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ernment were being linked to-| ih ; day—though so far only pri-| “Gen Smith, now commanding ~Wately — with a Senate com- the First Amy, wax one of the mittee's startling disclosures! ey men of the Western Powers ~ SF opi “I Per Oa: during World War II. High spot

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service as chief-of staff to Gen.

Reports confirmed by some In| pwight D. Eisenhower, supreme

official position sdid these top people had been recipients of ex-| war II pensive “favors” -— deep - freeze units generally valued at.several| hundred dollars each — even as was Maj. Gen, Harry H. Vaughan, the President's military aide. Until the Senate Executive Ex‘penditures Committee places the big names in the record-—if fit does—nobody wanted to talk publicly. " Buf Chairman Clyde Hoey (D. N, C.) has agreed they should be made public and that

Ambassador to Russia

His military service and bril{lant record during the war did {not end his service to his country, {however. After the close of the {confiiet, in March 1946, he was appointed by President Truman {as United States ambassador to | Russia. HE | With the Soviets turning |against - their war-time Allies, : {Washington+ leaned heavily on may come today. te ; The reports ay. d the- committee| 7° Smith's judgment in attempt-

y . g to halt Communist expansion possessed evidence ‘to the effects iieq Furope: He was in the ai-

that the wife of at least one of| r the high government officials dpe [Ct Senter of talks Bern the

“patched a generous “thank you”| Gen Smith was born in Indi note saying the freezer was Veryiananolis on Oct. 5, 1895, and fine, indeed. Bills of lading were spent his youth with his parents,

ciel... 8280, 10 be on hand to support theiihe ate Mr. and Mrs. William stories of delivery of the freezers.

S € {Le Smith at their home at 1723 “The tale of the deep-freeze units Ashland Ave. i from-Albert-J. Gross, a Milwau-. wi Indianapolis and 1s kee manufacturer, who told the . wr. 0) Hy gh School Senate investigators that gne ‘of Climbed 001. the freezers was sent- to -Gen.| . i Through Ranks Vaughan. He. said the bill was The new prospective chief of paid for by the Albert Verley Co., [the Army is not a West Pointer Chicago perfume manufacturer. (and did not attend college. He John Maragon, one of the central (éntered the Indiana National

former ambassador to Russia, is scheduled to move into the top spot of the Utrited States-Army,-succeeding Gen, Omar

‘Five Pct.’ Activities This information has been receivéd by Times European : By CHARLES LUCEY ‘correspondents who ‘report that European nations have WASHINGTON, Aug, 12— been informed of Gen. Smith's _ ga The very top names in gov-| pending promotion by their a

Washington military at. Acro rrr

‘of his military career was his

iAllted commander of World 3

a graduate’

figures in the five per centers inquiry, worked for this firm.

{Guard as a private when a youth of 15 and transferred to the regular Army in 1917, He climbed

Gen. Smith

Bradley to Head - Joint Staff Chiefs

Prompt Confirmation |

—Gen. Omar N. Bradley, now the mation’s No, 1. military officer, still is an infantry “GI's General” at heart. But he believes that the core of the nation’s defenses must be a powerful Air Force. © . President Truman picked the quiet, unassuming Bradley yesterday as the first statutory

Calls

it is a plane bought through po-

"by the Alr Force and the joint

B = Senate Seen - - {chiefs of staff of which Gen — WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. (P| Y ndenberg-is-a-member,-.....-.

