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Sourrs — HowARD | 62d YEAR—NUMBER 164

Westerners Haven't a Chance—

Czechs Devise Own Evidence

| In ‘Spy’ Cases

By FRED WARNER NEAL

Written for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—The most irritating thing about the trial of William N. Oatis, the Associated Press correspondent imprisoned by the Czechoslovak Communists for doing his job, is the flimsiness of the “espionage”

evidence against him. p" (Luan 50 ot ve nov House Aids Seek 'Tough' Oatis Plan

lating to security of the state, is so broad that any non-Commu-By JAMES DANIEL Scripps-Howard Staff Writer *

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13— House leaders expect to make {their third try tomorrow at

| The author, a former cor- | respondent for the Wall Street | Journal, was in Eastern Eu- | rope on many trips between | 1946 and 1949. His last visit be- | hihd the Iron Curtain was in | « 1949 when he was in Czechoslovakia for four months. nist Westerner Prague’s main street, violated it!the William N. Oatis case. every time he looked over his left| pi it's uncertdin whether the shoulder. | i :

Any American correspondent resolution on behalf of the Amerviolated it simply by being anljcan newsman who has been imAmerican correspondent. {prisoned by the Czech Reds since The sentencing of Mr. Oatis|April. as ply he wruination Oo Some pro-Administration conzech Communist sus : iv hostility to American correspond. ELSSTon FATT 10 give ie Slate ents which have been mounting] ; :

|Mr. Oatis’ release by secret dip-

since the Reds took over in Feb- | matic YHOVes. ruary, 1948. |

. ; { They propose the amendment Got Inside Information ioffered by Rep. 0. K. Armstrong I was in Pra jin the summer (R. O.) which calls for an imof 1949 for académic studies and mediate trade break with Czechoas a result I was able to talk|slovakia, to be followed in with some persons corgespondents days by a diplomatic break if ordinarily did not see. Sug a|Mr. Oatis is not released. Dr. Jareslav Fuchs, ideo-| Dn adviser to the central] Prefer Beamer Plan committee of the Czech Commu-| Instead of this nist Party. Dr. Fuchs was hold- proach, the

forceful ap-

ing forth on the evil of Western mempers favor correspondents, especially Amer-janguage of the resolution fcans. 5 {offered by Rep. John Beamer “They're clever, these news-|(R. Okla.).

“One hat This resolution would condemn

{the Czech regime for its treat-

aper spies,” he said. Dr to be on his guard against them. Why just yesterday the United Press correspondent called me to ask when the central committee was meeting, I just hung up the telephone. I can be clever, too. “We're on to them, these sfiles) i as correspondents. i Be careful, we'll stop/Strong amendpient.

them altogether.”

{to get him out.

Czech officials, it was Strong amendment might not be EP for a corre- adopted,” he said. “This would spondent to do a respectable job have looked bad because the without tangling with the Secur-| Russians and their friends would ity police. be. able to say, ‘See, the AmeriAll Had Trouble [can Congress doesn’t care about

Igetting Oatis freed. There was not a non-Commu-nist correspondent in Prague who did not have dificulties. All were, «But we've done some counting followed. Some found hidden mi-ianq we now feel that there are crophones in their rooms. Their more than enough votes to pass telephones were tapped. the strong amendment. The first to get into serious «ry gm going to try to get dificulty was Helen Fisher of the Speaker Sam Rayburn to bring United Press, whose excellent iy, ragoiution up the first thing knowledge of the country andi. .ow when we meet. But if the language made her suspect. p.¢ js not possible we will try She ran afoul an institution com-|y keep all of our people on the mon to all the Western news gq... , ne ready if the resolution ,agencies in Prague — the police iy brought up later in the day.”

