Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1950 — Page 1
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Up 9 Carriers, 39 Warships;
Record-Smashing Tax Predicted as Congress Hears Economic Report
Truman Warns U. S.
“To Help World Stave Off Aggression _. .
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Highlights of Message, Page 17
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP) — President Truman
came close today to a pay-as
-we-go pledge for the hot-cold|
war in a mid-year economic report to Congress which fore-
shadowed record-smashing new taxes.
His Council of Economic Advisers in their own report
"urged that most or all of the President Truman also told Congress that the American economy can stand the strain of the Korean war with full cooperation from industry, labor and consumers, He called on industry to boost production; cautioned consumers to buy normally, and urged labor to avid any inflationary wage demands. Such “unity in our economic affairs,” he said would preclude the need for direct controls over production, wages and prices. He and his economic council rejected the arguments of men such as Bernard Baruch that those rigid controls are needed
deficit be wiped out.
Bl Mlowances Coming Back
Living Costs May Up
Dependency Payments
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP) —Dependency allowances for families of servicemen are coming back--probably soon, Congressional sources said revival of the draft and recall of! the Reserves make this necessary. When military service is
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statements by the policemen, the!
‘Fuller Probe’ In Beating
Wants Both Sides’ Of Report of Prisoner Abuse Mayor Feeney .today directed Police Chief Rouls to
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tigation of an incident in|
which two patrolmen are ac-| cused Jf letting their pris
oner be beaten. Answering Chief Rouls’ report on the police probe, Mayor Feeney indicated he was diss ‘tisfied be-| cause the chief had not checke into both sides .of the story. He suggested Chief Rouls obtain statements from three witnesses who said two patrolmen held the prisoner while two citizens beat him. Although police investigated the incident for a full week, they neglected to contact the witnesses, all employees of The Times advertising department, Police Report The police report consisted of]
Lafayette GI Reported Missing
Wounded in Korea, 1st Lt, George Smith, Bicknell, and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur P. Fuller, 612 E. 13th St., was in critical condition in Tokyo General Hospital, at last reports, In a letter received yesterday from his wife, Mrs. Jane Smith, who is in Tokyo with their daughter, Nancy, Lt. Smith is reported
make a more complete inves-| paralyzed from the waist down,
He was in a tank battalion that engaged the Communists two weeks ago. > A native of Bicknell, where his parents live, he saw action in the Pacific Theater during World: War II. - Soldier Missing Pvt. Tommie VanCleave, 21, of Lafayette, in the 24th Infantry Division, is reported as missing in Korea. <,
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mil- Mrs. Harry Lingenfelter, 3318 E. on all fronts, but did not mention ton VanCleave, last night re- 25th St. by long distance phone the fighting in the new sector ceived a telegram from the War that
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Feeney Orders Bicknell Tank Officer Yanks Smash Navy Woundedin
On S. Coast
Capture Hadong As 5th Air Force Spreads Umbrella
By EARNEST HOBERECHT
United Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Thursday, July 27
Tanks
avy Gets 1100 Planes; Korea War \t Red Prong London Puts Royal Fleet i " In Far East on War Basis
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‘War at a Glance
nited Press
WASHINGTON — U. S. pulls nine more carriers and 39
other warships out of mothballs for Korean duty; mili tary spokesmen reveals Red guerrillas have been spotted
outside Pusan, Allied sea
base.
\— American troops today TOKYO—Yanks stage surprise smash at Reds threatening
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opened a surprise counter-at-| tack on the Korean south coast to save the port of Pu-
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Ist Lt. George Smith
mann, Lafayette, told an aunt,
Pvt. VanCleave had gone
They were reported to have captured Hadong astride the coastal road. | Gen. Douglas MacArthur's midnight war summary said Communist forces kept heavy pressure
where U. 8. infantrymen went
Department saying he has been to Korea several weeks ago. He into action to.check North Kor-
missing since July 12, His sister, Mrs. Jewel McCli-
Traffic Gop for Red Smashers—
was in the Bat-
talion,
21st . Infantry
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ean forces racing eastward within 75 miles of Pusan. But “U. 8. Fifth Air Force headquarters announced that the Americans coast ports with the support of rocket firing jet fighters,
Hadong on Fire
had attacked south —
Pusan flank on the West.
Unconfirmed report states
Reds chased out of Hadong, 73 miles from Pusan; F-80 Shooting Stars furnish air umbrella for assault; Gen. MacArthur calls situation on Northern front stabilized and “optimistic”; Pusan beachhead easy to protect,
he says.
AT THE FRONT—Advancing Reds drive retreating U. 8,
1st Cavalry and 25th Divisions back three to five miles,
sweep around flank towa
strength to Korea; Adm on war footing.
rd Pusan.
