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58th YEAR—-NUMBER 197 MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1947 Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
OUR | “FAIR CITY—WEMMER AND FEENEY MAKE THEIR REPLIES TO THE PEOPLE
hat The Candidates Say The
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William H. Wemmer— OUR FAIR CITY |
Al Feeney— TR abicns 7 Son When Seti ! {Au Editorial) THE ANSWERS given by Al Feeney, Democrat, to
a “ OME weeks ago Times Writer Richard Lewis set out | the questions raised by The Times survey, “Our survey, “Our Fair City,” are as follows: S to find what the people of Indianapolis really want Fair City,” are as follows: Street Cleaning from the new city administration they are going to vote | Street Cleaning ' “This ‘is a real grievance with me, too. We have new into office next week. : : “I don’t regard street cleaning as a minor issue. 1 equipment on order. A lot of old equipment we have is in He found plenty. His articles of the past six days shall ‘see that a timetable is made up for cleaning streets. very bad shape. When new equipment comes we're going have reported in detail the demands uppermost in the That will enable us to post each street against vehicular to do a much better job. minds of thoughtful citizens in every section of the city. (parking and give advance notice, so that citizens know when “May I also point out that with leaves and sludge, mod-
Most significant of all, it seemed to us, was the |their streets are to be cleaned. ern equipment sweeps it up into piles at street corners.
smoldering dissatisfaction , . . almost resentment . .. | “I think cleaning of the streets should be done in the
sk for and r ballroom afternoon igh school dances-fore n addition, vrs. Gates nbly has a tmas balls, ging come=
Guild units of ital “will meet Service Center ~~ Pifty-first Wallace Street
Then our motorists run over it before the truck comes to
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pick up the piles.
“I doubt if you could pass an ordinance to create temporary no parking limits, and we would have to depend on
the co-operation of citizens. “What we would do wou Street Being Cleaned Today,’
would be up to the residents then to co-operate by not park- Recreation
ing at those times. “If we can’t get the new have to use pushcarts.
Dumps
“The city has supervision over dumps. But I think
we'll have to have an ordinanc
late private ones if there isn't one already. “I know there are ordinances and state laws against These should be enforced. The Sanitation Board is attempting to establish dumps where they can be covered quickly with earth. “I would like to see an ordinance giving the sanitation
dumping offal in dumps.
or health boards authority
-. dumps in addition to super-
vising them. “The best thing we could do would be to get incinerators. “An an attorney, T might say that any dump. which is a nuisance can be closed by adjacent property owners if they are willing to go to court about it. We have a rat exterminator. There: should -be a block hiblack Sampaign tw elie city of
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“Your articles mentioned the eity’s health expenditure of $2 million, Bont forget that half or
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Arms ‘Avoid War, Says Adm. Blandy
Calls Might Safeguard In Navy Day Talk
AUntil nations learn to treat one another decently, arméd might is the best way to avoid war, Adm. W. H. P. Blandy told Hoosiers today at a Navy Day luncheon. The Atlantic Fleet comrhander | foinéd with James F. O'Neal, na: tional commander of the.American Legion, in an appeal to keep the pation strong enough to keep the peace in a world facing the ever advahcing shadow of communism. “Ideology of Despair’ “The liberties.of free men everywhere are threatened by” an insidious and stifling ideology of despair called communism,” Adm. Blandy' said. “The United States has offered to assist peoples of Europe who are still free cout while it is devoutly to be hoped that economic assistance will be enough, we must never forget that aggressors understand armed strength better than ‘any other argument.”
Let me add that I believe all sections of the city are entitled to service.”
William H. Wemmer
1d be to post cards say, ‘This habitation. I think that has to be or something like that. It|studied”
“Public pressure brought into play di ito carry out modern recreation planning throughout the city is the best means I know of to build a proper playground system. “I think I can answer your question about the playground you said was closed at Ringgold and Orange Sts. We need more supervision. “Under the present budget, they simply can’t afford it. I would {like to work toward a plan to establish a playground within a half mile of every ¢hild’s house. “With respect to the playground at 21st St. and Sherman Drive {which you described—I say either a it up if it is necessary ‘to the to determine the location of yy up. 1 a it if . com‘munity does not need it.”
equipment, then I'd say we
e to give us authority to regu-
more half of that to City , - “iy more thai Hospital Sots "Grade Separation * “Less than $1 inillion is spent on! “we have underpassed W. Morris direct services. I believe in warring | st. We are ‘working on Shelby St. on privies. This is one health prob-| now, The Board of Works is planlem we have got to overcome. ning for grade separation on 8.
of American Can Co. property in exchange for several streets and alleys. “We have ah adution 1) ‘two plans for separation at Michigan
does not meet the approval of residents and business there, and we
“The whole problem of enforcing gast St. by acquiring a 57-foot strip |
grade hid eric Bll oo :
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on every hand about things as they are.
