Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1948 — Page 21

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THIS IS ONLY RUMOR or hearsay. But I'm 2. to believe a Indian laid out the : section Ave. pleasant Run Pkwy., Sheridan Ave, and Brookville Rd. You see, I have just emerged on the 5300 block of B. Washington St. after three hours of confused meandering in that secluded section. The city should put canvas over the entire area and charge admission to this “funhouse maze” It peats anything I have ever seen at a carnival or an amusement park, I= This is no reflection on residents of Irvington. 1 imagine they like it out there. And from the looks of the building that's going on, a lot of other people think so, too. But that’s neither Julian Ave. or University ‘Ave. Ah, but I'm getting ahead of my story. My story begins with Spencer Ave. A simple turn to the right off E. Washington St. . . Immediately you know the shortest distance petween two points is a straight line. I took one Jook at the streetcar tracks and pounded away. Spencer didn’t wind too much before it became a dead-end street. Julian Ave. looked as if it had more to offer. I wondered if banking the parrow thoroughfare would help. - To the left, right and left it wound. In front of me in quiet dignity stood the Downey Avenue Christian Church. A few moments of relaxasion on the steps gave me courage to go on. Somehow I became twisted up and found myself on E. washington St. again. The street sign showed I had traveled on 8. Irvington Ave.

smooth Sailing—For a While

IF I HAD wanted to get out of the section in a hurry and tried real hard, I would have never de it. « me ith my bearings and sense of direction working again, I turned off on Ritter Ave. Smooth sailing until suddenly I noticed I was walking on Julian Ave. My calculations were that it pointed east. I was heading east. Something was heading east. Johnson Ave, crossed my path but I was afraid. Better stick to Julian, I told myself, until you get orientated, if possible.

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viate from the master plan of the hib idea.

Banker’s Boy

FRIDAY, TEXAS-BOUND, Mar. 5—Every {ime I pick up a paper and see where our Russian brethren have knocked off another country, I get to thinking about my little Commie friend in Chapel Hill, N. C., and start wondering what, makes him run, :

My boy's name is Junius Scales. He is a young fellow, North Carolina born, married, and was, I believe, the son of. a banker. Junius'is a smart boy in graduate school and the people at Carolina have made no effort ‘to run him off. I guess they figure, as I do, that Junius’ particular kind of a Communist can’t be much of a threat, on account of being so sweetly simple. I wanted to talk to young Mr. Scales awhile back, so I called him on the phone. I wanted to find out what the young and wishful inheritors of the world were thinking of these days, if any. Junius was pretty hoighty-toity on the line. He said he was a very busy man, what with this and the other, and anything I wanted to know I would have to ask him in writing. This submission-in-writing gimmick seems to be standard operating procedure even for the small fry in the party—why, I don’t know, unless it's to give them plenty of time to think and browse around in the double-talk thesaurus. But I scribbled a few quotations for Junius and he answered up like a little man.

They Don’t Rat on Their Wives

I ASKED him was he or was he wasn't, and he said he was a card-carrier,. but he wouldn't speak for his wife, because a loyal true ComMunist never rats on the other comrades. He 8aid he subscribed fully to all the tenets, and that he was the .chairman of the Communist Party for Chapel Hill. I tossed one at him about how come he got to be a Communist in the first place, especially Since his old man was a banker and anybody in the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. could

. tell you how smart a banker. But Junius says, quote: #2

Hey, That's Mine

WASHINGTON, Mar. 5—It doesn’t bother me #0 much when the surplus-property boys let U. S.

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‘an even put with ‘em labeling a few million dollars worth of airplanes as junk and letting the Chinese fly ’em away. But what makes me sore is taking my good Ted blood, which the Red Cross stabbed out of me a while back, and peddling it as a health tonic in the Chinese black market. Makes my blood boil. What little I've got left. i This tale of dope, blood and misbranded airPlanes comes, of all places, from the U. S. Senate anking Committee and—of all things—in connection with President Truman's appointment of Thomas B, McCabe to the Federal Reserve Board. Never did such an unlikely series of events connect Oriental skullduggery with American high finance, So-listen closely: The gray-haired, easy-smiling Mr, McCabe Pade his fortune as a manufacturer of that Household necessity, Scott Tissue. He also is a anker, financier and leading Republican, Immediately after the war he was made Director of the Foreign Liquidation Commission in charge of Selling billions in war surpluses all over the world.