Mr. Mar 4s a one-time Kansas City bootblack who has (UP through the ranks until he

close f { ed the status of lieutenant Side JomL ot Ma riendship oneral during World War II. He

Mr. Gross, on questioning by ter re thé rank of full Be Soe! (R-Wia. | F Smith wears 11 decora thers . - seemed ready to name the of A Ahit, which were awarded by as many foreign nations, in addition to many The chairman said that “In awards by his own country. ness to Gen. Vaughan and others”| Well known to many Indianapthe affair should not bé explored olis citizens, including several further publicly pending further {former teachers and boyhood, friends, Gen. Smith was known

inquiry into the facts, Mr. Gross, who created the|as a “sharp-tongued scrapper” in great stir, wasn't talking outside|the city and bears-the same. reputhe —He ehecked out of i tation—among high military and a Washington hotel and then|liplomatic officials, checked back in again, apparent- a DE SE ly ready to provide other details] according to the wishes of the

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chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The Sendte is expected to confirm him promptly. Gag, Adm. Louis E. Denfeld was nominated at the same time for another two-year term gs Chief of Naval Operations and member of the joint chiefs of staff, -. May Name Collins However, Mr. appointment of & successor to Bradley as Army chief of staff. Sel at 03 Bradley. wi

iwent to the top as a foot soldier, was praised by both the Navy and Air Force as the best possible choice. Gen. Bradley, now 56, was dubbed the “GI's general™ in World War II because of the personal interest he showed in the doughboys in his commands.

e Snaps; He spent much time in the front iii tenn won a rib, . =, HEE TR ox Sg A RNS

and Normandy, he visited every company, battalion and regiment in his command and in his high-

‘might have caused-the Air Force

ron conduct it-by-the:

Russia Only Possible Enemy of U. S.

~~ Vandenberg Asserts Targets Being Picked in Event of War

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UP) —Gen, Hoyt 8. Vandenberg said! today Russia is America’s only’ possible enemy, atomic bombing in the event of war has “the” first priority, and the joint chiefs of staff are now selecting targets.

The Air Force chief of staff denied all allegations made against the B-36 .sumerbomber that it is either an inferior vehicle for an atomic attack or that

litical pressure. He testified be- ~ fore the House Armed Services! Committee. - 4 The committee is Investigating alleged procurement irregularities and the whole concept of war planning as now being done

{J ‘Deep Freeze’ ‘Gen. Smith Slated for | 1k Probe Reachostirmy Chick of Stell a 0. on YL PR Ei 1: RR : Gen. Bradley in Top Post s : a

After ‘Carelessness’

Charge Is Revealed

Former Boss Says He Was Dismissed, Driver Denies It; Grand Jury Quiz |

| Monroe County Coroner Robert E, Lyons Driver Wayne Cranmer for Wednesday's, Greyhound crash which took the lives of 16 passengers. ~ In a formal statement shortly after noon, Coroner ‘Lyons said he concluded: that the driver of the bus “failed |to make the proper allowance to clear the right abutment™

of the Ind. 37 highway Pridg®| Grocery Co. here last February, where the tragedy happened. for “carelessness.” - A report dis The coroner said he had not puted by Mr. Cranmer. iyet completed his probe, how-t——“Ne Mechanical Failure” : ever, and would not finish it untill “From the witnesses that I he received the findings of inves: have interviewed,” the coroner | tigators for the Interstate Com- stated, “I have come to the conmerce Commission, the State Fire: clusion there was no mechanical | Marshal and state police. | failure In regard to the bus, that F=The s finding follows] nb-3ire. blew. out. and that the disclosure that Mr. Cranmer had| steering mechanism did not lock" an accident record and had been| “There is a controversy as (0 discharged from the Standard whether or not the driver of the

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raised by Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R. Pa.)--Gen. Vanden-|

berg recalled that part dealing] = with Air Secretary W. Stuart| ° ngton’s possible ties with B-36 manufacturer, Floyd! Odlum, board chairman of Con-| solidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. “That Mr. Symington could have entertained the idea of ng -the security of this country by favoring inferior air-

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» himself ‘states, that he was wide awake and alert and one of the

a : yawned and stretched and rubbed : a> Says Economy Move his forehead while the bus was x \ in motion. 3

Cost Grocery Job

Wayne Cranmer, driver of the

“The driver and two witnesses state that at a distance of 100

"Greyhound bus that crashed and jburned near Bloomington, denied

feet ‘north of the bridge, the bus was headed in the direction of abutment. Two wits -

Saw Crash Coming for 50 Feet, Passenger Asserts

|today that he had been “fired for! | carelessness” from & previous job. William White, repreesntative

Flat tire my eye." meee ” ”

of Standard Grocery Co. issued {a statement earlier saying that ihe had dismissed Mr. Cranmer {as a truck driver in February for what he termed “carelessness.”

