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FORECAST: Fair, cool tonight. Increasingly cloudy, warmer tomorrow. Rain, rather cool Saturday. Low tonight, 28; high tomorrow, 50.

61st YEAR—NUMBER 25 . THURSDAY, APRIL

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~ Shot 4 Times I Kansas City Democrat Club

‘Binaggio Dies Under —Picture—of Truman; — Pal Also Slain KANSAS CITY, Mo., Apr. 6 (UP)—Charles Binaggio— 43-year-old north end Democratic political boss who unseated the remnants of the . old Pendérgast machine in. this city's river wards in a dramatic power bid four years ago—

Nordsiek, Linder Seek Pattern for Other Institutions

cash-saving purchasing meth-

assistant county attorney y.

if Sunnyside's svitem could Bb

adapted to buying

Marion County Jail, the Center, the Julietta the Children's Guardian Home. Sunnyside officials

way in which they buy day by day on the open market Comparison Made

ods were being studied today ‘by President Fred Nordsiek of the Board of County CommiSsioners and John Linder,

wr ore seeks © = [RP He's That Kind of a Guy, Tully Finds

supplies for four other county institutions, the Juvenile Home and

gave the

county officials an outline of the supplies

A comparison made by The In-

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6, 1950

SH more Accuses

McCarthy of Being

=. Chinese Lobby Tool

Meet Your Secretary of State—

Trust ‘Acheson With Your Last Sawbuck

Calls Charge Of Russ Link A ‘Base Lie

Defend Views WASHINGTON, Apr. 6

Takes Attacks on Him in His Stride But Impressions Abroad Disturb Him

Tully has covered some of the biggest fires, murder” What he likes most is to write about

Andrew trials and wars of his time. people. “1 don’t know Anything about diplomatic correspondence,” Mady said “the other day. “1 don’t know whether our foreign policy is right or wrong, and. a don’t intend to try to find out. But

: ’ T would like to learn and write about what kind of a fellow Dean ] ) b was: shot to .death early today dianapolis Times this Week! 4. meson is. How about me trying for an interview” ! (UP) — Owen Lattimore in his clubrooms on Truman Showed Meu Sunnyside saves So’ we said why not. The“ exclusive interview was granted. swore under oath today that: iy : ER : ousands of ‘dollars. a. year in, = J ; a : Road. : ; comparison with the purchases of ere it 1s. : — ‘he is not and never has been Killed: with > Binaggio was his other county institutions: made EE Em reg a Russian spy or a Commus Hpht hand Pa acscr fF - under three-month contracts. By" ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer "ni t d th t Sen. J h R gotta, a hoodlum described : re- . v raj WAS . y a " ‘ sha BEG ra nist, an a n. Josep . cently by a special U. Assistant Mr. Linder investigated legal WASHINGTON, Apr. 6 -Dean Gooderham Acheson sat there |

aspects of Attorney General as one of “the {asp top mobsters in Kansas City.” Binaggio was shot four® times! as. he. sat shirtsleeved—-at-his-re--= ception desk.

purchasing. He

‘system without a new act of the

of the law that will be needed. The Times’ study four county institutions

Directly above him was a picture of President Truman in a gold-plated frame. It was a 2% by 4 foot likeness of the President for whom the street outside the club only lass Year was renamed. Gargotta was also shot four times as he ran for the front door.

Acme. Telephotos.

Kansas. City. Democratic Boss Charles Binaggio, het to death early today with his lieutenant, is shown with his wife.

if they had been bought on the

tby Sunnyside, contract,

instead of during the 12

was in his big office, oping to learn whether the other living room.

institutions can alter their buying

TY egislature. and if not the rT about these angry attacks Which daily ‘buzz about his head.

showed ihe could: . have saved $1694.80 on eggs alone Policy he guides.

open market at thé: prices paid complete under. © months better word, for of 1949 and the first two months gives the impression of a

which is softly lighted with lamps like somebody's {McCarthy (R. Wis.) is a “willing ; | tool” a Chinese Nationalist You had to -bélitve it when he told you he wasn't worried a bit : lobby. | point-by-point denial of Sen. Mc« ~ |Carthy’s allegations that he is {Russia's “top espionage agent.” + No bare in the United States, a Communist, and “architect” of American except by ap- policy failures inf the Far East.

