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- "Special" Judges and the Lotteries NE of the reasons Indianapolis needs a law against printing and possession of lottery tickets was pointed up very clearly, we thought, by Eugené M. Fife Jr., at the public hearing city council held on the subject last Monday

evening.

Mr. Fife, an attorney, was there to oppose such a law, stating that he represented certain printers of lottery tickets. Lottery tickets are, of course, an essential part of the $9,000,000-a-year lottery racket here, and can be used only for illegal purposes, although they are not at present

illegal themselves.

Only a month ago Mr. Fife, sitting then as a “special”

judge dismissed (for lack of evidence) five men charged with running a lottery. There was no evidence because Mr. (temporarily “Judge'') Fife refused to admit what the police had—Ilottery tickets—as proof that a lottery was being held. He barred this “evidence” because he found the search warrant on which the police had entered the headquarters technically faulty. The warrant had been issued

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appointed judge of that same court in ‘which Mr. Fife was sitting for this one case only. Judge Clark had found this same warrant legally correct. Mr. Fife simply over-ruled him.

¥ » » . ® » (GRANTED that he had ample precedent for what he - decided. : So many technicalities have been developed in our courts that it is virtually impossible ‘to convict a lottery racketeer in Indianapolis.

Most of it, we believe, has been accumulated through |, the decisions of men sitting as was Mr. Fife, as “special” |

judges for a single case. Gradually these “special” judges, who have responsihility to no one, and who never have to face the voters, have repealed the laws our state legislature has enacted against lotteries, by simply making it fantastically difficult to prove the guilt of those who run them. No such loophole was intended, in this law. It has been whittled out there by the interpretations of the law which our local courts have made,

» . . Ee Ea » NDER this system of jurisprudence by technicality the * lottery rackets, naturally, have thrived here. More than 50 operate now in Indianapolis. Last year they took in more than $9,000,000.

Those that are honestly run paid out about one dollar

of every four received in prizes to winners. Most of them are not honestly run, and keep far more than three-fourths of their gross receipts. . In the recent past they have directly caused three gang killings in quarrels over the lush profits. They are responsible for scores of hold-ups, some for many thousands of dollars filched from the suckers who buy lottery tickets. They have directly caused a number of embezzlements great and small by the suckers who play them—and in some of those the victim has gone to prison while the racketeer went free. Their pay-off man offers bribes lavishly out of the huge slush fund to which many of them regularly contribute. That is the ‘{business” which Mr. Fife's clients who print lottery tickets have retained him to defend. It is the.“business” for which somebody is financing the circulation of petitions to influence city councilmen. It cannot exist without ‘the lottery tickets Mr. Fife's clients supply. Lottery tickets can be used ONLY to violate the law— and for nothing else. We believe, along with Mayor Denny and Police Chief Sanders, and most of the law-abiding people of Indianapolis, that it can be stopped if these lottery tickets are outlawed. We believe the lottery racketeers think so too. If they didn’t why would they go to the lengths they have to beat this ordinance?

Albania Not Qualified

HE United Nations established a sound precedent when Albania’s application for membership was held in abeyance until it could be determined whether that country intended to comply with recent recommendations of the United Nations security council, ! The action was taken at the suggestion of the delegate from Brazil. : Recently the Albanian government was charged with having mined the Corfu channel, where several British vessels were damaged by underwater explosions. The security council reviewed the case, then recommended that Britain and Albania present the dispute to the international court of justice for formal hearing. Britain has complied, but Albania has not. _ Albania’s government has made itself one of the postwar world’s problem children. Currently, it is on the spot again, accused of serving as headquarters for the invasion of Greece by leftist revolutionists. To admit Albania to United Nations membership under such circumstances would mock the whole theory of an organization dedicated to peace and justice. Russia, as usual, dissented from the majority view, urging that Albania’s behavior in world war II be considered in passing on her eligibility, Why bring that up? Albania’s contribution to the war was of no great consequence, in any event. The question now is whether she intends to live at peace with her neighbors. The evidence so far in the record is all to the contrary,

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States that he end his feud

control. Today China's political

The generalissimo must

the United States, too, had the Communists.

invite the Communists into

From

Japanese until he found a

final refuge at Chungking, Chiang was in no better position to introduce reforms in his country than was George Washington during his winter at Valley Forge. Yet an important section of the American press began to clamor ‘for changes in Chiang’s regime as early as 1944.

