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BULLETINS |Senator Taft Enters Race : fim Red ‘Boss’ For GOP Nomination i in’
CHICAGO, Oot. 34. An) —A United Airlines DC airplane carrying 46 nd
sengers and a crew of four i
from Los Angeles to New York “apparently” crashed and burned today while attempting to make an emergency landing at Bryce Canyon Airport in Utah, an airline official said.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 24 (UP) ~An explosion® wrecked a fourstory pharmaceutical laboratory along the Delaware River today. Several employees were believed buried in debris. More than 12 persons were taken to St. Mary's Hospital.
Teachers to Face Resolutions Fight
Repeal of $39 Million Fund Limit Urged
TONIGHT Lecture by Arthur Bliss Lane, 1:30 p. m., Cadle Tabernacle.
By DONNA MIKELS The resolutions sessions, promises to be the most vital topic op the agendas of the anntial Indiana State Weachers Association convention here as it moved into its final day. Most of the 15000 teachers attending crowded Cadle Tabernacle this morning for the business session. With the exception of the resolution side of the meeting, the rest ‘of the session was ex-| pected to fall into routine pattern. Harmony is expected in the elec-| tion session, with no opposition to the choice of the nominating committee for president, Miss Gertrude|
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58th YEAR—NUMBER- 195
OUR FAIR CITY—WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT OUR ‘NEXT MAYOR TO DO ‘9
‘Sick And Tired Of Dumps
HAT IN RING—Sen. Robert A. Teft (R, O) today announced he will seek the GOP nomination for President in | 1948,
Gosh, It's Awful
LOCAL "EMPERATURES
6am..... 58 10a m..... 64 & A 53° 11a. m..... 68% $am....5 12 (Neon).. 71 9am. by 60 Ipom..... 78 Cool’ weather invaded Indian-
Robert A. Taft of Ohio today an- | [nounced his candidacy for. next ieciined today that a Communist
Joars X ublisun Presiden nom- |p rty member sent to Hollywood | atio
of a former President, Howard Taft, 1909-13. i | Mr, Taft keyed his announce- | American Activities Committee that: ment to a cautious campaign of | avoiding pre-convention primary | er he is dead or alive" contests with aspirants. His announcement came in the|communism-in-Hollywood {face of determined insistence by tgation, identified the missing Red be able to find out anything from | many influential Republicans thati!as Ely Jacobson, former director of City Hall. Mr. Taft would be a weak candidate. ‘ |
influential man in his party. They insist that the 1948 GOP| Reds. platform must be largely a Taft!son sometime in 1938-39 and asked | platform because he was so effec- (for tive in%shaping the party's legisla-| tion during Congress.
{baffling political figure.
| wooly radical.
lin the United States Congress.
—Photo by John Spi NEW DUMP Neighbors congregate in the front yard of Mrs. Pearl Decker, 321 W. Regent St., (extreme right) to watch delefully the beginning of a new dump across from their homes. They have been fighting dumps
Rep.- Brown Will Manage Campaign LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Sen.
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other Republican
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Probers' Told Ledder ‘Disappeared’
{to “run” the film cdlony broke with 'South Side Health and ImproveWilliam [the Reds and later “disappeared.”
Mr. Carlson told the House Un“1 don't know to this day wheth-
Mr. Carlson, second witness at|
[the fifth session of the committee's for 20 years,’ investi- (and tired of it.
“The Workers’ School in New York.” Mr. Carlson said Mr.
His supporters respond sharply was sent to Hollywood by New York |
the past session of]
Baffling Political Figure
To some persons he is a wild and |
Mr. Taft’s greatest weakness or
his greatest strength may prove to! be the Labor Control
Bill which | he sponsored and carried to enact-
ment in the Senate this year.
Organized labor through its
lspokesman appears to be boiling |
mad at Mr. Taft. He was picketed
McComb, Terre Haute Junior High, apolis and vicinity -today following on his Western tour.
