Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1948 — Page 13

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'. INDIAN—APOLIS—Halted speech they call’ it. Something new for gatemen and train callers 1o- get the mush out of their mouths. Stationmaster C. L. Day (left) watches Oscar (Doc) Poland do hig, stuff for Katherine Bargelt.

Gilded Bricks

NEW YORK, Aug. 24—The fine art of peddling a gilded brick, or flimflamming the suckers, has achieved perfection in a combination of two relatively récent products of our time. Aided by the twin potencies of modern, highpressure Fithe relations and the flexible ‘‘committee,” & skilled cynic. can sell saying from politics tos floating crap crap game. We Have just seen how. a. con man, using the name of & medical charity as a front, herded a flock of gulls into the plush lodge of § Mrs. Vivienifie: Woolley-Hart, and-unsubtly took them for their wad. A handsome, suave gambler named Bill Buckner broke out a rash of domesticated dice and responsive roulette wheels, and applied a neat trim to their social sideburns. Mr. Buckner is still on the lam. With an organization called medical &nd surgical relief ostensibly going for him, Buckner and his buddies had no trouble shooing the sheep into the society dame’s rented deadfall. All he had as credentials was a “charity” letterhead and a news picture of Adm. Bull Halsey, taken at a previous party, but you couldn’t keep the chumps from knocking down the door. It makes no difference .that the public relations man who handles the “charity” says he refused Buckner permission to use medical and surgical’s name. He says Buckner made his pitch with a letterhead more or less filched from his office. Any. other letterhead would have done as weil, as long as it was printed on furry bond and. the sponsors had solid Pullman-car surnames.

Abuses Impair Honest Drives

I GUESS I'm on a prefty stout sucker list, because the day doesn’t pass without half-a-dozen bids to indorse something or subscribe to something or promote something. The desk of every newspaper in the land is flooded with impassioned appeals to give space to this worthy cause and that worthy cause, or to publicize the one-sided details of some stranger's highly grindable ax. Most of these things look legitimate. The spon sors seem to be respectable, and the proposition sound. But many a horny-hided capitalist has

The Hunt Is On

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—Our hard-working Congressmen are about to investigate everything from cabbages almost to kings. 3 A number of Senators comprising an Interior and Insular Affairs Subcommittee even are contemplating breaking into their vacations for a journgy to Hawali to sée for themselves whether that pleasant island is worthy of becoming the 4bth state. Another senatorial group headed by Sen. Kenneth 8. Wherry of Nebraska, heads for Mexico next month to learn how goes the battle against hoof and mouth disease. The cabbages will come to the attention of the House Small Business Cpmmittée under Rep. Walter C. Ploeser of Missouri, who will lead his investigators on a tour of the Midwest listening to the walls of grocers, cohblers, gasoline dealers and movie theater owners. They're all having their troubles, said Rep. Ploeser, with big business which doesn’t seem to be playing fair. These proceedings will begin in Butte, Mont, Yi Sept. 3 and wina up at Hous-

ton, Tex, Oct.

Probe Vr Car Monkey-Shines EVEN NOW Rep. W. Kingsland Macy of N. Y., and Co, are calling the capital's used car deal-

autos selling hete for $3000, they're probably typical of the situation all over, Rep. George H. Bender of Ohio, is investigat-

gateman Oscar (Doc) “and stationn a irs Faria C. L. Day. Introductions identified the other three as ¥. 7. Meunier of the Mounier Supply Go.; Wily Second of & Series of Articles m By VICTOR PETERSON

It was played back for him. He was surprised how it sounded. Halted speech was explained. It's nothing but breaking names and words into two or three parts (not Necessarily syllables) and speaking out slowly. Ander—son, Mun-cie, Union Ci—ty, Belle ~fontaine,” called Mrs. Bargeit. again. He was a good pupil. The layback fine. Halted speech did the New Yorker said it would. Even ressed.

Mrs. Bargelt seemed satisfied with her last two pupils. There are five gatemen in all at the staBon, She told them she'd be back in a couple

Tat the customer know the facts and keep punching on clarity and courtesy. Get ‘er a clear Make it the best station in the country,” Mrs, Bargeit said. “There's no reason why you can’t do one helluva good. job here.” Everyone agreed. Halted speech going into the igs and clear speech when it comes out of the speaker. I'm in favor of that. I never could read a fimetable or a bulletin board.

