Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1948 — Page 1

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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness—

Independence of 13 Colonies Proclaimed

‘We Mutually Pledge... Our Lives, Our Fortynes and Our Sacred Honor’ Ce ——

PHILADELPHIA, July 4, 1776—Congress today declared the 13 United Colonies “free and independent states” and repudiated the last

bonds of allegiance to the British Crown. Complete text of the Declaration follows: =

w” = » » WHEN, IN the Course of human events, it becomes

necessary for one people to

dissolve the political bands

which have connected them with another, and to assume

among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to

which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to ‘the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the

pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive

of these ends, ‘it is the Right

_ of -the People to alter or to

abolish it, and to institute new | government, laying its foundation on such principles and or- | ganizing its powers in such | form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their | gafety and Happiness.

Train of Abuses PRUDENCE, INDEED, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while .evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and wusurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide mew guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their. former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the estab-

anny over

with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us, in many

cases, of the benefits of Trial by jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended

| offenses:

No Longer Free FOR ABOLISHING the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering, fundamentally, the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Govern-

ment here, by declaring us out |

of his Protection, and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at .this time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the

pf an absolute iyrlishment..pf, a0. abeok HT works of death, desolation and

The Facts TO PROVE this, let facts be submitted to a candid world: He has refused his Assent to Laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so spspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in 4h» Legislature; a right - inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

‘He Has - Refused’ HE HAS dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly for | opposing with manly firmness his invasion on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exPosed to all the danger of invasion from without and convulsions within. He has endeavored te prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Law: for the naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the Admin-| Istration of Justice by refusing | his Assent to Laws for estab- | lishing judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their 8alarjes. ”

People Harassed HE HAS erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither | 8warms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their Substance. Y He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing armies, without th. Consent of our Legislatures. i He has affected to render the Military independence of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and | unacknowledged by our laws; K ving his Assent to their acts | Of pretended Legislation. For quartering large bodies | of armed troops among us: | For protecting them, by a | ‘Mock Trial, from punishment, | for Any Murders which they | should commit on the inhabi- |

tants of these States: - For cutting off our Trade

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tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

No Redress

HE HAS constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren; or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has: endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an “undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in

attention to our British breth- | We have warned them |

ren. from time to time of attempts made by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jrrisdiction over us. We have reminded them of ‘he ci.cumstances of

our emigration and settlement | here. We have appealed to their |

native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connection and correspondence.

Deaf to Justice THEY, TOO. have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. W¢ rust, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which

i denounces our Separation and

hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of odr intentions

do, in.the Name, and by the |

authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, free and independent States: That they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connec-

tion between them and the |

State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which States may of right do. And, for the support of this Declaration, with a firm re-

liance on the protection of |

Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacted honor,

2 ] ® ] » . FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness with a few showers today and tonight. Tomorrow fair, continued warm. 59th YEAR—NUMBER 99

9 Die Violent In Indiana,

. , ® | » 300 in Nation Fexils Toll_Less Than July 4

MONDAY, JULY 5,

'Hague’s Swing To lke To

1948

Entered as Second Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

imes

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FINAL HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Slaughter last Year |

Indiana’s violent @eath toll rose to nine today as Hoosiers cele-| brated a three-day holiday over| {the July 4th week-fnd. | In the nation number of dead passed the mark as record numbers wded high-! ways and vacation spots. The toll, however, was running far) behind that of a similar threeday holiday last year when 638 persons lost their lives in mis-! haps. Those who met violent deaths [in Indiana were: | | { 1

Boris J. Nacoft, 23, Alexandria. Grace Baker, McNatts, { Thomas M. Moxley, 1, Ft Wayne. John Point. Kg Paul John Streusert, 65, Knox. 1 |

Lonsbury, 16, Crown i

Carl Erickson, 24, Chicago. Tommy Cripe, 11, Goshen. Guernard Harrell, 46, Vicksburg. : Floyd Boone, 37. Dugger. Three Drown