S soon as peace was proclaimed in 1945, Chiang was confronted with a peremptory demand by the United

with the Communists. This

was to be done by formation of a Nationalist-Communist coalition government for a United China. while these negotiations were in progress there was little time to devote to other political problems. too, the Nationalists’ position was deteriorating because the ‘Russians «were evacuating+)igsated Manchuria in + such a way as to turn over that area to Communist

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even more complicated than it was at the end of the war. But that is due as much to Soviet intrigues and American indecision as it is to Chinese ineptitude. had a free hand in his own country until recently.

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have suppressed a wry smile

when he suggested to a group of American editors that

a stake in his fight against

That view is gaining wide though belated recognition in this country. our state department was insisting that Chiang Kai-shek

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Hoosier Forum "I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will detend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire

By P.T. H,

Indianapolis. live it is like a speedway with all

day and far into the night.

| got run over playing in the street,

noise through some ignorant renters | and their company, but by this I do not mean all renters. There are | several sick people in this neigh- | borhood who cannot get any rest dye to all this noise. You have a very good thing in|

1 hopé you will get this through and cause some noise abatement laws to be passed and enforced. Several other people I know are in favor of this, too. I, for one, am | very grateful for this noise abatement program.

» LJ . Birthday Party For Herbert Hoover By L. T. BR, Greenfield Aug. 10 will mark the 73d birth. day of the nation’s only living exPresident, Herbert Hoover. Slowly but surely the heavy fog created by the terrific smear cam-

paign against him is rising, and there he remains upright and strong with a character ever in-

Long after this mist has vanished into the thin air, Mr, Hoover's services to humanity will be bered Sh

the noise abatement program, and

City's Noise Bars Sleep; Pounds Ears of Ailing

Indianapolis

I would like to add my bit to this discussion of the noise in I am very glad to see it voiced for once.

Here where I the big trucks racing by, speeding

cars and motorcycles roaring by without mufflers. : Between car doors slamming and horns blowing all hours of the night, we average between two and three hours of sleep every night. Also we have too many house doors slamming, radios blaring loud all

There are lots of children playing ball in the middle of the street, yelling and whooping as loud as they can. Two small children almost

I am a home owner and we home owners have to put up with this

Wants "Non-Profit" Ft. Harrison Homes

By Fred A. Sondermann, 2832 Park ave. While the housing situation for veterans in Indianapolis is so serious that even a Ft. Harrison housing project could not solve this problem completely, it is nevertheless evident that such a project would be a material alleviation of the present housing crisis, I understand that two methods of disposing of the Ft. Harrison housing have been proposed: One by a group of businessmen who woud

+|agsume complete manggement of

the available housing at the Fort, and one by the local chapters of the American Veterans Committee, under whose sponsorship a co-opera-

China Is in Need of a Fair Deal . .. And Now

HIANG KAI-SHEK’S plea for more sympathetic con‘sideration of China's problems by the American press invites thoughtful examination. When inequalities in China's social system are taken out of their true perspective and measured by western standards, it is easy to get a distorted picture of conditions in that.Vast and complex country. : ~The so-called Chinese republic was little more than a name when the Japanese began war in 1937. Warlords controlled certain areas, the Communists others. then until 1941 China stood alone against the invader, and from 1941 until 1945 Nationalist China itself was divided between Chiang’s forces and the Japs.

By WILLIAM H. NEWTON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NANKING, July 29.—If the United States does not provide quick and effective aid to China, the Communists may seize control of more than half of China's land area and almost all her richest natural resources within a year or two, wellinformed sources here said today. The drea north of the Yellow river could be taken by the Chinese Communist armies, these sources believe. This would include all Manchuria, all inner Mongolia, all Shantung and the Hopeh provinces, including such cities as Peiping, Mukden, Changchun, Harbin Tientsin and Tsingtao where the U. S., Seventh Fleet is now stationed. It was believed ‘Russia .would not take over actual control of the area immediately, but instead would follow her usual practice of exercising control through the Communist party. This would make the richest half of China a satellite of the Soviet Union with about the same status as Yugoslavia. The difference is that North China has a population of more than 200 million people. : Nation Near Collapse