School teacher, Seeks to Repeal Law Opposition from the floor is unlikely. The only other aspirant for the presidency, Leon Von Schepper, Brookville high school teacher, an- - nounced his withdrawal to preserve unity after the nominsting
committee chose Miss b. Ira L. Huntington, J County school superintendent, is nominee
for vice president. Heated debate is expected when Robert G. Downing, Osgood teacher, presents his resolution asking Gov. Gates to call 8 ‘special session of the legislature. Mr. Downing seeks repeal of a state law which limits the state's portion of school finances to $89,500,000, He asks that some of the surplus state funds which are
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|three days of record breaking tem-| peratures. * ! Tomorrow. afternoon's football fans, however, were promised slighily warmer weather for Hoosier gridiron matches. Skies are expected to be partly cloudy for the remainder of the week. The mercury rose to 84 yesterday
bettering by two degrees the previcus|
But regardless of the effect o the Taft-Hartley Act on the Senator's political future, the Repub~ lican platform will have to adopt and indorse its principles next year. Mr, Taft's name will be entered only in the Ohio presidential primary. It 1s not likely that any other candidate will invade his backyard. The only other avowed candidate
all-time high for Oct. 23 set in 1894.
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GOP Hoists Go-Slow Sign On Europe Aid, High Prices
Two Republican leaders of the House ran up the “go-slow” signal today on President Truman's ideas
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Amusements . 24 Dr. O'Brien... 26
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for dealing with high prices at home and European relief in the Nov, 17 | special session of Congress. Their warnings came as Mr. Tru-
sion. He will speak over all net-
§ p.m (Indianapolis Time).
Read an Editorial, “Time for a Special Session,” Page 22 WASHINGTON, Oct, 24 (UP)—
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scarce commodities, such as steel and grain, with possibly a revival of
{break with the Communist Party” {Mr. Carlson testified. The Senator is a fascinating and ribly agitated and was afraid he Meridiah St, is off-limits to young{was going to be killed.
{that Mr, Taft already is the most | Communist headquarters to teach {propaganda techniques to filmland |
Jacobson called Mr, Carl-
Afraid of Being Killed i
“He told me he had decided to|t
“Later he disappeared from Los!
That is what oppo-|Angeles and I don't know to this| nents of public housing think of (day whether he is dead or alive.” him.
Mr, Carlson, of
in the study]
lof California extension division,
He said Mr. Jacobson taught]
communism at the workers school jin New York in 1926-27. Mr. JacobThe Times Shaw Vote— 2)
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Vandals Cut Tires, Smash Window |
Tires of four automobiles parked on the streets were punctured by | knives, and a window of a resi-|
dence was smashed, in a wave of vandalism last night. Myron Bettles, 5258 Park Ave. reported that all four tires on his car were slashed by a knife, Raleigh Green, 210 E. 51st 8t,| sald two of his tires were flattened by knife punctures. Meredith Scott, 4519 Guilford Ave, reported two tires on his car and two on his neighbor's car had been punctured. Mable Carter, 1018 Cedar 8t., said that vandals threw a rock at her house, smashing a transom vie
ron Mr, and Mrs. Vernon Kimmel, 4227 Crittenden Ave. entered their driveway, some one threw a brick at them, denting the right
He said Mr. Truman has “Do;
.+++++ 30 man prepared to address the nation workable plans” to meet the pres-| OUTDOORS —
|a “rubber stamp.” {many of the key House Appropria-
. The President may give additional) ifons Committee, returned from a
-- 33ldtails of the administration pro-|Buropesn inspection tour and seid gram lobfesmbating the Bign cou:lhe had seen me
evidence ‘in France that Hitee
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Rep. John. Tabor (R. N.Y), chair-
side of the car.
Playgrounds Needed, Street Corners Now ‘Recreation Centers’
section on the west from Minnesota St. to Bluff Ave.
burning chemicals: The west wind blows the smoke into Merididn St., driving residents off their porches.
