Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1949 — Page 10

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Are Gambling Laws Faulty?

the second time in two years gambling cages invbly-

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* of Marion County Criminal Court on gn interpretation of legal technicalities in a conflict of the évidencé and the pro- | © visions of state laws. i : Judge W. D. Bain yesterday quashed 19 indictments | * # charging five defendants with {making and drawing of a | {lottery scheme.” The decision held that the indigtments “ failed to state “essential elements” (sufficient details) re-. © quired by law. in making a formal charge in criminal cases. | 2 Judge Bain held thatthe fault lies mainly in the lottery : 3 section of the gamling law itself in that it fails to defige 3 clearly just what specific acts constitute “making and draw- | 5 ing a lottery.” The court explained that a long-established” rule of law requires that “every fact necessary to Samet | : tute a crime vat be alleged directly in an indictment. " 4 "ON THIS basis, Judge Bain said the 19 indictments 3 4 “simply did not charge what acts were committed by the 2 | defendants | -in violation of the lottery law.” Two yeats ago Jidge Bain ruled out another lottery : case on the ground that the affidavits failed to accuse de- . fendants of participating in a “division of property” as a | “prize” in violation of the gambling law. The ruling, in effect, held that there is a legal difference between “monéy” and “property.” If the decisions have any merit and mean all they say, ! Judge Bain, in effect, has ruled that Indiana's gambling laws are not worth the paper they are written on and theré can 2 be no yald Sonvietions under their provisions, *

« THE ruling yesterday overlooked ne important principle in criminal justice. It failed to give the defendants in the lottery case an opportunity to be heard and defend themselves against the charges placed against them by the Grand Jury, a body vested with supreme authority in criminal matters in Marion County. % Prosecutor George 8 Dailey said his office will appeit Judge Bain's decision to the Indiafla Supreme Court. We hope Mr. Dailey follows through on this so that these ques{tions can be settled once and for all. 3 ! If Indiana’s gambling laws are so loosely written and vague as Judge Bain has ruled they are, then the state, if jt is sincere in strict enforcement of gaming laws, should revamp its statutes so that they can be enforced without ithe continuous blockade of “legal technicalities.” Ww A . Let's Be Honest About It -§ Whe, Shirefary of State Acheson vill tebhyingd Hol

half“of the North Atlantic Defense Pact, Sen. Tom “Connally asked him for assurances that nothing in the agreement required an automatic U. 8. declaration of war in the svent of an armed ‘attack on a member nation. “Mr, Acheson replied: “Uneguivocally not.” x ~ That's just a half truth, -- Aun, ere icing In. this agreement, shout. ‘an “automatic declaration of war.” But, if it means anything at all, it means that we would 80 to the defense of any nation party to the agreement which was the victim of an unprovoked, armed attack. That + would mean war. Otherwise there would be no point in

| entering nto this agreement ! AS

THIS treaty 1 should hot be fold to the American people vy évasion.

Fr AWe have gone to war twice without such’ an agreement. In all probability we would do so again, under sim“ilar circumstances, treaty or no treaty. But, by announeing our policy in advance, we hope to avert another war. We believe the treaty should be ratified because of that hope. » But let's be honest about its Purpose. Let's not hide behind words and legalisms. The American people—the real parties toi this agree-ment-—are entitled to the cold, unvarnished facts, and all of them.

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Mr. Lewis Hopes’ A® USUAL, the 200 members of the United Mine Workers’ Policy Committee have spoken with one voice—the voice of John L. Lewis. : “The policy committee,” says the voice, "joins ‘with all other Americans in the constructive hope that a new agreement in the anthracite and bituminéus coal industry can ~ be consummated without strife or economic loss, and, for . once, without the imposition of oppressive legal sanctions by the government.” ; It is, to. quote Mr. Lewis’ favorite bard, “a consummation devoutly to be wished.” The country would gladly be spared another great coal strike. It would gladly see the . government spared the necessity of hauling Mr. Lewis and ~ his union into court again in order to protect the public . interest. 3 ; aR : a =x = \ : BUT whether this consummation is le is something other Americans cannot judge until Mr. Lewis_tells * ‘them what new contract terms he has instructed his policy : committee to instruct him to demand. On this point, his i statement said nothing. : E} the démands turn out to be as heavy a3 many ob- _ servers expect, the mine owners doubtless will contend that they are ible to meet. In that case, the prospect of ‘" na strike when the present soft coal contract 30 will be large.

