Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1950 — Page 2

. government documents. leaves the showing In statements dealing ‘reader with the impression that With the serious ard intricate FBI mishandling spoiled the pros- Problem of national security in

Germany. Actually, Eisler was of pneumonia here yesterday. He _free on bail at the time and the was 77

+ Hon ‘agents, not the FBI conducted Lynn, Mass.

- testimony, .

~tapo” and. “OGPU".

. through ‘them. The author also Douglas MacArthur's leadquarquotes at length from defenders ters: sald today former Japanese of the FBI and from speeches Foreign Minister Namoru Shigeand writings of Mr. Hoover him- mitsu will be released on parole self. tomorrow despite a Soviet pro “What. makes the book 80 test. Shigemitsu signed Japan's biased and one-sided,” said Mr. surrender aboard the battleship Ernst, “is that Lowenthal picks-U. 8. 8. Missouri. :

by Lowenthal cing FBI Called

" Bureau Reports Writer Never Checked Its Files to Back Up His Information

. By FREDERICK WOLTMAN, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer “WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-:Congressmen, federal judges an

tion under J. Edgar Hoover as incompetent, ‘ liberties and a virtual Gestapo.

City, goes “on sale today in bookstores, all .over the countsy. Its title is “The Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The author, Max Lowenthal, fs 'd New York attorney who held numerous federal posts in the

the quotes that and makes no appraisal whether they are scurrilous factual. It would be a great mis-| fortune if libaries bought book as. an authority on

158 i {

ficious and Misleading

d Ave

others here have been receiving free advance copies of a formidable,| Mr. Robison, who was 67, Was after a T0-mile-an-hour chase by|

B559-page book aimed at picturing the Federal Bureau of Investiga- born

The book, published by William Sloane Assoc ates of New York Years,

past and has heen waging a one- FBL” _ man battle against the FBI for Goes Back 30 Years ~~ more than a decade Nearly two-thirds of it goes

back 30 years or more. Much of

NEW YORK, Nov. 20—Morris Ernst, American Civil Lib- | erties Union counsel, in an

[that deals with the Palmer raids | |and excesses of 1919-20 which the jauthor tries to hang en the pres-'

the FBI yenich will ‘be pub- | Then a special assistant to the lished in ihe December issues Jatiorney general Mr. Hoover has uf Readers Digest Will say: a {long since denied responsibility has been carried on Raia for the post-World War 1 Palmer Hoover's watk . . . The FBI is {rafds and said he disapproved of unique in the history of na- them at the time.

{ Under the final chapter headBeliels dis-

tional police. It has a magnificent record of respect for individual freedom. It invites documented complaints against its agents. it has zealously tried to prevent itself from violating the de:nocratic process.”

“Investigation of Lowenthal sets out to

ing, Mr.

gram of dealing with Communist fsubversives and the Red underground. He tosses (it off as “tracking down persons and or-

In New York City, meanwhile, | 4 the: book was. excoriated as|Sanizations whose views it (the “vicjous--and throughly -unfaip FBI) fears . .

today by one of the nation’s fore-

most authorities on civil liberties menace is

passed by.

According to Sloane Associates,'in what he does which under-| Mr. Lowenthal has heen collec ting mines our internal security. material for the book for 15 years Hysteria witch-hunts and vigiand “he documents it with care.” lantes weaken internal security. A spokesman for the FBI. . queried today. said the-atthor had our” internal security by. protect‘never consulted the bureau itself. ing the innocent as well as by either for basic information or identifving the enemies within our for its first-hand answer to tha midst”

many attacks quoted to discredit Five days later the American the FBI. Civil Liberties Union wrote the A brief section on the Amerasia FBI chief, expressing thanks “for

case, involving the theft of secret the fine. balance which you are

ecution. It neglects to mention the re'2tion to civil liberties. 4 Tydings Senate subcommittee The appraisal appears nowhere finding that the FEI handled the in the Lowenthal book. Amerasia investigation “with an ne = efficiency and thoroughness in Veteran Newspapermon

keeping with the best traditions Dies in Washington

of that agency.” Another passage blanks the. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UP! FBI for letting the convicted Ger- — John H.-Fahey of ‘Swampscott, man Communist, Gerhart Eisler, Mass., former chairman of the slip through its hands and escape Federal Home Loan Bank Board

on the steamship Batory to Soviet and a veteran newspaperman, died

FBI had no responsibility for

The one-time government offiwatching him. et

al was stricken suddenly while {visiting the capital to attend a

Wasn't The FBI ES meeting of the trustees of the When the Batory returned. says twentieth century fund, a non-

the book, FBI agents accorded Its profit economic research organi-

timidation and police persecu- brated.at St. Matthew's. CatheActually, naturalization dral here tomorrow with burial in

the shipboard questioning. His wife, Mrs. Margaret Guinn Much of the book consists of Fahey, and (vo daughters, Mrs. quotations from .a great variety Margaret ‘Kudolph and Mrs. of sources — Seriate committee Gerard D. Re illy, both of Washspeeches, newspaper |ington, Survive. clippings, etc, — attacking the! FBI. Expressions such as “Ges-| IGNORES SOVIET- PROTEST run freely. TOKYO. Nov: 20- UP) Gen

Santa ‘ laus

Is Coming To Town By Helicopter

“He'll fand in front of the grandstand at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, Friday, November 24th, at 10:00 A. M. on his way to Ayres' Toyland.

