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His-Touch-Furns ~MeKinney Gets ~ Treasurer Post, ~ Buys Into Sank

61st YEAR— NUMBER 8 NET

; Opportunity Comes in Copal

—— Talk With Incumbent Bill Claver

Second of a Series of Articles

"By EDWIN C. HEINKE .{)FRORTUNITY. with .a..capital. YO. came -Frank Moi;

Kinney’'s way on a winter’s night in March of 1933. He and Ownie Bush had become fast friends. They were closer than brothers. Ownie was up in the big time,

A political career is launched. Frank Mekimay runs for Marion. ~ County Treasurer,

“managing major league baseball clubs after a spec=

tacular playing career and making $35,000-$40,000 a

year.

Frank, the assistant cashier at the People’s State Bank, was handling Ownie’s money, making investments

for him.

On this March night, they were taking a ride. Up at 52d and Capitol, Ownie pulled to the curb. “Let's drop in on Bill,” said Ownie. “Who's Bill?” asked Frank idly. - “Bill Clauer. He used to be secretary of the ball club when I ran it in 1024,” said Ownie. (The Indianapolis Indians, Ownie’s first managerial job.) ‘The three sat and talked. In the course of conversation, Mr. Clauer, who was serving his first term as Marion County Treasurer, said he was tired of the job.

What About Mac?

“I could have it all right, but I'm not going to run for my second term,” Mr, Clauer told Frank and Ownie. “I wish I knéw of some good young fellow.to run for the office, With my backing, he'd be a cinch.” “What about Mac? What's the matter with Mae?" asked

Ownie. “Why not?” said Bill. “Politics was farthest from my. mind,” Mr. McKinney res called. “I told Mr. Clauer I didn’t know anything about politics, I didn’t even know the precinct committeeman jn my ward but he said, ‘What's the difference? I'll back you. “So I ran for the nomination and won four to one with the organization's support. “I worked like hell, speaking

at meetings, working with pre-

cinct committeemen day and

my banking experience qualifled me. for the job. “I was tickled to death because I was worried about the future. The depression -was hanging on and I had told Ownie I was afraid my head was going to get chopped off

"next with all the banks clos-

ing right and left. “With _the siipport of Bill Clauer, Nate Swaim, the organization and the energy of 30

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Revelations Theat. Will ‘Shock Senators’ ' WASHINGTON, ‘June 5

Emmanuel 8. Larsen, one of two persons fined in the Amerasta euse, to give his story of the 1945 stolen documents incident. The former State Department official was scheduled for questioning at 1 p. m. (Indianapolis time) at a closed session of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee. The group is studying the mys-

investigation into charges by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, (R. Wis.) that the State Department is riddled with Communists. Sen. McCarthy announced that he would come up with new reve-

morrow that will “shock the Senators on both sides of the aisle” 3 Key Developments

‘| files” and will disclose the con-

: |cant documents” involved in his + [Communist charges.

He said his speech will be based {on “secret State Department

'tents of “one of the most signifi-

There were these other developments in the case: ONE: The . National Planning Committee of the American Veterans Committee demanded that Mr, McCarthy be impeached for his State Department attack and other “high crimes and misdemeanors,” It accused him of lying and said he “demonstrated moral

1 turpitude.” Mr. McCarthy said hei

was “too busy” to take time out] and answer. TWO: Sen. Theodore F. Green | (D. R. 1.) said an investigation of! world-wide State Department ge curity practices is “proceedin very satisfactorily” and should nd completed soon. He and Sen.

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‘Kidnap’ Search - Turns to Canada

. Hint Wife Abducted | By Estranged Mate |

Search for a 28-year-old mother, | reported kidnaped at gunpoint by, her estranged husband last night,| spread to the Canadian border today.

Detroit after they ledrned the| suspect had left a note with his stepfather saying: “We are po ing to Canada. I'll leave the car in Detroit.” a Sylvia Woods, 653 Division | « told police her son-in-law, |B Burton, 33, climbed {through an upstairs window late last night, routed her daughter, Bonnie from her bed and made her accompany him in his stepfathér’s automobile. Mrs.