Traffic. Sanitation. Transportation. Streets. Playgrounds. Garbage Disposal. Sewe Bridges. Public Health. Police Protection. Zoning Water Supplies. Municipal Services of every kind. A long, long list of minor complaints that add up to an imposing total of civic ills. And to a grass roots demand that condi- , tions which to thousands of people have become intolerable be changed.
» r » » » » N° one can justly blame this situation Mr. Lewis found on any one administration or any one political party. It didn’t grow up under any one administration. This condition has been years in the making... years in which first one party and then the other has had control at City Hall. Years of apathy and public indifference to.city government. Years in which the city has grown rapidly. Aggravated, finally, by five years of war which made all improvements difficult and many impossible. | A beginning has been made on some. of our most pressing problems . , . traffic, for instance. But only a. beginning. There are scores of others that must be tackled, and met and solved. sia
8.» » st a 5 Two men whose integrity and sincerity we consider beyond question seek election as Mayor next week, We asked each of them to tell in detail how he proposes. to deal with these problems. They have done so, frankly and fully, in statements which we present here’ with. 3 We recommend that you study what they say care. fully and thoughtfully. Te a ver Ey gre and & good many other very’ : ngs depend upon how good those programs ave and how well they are carried out.
early morning hours before traffic begins moving, especial
ly downtown,
The broom and the pushcart are outmoded, {but if we can't get equipment soon enough, we'll have to use {them.”
Dumps
Al Feerity
“I think it's about time a clear cut policy was estab-!Want to encourage and enlarge the
should be eliminated. The es grounds must be controlled by board. “I believe that private fir
selves. business.”
Health the entire community,
“If maintaining” a decent, standard of enforcement off
ures will be taken. You. described
prevention program and I think the hundred per cent.” Recreation a onsidered In the light of & general sprogram, Let's
put water in these waterless wading pools. T think we should use what|
Services to Honor War Dead Tonight
Procession to Leave Circle at 7:45
add eprom m— ! "Another story about war dead, Page 11.
Skies to Drip On Hoosierland
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Showers today were the forerunner of cooler weather which will)
ity tonight. The Weather Bureau said it ex-| ‘the World War Memorial pected the mercury to rise tp 68 o'clock tonight. today and .drop to a low of 55 to-| James F, O'Neil, national comnight. mander of the American Legion, Yesterday temperatures reached issued a plea today for every citi-/ a high of 74 under threatening Zen in the city and state to attend] skies. A low of 63 was reported last| the services saying “the residents of night. Indiana owe the dead a debt that! The drop in temperature tonight| can never be paid.” will be caused by a moderate cold] ‘The least we can'do is to take| front moving across Indiana but part in these services through | the Weather Bureau said it saw no serious cold wave in the immediate future,
De Gaulle Urges
honors to those of our own flesh and blood who died that we might live and remain free,’ he said. Procession Starts at 7:45 The Rev. Fr, Joseph Somés, pastor; of Christ the King Catholic Church,
As long as any warring nations needs the sea itself, a powerful navy will Be an essential part of] its fighting machine, the admiral| said. Pointing to the vital role played by the Navy in World War | 11, he expressed belief that this role- may even be greater in any future war, particularly “when the actual development of guided misgiles catohes up with the comic Discounts Quick Victory the theory that a war won ‘against’ a powerful in pt Hh by atomic bombcompletely fallacious,” he
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ranging the services, declared the Assembly to Quit | memorial is a state-wide civic] movement and not exclusively a PARIS, Oct. 27 (UP) -- Gen. veterans affair. | Charles De Gaulle demanded today, A guard of honor composed of that Paul Ramadier, Socialist pre-| uniformed Indiana National mier, resign and clear the way for Guardsmen, Marines and personnel Gen. De Gaulle’s New Rally of the lof the Army Air Corps from Stet French people to take over the gov-| Field will meet the body of Seaman ernment of France. {Ira Lee at Ohio and Pennsylvania Flushed with his second victory Sts. shortly before 7.45 p. m. over the Communists, Gen. De The lone body of the Indianapolis Gaulle moved swiftly to capitalize seaman will represent all of Indion the strength he had shown in|ana's war dead, municipal elections on successive Route of Procession Sundays.
