Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1950 — Page 21

Ukely'to Go OF | Here This Summer

Curbs, Cov Tas ody Them: i ‘By The Times City Staff ‘CONTROLS GO OFF RENTS in Indianapolis this

Nobody has said so officially yet; but it's a pretty

safe bet.

‘Even if Congress votes to retain present ot law, =

: City Council's likely to kill control here. Present rundown is three councilmen bitterly opposed ,/ Yo any control on rent. two who. don’t like it. and. twa.

to this effort

lember agenuch pressure

“others who favor present law. Present law allows cities to decontrol by actich of City Council, subject to. final approval of Governor. Pro-.

posed new law in Congress permits cities to decontrol rent bys them§$elves.

4 + n_ individual investigation to determine ‘amounts. A posed would ile organizaaccording to

y of Detroit zations were 10vement by ors to make nizations, In to be exerted made up my lo. make con‘hich decline ributors, and ke the same id be readily

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France has its famed police group, French Surete, Indianapolis is going to have its own “Sewer-ete.” City Hall declares sewer-line Sherlocks will ferret out illegal hookups to city’s’ sewage system which city officials say cost taxpayers a mint o' money in a year's time. City would like to find ouf who the nonpaying users are, have them pick up the tab for service given.

—Some big users; including an industrial firm outside city, Rave .

already been asked to pay up. The firm pulled out and is installing own system. Others will be dunned as soon as Sewerete ferrets out illegal ."“UNderground” sewer activities;

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Don’t tike ‘Kids’ THERE'S a little good-na-tured resentment among new

Speedway drivers being called

“kids.” Johnny Parsons, who's 31, says: “Out here we're still kids. How old do you have to

“be on the Indianapolls track

to be called a man.” Johny has all due respect for oldsters but snorts at prerace ballyhoo that gave race to the veterans. ‘Button shoe days are over,” he says. “We're going to give the veterans & run for their

money. We're out to get . everything we can get.” That's one reason “Kid”

Parsons” set a blistering pace from: the start, adding

were hungry for money and proved Parsons

they'd give the veterans a

* rough time in future races.

Watch ‘em -in next year's

race, particularly “Kid” Parsons, “Kid” Green and: “Kid” Faulkner.

# x Yicardy will have nothing on L. 8S, Ayres & Co.'s sixth floor come October, Some 50,000 roses will be flowering in the Indianapolis department Store Oct, 31 and Nov. 1, On Oct. 30 the sixthelloos furniture department moves out to make way for the National Rose Show sponsored by Allied Florists. - All' kinds, all varieties of

chiet Jailer. Hay Cook; had one argument after another on treatment of prisoners and deputies, Sheriff wanted tighter jail security regulations, jail and working deputies, Jailer wanted lenient policy to-

‘ward prisonens and better

- treatment of deputies.

Jailer Cook says sheriff “blew - ‘his fop” at deputies for “no good reason.”

But ‘the feud goes deeper,

Deputies were miffed for many

months because of reported interference from sheriff's brother, Bob and nephew, Tom.

Currently, Mr, Cunningham

appointed 25-year-old Bob

was-—right—whenhe-predicted—

roses from infinitesimal -ones——

with finger-length stems to butter - plate sized blooms with five-foot stems will be shipped here from New Hampshire to California,

— “ " WARM. WEATHER brings record crowds. into air-cooled downtown department stores, But as far as cash register goes, hot crowd is cold turkey. : It's. a cool-off crowd, saun-

_ tering through to soak up air

conditioning: Stores like traffie, but also reading on cash register tape,

Face Legal Channels IF TALK of an independent party bucking Republican and Democrats in fall county elec tion crystallizes, the Bull Moose group will Have to go through legal channels of setting up their party. Group would need petition with more than 2000 names, in order to get space on- fall ballot. Law calls for one-half of one per cent of all those in Marion County who vated for

secretary -of state in last gen-_

eral slection.

