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Vote Ban on Czechs Yilsn Wams
62d YEAR—NUMBER 165
Over Oatis Jailing |
ouse OKs . 3. Reprisal ver Reporter
Favors Break In Trading
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14— The House voted today that trade reiations with Czechoslovakia should be broken off immediately and not restored until Newspaperman William N. Oatis is freed. The roll call vote to approve the resolution was 363 to 1. Rep. John T. Wood (R. Idaho) cast the single no vote. Members approved a resolution deploring Mr. Oatis’ arrest and conviction in Prague on spy charges. They adopted an, amendment by Rep. 0. K. Armstrong (R. Mo.), expressing the sense of Congress that commercial relations should be broken off as a reprisal. ald At the last Oatis moment Mr. Armstrong withdrew a part of his origina! amendment under which Congress would have proposed evacuation of all Amer-
Mr.
jcans from Czechoslovakia and -
steps toward breaking off diplomatic relations if Mr Oatis were not freed within 90 days.
Draws 10 Years Mr. Oatis was the Prague correspondent of the Associated Press. He was jailed, tried, and
sentenced to 10 years in jail on;
spy charges which the State Department has branded bogus. Although Congressmen favored taking some action about Mr. Oatis, they differed sharply on what should be done. Mr. Armstrong headed -a .faction which held that strong measures should be taken, lest Mr. Oatis lose his life in prison. As it came from the Foreign Affairs Committee, today’s resolution deplored Mr. Oatis’ conviction as a “shocking violation” of
‘fundamental human freedom and
called on fhe U. S. goyernment to
“take all possible action” to get him freed. Called Feeble Mr. Armstrong called this a feeble approach. However, Foreign Affairs Chairman James P. Richards
(D. 8. C.) argued that the orig{nal Armstrong amendment might tend “to keep Oatis in jail longer” whereas the object was to get him out. A compromise was reached in the nick of time. A roll call vote on the original Armstrong amendment already had been ordered when Rep. Walter H. Judd (R. Minn.) got unanimous consent to let Mr. Armstrong revise it. Mr. Wood, the lone dissenter, told reporters he objected to a sentence of the resolution which called Oatis’ conviction a violation of the United Nations’ charter. Wood said he is sponsoring a bill “to get the United States out of the United Nations” and so refused to endorse a reference to the United Nations.
Cheer Up, Old Pal, Heat Relief Due
Some relief from the heat— but not very much—was foreseen by the weatherman today. His five-day outlook for Indiana predicted average temperatures two to four degrees below normal in the northern half of the state and ‘somewhat cooler” in southern Indiana by Thursday. The normal high is 88 in the south, 83 in the north. The Weather Bureau said there will be about an inch of rain— showers in northern Indiana tomorrow, over the whole state Thursday and again during the week-end.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m...72 10a. m. ...82 Ta m...18 11 a. m....85 8 a. m....73 12 (Noon) 86
9a. m ...80 11:20 a. m. Humidity—>59%.
Times Index
Amusements Births, Deaths, Events .. 26 Crossword «.eeeessvesses 11 Editorials Forum Needlework «sceececscess 1 Pattern ou .ooeovsveinenes 7
Radio and Television .... z
visas sannsnsnlth 19 a 3 Women's cessrnnninnins 8,7
aensesssassess 18
srssssssnsssnasee 18
Officials Pass the Buck—
Red Tape Keeps Man | In Prison Six Years
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ
Red tape, confusion anc officials kept a Terre Haute c beyond his sentence.
The story came to light of an investigation by The Mmes. The prisoner, Barney Patterson, who was alternately declared insane and sane, stepped out of prison a free man last week after the Terre Haute chapter of the National Association.for the Advancement of Colored People threatened to make the case a state-wide prison scandal. Patterson’s last 10 years of imnrisonment were spent at the Indiana Hospital for the Criminal | Insane, Michigan City. The Terre Haute NAACP and Patterson's family charge he was not insane.
