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Remurresowarp] 624 YEAR—NUMBER 102 Sas TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1951 Indianapolie, Indiana. Ted DAL. du Brother Stabbed fo Death—

Three Officers Broken in Feud Of State Police

Reduced to Troopers; Cite Misconduct

By ED KENNEDY A feud among officers of the Indiana state police flared yesterday as it was announced- that three Jasper post officers had been busted of their rank and reduced to troopers.

In one of the largest mass rank! shiftings in the history of the department, a lieutenant, a first sergeant and a sergeant were demoted. Supt. Arthur M. Thurston said today: “The men were found by a subcommittee of the personnel board to be guilty of bitterness and vicious quarreling among themselves and of personal misconduct. They filed charges and countercharges against each other and simply evidenced the fact that they could not get along. In the best interest of the service all were reduced.

‘Enforcement No Issue’

“The slot machine raids down, there had nothing whatever to do, with the reductions. will continue. Law enfor¢ement|

about what happened, Harry

charge here today.

was arrested by deputy sher-

‘I Don’t Remember . . .'

phone interview. “My brother has been drinking heavily—I don’t know what happened exactly. One minute he had his arms around

know . . ."” Nashville authorities said Clin-

Hospital here shortly after midnight today as the result of 11 knife wounds. Officers said when they arrested Harry Calkins at the Maxwell House Hotel later they found a switch-blade knife with what appeared to be blood stains on it /in his possession.

: Would Fix Bond District Attorney . J.

was not an issue at all,” the su- charge of first degree murder, but perintendent asserted. |would fix a $5000 bond for his The reduced officers were Lt. release pending further investiAlbert R. Stiles, Washington; 1st gation. - |

Sgt. Howard Lytton, Petersburg, |

holding Calkins on a waren, wot |

Mrs. Clinton Calkins said Harry |

and Sgt. Donald Smiley, Wash-|called their home late yesterday,

ington.

All the officers this morning]

echoed “no comment.”

The three officers, all with more authorities. “My hushand than 10 years <ith the depart- Harry began drinking and laier|for a discharged State Welfare ment. said they would continue T heard them quarreling. I went worker are “engineered” and have

on with the rank of troopers. Not Surprised

The shift came as a surprise to other officers on the force, despite that fact that investigations at the Jasper post had been going on for more than a week.

~All the reduced officers were

and yesterday a subcommittee of the personnel board went to Jas-

Replacements Named Replacing the trio were 1st Sgt. Walter P. Weyland, 4822 Farrington Ave.; Willard Walls, Mt. Vernon, and Stanley Guth, Evansville. The three were all promoted to fill the ranks of the officers they replaced respectively. The subcommittee which an-

{telling her he was in Nashville.

“I drove downtown and brought) {him out to our home,” she old an

lin and separated them and told

them ‘here, don’t fight" |hand, Gov. Schricker said today. ‘Covered With Blood’ | “Insubordination Later, she told deputy sheriffs, ng the real reasons for the firing I heard a noise and went into r George L. Diven, discharged

their room. “I found Clinton covered with

d. The police ambulance took the wounded man to the hospital, but he was pronounced dead upon his arrival.

Calkins was sald to have the ambulance to the in his prother’s car, but after arrival there.

He was found in his hotel room half an hour later in a dazed condition.

‘Please Lock Me Up’

“please lock me up,” officers quoted him as saying after they convinced him his brother was dead. Calkins was a reporter for the

nounced the action yesterday was|Indianapolis Star many years becomposed of Supt. Thurston, Maj. fore and during World War I and Robert O'Neal and Capt. Nor-|later entered publicity work in

man Barnworth.

that ‘city after traveling over the

Supt. Thurston said today that/country in various newspaper jobs after the complete investigation/and some hotel work. -

He covered Army camps for

Tyndall’s Ex-Secretary Faces Murder Charge

Times Special NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 12—Still dazed and confused

dianapolis Republican publicity man and former secretary to the late Mayor Robert Tyndall was held on a murder

Calkins, Indianapolis newspaperman for man

R. Calkins, 60, prominent In-

Wilson Fears Meat Strike Means ‘Mess’

Believes Supply Of Cattle Ample

By United Press

WASHINGTON, June 12—

Wedemeyer A Disputed Mes

iffs last night after his brother, Clinton Calkins, 48; retired Nashville bank official, was found _&

stabbed to death in the latter's & = fashionable suburban home here. #

“I don't remember just what 9 happened,” Calkins said in a tele-

me and the next—I really don’t &

ton Calkins died in St. Thomas}

y years,

Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said today the beef price rollbacks will stand, but that the country will be in a “terrible mess” if the beef strike does not end soon. Mr. Wilson told a news conference that the rollbacks of 4%; per cent each, on live cattle prices

scheduled to go into effect Aug. 1 and Oct. 1, “are firm.”

