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MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1951

Honolulu Pours Out Heart Plan Lowered ‘Standards to Recruit Police

Effort Under Way

In Its Aloha’ for Doug

General Mum About Ouster On Way Home

Flies Tomorrow For San Francisco

By DAVID F. BELNAP United Press Staff Correspondent

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Apr. 16—Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed here today in a glare of floodlights and a blare of music on his way home to state his case to the American people. He had no immediate comment on his removal as supreme commander in the Far East. His big, fast plane, the Bataan, touched dowi at 4:28 a. m., Indianapolis time, as a phonograps, amplified through a loud speaker, played the traditional song of the islands, “Aloha.” Later today there will be an allout Hawaiian celebration here) and then Gen. MarArthur will take off for San Francisco. The! time of his departure has not been fixed as yet. On Thursday he appears before! a joint meeting of Congress and| on Friday he will ride up New

By United Press Gen. Douglas MacArthur's travel schedule in brief (the hours are those of Indianapolis time): Leaves Honolulu about 4:40 a. m. Tuesday. Arrives San Francisco some time after dusk Tuesday. Leaves San Francisco at 3:30 a. m. Thursday. * Arrives Washington shortly before noon Thursday for probable 11:30 a. m. address to

Joint meeting of Congress. Will leave Washington late

Thursday afternoon for New Shocked by the removal. Top incidents in MacArthur's | career since VJ. Day .

{when the President took to the York's Broadway In a ticker-take radio to make statements the

York. Parade and city hall reception in New York on Friday.

demonstration.

Only 200 persons were allowed false—statements that honey up preparation for war would

to gather at the airport for Gen. MacArthur's arrival. But even! In that small crowd a near-riot| started when U. 8S. Air Force! police pushed or knocked down three press and newsreel photographers, Arm Twisted K. Shimogaki, photographer for the Honolulu Advertiser, said he was knocked down by a policeman and Carl Mydans, photographer for Life Magazine, said one of the policement grabbed and twisted his arm as Gen. MacArthur's plane taxied to a stop. A newsreel camera man who was not identified said a policeman struck him in the throat. Reporters were kept behind a wooden barrier, 50 yards from the MacArthur plane. Gen. MacArthur is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco sometime after dusk Tuesday—the first time he will have set foot in the United States in 14 years. Col. Anthony Story, Gen. MacArthur's personal pilot and air! force aide, was. first to ‘step out of the Bataan, followed by Mrs. MacArthur. Then came the 71-year-old General, dressed in an olive drab battle jacket and wearing his battered old gold-braided campaign hat. Gen. MacArthur walked slowly down the flight ramp, grasping one railing with his left arm for support. He raised his right arm

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Photographers Say MPs Hit Them at | Hawaii Airport

HONOLULU, Apr. 16 (UP) — Three press and newsreel: photographers complained today that they were struck, - pushed or knocked down by U. S. Air Force military police while covering the arrival of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. K. Shimogaki, photographer fo: the Honolulu Advertiser said he was knocked to the ground. { “I was unable to take any shots,” he said. :

” 8 ” AN UNIDENTIFIED newsreel | cameraman said he was “struck| in the throat” by another police-| man. | Carl Mydans, ‘photographer for Life :magazine, said one of the policemen grabbed his arm, | twisted it behind his back and] pushed him as Gen. MacArthur's plane taxied to a stop. Mr. Mydans said he was not| taking a picture at the time. [ “I was standing well back of an imaginary line photographers! had been asked n6t to cross,” he said,

o ” ” “WHEN I protested an Air Force captain walked over. and said, ‘shut up and get out of here.'” Cameramen were permitted tc approach Gen. MacArthur's plane when it landed and take shots of the general and his welcoming, party, but reporters were kept behind a chest-high wooden barrier 50 yards from the plane.

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By ED KENNEDY Physical requirements for

ithe Indianapolis police force ‘were cut today in an effort to bring the department up to full strength.

| ‘This decision grew out of a conference called by Mayor Bayt this morning to determine how the city could combine its efforts to stamp out the spread of rabies. An important need to thig end was more policemen for the staff of Sgt. James Payne, head of the Municipal Dog Pound. With at least 80 men short already in the department none could be spared for work at the

dog pound. Mayor Bayt, Chief

Rouls, Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach and Prosecuting! {Attorney Milton Craig decided Sgt. Payne’s need, along with other pressing problems, warranted the reduction of standards {to bring the force to full strength. Seek Veterinarian 2.9 # = = They also proposed to request 1 . $10,000 to be placed iv the budget ht next year for the salary and re4 acArthur Leaves Doug to Testify eats of a city veterinarian.

| Mayor Bayt also said the

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GOODBY—General Douglas MacArthur says goodby to dignitaries at Haneda Airport. |

'Boilin Land He Conquered, Ruled

Emotional Throng Watches General #, And Family Take Off for the U. S.

