the lamentable inefficiency of our courts in
another instance.
This time it was a 20-year-old youth whose career of 10 arrest$ began when he was 13 years old. Like Pollard, his career in crime began with minor violations which brought him to the attention of juvenile authorities. He
reached the stick-up stage, was arrested as the result of
a payroll robbery.
Among the charges against him at various times was an arrest on June 26, 1943, for stealing a truck. The case was referred to Judge Mark W. Rhoads of juvenile court. There is no record of its disposition. We seem to recall that Judge Rhoads is pretty touchy about his records. On the same day that we revealed this youth's record, a story also was carried on how cases are handled in neighboring Johnson county. There, a burglar was caught on Sunday—on Tuesday he was on his way to the state prison. One reason the case was handled so expeditiously was that the prosecuting attorney filed an affidavit against the prisoner instead of putting the case before the grand jury, a practice that used to prevail also in Marion county. Now . cases pile up here awaiting grand jury investigation, and
a person under arrest roams around under small bond for
months until his case can be taken up.’
“The only time we request a grand jury investigation is when a case is extremely complicated or when others
appear to be involved,” explained Johnson county’s Circuit
Judge Grant Rogers.
“You've got a bad situation up there in Indianapolis,” he added. “I think politics has something to do with it."
» » ” " » . JUDGE ROGERS, you hit the nail right smack on the head. If we elect judges and a prosecutor on Nov. 5 who are pledged to efficient law enforcement, Marion county will be | freed of the stigma that now attaches itself to our law
enforcement machinery.
Mr. Sherwood Blue, the present prosecutor, is not a candidate in the coming election. But Juvenile Court Judge
Mark W. Rhoads is, and so is Criminal Court Judge William
D. Bain. Remember them at the polls.
voters choose, and which you choose.
HENRY WALLACE, UNFROCKED
HAT is Henry Wallace's hide you see nailed to the wall up there—nailed by the deft hammerstrokes of Berpnard M. Baruch, chief of the American delegation on the
United Nations’ atomic energy commission.
Couple of weeks ago—as who doesn’t remember ?— Henry Wallace delivered a speech at Madison Square Garden under sponsorship of the National Citizens Political Action Committee. In that speech, and jn a letter to President Truman which Mr. Wallace released a few days later —just before he was kicked out of the cabinet—Mr. Wallace made several reckless statements concerning our government’s position on the atom bomb. The net effect of his statements was that we were brandishing the atom bomb in poor little Russia's face—and how did we expect to get
co-operation and peace that way?
Mr. Baruch’s telegram to Mr. Wallace Wednesday night disclosed to the public some of the things that have gone on behind the scenes since then, It reveals that Mr. Wallace and Mr. Baruch talked privately, that Mr. Wallace . privately admitted his errors, that he privately regretted his failure to consult with the U. S. delegation, that he privately promised to correct his misrepresentations, and that he, Mr. Wallace, has since evaded making |
a public admission that he had been wrong.
” ” ” THIS puts Mr, Wallace in a light in been hitherto presented.
Wallace no hint of guile or deception.
But what shall be thought of a cabinet officer who undertakes to define our government's policy on an inter- | national proposition without first ascertaining the facts | from those who make our government's policy? he didn’t get his “information” from our’ own government's representatives, from whom was he getting his “infor-
“mation” ?
What shall be thought of a man who said one thing In private and another in public? And whose reason for not making public retraction ap- : was that some political organization had already : started printing for distribution thousands of those speeches in which he made his original misstatements? It seems to us that Mr. Baruch, a wise and patient old t usually knows what he is talking about, has
Wallace. willingness
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Don't slough off your . share of responsibility for the kind of law enforcement the
” » ” which he has not His severest critics have said of Mr. Wallace that after all he was a “liberal,” a “philosopher,” a countryman of utter sincerity——and whatever else might be charged against him, there could be in Mr.
