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[Secretary George C. Marshall "returned here from a mygtery|

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30 Americans Seek to Flush Out

Income Tax Chiselers Hoosier Cities

Marshall Says

On Korea Visit

Mum on Cease Fire

And New Directives

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By United Press

TOKYO, June 8—Defense|

visit to Korea tonight. He was convinced the

| Korean War was no more a|

stalemate than had been the]

. |Berlin blockade where the West-|

ern Allies won a major cold war victory over Russia, In an atmosphere of the greatest secrecy, Gen. Marshall arlrived in Tokyo from St. Louis Friday morning, visited 8th Army headquarters in Korea and units jat the front most of the day, and {flew back here tonight. No New Directives

Gen. Marshall emphasized that he brought-no new military directives. - (However, in Washington belief was expressed that Gen. Marshall might be instructing Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Supreme Commander, on a “new directive” for military operations. Washington recalled that Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, told Senators May 25 .that a “definite new directive” was being prepared.) Gen. Marshall said his visit was purely military and had no con-

Teacher Guidance

Needed—

Indiana May Float

§130 Million Bonds ‘Hatred for

For School Needs

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Floating of as much as $130 million in revenue bonds to finance construction of badly needed school buildings in Indiana today, was anticipated at the second meeting of the Indiana School Building Authority. ‘ Wilbur Young, state superintendent of public instruction and secretary of the authority, said: “Although the 1951 Legislature put no ceiling on the amount of revenue bonds we may issue, we hope to float 100 to 130 million dollars worth to help financially

pressed communities to meet their school building needs.”

Schricker Presides

Schricker, as chairman, | presided over the meeting called | to give official approval to the application blanks that will be used by the school corporation Seeking state aid. nder the state school buildin plan, the buildings for local por munities would be financed by the revenue bonds issued - Eorenue by the Au The individual - schools then would pay rentals on the buildings over a 30-year period, during which time the revenue bonds would be redeemed. Ownership of the buildings then would re-

vert completely to the local school unit.

Gov,

Legal Limits Cited

The “little RFC” plan for school building was the legislature's answer to the state's many local school building problems. Many communities with overage or too-small buildings are unable to finance their own construction because of legal limitations on their bonding and taxing powers. The expected big increase in school enrollments in the next few years is an additional factor in the school building crisis.

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nection with attempts to arrange a cease fire, While in Korea, he | spoke freely of the war situation. Gen. Marshall said he considered the 38th Parallel frontier |petween North and South Korea ito be “merely a figure of speech”

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FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1951

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Treasury Gets Tough—

Second-<Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Dally,

With Wiley Over Marshall's Trip

| Held in China,

WASHINGTON, June 8 (UP)

State Secretary Dean Acheson| said today he knows of no Ko-| C eson dys

rean peace developments and un-| derstands Defense Secretary | George C. Marshall is visiting the Far East just “to see the military operations.”

Terms Position ‘Dangerous, Delicate’

In Eich In Eig i By DAVE

A federal drive against

WATSON underworld tax chiselers—

{prompted by the Kefauver investigations—opened today in | Indianapolis and other Hoosier cities.

Sen. Alexander Wiley (R. Wis.) | criticized Mr. Acheson for not! having volunteered news of Gen. Marshall's trip to the Senate MacArthur investigating commit-

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| Ralph W. Cripe, Indiana

been listed for investigation.

collector of internal revenue, .

today said more than 400 names of Indiana racketeers have

About 1300 special federal

tee. When Mr. Acheson said he had no advance knowledge of his cabinet colleague's travels, Sen. Wiley commented: “Maybe that is what is wrong with this mixup with Gen, MacArthur, that the military and the diplomatic were not playing ball on this.” . » » MR ACHESON retorted: . . . “There is no reason in the world why he should have telephoned me at these hearings and told me that he was going .to take a trip as Secretary of Defense.” Sen Wiley was not satisfied.

with the law “hate school.”