2PY fu {he gp lice § is! Some House members tried to BEL vo 0 ote it that gt Rep, Avmsrons fo wialyra¥ doesi’y help much, It is evident, Republican Congressman said from reading the transcript of] Wo « ) the Oatis trial that such a spy/h® 3Breed to “knock out some

Expect Enough Votes

informed on him, too, always put-|{ Words” but not to change the ting an “espionage” tag on ordi-|S¢ns€: nary: reportorial activity. In Miss Fisher's case, she got| out of the country In time. The So, Boss

spy-employee of the United Press| told another Czech employee that Miss Fisher was to be tried on| charges of “espionage” and. that he would have to testify against her. { The second Czech, a young man of courage and honesty, told Richard Clark, then head of the Prague UP bureau, who ordered) Miss Fisher to leave the country. But the affair had its pur-| pose. After Miss Fisher's de-| parture there was no American

BELFORD, England, Aug. 13 (UP)—Farmer Jim Hedlyn’s milking machine went berserk yesterday. When he turned on the electricity, his 20 cows bellowed and stamped. Two

were electrocuted and the rest knocked down by an electrical charge.

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES

| .m... 63 10 a. m... 30 reporter left in Prague who could | s 3 rl a re m. a i speak Czech fluently, The young| ¢ 2 wm... 13 (Noon) 85 Czech staff member who tipped) 1p m... 86 Continued on Page 2 —Col. 2 | Latest humidity ....... 59%

walking down|agreeing on a resolution in|

ment of Mr. Oatis, but on the caused by {punishment side go no further|funds. That was the announced | than to call on the Administra-/intention of today’s conference [tion to take “all possible action” with Gov. Schricker. |

t “Some of the people on our With this kind of attitude on side were afraid that the

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FORECAST: Partly cioudy with a few scattered light showers tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight 66; high tomorrow 84.

Welfare Aids Impose Gag in State's Crisis

But Marion, Other | Counties in Bad Shape

-By IRVING LEIBOWITZ | State welfare officials today |threw a blanket of secrecy

lover the ctate’s controversial (welfare crisis. { At a meeting with Gov.| |Schricker to discuss the over-all, financial plight of the state be-! cause of the loss of $20 million| jin federal funds, welfare officials| told two top members of the State Board—State Auditor]

| | | |

|Reveriue

[Frank Millis and State Treasurer| | William Fortune—not to discuss| ithe welfare situation with news-| | papers. [. “There have been altogether (too many irresponsible state-| {ments made in the press,” Mr. Millis quoted one welfare official (as saying during the conference. | Mr. Fortune also declined to {comment on the conference when

{to make statements to the press.|

However,

! during the lence,

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MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1951

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Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily.

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Reds Yell ‘Mad’ At UN For Battleline Buffer Plan

Foresee Need For $10 Billion Tax Bill in "52

Federal Economists Release Figures

By United Press

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—| § Staff experts of the House-| |

Senate Committee on the

Economic Report said today! that a $10 billion tax bill is neces-|

sary to keep the nation on a| pay-as-you-go basis and avoid a| 3 {House will pass a tough or a mild he left, saying he was asked not Pudget deficit during fiscal 1952. |g

Slots Get C

| | The economists also said that| §§ > In ‘Bad’ lany additional taxes above the] h ‘Bag’ Shape $7.2 billion bill passed by the

b confer- House will have to come from| it was learned state wel- middle-income

groups making]

fare officials explained that sev-from $3000 to $10,000 a year. |

eral counties, including Marion]

were in “bad” financial shape in WwW

connection with the welfare The state’s welfare developed recently when Feder Security Ewing cut off Indiana's annual $20 million federal grant because] a new state law, opening the wel-| (fare roles to the jublic, was, ac-

yo.) chairman of the joint com-|

Senate Finance Commitiee

Adrinis al got down to work behind closed Administrator Oscar goors on the House-approved tax, measure.

Foresees Delay Chairman Walter F. George

{cording «to -Mr. Ewing, “contrary (D. Ga.) of the finance group said|

Ito federal statute.”

{it would take the committee about

Despite the ruling, welfare sup {WO Weeks to agree on a tax bill,

port to Indiana’s

fare officials pointed out. {

75.000 aged, | but that the measure probably, pro-Administration piing, dependent children will be Would not be in formal shape for| the milder .ontinued. That's the law, wel- Senate debate before September. |

In a letter to economic com-

mittee members, Mr. O'Mahoney!

Must Find a Way |

But the state must find a way to carry the new financial burden! the loss of federal!

The conference ended shortly

ed.newspbapermen with the state-| ment: = “I have nothing for you.”