Three of the number met death |§ {by drowning. The others were! fatally injured in traffic accidents. Mr. Nacoff drowned yesterday B when the boat in which he was riding on Lake Freeman capsized in the wash from a passing speed | boat. Mrs. Thelma Wells, Alex-| andria, his companion, was! rescued. i One-year-old Thomas M. Mox-| ley drowned in a backyard fishpond Saturday at the home of a neighbor southwest of Ft. Wayne The child was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Moxley. l¢ Miss Baker, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Baker of near Mc Natts in Huntington County, drowned in a gravel pit south of |: Warren in Wells County. Unable, to swim, the girl got in water be-|’ yond her depth and sank. Struck by Auto | John Streusert died in Holy Family Hospital yesterday injuries received Baturday| night when he was struck by an|; automobile on US 35 driven by| Letha White of Knox. | John Lonsbury, 16. of Crown Point, was killed Saturday night when the motor scooter he was was struck by Nickel Plate freight train at grade crossing. Injuries suffered wien the automobile in which he riding collided July 2 with another vehicle on US 6 south of Porte were fatal yesterday Carll Erickson. Three other persons were hurt. The Cripe youth died Friday night when the bicycl® on which he was riding three miles west of Goshen on US 37 was struck by a truck.

Collide Head-On

Guernard Harrell and Floyd § Boone were killed Friday night] when the car in which they were riding on Ind. 54 near Linton collided head-on with another vehicle. In Indianapolis a motoreyclist jand a 7-year-old boy were in crit{ical condition in General Hospital as the result of traffic ae|cidents. Ivan Cole, 28, of 546 Birch St. received possible spine injuries when the motorcycle he was rid-| ling collided with an automobile Saturday afternoon at Chase St.! and Oliver Ave. The automobile _

was driven by Arlie Harrison, 22, e ; I Id Mi

‘of 1332 W. Ray St. Seven-year-old Kenneth Bergis; the other termed critical at General . y ’ | Hospital, after being struc To Kill Her'an automobile as he crossed{the [street at 24th and Stuart Bts. |

TIME OUT — The best harvest weather is hot weather, and that calls for frequent stops at the water jug. Here Farmer Mann, who lives on R. R. 4, Box 645, takes time out for refreshment.

{doll of 2413 Stuart St., The machine was driven by ert A. Ballard, 16, of 2263iN. | Dearborn ‘St. {

Strangles Best Friend | A state-by-state survey sho¥ed .)on4 you feel remorse that that 307 persons had died ac you, a religious woman, killed a Janially since Friday evening. person?” asked Dr.” Max Bahr, Of the total, 164 were tao Central State Hospital super-| traffic accidents, 69 drowned, Olintendent of Mrs. Daisy Gray. were killed by fireworks, %o\ihic morning in an isolation died in plane crashes and 68 dled room ! lin miscellaneous accidents. | “No, Dr. Bahr. God told me to.

kill her and it's all right with me now,” answered Mrs. Gray, who strongled her best friend and ' . roommate, Mrs. Mattie Poole, 50, Saturday at 5 p. m.

Get Caught in. Mrs. Gray, 47, kept on repeat-

Own Double Stalk ing, “God told me to kill her, so | ——— id." DEPUTIES WILLIAM OWEN nightgown around her neck until and Robert Keithley saw head she was dead. Attendants dislights shining through the woods covered the body a few minutes at 16th St: and Eagle Creef after hearing Mrs. Gray wail. |They left their car and startef then called Dr. Bahr. |through the darkened area th “There is nothing you can do |investigate. about such things. They just Hearing a twig crackle behind happen .. 2” said Dr. Bahr. | nim, Deputy Owen turned to hij ‘More Than Judgment’

\partner and said, “Quiet.” “These auditory hallucinations

| “I'm not making- any noise, i mean more than an i y reasoning or | said Deputy Keithley, who wa | judgment or anything else. . . .