DON'T LOOK or trees to disappear from north gide of Courthouse to make room for more parking spaces. City Off-Street Parking Commission has asked county commissioners to convert entire north lawn into parking lot. But the commissioners aren't having any, thank you. They've got one headache, in present parking space area. The commissioners have to

“pay $1800. a year to a deputy

sheriff who acts as an attend-

ant just «66° také care of lot.

They also have tough time, soft soaping everybody who wants Space in lfuady ull up” lot.

Proud papa and mamas shouldn’t! fret because Wil-

lie's name hasn't. appeared

In papers as members of June graduating class from - Indianapolis high schools. School boards asked schools to—-withhold rosiers from publication til fast minute, to protect students- and par‘ents from plague of “salesmen” and “come on” merchandise oe

_ long Smoldering Feud FEUD THAT erupted at County Jail last week has been or many months,

“animal

“make bid against Spain

men.

to-chief-jaiter- post tem porarily. If Bob makes good at job— -and County Chairman Paul McDuff approves—the youngster may get permanent post. Prosecutor Dailey stepped on sheriff's toes when he fired Al Thayer, long-time chum of Mr. Cunningham, as deputy prosecutor assigned to sheriff. With Mr. Thayer now on Mr. Cunningham's , personal payroll as ‘‘adviser” the county feud is over—until after the fall election’ at least. = 2 5

INDIANA probably won't take story. of Spain's winged cat sitting down. Summer time time in Hoosierland. Remem- : ber the giant ‘turtle “Beast of

is monster-

Churubusco,” Brown County's wild. “panther” apd the Flat Rock river. “giant” serpent? Look for a rash of weird stories as Indiana strives to’ maintain its reputation ‘as most “monsterous” state of the 48 and even fo in international league.

2 » = Big Dime Grabber . BIGGEST “DIME BER” ‘in taverns is shuffleboard counterpoint of a bowl ing alley. Enjoying even greater shuffiedoard did. ‘For a dime you get:to “bowl!” 10 frames, using metal dise, Main come-on in many spots is weekly prize put up by tavern

owner like they uséd to on pin-

ball machines. High score for the week usually gets case of “beer —one-for women; zone for

s Pe - Other taverns in this “nongambling” town give tickets for bowling over a certain score. Tickets are placed in jar, drawing held at end of week and lucky ticket owner gets from five to 10 bucks.

Then there's individual bet ting. . Anything from

“shoot you a béer:

is collector who watches those dimes roll out of coin box at

end of week,

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THAT DEAD PIGEON men-

tioned in Our Fair City last"

, week and week Defore is still

“as dead as ever on third floor

landing of courthouse, Maybe Y Somebody better check around

Ee iy eat of

Li-ewistence bears heavily “inthe scales of balance. no matter

ner of peaceful

Unite the free nations.

cledner them. Then talk with Russia.

GRAB-.__

success than miniature

—wager 16 $20 in ome hot shot’ leagues. Real — ‘winner in any of the betting

"Atlantic Nations:

Cease Day Dredms > GORDON N CUMMING >

afew monthe age, Lo is the hope of

acceptanee by Washington of the proposed _econiom

super-board for ic and military control fh the. West, / confidently expected. . ’ Completion of the FrenchGerman agreement on a coal d steel union also will add

a ¢ THCreASing DAIANce of

power. Rearmament of Western Eu-

~ rope-is moving at ‘a good pace

with only occasional acts of obstruction and with flttie attention. on either side of the Atlantic, The mere fact-of its

when it is completed. ‘ What is the purpose of Western economic and military unity? Nearly all of the Western foreign ministers have an swered already.’ They have deéclared with complefe sincerity that Western unity is aimed at peace and will be the forerunnegotiations with Soviet Russia. Led by Churchill The determined drive to win the struggle for a new balance

of power goes back to 1846

when Russia revealed its unswerving: will to dominate by power and to listen _anly ‘when -confronted by power. In those days of disillusionment, the plans were laid for Western unity. Responsible statesmen; led by Winston “Churchill in Europe and by a succession of Secretaries of State pounded on the main theme: Arm

Attempts at conference with Russia, meanwhile, proved the

Favorable action:

won

in. the United States, -

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ntegrity in Clamor oo of Force

