Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1949 — Page 24

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- Why All The Delay?

YZ NOTE With some wasptiae Vist NLS lis wguin ++ for the third time . «jostponed 2 hearing on the In. dianapolis laundry-union scandal. _-_ Bcheduled originally for June, it is now apparently going to be heard in September... . . unless they put it off

; Under the circumstances in this case, this seems to us an unreasonable lot of delay. The offense for which NLRB justice was asked took place last March, when certain Indianapolis laundries mde a “union contract” for their 2000 employees without consult-

three AFL unions which never even pretended to have a majority of the workers as members, or proved they had any members employed there. The “contract” ordered all workers to join the AFL unions and stay in or be fired Some of the workers at some of the laundries struck, but agreed to go back to work when NLRB agreed to give the case a hearing . . . presumably a prompt hearing. We don’t owgider this a prompt hearing.

EMPLOYEES at work in those laundries got not a penny of pay increase, many have lost their jobs, and all are under continuing and heavy pressure to bow to the arbi- _ trary action of their employers and go along with the unions their bosses picked for them without their consent. Meanwhile, the three AFL unions collect an estimated $2000

be members . .. and NLRB stalls, and fiddles and postpones action. This is a complaint that in simple justice deserved immsiate hearing. Each day it is delayed plays right into the hands of the cynical groups which engineered .the deal in the first place, makes. it more and more doubtful that the workers - who were its victims will get adequate relief. NLRB should have acted months ago on-this matter.

they haven't.

- The Airport Rent ITY Council's demand for more rent from Civil Aeronautics Authority for the laboratory it uses at Weir Cook Mdaielpal Airport might furs out to be 4 soatly ane CAA has 200 here now, an annual payroll of more than $000,000. It has invested upwards of $1 million in the airport in runways, lighting and other improve.’ ments, The city has invested around $250,000 in the fa- ~_. cilities CAA uses. Indianapolis gets ‘only $085 a year rent from CAA, under a ten-year lease with several years yet to run. CAA nando 110 thay Bak, Ther ao the J ee On ak 350,000 br

. payroll CAA already has there, make it possible to renegotiate the lease on a fair basis that would pay oft such an investment, Seems to us it is worth considering. CAA is a definite

—maget to the city in-more ways than one. It could withdraw. .

Other cities would welcome it. - 1f it took along only its.own "property it might cost Indianapolis as much to replace that part of it which the airport must have as it would cost to build additional space for CAA to use. With no return at all in sight. "A million-dollar-plus ‘payrol isn't picked up every day. "We hope our ¢ity government won't chase this one out-of town over a little matter of rent. ————————————————————

Censorship by Ukase WE DON'T have a police state—yet. = ..arats who write their own laws when the laws passed by Congress fail to satisfy their thirst: for power. That is moving toward dictatorship through a back door. ~ The Justice Department has held that radio giveaway programs do not violate the federal lottery law. But, because they want to kill such programs, three members of the Federal Communications Commission— Paul A; Walker, Edward M. Wester and George Sterling——have

such programs won't have their licenses renewed. That's censorship by ukase—three men telling millions of Americans what they may hear on their radios. -‘Fhree other FCC members didn't vote either way on the new rule. One member, Frieda Hennock; commendably voted against it because she does not “believe it is proper for an administrative agency to broaden the interpretation of a criminal statute any further than has been done by the courts.” Incidentally, you. voters didn't elect Commissioners Walker, Webster and Sterling. They were appointed by the President.

W Tito, Why Not Franco?

OW THAT we are doing business with Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, what about Spain's Gen. Franco? He is against Stalin, too. In fact; he can n claim a first in that respect. Tito got his job because he was one of Stalin's hatchet | men. Franco was helped to power by Hitler and Mussolini. | Which makes them about even as to obnoxious spon- | sors. In other respects, the record is all in favor of the ‘Spanish dictator. Until recently Tito was a party to the undeclared”War Greece. Franco has not breached international peace at any time. :

antiMoscow. Prance if and has always been a8 WnoompIo: mising foe of communism. ‘Will the State Department prepare another 1054-page white paper explaining why we should do business with ane thon Gators 1 0k with ttc?

ing the employees, and virtually turned their shops over to

a week in “dues” from men and women who never chose to.