St. Despite years of complaining from South Side housetholders, the dumps continue to smolder and smoke.
piles which dot this wild rough area. there. It has always been there,
[to Southsiders as | identified by a weathered sign on a tree behind the high, spiked weeds which screen the dump approaches
\A Gigantic Municipal Trash Burner
desolate terrain, pitted with smoke rising slowly from scattered piles of trash.
scrap metal and industrial waste which are dumped hourly into the ’ area. 4 day. Trucks from Eli Lilly & Co, Kingan & Co. and ¢the City Hall | {
dump there. is the odor of sewer debris and street sweepings.
blocks from one of Our Fair City's most substantial residential neighborhoods.
excelsior, and “manufacture o medicinal products.
.. =» i told the truth about what is going ‘Shots at Night—By the Rat Hunters on i Europe, This J not war talk, DUMP MEN deny rats breed there. But men and women have seen : ity peace talk. This is the only way
rats dart out from alleys leading from the dumps inte Meridign Bt. rats, they say, “big as cats.”
‘say the residents whese backyards overlook the city's trash basket.
‘up and raked over by the City. But west of these. gr WASHINGTON, Oct, 24. (UP) — trains are {Oliver Carlson, propaganda analyst, I property.
in the 300 block of Regent St
ment Club, has been watching the of the Park Board, keeps an eye on
new dump grow these last four his kid sluggers. An ex-heavy-| shot of military power, Russia will months. With the dump, the rats| Weigh’ turned farmer, “Tiny” os! assume “we are bluffing.” grow she ‘said been boxing coach at the Center 0 0a Ire The “iron curtain” already sure
to death trying Jacobson | done.
Side. of teen-agers are
d |taverns, an interview, the witness sai tor high adventure.
only a “He was, ter-| The
sters living east of Meridian, by of jis kind in Our Pair City, tke Pressed firemen and volunteers,
| playground, complain the parents, | Los Angeles, |The kids come home with bloody To some other voters Mr, Taft identified himself as a writer and noses and split lips, they say. is an unspeakable Tory. To many |teacher specializing lof his fellow citizens Mr. Taft looks |of propaganda techniques. He said
llike the most competent legislator lhe now works for the University St+ the city playground gates are wir That's the street -! y locked, so the youngsters play touch ata =u 8 Lhe street, the Works fires from Northern Maine to Con fortball in the street.
permit a handy comparison:
.. 22 by radio tonight to outline his rea- ent crisis and declared that the| 21 sons or summoning the special ses- Republican Congress would not be 3 fishing and happenings in | ...____ Sportsmen's associations are |
©® Prospects for hunting and
reported by Mare C. Waggener in his, OUTDOORS column. i ® It's an EXCLUSIVE every= Friday feature of The Times, Turn bo Page 31 @
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are. persons whose nimes are taken from the city directory on a stantly in front of the Boviet em-| Soviet
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What the Voters Ask, Mr. Candidate—
ONE: What is the policy of the candidates toward .| : i existing dumps? : 4 TWO: Is it possible to regulate the dumping of offal within two blocks of residences? THREE: Will new dumping grounds egntinue to spring: up beside old ones? FOUR: What kind of recreation program is in store for the South Side? FIVE: What will be ‘the city's policy in vacating 4
streets? 2
Residents Also Irked Because Works Board
‘Gave Away’ a Part of Singleton St. By RICHARD LEWIS FOR A GENERATION, the South Side has lived under pall of smoke, It rises from a no-man's land of dumps, flanking this
In the smoke are smells of offal, rotting garbage and
No-man's land begins 200 yards west of S. Meridian
Lane Asks Firm Policy Toward Russia to Prevent New Conflict |
‘| Ex-Envoy Says [aly, 5 | France on Stalin List H By ROBERT BLOEM | « Appeasement of Russia has \gorte far enough, Arthur | Bliss Lane, former ambassaldor to Poland, said here to- ,
in the trash The smoke is always
Fires break out, sometimes spontaneously,
Three private dumping grounds are operated in the acreage known the Caven-Minnesota St. Dumps, The area Is
BEYOND THE TREES there is a ridge. Beyond the ridge, lies the
holes like some battlefield, with gray
Old men with high wheeled carts pick over the boxes, cans, barrels,
“It-is the responsibility of | the American people, through the g press and through thelr represen- i "| tatives in Congress, to see to it : that we now adopt a policy of firmness and patience, but with em- pi phasis on firmness, toward the 8 ‘| Soviet,” he sald. “he . | “And in order to do that, the peo{ple of the United States must be
The odor of rotting animal offal is unmistakable. So
" This is acre upon acre of a gigantic municipal trash burner, two |
Here are wood crates filled with inflammable trash; barrels of | broken bedsteads, rotting mattresses, glass, burnt roofing siding, rusted plumbing, broken furniture and slag from the
. Rat hunters, | Bouthward, dumping grounds abutting Bluff Ave. have been Seared!
