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62d YEAR—NUMBER 235

FORECAST: Cloudy with occasional showers tonight; rain ending tomorrow, cooler tonight 44; high tomorrow

Cracks in the Kremlin Wall—

Stalin’s Inept Policies

Have Alerted Free World

‘Mr. Crankshaw is the noted English historian and editor who has studied Soviet Russia

for many years. During the war, he was a member of the British Military Mission in

Moscow, This is the second of a series of twelve articles from his book, CRACKS IN THE KREMLIN WALL, just published by Viking Press and rapidly climbing on the bestseller list,

CHAPTER TWO By EDWARD CRANKSHAW WITHIN 18 months of the beginning of the European Recovery Program, the productive powers of Western Europe were restored to their prewar level. And Stalin, by his inept foreign policy=above all the sanctioning of the atigck on South Korea— had succeeded only in driving America into a radical expansion of her economy, based on a vast rearmament program. As a result of this, the Kremlin has not only ranged against itself all the physical might of the free world, but it has also removed all danger of the catastrophic American slump upon: which it had pinned its hope. - At the same time, and in direct contrast to the returning prosperity of Western Europe, the People's Democracies in the East are being impoverished by the incessant drain of their substance into the Soviet Union Stalin used to talk about a belt of friendly nations working eagerly towards their own brands of socialism and linked by bonds of trade and selfinterest. But all the Kremlin can now lay claim to is a hotbed trouble and potential disaster precariously held down by the threat of Soviet might reinforced the fear of an avenging Germany Indeed, the only assets which now remain to the Kremlin, apart from the size potential richness, and geographical position of the Soviet Union, are six in number First, the bewilderment and the hatred of war and injustice of the peoples of the West, Second, the progress of communism in Asia, allied as it is with the profound revulsion of the traditional underdog against all alien rule. Third, the existence of a disciplined fifth column in every country of the West, disguised as a huomanitarian. revolutionary movement, Fourth, striking Soviet Army. : Fifth, the ignorance and powers of endurance of the Russian people. Sixth, its own lack of scruple. The bewilderment of the peoples of the West is a mat-

the power

immediate of the

absolute

Judge Clark Holds Lead Fial October

In Straw Vote

Judge Alex Clark failed to gain on Mayor Bayt but continued to hold the lead in the sixth tabulation of the Times Straw Vote for

Mayor. Judge Clark received 54 per cent of the votes to date and

Mayor Bayt, 46 per cent. The figures duplicated the percentages of vesterday's fifth tabulation. This summary of the sixth tabulation made today includes all straw vote ballots counted to date:

Pre-, Total vious to TabuDate lation For Judge Clark, Republican ..... 54.00% 54.0% For Mayor Bayt, Democrat ..... 16.07 46.0% Straight RepubHcan Votes . 2837, 20.2% Straight Democrat Votes 18.0% 18.4% Republicans for Democrat Bayt . 12.37% 11.2%

Democrats for Republican Clark . 7.0% 7.6% No Party Preference Indicated . 34.3% 33.6%] The tally of votes received in| one day, which are included in the totals to date, showed these results today: For Judge Clark, 54 per cent; for Mayor Bayt, 46 per cent; straight Republican votes, 24 per cent; straight Demoerat votes, 16 per cent; Republicans for Democrat Bayt, 18 per cent; Democrats for Republican Clark, 4 per cent; no party preference indicated, 38 per cent. Persons receiving the official straw vote postal cards from The Times should fill in the ballot portion immediately and drop it in the nearest mailbox, That way The Times straw vote clerks can keep abreast of the trends of the voting. The names of persons who receive the cards are selected from

to Include all sections of the city and all wage-earnipg brackets,

Soviets Back Down

DICTATOR STALIN~—His inept policy alerted America.

MARSHAL TITO—He bolted the orbit.

MAO TZE-TUNG —Con-

tempt for the Russians. *

ter which should be under our own control. It exists at the moment - and is being powerfully exploited by ‘the Krem-* lin, above all through the fraudulent peace campaign. But there is no reason why it should exist and we have the power to put an end to its ourselves. The progress of communism in Asia is certainly not a matter under our control, although we can do a great deal to

Mayor Race

The straw vote results are presented as a public service feature and are NOT to be interpreted

as a Times prediction of the! official results of the Nov. 6! election. !