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«| DEAR BOSS... By, Dan Kidey 3 Ignore Woollen

On Housing Bill

Banker Tells 4 ng - To Direct Loans for Gls

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—Dear Boss—as president of the American Bankers Association, Evans Woollen Jr, Indianapolis, spent several

board chairman of the Fletcher Trust Co., where he. succesded .bis late father, Evans Woollen Sr., one-time treasurer of the Demecratic Na-

gional Committee This is the third time the ABA hmmitiss has AL WIEH he BY and pitist S0p-ight Tesaaury omen. Others present included

Feming. ges Nudens Nations] of Chicago;

W. Randolph Burgess, National City of New York; Francis M. Knight, Continental Illinois National, Chicago; and Tom K. Smith, Boatmana National of St. Louis.

Meetings All Off Record

MR. SNYDER told them if his recent tour of Europe. But what, if anything, was discussed regarding such fiscal matters as peacetime deffeit financing wasn't disclosed. Mr, Woollen said these meetings are all off the record. Last month Mr, Woollen appeared before the housing subcommittee of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to oppose certain phases of the proposed 1949 amendments to the Federal Housing Act. That was a public hearing with Sen. John Sparkman (D. Ald.) Fsnding. Now the bill has been reported to the Bhat and it shows that Mr. Woollen's ABA president, were not followed, For the direct loans provisions for ex-GI's and co-operatives, which Mr. Wollen opposed on the principle that the government should not enter the direct lending field, remein in the Sparkman bill as reported to the Senate with a recommendation for

passage. Mr. Woollen summed up his prepared statement by listing four reasons why ABA opposed such provisions, They were “ONE: It seeks to favor special groups of

“TWO: It would necessitate the establishment of a huge bureaucracy to administer its provisions.

fiationary pressure on the economy of this country “FOUR: It carries a threat of socialization of credit and the ultimate destruction of the private enterprise system.”

‘FHA Admirably Administered’

- ACCORDING TO the printed testimony, released this week by the committee, Sen. Sparkman asked Mr. Woollen if he was in favor of the

writes loans made through the hanks. “The ABA never took a position favorable or contrary to FHA,” Mr. Woollen answered. “That being the background, I should not express myself on it beyond saying that, assuming the “legislation is desirable, it 1s°the general opinion that it has been admirably administered.” Under further questioning by Sen. Spark.’ man, Mr. Woollen said that the bankers do not feel that the present building program is “being retarded by a shortage of credit.” When Sen. Sparkman sought to give FHA eredit for this situation, Mr. Woollen remarked: “It would bes. impossible to say whether or not that home financing might not have been adequately supplied without government aid A it the period.”

Doesn't Doubt ‘Pressure’ ABKED IF he thought the people of this sountry would. be ‘willing to see FHA discontinued today, Mr. Woollen frankly replied, “I do not.” Sen. Spar kman then said there is “consider__able Pp to extend Title VI of FHA, which “he “the

‘termed more liberal: “I wouldn't doubt ft*at all, Senator. 1 think there are many governmental measures on the ~ books which the people would not be Willing to” see abandoned, yet which in the long run may not have proved to be to thie best advantage,” Mr. Woollen replied. “Isn't that one of the problems of government, that the people } become used to overs. mental activities when Spey ny sn ~S8iather.. necessary?’

VAUGHAN ... By Charles Lucey

WASHINGTON, i 20—Now, about this “than Harry Vaughan a8 he really been pulls ing-a big oar at the White House, tossing off whopping decisions on important policy matters, or is he mainly a meddlesome busybody? From as close to the feedbox as you can get, it looks like this: The President's military side cuts little or no fce when it comes to the mass of important business that flows alross the White House desks. It ‘the President has a ‘big speech or important ‘message to Congress coming up, or if some major policy question is to be threshed out In conference, he doesn't lean on Gen. Vaughan. The general doesn't even get asked to these conferences.

hen the people around thé President tell wRui¥'s on tap for. the day. But most of this is ol’thé routine side. The blue-chip meetings at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. come late in the day and the general doesn’t get a bid.