Almost since he took the oath as Sec retary of State a little over A year ago, Dean Acheson has

been under. fire for the foreign < He ‘smiled that old charmer

Dean Achéson . smile as he talked about them. foot bo “After all” he said. “I'm not Soy. thin-skinned. I'm used to politics our foreign policy and 1 know. what yeu. have to. peasement. Dr, Lattimore told the Senate I used to be in the law. “And ir it's just: political, they Foreign Relations Subcommittee too, and they're no 'téa feel it's an irresponsible attitude that Sen. McCarthy is the “dupe

Yet he remains today a man of almost blithe — selfUnruffled might be a or Dean

confidence. expect, Acheson courts,

man party.

for a country with our vast re- ©f a bitter and implacable and The killer apparently raced after of 1950. who not only is unshaken by the “This is no job for a worrier. sponsibilities.” fanatical group” demanding coms= him and shot him down as he The law ‘under which county storm which surrounds him but is It's a hard job and you can’t let Reads Every Letter plete support of the Chinese Nae clawed at. the door’s venetian institutions now do their buying only remotely aware .that - it yourself worry about it. I try to His mail. Mr. Acheson said, tionalist government in Formosa. blinds: . . permits “trick bidding.” The rages be-as philosophical as the old lady was almost entirely favorable, He Sen. McCarthy, by attacking Machine Ousted Times study showed. Such bid- He sat relaxed and talked easily from Vermont. who said that the said he sees every letter that his relations with the Institute 7 ‘ ding, by reducing costs of little- vou learn how at Groton and best thing about the future was comes in—at the rate of about ©f Pacific Relations, was acting I'he Pendergast organization used items, was found to enable yale that it only comes one day at a 150 a day--"because 1 want to! a8 “the simple dupe of a group was ousted at the city hall here successful bidders to overcharge

in the cleanup election in 1940, The divided party has never been able to recoup that less, although Binaggio two years ago named his followers to Key offices in the county courthouse and ® appeared to be gaining strength until recently in his bid to take gk} over full party control here. Binaggio had knocked the rem- 3 nants of the Pendergast machine, now headed by, Jim Pendergast, nephew of the’late Boss Tom, out of the deliverable vote wards in 1946 put Pendergast maintained a “slim lead in the local committees of the party. : Binaggio néver was able to get to first base with the national administration, although he made several futile trips to Washington. President Truman and Jim Pendergast are life-long friends. Homicide Lt. Harry Nesbitt, in reconstructing the crime, expressed the opinion that the killer was “somebody who knew his vietims well.”

large amounts.

Schricker Won't Let Bower Quit

Declines Resignation Of Road Engineer

Gov. Schricker declined to accept the r resignation of Chief Highway Engineer Ray H. Bower

ina new outbreak of department bickering.

today

highway

written resignations to all members of the highway mission and the Governor. Arthur Campbell, Gov. Schricker's executive secretary confirmed the report that the resignation had been submitted but said:

four com-

There is a cheap hotel directly “No resignation has- been acabove the first floor clubrooms of cepted. As far as this office is the Binaggio club © but = police concerned there is no resignacould fi one living. the ho 1 AAOT

“Who “he abe midnight, The front door to the clubrooms was shut but unlocked, Heard Water Run

Road Failures Cited The action appeared to be the

Portraits of President Truman. and Gov. Forrest Smith of Missouri on wall of Democratic Club, scene of slayings. %

ment difficulties involving both A taxi driver, W., A. Gambrill, {administration and political "dif43, heard water running inside | ferences.

