Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1950 — Page 2
By IRVING
wartime governor again,
ence,” he sa ‘But Korean ~~ conflict’ could change his status overnight. "As fighting mounted in the Far “ast the Governor examined the Hoosier scene this week—his 7 plans and problems, his fans and _ doubts. At 67, the Governor is in ‘good health. But he appears tired-— tired of a daily routine that would sap the strength of a much younger man. “Mrs. Schricker and IT ve had & busy life,” he said. “We'd like to take things a little easier.” © Began Humbly ‘+ Gov, Schricker reached his ‘present position from humble beginnings. His decisions .on is- _ sues ranging from public utilities to office routine "are careful weighed against his background as small-town lawyer, banker and pewspapermar. « Long in the public eye as state ~ senator, lieutenant governor and governor, the soft-spoken chief executive has an impressive political following. “ He is an intense, serious. confident man with ‘a vote- pulling personality Who “has “devoted great part, of ‘his adult life. to politics and public service. The record shows Gov. SchricRer to be a right-wing Democrat
easily
that would make the super “Fair Dear element of the party shud-
hpi His views, pretty well de defined, ‘often put him in league with s * Republican conservatives as Sen.| Homer E. Capshart of Indiana and Sen. Robert Taft of Ohlo. : ‘Not Stiff<Necked' ' “rm not a stiff-necked conservative,” the Governor protests. “My patron saint of politics was
Jefferson.” He Ros can become too conserva
with views on many questions
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‘Man in White Hat's’ Approach To Problems Is ‘Middle-of-Road’
LEIBOWITZ
Henry Frederick’ Schricker, Indiana’s war and poston gover-| nor, has one burping ambition —he doesn’t want to be the state's,
+ “Td be grateful to God Almighty if he spared me that experithe ite man with the white hair and white hat fears the
© Hank Schricker . . . right-wing Democrat.
o| Wears Beout pin mN lapel. His wife, the formér Maude L. Brown, has been urging him to retire for some time. Mr, and Mrs. Schricker reared two sons and a daughter, In Knox, intimates call the governor nor “Hapk"” or “Old Hickory.”
To Death on Ride
Foot Catches In Her Stirrup
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that overlap.
DEMOCRAT = =~ The Indiana platform dodges the controver- |
. farmers sell at high prices and | consumers buy af low cost, the taxpayer making up the dif--ference. It favors a broad program to “establish agricultural equality. and economic sta- |
DEMOCRAT tr Opposes. Ve: cious, unfair and discriminatory features of Taft-Hartley Law.” Repeal Utilities Compulsory Arbitration Act of 1947, “liberalize” compensation acts, REPUBLICAN -— Favors
DEMOCRAT — Medical care for all, irrespective of ability to Pay. Government to handle health program, but freedom of medical profession. Federal and
“More civil rights for ‘minority groups, Point -by-point comparisons follow:
FARMERS
| | slal Brannan plan whereby |
i Brannan plan as burden fo tax
but halt waste of surpluses, Op-
“necessary”
HEALTH
state aid for hospitals, health
x DEMOCRAT ee NO-HOW- State taxes. Oppose sales tax. Use state surplus for needed projects.
DEMOCRAT — Change state bonus law to encompass all veterans with 10 per cent dis. ability or over for special benefits. Pay bonus now to disabled vets and pext-of-kin of de-
COM ISM
DEMOCR “character as responsibly” bra Communist or Socialist.
opponents as
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tive, you can become too radical I guess I'm a niiddle-of-the-roader.” Here's the Governor's personal viewpoint on the chief topics ‘of the day. : NATIONAL "DEFENSE — He's “ tneaccord with President Truman's order to “call Russia's bluff” in the shooting war in Korea. He wants to call a council of war in Indiana with all Hoosier mill . tary and navai units participating along with civil defense groups. He believes the war situation now is critical. ROADS--The Governor wants to intensify the campaign against big trucks carrying overweight loads on the state’s crumbling ‘highway system. He has started a road building program and expects results this year. He doesn’t want to halt the building program because of the war. “America “cAn convert from peace to war| quickly,” he explains. TAXES AND BUDGET-—-Gov. Schricker believes everything. should be on a pay-as-you-go plan. He is a stickier for economy and a balanced budget. He opposes any new taxes “unless an emergency arises.” At present, he can’t see how the state can . cut any tax and keep the budget —paianced; ~The Governor has kept: Indiana's budget balanced and this week turned back an unspent $2 million earmarked for construction. His thinking on government spending: “You can't Dauitupt the country, neither can money: Last week; Jue ow 3 hoa ne ean for state workers.