~—vr~8peaker Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.), is visiting

ing charges of lottery ‘operations have been thrown out forts to lure them away from ‘their coalition

4 were coldly received by the union leaders.

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UNION ZW... 85 Fred W. Perkins Battle Raging On Labor Bills

Results of Legislation Se Seen as Gambler's Guess

‘WASHINGTON, Apr. 29--Not in years has’ the Capitol seen such a behind-the-scenes battieas the ome going on in the House over what: kind of labor law shall succeed the Taft-Hartley | Act. ey eT Tg With two sides so evenly matched in num- | bers that a handful of votes is expected to decide the outcome, it is a gambler's guess whether the result will be a strict bill (Wood% ér a weak bill (Lesinski)—or the Taft-Hartley Act stands, as far as the House goes. Extraordinary maneuvers are in progress.

Southern. Democratic members in their offices, rather than calliAg them to his quarters, in éf-

with the ‘Republicans. The Republicans are using compazable strategy. House GOP leaders have prevailed on Ben. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.), Sen. Irving M. Ives (RN, Y.), and a few others of their party to itinbia. their ideas on a new lahor law.

Patronage Club THEY know the Tafi-Ives ideas are milder

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than those ip the bill sponsored by Rep. John 8, Wood (D. Ga.), and that if they became public

_ they might draw votes away from the coalition.

There are rumors that the patronage club is | being wielded or threatened against the coalition 4 Democrats. When Sen. J. Howard McGrath | D. R. 1), Democratic national chairman, told | reporters that “party loyalty” would be the pa- |

tronage test, he gave foundation fo these re- |

ports, He made this statement after a confer. ence with President Truman and Speaker Rays. burn. To hold nervous and undecided members, both sides are considering’ compromises, Majority Leader John W. McCormack (D. Mass.) denies any offers have been made on strengthening amendments for the Lesinski bill, but there is much conferring among admintétration Democrats on that subject. Active in‘these huddles is a freshman Congressman, , Andrew Jacobs (D. Ind.), a Bn lawyer of Indianapolis.

Willing to Compromise MINORITY: Leader Joseph W. Martin (R. Mass.) and Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.), also’deny a compromise from their side, but it is plain that ‘if it comes to a showdown they would be willing to pick upor hold a few votes by softening some provisions of the Wood bill. Lobbying is active, Rep. Thomas H. Werdel (R. Cal.) charged that a CIO group was calling House members Tiom the thamber and making reprisal threats if thay vote for the Wood bill and against the Lesinski bill. He could not prove the alleged threats, but many members were ‘called from the. floor by union spokesmen. And some management men were watehing from the galleries. : Neutral observers regarded as a dud the declaration by Rep. Arthur G. Klein (D. N. Y.) that organized labor should call a nation-wide general strike “As a demonstration of the solidarity of the American people against the TaftHartley Act.” He said he had sent telegrams on the subject to the AFL's Williams the CIO's Philip Murray, but- apparently they

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

THE BOY WHO LIVES

*. AT OUR HOUSE rel e's a bundle of pipess, V #8 of spat

y to fiy a 3 He hates washing clean And his clothes look Tike rags, While a bath always means & long ! stall; But still he is swell, In a brotherly way, And I would not exchange “him at all’ MARY E. AVICH, Columbus. .

DAWN

Dawn is a blessing Sent by the Father— A mute reminder That He will light our way Always; It is a miracle, Causing us to remember That it is "To lift our eyes and hearts. In the morning, Seeking guidance, Having faith, As the woman Who touched His garment, Look up! Behold the dawn! ~RUTH W.. BRIGHT, Nashville.

