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Red Chinese Here's Dump Dope, Senators Told
Crime Probe Hears Narcotics Chief
By United Press WASHINGTON, Mar, 27— The chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics said today that the Chinese Com. | muhists are dumping opium on the world market and that it is being smuggled through| . Japan to the United States. f The statement was made by! Narcotics Commissioner Hatry J, | Anslinger. in testimony prepared for the Senate Crime InvestigatIng Committee, : ‘He described as a “disturbing matter” the offer of 500 tons of! opium ‘by the Chinese Commu-| nists on the world market. He said 500 tong is a “tremens dous” amount, equal to the medi-| cAl'needs of the entire world for] one year, In addition, Mr. Anslinger said, | his agents have uncovered heroin traffic from a laboratory in Tientsin, China. Large amounts of narcptics, he said, have been smuggled from China to Japan and] “will be coming to the United States. U. 8S. Reds Cleared “The Chinese Communists should suppress this traffic,” he said. { Mr. Anslinger said there is “no evidence” that Communists in this country are engaging in the drug traffic. But if they do, he said, “they will find themselves in| jail very shortly.” Sen. Alexander Wiley (R. Wis.) has asked a number of crime committee witnesses whether:
Picture Experts Picked
PRIZE WINNER—Times Photographer Lloyd B. Walton won second prize in a Kent State Uni. |
thére is any evidence that Com- versity Photo Short Course with this photograph of a Kent, O., railroad station.
munists are tied in with nar- x 85 cotics peddling or other rackets. J* Mr. Anslinger said there no Times Em lo pp recently been a resurgence of drug activities among Chinese! tongs in this country. He said A 2 a member of the on Leong Tong| war e fze recently “shot and killed one of, our best agents” in St. Paul. He’ did not elaborate. He also disclosed that Amer- . ican agents are “attacking” 2d Place in Contest sources of heroin in Italy and Tur-| Indianapolis Times Photographkey, and that “there are signsi/er Lloyd B. Walton was sent to that this attack Is having its ef- the ‘Kent (0) Vniversity Photo fect.” Short Course, attended by 300 Ttaly ‘Major Source’ “ newspaper photographers, and He said Italy I* a “m r “brought home the bacon.” source” of illicit drugs. Italy Ras! Mr, Walton won second place in cut down heroin traffic some-|a contest in which more than 400 what but not enough, Mr. Ans- pictures were offered. The judges linger added. were some of the ace photographHe said Turkey is trying to con- ers of the nation. trol ‘“‘clandestine heroin labora-| News cameramen attegded the tories” now thriving in Istanbul short course from virtually every by controlling distribution of the state in the union along with five source material—opium. - photographers from Canada. All He said drug addiction is on 300 photographers attending the the rise among “young .hood- course did not enter the contest lums.” Many young addicts, he while some turned in more than said, finance their use of drugs one picture. by criminal activities. These ad-| In his prize-winning photograph dicts spend $6 to $15 daily for Mr, Walton used 30-second time marihuana and heroin, Mr. Ans- exposure of f.16 on Super Pan linger said. Press Type B film.
In the past two years, he add- r. Walton has been a member ed, the number of addicts under hr Times pt ven
21 at the Lexington, Ky. govern- tment eigh ment hospital increased from partment eight years,
three to 200. me U.S. Arrests
High school students are “exception,” not the rule, among . drug addicts, he said. Joe Anastasia U. S. Sets Up Bureau NEW YORK, Mar. 27 To Nab Big Crooks
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Albert Anastasia, reputed former ; By United Press executioner of Murder, Inc... was WASHINGTON, Mar. 27 - arrested today by immigration Treasury Secretary John W. Sny- authorities on charges of entering der said today that he is estab- the country illegally. lishing a special fraud section in his department to wage war arrested at 2 a. m. (Indianapolis against “major league criminals” Time), by two detectives and an through their tax accounts. immigration inspector at his Mr. Snyder made the disclosure home in Brooklyn. to the Senate Crime Investigating He was held at the Fort HamilCommittee through a statement ton precinct pending a hearing read by Treasury Undersecretary before a U. 8. commissioner, ward H. Foley. Bua new fraud section will be Named Prosecutor placed under the Internal Revenue Bureau and will center attention James Volpert of Peru as proseon the tax accounts of “gamblers, cuting attorney for the 51st Juracketeers, and others of their dicial Circuit of Indiana, compriskind.” ing Miami County. Mr. Volpert Mr. it aimed to suceeds Prosecutor Hugh G. Freeland, Peru, who resigned Apr. 1,
Continued on Page 3—Col. 7 to enter the military service. » » » i .