Has Second Title

THE TRUTH fs there’ 8 not much to this job of being military aide. The general does liaison work on some matters between the White House

tary promotion questions, and the like. But it's by no means certain the President would take the Vaughan say-so on important ones. The general also carries a title of co-ordinator of veterans affairs—"“whatever that means,” as | one official commented. Now and then, when something In lis line comes up, he may speak his piece at the morning conference,

the general is simply a gent with time on his “hands, and so he pushes into affairs that really | aren't any concern of his, Nobody tells him to - do it—the general is just a natural-born barger. in. It's a great ego builder to get behind a telephone trumpeting of “Gen. Vaughan calling from the White House.” Maybe sorfieone occasionally tells the general

that a certain government agency is dragging .4ts.feet bn it. Other White House people may

Tito remains an avowed Communist, even though now |

be up to their ears in work and can’t be both. | ered, but Gen. Vaughan often seems to have the time.

| Doubt. He'll Be Fired Ee

TO THE immense embarrassment of himself afid- his chief patron, as the Senate inquiry .shows, that sometimes has made for business in the hot water department. The guess of the President's friends now is that Mr. Truman will not toss out Gen. Vaughan ~<gertainly net while he is under such raking fire as has been pouring from Capitol Hill for days. The reasoning simply is that Truman loyalty is deep, that he never quits on & friend. There is sentiment among some top administration people that Gen. Vaughan should bow out voluntarily at once, but nobody is saying | so Hebnely, Among Democratic congressional friends of the President there is a fear of a political backwash that might blow them right out ioe office in 1850,

board chairmen as Robert. v..

“THREE: It will cause ‘a resumption of in-

Federal Housing Administration which under+

Too Much Time

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True, he's in on the staff conference that 4. comes up at 9 a. m. daily

and the military, and he gets his fist into. mili. |

Much of the day, say those who should know, .

that he's interested in this or that project and -

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OUR TOWN . .. C or’s Prairi onners rrairie CHARLES N, THOMPSON, the eminent attorney who died last Tuesday at the age of 88, spent a good part of his life probing the behavior of his wife's ancestors (both lineally and collaterally )—a task less courageous husbands would willingly forego for fear of ghastly revelations, Apparently Mr, Thompson had no such misgivings. He published his findings in «full with the result that his “Sons of the Wilderness— | John “And William Conner”

remains the most authoritative and, certainly, the most thrilling account of the foundation of Indianapolis.

On Jan, 11, 1820, the Legislature (operating *in.Corydon at the time) appointed 10 commis. sioners to select a site for the permanent capital of Indiana. The same law required them to meet the third week in at “the house of William Conner on the west fork of White River” at a place known as “Conner’s Prairie,” a trading post established in 1802.

The site of Conner’s Prairie (representing the root of all Indianapolis history) today identifies the Ell Lilly farm on the Noblesville Road (13) about 16 miles north of the Circle. Fourteen years ago when Mr, Lilly acquired it, the soil looked as good as any in the Middle West. What didn’t look so good was the set of shabby buildings that went with it. Because of the anomaly 17 “w=the fertile fields on the one hand and the complement of dilapidated structures on the other the critics had the time of their lives appraising “Mr, Tilly's pereploacity. didn’t “know whether to applaud or to feel sorry for him «pasuming,-of course, that there is such a .... in this world as a critic human enough to. ex-

perience sorrow. :

Buildings Are Restored - :

