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Squalor and the Big Squeeze—

Shells of Old Mansions Found to Shield Slums

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Speech Fiery At Party Dinner

By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Apr. 14— President Truman took an ine direct slap at Gen. Douglas MacArthur tonight in a fiery Jefferson - Jackson dinner speech in which he accused the Republicans -of playing “petty politics” and using “political hokum” to win next year's elec; tion at the risk df another world war. ! : Without mentioning Gen. MaeArthur by name, the President told an overflow audience of 5300 cheering Democrats that he had once been advised the Chinese’

Money Available ter and time ravaged streets, a : McMahon Hits ‘Mr. Republican’ The Mayor said the city will dy S pare | Cc a on 1 S r. epu ican Already in process are petitions) . tomorrow. If the request is Taft Remarks New York First District of Columbia | should be available for contracts| : ciples of our Constitution,” clined today to appear before Already under contract and The White House took the street repair contracts. Washington administration “high until after Corigress fixes the gues and the regular city levy MacArthur when he comes here this tragic episode brought into So far the date for the meeting times more than the city ever man fired Gen. MacArthur from disturbed by the determined ef- partly upon the General's own Last year, Mr. Hunt said, the | football,” he said. (Today Maj. Gen. Courtney

SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1951 Milli Extra Million | To Fix Street i ; r | 1 About July 15 | # =r » : By JOSEPH ALLISON ; g Indianapolis plans to spend ! ! : an extra $1 million on its win- | Mayor Bayt revealed yesterday. seek an additional $500,000 bond] 3 ¥ ge i. with the funds to be avajl- G S Ww | Aff able for contracts to be let this For Capital For ue SOS in or airs | year. ; Se———— | —————— for a half million dollar bond re- ie quest which Mayor Bayt said | Senator Quotes | Doug to Visit would be presented to City Council] If okeyed, money would be available about July 15. . By NOBLE REED { By JOHN L. STEELE The extra $500,000 will be re- Tay) .Doug- United Press Staff Correspondent quested within several weeks and] Taken off Spot | The dismissal of Gen & WASHINGTON Apr. 1 By GAYLORD P. GODWIN |las MacArthur was necessary _ ’ fee by Aug. 1 | United Press Staff Correspondent to safecuard “the basic prin- Gen. Douglas MacArthur dehe | o 3 Times More to Spend | WASHINGTON, Apr. 14— ares : declared U. S. Sen. Brien Mc-|® Senate inquiry into his discompleted, or in Process of being District of Columbia off an Mahon (D., Conn), In a missal by President Truman awarded, are nearly $600.000 Inq. parragsing spot today. It : “ ds City Engineer William Hunt cleared the way for a hero's policy” speech here last night. |day for him to address a joint said the $1 million from bond is- welcome to Gen. Douglas’ “I am deeply dismayed to see| Meeting of the House and Senate. plus gasoline tax funds of more + week ‘h teal just i {had not been fixed. It may be . e political arena—just as I am| than $600,000 will total three Early last Wednesday Mr. Tru- p | Thursday or Friday, depending has spent on street repair and {forts of certain Republicans to!timetable for a flying return from construction. the four commands the general , ... roreign policy a political Tokyo. city spent more than ever for its) TOKYO, Sunday, Apr. 15— | . Whitney, Gen. MacArthur's closstreets. Approximately $650,000) (UP)—The tentative schedule Speaking at the annual Jeffer-

INDIANAPOLIS OR NEW YORK?—Children play in a

Aled Troops Hit Stiff Resistance

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On ‘Maginot Line’

By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Staff Correspondent oo TOKYO (SUNDAY), Apr. 15— families are:

Allied troops slammed into stiff, QNE: Overcrowded. resistance from a new section of TWO: Overcharged.

the Communist “Maginot Line” in| . S a : a dawn assault today after beat- THREE: Deprived of min- | imum service.

ing off a stinging Chinese counterattack on newiy-won positions more than eight miles north of health and fire hazards.

the 38th Parallel. For these cracker-box “apart-

The Allies hit Chinese positions ments” in which they share the! in the rugged Kwandok Moun- path and water facilities with as.

tains on the west central front, many as a dozen other families, the last natural barrier south of these housing-squeeze victims freKumhwa, which is one of the quently pay more than the rental points of the triangle where the of apartments in the North Side Reds are building up for their residential district.

