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Fined, Jailed In Revolt Plot
All Assessed $10,000; 10 Get 5 Years, | Another One 3 Years
By H. D. QUIGG United Press Staff C
srrespondent NEW YORK, Oct. 21—The 11 top leaders of the American Communist Party were sentenced to prison today for conspiring to teach and advo.cate the overthrow of the United States government by force and violence. Federal Judge Harold R. Medina sentenced . all of the de-
fendants except Robert G. Thompson, New York State Communist Party chairman, to fiveyear prison terms and fines of $10,000. : Thompson got three years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Other Sentences Listed Identical sentences were handed down against Eugene Dennis, the party's General Secretary; John Gates, editor-in-chief of the Dally Worker, party newspaper; New York City Councilman Bepjamin J. Davis Jr.; Jack Satcher, National Educational Director; Henry Winston, National Organizational Secretary; John Williamson, Labor Secretary; Gilbert Green, Illinois Chairman;
Gus Hall, Ohio Chairman, and Irving Potash, Vice President of the International Fur and Leather Workers and a member of the party’s national board. The conviction and sentencing riddled the Communists’ high command. Of the 13-member national board, only two members remained free, They were William Z. Foster, national chairman, who was too ill to stand trial on the same charge, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who was named to the board after the other 12 were indicted by a New York Grand Jury. Lenient with Thompson Judge Medina told U., B. Attorney John F. X. McGohey that he was giving “the most careful attention to the fact that Thompson received the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroic action in leading a patrol of the 32d Infantry Division during the Buna campaign in New Guinea. Judge Medina pronounced sentence on each of the 11 individually, beginning at 11:57 p. m. (Indianapolis Time), just two hours after the court session began. The judge directed the 11 to stand at their chairs at the left of the bench and called each of them by name as he pronounced sentence, Reds Closely Guarded Behind each defendant was a U. 8. Marshal. / Marshals ringed the marble-| paneled courtroom, which was packed with spectators and reporters. In giving 10 of the defendants five years, Judge Medina adhered to the maximum sentence under the Smith Law as now constituted. He made it clear, however, that “if it wasn’t for the change in the statute, I would be thinking in terms of more than five years.” The Smith Act, under which the Communists were indicted, provided a maximum penalty of] 10 years at the time the indict-| ment was returned, but one| month later, in August, 1948, a re-codification by Congress changed the maximum conspiracy penalty to five years.
U. S. Fights Transfer Of Dupont Trust Suit
CHICAGO, Oct. 21 (UP)—The!
government today fought a move section just outside the north city!
- . Mild
Weather
M ¥ ky bei i ne. i : in State
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 86 10am... 6 T4 mm... 11a. m... 65 8a. m... 68 12 (Noon) 65 9am... 65 1pm... 68
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The ‘steady drone of falling rain over the state today promised muddy fields for tomorrow's Hoosier Football Parade.
Meanwhile a “walk-out” of mild Indiana weather has been averted, Weatherman Paul A. Miller said. > On the strength of earlier predictions, Hoosier householders had planned to bank night-time fires tomorrow and prepare to battle wintry blasts striking out of the frozen Northern Plain States, But temperatures will take only a mild dip late tomorrow, weather experts said today. Through Wednesday, the mercury should range from 42-65 north and from 45-72 in the southern portion of the state, 3-6 degrees above normal. $ “Rainfall in the five-day period is expected to be heavy. "Showers through tonight and off and on Monday through Wednesday should range up to 13 inches, forecasters said.
| Showery weather through to-'Former Prizefighter {morrow noon was predicted for!
the Indianapolis area. The mercury was expected to dip toa mild 60 tonight and rise to a high of 68-70 tomorrow afternoon.
TORNADO KILLS TEACHER
ABILENE, Tex., Oct. 21 (UP) --A tornado struck a residential
Would You Care to Have A Part Bird-Dog Puppy?
West st Newton Couple Seeks Homes for Nine Youngsters, Mother They Nuried to Health
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Five Runaways Still at Large
Five runaway boys from the Indiana Boys School at Plainfield were still at large today,
Two others who escaped Wednesday night were back at| the institution. One was arrested | by Indianapolis police and an-| other was returned’ by his own parents, Supt. Wendell W. Fewell said. { “We have to expect some run-| aways out here” Supt. Fewell| said. “We are not operating a! prison and we don't have bars] and fences. We are a correctional institution and we try to put the| boys on their honor, Sometimes! it doesn't work. | “We have frequent runaways but the boys are usually returned! by their families within a few! days. We expect to get all five of| these boys back within a short time.”
