Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1948 — Page 1
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IT'S A LONG WALK — Caddies for the Women's City Championship golfers get in ‘a little vest before the meet which opened this morning at Highland Country Club. It is a long way around the 6000-yard: course. Seated is Kenny Bymaster. Standing (left to right) are James Jones, Joe Lawler, Jack Moore, David Morris, Ben Alexander and Leroy Eckert.
225,000 by
Army Hopes to Induct
July, 1949
Expects to Call 30,000 Monthly, Beginning Sept. 22; Youths Must Serve 21 Months
WASHINGTON, June 28 (UP)—The Army announced today that it expects to induct from 225,000 to 260,000 men from July 1,
1948, to June 30, 1949, under the
peacetime draft law.
The draftees, aged 19-through-25, will serve for 21 months.
About 30,000 men per month Secretary of Army Kenneth C. Royall gave the figures at a news conference as he disclosed plans for the new draft machinery.
Filled by Volunteers The “somewhat limited immediate requirement” of the Navy and Air Force probably will be filled by volunteer recruits. Mr. Royall said. The Army will get most of the draftees.
The progtam is planned to bring the Army's /atre of 542,000 up to by July 1,
1949 in actordance vith the provisions of the Selective Act, The law authorizes a maximum strength of 837,000. However, it does not carry appropriations for more than 790,000. ' The draft act provides for registration of those 18-through-25. Selective Service said local boards probably will begin registration Aug. 186.
Sign for One Year The Army expects to get 110,000 18-year-old volunteers in the next year, Mr, Royall said." These 18-year-olds may sign up for one Year ‘active training.
These youths can get out of
ing for ‘the ome Year and then signing ‘up in the reserve for six years. . Mr. Royall announced four new training divisions will be activated: Tenth Infantry (Mountain) Division, Ft. Riley, Kas.; 5th Armored Division, Camp Chaffee, Ark.; 101st Airborne Division, €amp Breckenridge, Ky., and 17th Airborne Division, Camp Pickett, Va. go
Training - divisions already in operation include: Fourth Infantry Division, Ft. Ord, Cal.; 5th In{antfy Division, Ft. Jackson, 8. C.; Sth Infantry Division, Ft. Dix, N. J...and 3d Armored Division, Ft. Knox, Ky. ;
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6am.. 71 10a m... 80 Tam... 11a m...88 8am..." 12 (Noon) 85 9am... 78 1p m... 87
Rain #5 expected today, accord: ing to the Weather Bureau. Warm * and ‘humid ‘ weather with occasiona' showers this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow and considerable cloudiness is the official prediction. The mercury is expected to climb to 85 degrees- today, and Tall into the low 70's tonight. ToMorrow's temperatures are expected to be the same. In all, Summer, with its hot, humid and exceptionally rainy weather is here to stay. -
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Inductions probably will start about Sept. 22.
Expect Tax Case Acquittal Motion
Weiss Attorneys Prepare Argument
Defense attorneys were for ac-
ex-
(afternoon in. Federal Court.
evidence by the government which completed its evidence last Friday against three alleged black market liquor profiteers, Defendants are Jacob Weiss, 47, former State Senator and Indilanapolis attorney; Louis H. Rosenblum, 50, of Hammond and Max Stryk, 52, of Gary. All are charged with failure to pay full taxes on an income of $586,178 during 1943 in the sale of liquor. If Federal Judge Walter Lindley denies the motion, defense attorneys then plan to begin testimony to refute the government's
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Prisoner Foiled In Court Escape
ful attempt to escape from Municipal Court 4 this morning.
