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FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; scattered showers this afternoon. Little change in temperature.

Low tonight 60; high tomorrow 78.

[Scmirps —nowarnd 62d YEAR —NUMBER 99 HY SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1951

et Disaster Cor Takes Chunk Out of Bridge

robe Points_ o Sabotage!

Storm Is Discounted in Crashes’ Of 8 U. S. Planes Near Richmond

Times State Service RICHMOND, June 9—Indications of sabotage grew * stronger today as probable cause of the biggest multiple|® airplane disaster in history. Air Force investigators drew a tight security ring @ around their probe of eight jet airplane crashes withing a few minutes in eastern Indiana. Three pilots were killed.

Reports from the scene in-

: . storms buffets jet fighters more dicated that electrical storms pan piston-engine ships because

may not have caused the ex-|of higher speeds. But he knew of

Entered as

~Class Matter at Postofos

Second LE Indianapolis, Indians. Issued Dally,

Gls Give |

SALZBURG, Austria, June 9— U. 8. troops tria today when they ignored an American ultim

their Mercedes sedan and locked the doors when

Doug Assails Marshall

plosions and spectacular crashes/NO reason why turbulence might of the eight F-84 Thunderjets cause a jet engine to “conk out” in Wayne and Henry Counties. OF explode.

i Still Climbing ial obs i as : ' an unlikely coincidence that elght| On-the-scene Air Force investi his car on through the eight-foot

tors said the planes, capable planes, even out of a flight of 82 ’ " 70, should . develop mechanical | °f speeds well over 500 miles an! trouble at the same ‘ime. An Air NOUF. Were probably moving at »* LJ By Train Dies; y 3 Hurt in Traff

Force spokesman said. it could not more than 225 to 250 miles, have been “bad fuel.” but he said because they were still climbing it was only a possibility. to a ‘‘preassigned” altitude. Three persons were injured in Indianapolis traffic accidents last night and this morning, and an

CRASH GAP—The light standard in the (oreground is all that saved James Lusk from crashirg _hole he knocked in the Capitol Ave. bridge over Fall Creek.

; : However, he would not reveal | That's why Air Force investi- | gators and FBI agents hit hard that altitude, Ble sa Al nrorma in their investigation of sabotage. | ified as “top secret.” General Heads Probe | Three unharmed pilots and two

who were injured were returned

Air Force information officials ‘at Wright-Patterson Air Base, Dayton, O., released at

Taking command of the probe was Gen. Curtis LeMay, - commander of the U. 8. Strategic Bomber command, who flew to

% lelderly pedestrian who was struck A Dayton, 0. from Texas this) noon today the names of three hy a locomotive two days ago 4 5 g f the oi al fighter pilots who died in the died early today in General Hos- & None of the planes was defi-| oight-plane disaster yesterday. I pital nitely established in thunderstorm| rhey were: : weather at the time it fell orl nu. George W. Alexander, | Morton Lindamond, 78, of 2231 crash-landed following engine go Auctin Tex. {Olney ‘8t., died in General Hos-

{pital early today of injuries sustained Thursday when a backing {New York Central locomotive and

“explosion” or “conk-out.” { Weather reports from this vicinity listed two thunderstorms present around 3 p. m. yesterday. {tender struck him at MassachuOne had passed Richmond head- 'setts Ave. and Avondale Place. ing northeast, the other was ap- i, wright-Patterson Field early] Two persons were injured, one proaching Richmond from the t,q,y |seriously and one critically, when southwest. | The 71-plane fighter armada their car spun out of control after Passed Low Over City /landed Thursday at Wright-Pat-/a collision and knoeked a large iterson Field from Bergstrom section of railing from the Capitol The planes, flying in formation pye1q Aj took off safely yester-|/Ave. bridge over Fall Creek this on an Air Force training mission morsing: day, headed for Selfridge Field, ng. from Wright - Patierson a [except for one fighter with engine! In Critical Condition Dayton, to Selfridge Field, Mich. |, 100 hich remained behind. | : i In critical condition at General