to continue confusing and misAmerican proposal, Mr, Wallace ‘is not en what demagoguery and
BP OACKERS SoaroN
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AFTER ELIZA G. BROWNING’'S DEATH, a docu~ ment was found.among her effects. It had all the ear= marks of a paper prepared for Portfolio, an amazing
group of Indianapolis individualists that still meets to’ listen to essays of a self-revealing nature, In the case
| of women, the essayist is expected to let her hair
down, As for the men, the least they can settle for is to commit to writing some indiscretion of their youth. At any rate, that's what I've been told. In her Portfolio paper, Miss Browning disclosed the obstacles put in her way when, in 1806, she started to persuade Andrew Carnegie to give her enough of his wealth to house her four little improvised branch libraries which, up until then, had been located in rented storerooms and the like—indeed, in one case, in the rear of a thread and needle shop. Everything went well, said Miss Browning, until an Indianapolis newspaper discovered that Mr. Carnegie's
‘of money ‘was “tainted.” Two stinging editorials had ap-
peared severely condemning Miss Browning's outrageous flirtation with Mr. Carnegie; and there's no telling what might have happened to our library system had not Miss Browning accepted the Commercial club’s challenge to beard the lion in his den. (The honest-to-God truth was that the gentlemen of that club didn't have the nerve to meet that tough editor, a delicious detail that didn't escape Miss Browning's naughty pen.)
A Winning Argument
“I TOLD THAT EDITOR,” said, Miss Browning, “what I had come for, and that I was no diplomat. He chirked up at that and seemed pleased and in a hope that it would shorten the interview, Then 1 started in on my oration and talked. Told him all I could think about libraries and branches. All the time I talked he sat with scissors in one hand and paper in the. other and cut spirals round and round (I've tried it on book agents since and it's fine—makes them dizzy and they go quicker). “He had a heap of spirals before I finished, and had ceased to be particular about the kind of paper he was cutting—anything would do so that it would
POLITICAL REPORT . . . By How Democrats Vi
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 —The Democrats say the
OUR TOWN os . By Anion Scherrer i | | . : | Overcoming Opposition to Libraries |
—lALBY
Hoosier Forum
Electrical Workers, C. I. O,, was trying to prove with junction suit against Governor Gateg et al.
"C. Il. O. Failed in Attempt to Put Gov. Gates on Labor Spot” -
By Gallery Listener, City There still seems to be some
“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death
your right to say it." — Voltaire.
doubt around as to what the United] their federal in-
-|PRIMARY PROPONENTS”
“MORE POWER TO DIRECT
By A Reader, Indianapolis This letter is with regard to an
item of news which has come up in recent days. I refer to the advocacy by our state auditor, Mr. A. Vv. Burch,- that we go back to a
| real issue in this campaign is whether the country is to abandon the program of Franklin Roosevelt and return. to- Republican “reaction.” President Truman, they say, is carrying forward the New Deal banner.
Claim Advances Made BUT THERE ARE OTHER Issues in this important congressional campaign of 1946. Here is the Democratic stand on some of them. .
FOREIGN POLICY—Don't swallow all that Republican stuff about the party going internationalist, say the Democrats, for many G. O. P. leaders “still cling to old ‘isolationist doctrines.” Democrats are taking the Byrnes line as ‘opposed to the Wallace line on Russia, and they defend the much-criticized divi-
the impression the main idea was
file union members.
There was a strong feeling among observers, however, that the objective of the suit had been reached when Governor Gates took the stand
to undergo 95 minutes of aggressive heckling. and trap him into damaging admissions or the benefit of rank and
We don’t know that this was the object. Nobody
These onlookers voiced
to get the goverrior “on the spot”
from the C. IL O.
direct primary. In my estimation, this is one of the most sensible things which has been proposed since the country started on its “crazy spree” with the advent of the New Deal party
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But we think, in fairness to the general public, to those rank and|you please be sure file union members and to the gov-
out—if that was the union leaders’ and lawyers’ idea, it was a flop. Governor Gates gave the right answers, he sweat them all out but made it plain he was fully aware of the strike situation in Connersville when he called out the troops. He demonstrated he had made a thorough investigation, that he didn’t send troops in to abrogate the rights of the C. I. O. but to protect its members, other persons and property from possible violence local officials obviously would have been powerless to prevent. Because these matters are sub-|
at hard labor,
thild.
the police too much.
ous parties with a variety of axes to grind, we think the public should
know that.
a. 8 # dren suffer.