Monkeyshines Around the World

SO WHEN he came up for confirmation before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, everybody presumed it would be a cut-and-dried Procedure, You can imagine Mr. McCabe's openSouitied amazement when he had to listen to a ~2-Page report prepared by Sen. Charles W. Tobey

of New Hampshire, the chairman, listing mon17.95 keyshines involving surplus sales around the 10.95 _ Nothing personal, the Senator said. He just 14.95 Nanted to put the information on record; later, . © said, Mr. McCabe could make -any explanation 14.95 ® wished. And then the Senator called as a wit-

Bess an enormously tall, bald citizen, Hubert R. 00dy, an investigator for the Senate War Inx Vestigating Committee. - oY Mr. Moody used to be a detective for the Army

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It wasn’t possible because Irving Court snared me, Talk about going round and round and coming out. Should I ask for help? No. If there's anything I hate is a tourist. I may not know Rigre Im going but I-keep going until something

8S. Audubon Rd. looked like the solution. Pretty straight for Irvington. The Pennsylvania tracks were a landmark I didn't want te forget. Memory becomes rather short in that neck of the woods. The Irving Circle is rather a pleasant] place for going around in a circle.

No Stars fo Guide You

STAGGERING out on Burgess Ave., actually I chose the street after I found myself in the middle of the block, convinced me that no one other than an Indian steeped in fire water could have done all this for Irvington. What does a man do when night comes? How do you find your way out when there are no stars to guide you? Those thoughts increased my stride. . With that maneuver I just got into trouble quicker. Oh, you can't win. If you think you can (I'm excluding all residents in that vicinity) ask any cab driver. I don’t care which company. Ask to be! taken to a number on Burgess or Julian, Ohmer, Rawls or University. If he takes you directly to the address without getting con or asking questions, I'll pay the fare. Anyway, there I was on Burfess Ave. crossing 8S. Ritter and coming to a fork in the maze. Which would it be Rawls or Downey Ave.? I picked Downey which took me north, south, east and west to a new district and a dead-end street. A burned out shanty was no help as a‘landmark. That’s when I became excited. It was beginning to get dark. I must have followed in the] footsteps of the Indian. Street signs no longer interested me. After you cross the same street three or four times, what difference does it make?! The clank of a streetcar bell was music in my|

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FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1948

Pollard Trial, Five Times To Open Monday

WHICH WAY ?—Irvington streets have a “tendency” to become confusing. In fact, they de-

Army narcotics trickle into Shanghai opium dens. -

ears.

me, Now, which side of the street do I catch a streetcar to go back to town? I tossed a coin for the direction. It was right.

So, I bid a fopd farewell to picturesque Irvington.

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By Robert C. Ruark

“I first became attracted to the Communist Party through admiration for individual Commu-

nists and their activity. I believe the Communist

Party to be the organization which fights mest consistently and effectively for a better, peaceful life, for all the American people.”

Then I wrote down a question’ about how Junius feels about the Marshall Plan, and he says it is a plot by the American imperialists to establish the domination of American finance capital over the entire world. He says it is bipartisan foreign policy backed by American imperialists, and this I do not understand at all.

He Wouldn't Answer That One

THE LAST big query asked Junius if membership in the American Communist mob comprised an indorsement of the avowed international aims of Russia, and whether he approved of Russia domination of Europe and Asia and eventually of the United States. Junius says “your premise is contrary to fact and hence unacceptable to me. The question is typical of some of the lower-level Red-baiting rampant in the capitalist press. The Communist Party of the U. 8. A. determines its policies in accordance with the interests of the American eople. : " RAs to Russian domination of the United States. No. I don’t approve nor do I think it is being attempted. I want to see the American people dominate this country.” In view of the recent headlines from Europe, I do not think Comrade Scales, the voice of communism in Chdpel Hill, N. C., has much of a future with his party. They will either jerk his card for naivete or shoot him for shortsightedness. I suppose this is what comes of taking banker's boys into the lodge at a time when the Russian peace policy has just extended to Finland and so many other places on the globe. But I still wonder, out loud, how the kids get to think that way, and who feeds them the fuzzy doctrine in the first place.

By Frederick C. Othman

d then for the Liquidation Commission, and he in who turned up my blood in the Chinese black market. Found it’ in a warehouse, along with the blood plasma contributed by 200,000 other Americans during the war. This blood, the narcotics, the airplanes, canned goods, sheet steel, and numerous other products went at bargain prices to the Chinese Get-rich-quick Charlies, and on credit at that. Star salesman, Mr. Moody asserted, was Brig. Gen. Bernard A. Johnson, a one-time civilian conservation corps

“captain and stock salesman in Minneapolis,

A Job the General Didn't Get

MR. MOODY charged that, while Gen. Johnson was knocking down millions of dollars worth of merchandise to the wily Orientals, he also was negdtiating for a job with 'em at $35,000 a year servants, house and car included. If so, he never did get it; at last reports, he was back in the Army as a colonel in charge of transport at Tokyo. Mr. McCabe was Gen. Johnson's boas. And, according to Mr. Moody, tried to protect him when the airplane business threatened to become public. : : It turned out, Mr. Moody charged, that Gen.

