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House Spel Its Vote on Rent Control
June 13 ((UP)—Democratic leaders predicted today | that the | House will follow the Senate's lead and approve 'a watered- | down rent control extension bill. Opponents insisted that Swe! have a good chance to win.”
Both sides agreed on one thing that the vote will be close.
With present controls expiring|
In about two weeks, the lerdership put the bill' or the House schedule for immediate action. They
" Vote 86-0 28... The Senate late yesterday beat]
"kill controls and voted, 36 to 28, to continue them through ' Dec. 31 and by “local option” wuntil ‘June 30, 1051. Localities wanting federal control until mid-1951 will have to ask for it through ‘heir ‘local governing bodies. Except where such affirmative action in taken, the government will step out of
taken late “today ‘or *fomorrow.
relations subcommitfee, was opinion. The citation, if voted, would result from Mr, Jaffe's irefusal to discuss the case at ‘a closed session yesterday; He said any statement 'on.his part might be self<incriminating. Mr, Jaffe was managing editor of the magazine Amerasia when FBI and OSS agents raided i po he 1 045 aNd thousands of classified govern.
ment documents. i... The -resulting Inve cation
Amerasia Probers Seek to Cite Jaffe On Contempt Charge Key Figure Refused to Bare Red Ties; oh WASHINGTON, June. 13. (UP) ue Samate. Communist. investigators today studied the possibilities of a contempt citation against Philip J. Jaffe, key gure of the 1045
Amerasia stolen documents case. Edward P. Morgan, counsel for a Senate foreign
ordered wo draw Lup a legal
Capehart Files Amerasia Demand
Seeks Investigation In Resolution mi By DAN KIDNEY
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WASHINGTON, Toa 13—8en.| THomer 8. -Capehart- CR Ind) tos
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=g-eertain-lottery-schemso- and:
Lottery Case Ruling Upset By High Court
“Decision Paves gost Way -for-Another ARI McNulty Trial The Indiana Supreme Court today reversed a Marion County Criminal Court action
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dismissing gambling indict ments in the reported $1 million McNulty Jottery case.
The Hoosier “high Sourt | fuling, in effect paved the way for prose-| cution of a new : against Edward R. McNulty, Thomas R. McNulty, Ralph Hitch, William B. Miller and Hugh Flynn. The five Indianapolis ‘men were! charged in’ 17 indictments with | : “unlawfully making and drawing |
|enterprise known as the five 3-out-| ef-foar-Friday- noon: Eg and POO
ended with" the arrest Mr. Jaffe, two State Dipertmant of} ficials, ‘a naval officer and two {contributors to the publication. |All were charged with illegal] possession of the documents. Mr. Jaffe pleaded guilty and was fined $2500. Emmanuel 8. Larsen, ‘a State Department Far Eastern expert, decided not to contest the charge and was fined
the rent business at the end of|§500,
this “year. . President Truman had asked ’ for a straight one-year extension o. the preser: law. But Chairman Brent Spence (D. Ky.), of the House Banking
‘the Congress was in r keep extending the law, He came up with the six-month extension and “local option” provision as the only practical solution to the problem, - House Approval Seen Under Mr. Spence’s proposal, focal governing bodies will com tinue to have the authority to take themselves out from under federal rent control at any time. Many cities, as well as some |- states, already have exercised the | option, Mr. Spence told reporters he believed the House would approve. But he added that “I ex pect it will be fairly close.” Democratic Leader John W. McCormack, Mass,
the administration has But he, too, thought it might be lout, the Senate 30 rats
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The other four were not prosecuted and Republicans frequently have charged that the .affairs was whitewashed. ‘The subcommittee. still was waiting for the Justice Depart:meRt. to: supply-excerpts. late James X., Forrestal's diary in its effort to determine who, if anyone, ordered a delay in the arrests, Mr. Forrestal at the. time was Secretary of the Navy. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported last night that the diary itself lock and key at the White House” as widely reported. assistant publisher, Eugene Duffield who was Mr. Forrestal's assistant from November, 1942, until January, 1946.