While awaiting trial with 116 other defendants, Joseph Jacobs, 53, of 2753 James St., started walking out of court unnoticed. Finally officers spied him as he was about out the door and captured him. The defendant was put on trial immediately’ and fined $1 and costs and sentenced to 30. days at the penal farm on a charge of resisting an officer. Prisoner, Fights Back Last night when Patrolman Dennig’Maxey attempted to arrest Jacobs the prisoner fought back. "When Patrolman Maxey returned the blow the prisoner grabbed the officer's ‘gun as he went down. The prisoner threatened to shoot the officer but the iweapon was wrested from him before he could pull the trigger. Meanwhile, police were still searching for another prisoner who walked out of the Municipal Court prisoner lineup last Saturday. He was Reggie Brown, 32, of 908 Fayette St., who disappeared while awaiting trial on a vagrancy charge. He had been arrested in connection with a bur-
glary investigation.
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1-Legged Suspect Admits Robbery
Names 3 Pals; 2 Chicago Officers Shot
CHICAGO, June 28 (UP)—A one-legged Chicagoan admitted today he was a member of a gang of bandits who robbed a handbook and escaped after shooting two policemen in a running gun battle, police said. Stanley L. Demski, chief of police of the village of Lyons, Ill, said that Jerry Malek, 27, confessed this morning and named three companions who participated in the holdup. Police officers from 24 western suburbs joined in the search for the gang Saturday ‘night. They used planes, bloodhounds and searchlights in an attempt to track the men down after they found the get-away-tar aban-
of Chicago. ; ; Has Robbery Reécord Malek, who has a record of robbery, was arrested early today at his South Side home on a tip furnished by two young women. He named three other members of the gang, police said. Police tracked down Malek in one of the greatest manhunts in Chicago history, begun when a gang held up a gambling house and handbook bar near Western Springs, Ill, a west Chicago sub-
urb. Demski, Clarence Buehl, Westlern Springs chief of police, and {Chicago police arrested Malek. They discovered five guns on the premises, ' Malek, who has an artificial left |leg, said he had no idea where the {other three men were hiding out.
Guns Found
Three 45-caliber Army automatics, a sub-machine gun, a carbine and a sawed-off shotgun were found yesterday in mud flats along the Des Plaines River, about one-third of a mile from {the quarry. Police also found a ‘bundle of raincoats and a bag] containing $985 in bills and $50 in silver, loot from the raid on the gambling den in suburban Western Springs. A patron of the bookie establishment called police Saturday night after the robbery. Sgt. Charles Peterson was shot in the abdomen as he sought to prevent the bandits’ escape. Sgt.- Peterson was reported in serious condition. Use Stolen Car The desperadoes sped through! several: towns in ‘a stolen car.| Police Lt. Joseph Clegg was grazed by ‘a bullet during the chase and the bandit car and several police cars were riddled. The bandits smashed three hastily-erected road blocks and
‘With Clare Boothe Luce— Urges Democrats Put Mrs. FDR on Ticket
Former President's Widow Suggested
.As Vice Presidential Possibility By CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
/in the service, the Pacific vote.
burglary charges Court 1.
atory. McClellan told the court
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RIDGEFIELD, Conn., June
and widely advertised.
the politicians say, “visit” with him on a number of occasions be-
to report that few politicians deserve more the friendly expressions that flow his way so fulsomely. Mr. Warren has much of the simplicity and lovability which, among other things, won Harold Stassen such a following, and he also wears without challenge the label of the good administrator.
lic opinion for a Republican administration, what shall the Democratic Party do at Philadelphia to be saved? » 8 = MR. TRUMAN will most certainly receive the nomination of his party, although there are
Justice William Douglas has a chance because he could restore the great liberal label that the death of Roosevelt and the defection of Henry Wallace ripped from it. = I do not believe that Mr. Douglas will either be asked or that he will accept. i Then can the Democrats choose anyone for second place who will help to restore to the Democratic Party the elements) which have, in quitting it, so; seriously weakened it as to make its defeat in November a fore-| gone conclusion?
an. 0 . I BELIEVE it can. That the) persan is a living, active, ardent, regular, not to say New Dealer, Democrat, is a fact,
able that’ is fdr the oft [fice of the vice presidency I not say, I refer, of course, to Mrs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Did I hear somebody explode with anger, astonishment, pain, indignation or fear? Then a man is reading this column. ? So when you calm down, please allow me, as Walter Lippman would put it, to venture to suggest that this choice would be highly practical politics.