“The bus driver's statement as to whether or not the position ‘was corrected for clearance is

Gréyhound bus that crashed and ington Wednesday morning. “For at least 50 feet before the bus smasned into the abutment,” Mr. Shute said, ‘I saw we were going to hit it.” : opr Bhute-a lathe operator. sides himself, Adm. Louls Den- Massachusetts Ave. said he came feld of the Navy, and Gen. Omar here to. collect his vacation pay Bradley of the Army, now to be-|, ., ye arrived aboard a Grey- |

Mr. -Odlum’s position as

to regard the B-36 more highly. Gen. Vandenberg discussed the theory underlying stratégic bombardment and, approval of plans

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

‘5 Pct.’ Probers

pitched voice gave realistic talks

| 8a m..72 10 a. m... 76 |on what they could expect. To Hear Vaughan | Tam... 72 11am. Commands Listed WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UP)! 8 a. m... 78 12 (Noon) 78 | Gen. Bradley commanded the ~-Maj. Gen. Harry H.- Vaughan, 9 a. m... 74 1p m.. 7 |II' Army Corps in the northern; will a before Senate investi- : w— {Tunisian campaign and the invappeaj The four-day heat wave in In-!sion of Sicily and the First Army,

gators and {ell fhemi about hist relations with the capital's. “ine fluence salesmen,” it was learned the Weathér Bureau forecast a! of -the huge Twelfth Ary group

today. \ near end to high temperatures! i a : . at ¥ LW rma Just when the President s mili-{ rich have: baked the eastern] pen. smashed olpeains ss Rn tary aide will testify was not ais yay of the nation for ‘nearly a Rhine in the spring of 1045. closed, It may be next week. But| solid week: ; |" For nearly 30 months followCharman Clyde R. Hoey (D. Ni 4} yeast five days of pleasant-{ine V-F Day, Gen. Bradley was

Cl) of the Senate Investigating; wool weather are in store for : Committee told reporters Gen.|ph ot Veterans Administrator. He was

Vaughan “has indi & willing 551d. President Truman wanted him! ness to appear hefore the COM-| weather Bureau forecasters(ty take the post, but he accept-| mittee and testify at any time the said a mass of cool air high overieq as a soldier obeying his com-| committee desires. {Canada is pushing southwaid. |mander-in-chief.

{ Committees ‘members want to) : ask him about his friendship with] He succeeded Gen. Dwight D. “five per center” James V, Hunt, Eisenhower as Army chief of his successful efforts to get a Indianapolis temperatures may staff Feb. 7, 1948. He again sucbuilding permit issued for Tan- rise to 88 this afternoon ‘in aj ceeds Gen. Eisenhower who hasi foran Race Track, reports that final spurt of dying heat-wave been acting chairman of the joint | energy, but mostly cloudy skiesichiefs of staff for the past six|

he received a deep freezer from employers of his pal John Mara- and scattered showers will result months. : 1 in cool sleeping weather tomor-|

gon, and several other items linking him with others under inves- row night. A low of 68 is pretigation. ‘ dicted.

