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© WADING POOL ROYALTY—Dean Eugene Stahley, king of city wading pool tiny tots, ond Peggy Stiles, the queen, pose in regal pride with crowns and loving cups after selection in The Times search at the Fall Creek finals.

Officials Pushing Probe King and Queen

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Under the pressure of civic responsibility, —— tions of the Tenants Housing Service were being carried)

out today.

Marion County Prosecutor Frank Fairchild said his

chief investigator, Charles Russell, has been assigned to the] case and is being aided by three] of the investigation staff. Mr. Fairchild’s men last ‘night and today were checking lists supplied by The Times and said they hope to deliver an initial report on them early next week. Meanwhile, the prosecutor has contacted Tenants Housing and requested that their complete list of persons now seeking homes through the service be turned over to his offjce. 3 Say They'll Make List Tenants Housing told Mr. Fairchild they had no list immediately available, but would be pleased to make one and turn it over to him It wilt take about a week for them to get this together, the prosecutor said this morning. Material requested from The Times by Leroy J. Keach, t® be checked by City Weights and Measures Department was mailed last night as directed by. the Safety Board President. Mr. Toner Overley said he felt Better Business Bureau has made its point by securing the publicity which has been devoted to the’ service. that in the opinion of his group the Tenants Housing Serviee is a fee-collecting racket. . Postal Inspector Ww. W. Mec-|

6 Persons Hurt In Two Auto Accidents Here

fix persons were injured in| two local traffic accidents late!

yesterday and early today. Injured in a two- -car collision

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|Broom also was at work check {ing direct mail postcards used by the housing service to solicit business. He said any findings of mail violations will be delivered to the U. S. prosecutor for further

action. All of the people working on the case pointed out investiga-

tions were not overnight and they needed time to complete their checks. When completed, findings will be turned over to the press for publicity, regardless.- of the outcome, they assured The Times today.

Predicts U.S. Victory SOUTH ST. PAUL, Mian, Aug. 4 (UP)-—Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, says the United States could defeat Russia in less than three years if war came,

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Of the Tiny Tots

Are Crowned Herp enn ee

It was personality-plus at the gy bmit new fi

Fall Creek Park Wading Pool yesterday.

Thaf’s when the finals of the search for a Tiny Tot Wading Pool king and queen sponsored by The Times and the City Park and Recreation Department attracted representatives of 19 pools to the Fall Creek park. The winners were: KING —Dean Eugene "Stahley, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Stahey, 537 N. Tremont St., who represented Coleman wading pool, QUEEN —FPeggy Stiles, 3, daughter of Mrs. Patricia White, 1510 E. 46th St., who represented the wading pool at 46th and Indianola.

The judges agreed it was a dif-|

ficult task to select the winners and they awarded certificates to all of the contestants.

Presented Cups

The Times presented the king

and queen with gold loving cups

engraved to designate them as the!

outstanding tiny tots of all wad-

ing pools. While mé&st of the children didn’t seem to mind the “strain” of the” final selection, it was a ¢ Continued on Page 2—Col. 8

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1951

For 19.1-Cent Tax Rate Hike

Request Goes Before Council Monday

The city administration] ‘Monday will ask City Council to boost the tax rate 10.7

‘cents, City Controller Patrick J. Barton announced today. ~The increase will: hike the city tax rate from $1951 to $2.148, imore than $2 for the first time in| thistory. | More than $600.000 was] {trimmed from original budget re-| | quests submitted by department |neads, Mr. Barton said. | The total requested this vear| lactually is only $46,280.76 more! than approved last year. |

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Increased Amount Needed

While that increase would cause a tax rate increase of less than 1 eent, variation in amount of money now on hand, expected expenditures during the remainder of 1951 and a 1950 error in| |assessment have increased the| {amount to be raised in taxes more than $1 million. | Proposed 1952 budgets call for a total city expenditure, not inlcluding gasoline tax revenue, of $16,772,113.19. Of that figure, $11,829,097.60 must be raised through taxes, | Thissgompares to a 1951 budget 9H WI SBA 188 Vv taxes’