Santa will arrive in Ayres’ Toyland, ewnatais Around . 11:00 A. M. when he will be ready fo talk to all the boys and i

© He is Morris I. Ernst. counsel to neither “Communist” nor “Com- ‘ the American Civil Liberties/munist Party” are even listed in| Union. : {the index. Calls It Aid to Reds | Last July 26, Mr. Hoover de“It will give great ald and com-c :lared; “The FBI is Interested in| fort to the Jommunist Party, ‘Mr. Ernst said

Dies i in Home

Rail Conductor For 37 Years ‘A.W, railroad conductor, in his home, 1112 N, ., after a short illness.

in Sellersburg, Ind.

a menace to civil jjueq in Indianapolis the past 50 panion, Harold Van Zandt, 15, of 20- Year High

Mr. Robinson was a member of |

this| [Little Flower Catholic Church, police first called a mortuary am- { the the Men's Club“ of the church]

{and the Association of Railroad Rallway Employees. He was a veteran of the Span-

ish-American War and also served in the Philippines after! the war.

He is survived by his wife, Hannah May; his daughter. Mrs. Walter’ Lauer, Indianapolis; seven grandchildren, and a John, Louisville, Ky. . Services will be at 8 a. m. in Little Flower Church, Wednes-| day after services at 8:30 a. m. in Kirby: Mortuary. Burial will be , In Holy Cross.

credit the FBI's long-term pro- Ex- local Newsman

To Give Talk Here Norman Isaacs managing editor of the 8t. Louis Star-Times and former Indianapolis newspaper-

The probiem ot he ‘Communist| an will be principal speaker at “Indeed, the Flanner House Founder's Day

program Dec. 5. The Red Feather Agency will be observing B52 years of social service in Indianapolis, Open house will be held at 3:30

‘receiving facts; we are not inter-ip, m. and Mr. Isaacs will speak ested in what a person thinks, but{at the dinner at 6:30 p. Mm.

‘of a youthful passenger in his car Saturday night were continued U. 8. Public (Will) Robison, retired {fo Dec. 15 today in Speedway Magistrate Court. died today Linwood cide, drunken driving and drunkenness.

was a conductor for the “bolster his side Big Four Railroad for 37 years; of before his retirement three years! or Ago.

brother, |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

7/Charges Against Youth "In Car Death Continued

Dental Profe r enson Calls - go rofssor D. C. Stephenson Calls

Named Consultant Indiana Justice Corrupt

Driver of Auto Chased by Police Indiana University School of (Continued From Page One) io, Slo) Is Freed Under Bond of $2250 = = [DOGS faculty has been Bp-iaided the process of parle; Bel, zune - 15

Charges against 17-year-old Robert J. Coy in the traffic death consultant to the i Denies Violating Parole | The former political leader sai 4 jhe had not violated his parole} because, he said, the state of} |Indiana surrendered jurisdiction’ {when it “sent me beyond. its

convince - honest

a justice is shamefully corrupt.” . “The degradation of the state |{is perhaps more severe than that of any previous history of politi~ cally protected crime,” he said.

[Health Service The youth is free under $2250 bond on charges of reckless homi-/and a member of’ /the Dental Study Coy was driving the car Tene crashed into a bridge abutment Section of the

ie mean chase v1 Stocks Record | Uo orders under an xie arder 50 1,0 Pe prison sed me » /to return.” 2 and Beech Grove police. His com-| toc 5 ecor Surgeon Gen: He said he left Illinois because life ld B years ot a eral Leonard A. {he had a “legal right” to. leave

13708 Asbury St. was impaled on! Scheele of ~ the [Madge Oberholtzer, a Statehouse

'an fron railing of th® bfidge A NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (UP)—|U. 8. Health Ser'died a few minutes later. {Industrial shares moved up tojvice “announced A 45-minute delay in getting an "*V 20-year highs and railroad|P ro f. Phillips

‘secretary in Indianapolis. h appointment. hols. * "| Youngdahl Si ns ambulance tp the scene was being iin he i nu of Pho tinue: his teaching| Asked what he thought would g

investigated today. Beech Grove , 1 q.rately active stock market|and research at the School ot (dppen to him if Be were returned EXtr adition P aper | session to Dentistry, but will attend perfod-|‘C 0clana ne sa > Continued Fr bulance which earried no doctor.| paitimore & Ohfo preferred |ical a fn Washington. Nobody knows what will hap- a 10 om Pose Ose) Police said they placed. a second | stock featured trading when di- pen if I am returned to the politi- | oa ge for a promise to drop a call, but that their headquarters rectors declared a $4 dividend! |: cal guardhouse (state prison) in|Pending federal court suit against 2d Clinton Woman, 68 a: It i istent with the/the state were incorrect. He also apparently misunderstood and did|on the issue, compared with $1]! ’ ndiana. It is consisten e not put the call in to General previously. . . [past that Klan underworld poli-| denied that Stephenson had heen Hurt in Crash |

land that he could not “avoid | lassociation with crime syndicate; minions while remaining in Illi-

