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Criminals Who Don't Stay Caught

I'WO INDIANAPOLIS women Who were brutally mur- |

deréd in their own homes this month might be alive today . .. all surely in Marion County. Police had caught the man who admits he killed them,

caught him months ago and placed a rape charge against/

him. In a matter of days he was out again . . . free on absurdly low bond , , . roaming the streets in search of more victims. Tragically .. . he found them. There appears to be no system in operation in Marion County that will surely and quickly bring a eriminal de-

fendant to trial, that will provide thorough and skillful and |

vigorous prosecution, or that will even guarantee that he gerves hig sentence if he is convicted and sentenced. It is perfectly clear, now, that the prosecutor who represented the people of Marion County . , . including the women who were murdered . . . in court on the day this man was set free, knew nothing of his long and vicious eriminal record, nothing of his many arrests ‘for sex crimes, and very little about the charge or the evidence immediately hefore him. There hadn't been any real investigation made and there wasn't any real prosecution in the case Once he was turned loose, there was no one to follow through. The prosecution simply waited, he says, for

some policemen to tell him when: they wanted to have the’

case tried . . . waited month after "a month on a case the policemen no doubt had long forgotten. This wasn't an isolated accident. Such things happen right along, There jugt isn’t any system to prevent them. " un -n “8 FOR ALL THE inadequacy of their antiquated organization, Indianapolis policemen do catch a good many crimindls, and -do bring them as far as the court room. Quite a lot of therh get away beyond that point . , . like Robert Watts got away, . A Times series by Richard Lewis a few months ago revealed some of the reasons, One was inadequate prosecution. Part-time, underpaid deputy prosecutors too often hearing about their case for the first time as it actually goes | to trial, without opportunity for preparation, without even | full knowledge of the facts and the evidence involved, There | are some skilled and able lawyers on the prosecutor's staff. | But the best lawyer hasn't much chance prosecuting “ad lib” | against a defense lawyer who has prepared his case, Minor cases? Often, yes. But too many of these minor cases involve a potential major criminal. Too many of the crimes that periodically horrify this community are committed by men who would have been in prison at the time. ... if the courts and the prosecution could have done their job. And done it promptly, and thoroughly. Capture and arrest of a criminal is just one of the

steps in the control of crime , , , just the first line of de- |

fense of the homes of everybody in this city. We believe our system of handling that phase can, and should, be | improved. But the next steps are equally essential. There | must be swift and sure and thorough prosecution. And | there must be an adequate staff to do it. That should be | remedied, too, ‘ | Then it is up to the courts themselves.

Don’t Film Capone . Ji RSKINE JOHNSON, our NEA Hollywood correspondent, | 1s putting on a one-man campaign against the making of any film on the life of Al Capone. He says: : “Any film version of Capone's life—{rom “fame’ to the | Federal prison and death—would leave him a hero in the

minds of impressionable kids.” AID TO EUROPE . .

So gan do it Ie asks everybody lo send their protests to Eric Johnflon, president of the Producers’ Association, 5504 Hollywood Blvd,, Hollywood 28, Cal. This is our protest, and we are sending it to that ad-

we. It can't be done “right.” 1t isn't right to

dress Erskine Johnson asks that copies of protests be sent to him at 5555 Melrose Ave, Hollywood, and ‘we're doing that, too,

For Services Rendered “W E must Be able to compete with private industry for men of the highest caliber,” a member of the Army- . Navy pay committee has said in advocating a substantial PAV II Tease Tor men in the armed services. é [his 1s a problem which confronts not only the armed forces, but the whole government. Congress has partially solved it by giving itself, Cabinet members, ambassadors and a few others a pay raise, as well as giving the services a substantial boost last year. But it is still difficult to entice | fhe beet brains into government service, or to keep them there. ’ Government salaries can never offer the way to fortune, but at least they should not represent so much of a | sacrifice that able persons will be frightened away from them. More adequate compensation is an added tax burden. But if it results in better government and a more secure | defense; it is unquestionably a good investment,