‘Law because “it prevents crippling strikes in key plants that hurt everyone.” But he thinks it is too costly for both unions and man-
conservative” for many--of the: die-hard labor leaders but the workingmen like him fine. He has “a top-fight ~Iabordiviston that} has prevented a number of costly ~ strikes. ws = ROCEAL- SERVICES. camer A ONE Schricker’ regardd social security am as one of the most easential issues today. He believes; however, both employer and employee should contribute to worker's. fund “Security is. a fine thing,” he said, “we have to provide for everyone's retirement.” He sald nearly gveryone was agreed that a pensioned railroader was in good shape, “Now why shouldn't everyone have the same benefits in their old age?” OIVIL LIBERTIES-—The governor favors a voluntary version of the Fair Employment Practices Commission. He thinks ‘“preation. Bot by compulsory Taw” gation, not by compulsory law.”
LABOR-~He likes the current!
‘agement The Governor.-is.."100:.
Proposes Factory
land decided it was time to re- |
turn to the stable. They turned. horses bolted. . - » BUSY with his own mount, Mr, Ireland was unaware for a moment that his daughter was
Then both
in danger. Then he saw her horse galloping by. His daughter had been
subversives.
Communists, ~ fellow ~ travelers | and Red sympathizers from all | brafiches of government. Block i socialization as springboard for | communism,
U. S. Betrayed in
thrown. Her foot had caught in the stirrup and she was being dragged along the rough bridle path. Summoning all his horsemanship, Mr, Ireland got his mount under control ad started in pursuit, He bad covered half a mile before he could catch his daughter's plunging horse.
» » ” THE little girl was rushed to Bt. Vincent's HOSpItal, where | she died an hour later, News of the tragedy brought gloom fo. the pleasant Northeast Side neighborhood where Katherine lived. Her brilliant mind impressed the grownups. One of her adult friends sald she had the intelligence of a child of 12. She was popular with the children who lived rear by and with her schoolmates at the John Strange School where she would have entered the second | grade in September. HA
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SAID 10-year-old Larry Bate-
man Jr., 5408 Indianola Ave, |
4 struggling with. his grief: |
“I liked her. She didn't cheat | Bh RMER Then larry aug into “his pri- ! vate hoard of treasures and | produced his playmate’s picture | to lend to The Times. ~21. took it myself.” he. said... “Rgtherine was Dorn-in- onk-| Park, Iii. She had lved here { three and one-half years. t “Whe 18 Wurvived by Her PR % ents and a sister, Patricia Ann, 43%, her grandpazents, Mand | MIs ROW Tren and ME and Mrs. John H. Shay, Wests | ern Springs, 111. Private funeral services will be held in the Flanner & Bu- | chanan Mortuary. bé in Crown Hill
For Older Workers CLEVELAND, July 1 (UP)—A| Cleveland manufacturer hopes to| reverse the usual trend in personnel handling and hire only men {more than 50.years old in his| machine tool factory. : George 8. Boyd is looking for a
CS-~The governor will end his formal life in politics when his terms as governor expires in January, 1953. But he says he will keep his interest in
~_paigner. In 1940, Gov, Bchricker| captured the governdrship when ive state offices,
tories, and now he wants one of his own.
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Democratic politics. The governor, SOUTHAMPTON, England. year-old son of Mr. 48 a tireless and impressive cam- July 1 (UP)--The British Steam. George :Spatieder, suffered a fracer Hythe radiod an” 808. from tured : #kull last ‘night when he
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Korea, Says Ex-Gi
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backing, more than any other, foreign nation had ever done. “Weapons were available in: Korea and we could hav~ armed; them if Washington had just given. {us the word. There was an enor-|
rendered material on hand and there was a limitless amount in} Japan, all of which we could!
had permitted, “In addition, the southern Koreans were seélf- -gufficient, had’ plenty of food which was necessary for the army, Koreans had no: . “Washington knew “what was! going on—State Department men, came to Korea, but knowing that! {the situation was tense, orders {still came through forbidding the’ luse of arms.’ Finally the State Department. {permitted formation of a small, {unarmed constabulary, later per-
U. 8. moved out of Korea an army, {was permitted “which was not {so much as an army as it was a better armed sonstabulary,” ac-| loording to-Mr-Bray——
4meager. artillery, {guns and are four years behind,” | isaid Mr. Bray.
AS a. result of our bungling | FT
“Korea, thousands of who were loyal and to the ©. 8, will be by the Communists,” Mr. Bray charged;
Fpolicy in | Koreans,
§: will be murdered. | “It was the ‘same policy, either {ignorant or dishonest, that sold lus down the river at Yalta, the isame policy, that betraved Chiang {Kai-shek, that now has betrayed American interests in Korea. | “It wasn't the Democratic Par-ty-—rather it wis the leeches, imen the type of Alger Hiss, who, | dominated the Nemocratic Party.
backer for the factory, At 63, he and the State Department. has a lifetime of fine tool-making| “It is a terrible, unbelievable behind him in other men's Sno] situation.”
