Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1948 — Page 2

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Governor Challenges 'Foe's Tax Policy

By ROBERT BLOEM © Indiana's political battle of gov‘ernors struck the first real sparks of the campaign last night, . At’ Richmond; former Gov. Henry Schricker, Democratic nominee for a second term, coun-ter-punched at Gov. Gates who has undertaken for the GOP the Job of tearing down his record in office, ‘Gov. Gates swung another blow} at the former Democrat chief executive in a speech at Ft} Wayne. Mr, S8chricker brought back the « gpecter of the Ott Workman parole scandal to haunt his ReRublican opponents. Replying to . Gates’ charges that he had paroled too many convicts during his administration, Mr. Schricker challenged the Governor to tell the unpublished, inside story of the Workman case. Paroled in 1945 Ott Workman, reportedly well-to-do Loogootee farmer, was payoled in 1945 after serving only geven years of a life term in

within a month when political heat was turned on the parole and two years later Public Defender Frank Greenwald of Gary

| was fired, partly at least for ac- Expectant Actress Collapses

cepting a fee from Mr. Workman - for legal services in trying to get him a parole. ““I have no apologies to make with respect to my clemency record,” Mr. Schricker said in his Richmond speech. “It is a record that will compare favorably with the best in the country.

" “And the nice thing about it is

that nobody had to pay anybody much as a nickel to receive Some of its humane consideration, Some governors thét I have heard * ‘about can’t’ say that much fer their own record.” .. :

the ‘Workman case, Mr.

~ Benricker added that "people Who!

live in glass houses should not throw stones.” 43 ‘A Useless Job™ “The public defender, a. useJess and high-salaried job created at the very beginning of the ‘Gates administration, admitted that he accepted money from Workman in connection with his release from prison,” Mr. Schricker said. “The Supreme Court had to remove this .o-calle.l defender from his job. Why is it that he _escaped punishment for betraying “a- pUDHE IaET = ead “If Gov. Gates wants to give the" people something to really get excited. about, he.ought to release a copy of the ‘statement of explanation’ made by the public defender in connection with the Workman scandal.” Cites Tax Stand Meanwhile, Gov. Gates was challenging Mr. Schricker to ex- . plain to the public how he incamino dEDAGA 10. CHUL taxes and Yet spend more money. : " “Would the Democrats cut our teachers back to starvation ™ Gov. Gates asked. “Would they refuse educational facilities to our GI's, or do away with the retirement fund for merit system employees of the state? : . “Or would they continue to hide more than $60 million per biennium by falsifying their budgets with their infamous escalator clauses which we have done away with?” Train Backs Into Cab, Driver Escapes Injury A United Cab driven by Grant Cline, 28, of 828 N. New Jersey 8t., was struck by a New York Central locomotive last night at a ing near 200 8. Harding St. ngineer Ralph Fisher, 60, 364 Leclede St, said he was backing the engine slowly dewn the track and hit the taxi when Cline failed to stop after being signalled by the crossing watchman, There were no injuries and *. damage to the cab was plight.

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wouldn't support her.

The “thing” was the suit filed yesterday by Mrs,

mother of the tiny movie queen. Mrs, Keane charged the actress owes her $500 a month and $17,416 in a lump sum according to an agreement they signed in 1043. I Mrs. Keane said she was “destitute, indigent, dependent upon the charity of others,” and faces three major operations because of her daughter's treatment, Don't Know the Woman “This is _the first I've hear about it,” Miss Lake said.” * The suit also named De Toth for “aiding Miss Lake in evading her responsibility.” “I don't even know the woman,” he said. “Veronica and I|! have been married since 1944 and I've never met Mrs. Keane. She never calls up. ‘We don't know anything about this ‘charity’ business.” Mr. De Toth said relations be-

had been unfriendly “for years,” but. he wished his mother-in-law had picked some other time to

“This is a fine thing to confront a woman who's about %o have a baby,” he said. “Also a fine way for a grandmother to act.”

mother and stepfather, Hugh An-| thony Keane, $200 a week for life. never would have become an actress if it hadn't been for her. And now it's her daughter's turn to help out, she said. “I spent my life savings of|" $10,000 to send Veronica to drama school,” Mrs. Keane added, “Now she earns $4500 a week. And she hasn't sent me anything since last May.”

Guard Planes To Be in Air Show

The Indiana Air National yuard’s F-51 fighter planes, based here at Stout Field, will participate in the Richmond Air Show next Sunday. The show also will featyre Bill,

director, and displays of F-80 jets, | the German FW 191, V-1 and]

Led by Lt. Col. David W. Allerdice, commanding officer of the 113th Fighter Squadron here, the Hoosler Guardsmen will land at the Richmond air field after staging their Xir demonstration for participation in elaborate ground ceremonies. ae

Renew Re-employrent

forces before the present Selective Service law went into effect will be entitled to the re-employment [benefitsof the) -0id-- statutes, a government official said today.