'|Woods said the car sped south on

Division 8t. Said Dad Had Gu - A daughter, Sylvia Ann, 10, said she woke up to find her father standing over the bed with ‘a shotgun,

or 40 of some of the younger

“fellows —I “was “elected.” .

Enter now King Midas. Even as Frank McKinney was elected Treasurer of Mari on County in 1934, taking office on Jan, 1, 1936, the depression began to ‘lift. Suddenly the Treasurer's office became the most lucrative office in the State of Indiana by virtue of its fee system. By law, the Treasurer was

' permitted to retain 6 per cent

of all delinquent taxes ete | ight, telling the voters ABET oi ani covery {taxes colle

ed and overnight the office became good for $35,000 to $40,000 a year. Late in 1934, opportunity paid a second visit to Frank McKinney. He heard that a large block of Fidelity Trust Co. stock was for sale. It would take $100,000 to swing the deal. “I had been elected Treasurer, but my heart was still in the banking business,” Mr, Mc~ Kinney recalled.

Savings Had Gone for Marriage .

“I didn’t have a dime.”

What little he had saved had gone into the campaign, Before that, the $900 he had saved while working at” the Peoples Bank had been used to marry, in 1032, Margaret Warner, the sweetheart of his childhood days. “Fact of the matter was that after the honeymoon had been

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“If you don’t leave in three minutes, I'll kill you both” she quoted her father as saying to Mrs. Burton. Burton's stepfather, William A. McKinney, 55, of 2010 8. Belmont Ave., told police today that Burton camé to his home some time

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Denies Al Lopez To-Replace Meyer

Frank McKinney, president of the Pittsburgh Pirates and vice] president of the Indianapolis Indians, today spiked rumors that Pittsburgh Manager Bill Meyer will be replaced by Manager Al Lopez of the Indians this season.|

that “Bill (Meyer) has our un-| qualified indorsement as present| manager of- Pittsburgh and that we are satisfied with his work.” The Pirate prexy went to New York and Pittsburgh over the

rates’ slump with Pittsburgh officlals. : Nothing Radically Wrong “I went there (Pittsburgh) to see what niight be wrong, but I can say that I found nothing radically - wrong with the club, The team has had 4 series of bad breaks and injuries, but morale on the club is good,” Mr. M Kinney pointed out. “Bill had been in bad healt {some time ago but he is feeling

{He has a year and a half to Jeo on his present contract and,

"| (UP)—Senate Communist in-| vestigators today summoned|

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{mon Police directed their hunt to

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pupils, the entire. grade school, filled the side aisles of the church, while relatives and friends filled! the center sections. | In less. time than it took. to commit his crime, 18-year- WAS bedfast with double PReU- | ine 5 (UP)—Planes aided 1800 teen-age classmates; old - Charles Webster -today was sentenced: to 2540-21 ye Rry ni In-| moni jet fe and ‘relatives acted as diana Reformatory for manslaughter. The entire hearing In Criminal Court 2 took only 19 minutes. | Webster pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of manslaughter, ness, the family had no source off “gu, rad by woodsmen’s discove church, and to his burial place in before Judge Saul I. Rabb. The original charge of first degree mur- income and fell behind on theif ae o¢ hear tracks near her pars - wre | HOTS PRYMENLS. ents’ summer home, soldiers, poe 1 HOURLY TEMPERATURE : 10a. m... 70 11 a. m..., 4 12 (Noun), 5

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friends pallbearers, They carried the cas-| {ket from the home, from the!

Holy Cross Cemetery.

Mr. McKinney told The Times/meyer and Richard Hardesty.

week-end and discussed the Pi- 5

Aer mia fepas

"Tony's gone." . . . His little brotha and sister, Gregory and Beverley, watch the procession [cleaned up a bad mess in the Mr. Johnson sald the North | leave. Nearby stands Tony's shiny new bicycle, gift of a well-wisher, that he rode only once.