Heroism of New Stewardess

Saves 27 as Plane Crashes

Leads Passengers fo Safety Amid: Flames PORTLAND, Me., Aug. 12 (UP) A pretty stewardess—only two 'sweeks on the job—was hailed a heroine today after all 27 persons aboard escaped from a Northeast Alrlines plane that crashed and burned at Porfland airport. . A sprained ankle suffered "by the stewardess, 23-year-old Patricia Donnellan of Quincy, Mass. was the sole casualty of what “police described asa near diss. | aster.” eo The accident occurréd as North- “ east Airlines completed 16 years

dianapolis was broken today as in the invasion of Normandy. | He later was given command!

i { i + | “horrified” when he learned that]

Pollen Count , , . 6 per cuble yd. |

~BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 12-—In-diana University's largest airclass will make its longest trip {tomorrow when it leaves Indianlapolis .aboard an Eastern Air {Lines plane for Guatemala. {, The class, with 16 members in charge-of Prof. H. B, Allman, is composed largely of Indiana

_|days in Guatempala City and five {days in Mexico City to study the {school systems of the countries.

Taxptyer Pays | i 3 » : - Again and Again ® Have you had your free | wig today? - > @ In Socialist Britain you can have your doctor prescribe a wig for you . , . at the state's expense. Again

ie A of. service without a fatality, ! it's the taxpayer who pays rr Miss Donnellan opened an S34 Ne TER for the emérgency exit after the twin- oes... " .8%¢ \ engine Convair crashed while ¢ This is” one of the inter89¢ landing. The plane was on a # esting ‘human sidelights “of d i : ; . the situation in Englund ‘to29¢ seheduléd flight from Boston. : ' 4 v 340 : Patricia Donnellan | day 8a reveslsd in . . . Propellers Reverse ! | “UTOPIA ON THE : Capt. Roderick O. Cote, 40, of 4s sparks from the friction] ~~ ROCKS: BRITISH SO- — «Melrose, Mass. the pilot, report- CIALISM IN ACTION"

ignited an ofl line on the bottom! ed the plane's propellers uUnac-|of the fuselage. : | countably reversed as he-made a| Flames blocked one emergency| ; &outine approach to the field. exit and the disrupted hydraulic! The plane veered sharply down-| system failed and locked the ward and hit the field at an|main door. ‘Miss Donnellan ran "collapsing the landing toward another emergency § exit, gear, The craft skidded down shouting for the passengers to the field And flames broke out|follow her: |

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{teachers. They will stay eight the life of Margaret Mitchell, who 4

.{semi-coma at Grady Memorial

{ated by an off-duty taxicab driver,

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some thairman of the Joint), nd bus; similar to the one | Shier | which he rode early Wednesday. Russ ‘Key Threat’ “I was sitting in the first seat “It is pointless to talk in rid- om the aisle. to the driver's right,”

" Mr. Shute said. “After we left! die," Gen, Vandenberg said. The \fartinsville, the bus was rolling

only threat to. American security along at an. average. clip. 1 and world peace “comes from the wouldn't say we were speeding. | Soviet Union.” {The driver - seemed to be just Dealings with Russia, he said, keeping up with his schedule.” cannot be based on normal diplo-| Got. *Bit_Uneasy : matic negotiations and that na] He said he got a bit uneasy tion can be contained only by several miles out of Martinsville, “active participation ‘of theiwhen the driver began to United States with the other na- [straighten out a few curves” tions of the Western world.” toe the hilly, twisting road. He said the 48-group Air Force, “I don’t know whether or not will have four B-36 groups, 10|the driver was sleepy. I was too medium bomber (B-29, B-59, jet-|intérested in watching the road. propelled B-47) groups, six stra-| But as we got some distance from tegic reconnaissance groups of the north side of the wreck scene, which two will be B-368's, one tac- IT noticed the bus hugging thei

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|tical reconnaissance group; six|right-hand edge of the road. Sev-|

troop carrier groups, 20 fighter eral times it seemed as though we| groups and one light bomb.group. hit the shoulders.” i his composition was approved Asked when he believed the bus by the joint chiefs, he said.