In thousands of unsigned questionnaires those between the ages of 12 and 20 said: . ;

“If teachers would be more understanding and take an interest in pupils, school would be a more enjoyable place.” . i “I don’t think teachers take a sincere interest in helping pupils with their problems.” ®

“School personnel should understand and encourage pupils instead of being harsh and unreasonable.” . . “Teachers never really sit down and talk things over. They al-

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All Is Rosy At Violet's, Frank Says

ROSES MAY be red, but Violet's not blue. Prosecutor Frank Fairchild gave her the “all clear” this morning. Commenting on a story in yesterday’'s Times that a woman named Violet was operating a brothel at 20% 8. Delaware 8t., the Prosecutor said: “My office has checked inte the place, The address is not being operated as a house of prostitution. In fact, there are no law violations going on there at ail.” The Times reported that Violet stated she had two girls “working” at that address, and that she quoted a price to Reporter Irving

Leibowitz on one of them. |

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The Indianapolis Times

Most Indianapolis teen-agers who have had trouble

More than 15 per cent of Indianapolis school pupils— 3100 of 20,000 surveyed by The Indianapolis Times and the City School Administration—charged lack of guidance in the schools is 8 major cause of juvenile delinquency. $

Siding Bypassed In Head-on Crash, Rail Line Reveals

{ CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., June 8

(UP) — Louisville & Nashville

conductor today to learn why one section of the de luxe Pan American passenger train passed up a siding and crashed head-on with a local, killing six crewmen. Rollo Carsons, I. & N general manager, said Conductor C. P. Bester and Engineer W. J. Miller, both of Paris, Tenn., were handed written orders to wait for the late-running local yesterday on a siding at Hematite, Tenn.

of a cornfield about eight miles

one of the trainmen who died in the telescoping wreckage. The conductor escaped injury but was too upset to make a statement immediately. 4 : Between 20 and 25 persons were injured, one critically. The two diesel locomotives were moving only about 30 miles per hour when they collided,

2d Man Found Guilty

In White-Slave Case

A federal court jury today returned a guilty verdict after less than 15 minutes deliberation in a white-sldve-traffic charge against Charles Robinson, 32, Elkhart. Robinson was convicted of transporting a woman from Cincinnati to Anderson last Aug. 23 for immoral purposes. An accomplice, 30-year-old Ira Shaw, also of Elkhart and Cincinnati, previously was found guilty on a similar charge. Robinson's case was referred by Judge William E. Steckler to the Federal Probation Department for presentence investigation. Similar action was taken in Shaw's case. Maximum penalties which can be imposed are a fine of $5000 and a five-year penitentiary sentence,

CLIFTON FORGE, Va., June 8 (UP)—A Greyhound bus swi ff a rain-slick highway near here

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ing and met local No. 103 on a single-track section in the middle

northeast of here. Mr, Miller was|

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today, ki on injuring 1 others, police reported.

military questions, and not with the Parallel.

Mum on Cease Fire

As for a cease fire, he said the Chinese Communists could worry about that. Asked about the possibility of a stalemate, Gen. Marshall recalled that Lt. Gen. James A, Van Fleet, commanding the 8th {Army, headed a United States {military mission to Greece when that country was plunged into civil war by the Communist guerrillas. “They called Greece a stalemate and Gen. Van Fleet had an answer to that,” Gen. Marshall said. . “They called the Berlin blockjade a stalemate — the airlift {stopped that. | “Practically everything we do [that is not completed that after{noon is a stalemate in our coun-

Gen. Marshall laughed when questioners intimated that his visit might be connected with at{tempts to arrange a cease fire. “If you want to. know about cease fires, you had better ask {Mao Tze-tung and Chou En-lai,” he said. Mao and Chou are the No. 1| and No. 2 Chinese Communist| leaders. Military Classic

| Gen. Marshall was accompanied to Korea by Gen, Matthew B. |Ridgway, United Nations supreme commander. They returned toarriving at Tokyo's Haneda Airport at 7:55 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). Here and in Korea, Gen. Marshall displayed the highest optimism over the military situation. In Korea he complimented the 8th Army for fighting a “mili-

To Quit Triangle For Wonsan Line

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By EARNEST HOBERECHT United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, Saturday,

angle in central Korea today. was reported the Reds were start- in

prelude to a major retreat. |

bombardment and attacks by bomber, light bomber and fighter planes, GIs and their allies hacked

WASHINGTON, June 8 (UP) ~The Army estimated today that the Chinese and North Korean Communists. suffered 144,576 casualties mm the twoweek period ending June 2.

their way Friday 1000 to 2000 yards toward Chorwon and Kumhwa, anchor points of the triangular plateau. There were indications the Reds might pull out to a new line based on Wonsan, east coast port 80 miles north of the 38th Parallel frontier. This line, would run 95 miles southwestward from Wonsan to Kaesong, just below the 38th Parallel near the west coast. The line forms a natural barrier of high mountains cut by a

tary classic.”