Rare Disease Strikes Twice in

Same Family A SECOND victim of a

Hospital, in the same room where his 3-year-old brother is fighting for his life. Internal hemorrhages last night | sent 7-year-old Larry Ellis to Ri- | ley Hospital... His 3-year-old| brother, who has ben hospitalized 18 days, is in critical condition in an oxygen tent in the same room. | Today Mr. and Mrs. Harry El-| lis, 1019 S. Gale St. said they| would need help from donors in| replacing blood for transfusions given to their two sons, both victims of hemophilia.

» ” ” UNTIL YESTERDAY they had two pints in reserve. But that is expected to be exhausted today. No particular blood type is needed, inasmuch as the donations will go into the general bank to replace blood given to the two boys. The family said Larry's condition is not serious. The boy who has had 50 transfusions in his short life probably will be released shortly. But doctors still Sasa little Joseph was “a very sick y.” Both boys inherited the ailment which is characterized by inability of the blood to clot.

BERLIN, Oct. 23 (UP) — The Soviets, in the face of Allied threats of counteraction, withdrew Communist police today

check’ it. But it is scarcely more under the Kremlin's control than it is under our own.

For Russia the idea of a strong and unified China standing against her longest and most vulnerable land frontier must be today. as it has been for the last hundred years, a nightmare of the most - vivid kind. No matter how well it may uit the Chineses Communists for the time being to profess loyalty to the Soviet Union the Kremlin must know very well that this can at best be only a temporary and tactical loyalty. . The Chinese dislike the Russians no less than other Europeans. To Stalin and his government they owe only hatred and contempt. no loyalty and gratitude, - It is safe to say that sooner or later Stalin will be forced either to, disrupt the Chinese Communist Party or else to watch the new China develop along her own lines. “China is no more a part of the Soviet Union's sphere of influence than Great Britain and America were part of it during the Second World War. The two are allies of convenience. And Stalin would have no scruple at all in turning a Communist Japan loose on a Communist China if he thought that by doing so he would benefit from their mutual exhaustion. 2 a & THE EXISTENCE of a disciplined fifth column in all nonCommunist countries is a powerful asset only partly under the Kremlin's control.

Its effectiveness depends on matters under our own control. Its existence depends on the ability of the Kremlin to continue duping its members. Already there are some disintegration from within, as illustrated bv the fate of Rajk of Hungary. Kostov of Bulgaria, Clementis of Czechoslovakia, Gomulka of Poland and a host of smaller figures in the satellite countries. The remaining three assets— the immediate striking power of the Soviet army, the ignorance and capacity for endurance of the Russian people, and the unscrupulousness of the Soviet government—are the only three which by any stretch of imagination can be said to be wholly under the Kremlin's control,

But the power of the Soviet army {is relative because it derives from our present weakness. The endurance of the Russian people is relative because it is not unlimited. Oply the unscrupulousness of the Politburo remains absolute. If anybody after this is still impressed byv_ the power and subtlety of Stalin's brain as manifested in. Soviet diplomacy, I can only say I am sorry.

signs of

TOMORROW: How Strong Is the Red Army?

Blood Donor List Still to Be Filled

Another Story, Page 5

By AGNES H. OSTROM Times Club Editer Wednesday, Oct. 31,

is still

open for Modern Minute Women |and give in the blood drive.

their “Buddy” donors to

Mail in your blood donor pledge

\ rare card now to fill that day at the! blood disease today was in Riley Red Cross Blood y

Center, 18 W.| Georgia St. Or telephone LIncoln!

1441 and make an appointment

for that day.

| National Red Cross announced

yesterday from Washington wom-

len were letting down in the blood! That must not apply to] Indianapolis clubwomen. Certain-|

drive.

ly they are the exception. Local Women Lead

Clubwomen here always have taken the lead in ‘support of emergency projects, in civic and community betterment, in volunteer service. They have been asked to take the lead again—nationally this time—in a life or death decision. There must be a stockpile. of lifegiving blood for American kids in Korea. . More severe fighting on the front means more severe wounds anf greater bloodshed.

