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luggage vi “We'll have lunch together sometime” I said to Ed. He mumbled something about somebody dropping dead and was soon lost in the crowd milling about the huge station buying picture post-

The first stop was at the Hotel Raleigh where I'm staying. Nice room. The view of Washington through the: lone window would day” To sure I can see every brick in the wall of masonry across the way, ‘On a clear day, such as today, ~I can count the grains of sand in the mortar between the bricks. “I'll show you Washington after we eat,” cried Louis, grabbing the phone and calling for room service. That boy's been around, too.

Family and Steaks

PRESENTLY we headed for Falls Church, Va. down a maze of roads a piece from Washington, to meet Joan, his wife and little daughters, Pamela and Susan, and see how the steaks were doing. Oh; we were off to u good start, The swift introduction to the sights made my eyes bulge. I saw the Capitol building, Social

GOP ‘Charm’

'500’," was his compariso ...The lawn around. oe White. Hous. was littered... “with building materials. No wonder the President is living in Blair House. We drove past-the Blair House, too. There wasn't anyone ov © except policemen and a couple of 8

being so big.

“It's lke the infield at the Speedway after a

agents. They didn’t look hospitable.

Uncle’s Big Buildings

ALL THE federal buildings

It's had”ta-concelve how they can’ utilize all the of. Commerce, Interior I whistled twice

r frankly made me whistle,

are enormous.

when we passed the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Of course, I can see some reason for that place|

The Pentagon building scared me. |

I'm venturing in there by degrees...

The embassy buildings were disappointing. No| Probably driving, On the wrong side of

one was sitting on the porches. around seeing the sights. the street, yet.

It’s an understatement to say I'm slightly con-| 1 don't know whether I'm! coming or going. But surely one can get’ intp| Somebody here must know | “The best thing]

fused after one day.

the swing of things. whether they'ré coming or going. to do would be to ask. Ooops, so sorry, senor. Reeba, esta to you, too,

reeba and como

By Andrew Tully

WASHINGTON, June 6—For the voters who favor the hard-headed, business-type of politician, the Republican Party always had had Sen, Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Now the GOP has been reminded that it also has somebody to please the oomph crowd. She's: Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine and she did

__the reminding herself with -that- “declaration cf - conscience” speech in the Senate the other day.

Mrs. Smith is a slender, gray-haired, attractive woman of 53 with a charming smile and a kind of hail-fellow air carefully softened with authentic femininity. She looks good on a platform and she looks good on a campaign poster.

Background Mixed HER BACKGROUND is a nice mixture of Horatio Alger and New England first family. Chatting with the auto plant worker, Mrs. Smith can recall modestly that her father was a struggling barber and. that-she-once clerked In" a dime store. But ‘in the salon of the board chairman's wife, she can put a little more emphasis on the fact that she is a Daughter of —the American Revolution: po : Then there is her unmarred record of success in politics. Mrs. Smith has never lost an election —a record almost unique among Republicans these days. She first was elected to the

House of Representatives in a=xpecial election In 1940 after her husband, the late Rep. Clyde H.| Smith, had asked the voters in what amounted] to a death-bed statement, to support her can‘didacy. She was elected again the regular elec-

tion the same year, and re-elcted in, 1942, 1944] Then, in 1948, she defeated two former | Maine governors—Horace Hildreth and Sumner n Sewall—for the Republican nomination for the

and 1946.

Senate, which in Maine amounts to election.

“Record as Moderate

FINALLY, there is her record as a moderate. Neither the Taft wing nor the Young Turk Re-!|

publicans can claim her exclusive allegiance. In the House, she generally voted along so-called pendable party is a trifle more| conservative, yet here again, she has kicked over For instance, although! that “conscience” speech lined her up with such| Republicans a¥ George Alken of Vermont and] Wayne Morse of Oregon, it followed long and un-| swerving months of <sypport for such conserva-

liberal lines, while remaining a regular.- In the Senate, her recor

the traces on occasion.

tive measures. as the Taft-Hartley Act.

“So, esta and U. 8. with Margaret Chase Smith.

since the Democrats have made “their | lay for female attention with Ambassador Perle Treasurer Georgia Clark, it is not implausible that the GOP may counter |

Nease

So, What's Sin?

By Frederick C.

Othman

WASHINGTON, June 6--Today let us pity 28 hard-working gentlemen who stand foursquare against sin, Their problem is to define it. Then maybe they can do something about it. The trouble is that a cold chisél makes about’ the finest tool a burglar can carry. Useful for cracking safes, opening windows, and in emergencies, conking citizens on the head. So should Congress make the shipment of cold chisels in interstate commerce illegal? : The unhappy members of the Interstate Commerce Committee of the House, as one of them explained, face this same question in connection with a bill prohibiting movement of gambling devices across state lines. What is a gambling device? An automobile?