USSR

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Wanted: Help from the West. Such was the call issued this week by the new nations shown in black on the map after their Manila conference, staged fo devise ways and means of blunting Soviet thrusts into Southeastern Asia. Foreign Minister Carlos P. Romulo, sponsor of the parley, did not say it was an anti-Communist parley but the call for help clearly showed that thie seven nations looked to the West to help save them from the Kremlin's imperialism,

Germany, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy, in a “Joint declaration, called a conference to draft a pooling treaty, It will be held: in Paris about June 15. "They announced agreement on an “immediate objective’pooling of steel and coal production and creation of a. new “high supra-natiopal autherity whose decisions would be bindIng on member nations, The six nation§ acted without Britain after a series ‘of

day and night éxchange of '

sharp notes between the French and British failed to find a

course Russia

wonld not agree to anything. So long as there was division in the West, agreement on the simplest proposals proved impossible. Talk, unsupported by power, was fruitless. Then We Will See Today, as a balance approaches, many Europeans fear the United States will find a preventive war necessary ‘to stop Russian aggression. Proof of the contrary should be ofTTeéréd continually. - “Just when the West will be willing to sit down at a confer-—ence-table with-Rissin can He determined only by the developments of the next few months, Obviously, the time is not yet

ripe. When unification has been : attained and when the rearm--

ament of Europe has proceeded further, the West will be in a position to resume the conversations that ended actually four years ago. Then it will be seen whether Russia is willing to negotiate on the controversial issues: the peace treaties with Germany and Japan and the control of the atom bomb,

Canada

A CANADIAN cabinet source said yesterday that the North Atlantic Pact nations are developing super-secret military plans on an unprecedented scale. The - spokesman, who refused permission to use his

name, said that the plans were .

being so closely guarded that the treaty members had framed a new security program. “We just are not putting all our cards on the table for the Russians t6 see,” he said. “The intelligencé service of the - Russians is good, and they’ll probably learn of our plan as time goes on. But secrecy meanwhile is. of the utmost value to our. success.” France ANGLO-FRENCH talks on the Schuman plan broke down yesterday: and France and five neighboring nations ‘immedi ately announced they would go ahead without Britain in their effort to pool Western Europe's coal and steel industries. France, Belgium, Western

‘Besmirching a Fair Lady

joint declaration (because it feared it would be an advance commitment to join the coalsteel pool.

On May 9 French Foreign ’

‘Minister Robert Schuman invited Germany to pool its steel and coal industries with those of France. He also invited other European nations to join. Under. .the Schuman plan,

‘nearly one-half of Western Eu- |

--LOpe’s. total -coal-output—and-nearly two-thirds of its steel production would be pooled.

FOURTEEN prosecution witnesses testified at the treason trial of two army officers yesterday that the defendants tried to smuggle out a Yugoslav top secret general! staff map In their unsuccessful attempt to flee to Romania in 1048. : : Earlier in the trial the defendants declared that the Russians asked them for information on disposition of army units and the conditions of the roads leading to the interior from the Hungarian, Romanian and. Bulgarian borders.

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Antonie Kleinerova, 49-year ‘old former member of parliament, admitted that she formed “terrorist groups” in this country and plotted to orgapize “reactionary cells” in the Czech Communist Party. Dr. Oldrich Pecl, 47, a former mine owner, sald he gave 100 economic, political and military

reports to American-and Brit

ish “spy centers.” 3 Mr. Pecl- denied, however, that he gave information to Yugoslav Minister Ivor Mirko or “discussed the possibilities of spreading Titoist, Fascist conceptions in Czechoslovakia.”

e than 20 Western diplos...

and newsmen were mentioned in the indictment, and today motion pictures were

taken of Western correspondents covering the trial, despite their protests. However, the

justice ministry promised later

that the film would be destroyed.

Belgium

oy IDED Belgium will go to

the polls Monday for

to end the 10- -year-old dispute over the future of exiled Ki The royal question ( overshadows all other {issues in the

~ eelction, which will choose a

The two officers are accused“

of gathering this information just after the Cominform denunciation of Yugoslav Premier Marshal Tito and at a time When there were numerous rumors of a Russian or Russian satellite invasion of Yugoslavia.