caisson bearing the hody will pause at the north side of the monument nd members of GAR and SpanishAmerican war groups will conduct short services. Mrs. Predrich Weber will play the chimes in Christ Church, Then headed by the Cathedral Runoff elections were held yester- | day in 14,000 towns of less than 9000
tween lines of veteran organization color guards to the War Memorial. The casket will be placed on the north steps of the memorial and
Be ransas al | Mrs. Roosevelt 13 8 Ruark .e 3; Editorials ..., 12 Scherrer te. 18 Fashions ,... 15 Side Glances. 12| Forum . :+ 12 8ociety
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3 Pelley Loses High: Court}}a7, Piuny and Ieprescniaiives Appeal for ad [bank it with wreaths. Mrs, Leo
Church. Chief O'Malley to Speak’
|The Supreme Court today refused the [to hear a plea by William Dudley Pelley, former Silver Shirt leader, . {of thé Indiana Supreme Court, will:
since, deliver the eulogy instead of Gov.
faiths will then give their graveside services and Frank Parrish 470
The procession will move south on Pennsylvania St. 'to Market st.| then west to Monument Circle. The
Indians will solemnly honor its old, today move into Indianapolis and vicin- native sons who fell during World leader, Al Feeney, Democrat, representing 0.2 per cent g
| War IF with memorial strlaces i for William H. Wemmer, Republican. |
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which this state will pay its highest
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The Times Straw Vole—
Wemmer Gains 0.2 Per Cent In Seventh Day of Polling
Feeney Continues to Lead With 67 Per Cent; Final Tally Due Friday
By ART WRIGHT THE TIMES STRAW VOTE for Mayor, now seven days
For Contempt
House Probers Charge
Lawson ‘Active Red’
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UP) {House Communist-hunters’ today cited Film Writer John Howard
Communist, The citation was made by a
“You have mentioned the subject of slums. | this clearly understood. I want to get tough—very fough— ion 12 vacating Singleton St. (1p in enforcing health regulations.
“There has to be a starting point somewhere.
ing to start by strengthening city health inspections and emergency, I mean a situation that is going to be immediately. 5
fire underwriters will back me 3 visors
Film Writer Cited Hint F Foreign Aid
In Disappearance Of Polish Leader
PAL clubs. I want to stimulate
lished on dumping grounds within the city. Noxious dumps neighborhood volunteer organiza-
tablishment of new dumping|tion in our recreation programs,
careful scrutiny of the zoning Grade Separation
“We have a post-war plan for ms can be sold on the valug indianapolis and it includes grade
of public relations in disposing of industrial waste thems separation. I shall have no hesita-
{tion in going to the State Highway
This should be considered part of the cost of doing | gommission to offer our coopers
tion in grade séparations on Ken ¢ [tucky and Madison Aves. “In this connection, ‘you have 1 want raised the question of the eity's ac-
{exchange for land for They affect the health of tion in 8. East St) Sade spars “My comment on that is that the I'm go! [vacation of city streets should be 80° done only in an emergency. By where some critical reason exists ; (for vacating streets, as in wartime
iwe have’in: the way of playgrounds. for ‘the establishment. of war in{I think we need new playgrounds. : public health regulations re. 1% The new ones should be estabquires tough medsures; tough meas- lished by a ‘survey of actual need in be made’ only when if is pdyantaleach community. In order to utilize geous to a fire trap near the downtown ares. What space we have, this is ‘what 1/%nd where it will not work ardaniy I want ‘to put in an aggressive fire Want to do.