Snyder said
‘Crime Deterrent’ or ‘Side Show'?—
TV Coverage of Local Crime Trials Favored by 2 Marion County Jurists
Chamberlain Enthusiastic, Rabb for It Except in Jury Cases, Civil Judges Opposed
By JOHN V. WILSON Top-interest local crime trials may appear on tglevision screens here in the future. The possibility of televising court cases is being spurred by the Kefauver Crime Committee hearings. At least two Marion County
favor TV coverage. Jaages 131 Harry O. Chamberlain of Criminal Court 1 is enthusiastic
over the possibility of televising| = w= "ro" rec they had to buat trials—with or without bring in a Brio Yr they a jury. : ” “Publicity, such as would be publicly criticized,” he is a great deterrent to crime, “I will never permit televising Judge Chamberlain said. in Of jury trials. But I might allow “I would be very much In oon jury trials it the defendfavor of it. so long as the tele-/ =" ots, because TV wouldn't vising would not dislocate the go "ry judgment of the case formal functions of the court. in any. way." Not Jury ‘Irials Civil Judges Opposed Judge Saul I. Rabbof Criminal! Op the other hand, most civil Court 2 sald he “might consent” court judges are opposed to TV to the televising of court trials. court coverage. They believe it But he is firmly against allowing would make a ‘side show” of jury trials to appear on TV. justice, : “In jury trals, television might| ‘The purpose of the courts is tend to bring conviction of inno-|to administer justice, not to encent peoplé because of the show tertain,” asserted Judge Hezzie
television, continued.
glamor to it,” Judge Rabb B, Pike of Superior Court 2. Be ; | Sucilt Court IUsY: V4 Domain (fuk -t6 seve Galt iW
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Anastasia, a longshoreman, was,
Spring Gets Out Of the Cooler
Temperatures in 60s Promised Tomorrow LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6 a. m..S7 10 a. m... 48 7a m.. 38 Mam .. 54 8 a. m... 40 12 (noon). 38 9a m.. 13 1pm... 60
Latest humidity ........397%
Little Miss Spring. six days old and hefty, left her early-arrival __ incubator today and started a normal life in Hoosierland.
[ 0 Block | As the mercury climbed into thé t mid-50's at noon today beneath partially cloudy skies, the WeaRussia ‘In Sight’
{ther Bureau promised a low of 50 Wilson Says Report
degrees tonight with temperatures going into the 60's tomorrow. Should ‘Frighten’ Foe By United Press
Occasional rain will accompany WASHINGTON, Mar. 27 -De-
Lloyd B. Walton
the warm temperatures, the offi-
spring temperatures will remain
high.
Above normal temperatures
fense Mobilizer Charles E. Wil- were expected through next week-!
son said today the military might end with daily maximums of 53 'to deter Russia from attacking tO 65 degrees and night minimums the United Statés is now “in of 3 1 1g Precipitation will be in excess of one inch during the 5-day peMr. Wilson told a news confer- riod, according to the Weather ence he will issue next Monday a Bureau. Rainfall is likely every detailed report showing the prog- day. the report said, but most of ress of the mobilization program I hi. be Joniet and Somorvow: . eather forecasters would not he took over three months ago. say definitely that a “freak’ spurt “I would be frightened by that of cold weather is smpossible folreport if I were a principal enemy lowing the 5-day above normal of the United States,” he said. Spell but they cheerily said it was “ ; : unlikely. America has in sight now the Hoosier gardeners were dusting might that I think will forestall w Off hoes and rakes today and any enemy from attacking us. z toe : housewives were watching for Mr. Wilson warned, however, first huds on trees ani shrubs. that the internal threat of in- : flation still
is present and that
Gov. Schricker today appointed “we have to lick that too, to ob- 2 Fined, Sentenced
tain a fall victory. Por Drunk Driving He said he sees some ‘very discouraging signs” on the sta- Two Indianapolis men were bilization front, but that on the fined and sentenced by Judge whole he iz encouraged by *he Joseph Howard in Municipal progress made toward slowing Court 3 today for operating autodown the inflationary spiral. mobiles while intoxicated. = Everett Walker, 33, of 608 E, Walnut St., was fined $100 and costs and given 30 days on the Indiana State Farm as the result of an accident on Mar. 10.