Cites Official Records
Gav. Schricker’s clemency secretary, William Spannuth, said that official records show Patterson was legally declared insane and committed to the prison hospital. However, a new consulting psychiatrist at the prison hospital, Dr. Lester Borough, reported to The Times that his first examination of Patterson in April con-
vinced him the prisoner was “mentally well.” Was Patterson sane all the
time? Or did he regain his sanity? Sketchy prison records do not
Denies Dope Charges—
Luciano Challenges
Kefauver C
| By EARL WILSON ~
NAPLES, Aug. 14-—Lucky Lu-
!ciano has given me a remarkable
{four-hour interview in which he j
has challenged the Kefauver Committe to come .to Italy and question him. “If they had anything on me they'd be here=you know Senators like to take trips at the taxpayers’ expense,” the begin-ning-to-get-gray Luciano said angrily as he looked across the table at me through rimless spectacles. “But they won't ’'cause then they'd have to stop crucifying me, and that's their racket. Crucify somebody and you're made. That's politics. If a politician can get somebody's scalp, he runs for a higher office or else he makes money out of it.” Shaking his head sadly about the state of the country he hasn't been allowed in for five years, he said: “Talk about racketeers!”
Lucky Lives Simply
Lucky told me this and much, much more of a fascinating story at the Hotel Turistico where he lives in a simple little room without a bath; at the famous Zia Teresa Restaurant where he took us for a spaghetti lunch, and while at the wheel of his controversiak 1948 Oldsmobile driving us to the station. I wanted to talk to him because after all he is in our headlines now almost as much as Truman or Stalin. I certainly am no close friend of his. I'd seen him once before in mv life. But he's in the news, and therefore in my terri|tory. I felt that you as any newspaper reader would be interested in what he had to say for himself. | I can't say that anything he says is true. I do know, though, that several newspaper men and magazine writers who have seen him are much impressed by what they feel to be his “sincerity.”
You Be the Judge
But you can be the judge. Our appointment had been made a month before by cable. He was punctual. He came in to the little hotel dining room where we had sat down, wearing brown slacks and an open-throat-ed nylon shirt which had long sleeves because he prefers to cover up a tattoo he got on his right arm as a boy. From noon until after 4 p. m. the 53-year-old Luciano; who ar-
how
1 a weird mix-up by state arwasher in prison six years
today after the completion
throw enough light on the case for a clear-cut decision.
His Story Given
Here is the story of Barney Patterson. Court records show that one
day he got drunk and stole an automobile. For this he was sentenced, on Oct. 14, 19335, to serve from one to 10 years at the Indiana Reformatory. A couple of years later, he was picked up for a parnle violation and sent back to prison to complete his prison term. After two years at the reformatory, Patterson was sent to- the hospital for the criminal insane at Michigan City. There. he did odd jobs around the hospital, Warden Dowd reported. Until a vear ago, there was no regularly licensed psychiatrist at the hospital, despite the many efforts to obtain one by Warden Dowd Served as Psychiatrist
With more than 313 mental cases at the hospital, most of them psychopathic sexual crim-
a noncertified psychiatrist,
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Lucky Luciano
head of a dope racket into millions a year. Exceedingly lonely, for he really dislikes Italy, primarily because he was forced to come here; Lucky has trouble getting through each 24 hours. “I go to the movies and to the races at Capri,” he said. ‘They only have races Wednesday and Sunday. oftener, days.”
running
They'd help me kill my
Bitter Over ‘Campaign’
Bitterly, he spoke of the “campaign” he says the Narcotics Bureau is carrying on against him, keeping him in a continual glare of publicity. “Every wire is tapped. responding is all censored. know where I'm sleepin’ night. “And it's goin’ now. - It ain't just a day. stronger than it ever was!
“I can't get into any business here. 1 got people want to get ime into a tomato cannery with them. 1 says .‘No, ’cause if I gent a thousand cans of tomatoes to New York they’d want to open it all up and say it's dope’ “Now you know,” he added, “if there was any proof, they'd have me in jail in two minutes time.” “Maybe they're saving it up?” I suggestad. * “Since when are they saving?” he said. “Since when does that Narcotics Division just talk?