“DELAY IN PUNISHING CRIMINALS IS TERRIBLE”
By B. K. J, Indianapolis I am writing this in regard to your front page story about little Helen Baker and her family. I want to express my sympathy for them. We, too, lost a child through an accident this spring. But we are more fortunate than you. To know that some low-down drunken rat was directly responsible for its death as if he'd murdered with his bare hands, I don’t believe we could bear that. It's absolutely terrible that after four months he still goes unpunished, but 6 worse than that is the fact that probably he never will be, Like Pollard and Lee, if he has the right pull it will all be hushed up and forgotten or he may get a light sentence—but it will take plenty of push. . Let me say this to Helen's grandfather, Mr. William Wallace: If you are sincere in your threat to “shoot to kill” Howard, I want to warn
come out on top. hope you will.
meat shortage.
we have
until I am with,
affirmed or denied this suggestion because they weren't asked.
he's on your
property for I'm sure if you were to ernor, one thing should be pointed |shoot him off your premises it wouldn't take them four months to pass judgment on you. probably spend the rest of your days
1 sincerely hope Wilbur H. will get just what he deserves. ever, I won't be at all surprisedeif he's turned loose like so many others like him, so next year he may kill or cripple another innocent
May I also say to the mother who wrote last week that her children went hungry because of her husband’s gambling, she needn't blame If a man has ject to “interpretation” by numer- gambling in his blood he'll always {find some way to gamble. There is absolutely no sense in your being spineless enough to let your chilOne thing we do have in Indianapolis is a good juvenile court, one that won't tolerate your children being neglected. Of course you'll have to go to them and state your case and stick with them against your husband. really interested in your family’s welfare and not in making excuses for your husband's weakness, you'll And I sincerely
8.8 “ACTING ON SHORTAGE OF MEAT; HOUSING NEXT?”
By A Taxpayer, Indianapolis In Thursday's paper, going to do something about the It didn’t take very long for that to take effect. Why can't something be. done about the housing shortage? We have our third eviction notice and tried our level best to find some place to move to. But without success. It has worried me almost unfit to live
No, you'd
How-
If you're
they ‘are
in 1932. It appears to me that it is a deplorable situation when members of the Republican party feel that they must mimic the tactics of the New Dealers by using a “purge” on those who have been brave enough to take a stand against some of the questionable things which have been going on| in politics. This sort of thing could not happen if the people, themselves, have the choice of those who are to run for public office. Mr. Burch was one who was scheduled for the “purge” but for some reason was “gpared.” Now, for him to come out openly against that sort of thing; and advocate a direct primary which would eliminate that danger, is a bold and daring move and I, for one, am for the movement. More power to him and to the movement!
® ” = “LOCAL YOTERS DO NOT CHERISH FRANCHISE RIGHT”
By Ralph Harrman, 3545 N. Rural st. Attention, privileged citizens. Are you among the 45 per cent who did not vote in the 1944 election, or the 55 per cent who did? That's right
—45 per cent of the so-called good Americans went to sleep or made the statement that “my vote wouldn't make any difference.” I'm not discussing politics. I am talking about voting. You have an obligation as an American to make .{sure you are eligible to vote in the fall election. To be eligible in Indiana‘ means that you must have been a resident of the state six months, the township 60 days, precinct 30 days, and you must be registered. r Your job is to get registered. Go to the county court house any day between now and Oct. 7 (including Sunday) and between the hours of 8 a. m. and 10 p. m. Go to room 34 and register or check your registration. Remember what happened
Side Glances—By Galbraith
in the last election? People swore that they were eligible to vote but the politicians showed them wrong.
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If we don’t protect and cherish this American privilege of voting, we may wake up some day and find it is no more,
8 BR» “DON'T AGREE WITH DR. RICE ON MEAT SUBSTITUTE" By ¥. Marines, 2852 MacPherson st.
man B. Rice.
shortening. Sure, shortening at 85¢ per pound.
me. Why don't you OPA instead of the public?
OPA went off.
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DAILY THOUGHT
| The Lord redeemeth the soul | of his servants; and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.—Psalms 34:22. A] ” | Bulld-a little fence of trust 4 | Around today; : | Fill the space with loving work, And therein stay;
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| took off 10 pounds and | _ noticed people looking at me horrified, as if | were a ghost!”
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1° Upon tomorrow; . God will help thee bear what come Of joy or sorrow. : . ~Mary Frances Butts,
Just a little reply to Dr. ThurFriday, Sept. 27, you |’ had your picture in The Times with an article concerning fish, eggs, cheese, poultry and again milk. It isn't just a case of no meat; what is any of your suggested foods good for without lard or some kind of we can buy It looks like cheap advertisement to attack the
P. 8. Lard was 19 to 22c before
Look not through the shéltering
sion of Germany into zones. They stand for making it impossible for Germany and Japan to wage war again and hope to see defeated enemy states attain a democratic status. i
LABOR—The Democrats cite vast gains made by organized labor in the Roosevelt era, their sponsorship of the full employment law, the wartime nostrike pledge which operated with varying degrees of success, the operation of fact-finding boards in certain industries. Little is said, naturally enough in a political campaign, about strikes that have hampered reconversion. The Democratic objective of increasing the minimum wage rate from 45 to 65 cents an hour is cited, along with the President's bid to extend unemployment insurance to 26 weeks at a $25 weekly maximum. The President's veto of the Case bill, providing a cooling-off period and penalties of labor unions violating their contracts, is cited. So is the Truman proposal for establishment of a joint congressional committee to study the whole subject of labor relations.