. Czechoslovakia THREE more of the 13 defendants on trial as traitors confesséa yesterday that they had plotted against the Czech Communist regime, but one denied spying for Yugoslavia. They were . the aeventh eighth and ninth of the accused to plead guilty of working with Westerners in an alleged plot to seize power from the Communists. The mass treason trial began Wednesday, Zavis Kalandra, 47," a former Czech newspaperman, was the atest to plead. He followed the example of the three women and fivé men who precedéd him to the. stand, cond fessing fhat he was guilty of espionage and plotting to overthrow the Communist regime,

planned

‘French,

new Senate and Chamber of Representatives, The controversy, which has been raging with especial fury since V-E Day, has split the country. The Flemish- -speaking north favors the king's return, while the anti-clerical, Frenchspeaking southern provinces demand his abdication. Most of Belgium's 5 million eligible voters are expected to participate in the election, because Belgian law imposes a fine on nonvoters.

Vatican City

POPE PIUS XII Y i today for world wide action to curb unemployment -as a means of preventing the cold war from erupting into an “incomparably more disastrous hot war.’ The Pontify, speaking in told the International

“Congress of Social Studies that

unemployment is one of the “most worrisome factors” in the present world situation. He called on the “good peo-

: ple” of the world to join forces

_ tions in

"to" solve the problems of the

“immense multitude of unhappy ones” otherwise they might turn to communism, he warned, “It. 1s on their misery and discouragement that the gpirit of evil counts, with the hope of turning them from Christ and throwing them into the eurrers of atheism and materialism, engaging them in the mechanism of social organiza. contradiction of the other. established by God, " the

“Pope said.

He ‘asked workers not to res

Ww effort =

"he deserted

peat the “errors of capital” as they gain power, and called on capitalists to recognize labor's

new status and forget the ideas

of the past century, Japan JAPANESE began voting early today (Sunday) In a critical parliamentary election

that developed into a “show-

down” between the increasing~ ly defiant Communist Party

and the anti-Red occupations policies of Gen, Douglas MacArthur. A U, 8. military court sentenced eight Japanese leftists

to Fete t0yenr prison tire OT DERG ~

Batutday for Memorial Day attacks on six U. 8. soldiers. Communists seized on the incident to demand a “showdown” with Gen, MacArthur. Normally the election of 132

members of Japan's upper house would have passed without - incident, but police

were alerted throughout Japan against possible Communist disturbances as voters o began balloting at 7 L m, The Ils close at 6 p. The government aed a Communist-planned “peace

—-prepigeite” today and Tefectsd

Communist Party protests against meetings, rallies and demonstrations, The defiant Communists lost face when the leftists were sentenced. - They also lost prestige when the nationwide general protest strike called for Saturday turned into what Secupation authorities termed “miserable failure.” Be authorities expec ted the developments would increase the vote for Premier

Shigeru Yostidas Conservative ”

Party. some Japanese thought But jailing of the antiAmerican demonstrators might bring out a protest vote for

= the Communists,

sli . Philippines AU. 8. ARMY deserter who became a colonel in the Huks said yesterday the Communistled dissidents received. advice, ald and. encouragement from

Peking. Pvt. Ronald Dorsey, 20, of Palmer, Mass, was captured

by Philippine constabulary troops Friday southeast of Ma-

. nila with a Filipino companion.

He was held at Camp Murphy, a Philippine army camp outside Manila,.for questioning before ing turned ever toAmerican authorities for courtmartial. Dorsey said in an interview the 20th Top graphical Engineering. Bat talion last Oct. 15 to join the Huks with the Intention of getting Information for authorities, One thing he learned, he said, was that the Huks were in constant radio contact with

the Chinese Communist BOV~-

ernment at Peking and received supplies from them.

