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1 | | | SE By JOHN V. WILSON Prosecutor Fairchild and the Army went to war today, firing verbal rockets over enlistment of | men with police records. ? Col. H. A. Doherty, chief of the | Fo Indiana Military District, touched | off the opening salvo by rapping the prosecutor's policy of dismiss-| ing criminal charges to allow youths to enter the armed forces.| } The undaunted prosecutor re-|: turned the sniping. He charged the military has displayed an “in-| consistent attitude” toward “Operation Criminal Recruiting” during his 11 months in office. ! The shots were exchanged in letters yesterday. It resulted from the refusal of recruiters to accept six youths the prosecutor's office freed of burglary charges last week on condition they enter military service.

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Cites Previous Case Mr. Fairchild had pointed out earlier an Army recruiting ser-

geant had “begged” him to drop charges against another man so he could enlist. This was done. Col. Doherty replied regulations

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Topsy-turvy November gots its! isighals crossed, came in like the \proverbial March lion and is de{parting as meekly as a lamb. Like a little boy who put on his {own T-shirt, November was back-| |side first, weather-wise. i { The mercury was expected tol lelimb to a springlike 60 today and {continue mild through Sunday. Low last night was 39. { Due to End Wednesday | But the mild weather will probably end about Wednesday when a Canadian. cold front brings winter chills and Hoosier's had a preview of Old

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Man Winter dispo=zition when the mercury sank to 13 degrees on the 3d and a heavy snow blanketed the e on 6th and Tth

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had averaged almost six degrees: Slow normal, sinking to 25 de-

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with a criminal bac He said the Army's att no changed during his as an officer. “If anyone of my recruiting staff has been ring regulations, I would like to know his name,” the colonel id. 1 can assure you that he 11 be dis

plined immediately Charges ‘Inconsistency’

Prosecutor Fairchild's Jetter which didgnot mention the sergeant’'s name, stated

“Since I have been in office, this regulation has not bee: or certainly an i tude has been taken in to it. “We have dozen cases in which men charged were released by us and a by the armed services.” Referring to last week's case of the six boys, the prosecutor said “I realized that due to the publicity this matter had re Army could not well a

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UPSET, OUT OF BOUNDS—The little car (left) did this to big dump truck, giving city and county traffic officials a big. question of jurisdiction. Impact came at |5th St. and Arlington Ave. within city limits. Truck upended across city line in county jurisdiction. One point of good luck—no

injuries.

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War Handling Lashed |

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SPEEDERS BEWARE—Warning signs erected at city limits on E. Washington St. tell motorists that city's new radar device for catching speeders will be operated there. Radar devices were adopter signs are being posted over the city today. Traffic Lt. William Tremp supervises erection of sign by Joseph Duh, Harold Olsen and Will Dorrs (left to right).

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NOBLE REED

Blistering criticism of the Tru-

the Korean War highlighted the GOP’s “school”. for newly elected Republican mayors here yesteraay. U.1 8. Sens. William E. Jenner ind Homer Capehart lashed out bitterly at the ‘false cease-fire * charging that the tragic 1 of indecision in Washtransferred to an battlefields.

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boys. But.l see no Te n why Speaking before more than 300 they could not be drafted if they GOP mayors, city clerks and are eligible. wuncilmen from 72 Indiana “1 know from your recruiting « $, . Sen. Jenner charged the standpoint that men of called American people have not been nice families will not told ruth about their war are to be in the company of a and international entanglements

bunch of hoodlums In the fit said, his office will refuse to dr charges in until a definite military policy {3s established.

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similar cases

Sheriff to Seek

400 Volunteers

Sheriff Dan Smith todav an nounced plans to train 400 volur teer deputies for civil d« ) 3 issued a call for volunteers from Marion County, The deputies will perform ou side Indianapolis the same fu tions as city volunteer control of traffic, panic and looting in disaster times and will be trained by city along with city volunteers First training c¢ 1 in January, accor Smith. Applicants may the sheriff's office, at any

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ship fire station or at Marion County Civil Defe wdquar- QUARTERS, Korea, Nov. 30 ters, 3951 N. Illinois St y . : — United Nations jet fighters Suspension Denied cored their second greatest . . 8! victory of the Korean War By Prison Official day, shooting down 10 CommuMICHIGAN CITY N lane prob destroying - UP) —A guard maging four more state prison de also blasted Comand a com ks: and ns engaged during an investigatior p ( he biggest enemy that a wealtl { y y i supply buildups of the f vars favors : : 1¢ Reds apparently were Lt. Fei sein : ‘ g for gn all-out offensive and Capt. Jerry Park mers ! * event truce talks collapse. took time off to-make up for over- 04 Nations planes sighted time they worked. : an unprecedented 9200 CommuWarden Alfred F. Dowd 1r«

luctantly confirmed rumors of the

suspension vesterday but w tell other details The prison board meets tonigh to study the case ) \ life-timer Cl: who killed his n a feud over a rich inheritance they .

