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62d YEAR—NUMBER 28

Manpower Waste in Armed Services—

20,000 In Capital ‘Clerking Out’ War

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff W

WASHINGTON, Apr. 9— Forces have been pressing Congress for more fighting men, ever since the Koréan

War broke out.

Yet ‘the record shows that they're wasting much of the manpower they have. Without too much digging, you can count 20,000 sailors, and Marines —most of them around Washington —working in non-essential jobs. Non-essential, at least, in the sense that they're not what the men were hired to do—fight man ships and

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battles, fly planes.

Between 3000 and 4000 work in the Pentagon. Another 1900 hold public relations jobs. Thirteen thousand are on recruiting duty here and all over the country. Another 1350 are on or subject to ceremonial details here. Approximately 800 fly special missions out ofgWashington for high government officials. are running a correspondence school. In lesser degree, it's the same at military command headquarters wherever

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SOME OF these non-fighters in uniform like their work and are good at their respective jobs. But others are frankly embarrassed and eager to get on

Report Victim Robbed, Shot Taxi Driver

A gun-crazed ex-convict was shot and killed by two Indianap-

olis rookie policemen last night s after he fired upon them point blank within 5-foot range as an- ° other victim was dying in the

rear seat of a stolen taxicab. Ralph Edward Wells, 26, a paroled federal convict, fell under a hail of bullets in a gutter at Shelby and Maryland Sts. He had fired, and missed, four shots at Patrolmen Eugene M. Sowers and Harold R. Day. Walter Truman, Jr., of 3741 N. Wallace Ave., died in the emergency room at General Hospital of a bullet wound through the head. Shot and Robbed Homicide detectives said Mr. Truman, a taxicab driver, was shot by Wells who robbed him of his wallet and loose change and dumped him bleeding and unconscious into the rear seat of the cab. The gun battle occurred after the police stopped the cab to ,investigate unusual racing of the motor and clashing of gears. They said it was obvious the driver was not an experienced operator. The officers said they noticed a bullet hole, circled with blood in the left front window of the cab. When they asked the driver (Wells) about it he answered “That” drunk in the back seat shot me.”

Pulls Gun

Patrolman Eugene M. Sowers said he then pulled his gun and started to investigate the man in the back seat. Wells jumped out of the cab, pulling a revolver. “The man I thought was the cab driver started firing at less than five feet from me,” Patrolman Sowers said. “I dropped to one knee and returned the fire.| Officer Day, firing from the open! door of the police car, came to my! assistance. The man later iden-| tified as Wells fired two shots

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The Armed

You've heard a lot lately of this country's manpower problems at a time when we're trying to build up our armed forces. Manpower is a basic and precious commodity for the military— but it can be wasted. How much of that is going

on today? Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim Lucas,

findings.

a World War II veteran who spent five months in Korea and is nationally known as an analyst and writer on military affairs, has recently completed a careful study of the question. This is the first of a series in which he sets forth his

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with the military establishment’s main job—which is the build-up of a capable, well-trained fighting force. Twenty thousand men would give us an extra army division. We could use it in Korea. heavy bomber and 12 jet-fighter groups. It would man six aircraft carriers the size of the Midway, with 2000 men left

Or it would give us seven

over. That'd be enough for 10 destroyers.

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Naturally, it would be impossible to lump them together and assign them to the same outfit, because they come from all services. But the illustration shows what's

That's only scratching the surface. These 20,000 men are the ones you can put the finger on and say “Here's Joe.” It doesn’t include the countless thousands clerking in post exchanges and ships’ stores, in laundries, officers’ clubs or in

army and fleet post offices. For some

reason, information cannot be published on the post office roster.

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| Toll Chalked Up | In 26 Hours

i Sudden death on the highway Barkley, Senate Democratic Lead{claimed 10 lives in a 26-hour pe-/er Ernest W. McFarland of Ari{riod” between Saturday night and'zon¥"dnd House Demoeratic

{early today in central Indiana. | In pne accident early this morning, four persons died and two were critically injured when their car struck a semi-trailer at the fork of Ind. 9 and Ind. 37. | Dead in the crash two miles {south of Marion were: { Archie Bell Delaney, 46, Crofton, Ky. | Miss Emma Jean Carter, 18, Hopkinsville, Ky. A woman believed to be Mrs. {James A. Delaney, 23, Detroit. | A girl, 4, believed to be Mrs. Delaney’s daughter. In critical condition at the Marion General Hospital were: James A. Delaney, 23. Detroit, believed to be the husband of the dead mother. A boy. 2, believed to be another child of the of the Delaneys. { Killed in three other crashes , |were: | John H. Hammack, 16, Scotts{burg. Olson L. Coomer, 17, Scottsburg. Mrs. Rose Cannon, 60, Wina{mac. | Albert L. Swainston, 56, Sullivan, Lee Ford, 39, Bryant. Esco Burton, 40, Chicago.