Inside of World Affairs

American concern is rising over hints that ‘Russia 18 contemplating Iranian “border in¢idents.” The Soviets have been wanting to take gver there for some time,

WASHINGTON 1s trying to get Brazit to liberalize its tight immigration quotas. If Brazil Is to expand it will need several hundred thousand ordinary

Immigranig-taen now,

TRYGV E N IE is banking on a complete collapse of Nation alist China this summer to .assure Communist China's admission . into the United Nations. He believes that will save the organization if nothing else does, :

QUEEN, ‘Juliana of Hols

land has flouted all tradition

by arriving on her first official visit to France by plane. Her . first trip abroad after her cor-

“onation should have been ‘to

Belgium, but Belgium has no

» king at the moment. - —

The Belgians objectéd to her crossing their territory by rail -to visit France, and the queen

E ~ decided to take a plane.

- Juliana is an unspoilt queen,

She 1s not yet bored with offcial

Technicians are the prinetpat—

‘ance

AFTER having agreed to

slowdown for awhile the col-

lectivization of land in Poland, the Soviets last week sent contrary instructions. They said that ‘by the end of 1950, Poland should have 2000 collectivized farms covering 800 million acres,

At the end .of 1949 Poland

had only 40 -collectivized farms Involving 57,000 acres. It is -expected that the Polsh farm ers will show passive resistto these new Moscow orders, ] » » ~ : . GEN. DE GAULLE feels that the Communist danger \ France is as great aw it was when he took power in 1944. The Communists are just more isolated than they were then. 1h »

& ” « INDIAN intelligence “chiefs

from New Delhi, Madras, Bombay and Bihar are visiting England in turn to study Comjuunist methods of Infiltration.

=f == =! FRANCE. wants to-sell more champagne fo Britain, E

s claim to have invented the strategy Nelson used at

THE Tatest thing thé RusLE at TeAlar.

- tigating interstate gambling rackets, thinks the plan

ose IteTIEl Revenue has discretionary powers now to

“sored in Ways

Committee by Rep. Aime Now it's tied. Rep. Graham |! Forand frem McGrath's Barden (D, N. C) who bee “home. state, Rhode Island, Comes chairman under seniors - Most administration Demo- ity rule, is opposed by organs crats backed it. ized labar, ah _ Rent. Control: It. will “be New fle-breaking member °

Primaries Outlook .

“Representative, has a farm campaign plan of his own, Three other speech night candidates are in the race. He's opposed by Looks as if no one will get nan, formeriy on necessary 35 per cent of total Herman Talmadge. vote for nomination. That Ohls GOP

Hits Inflation

“sity of Chicago,

___peller manufacturers

. worries _abput range of big

: Ing. =

Saucy on House La

Sendlor Fears’ Bill ‘May Save

Skins of Gaming Racketeers k By The Scripps-Howard Newspapers 3 ‘WASHINGTON, June 3—Look for a fight i if House Ways and Means Committée ‘insists on its Yin to let tax-dodgers pay wp, avoid jail terms, Sen. Estes Kefauver, chairman of committee faves. £

may save the skins of underworld characters he's after,

give amnesty, but House proposal would forbid eriminal prosecutions where tax-dodgers pay What hat they, owe. Kefauver will fight it.

. Amnesty plan may be third attempt. of Justice Department to Soft. pedal Senate

gambling racke ONE: Atty, Gen. J, Howard McGrath called nis own conference immediately after Kefauver proposed investi It did little, \ ". TWO: McGrath proposed federal control of siot-machine shipments, got another - Senate committee to “Investigate” - a recommend passage of weak bill while more ambitious Ketauver gi Hd probe was still pending, -

THRZE: Outlawing jail terms for tai-dodgers WAS Spone and Means

investigation of vigalty 4

Ce AA TAT FEE

me of ting,

close, but Democratic leaders

will be. selected by Demo think they can pass a: bill

‘erats on’ Ways and Means

extending it for six months, Committee, under House = After that, federal controls rules. They voted 7-8 to sus- = might remain another six tain Taft-Hartley veto, and

months if cities requested it,

two others, who didn't vote p 3 Present law expires June 30. ta

on this, support organized labor. However, union men i “have fingers ere v ySued, Bre n't = sure they'll a what they “want,