LONDON—Britain to send ground troops of undisclosed
iralty puts Far Eastern Fleet
UNITED NATIONS—Turkey, Australia, New Zealand and
Thailand pledge ground troops for the war in Korea.
More Promised If Need Arises
5 Submarines
| Out of Mothballs
now. Jo {forced, rather than voluntary, men who are accused of beating But It’s Not All {the government must help care the prisoner, and by witnesses! Mr, Truman gave Congress for dependents. other than those who made the four specific recommendations, Chairman Carl Vinson (D. accusation. Mayor Feeney said he all of which had been made pub- Ga.) said the House Armed 'was not at liberty to disclose the lic previously: {Services Committee will take up names of the witnesses interA $5 billion Interim tax pro-/the problem promptly, probably viewed by police. gram; credit control authority; next week. He said new allow-| The Times employees who wit-: allocation controls, and a loan ances will be much like those of nessed the incident are Louis D.| program to promote industrial World War II, except that they Young, George Girdler and Wil-/ expansion. {may be higher to take care of liam Engler. | But he warned that this pro- higher living costs, Accused of permitting two gram is not all that will be asked! pe Pentagon was 4 parking lot attendants to beat] of the American people, preparing its own proposal their prisoner are Patrolmen The Council's report to | World War II ? Jack Corydon and William Clark. President which he relayed to Ord Wer If dependency allow: |The prisoner, Walter Hendren, Congress warned of the dangers? , SEpire ast October, except 30, has been charged on separate! of Tutaon and Calid Tor “a/,CL, ATE, JioTielons, men counts with iscriery conduct i and drastic increase in! umber of Then. : {and assault and battery. - i
i Chief Rouls submitted. his reEstimates that the new tax Pay Secdle Boosted /port to the mayor yesterday.
load would be around $10 billion! oongress killed the dependency | Feeney's Reply annually probably will have 10 penefits at the same time that it! Text of Mayor Feeney's reply be revised upward. {put into effect a new and higherifollows: “The heavier expenditures which peacetime pay scale for men in “This will acknowledge folder we are now undertaking,” the gervice, containing officers’ special reCouncil said, “will not end ‘when During most of World War II ports, witnesses’ statements, telethe mandate of the United Na- enlisted men's pay ranged from type reports and voluntary state-| tions has been enforced in Korea. |$50 per- month for the private to ments and letters from respon-| “We are striving to avoid a/$138 for the master sergeant. gible citizens, all of which pertain major war, but there may bel A GI's wife got a monthly check | to the arrest of a Walter Hendren, other alarms and possibly other ror $50; a wife and one child got | July 18, 1950. | attacks, and we must: be prepared $30; each extra child raised the! ‘These statements and reports to meet them no matter how long check by $20. A dependent parent/are at such complete variance]
The first assault set fire to Hadong, 73 miles west of Pusan, and a headquarters spokesman said the Americans were reported to have captured it later.
| LONDON, July 26 (UP)—| WASHINGTON, July 28 ‘Britain announced today that (UP) — Chairman Carl Vin. her Far Eastern fleet is being son of the House Armed Servv ‘built up to full war strength, ices Committee announced toArnieaman a Gen Me and promised to send infan: day that the Navy is prepare identify the American units fight- try, tanks and artillery to re- ing to put nine more aircraft ing on the south coast. |inforce the hard-pressed U, 8. 8th carriers into service along with 39
Explains Unconcern | . Army in Korea, {other warships. ‘passed
But it was believed here they u he ight be troops which hadgbeen| The Admiralty SRuounced that) yfeanwhile, the Senate pa the Poston of held in reserve until now to see| "° carriers, car 5
Who Helps Them Blast Foe |
His ‘Give Aways’ Are Positions of Enemy Tanks and Artillery; Saves U. S. Lives, Too
By PETER KALISCHER, United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE 1ST CAVALRY DIVISION IN KOREA, July 26 ~-A “radio announcer” with a soft southern drawl is the master of ceremonies of the radio show which some GIs will remember | as their favorite “giveaway’” program of all time. { 1st Lt. Waiter H. Bryan, Columbus, Ala. uses the nom de |m microphone of “Andy George.” He “gives away
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| TYIDg ang re to the enemy tanks and artillery to ~—————— ———— Where they were needed most,|'T00PS and two fighter - bomber cha turned the House a. U. 8. fighter planes looking for “I see him. He's parked on |mrere was no indication of their squadrons, will be sent to rein- SA ine ori s targets. the reverse side of the third | i encth, and headquarters in- force the 28 British warships al- Buel His studio is a communica- Nill west of the river bank.” tended to keep the Communists Yeady on duty in Far Eastern | a x « : i a ister Emanuel Shin-| The