dustry. ““Otherwise, the vacation should
on the city as a whole, : “I shall recruit qualified super-| *Where the Int $6 to go in the neighborhoods of the ; playgrounds where that is possible [ide has he ghia ful and 1 think we have many fine school \ teachers who would be willing , pose to employ them at a salary fitting their training and exipatiare in handling children, I
A —————, WARSAW, Oct. 27 (UP) +A Polish foreign office spokesman said to- : day “it appeared” that the disap- Mountain Slope pearance of Stanislaw Mikolajeyk,! ATHENS, Oct. 27 (UP)—Bmerer Ta tet was aided BY gency crews climbed 8 rugged Po - mountain peak outside Athens to- °
Swedish Hine Hits
showed an aggregate tally of 67 per cent for the Lawson for contempt because he Gen. Victor Grosz, foreign of- day to the scene of a Swedish air ain refused to say whether he was a! fice spokesman, answered affirm- lines DC-4 crash. They found that
{atively a press conference question all whether “circumstantial
aboard—reported- to be 41 evidence passengers and eight crewmen—
The one-day count for the seventh day gave Mr. Feemey 66 per cent. House Un-American Activities Sub-/ indicated help by a foreign power.” were dead.
All the votes counted to date are represented in the following table for seven days. The aggregate for six days also is shown for comparison. 7Days 6Days 810% 61.2% 32.8% 324% | 22.0% 20.8% 28% 22.0%
For Al Feeney, Democrat ............. tesssuessanne Straight Democrat Votes ceasesasensnnnes+330% Straight Republican Votes Republicans for Democrat Feeney .. Democrats for Republican Wemmer ....s..... No Party Preference Indicated . » » » - .
ONE-DAY figures for the seventh day, in addition to Mr, Feeney's 66%, were: For Mr. Wemmer, 347%; Straight Democrat, 36%; Straight Republican, 22%; Republicans for Democrat Feeney, 14%; Democrats’ for Republican Wemmer, 4%; No Party Preference Indicated, 24%. Revised tabulations will continue EXCLUSIVELY in The Times each day. The final tally will be published Friday. : This straw vote<-like the others conducted by The Times in 1944 and 1046—are offered as an interesting public service feature for read-
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committee after six Capitol police {removed the defiant and shouting {movie = writer from the witness) stand. The committee, in the second week of its communism-in-Holly-{wood hearings, put documentary | evidence into the record charging |that Mr, Lawson was “one of the most active Communists in | Hollywood movie industry.” | A committee Investigator, Louis J. Russell, presented Communist | |party registration card No. 47275 {which he testified was made out to “John Haword Lawson.” i |
Must Approve Citation
The contempt citation was voted unanimously by all committee mem-
lers to draw their own conclusions, The results are NOT a Times pre- bers present. But because they did
diction of who will win the Nov. 4 election.
UN Political Committee Condemns Warmongering
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. Oct. 27 (UP)~The 57-nation Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly today approved a universal condemnation of all propaganda likely to encourage war. Earlier, the committee turned back Russia's plan to invoke criminal penalties and government suppression of warmongers. The action came after the United States, bitterly opposed to the proposal, gave up a shortlived fight’ — against it and joined the other tory for Russia as the tatigator of United Nations in a unanimous the assembly's debate of the danvote. gers of propaganda and fear of a The committee, whose action was new world war, destined for final approval in the Only Goes ‘Halfway’ full General Assembly, condemned The Boviet resolution, introduced “all forms of propaganda, in what. by Mr. Vishinsky in a scathing atsoever country conducted, which is tack on “warmongers” and “inciters either designed or likely to en- of a new war” in the United States, courage” threats to the peace or Was not saved from defeat by a lastacts of aggression. jditan maneuver by Poland and Rus-' Labeled as ‘Warmonger’ It was a far cry from Russia's proposal for labeling the United Paragraph of the Soviet proposa
an ad proposed that the key
States, Greece and Turkey “war. Which condemned propaganda “in mongers” and invoking governmen-| tal restrictions on the press squelch “criminal propaganda for a fled to eliminate the names of the | new war.” peal ter Oct. 27 (UP)—| Rappapart will play the chimes in| Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
United States of America, to Turkey and Greece . . .."” be modi-
countries. Mr. Vishinsky accepted it but
{Andrei Y. Vishinsky quit at the last grumbled that “it goes only halfminute his battle to name the Way.”
{United States, Turkey Mart J. O'Malley, chief justice = fostering “warmongers.”