had low over this city Lost Contact in Storm Hospital with two broken legs

heading northwest. They were * TN moving in two flights—one ot 33. Three planes in the second haif/#nd a possible skull fracture = Te e lof the flight to Selfridge Pielathe driver, James C. Lusk, 35, of

ore on By Ignorance of Sex

The Air Force refused all wom pris on he re ne oe alt thunderstorm as the group| Milderd Hindman, 21, of 1819; gation, - oe Spano ple as swept over the Ohio-Indiana line, (Carrollton Ave. a passenger, is 2 bile until the cause of the and turned back just before eight in serious. condition with leg in- & crash : {Last of Series) By NOB REED Copyright, 1951. for The Indianapolis Times

crash has been determined or the \juries and shock. SEX ignorance, wrong companions and lack of religious

Capt. Edward J. Moroney, 38, Austin, Tex, First Lt. Robert E. Horne Jr., 24, Gulfport, Miss.

es Photos by Henry E. Glesing Jr.

RAMMEDS-After battering over & lamp post and ocking out a section of stone bridge railing, fhe car driven by James Lu appears finished for good.

Poor Home Training—

{others began diving to earth. investigation completed.” The car driven by Mr, Lusk col-

| Pilots whose planes crashed’ Another said the extreme tur-land skidded in a melee of explo-/lided with another vehicle driven

bulence encountered in thunder- sions and flames were: {by Leroy E. Harger, 268, R. R. 4,

Maj. Richard E. Willsie, 30, of Noblesville, in the intersection of) Truman Plans

y one out of 10 get into trouble

of the bridge where it crashed into ‘ be : : Ot we. ited 2 fighter m Previously the majority of 20,000 Indianapolis school dent Truman will appeal directly =." "0. ship plunging earth-/was struck by a car driven by ...¢) “lack of money," (15 per.

The | {Long Beach, Cal, who para- Capitol and Fall Creek Blvd. 5 lchuted uninjured to earth while/Lusk car spun, struck a utllity a3 additional reasons wh his ‘plane crashed near Fountain Pole, then progressed to the center| ... 41. jaw Fireside Cha World War IT combat, a section of stone railing. A : | Capt. Bryce E. Long, 29, of Ed- Both persons were thrown from pupils, in a survey conducted by The Indianapolis Time Imond, Okla. who crash-landed the car by the impact. and the City School Adminis-|— n on ro S {southeast of Straughn. Another, A pedestrian, Rufus Hill, 27, : id: <» lis blocking the project in the near- : [World War II veteran, Capt. Long of 2604 Winthrop Ave.. is in fair tration, Sad. downtown areas where congestion | Bsn et 9 Presi. 581d his plane had cleared the condition at General Hospital “Home influences,” (44 per|is the worst. WASH : : \storm when “my engine exploded” With injuries sustained when he. iy «pn, place to play” (28 per, a #e to the nation next Thursday night, |Frantis’ ‘Hummons. 35. ‘of * 517 | AGENCIES OF THE Som for public support of a tougher ward, d St 0 Northwestern |Ce0t) and “neglect in schools” nity Chest, YMCA, YWCA, Girl anti-inflation program. | Capt. R. A. Jackson, 27, of Hernan o "Pra northWestern (15 per cent) were the major Scouts, Boy Scouts, Family Serv-| The White House said Mr. Tru- | Wichita, Kas., who suffered face Yo. Sout of Edgemont — causes of juvenile delinquency. ice Association and other private | man will speak on all major radio|cuits in crashing near a runway ary 1d y. : 0 Three hundred and four of the agencies are making progress in| — at Richmond Airport after his nol he'd. {20,000 pupils between 12 and 20(various fields of youth guidance engine *“‘conked out.” Also a vet- {years old said “wrong compan- and education of parents.