By FRED SPARKS Copyright, 1951, for The Indianapolis Fimes TOKYO, Apr. 16 (CDN)—Douglas MacArthur flew out of Japan

- . +n On His Dismissal ‘would get a $25 monthly pay hike

Democrats Clear Way on Speech

WASHINGTON, Apr. 16

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today, anxious to close with and bfeak the back of the Truman- —Gen. Douglas MacArthur agreed ==. ° ~~ 0 Gesiring to attend,

Acheson foreign policy which (Gen. MacArthur believes) slugs the today to testify before the Senate

«q¢ the cit lice school. Fifty men Communists with lady fingers instead of brass knuckles. Armed Services Committee ae od aon. oan

He is as angry as he has ever been in his entire life—that any time” after he addresses Tart amazing span of history. = — joint meeting of Congress. start. May Work Rookies As I watched him wave his last The Armed Services Commit- He Wf due to the emergency, farewell and step into the Con- 0C B | S - tee has ordered an investigation! =. s might be put to work as stellation Bataan a friend—but- of the circumstances which led partners with veteran officers un-ton-close to Gen. MacArthur's of- President Truman to dismiss Gen. til there were enough to start

fa —Said. : ar ficial -family—said — Defense 3 ‘Must’ MacArthur from his four Far ©" 0 "0 Then

Te atl sb [Easter commans. |" Sgt. Payne and Dr. Gerald : The committee hearing Wil De Kempf, city health head, were . . |closed unless Gen. MacArthur t at the meeting. Legion Chief Urges wants them open to the public. a7 Breast: requirements 2 the ‘Risk’ i usly agreed t to be reduced are the, isk’ in Afia The House unanimously agreed departmen ~ hoa to invite Gen. MacArthur and weight. limits. The Mayor, BY NOBLE RETD to address a joint meeting Of|said’ that many serving in.

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men stand . less than all-out Congress Thursday. [the Hinks OF the suxiiry olles i expres a desire ctive the Reds—he started to fry. dangerous for the United States ane Senate J eaetted b 12ké duty with the regulars, but could Reaches ‘Boil’ {at this time, Erle Cocke Jr., Na- >

| not because of being too old. ! “Over the week-end Gen. Mac- tional Commander of the Ameri- Pot in session today. |" The move by the city officials Arthur reached a boil no one has can Legion declared here today. No Discussion today will give these men a ever seen him reach during all. In the dismissal of Gen. Mac- h ‘chance to be re-examined with an the years since Bataan.” Arthur, Mr. Cocke said Presi- vse Demornatit Leader John eye to going into uniform. An: emotional crowd of oon- dent Truman “incurred the risk tained without any discussion—

voyagers at Haneda airfield this of deciding that his action will G WwW d : h rent 5 ee _|authority for Speaker Sam Ray- (Jrowers arne i morning sensed the main event not cause greater loss of Ameri Bus to declare a recess to hear |

ahead . . . they had not come to can lives and that the free nabid farewell to a man ending a tions will not be weakened in C¢N- MacArthur immediately of Freeze Here career but to one embarking on their fight against communism.” after the House meets Thursday. a new one. In regard to Gen. MacArthur's Mr. Rayburn said the exact time They did not shout themselves demands for freedom of military Of MacArthur's address had not hoarse—it was a most formal af- gction in Korea. Mr. Cocke said: been determined, but that it probfair. After all, you cheer after a

'general thinks are absolutely, Any

Warning to fruit growers and truck farmers, in this vicinty: Get ready for a freeze. he Weather Bureau today fore“There is nothing else to do but ably would be around 11:30 p. m. are low of 29 degrees tonight, championship fight, cheer the t31e the calculated risk of win- Indianapolis time. and of 27 degrees tomorrow night, winner, not before. ning the war in Asia as quickly Republican Senators, mean- followed by slightly warmer This pageant of departure per- 55 possible rather than permit the while, came to grips with a col- weather Wednesday. sonally recalled yet another chap- fighting to remain in a long stale- league's intention to push the! (C. J. Murphy, Marion County ter in Gen. MacArthur's lif2— mate. MacArthur issue to a black and assistant agricul 1 agent, said Bhd 40 JPRS a Ruler “Purely Military’ white decision on formal war with a temperature to 26 or 27 dex | on Sept 4168 1 aw Gen A os 1 pur 8 mitary CE THE i wasn (E55 el rns MacArthur enter Tokyo as a con- matter . . . not political. There revealed that Re intended to in-| recautions guater. 1 stood not 10 feet from has Deen too much, Poittiss in troduce tomorrow a mesatonl However, Mr. Murphy foresaw,

him as he spoke to reopen the jected into military matters.” { | ve 3 v calling’ for a formal declaration no general crop damage. He said war-shuttered American em Mr, Cocke, who returned recent- of war. the cold, wet weather date has

bassy; that day we could smell ly from a trip around the world, Mr. Cain, a member of the prevented major planting.