Your Job

, Minute Women, Americans from coast to coast will follow your lead to donate when you finally prove women can meet this emergency. It's a job for civilian women, It's your job. Your faith in eventual peace for the world lies in those uniformed Americans bearing arms in Korea. Their faith for a chance for life lies in you. A pint of blood is life to a wounded man. Let your donation

from a disputed Americanssector and returned it to U. 8. coffrol,

save that life. .

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1951

UN Fliers KO 14 To 17 MIGs

In Wild Fights

Another Story, Page 3; Jim Lucas, Page 12 TOKYO, Oct. 23 — American B-29s escorting jet fighters shot down or damaged

14 to 17 Communist jets today in the biggest air battle of the Korean War just south of the Manchurian frontier. One American - Superfortress and a Thunderjet fighter were lost and. several other B-29s damaged| in the wild 250 to 280-plane battle| over northwest Korea while ground fighting far to the south diminished in apparent anticipation of new truce talks.

However, two coiumns of . American 47-ton Patton tanks rumbled up two parallel valleys d p IXeS to a point more than a mile |

northeast of Kumsong and killed By United Press and estimated 200 Chinese in a y , > 23 hit-rgyn raid. They wounded 150 NEW YORK, Oct. = other’ Chinese and destroyed Ralph Beard and Alex Groza large stocks of supplies. readily admitted “fixing” 150 to 180 MIGs two other college basketball _ Still other Pattons bombarded games today as they faced arKumsong itself, 29 miles north! ,aignment here. +of-the-38th-Paraliel—for-the-third)—— meri

time in four days. They kindled] ~" fresh fires in the apparently Were § abandoned Communist strong-. ONE—Beard declared “there

hold. are others involved.”

An estimated 150 to 180 Rus-| TWO—Both suspended players sian-built MIG-15 jets—the larg- have discussed the possibility of

est number ever encountered at|barnstorming Europe and South |

one time over Korea—pounced on| America after the “hubbub” dies, the 100-plane American air fleet down. He as the B-29s8 dropped 50 tons of Face Arraignment Today bombs on a nearly completed Red! Groza and Beard arrived airfield at Namsi, 15 miles south here last night by plane from

of the Yalu River frontier. Chicago, where they waived exFirst reports from the half- tradition. They were to be arhour air battle 15,000 to 30,000 raigned today along with Dale] feet high in “MIG Alley” said Barnstable, a third former Unifive enemy jets were shot down versity of Kentucky player, in-| in flames, two probably destroyed volved in the “fix.” | and seven to 10 others damaged. “Big Alex” and “Little Ralph,”

| meanwhile, have been ordered by | National Basketball Association | President Maurice Podoloff to sell | their stock in the Indianapolis Olympian professional basketball team. Each player owns approx-; imately 111; per cent. They were original stockholders along with Wallace Jones, Joe Holland, Cliff

More Rain Due After 2.11 Inches

- Drench the Barker and J. R. (Babe) Kimisd DEQUED. Podoloff said that the stock!

‘More rain tonight. must be séld “as soon as possible

Entered as Second-Clazs Matter at Indianapolis, Indiana,

Groza, Beard

Other developments in the case

That was the word from and in any event not later than!

the weatherman after heavy ne month.” rains drenched much of In-/ Could Vacate. Franchise-

diana last night and early today. “If they refuse,” Podoloff A 211-inch rainfall was re- added, “the league has the power corded in Indianapolis between to vacate the franchise.” 8:50 p. m. and 12:10 a. m. This He doesn’t think such action was more than four times as would be necessary. Kimbrough, much as the October rainfall for the Olympians’ general-manager, | the month up to last night. already has announced that there Rain-dampened autumn leaves will be a 1951-52 Olympian team clogged , sewers, causing streets jn Indianapolis, and that the club and basements to flood. The water . filled underpasses (Buckshot) O'Brien. thé former

and slowed traffic. Butler scoring .whiz who now The City Street Department re- teaches at Broad Ripple High ceived only a few complaints on School.