from the diary which shows that Mr. Forrestal “did not ask anyone to delay the case.” His only interest, it said, was see that President Truman
from the Wherry: Severah other signatures;
It said it is in the hands of its
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tution fora “full and ¢ mplete” investigation of the Justice De-
Indicted in 1949
partment’s conduct in the Amera-| sia case. Under the proposal of Sen, Cape-| {hart, the investigation would be made by a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee of; {which Sen, Pat MeCarran (Di {Nev,) is chairman. Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.), who is a Judiciary: Committee member, joined in the Capehart resolution. S80 did Republican Senators Ferguson, Martin, Brewster, Bricker, Mundt, Bridges, Cain, Watkins, Dworshak, Malone, McCarthy, Butler. and
also are expected Sen. Capehart said. A Senate armed services sub-| committee, under the chairmanship of Sen, Millard (D. Md.), is now looking into the Amerasia case, as it has the charges of Sen. Joseph R. MeCarthy of al|leged Reds in the State Department. : Capehart’s Statement Since the Tydings committee {activities are being carried oni {under a special Senate resolution
The newspaper said Mr. Duffield | charging it with a State Depart- Supreme Court's opinion. has sent the committee a page ment investigation, Sen. Capehart! Two of the defendants, Thomas
wants a judiciary subcommittee
ment’s activities in the Amerasial case,
was informed of the thefts and the possibility the arrests would “embarrass” him in negotiations
Sen. Capehart said:
10 million men and women who
{the Supreme Court.
to investigate the Justice Depart- { dianapolis attorneys.
In presenting the esolution, owner. Mr. Flynn is a bookkeéper, | “It is on behalf of more than | the NY oe grossed ap-|
The Marion County grand jury, # acting under supervision of Prose-!§ teutor Dalley, indicted the five men early ‘in 1949. Two other lottery appeals, charging that the defendants had ian {illegal place of business in|® {Marion County, were dismissed by|
The case, instituted by Prose-{ cutor Dalley, resulted in a total of 19 indictments by the grand jury. Criminal Court Judge William: D. Bain threw out the indictments on the theory that the prosecution. Lalled. to. charge 2.Srim offense.” Prosecutor Dailey appealed the finding to the Supreme Court and was upheld. In an opinion written by Jus-| tice Oliver Starr; the Supreme! Court said: ’ | “eW conclude that each of these] lottery indictments states a pub-| lic offense with sufficient ep. tainty.” Two Are Attorneys
~The trial court was otdered to proceed in accordance with the
A small boy, a a trée and iff and Mrs. Emiel Kyser visit their son, vacation season's
| first tree- climbing victim,
Forbidden Play In Tree Sends Boy fo Hospital
Eight-year-old Stanley Kyser's|
| McNulty and Mr, Miller, are In-’
Mr. Hitch is a bondsman and, Edward McNulty is a tavern
Police officials have estimated gq ther dust in the closet for
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=a ‘six Republicans wvotédd for ~the-—extension. Five Democrats: and 23 Republicans opposed it.| “7 Sens. Homer EK. Capehart and William E. Jenner, Indiana Republicans, voted against the extension. -
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‘with the Russians at the foundsessions of the United Na-.
Judge Harris
Remington Pleads Not Guilty
NEW YORK, June 13 (UP)—| William W. Remington, former) Department of Commerce economist, pleaded Innocent today to a charge that he lied when he denied ever having been a member of the Communist Party. Federal Judge John W, Cnacy granted Mr. Remington two days to arrange bail of $5000. He was paroled in the custody of his attorney, Bethuel Webster, for that period. U. 8. Attorney Irving H. Saypol told the court the government would move July 5 to fix the dats of. trial, If convicted, Mr. Remington would face a maximum five-year prison term and fine of $2000,
CZECH WINS ASYLUM WASHINGTON, June 13 (UP) ~The United States today granted political asylum to Viadimir Houdek, resigned Czechoslovak representative at the United Na- © tions. He quit May 16 and asked
Ruled in Contempt
offered their Tives—thousands of [ (Contintied oh Pag "=08l.” 1]
Hush-Hush Falls On Amerasia Jury
By FREDERICK WOLTMAN Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
State Supreme Court! Orders His Arrest
Sullivan Circuit Judge Norval K. Harris was found guilty of contempt of the Indiana Supreme Court today. He was ordered -arrested, The court sheriff left immediately for Sullivan, 80 miles southwest of Indianapolis, to bring him here for judgment. Attorney General J. Emmett McManamon’s office, meanwhile, prepared proceedings to disbar Judge Harris, The maximum penalty ‘the Supreme, Court can mete out under the contempt proceeding is $500 and a six-month jail sentence. In an opinion written by Justice Oliver Starr of Gary, the high court ruled that Harris “wilfully disobeyed” a March order prohibiting Harris from appointing a special prosecutor to