fe od i3 I _tuitied nm Sb A Yiatle Jed I iM Armed Services Committee, said “I'd advise truck farmers to put i , a he would take the step to focus straw, paper, bags or carpeting Today he rode to the airfield great peril until we have the mili- ort through a Japan reborn. Not as tary power to wage an offensive public attention on what he called over any produce that is showing a conqueror, but as a ruler re- war.” President Trumans new policy of above Sroung, on. a. s . “ negotiating peace “on the ene- e inclement weathe - DE ly I a 4 Europe is » “powiler i AIRE cluded several snow flurries, wind

This Hirohito--the emperor— keg.” | came to call on the general over! “Every day we are drawing Want No Part of It a le jogrecs was precloser to some incident that could) gome powerful GOP members, dicted for tomorrow, and of 46 deopen the sores of the cold Warlypje against appeasement of Red grees Wednesday. that would lead to a hot one,” he China, said privately that they said. want no part in any general Re-! Opposes Troop Limit publican sponsorship of Mr. Cain’s

The commander opposed any drastic move. T2. NM... 33 a.m. limitation on the number of troops They looked, too, for Gen. Mac- ga m... 34 12 (Noon) 36 to be sent to Europe. {Arthur-to-outline-in-broad-detail-—g gyi T3851 p.m... 37 “If Gen. Eisenhower is let alone the Far Eastern situation when he ane to do the job he has to do in 80eS before a joint meeting of patest humidity %- Europe he will have military Congress. : | striking power by June in 1952.) House Republican Leader Jo- . He predicted that the critical S¢Ph W. Martin Jr. of Massaschu-. Qn the Inside | time in the struggle between com- Setts said the General would fly . United Press Staff Correspondent munism and the free nations here from San Francisco late Of The Times TOKYO, Tuesday, .Apr. 17 would come about next Octobér. Wednesday or early Thursday United Nations forces launched a Americans now stationed = in Morning and address a joint meet- Methodist Hospital School of wide flanking attack around the Berlin, Vienna and Belgrade he- ing at 11:30 a. m. Indianapolis eastern. end of the Hwachon hind the Iron Curtain are resigned time, Thursday. reservoir in central Kofea Mon- to the fact that they may never President Truman has said My Day... . Beauty After day after murderous Red re- " : there will be no appeasement in 40 ......2s...ve00. 4 sistance stalled their drive at the Continued on Page $—Col. 1 any negotiated peace in Korea, You have less than a week to western end. a —— ——— and Assistant Secretary of State] mail your entry in ‘“Sweet-

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Solve Killing 0f West Side Shoe Cobbler

Another in Prison

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By HEZE CLARK and DONNA MIKELS . The almost forgotten slaying of a West Side Indianapolis shoe cobbler was ane nounced as “solved” today, five years, three months and four days ‘after the fa ~ bullet was fired. ; Inspector Jack O'Neal, chief of . detectives, said the following men . are held in the January, 1946, slaying of Abraham Azan, in his shoe repair shop at 350 W. MecCarty St. John Collins, 34 of 1801 W. Markat St., confessed triggerman, Arthur Willoughby, 44, bf 517% W. Wilkins St. Hobart Owens, 37, of 517 W, Wilkins St. : Confess Taking Part These three, all of whom have confessed parts in a stickup plot which ended in the slaying of the 63-year-old immigrant cobbler, are held on pre-murder “charges and will be bound to the grand jury on murder tomorrow, InA fourth man, Edward Kellett, 29, now serving a 10-year robbery sentence in Pendleton, was named in each confession. O'Neal said he will be

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Information By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Local officials mapped plans to-| day to use an “anti-hate” law to; combat Communist activity in In-| dianapolis. Prosecutor Frank Fairchild said he was compiling information now to use against several known Communist figures who operate out of Communist headquarters, 291; S. Delaware St. Mr. Fairchild said he believed

he could prosécute the local Com- shoe er on W. McCarty?” munist by proving they violated . mak