Schricker Gets Report

report to the Governor on the then level off to about $35 bil- Highland Country Club. {went under the ax this morning. |

welfare situation. | | One official added the state now| has $1.2 million in surplus fed-| {eral funds, but the state does not! know if they can touch this. The only official comment on the conference came from Arthur Campbell, the Governor's executive secretary who said: “The Governor said the state welfare board gave him a voluminous report. He said he would not make a statement until he finishes studying it. His statement probably will be made sometime this week.” |

said that as the mobilization program ‘‘moves into higher gear

= aera 1 Schricker Drive; Old *Comeback® Spirit

tional output as planned, Congress. and the country will be face to face with the necessity of making a decision either to maintain a formal pay-as-we-go pol-

Rep. Armstrong predicted today before noon and State Welfare icy or temporize with a weak{that the House would adopt the Director Maurice O. Hunt greet-laned defense program.”

41-Page Document

| The committee staff said in its Schricker’s crackdown edict four J[41-page document that military/months ago.

spending, based on present ‘“as-

lion by fiscal 1956. Staff members emphasized that

Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. ,

lubby With the Law—

BIG HAUL—Looking over the slot machines hauled in by state troopers from the Highland Country Club yesterday are (left to right) Detective M. J. Timme, Sgt. William S. Kirkham, and

Clerk Charles E. Brown.

Bag 15 Machines Wilbur Shaw Shows

Raid Swank Club

By ART WRIGHT 1 | a

Wilbur Shaw, stricken by

|heart attack yesterday in Akron, | “One-armed bandits” -—225 in Q, apparently had “snapped

{all — have been guillotined by back” today but was expected to

{state and local police since Gov

spend the next three or four weeks in the City Hospital there.

His wife, “Boots,” made the

Latest to be hacked to pieces estimate early' today after she Welfare “officials would only Sumptions,” should soar to a peak were 20. slot machines seized yes- had spent the night at. the bedsay they had presented a lengthy of $55.5 billion in fiscal 1953, and terday on a raid on the swank side -of the Indianapolis Speed-

The machines were found in a

They way president. Mrs. Shaw said Wilbur spent a

restful night and was in excellent

these were “not recommenda-/storéeroom at the club after ex-igpirits today. tions; they are not forecasts; cise police had reported. their ST aiicis 1 they are merely projections in/presence following a special in- oo He Hasn't Changed : terms of present prices . . . pay spection. Wtih the same comeback spirit scales (and) plans.” Excise Police Chief C. B. that highlighted Wilbur's career reesei irra : [France said his oficers were sent When he was driving race cars,

Seven Dead in Crash

plaint that slot machines had

{there yesterday following a com- he was joking with hospital at-

tendants about his sudden illness

ALBERMARLE, N.C. Aug. 13 been in operation there recently.!... just like he did when his back

(UP)—Five New York women believed heading south for a vaca-| tion and two occupants of another car were killed last night when their autos collided head-on near here. !

Neatski but Not Gaudy—

| 1 | |

| By HENRY SHAPIRO | t United Press Staff Correspondent { | MOSCOW, Aug. 13 — Victor P. Suslov, manager of a tractor {plant at Minsk, was worried. | Production figures were low. An| linspection visit from the USSR| minister of the tractor industry] was imminent. { This is what happened, accord-| ling to the government newspaper {Izvestia: Suslov shoved rakes, brooms land garden shears into the hands tof hundreds of his skilled me!chanics. He launched a whirl|wind, 10-day program to beautify the factory and its surroundings. The workers planted rows of pansies and forget-me -nots.| |Other flowers were heaped on de-| [fective machinery. Garbage cans

Traffic’s Steady by Jerks—

Stop-and-Go Lights Are Tuned But Reading Music Ain't Easy

By JOSEPH ALLISON x If Indianapolis traffic signals are synchronized, then I'm not. LE 4 After fender scraping through R 5 downtown traffic I've decided that / my beat up old bus either isn't up to these modern mechanical marvels or the marvels have a few

rocks in their gears. The whole thing started with Trafic Engineer Frank Gallagher's plan to syncinrvuies liadliis lights from Senate Ave. to Ala-| bama St. and from Maryland to North ‘Sts. hk Swell, I thought to myself. N more stopping at every corne where always I seemed to get just as the signal went red. - § : Tests the Plan of the motorist's high When Mr. @allagher told me sure. :

ject~was completed except : x North and Maryland Sts. I

to test this plan for, relief

First came Michigan St. Elegant it was. The street's smooth =", sailed from Highland Place] Continued on Page 2 —Col. 6 ° Gc ins a De

i to beyond Indiana Ave. almost)

before I knew it.