NEW YORK, June 13 The ustice Department has finally trained its heavy artillery-on the {runaway grand jury which began! delving into the Amerasia case the last few Weeks of its exist ence. Peyton Ford, No. 2 man in the Attorney General's office, p-| peared yesterday before the i under extraordinary hush-hush circumstances. His presence from Washington! was - discovered accidentally - by reporters. To avoid them, the chief assistant fo ‘Atforney General J. Howard McGrath used back stairways in the U. 8. sourt house here. Then, when _reporters were posted on back stairway landings above and below the grand jury floor, the elusive Mr, Ford rode on an out-of-the-way elevator reserved for the judges. He ignored formal requests left by the reporters to talk with them. Also hovering in the background yesterday was Assistant Attorney General James M, Moto|Inerney, the (department's chief
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President Truman for asylum,
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_Thayer Slaying Termed Outgrowih of Robbery Plan
- Missouri Sheriff
Cites ‘Confessions’
A rendezvous for robbery grew Into murder, Missouri -authorities said today after taking statements from three confessed killers of Albert M. Thayer. Sheriff Glenn Hendrix, Springfield, Mo., revealed the three Indianapolis hoodlums, two of them in their teens, had planned to rob the prominent Indianapolis attorney and flee to California in his car. The oldest culprit arranged a
meeting with the victim; with rob-
bery as the motive, authorities / quoted the trio. Their plans were blocked when the stolen ear crashed into a truck near Springfield, killing the truck driver, ’ Sheriff Hendrix said the youths told him they had planned a stickup for some time. Carrol Dooley, 25, of 1328 Central Ave., told the other youths he knew an “easy way,” the sheriff said. Named Thayer
former Indianapolis attorney. Dooley classed him as a “soft
“touch” for robbery, the sheriff
said.
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Burton's Status Remains Serious
Pelvis Broken In Jail Plunge
summer, Vacation started ¥Friday. { Stanley's father, Deputy Sheriff | ‘Emiel Kyser, gat his son the new! = baseball glove yesterday. Stanley! hasn't séen it yet, pe
Another Story y, Page 2 Charles Burton, accused ¢ abductor of his estranged wife, re- ley lives in an apartment. When mained in sérious condition in|? Neighbor offered to take him to General Hospital after attempting | the park with her children, Mrs. suicide in a leap at the Marion KYSer was pleased. {County jail yesterday. Tree for Climbing Burton suffered a broken pelvis, Stanley and his friends soon and an injured right hand when found a tree near the creek bank he vaulted over a third-floor cell | that looked as though it needed block railing from a chow Hines good climbing, His parents had early yesterday afternoon. {warned him about trees, but this Meanwhile, Prosecutor George one just invited climbing. against, Burton, who surrenderod| Then he remembered what his to local authorities late Sunday parsnts Bud quia. He started to night after a four-day “tour of| Maybe he slipped, maybe a terror” through five states. branch broks or he lost his bal: He had left town while on $1500 bond on a morals charge. The| bond was increased at yesterday's
hearing to $20,000. terrific pain in the back of his Milton Siegel, attorney for Bur- peaq Ra right elbow. His chest ton, today sald he had farmu- wes cut and bleeding and the lated no immediate plans for fur- | {doctor was cutting his shirt off,
ther action in the case. | Gosh—and school’s just out, too. 38° “I haven't even seen my client, » | i
the attorney said,
The next thing Stanley knew he was on the-creek bank wi
-| Jerry Roporied: __ Better, Put on. ‘Serious List’
I= LEUKEMIA victim Jerry Dun-| {away was reported “slightly. im-| {proved” today. His mother said 7 ry is feeling better. St. Vincent's Hospital reportéd Jerry now on § |the “serious” lst, He was listed “critical” last week. Yesterday Jerry felt well {enough to go to the hospital sun-! room to take part in a quiet little birthday party for his father, | Earl Dunaway. Doctors have discontinued ad--iministration of drugs temporarily, f{Treatment with “wonder drug”) [ACTH in a New York hospital {early this year effected temporary! remission in the progress of the incurable cancer of the blood. But he subsequently became resistant . {to the drug,
” o » MEANWHILE, in |Canada, today, Harold Kravetsky, {4-year-old leukemia sufferer who {was Yerry's friend in New York | Bellevue Hospital, started back t {New York for more ACTH. {| As of last Sunday Harold was. ithe only leukemia patient treated \at’ the same time as Jerry who (had not relapsed. However, tests iyesterday revealed a slight re-| lapse and arrangements wers {made for Harold to return to New|
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r. Indiana officials question- | . Ryan, Marion County dep- | ator Floyd L Leslie. Seated (left Sheriff Carey Davis and
LOCAL TEMPERATURES | 6a m..63 10a m.. 7 Ta m.. 65 11 a m.. 70 8 a.m... 66 12 (Noon) 684 A Wes 80 Lune 88
new “DASEDAIT ‘Mitt “is going tol
[doth a ind Fall Creek Parkway yes- timates by township
gy ¥ the first of the more thah erty is in Center Township, It {60,000 local schoolchildren noW|includes improvements that own- |, on vacation to be so injured this ers neglected to list before and!