the “anti-hate” law by stirring . ! Zes TUL en, Ole aves: up racial prejudice.” Ex-Con Fined $215 tioner said. The suspect proceedThe little known anti-hate law, | ed to relate his knowledge of the is not expressly intended to curb ' murder, implicating the four men. Communists, Mr. Fairchild said. | This was on Apr. 2. Seven days However, the prosecutor said he i rin en jiree Later Detectives Goodman and’ was almost sure the aw could be \ | Haine arrested Owens and Wile applied to Communists. PE Followed Statement Fates Charges pana Mol sth oils 46 grok Mr. Fairchild’'s Communist In Juvenile Court who had been hiding out because crackdown plans were made he thought police wanted him in known after George Sandy, state A. 19-year-old paroled convict .onnection with a fight. chairman of the Communist today was fined a total of $215.25 All three men today had signed Party, released an official state- ang sentenced to 240 days follow- confessions, telling how the murment on the MacArthur-Truman ing a drunken joy ride Sunday der grew out of a Saturday afterincident. with another youth and two Indi- noon whisky and beer-drinking Mr. Sandy said: anapolis teen-age girls. spree in West Side taverns on “We: are very happy that the Judge George Ober, Speedway Jah. 12, 1946. President acknowledged that the oyiy magistrate, meted out the Kellett, each confession related, Communists were the only Ones g,)jowing penalties to Charles said he knew “where we can get. opposed to the Korean War last Taylor, R. R. 1, Box 740, who re- some money” and directed the x June. We feel that the fact that cently was paroled from Pendle-'four men to the shoe repair shop. the majority of the people Wani,ton on a second-degree burglary As Collins, Owens and Kellett the boys brought home. is evidence charge: ’ HE ; ~leftthe —car. Kellett handed a of the correctness of our position. ONE: Driving under influence foreign-make automatic to ColWe will continue to fight until all of Jiquor -— $106.75 in fines and jing Willoughby remained in the the boys are brought home.” costs, 180 days on the state farm go.’ Mr. airchild said he had con- and recommendation that no driv- ~~ tacted thé FBI and the city po- er's license be issued to him for a lice's internal security division year. before formulating plans for in- TWO: Reckless driving—$61.75 I= voking the anti-hate law. in fines and costs and 30 days. room, Collins related in his

. y dn § iontinp. confession. - “He was slow in 4 Pledge Cowhoration + THREE: Public intoxication “moving. He reached for a ham. eanwhile, a :

Supt. $30 in fines and costs and 30 mer aod I shot him.” Arthur Thurston said the state days. , 1 '

police will continue to co-operate Fous:. Driving without license a Ee Yan ith the FB1 and assist the gov- — .75 in fines and costs. : ] ete in “every way possible.” Taylor .was arrested by they did not know the old man’s He added however that it is name until they learned of his e . , s

h Bs virtually impossible for the state 4 death later through the news

papers. . 3 Polio hesause of TanpOWer and Police believed the robbery was in yt , §

geparate subversive section. motivated by a neighborhood

A resolution introduced in the WASHINGTON. Apr. 16 (UP) [legend that old Mr. Azan had : : NGTON, Apr. 16 (UP) | s £ hidden in last session of the state legisla- large sums of money

—Rain forced postponement of the shoe repair shop he had opture called for the state police to today's opening major league erated in that location for some set up a special subversive Sec- ‘hageball game between the New 40 years tion. The resolution never came york Yankees and the Wash- | Had Investigation : out of committee. ington Senators. The game was | There was a brief investigation gp : called off more than a hour be-' at the time of the slaying which fore President Truman had been produced suspects, but no real scheduled to arrive at Griffith jeads. Then the Abraham Azan Stadium to make the cere- slaying passed into obscurity. monial first pitch. Ironically, events after his r the Evansville City Coach’ CR death showed the “hidden wealth” footy the Indiana Pobiic. Service 2 Pedestrians Hurt legend to be untrue. Old Abe kept. Commission announced today. Two pedestrians were hit by a his money in the bank. His esChairman Hugh W. Abbett sald car early this morning while they tate of $500 is still pending in the the line, which resumed operation were crossing Michigan St. at In- courts, awaiting location of his : ep nearest relatives in Europe. emir eat veri strike by drivers, filed a new rate, They were Robert Bibbs, 26, of o # schedule with the PSC early this 1030 W. 10th St.: in fair condition 2200 Hoosier Miners month. No grotests were received at General Hospital, and Miss during a 10 ‘day waiting period, Dorothy Murphy, 25, of 2030 Hign- End Sympathy Strike Mr. Abbett said, and the new land Pl, who was released from TERRE HAUTE, Apr. 16 (UP) fares went into effect Friday. [the hospital. . _|~-Some 2200 miners in the west. The fares were 15 cents straight] The driver of thé car was James ern Indiana coal fields returned and two for a quagter, Abbett! D. Wortman, 27, of 337 N.-Dayjd-|to work today after bein said. A son St. a “sympathy” strike. f

.- A group of Indianpolis detectives including Inspector O'Neal and Sgts. Harold Goodman and Charles Haine and Indiana State Police Lt. Robert Shields were questioning a robbery suspect. He was not actually implicated in the slaying. After the suspect had made several robbery confessions, one of the questioners made a shot-in-the dark inquiry: “What about the murder?” The suspect paused a minute, then asked: “You mean that old #braham Azan . . . the victim.

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