In the accident near Marion, the car bearing the Delaney family (was going north on Ind. 37. Police said it failed to halt at .a stop sign at the fork of Ind. 9 and plowed into the side of a semitrailer rig. The driver of the truck, Edward J. Myers, 29, Ft. Wayne, was not injured.

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“He then ran around his cab as| blank ..vic.00.. sates ence I emptied my gun. He fell face Another chapter in the warmly human series by Marjorie Roulston under the heading,

downward in the gutter between the cab and the curb. “We then radioed for assistance and an ambulance.” Blood Covers Money

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| Hit by Train

The two Salem youths were (killed yesterday when their car was hit by the southbound Penn(sylvania Ralilread’s crack pas- | enger train, Southwind, at Scottsburg. State police said the train was moving at about 70 miles an hour and flasher signals at the crossing were working. The car was demolished.

Mrs. Cannon died last night

|about a mile south of Star City when a car she was riding in struck a tractor trailer rig headon.

A deputy coroner teer fire department ...... The impact of the crash hurled Wells’ body at the scene and Rep. Brownson {is staunch the truck driver, Herbert Ross Jr., found in his pocket two wallets,| backer of Universal Mili- {from his cab, but he was not inone his own and another belong-| tary Training. Read jured. Driver of the car, Samuel ing to Mr, Truman. A handful of| Dan Kidney ....... veseeee. 14|Zeiders, 56, Kewanna, was in criti-

silver money, covered with blood, was found pocket. A half-filled pint of

For Superior Cartage Co. Correction was made today on the name of’ the company for which a truck was being driven Saturday when it crashed into an automobile driven by David 8hapiro, 18, of 341 Prospect 8t. Mr. Shapiro died. His sister, Marian, 16, was hospitalized. The truck was being driven for the Superior Cartage Co., 6070 N. Park Ave. instead of the Security Cartage Co., 1220 S. West 8t., as previously reported.

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| The accident which claimed the

{life of Mr. Swainston happened a {mile south of Shelburn on U. 8. (41. His car crashed head-on into (a station wagon.

All Suffer Injuries.

His wife, Lbuise, 43, driver of {the station wagon, and John Mec|Kee, 29, Michigan City, and his |wife, Anetta, 25, all suffered in[juries and were in the Sullivan [County Hospital.

| Mr. Ford died in Bryant when {he was struck by a tractor-trailer

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MONDAY, APRIL 9,

Truman Talks With Leaders Atiout Doug

White House

Keeps Silent

By JOHN L. STEELE United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Apr. 9—| President Truman discussed with his congressional leaders! today the controversy be-! tween the administration and

|Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

| Then he called in his Cabinet las the long-range policy fight between the administration and the, |General headed for a showdown. | | The White House kept silent on ithe MacArthur situation. Presi‘dential Press Secretary Joseph! Short replied with a “no com-| \ment” to questions whether “Mr. {Truman had or would rebuke Gen. |MacArthur. | Speaker Sam Rayburn admitted /that the controversy was aired at {the regular - Monday morning! {White House meeting between Mr. | Truman and his Congressional {leaders. Gives No Details i { But Mr. Rayburn declined to {give details except to say that no {recommendation came from the { President. i From other sources, however, it {was learned that Democratic leador in Congress are ready to as{sure Mr. Truman they will back shim “to the hilt” if he decides to {crack down on Gen. MacArthur, {whose policy statements have; embarrassed and annoyed the administration. | Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chair-| man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, {briefed the President and the] {Congressional big four—Mr. Ray-! (burn, Vice President Alben W.|

er John W. McCormack of Massa-| chusetts. | General's 3d Call | Gen. Bradley has been at the] White House three successive] days to confer with Mr. Truman. Mr. Rayburn said it was logical | {that the Congressional leaders’ should report to Mr. Truman on the furore over Gen. MacArthur's statements on the conduct of the Korean war. In a letter to House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, the General agreed that Chinese Nationalist troops should be permitted to open a second front on the China mainland. Gen. MacArthur also said] that the real battle against communism is being fought in the Far East while diplomats talk about the Red menace in Europe.