x spri : sive. expected spring counteroffensiv Forced to Accept

Abandon Defenses Tragically, the majority of The Allied assault was launched these are families with children, after the Chinese mysteriously forced to accept these conditions abandoned another well dug-in because they cannot find cent defense line in the hills to the rentals which accept children. south. The defenses were a fan- Tragically for the community, tastic network of laboriously con-imaps of the city health board structed log bunkers and €on- show a concentrated incidence of necting trenches described by tuberculosis and other communifield officers as an “Oriental|cgble diseases in areas where Maginot Line.” |these tenement - like structures

Times Visits 12 ‘Homes’ Here Which Would Shame Any City

By DONNA MIKELS and LLOYD B. WALTON : Hundreds of Indianapolis families are being victim-|Ave, to Delaware St. and SenMake Dawn Assault ized in ruthless “exploitation housing” schemes, a spot/ate Ave. from Indiana Ave. tol |check by The Indianapolis Times revealed today. Accompanying a City Health Board inspector, The jor projects, the city has im-| The district commissioners, who |Times visited a dozen spots in‘ the Mile Square where mediately scheduled

FOUR: Exposed to the worst,

(housing areas from becoming a {public scandal sooner is that they |A

Although security restrictions prohibited pinpoimting the extent, of the Allied advance, the Kwandok Mountains run as far as 12 miles north of the border To the west, other Allied troops burst through battered, wrecked

and abandoned Yonchon, eight ,¢ (pe City Board of Health,

abound.

In short, the families in the “exploitation housing” areas pay premiums to live like slum dwellers and to expose their children to disease. Dr. Gerald F. Kempf, director

miles inside North Korea, and |yshed out at the “get-rich-

was spent on major overhaul of of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's | . |long-neglected thoroughfares. | flight to the United States, inso- | : Repair 15 Streets far as responsible sources have | The past winter, Mr. Hunt es-| reported it (The hours timated, caused more damage to Indianapolis time.) itreets than three ordinary win- 3:30 p. m. Sunday — leaves ters. This, combined with war- U. 8. Embassy residence in onforced delay in repair, has Tokyo for eight-mile drive to placed the city in an emergency, Haneda airport. 4 p. m.—takes Situation in street maintenance, ©f for flight across Pacific. he said. Major repair projects already completed or in process include] the resurfacing of 16th St. from| Central Ave. to the Monon Rgil-| road. Others are 22d St. from Central

are |

tenement-like structure.

Honolulu. 3:30 a. m., Tuesday takes off for California. About 2 p. m.—arrives at In- | ternational Airport, San Fran- | cisco. 2:30 p. m. Thursday—arrives

|16th St: In addition to the above ma- more than five years.

repair ot are appointed by the President, | more than 15 streets. Plans call understandably didn't rush to jor work on more than 20 others. [hang out the welcome sign. | But today a White ‘House {spokeman said “it looks with, |pleasure upon the plans of the icitizens of Washington to welcome |

Dr. Gerald F. Kempf, city health board director, promised a vigorous crackdown on the worst of sub-standard houses as soon as the weather permits. “There are many that doubtless are condemnable that we have allowed to continue operstions through the winter,” he said. “To close them would have thrown occupants homeless into the cold. “As bad as conditions are, we felt the people were better off in what shelter they had, rather than out in the cold,” he said. “As soon as warm weather comes, the operators of those spots will either clean up, fix up or close up.”

Kentucky Democrat

Victor for House Seat Gen. Douglas MacArthur as one;

LEXINGTON, Ky., Apr. 14 (UP) |o¢ our great military leaders, in| — Democrat John C. Watts de- (the same manner as such recepfeated his Republican opponent tions have been held in the past on the basis of unofficial returns| {OT other returning leaders. tonight in a special Congressional Plan Big Welcome | election that was fought mostly, After that statement, the com-| jon national issues. | missioners+ joined “with business, | Mr. Watts claimed victory after civic, veterans, theatrical, radio! he had built up a lead of almost and newspaper representatives to |8000 votes over Republican Otis!plan a rousing welcome for the C. Thomas, with results in® from!five-star general who last saw 11 of the 6th Kentucky District’s, Washington in 1937.

