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U.S. Foments World War, Stalin Says

Accuses Churchill of Teaching Aggression to West's Leaders

By HENRY SHAPIRO, United Press Staff Correspondent

Lahor Groups Going All Out To Defeat Foes

Non-Partisan Unit

| Distributes Slate . By DAN KIDNEY Labor's non-partisan Deteat Our Enemies Committee of Mar-, ion County today distributed to

every householder a tabloid paper containing a slate of candidates!

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MOSCOW, Oct. 28 (By telephone to London) —(UP)— Which they approve.

Premier Josef Stalin charged today that the United States, Britain and France seek war through a “policy of aggres-

sion.’ But the “public forces favoring peac too strong to permit plunge the world again into

the “horrors” of mass con- UN Fears Stalin flict. « StaJin made his statement in

reply to questions from the Soviet newspaper, Pravda.

e,"”’

- Blasts Last Hope

he added, are “the instigators of a new war” to

Both the Democratic

national and state tickets are okayed.' Approval also was given to Democrats, but here six Republicans also drew the organization's blessing. They are State Reps. Harry E. Bason and A. Ross Manly; Sheriff Albert C. Magenheimer, and George E. Kin[caid and Arthur W. Grayson for ‘county commissioners. A slate with all Democrats and no Republicans previously was gotten out by the CIO-PAC,

Sponsored by AFL -

hire eg ihe, IAIN IOSyigater hp, von RR Rr OF A “war” Stalin predicted ethat MY. Beri Tries a te We the SEOuD Ape sa Fad. Ye. Churchill's pupils in aggression’ Seen Far Off *¥ [thé AFL. Railway brotherhoods : will -be rejected by. their people PARIS, oc UP)-P and independent unions also are Te i ; ULE t. LUP) Premier ki ctively, for, the election SRS as Mra heh 1 hg iy C wor ng a i a * Fails to Name: ER Walp, iid VR RE HE bi Trin

"He did n®t name President ffir Headers TPE ely SPEAR aon tic: Heketsmo me

man or any other leader as a what little hope remained in the United Nations for an early set-

#erence was clear, especially since tlement of the Berlin crisis. 13bor United Nations delegates con-' garners

prediction that Mr. Truman will Sidered the replies of the Russian Commissioner

“pupil in aggression,” but the in-

Moscow radio has broadcast a

Building a hac kfire against “this unprecedented unity in organized is the Republican Wage League. State Labor Charles Kern

be defeated in the presidential ruler to a Pravda questionnaire speaks under its auspices. Mr.

election Tuesday. Stalin accused the U. Britain of twice rejecting settlements of the Berlin crisis with Russia, and said that debate on the "Berlin question in the Unite Nations Security Council “was a display of aggression on the part of Anglo-American and French ruling circles.” ‘Null and Void’ The British and Americans declared “null and void” an agreement reached in Kremlin confer- é ences Aug. 30 which would Have lifted the Soviet blockade of B lin and ended the crisis, the Sov Tot premier said. Again In Paris, he added. “Anglo-American leaders rejected a settlement reached in conferences held by Andrei A. Vishinsky, Soviet United Nations delegate, with Argentina's Juan Bramuglia. chairman of the Security Counel.

Forecast More Fog on the Way

. RF Mr. Willia ‘ ‘ IMPERATURES LOCAL TEMPERATUR GOP worker.

came from

the

“From now on,” Paul Miller said today, expect more and more, [até evening and early morning fogs. ness, 11 He described ideal weather for Maude Ealy, fog as rapidly dropping tempera- 1921,

“we can Saturday.

tures, ground colder than the air health two years. Williams, away. Courthouse as Mr. Miller did not believe that lifelong resident of Indianapolis this morning's haze was due to He attended Schoo! 12 and Em-

above it, and lack of breeze to, Mr.

blow the water droplets

fog. but instead to an Indianapo- merich Man lis problem almost as old, smoke. School. The Weather Bureau predicted that today's partly cloudy and mild weather would continue the

Stalin himself gave, ler's them added weight. -. The: general view w +fmean! there could be no hope of the labor division for the Demoany early. _ peace. in the ¢ cold war.

