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Gwe LAghe ens the People WER. Fue Thew Own Wey

asked for a city ordinance agmimat lottery tickets. City Attorney Krug has given am official opinion that it is legal and enforceable. ' "County Prosecutor Stark has incjorsed that opinion. ~ Police Chief Sanders has called j§ essenfial to enforcethent of the laws against gambling. $

; THAT leaves it up to city council, * There's no place left to “pass, the buck.” . Councilmen will enact this orclinance, without any further stalling or delay—or admit that they want the lottery racket that bleeds Indianapolis ‘workers of $9,000,000 a year to go on without interference, and accept the responsibility for the other crimes, inchading bribery, hold-ups and at least three gang killings, that this racket brings with it.

EA7E doubt if any member of, city council would’be willing

and supervised. They know, ak well as we do, that the public here will not stand for such approved gambling, even though

{ Yet the same result can be had by merely keeping the laws against lotteries wesk and unenforceable. That's what has been done—up to now. City council members now have been given a clear choice to show which side théy are on—in public. There can’t be much, mistake about it after they vote

IT'S THE PEOPLE'S ‘BUSINESS es QECRETARY MARSHALL told the governors’ conference at Salt Lake City Be could have said much about certain implications of the imternational situation if he had been talking “off the recond and in great confidence.” Some things, he said, could not be discussed definitely in a public speech begause of the great difficulty of reducing ; problems to-a “simplicity of statement that is understand- + able to our citizens generally” —

}” - The secretary of state emphasized, correctly, that one

ple be taken into full confidence on all aspects of their gov-

war so recently ended. The home front cannot be mobilized successfully for this contest without an informed public opinion. The present great public confusion and uncertainty cannot be dharified by information given “off the record and in great confidence” to a few important persons, whether state governors or members of the senate foreign relations

This economy-minded congress will vote the. billions required. to carry out the Marshall recovery plan for Europe only if the program has the American people's enthusiastic

Weslo not believe Secretary Marshall meant to imply that any important information should be withheld from the public. He seemed, rather, to ‘suggest that he might have put greater emphasis on certain developments if he had felt free to speak his mind. Yet it is as essential to have an informed public as it is to have an informed officialdom. The people, who must supply the wherewithal for our part of the program, Hust aren't going to do it unless they know what it's all about.

THAT strong odor comes from the capitol at Washington —where lobbyists and lawmakers are working to help

With only two hours of debate, house members passed the Rizley bill, which many of them said they didn’t under- -». stand. It forbids the federal power commission to regulate the cost of producing or gathering natural gas. It directs the commission to accept, as a rate base, any figure the companies name as the market value of gas entering their

In nine years the FPC has saved consumers $150 mil-

lion by regulation under the 1938 natural gas act. The supreme court says it has done this legally and properly. The net income of companies under this regulation was 58 per cent higher last April than in April, 1946. Their book . cost totaled $1,292,000,000 last Jan. 1. Since then they have applied to the FPC for certificates for additional facilities estimated to cost $1,222,977,669. So their business seems to be thriving, and investors seem eager to put in mord capital under the law as'it stands, Yet these natural gas companies ‘are driving for higher

Two of the companies—Cities Service and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line—are now having to return to ¢customers some $48 million which the FPC and the courts found they had collected improperly. Rep. Ross Rizley (R. Okla.) is the non-regulation bill's author. Among clients of Mr. Rizley’s law firm, the Martindale & Huble law directory for 1947 lists the Cities Service, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line and Republic Natural Gas companies. A companion bill by Senator E. H. Moore (R. Okla.) has had senate hearings and may be reported any day." If the Rizley-Moore measure becomes law, gas bills will become bigger in communities that import natural gas from other states. The Rizley bill wouldn't affect Indianapolis Sitiossa but 1 is & Aymptom of 2 curren trend that could their pocketbooks hard. : :

utilities of all kinds have seized

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that, lotteries be legalized, taxed

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one of the difficulties Secretary if his policies are to command

dignified and temperate in public more vital that the American peo-

backed us into a political and eco-

as fateful as that of the shooting

escape effective regulation.

regulation.

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Once again the squabble about buildings is before the public.