"® # s \ SHE IS the only person in the, party who could take back from Wallace the Negro vote, the labor vote, the underdog minority vote and, as a mother of four boys
Certainly no woman in the| world has ever been able to do| more, nor in fact has ever done; more, for the cause of the colored people. She would give many disgruntled liberals who cannot stomach Wallace's Moscow axis and who still distryst Republicans an excuse to rally to the Truman banner. That is because
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2 Get Prison Terms
For Local Burglaries
Two men were sentenced to prison terms today after they pleaded guilty to second degree in Criminal
Judge William D. Bain sentenced William D. Ansley, 18, fo one year on the state farm and Robert McClellan, 20, to two to five years in the State Reform-
he was on pafole on a reckless homicide conviction from. Muncie. The two admitted breaking into the Indianapolis News and stealing prize watches and a radio Apr. 24. They said they then cashed some checks taken in another burglary and went to New
abandoned their car near the Big Stone quarry at McCook, Ill.
York. They were apprehended in New York.
today to seek = forward-looking a backward-going car.
fi — that flies backward to see where it's been. Their brilliant red job, product of two months’ work, has the engine. and steering wheel in the rear seat-and the windshield and headlights looking back. When it goes forward, it goes there backrd.
Either Clarke or Clark is a Republican and the other is a Democrat. They don't say which is which, and there's a chance that they're confused. In any event, if President Truman turns them
with Republican Candidate
Would a Backward-Going = Car Be a Good Bandwagon? |
Konfusion Kids Wheel Reverse Creation
To Washington fo Sound Out Truman
RALEIGH, N, C., June 28 (UP)—Clarke and Clark, the Konfusion Kids, rode merrily toward—or away from-—Washingtoni
John R. Clarke, 25, and John R. Clark, 27, of 8avannah, Ga.,| that what the campaign needs is a car like the famed mug-|
fore Philadelphia, I am happy -
Against the rolling tide of pub-
many Democrats who feel that
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28—Editorial opinion throughout
the nation is that the GOP has picked a winning team. The merits of Tom (he gets things done) Not so
Dewey have been well well known are the qualities
of his running mate, Earl Warren. As one who has had the good fortune to meet and, as Plockade of Berlin today as Brit-|
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WOULD SHE RUN?—Clare Boothe Luce declares that Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt is the logical nominee of the Democrats for vice president. Moreover, she tells why.
Jap Quakes Kill Or Hurt Hundreds
100,000 Homeless; U. S. Speeds Relief
TOKYO, Tuesday, June 20 (UP) —Hundreds of persons were re\ported killed or injured and thousands were homeless today after a series of four devastating earthquakes hit the west coast of Honshu, main Japanese home island. Unconfirmed reports said that possibly 100,000 persons were homeless and mote than 1000 killed or injured. Brig. Gen. C. F. 8ams, chief of the Public Health and Welfare Section of the U. 8. 8th Army, said preliminary information showed at least 300 dead. Fukul Hardest Hit
Lt. Gen. Robert L..Efichelberger, U, 8, 8th Army commander, announced that emergency supplies, doctors, first-aid equipment and communications teams were on their way to Fukui; a city of
52,000 hit hardest by the temblors. % ' Fukui is about 200 miles west
of Tokyo. Gen, Eichelberger said a definite confirmation of damage was “unobtainable” but said reports indicated the casualty count was rising above 1000, with many other communities yet to report. Fires swept uncontrolled through Fukui, known as the “silk center of Japan.” Fires already have burned through one-third of the city and still are spreading, Gov. Oboya said in a radio SOS intercepted by Kyodo News Service. The Tokyo Observatory said
the coast.