Today China's economy is edging dangerously close to disaster. Her industries have been destroyed and her resources depleted by 12 years of war against‘ Japan, followed by two years’ civil war. : Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer's factfinding mission ‘is continuing its efforts here in Nanking to find a workable means of aiding China. There are some indications that Gen. Wedemeyer is being advised by some American circles to demand as a condition to American aid certain reforms which China is utterly incapable of carrying out.. These circles want full American civil rights and liberties put into effect in all China at once—despite the fact that the Chinese people have had no experience whatever with democracy in their 5000 years’ history. They have little comprehension of what the- word means. These Americans want Chiang Kai-shek to reduce his admittedly over-expanded army to a wellequipped force of about 10 divisions. That would give him one-sixth the number of regula troops the Chinese Communists say they are using. ' Chiang Can't Quit They propose -that the nationalist government cease attacking the Chinese communists and in effect give them sovereignty over the area north of the Yellow river. Thi$ is the only surplus-producing area of China and it contains the greatest industrial possibilities. The Nationalist government would be left, with the deficit areas and would require continuing foreign loans in order to exist at all. They urge the ousting of Chinese provincial governors, magistrates and {mayors which no one with any real {knowledge of China believes possibly could be accomplished by Chiang Kai-shek at the present stage of China's development even if he were determined to do it. Concern- over the possibility that American demands may be beyond his power to achieve was indicated by Chiang in press interviews here. He hinted he could never consent to givingf the Chinese communists half of China without a fight. Only General Wedemeyer can say what his proposal for helping China will’ be—and the general isn't talk-

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Are Crooners to Cure Crime?

This morning I allowed my mind to stray from thoughts.of the third world war and to be gripped by the discovery that an amazing number of Indian-

And for fear that this might be too big a dose to swallow in one gulp, it fortifies the thesis with exhibits from prisons all over the country, every one of which confirms the fact that “there were no men or women (in any of them) who had had any form

warm and inviting to the people who have lived, previously, in the rat races of our big cities.

WASHINGTON, July 31.—This could be the story

Self-Criticism Needed as Backgreund . -

lieve the pressure of the 800,000 or more war refugees. We should examine our failure and the reasons for it. Only against a background of self-criticism

Washington sounding board for a big publicity buildup that finally led to the initial $18 million plane contract that Kaiser later turned over to Hughes, This new probe is the annual senate sideshow. The main attraction under the big top Capitol dome has closed. The barkers are out drumming up customers for the extra added attraction. Last year the stars were Andy May and the Garsson brothers. Two years ago, Pear] Harbor. This year, millionaire Howard Hughes and wimmin! The big laugh of this story is that the senate war

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

INVESTIGATION . . . By Peter Edson

of musical education up to the time of the crimes for which they were imprisoned.” - . ; Such generalizations, I don’t mind saying, scare

extent. Indeed, I'll even venture a prediction. Chances are that next Friday (Aug. 1), on the occasion of the centennials’ gala performance of “Aida,” the Butler Bowl audience will contain less potential jail birds than any crowd ever assembled in Indianapolis.

found in Europe or in the Pacific or at home. There are no milkshakes here, and the plumbing

‘Let Him Who Is Without Fault...

of the explanation is simple xenophobia—fear.of the foreigner.

have and divide it among ourselves. Rep. Stratton has not given up. He believes congress has come a lot nearer to understanding the

to see why they cannot live forever in purgotory.