Rites Conducted For Tony Diggin

By MARION CRANEY “Little Tony has Won: Lo The Rev. Fr. John McShane, ; .|stood before the altar of St. Pat-| Irick's Catholic Church looking] down on the closed casket of Ty. {rone (Tony) Diggin. Six candles, three lining each! side of the bier, threw deep shad-| {ows against the ceiling. of the! ae church interior. : A hushed audience, including | elatives, friends and schoolmates of the 11-year-old leukemia vie-| itim, sat with upturned faces as’

{Father McShane chanted a solemn | {requiem mass this morning, then; §

{turned and gave the funeral ser-

‘Soldiers of Christ’ “A soldier of Christ to the very| end, Tony has won his battle on earth,” Father McShane sald in| a deep husky voice. - “He's made the unreturning {journey of Death, the sweetest ithing there is. Our Lord has taken + him to Heaven, where he is far, better off and has met much bet-| ter companions than hers.” Sobs echoed through the tong] church when Father McShane told of his iast visit with Tony Sunday, as he lay dying in Bt,

“He put his hand in mine, and sald to” me: ‘I'm going father, the priest recalled. “But remember where he's gone, my: good friends,” Father McShane consoled. “He's gone to God.”

Tony died in his sleep easly] Patrick's Church for final services. Thursday. He had been und

At rest at last .

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Classmates Pallbearers | More than 450 8t. Patrick's!

Jonny's.

fer in the Oct. 22, 1949 robberyThe bearers Included. Bernard glaying of Mrs. Callie Richardson Padgett, Charles Preston, Bur-/wis reduced to manslaughter by dette Peterson, Thomas White- Marion County prosecutor's office. side, John Mead, Robert Stiegel-| “Police charged Webster fatally beat and kicked the 79-year-old The Rev..Fr. Edward Bauer of widow who had befriended him Liberty served as deacon, assist- and hired him for odd jobs.” Mrs. ing Father McShane at the mass. Richardson died eight days after The Rev. Fa. Charles Koster. of neighbors found her “tinconscious St. Patrick’ s acted as sub-deacon. in her home at 333 N. 31st St, Prosecutor's Attitude

In accepting the plea of guilty, : {Prosecutor George 8. Dalley out-

dealing with minors charged with major crimes; He referred to the . |¢ase of Wiley Senteney, who recently was sentericed ‘to Indiana

{James Kelly Brooks. | “We must give youth a chance,” | Mr. Dailey said. “After these boys; {have served their sentences, they] stil have the time and the chance

- igelves,” the prosecutor said.

Yas far as we're concerned, he'll

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| Judge Rabb questioned Webster | ‘las follows: i “Did you do it?” i “Yes, your honor, T killed her.” “Why did you do it?” “I don't know. 1 had been drinking.”

ee : wv. this is Tony {Tr “How old did you say you as he tS before he fell vic- We taem. ” [2 oy ili bom his | “well, there 1s no use SoawriE ged

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End" Defense Chief Hint New Weaponson end For Europe's Protection

Calls Russ ‘Road Block’ to Peace; State Secretary Sees Far Eastern Dangers WASHINGTON, June 5 (UP)-—Secretary of State

{Dean Acheson and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson asked = Congress today for $1,222,500,000 to help rearm the free

world against Russia. Mr. Johnson said Western Europe must be bolstered in the “dread event of war” to make full effectiveness of “the Rm = new weapons.which our long+ Fleming Lashes range bombers can utilize.” He did not say what new wea« { : pons. m ar-Mon ers’ Mr, Acheson hammered at the danger spots in the Far East : here, he said, “Soviet-backed™ tla: menaces not only. Defends Selling {that area but ultimately the Registration . Lists security of the United States. a vv y Mr. Acheson testified before = —By IRVING LEIBOWITZ — 1, "p00 Foreign Affairs Come Secretary of Btate Charles mittee while Mr. Johnson put in Fleming. today lashed out at pi. plug for a second year of “gmear-mongers” who he claimed the full arms aid program bes were trying to “discredit” Gov, fore the Senate Foreign Relations Schricker's administration. and Armed Bervices Committees, Gov, Bchricker, recently re- Paint Grim Pleture ported at odds with his youthful | Both officials painted a grim ‘geeTetary of state; came to his [Eres 50 the COMMGRISL threat defense today. [to Europe and the Far East and “Fleming has been the object insisted that bulwarking the free of a deliberate smear campaign.” | world is the best hope of preserve the Governor said, “Fleming has ing peace,