[Found Beaten to Death
{ PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21 (UP)—A 59-year-old former Brooklyn, N. Y,, prizefighter was! found beaten to death last night in a shabby North Philadelphia! {apartment where he was recover-| {ing from a leg fracture.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949
Watts Sent B To Shelbyyvill
Judge Finds Error
This Nightmare Is Real (An Editorial}
HIS strike crisis is like a nightmare. One of the most common nightmares is to dream you are being attacked, and find you neither can call for help nor run away. Thus, speechless and motionless, you face the worst—and the shock usually awakens you. What a relief, then, to find it was just
U.S. Employee,
Czechs Jail
Oust Diplomat
Latter Given One Day To Leave; Accused Of Espionage PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 21 (UP)—The Czechoslovakia government today arrested an American employee of the U. S. Embassy and gave an American diplomat 24 hours to leave the country. They were charged with directing
espionage. Bamuel Meryn, a clerk at the embassy, was picked up by Czech police at 2 p. m. Isaac Patch, an embassy attache, was given one day to get out of Czechoslovakia. The official Czech news agency said a note demanding Mr. Patch's expulsion was delivered to the U. 8. Embassy this afternoon by a representative of the Foreign Ministry. It said Mr. Meryn was arrested soon after the note was delivered to James Penfield, U. 8. charge d'affaires. Ring Operations Charged The Americans were accused of directing an elaborate espionage ring inside Czechoslovakia. Tt
“I want to know what you would do in a case like this.” « So wrote Mr. and Mrs. Claud McKinley, West Newton, Ind. Four weeks ago they “inherited” a 3-year-old part bird dog and her nine pups, seven males and two females. i Mrs. McKinley discovered the mother and her offspring under
the front porch om Sept. 25. The mother dog, whom they call “Spot,” was almost starved. The signs of stick-beatings were evident on the dog's bony
Y. The McKinleys have since fed the dog back to health, using three cans of dog food daily. The pups have been on a steady diet of milk. = - s “BUT I CAN'T go on feeding and keeping them,” Mrs. McKinley -told the editor. + “What am I to do?” she asked. “If I took them out and dropped them, I would be arrested. So please try to help . place them.” : Anybody want a playful part bird-dog puppy?
Ancient Scrolls To Be Displayed
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UP)— The Library of Con s will place on public exhibition Sunday three Hebrew scrolls said to be more than 2000 years old. One of the scrolls is the oldest known Bible manuscript. 24-foot roll of sheepskin presents an almost complete text of the Book of Isaiah in the ancient Hebrew form probably studied by Christ in the temple at Nazareth. It will be the first time the manuscripts have been exposed to
by E. L du Pont de Nemours & limits of Abilene shortly after|leg still was in a cast when he Public view since their discovery
Co. to have an anti-trust sult midnight today, killing one/was found dead in the blood-| Wo : i {spattered apartment by police Shepherd boys near Jericho in,
moved to Wilmington, Del., for, prosecution.
woman and injuring three other members of her family.
Not Expensive to Furnish Home, Noted Designer Says
Mrs. Liebes Speaks On Town Hall
- By JEAN TABBERT
Money isn’t everything when it comes to furnishing a home.
That's the opinion of Mrs. Dorothy Wright Liebes, internationally known textile designer, who spoke here this morning at Town Hall. “The homemaker just doesn’t have an alibi pricewise these days for she can find good-looking fabric in every cost bracket,” Mrs. Liebes said. She stepped off a New York train lugging boxes of samples she brought along to bring home her point to her Murat Theater audience. “Fabric is the greatest single weapon In the decoration of a home,” Mrs. Liebe believes. “Color places a close second. “Good color doesn’t cost any more than bad color.” Interest in Pastels 8he predicts a new interest in pastels because modern textures are so easily cleaned.
Biggest trends in the textile industry are sheer:
metallic venetian blinds, curtains and standing screens. . “The window is the focal part
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who answered a telephone call; from his wife, Amy, 40. i A preliminary investigation indicated that McFadden, who once] fought under the name of “Irish!