My corThey every
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I wish they had them,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1951
Of Big Increase In Living Costs
Might Jump $16 Billion
By United Press EVANSTON, 11, Aug. 14— Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said today the new economic controls law may
cause living costs to increase by ~
UN Army Set From Depths of Past— Five Sons = Ea At Deathhed In California
$16 billion and result in local meat famines and black markets. He .gave no estimate as to when this possible in¢rease would occur. Mr. Wilson said the new controls act “is likely to increase the cost of living.” He said ‘‘one estimate is” that the increase will
be 5 to 8 per cent. This would mean an increase in living costs Yranging from $10 billion to $16 billion.
Meat experts of the U. S. Agriculture Department expect prices to go down. See Earl Richert's article, Page 16.
“We face an increase of 10 per cent in the cost of bread, of one cent per quart three cents per dozen of eggs, he ‘told the National Institute for Chamber of Commerce and Trade Association Executivés. It's Quit or Else Mr. Wilson said the ban on the livestock slaughtering quota system “looks as if" it will disrupt the meat distribution system, concentrating supplies in the large packers at the expense of independents He said the independent packers “may face the choice of going out of business or entering the black market.” “The result is likely to be local meat famines which the customer can avoid only by paying illegal and extortionate prices for black market meat,” he said.
Mr. Wilson said that under the new act individual manufacturers
| hundreds of thousands” of items. { Under the law, he said, it will {he very difficult if not impossible for the Office of Price Stabilization to prove that manufacturers are “unreasonable or
eo ommittee ican apply for price increases ‘“‘on
lexcessive.” I" “When you breach ‘the dam lagainst higher prices, you breach tthe dam aga Wigher wages,” [He sald. “Ag “the “¥OE" keeps { chasing his tail. Round ahd round {it goes, and where it stops no{body knows.” |
{
Can't or Won't The new act requires OPS to | let ceiling frices reflect all cost | increases through July 26.
| The OPS under the old law had authorized the manufacturers to
charge pre-Korean prices plus most—but not all—direct cost increases in material and factory labor only. {" That “was a comparatively simple, workable plan,” Mr. Wilson said.
Most manufacturers “simply do not and cannot” keep records on all" cost items on each product they turn out, he said. Their applications for all the cost increases allowed by the act, he said, will therefore “have to range from mere guesses to wild |estgmates.” To check manufacturers’ estimates, he said, OPS would have | “to employ thousands of accountants.” “It is doubtful if there are in the county a sufficient number of accountants to perform the gigantic - well-nigh impossible job” that this provision of the act entails, he said. Real Inflation
He urged Americans to realize that the nation is facing a real economic inflation, not just the “psychological inflation” of panic buying that followed the outbreak in Korea. Although at present there is a lull in inflationary pressures because of “bulging inventories” in the hands of manufacturers and sellers, he warned “we will soon be in a position where the supply of civilian goods will be exceeded by the demand.” | “Then we will face a genuine Ipoint of danger from inflationary pressures,” he said. And then te cost provisions of the new act may do their “greatest mischief.” Mr.
Wilson said that the na-
rived in New York from Sicily at They're supposed to act. The way tion is “running somewhat be-
7 and went wrong on the lower Eazt Side as a teen-ager, reit-
this’ is, it's like bein’ in jail. only thing, I can walk around.”
The hind schedule” in defense produc-
tion. But he said “We are trying
of milk, and ofss
Entered as 8sqond-Class Matter at Postoffe Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Dally.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Hearst Dies at 89;
Newspaper Empire Spread Across U.S.
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To Knock Out =, Red Deadlock
Van Fleet Calls E It ‘Fine and Fit’ |
By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW
United Press Staff Correspondent UNITED NATIONS ADVANCE BASE BELOW
cf oes:
RAESONG, Korea, Aug. 14 —Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commanding the United Nations Army, €aid today that maybe his troops and United Nations planes will have to break the deadlock in cease-fire negotiations. The United Nations forces, he brief. dramatic talk at this base are “fine and fit” and ready for any eventualities. Fleet. came aboard
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A STRANGE STORY—Mr. and Mrs. Archie Hayman.
said in a
Echo of 1880's Mine Blast—
Gen.