Prof. Phillips’

Hospital. Sheriff's deputies who| Dealings in the issue were sus- ticians will exert tremendous “banished” from the state after arrived on the scene later made pended for a time while the pressure to prevent me from ap- Nis parole. He said the “going linother call. This call brought a specialists bunched the heavy in-| Mrs. Jessie Satterlee, 68. of pealing my case to the U. §joutside Indiana” was “all.an plans |General Hospital ambulance im-/flow of orders. The stock re-|Clinton, was in Methodist Hospiw Supreme Court. by Stephenson approved by the mediately. opened on a block of 22,000ital today with a broken shoulder| Recalls Many Threats Palle board a : ‘shares at 39, up 4'; points. : | e departure of ‘Stephenson Survivors Are Listed las the result of a two-car crash 4 would tonfem with unde: (from Indiana to Illinois was ape | The Van Zandt youth, who at-! early yesterday at N. Capitol Ave.| world policy achieve my des- {proved by the board after Stee {tended University Heights School, Robert Matter Dies land Michigan St. |lruction in the political guard-phenson had told of plans for eme |No. 4, is survived by his parents, | {At Marion at 59 | Police’ cata. eave house, This has been threatened

by ployment in Illinois. However, he IMr. and Mrs. Harry Van Zandt; mes State Serve | operated by many times in the past. The! was sought for .parole violation three sisters. Edna, Helen and] MARION Nov. 20— Holder of Willis A. Satterlee, 72, and Wil- threats were not carried out be-|;ier he left Illinois without notfe Joan; two brothers, John and extensive oil interests in five jam H. Taylor, 21, of 36 W, St. cause of underworld fear of pub- fication.

Raymond, and his grandmothers, States and personal friend of the lic reaction.’ | oo Minie Wheat ya Mrs. Della late James Forrestal, former Sec: Clair St. collided. Mrs. Satterlee gtephenson described as “in-, Coy, all of Indianapolis. {retary of Defense, Robert Matter Was thrown from her husband's lammatory and entirely fictional”

Services will be at 10 a. m. died here at his home yesterday. car.

Wednesday in Cecil R. Hurst Shes. 1¢ Was 59. | A pedestrian, Pete Halkidahis, a veteran of|sg ,f the Dixie Hotel, received a

Stephenson, who once boasted “I am the law in Indiana,” was arrested for parole violation an a Statement attributed to him jailed here par week. He and

through the years that he was . i “the Taw In Indiana” een "sought since disappearing

Mr. Matter was | Bed Chanel. Burial will be in/ywog War II. having reduced 90, broken shoulder, leg and hip. last! 1 never made this toolish| TO™ Catbonagle, Hl, Aug. 90. unds to pass the physical ex-| s statement,” he said. “It is ofl GOV. Youngdahl's office said

_Police said Coy fled police as hp

night when struck by a car. they tried to investigate a disturb-| mination. He served as a “Tiew|

present Interest only as a reflex Stephenson-—had made-no-request-

{operated by F. D. Hunt, 23, of {for a hearing in the extradition ance n Which he was reported 10» Naval seaplane - avistar jy Marion, at Washington and East Who so fearfully desired to {ake Proceedings be involved in the Beech Grove worig War I. Sts. He was in General Hospital. |." + 0c ircilation.’ Stephenson sald during the

Roller Rink. | Surviving are his wife, Dorothy;| Another pedestrian, Clarence, Regarding. the

SPEEDY PIGEONS [two sons, Robert and Thomas, a|Brown, 50, of 106th St. and Col-imoney he made in the Klan, extradition, if Indiana officials idaughter, Sally, and twa sisters,|lege Ave. sustained a fractured Stephenson said “it has been|Would .make a “deal” reinstating With favorable weather condi- Mrs. Delight Stebbins, Indian-|hip yesterday when struck by aiproved in court that I did not|his parole. ‘But Mr. Tence said tions, pigeons fly more than alapolis. and Mrs. Lucie Spaulding, |car operated by William Whitlock. make any money out of the/Gov. Schricker was unwilling te mile a minute. 1Buffalo, N. Y. 49, of 2009 Bellefontaine. Klan;"” {make “any such deal.”

amount of week-end that he would waive

We can all contribute to

crew and passengers what one zation. He died in emergency newspaper described as ‘“totali-| | hospital. : tarian-state methods of blustering| A funeral mass will be cele-

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