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REPUBLICAN ~ Oust all |
TAXES
VETERANS
{mous quantity of Japanese sur-
{have had if the Btate Department; ;
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“HRCTYRe DIET “They still have no tanks, véry! Ao.anti-tank Ro
in ‘Everybody in Korea who stood {up for the U.
appeal called Bee Expert T. Mal-in the yard at his home, 1572 BE. J colm to remove a swarm of bees 52nd St. The boy was taken to {clustered on the Hythe's steam-| St. Vincent's hospital in fair con-!
_ [Comparison “of ‘Here is a comparison, point by point, of the Democratic and Republican platforms adopted by delegates at the state conventions’ last week. A unique plank of the Hoosier GOP was bijection of morals into the campaign for loyalty in government. The Republicans pointed to-homosexuals in the State Depart- — ment, saying that perverts are poor security risks. In other important fields, platforms of both parties agree in principle although sometimes bickering. about methods and applications. These united fronts include:
Forceful action and U. 8. Jleadetship in world affairs. “Greater efficiency in govern rim
tary basis.
vets disabled over 10 per cent.
method of stopping Russian imperialism.
DEMOCRAT — Eliminate all discriminations due to race, color, creed, national origin or sex. Push education against discrimination. Support Indiana. | Fair Employment P Act and national legislation.
DEMOCRAT Halt overlap laping and duplication. - Make { study of problems, REPUBLICAN — Advocates bility.” Favors control of surpluses, expansion of marketing agreements and increased sales abroad. REPUBLICAN — Opposes
DEMOCRAT Free competition that meets interests of all people. Fight special privileges and ‘monopolies.
REPUBLICAN -— Free enterprise except where it hurts
| payer and road to nationaliza- | tion. Continue price supports
poses planned scarcity,
DEMOCRAT — Local governments can hest solve community problems. State funds should
changes in T-H Law to protect bagic rights of
labor. Protect U. 8. labor mar- ) : ket, presumably, by tariffs be rors equiany Sletitoutad against foreign goods. Permit Broaden local sources of tax work by aged and handicapped revenue. Use U: 8. census for
receiving compensation.
départments. REPUBLICAN — Improve | health program, but on volun- | Vigorously Gpposes | compulsory health plan controlled by government.
highw, ay funds.
REPEBLICAN — No new taxes and cut some old. Stay within state budget. X
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ceased veterans. REPUBLICAN -— Pay state: bonus to veterans as soon as possible. Pay dependents-of deceased veterans and to those
‘of a dynamic democracy.”
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— Firm forand strong defense. Use United Nations veto to | protect U. 8. interests. Regain initiative in Asia, Latin Amer}. ca and Europe.
REPUBLICAN — Enact and enforce law against discrimina~ tio. Abolish poll tax. Promote education for, equality. Con‘demns Democrats for “not rh out intended purpose” [to
i oe of State Fair Employment |¥\The party was driven from thelgot the first dance with Mrs, .
Practices A
more efficient and less expensive government at ‘all levels, set up Little Hoover Commis. sion in Indiana.
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common good. Tariffs to pro-. tect against unfair foreign competition. Repeal wartime excise taxes and cut taxes on small business. Opposes privilege tax on products manufactured in Indians.
American ors Cheer Singers at O w Givenby U, S. Minister in Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG CITY, July 1 {UP)—More than 400 Americans crowded into the largest club in Lusembours tonight to Dear the Purdue Varsity Glee Club. a» The club's singing was the main ‘féature of the fourth : open-house party given by Mrs. Perle Mesta, United States minister to the Grand Duchy. - . The club, headed by Albert Py Stewart, arrived aboard two U. 8. Then the singers gave three Air Force planes from Heidel- cheers for the minister and sang erg earlier today and flew back “On the Banks of the Wabash.” Germany shortly after the Dance music followed. Cpl Kern of New York City
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Wo busses Tre Purdue Officials Prese Book Projector ident of the lof Commerce, accompanied the! To State Library
United States flags and banners| which read: “The American Legation Welcomes the Purdue oa ror on S to Lixembourg.” Frank C. Hockema, oe vice president, E. B. Baugh, ae Purdue sociation, and J. G. an ed] ident of the Lafayette Chamber Device Will Be Given Siub, | A ceiling book fil tor 1 Before singing, members of ceiling book film projector . for
“the club were served sandwiches, Use of bedridden persons will be
including women. | ‘REPUBLICAN — Return to. states those powers usurped by federal government. Reduce state controls over cities, counties, townships.
HIGHWAYS 2
Both parties favor road improvements and segregation of Bit of Heaven.” Mr. Tam | |afferwards that the most exciting
= CONSERVATION |
Both favor continued conservation, expanded flood control, and fight against water pollution.
"EDUCATION |
Both support -efforts for improving facilities and attracting “good teachers. Democrats favor consolidation and federal school |
Summarizing, the Democratic platform seeks “a continuing {Mesta for her reception and pre- companied expanding national economy within the framework of a success- sented her with an anvil-shaped Shaffer, Ft. Wayne, state presful system of free enterprise and under the protective covering | paper weight engraved “Purdue.” ident.
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