{50-50 Republican-Demécrat t ‘Court ai iff, ies that other: Hoosiers follow, plus the . powerful independents who

Long Active in GOP

Political Circles Here By GALVY GORDON The bailiff’s desk Court 4 today was piled high with work and the light was on, bu chair of (Baldy) Williams was empty. died this morning in his home.

the harshest language he person- gern js a lifelong leader in the

8S. and Ay Ne Jas, used to denounce’ fy, ‘steamfitters union. A meme Western Powers,

His delegates here have been saying much the same thing day heads the labor <division at Re4 after day for nearly six weeks— «but the fact that today's charges

ber of his Statehouse staff, Frank yardner, of the barbers union,

publican state headquarters, -, Former Gov. Henry F. Schricklabor commissioner, Tom {Hutson of the AFL brick, tile and as that they {terre cotta workers union, heads

crats. Taft Law Added | In most preyious elections the labor vote has divided along iparty lines on approximately the

split

{may vote either way, OP headquarters is hoping!

again be followed. But sé6mething new has been added -the TaftHATHey aw, So far as the articulate tnionthis measure

in Superior

t ists are concerned,

Bailiff Carl A. 18 no “Magna Charta of Labor” He as its Republican proponents assert. They consider it an antiWas an ardent labor “bill of goods” and they

He entered politics are ‘out to defeat the GOP be-

inn 1908, when he became of precinct 16, ward

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Weathermazs beside Judge Walter Pritchard ’

His death followed a zhert illHis wife the former: Miss ansville whom he married in egates said he had

ual

cause of it. Efforts of the late A remident He worked Roosevelt to bring the AF

com-

'his last day in Superior Court 4 CIO together always failed. yo

arently Taft-Hartley ormed that miracle. At the AFL convention in Ev758 rank-and-file delwent on record against

has per-

been in ill both Taft-Hartley and the Gates Administration law providing for known at the compulsery arbitration in util“Baldv.” was a ities labor disputes. They call them both “slave labor acts. Indiana AFI. President Carl Training High (Continued on Page 3—(Col. 3)

Bailiff for Severul Judges

His political careér took him tn Registration Office in he

through tomorrow, with the mer-| Courthouse in 1940, He

cury reaching 72 both days, The bailiff for several judges oe temperature tonight was expected becoming the bailiff of Judge In Allied Sector to remain well above freezing at Walter = Pritchard in January, 45. Ww 1947. rere: He attended Olive Branch STUTTGART Germany, Oct. 28 : Christi 3 y UP)-- A riot broke out to Blind Infant Examined hristian Church and was a4 ) ( it tonight

member of For Eye Operation

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 (UP)—Eye specialists today ex- y amined 9-weeks-old Cynthia La- and Wylie bon, blind since birth, to see if an operation can give her sight. The Indianapolis baby rushed here by plane yesterday IL: for treatment by Dr. Otto Barkan.

daughters,

Bohher,

the GOP Elephant during a demonstration by more

,Club-here in the late 20's. In addition to his wife, Maude, ists against the economic policies he is survived by two sons, W.(. of the German administration for W. Williams; Mrs. Marjorie Scholl, zones of Germany. Mrs. Juanita Baldwin, Mrs. Merle was all of Indianapolis, Mrs. Carletta Conrad, Pinkstaff,|in an attempt to restore order. a sister, Mrs. Dr, R. C. Whit-/|

than 10.000 German trade union-

four the combined Anglo- American

First reports said U. 8. Military and Police were using ‘tear gas bombs

The rioting broke out after a

more, Indianapolis, and four meeting which was called by the Her vision is blanked by congen- grandchildren. (Wuerttemberg - Baden trade ital glaucoma, ee _ unions. A group of workers oF Her Lorene, Pd Mrs, P . / ) imarched through the main street ran ‘ n 8 - ~1of Stuttgart and st i “companied her. Their neighbors assioniess lof a camera shop." Opped fn front and Mr. Labon’s fellow workers PASSION, N. C., Oct. 28 | They smashed the shop winhelped pay for the trip. Mr. La-| (yp) Polk County Sheriff |dows and beat German police

bon 5 a disabled war veteran.

Wholesale Butter

| Prices Dive Deeper I

NEW YORK. Oct. 28 (UP) Wholesale butter Prices melted down another cents aA pound for As — four-day losses ranging from 5 Dewey to 64 cents.

the last crime

Walter Hines said today in 16 years no has been committed in Passion.

On Inside Foges,

who tried to stop them. Some of the demonstrators climbed to the {top of nearby buildings and stoned police.

sex

seen facing defeat unless he swings big city

Top grade “AA” butter sold at! VO oi. iivininnnnnnnann Cesena ..Page 2 A enw 3 pound, the west The Times Straw Vote . . . Dew ey lead dips sightl and 13% cents under yesterday's for third straight day tessa tresses sve seve ..Page 2 price. _ Police call out reserves to aid in battle against | vandalism ......... reer us Berieeans sess. Page 3 Fans, Here’ S Your Hoosier plays prominent part in Eisenhower story. .Page 3 Times Grid Guide Surgeon dies of malady he helped defeat.......,...Page 5 '@ The “best” local pick- Ifs-War Should Come . . . Last of a series. .... cies. Page 9 ers of football winners |Armed Reds patrol Czechs’ Fourth of July , , .

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10 City-county grid games scheduled for tomorrow . Page 27 ..