THE PAYOFF came ‘when it was learned

“farm but a period ‘piece in the shape of a brick house built by William Conner, a secret shared at the time only by those who had the foresight to belong to the Indiana Historical Society. Since acquiring his fabulous property, Mr. Lilly has spent all his spare time (and, incidentally, some money) restoring the buildings to

of equipping them with the tools and furniture

ample, is prepared to deliver homespun and the milk house goes its own sweet way udderly ynmindful of how the world is behaving today. And except for one little detail, the whisky house would be a going concern, too. The fact that the distilling vessel lacks a bottom 18 mccounted Yor by the reality that certain people in Washington don't share Mr, Lilly's enthusiasm for Early Americana. In case I have misled you, let me hasten to explain that the magnificent brick structure on the Lilly farm today is net the house referred to im the legislative "act of 1820. It was built some five years later. The house in which the commission met was a typical pioneer's cabin. It, too, has been restored. Inside and out it looks like the-real thing: as authentic, indeed, as any- » thing ih Williamsburg, Over the back of a-chalr, for instance, hangs an Indian woman's garment, a realistic reminder that Willlam Conner was the husband of Mekinges, a daughter of Chief Anderson; moreover, that he was the father of | her six papooses. The dates of their birthdays are unknown. It is an established fact, however, that all six kids (four boys and two girls) were present the day the confmission met to select a site for the permanent capital of Indiana.

Loses Wife . . . By Contract TWO OR THREE months later-—after the

the site upon which to set Indianapolis (to the dismay of those living in the neighborhood of what is now Waverly)—Willlam Conner was without a wife and children. He knew that, sooner or later, it was going to happen. So did

their pristine state of glory—even to the point —

belonging to the period. The loom house, for ex-

commission had picked the Fall Creek basin as"

By Anton Scherrer

Fertile Land

Eli Lilly with portrait of William Conner" 3

Mekinges. It was a. matter of contract. The }

Delaware Indians who occupied this part of the country, previous to the “New Purchase” had

_.agreed to leave Indiana not later than 1821. And | because of a tribal law that the Indian wife |

must stay with her people, Mekinges had no al-

ternative but te leave her husband. The Indians

saw to it, too, that the children belonged to the mother.

Three months after their departure, William Conner married again—this time to Elizabeth Chapman, a

Junior. The wedding; the first such celebration in the “New Purchase,” was followed by a feast. In a piece of society news which can't be matched anywhere in modern journalism for its realism, Mr. Thompson reported: “Fowls were furnished by Jean Baptiste who lived near the trading post; fine fish from White River; roasted quail .and on venison steaks, The sweets of the feast were wild plums and crab

.apples preserved in maple sugar, but the piece de

resistance was bread made from wheat secured from ‘over yonder’ in the Whitewater.” (Up until then corn was the usual fare.)

On Jan. 4, 1823 (more than two years aftér their marriage) William Conner's first child by Elizabeth Chapman was born. She received the name of Lavina. Her coming put new ideas into the 50-year-old father’s head; for one thing, the building of a bigger house, It turned out to be the first brick bouse built in the ‘New Purchase,” a connotation handed down to designate the land relinquished by the Délaware Indians, the tribe that governed the central part of what is now known as Indiana. This was the 112-year-

old house that Eli Lilly acquired when he pur- |

chased the Hamilton County farm -in 1935. William and Elizabeth Conner enjoyed the big brick house until 1837 when they moved to a neighborhood now known as Noblesville. In course of those 14 years, seven children were born. They were blessed with three more in Noblesville, Counting the six by Mekinges, ..is

‘ Indian wife, Willlam Connor was the father of

16 children. The Bible speaks of a period when giants were in the earth apparently unmindful of what the future had in store. And, certainly, unaware of the fertility of “Conner's Prairie Farm” (the official designation of El Lilly's extracurricular activity).