Studies Run Off MORE POLITICS: willie

NEXT WEEK'S primaries: California: Straw votes show .Gov. Earl Warren sure of Republican nomination; James Roosevelt leading (but not so sure)

pling ~ : _ hasn't Ag BL

cratic, Sen. Frank

Nixon Is “in” as GOP senatorial nomi« nee; Rep. Helen Gaha“Douglas leads publish- - er Manchester Boddy vn Dg Democratic race. " fasue in Democratic tne race. Albert J. Loveland, who resigned as Agriculture Under out | “gecretary to run, Is for it. Former Gov. Nelson Kraschel is against. Otho -Wearin, former

means a wide-open state oonvention later, On GOP side, Sen. Bourke . Hickenlooper will win easily over two challengers. South Dakota: It's too close to call, Republican experts say. . Rep. Francis x . Case is trying to beat Sen. Chan Gurney, is winnink ‘isolationist votes by criti. cizing Gurney support of North Atlantic military ald. craticprimary's hot important. New Mexico: Chavez clan i§ out to elect one of its members governor, take control of state Democratic machinery, Looks

ident, won't go to the ‘polis, Pennsylvania Federation Labor meets June 14 to ¢ stand in senatorial £ is likeiy to favor Ses. do Eanes Sen, Claude sii defeated in Florida primaries, won't quit politics; he ym. Hell - practice “law, accept no ape = pointive job, indicates he'll run A again when things look right, :

Paton Back

AMERICAN Farm Bureau Federation pats itself on the back for defeat of Pres. Tru~ man’s reorganization plan for Agriculture Department.

Sen, Gurney

as if it will. Judge David Bureau argued loudly that 2 Chavez is candidate. Sen. Den- plan did not follow recomiiens #1 nis Chavez is campaigning for’ aations’of Hoover Commission, him, . ° ‘that it gave Secretary Charles Brannan unlimited Ag

to reorganize agriculture as he wished. Senate agreed, Secretary of State Dean Acheson will meet once a month with Congressmen if 7 there's any chance of improve 2 ing relations between his des partment and legislative branch. : Assistant BYY ei “Jack McFall has been sounds == ° ing out members following . first Acheson appearance this . = week,

Meat Buyers Note

FAMILY MEAT buyers take - note: Agriculture Department “will hold hearings in Chicago ¢ June 28 on proposals of lives stock industry to change the ay meaning of present grades of BF 3 federally inspected beef, : So far, organized consumer . groups have shown little intere eal. If livestock industry has its way, young “baby beef now ~— graded ag “commerical” will be called “good.” Cuts now la beled “good” will be called “choice” And today's “choice” # will be renam@d “prime.” ne

"INFLATION scare is played down by Senate's top economist, 8én. Paul Douglas (D. IIL). Nothing to worry about yet, he says, and recalls last “year's scare about depression and unemployment, He's a former economics professor at Univer.

Cabaret tax cut agreed on by Ways and Means Committee is only 5 per cent, smallest of excise cuts, fof this reason: Buchanan lobby commit tee found that cabaret in- ° dustry has hired a lobbyist to work for tax cut; is pay. ing him $10,000 plus $15,000 for expenses, If it was eliminted entirely, he'd get $100,000 record shows,

Jets Losing Ouf

JETS ARE losing favor in aviation circles—civilian and military. 8ix months ago pro-

ready to close up their $60 mile Hon business. Now they look for a new boom. Reason is that jets consume

too much fuel. That's a major 8 in i ee fault for commercial aviation te : where costs count. Military Cut Potato uy g =F

REDUCED ACREAGE, re.

bombers, finds jet sugines cut it down. 5 fod Interest now softies around turbo- “props Air Force has equipped a B-36 with turbo-props. Navy is ompar using them in thres planes. with 477.000 bushels in same Makers of all big commer. period last year. No 1950 po« cial planes are experiment. tatoes have been destroyed; ; -went to welfare

‘New Labor Fight

NEXT “LABOR skirmish takes place over filling of va-