|standing at Officer Owen's elbow z a on their heels, bot [DeY are overpowering, particu men drew their guns and cam face to face with a stalker, wh also had a gun in his hand. / » » » FLASHLIGHTS revealed tw beady eyes staring from *holes! |cut through a stocking covering {the man’s head. | Deputy Owen fired one shot from his revolver as the man jrurned, to flee and both officers emptied their guns into they, hand Clem, 336 Indiana Ave. bushes where he disappeared. , ! Though he stumbled and fell, a Irs. Gray's home is at 627 Udell search of the area failed to produce him. : s A return to the original investigation proved fruitless also. |Deputy Owen said. The shots

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something. “I remember about 10 years

tient here after she buried her] ~-month-old child alive ‘because| told her to. ! “All that can be done to such ersons is to place them in rooms, y themselves to see that such a! rime does not happen again.”

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f the few self-propelled combines in this area is this one shown clipping through one of the Mann fields with Chester Coffey at the conIt beqan “gathering in the sheaves” in the mo /

“7 State Democrals

RANK AND READY—Combines will swing into action throughout Marion County and Central Indiana this week, to harvest a wheat crop forecast at considerably better than average. which Charles Mann, west of Southport, expects to yield from 35 to 40 bushels to the acre. Reports from over the state indicate generally rank growth of straw and well-filled heads. pots vy

Here is a section of the 165 acres

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‘eonvention les¢ than -a month ago, souri nations

GOLDEN GRAIN — After every few laps around

the field, Mr. Coffey halts the combine and Oren Mann (right), son of Charles Mann, pulls alongside with a

truck. ket or bin.

On the Inside

showdown is awaited ...

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Know why

A Key to Other Features on Inside

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Beauty .... Bridge Business ...

larly when God tells you to do Aerial supply line to Berlin stepped up as diplomatic

mong 39 dead in London plane

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Pages «+s 19. Dr. Jordan.. 12, Mrs. Roos'v’it 12 Indiana. . 10 Mrs. Manners 8 Ruark 10 Movies ..... 14 Scherrer 14 Needlework .. 12 Society ... 3 F.C.Othman 9 Sports 9 Radio ...... 20, Women’s ... 13 to national victory.

Grain cascades down the chute, ready for marMr. Mann was expecting an average test | weight of 59 to 60 pounds to the bushel.

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e J ans were two weeks ago when

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nobody can sing “The Star-Spangled. Banner?” Read Anton Scherrer’s Our Town. ..Page 1

vives 9 the President, it will be because ..+ 10 they feel his chances of election ++ 12 next fall are poor and

dern manner last Friday.

( big bloc of the Indiana vote

Shake Truman

[Expects Boom For General To Fizzle Qut

Holds Eisenhower Is Really a Republican

By United Press The draft-Eisenhower bandwagon picked up some influential passengers today {but President Truman was ‘reported to feel it would be halted before the Democratic

national convention opens next Monday. New Jersey Democrats led by ‘political boss Frank Hague, were ithe latest to join the drive to ditch Mr. Truman. At a tumultuous meeting at Asbury Park, N, |Y., they voted to instruct their 136 convention delegates to support Gen. Eisenhower for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Hague, vice chairman of ithe Democratic National Commit. (tee, led the bolt with the declaration that neither Mr. Truman nor GOP nominee Thomas E. Dewey could give the public the “world leadership” it is seeking. He said the Democratic Party in New Jersey would be “wiped out” if Mr. Truman were nominated. t Switch The switch by New Jersey Democrats marked the first time that a key industrial state of the North had openly allied {tself with the stop-Truman drive initi« ated by Southérn Democrats. Former Democratic National # | Chairman James A. Farley, when {asked to comment on Mr. Hague's iawitch to Gen. Eisenhower, said he was astounded that some people would “question” the integrity of Eisenhower's no-politics statement of January. “In my. judgment, President Truman will be nominated in Philadelphia before the conclusion of the first ballot,” said Mr. Farley. ’ The draft-lIke forces took Gén. Eisenhower's silence to mekn consent. For instance, Deémocratic National Committeeman Harry Carlson of New Hampshire, one of the leaders of the Ike-for-President boom, said a : he EN personal conference and later tel~ ) hha ephone conversation with: Gen. Eisenhower made him “satisfied” the former Army Chief of Staff is available for the Democratic nomination. He said in an interview that Gen. Eisenhower hadn't actually {told him he would accept and that the didn’t put the question direct ily to the general because he didn't