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3 television networks at 9.30, TAD of World War II combat, he N. Carolina U. Doors lions” led down the road to Juve The program of racking | an Sev s “*Y'was reported in good condition| nile delinquency. idown” on the parents rather than p. m. (Indianapolis Time). Open to Negro Students Ie BelinqUenty. 1 they got Tatol"pemlsling” i\ien In dem)

t cl tat Wright-Patterson USAF Hos-| The announcement came 8S ital in Dayton. !

than 24 hours after Mr, Truman called Democratic and Republican] Crashed Unhurt

members of Congress to the First Lt. E. D. Coltharp,

| CHAPEL HILL, N. C,, June 9! trouble because they “had not|quency cases was started here in |(UP)—Three Negroes, the first|been informed properly on sex”1947 and has been stepped up lever admitted to the University|and that they had not been given gradually.

28, of North Carolina, lined up with! “proper religious training.” | Court records show that 1386 White House and warned them ,, in Tex, who crash -landed thousands of white Re eu to-| All of the reasons given by parents were prosecuted last year

Russia will win the cold wari... wijjamsburg, nine miles| for neglect of their children com- “ ” » {day to register for the summer these teen-agers for their troubles for neg Eiger fri Folge runawayisouth of here unhurt, He flew | gogsions. : have been recognized by mental pared to 905 in 1946 when the Nhe President wants swift ac.|[Photo reconnaissance missions ,, university opened the doors/health clinics and ~ probation|child delinquency rate was higher ne Ean 4 (during the last war. workers as contributing causes than it is now. tion on: his request for a tough, jof its graduate and professional g |" Cross-section surveys by mental two-year extension of the con-| Second Lt. John R. Donor, 22,ischools to the Negroes this week of delinquency. PL »

trols program now scheduled to Centerville. Pa. seriously in-|after failing to find a legal bar-| HATS BEING Sone to. elim- Continued on Page 2 —Col. 1

expire June 30. The proposed new |jured when he crashed 312 miles rier in the courts. They were 3-1 te these capses? = ~ Chinese Fall Back

ts and bruises. {law school today were H Eg. Harly with consultants provided been concerned about apparent “Y ay were Harvey E. public apathy to the anti-inflation| Of the other three planes, one Beech. J. Kenneth Lee and mes bY the Indiana Social Hygiene ds fight. Democratic National Chair- crashed northwest of Mooreland, Lassiter. The application of Floyd sociation and the Indiana Menta man William M. Boyle Jr., in a one crashed and exploded a mile B. McKissick also was accepted | Health Society. I Shop for Your “The Congress has heard from a cornfield this morning a mile {training will have to be expanded | J the special interests,” Mra Boyle east of the deep hole dug by nis Home Sunday [to include more parents before) Wier OE dnl ie said. “Now let's let the Congress plane across the street from Per- | te J7e een the program will make ‘much|Fefa JUNE So Chess aI don hear from the people.” fect Circle Piston Ring Plant. SPEEDWAY, Open Suh., 3-4 {headway. a fell

| | Jegisistion 1s having rough, going sudmtion 1 possible skull frac-itories and had a brief interview| Parent-Teacher groups in Inweekly letter to party workers, [northwest of here near Perfect/but he had not yet .appeared on| In these, large groups of parurged the American public to|Circle Piston Ring Co. plant, and the campus. |ents are getting first-hand trainDiscuss Beef Rollhack? He was presumed to have) S714 CADILLAC DR. A social service department has " ws T { . , Kumsong, 11 The: White House did not say jumped or been blows from ihe (CRLY MOD. TMMED. B {been operating as part of the Ine{200K iw ig the har

north of Cambridge City. Inigigned rooms in one of the dormi-| in Congress. : eel About Apathy [ture and possible back injury, he with Chancellor Robert B. House. d1anapolis and other cities in In Administration leaders h a ve Suffered cerebral concussion and| Students being registered for diana are holding clinics regu- * * : shower down with letters to Con-{One crashed across the street ing in the basic factors of ef- To Quit Triangle gress demanding quick action on/from the plant and buried itself. fective child guidance. IAM. BURSON ’ " |" Lt. Horne’s body was found in, By WILLIA! J N the _asti-infiation Prog Tam. y However, group leaders say the United Press Staff Correspondents | STRICTLY MOD.—IMMED. POSS. whether Mr, Truman would touch cockpit before the plane struck. aihrse living ym., Sone fireplace: |sjanapolis Public School system JL nly