Veterans hospital grounds. Saving

If you are interested in the welfare of our veterans, go out and look over the two locations and see for yourself how idiotic and unfair it would be to the veterans to put them on the Fall There is no beauty there now and there never could be any beauty in such a spot. It is unthinkable. The government owns the present location and its support means a continuation of the present beauty, and with all buildings within this

operation and Indianapolis can well be proud of this branch of the VA. 4 . . . “WOMAN FLIER'S DEATH NOT DUE TO: NEGLIGENCE”

The very idea of even considering the expenditure of a half million dollars for additional ground, particularly in an area that is questionable in many ways, when there is ample room within the present over a period of a few years there would be a saving of a million or more if the additional buildings are located within the same area

as the present buildings, brought about by convenience and efficiency that would not be possible if located outside of the present grounds.

0 |was “hot.” Miss Hurlburt served 16

“|the 12,000 inhabitants of her home

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locating the new veterans hospital

the half million is important, but

Forces in a civilian capacity. After five and a half months intensive schooling very similar to that the male aviation cadet received, and

met death, Miss Hurlburt was assigned to flying C-60s, the Lockheed twin engine, towing gliders in which glider pilots were being trained— flying both day and night and mostly night. This was & tough job and she did it well Later she was assigned to B-26s, the twin-engined Martin Marauder, which had the highest wingloading of any twin-engined bomber used by the AAF—and that means it

months until the ‘Women's Airforce Service Pilots were disbanded and she did an admirable job. In last year's national air races at Cleveland Miss Hurlburt won the Halle Trophy race, a race limited to women, in an AT-6, stripped down, averaging 200 m.ph. This is a 75-mile, closed triangular course with 15-mile sides—which means low flying with steep on-pylon turns. In 1947, Miss Hurlburt set a new women's international speed plane record of 337 mph. in a clipped wing Vought-Corsair, which is a lot of fighting'airplane as any marine pilot will tell you. } Miss Hurlburt was an exceptional young woman, Sg exceptional that

town, Painesville, O., were raising the money and backing financially her entry in the Goodyear trophy race at the national air races this year. Miss Hurlburt's death should not be credited to Ignorance, nor to inexperience, either. | I do not know the circumBtances

believe that if no structural or mechanical defect was uncovered in| the investigation, she may have, suffered a momentary “black-out,” that fringe of unconsciousness that many pilots have experienced when acrobatics.

But don't ever say Marge Hurl burt died because of ignorance or

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the tree I asked them If they couldn't let it go until next year or until fall anyway, so I could have the shade for my porch as there wasn't any touching the wires except a few new limbs that have grown out. . I was rudely given to understand that he was going to cut that tree regardless. He said I could call the police department, park-bosrd, Indianapolis Power & Light or any. lawyer. So I called the light company and asked them if they were so determined to cut the tree if they wuald wait until fall so I could have 'he shade of the porch. I did everything but «et on my knees trying to save the tree, but hrother the tree was cut and how. It suré is a sorry looking mess. I'm so darn mad I could go on indefinitely, but I guess I had better sign off. Oh yes. I forgot to say that the man called Mac said he may be back and cut the tree completely down so sometime when I come home I may not even have the half tree I have now. Mac sure likes to show his authority. 1 wonder who else had a tree cut up so beautifully. .

Editor's Note: A spokesman for the Power & Light Co. explained ‘the utility's policy on tree-trimming by saying that when it was necessary to trim trees to protect electrical service it has the work done by tree experts. Thc men who work on trees are employed by cogtracting firms of tree experts. Tree owners are supposed to be consulted beforehand about the work and permission obtained. If an owner is dissatisfied, the contractor's crews are instructed to stop work at once and have a light company representative take the complaint up with the owner. A crew member

inexperience. That is not true.