The rollbacks, aimed at reduc-| ing beef prices to consumers by 8 to 10 cents a pound by Oct. 1, are opposed by meat interests and cattlemen. Marketing and slaugh-| tering of beef cattle have dropped |

Is Easy to Misread

|A General Speaks for Himself—

Icing on Engine

0f 8-Jet Crash

Air Force Finds No

"Wedemeyer Adheres Intakes Cause To Wedemeyer's Line

By CHARLES LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, June 12—Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wede‘meyer is before the Senate Far East policy inquiry today ‘not as a trumpeter for the Truman administration or Gen.

... Discard Red Angle

The raids Davidson County, said he was]

blood and called police” she 4 ent the Governor said. given a hearing here last week ai

Harry R. Calkins

As State Worker

drastically.

‘might become necessary if cattle Air Force investigators said | supplies continue to dwindle, Mr. today that icing on engine in- of the sharpest - talking witWilson shook his head in an emphatic no.

sary,” he said. “We have a tre-'of the crash of eight F-84 jet mendous cattle population and|gopier Richmond. Ing, Frio prices are good. We ought. to be Lg 8 ne on able to keep 150 million Ameri-| i Ueatars: sald that a0 os supplied’ with meat WHOUt esr pir yc iEn Olt

. far they have found no indication od h b i . rationing.’ lof sabotage. |Rep oe Sim y Pro-MacArthur Mr. Wilson said he sees no rea-| Three pilots were killed and two .

Evidence of Sabotage

By United Press

Lots of Cattle | ol Lanie WASHINGTON, June 12— Gen. Wedemeyer.

Asked whether meat rationing |

“Rationing should not be necesoning {sparked this question-and-answer!

{marathon, now in its 33d day. | Sometimes

(rejects the policy angie being

Fi his for Old Job son for farmers to hold cattle off|y..re injured when the eight ol Gen. MacArthur warned of the the market at present prices Ori; janes plummeted to the ground danger of a long stalemate in|

By DONNA MIKELS

The so-called Communist implications in the appeal hearing

no relation to the real issues at

and “inefficiency” were the stated reasons

|Apr. 19 as director of staff serv{ices for the State Welfare De-

He said Mr. Diven’s stand that he was fired for fighting “Communists” within the department was “engineered, to cloud the real issues.” . Hea Set Tomorrow Tom , Mr. Diven will appeal his discharge at 9:30 a. m. in an open hearing before the State Personnel Board, a recourse provided by law. A hearing also is | scheduled tomorrow afternoon for Evan L. Parker, chief hearing officer who was fired the week

after Mr. Diven’s discharge.

subpenaed Arthur Campbell, Gov. Schricker’s personal secretary, to

tain “records.” A

Campbell would appear but the “pecords” requested are nonexistent. He said his sole file on the Red turmoil in the welfare

even at the prices that will prevail within a 25-mile {after the next two rollbacks. {

said, shortage of cattle in the nation’s)

triotic as any other, meat flowing,” he said.

Jail for $4.89 Attorneys for Mr. Diven have dal or .

ar at the hearing with cer- $4.89 extra today was the woeful SPpe 8 |tale of a 37-year-old Indianapolis

Gov. Schricker today said Mr. truck driver caught in the clutches

radius of Rich- Korea, but Gen. Wedemeyer, ob-|

{mond. Three other pilots escaped serving that the Roviets are only|

“Don’t Feel Good” team, goes {down and one parachuting to our first Er furiher and “I don’t feel good about it,” hei, pn W 8

referring to the present)

Sereen. on Intake Kremlin, he advises.

The investigators described the

will keep | “Phere |FOTCe spokesman said there is aii, Korea with air and naval

rtainly will be a terrible mess Screen over the front of the airiy engin put he thought sending

'e intake to prevent foreign matter or all of us if they don’t. from getting into the engine. He in ground forces was wrong.

‘Douglas MacArthur, but as exclusive agent of the views of

He wears his own epaulets and nobody else's. He's one takes due to peculiar local [nesses to speak his mind since Alli weather was the chief cause/the MacArthur dismissal eS 0 W

ow oe ow Search for MacArthur's views. Sometimes he

injury, two riding their planes playing their third team against ,. 4 Nations

says we should pull out of Ko- northward along a front of nearly

{rea. Break off relations with the 70 miles in Korea today in search of & new Communist defense line.