ald Nelson, with heavy White House and

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apolis folks are, at this very moment, reading Olga ypoi appears on the surface, buf because of s ENGA( Samaroff Stokowski's “The Layman's suspicion that they pack the potential power of lights of the In on my part re- reciprocal threats. First thing we know, our mu- - - veals that the run of the book sicians will have us belleve that a man ts a fit subject Mr. an started almost simultaneously with for a penitentiary just because he doesn't happen gagement somebody's bringing to light the to like. music. : Weber. Th fact that it is now a hundred Wi —- ' : years since Indianapolis discarded ithout a Song : Mrs. Harry short pants for a longer pair I LEARNED about Stanley's fondness for Jenny \ The wedd! The celebration of the centen- Lind from another book. According to this source, Capitol Avenu nial, in case you lead a sheltered he couldn't abide her singing. Indeed, it affected Miss Josephine life, is way of a prolonged him so disagreeably that, whenever she stayed at maids will be music festival served al fresco (Butler bowl). So tar WS fatner's house, he had fo leave the room when william W jas.1 know, Ah Se ig Sp emary hay, te One evening, so runs story, Jenny Lind had - Wisner ava OF 1, too, have read the Samaroff book. Who hasn't? Stated to sing Handel's “I Krow That My Re- Aug. 7. The | I received my copy by way of an emotional enthu- deemer Liveth.” As usual, Arthur Stanley, a mere Guests wi siast who, no doubt, wanted me to share the com- Kid at the time, had to leave the room, but he came mother; Mrs. ‘plete triumph of musicians over orators. Indeed, buck ster the musié was over ‘and went shyly up aren eget dog-eared copy carried some penciled margin oy u “ h J HES = a second te of which —— one no al- You know," he said, “I hate music, but tonight My Day ternative but to believe that this would be a much ¥hen from a distance I heard you singing I had an G better world if handed over, in toto, to the musicians Pking of what people meah by music. i 5 ermal to run—thus disposing not only of orators, but of And then he went on to explain: “Some years everybody else as well, ago,” he sald, “I was at Vienna and one evening Seen Se ; . f there was a tattoo before the emperor's palace per- \ Music Hath Powers... formed by 400 drummers. I felt shakgn and tonight AMAROFF books gets off to an early start while listening to your singing the same feeling came Influen to prove the point, As early as page 62, for example, over me; I was deeply moved ” 3 it reveals the discovery that gut of 30,000 children Well, it took me longer than I expected to estab- By ELEAN( who had studied music in a New Yofk settlement lish the fact that not all tone-deaf people are BELL house “not one had ever been brought before a ni headed for penitentiaries. However, I'll « CAMPO Juvenile court for delinquency.” * string along with Olga Samaroff Stokowski to some’ , Brunswick, July

I noticed an ir on a report mn Bilva-Jones, Su the German wi the British zon At the Paris International ness and Profe

woof cx ler nn rm a rom wear de nf Tf ER SE EE em hp oe ks A ASH Pr ee said that she niorgeftable Smells of Casablanca “Jf mui. ! : the lines of th CASABLANCA, Morocco, July 30.~The smell of The Medinas and Casbahs—the ancient walled SORE, She Africa is: a thing I was never able to forget, even quarters where dwell the Arabs and the Spaniards of her isolatior after four years—and I think the smell is what and the Jews—are only slums. They are made up Nazi regime ns draws a man back, because the all of Africa is » Siaese . twisting streets. They are filthy with nities to take p imprisoned in the odor. : all Sariselvatle filth. They buzz with flies, reek with of her commun ors, to be a force fi It is hard to break down the smell. Some of it Reeking Filth wy is rotting vegetables and dung. Much of it is : : hig : raneld cooking oll; that, and Bah 10 and BUT THEY are ancient slums, and interesting MANY — red. earth and the odor of plaster bull as very slums. There is still the flash of a dark eye behind a old. The Bougainvillea gets mixed up in the smell, ".°doW, the tinkle of a mandolin from a hidden EiivaJonag so) and the scent of the fruity vermouths that the ~JUATE, the high cry of the muezzin in the mosque, for . anti-Nazi , A : ev -and the shrill voices of women, raised behind plaster ’ people drink in the sidewalk cafes. eager now to ! . i walls. You know, as I have done, that you can step happening in Casablanca vs. Chicago through a. narrow doorway, off the reeking, filthy, "world, particu THERE ARE people here today who couldn’t get cobbled streets, and walk into a Persian garden. WORD. and wo the smell out of their nostrils, once they were back There is all the vice of the centuries in the from other nat in the states. There is a former navy supply chief Medina, and the stroller is subtly aware of it as Almost on tl living here now. He was a postal clerk in Chicago he walks, although it never touches him. The ', read this item before the war, and when he was discharged he bousbir is there—government city of degraded women, from a Germa. went back to Chicago. He said he couldn't stand it. Working off their sentences in the only way they dort, which is The smell of Casablanca kept coming back in the know. There are thieves’ markets, brothels staffed 1 am going to ¢ night and before long he pulled stakes. by children, places where you can get your throat I think it wi This man, Nate Helfer, wallows in the freedom cut all too easily, - women in this of life here. He is free to drink a vermouth and Possibly I am an incurable romantic, and what Miss Silv watch the pretty French girls pedal by on their that is old and subtly evil and compounded of the “I am associ bicycles; free to go to Fedhala to swim; free to culture of many lands and many peoples is unduly union shortly f relax when he wishes. . . . The word, I suppose, exciting, but Africa has never been disappointing to * geldorf, which that sums it up is “free.” Free in a land that is me. I get a whack out of the place that I never > name Deutsche

am a membe board.