17 Months of Horror—

Vogeler Calls

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 8-—Rob-

lert A. Vogeler, American businessman, who spent 17 months in

a prison in Communist Hungary, said today any confession attributed to him by the Reds was “rubbish” he signed under terrible torture. The experience he had, Mr. “no price is too dear to pay for “no price is too dar to pay for our our way of life.” He described the ordeal to a National Press Club luncheon in a speech on ‘what freedom means” to a man who lost it for a while at Communist hands. It was an experience that “can happen to anyone—it can happen to you,” he said.

conferences after his release, towas the first time he has ‘a full account: in public of

Mr. Vogeler told his story as ‘a case history” in the hope that it will / prove helpful to those “who have béen or will yet face the horror of the Communist no 3. J 1

Rubbish Signed in Torture

Although he held short news|8round away,” he sald. “The very

deep valley.

‘Confessions’

taken by his captors to soften him up, break his mind and spirit, and condition him to sign a false

physical abuses such as sitting beneath a glaring light and being dumped naked into a tub of ice water. For 10 days, he said, he said he existed on a diet of black bread and water three times a day while undergoing the mental torture of a steel peephole to his cell beihg opened and clanged shut every six minutes with clocklike precision. “The mind, the spirit and the body are attacked over and over again until the will slowly is

body is forced into league against one's personality.

person is faced with the utter futility of not complying with their demands. He believes that he is abandoned, that he will be killed in any case, that an alleged

and so he signs the rubbisif placed

He described in getail the steps

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placed before him.”

been a expression.” During discussion of the telegram, Mr. Acheson said Americans still on the China mainland are in danger.

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swers.

“There comes.a time when a PE de: sub~ pena today to appear before the House Unamerican Activities Committee June 25. . A . k ies y : confession will appear anyway— tor aged aff that Mr.

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BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, Juse 8 (UP) —The military high command was so fearful last December that World War IIT might be imminent that it told Gen.

Douglas MacArthur he could expect mo ground troop reinforcements in Korea. This was disclosed at the Senate's MacArthur investigation today.

By Unite@ Press

WASHINGTON, June 8—| Secretary of State Dean Ache-

: a conditions and that the State DeThe remainder of the war, he partment is trying to get them said, will be concerned with logis- oe e ley home. disclosure in his severith day of testi- ® mony before the Senate committee investigating Gen. Douglas § 4 MacArthur's recall from the Far| East. It was brought out by questions as to the origin of a 1949 telegram criticizing the Chiank Kai-shek regime and opposing further U. 8. aid to the Chinese 2 telegram { was put into the committee record | this week, it was presented in an The Third Act Always Stumps |ynigentified Chinese city as the « « & Talburt sketch. 22/1949 views Chamber of Commerce. Under questioning today by Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.), June 9— Mr. Acheson said the president of United Nations troops threatened the chamber is now in New York. the Chinese Communist Iron Tri-|But another member is still in It Red China, he said, and would be danger if details ing to pull out, possibly in the about the message were released. { The telegram was critical of Under a thunderous artillery both the Communist and Nationalist regimes but particularly so

Mr. Acheson made this

ationalists. When the

“gravest”

the Nationalist, which

charged with military and political incompetence.

Taken by Reds

Sen. Bridges agreed with Mr, Acheson that the city of origin and the names of all persons involved in sending the message {should be kept off the record. Mr. Bridges, however, disclosed that the city was taken by the Reds in 1948, well before the message was sent, In view of that, he said, the telegram might have prejudiced

“forced (or)

‘Hate America Campaign’

“I should like te add further,” he said, “that at the present time we have 30 Americans who are being held in China and we are working with their companies, in some cases with religicus organizations which they represent, to try and get them out. We are getting them out in twos or threes but the situation is very dangerous and very delicate.” Mr. Acheson cited a “very vicious ‘Hate America’ campaign” being waged by the Chinese Reds who accuse the Americans of

confession, “spying.” ho He said it started with 78 hours| As today’s session started, of grilling without sleep and committee members quarreled

over proposals for fixing a date on which to close the hearings now in their sixth week. Sen. Lester C. Hunt (D. Wyo.) said the questioning is getting so repetitive that the committee is becoming “ridiculous” in the pubSen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R. Ia.) reported the questioning is repetitious because witnesses aren’t giving clear anThe issue of closing the hearings was deferred.