Explaining the phrase, an Air would have been right in going erate rear guard resistance,

By ERNEST HOBERECHT United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, Wednesday, June 13— troops drove

Advances ranging from thou-

major stockyards. i . i ao ya, hope the great/trouble as “engine inlet screeps Doubtful of Victory |sands of yards to several miles cattle industry which is as pa- icing. Gen. Wedemeyer thinks we were made against light to mod- ly

The advance as a whole was

slowed. The United States Sth Wedemeyer favored a China Army command apparently in-|ition and recommended u

tended to move forward from

Even as Mr. Wilson deplored] : He doesn't accept the recent about. the withholding of cattle from the (So. To ormed rom eetiing|view of Gen. Matthew Ridgway, mong In 3 (oid, ne De: Rid 10 Bring une Abou. markets, Chicago dispatches re-\; ‘11. onoines, Far East commander who suc- Score. Advasia ok. Reads Message ported that farmers stepped UD mye investigation by a group of ceeded Gen. MacArthur, that re Advances Sen. John J. Sparkman their cattle shipments to the bIg|. nica) experts is continuing on|establishing a line at the 38th Tank and infantry patrolsi(D. ) ‘once again read into markets. a 24-hour pe day schedule to de-|Parallel in Korea represents vic-moved into the shat disputed

termine Eine engines of 3 tory for us. JE other planes in th i Ty ‘Gen. have incurred dam effects. was chief of war plans and

Allison Describes Jets’ Freeze-Up

Nature did, in a cruel way, what the Air Force and science wanted to do but couldn't when it froze the air screens in eight F-84 jet planes last week causing them to crash. It was revealed today that engineers figured that under unusual atmospheric conditions a freeze-up of the air intakes was possible, would

Truck Driver Faces 911 Days in

at San Francisco, thinks such action would be a defeat.

So, he says, take counter-steps in other directions—go into full mobilization, lay ‘before the bar of the whole world” the fact that the issue is not Korea but the Kremlin. In large measure, Gen. Wedemeyer was behind Gen. MacArthur in thinking we should have

Continued on Page 12—Col. 8

The temptation of earning

of Indiana's tough truck-weight-limit law. John W. Lewis, 1108% KE. New Put didn’t know how it York St., today languished in the|C0me about. .

egy in Pentagon days before hej took command of the Sixth Army

Lake County jail serving out a

A great many tests were made

Of he facts in the dispute It as Am hone 2 Jot termined by the board that re-newspapers an ecame ac-|department last year was - action of the three involved was|quainted with Gen. Tyndall whoter from board members saying fine of $911—at the rate of $1 ude! SXiiome Sie Songitions In the only way the issue could be SPPOLIes Pith CXecuiive Seesetaty that two persons had Jot Sredye Say wite and six children today but the tests I Tes as) : resolved in the best interest of/at City Hall in Indianapolis inand two persons a gn appealed to the Welfare Depart. None ever froze in the tests. the department. 1942. , 13.-Col. 5 {appe p “There was no other way out,”| Calkins resigned from . the Continued on Page 12-—CLol. 5 ment for emergency aid so the Made by Allison Supt. Thurston concluded. Mayor's office in 1945 and becme Joungeters Soul ;ombinye to eat This was revealed today by a tm —————— a copy reader for The Indl nap- Woman, 23, Molested despite the fa Irs mprisonment. | okesman at the Allison Division olis Times. year later he en- . -— , { Truck Held, Too of General Motors who make the She Walked Too Far tered publicity work for the re- While Waiting for Bus | ‘The 30500 traller-trutk also engines for the Air Force. CHILLICOTHE, 0, June 12{publican Party here. Recently he| , 23.year-old woman, visiting hponnded. in Ta He described what happened (UP)—~Mary Proehl, 29, Dayton [has been working for the Labor rejatives in the city, was mo-| 3po Indiana law any when the eight planes crashed, 0., woke up in Pike County yes- Digest. llested early today while wating Cou, the truck be held until|Killing three of the pilots, TT no | and! terday and was arrested on LOCAL TEMPERATURES 007 | Jolley va at the overweight fine is paid. The group of planes all started 6a m.. 68 10a m..7 She said a young man jumped | Two trucking® firms and a

and took off from Dayton at the

Fal From Scaffold™

Plenty of Booty

A front dispatch said the Allies had captured such vast quantities of munitions and other supplies

Kills Man, 2, on Construction Job

| A young construction worker {who plummeted 22 feet from a {scaffold to a concrete slab yesterday afternoon died of a skull frac{ture two hours later in Methodist