Electric Fan Roulette

DREW J. O'KEEFE, special assistant to the attorney general, said he didn't think so. Rep. John B. Benneft (R. Mich.) said anybody with a minimum of ingenuity could use a motor car for gambling purposes, - “And furthermore,” said he, “I know of two sailors aboard ship who took an electric fan, pasted numbers on_the blades, and used it for a kind of roulette wheel. They'd start it up, unplug it, and whichever number stopped at the top, won. Now would the attorney general want to prohibit the sale and shipment of electric fans?” Mr. O'Keefe said he doubted if Attorney General J. Howard McGrath weuld want to go that far. Then, demanded Rep. Bennett, what is a gambling device? : The -bald-headed Mr. O'Keefe scratched what

“was left of his hair, thought awhile, and said that

answering this was like trying to say what is sin. “Very difficult to pin down,” he added. That left the Congressmen about where they started a month ago, when the attorney general sent up a bill designed to put one-arm bandit slot machines out of business. It was as simple as that.

But a lawyer, of course, cannot say, a law: One-arm bandits. gambling devices, or similar mechanisms subject to conversion into gambling devices, So Mr. McGrath’s legal minds inserted the fancy language and the committeemen have been in trouble ever since.

simply, ih

He's got to call ’‘em|

The manufacturers of slot machines came first. They said they weren't public enemies, but public

benefactors, If it weren't for their nickel grabbers,

said they, many a lodge and club in America would

be bankrupt today.

About this time it turned out that officers’ clubs ‘in Army posts all over America used one-

arm bandits to finance their lounges.

tary of Defense ordered the Army

Brass, However,

to remove from the Pentagon the slot machines

engorging nickels there. So along

devices under the bill.

came a number of toy manufac-| turers to say that their makewheels and bagatelle boards would be criminal’ The punchboard men swore

believe roulette

that they manufactured their products for ad-

vertising purposes only.

The . association” of carnival

“operators said

what was Congress trying to do, wreck every |

county fair in America?

Get More Confused

SO THE COMMITTEEMEN kept on getting more confused. Some of ’em thought the local sheriffs ought to handle the slot machine problem: Rep. Charles A. Wolver-

with sledge hammers.

ton (R. N. J.) believed that a federal tax of, say,

$5000 a year on each one-arm bandit, should turn

the trick. A pin-ball lawyer sitting in

the front

everybody's right arm?” he muttered. My own guess is that Americans will be Sesiiig money into slot machines for some time to come That's because it's going to take the 28 com- It the “mitibule.” mitieemen from now until no-telling when to decide what, legally, is a sinful device.

Hoosier Calls Stalin World's Worst Dresser

In Trans-U. S.

An amateur Dp

Paul D. Gilbert of South. Be Ind. sald today that “a lot of the! world’s problenis would be solved !strom, Ban Pedro, if Joe Stalin would come overito Weir Cook ‘here and get himself a nice sum-, “Ter Suit, & good straw hat and a pair of brown and white shoes.” “His pictures indicate that he'd take a short stout size,” Mr. Gilbert—said.— “I believe we could make a satisfied customer out of| him.”

MR. GILBERT, president of the National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers, called Stalin “the worst dressed man on the international rcene” in a speech prepared for deli" ery be. fore the 26th annual conference of Better Business Bureaus, |

Coed Drowned " HUNTINGTON, Vt, June 6 (UP)-—Marjorie Grace Goeltz, 21, a University of Vermont coed

Indianapolis five Mr, Soderstrom

via Prescott, N..M.; Amarillo,

clerk to- Federal

|transcontinental speed record far “Irvin st — light aircraft flew over India ~ WASHINGTON, June 6 (UR) apolis this morning.

a,’ Auto Dealer Charles Soder-|

Beechcraft Bonanza, The City of]. San Pedro, at 3:52 p. m. (Indian|apolis Time) yesterday from an abandoned Navy airfield on nearby Terminal Island. He hoped to land at New York's LaGuardia field by noon today. | The- amateur pilot's route was Ariz.; Tucumecari,|-

Indianapolis and Pittsburgh.

i z " Steckler Names Clerk E. A. Steffen Jr, 5118 Carroll-| 4 ton Ave, today was’ ‘appointed law]

Speed Try

ilot seeking a

Calif., reported! airport control

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mintues earlier. took off in his

home will

sale in the

Tex, St. Louis,

District Judge!