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failed to-turn aside emphatic redecthe tioh of the Russian proposal t
and Cireece’ The compromise was voted down 23 to 18, with 14 abstentions,
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this compromise gesture
ise) Proposal by Austzala, France Togo, hero of the Russo-Japsness| {war of 1008, was turned over to the
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not constitute a quorum, the action was construed as taken by a sub. | committee. The full committee and | later the House of Representatives | must approve the citation If Mr. Lawson is to be brought to trial. The 53-year-old writer was called to the witness stand after the committee had rejected “defense” motions to quash the proceedings dnd permit 19 “hostile” witnesses to cross-examine other Hollywood figures who had testified against them. Mr. Lawson ref(ised to answer “yes” or “no” to this question: “Are you now and have you ever been a member of the Communist party?” Contempt of Congress The question was put to him repeatedly by Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas and Counsel Rob{ert E. Stripling. “It is the unanimous opinion of, this subcommittee that John Howard Lawson is in contempt of con-
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Tippy's a Real Hero; Barking Saves Three
A small, black and white dog [named Tippy was a hero today to members of the Leo H. Wilson family and their neighbors Owned by a neighbor, the ‘dog early yesterday barked insistently and awakened Mr. Wilson, Alvina, his wife, and Ruth Wilson, their, daughter, as gas from a water |
the three slept.
Deputy sheriffs administered
admiration of the
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. un 8 The four-engined transport MR. MIKOLAJCZK'S disappear- crashed into Mt. Hymettus last ance was taken generally here as night after approaching an Athens {a flight from Poland, The Peasant [airport for a landing and turning |Party already was moving to throw gway because of bad weather, It
its support to the Communist- (exploded with a rocket-like flash,
Socialist coalition govérnment, and scattering wreckage and torn bodies thus remove the last above-ground gver the rough slopes of, the peak. (opposition to the leftist regime. Weather Blocks Landing Milling masses outside the Peas- | Two Americans—a' Mr. Wenner
ant Party’s six-story building In gnd a Miss Brush—were on the
downtown Warsaw sought informa- | plane.
tion and exchanged rumors about The big ship approached the Has. the party chief. 'sani airport, its destination, after Many were convinced that! a flight from Istanbul. Foul weather [British or American envoys had blocked a landing, and -the liner smuggled Mr. Mikolajeayk out of wheeled away. A little Poland. | lagers at Koropi saw a great flash { {llumine the hills, Fear Wind Mav Hunt Missing DC-4 y With 18 on Board JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct, 27 (UP)~— f Search planes flew over the Adal ore ires J iralty Islands area southwest of oday. They sought a trace of BOSTON, Oct. 27 (UP)—Armies » NP American Airways DC-4 pasof exhausted fire-fighters main- senger plane missing since yestertained a vigil over the still smolder- day with 18 persons aboard. ing New England woodlands today. The search was centered in that They feared rising winds might area after several residents of fan the area's forest fires once again Douglas, Alaska, reported they had out of control. heard a plane about 4 p. m. (InAll important blazes in the re- dianapolis time) yesterday, 30 gion were reported held in check Minutes before it was due in Juneau after causing 20 deaths, destroying On a regularly scheduled flight from $40,000,000 in property and leaving Seattle. 7000 homeless. | It carried 13 passengers, including ut officiils warned that only An infant and five crewmen, nid rains could abate the menace| The plane had sufficient fuel re- : of new outbreaks. (Continued on Page S—Column » Maine's most dangerous confia- rei nett ations at Bar Harbor, Saco, Bidvy Kennebunk, Cherryfield and Hindus Take Hand Jonesboro were under control. New Hampshire state police re- In Moslem Revolt ported all fires “under reasonable, Ngpw D . Oct. 27 (UP)—Re~ control.” No communities were in (jahle repo™¥ said today that the danger. {Hindu government of India, taking S———————— a direct hand in a bloody Moslem Ft. Wayne Hotel Bandit rebellion in the princely state of Kashmir, had rushed airborne Robs Night Clerk of $41 1 troops to the capital to keep it from FT. WAYNE. Ind., Oct. 27 (UP) being stormed by 10,000 to 15,000 —A short. round-faced bandit held peasant and fierce tribesmen, up & woman night clerk at the The rebellion in Kashmir, along Allen Hotel today and escaped with the Russian and Afghanistan bors . . $11. ders, and a Hindu rebellion ip Mrs. Lora Fielder said she was Junagadh, 800 miles to the
TOKYO, Oct. 27 (UP)—The. for- heater leak poured slowly into their | alone in the lobby when the man west, raised the gravest {the ultimate approval of a compro- mer flagship of Adm. Heihachiro home at 2137 N. Kitley Road while entered and said:. dia
war between Hinde 2 “I"want your money. This is a len stickup.” !
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