Bom Cow, he Sune Hgm Tam. Nam. lot of a clump of bushes and finance company also are affected same time. They eathed the area Hospital. deputy waited in one part of the, 8 a. m... 85 12 (Noon) 78 grabbed her. As he left he/Py the chain reaction of the Indi rashes oll a The victim, Robert E. Bryson, house for her to appear in the, 9 a. m... 69 1p m.. 7 |warned her, “Don’t tell the sopsfafia- Jaw Intended BD erunching conditions je. ™ 808 Jasin gton AVE L pe 1m . yan on ~ ‘ orking on an aluminum installaother gf aad Latest humidity 49% or I'll get you ag heavy trucks. | At the air intake of the J-34 jet i. job at the El Lilly & Co.

France Will Give Her Answer—

French Go to the Polls Sunday

in Hops

Of Forming "3d Force' to Unsaddle Reds |

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS PARIS, June 12-The French elections of Sunday, June 17, will be crucial. They could mark a turning point in world history.

Boiled dewn, the issue is com-

munism versus a free France. Without a free and democratic France, the future of the Atlantic Pact of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’'s mission ro Europe would be dark, indeed. The foundation of Soviet foreign policy is that communism in Russia and her sal is not enough. (he world must be drawn in, or forced in, too.

out Moscow's orders.

On June 17, ¥rance will give her answer-——at least one answer Her hope is to non-Communists — regardless of party—in a national

—at the polls, rally all

union against the common foe.

There has been no national elections since 1946. And the governing body—the National Assembly

Com-

—1is to be renewed. In the present assembly,

te states t of the

And here, as elsewhere, native Communists are carrying”

WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Veteran foreign editor of Scripps-H o ward newspapers, comes out of semi-retirement to write about the coming French elections next Sunday.

”

. and

rea, the Schuman plan for Franco - German co-operation and! peace, and so on. | What French moderates are now seeking—and what they hope to get from the coming elections] —is a democratic, middle-of-the-| road bloc which can hold its own! against thé blocking faction of the extremists. ! To make such a thing possible, the old assembly, before it adjourned, revised the existing election laws. The new rules enable the parties whose aims are fundamentally akin, to form “lists,” or tickets, composed of their stronger candidates. Some of the weaker ones— which had little chance to win put who would split the ticket let in the Communists— have been weeded out. Basically, the idea is for a sort of - “popular front”—this time made up of French moderates, sometimes called “the third force.” The old system -— ostensibly based on the ‘principle of “proportional representation” — actually gave the country a far from “representative” parliament. The

munists hold 183 seats out of 620| coalition of moderates which Communists, who never had — nearly one-third. It is the larg-loften cracked up when most| quite one-third of the country

est single party. needed. : And the Communists ave acted Eight cabinets fell in five years. in strict discipline at the of This slowed down French recov-

command, while the non-Commu-~

nists—who would have had a re-|the Communists wanted.

sounding majority had they, too, At no'time did they cease fight-

behind it, often were able to frustrate the mational will. The new system—against which

ery and that, of course, was what anguished cries are already

ascending from both the right and the left—at least gives the

acted together — have failed to|ing the Marshall Plan, the At- moderates a fighting chance. lantic Pact, the strengthening of Whether or not they make the

achieve unity. The government

only through a delicately balanced | United Nations

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Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Schrader, e0gine there is a screen. This ge, 0xy Ave. plant.

owners of the impounded steel- Screen is designed to keep stones no. laden truck which was 9110/8nd large objects from getting] sllow smpioyess said = he

Et way at is mot) Jae {started to walk from one scaffold pounds overweight, | Continued P 12 —Col. {to another when the connectin their responsibility. The truck,’ min - mn, [age g-=Col : a 8

rs \plank broke. Continued on Page 12 —Col. 4 in di an s’ K ali n Mr. Bryson had been employed Injured During

ny H. D. Tousley Co., Inec., about Police Without Batting Practice

three weeks. The last two years he had worked with other con{struction firms here. Mr. Bryson was a native of | By BILL EGGERT {New Castle but lived here most of

= - { | { Clues: in Sla M0 | rrRaNK KALIN, Indianapolis oa’ Miended Masual t \Indians’ leftfielder, was taken to — — thave ever had.