Kid Murphy,” died after being] struck on the head with quart-| size beer bottles during a drunken brawl in the apartment, police said. He had been dead 10 to 12 hours when his body was | found, according to the investigators.
Save 3 U. S. Women In Guatemala Flood
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UP) —An American Red Cross rescue team has evacuated three U. 8. women who were trapped in the flooded Lake Atitlan area of Guatemala,
The women were identified as
Mrs. Mildred Butell, Milwaukee, Wis, and Mrs. Emma de Faria and a Alice Fenell, both of
years ago by Bedouin
Palestine.
18,000 Barrels Of Whisky Burn
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. Oct. 21 (UP) — A $1 million fire last night destroyed a warehouse containing 18,000 barrels of whisky at the Kentucky River distillery at Camp Nelson. F. D. Mitchell, vice president, made the damage estimate and
The there were no sharp develop-
was alleged to be equipped with powerful radio tr. tters. At least three ler embassy {employees or former employees pwere mentiond as having played a part in organizing the ring.
Spreads in State
Hopes Decline for Good 4th Quarter
By HAROLD H. HARTLEY Times Business Editor Over the state today industry was beginning to see the grim shadow of a complete shutdown. The auto industries which feed on hundreds of supply plants in Indiana had given the signal. In three weeks or less the pipelines of distribution would be emptied of raw materials. Businessmen who were figuring on a good fourth quarter were revising estimates sharply downward. There was no hope of even
Shutdown Shadow
the early steps of White House intervention before next week. Steel mills, closed down tight, will require from two to three weeks .to--get rolling after the strike is ended. This means pipe{lines will have to be filled again, land inventories restored, requir{ing several weeks longer. ‘We Were Asleep’ In Indianapolis and the state
iments. It was a drowsy picture. One business leader, suddenly aware of. the seriousness of the situation, remarked, “We slept through the whole first act of; the business tragedy.” | Unemployment had not begun! to register. Col. Everett Gardner)
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FIND 6 AIR RAID BODIES TOKYO, Oct. 21 (UP)—A longabandoned air raid shelter in a residential area of Tokyo today yielded six bodies. Authorities! said they apparently were vic-| tims of an air raid during the last] days of the Pacific war.
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surance. top floor of the seven-story
ered about 9 p. m. It was brought under control about midnight.
On Hunting Trip,’
® Ed Sovola, The Times” “Inside Indianapolis” Columnist, will be in * South Dakota next week on a “big” hunting expedition . . . for pheasants.
® What Mr. Sovola does, he does differently than anyone else . . . so you'll want to get the Sovola slant on pheasant hunting in “Inside Indianapolis” all next week.
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said the loss was covered by in-|§ The fire, which started on the] sheet metal building, was discov-|!
Sovola Goes West
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today . . . in the Times comic, “Freckles and his Friends,” and in Indianapolis teen circles. $ So. youll be hep... read ut local Twirp Season on Page 40. .. . also see what's doing with “Freckles and his
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a dream.
In the same general way, this country has been
attacked—and has acted as less.
to speak and move, and to the damages.
=” ~ r » . . WE NEED TO awaken fast, and face several facts,
among which are these: ONE: This strike eri
catastrophe. It can wreck our domestic economy and bring on a depression. It can ruin our foreign policy
and disrupt the whole free
TWO: This situation is caused by the thing we always have feared—monopoly. This time it is union monopoly. By actual test it proves to be as dangerous and evil as business monopoly ever was. THREE: Through their power of monopoly, John L. Lewis and Philip Murray have called strikes which
now are out of their hands.
dependent on government to finish what they began. FOUR: President Truman doesn't like the labor law, and therefore has refused to use it. Two different Congresses approved that law—one by enacting it and the other by refusing to repeal it. But Mr. Truman thus far has refused to invoke it in the current coal
and steel strikes.
quickly. Col ting and going home ih the
has been claimed that the President has “implied powers” to meet such issues, or that he can seize plants under the selective service law. Pretty soon he is going to have to show his hand, and either try to use these doubtful powers or enforce a labor law about which
there isn’t any doubt.
SIX: The union leaders are pushing for seizing of coal and steel as a means of getting themselves off the hook. Out of such action.there easily could come some form of nationalization—without either legislation or In the end, this would destroy both free business and free unions.
” # " “ # » THIS SOON can become the greatest domestic
a vote of the people.
crisis 'since the Civil War.