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Menace Seen in

WASHINGTON, Apr. 29-As. a weapon in the war of propaganda between East and West the so-called peace conference in Paris misfired. It misfired because the charges brought against the United States ware so fantastic. Howard Fast, the writer, a member of the Ame n delegation, went further than almost any other speaker. He had the effrontery in this day and age to talk about Soviet Russia as the home of liberty and to say that a “terror” existed in this country striking down anyone who spoke about peace. Thé Soviet delegates must have been startled at this eulogy. Even their own pro dists do not go so far us to claim liberty,/in the Western sense, for the Soviet citizen, Here at home we are free to advocate peace, "even the kind of peace that would mean the surrender of Western Europe to Communist control. If any proof is needed, it was supplied by the Waldorf-Astoria “peace conference” held in New York a month ago. I

‘Noisy Minority

~ observer who looks at the facts here at home must add an Amportant qualification. There is in this countty a noisy and persistent minority that seems determined to end our Hberties. These people are apparently so ridden by fear -and suspicion that they do not have faith in the common sense and”good judgment of the American people, .In one state legislature after another these fear-ridden zealots are tampering with and in some instances abrogating the ancient Amer- | ican heritage of freedom. If they have their way, if the fear, the hysteria, the intolerance are not checked, we shall find that we Lave made ourselves over in the image of what we profess to abhor—the totalitarian state.

ture is “investigating” the University of Chicago for subversive activities. The university is

taxes. It is well recognized as one of the great centers of learning in this country. The legislative committee has gone to extraordinary lengths in what seems 0 be a deliberate attempt to persecute and intimidate. An _irresponsible and unqualified witness was allowed to smear Prof. Harold C, Urey, one of the

GERMAN RECOVERY . . . By Peter Edwon:

Tolerance in U. S.

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20—The first post-war German trade

atomic scientists who did major work on atomie

| SIDE GLANCES

WHEN this has been said, Bowser. 8.

‘Out in Illinois a committee of the legisla-

supported from private sources and not from

.” By Marquis Childs ‘Fear Mongers’

fission. Prof. Urey has been cleared by several top security agencies for Continuing studies in nuclear fission. “The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked,” Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins told the committee. “The alternative to it is the long, difficult road of education. To this the American: people have been committed, It requires. patience and tolerance, even in the face of intense provocation. It re"quires faith in the principles and’ practices of democracy, faith that when the citizen understands all forms of government he will prefer democracy and that he will be a better citi-

zen if he is convinced than he would be if he 1

were coerced.” Ban on Teaching

THE Maryland legislature has passed a to

called anti-subversive law which, asthe Wash{ ington Post pointed out editorially, might under strict interpretation of the law make it impossible to teach any political philosophy; .even the principles set forth in the Declaration of -Independénce. Apparently fearing-a trod etordslicn of the will of the voters, the legislature passed an

amendment making the law effective immedi-

ately so that it would not be subject to petition for popular referndum. Here 12a sinister pattern repeated all too often in state after state. This country has grown great out of the free exchange of ideas and knowledge. That greatness can be de- _ stroyed unless those who oelieve in freedom, and I think that would include most Americans, now stand up an actively Tesist ‘the fear mongers.

No Inherent Right

IN MY opinion, a member of the Communist

Party does not have an innerent right to teach

in a tax-supported public institution. Communjsm in its basic belief advocates the over-

throw of the present system and all its insti-

tutions. But any law that seeks to prevent the teaching of a political belief or to make criminals ‘of those who advocate a belief, cut straight across the Constitution with its great charter of liberties. - This is aot the issue at the University of Chicago. A few students belong to a Communist study club and the Tear-mongers are behaving as though this rich and powerful nation were about to be undermined,

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; Keep letters 200 words or fess on iny-sub- . ject. with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be preserve or here the Soul Sous ts sodomy |

Housing Outside city

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A Forum letter says housing in Indian.

aliolis is inadequate, also that small homes. ous Just what area in the city does

- ‘writer refer to as having inadequate housing?