INFLATION—Democratic leaders say “the U. S. is an island of economic security in a world of infla-
and budgetary control, plus price control, can prevent the inflationary spiral. Existing shortages are due to Americans’ increased buying power, say the Democrats, and not to botching of the price-control system as charged by Republicans. In meat, Democrats charge some packers are holding goods off the market until- controls are lifted. AGRICULTURE—A Democratic cartoon portrays a farmer with his arm about a cow, a well-fed hog
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Baseball Taking
all the cardinal virtues have,
speaking the truth.
famine, strikes and foreign tumult.
Preachers Pray About It
tate of Goering down into second and third spots, obliterated the fragrant memory of Henry Wallace and minimized the growing hunger for red meat.
post-war administration. Baseball has done
factor. pretty unusual piece of rea
least we can say is that we are a : a fine and carefree talent for non-brooding.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Mules with a “U. 8.
brand still visible on the Tito's army to move men and guns into positio ing the Morgan line at sentatives said today after s
Dominate Yugoslavia EACH ASKED THAT his name said the mules were an UNRRA agricultural re
n fac
pe withheld, The
of the picture and the animals to its army. One said he had seen an with “UNRRA" painted on its cab Germah howitzer near Trieste. trailers dismantled and
port Yugoslav troops.
Zagreb highway being
s ‘difficult. .
They loaded supplies aboard an American ship at the mission in Bel-
Leghorn, Italy, for delivery to
tion. They say the administration program of fiscal:
RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 4—The pious old boys who have made a nice thing out of investing baseball with unwittingly, been The game is as important in American mores as the owners would have you think. It's bigger than the Nuernberg trials, the meat
ALL" OVER "THE SOUTH, banner headlines concerning the Dodger-Cardinal conflict muscled the
It’s been a pretty grim year, full of shortages and
strikes and bitter admissions of incompetence in our more to
Jeaven the gloom than any other single domestic
A country in’ which preachers pray for Brooklyn
victory, in the face of potential atomic conflict, is a 1 estate. When the bat-
ting prowess of a weedy guy named williams can
compete with a stalin definition of Russian policy the blithe nation, with
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Jm G. Lucas ie ;
Russians Take Slav UNRRA
» grade. Nothing reached them, although ship's records a |
m are being used by Marshal show it was delivered into Yugoslavia. They were abl® |
Trieste, four UNRRA repreix months in Yugoslavia.
ghipped to Yugoslavia as part of habilitation program, but
that on delivery to Tito's agents, UNRRA stepped out Yugoslav ‘government sent the
American-made truck hauling a captured All had seen UNRRA their wheels and rubber tires used for ammunition carriers. In addition, UNR A 10-wheel trucks were used in the mountains to trans-
The men, sent as part of a mission to teach use of
heavy road machinery, were assigned to the Belgradebuilt under Russian super-
vision. Both Russians and Yugoslavs made their task
cut into a spiral. I think he had a bet with himself that he could cut nine million spirals before I would finish. . . : : “I was telling about the splendid work the Cleveland library was doing with foreigners and how quickly they were able to teach these people our language and about our institutions. through the medium of stereoptican lectures in the auditorium of
their Carnegie branches. All at‘once I noticed that the
spiral making had ceased—although there was still half a block of tablet paper left. I did not underst what had happened, and as I finished the account sub-consctous self was busily engaged taking in the evident fact that his attitude had changed. Indifference had departed. He was interested, This I Judged was the psychological moment for me to leave.” Before leaving, however, Miss Browning said: “All I ask you to do is to see the Commercial club committee and talk it over with them.” And he replied with the bewildered look of an editor caught in a trap of his own making: “I shall be very glad to have them come and talk to.me.,” Next morning Miss Browning brought the scared committee to the subdued lion's den. The interview lasted 10 minutes when the editor said: “Oh, well, go ahead if you have determined upon this. I won't fight it” : Why did the editor stop cutting spirals when he did? The answer was skilfully wrapped in Miss Browning’'s peroration: .