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Hike In ‘Gas Taxes

Gasoline tax expenditures are expected to be up to $1,815.846.56 for 1952, compared with $1.496,- Br United’ Frese

Most cp tais'd : ; TOKYO, Sunday, Aug, 5— ost o 8 increase in antici- ; pated gas tax revenue will go to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, pay a $600 per year each paw supreme United Nations com-

raise for the city's 1500 police and mander, called his high staff

firemen. ! ; advisers into urgent conference

| All traffic policemen will be : ; paid with gas tax funds, thus last night and it was believed the

{freeing property tax funds to give raises to firemen and other Kaesong mayshave reached a cri- | police sis point. | Not yet completed are final here were indications Gen. {budget requests from the Sani-| |Ridgway may have called the

‘tary District. ONiginally requesting increases ww XC REE GR Sani! truce ine in. Korea iored wi {tary District commissioners have|joth day today. been instructed by Mayor Bayt to! At yesterday's meeting in Kaegures calling for a song chief Communist negotiator “ |Gen. ‘Nam Il brusquely refused to back down on his demand for a buffer zone along the 38th Parallel,

conference upon Teceipt of special

215-cent boost. Compare Expenditures Proposed expenditures for 1952

and amounts appropriated for Ben The 2 eeti starts this year are as follows: oto Oth neeling tart at 8 ise Toe o'clock tonight {Indianapolis c Department a Request. Approp. | Lie). Corporation Fun $8,440,348 $8,119,671 4 : jncluges police and All Night Meeting re) : Corp. Sinking Gen. Ridgway opened the meetFlan > we 739.283 567.825 t tt highl 1 ood revention ing a ne ni Vy unus Sinking 90.850 113.205 E ghl, usual hour of World War Memorial 68,080 70,800 9:30 p. m. Saturday (Tokyo Time) Public Health 3 ” & Hospitals . 3.685,493 2.532.452 an it was sti Health & Hospital 1 qd it R till in progress early Bonds 49,177 313.071 to y. Police Pension ... 417.277 418 oda ! Fire Pension 830,505 814. a Fite pensiah 330.809 & It was all but established of-

70 Tuberculosis Prevention 188, 380 ficially yesterday that the United 1

Park Board 138,214 1.104.427 Park Board Bonds 120.129 132.054 4 Nations negotiations in Kaesong Thoroughfare Fund 190,350 188.201 demanded a truce line far north|

Redevolpment

Commission 395.150 204.883 of the present battle front, There! were indications that the United Times Index Nations command actually would settle for the present battle front, | Amusements .......ue.2.2 5-7 (or even a line a little south of it

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if it offered good defensive possobiljties. Advices from the United Na[tions cease-fire advance base be-

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

Mass Meeting

THROWN FOR A LOSS— Army's 1950 football team, rated tops in the nation, was fopiried virtually wiped out by the shocking dismissal of 90 West Pointers charged with violating West Point's code of honor by exchanging test questions and answers. According to a statement Sen Harry Byrd (D. Va.) attributed to Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army chief of staff, the cribbing started among football players who found grid practice interfered with pre- -exam study sessions.

200 Others Cheated, Too, One Charges

West Point Football Stars Face Draft

: BULLETIN WEST POINT, N. Y,, Aug. 4 (UP)—West Point's 90 cadets, who face expulsion for cheating, claimed a “raw deal” today during a mass meeting ond their complaint was delivered to the academy superintendent. -

By United Press WEST POINT, N. Y., Aug. t—Army’s 90 cadets facing © |expulsion from West Point

-Crisis Believed: Neor in Koesong; ous ws» ne Ridgway Hints Russ-Chinese Split.

deal.”