Water Sainage. mplaint Vincent A. G. O Connor, assistTein ainty ant district attorney of New York At 1600 Kildare St., the sewer : . oy : . fill caved in, and water “backed COURLY. hiftted Saturday om up in the basement of the home other games played by Kentucky of C. A Linsiev 5761 N. P during the 1948-49 season were sylvania St iid N+ Tenn- .nved” but he gave no’ details. The rain was expected to end However, Beard and Groza, in ad-

by tomorrow morning and tem- Continued on Page 14 —Col. 8 peratures would be cooler. P ——

For the farmer, the rain was di

both a help and a hindrance. : Soybean and corn harvesting oun eCl es Against Bond

operations will be stalled today but the rain was needed for the winter wheat crop planted late in

September. The weatherman said October rainfall was 1.45 below normal

|yesterday morning, and .60 above |average today. , Spencer reported a rainfall of | 12.33; Bowling Green had 2.24: and Bluffton, 1.47.

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Marion County officials, in an _ effort to save $24,000, decided to-

$400,000 bond issue to stabilize the county's welfare program. Their action came after State Welfare Administrator Maurice 0. Hunt disclosed the Federal Security Administration in Washington promised to return federal funds to Indiana before Nov. 1 County officials, notified of the forthcoming funds, said they would not attempt to sell the wel-

y fare bonds. They hope to save J2 a rented Dinee, $24,000 in Interest and other Near St. Michael's, $11,500 charges.

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Postoffice Issyed Dally,

Julietta Supt. Harry Barrett . . .-he didn't think the stabbing

important enough to report.

Commissioner Fred Nordsiek . . . yesterday he said the case was closed: "Nothing to get alarmed about."

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6 a. m... 63 10 a. m... 67 Yam... 62 11 a. m.. 68 ‘8a. m.. 64 12 (Noon) 69 9 a m.. 65 Latest humidity sieeve BN Burgled " LONDON, Oct. 23 (UP Nathanial Witte, 43, was

granted a divorce todav because his wife Lily committed adultery with a bur glar. Mrs. Witte said merely invited the burglar, Leonard Edwards, home to make her a cup of tea. She said she fell asleep afterwards The judge grawuted the decree after police testified that® Edwards forgot to take his trousers from Mrs Witte's bed when he skipped with cash, jewels and

she

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FINAL HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Julietta Aid Dies After Stabbing That Home Tried to Hush

Sheriff Is Questioning

Inmate on Argument That Led to Wounds

A Julietta employee, stabbed in a hushed-up “minor

incident,” was found dead t

oday and sheriff's deputies

were grilling the inmate who attacked him.

Attendant Harry Eads, his bed at the Marion County Home at 5:45 a, m. today. The coroner's office was to conduct an autopsy at noon to determine if death came {rom the “minor’ stab wounds or from other causes. Sheriff's deputies were quegtioning Lewis 8S. Thomas. 60-year-old inmate, who stabbed Mr. Eads during an argument Sunday. News of the incident was suppressed for 23 hours by Julietta Supt. Harry Barrett. Mr. Thomas conféssed the stabbing to Lt. Thornton Biddle, sheriff's investigator, and Lt. William Owens, a deputy, in the County Jail, the officers said. He was held on a preliminary charge of murder and slated for Beech Grove Magistrate's Court at 2:30 p. m. Friday. “I wisht I hadn't done it," sheriff's officers quoted Thomas as telling them. Heat on Barrett Mr. Barrett didn't even bother to report the stabbing to County Commissioners. They learned of it yesterday through The Times. Mr. Barrett's report came hours after The Times disclosed the stabbing : Commission President William Allison today put the heat on Mr

the Mr.

Barrett, whose adminigtration of| the Home repeatedly has been!

blasted by and Grand Jury probes.

