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in - FORECAST: Fair and warm today and tonight. Warm, humid with showers tomorrow. 59th YEAR—NUMBER 120

Thousands View Train Exhibits Here

By ART WRIGHT 12 - YEAR - OLD schoolgirl rode 8 DUS “all night” to be one of the first to board the Freedom train at the State Fairgrounds

oa mary Mattingly, of Ferdi4, was one of the thousands

o citizens from all walks of life §

formed. an. unbroken , line ch filed through the documented exhibition cars throughout the day. Included, too, were patents from Billings Hospital, asualties of wera War II.

FIRST 10 enter the train on the Nickel Plate tracks was the oficial party of local dignitaries including Gov. Ralph F. Gates, and Mayor Al Feeney. The preview at 9 a. m. was conducted py Wiliam H. 8. O'Brien, tral or. ey. o'clock, the some 2000 wegrly birds” who had started to form a line about 8:15 a. m. beto file through the three exhibit Cars which carry the Decaration of Independence © and 120 other priceless documents and relics of America’s heritage of freedom. The train will be open until 10 .m. and will ‘be open from 10 a. m. until. 10 p. m. tomorrow. Admission to the train is free to the public. The train will leave at midnight tomorrow for Leouis-

ville, Ky. ” ” ”

IN THE PRINCIPAL address dedicating: the train this morning, Stephen C. Noland, president of the Indiana Society of Pioneers, lauded Indiana's heritage of freedom and the state's contribution to “the background of the Freedom Train. “We can render no more fitting service to giving life to the achievements of our pioneers,” said Mr. Noland, “than by sayon this occasion that they builded well, and by pledging ourselves not only to remember their work, but to make it live

again in our own vigilance and §

in our attention to the rearing of our children ‘in the free man’s

creed. To this purpose we pledge ¥

our lives.” ” n » THE FREEDOM PLEDGE was recited by Ronnie Bell, 13 year-old Boy’ Scout, who was selected for the honor because he rescued - three « youngsters . from Crooked Creek July 18. The official welcome was extended by Gov. Gates and Maver Feeney. Master of ceremonies was Wallace O. Lee, vice president of the Indianapolis Power. and Light Co.

Tomorow . will be “Mayor's

PUPILS SEE FREEDOM PAPERS — David Evans, 13. a Warren Central sigith

grader, and Sally Alexander, 12, of Tudor Hall's seventh

son's. rough draft of the Declaration of Independence in the first exhibit car of the

Freedom Train.

Day” at the train. Mayors of In-itrain tonight by the prize-winning diana’ ¢ities will be welcomed by! Sahara Grotto Band and the In-| Mayor Feeney in ceremonies at/dianapolis News Newsboys Band. 9:30 a. m. The mayors will pre-|Tomorrow afternoon Ted CampView the train at 9 o'clock, belts Band will gutertain and toTHE 1 1 tained: while waiting to board theland drill,

THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1948

ur Heritage of Freedom...

grade, stop to read Jetfer--

iar Activity ‘Housing Here

“ Sharp. Gain Noted

Indiana State Farm for grand

Entered 4r Becond-Clas Mattar st Postofics Indianapolis, Tnd, Issued daly except Sunday

Confesses Lootin

SHES

PRICE ‘FIVE GENTS

Parolee Admits \ 17 Burglaries | Sunny Jim’

In Spree tan Dead

Business Houses

A 30-year-old prisoner a admitted he committed 17 bur- | glaries here while on parole from! Michigan City State son.

'Quizzed for weeks by city de-, tectives, Clifford Walker, 6491; Blackford St., confessed he loot-! | ed 14 business establishments in Indianapolis and three in Speedway City. His crime spree began, he said, ! | shortly after he was paroled in! 1944 from Michigan City where he had served 12 years for robDbery, ‘Gainfully Employed’

State parole officers said their) { agents had checked on Walker periodically until he was last ar-| rested Jan. 18. At that time, they explained, he, was “gainfutly employed! bya; local contractor and displayed | pay checks to prove it. The con-| tractor also ‘confirmed his em-| ployment, they added. But Walker meanwhile had been engaged in the burglary | business at night, his confession] disclosed. In 1943 records show he was sent to the Indiana State Farm for unlawful possession of an au-| tomobile. But apparently he was |= released while his Michigan City parole was still in effect. Admits Break-In

Speedway police nabbed him: for forcibly entering Schoonover's|s Hardware, 4850 W. 16th St Walker admitted that break-in along with others in Speedway City at Young's Restaurant and the Speedway Electrical Appli-|8 ance Co! : He was bound over to the grand jury on second-degree burglary and habitual criminal charges. Guilty of Robbery Walker previously had violated several prior paroles. In 1921 he was returned to the Indiana Boys School for parole violation, In 1926 he was sent to the

larceny, released, and violated his AN ERA ENDS-With the

parole in 1927, In 1928 he went back to the Reformatory for robbery, 'was| 84 years he was a stormy ond: wee Daroled in 1933, and seven hi nation.