nds, City. trashy” on private
i ld speak f iy tell th ruth The new dump is materializing across the street from residences bol oveg ‘appeasement’ of j© reely an . Russia has. gone far ar enough, | out he ord: ol :
10 Perish in Maine Lm
At night, rifle shots ring out’ acrosd the
dumping a growing mountain of tif
Mrs. Pearl Decker of 321 W, Regent St., vice president of the
Unless the United States adopts | policy of firmness, Mr. Lane said, and unless it is backed up with 8
er Tiny Bland, a part- -time smplovoe|
two years. In that time; he has spent $1800)
{rounds eastern’ Europe, he said, BAR HARBOR, Me., Oct. 24 (UP) Prom the nations represented at the ot of his own pocket to keep the! [recent revival of the Comintern at {youngsters in equipment. He not ~Regd-eyed, soot-grimed fire Aght- oo 4 may be inferred France only teaches them how to box. He ©r* #ppeared today to be Winning and Italy are next on Stalin's list. to get something counsels them on school, finds them their battle against walls of flame | Cites Italy Crisis jobs and takes them home now «uc which have leveled two-thirds of “The situation in Italy Is par then for a feed. this summer playground of the rich. [ticularly dangerous,” Mr, Lane said, . o The fire has forced evacuation of “because our troops there are about TINY BLANB is “paid $100.8 3500_residents and caused over $10 to withdraw. There are two milmonth by the Park Board to wurk 20 hours a week. He actuall ts million Joss. lion Communists in Italy and just A, y pu street corners DeRriy a0 hours on the average at “he They appeared to have halted across the border, in satellite JugoHere, big plans are made Center and promotes exhibition the advance of a 10-mile frontier slavia, is the second largest army lirips in addition to that. of fire that ringed Mt. Desertion the European continent” “Someday,” says the coach. Islandeand made Bar Harbor a hell| /In résponse to the growing . used 2Y going to develop & boy here. A on ‘eaMh. for more than 12 hours, Hoosier question “Why should we - fraction of the growing-ups. shamp. I think I've Ot One or two Only another adverse shift in undertake to save France and Italy playground at Kansas ard coming along now.’ the wind, authorities said, could {from communisni,” Mr. Lane said: One of ‘the few effective’ coptera |bring new disaster to the hard- | “By appeasing Hitler in 1040, we {encouraged him to do just what South Side Community Center re- 11H€Y are battling the blaze with | Russia, is doing now,” Mr. Lane conthat jes on a mortician for social room| dynamite, bulldozers and mobile tinued. “He made one conquest furniture and on neighborhood do- Je pumps flown here from Seattle, after another. nations for equipment. sh. “With the Russians in the Kuriles « po least 10 deaths had been re- we already are vulnerable. We have SYMPTOMATIC of the South!/corded as New Englanders fought proof, through the attack on Poland Side’s troubles is the Singleton St. an unprecedented series ‘of forest in the face of a non-aggression past and through violation of the Yalta necticut, agreement. in no fewer than six Some of the damage could not countries, that Russa has no intel - (Continued on Page 3-—Column 5) be measured by dollars, For in- lectual honesty. n 8.8 stance, records of 3% years of cancer Warns of New War research were lost when the fire! “As each country falls uhder the
“We've fought dumps down here ' she said. “We're sick We don't seem to
We just run ourselves|
y appears to be it on the South The popular spots for groups
n ” RECREATION what you make
The South Bide Community Cen-
er on Shelby St. can be ya
rder of the parents. Too much rough stuff on
* = » { AT RINGGOLD Ave. and Orange
to the American Can Co,,
At the Community Center, Train “ ~”
destroyed the Roscoe B. Jackson power, of the ' Communist police Feeney Increases Lead Memorial Laboratroy in Bar Har- state we lose another bulwark to hor maintain peace. Unless we can cons 1 * A large number of swank estates, | vince Russia we are not bluffing, the In Fifth Day of Polling including those of former Under- encroachments will continue and weretary of State Sumner Welles, | will make war inevitable,” 3 the late Sir Harry Oakes and Universal military training, he
Democratic Candidate Has 70%,
w 30% of Ret F Symphony Conductor Walter Dam- said, offers the best deterrent to emmer co O erurns so rar
{rosch, went up in flames as Bar war, He expressed approval of the {Harbor was engulfed by fire {Truman doctrine of ald to Greece By ART WRIGHT | The evacuation of Bar Harbor gnd Turkey “which are still inde THE LEAD held by Al Feeney, Democrat, in The Times fire victims was to have been dupli-|pendent. of communism.”