Specialist Called for Author Of "Gone With the Wind’

Writer Hit by Car, In Critical Condition

| ATLANTA, Aug. 12 (UP)—A noted brain specialist was sum=— = moned today in an effort to save

{was critically injured last night while crossing the street. fre | quented by Scarlet O'Hara in the [pages of her novél,” “Gone With the Wind." : Dr, George ¥, Dowman, Atlanta brifn specialist, was called in as {Miss Mitchell lay in a state of

| Hospital. : A careening automobile, oper-¥

{Hugh D. Gravatt, 29, bore down on the famous author early last night as she and her husband were crossing Peachtree 8t.-to-at~ tend a movie. wi k Miss Mitchell was knocked to the pavement unconscious. After emergency treatment that included two blood transfusions sh rallied sufficiently to open her literary agent eyes and recognized a few faces. offer it for publication. Doctors said her condition re-| Latest yricat mains “extremely critical.” |showed that more than 6 Admits Drinking Beer Gravatt admitted to police that and is still “selling at the rate {he had been drinking beer short- of a year. : {ly before the accident. - | The movie version, starring When Miss Mitchell penned the Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, masterwork for which she won| won 10 Academy. awards and the Pulitzer Prize, she stuffed the 7

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‘Iplanes for the monetary advan- ; Bhs " conflicting. Rage of a political party oF be- Bus Was Hugging Right Edge of Road, Come ru of er noand, MY, Conclusion subject to furs ferly unthinkable,” Gen. Vanden.| ‘Flat tire my eye. I know the feel of a flat in a moving SEC, a ocOROmy move, the proper’ allowance 10 clear the RT Try vehicle : moe ve: right abutment.” The statement guoted also re-| With this terse comment, Luke Shute, 50, Bloomington, today “It is true that a truck I Earlier, the coroner requested & ferred indirectly to allegations |gave his yersion of what he saw as a passenger aboard the fll-fated driving for the concern went. off probe ue

the road on a hill, down near Hindustan, but it wasn’t my fault.

burned four miles north of Bloom-

\ ; v plied: ont The truck was overloaded. “I can’t say for certain, but I'd «py ) D.. guess it to be about 45 or 50 feet| zr ar was-making -a- un

[before the bus tore into the abut-| Indias Bolla ah oy

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loomington| py, ng suspended Mr. Cranmer,

pase going to “wpe. : ment. ee 0: Standard Grocery Co. Te Nothing Like a Blowout [OPeR ® Dew super market. . - |reported that they fired Mr. Cran iil lthe anSthing ee Rae. Jet Siding. fen For oy hh SER SEAR tion ‘mechanical difficulty. just. before, wrhp truck was overloaded. hy|d after he had an accident . the crash? hs Tike a at least 5000 pounds on one avin A Stanaara tack, Tess than

blowout or a flat tire, or the

lone. How much overload "was like?” Mr. Shute was asked. s

on the other, I don’t know. But crashed early Wednesday. “Flat tire my eye,” Mr. Shutéiwhat I do know is that Ii REE: Statements from a snapped, “I've.been riding these! .ouldn’t make that hill. It kept! second passenger, Luke Shute, things for a long time. I've ridden! g)iding -back and went off the Bloomington, that he “saw the in a lot of other vehicles and I'd! rogq, accident coming 50 feet away. Mr, sure recognize a fiat tire. No SIT.| “The state police came along, Shute’s “seat passenger, Wilfred I'm positive that bus didn’t haveiznd ordered the truck takem fo Luttrell, Evansville, yesterday al a fiat.” - | Bloomington, If was necessary to 80 said he “saw an accident coms Mr. Shute, who was laid off dueiget anothér tractor and a wreck-| ing" and. said. the driver was to a temporary work shortage, isier to pull the load over the hills.| “nodding drowsily.” now Hving with his daughte® | «Arter the truck was weighed, FOUR: Reports of four ine Mrs. John White, 902 N. Maple] the supervisor at thé super market spectors representing the Intere St., Bloomington. He was return-| paid a $100.50 fine.” istate Commerce Commissions ing to her home when the bus| Mr. Cranmer said he continued|state police, the Greyhound Cos