482 precincts. The incomplete vote He will receive a 17-gun salute] because of his five-star General]

gave Mr. Watts 25975 to 18,099 (for Mr. Thomas. lof the Army rank. He will be at-| {tended by a military honor guard.|

| lace is finally falling apart or 1 | The district government will Pe to be Ise On the Inside |give him a parade and a recep-

One factor that has kept these Of The Times {tion. The parade will be on Penn-

isylvania Ave. feud smoulders between

| Other frills probably will in-| Washington scribes and ‘tri- {clude a public reception on they

are not readily apparent to the unpracticed eye. pod engineers’ Many are located on good resi- Hoosiers on way to Israel finds dential streets, wedged in between Stopover in Beirut ‘fascinatgood homes or apartment build-| ing ing. From the exterior they ap- Social Security %enefit paypear no worse than old-fashioned. ments do not start automatBut a look inside the many-| ically roomed mansions which were In-|Indians clip the Cincinnati | By United Press dianapolis’ pride when they were| Reds 5-1 .. . ‘rookie rush’ | Ngpw YORK Ap. built in the 19th Century shows| On as 500-Mile-Race entries | t ,

‘dinner. Several hundred thousand | federal workers probably will get! 11 a half holiday.

New York Is Planning 12 Big Day for General

14— Gen,

New York. !

son-Jackson Day Democratic ban-|€st adviser, said the former suquet at the Murat Temple, the Preme commander will visit New

Senator reviewed what he de- York before he addresses a joint scribed as the “bewildering mix- Meeting of Congress. But Gen. ture of contradictory views” of Whitney said he was unable to the present GOP leadership, men-|8ive the exact time of arrival in tioning U. S. Sen. Robert Taft of New York.) Ohio in particular. |

Monday to Saturday

the boundless continent of China,” | Far Eastern commands. he said. | However, House

our armies and ap Th

notice. [the joint meeting as demanded “On Friday they assure us that PY Republicans—on Tuesday. Stalin's appetite is limited—that| GOP Wants Speed his design for conquest does not| ' Mr, Rayburn said it was up to include the United States. Gen. MacArthur to decide whether “And on Saturday they tell us and when he will testify before that Soviet power is irresistible, congressional committees. Repubthat our only salvation lies injlicans were pressing to get him shamefully abandoning our allies before the public with his version and cowering behind our shores.” [of the firing as quickly as posSen. McMahon said it taxes the sible. imagination to picture all these House Republican Leader

contradictory views being held by Joseph W. Martin Jr, of Masone and the same person. |sachusetts said at North Attle-

: boro, Mass., that he expects the ‘Let Us Go Back’ | joint meeting to be held Thurs“This bewildering mixture of day; with Gen. MacArthur changreckless advance and suicidal re- ing present plans to be in New

treat, of unwarranted optimism York that day for a gala welcome. |

and unfounded despair represents! The General, in a message to the foreign policy prescription of [Senate Armed Services Chairman ‘Mr. Republican’ (Sen. Taft),” the Richard B. Russell, (D. Ga.), said Senator said, {he felt it, “inappropriate” for him “I fear that if Mr. Republican's to accept the invitation until he

foreign policy recommendations{ficars from Congress itself on

had ever been adopted the very | The inquiry has been scheduled

communism he so detests would |, open Wednesday. Today, Sen

by now have engulfed all Europe p pert A Taft, (R. O.), demanded and Asia. that, instead of the limited probe “Let us go back. It is Oct, into Gen. MacArthur's discharge, 1939. All intelligent men realize the Senate conduct an all-out _ex-

Some Senators took Gen. Mac{Arthur's reply as a‘rebuff to the {Senate Armed Services Commit“On Monday these men vote tee which invited him to be a star 3:30 a. m. Monday—arrives in |against every form of aid to Eu-|witness at a full inquiry into all irope and on Tuesday they demand the circumstances which led Mr. {we embroil ourselves in a war on|Truman to fire him from his four

Sam “On Wednesday they begrudge Rayburn and Senate Democratic every nickel needed to strengthen| Leader Ernest W. McFarland of they| Arizona, said it made no differ{wonder why we don’t have moun-/ence and they expect action on {had held in the Far East foritains of munitions at an instant’s/ resolutions to invite him before