Straw Vote for Mayor, increased again today in the aggre- cated today at nearby Northeasy| “By helping western Europe to
gate tabulation for five days. (Continued on Page 4—Column 4). (Continued on Page 3—Column 6) Here are the percentages to date, plus the four-day aggregate to
Reds Hold Brazilian Envoy |
2 5 Days~4 Days
For Al Feeney, Democrat .... Corie 70.0% $8% For William H. Wemmer, Republican are sie an Ao 300% 320% A d Si + i ¥ Straight Democrat Votes .................... we 34.0% 33.1% n al as os a es a Straight Republican Votes ..............c.c000s « 225% 24.0% 3 Cu ’ "3 Republicans for Democrat Feeney ....... sorsanss 21.5% 2.2% Seizures Made to Assure Safe Dep arture b: Democrats for Republican Wemmer ............ 15% 11% | Of Russ Agents Following Diplomatic Break | No Party Preference Indicated -........ sessrinne WS% WI% LONDON, Oct. 24 (UP)—The Moscow radio reported tpday that y
. * =» " = "Russia had made hostages of the former Brazilian ambassador and his THE ONE-DAY percentages for the fifth day were: For Mr. Feeney, staff to insure the “safe departure from Brazil” of the Russian ém- " “84%; For Mr, Wemmer, 16%; Straight Democrat Votes, 40%: Straight bassy stafl in Rio de Janerio. 3 Republican Votes, 12%: Republicans for Democrat Feeney, 24%: Demo- The Brazilian government broke off diplomatic relations with Russia crats for Republican Wemmer, none; No Party Preference Indicated, last Tuesday because of derogatory comment in the Soviet press about 24%. President Eurico Gaspar Dutra. | "Grigori Sokolov, - Soviet oviet charge Straight ticket votes are determined from the Prison of The Times, The Brazilian ambassador 10. or i .ac and first secretary to the ballot cards whigh read: “I usually vote Republican... Democrat... .. Moscow was Mario Pimentel Bran- oo... were attacked as they left (Check. One),” dao, 'a Soviet car,’ the radio said. Bad Additional dfrds are being mailed by The Times each day to keep’ The Moscow radio accused Brazil eggs and stones were thrown at abreast of any possible changes in voting trends. of facilitating and encouraging at- them it added. Ba. pr ® ni. ‘tacks against stafl members of the, among those who were injured THE TIMES Straw Vote is offered as a public service feature and, Boviet embassy in Rio de Janeiro. [in “these hooligan acts” the radio | NOT as » Times prediction of the election. Recipients of the cards, “Hooligans are gathering ocon-| said, was (he 5-year-old son. of the. y
Soviet. charge d'affaires. « (regular pattern that’ includes all sections of the city and the entire bassy and shouting rude -epithets Brazilian alphabet. against Soviet Union and throwing|these aftacks and 20 you Trivy received nic of Ton. Tye Siren Vote cards in the stones into embassy windows,” rea mark your choice and mail §t TODAY to The Times. Then be|radiq said, quoting a Tess dé indignation among #010 thanpotts Now 4, from: Montowico.