» » ) the club at 4 a. m. and Inside The Timos One major cause of tension in it to police. The water was from ; the department has een e

a flush bowl in the upstairs Page rapia breaking Jp of a Same hotel. 0 oads i Police: found $2041 in Gargdt- Giant housing plan here hits snag .............. veer 2 [partment Is investigating Sauses tas pockets. Binaggio had $24 in [oecal pastor in GOP primary race to stay despite some for road failures and is erihis pockets. They had been killed ‘ p PP I * * p {menting with different surfacing with shots from a 38-caliber pistol. objections” .......... iii, tee materials but the —engineering Homicide Lt, Harry Nesbitt said John Foster-Dulles accepts- bid as aid to" Acheson, “rquestions-sofar remain unsotved.

that. Binaggio “was-seated inet “World Report side a railing which leads to the club offices. An ejected shell was Test yourself on these words . . found outside the railing, indicating the killer was on that side of the barrier.

—aF Mr. Campbell declined to &iscuss possible action by the Governor to end the tense shuation,

Armed Bandits’

a list of tonguetwisters that will be used in The Times Spelling Bee.. - 8 Ladies of charity to be hostesses to 200 children at

Lt Nesbit said he believed Easter .egg hunt Saturday at Marian College. . . .. “i. 9 Escape Dash rT 2 SN (Also PTA news, Swing Your Partner and sororities.) [ hk: DE hd Of for his lite Treat your Easter guests to a special coffee cake. ..... 10 Gets Big us

but could not front door.

Duel With Sheriff

quite reach the (Also on Page 10 The Times pattern service, Eat Well iar wba for Less, The Market Basket; We, the Women, Blackwood

on Bridge and The Times Sewing Contest entry blank.)

| THE ARMED, “masked. bandits backed from the door and ran to

Gargotta in’ the 1930's was Greta Garbo i improves Van Johnson's s memory . .. Earl their waiting get- away car. $5 eR AE EE HE SEER OT Epo Wilson’ S “column ——— a 12 then “got at big an pu & killing on. Armour Blvd. by off down the roac Sheriff Tom Bash, who exchanged. Alcoholic wife walks out on her husband . Mrs. Man- A holdup with a humorous hots with - Gargotta until the . vi angle happened early today at the Pats i ow riot a ners’ column .............. i ae ate yd hs we 16 Henry Cook Filling Station. New gotta dropped - his “weapon, Erskine Johnson reports that screen's s Dillinger really Augusta. Carl Gass, 30, night © ; 3 ae a screaming at Sheriff Bash not! is harmless .....o............'teninsens nnn, 18 attendant, told sheriff's deputies to kill him. the three bandits robbed him of

(Also on Page 18 news and entry blank for The Times-

. WISH Talent Hunt, crossword puzzle, ‘Times amusement ios - pace and leaping from the lice department of that era took clock and what's what in the local theaters.) Car. Pp ping care of Gargotta. Bullets from é

the gun disappeared. The gun 1WO fliers convinced they were chasing the planet Venus # = = and not flying saucers . .. About People. Crean 21 “THEN THEY backed out,” Mr. (Also on Page 21 C mapter 11 of Mr. Jones, Meet the Master, Gass said," "WIth 6fi€¢ of them holdThe Easter Story, Sovola, Ruark and Othman.) ing a gun on me. Then they ran Times editorials, Talburt cartoon, Side Glances, Hoosier to their car. It wouldn't start.” Forum, Denny, Lucas, Richert and Childs .......... 22 The victim said the three piled

: La Le . . . out again. While one held a gun Worlds in Collision” becomes red-hot issue in science on him the other two pushed the