Communists “would not come into Korea.” He departed further from his preparéd text to say that statement was made to him “on good authority, too—and I believed it.” Gen. MacArthur is reported to have made such a statement to Mr. Truman at their Wake Island meeting last fall, when the North Korean Communists, with Russian and Chinese Communist: backing, were making threatens ing § towa Re of Arg hos amare He hit at the Republicans with a bare-knuckle attack, charging: them with being the “party eof confusion” and adding that “the confusers are not always found in politics either.” “They think if the country is confused enough,” he said, again, departing from his prepared “that they may be able to win the! next election. “Well—T'l1 tell them right nowy they won't.” “You know,” he continued, is rather peculiar these never blame themselves. only person they can think blame is the President. If I any attention to these foolish tacks I'd never have time to my job done.” Examples of ‘Hokum’ As examples of - “political ho kum” Mr. Truman recited soma of the difficulties he has encounts 3 ered with members of Congress, particulafly Republicans:

ONE: “They say they want {powerful defense system, second |to none, but they are against ‘

versal military training. TWO: “They say the other free nations to resist gression, but they don't want to send any troops to help. THREE: “They want us to

¢/ Mall, and an indoor luncheon Or the world faces the greatest crisis amination of the administration’s

it has ever known.

“And here are the words of Mr. Republican: ‘I do not claim that a world dominated by Hitler and Stalin would be a pleasant world to live in. Bat terrible as it might be, I do not see why they would threaten the safety of the United

{out of Korea, but they urge us tg Far Eastern policy. wage an ‘aggressive war againsg Rebuff Seen China.’ : Gen. MacArthur's surprise mes: FOUR: “They say it will pros sage was not looked upon by voke Russia to attack if we send most senators as a rejection, and troops to Europe, but they are one suggested he may have sent/sure Russia won't come in if we it before he realized a joint meet-|carry the war to China. ing was assured. FIVE: “They say they want ta

i . } aniaL’ cept- States.” But some—among them Repub- crush communism, and yet the seized ridges north and north- quick" operators who buy up old|them to be the shame of the city| reach 59 ... Marion Craney Douglas MacArthur (aday accepts : Pp ig ¥ 3

west of the town. avs ed New York’s invitation to al The Senator then referred to licans who plugged for a forum want us to draw back into oum To the east, powerful Unitedi ones any partition Hem Bas teday, reports results of bowling homecoming parade which may Jan., 1940. where the General could speak his shell and let the rest of the world Nations forces captured Cl cg yuo os Jabeled [Here are a few incidents The| tourney around Hoosierland pecome the big town's greatest “The fall of France and Dun- mind—took it as a rebuff. |be overrun by the Reds. tar Hill” and drove on to the out-'pinym ENR [umes investigators found as they) OL. sessgee sss orte aviesunee 13-17 ovation, bigger than the recep- kirk will soon make hideous| Gen. MacArthur, in the message; SIX: “They say they are wore skirts of Yanggu, near the east- Won't Spend a Cent (toured with E. W. Virt, super- ‘Harry's Got Guts’... ‘Kick tions for Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- headlines. ‘But Mr. Republicanitransmitted- to Sen. Russell/ried because the Russians oute

[visor of general sanitation divi-| Harry Out’ . . . ‘Pity Poor ern end of the Hwachon reservoir : : and seven miles inside Red Korea, “These are -not. typical land- Sion of the Board of Health: | Harry’ . . . the people ex- Continued on Page $—Col. 1 | i "

avies i he day lords,” Dr. Kempf stressed. ONE: Approximately 27 people| press their views on the Fars he pi hi hk Yong. “They're a small minority of ex- ale Sjo¥Wded. Into La hreefloory Macarihur-Truman battle ..21 pyong and northwest of Yon- Ploiters who pack 10 to 20 families PY N. Alabama St. which Washington Calling predicts gong, just to the left of the moun- in a single house without expand- pa in t partitioned into. 13 that Red China will soon get tain positions suddenly abandoned "8 the plumbing facilities. | Bpar pen} i FOTMOBA sevessinsorensiri. 23, by the Chinese. “They refuse to spend a cent of ome : first floor residents Variety marks local spring } i income on repair or improvement. |" are ‘a single family-sized bath-| stage calendar ............. 26

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DEMOCRATIC STALWARTS—Wreathed in smiles Truman poses with Speaker of H Sam Rayburn (left) President Alben Bar y at $100-plate dinner.

HAPPY THOUGHT—(Left to right), Gov. Schricker, Lt. Gov. o Busi. John A. Watkins chat with guest speaker Sen. Brien McMahon at Amous . »

the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner head table.

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