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may have disregarded this instruction, the spokesman said, adding | that “if so we regret it very much’ {and pbint to our record of trimming { more than 40,000 trees in the last | year, almost entirely without com- | plaints and with many compli- | ments.” :

” ~ ~ | “FOLLOW. FASHIONS ONLY AS LONG AS BECOMING” By Mrs M. M.,, Greenwood This is to Working Girl about longer skirts, Be individual, wear what you like, how you like it. Just semember that a fashion must suit you, not a man or a fashion designer or any one else but you Consider the fashions, choose what you

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|IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover School Board Candidates Are

THE PROCEDURE by which candidates for the school board are selected with alinost

A non-partisan commitice, this. Weel ai} for the Nov. 4 election. ° is little likelihood that an opposition ticket or indi-

Indorsement Means Election WHILE IT MAY APPEAR to be .quibbling to question a method of proved success, nevertheless any of committee selection commissioners

to decfde who should be indorsed are not made public. The candidates are of similar stature , . . the motives of no one involved can be challenged. As a reporter covering the school board during one of the most disgraceful periods of its history , . . when comstruction scandals were rife and the kuklux kian influence permeated the educational system -.. 1 was fully in accord with the need for a clean-up. The citizens school committee accomplished that clean-up, elected men and women of unquestioned integrity to the board of school commissioners. Since that time, indorsement by the committee almost invariably has meant election in the fall. There has been little effective opposition. Although I can make no suggestion which would bring forth the caliber of candidates named by the citizens’ committee . . . because the job is unpaid, a good school board member can be actuated only by high idedls of public service and folks know that without the indorsement of the committee they have

WASHINGTON, July 17.—During the war and for a year and a half afterward responsibility for atomic security was divided. The army supervised all military personnel. The federal bureau of investigation acted at the request of the army where civilians were concerned. This made for jealousies which have continued under civilian control by the atomic energy commission. Division was shown in an episode which occurred in October, 1946, while the army still controlled the atomic project. A former sailor went to the Baltimore News-Post and offered to sell for $7000 what he said was a photograph of the atomic bomb. The newspaper promptly telephoned FBI headquarters in Washing-

/ { ton. It detained the former sailor on the pretext his

offer was under consideration. 3 FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover commended the News Post for acting so promptly in a matter so vital to national security. ~ Then ‘come -the question whether the former sailor should be prosecyted. } - Mr. Hoover favored prosecution. He believed an example should be set to deter others. Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, then head of the

' | atomic project, ruled against prosecution. He in<

sisted that to show photographs to a jury would further endanger atomic secrecy, even though the FBI recovered copies in three different states.

Clark Orders Prosecution ~ THE HUSH-HUSH ATTITUDE runs counter to the opinion of scientists familiar with atomic fission. It is apparently based on the belief that the average layman looking at scientific material could pass on to someone else valuable kndwledge about atomic energy. Actually the subject is so enormously complicated that only a very few specialists are equipped to comprehend such data. On June 9, Mr. Hoover recommended prosecution of the two former army sergeants arrested this past

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TANGIER, Morocco, July 17.—Uncle Tom's cabin 1s0ks out to sea from the curving beach of Tangiers bay, and: a: ‘'arge American flag flaps in front of ds door. When American ships drop their hooks heie, the liberty partiés rush for Uncle Tom's cabin—for where else in Africa ¢an a man buy Coca-Cola and chicken fried by a Memphis Negro? - Uncle Tom’s name is Henri Perkins. He is very plack, and he has a snazzy gray. spade beard, sweeping moustachios, and a very bad temper. He hasnt been home since 1920. NN

Arabs Like Fowl—to Steal : YOU MIGHT SAY that Uncle Tom is am. unre-

constructed individualist. ‘This individualism sa. sionally leads him into jail, because when Uncle Tom

gets angry he is apt as pot to crack a skull. He's

are lots of Arabs and Spaniards in Tangier, Unciq Tom is impatient most of the time. / Master Perkins straggled into Tangier in 1936. A roving saxophone player, he had landed some yeais earlier in Barcelona, where Perkins’ quick restaurant \.was in considerable vogue. The. Spanish civit war began, and Uncle Tom was taken from Spain on the U. 8. 8S. Omaha, together with other American nationals. When he hit the beach at Tangier he was busted. He got a job cooking for 10 francs a month and keep. The American consul general advanced him a couple thousand pesetas to start his restaurant, and Ungle Tom built it with his own hands. He married a native woman and business thrived. Uncle Tom is an object of wide controversy in Tangier. He says, and other people say, that he was

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs Atomic Security Dispute Continues

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energy commission and the department of justice debated the question. Attorney General Tom C. Clark ordered the prosecuted. Here is the vital issue: Can we fit control of this new power into the framework of our democratic institution? That is what the atomic energy commission is seeking to do with the aid of the FBL ' Their task is being made doubly difficult "by what appears to be a deliberate campaign to discredit the commission and restore control to the army, which would then presumably edércise a ditatorship over the greatest force on earth.