Why It "Took" “WHEN I WENT HOME AT NOON,” she said, “1 picked up the evening paper of the day before which I had missed seeing. There was a two-column article staring me in the face; an article that was going through the press while its author was cutting spirals; an article on the importance of making Americans as soon as possible of these Hungarians and Italians and others that were thronging to our country by every ship that landed upon our shores. And how necessary it is that every means be tried to assimilate this raw material and incorporate it into our civilization before the raw material turns the tables and incorporates us.” Then with a humility quite unknown in Portfolio today (so I'm told) Miss Browning said: “How I ever blundered into telling that Cleveland story I shall
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Charles T. Lucey ew the Major Issues
beside the cow, a bundle of wheat over the farmer's shoulder titled “Highest earnings in farming history.” Party literature cites a farm income seven times what it was in 1632, Democrat-sponsored laws -for soil conservation, price support, farm credit, crop insurance, rural electrification. !
NATURAL RESOURCES-—Where did TVA, Bone neville and Grand Coulee dams come from? The Democrats think everyone should.know the answer to that one. Reclamation and power development will gobon, they say, if they continue in power,
% SOCIAL SECURITY AND HEALTH—The Democrats say they put 30 million workers under social security, provided assistance for 2,100,000 needy aged, 57.000 blind and 786,000 dependent children. Want to extend old-age and survivors’ insurance to workers in agriculture, education and charitable institutions. They favor extending unemployment insurance similarly. They favor the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill for a national medical care program.
THE WAR—Mr. Roosevelt saw it coming; Republican congressmen voted against defense measures until the eve of Pearl Harbor.
HOUSING—The -administration proposes 12,600. 000 new units of non-farm housing in the post-war decade. The veterans emergency housing progra has a goal of 2,700,000 homes in next two years. of June 30, about 225000 units were completed and 496.000 starts made. Premium payments of $400 million are being made to building materials p ducers as a production incentive. The administrati®ges favors legislation for more expansve loan and invesSt= ment insurance and more liberal loan terms as a incentive to private building, low-interest farm build ing loans and slum. clearance loans to local govern ments.
"Veteran Jobs Plentiful" VETERANS—The administration came up Wit the G. I. bill of rights, Since February, veterans have found jobs plentiful. More than $770 million has ‘been authorized for 78 new veterans’ hospitals. About 11,250,000 veterans will be in college by fall.
TAXES—The 1945 tax law made the first genera reduction in individual and corporate income taxes; since 1929, including repeal of the excess profits tax Democratic policy is that these reductions are as tar as we can go safely until inflationary pressures subside. ¥
REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark
Minds Off Worries
It is probably due to sunspots, or something, but this has been baseball's most intriguing year. A screwier season never developed in the somewhat stodgy sport, which ordinarily lends itself to shallow sentiment and genteel hypocrisy. A socially conscious young man whose heart bled at the plight of the peons of baseball attempted to organize them into a union, and learned what all sportswriters know about ballplayers when they ru ly rebuffed his efforts to brighten their lives. Happy Chandler, czar of the industry, was calle a bum when he started out to fill old Jedge Landis’ » congress gaiters, and to date has done all right.
" Payoff Yet to Come ALL THESE THINGS and more have happened to baseball, and the public has gulped it eagerly. Typical of what I mean is that most radios blared
of the day, deep thinkers walked out of conferences
lem: “Can the Dodgers do it?” This year, if in no other, we owe baseball a lo if only for its comic relief, and the high comedy yet to come. That occurs when the mangled National leaguers beard the boys in Boston.
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to get four of 32 repair trailers—each valued at aps proximately $12,000—sent them in Yugoslavia They had no idea what happened to the other 28. gos | They said the Belgrade-Zagreb project is a mi
tary highway although the Yugoslav government cons |
tends it is “relocation and repair” of an existing y The UNRRA men said they were never allowed the job without an escort, and that all supervisors a. engineers were Russian, Specifications for the n highway call for it to Be 150 niles long, 30 feet wid§ with pavement 20 to 26 inches deep. The average American highway, designed to carry civilian trafic,
General Is Boss YUGOSLAVS WHO BECAME FRIENDLY wi Americans invariably ‘disappeared, they sald. two assistants were dismissed, a third approached ag asked them “not to speak to him when we met the streets.” Russian Maj. Gen. Michail Sergeichic, UNRRA chief of mission in Yugoslavia, is “actually the boss
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