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Divisions Set for Korea WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UP) -Oklahoma’'s 45th National

Party's Position Good

Senator told the mayors the Republican Party in In1, in its campaign to lead the back to constitutional government, 12 in the best position it has been in_all history

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attacked “evasions Korean

n. Capehart also the administration's

bungling of

the War our government is like a six-year-old bovs play £ war,” he said. The school for mavors in which

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UN Jet Pilots Shoot Down 10 Red Planes

By United Press

EIGHTH ARMY

nist ‘trucks clogging North Korsupply roads last night and arly today, The number was early twice the previous record ighted and four normal

times

The ground front was quiet exduels and sporadic patrol clashes. Two minor Communist attacks on the central front Were repulsed before dawn without loss of ground.

Approves Parley

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Guard Infantry. Division will be On Di sent from Japan to Korea soon Isarmament a % ¥ nite Tess and California's 40th may follow PARIS. Nov. 30 rhe United later, informed sources said Nations approved unanimously day. today a proposal for a secret 10The 45th will be the first Na- gov Big Four disarmament con- . = I tional Guard division sent to ference and Russia agreed to Korea since the outbreak of the g{art the talks in Paris tomorrow. war. However, an unspecified A British spokesman an number of smaller guard units nounced shortly after the United and individual guardsmen have Nations vote that Russia had beeh sent into the Korean fight- consented to begin the secret Ing. meeting with the three Western

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Reach New Impasse

|& new deadlock today. lof a truce by the Dec, 27

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powers tomorrow morning. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky paved the way for the decision when he announced that Russia, following the West ern Big Three, would accept the proposal. made by three small nations. v The unanimous 58 to 0 vote came in the General Assembly's main political committee, Two nations were absent,

Armistice Talks

By United Press "PANMUNJOM. Korea, Nov. 30 —Korean armtistice talks reached Prospects targe seemed more remote than ever. The United Nations delegation consider Communist| demands for either an immediate! or gradual withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. The Communist truce team! again rejected the United Nations! demand for a ban on the rein-| forcement of troops in Korea, during an armistice ard the right of joint truce teams to roam alll Korea to enforce the ban. | > .

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inel sessions were held all day; vesterday to instruct officials in

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a y FOVOrn t ded on tti- man administration’s handling of 8004 government, ended on a

note of political emergency. The State GOP Committee in| executive session, issued a state-

ment that the whole future of the party is at stake in the 1952 election. “It will be like the finals in|

a tournament . . . the party has to win next year . . . there's no! second-place consolation prize,” one party leader said.

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Jordan Is | Convicted of Manslaughter

By JOHN V. WILSON A Criminal Court 2 jury today convicted Porter Jordan of manslaughter in the fatal of Richard Decker. Special Judge Earl R.

mediately sentenced him

shooting

Cox, im-

to 2 to 21

years in State Prison. The judge turned down a plea by Jordan's attornev, T. Ernest

Maholm, to defer sentencing until Tuesday. The attorney said he would request a new trial. Jordan's wife burst into hysterilcal tears when the verdict was an-/ nounced. ' She was taken outside’ the courtroom and comforted by ‘her two Air Force sons and two! young daughters.

Jordan Breaks Down

Jordan also broke down at the| verdict and was racked by sobs as Judge Cox sentenced him. The all male jury returned its verdict after 11'; hours delipera-| tion. For a time it appeared that! the jury was deadlocked. But vy finally agreed at

noon after 10 times,

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was 18 guilty of murder as charged manslaughter of18 for acquittal old grocery owner § found guilt of shooting fatally in front of Jordan's rooming house, 822 Harrison St. after a late-hours beer party July 1.

Tells of Jury Vote

Jury Foreman Ralph W Sharpe, 2516 Park Ave., said the vote shifted from 7-3 to 10-2 for manslaughter before unanimous agreement reached. Jurors had been locked up over night during the four-day They expressed satisfaction that ‘the trial was over so they could return to their homes. “It was a helluva job.” one juror said, “what with such poor evidence.” | The jury received the case at 1:30 ‘p. m. yesterday and recessed at 11 p. m, to resume this morning at 9:3

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SU At one point during the after noon, the panel asked for a 2M foot length of string. Today they revealed they wanted it to measure the angle at which the, fatal} bullet went through the body of) the victim, ypungest of the “Bat-! tling Deckers.”

Lutheran “Playhouse To Present Phantasy

The Lutheran Playhouse will present Jerome K. Jerome's phantasy, “The Passing of the Third Floor Back,” tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 in the Indiana) University Auditorium at the! State Fairgrounds. | Chester Behrman, member of | the staff of WFBM, will direct the| play, and John Jefferson will take | the leading role. Jim Briggs is president of the playhouse, | The Walther League Lutheran! Playhouse is sponsored by the) Capitol City Zone of the Walther! League, The league, which in-| cludes Lutheran young people's societies of the Indianapolis community, is dedicated to the presentation of wholesome dramatizations,

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