Legion Chief Supports Doug

i NEW YORK, Apr. 9 (UP)— Erle Cocke Jr., national com-' mander of the American Legion, {today seconded Gen. MacArthur's |proposal that Chiang Kai-shek's troops be used against the Chinese Communists. Back from a world “fact-find-ing” tour, Mr. Cocke said he would seek an immediate appointment with President Truman to emphasize his approval of Gen. MacArthur's statements. The use of the Formosa Nationalist troops and the bombing of Manchurian targets, the Uegion commander said, “will save the lives of many American soldiers.”

Sympathy Strike |

Peace Hopes Dim TERRE HAUTE, Apr. 9 (UP)—

(A sympathy strike in the western

Indiana coal fields which idled some 2200 miners gave no signs of breaking up today. The men walked off their jobs Friday after 300 workers struck | |at the Viking shaft near here the! previous day in a dispute over working conditions. All 15 Vigo County. mines still were closed today, idling some {1000 workers. Four strip mines |{in Greene County and four shaft mines in Sullivan, employing a (total of 1200 diggers, also were affected. Miners and mine operators held | {separate meetings over the week(end, but there was no indication of a settlement.

| (Grocery, Residence Destroyed by Blaze Fire, said to have originated from a defective flue, destroyed a| grocery and adjoining residence) early today at 5712 Hardegan St.,| Edgewood. Damage was estimated at “more than $10,000” by fire department] investigators. { The store was operated by Mr.| {and Mrs. Isham C. Hamilton who | occupied the adjoining residence and had been in business at the! {same address for 33 years. | Firemen said the fire resulted in |a complete logs of building, stock] land furnishings. ; |

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Sermon in Sin—

‘Tell Her About Whisky Ann’'—

PRICE FIVE CENTS

OLD WHISKY ANN—The path of “easy living" led to the poor farm.

70 Wasted Years Bared as Warning for Sister’ of 16

Wants Girl Who Has Taken First Steps

|... Aleng Scarlet Path to See Where It Ends

"By DONNA MIKELS

A ROSY-CHEEKED, clear-eyed 16-year-old girl sat in Juvenile | {Court last week and told how the lure of “easy living” led her|

into prostitution.

On the same day in another courtroom a few blocks ‘away sat

another prostitute, a wrinkled wizened woman of 70. She was sick, friendless and alone at the end of 52 years of harlotry. She awaited

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Wire Firm Asked

Officers Western Union Ban By JOHN V. WILSON

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commitment to the “poor farm.” There is no connection between the two cases. The pretty teenager with naturally curling maple hair has never seen disheveled, ragged old “Whisky Ann,” the name given the aged prostitute by Indianapolis police who have been arresting her for a quarter of a century. But deep beneath the surface, there was a symbolic link—a girl on the threshhold of life heading onto the same Scarlet

path which a broken, tired old woman was finishing. One who saw the symbolism was old Whisky Ann herself.

with nothing.” “Tell her about me,

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Girl, 7, Skips Into Sewer, Saved by 2 Policemen

By TOM HICKS TWO ALERT policemen today saved a 7-year-old school girl from drowning in an Indianapolis sewer. Cruising in their squad -car at St. Clair and New Jersey Sts. the policemen saw the girl skipping backwards on her way to school. Despite their startled yells, the youngster skipped directly into an uncovered manhole.

a o CITY STREET workers—standing 10 feet away— had their backs turned. They did not see the child plunge into the sewer. Patrolmen Joseph Bronner and Melvin Osborn jumped out of the patrol car and dashed to the open manhole. Lying prone and peering into the manhole, Patrolman Bronner saw the child bobbing in the water. He yelled for her to reach out her arms. 8 a n 5 s ” HIS FINGERTIPS barely reached her arm. Patrolman Osborn then grasped the othér arm and they hauled the dripping, startled youngster from the sewer. More scared than hurt, Brenda Dale Tines then was taken to her mother, Mrs. Sophia Tines, 826 N. New Jersey St. The city workers, who were cleaning sewers in the area, had pried the lid off the manhole cover and had turned around to get some cleaning tools when the near

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Wants: Report By Commission Before Voting

Three Civilians To Sit on Body

By United Press

WASHINGTON, Apr. 9— House Military Affairs’ leaders gave up today in their

(fight to write universal mili-

tary training into law at this time. Facing bitter opposition to a pending draft and UMT bill, they agreed to support amendments under which Congress would commit itself now merely to consider “legislative recommendations” to be made later by a special UMT commission. UMT could not go into effect until Congress, by law, so decreed. Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.), said his House Armed Services Committee, which sponsored the bill, approved the revisions unanimously at a closed meeting. Take No Vote The committee, without taking a vote, also was understood to have sanctioned informally an amendment to give draft boards

college students, despite forthcoming nationwide college deferment Rep. Paul J. Kilday (D. Tex.), who earlier had planned to offer an amendment to block the college tests, said that under his revised plan the tests would go ahead as scheduled but that the results would be only “advisory.” Each draft board would have the final say about its own college deferments. Must Pass Law The latest concessions on UMT

_|went even further than anticl-

pated. During debate Mr. Vinson had sald the committee would consider amendments to require prior approval of UMT by con-

Indianapolis and Marion County| current resolution of Congress.