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interest you

‘homes advertised for

classified col-

umns of today's Times under classification 43, | _. HOMES FOR BAL = EAST. Yes, folks," _ find a BIG SELECTION of homes for sale in the classified columns of The Times every day. . And over 1000 to choose from in the big REAL

from Verona, N. J. drowned yes- William E. Bteckler. Mr. Steffen ESTATE SECTION of terday when she slipped and be-{was graduated from Notre Dame The Sunday Times! Now cama wedged in a rock under a Sunday with the degree of doctor i its THE TIMES for JIubrunning stream. of Jurisprudence. : -. REAL ESTATE ADS,

front | iervice!

The Secre-|

row | had an even better idea. “Why not just cut ott

«(Paul — Gille,

By EDWIN | LUCK? Sure, plenty.

Amazing ‘Ability to Pick Right Men ~ For Key Spots Important Factor

C, HEINKE

That's all that Frank McKinney modestly credits for

his success.

But talk to some of his friends

sociates—like Tom Riddick,

Then luck will begin to

take a look at some of his better than two-score business ventures, deals that netted him from $10,000 to $150,000 with not a single loss..

“of the

take a back seat. In its place

you'll begin to find amazingly uncanny business sense,

brains, and the ability to select exactly the right men to

‘operate-his- ‘businesses: —

“Up at 1440 N. Meridian St. you will find a glittering

new building that - houses

Fidelity Trust.

Riddick’s, Mr. McKinney's

radio station WISH and a branch of Mr. McKinney's

The story of Thomas M. Riddick and the building that eost in excess of $500,

000 is the story of the phe-

nomenal growth of the Fidelity. He succeeded because a young banker named Frank Meltmrey. had faith in him.

piano salesmen in the U. 8.

TOM RIDDICK was 33 when he came here from New 2 Orleans in 1933. He had a reputation as one of the best

He held a couple of jobs selling Baldwin pianos and in 1939 he went into business for himself. In 1940 he was against the wall. He had to have credit to finance his

piano deals or he would go little stake he had piled up. "He went from bank to bank and asked for help in financing his contracts but

ous no -— until he walked into Frank McKinney's office. “Frank had faith in me." sald Mr, Riddick. “When I walked out of his office ‘IT had a small line of credit with the Fidelity Trust.” That money was incorporated into Mr. Riddick's own financing company in which thefe now are _hetween $375,000 and $400,000 worth of contracts: — The Riddick company is the largest Baldwin distributor in the nation, doing between $650,-

NESS a year. - r =»

OTHER. BANKS now seek Riddick business but the faith

‘the answer was a econtintie—— + oo

000 and $750,000 worth of bus!-

out of business and lose the

and trust that exist between

Frank McKinney and Owen Bush run just as strong between ' Tom Riddick Mr. McKinney. After Mr, Raa Mem pur- | chased the lot upon which he built his store, he went fo Mr. McKinney. “Frank, I've got an idea. I thought I would like to put in a shopping center here along with the piano store. What do you think?” { “I've got another idea,” Mr. McKinney. ‘I'm going to move WISH and start a drive-in bank. Why don’t we work this out together? “Do you want to go in on the building with me?” asked Mr, Riddick. “Look,” said Mr. McKinney, “Why should I break in on you? This is your nest egg, a monu- | ment to your success. I'll rent from you.” f “He could have dominated the entire deal,” sald Mr. Riddick. “I told him, ‘Frank, you've been awfully good to us’ and he said, ‘Why Tom, you've been good to us. You are one of the secrets of our success.”

” » » THROUGH HUNDREDS of other Tom Riddicks, in whom Frank McKinney had faih, Fidelity in 15 years grew 1500 per cent. The original capital and | surplus of $125,000 has

said

About People—

The business lives of a

Fidelity customer and Fidelity's president are intertwined. Tom Riddick’ s

$500,000 building also houses Mr, McKinney's WISH and a Fidelity branch,

grown to. $1,250,000 and the original resources of $1,900,000 has grown to $30 million.

“As these. companies. grew up, we grew with them. Like Riddick’s, they are our

staunchest supporters, our most substantial depositors,” sald Mr, McKinney. In 1941, Fidelity purchased the Marion County State “ank and merged it into the trust company, Mr. McKinney's last business deal was purchase of the Fidelity Trust building from Loew's Theater. It has been set up in trust for the McKinney children. In addition to his ne * drivein bank in the Riddick building, Mr. McKinney has other plans

for. Fidelity. Two other branches are included in future expansion.