Frank Wilson, 30, of 2615 English Ave, was fined $50 and costs and given 30 days as the Claycombe said television “would result of a wild police chase in make a three-ring circus and a Which he struck several cars, [side show out of the court.” He damaging one badly. said he would never permit it un-| Another man, Cloyd Dravis, 20, less all litigants agreed to it.” of Lafayette, was fined $100 and Judge Walter Pritchard of Su- giving 180 days when convicted perior Court 4 shates the opinion of petty larceny. He was charged of his colleagues. He also warned with taking a radio and topcoat that TV might bring “grand-/from a man who befriended him standing” by attorneys and litl- and gave him lodging for the gants, night, Camera-Shy? we ————
hod Claycomb s0 believes T3 TV would A oh on Tickets Ready For Big Game
witnesses. He pointed out it might increase their nervousness. “Some of them even forget] Over-the-counter ticket their own names now when they Saks for The Times Charity take the witness stand,” he said. Basketball game between the Harry Bittner Jr., president of Indianapolis Olympians and WFBM-TV, said his station would, College All-Stars from Inconsider televising top-interest, @iana schools opened today at the Marott Shoe Store, 18 E. Washington St.
trials. “We have never attempted to The second annual Adi-Star seek permission to cover trials cage tilt will be staged Apr 14. in Butler FR:ldhouse,
here,” he said. “But we would certainly consider it if they were Ticket prices, including tax are:
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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice : Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Daily,
Fulbright At Truman for
RFC Scandals R cafe
Warns of Decay In Public Ethics
By OHARLES EGGER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Mar. 27— Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) today lashed out at the
Truman administration for : . condoning the Reconstruction Hold Three I” Finance Corp. scandals. :
Sen. Fulbright did not mention
“ " Mr.. Truman by name, But there {could he no doubt to whom he was rom ! y IR
“|referring when hé §aid:.
| “Scandals in our government a 2. are not a new phenomena in our- fime eries history. What seems to be new
about these scandals is the moral
blindness or callousnéss which allows those in responsible positions
{to accept the practices which the facts reveal. Times State Service
| “It is bad enough to have coo NEW CASTLE, Mar. 27— ruption in our midst, but it is Two young men accused of worse if it is to be condoned and 2 ti a ’" accepted as inevitable.” burglary and their old pro | Sen. Fulbright is chairman of mentor in crime were in jail the subcommittee investigating olice spran favoritism and political influence here today after p I £ in the RFC. He made his state- a trap which had been set for ments in a speech prepared for three weeks. ‘delivery on the Senate floor to-| The trio—all from Indianapolis day. were charged here with car "Too Important Now theft and auto banditry. All of » d in an has disclosed the men were implicate n
! His cammittee a ’ Anderson Super Market robbery how outsiders—some with White || at summer. Two of them were
‘House contacts—exerted influence | =" © "e001 as the result jon the RFC. Some weeks 280 4 1, Anderson job where they [President Truman branded one sare charged with second-degree of the committee's reports 8% burglary.
|asinine, More Fecenily, Mr. Tro. Still Has Wound an asserted that all mim about] ,,., 0 yom aeill had 2 bullet
him are honorable. “ _/wound in his chest where AnderWe simply tan no langer af son police had shot him when he
1 obtuseness in our Cra a “Fulbright | Attempted to escape them last
summer. said today. was | Arrested here were: 4
| ‘Clinton Crabtree, 25, of 133 8. small, when it took only 10 per! gy Endy | cent of our earnings | State St, who had been released
in taxes, | | we could afford a certain amount Under $1500 bond in Anderson. | |of official boodling,” he said. To-
Francis Manuel, 26, of 1521) day, he added, our government
Carrollton Ave, ! Nw 5 has become too important. Clyde Steinbarger, 52, of 2850 Problem of Ethics
Police Spring Trap on Youths and ‘Old Pro’
Stewart St, who was out on $1500 bond from Anderson as an ac-
Sen. Fulbright said the problem complice to second degree bur-|,,.,
essentially is one of ethical con- Bary, police said. duct, He Y aied again for a study The trio, whose most recent seof ethical standards in public af- ries of crimes were believed py fairs by a commission of eminent Police to be television-set hoists [private citizens. ih ; from small town appliance stores, | Principal objective of the com- Were being held here under $4000 mission study, he said, would he Pond each, to restore ‘‘the faith of eur people Plead Not Guilty in the validity of the traditional Bond was set here by Judge precepts of our democratic 80- john Morris at a hearing yesterclety.” He said it was not a job gay where they pleaded not guilty. [for ‘politicians or the inéxpe-| Police sald they operated with rienced, but “for the wisest of our 5 convertible and pick-up truck. |citizens under A mandate from the’ Ayo implicated in the Ander$on nation.” |job was Herschéll Manuel, 32, a "One of the most disturbing brother of one of the men held aspects of this problem cf ethical phere. : conduct,” Sen. Fulbright said, “i* Crabtree was shot leaving the the revelation that among 80 gcene »f the super market robbery many influential people, morality attempt last Aug. 24 when he has become identical with legality. fajled to halt to a police officer's “Tragic Plight’ challenge. “We are certainly in a tragic Police officers of several counplight “if the acceptable standard! ties had been alarmed recently by which we measure the integ- at the increased number of nightrity of a man in public life is time burglaries of stores in small that he keep within the letter of towns. the law.” Together the various law enAnother big problem, Sen. Ful- forcement officers started coverbright said, is what to do with Ing likely spots. This plan had those outside .thé government Deen in effect for three weeks who try secretly to control ac- when the trio was spotted attions of those within it. Said Sen. {¢mPpting a job the other night, Fulbright: police said. “They operate through lawyers They were represented by three men who are known as clever attorneys here yesterday--a lolawyers: a cleverness which is Cal lawyer, one from Indianapolis like the instinct of the rat that And one from Anderson, knows how to get the bait with- “They refused to say anything. out getting caught. Many busi- Said their lawyers would do all
their talking,” County Prosecutor nessmen—employ these knavish . p ol Robert M. Brown said today.”