There is no ihadeguate housing in the city that really exists. There is an influx from all over. the country of people suming to the dity hunt.

ing jobs. However, that is‘only ni y If anyone wishys to buy Ey B . at a modest price he wilt have to get out of the

center of any city and locate Where uc, Rous. ing is located. 1 hone part of ‘the housing OFF 16. vaused” by a desire to live in downtown locations an A-1 city utilities at a slum rental price, Good

H Peril to Personal Liberty"

‘By dF,

Frantz, 730 Ketcham St. § ivr Our Constitution provides for life, liberty and property. The term “property” in our Constitution has a definition from the accepted: meaning. property. iz not the material object

. 7. The word itself, but it is the private interest of domination

which is justly obtained over the material object ie private rights to its use, to its enjoyment, to its disposition. This private right of property is dedicated to the private citizen. No authgrity is vested in the Executive or Congress to violate this basic private right.

It would be unwise and unjust for our courts :

of jlstice to close their éyes on the private part of “life, liberty and property.” It would peril

1 personal liberty. The privats citizen is resigned

to his unjust at * &

*Priority on Health ;

By John Murrio One ‘advocate of a compulsory health insur ance program states that over half the people of this country can't afford even a moderatbly comprehensive health insurance plan. Yet the people in this country are spending more than nine billion dollars for movies and other recrea~ tion, more than nine billions for alcoholic bev erages, and almost four billions for tobacco. I'll venture to say that what people spend on horse racing and “numbers” alone will pay for their medical and hospital bills five times, So you see, it’s only a matter of priority, Health insurance does not rate that high on the public's budget. ; Also, that word “compulsory” has a Come munistic flavor. The people of this country are Hot eqmpelleq to do anything they -do not wish to do. . Another Communistic tang: The Government, taking over the insurance business, . After that, the press? Radio? And what cleo?

What Others Say—

THERE are some of our own people who still think that the Communists are the left wing of the Socialist movement. They are not. The Socialist movement was a movement for freedom in its widest sense. From the point of view of freedom. Communists are on the extreme right, more reactionary than some of the old tyrannies which we knew in the past. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. X ® & o I'M surprised to hear so many members (of Hh House) say we're scuttling and sinking the Navy. If we are, they're taking more than five billion dollars down to Davéy Jones’ Locker with them. ~Rep. Albert J. Enge! (R) of Michigan, answering charges that Apgrupiations 1 for naval aircraft were insufficient. ® oo o AB long as the people know where we are going and that we are going there I do not worry over petty and temporary victories by obstructionists, nor do I worry about the future of liberalism in America. —President Truman. ® oo ¢ THE Communists want to take us back to am economic program conceived in 1848. The Republicans only want to go back to 1929. ~James Carey, secretary-treasurer, CIO. -. & & & { I’NEVER felt that I left the Democratie Party. I was just like a player that MoM loaned to another company. ~—Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho, one-time nominee for Vice President on the Progressive Party ticket, who will run for res nomination on the Democratic ticket, |

MILITARY EXPENSES . . . By James Thrasher

Whose Advice Best?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20--The controversy over military ape

fair to be held in the United States closed in New York recently, with more than usual significance. The fair was arranged by the U. 8. military government in Géermany. Before the fair opened, there were a number of threats that it would be picketed, boy-. cotted, run out of the country. But it ran a full two weeks at New York's Museum of Science and Industry in Rockefeller Plaza, with only two minor disturbances. This record represents a victory for the‘tolerance and common sense of the American people in general and American Jewish organizations in particular. Objections tg holding this fair came from’ “several sources, First, Jewish war veterans opposed iefting any German business« men into- America, since it was suspected they would all be exNazis. Second, other-Jewish organizations opposed promoting the sale of German manufactured goods in the United States. Third, ‘American business groups feared German competition in U. 8, and world markets,