In 1938, Mr. McKinney started to look into other fields from an investmont standpeint, In the little notebook in his desk he counted off 42 ventures, none

of which had ever netted him -

less than $10,000, the best deal bringing him $150,000.

Radiation Expert Says ‘Mitibule’ May Be Power for ‘Flying Teacup’

By OPA Ray Jackson says he's come

CROCKETT

up with a new subatomic particle

that can be used to power a “flying teacup, or saucer’s apprentice.” tRay, physicist at McGill University’s radiation laboratory in‘ Can8 ada, says he thought it up himself while chasing a wild goose. Calls

The mitibule has amazing properties including *

which means it weighs less when it is there than when it isn't. { Liquids - with mitibules in them ifcause lightheadedness when drunk—champagne haying lots of

mitibules, beer, some, ‘Because of | §

a mitibule’s negative mass and i repellent properties, the harder!

{you strike a mitibule the harder {it strikes back and in an expand-| that's |

like ours,’ All unfettered]

Hing universe | good, Ray says.

That, Ray said, is what keeps the| cosmos together. : ~ ” . Doris and Dolores Copeland, 19-year-old twins of Detroit, look, | and kiss identically: Melvin Sherman, Doris’ fiance.

1 cold. {alike,” he said. { »

* »

Holdenville, Okla.,

lof his plane. For four days, riow,

he's tried to rout an opossum|

mitibules fly off into space and | 8 ~universe

tor pel matter expanding toward it.|

Troubles ‘with animals started phone

negative mass

his munitions- blasted city today

with $330 he won on a radio quiz show.

Huminski

Mr. Flory Mr. H. ¥. Flory; 3540 N. Meridian

Ask St, retires July 1 gs district plant marriage. the! + x Melvin learned today that he American Telephone & Telegraph! dated Dolores when Doris had a Co. “Gosh, they even kiss .

superintendent here — for

R.. ¥. Huminski of Cleveland will replace him. - Mr, Flory has tele-

been in

[starting in Chicago.

‘dent.

He plans to move to his farm Farmer

{from almost inaccessible corners in Brown County soon.

‘of his Hower shop. 3 »

mit Amboy,

million recotistruction fund for Illinois. #

A dihner was given

Typical average business deal

"was the purchase of the Gus

Habig Co., now Tush-Calahan by Mr. McKinney and Bush for $25,000 in 1937, It had tripled in value when they sold it in May 1944, » » » BIGGEST DEAL In all his myriad ventures was organization of the Empire Tractor Co, of New- York, formed by Mr. McKinney, Frank McHale and a group of associates to manufacture small tractors.

Only 15 per cent Qf the output could be exported to any one foreign country by a Ae Argentine government wénted to buy the full production. The Awgentine government t h én bought out Empire. Some af the group held its stocks, saw it dwindle to less than » cants on the dollar, McKinney and McHale, however, soldat a 60 to 1 profit. “There ig an opportune time to sell,” sald Mr, McKinney. “You can't sit oan an egg too

long. Sometimes. it will not hatch.” In May, 1942, Mr. McKinney got a from Uncle 8am.

They wanted him to head up a section of the War Department's

Banker F McKinney id a Fidelity Sutteimar, Yom: Riddi ek.

new “Advance Payment Loan

‘Branch of the Army Finance Division,-to make loans to war contractors for the purpose of: processing war contracts where proper banking credits were not established. 2 He drew the largest area Federal Reserve's New York district.

$0.8 sash KING MIDAS was now work-

ing for the government. and.

his touch never failed. The *

U. B. loaned $11 billion to war contractors. The guaranty fees of a quarter of one per cent amounted to §7 million and the losses Incurred amounted to a little more than $1 million. So the operation netted the gov-

‘wound uw with “four big tae — tions, — =

to. the office of Contract

Rettlement, helping Uncle Sam .

“wind up his affairs by

as assistant administrator in

charge of interim une der Administrator Robert ~ Hinelkley; Mr: extensive radio holdings In the . West and since has become

“Ownie and. and Al__ tn id Bob Hinckley about and he said why don't you biuld “your own station? He told ma

In rapid Succession, Mr, McKinney and Mr. built WTHI in WKIG in Ft. Wayne and in Honolulu, They were process of dianapolis station

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“Honolulu station to a group ot

ernment a profit of $6 million,

tle only branch of the Army to make money during thé war for the government. At the end of the war, Mr, McKinney found himself in radio 'way over his head more than he ever intended to be. He planned a H00-watt sta. tion to broadcast Indianapolis Indians baseball games and