St. Vincent's Hospital today with

a deep gash over his right eye. No Fees for Lawyers Of Wealthy Farmer’, 3-5 555 "China Lobby"

Times State Service slipped from in- " GREENFIELD, June 12 — Po- fielder Mont yg lice were without a single clue or/Basgall and suspect this morning as to. the crashed through slayers of Ti-year-old farmer the batting cage Noah Fry who died yesterday in net. gE Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis,', Extent of the after being robbed and beaten Juries was on late Saturday. lately, but Kalin © Three persons arrested for| 36. out of acother offenses were given routine yi ¢or several questioning yesterday after the days, Tribe of- PLN killing, but State Police Detective foals said. Ka- epart - Robert Dillon said today that it|jin is leading the ar To out haem would have been impossible for Tribe in’ runs-batted-in’ with 44. qualifying — last - year the: lot any of the three to have had a He was awaiting his turn at prac-/o¢ them spent only $199,965.38 hand in the brutal killing of Mr. tice when the accident happened. |argely on informational and Fry. | Basgall, ironically, is also “on eqycational projects. The dead man's estate was es- the shelf” and was batting with, 1, fact, unlike most foreign timated at $200,000 in cash and his right hand in a cast. The .,untries, Nationalist China property. |Indians were warming Up fOr goesn’t even have an American Police yesterday searched a the Kansas City contest at 2 p. M. jaw firm among those listed as mile-long stretch of the String- today. It's “free day” at Victory ys agents, And, as any country town Road, three miles east of Field. The Coca-Cola. Co. has oolitician will tell you, you can’t

On Foreign A

By ANDREW TULLY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

| WASHINGTON, June 12 —If {that “China Lobby” is as rich land powerful as some Senators {claim, then the dough must be coming from Americans. | None of the organizations or individuals listed with the Justice

Known

Kalin

-| here, in an effort to locate the (bought the park and admission Is do much lobbying without the

|help of some legal eagle. Completes List

murder weapon believed to be a free to everyone. flat iron, Dre tut Mr. Fry, before he died, mum- 82 Aliens ‘Jump Ship Here's - the complete list of bled that ho had been attacked HOBOKEN, N. J, June 12 those listed as performing servby two men who called at his|(UP)—Eighty-two aliens, most of ices for the Nationalist Chinese house asking for a tire pump. He them Italians, were arrested to- government, with the amount said he had never seen either of day in surprise raids on the water-ieach spent in the last calendar

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at Chorwon, southwest anchor of the triangular redoubt, that they

|have been unable to count them.

With the collapse of the Chorwon - Kumhwa - Pyonggang Triangle, Red forces on the moun-

{tainous eastern front above Inje

abandoned without a fight which they had aon ay up to two days ago. The Reds were expected to fall back to a new line anchored on the east coast port of Wonsan, 80 miles north of the 38th Parallel and running diagonally southwest to Kaesong, just below the 38th Parallel northwest of Seoul.

Marshall Returns

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP) —Defense Secretary George C. Marshall landed at National Airport at 10:35 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today after what he described as a “very successful trip” to Korea and Japan. He said Lt. Gen James Van Fleet's 8th Army is ‘probably the most ably trained Army we

Small Fry gents’ List

China Institute in America, N. Y, $16,000; Kuomintang of China, San Francisco, $17,791; Transocean Commerce, Inc., N. Y., $3600; Dr. Shou-Ch'un Mong, San Francisco, no amount listed; Central News Agency of China, N. Y,, $14,179. 3 Chinese News Service, N. Y,, §$77.972; Committee on Planning and Advising for Chinese Students in the United States, N. Y., $23,720; Paul Guillumette, Inc. N. Y, no amount listed; the Young China Publishing Co., Inc., San Francisco, $34,701. The Universal Corp., N. Y, no amount listed; Lester Knox Little, Pawtucket, R. IL, $12,000 as adviser to the Chinese Nationalist minister of finance. This list is not unusually long, nor does it represent extraordinary expenditures of money. Great Britain, for instance, lists seven agents and its British formation Services

$868,345 last year. As in the | >

“any e justified” in thinking it meant that the military chiefs favored bringing

MacArthur's Blast

“In my judgment the a would interpret it to mean that Gen, Wedemeyer agreed that a

of a ‘prevarication.” Gen. MacArthur charged Gen. George C. Marshall's onat mission to China to get the two

Continued on Page 12-—Col. $

385,000 To Lose Draft Deferments

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP) —Congressional experts said today that up to 385,000 draft registrants will lose their deferments under a new draft law which President’ Truman is expected to sign soon. : They are men 19-through-25 deferred - for support ) alone or found unfit for service.

A 48-year-old man is in critical condition in General Hospital today after being run over a freight car at the Keystone Ave. crossing of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad yesterday. Injured was Ralph Owens, W. Georgia St. He received a crushed leg. GEL

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