= . i (consider it appropriate. W Expect Boom to Die | d { However. Mr. Carison added. ja no time did he ever say: ‘I 4 5 will not accept the nomin Le Stirred by lke Boom Close ne nation iman sald he believed the Eisen+ But Take It Easy {hower boom would die down bes By BOYD GILL {fore the Democratic convention United Press Stall Correspondent gets around to balloting. Mr. TruIndiana Democrats, taking the man, it was said, regards Gen pattern of political strategy from Eisenhower as a Republican at their Hoosier Republican breth- heart and doesn’t think he'd go ren, waited today for presiden- for the Democratic nomination {tial nominating sentiment to, Anti-Truman Democrats were crystallize before deciding what'as confident Gen. Eisenhower they would do at Philadelphia. would get the nomination unless The state's 30 unpledged dele- he says flatly beforehand that he gates with 26 votes were stirred can’t be drafted. up by the full-fledged boom for William Ritchie, Nebraska Gen. Eisenhower as the party's Democratic chairman, predicted presidential nominee in prefer- that more than 200 convention lence to President Truman. /delegates would attend the anti | But they appeared today to be Truman caucus in Philadelphia taking it easy and unwilling to!Saturday. The meeting was called commit themselves until after a'by James Roosevelt, New York caucus in the national conven- Mayor William O'Dwyer, Chicago tion city a week from today. {Democratic leader Jacob M. Ar. Delegates Not Bored vey and 15 other party bigwigs. | Indiana has taken no part in] Mr. Roosevelt said in Los Ane {the anti-Truman sentiment that geles that he, too, expected {swept the South since the Presi- “quite a crowd” at the Philadel ident - expounded his civil rights phia caucus. {program. At the Hoosier state; However, John J. Jangle, Misnet e , sai the party praised Mr. Truman Mr. Truman’ home aan but did not bind its delegates to not desert him. The President, support him. he said, “will be nominated on It was a foregone conclusion the first ballot,” they would give Mr. Truman ‘Wait und See’ (their votes. State Chairman Ira In Michigan, State Democratie 'Haymaker of Franklin, as re- Chairman John R. Franco said a cently as last week, assured the Majority of the state's convention President in. a White House con- delegates want Mr. Truman. But ference it was his opinion Mr. National Committeeman Sy BeTruman would get the Indiana van said a majority want Gen. support if his name was placed in Eisenhower. Mr. Bevan waa nomination. {among the party leaders who | However, Mr. Haymaker per-/called the Philadelphia caucus. (haps did not reckon with the, In Oklahoma, State Chairman {size of the Eisenhower boom that! James Harrington said only that {shot up during the week-end. the ° Draft-Ike - movement had | Want to Guess Right not swayed the state's convenThe Hoosiers were reported toition delegation from its “wait {be as anxious to guess right inland see stand.” {the Democratic presidential bal-| Meanwhile, Gov. Thomas E, {loting as the Indiana Republica-| Dewey of New York, the Republican presidential nominee, spent a quiet week-end with his family at their Pawling, N. Y., farm. He and his vice presidential running’ mate, Gov. Earl Warren of rnia. are not expected to begin active campaigning until September.

Glesing Jr, Times Staff Photograypher.

{the GOP delegates hopped on the | Thomas E. Dewey bandwagon. ! Politicians speculated that Eisenhower boom sweep to such a point that he ‘was certain to be nominated, a

{might help his cause. rE ———————————— | However, tliere still 18 no CRACK DOWN ON GAMING !strong anti-Truman sentiment in} TERRE HAUTE, Jalv § (UP) If the Hoosiers desert] —Mayor Ralph Tucker said today that gambling of anv Kind was taboo here. He said the law enforcement agencies would

that Gen.

...15, 16 Bisenhower could lead the party crack down in an all-out attempt

|to rid the city of gambling.

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