Actor J. E. Bromberg Called in House Probe

ANN ARBOR, Mich, June

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agents have been assigned to the racket-busting drive. The concerted campaign against underworld tax chiselers followed a Chicago meeting attended by the top brass of the Internal Revenue Bureau's administration and intelligence branches. Assistant Collector Wilbur O.

Sovola's Back

In Times Today

Amid “a lot of talk” about 3 v : armistice possibilities, he said [Son said today that 30 Amer- ® Mr, Inside is back in “sil at once the highest authority are being held in Com-| "old familiar spot today. in government ‘skidoos’ munist China under “very * Youll find his column, J “ve ~ 3 . ¥ : ir m Engl nd

® Another Margaret Truman story is on Page 30

Plummer said investigation squads will be based in eight Indiana cities and will blanket the state from those h posts. A similar camp opened today in Niinois and Wise er Aimed at Vice . : The federal squads concen~ trate on gamblers, ise Op

In Slaying of

By JOHN V. WILSON The Marion County Grand Jury today returned a first degree murder indictment against a 47-year-old painter charged with slaying a union official. Walter Donald Belcher, of 2333 Roosevelt Ave, was indicted in the Apr, 16 shooting of Leonard Pruitt, 4724 E. 10th St., business representative of Local 47, Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers of America, Police alleged that’ Belcher quarreled with the union official It/during a meeting early in the evening, then went to Mr. Pruitt’s home later that night and opened fire as he opened the door. The union official died the following day. Other Indictments It was one of 13 indictments and five no bills returned by the grand jury today. * Other indictments included that of Dora Howard, 39, of 1456 N. Delaware 8t., rear, charged with manslaughter in the May 23 shotgun killing of her husband Marvin Howard. The woman admitted [shooting her husband after a! quarrel in which “he dared me.” Two drunken driving indiectments were returned against motorists with previous convictions on the same charge. State law makes the second violation a felony. Charged with drunken driving were Ellis Goff, 33, of 2022 E. Maryland St., arrested Apr. 29 after a previous conviction. Nov. 12,°1950, and Voil Brinkley Moss, 30, of 926% 8. Capitol Ave. arrested May 10 and previously convicted in March, 1947. One other traffic indictment was that of John Simpson, 20, of Edgewater, charged with leaving the scene of an accident after 28th Division Pvt. Ernest Black was struck by a car at Shelby St. and Madison Ave. Mar. 17. The Camp Atterbury soldier was carried into the Grand Jury room on a stretcher during the investigation of the hit-skip accident. Other indictments ranged from vehicle taking to perjury.

BULLETINS

LONDON, June 8 (UP) —A telegram from Guy Burgess, one of two missing British diplomats, to his mother said he was leaving on “a long Mediterranean holiday,” the foreign office sald tonight. (Earlier story, Page 11.)

KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 8 (UP) — Rep. Leonard Irving,

Democrat represen Presi-. dent Truman's hing !

Departmen he groundwork, for the drive a yeas

Terre Haute, Muncie, New Albany, Ft. Wayne, South Bend and Las fayette. : Under the eyes of the investiga tors will come the activities of bookies, professional bootleggers, narcotics extortionists, Blackmallers, tionists, - opera : handbook operators, numbers 8 policy racketeers, confidence me and slot-machine and’ operators, ; i

Plan Fast Prosecution

Mr. Plummer said that cution procedure also is move to

streamlined in a known violators to justice a 90-day period instead of former lengthy p sometimes extended over a period of 2%; years. 1 To further support the governs ment drive, there are bills ing in Congress which will a felony of failure to keep business records, and one whi extend the prosecution sta! limitations to eight years instead of the current six years.

On the three-state racketeer

persons who will be investigated.

Internal Revenue officials here said that they did not have classified by the areas the number of persons to be investigated. At the Chicago conference, it was estimated that possibly some $300 million in additional income taxes will be gleaned from the racketeers. During the conference, it was said that 1800 tax fraud cases had been handled by federal agents in the past three years, resulting in recovery of $129 million. sn

Several Agencies to Ald

The racket squads will be com posed of agents from several gove ernment law-enforcement agen~ cles. Hd ?

These would be the intelligence unit of the Treasury Department, the alcohol. tax investigators, deputy collectors of internal nue and Treasury agents: I will be taken from the Secret Service and Narcotics Bureaus. Mr. Plummer said it is not the

squads to enforce local-gan laws. Only suspected

Department vi VestiEnied BY Ne Mi

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