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Parole Bribe’ Tipster Vanishes Before Hearing

Blame Blocked Underpass i in Death of Boy Former Guard

Said He'd Tell Inside Story

Promised to Link Official to Case

Times State Nervire | CHESTERTON, Oct. 28 The former prison guard who had promised to name a state official he accuses of taking a {parole bribe has left the state. Wow Wit Barres nd dhe

wl ERguArd. who. WAS Are. Qota ALT todgy, confirnie rumors that Mr.

Barkley had left the cabin camp the. APETBTE RORY here. af uple

days a Gn a TH, | He was scheduled to appear in 1 Gov. Gates' office at 10 ‘a. m. tomorrow ta put the finger on the |accused official, who he says ac cepted money to help a conviet _ get a parole. - Mrs. Barkley said {she didn't know whether he would keep the date or not. Mrs, Barkley said her hushand [left in the company of two men {who “advised” him to leave. She said she didn't know either of

{ them. { Fired Oct, 1 » Mr. Barkley and another guard, William R. Storey, were fired Oct. 1 on charges of trafficking with . |prisoners and of carrying money !for attorney fees to Indianapolis lin the parole case of Carl R. Todd. The moriey left the prison i the form of a check on the

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IN MEMORIAM If this irderpaes § had been drained by ‘the wounly, Ralph naberry might be alive todays killed Monday on the bg Four tracks at 34th St., where he was forced to detour be indignant neighbors erected an ironic sign and a cross commemHere the victim's brother, Harry Lineberry, and neighbor

The [15-year-old youth was

'that such old habit patterns will ca se. the underpass has been flooded 20 week Ralph's gdeeth in protest at county inaction. The children who knew Ralph as

orating

| hood children stand in silence near the cross, Teddy Water. 2; Leonard Walter Jr., 4; Sharon Walter, 5, and Janet ‘McParland, 5.

Neighbors Irked Over Drain Delay

Ironic Sign Flays

County for. Inaction By CARL HENN A sign and a cross are standing at one end of the E. 32d St underpass near Massachusetts Ave. The underpass is filled with water to a depth of about two feet. The sign reads day in Lake Emerson, by county commissioners, treated bv Board of Health. Re-

“Swimming togponsored

member this Nov. 2, 1948." The cross stands beside it in memory of 15-year-old Ralph |Lineberry, who was killed by a train Monday night as he drove across the New York Central across the Big Four tracks at

34th 8t. He had gone that way hecause he could not get through the underpass at 32d St. Indignant residents of the neighborhood erected the cross

and ironic sign in protest against what they terméd “‘buck-passing” and the “runaround” from countv . officials which have greeted their efforts to have the underpass drained. Has Called Everybody “I've called everybody from the County Commissioners to Gov. Gates.” gaid Irvin Patterson, proprietor of Patterson's Grocery, 5302 Massachusetts Ave, “It's no use. “For 20 weeks that stinking, stagnant water has been in the underpass. Some of it drains down from Kingsburv's fertilizer nlanf. but tha evneryizgr jg Foinh Iineberrv's foster father. and he

gave thev're not responsible for this condition “The New York Central Kail-

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Who's to Blame? (An Editorial)

AST Monday night, a 15-y ear-old boy named Ralph ~ ‘Lineberry was killed in a grade crossing accident

in E. 34th St. on the Big Four tracks.

The automobile in which he was a passenger | smashed into a switch engine, cutting his body in two. | The driver of the car, escaped with injuries. Before the death of Ralph Lineberry is written in the mounting toll of traffic dead,

off as another

people of this community should know : There was a blinding fog that night.

The grade crossing was not protected by any kind

of warning device.

Ralph was forced to use the dangerous crossing because the E, 32d St. underpass he normally traveled

was blacked by high water.

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THE 32d ST. underpass has been flooded for 22 The drainage tiles are broken and ciogged. County Commissioners have refused to repair the tiles, drain the pass and reopen it to traffic although residents of the area have beseeched them to act.The Commissioners have found a half dozen “legal grounds” to avoid taking action, including a petition to the Indiana Public Service Commission to force the

weeks.

railroad to fix the underpass.

The Commissioners believe there is a 48-year-old contract which requires the Big Four to do this.

cannot find the agreement. The underpass is in E. drainage tiles cross under way, and privately owned land.

2d St

clogged the tiles, ~ ~ »

MAYBE THIS plant or other

owners can be forced to do it, believe.

The (‘ommissioners refuse to clear the underpass until they have exhausted every excuse for not clearing

it. This will take years.

The underpass remains clogged, a health menace

” ~

., a county road. The State Rd. 67, a state highMaybe the State Highway Commission is responsible, say the C ommissioners. The Commissioners contend that silt from a pond on the property of the Kingsbury

ignored by the County Health Department.

All persons, including county school children, who normally use it are forced to cross 10 sets of railroad

tracks because it is closed.