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In two days of driving back-
ward they reached Raleigh, and|, = ;
intended to make the national’
capital by tonight. If highway patrolmen keep hands off, that is, Clarke and Clark upset half a dozen of them by appearing to back along the wrong side of the road. “We're ‘not trying to make headlines,” explained Clark to clarify their willingnéss to canrpaign for: any party that wants to attract attention. “We're just a couple of Georgia boys taking
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the quake centered in the bed of|in an old coat and setting fire to the Japan Sea about 40 miles off|it in an alley. The baby is in a
BLOCKADE RUNNERS — With hi
British Break Russ Blockade With Barges
| Germans Riot in | Soviet Berlin Sector
| BERLIN, June 28 (UP)—A|
crack appeared in the Russian
{ish authorities announced that 10 {barges carrying food and freight {from western Germany reached {the German capital. | Several more barges have been allowed to cross the border of the ‘Soviet zone en -route to Berlin, | |the British authorities said. | These were the first to cross the border since the Russians! closed the boundary to all sur-| face traffic to Berlin from the west on June 19 after announcement of currency reform in the western zone. It was not clear yet whether the Russian barricade against western supplies for the American, British and French establishments in Berlin and for the 2.5 million Germans in the capital who depend upon the western powers for food would be relaxed entirely. ' Tighten Rations The barge movements, which, the British said returned waterborne freight traffic to Berlin to “normal,” came a# the U. 8. and Britain used great fleets of transport planes to fly a double tonnage of supplies into the German capital, and imposed a stiff ration system to stave off the threat of starvation as a result of the Russian blockade. Earlier today ‘there had been a fairly serious riot among thousands of Germans waiting before the Russian central currency exchange office in the Soviet sector
“lof Berlin to exchange old marks
for new under the Soviet currency reform scheme. The Russian-sponsored ADN news agency blam:
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THUMBS DOWN-—Top { Communists from Soviet Russia and her East European satellites today revealed that they had:
ruled Marshal Tito, Marshal Stalin's old Yugoslavian pal, out of the Communist party because he had been playing ball with "Western imperialists." Yugoslavian Reds who remained faithful were charged with showing Tito the error of his ways.
Allies to Confer
On Berlin Crisis
Protest Expected After London Talks
LONDON, June 28 (UP)--High American and British officials met in an emergency conference at the British Foreign Office here today to consider the crisis cre-
ated by Russian attempts to force the Western powers out of Berlin. U. 8. Under-Secretary of Army William Draper and British For. eign Secretary Ernest Bevin met at a conference arranged by U. 8
ed Germans from the “western sectors” of the city for the rioting, They feared they might not be able to exchange their old Reichsmarks for the new Russian-approved currency, the agency said. No Deaths Reported The agency said four to six persons were injured seriously, three more were injured slightly, but mentioned no deaths. Earlier unconfirmed reports had said six to eight were killed and scores injured. Touched off by the currency reform. from which the current Berlin crisis stemmed, the riot was the first violence of any consequence here since the Russians uncorked their full dress effort to drive out the western powers.
U. 8. sector, flour was pouring in
a minute. The planes were landing one every three minutes. It was taking just under four minutes to unload each cargo of 5000 pounds of flour. The British would not provide precise figures, but said their operation would be as large as that of the United States. “We are going to feed Berlin by air,” a senior officer said.
| SETS FIRE TO BABY | JOLIET, Ill., June 28 (UP)— | Julia Fowler, 23, a waitress, was | charged today with trying to cre- { mate her illegitimate daughter by wrapping the newborn baby
serious condition.
rome, which is in the American sector. ‘With such clocklike the C-47's shown above land a ton of supplies every minute,
lin tonight. ~ ¥
y the Americans, British and French.