Gathered in the gymnasium of the military academy befors starting the “final processing” By United Press which will lead tn their being . 4—Gen. Matthew 3. Ridgway's supreme cashiered, the cadets listened to

TOKYO, Aug

‘headquarters said today that Russia

one after another of their num-

wt v KY started the Korean, zpeak “bitterly ‘against {ie

Korean cease-fire negotiations: in,

War to weaken China and that the result might be a split between the Soviet Union and the Chinese Red J government. The statement was issued to Japanese newspapers by the civil jt information and education section of Gen. Ridgway's headquar-

would weaken both the free democracies and Communist

ters here. China, But the plans went awry, Soon after it was issued an the statement continued. attempt was made to recall it, “Letting China take a hideous

but it was too late. Plotted in Kremlin

Chargi that the war was. Lt Po Kremiin, the t ment ETE

| “The calculating, twisted intellects of the Communist leaders] who thought up the invasion of

pounding from the United Nations | does Sino- Soviet relations no ood

‘may mean ® a goes

regime holds up, which is doubt-

Korea reasoned that no matter ful.” whether the war was long or Forced ‘Drastic Change! short they would win.” The statement said Rusia’s| If the war was short, Koes failure in Korea has forced the J 0 ommunism the Would fall 1 - Kremlin to “make a drastic, statement ! said, and if it was long change in future operations.” It

Douglas Urges Rejection of

I M back again,” the statement 3d, | rman iia Red Artillery

noted Russia already has started various moves to ease world tension. “The people of the democracies will be watched and armed . . . praying for peace, but they won't

count on it hecause when a Com-| munist changes his mind, it only means that he nay change it

By United Press

wasHINGTON, Aug. 4 Sen. Beaten Back Paul H. Douglas (D. Tl.) asked . : a Senate judiciary subcommittee EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARtoday to “reject President Tru- TERS, Korea, Aug. 4 (UP)—The man's nomination of Joseph J. Communists threw the largest ar- ~ Drucker to the federal bench in tillery barrage since their spring

Illinois on grounds that the choice

is “personally obnoxious.” offensive, behind two night atis ‘‘personally « 3 $

tacks” on the central front today.

Sen. Douglas, in no mood to give--or ask-—-any quarter in his only to meet defeat, battle with Mr. Truman, thus in- Southeast of the anchor town voked the magic words that tra- of Kumsong, where. United Na"ditionally wins a senator the solid tions infantrymen had captured support of his colleagues. important hill territory, - Reds| The Illinois senator testified charged Allied positions Friday that a poll of Illinois attorneys night. For more thah five hours showed “crushing and conclusive” the Reds pumped artillery shells).

sad na ‘eventually the way of Yugoslavia’s| Communist Marshal Tito, if her|

academy authorities, One cadet shouted: “I legal advice.” Another said: “Um going to demand an honorable discharge.” They all insisted fhey had been singled out for “unfair” treatment as the result of widespread cheating at the academy. One said: “More than 200 did the same thing. Over 100 members of the June graduating class were in on it. We told the truth and ‘we're . a raw deal. This goes back to 19486. " Blaik’'s Son Attends Bob Blaik, son of the Army football coach, was present at the | gathering. It was not known whether he is one of the accused | cadets, The Army has refused to reveal the names of those accused. One cadet protested, “the first we heard about this was over the radio.” Still another shouted, “I'd irather be led in combat by men like. us who told the truth than by the others who didn't.” ~ Coach Blaik was isolated at Bull Pound, a fishing camp tucked away in the corner of this spraw!ing military reservation. He would not talk to reporters and refused to answer any telephone calls. Army officials said today the cadets dismissed from the academy for cheating on class« room tests are likely soon to be carrving rifles as draftees.