Islanders. When the “freeze” 1951, WISH will go into vision. Secret of making: success? “Put the Hest men in the jobs ~like George Higgins at WISH, Roy Hamey at the Pirates, young, aggressive bank officers at Fidelity—all outstanding men in their chosen fields.” “Do you know: something?" asked Mr McKinney. - “I've been inside of WISH just twice since I purchased it.” Tomorrow: Baseball.

off in

call . \

Charles Long, assistant profes-| sor of education at Indiana University since 1947, has been appointéd director of Pennsylvania State College Department of Ed-| ucation.-

” ” ”

Mrs. M. K. Petrovich, 1733 N. Méridian St, was honored - at senior eonvocation at Ball State

Teachers College; for having high scholastic average. Li » Elmer Bender, Marine master sergeant who for 19 months was a prisoner of the Chinese Com-

munists, re-enlisted today. He's assigned to the Marine Air Station at El Toro, Cal., and there

will wrife a story of his experiences ag a prisoner, n » os =—Mrs-Elin Halsey, 80010850 person to ask for a separation in his-

tory pf the New York Supreme

Court. has filed suit for separation’ ‘from her bricklayer husband, Charles, 75. Charged he -abused her throughout their 47 years of!

» » ~ Witiiam Kerschner's . dog shot him in the leg. He an Sandy, a hound, were returning from a fishing trip near Columbus, O., when Sandy leaped on

work nearly 38 years, the trigger of his master’s loaded Mrs. He came to rifle, florist, when a skunk hitched a Indianapolis in 1928 and 10 years Kerschner in the ley ride in the storage compartiignt later became plant superinten-|

the bullet

rtm

=n : whole’ train when McLean Walker of London moves: British Railways

”

Takes a

in Mr. gave him special train: yesterday “Flory's honor hy 200 friends and for his 40 cattle, horses, poultry, " | Mayor John *p. Leonard of business associates from Indiana, | furniture, farm implements, wife to offer a 4-H Club speaking con- GRANDMA, aw N. J, began a $1 New York, Ohio, Mighigan and and children, Making two stops|test this year, Harold Taylor, state club leader, has announced.

|—80 he can milk his* cows, -

Scientist Discovers Weird Atomic Particle

| Church Federation

To Show Special Film

{

|delphia explained when she tod-

dled into view as police and neigh-| bors searched for her.

“Mickey Waller's avitation 10/dinavian Countries,” “Behind ap

the Duke of Windsor to appear with him in a film has been turned down hy th Duke's lawyer, Mickey, one time bhoxin champion, In vited the Duke, his former goifing partner, to portray himself iri a scene of the Mr. Walker film, “The Toy Bulidog,? based

Lon=Mickey's Hie. ..

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iship of the Church Federation.

Around the world movies reently taken by the Rev. Robert Gemmer, Disciples of Christ min.

ister, will be shown to the pub-

lic at 7:30 p. m. today, tomorrow {and Thursday under the sponsor.

Today's showing entitled “Scan:

{Communist and Fascist Iron Curtains,” and “Britain and France”

{will be in the Second Presbyterian

1 :

{Church. Southern

Europe, the Holy

and and the Near East will be ep

{Thursday showing in Northwood Christian Church 3

“Gets 180-Day

cted In tomorrow's movies to

ibe given in the YMCA with the j| co-operation of the Fellowship: of

[Reconciliation. Missions in India, Burma, Siam, Hongkong, Japan, Korea and th i Philippines are the subjects

Ter

m The vidget O'S be an ob- In Stabbing y Wife

stacle in the path of marital bliss! rat least for awhile for Betty Lou St.

James Fort, 26, of 146 W, 21st was. convicted of stabbing

{Stewart and Robert G. Nielsen.'his wife, Quinella, and sentenced {They'll Te €ivé $2000 in wedding by Judge Alex Clark in Municipal

gifts and a five-day, exp ase-free Court 4 today to serve honeymoon to the Santa Ynez on the Indiana State F {Inn, near Santa Monica,” on the pay a fine of $500 and

|“Brige and Groom” program over

{ABC network at 2 p. m. tomor-

row,

Betty, 19, aughter of Mr. and 3558 clipping Mr. Guilford Ave.,'and Rob~rt, 21, son:

George W. Stewart,

tof Mrs. Sidney Nielsen, 3720 N. Indiana State Pennsylvania St., after the broad- Prison, cast will be married in the’ Holly-|

wood. Country Church. mothers will attend. ” Hie

} Indiana will be one of 21 states

ee i

eral Hospital after the last Tuesday, and was today. . He was charged with and battery. ; :

Mrs. Fort was treated at Gens

Fort was on parole from

On Jan. 1, 1046 he was sent ~