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Times photo by Liovd B. Walton

HOMELESS AND HELPLESS—Here from age two weeks to 7 years are the || innocent victims of an Indianapolis landlady's "mass eviction’ of families with children.

Outside Indianapolis—

ShhK—Britain Festival

Isn’t Doing

By ED. Me. Insidg

LONDON—The South

So Well

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Indianapolis

Bank Exhibition is the cen- | terpiece of the Festival of Britain.

You can compare it

on a small scale to the World Fairs of Chicago, San

Francisco apd New York.

The thing a visitor from the States must remember that the Festival is natjonwide. Throughout Britain cities

have local displays. In | London itself there are many historical and cultural sites included in the Festival. It's impossible to visit them all. Besides, after you have seen a couple World Fairs, and a few museums here, the stuff is running out of your ears, In 1947 the British gov-

ed to make | 1951 the Festival Year to mark the centenary of the exhibition of 1851. This country | wanted to pause and review its contribution to world civiliza-

On the Inside Of The Times :

“Happy” Chandler to “hrow in the towel on July 15. . Indians absorb 15-8 shellacking from the resurgent Minneapolis Millers. . Tony Hulman named again to U. 8. Tuna Cup team “Indiana Queens Lack 8allyhoo” . a revealing article on what it takes to become “Miss America’ and why the Hoosier state has never rung the bell Lawmakers impressed wi th Tke's co-ordination job in Europe, sharpen up the econ-

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omy ax ... as reported by political expert Charles Lucey .... sev arienss 22

Comely Starlight Musicals chorus girls are adept in other jobs too. . . . Blackwood on Bridge .... 2

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Other Features:

Amusements ....ocee0000 26 Bridd ...~% 00000 searens M4 Henry Butler:-..ic.ev0e. «eo 26 Crossword ..oieeses nen 32 Editorials ....... ean vi 2 FORUM soovesrsvsionssnns 23 Dr. Jordan ...ieonsvssnes 28 Dan Kidney ...oevevnesd 22 Ruth Millett .....co000 0 25 Gaynor Maddox ...... sae 28 MOVIOS vi.averirvinnss . 26 Frederick C. Othman .... 22 Pattern. ii... vous assess DY Teen Problems .T..,..... 24 Radio and Television .... 27 Boclety “diese iviviiiinie MH

Bports i... veseiv. 17,18, 19 Women's .. eres 29

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tion, make a, reassessment of progress and reaffirm its faith . in the future. At the gate I asked the girl if many Americans were buy- | ing tickets. She looked around and whispered that off the record they were not. Britishers | don’t know for sure, but they have a sneaking suspicion that the Festival isn't doing well.

” - . WITH THE lifhited space the designers had to work with, they did a remarkable job. Each pavilion houses one or several stories about the land of Brit-

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Two Congressme 12 and 63, Trade Punches in Capitol.

WASHINGTON, June 22 Reps. compound at Abadan and all the Madison site last Apr. 19 in|

{Clarence Cannon (D. Mo.), and {John Phillips (R. Cal.), got into a fist fight today in a corridor of

the Capitol. Mr. Phillips suffered a cut lip that had to be sewed up.

| Rep. Cannon is 72 years old and Rep. Phillips 63. It was the second time in his: congressional ca-

reer that Mr. Cannon has come ap to blows with one of his

colleagues. % | The first time was six years ago {when he swapped punches with {Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.). The '8-foot New Yorker emerged from that scuffle with a cut and bleeding mouth, too. |" Rep. Taber was a witness to today’s brief encounter in a Capitol corridor of the Capitol, and separated the combatants. - He ‘told newsmen Rep. Phillips, a slight, dapper, generally genial man, got into an argument with {Rep. Cannon over the appoint-| ment of a conference committee on an appropriations bill.’ ‘Mr, {Cannon is chairman of the House! | Appropriations Committee. As the argument grew more,

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Channel Swim Off

“swim kids" -- five-year-

Britain | Oil firm

{To Word Court

BULLETIN { THE HAGUE, Netherlands, | June 22 (UP) — Britain asked the International Court of Justice today for a temporary injunction to restrain the Iranfan government from taking over the British-owned Anglo-~ Iranian. Oil Co. Sir Philip | Nicholls, British ambassador to the Netherlands, filed the application.