Van
Reached His Peak Before Depression
By United Press
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal,
Aug. 14 — William Randolph
Hearst, who headed a chain of the Hearst newspapers,
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died today at his home. The 89-year-old publisher died at 11:50 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). Although he had been ill in re cent years, he continued personally to direct his far-flung newspaper empire until his last days. Present when Mr. Hearst died were his five sons, Martin 8. Huberth, chairman of the board of Hearst Corp.,-and Richard E. Berlin, president of the Hearst Corp.
he press rain } d held ire: Sibiu et py After 60 Years, Son Attends He leaves his widow, . Millicent
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
omens omer. anished telin: Rites of Dad He Never Knew
. ADVANCE UNITED NATIONS BASE BELOW KAESONG. Aug. 14 (UP) — Commenting on the high morale of common. his troops and attributing it in But who ever heard of 4° fupart to encouraging letters ora] delayed 60 vears? from home, Gen. James A. Van ; ;
By CARL HENN shaft and prevented rescue work.
Delaved funerals are not un- ers from bringing the bodies out. . “One of the dead men was
explosion, his
whom she named Domie after his Papers,
Wilson Hearst of New York, and George, William Randolph Jr. John, William Elbert and Randolp Apperson, the sons.
One of the Richest His business career spread over
named Nearing. Shortly after the more than 60 yearsfduring which wife had a son, he bought and
founded news-
magazines, radio sta-
Fleet said today in a humorous A sturdy miner from Nova dead father tions, a news-reel and motion Scotia, 63-year-old Archie Hay- picture company.
Yein fat he also got letters. man, brought the bizarre story to Find Bodies of Victims From the girls, too, Some . ndianapolis when he arrived to of them,” he said. And every |yicit his son, William once in a while they enclose 'gx1 ®. 25th St. pictures.” The elder Mr. Hayman has been “What do you “do with the in the pits all his life. He began pictures?” he was asked. at the age of. 13, Feb. -12 he “Send them all to mv daugh- observed his 50ih year of coal: ter at home with a {etter can. mining Yioning her not to tell her How It Happened mother. "Gen. Van Fleet sald. | p5omie Ne airing, a fellow-worker who “This. of course, expedites de- |; arr Havman's home livery of the. pictures directly to Westville, Nova Scotia, mother, . | miner of the father he never knew. Ac- and correspondents that the deadlock cording ‘to -Mr. Hayman, it hap- Nearing in the armistice negotiations re- pened this way: : - : | “So, they brought 1880's, thére was
“Domie went
113 miles away from explosion occurred. had
died
was
the men was
one 0i
At the time of his death, hs
d to work in the was regarded as one o . Hayman, ines too. He was working there tion's Ee men, em in 1905, when they sank anotheriin 1935 was estimated at $220 shaft in the Albion mine, about million. where the
His wealth
One of the most controversial figures of hts time, he influenced
“About 10 years ago, the miners American life in the first half of tunneled into the old shaft. There the 20th Century in his multiple they found the bodies of the men role as editor, political figure, art 60 years before. collector, city of They identified. some .of them by, estate tycoon, the the tags on their lamps, just the who attended ‘the funeral same as chey wear them today, lisher in the 1920's. Mr. newspapers
industrialist and real He reached his zenith as a pubHe owned 20 in 13 cities, serviced them with news from Universiay
m out. And, Service and International News
mained unbroken. “Back in the Domie attended the” funeral of | Service, provided comics and A correspondent said evervbody a terrible mine explosion that his father—60 years after his features through the King Fea« was waitin for the United States killed 40 men. It blocked the father died.” [tures Syndicate, and boosted Sun«
Sth Army to break the deadlock.
“Maybe the 8th Armv and the Afr Force will have to dn it at that,” Gen. Van Fleet replied.