As the amendment was agreed

law enforcement officials moved to today, Congress actually would today to cut the Western Union's have ay gre

race result wires to bookie joints UMT going. \

pass a new law to get

It would be committed, however, to consider recommendations to

Chief Rcouls, Sheriff Smith and be made, not later than six Prosecutor Frank Fairchild were months after its appointment, by

sending a letter to Western Union a “Somebody ought to tell her it asking them to cut the wire sery- composed of three civilians and don’t pay,” said the old woman ice. It was estimated that about ‘WO military men. who read of the teen-age prosti- 11 wires were involved. Most of!

tute in a paper she fished from a these have been inactive for some 2 wastebasket. “You don't end up time, and all went out of use last nese fl

five-man UMT commission,

{week when phones were removed. |

they got the letter. Plans No Action John Gorman, owner of the Capitol City Publishing Co., said he would do nothing to stop the | cut, explaining that all of the {wires were inactive anyway. Mr. {Gorman leases the wires from Western Union. { Arthur Campbell, executive sec{retary for Gov. Schricker, today said the Governor had “received a bushel of wires, letters and phone calls lauding his efforts to clean up the state on gambling.” Mr. Campbell said the Governor’'s ban on gaming and vice would continue as long as he was in office. The sheriff and prosecutor conferred today to determine if they could padlock the Show Boat. Several persons were arrested at {the widely-known night spot in a |raid Friday night, and their cases {were to be heard in Beech Grove {tonight. County officials said /they hoped to get the place closed jas a “nuisance.” . Two additional bookie spots were to be referred to the phone company for a cut in service by the prosecutor. At one spot, a residence at 56th St. and Millersville Road, five phones and an extension were

Western Union spokesmen said!

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Reds Start Floods, | But Gls Roll On

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondend

TOKYO, Apr. 9—The Chinese |Reds abandoned their Hwachon {stronghold in their “Iron Trilangle” today after opening the flood gates of the Hwachon reservoir in a futile attempt to delay {the Allied invasion of North Korea. | Pursuing United States forces, ignoring the threat of floods, (reached the southwest side of the reservoir 13 miles north of the 38th Parallel—the deepest American penetration of the Communist - homeland in this second battle of {North Korea. | The Yanks were believed to ‘have seized hills overlooking Hwachon itself, formerly the {eastern anchor of the central | Korean triangle in which the Reds

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An 88-year-old woman.was in fair condition in Methodist Hos-

‘ordered disconnected. The oper- pital today suffering shock after ator is Richard Shackelford. The she was overcome by smoke dur-

numbers there were GL. GL. 2257, GL. 2258, GL.

2256, ing a fire at her home, 1221 Ed2269, wards Ave. Overcome was Mrs.

GL. 2250 and an extension phone Jenny Manuel. The fire and fumes

to BR. 5521.

were caused by hot ashes setting

Three phones were to be cut a cardboard box. ablaze.

at 14 E. Troy Ave,, where the op-| —

erator is Lester Belt. ‘The numbers are GA. 1522, GA. 5537 and ID. 2895. Must Read Papers “As a result of this, the people “will have to read the newspapers to get their race results,” the prosecutor, sald in regard to the cutting of the Western Union | lines. He also said that he was going

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Do you have your tickets for the annual Times charity basketball game between-the Olympians and College All-Stars from Indiana schools? The game is Saturday night in the Butler Fieldhouse. Every seat is reserved . . . so you should GET THEM IN ADVANCE at: The Marott Shoe Store, 18 E. Washington St., or at the Bursar's Office, Room 102, Jordan Hall, Butler University. Prices, including tax:

2d BALCONY 1st BALCONY MAIN FLOOR $1 $1.50 ’ $2 For Jim Heyrock's story of the game. everyone is talking about . . , Turn to Page 16.

see if some action could be taken to cut the wires of the Capitol City Publishing Co. over the entire state.

Baby Hurt in Fall A T-week-old girl was in General Hospital today suffering head linjuries sustained yesterday when {she fell from her crib to a concrete floor. Injured wis Judy Ann Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Johnson Jr, Chadwick St.

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