So fast I for-vestia said sarcastically.

Comrade Suslov Faces— Ahem—'Corrective Action’

received a new coat of silvery paint. i Walls were whitewashed. Weeds disappeared. Artists splashed peppy slogans on the

plant walls. | Beaverish Activity

Hundreds of workers, just returned from studying how to make a new type of tractor at Leningrad, joined in the beaverish activity. To top the thing off, Suslov

smashed to admit more light and fresh air. | “The main thing,” he told the workers, “is to observe culture.”| Izvestia took a dim view of these “‘cultural’ goings-on. It asked whether Comrade Suslov's| interest in beauty was not, per-| haps, connected with’ the min-| ister’'s impending visit. What was unforgiveable, the newspaper said, was that the] plant fulfilled only seven per cent] of its target during the month of beautification.

Sarcastic Comment

“Love demands sacrifices,” Iz“But

got to check the watch. lisn’'t the love of the manager of

No need.

I. knew ‘it couldn’t/the Minsk traetor plant for pan-

be more than 20 miles an hour sies and forget-me-nots somewhat

average. That's the legal top.

That 20 mph also is what the!

fancy gears are supposed to ac: complish.

_ Heads Back East Since Michigan St. seemed so

I drove back east on New York St. The gears apparently had decided to go off for a quiet waltz Anyway, they were not doing their duty, I. stopped at Illinois

L< St. for a red light. Caught anblood pres-

other one at Meridian St. : . By the time I had got back to Highland PL I had stopped four times. Had to jiggle the accel-

waavriv narfand ¥ — “Vem mh wd]!

—— ng to take the rest for granted.'lows.

too expensive for the state?” It observed that flowers pros-

The machinery close to the smashed glass walls, it added, didn’t.

Whenever lzvestia or other offi-

Shh bot.

Violent Earthquake

Rocks Central Italy

ROME, Aug. 13 (UP)—Central Italy was shaken by a violent earthquake last night. No casualties and no damage reports were available immediately, but hundreds of panic-stricken residents ran from their homes all across central Italy. : Si

pered in the warm summer rains.

According to police, some of the machines were stored in metal packing cases, while others contained money, indicating that they had been used.

City Officials Urge Trackless Trolleys

was broken during a crash at the Indianapolis Speedway in 1941.

Hospital attendants listed Mr Shaw's condition as serious but not critical and said he was “resting as well as could be expected.” The heart attack came as a surprise to Speedway officials here. They said Wilbur had not

been ill and there was no indi-| cation he had suffered any pre-|

vious heart trouble. veteran

iT B. (Pop)

Speedway vice president, said to-

Myers,

" - | On llinois St day: “I gitess Wilbur was just] d

City officials * today supported Indianapolis Railways’ plan to! substitute trackless trolleys streetcars on Illinois St. Byron Hollett, assistant city attorney, testified before the State Public Service Commission the utility’s proposed changes followed the city's new one-way| street plan. Under this plan, Illinois St. will be one-way north from Merrill St.

ordered the plant's glass wallsito 38th St.) Capitol Ave. will be

one-way south from 38th St."'to|

that

{doing too" much.” Starter at Derby Wilbur was official starter of

for the Soap Box Derby at Akron's

| Derby Downs when’ the. attack came, a role he played annually for several years. He was talking with officials]

at the bottom of the 975-foot hill when he heard his name paged on the public address sys-|

tem, He ran up the hill to take his place in the pre-race parade. Feeling ill while riding in a car]

Merrill St. {during the parade, he stopped and

4 Lines Affected Indianapolis Railways proposed changes will affect four Illinois streetcar, Illinois feeder bus, N. Meridian motor bus; and the 38th and Arlington feeder bus. No opposition to the proposal was aired at today's hearing. Indianapolis Railways also asked the PSC to approve a loan

trackless ordered. . | Banks to Handle Loan

trolley cars already

Local banks would handle the

{loan, company officials said. { In support of the proposed

hibit which showed that the company’s net profit for the year jended May 31 was $16,024, which includes revenue received leasing the Traction Terminal Building.

cial publications engage in_ such | Approval on both the loan and| Pe ~~wractive action fol-|the route changes was expected.