lawyers to circumvent the law | : and enrich themselves at gov- ney ne the toughest bunch ernment expense. Too often the ever een, pe Police said that Steinbarger
law cannot touch them.”
was an old hand at crime and
his record dated back to the Dil-
: linger days. Some time ago he | an S opping fe caught with burglar tools | S h K Continued on Page 3—Col. 5
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Page Beyond Border " 8hort sketches of radio and By ERNEST HOBERECHT television programs ‘On the United Press Staff Correspondent Air tonight foes esses eaehy 8 TOKYO. Mar. 27 American Thirty-four Leathernecks from
Hoosierland end “boot training" at Parris Island ..... 13 Pioneer to Indianapolis describes first winter spent in
troops began mopping up south of the 38th Parallel in the Seoul area today while South Korean troops on the east coast drove a log cabin... stories ‘About into North Korea in force. People’ . , . columnists ,.., 15 The Yanks decimated one Chi- Special Congressional investinese regiment and isolated part ‘gations are playing hob with of another in the area of Uljong- old routine on Capitol Hill , 16 bu. on the main highway 10 miles cqjjage basketball will return
north of Seoul. to Madison Square Garden U. 8. 8th Army forces in gen-| next year despite the recent
eral were on or within artillery bribery scandal Joe range of the Parallel all Along Williams pays a final tribute {the 140-mile front. In some Areas to Eddie Collins ....... 17, 18 they moved their lines forward without firing a shot. Other Features: Sharp Clash About People .........e00 15 Amusements .......00000 10 The Chinese regiment, a4 part, Eddie Ash .............. 17
of the 77th Division of thé 26th Army Corps, tried to fight a rear guard action six miler south! of the border. The Yanks killed 6r wounded 350 Reds in a sharp clash. An American staff officer said the 77th Division could no longér be) considered an effective fighting Frederick C. Othman .... 16 force. Two Communist .artillery Radio and Television .... 8 pieces also were knocked out. | Eq Sovola .....i.....é0. 15 Three mile northeast off Sports ........co000...17, 18
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Rabies Cases inher Waits. Triple Last Higher Wages Year's Pace Cited in Bid
» “ » . ‘Rabies cases here were soaring today, almost three times as high | ‘as last year's pace, , Yesterday a record for the num-
ber of positive rabies cases was set when five dogs were found to
set when five dogs were found 18 Money Goes to PSC e Infected, wo 0 e dogs a : : bitten children. | Faced with increased wage Four of the cases were from demands, t he Indiana Bell
dogs owned by county residents, Telephone Co. went back to The fifth was found in the city. h S One dog was so violent it had to|t e PSC for more money to-
be shot by deputy sheriffs, The day.