Motor Vehicle department.” Atlantic military alliance and Mr. Fleming, criticized for sev-i the arms ald program mark “the eral months for reported “un- only remaining road to peace and , 'ethical” practices, also ‘struck! spcurity,” Russia, he sald, has _ lback this morning with a ruling! “road-blocked every other aves

fice, Mr, Johnson said Russia has

retary of 8 g the ruling to show that the Bu-|the recent “cold-blooded destruce reau of Motor Vehicles was tion” of an unarmed U. B, Navy. _entitied to sell -lists—of plane -over-the Baltic ! automobile registrations.” - 1 He emphasized that Western Recent published reports hinted Defense plans do not call for the department's sales of such matching Russia's armies man for for $35 each’: was “notiman proper.” “A relatively small European = | An attache of the Attorney ground Jone, provided it is . |General’s office sald Mr. Fleming aqdipped with modern weapons . \was entirely within his legal right and supported by an adequate t ‘as Commissioner of Motor Ve-itactical air Toren could contain ‘hicles, He referred to the 1945/the early phases of a Russian in« | Motor: Vehicle acts which pro- vasion,” he sald, ; | vides, "As Mr. Johnson testified. Sen, | “The department is suthorized Arthur H. Vandenberg (R.Mich.), = to sell coples of all automobile challenged President Truman's * [registrations to the general pub- bid 2ou innicet Sutharity to spend g 3 si" u A 7 B | (Continued on Page 8—Col. 8) nation he considers menaced by - : Communist aggression, Ee: i ~ Ofters Change 3 Evi cted Family Mr. Johnson promptly offered 4

nL Photo by John Spickiemire, Times Staff Photographer. - . his. solemn classmates and playmates carry the casket of little Tony Diggin from his home, en route to St.

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(ing the intent of the legislation,

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| Louise Buster, 416 N, Warman |Ave, who with her six a

| faced eviction today on a two-day | notice,

and choked with sorrow as it was on Saturday when pelting rain to tell her story to The Times. She was happy, grate-| ful; and “oh, so relieved.” Her benefactor was Mrs. Bde

Ave, widow of the man who

home. from which the Busters are|

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Mr. Johnson sald he would elaborate on the “intent” quess

Mrs. Buster's volce wasn't sad tion at a secret hearing.

He also offered to speak up

she braved a behind closed doors on.two othe

pertinent questions ralsed by the senators: The choice of an overs {all commander of the Atlantiq {Pact nations, and who is to deters

= - mine when an armed attack has gor A. Shake, 2013 8. RyDORt | ken place that would put the

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Will All w.! Michigan St. died a months Kidnap ed by Bear

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n » » 3-year-old girl believed kidnaped .. BECAUSE OF Mr, Buster's i Rubi E38

| Mrs Shake read the Busters’ lice, farmers, Boy-8couts and vas ng in The T ines Yesterday. cationers from miles around set 1e_then o 4 break to look foBe3e gardge behind her home in which out at ole Eo Jo She: was to live, with Cooking facilities ia last seen Saturday afternoon... Brig. Jean V. Allard, Quebed children can sleep in the trailer district military commander, took personal charge of the posses. He {there while Mr. Buster builds 53d nea tiaw Marks wers round} their home at 28th St. and Temple oe a atta eo where little Nicole |Ave., expected to be completed in 1° COUAZ two weeks. spent the week-end. Other traces of he bear were found in the

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Segregation Act Held Illegal

WA Qed June § (UP)— The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 0 {today that segregation of Negroes in railroad dining cars violates the Interstate Commerce Act, - » The opinion, however, did not - rule on the constitutionality of the segregation regulations. . The Interstate Commerce Act makes it unlawful for a railroad ‘Ito “cause any undue or unreason= * able preference OF advantage to