The Pendergast-controlled po-- $25.20 after driving up at a fur-

gotta served no time for the Ferris Anton spot killing. He findlly was sent to federal prison for a short term-—because the gun was a stolen Army pistol. ‘Gargotta was arrested more « than 40 times in 30 years. The

charges ran from murder down circles, .......... Arenas sete vrrarevesiniviae started. 100 feet until the. motor ) the scale to Yagrancy and back Radio programs and TV schedules nnn ine . 30 ad up. | on Lin Hate traffic? Go to Venice . . . Fred Sparks taka you tics Freighters. Open Pauper Attorney on another trip to the watery CY ian iene

2 Great Lakes Season

MACKINAW CITY, Mich., Apr. 31 6\ (UP)—Three freighters opened

Named for Taylor ‘Harold Hartley's business column, weather map

- TERRE HAUTE, Apr. 6 (UP) Sawchuk paces Caps to 4-1 victory over Barons ....... —Clarence Taylor will be ‘de- (Other sports, including news of the Tribe on Pages 32 the Great Lakes navigation sea. fended by - Pauper siimney x. i Sh son yesterday by -. churning George Nasser when he goes on — :

trial for the first degree murder Banks to Close For Good Friday . through ice on the’ straits of

of miser-George W. Baldwin last Mackinac. month. City. and county governmental jority of other Indianapolis busf TavIor. * Taylor, 56 and a barber, is ac- units and Indianapolis bariks will ness places, including downtown Eh a” Ts ler cused of killing Baldwin, sawing close in observance of Good Fri- stores, will remain open. ackinaw, Toa e ithe you his body In two -and duniping day tomorrow. The Federal The nation’s major commodity trip shortly af er noon. They were it near Flossmoor, Yl. He was Building will remain open. and security markets- will close. bound for Chicago. arrested after two women said The “Indianapolis Clearing but the Indianapolis Livestock’ The Calcite, also. towed by the he spent some money marked House, however, will suspend Market will continue business as Mackinaw, ‘started the trip after : ibusiness- for- the day. The ma-| usual. (dark. ?

jon other goods which are used in to

. | Mr. Bower yesterday submitted

result of continued intra-depart-|

| back

The T. W. Robinson and B. H. out. of towed by the ice cutter and the public,

Occasionally— but not too often time.” know what the American peopler®f fanatical persons who have spoil the effect——he tossed off] But “from the point of view of are thinking.” been thoroughly discredited,’ Dr, homely phrases about riding on getting on with the job,” Dean These letters, he said.” reflect Lattimore said. ice wagons when he was a kid Acheson admitted he felt the at- th® people's “fundamental sports- Visited Moscow in Middletown, Conn. If it was tac ks were “a pretty serious mat-imanship they say, in effect, Dr. Lattimore said he did visit acting as some people claim—it ter. never mind all those things peo-! Moscow on business for the Inwas first-rate stuff. “We expect rows about policy ple are saying about you, we're stitute of Pacific Relations, but

There was no question of acting to be thrashed out in a democra-| for you.” He smiled again, wryly| not _ for {instructions from the in the way he shrugged off the cy.” he said. “but this kind ofithis time. “Oh, ang of them | Kremlin.

attacks on him, however. They thing bothers people abroad be- don’t like me but there's nol “You may remember, gentle [obviously don’t bother him from cause it doasa't make sense to

en, that i a personal viewpoint. They feel we can't “change (Continued on Page 2=Col. 5) men at It was just about this

time that Mr. Roy Howard, y Fads dent of The Indianapolis Times, Feeney Indorses Jacobs, Pushes McKinney Fight

had recently been in Moscow, . Jones ame where he Interviewed Stalin,” he Backing of Incumbent Is Surprise Move;

| said Pubic Counselor Mayor Warns ‘Machine’ Battle Just Starting

Anderson Man Mayor Feeney personally indorsed Democrat C ongressman Andrew Jacobs for re-election today. At the same time he warned To Succeed _Steckler Frank McKinney, Democratic party leader: Gov. Schricker today appointed “I have just begun to fight the county machine.” Walter F. Jones Jr.. Anderson, to Mayor Feeney again attacked Mr. McKinney, banker, baseball succeed William E. Steckler as magnate and veteran Democratic power, as a “power-mad politician public counselor,

them.