By United Press TEHRAN, Iran, June 22--All 3000 British employees the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. packed today to leave Iran in case the oil crisis erupts into anti-British vi.olence. Iranian officials have asked the employees to remain and work for the newly nationalized indus-| try. British sources contend that! their departure would shut down, the industry and cripple Iran's economy. Deputy Conservative Party Leader Anthony Eden said in London last night that a ghutdown would enable Communists to seize control of Itan and that British forces should be “at ‘hand” in ease of trouble. All signs pointed to a British exodus unless an amicable solution to the oil issue is found soon. Wives and children of all British employees have been ordered to move inside the company's

Britons were placed in a “state of readiness” for departure within 36 hours if necessary. A company spokesman in London said chargered planes were ready to start: lift at a with s notice but em-! ployees were still on their jobs. He said a British tanker was still loading oil today from the Abadan refinery. At Port Said. Egypt. a troop transport armived yesterday with (a fresh detachment of 527 British troops, bringing to almost 1900 the total number unloaded at this strategic Suez Canal port city in the last 24 hours.

Teal Stages Comeback In State Golf Meet :

Carl Nessler was three-up over Scott Teal at the half-way point

of the 36-hole State Junior Golf championship match at Purdue University today. Teal began his comeback on the 14th hole when, he knocked in a long putt for a birdie folir. He won 15 and 18 also before the golfers stopped! {for lunch. ' (Earlier story, Page, 17).

Enerny Dead Mounts

WASHINGTON, June 22 (UP) --The Army. reported today that | the Chinese Communists and North Koreans suffered 19, 139 | casualties during the week of | } June B14 oe

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Veterans of Foreign Wars in

(No mention was made

convention here had their own recommended attitude toward

“security police” keeping a wary, eye on city police today.

‘civil police).

Of suit for eviction Court for a writ to seize real es-| state and evict. The required or-| “Don’t Interfere: with. the ar-; der was issued by. Judge Harry,

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8 Move to Halt Tenants Say Landlady

Acted After Report Of Rental Overhargd

By DONNA MIKELS bi A landlady, tagged as “one of the worst violators The area rent control office of rent control, today was preparing a mass eviction of through a petition for a Fed-|¢qmilies with children from a tenement-like structure at

k Eviction of Widow, Family

eral Court injunction has moved to block eviction of a

their West Side home.

A second widow, who also has

[four thildren, yesterday declared sie, too, has been ordered to va-|

'cate the double house.

Rent office attorneys yesterday filed for the injunction against! {Sheriff Smith and landlords of {the property, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph

'Hardy, 1051 'W. Michigan St.

First Intervention

It was the first move by the office to intervene through the, Federal Court in an eviction)

case, The action was taken on

behalf of Mrs. Martha Denny, 45 of 1065 W. Michigan St. Mrs. Denny declared in an affi-|

davit filed with the suit that evie-| OR tion proceedings were started hy Mayor at a special conference of show 18 compliance cases against } the landlords because she learned law-enforcement officers following Mrs. Houser for 1504 Park and ‘her rent was 30 per cent more the recent increase in such as- other properties and that two

than the legal maximum. She:

said she was paying $50 per

month, Mrs. Gengva Todd. 32, who oc¢cupies the other half of the house, 11087 W. Michigan St. {was paying $40 per month. Rent authorities sought the in'funetion on grounds the landlords’ control

| The rent office action the defendants on June

In the orders issued to their pest of any VFW member by the R. Champ.

the special security police areiiry to get him out of jail your- against Mts. Todd.

these pointers:

sel Co-operate with all requests of|

law and can make it tough for all’

{of us.”

Vinson Slates Ait Academy Bill

WASHINGTON, Jyne 22 (UP) ~ Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) of the House Armed Services Committee, said he will introduce an administration-backed bill today to establish an Air Force academy on a par with West Point and Annapolis. The $20 million bill authorize the Secretary Air Force to establish the academy temporarily at some Afr Force base or civilian institution until a permanent school is built. Indiana has one of seven sites under consideration for the academy by an Air Force selection board. © The site Madison, Ind. remained after the nated dozens of proposed locations, including one at Bunker Hill, Ind., site of a former air base used during World War II. The selection board inspected

would of the

a visit headed by Gen. Carl A. Spaatz. The site contains 10,000 acres and is located 12 -miles west of Madison with a view of the Ohio River from a bluff.

‘I'd Like to Be That Kid'—

is located near) It and six others, board elimi-

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games ‘among our own members will be tolerated. But that is all. “Refrain from -drinking when

on duty. If vou must drink, remove your badge.” “See that all VFW members

conduct themselves as ladies and gentlemen.” The VFW special agents also were instructed to holler for the {Indianapolis police if they detect, anyone trying “to sell flags. souvenirs, etc.” in connection with the convention.