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tions jeep pulled up somewhere gn = {guessing as long as possible. { near the front lines. Troops ANDY GEORGE switches | The appearance of the fresh} pinned dovin by snewmy re Je Shia hues and calls an F-51 force on the left Bla et A Ema’ ada foree por r troubles to Mr. Bry- ustang fighter flying close the air of unconcern = : Ine an, and his broadcast begins: support for front-line forces. d been manifested at - unspecified size will be sent to 200, = x = “Overlord Blue, Overlord here regarding that) Te
The vernment als an- : “BUZZFLY, buzzfly, this is Blue, this is Andy George. Are nounced High for an a Al The Georgia Democrat told res Andy George. One of our units you still in the area?” {
$280 million overhaul of Britains Porters after a secret session of is getting shelling from a tank “This is Overlord Blue, Andy ] a th oo e[Ee80 mil and official St Brit said | his committee that the Navy will down where the river hooks George. What's cooking?” attest, 2 Je {he west/an anti-atomic home defense |add three large carriers to the north near the town of Sim- Lt. Bryan tells the Mustang juista a0 ni oo south coast force numbering about 1 million [Seven now in service, and will ine chon—I repeat, Simchon—on pjjot where to find “buzzfly” [W088 Mg SORE lh po biicans men will be organized soon. {crease the number of light cars the one to 50,000 map. Do you for final guidance to the target, | Dwa tured some towns on the [riers trom 8 to 14. have it? Over, warning him to “keep off to [rie of the Communist ad- Churchill Says OB: | Mr. Vinson also sald. two more A radio receiver in the jeep the east” as he approaches to ange the summary said. | Full details of the defense | cruisers will be taken out of picks up the reply from a tiny avoid American artillery fire. | :
“Communist forces continued Streamlining program were not mothballs, to make the total in the period before full peace is got $50 per month; two parents With published serious charges! spotter plane circling nearby. The blast of rockets on the, erting heavy pressure along al announced, but it will include | service 15, and that 32 additional established. igot $68. Certain other dependents made by Times employees against| ‘This is buzzfly, Andy George.
river bank provides a signature |... tonioht “Gen. MacArthur's modernization of tanks and anti- | qestroyers will be put in service Gear to Long Pull {—provided dependency actually officers Jack Corydon and wil- | I'll go down and have a look.” for the broadcast. {summary Bot “but indications [Submarine forces, reconstruction |{o make the total destroyer “Eeonomic policy must now he "2S established—got help, too. (liam E. Clark, that I agree with {were that the American and South °F Hritais Bie. WAITING ; radar| strength 172. ! fen ’ chain, and an increase in i
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exp oer. {headquarters i sector. | He reported that South Korin . the
leans were moving up
adjusted to the prospect of this long pull. If the pull proves to be short, we shall lose little by being prepared; if it proves to be long, we shall gain much.”
GI Kicked In
Not all this came out of the federal bill. For the first $50 {allowance check the GI himself! kicked in $22, out of his own! pay. Where the allowance was!
| your decision that because of the serious nature of the charges made by these newspaper employees, which are not substantiated by the facts known to you, it will be wise to defer any action
Senate Probe of Gaming Here Quietly "Washes Out’
Korean divisions were holding
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Seek Reserves,
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He said five additional sube
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fighter
Conservative Leader Winston
{Churchill at once assured the {government of opposition support,
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Red Guenilias
The Council said the first and until the various Witnesses testify
Host Important Sep faint In higher, he was charged an extra in court under oath, Aug. 2. Sudo : : : Ly | Action ‘Of Course’ Syndicate Has No National Connections
credit policies as a brake. |" Thus vat : | { “On the fiscal side,” the report," A Dra e and his .wife| «Ir sworn testimony presented A U. 8. Senatorial Committee's investigation of Indianapolis continued, “this means that we ow! oge er, $78 per month. A {shows conclusively that the po- gambling has “washed out,” it was revealed in Washington today. should seek to reduce the size of hr vate Mis wife and one childijice officers involved are guilty” HG. Robinson, head of the investigation staff of the Senate's the cash deficit or, better still, to| oy Sant on a total of $103, lof any violaion of police rules gerauver crime committee, disclosed that a senatorial crime-prober remove it entirely. For the main-| he new pay scales the pri-| you will of had visited Indianapolis two weeks ago.