rashed. to drive for a few weeks after the and a disinterested party, that to Free Artist

lineident. He said he was finally|they found no traces of “mes

{taken off the road and put’ to|chanical defects” in the wreckage {work in a warehouse. “Bill White came to me one day William White, superintendent iin the warehouse and tepld me 1jof Standard’s Warehouse, said he was a good worker; He said the fired Mr. Cranmer, of 1112 Hoyt {wagehouse job. was only tem-| Ave, because of two incidents. porary, and that I'd be back on Truck Leaves Road ithe road in about two weeks. | “He tried to back down a hill | Promised Job Back ton a winding road and a curve “A short time later, Wayne near Bloomingten, just about Sumners, Bill Whte's assistant, four miles from where this thing cafné out and told me they'd have happened,” Mr. Whife ‘said. “He héy would re-/got off the road, almost went | hire me as soon ‘as business over the émbankment and tore picked up.” down the State Highway guard Mr. Cranmer, who lives with|fence, causing about §138 dams -this. wife, Hazel, at 1112 Hoyt St. ages.” Fa said he was.at a loss to explain] Mr. White said he dismissed - the grocery executive's charges. him -on Feb. 13 as tbe result of said the|this accident and. another Inci= wreck near Bloomington cost the dent when a $400 theft resulted company “about - $138 - in dam-ifrom the driver leaving his trallen % {unlocked, °: ; “He was careless,” he said. Informed of this, Greyhound

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lof the bus.

Prosecutor to Ask Dismissal of Warrant

Times State Service FRANKLIN, Aug. 12--Johnson ounty Prosecutor Robert Ly{brook today filed a motion in eir|euit court to dismiss jailbreak hargés against Ralph .Emerson

1 lto let me go, but t

|apolis police that he was still]

| wanted for g 25-year-old nurder. “That's not true,” Mr. Cranmer

{declared. “In all probability, Kes thinking about the fine and they |cost of thé wrecker.” - ‘(Cont gerous criminal.”

| ret 5 “Re iv aus roe Starlight Musicals Company Planning Program for 1950

a “means of getting a warrant to Income From Two 1949 Productions $26,238;

Group Confident of More Success Next Year By HENRY BUTLER A Plans for a 1050 Starlight Musicals season were being discussed

{of police officers by not living up to his advance billing as a “dan

|asked dismissal so as to clear the (way for Marion County Prose-| cutor George Dailey to press the| old murder charge If he wishes. |

| Lee was tried here in 1926 for Abner

today, following publication of this season's TnancIAl statement, Melvin T. Ross, business manager of the co-operative organi on that sponsored Charles Hedley's Fairgrounds productions ¢ thearts’-and “The Cat and the Fiddle," sald, “We're

1y about One quarter of the

(Peek; West Side Indianapolis gro-| (Continued on Page 3—Col. 6)! zati _— J : | Swee oy TT going Wien for next summer: Amusements .19 Marriage ....11/ Mr. Ross earlier had revealed Bridge ......18 Moviés ......19/that local dramatic, musical. and |Business ....10 My Day......18 technical . personnel who volun Classified .23-26, Novels .... 13jteered their sefvices on 4 cop. Comics +27 Otlian seevill ai “approximately 23 per cent” | rials AB Radin es {of their expected earnings. a Food TTTIBIRUBIK. «aens 23] 10181 income for the two eper. i | FAITE es 8 Soclet rtp ettas was $26,288.12," Mr. Ross ! res ety +... «+1% sald, more than covering the total Gardening ««+18.8ports....80, 21 «ged expense” of $20,326.33, [Hollywood .,.19 Teen Prob....17!pixed expense included salaries In Indpls..... 3 Weather - Map 3 lot impottéd talent, material costs Inside Indpls..15 Joe Williaa. 20\and obligations to guarantors, Mrs. Manners 11/Earl Wilson..14| Mr. Ross explained. ~~ | were able to

; Women's ....18/ “Even though we