Ecvinlor's President Faces a Busy Day

WASHINGTON, June 22 (UP)! — Ecuador's handsome President Galo. Plaza faced a busy schedule today, topped by giving a dinner honoring President Truman. The dinner in the Statler Hotel was expected to be the usual lavish affair given by visiting statesmen. President Plaza was sched-, uled to meet earlier with Mr. Truman to discuss several business matters. He also was to sandwich in an address to the National Press Club and a visit to the University of Maryland.

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1504 Park Ave,

The landlady, Mrs. Ina Houser, told some of her tenants widow and four children from gh, pad decided to “move out families with children.”

Bayt Orders All-Out War on Sex Criminals

By JOE ALLISON All-out

“The cowardly attacks on our women must stop,” declared the

‘saults. So far this year 166 sex attacks’ ‘have been reported to police, but! only 52 arrests—fewer than one out of three—have been made, In addition there have been 122

{cases of aggravated assault—! including some attacks on women.

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| auxiliary | Will Alert Firemen

Mayor Bayt ordered Police {Chief Rouls and Fire Chief Mcown members who will serve as/ civ) police. Report to us. Don't] ' A similar order has been issusd| Kinney to work out a plan family with a baby.

whereby firemen can be alerted as

The government office has re-isoon ag an attack is reported.

f > “Professional gambling is out./qyested a restraining order pend. civil police. ‘Remember he is the; |Small craps, poker and such Ing a hearing as well as a pre- — {liminary and permanent injunc-

tion “against eviction or prose-

~—— oution” in violation of the rent!

regulations. Employed at Inland Container Corp., Mrs. Denny was said to be | doing “a man’s work” to keep her family together. Age of her children ranges from 10 to 21 years. Mrs. Todd is employed at Richardson Rubber Co. Ages of her children range from 9 to 12 years.

Lights Turned Off “We have been running our-

selves to death looking for a place,” Mrs. Todd said. “But we have found nothing. When I!

came home from work Wednes-

day night .the lights had been turned off.” When they first moved into the house, Mrs. Todd said, they had to carry water from a neighbor's home because of defective water pipes. Conflict first developed several weeks ago, Mrs. Todd said, when the property owners said they wanted the house.. They later charged the children were a “‘nujsance and destructive’ and refused to accept the rental payments for the month of May, she sald. Attempts to resolve the issue through mediation in rent control ‘offices falled.

If not busy answering a fire-| alarm, the firemen . will. help brick 'spread a dragnet to catch the

attacker. Also attending today's conference were Maj. H. H. Houghtalen, head of 300 auxiliary police, and Kenneth Luke, in charge of ren the 750 Civil Defense auxiliary police. The Mayor's order came after ‘the bold, daylight attack upon a mentally {ll Cincinnati woman vesterday at 16th St. and Fall

Creek.

Had Run Away

The woman, who was grabbed

and dragged into the underbrush’ by a stocky man, had run away from her Cincinnati home the

night before and had hiteh-hiked!

to Indianapolis. Her distraught husband, who rushed here when

yesterday afternoon. » Also adding impetus to the drive was the brutal beating of a 19-year-old waitress last night in an alley. Neither of the attackers has been caught.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Latest humidity, 68%.

Mischievous Innocence Meets Mr. President

BY ANDREW TULLY Scrippa-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, June 22-1 know who I'd 'ike to be. I'd like to be that kid.in the

colored, satin sports shirt. 1 don’t know this kid's name, but he's about 10 and kind of stubby. His blond hair is cut to within about a half inch of his sealp. He's got a scratch under his left eye and in the right hip poeket of his pants

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have come in ~rooked. I wish I could be that kid because that kid has just seen the President of the United States tor the first time.

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the look that was on that kid's face, but it was the kind of look you'd never see on a grownup’s. You could tell something wonderful was happening to him, something he'd looked forward to for a long time—maybe without actually believing it would sever come true. It was also something, obviously, that could only happen to him once. = ~ » THIS KID, maybe because of that shirt, caught your eve the moment he trudged into the White House with a bunch of other newsboys who were going to be congratulated by President Truman for selling a lot of U. 8. savings bonds. “Lookit that kid,” - said one reporter. “Don’t think . a kid like that Is going to t*s awed by any mere Pres ident of the U. 8.7 The kid did look a little. well, casual about the whole thing. He was marching in a double line through a corridor leading to the rose garden where the ceremony was going to “take place and what be seemed most

interested in was prodding the kid in front of him with an old, beat-up nail. Ld » » WHEN THE kid In front turned to glare, Cerise Shirt would raise his eyes to the ceiling and look innocent. Then when the kid turned around again, Cerise Shirt would: jab him again. Cerise Shirt also was fancy with his feet, He'd walk a few steps on his toes, then a few steps on his heels, then shuffie along, flatfooted. He kept patting that right hip pocket to make sure the Tope was still there. Finally, the boys all got out in the rose garden and the three men with them, looking harassed, formed 'em into a semicircle around a lectern and microphone put there for the occasion.