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. former aviation and Department

“comely and competent white « woman” (of New York) who was 30 years his

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hostilities in Western Europe, we would see half nf France go underground in support of Russia, and certainly past experience would expect little from Italy. It is a dead certainty our arms would soon fall into the hands of Ruse sia to be used against our troops in whatever logical field of operations they .should become

Such a disaster might possibly be averted through the wholehearted inclusion of Spain in the plan of defense. Spain would not only prove invaluable by reason of the troops she would supply, but would afford the only tens able territory for withdrawal and firial defense, Objection of European powers to-the inclu tion of Spain is spearheaded by Communists nnd their fellow travelers and should be dis1egarded or the whole

scrapped. ‘ The approval of Gen, Marshall of the plan

does not impress one. We recall that he is identified with all the costly blunders, beginning with the sanction of the second front through France and the consequent delivery of Eastern Europe to Russia. So why should his appeal be given Sredente at this time?

‘We Had Better Slow Dow’ By a Times Reader 80 mes Jeader has a speed limit. I didn't know that until after the bus wreck. The worst is over for the .victims, but how about the rest of us? I wonder why people pay to see a race on a particular day when they could park along - the highway and see races all day any day. Where are they going so fast? Life is precious. Man can take a life, but cannot give it back. We had better slow down.

NOTEBOOK ... By Peter Edson

Out of Character |

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—When Sén. Robert out of character te present the world's eavyweight title belt to. Ezzard Charles, the story got around Washing ton that “Old Mr. Republican” had a new press agent who was trying to “humanize him" for the 1950 campaign. -to it. Check-up showed that the

new. champ, who hails from. Cincinnati, had -

requested that the presentation be made by Senator Taft in Washington. But arrangements for the ceremony were made by Bud Lytton, of Commerce Pitblic relations man, who has t been signed on as a clerk in Mr, Taft's basement annex in the Senate Office Building. Mr. Lytton’s presence, helping :the Jphotographers arrange things, is. what started the “humanizing” story, Actually, Mr. Taft hasn't had a full-time presé agent since Bill McAdams ~ left, after the GOP convention in Philly, - Bud Lytton's job ix to get up campaign phamphlets, mail out reprints of speeches and help with the senator's “column,” which he mails free to Ohio edttors.

Sawyer on the Move SECRETARY OF CO RCE Charles Sawyer will make a swing through the West after Labor Day to study business. conditions and get reports from industrialists and publie officials on how unemployment might be res duced, His itinerary is being arranged to hit the big centers like Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Portland and Seattle. Secretary Sawyer has already visited Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Cincinnati, Memphis; Birmingham and Savannah. At: the conclusion of his trans-continental survey ° tour, he'll make a report to the President.

Flying Candidate CURRY ETHEL COFFEY, Democratie candidate for Congress from Pennsylvania's 26th District, In a special election Sept. 13, is doing consjderable campaigning in a small plane piloted by her youngest son. Mrs. Coffey is a

candidate for the office held by her eldest son, :

Robert L. Coffey Jr. who was killed in an aie crash ‘last March. Some time previously, Mrs,

Coffey had lost a second son in another ar crash.

‘Monke -Business at Muroc

D SERVICES research groups worke " on new supersonic planes at Muroc Lake, Cal, have had to stop air-to-ground radio com= munication during experimental flights. The order was issued following discovery that these radio conversations were being monitored by outsiders in an effort to obtain advance data on research. Previously, plane performance characte: ol under various conditions were reported mediately by the pilots to technical observers on the ground. Now such data are recorded in the air, then transcribed after the plane lands, Under this new procedure, much valuable data may be lost if the research plane crashes. But the need to keep alr silence was considered more important.

ressives Won't Talk: ABHINGTON rumors that Henry Wallace might become a Progressive Party candidate for

the seat of Sen. Robert ¥. Wagner of New York » are denied at PP headquarters inf New York. .

Spanish censorship prohibited.distribution of the

- news that the U. 8. Congress had turned down

the move to grant Franco's government a $50,000,000 credit. .. . Belgian Communist women's organization has started a campaign to stop the sale of Belgian Congo uranium ore to the United States, . . . President Peron's Argentifie government is stil} mad at SU. 8 As sistant ant of State Spruille Braden, having recently published four attacks against him in four days in the government-controlled press.

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