Second Profest Such a protest would be only the second in which France has joined her western partners since the war. It would serve these purposes: ONE: Remove the Berlin crisis from the hands of local military authorities and place it on the highest diplomatic level, TWO: Prove to Moscow that the west takes a most serious view of Russia's attempt to drive them out of Berlin, and the westerners meant it when they
THREE: Warn that only the
pected if the Russians persist in their present tactics,
Urge End of Blockade
FOUR: Demand the immediate and unconditional lifting of the Russian blockade of western Berlin, which threatens 2.5 million Germans with starvation. Britain's wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, set the tone of British public opinion in his Luton speech Saturday. He warned that the west faces the same kind of crisis as that of Munich, Despite other differences, he pledged the Tory party to support the Labor government in a firm stand which would reject any kind of a compromise or appeasement. : y
> ! Acme Teiephoto, . ghways and railways to the Allied zones ‘of Russians, U.S. Air Force ‘transports are flying in foodstuffs One transport lands every three minutes on the apron of the
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. Ambassador Lewis Douglas. Mr. Draper is to-continue to Ber-
Stalin Breaks With Tito; Victory For West
Yugo Dictator Out of Party
Accused of Playing Ball With Foes PRAGUE, June 28 (UP) —Russia read Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia out of the
Communist Party today on -
grounds that he has been playing ball with Western
imperidlism. \ A communique published in the Communist newspaper Rude
Pravo here revealed that Yugo. slavia Communists were purged from the Cominform (the Come munist Information Bureau) at
a secret meeting held in Romania in June,
Almost Every Crime It charged Tito and his supe porters in the Yugoslav governs ment with almost every crime in the Communist book—ranging from Trotskyism and antiSovietism to “ineptness” and “false demagogic tactics.” It said bluntly.that the Yugoslav leaders deserted “internationalist traditions” to . curry favor with imperialists. By its actions, the communique said, the Yugoslav Communist Party placed {itself “outside the family of brotherly Come munist parties, outside the United Communist Front, and thus also outside the ranks of ‘the Ine formation Bureau.”
The communique did not call for specific sanctions against Tito, wartime leader of Communist partisans and for a long time one of the most trusted followers of Premier Josef Stalin of Russia; and his supporters. A
“healthy core” of Yugoslav. Come
The likeilest action will be & munism to “bring its leaders to joint protest direct to Moscow see the error of their ways.”
Break Held Best News [For West in Cold War
LONDON, June 28 (UP)~The
Soviet Union's break with Premier Josef Stalin's former parte ner—Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia—was viewed herc today as the first favorable news for the west in the told war. Western diplomats were jubie lant, especially because Tito's representatives at various international conferences have been 'of the greatest service to the Sovfet Union, and have been most
At Templehof Airdrome in the Said they intended to stay there./obnoxious of all the Russian
|satellites in making what the
at-a rate of almost 1000 pounds most serious results could be ex- West considered unreasonable dp-
mands.
Reaction from within Y slavia itself was anxiously await ed. It was felt here, however, that Tito’s grasp on the country was such that even if any cone siderable portion of the Commuse nist Party reacted against him no revolt could succeed. . Washington Wonders | About Tito's Arrest WASHINGTON, June 28 (UP) —There was speculation in some quarters today that Marshall Tito may be under arrest. The Soviets never tip their hand, it was said, until those who have incurred their wrath are in no position to fight back. Other sources pointed out, however, that Tito has been in a position to thumb his nose at the Kremlin. Tito is not regarded here as a puppet ruler, but rather as the only satellite leader who has pulled himself up by his own bootstraps.
Yugoslav Press Mum;
Tito’s Not in Town
BELGRADE, June 28 (UP)— Yugoslav newspapers carried
‘inothing today regarding the break. No comment was forthe coming in official quarters.
" |Unofficially, it was said that Tito
is at his summer home. It was not known when he would ree turn.
Arbor Ave. Paving Project Approved
The board of works today voted to pave Arbor Ave. between Oliver Ave, and Ray St. at an estimated cost of $22,000. The | was confirmed.at a public hearing
(this morning. Property owners
along the two blocks will be assessed approximately $8.75 for lineal foot of fron . The project calls for a 30-foot paved roadway and construction of curbs along both sides. In other action the board awarded a contract for 200 tons
{of asphalt to Roadways, Inc. Bid
was $6 per ton. The other bidder, Indiana Asphalt Paving Co., Ine. offered to furnish the material at $7.75 a ton, Sk
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