There is time to think, here; time to take a nap is capricious, but there are Arabs wearing G.I. pants - in the afternoon; time to spend two hours over branded “PW,” for “prisoner of war,” and spies and “THIS is a w lunch; time to flit in and out.of your headquarters international crooks and dignified bedouins from the political chara without feeling guilty. Coastal Africa is filled with desert and veiled women and a blue sky with a brass only intends t Americans, now, who found' the grind of routine ball for the sun ... and like ex-chief Nate -Helfer, questions and living in the states unbearable. ) I am happy too. of public intert A “Of course, IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs - Lk ire

just now, after broken down, prove that woi deal also with

. introduced his bill to admit 100,000 DP’s a year, the those which o of a miracle. It could be the story of how, miracu- first reaction was one of indifference compounded them under th lously at the eleventh hour, congress relented and with ignorance. “German wo agreed to admit within our borders a part of the Hearings showed how wide was the support for the to realize wha human tragedy tagged as displaced persons. Stratton bill. Both Catholic and Protestant church they must do But failure of that miracle may stand out above groups urged passage. It was brought out that about Therefore, I f all the other sins of omission in the first session of 70 per cent of the displaced persons are Roman Cath~ make contacts the 80th congress. : ly olics. Union spokesmen testified for the bill, with with women « To the rest of the world, it was a sign that we are only one or two in opposition. After opposing it, the over the worl unwilling to play a part in clearing up the Jeckage General Federation of Women's Clubs came out for it. what progress of the war. It is a sign of our fear and suspicion. It . . ing the past y is a confession that the great past, when America was Xenophobia Explains Part of Delay : what they are a refuge for the persecuted and the oppressed, is no YET WITH ALL THIS organized support, reluctant world peace, more. ‘ members of congress have dragged their feet. Part among the peo

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OUR FAILURE is related directly and immediately But there is a deeper and related reason. It found “WE GERM to the tensions that are growing throughout the open expression in the opposition of the American not authorizes world. Action by the United States would have re- Legion to the Stratton bill anything of ( lieved tensions elsewhere. This opposition was based on the belief that we view of the | As a result of the folly of British policy in Pales- must take, care of our own—housing and jobs for our world. But w tine, that whole area is now the center of an increas- veterans. It rests on the conviction that America can great powers, ingly bitter feud. In reply to our criticism, the Brit no longer expand; that there are fixed limits to our “It is quite ¢ ish can point out that we have done nothing to re- capacity to produce, and that we must hoard what we two alternativ

present, one war, and anof world war.

have we a right to criticize others, displaced persons. A house committee may go abroad which is gene To begin with, most congressmen had little knowl- in the near future to visit the DP camps. While no What is your } edge as to who the displaced persons were, why they outsider can understand the longing and desperation . about it? would not go home and, therefore, what the real prob- in the minds of those tragic people, it will be possible “Of course, lem was. When Rep. William G. Stratton of Illinois war, because

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“On the oth z there are too / . : troversies exis ree Cs—Cuties, Cash an orn easly settled . . / ings and spee WASHINGTON, July 30.—The senate war investi- advocating use of shipyards for building flying boats. D DT R gating committee's probe into Howard Hughes’ $81 He appeared first before the Truman committee. ia million ‘worth of airplane contracts and the three C's en De Salked oe he hall of fhe Re Ul aan own fy cuties, cash and corn—completes a daisy chain begun ,q.i committee. At noon he spoke before the Na- © 41 close relat five years ago, lacking only one day. For on July 29, tional Press club. He took the town. chemists, say 1042, the senate war investigating committee under But army and navy would have none of it. They Gardens mag: Harry 8. Truman gave Henry J. Kaiser his first gave-him a complete brushoff. But on Aug. 10 Don- [rr————