© Johnson's staff misi ed 151 airplanes as “junk”

and sold em to an airplane company belonging to the brother of the Chinese premier. Many of

these pieces of shiny junk the Chinese flew im-|_.

mediately of the field. Only the consignment contained 11 big B-25 bombers, all listed as junk. When news of that sale became public, the Communists kicked at our selling war planes to the Chinese. Mr. Moody said that Mr. McCabe then ordered those particular planes actually turned into junk. He had their tails chopped off, Mr. Moody said. “Here's a picture,” said ps Dovey: owing an enlarged photograph of a giant a p on a Chinese field, with her tail sawed off and crashing earth. to Mr. McCabe explains next week. I'll be there. 1 want to learn more about my blood. .

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) Over lawns, fences, hedges and curbs I went. E. Washington suddenly was in front of

trial of Howard Pollard, cha

two years ago. The trial will get underway Monday at Greenfiel

Wants to Get It Over;

Postponed Two Years

By RICHARD LEWIS { TWO YEARS AGO, Howard C. Pollard, then 24, shot_and killed Leland Paul Miller, 24, an arth|ritis cripple and one-time pal.

| MAP STRATEGY — City and state police and members of the J | Marion County Prosecutor's office met today to make plans for the |

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He dismembered the hands and 4 g

one foot of the victim. He then attempted to burn the gasolinesoaked remains in an abandoned shack and brush in Boone County. | Thus started one of the most involved crimindl cases in the city's history. | It will enter a new phase Monday in the quiet, antique Han-

t cock County courtroom of Circuit

| Judge John B. Hinchman when the trial of Pollard for first degree murder will get under way for the fifth time. Behind the two-year delay in the Pollard case is a series of enforcement agency quarrels and legal maneuvering which has illustrated the whole pattern of law County. » » » THE Indianapolis Police Department and the sheriff's office have fought openly over jurisdiction in the case, with State Police standing by and trying to appear neutral. The trial has five times. It was postponed from Oct. 28, 1946, to Dec. 2, 1946, on a defense motion for change of judge. It was postponed Dec. 2 to July 16, 1947, on a motion for change of venue. It was then transferred from Marion to Hancock County. It was postponed from July 16 to Nov. 3 on a defense plea tet)

been postponed

witnesses were ill. It was postponed from Nov. 3, 1947, to Mar. 8, 1948 on the plea of prosecution for more time to consult witnesses and on a prose-| cution motion for change of venue which was denied. The motion was based on the progecution’'s assertion that Pollard had been shown “favoritism” while in Hancock County Jail. » » » POLLARD’'S defense in part is self-defense, It is based on a statement given to the late Sheriff Otto Petit after Pollard was brought to the Marion Coun ty Jail { Pollard admitted killing Miller]

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tease act.

Patrons at her New Orleans and yell for more.

The sultry 21-year-old stripper| turned up here with the band) from her club yesterday and went into an impromptu peel atop a

LSU campus. Hang Em -on Stormy: But when she started taking ‘em off, students started hanging ‘em on. On Stormy. She came away with a scraped foot, four loose teeth, a puffed up’ lower lip and an ominously black eye. Wet, too. She got dunked in the campus lake. At least one co-ed socked her, Stormy said, but male students did most of the damage. That's what bothers her, “Boys will be boys,” is the only explanation she can muster. It all started when Stormy, whose name is Stacie Laurence, said she intended to campaign on the campus for Pat McIntyre, who was running for president of the student body. Warned by Officials LSU officials - warned her. “Don’t try it,” they said. Pat wasn't enthusiastic, either. But Stormy came to LSU any-

y. > The band started playing and] Stormy w:nt into her bumps and grinds. | Her eyeglasses, blouse and {skirt came off, in that order. | | Stormy stood there in a brief two- | piece bathing suit. That was all.| The crowd of boisterous #tu-| dents that had gathered round closed in, grabbed her, carried her

off to the lake and tossed her in. "

“My college career is over,” Stormy observed, “at least for the time being.

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enforcement in Marion |

Students at Louisiana State University are different,

big truck in the middle of the |

WIFE OF SLAYER—Frances Pollard was with her husband when he was arrested in Kentucky, where he had fled after dismembering and attempting to burn the body of his victim,

body, according to the statement. It grew out of the struggle beHe said he shot Miller after/tween city police and the sheriff's Miller attempted to attack him with a knife.

To bolster this defense, Pollard has a 22-caliber bullet still embedded in the back of his neck. This was the bullet Miller fred at him on a May night in 1945 during a brawl over a woman on a lonely county road. Pollard survived the wound and a year later killed Miller. City and State Police contended at the outset of the case that the killing was not a case of selfdefense.

office to take charge of the case.