Cerise Shirt couldn't make up his mind where he wanted to stand. First he stood on the left side, then he scampered ovar to the right, . thea In wiggled his way be

tween a couple of unwilling colleagues smack in the center. One of the harassed looking | men didn’t like this. He told Cerise Shirt to stand still. Cerise Shirt rolled his eyes innocently to heaven. » ” » BUT THEN something happened to this kid. Mr. Truman stepped up to the lectern, smiling and casual,

as he always is with visitors | to the White House, and this kid |

stood there in front of him and | it was wonderful to see: The kid's mouth hung kind of half open, in a half smile. His eyes were as wide open as they could get and in them was the dazed look of a boy seeing something big without quite being able to believe it. there like that for a full minute, then, slowly, his face relaxed. His eyes crinkled up at the corners and his grin widened and the awe was gone. leaving

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war on sex criminals) {preying on Indianapolis women! J 45,/and children today was ordered she is a repeat violator, one of i |b, Mayor Bayt.

the civil defense workers who now in Municipal are completing their training as

informed of! the attack on his ill wife, took!’ her home to their two children!

{already moved away.

ling tenants had trouble ge of the cases now 'pen He stood | Pederaf Court charges rine

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. However, other tenants al{leged the eviction stemmed 3s (from the fact that several iof them ‘have recently reported 8

{rent overcharges by Mrs. Houser to the area Rent Control Office. Area Rent Director Lou Schaef er today said his office would istart an immediate investigation of Mrs. Houser on new violation reports, and added:

‘A Repeat Violator’ “This doesn’t surprise me . .

the worst violators of ceiling rents % {we have.”

| He said files dating back to 1943

{cases of overcharges at the Park address are now pending in Fed. ‘eral Court.

Meanwhile, parents of 11 chil. dren stair-stepped in ages from 3 weeks to 7 years today said they fear their children will “be put out in the street” because of the {landlady’s mass eviction order. IE back at us by children suffer just

The #viction VicHEE who Assembled in a protest meeting to{day charged her “no children” barat Rie Coverup Pointing newspa ran yesterday off offering th ers (ay

7% A For Rent Sigd Today an “apartment for rent” sign stood in front of the home converted into a dozen icubbyhole’ apaftments, as the {worried parents met in the rear ito discuss finding homes for their families,

One o. the mothers given orders to move is Mrs, Olin Dolla- 4 han, still under doctor's care after the birth of a son two weeks ago. f She said Mrs. Houser told her to move a few days after the baby iwas born, saying the new addition and the two other girls were “too ‘many children.”

“But T've been rentibg from her since October and she's known ‘I was expecting another baby, why didn't she tell me before?” Mrs. Dollahan said she Ifved from. October to January in an other building owned by Mrs. Houser and paid $6.50 per week, receiving a receipt for $3.50. When she moved into a single ‘room at the Park address she first paid $15, but the rent was £9 later reduced to $11.50. This was : done at a time the Rent office gi was preparing oge of the viola tion cases now on file in Federal Court,

{ Mr. and Mrs. Ples Henderson said they pay $10 a week for a basement room near a garbage fi chute, They walk through the pA vard to the garage to use the i bath. Mrs. Henderson said the 1 |landlady gives a receipt for only $8 and said the other a was “because of the 3 children.”” THe egal rent is $8.05. A |" Clarence Kalb said he paid $14 F |a week for one room for his wife {and two babies, aged 4 and twe imonths. When he brought his {7-year-old daughter home last {week the landlady told him, he - said, “you'll have to pay more {for the extra girl.” The legal {maximum is $9.78. 3 Mr. Kalb said he answered {would chack with Rent Control officials before paying more. A few days later he received a verb. (al order to move, he said.

Already Moved

Two other families with chile {dren also were part of the "mdss + {eviction order but today they had

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{from $2 to $15 and totaling Fangine ‘than $500 which she refused