on the controversial beef price No information was immediately| nets. {ile bath, ful bsmt., oil Jur. lsince 1925 U. 8. 8th Army forces captured rollback orders, Cattlemen and available on whether he had at-; Dit ‘aundry tubs. save. Wir. Bee: | : ] «8. : some members of the congres- tempted to parachute. | HE a See to | The Seutlinent cander he d l {two ridges before Kumhwa sional farm bloc have demanded! Discovery was made by First! "iso ER HOMES Pegi Jon © BS a 8: against slackening Red opposiy y {has been limited by a shortage of |

ONDER CONST nn AC MOLDTHAN REALTOR (personnel to handling only the wns Gpinese harassed the Al1452 MAIN SPEEDWAY BE-2445 ‘worst cases”—children who al-,,.4 sdvance only by opposing The above home is one of (ready have become delinquents— i yan» and long range artillery the many hundreds of homes [Father than treatment of malad-| ,, ¢ition. For Sale In the Classified Col¢ |Justed pupils before they reach) "Gri ang their United Nations umns of The Indianapolis |the crime stage. 'allies, pushed forward 1000 to 2000 Times this week-end. Among | a. 8 8 yards, 3 this wide variety you aresure | EXPANSION OF this depart- gKuymhwa is the southeastern to find several that seem to ment along with establishment of anchor point of the Kumhwafit your family needs. Make [four mental health clinics in the Chorwon-Pyongyang Iron Trianyour appointments to per- (Schools is being planned. {gle plateau redoubt, an enormous

that price boss Michael V. Di- Lt. Wayne 1. Eggert, helicopter! tion.

Salle cancel cattle price rollbacks pilot for Wright Air Development | scheduled for Aug. 1 and Oct. 1./Center, and his passenger, Capt. These are aimed at reducing beef Noel J. Fisher, public information | prices to the consumers by 9 to sfficer based at Wright-Patterson | 10 cents a pound by Oct. 1. Field, The two were circling the Mr. DiSalle is standing firm on gre in search of an “object” seen | the rollback, saying it is the key to fall from the sky at the time to stabilizing the economy. lof the plane crash. It proved to be the body of Lt. Horne. An Air Force work crew, strug-|

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Amusements ..........8 9 ; | sonally imspect them right A program of training teachers staging base for Red troops and) Brigg oooveiisvacieinais 3 jmond; Jas deen gems Sing 5 away! . 3 to recognize and treat maladjust- supplies. : Henry Butler ............ 8 | . If you do mot now have ment of puplls in the early stages Kumsong, toward which the Editorials ............ oR Continned on Page 2—Col. 6 the Sunday Times conveni- (N88 been started in co-operation Reds started retreating, is on the] FOrtm vu. x iaasines BE ently delivered to your home With thg Indiana Mental Health main highway from Kumhwa to Hoosier Profile,.......... 3 | LOCAL TEMPERATURES first thing in the morning, |Society. \ the east coast, which it hits at a Brskine Johnson......... 9 | ‘ | you ‘may phone The Times The City Hall administration point about 47 miles north of the MOVIES «irvvvsnseansan8, 0 | SAM. 61 “10a m.. 66 | Lo me up to midnight to- [18 trying to push a program to 38th Parallel BOCIBLY tvcvveressoosaess 3 | 1AM... 62 Ila m.. 67 | L000 and place your order. [eXPand the playground system Other front dispatches said the SPOILS «.cevsnnsnossenses ® | 3am... 63 12 (Noon) 88 | opp miMES PHONE IS RI- [In co-operation with the City Chinese Reds appeared to have WOMEN'S s.oversenssises 3 | 30m 65 2pm: 65 ley 5551. : School Board. ! abandoned Chorwon, southwest-| SEN Latest humidity ...... 88% But lack of space and finances ern anchor of the triangle. & “ gr 2 3 ;

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: |“at ‘the expense of the

training were listed by more Indianapolis teen-agers today!

|. Tie diet will be res

Mission for ‘Blunder’