Get Good Letters
Assembly Call Is Held 'Cure' for Welfare Crisis
‘Our soldiers are fine and fit. with federal
Gov. Schricker has no alterna- would have funds They are working hard, eating tive but to call a special session available. well and sleeping well. Their mo- of the state legislature to meet 75,000 Receiving Aid rale -is fine due to the fine letters Indiana's welfare Lrg, - Heavily emphasized-in-—there-the hoys are getting from home.! That was the official State Wel- port was the fact “The enemy is in bad shape. fare Board interpretation today of sons found to be in need and ia ; a report on the welfare Crisis ,therwise eligible must be granted He is suffering, he is hurt and he handed the Governor. Bcoistance.
~———— (day circulation of
A the American Weekly supplement. He also had a group of magazines. The depression of
the 1930's forced: mergers,
consolidations
land abandonment of some of his
that all per-|
propreties, but he remained an influentjal figure in the news and
publishing fields. In 1949 he still had 17 newspapers.
An Only Child
Mr. Hearst waz born Apr. 29, 1863, in San Francisco, the only child of U. S. Sen. George Heart and Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
needs peace.” : p The report pointed out the state! At present 775000 Hoosler| is Asked about the Communist paq°0nly two courses to meet the goad blind and dependent chil- Is father had prospected for build-un on the central front. Gen. financial deficit caused by the 108s qren are receiving welfare assist- gold from Alaska to Mexico and Van Wleot said. of $20 million in federal funds: ance. x amassed mines. ranches, banks “I'd hetter not comment on GNE__To disregard human = Explaining that there was no ng race horses that made Rim that, other than to say that we ..3 and to curtail the program chance for a sharp curtailment one of the wealthiest men in old do not feel frightened a bit.” drastically or of welfare costs, the report California. Gen. Matthew B. Ridawayv. Si-. py mo anticipate the neces- Stated Young Hearst attended Harpreme T/nited Nations Command-_,,, for securing additional state We are inescapably confronted vard. until he was expelled for a pr. said in Tokvo the 28th Paral- and local funds. with the fact that the Indiana campus prank. He then asked lel cease-fire line which the Reds In either case, state welfare of- welfare program has been admin- his father to let him ru he San demand is indefensible and hisig 10 hointed out that a special istered throughout the years on Francisco Examiner, Which he soldiers had learned that fet in 0" ¢ the state legislature is @ Very conservative basis. All had taken over to satisfy a debt. meeting two enemv offensives. néeded. awards are made by local eciti- Almost overnight, he {ransPatient. Firm’ : Cites Report ons. 8 Ji which prevents wide- formed it from a sedate, conserv« spread abuses ative newspaper ito one with sen« CH yw ’ + n ’ "O( Iradshaw, vie po : . | y 8 How could anvone expect us| Wilfred Bradshaw, vice pres Comparison of Payments {sational headlines printed in red te back to the same damn dent of the Welfare Board, said . is ? go. oane 0 A “the report “clearly shows” the A comparison of the average Ink and large type. line again?" he added. “We do ood = Deri) y sci : monthly payments between Indi- His new-style journalism proved not intend to attempt fit.” The Stato's weltare crisis de- ana's program and the nation- @ Success, and he moved into the ste 8 ¢ wld vide average « . y New Y i 7 Gen. Ridgway said in his state- veloped when Federal Security TO vera: slows fhe following Sew Sor Reld by purchasing the ment that his negotiatine team Agministrator Oscar R. Ewing’ ae os vr April, 1951: | ng Journal for $180.000 in has been “pattent.. . . firm . . . out off the state's annual $20 mil-| °°" U. 8 Indiana |1891. Me founded the New, York and reasonable” lion welfare grant because a new d Age to0ee $43.07 $35.33 [American as its companion mornqf lfare & X : Blind ..... ses 46.58 38.57 |ing paper and as they prospered We shall continue to be so. state law, opening the welfare Child 7 jidren: ..... 21.72 19.94 [spread his newspaper empire
so long as the negotiations hold rolls to the public, was reportedly out any hore of eventual suc- contrary to federal statute. cess.” he said. Although the report was handed “We are not inflexible. Wa to the Governor at noon yesterhave efpnressed our willingness to| day, during a special welfare conmade adjustments in the line re- ference, Gov.