61, was found dead beside blood spurted out” of Mr. Eads' wound when his body was exe

amined this morning. More blood, mixed with froth, was found come ing from the victim's mouth and nose, the deputy coroner reported, A prominent Indianapolis physician said the spurting of blood when Mr. Eads was found indicated he may have suffered ine ternal bleeding which could have been fatal. Still ‘poohed’ The stabbing continued to be “poohed off” yesterday even after The Times forced Mr. Barrett to report it, County Commissioner Fred Nordsiek, after hearing the full report from Mr, Barrett, said, “I don’t think there's anything to ba alarmed about. The case is closed” as far as we're concerned.” But the case wasn't closed for Mr. Eads. He retired last night and died sometime after midnight. Deputies said he evidently died after struggling out of bed. Today, Mr. Nordsiek said he will await the Coroner's autopsy ree port before taking action. How ever, he said he would not press for ouster of the superintendent.

Hung Up Phone

Prosecutor Frank Fairchild

officials, The Times jumped into the case in a move

that wowld pull it out of Juliete

“1 imagine Barrett will resign ta’'s “secrecy drawer.” He said he

as a result of this,” said.

The Commissioner also levelled criticism at Dr. George Jones of Wanamaker, a physician at the

Home. He dressed Mr. Eads’ wound and dismissed the stabbing as “minor,” according to Mr. Barrett’'s report to the .Commissioners. ‘ “I want to know why the doctor didn’t make a report of the stabbing,” Mr. Allison said. “He should have made a thorough examination to were serious, and if they were he should have called the sheriff.”

Called Heart Case

Dr. Jones today said “the stabbing may not have anything to do with the death” of Mr. Eads. Mr. Barrett injected the possithat Mr

bility Eads died of a heart attack, but Dr. Jones re: fused to comment on that, The superintendent said Mr. Eads previously had been treated for a heart condition, but he ‘didn't Know” if any measures had been taken after the fight to ease the strain on his heart Dr. Jones said “I'm going to keep my mouth shut about it’ until all reports are in Dh Robert Rohn deputy coroner, said ‘a small amount of

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see if the wounds”

Mr. Allison will assign Investigator Charles

Russell to the case immediately,

“There are unusual circume stances in the case,” Mr, Faire child said.

“If the facts warrant it, I will present the matter to the Grand Jury.” > Mr. Barrett said he had “noth ing more” to say about Mr, Ead’s death. He said he did not go to the - victim's room after an ate tendant folind.the body,

was too busy man.” No hint of death, or even serious injury, was contained in Mr, Barrett's proclamations to the press and County Commissioners. Although a witness. reported Mr. Eads was bleeding from the left wide after the stabbing, Mr, Barrett's report, as issued finally by the Commissioners yesterday, said:

‘I'm not a miracle

‘No Ill Effects’ “No stitches were neces®ary and Eads is suffering no ill effects.” That far from what wite nesses had told The Times, They

was

reported Mr. Eads lurched to a bench and. collapsed, blood oozing through a hole in his- side. Dr. Jones was summoned and dressed the wound, But he ree fused to tell reporters the nature

of the wound. The fight started in the kitche

The Julietta head explained he’

en, Mr. Barrett said, when Mr, Eads criticized Mr. Thomas’ clothe ings Mr. Eads splashed hot coffee in Mr, Thomas’ face, he said, and Mr. Thomas slashed Mr, Eads in the stomach with a penknife. Mr, Eads was treated the Julietta doctor and hott men are all right now,” Supt. Barrett said =e AA late yesterday, A Fells of Grudge Deputies said Mr, Thomas told them there had heen a grudge be. tween the two men evs nee Mr,

Thomas was lietta

assigned to the farm in 1949 Mr. Thomas had worked an the farm until about a month ago Hy when he was brought Inside a | maintenance at

worker $32 a

month. As a result, the two men were thrown together more fre quently

Deputies said he told them Mr. Eads had spread rumors in his ward that Mr, Thomas was looting the rooms

Mr. Thomas, in turn, suspectsd

Continued on Page 9--Col, 1

Hey, Henry

JEFFERSON CITY, .Mo., 1 Oct. 23 (UP)--Gov, Forrest ¢ | Smith today called for a 30 { per cent reduction in the state income tax. | In a message to a joint session of the Missouri leg- | . islature he said he thought | it was time somebody looked | - out for the welfare of the taxpayer. Gov, Smith said the state

EL THOMAS—Held on a preliminary murder BR ahecung more Yeyenue charge, sop sr i ; ’ w .