WASHINGTON, June 9 — Gen. Douglas MacArthur

% charged today that the post-war Marshall mission to China

committed “one of the greatest blunders in American diplomatic history for which: the free world is now paying in blood and disaster.” : ir Gen. MacArthur said the mission's attempt to pacify China by fostering Commu-|

nist representation in the gov- TrUMan Calls

ernment favored the Reds: forces of ¥ h Pp bh § freedom.” I. or ro e 0 ‘Prevarication’ ‘9 ° T And any inference that he ever, China Lobb favored a Chinese Nationalists ; Communist coalition, Gen. Mac-| By United Press Arthur said, “is a prevarication| WASHINGTON, June 9—Presiwithout color of factual support.” dent Truman has ordered an in“He asserted the policy pro- vestigation of the so - called moted by the Marshall mission ‘China lobby,” Secretary of State led to the present boodshed in the Dean Acheson announced today. Far East. {| Mr. Acheson made the disGen. MacArthur, who was re-| lieved from his commands in Mittee investigating the dismissal April for public criticism of ad-|{of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. ministration policy, hurled his! oe ehEuties Hembety have tk 5-47 Chi mis-| tharge at the 14 ha . spent American aid funds to in-

i Cc. sion headed by Gen. George C.[, "y's “ube opinion in be-

Marshall in a telegram to Sen. E William ¥. Knowland (R. Cal.) (half of Chiang Kal-shek's Na-

| Gen. MacArthur declared the !ionalist regime. {Marshall mission used “the po- ‘Hearsay’ Evidence

|tential of American assistance as| The Secretary testified, how-|yiet weapon to force” Chiang Kai-ever, that he has inspected State Nationalist government Department files and found only _ “into a political alliance with the Communists.

_ he fe sald, would mot hay time this making a ‘charge that there .

a * hae ‘Continue to Pay’

“Its effect could have been runds.

|foreseen,” Gen. MacArthur said... Mr. Acheson sald most If not [“It at once weakened the govern-|all of this evidence has been sup{ment (of China) and materiallyiplied to investigators in the ex:| Communist ecutive agencies. He offered it to any congressional committee]

|strengthened minority. {blunders in American diplomatic the “China lobby.” history for which the free world ‘ ’ s now paying in blood and dis-| Avfliorized hy Present laster and will fn all probability fcontinue to do so indefinitely.” Gen, Marshall, now Secretary! {of Defense, went to China in late

the

by the President,” Mr. Acheson reported, “to say to the joint committee that he has instructed

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$1945 as President Truman's spe- the agencies of the ‘executive munists’ luggage into a U. 8

branch having powers and duties in regard to this matter to get together all their material and 6 bring it together so that there ¢an be an immediate, or as soon as possible, an appraisal of what is known (about the lobby) in the executive branch, with a view to going forward to legal action if that is provable by what is known, or by conducting investi{gations further if that appears {to be the proper course to follow, or in making public the ‘situation if that seems to be the proper course.

cial ambassador and returned in early 1047 to report failure of

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say that he will direct all these agencies of the government to co-operate to the fullest possible extent with any committee or committees of the Congress which wish to go into this matter for the purpose of informing them what is known, for the purpose of helping any investigation, for the purpose of assisting them in coming to a conclusion as to ‘whether or not they wish to have : :, one.” «gives the lie. | Mr. Acheson's announcement was preceded by a statement by (Sen. John J. Sparkman (D. Ala.) that he hopes something will be done to find out what “has de|veloped - this screen of confusion and falsehood” about American {policy in the Far East.

Gen. MacArthur .