‘death of former Sen, James E.

Watson, the sage of Indiana politics, one of the most colorful eras in state Republican history ended today. For nearly 50 of his

pavetful leager in his, party aad:

months later was again foun? SI guilty "of robbery and meted 13 years. In 8 written statement Walker saidihe had: been assisted in, eral” burglaries here hy iam Covington and Robert Parker. Both are now serving terms in Michigan City.

in Army Requeyet Renewed Army and, A Force activity in Central Indiana today | threaten to overtax the already short housing facilities in Indianapolis, city officials believed today. The Homes Registry Office at city hall reported a sharp increase in requests for housing by men

Legal Fight Looms Over Girl in Jail

A 17-YEAR-OLD girl who has| ‘Then we have a scene.

By RICHA

in the back seat.

What Hoosiers Want Congress To Dor,

= Prefers Price’ To Mortgag

Greenfield Farmer Flays Car, Tractor ‘Lists’ 3 Berlin Crisis Worries Woman Factory Worker U.B. 40 18 ONE of the nation’s great roads.

rush east, tires screaming on the hot pavement. Pennsylvania cars race west, the driver tense and the family dozing

“Every once in a while. they meet head-on,” said the farmer. Fella just went off the road'back theres

FIRST. IN LINE-— "Early risers’ who were first in line to board the Freedom rain at 10 ‘a. m. were (left to right) Rose mary Mattingly who rode a bus "all night" from Ferdinand: David Hohl, School 66: Paul Wright, School 66; Bobby Koor, Schogl 86, and Buddy Mathauer, of St. Joan of Arc School. The policeman (left) directing the the line i is Walter D. Ward, of the Indianapolis Auxiliary police.

Reports Here

. Stout Field Officers Seek New ‘Clues’

Stout Field Air Force officers| A were investigating reports fiying disc” was seen over! Borthwon iS Indidnapolis. a Investigation was ordered 0l. James A. Ronin, new anding officer of the local reserve base; It was one of Col. Ronin's first 1 actions since taking comMang 1a5t Friday. “He came here! the First Air Force. * ry spokesmen at the field me Col. Ronin had ordered his lligence officer, 1st Lt. Russell, Arey, and his public informaon officer, 1st Lt. John E. Hos- « to conduct the probe. news of the zooming as reported to the field) Sablshment Suidantited cleaning,

by motor one today iovescapt after « Hlling!gra Votes. "He then started & long fornm ... Society ..

area where the tel-

How to Get

Probe Flying Disc.

To Freedom Train

Here's how to get to the’ Freedom Train, which is on the Nickel Plate Railroad tracks on the northeast end of the State

| Fairgrounds- —north of the race

{horse barns:

| By Trolley—Take Illinois cars;

marked “Fairgrounds” traveling north on Illinois St. = Shuttle tbusses of the Indianapolis Rail{ways will transport passengers free of charge to the train from ithe streetcar loop at the 38th St. entrance of the Fairgrounds. | By Auto—The automobile entrance from ¥all'Creek Blvd. into the Fairgrounds (near the Tee

[Pee Drive-In Restaurant) is the!

lelosest entrance’ to the train. Other entrances open will he the, {main gate on 38th St. the 424 St, gate and Gate No. 8 on the inortheast of the Fairgrounds: on! 142d Bt.

Bandits . Flee on Bike

GARY, July 29 . (UP)-~Two bandits used a bicycle built-for-

station robbery.

Filibuster Opened By Dixie Senator

20 Southerners

Enter Talkathon WASHINGTON, July 28 (UP) Southern: Democrats began their filibuster today in the Senate against the federal anti-poll tax bill, | Shortly after the Senate convened, acting Republican.leader Kenneth 8. Wherry of Nébraska, moved that the bill he taken up. |Sen. John C. Stennis (D. Miss.) {then ‘got the floor tp lead off {the Southern talkathon. Twenty other Dixie tors were waiting to follow in the fight against the bill. siipported by {both the administration and the ®| Republican Party. The bill would {forbid the collection of poll taxes, still in force in seven southern states, as a requirement for voting {in the election of federal officials. Mr, Stennis said Soe measure was merely an attempt to win Ne-

in an effort to show!

argument reports originated and al took $140 from aa Stankey|that the hill is unconstitiitional.