Both in congress and within the commission, belief

is growing that Gen. Groves has encouraged this campaign, °His admirers reflect what may be his own inner conviction that only he can be entrusted with preservation of the “secret.”

Security Threat Not Talk OTHER RECENT NEWS STORIES gave prominence to Communism in connection with the atomic energy project. Though this occurred - while the military was still in control, that fact is not brought out and the casual reader is left with the impression it happened under the civilian commission. The, real threat to our security lies’ deeper than the sensational talk of secrets and spies. Our scien-

tific progress depends on perhaps a hundred key men. .

They are the men of genius and intellect, with sensitive minds. They will not and cannot work in a concentration camp with congress and the army sitting outside the door. The American experts who investigated why Germany had made so little advance in atomic research concluded that one of the chief reasons was the Nazi dictatorship. Despising the mind and men of the mind, the Nazis put their scientists in a gilded cage and said: “Now produce for us.” , In Soviet Russia, the cage is gven more cushy and padded. Russia's distinguished scienjists are showered with privileges, but still it is a cage. ~~

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»f consideranle aid during the war to allied i.itelligence, #nd that he has been pushed around a bit lately, by our ministry. It is a matter of record, I believe, that a group of Spanish soldiers tried to Kill him, and that he was forced to crack half-a-dozen skulls with a stout club. . . - They slapped him in the jug last year, on a charge of assault, when it was alleged that he became so annoyed that he nearly murdered an Arab lad. | Uncle Tom is wearing navy grays, now, since the American ships have started coming back to Tangier. Almost every afternoon you can see half-a-dozen bluejackets sitting in the thatched patio of his little shop, greasy to the ears with his chicken. Uncle Tom

. raises all his own fowl, and he never leaves his place

at night, because he doesn’t trust those chickens in the presence of Arabs. He is very proud of his flag, which he says was sent him.from Washington, and he says all he ever wanted was to get a “well-done” from President \Roosevelt. Some people say Uncle Tom didn’t get his pig flag from Washington at all—that it was given him by the British, ‘

Home to Memphis COME FALL, Uncle Tom says, he is going back lo visit his native land for the first time in 27 years, and he is heading straight to Washington to holler about the way a man gets treated abroad by his own people. Uncle Tom says he is a proud man and it hurts his\ feelings to get flung nj, hecuuse back Ry Aven 3 man can protect property a

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SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow James F. D. Lanier—Great Financier

“IN 1823 HE entered the practice of law, traveling at that time the| terminus of the Ba!'' nore & Ohio what was known as the ‘southeastern circuit on horse« not a little anxiety on account’ back, guided through the forests by biased trees and more than 300 miles thraugh

Indian trails, and crossing the streams in log canoes When he dell gold to Levy Woodbury. or by swimming his horse,” commented the Indian- gecretary of the Woodbury told him that apolis Journal of Aug. 29, 1881, on the early career his bank was the orjh in the United States that of James F. D. Lanier; who had died in New York offered to pay its hted: in specie. No other the previous Saturday, Aug. 21, 1881, aged 81. banker in the U States ever lugged $80,000 in The first striking thing about Lanier’s career is gold across any or mountains to Washington - that he switched from a thrifty successful start in in order to be d fair with his government. d to New York. In 1849, he nslow, Lanier & Co. The firm ps, at times at the rate of a jo build 10,794 miles of rail1 war he helped Governor . His . As the war opened, he was a major general under William Henry Harrison advanced Morton, $40 without security. In 1863, in 1812. His family moved to Madison, Ind., in. 1817, he helped with another oan Alter Yin Var, Tie went where his father had a dry goods store and died in- to Europe to refinance $8 billion of the war debt guivegt In 130. Lanier afterwards paid. his Sathery at a lower rate of int Carried $80,000 In Gold TES VISIBLE denjoe of in modern Indi-" LANIER'S FIRST big ana 5B home. wt dison, in 1844. Tt cost of 1837. As the largest subscriber ‘The architecture is with a touch of he became the president of the Madison Tuscan. . F ; » Later of control for the Blind, form + the the bank had in rica

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