Operation International HE participation of an American crew in the Commu-nist-led strike of French seamen and dock workers in Marseille is evidence that the National Maritime Union has | not finished its housecleaning. President Joe Curran of the NMU has ousted most of.the Communists from esecutive jobs in the union, but apparently he hasn't got them off American ships. a A known Communist goal has been to put at least one party member on each ocean-going American Vessel. ‘The statement, issued inthe crew's name, which blasted the “imperialist Marshall Plan”, serves notice that a comrade | was aboard the ship in Marseille and, quite likely, obeying | common orders with the French Communists. “= + The fact that the crew was aboard a ship carrying | wheat to France from “imperjalist America” will not, we “we. de overlooked by the 9 people, :

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THANKSGIVING SUGGESTION

+ FOR AN APPETIZER instead of that cocktail bhelore Thanksgiving dinner 1 suggest reading Charles Lamb's essay “A dissertation Upon Roast Pig.” : - ' If eating is to become a fine art, the pleasure derived must be intellectual and imaginative stimulation as well as gustatory appreciatin. The road to sensuality is an easy descent; but Lamb leads to higher levels of sensibility remaining always, however; an epicirean. A play of phantagy tn mock serious manner establishps the origin of roast pig

manuséript. The accidental awakening of a lubberly 1ad to the pleasantness of tasting burnt pig: the consequent firing of co after cottage in the community, bankruptin insurance companies; the final stage of simple cooking with no incendiary associations—all’ this is but preluding. The praise of roast pig—a tender suckling, not fA grown porker—provides the main treat. Hers Lamb is .at his best. Flavor is essential to the pleasure of eating: but there must be overtones, so to speak, that transcend sensual pleasures, For pig “is no less provocative of the appetite, than he Is satisfactory to the eriticalness of censorious palates” Even “the teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at the banquet in overeoming the coy, brittle resistance of the erackling.” How can transcendence in eating go beyond that? There is more of this delightful epicureanism in the essay. After reading it you may have your cocktail, if you wish. ~JOHN 8. HARRISON, 4 4b »

THANKSGIVING, 1947

As the Pligrim Fathers humbly knelt to thank Thee, long ago, We come with grateful hearts, that Thou hast loved us so. That from that first Thanksgiving Day You have been the guiding light I'hat led us from that humble start, on to a nation of great might! As we gather in the harvest s whose bounty is so great May we be mindful of other 1ands who do not share our fate Of plenteous supply of most every kiic whatever the need might be, And a country that has always been A land where all are (ree. As Author of our every good, >= We thank Thee, Lord, todav May we be worthy of our blessings, this is the prayer we pray.

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THANK YOU, SIR

Our Father, who art in Heaven I'm not much good at prayer. Just thought I'd like to tel] You. 8ir. I'm awfully glad You're there

I'm not down here on bended knee. To ask a favor now, But just to givesYou my thanks, For scars upon Your brow

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Thanks for peacé to a weary world. Fraught with pain and despair, We never could have made it, Sir, If You had not been there

[ guess at times You're bound’ to think That we've forgotten You I'he same as we poor mortals fee) That we're forgotten, too.

But underneath we always khow Our lives are in Your care Just thought I'd like to tel] You 8ir, I'm awfully glad You're there, ~=MARION N. Wisk. * 4 4

NOVEMBER

After Ociober’s russet display Comes November, dressed in a black gown, She powders the sky in morbid gray And sprinkles rain over the town, Bleak smoke from the chimney And gaunt twisted trees And dreary things to display, But wait! I must give her credit, 8he brings us Thanksgiving Day. ~ALICE M. SCHEFFLER. > ¢ @ Members of a girls’ bike club in the East say

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Is Sharing Food Enough This Time?

DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 26—It is hard to imagine a group of farmers in any other country doing what these Iowa farmers are

about to do. That is to erganize the voluntary gift of 100 carloads | | of grain for Europe, : You couldn't imagine -the French farmer doing it in a thousand |

Years. no matter how prosperous he was. And the French farmer

1 today does have hoarded food reserves and a vast hoard of gold

while the industrial cities of France are the prey of hunger and a corrosive inflation ' Prosperity is-one explanation for the relief drive of the lowa Farm Bureau Federation. But it isn't the whole explanation by a long way. A basic humanitarian impulse, underscored by a first-hand knowledge of Europe's desperate need, is at the root of it

Here is one of the truest and deepest phases of American characler—the desire to share our plenty with-less fortunate neighhors. Over and over again, America's bounty has been poured out for the |

weak and the hungry

But you can’t help questioning whether good will is enough this |

time. A minimum of self-discipline muy be essential if this country is to cope with the great responsibility which lies ahead.