By Robert C. Ruark

been tricked into indorsement of a Communistfront, under the mistaken idea that he was helping humankind. More than one swindle has been, dignified by the innocent. As for the various ‘‘charity” committees, so many abuses have ben committed in"that sweet name that honest effort to raise funds for legitimate causes have been seriously impaired. We live in an age of press-agentry and spurious pressure. Everybody from belly-dancer to businessman hires a press-agent to build character in the public prints. It is an impossible task’ to weed out all the phonies and spot all the clinkers, because literally hundreds of thousands of people spend their working days thinking up tricky approaches to a favorable presentation by newspapers and magazines, radio and books.

Some Cherish Their Probity

» THERE is a minority group of honest, decent propagandists who cherish their probity like a bank. But for every one of them, there are a hundred creeps who would push grandma out the window if they could reap thereby a free plug for a client. I have seen starving European children employed as a gimmick, under the name of global relief, by a movie firm; which was interested in transfusing an expensive but lousy movie. The miserable plight of the war-battered European has been used as a hook for a dozen shady enterprises, including blackmarketing and all under the name of relief. It is almost a hopeless situation. The operator —the con 'man-—uses the basic human decency of the average person as a lever for his larceny, and too often is innocently aided by our own press. Being intrinsically kind, and squeezed for time, it cannot investigate exhaustively each plea that is dropped in its lap, nor can it refuse assistance to all in order to protect itself, and the public, from a few sharpers. You cannot underestimate the power of a skilled manipulator of public opinion. He knows all the tricks and angles, and is all too rarely burdened with a conscience.

By Frederick C. Othman

cause so far no Senators have appeared. Their underlings have done all the questioning. One of the problems here involves what to do with double-dyed bums who also are men without a country. We catch ’em, see, and try to deport ‘em, but their native land says you can have Pen, we don't want ‘em. Under the present law such no-goods can be held four months; then we've got to let 'em loose under habeas corpus: proceedings. There are said to be several thousand such fellows wandering around the United States and the government thinks it needs a new law to keep ‘em under lock

indefinitely. In. a kind -of concentration camp, maybe,

Investigates FCC; FCC Investigates”

SEN. EDWARD MARTIN of Pennsylvania, is investigating the steel business, which he doesn’t believe is distributing its product properly. Sen. Charles W. Tobey of N. H. is investigating Federal Communications Commission, which, in turn, is investigating radio’s give-away programs. The House Un-American Activities Committee reopens its inquiry into Russian spies this Wednes-

canoe's wake.

wild life heralded our passing. For two hours we had seen

{no evidence of life along the

banks. «+ We. thought we should be approaching the land of the Weas, a branch of the Miami Indians.

missionaries had filed with the French government in 1683. Surely Ft. Ouiatenon, established in 1717, still existed or word would have seeped by now to the outside world. » » » THE JESUITS had visited the land of the Weas even earlier and established something of a town near the end of the 17th century. * But the Weas were a proud people and not likely to give up their Indian villages and hunting grounds without a struggle. The tight bend in the river disappeared back of us. Another

a head. longed for the sight of the fort. It was the link' between the French fort at the mouth of the St. Joseph River and another at Vincennes. Below that the Wabash flowed to the Ohio River, » » ” THUS THE Wabash and Maumee Rivers had béen deemed by Jesuit missionaries and explorers as one of the best and direct routes of travel from the northern lakes to the great Mississippi River, As we neared the end of the next bend, we plied our paddles more vigorously. Always we were anxious to see what lay beyond. Now the bank slipped past us quickly. Ft. Oulatenon still existed. As we flashed out of the bend we could see the .two-story blockhouse high on the promentory. It was admirably situated, commanding the river both up and

downstream.

3 » ., . THE UPPER STORY jutted above the ground floor in traditional fashion. Loopholes in the logs thus made is possible to rain 4 murderous fire down on any attackers. The prow of the canoe crunched st the shore. Btill there was no sign of life. : Then a dog's bark broke the silence. We climbed the bank. Then there definitely was life, An autombbile skidded to a stop, its tires kicking vp clouds

of dust on the dirt road.