We could go the way of England almost without knowing what had happened to us.
to the nightmare—without or resist.
If Mr. Truman trifles with the dangerous proposition of seizing business under the vague instruments of implied powers or 'of a peacetime draft, we will be + starting something of which nobody can see the end. But, somewhere along the line, both the businesses to which he applies such powers and the unions for
which he applies them will
will have become dependent on government—or, to be
more exact, on politics.
The whole future of America can be changed—and not for the better—if something like that happens. This could become a nightmare from which there is no awakening—a permanent disaster.
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U. S. Intervention See As Coal Talks Break Off
‘Northern, Western Operators End Parleys With Lewis; Ching Ponders Next Step
By LAURENCE GONDER, United Press Staff Correspondent
But this is not just a nightmare, it's the real McCoy. We can’t escape just by waking up. But, at least, if we did wake up we might find ourselves able
FIVE: But Mr. Truman will have to do something put the whole job up to him by quit-
if it were utterly defense-
do something to mitigate
sis can become a major
world.
They and their unions are
midst of a great crisis. It
Or—getting back being able either to speak
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Rules Prisoner Had Rightto Choose County
Release to Local Officials a Mistake,
Marshall Declares Robert Austin Watts was
en route back to Shelbyville today.
Special Judge William F.
Marshall interrupted a Mar. ion County grand jury hear-
authorities complied with Judge
Marshall's order but insisted Watts received all of his legal Editorial, Page 12. rights when he was remanded back to Marion County officials for prosecution. Judge Marshall said he believed he erred in remanding Watts back to the custody of Marion County authorities without giving him a chance to say where he wanted future legal action. Under the law, the in cases of venue .
judge said, the
undecided as to ¥ autnitiss tl were would be taken after the Shelbyville appearance. Se It was un r fect J
The
ceived. In marked contrast to the original speedy indictment charge ing Watts with the attacke murder of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney, the new jury moved with deliberate slowness. The jurors today insisted upon hearing every iota of testimony from a great many witnesses. First witness called was Maj. Robert O'Neal, state police execu~ tive officer who was in charge of the murder investigation, Herschel Burney, husband of the slain woman who discovered her bog Y, an called nest, He as in the Gr more than 30 en fom Other witnesses called and questioned were Raul Ross, a neighbor of the Burneys; Mrs. Ralph Pike, Lt. Fae Davis, state police homicide detective:
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Business Magazine
Editors Organize . WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UP)— Paul Wooten of Clinton Publications has been elected of the new Society of Business Magazine Editors. Other officers chosen terday included John McPherson of the American Druggist, first. vice president; Irvin Such of Steel,
Warren of Restaurant secretary and treasurer.
Mexico Ban Omits
ips Friendly Canasta Games MEXICO CITY, ‘Oct. 21 ¢UP)— Mexican canasta fans ca | come out of hiding now. ¥ The government drive agi gambling never included “frie
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—Government intervention in the soft jy» canasta games, officials
coal strike became virtually certain today. What form it will take remained to be decided. But it was | learned that Federal Mediation Director Cyrus 8. Ching had planned {to call Northern and Western coal operators and the United Mine {Workers to a meeting here Monday. The operators abruptly broke » s
off negotiations with John L. Lewis’ union today at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Mr. Ching’s plan was abandoned early today in faver of “some other ideas,” a mediation service official said. Howard 'T. Colvin, associate director of the Mediation Service, said he did not know what Mr. Ching had in mind. Up to Ching “Ching is personally handling the coal dispute and any announcements will have to come from him,” Mr. Colvin said. It was learned, however, that Mr. Ching’s staff had prepared telegrams inviting the operators and Mr. Lewis to the Washington meeting. That plan was suddenly canceled. Mr. Ching is in New York meeting with U, 8. Steel Corp. representative in an effort to get settle the 21-
Truman May Use Taft-Hartley Law
By DAN KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—President Truman may have to resort to the Taft-Hartley law he dislikes to put an end to the steel strike. : Although he did not say in so many words, the President intimated he fntends to crack down when a crisis situation prevails. This view was obtained by Rep.
met district he represents.
Ray Madden, . Gary Democrat, who went to the White House to! * tell the President apout the Calu-
8 Madden told the President that the crisis is here
| today. § Canasta parties were bann
was too much gambling, which against the law in this t ,
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terpreted to include “friendly games in private homes
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