Nothing Quite Like It Before

SELF-DISCIPLINE, in the form of a minimum of rationing, is

exactly what no one seems willing to accept. It is taken for granted that Congress will turn down or ignore President Truman's request for controls qver the scarcest commodities at the consumer level. There's such*an abundance for today. The big, thick, individual steaks are the equivalent of the. British meat ration for a whole family for a week or more. They are expensive but money seems to be plentiful. The farm belt has never known anything quite like the present prosperity. Bank deposits of U. 8S. farmers increased from $2.9 billions in

farmer's potket has multiplied by four times in the same period. This phenomenal prosperity is reflected in land prices. While the boom here in the corn belt has not puthed prices ahything like as high as they went in 1919, the trend is still upwprd. A significant fact, little realized is this: The rate of change in land prices. has thus far been more rapid after World War IT than it was alter World War 1. You hear tales that sound like 1919. A startled farmer was approached a purchaser who offered him $500 an acre in cash for Ris farm of 120 acres. | farms. bring $300 to $325 an acre, which compares with $100 to $150 seven or eight years ago.

A Flaw in Prosperity Picture

YET 'THERE Is a backlog of caution. The oléer generation | remembers the wild boom of 1819 and '20 which’ was the prelude to |

disaster. That memory helps to keep prices down. The European recovery program is regarded as a guarantee of

continuing high prices. ‘There is nd guaarntee, however, that thebumper crops of the past ‘seven years will be repeated. Iowa had only | a i ; | we wou the flaw in the prosperity picture. Because of the

balf a corp crop- this fall, That

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Stassen’s Ideas Vs. Taft's

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—Now that Presidential . Candidate Harold E. Stassen has written a book and made a lot of speeches, and now that Candidate Robert A. Taft has toured the West, made a lot of speeches and thrown his hat in the ring, it's possible to compare their ideas. far apart as you'd think. “Stassen is more liberal than the Democrats and on some others Mr. Taft is more progressive than Mr, On foreign policy they appear to be

On aid to Europe, Mr. Stassen, at Jefferson. fowa:

Likewise, the amount of cash in the |

| self-discipline, Somehow, in spite of the sharpness of partisan politics, | we should be able to achieve it. AY ’

‘Let the Children Play By A. F. on . Some people tnink it's the city's worst erime for children to play. Why don't the city get hold of itself? "If all they got to do, is watch out the window and the first child they see on the street they call the police, than i’ time, T think, to tell them that play is no erime. 2 One time, not so long ago, with & little police help we could Have caught a prowler, ri who had frighténed several in the neighborho We called the police station but no one answ d. Right number? Yes we had the right number alright. We made a complaint. All we got was excuses, The police force is so “short of help.” Is that so? Two squad cars, five policemen, one sergeant answered a call for children in the street. Yes, they are to “short of help” alright... Do they want just the easy work? : . I think it's high time to make some people realize that the children playing today are our good citizens of tomorrow. ’ ? Yot1 will find our eriminals of tomorrow, today gathered in remote corners, not playing, not taking the time to teach the little ones to take their place on the football team, You mean it's a crime to be in the street? What if there are no playgrounds &lose? You

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mean it's dangerous to play jn the stresf? Yes. Chronic br I'd say on some streets, because i would slow Jour cough. d down traffic but I'd say there are & hundred streéts afford to take in Indianapolis where not more than a half a eine less pot dozen cars pass a day. : which foes 1 You mean to tell me a driver would delibér- §xcubile hel ately plow into a dozen children in the street and Phlen say hé didn’t see them? That driver should be ind mi sent somewhere up the river for a hundred years __Creomulsio and so should these nincompoops who take up the rote by 51 policeman’s time. Then there'll be enough police- It contains n men to clean the city of real erime. . |, No matter Get to those remote corners and ght theré to- pou have trie day. Tomorrow we will have & city we are proud Sall you a bot