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veterans who began service after’ June 24—when the new law went into effect—will be affécted by re-employment provisions of the new law, ;

Political Talks Today LOCAL 3 WFBM-0:30 to 9:35, George Denny. it WFBM--10:15 to 10:20, Indiana State Democratic Committee. WIBC-—9:55 to 10:00, Sen. William Jenner. WIRE 6:30 to 6:35, Sen. Wil-

_ Andre de Toth, Miss Lake's director-husban there sobbing and crying and all on account of this terrible thing.

sion of

: Robert K. Salyers, director of the Bureau of Veterans. Re-| lemployment Rights, . said only

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Photo by Henry E. Glesing Jr, Times Staff Photographer. CAMPAIGN STRETCH-—~President Truman takes his morning walk beside his special train as it paused this morning at Union prison. He was returned to prison| ci iin on its way across Indiana. It was the President's only ap- | pearance in Indianapolis tdday. Friday he will return for a full

As Mother Sues for Support nv.

Parent of Veronica Lake Says She Lives Off Charity Because High-Paid Star Won't Aid

z By VIRGINIA MACPHERSON y United Press Hollywood gage sh third HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 12—Veronica Lake, who expects her third o¢ the state than those now opbaby any minute, collapsed in tears today after her mother charged erating under it do you Np that she had to live off charity because the $4500-a-week actress .,uiq do so with benefit?

d. sald “She's in| Mr. Frisble—“(1). I support the

Officers Meeting

| | | By Women's League

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TUESDAY, OCT. 12, 1948

Hopefuls Reply On Key Issues

» i Answers - Released | | The League of Women Voters {today released the answers made by candidates for governor to four questions of major political importance. Here are the ques-; Itions and the candidates’ replies ih brief: |' ONE: Would you support a con|stitutional amendment which perimitg local units of government to chobse their own form of goyernment? 5 Hobart Creighton, Republican— “All of the questions under consideration will be first faced. by the 150 members of the General Assembly. . . . On such matters as optional city manager form of government, I ‘am sure this “mat{ter can best be left to the General Assembly. I will abide by thelr decision,”

Henry F. Schricker, Democrat Await Ruling on Union Fund Jurisdiction

“Yes, with a great deal of enthusiasm.” Walter Frisbie, Progressive "1 am for home rule. I would sup-,

TRANSPORT TRUCKS BURN-—Canned tomato juice and cartons of empty whisky bottles littered the highway after two transport trucks burned following a crash on U.S. 31 two miles south of Franklin yesterday. Fire followed when a truck owned by the Overland Freight Lines of Indianapolis and driven by John Smith, 21, of 807 N. Pennsylvania St., collided with a parked semi-trailer in charge of J. A. Thompson, Watseka, Ill. Loss in vehicles and cargoes was put at $23,300.

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CAMDEN, N. J, Oct. 12 (UP) The Camden members vote A bank holding $186,000 of 2 disafMliate

port a constitutional amendment |.)

bringing this about.” William Rabe, Socialist—"Yes.”, TWO: Will you support in the| legislature recommendations which, in your opinion, will im-!

prove the penal system in Indiana? ~ Mr. Schricker "Yes."

. Frisble—' Yes.”

. Creighton-—"Anything we icah do to improve the penal sys[tem of our state should be done.” | THREE: (1) Do you believe in ithe principle of the merit system? (2) What other departments

merit system withoul qualifications; (2) I think all_state de|partments would benefit,”

| Mr. Rabe—"(1) Yes. (2) I bew Heve~—ail- ~technical—and-e¢lerical] employeés should come under | Civil Service and taken out of! {politics.” |

| ‘Mr. Creighton—‘(1) The merit

The annual conference of In- System of government has worked

diana health officers with the Th-| very well-in some of our state dedfina State Board of Health wil

be held Oct. 25 and 26 in the {rom choosing department heads Board of Health building.

| partments. (2) Nothing should be done to prevent the governor)

whom he can trust and who will

Dr. L. E. Burney; state health assume the responsibility for see-

osis Association,

commissioner, will preside at the ing that his department is effiopening session. ~Speakers-for-the. two-day pro-| gram will include, Dr. F. R. N. prevents a governor from remov= "=" Carter, South Bend health officer; ing any person who has D Murray Auerbach, executive sec- inability or wh retary of the Indiana Tubercu- ate prom and Robert mi Yoho, director of health educa- can tion, records and statistics, i

ciently operating. “There should be no law which

tional employees in Some manner!

Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, pres- which will be conducive of better,

ident ‘of the Chicago Board of government, I Health, will speak at the con- for it.” ference banquet. Dr. W. R. Tay[TWEE Hix “wife and -Mrs--iKeand lor, Richmond... president. of the Further. study. of present..operas Indiana’ Health Officers Association, will preside at the banquet making a commitment on exten-| and sessions on the second con- ‘ , : air her troubles. - | ference day.

The Marion

tavern.