Was ordered to stand

stand by at pistol Joint, then took his" bieye d fled—riding

le. Sepate for d:

‘The lg ia’ up the

been confined a week in County Place, New York driver. Camp Atterbury, Stout Field andiJail after a suicide attempt be-

Ft. Harrison. came the subject of a tug-of-war Heavy Influx Seen today between her family Officials said they. expected athe Juvenile vourt. heavy influx of enlisted and officer] The girl personnel into Indianapolis when |County Jail by Juvenile Court the Tenth Air Force Headquarters authorities after She tried to moves into Ft. Harrison, and At-|throw her Me =7 oma auterbury reopens as a training/tomolf wn Side Hot Road near center, Feudal; Towne, They said It Officials said they had no plan] was her second sucide attempt. to deal with the situation, but in-| Juvenile Judge Joseph 0, Hoffdicated they might confer with mann said the girl had been orArmy officials about it. dered to jail pending commitMeanwhile, the no vacancy ment to Central State Hospital. signs were still hanging in front ® =» =» of Indianapolis apartment build-| “WE ARE irying to persuade ings. The Indianapolis Real Es-/the girl's father to sign the patate Board announced it had no|pers,” said the judge, “but he rerental vacancies listed. fuses to co-operate. We think Single Room Ample this girl can be helped with prop-| Officials said single sleeping|®F, (reatment.” rooms. were more plentiful now| Tne Eirl's older than at any time since the war, Soldiers have complained that many of the rooms have been too high in price or inadequate for family housing. The Homes Registry office reported it -is receiving from five to eight requests for housing a day from service men. It has _|no vacancies to offer them. The “{requests have been ‘coming in for the past week.

On Inside

Prepare to fill vacancies on welfare board. ....Page 8 Truman asks ‘price roll back to November.Page 3

German blast toll reaches 300 dead, 2500 hurt

in uniform assigned to]

has been living, opposed the commitment. They said the girl was better off at home under their| care. The sipter sald she had pro-|

mon criminal, but had not been able to obtain the girl's release,

UNFORTUNATE X,Y

is the only place we have to keep! persons who are physically and may be mentally fll. This is oae| of the inadequacies of this com- | munity. ‘ “There are no facilities for] these cases at the Juvenile Center, We should have a strong room there.” Attorney Jay W. Winget, ‘retained by the family to obtain the girl's release, said he would

the court refuses to releases the Cal 11 girl from jail. ana (18: Killed British ~ puts brake on {18° Killed, 5 Hurt demobilization ...Page 18/In Buenos Aires Crash

: * = “| BUENOS AIRES, July 29 (UP) King George opens Olym- Eighteen. persons were killed pics vos. Page 21 and five were injured today when

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»> » ‘. lerashed off ~ the Buenor “Aires Other Inside Features, {Sntonfrand, twas announced of - [Amusements 16] Movies, ia. 16] Con Bridge ......23 ig “0 Witnesses

Business. SS0LF.: hia] op-sliroyded harbor.” It . crashed

said the four-eén-

and

was taken to the}

tested to juvenile court the girl's] confinement in the jail as a com-|

file habeas corpus proceedings if

{a Sunderland-Short flying boaty

19 Bined craft tried ‘to land in a'

“We don't make roads wide enough for. that kind, Richmond is as far as IT ever go. Never been out of Indiana. Can't say I've missed nothin’. Don’t know.” The farmer said he'd get off at {the first traffic light in Greenfield. He had left his car there to be fixed. “I don’t mind answering your questions,” he said. “I'll take price control ahead of puttin’ a mortgage on my farm. That's what's going to happen just as sure as it'll rain in Auguet. “Why this thing is like to drive a man crazy. I just got through payin’ more for a tractor than I {paid to'put up a barn seven years ago.

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RD LEWIS ‘ California. cars New York and

Ex- Senator

Power in GOP

Many Years

Leading Candidate for President at:One Time

“Daniel. M. Kidney, Page 3; _tributes, Page 18 18. ~ WASHINGTON, . July 20 29 (UP) —~—Former Sen. James E. Watson of - Indiana, Republican Senate Leader during the Hoover ‘| administration and long-time GOP boss of the Hoosier state, died at his dome here today. He was 84. Mr, Watson, had been ili for some time, Last Novembet: he survived a long’ Ne during, which his co eritiont or th enl Ks, fo y, atson’s Rap. y Wiliam I, DE would ° revea; e {mm ot death, He sald a report 1a. b being prepared. Dr, Detwiler: said Mr. Watson suffered a seizure about 4 a. m,

and ‘died iseveral: hours. later,

bograpay. but she in: his auto hawraphy. ut shisd away from of “standpatter.”