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Women in the Home By Mrs. Flavia Keller . In one of our local newspapers Nov. 14, Mrs. Eleanor Snodgrass says, “that Indianapolis has two great corrections systems. Probation only for those who conflict with the law but nevef have had 8 prison sentence and parol¢ for those who have had prison sentences.” She also urges ‘that all clubwomen gét back of A movement to see that every jail is properly equipped for. the care of women and children. Could she mean that the jails will be safer for ° our women and children than our homes? Of 10,759 on probation last year, Mrs. Snodgtiss | tells us, only 391 had to go to ihstitutions. Wel, Just look at the police records and we know why they did not go back. Gi x I feel sure that if all women’s organizations would back a movement 100 per cent to see that all homes in America including their own first, were properly equipped for the care of women and ‘children, we would not need to worry about

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+ Second, we can put our foreign-aid program under a high caliber - American agency which will safeguard the effects of foreign shipments on our American prices. . . . Third, the government should carry on a vigorous program against monopolies, hoarding and profiteering.” In his new book, “Where I Stahd,” Mr. Stassen writes: “The margin of profit should also be constantly analyzed and exorBitant prices should be met by nation-wide, officially encouraged boycotts of specific ‘bad examples’ , . to drive down prices.” Mr. Stassen says the “save food” campaign program should be thoroughly backed and supported

They're not as On some matters Mr.

last May said: “I believe that for the. next 10 on ne present voluntary basis, _ | the jails. Women should take their pldces in the MADE vears we should devote 10 per cent of our total Mr. Taft at New York said: “Look at the mess | home. Teach their own children instead of leaving AND EASY national production of goods and food to buflding made of the voluntary food-saving program to carry it to strangers. Mrs. Gates, why not urge our for world-wide gy plenty of freedom.” out a highly desirable purpose.” Later he said | women to be more active in their homes insiead My-T-Fli In his gpeech belpre the Ohio Society of New: 10 should be a powerful appeal to consumers “to | of the next campaign? : LEMON FLA York, Mr. Taft said:' “1 think the figure suR- oo. less and save their money and not spend it on * + * il gested by the Harriman Committee is higher than food.” ¢ . ’ PER Se" ; 4 Vicious Smokers a Next day. at a Washington press cinterehice, Mr. Propose Major Tax Revision By Charles A. Carrick, Cify all sa e was “absolutely opposed” to the $2.6 MR. TAFT has not fully outlined his ideas about ; billion requested by Secretary Marshall for immediate tax reform, except to say i tax rates should be nn Phere Stan Then SpEing sul 598 oa 1h relief aid to Western' Europe. cut as “the best way to stop the spiral of inflation While in‘ a Coll alta car the fim of On. thg other top issue before the special-session and relieve the condition of the lower income work- smoker nauseafed wef so that 1 left n - of Congress—high prices—Mr, Stassen and Mr® Tait ers.” He offers tax reduction as a substitute for speak to the smoker, Right ns he both blamed Mr. Truman's veto of the “unworkable” another wage increase. But if the average $2500- | 4 oo i. ugliness Words a _— iei MYCLEINE | price-conirol bill of -1946 for today's sityation, And a-year family man got a 30 per cent tax cut, the ousness with both Bes hy A iy i CHOCOLATE both oppose return to OPA price control af ration- wage increase would be about 10 cents a day. leave his seat and cause me Bodily hart (H: BUTTERS ing. Beyond these two points, the two candidates r. Stassen is for tax reduction, but he has ever, the lady sharing his seat pulled him ig - won seém to part company. worked out a major revision plan for the entire tax his ‘coat tail) His tirade Fae) words PPh Differ on Anti-Inflation Program structure. First, he would limit taxes to 50 per cent tinued—“Go mind your own business and the of any income. Second, he would put a 1% per cent | pe) with the law.” At this/I tifreatened to have ON HIS WESTERN TOUR, Mr. Taft sald: “We tax on big fortunes in idle capital. Third, he would him arrested for three charges if he caused had better work toward a stabilization of wages lower taxes, liberalize consumer credit and embark any bodily harm, smoking in streetcar and He And prices at some new level, perhaps 50 or 60 per on government public works programs whenever fanity. He yelled out, “The hell you will ro I ’, cent &bove pre-war.” In New York he said: “Broadly unemployment became greater than 6 per cent of | am 79 years of age. ‘These sigaret smokers ! speaking, the* President is asking for two completely the labor force. show abso tely no : respect for the rights luconsistent policies at the same time. If we want Mr. Stassen indorses the Taft-Hartley Labor Law of non-smokers. Just seems we are com Aviv to the Marshall Plan, we cannot have lower prices.” as “the foundation of a fair, just and well-balanced plead with the devil himself to be Dip les to Mr: Stassen takes no such dim view. He thinks labor policy.” But he would amend it in three places breathe .fresh air inte our lungs prices can be pulled back down a bit, In two recent by allowing greater union political activity, by re- When will theré ever be more police protection statements in New York he made these specific quiring the Communist affidavit only when an accu- against these cigaret smoking victims who regardand constructive suggestions: sation is made, and by changing the union shop elec~ less of our laws threaten bodily harm to a non“We should re-establish consumer credit controls. tion provisions, which he considers unworkable. smoker? Fo "i ef m—— oo . i — - . { * . .By Marquis Childs Side Glances—By G Meyers Affair . . . By Walker Stone wr