{and regulations, tenance of a large. deficit creates| va ® gets $75 to start and $80|.,,,5¢ take prompt action as out-| But he said that as far as the investigator learned the newly and aggravates inflationary pres- 2('¢r four months. The enlisted |), o4 under state laws and local d local baseball ticket syn-| — sures in a time like this, men’s scale runs up to $198.45. : {formed local baseba 3% 8)
{but he stated that Mr. Shinwell’s | proposals seemed “few and far
Investigator Finds Baseball Ticket Close to Pusan
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP) criticized the defense minister for| ‘A military spokesman said tos ‘not lengthening the draft term, day. that Communist guerrilla and for speaking as if the Rus-|forcse have infiltrated to within Isian threat had materialized over- a few miles of Pusan, the only inight. : {remaining supply: port for Amerie { “It has-been building up for atican troops in Korea. 3 least three years, during which! The spokesman said guerrilla the Allied forces were falling bands also are in action behind
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Slow Draft Calls
600,000 Needed,
Veterans Preferred
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP)— he Armed Forces were striving
‘ a { tter. His letter read in part that| n police regulations. I feel, however, dicate “had no interstate connec- '® T ee rng enough tions” and thus does not come within the scope of the commit tee set up to investigate a national crime syndicate. { As far as the committee is con-
to bear the burden of financing the needs which have now been outlined, without deficit financing
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Whatever is done about reviv{ing family allowances, it will iapply equally to men now in| iservice—to volunteers, and to! {draftees and Reservists called to duty. : ’ >
‘Hasten Victory—or Inv
Baruch Urges ‘Complete Controls on U. S. Economy
Elder Statesman Cal
To Avert ‘Greatest Threat’ of Inflation By Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, July 26—E
entire economy to prevent furthe
He urged controls over all prices, includ food; high enough taxes to prevent profiteering and to pay for all defense costs and an all-embracing system of priorities.
“Shall we do now what we know will have to be done later—and thus hasten the victory of peace? Or shall we fumble and falter and invite defeat?” he asked in
testifying before the Senate Bank-]
ing Committee. The man who played a leading role in the nation’s World War I mobilization and who served in important capacities in World War II said the Truman administration had not gone far enough in its request for controls. “You Must Control’ “Experience,” Mr. Baruch said, “has taught us that when the gov~ernment steps into the market with
such enormous demands requiring such quick priority, Youirisks of a third world war by “prices, including
d United States is ready to be
ite Defeat?’ —
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that if possible, signed state-| ments should be secured from the Times employees if these gentlemen care to make them. “Because of the serious charges
that they will not care to make signed statements at this time, but they should be given an opportunity to do so if they wish.” Informed of Mayor Feeney's suggestion to hear both sides, The Times employees today say they “would be happy” to give the police signed statements about the incident.
gaming probe “washed out.” Instructed to Stop “We have no intentions of going into it again at this time,” Mr. Robinson said today. “If something turns up in the future that seems to have bearing on the national crime syndicate we will naturally be interested.” Mr, Robinson said that the Sen-
Local Woman
ider Statesman Bernard Baruch |
r inflation.
ing wages, rents and
Spots ‘Sort of’
today called for all out mobilization-with a general ceiling over the
Flying Pancake
“No system of priorities can] work effectively or for long, without price control,” said Mr. Ba-| ch. “That was learned during) orld War I, It was forgotten and had to be learned anew, at what bitter cost, in World War II. Must we persist in repeating) the mistakes of the past, even to inviting disaster.” Minimize Denials Mr. Baruch, who will be 80 Aug. 19, said the mobilization he envisioned would substantially Strengthen the country and minimize actual denials the people would have to undergo. It would, he said, reduce the
serving notice that the tremendous economic potential of the
ition given by Mrs. Kuper.
INDIANAPOLIS has a flying pancake. That's what Mrs. Charles J. Kuper, 1929 Talbot Ave. said she saw in the southwest quarter of the Indianapolis sky at about 9:30 last night from her backyard.
” » “IT WAS sort of a round object, like a pancake with rays coming out of one side like dag- . White clouds made it look misty and it was flying pretty high. But it"looked like it was silver or gold,” was the descrip-
When she went in the house to call her landlord, the “round object” disappeared. oe Boeing to Hike Output of J ¢ Be 5 b | Pl .
in the Midwest was instructed to “stop through Indianapolis.” This was after the Senate group was informed of Indianapolis’ newly organized baseball ticket syndicate, Revealed in Times Creation of the ‘syndicate by a group of local persons, close to polit! 8, to standarize “payoffs” and to give control of the local lottery market to “member” ticket operators was first revealed in The Indianapolis Times several weeks ago. > Mr. Robinson said the investigator “talked to several people in Indianapolis,” but he did not
-elaborate. The Kefauver committee, headed unchanged.
by Senator Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn) was set up as a special comipittee to investigate organized gambling and ‘its interstate and national connections. It has been probing syndicated gaming in Miami, St. Louis and Kansas City. One observer said Indianapolis was “not in the big league” with these cities.