Wells in the vicinity are being polluted by the

stagnant water.

A boy named Ralph Lineberry who worked in a grocery and wrote poetry is dead at the age of 15.

Aid Offers Flood Fire Victims

rarily until Allen family ranging from cash another home, ‘to a double bed, were being called

Offers of help for thé Robert

in to The Times office today. able. Mr. Allen, his wife, and three children were left homeless Tues-

day for the second time within a

on Banta Road. Friends of the family, Mr. Mrs, Victor Land, 3422 W.

and dale Av 16th $65,

Batter Safe, Get $65

Burglars year when their new hotise hurned qui of a safe_in the office of the monthly payments as low as $35, : (3rimes Furnace Co, 3125 Martin- will be to the press here Satur. ce. last night: the manager; J. G. Grimes. to the demonstration model Sun/8t,, have taken them inh tempo- reported to police. 5

Fertilizer

private property the Commissioners

the Allens can find They plan to build for the third time when they are

battered

“big brother" are‘(left to right) |

of hp ——"

Slain Man's Kin Testify in Trial

Prosecution to Rest Today in Oder Case

The prosecution is expected’to | rest its case against Mrs, Jean-/

| first degree murder trial winds up

{would turn the trial to defense attorneys for Mrs. Oder, who Is iecharged with the slaying of her former husband, Harvey Samuel Broglin, as he came.up the steps to her home at 27°" Brookside! Pkwy. Feb. 4. ¢ Farlier today chief state wit{nesses were members of the dead! man's family. They related re-! marks which they said Mrs. Oder made on the eve of the shooting. First witness was James Hickey, brother-in-law of Broglin,| at whose home Mrs. Oder attend-| ed a birthday party in her honor|? a few hours before the shooting.| In court today Mr. Hickey said | that the defendant told him she planned to see Broglin “just one Imore time, then kill him.” | The second witness was Mrs. |Rosie Brannam, sister of the dead man. She said that on the eve of the slaying Mrs. Oder told her she had “found out something she had wanted to know for a long time that afternoon.” “Harvey has been asking for| it a long time and he's going to| get it.” she quoted Mrs. Oder as! saving. Last to take the stand before the trial recessed yesterday was Mrs. Connie Hickey, sister of the jvictim “Mrs. Hickev testified that the, 46-vear-old defendant attended a party at her house the evening of the shooting

‘What Country > Needs’ He Starts— Home for $6000

LAFAYETTE, Oct. 28 (UP) ~| |A Hoosier prefabricated house | manufacturer sald today he was | |building two-bedroom homes that! would sell for $5750 complete with lot, automatic oil heating | And water heating systems. James R. Price, president of | the National Homes Corp., said | anyone making $40 a week could | finance payments, and a down| payment of $300 meant the buyer | could move in, ; | >a. MR. PRICE said he started! working on plans for the home a week ago, when someone sald: | | “What this country needs is a good $6000 home.” The first showing of the house, the bottom which can be financed with

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ind obtained day. The public will be admitted |

day.

| materialized, Sta

guard.

{nette Oder this afternoon as the ,micial in question in a rendez-

tate police investigation | State's attorneys indicated they appeatn to ae deeper tga the complex background of the whole

“tangle are aware that the situa{tion might backfire if the case broke the other way, exonerating

prison account of Richard Sweet, nother Timate, «:

more than fcials for a parole which never —] Be

{guards handled another Sweet's money to get the Todd

parole which since has been re

oked. Tomorrow's stheduled disclose ure was offered by Mr. Barkley : ‘because of a variance of stories |as to how the $700 was distributled. Todd told state police he got about $150 in change from the

Reports Rendezvous Mr. Barkley's story ds that he ‘delivered the $150 to the state

vous at the Statehouse. Whether or not Mr. Barkley

parole picture. Mr. Barkley's accusations were not the first to involve a mysterious someone in the Statehouse, but previous rumors have beén =o nebulous they {defied Investigation. Speculation immediately sprang up as fo ible reasons for Mr. Barkley's disappearance, although it still was not certain that he had taken a powder on tomorrow's meeting of accuser and accused in the Governor's office. Officials clese to the situa- ° tion have been frankly dubious that Mr, Barkley could offer real evidence of his charges even if they were true. Ramifications Seen At the same time, political ramifications were involved in the situation. It was felt among politicians that a major scandal popping a few days before election might have an unpredictable effect on the voters’ whimsies, Because it involves stories of convicts, most of them notorlously untrustworthy, the situation was being approached cautiously by all involved in the political aspects, Should subsequent investigation prove Mr, Barkley's story to be correct, the reaction likely would he against Republicans and the state administration. On the other and, Democrats who certainly wa like to profit from that

Republicans and even possibly leaving © Democrats open to {charges that the prison situation had been exploited. by political {“plants.”

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