‘Air Force Must q Clean Up the Mess’

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—The U. 8. Air Force (then part of thé Army) had to accept the blame for not catching up with Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers before the Ferguson committée did. “No explanation explains the need for one.” i Such smart crooks as Ivar Kreuger and Philip Coster Musiea tot away with their peculations a long time before the supposedly smart | businessmen they victimized got wise to them. “ | Yet the public that paid the bills, and who riskéd their lives in the Air Force,

particularly the men

planes would not reach sticky fingers into the cash drawer, When the Ferguson committee got onto Meyers’ trail first, the Army and Air Force did right by keeping silent until the committee had completed its exposure and turned the evidence over to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.

Symington Starts Well

BUT IT'S important that, from hete on, the Air Force leave nothing undone td clean up this mess and provide safeguards against future scandals. Secretary of the 2 nouncing orders to strip Aeyers of his pension and his decorations, and press court-martial charges for any offense not covered by eriminal prosecution. . More significant, he said Frank Wilson, retired head of thé Seéret Service, and Edgar Hoover of the FBI had been called in to help the Air Force set up a more effective inspection system, And that Undersecretary Arthur S. Barrows, former head of Sears Roebuck, is reforming the Air Force's p t practices, That's action Along the lines needed, and Mr. has chosen good men to

Air Heroes Most Bitter WHEN YOU consider that the Air Force grew from 25,000 time of Pearl Harbor to 2,400,000 when the war ended, from millions to spending many billions, it fay be considersd that only one major scandal has béén brought to Nght. Nothing could mar the gallant record of the men who the skies over three continents, who blasted the industries and of Germany to helplessness, who flew more than a taoussad in a single mission over Tokyo, : They are more bitter than anyone else over the sorty afar of

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prolonged drought, all indications dre that the wheat harvest in 1048 will be substantially under 1947's bumper yield, This 1s bound to cause a severe dislocation here at home unless | we plan to meet it now. The vicious wage-price spiral will be given a new Kick-up when we are already close to the danger line. Secretary

of Agriculture Clinton Anderson's warning about meat searcities next i °) : 4 . spring actually seemed on the optimistic side, * y Benny” Meyers, his alleged amours and his chiseling—and rightly sc, That brings us, as I see it, right back to that minimum of | 10¢ théy can never forget their buddies who never returned, a 88 vs, ' | died in the flimes of combat while “Benny” Sat safely at his | counting his chips.

The Very Human Factor = + | Ek - IT SEEMS that a common and usually harmless oversight was responsible for the crash of the first experimental flying automobile. The just forget to check his fuel before & second takeoff, and ran out of gas in midair. . ‘ This occurrence bears out the recent statement of an alreraft company executive (not with the firm ‘that made the flying auto) t, “We can make airplanes fool-proof, but we can’t make thém qamn-fool-proof.” ag + That remark doesn't ‘need to be limited to the field of aviation:

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When the scarcities and the zooming prices bite deeper here at home, the good-will will dwindle. It may entirely evaporate. The | sentimental gesture will be forgotten. : The farmer stands in his feed lot looking at his white-faced | cattle. Because his own corn crop wal short, he must buy grain to i fatten them at a price which has him worried. f a I Ol Eu a aan | good of both America and Europe: If somehow this could be expressed (and accepted) in a minimum of government planning and regulation, | "be ‘bettet able to do the job ahead in 1948. That course | would mean risks. But perhaps the risks ahead are eden greater

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