State Welfare Board was:
which the
One conclusion reached by the SWiftly across the nation.
One of his least successful fi.
There i= no reasonable way in| nancial ventures was his motion program can be re-|pjcture : stricted sufficiently to compensate Schiicker declined ) Features Corp. It made Marion for the loss of federal funds with-| Davies a star, but it was said to
company, Cosmopolitan
quired “by topography and the to comment on the report until he =. = : h : using ndu 8 y & logic ‘of events.” had time to “make a thorough A, nage Suferng ,0n have cost Mr. Hearst $7 million. wl ! OM - ’ its findings.” ee i ——— A& the two®United Nations com- study of 8 The weltare board estimated
manders made their statéments,] The welfare report pointed out
2 state's the armistice negotiations at that Indiana will be spendjpg each the state's
mil ation of $11 million will be ex-
entire welfare appropri-|
Ce TT RessY ANE iE that's true abouts
erated to me that he is being per- Some of Lucky's friends around to anticipate and avert bottle-
|secuted by the U. 8. Narcotics s— necks that could have serious | Continued on Page 2 —Col. 8 consequences.”
Kaesong went through their 14th month day of deadlock over a cease-fire lion more of its state and local
line.
cimately $1.7 . approxima’e : hausted in about five months, end-|
ing state aid to counties in Jan-|
sis h it wx funds for assistance v 320 —. uary, if-.it is allowed to continue
| Bureau. — | “I'm not saying I'm an angel,” : : - at the present rate without federal Joo, 204, Only a Blind Man Could Not See'— YeimOH semen. 07 | Blind assistance would be com-| pletely discontinued, the report stated, on the same basis since
ane Li Russia as Ready as Hitler in '39, Say POWs
several be dropped on them.
{a dollar that's crooked. “I know better ways of makin’
5 Aslam than in the dope busi- By United Press
PERTIN Awe nicians were working In ‘sellin’ dope to kids, I think that's years of captivity in Russia said , Seow. an disgraceful. Never in the history loday hex Wak factoris 3Te 00° Hine” hing guarire. They. were ‘of America have you ever heard erating full blast and that the gaid to be closely guarded. |of anything like that. They should Soviet Union “is as ready for war, 4 be hung for sellin’ that stuff to as Germany was in 1939.” i Names Withheld kids. That's ruinin’ lives, hats They sald rail sidings across! all it 1s.” 4 !
i i i of i : }
large Russian 14 Prisansre ¢3c4arine inalding the Malataviveara alangside Russian work-| war just released after six automobile works in Moscow, and'men. They aid ‘in an
Russian citizens wi
that war
8.
factories
for
interview heard a TOreign uLivadvastl. dely fear/the Russian workers with whom but those they met. doubted we associated did not own radios. \that Russia had the atom bomb. They were too poor.” “Only a blind man could not. The men said Russian industry b count seo how Ruse Is TeATTInG." On was 110m 0.10 30 36ara behind Lures Wil seriously. mereass the The prisoners asked that their ex-prisoner said. i with war names and nationalities be with-© “But the people are Most of the time Lucky spoke materials and that freight trains held for fear of jeopardizing the afraid of another war. They cities in Russia are equipped With proximately $8 million additional gentle- with artil- scheduled release of other pris- doubt whether their government deep air raid shelters. has an atom bomb, but are cerinitain the West has and fear it will treated by the
deathly
there are no county funds in that program:
Tax Rurdan Fyplainaed
The increased burden on Hoosier taxpayers did not escape the welfare officials. They noted: “We cannot avoid the fact that
“I never met anyone who had, bul
(Western methods. ‘burden of local property taxes. It
They said new factories and'ig estimated it will réquire ap-
\ . €o0 ds to finance the men sald they were wen epunty funds to Snanes ; | Continued on Page 2—Col. 1 | -