WICHITA, Kas, July 26 (UP) 0 i of Bo | 0--mile-an-
Mayor Feeney today said he had been contacted by letter by
visited or talked!
ate prober who was investigating
fan investigation here showed “a today to meet their manpower
minimum of crime and vice of an interstate nature.” : In his letter he’ voiced a complaint to the Senate that although
eral government continues to license them here. He sajd he received a reply thanking him {for his assistance.
Cab Firms Here Ask Fare Hike
Say Boost Planned Before War Crisis
Three Indianapolis
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permission for rate increases.
asked a jump from $2 their hourly rates. Other charges, of 10 cents for each two-thirds mile of routine trips and 10 cents for each 3-min-ute waiting period would remain
to $3 on
The officials said only increased passenger volume had kept the firms operating since the old rate went into effect in January, 1947. The firms said they had decided to ask for higher rates before the present war crisis developed. However, they indicated that the outbreak of hostilities caused them to submit the petition ahead o
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needs with Reservists so that a new draft call for in the immediate future may be unnecessary.
every way,” Mr. Churchill said. Mr. Shinwell said that engi-
while Russian power has stilllthe American lines in about five imaintained and strengthened iniother areas of South Korea.
| He told newsmen at a Pentagon |briefing. that there has been no
" Bi ; They want at least 600,000 and ,...s and administrative units word of any guerrilla successes made by these men, it may be cerned, he said, the Indianapolis Possession of 5 % ps go > - possibly 700,000 officers and men, wo uit support the infantry, artil- thus far. misdemeanor in Indiana, the fed- , .caraply veterans. Each branch lery and armor of the British
of the service has more than enough Reservists to make up its quota. : | Selective Service so far has been asked to furnish 20,000 releruits, But the Armed Services lemphasizes that their greatest need now iz trained specialists— {not raw recruits. | The Marine Corps is in for he t
t percentage increase. as 74,000 officers and me Under President Truman's mobilization program, it will be in: lereased to 131,000 men—a jump! of about 80 per cent.
[bigges now h
Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.),
A petition signed by representa-| who said the Corps must be “sub- Stalin's tives of Red Cab, Inc., Yell-O-Taxi stantially enlarged,” called Gen:} Co. and Indianapolis Cab Co. asked to increase their fees from mandant, to tell his House Armed 25 to 35 cents for the first one-| Services Committee exactly what Three back-to-college styl third mile of each trip. They also he wants. t
{Clifton B. Gates, Marine com-
Will Hear Air Force The committee also planned to hear from the Air Force. The| air arm called up a “very limited number” of its Organized Reserves yesterday but a spokes-| man declined to say how many or what type units were affected. Mr. Vinson told the House that! Mr. Truman's military manpower goal of 2.1 million was far too} ow. He urged to give military le
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| Cornigress leaders all the men they
Some Congressmen believe ‘the firms today asked Safety Board Corps should ‘he even larger.|
need, despite any limitations the
expeditionary force. The wording of Mr. Shinwell's announcement suggested that
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“But it might develop into something,” he said. } The spokesman said guerrilia bands in the Pusan area might
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On the Inside
the Army and Air Force. goes over the top Allen Eugene Crum, recent Pur
on his way to join the crew is believed to be in Korean
of today's “Hoosier Heroes.
“police force” in East surp
literally “twist their arm.”..
Marydale Guild plans all Park this Sunday...
yea
lus Wehrmacht material—tiger tanks and 88mm. guns. Taught brutal fighting tactics by example—their instructors
n. Hoosier youths go all-out in 5th Army drive for enlistments in
Indiana “best in 13" as push
Cera aesane
due grad who received his commission as ensign in the Navy the same day he graduated, is -
of the Valley Forge. The ship waters. Ensign Crum is one Cra Nas Esa R esas ARE INES RE.
ern Germany is armed
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e shows scheduled for next month. -day picnic in Spring Mill State
Indiana's request for a new roving Federal judge is clear of the
House but still has to get through the Senate. If it goes through, the new jurist may be selected on legal and not. political ability. Maritime unions and ship owners did not — have to bargain over this issue—screening Commies from. =
ship and waterfront jobs... Ne
w. $200,000 speed loop to open tonight at Monticello. Top notch drivers to race Offenhauser-powered midgets. Indians can win tonight's game with ‘the Brewers. and drop the Association lead to Louisville “IF.” Eddie
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