the: Setiznnte faire atiall Republican meetings, he in horkrle introdiiced ‘as’ the! “senior atatesman of the Republican Party.” Thioughout bj his 20 yehrs in Con the genial Hoosier who

gress; ‘could “call more a first in ‘than

re! hy

‘League ‘He was ehAlrman of ‘the com« mittee which. committed Repub. cans ‘in 1920 to a party platform stand opposing our entrance into the of Nations. w_ Wilson was jist another idealistic college professor who had beautiful dreams, and who sought to work them out in a A world alto-

Ec wes 4% And sordid to be

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sell you a new car.’ I says at list? He says ‘sure at list.’ You should have seén ‘the list of things he had on that car. Foglights, a windshield squirter, a damn awning aver the windshield, lights in back brightern those in front, heater, defroster, seat covers, fancy fender guards, extry rims, special shiny hubcaps, and things I didn't even know what they were for, “I says, man, is that the car ufider all that junk? He says take ‘er or leave ‘er. I says leave ‘er be. I run a farm, not an auto suppjv, 3 “Inéy been fixin’ on the old car {for a couple of days. It always did ‘rin good.”

‘Small War Now Better Than Big One Later’

LINKED to Indianapolis by the.

| conditions in the big. city. But it) {has its own industries. One. is a {busy rayon knit: goods factory {which employs women from towns, throughout the county. The notion that factory workjers can be grouped politically ris "dispelled here. A woman machine operator and mother of eight!

juation, t “My daughter and her baby are {in Germany,” she says, “Her hus. band is a pilot. Every other night, |

'he makes two flights into Berlin. a

“If we get out of Betlin, we'll have to get out of Europe. I don’t! believe in war, but it's ‘better to have a small war now than a big; one later.” 8he thought perhaps twas al good thing Congr yas \ in ses-

So do all Americans.

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STALIN,” by William Philip Editor. It is on page 22

sion now because of the Berlin

sister andifast highway, Greenfield's pros. crisis, brother-in-law, with whom she! {perity depends a good deal on

“The less Congress dabbles in [price control,” she said, “the better off we'll be. You saw the way things disappeared from the ishelves last night. Supply and demand will work itseif out. “1 think they should extend social security. Farmers ought to have it. The average farmer has no insurance hecause he dreads

s a 4 al children, three of them in service those payments if they come due “ during the war, was disturbed {when he's short of cash. He needs a ounty Yall about the shaky Intetpational sit-|

some kind of insurance and social {security is Helleast he ought to have.” f ~ n » ANOTHER WOMAN employee id: “You can't blame Congress the iway they're’ doing. You take the average person. They wouldn'f {know what to do either, | “I think Congress is afraid to

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Russia’s Broken Pledges

® YOU want peace with Russia, not war,

So do we.

® Then why .can’t our government officials. get around a table with the Russians and negotiate an agreement,

been plenty of agreements,

some bought by us at a high price. ® But always Stalin breaks them, ® That's what the trouble is about in. Berlin. toc \v. .Becretary of State Marshall and our Alles. get ment. with Stalin, as they are trying to do, what will it be - * worth?” Nothing — unless actual deeds replace empty promises. na SEALE |

Fyen if er agree-

to read “BR

"SHOW YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY DOING BUSINESS WITH Simms, Scripps-Howard Foreign

J Htan 3 Vedas an. 58 iglgiouss "OR the vecord nd. Judge for: yoursett, *

“A fella says to me: ‘Sure; I'll Watson said,

at:this time for anything dn vigharacter,”

But, what Mr. Watson may have lacked in idealism, he compensated for by personal charm aand magnetism, iad Spoke in German He was elected to. the House: oe Representatives. in: 1804, at age of 30, after a which he believed ‘was AST] because he, speeches in German while in German: Sections of hik district. A tall, powertaily-bullt. man with a hooming voice; he was a jdamboyant: orator. ‘He had the

th of, Winchester, Ind. Mr. Watson lived most of otis lite in Rushville: where he settled to practice law’ after: being graduated from DePauw University. In an amazingly short time he became one of the mast popular of the little circle in.control. The protege of “Uncle ‘Joe” Cannon, famous, iron-handed., ‘Speaker of the House, hs was, entrusted with important missions on “party business.” ‘Logical GOP Candidate The youthful Watson was the Republican Party whip during most of Theodore Roosevelt's admihistration, while “Uncle Joe” . [was speaker, In 1920, Mr. Watson, then in the early part of 17 years as a Sem ator, ‘was considered the “ Republican: candidate for Pres dent, Sen. Boies Penrose of Penn« sylvania, a powerfdl' po ure, offered .to manage his ‘campaign, but Mr. Watson retom- om. mended” Warren Hard) stead. p he Mr. Watson quoted M as telling him after {the nomination : “Jim LH} your apples off the tree; “Sunny Jim" rani sition to Herbart He and was considered jdent on the Co

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