Who Lived Watermelon, Diet Recovering

Boy On

A 13-year-old Indiana boy who Kissing Salesman lived. on a diet of watermelon Free te Woo Again

juice for nearly a month because lof nephritis (Bright's disease) or Parhiaps all the world does ; , _ “love a lover.” was on the way to recovery to Hassan Abu Dabouseh, a magday. azine salesman, tried to mix love Keith Pettay returned home with labor yesterday by etlimaxyesterday from a Seymour hos- Ing his spiel with a kiss for the

doeb inced housewife. pital, and doctors were convince But ‘his sales prospect didn’t

the diet and three blood trans- jike. She telephoned police and fusions would restore normal the 22-year-old Dabouseh was health. picked up. . Phillip Boyd, an 8-year-old Mil-| But this morning the housewife lersburg, Ind., boy also suffering didn’t appear to file charges and from the kidney ailment, had been Dabouseh was again free to work on a watermelon diet until 4 days and woo. 7 ago. While he showed some im- " provement after he began taking Re the watermelon “medicine,” Clark | Hospital officials in Paoli reported | today that his condition had] worsened. {The Tampa Morning Tribune rePhillip, the son of Mr. and Mrs. (ported today it had learned the Paul Boyd began the diet May 10 Senate Crime Investigating Comafter six melons were rushed to mittee would hold another him following an appeal by the | Florida hearing within three Paoli Red Cross chapter. | weeks. . Although Phillip still likes wa-| The newspaper said the session termelon, he decided he had probably would be held in Miami. had too much of a good thing It said the committee “felt the four days ago and requested that state failed to pursve strong inhe be given no more watermelon | dications of official corruption for a few days.

port New Florida Crime Hearings Set TAMPA, Fla., June 9 (UP)—

umed later |

|in Miami and Tampa. by ;

bers of a Russian repatriation mission out of the American zone of Auss

The three Russians—two officers and a sergeant — scrambled into

closure before the Senate com-

had been improper use of ald gions

“It was one of the greatest which may want to investigate

“I am authorized and directed

“He has also directed me to,

brought out” at previous pny (

threw three angry mems

U. 8. troops c¢ them. 4 A GI ripped open the door

and shoved the sergeant into the back seat. Three Ameri. can soldiers then jumped into the . car, one in the driver's seat, and raced the angrily shouting trio to the Soviet border at the head of the American convoy of military vehicles. The Russians were dumped there unceremoniously with several truckloads of their luggage Including a baby carriage and several potted plants. Me None of the American soldiers !who took part in today's eviction

ame after

The other three members of the mission had departed yester-

zone wished to be repatriated. Repatriated Six nL] American authorities said that Si in 1950, the Soviet mission re- ; patriated only six persons, i cating the vast majority still in ‘want to go home to Communist | Russia. - The. Amelcahs also pointed:

. zone for specific n

etn PY [from their homes by the Nazis The deadline was extended this morning when the three remaining Russians stayed in their | hotel. Half an hour before the new

deadline, the Russians drove with lu. 8. liaison officers to a cone /terence in the city. Meantime, | American troops loaded the Com-

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| truck. | The Russians returned to their | hotel at exactly 10:30 a. m.~the | deadline—but American troops re- | fused to let them enter. { The irate Russians rolled up the windows of their car and { locked themselves inside. American officers tried to argue them into coming out. When they refused, the United States soldier grabbed a door handle, ripped the door open, and pulled out a Russian sergeant from the driver's seat. i Three American soldiers | jumped into the car and sped fo |the head of a U. 8. Army con { voy. It included a staff car and | trucks, carrying the Russians’

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| baggage. Several cars carrying reporters and photographers | tagged along. on

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Condition Fair After 4-Story Fall

A 10-year-old girl who fell four stories from the roof of the Lock~ (field Garden Building at 810 Blake | St. yesterday, was in fair condi(tion today in General Hospital. {She suffered internal injuries. | Police said Juanita Potter was ‘alive only because her fall wa {broken by the clump of bushes, The child, who first told |that she was “pushed off the roof {by a man,” later admitted {she fell as she was { paper. , She explained {had been forbidden to play {the roof and told policé she { pushed because she feared punish~ ‘ment. A low railing is the { protection, : ; { - Juanita and her sister, Nellie, |9, were at the home of Mrs. Alums, Apt. 76, at 810 Blake St.

‘Atomic Aid Reported Missing Turns Up

DETROIT, June 9 (UP)—A top {executive ‘of the Paducah, Ky. atomic energy plant, who touched

off a police when

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