Out stepped Albert 1. Miller

who maintains the replica of the

old fort which once guarded white

THE ONLY RIPPLES on the surface of the Wabash River came from the steady dipping of our paddles and the

Ahead we could see a tight bend. The silence seemed ominous. Not a breath of air stirred the trees, and no

This was the report that Jesuiticdnoe was 1048, not the

settlers for miles'around. Others, living far out on the: frontier, would seek refuge here when Indian wars threatened. ” THE YEAR we beached the late 1700's. The sight of the rebuilt fort, however, easily lent itself to day. dreaming of the frontier when such a revelation must have been

Ft. Ouiatenon lies four “miles south of Lafayette by road, some six to seven miles by river. It

Ort ae Ie a French REC OF THE PAST==Ft. Ouiatenon, four miles by rood sout tod In May, 17125 and conn. yeite, stands as a reminder of the bitter days when Foran Ye

new world through what was to become Indiana. Washington and rebuilt in 1930,

BUT ENGLISH influence still Through the torts ot Deis : : Abe area and iniRichard B. Wetherill, JAtayuiterectntiustid strustute cans on orders of George Wash- -jand the Tippecanoe County His : i Ay

sent north from Vincennes bylfail to the hands of another na- house was rebuilt in 1 rs Clark. | Tt stands

it was bred oy orden

ALWAYS ANOTHER BEND—The fabled Wabash through Hoosierland, twisting .and turning: in the he would paddle faster with each bend hoping to fi nd, vie men:

Swindle Linked To Slain Banker

Suspect Accused Of Killing for Pay

EMPORIA, Kas, Aug. 24 (UP) —Herbert J. Kindred, 80-year-old loan company owner who apparently paid gunmen $1000 for his own murder, was involved in a $550,000 swindle, investigators discovered today. H. C. Davis, a vice president of the City Finance Co., Inc, said he had discovered that the firm has a bank account of only $14.61 and cash assets of less than $100. He said an examination of the books convinced him that losses “will run better than $550,000.” Jeff Robertson, chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission which has been auditing the books since Kindred's death, said there were “widespread defalcations,” including forgery and fraud. Bullet-Riddled Kindred's body, riddled four times by bullets from a foreignmake .32-caliber automatic, was found last Wednesday on a farm lane near Florence, Kas. 3 William W. Gayer, 29-year-old truck driver, was arrested and charged with first degree murder. Gayer denied he shot Kindred.

it wouldn’t look like suicide.” Gayer said he was with Kindred when they obtained a .32 caliber pistol in Wichita, but said Kindred left him there to enter another auto with two men. icers belleved that Kindred

family could collent $200,000 which would have been forfeited had he committed suicide. Mr. Robertson said several

thei firms suffer losses by the. “forg-

ery and fraud” which had: been uncovered. Among them was ga the ‘Associated Discount Corp., South Bend, Ind., which held $180,000

day when it confronts Whittaker Chambers and! Alger Hiss in hope of discovering which one is a’ lr. Mr. Chambers, the ex-spy, contends Mr. Hiss, was a pal of his in the business of shipping government secrets to Moscow; Mr. Hiss says he was not. Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan, of the ExExpenditures Committee, also is investigating Communists in government. When he finishes with that he'll take up the export license! racket, wherein shipments of flour to South America actually turned out to be second-hand Buicks. Some of the export boys seemed to have forged: their own licensés: Sen. F why the Commerce Department didn’t make this harder to do.

There are a few other investigations for which. add up to no

out of space. They all

weary lawgiver., Of Othman, eithen

wants to know,

in notes payable.

Frank's Voice Be

Mrs. Dorothy Shay, 1005 Edison St, was awakened early today when dresser drawers slammed and. furniture rumbled in an adjoining room. Thinking it might be her husband, she called, “It that you, Frank?" . “Yeah,” a voice answered. But Mrs. Shay, puzzled by its tone, grew skeptical. She atoss and discovered a walked away with a table — radio and a cigaret lighter,

He sald Kindred offered himj $1000 to act as “executioner” so|

lad ‘someone shoot him so his}

longed To Burglar, Wife Leatns|

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Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 24 — More than 1000 Boy Scouts will

meet tomorrow on Indiana Uni-| Give to Authorized |" Horse. : versity campus here to take par NEW YORK, . in the national three-day i Jan Agents, Cave Cautions, OF Fo of the Order of the Arrow, na-|_ A Warning to icidays posed as the tional camp honor society. The Pasty supposes 10 gn today as an scouts, who will come from all rized collectors of the party parts of the nation, are seasoned was issued today Paul D.

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campers. The Order of the Arrow is a brotherhood of nearly 40,000 experienced woodsmen who have ‘been selected by fellow scouts for eligibility in the society.

FIND MISSING AIRMAN a EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 24 (UP) — Royal ' Canadian Mounted Posice reported today that Dr. Vance B. Murray of by Washington, DP. C., missing since Aug. 7, had been found unhurt 80 miles west of Grand Prairie, Alberta. He disappeared while on a flight in his private airplane.

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