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And Sen. J. William Fulbright KINGSTON, N. Y., Aug. 4 (UP) — Fddie Weaver, Army football end and basketball player, said today he was “about the only member left” | of the West Point starting eleven. -

Weaver telephoned his mother at 8 a. m. this morning to tell her he was “not among” the 90 cadets facing dismissal for cheating on examinations.

|opposition to Mr. Drucker and an “overwhelming preference’ to two men Sen. Douglass had recommended for vacancies in Illinois. Administration peace feelers in

Golden Beauty—

Times Photos by

Elaine Ryan, 30 N. Mount St., is mighty proud of her gold bathing suit.-Valued at $75, the 24 carat gold has been impressed

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into the United Nations lines ati (D. Ark.) proposed in Washington the rate of nearly two a minute./that the Army and Navy abolish Two full enemy companies made! intercollegiate football as a result of the scandal.

on black cloth giving the suit a black-gold lacy appearance. It is one of only three that have been sold in Indiana and Elaine says it probably will be many years before she buys another. Oh, yes,

it can be used for swimming.

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TOLL (215 Days) | B 1950 1951 | Accidents s..... 4779 4743 Injured ...i...s 1721 2041 Dead uesenevs 4] 36 | at 22d St. and Carrollton Ave.

last night were: Albert Howard, 23, of 1009 E. 10th St., in fair condition at Gen-

eral Hospital. Treated and released from Gen-| eral Hospital were Ray Gregory, 18. of 441 E. 10th St. driver of

one car, and his passenger, Ver-|

#ion Hubbard, 18, of the same ad-

dress, and - Isiah Martin, 36, or

1952 Columbia Ave. driver of the

car in which Mr. Howard wae ig .

riding. James Burford, 28, of 1919

Boulevard Pl., and James Wilson, 28; of 223 W. 9th St, early today when the c "in which they were riding struck’

1 e in the 600 block of { I ar Pol In ord Ia Tn AIF “condition x

"Wilton was treated 8 leased from n General.

were in-}

the “battle of the judges” doomed and rejection of Mr. Truman's appointments appeared likely.

Reputations Defamed—

the attack. A smaller force attacked early] The cadets-—including most of Saturday in a fight which jasted|the vaunted “Black Knights of

one hour. Both Red assault forces! were thrown back, advices to headquarters said.

Grand Jury Probe Asked

Of High Scho

By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. Aug. 4 - The Memphis school board asked today for a complete grand jury investigation of a report by a minister's wife that girls sacrificed their virginity to gain membership in a high school sex club. “The report defames the reputations of many fine boys and girls and extends by vicious rumor to smear the character of

students and parents and school!

facilities over the entire city,” said [Board Chairman Julian Bondu{rant. “If a grand jury investigation shows the charges are not

true. those responsible should be

Imade to answer.’ | Mr. Bondurant said board memn-

{bers would meet today with At-

{torney General John Heiskell to {present a request for “the most {complete investigation ever made

by a Shelby County grand jury.”

The complainant was Mrs. Mau-| {rine D. Hayslip, eighth grade his-| [tory teacher at Treadwell Junior | ‘and Senior High School, wife of

‘a Methodist minister and mother’

Mrs, Hayalip ‘asserted a “non-| club existed among girl ferred to at Tread which se-

ol Sex Club

quired 13 sexual experiences for membership and one a eel £0

remain in good standing. teacher said: photographic ae of the girls’ eligibility was an-

other requirement. Attorney General Heiskell said if a grand jury investigation confirms reports qf sex relations between students, who are ]Jess than 20 follow on indictments charging vioation of Tennessee's age of consent law, However,

Mr. Heiskell

parental control than of criminal action. “Of course, (here amount of such activities that go, jon in nearly all schools. If you, put males-and females together, you're ‘bound to get a positive reaction of some sort.” Mrs. Hayslip said she has been | unable to get school authorities! to look into the situation. She! has even written Sen. Estes Kefauver, she said, but hasn't heard from him. She said she decided to tell about the sex club, while school is In summer recess after she learned she was being trans.)

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years old, prosecution could!

said, | ‘apparently it is more a case of|

is a certain,

the Hudson” receive

football team-—will “general

prohibit them from every being comissioned. A Selective Service spokesman |said the cadets who forgot the {Army's motto of “Duty, Honor, {Country” will be processed in | “routine fashion’ by their local

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