other four were taken to the Municipal Pound where they were| The telephone company destroyed and examined by state 2Sked the Public Service Commis~ health authorities who declared #on for a $3.3 million rate inthem rabid. crease, If the trend continues, 1951 will! This, said the company, is to [be the worst year for rabies in the 0Ver Wage increases already of'history of police records. | fered workers and to provide | This was pointed out by police ®ATnings on the greater value of Sgt. James Payne, head of, the the property since the original dog pound. ' |petition for $4.9 million was filed | He cited the figures. From Jan.| last Nov. 21. 1 until this date last year 15| The upsurge of war wages has rabid dogs had been found in the dipped into telephone payrolls. leity and county. For the same And said Harry 8. Hanna, presiperiod this year 42 cases have dent, “Good telephone service can {been found rabid. be provided only if we continue te i ‘Worst Still Ahead’ {pay wages that will attract and
“The worst is still ahead of us, Dold capable people. |Warm weather will send this fig-| ‘As Costs Increase . . ? ure skyrocketing,” he said. | “As the costs of doing business Sgt. Payne said that his staff increase, telephone rates also is not large enough to handle the must go up.” task in the city and that re-| The company has a rate case ports of packs of roaming dogs pending for $4.9 million. This, it pile up on him, | was estimated privately, could inSheriff Smith was still without crease rates about 75 cents per |a dog wagon and no action was month per subscriber, planned’ to get him one whtil the, The $3.3 million asked" today meeting of the county piles up the annual income incouncil. Sgt. Payne aids the crease asked to $8.2 million. And {sheriff as best he can with whae|if the 75 cents per subscriber is {he has, but both officials say the | nearly correct, the combined in{attention they can give is inade- crease per subscriber would be |quate. | $1.25. = | Telephone officials were quick to say that this estimated increase per subscriber is fictitious, a guess at best.
| . Schedule Not Figured On Red A itators | They pointed out that they had not figured a rate schedule and
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would be distributed with some . . . going to toll rates, some to fourOil Field Strike By United Press
party and some to other rated TEHRAN, Iran, Mar. 27—The|
services. | They also said there is no exgovernment cracked down today! ,.¢ dh of figuring what the new on Communist agitators attempt- wage schedules will be, although ing to foment a general strike in the company has proposed wage Iran's oll fields. increases running up to $6 a Premier Hussein Ala ordered | week.
th . L1¥ { e governor. of Kuzistan last The company has 8300 workers
night to enforce martial law in! the oil towns of Abadan, Agha 20d wage negotiations are under
Jari and Bandar Ma’Shur. Tehran| om has been under martial law for! Telephone users in Indiana to.
a week |day are paying rates that proThree Communist strike leaders Se Tags, er sent have been arrested in the southern produce. Wage increases alone oil fields so far and naval units. $7 million more per year than were sent to the trouble area to), increases in telephone rates help police and troops keep order. granted since 1939,” Mr. Hanna Have Some Success (said. ' The Communists were success-!| “Telephone service has reached ful in pulling some oil workers off on 211 time high in value. Virtualthe job yesterday. They marched |y 41] of our customers can reach through the streets shouting: twice as many telephones as in “Throw the pirates into the sea. 1939. The price of service has Death to the imperialists. Give gone up far less than the price us our oil.” |of most other things. The Communists were taking| “The earnings on our property advantage of the strong wave of are far below what they should nationalist sentiment in Iran, which alréady has resulted in| Continued on Page 3—Col. 4
parliamentary approval of a bill = x to nationalize Iran's oil fields. |Youth Shot by Officer Premier Gen, Ala Razmara and . [ Education Minister Hamid Zan- Removed to Jail ganeh were assassinated earlier, Clifford Simpson, 16, of 2130 this month for opposing national-' W. McCarty St., shot by a policeization. man on the night of Mar. 18, Police also arrested four men Will be removed from General Sunday on charges of plotting to Hospital to the jail today. assassinate Gen. Abdul Hussein Simpsen was Stok by Bat. CosHejazi, military overnor. of MOS Sansone as he ran from a Toiads ry. &o service station in the 1200 block : Members o1. Sect of W, Washington, Another youth y ! yas d. The four men were members Va$ capture ’ of the fanatical politico-religious b Inspector Jack ON mu 2 Moslem sect Fidaiyvan Islam (De- >Ur8iary - Served votees of lslam}. The men whol 00 Hie youth when he is released
killed Gen. Razmara and Mr. from the hospital. Zanganeh also were members of the sect. Some abservers said the Brit-ish-owned _Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., which controls Iranian ofl production, might ask the British government to provide protection for its employees and property if the disorders continue.
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Initiation Cosis Life of Student
ADELAIDE, Australia, Mar. 27 (CDN)-—An old college custom has cost 18-year-old John G. Neill his life and his chance to become a doctor. Mr, Neill, who lived with his widowed mother, began his medical course at Adelaide University this year. Then the time came want.
for his Initiation into a college | fraternal society. 8 { In the Classified Real XsAlong with other new members, fate Solus vf The Times ‘he was thrown into the Torrens YOU Wi fn 8 of wail River by fellow students. But Prep 290 loomed Binns Mr. ill didn't co et r. Ne 4i4n’'t come. up again a free appraisal. A consulta
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