Halt Channel Swim

DOVER, England, Aug. 13 (UP) — 8an Diego stenographer

American and European entrants in the London Daily Mail's Eng lish Channel crossing race were forced today to postpone their channel swims - until tomorrow night (Indianapolis time) because of gales and rough water.

Sings os

lines—|

loan, the utility included an ex-|

for

Florence Chadwick and 20 South|

|laid down. When his condition | became worse, an ambulance was! called.

| The 48-year-old president of the Speedway had been in Akron for {three days with his wiferand 6-{year-old son, Warren Wilbur, at|tending preliminaries to the race. Darwin Cooper, Williamsport,

Pa.,

m pl

; wR

STRICKEN—Wilbur Shaw.

won . the ond Marconi aced second

of and

Gary,

Funke, Evansville, ran sixth.

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Radios Blare New Threat

Of Deadlock

Insist Flatly On 38th Parallel

By United Press

UNITED NATIONS AD.

VANCE BASE BELOW

/KAESONG, Tuesday, Aug. '14—The Communists threw |the Kaesong cease-fire negotiae tions into a new deadlock Monday by insisting flatly on an {armistice line based on the 38th Parallel.

North Korean Gen. Nam II, the chief Red negotiator, called the {United Nations proposal for a line based on the present battle front “mad,” Red radios said.

If the Allies reject the Commue [nist “fair and reasonable” pro= {posal “ for a line based on the |parallel, “responsibility for a [stalemate in the negotiations [must be fully borne by the United | Nations,” Gen. Nam Il was quoted |as saying. Unless the Allies give in, the conference “will not in future have true significance and no progress can be made,” Red radios reported him as telling the Allied negotiators.

Set New Session

As the result of yesterday's developments the United Nations {and Communist cease-fire negotia{tors will hold their 24th meeting lat 8 p. m.,, Monday (Indianapolis |Time) with only the prospect of {a further tedious deadlock ahead lof them.

Allied and Communist negotia-

“(tors met for 78 minutes at Kae-

|song yesterday. A United Nae {tions communique called the meet~ : /ing ‘“‘unproductive.”

| Later the North Korean Pyong-

« (yang radio and the Chinese Coms

|munist Peiping radio broadcast {statements of Gen. Nam II's at{titude which made it clear- that

|“unproductive” was the right word. | Allied command leaders be

lieved the setback, like past ones, {would be overcome, and they- still expected the conference to end

* eventually in a cease-fire agreei mnt.

There was no indication at {Monday's meeting that agree-

{ment was near.

Rebuff Joy Twice

Adm. Joy on Monday asked the {Reds to submit a compromise (proposal on the buffer zone. They They also refused to agree to his suggestion that other

{they tried again to agree upon a {neutral line. The buffer zone comes first, they said. Another session was scheduled for Monday evening at 7 o'clock, {Indianapolis time.

Red Patrol Battles Spread Like Wildfire

| 8TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS,

|Korea, Aug. 13—Communist prob{ing attacks spread like brush

{fires through the Korean hills to(day. Reports from the front indicated Red losses were heavy. At least 12 enemy attacks, in strength from 50 to 500 men, were reported. Eleven of the attacks were repulsed by nightfall without gain {to the Communists. | In the sharpest fight, two Red {companies slammed into Allied {hill positions north of Inje on the {eastern front. The battle was re-

__|ported still in progress Monday

(night. There was no indication {whether the Reds had made gains, { Ten times Sunday, the Reds icharged United Nations positions {imbedded in the hills south and southwest of Pyongyang. All the charges broke against the barbed wire, minefields and interlocking gun positions, . There was no staying power in the Chinese and North Korean attacks. It seemed evident that the Communists were feeling the effects of the day and night air attacks on their communications and supply lines. '

Lights Out

BIRMINGHAM, Eng, Aug. 13 (UP) — Railroad police announced a crackdown today on the “railroad Romeos” of. Birmingham wha tala their girls on slow local trains in the evenings and make love in the com-

partments. The police explained they are not concerned about morals. The Romeos throw away the light bulbs, they complain, and the loss ap. : proximates 2000 bulbs a