Germans Carefully Screened ADMISSION of ex-Nazis was handled by the U. 8. military

government in Germany. It carefully screened all German busi-

nessmen wanting to come to America. Seven hundred applicants i were rejected. The 250 finally admitted on temporary visas were’

all certified as having no Nazi connections, Military government. officials from Washington did consid--erable lobbying with prominent Jews to get their support for the fair. Leadership in most of the orgahizations saw the need for ~building up German exports. But some of the rank and file, remembering Nazi atrocities against relatives and friends in Hit. lerite Germany, were dead set against giving the Germans any break at-all. - Other orgaiizations—American Jewish Committee, B'nal B'rith and National Community Relations Advisory Council—de- _ cided to support the fair and encourage German recovery within the agreed-on Allied limits of industrial production. Aim of the U. S. military government in arranging the fair was to promote the sale of German manufactured good in the U. 8. There is a selfish interest in this, from the American taxpayers point of view. The U. 8. government now supports the west German economy ta the tune of about $1.1 billion a year. In 1048, exports” from * “*m. zones amounted to about ° \ German trade deficit of $440 million. y : The only way this unfavuiaine Lalance of trade can be reduced is by helping the Germans earn more, through the sale of their exports. - ;

Orders for Goods Small:

THE sale or orders of German products shown at the New York fair may have been disappointingly small, More than 500

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German manufacturers from the American, British and French

zones entered displays of their wares. They were principally SAIGEIAA, ceramics, ASxtiies, Spent and consumer goods. Some , Li) na DOO -W - An were within the restrictions against manutgeture of heavy industry and military - supplies, About half

-of Germany

the ood shown were considered competitive »

. Germany and re-establish pre-war trade rejations. | and 5000 American businessmen have made-these trips. But - Ihets progress has been slow and trade development has been

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U. 8. goods. The textiles were cheap in price. but poor In quality. They o offer little threat to Amer usiness. Since the end of: the war, the Us 8. military government authorities have been permitting American businessmen to go to Between 4000

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ng. The Leipzig trade fair was held in the Russian zone in 1047, but Gen. Clay barred American zone participation in 1948,

Milan and Stockholm international trade fairs, and they drew

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propriations provoked some sharp words the other day between Sen, Byrd of Virginia and Congressman Vinson, chairman of the

House Armed Services Committee. They grew out of a broadcast

in which Mr. Vinson said that Congress should listen to the joint chiefs of staff rather than to the White. House for advice on

. military spending.

Mr. Byrd sald he was shocked that the joint chiefs should be urged to hypass their commander. in chief, He did not know of any reason why consideration should be given to their recommendations. “I should regard sueh excesses as have been proposed as insubordination,” he-added. “The joint chiefs of staff is the nation’s best-qualified authority on military matters,” Mr. Vinson reipied, “and Congress, in reaching its own decisions, must give careful consideration to what its members have to say.” 1 If this were simply a two-man disagreement it would require no comment. But it ig a symptom of a larger disagreement that has been noticeable from time to time at both ends of Pennsylvania Ave. .

SEN. BYRD has logic on his side. The fotnt chiets of staff, whatever their position as military ‘strategists and planners, are advisers to an adviser of the President in the Cabinet organiza tion. As such they certainly should not be given equal or pre-

| “ferred consideration to the Commander in Chief.

When Henry Wallace, as a Cabinet member, by-passed the nding foreign policy, ne was dismissed from his post. Yet Mr, Vinson and others would have Congress disregard the Commander in Chief's military recommendations in SVP ot the much Higher “figure proposed by his armed forces

On" Mg Vinson's behalf. it should be said, however, that there have been times when Congress should bave paid far mare esd 10 the spifitary chisls: than #4. :

National Needs

© THAT may be why Mr. Vinson said he would put his cone fidence in the the joint chiefs of staff when it came to deciding needs.” But our national needs for defense are not confined to the military budget, as they once were. is mow a Marshall Plan. There is likélihood of further aid

-under the North Atlantic Treaty.. The country's financial Tes . .

sources are already under heavy strain. i Our national neéds require that this strain should not bee come too great. They require that the counfry’s economic, social and physical strength be such that it can exerf total

FIetort I0 ease: of war without risking coliapse. Those needs t-a vast Last year, however, western German industries had exhibits at 4 PresTt Sumpiex

problem. Jt 1 Contress’ business to duestion 1 the relents. Suet almost $3 billion more thar Truman and other feel is safe and necessary. Rrts 2 Tre disunity in the executive branch of

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