After Pollard killed Miller and attempted to dispose of the body, he fled with his wife, Frances, to the home of an uncle in Nicholasville, Ky. “He was captured there six days later by Kentucky State Police. He was returned to Indianapolis and lodged in the Marion County Jail. Before either city or State Police could question him, Pollard was interrogated . privately by Sheriff Petit who took a confes- ® = = sion. THIS CONFLICT in evidence between police and sheriff may

* = = THE SHERIFF said he entered

and attempting to dispose of the be the crux of the entire trial. the. case after Pollard's father, to run the Pollard case.

Stormy—a Stripper—Gets

|McGrath Seeks Truce ‘With Southern ‘Rebels’

Row WASHINGTON, Mar. 5 (UP) ve -—Democratic Chairman J. How-

rmy LSU

BATON ROUGE, La., Mar. 5 (UP)—S8tormy nursed a big bunch|ard McGrath has been conferring! of bruises today and tried to figure out what's wrong with her strip- | informally with southern Demo-

|crats without finding a basis for night club like it. They applaud ending the conflict over Presi{dent Truman's Civil Rights Program, it was understood today.

Carnival—By Dick Turner

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‘But, your honor, all he did was bop his janitor for not turning on enough heat! Just give my client one mere chance— : : he hardly hurt the man at alll"

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Delayed, Greenfield

These chief participants for the State are (left to right] Capt. John Barton, state police: Prosecutor Judson L. Stark; Maj.-Robert O'Neal,

state police; Deputy Prosecutor Glenn Funk, and Detective Sgt. William F.

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ity police,

ON TRIAL AT LAST—County-city squabbling and legal teche nicalities have kept Howard Pollard from coming to trial for the "hands and foot" slaying of the arthritic cripple,

Homer, arrived at the jail and) AFTER THAT, the police and told the sheriff that Pollard the sheriff retired from active “ ” wanted “to tell the truth. combat over Pollard. From then

The Sheriff then arrested as on, the case was delayed by the ,& material witness one of Pol- defense and prosecution.

E72 OmILUIORs TIS Was be Pollard himself, looking hale s and hearty in the Hancock Coun= tate Police. When city police came to the '¥ Jail, wants to go to trial. He jail to question Pollard, they| wants to get it over with, he found him unavailable, At one|says. He says he doesn't believe time he was in court on a minor| he will be convicted on his self» bond matter. At another, he was| defense plea, eating lunch, the sheriff's office] Both defense and prosecution told police. now appear to be ready to preWhen city police finally ques-| sent their case, After four starts, tioned Pollard, they blasted the the trial of Howard Pollard will open Monday in Greenfield where

| sheriff's office with the charge i It was seeking publicity in trying! it is only a matter of casual local interest.

[For $1 Million Pay Boost

Indianapolis school teachers will ask $1 million in salary raises | from the School Board for the 1948-49 school year.

| The increases, which would cover salaries of the city's 2100 teachers and school administration officers, would add 20 cents to the current $1.44 tax rate of the school city. The pay increase proposal was voted at a meeting of 1000 teach ers of the Indianapolis Federation of Public School Teachers yesterday at Caleb Mills Hall,

Brief Supports Need

The School Board must decide on a pay schedule for next year | by May 1» The proposed sched-| ule of the federation will handed to the board late this month. ’

J. Clayton Hughes, federation executive secretary, said a 12page brief supporting the need for the increases would accompany the schedule. The pay and benefit schedule: ONE: Beginning salary of $2550 for AB degree teachers with a top n= of $4450 in 19 years. Present minimum is $2500 with a $3800 méiximum in 14 years. A begin-|

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annual college scholarship to a high school graduate.

JAP PUPPET INDICTED PEIPING, Mar. 5 (UP)—Henry Pu-Yi, former puppet emperor. of Manchukuo, was indicted ‘ine abscntia today by a Hopei pro vincial court for high treason. The “boy emperor” is now in Soviet custody.

WORD-A-DAY'

By BACH

PE Sa . gree teachers and a top of $5000 ( an too-rezh’ vou in 19 Jeon Present minimum is | ASSOCIATES; COMPANIONS, OR $2700 nning and $4250 in 18| Noy. iI FOLLOWERS COLLECTIVELY TWO: A pay increase from $10,000. to $15,000 a year for Virgil Stinebaugh, superintendent. Other | administrative increases of $6360 to $8000 for assistant superin- || tendents; $6360 to $7000. for high | school principals in Class I; $6750 for Class II, and $6500 for Class [7A IIT. ' A $200 to $400 salary boost [// for elementary principals. |

Urges Adjustment

THREE: Adjustment teacher salary schedules accord-| ing to training and experience. | FOUR: Inclusion of an “in-| laws” clause in the “immediate family” definition for five days annual leave because of deaths.

POV, 18 THIS GONG TO BE A COLOSSAL

The teachers also voted a $1000/

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2100 City Teachers to Ask

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