“Dr. Yathmors said Sen. Mc|Carthy’s attack was based partly on material distributed . to Cone gress by William J. Goodwin, Dr. Lattimore said Mr. Goodwin was officighly registered as a $25,« |000-a-year lobbyist. for the Chinese Nationalist government. The 49-year-old Johns Hopkins University professor stated that Sen. McCarthy is “guilty” of cone

, . duct unbecoming a U. 8. Senator, ‘ruthlessly-trying to dictate to the - Mr. Jones, who is 29, has been Lattimore said McCarthy had people.” When Judge oseph H. How- assistant counselor to Mr. Steck- made use of “the propaggnda w hile the Mayor's blast at Mr. ard strode into Mynicipal Court ler who resigned yesterday. Mr. alled Chir lobby," i 0. SUERLISL.. 4 Laday. he. found a. present.on. Steckler. is. expected 10 -be- SWOTI “3

“willing tool.” ‘Then in strong ph he said: “I am not and never have been member of the Communist I have never been affilie -|ated or associated with the Come {lic Service Commission. In about munist party. I have never bee Judge Howard admitted he'|@ Year Mr. Jones has participated lieved in the principles of come knew the “significance” of the in more than 200 such rates cases. munism nor subscribed to nor ade gift. “I've read the papers,” Notre Dame Graduate +vocated the Communist or Soviet he said. He added: He is a graduate of the Uni- form of government either with “If I éver wear out my gavel VErSity of Notre Dame and re-|in the United States, in China, in YE ceived his law degree there. He the Far East, or anywhere in the I guess I can use this. {is a veteran.of World War II, world. ~ [took flight training for a time. He called .Sen. McCarthy's —tand-tater-was transferred to the charges base" and ¢o temptible ‘erimindi-investigation division" ag lies: an investigator. And, Dr. Lattimore said, he is Before his appointment last thinking of bringing libel or lyear as Mr. Steckler's assistant, Slander action against the Sen|Mr. Jones practiced law in South 2tOr Whose charges thus far have Bend and Evansville. He is mar- Péen made on the Senate floor.

i {ried and his home here is at 3736 Repeats Charge Entire State. . Cold, N. Meridfan St. | Only a few hours before. Sefi. os yor J ‘An assistant counselor has not McCarthy again repeated h Why doesn't McKinney.. fight South Bend Has 19 {been named. {charges against the Re a |back for his boy Cunningham?”! “Indiana remained Ihcked in win- [that he is a Soviet spy. Mr. Feeney answered his own!ter's grip” today as th¢ mercury REDS "OK EASTER RITES "|. Sen. McCarthy renewed the at question: skidded to 24 at 6 a. in Indi- ltack in .a Senate » “I guess Cunningham is too hot apa polis, a 61-year low PRAGU E. Czechoslovakia, Apr. | Speech during to hand

r the 6 (UP) ae Mayor ‘was deter el Weather "Bureau sai chill. “iinfstry of tnterfor said today in| [ERIE dori. ‘Diiring the post. mined to fight with Mr. Mc Kinney, ing Canadian breezes pushed the 2

special - radio - bulletin’ that| midnight Session two Republicans Roman Catholic ceremonies could Urge administration to join who yesterday said he did not in- temperature from a high of 40 be held as usual this Easter. ithe GOP in a drive to prevent

cobs for Con- “his gress was unexpected. The Mayor previously has been quoted as opposing Mr. Jacobs. { Mr. Feeney said the City Hall's newly - formed political “The Democratic Good Government Committee,” voted unanimously to support Mr. Jacobs for Congress. Began Week Ago The Mayor's “anti crusade against Mr.

desk—a’ nice shiny new (in as the new federal judge of the hatchet. 'Southern Indiana district Apr. 15. Court attaches, as well ‘as | The public counselor's job is to ‘a Republican Municipal Court 4 [represent the rate-payers in utility|party. Judge Alex Clark, pleaded “not [rate proceedings before the PubBroup,’ guilty.”