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Untaxed Property Set at $25 Mil
Unassessed Land
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County Officiels. re
Gun Cache
gt Teained. fa-Skills of dam
army,”
INaine It, We'll Get no , Slogan of Boys 14 to 19;
Gang Called Itself ‘Bloady Brigade’;
equipped with semiautomatic rifies, pistols and knives, was declared “defeated and disbanded” today b§j city and county authorities here. | About 30 youths, members of their self-styled “Bloody Brigade,” terrorized this small farm community with 8
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series of commando-like raids for seven months until one
city police last month, led by a {former National Guardsman, the “teen troopers” were drilled in military science and tactics. They were termed expert rifie and pistol marksmen.|® Their ages anged from 14 to 19. Composed. of . small... compact) mbat teams, ” the Bloody Brigadiers specialized in theft of. automobile aocessories. Thay be gan branching out to night raids on parked automobiles three months ago when they found pl caught on side roads hesitated to make reports to the police,
Falled to Deliver Downfall--of the “army,” called a {criminal network,” by Tipton [County Prosecutor Howard L. | Whitetotton, came when one of {the younger units failed to per. oe a “mission”--stealing gaso- 1 ne
Under questio by Police Chiet William —— the youths
teen-age
moderate income to weal
“tull-fledged |
flies. One of the boys ts &
tive of a highly.respected official,
Only when the case was broken and the seven
pleaded guilty, did Jrottouiol Whitecotion plece together
ratio tthe Erp
code was stripped by rades, tied to a pipe in ment of a home and beaten. of the ring feaders took punching him while threatened to cut his throat a huge bowie knife, :
Town Takes Stock
Although the teen army used Tipton as its base of the combat teams were 3 to sufrounding towns and county * roads,
0 th of nn Hasson 6 ioe
Nearly $3 million of this prop-
|property that for some reason has never been on the tax roles, Tn Warren Township, Assessor Merrill J, Woods said: “We have found about $200,000! (worth of property that has never
Like many city children, Stan- been on the roles, Some of it was Majority of the youths were folerror, some by lowers and not involved in the {actual operations of the “army” In Decatur Township, Trustee except to haul equipment and run
left off accident.”
Herbert H., Edwards said:
“We are finding a lot of un-| listed property, but it is. impos chine gun, reported to be one of
sible to make an estimate at this time, Most of our taxable prop-|
olis Power and Light,Co. plant,| and its taxes won't increase much.”
Meanwhile Assessors werd
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HOPES RISE FOR | BU SHMAN CHICAGO, June 13 (UP) — Lincoln Park officials hoped today that Bushman, thelr prize and ailing boarder, may be on the! road to recovery. The 22- ~year-old| gorilla was stricken with a heart! attack, arthritis, and plain old age last Thursday.
The bandit brigade, using the motto “You name it, we'll get it,” traded their loot in Kokomo! istores. Police haven't | charges against a Howard County gunsmith who traded guna with the youths and fixed their | weapons,
The prosecutor's office BAYS the,
errands for the leaders. An Army Thompson subma-
the weapons of the “army,” has not been recovered, Two youths
{Bloody Brigade used the weapon on raids but later hid it. 6 Questioned Although 16 youths were ques; {tioned, only seven were involved in’ direct thefts, the prosecutor's office sald, The boys were charged {with stealing and receiving stolen goods, = Parents of the youths insisted | in Tipton Juvenile Court that |“the boys were interested in the guns but only traded for the loot.” 1 ! All of the youths came from
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a driver's license,
spread quickly over the |side, the boys were shiglded by the prosecutor and police. fromy having their names used publigly,
cials insist the teen-age
ing. to have one as a “public nuisance”
learned teen-age youths gathex there,
described the boys as “hot-bloode ed,” {where their “crime orgy” have ended. : surrounding territory claimed the arrest of the on
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Circuit Court. Judge
San Kept Secret The drivers licenses of several
“Another father showed more nterest in the guns than In hig own son,” the prosecutor sald,
While news of the teen-age army
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