Officers and managers V-2 rockets, a Hinkel 162 and al/senting 250,000 members of HooJapanese Vagabond plane. |sier surance

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appearance

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liam Jenner. WISH 7:10 to 7:15, Marion County Democratic Commi ;

ttee. [Pontiac on robbery charges

County Mrs. Keane said Miss Lake| Board today had refused to renew Patrick MeNulty's license to sell liquor at his E. 10th St. tavern after charging that he had sold beer to teen-agers. Thomas J. Blackwell, Mr. McNulty’'s attorney, told the board it acted on “hearsay evidence only” in denying a renewal of the license, He sald his client was not of apportionment.” convicted of the charge at a hearing two weeks ago in Juvenile Court. During the hearing three of five Technical High School students,’ charged with beating a semi-in-valid youth while on a drinking

| -. spree last May, testified they had Machine Char es obtained beer at Mr. McNulty's

Refuses Liquor - According to the suit, the wou | jCRNSE Renewal {sized star agreed to pay her]

Insurance Group -|Sweet, of National Air Shows, as|To Meet Monday

legal reserve fraternal societies will two-day golden anniversary sesthe Indiana Fraternal Congress at 10 a. m. Monday in the Travertine Room of the Lin-

open

C. F. Webster, Marion, president of “the congress, will offi cially open the session. - be assisted Stump, vice president, Crawfordsville; Frank Liebold, Indianapolis; Senator John 8. Gonas, ath. W. F. Held, Perii;|ical machine and h FIRE WilkoR, HATER ADOT: MF | (NFOUEN + tie eon Dorothy ‘Adang, Ft. Wayne, past|ship of the Democratic president, and Mrs. Ann Wells, Committee, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer.

‘Suspect ‘in Reuther Case To Be Arraigned Today DETROIT, Oct, 12 (UP) Bolton, 39, once a minor official m—— of the CIO United Auto Workers union, faces arraignment today on a charge of attempting to kill |[n Ch i Walter Reuther, UAW president. C est Fund Drive Bolton, who has been under arrest at Ponfiac, was accused in a. warrant filed lgst week by James N. McNally, prosecutor. joa He will be arraigned here [ ot: Recorder's Judge Christopher E,

in “two days. Frank Skrada, 23, and Clifford, Thonen, 28, stood mute when ary oft” meeting of the Chicago Com-| raigned yesterday before’ Circuit munity Chest drive. He termed

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Mr. Schricker—"(1) Yes. (2)

tions would be necessary before

sion.” | FOUR: (1) Do you-believe it is| the responsibility of the legislature to see that reapportionment! is made as soon as possible? Do) you think a better method than the present one could be proposed? Mr. Rabe — “(1) Let's uphold the constitution.” (2) No answer, Mr. Creighton — “(1) This should be done.” (2) No answer. Mr. Schricker—'(1) Emphatically yes. (2) I have no doubt the present method could be greatly improved by legislative enactment.” ’ Mr. Frisbie—"(1) The legislature should have done this long ago. (2) I think the regular na-, tional census should be the basis

Charles Ginsburg, Socialist{Labor candidate for governor, and Clinton .W, Speicher, Prohibitionist candidate, submitted no reply to the questionnaire.

Thrown at GOP

George S. Dalley, Democratic candidate for prosecutor, charged in a speech last night that the same Republican machine that was “repudiated at the polls in the city election last year is now trying to get control of the prosecutor’s office.

“The leadership in the Repub-

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said. “My Republican opponent

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Support

Ford Urges

CHICAGO, Oct, 12

lican Party has not changed,” he

(Frank Fairchild) "was a ward ~.chalrman in that machine when leaders, Tom and Ed McNulty and J. G.

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“There _has been no attémpt on any ' Democratic ; cpleader. 10 eXtract any. PrODUIBO voir sursmmns “My hands will not be tied in any way by special

(UP) —| Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co. and chairman of | the Community Chests of Amerlast night called upon the: before nation’s businessmen to support the Community Chest drive be-!|

cause "it serves the best ‘{hter-

It will be Bolton's second court ests of their employees, their cus-| He, tomers and their stockholders.”

Mr. Ford: spoke at the "kick-!

Holland at|/the’ Community Chest idea “the -

finest man has ever created.”

cker, Gates Swap Verbal Blows On Par EER Gubematoria TEE a

court today to decide whether the|over membership policies. {money belongs to union or to the local members.|the bolt was illegal and requested. BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 12—City Local last Sept. 28 to from “the Industrial, union srarine and Shipbuilding Workers funds asked the state superior.of America (CIO), in a dispute diction over the funds.

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In Mystery Blast TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. 12 {(UP)~The Dresser coal mine suspended operations today while officials investigated an explosion which burned two miners and endangered 35 others. | A. K. Hert, manager of operations, said he had no idea what {caused the blast. He said the fact that the mine was ‘rock dusted” helped prevent the explosion from spreading. William Davidson, - 53, and {| George Krasek, 41, both of Clinton, were taken to the Union {Hospital at Terre Haute with second degree burns. Mr. Hert said none of the miners was trapped by the blast, which occurred about 312 miles from the shaft mouth. He said operations would cease until the mine has been inspected and placed in “first class condition again. .

Fireman Hurt at Blaze

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