- bossism” McKinney, - president of the Fidelity Trust Co., and owner of the Pittsburgh Mercun Hits: % Pirates and vice president of the Indianapolis Indians, has been flaring up at intervals for a week. “Mayor Feeney's pet peeve today 1] or ears’ against Mr. McKinney was his continued support of Sheriff Cunningham. i The Mayor demanded to know:

tend to “wallow in the mud with yesterday morning to iis porn vc {Communist spies from infiltrating our cry-baby Mayor.” ing’s. Ton. The record cold or | o- ADMITS SL AYING WIF E- the government, They indorsed “I can remember the days when day is 23, recorded here in 1 GOLDEN. Colo. A UPp)_. 3 Proposal that President Truman McKinney wasn't so alergic to Indianapolis temperatures yes- G olo., Apr. 6 ( -

He terday and last night averaged 14 John Rice, 48, has admitted that ippoint a bipartissh Sommission (Continued on Page 3—Col. 3) n - -

Hing." ihe Mayor declared. degrees below normal seasonal he strangled his bride last Feb. 7 . levels. Other cold spots in the and threw her body into the Rio Decries “Hatchet Men" state this morning were: South Grande. Sheriff .Carl Enlow anThereupon, the mayor chal- Bend, with a low of 19; Ft. Wayne, jnounced today | lenged Mr. McKinney to fight 23, and Terre Haute, 26. - rather than “let your| More Snow Flurrijes Reichel men do your dirty work.”| Snow flurries fell (again early e was referring to Municipal today after whippin the city Court Judge Joseph Howard, who most of tr 5 A Home on the yesterday intimated the Wayor| Forecasters said sprin would and City Controller Phillip ‘Bayt| begin its slow return ou West Side? were going to use political Sup- as winds shift to a = port as an aid to their private origin. business when their terms expire, The mercury The mayor denied the accusation. | climb to 50_ tomorrow afternoon closets; ofl .ht.: insulated. A fine

Mr. - Feeney, bristling because in Indianapolis after dipping to, yd, with plenty of shrubbery nad Mr. McKinney refused to keep up near 28 tonight. | ogers (GAL Mr. Fisk. BR-8672.

Want to Buy

|. { | | southern ~~ re — | 5 BEAUTIFUL BRICK | . Located. just off W. Wash, 8t., 4 | was expected to lovely bdrms., dandy ultra<mod | kitchen. Sun rm.; 1'; baths, Ample | i — TT

} DARLINGTON REALTY Co. the battle with him, charged the Increasingly cloudy skies . to- 01 N. DELAWAR AT-1H14 {Demacratic leader “likes to dish/morrow will be followed by local > T) it out, but he can't take it.” The Tints Navy a

{showers Saturday, Sheriff, - Cunningham, about Byreau.said.

whom the Demoeratic party con-! Meanwhile swollen crests of In-troversy-has raged heaviest, re- diana streams began their slow turned from New Orleans Sunday journey toward the_Ohio River but has managed to keep himself | The headwaters of the east_and. range of newspapermen west fork of White River and the ‘upper Wabash were falling. For the mpst part flooding will be confined to lowlands in the southern portion of the state. is NOW the newspaper

|High waters were expected to de-| with the REAL ESTATE | {lay spring planting activities two ADS! +f or three weeks, . i i

the Weather ‘above was selected at

random from the HUN--DREDS of homes advertised for sale in the classi- - fied columns of today's Times. If you are thinking of buying a home of your own, keep your eye on the classified pages of THE TIMES! The Timgs

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