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Summary of

Today's News

In The Times

Local ‘> Pag Fist-Shaking, Shouting Brawl Marks Democratic factional fight here Prosecutor Fairchild stands on his record . .. and you'll find it on Indiana Bell Telephone wants you to get acquainted with that neighbor .on your party line The Rev, Earl L. Conner writes

about “The Epiphany” .... 16

“What Goes On Here” reminds school children that “the

honeymoon” is all over .... 17

Heart of America’s industrial future beats in the class-

rooms of our high schools .. 19

The chips are down to test McHale's Democratic grip . . .

Our Fair City 21

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That handy record of your TV programs for the week is Of sessivivansindiiniiinian New American singing star excites disc collectors ., .*.

Record Review ............ 23

1000. units are scheduled for

spring building here ...... 35 meeting at Potsdam on the Presidential yacht, Williamsburg, National talks last night. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden is at left and Secretary of State Dean ‘Page, in the background.

Fear other ships may snap tow line of disabled freighter in AUantiC Og «..cviinvesn T-Men are planning more

Ike's presidential intentions may be reyealed today .... Severe storms lash ‘New Eng-

“Potomac Patter” hopes Gen. Vaughan will keep his mouth shut this year Dan Kidney says Truman talks like he won't run again Justice Department. and U. S. -attorneys face rough charges in King hearings...

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Washington Calling ...... 21

Foreign

Allied troops dig in on Korea's “little bulge” «seeessenacnns “Pajama diplomacy” is out at talks between Winnie and Harry «... Ernie Hill says it's as tough to get a drink of water in Gay Paree 2s in the Sahara

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Japan bounces back in industrial field with spectacular gains during 1951 .......4. "The Party Line” reports on Communist accusations of atrocities by the United NAtIONS ss-vevecssssssacas U. S. battles with Soviet Union making Japan stronger .... The English have always been more critical of Winston Churchill than we have .... 21

Women's

Betty Locher presents the out-

look on spring fashion.... 28), 4ereq the consulates closed and|Central passenger

Women’s Department Club to noon luncheon Wadnesday.. hear discussion on Korea at Lane Bryant, Inc, here will sponsor a Red Cross defense COUTSe ooavess : Your money will buy more fur-

piture this spring, predicts | , United States of train pass. general, the cold war talks will : Jean Spicklemire, Times I lens, a aa, the man threw up his{ia¥ the foundation of greater of the new provisions, Mr. Star-iand scores of private boats 2 foan yas making 3 disturbance.|will be headed by R, D. McLean Home EditoP «ove. cians 28 yn bs , nan ds and plunged under the Anglo-American co-operation on rett said. Presently the cutisombed the area of Tom’s Harbor cers foun r. LeMay at the and will try among other things John Schilenck of Tech is The | Entirely Unfounded ! world peace problems. _ lamounts to about 50 per cent. |prijge for Mrs. George LeMay, service station crying and at-|to stimulate local prosecutions im

Times’ Teen of the Week.... 29.

Sports

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Undefeated Indiana trounces Michigan in Big Ten lid HELOr .ovesevrssisnscssvene 11 North whips South, 20 to 6, to win Senior Bowl game... 11

62d YEAR—NUMBER 310

. Hungary Says crackdowns on dope rings We Are Rude:

‘SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1952

“ ‘Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffios ere

Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily

PRICE TEN CENTS

Rackets In Indiana

To Be Probed By U.S. Grand Juries

United Press-Acme Telephotos

MEMORIES OF PAST—Prime Minister Winston Churchill looks over color pictures of his fir

‘Social Evening—

Churchill, Truman Talk

{ and was driven to the British em-| bassy. Two, minutes later President Truman debarked and was driven te his Blair House resi-| dence.

Deny It

By United Press . |

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 —, ‘Hungary protested tonight]

Other stories, photos, Pages 4 and 21

By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 5—Prime

20 the closing of its consulates Minister Winston Churchill and| Mr, Churchill joined Mr. Tru-|

lin New York and Cleveland, President Truman tonight heldiman aboard the yacht about five! land the United States brusquely! the first in a series of private hours after he arrived from New retorted the shutdown action was| talks aimed at carrying “strug-|York by plane.

Welfare List

.4 forecast for Indiana today as § i

where he and the President opened More and fatter social securAcheson |ity checks are received by| Hoosiers.

Drive Is Part Of National Crackdown

| Two racket-busting special grand juries will be organized immediately to probe organs ized crime in Indiana. |. U.S. Attorney Matthew Weish said special grand juries would be {impaneled to make a “broadside | investigation” of all forms of crime in the two federal court

More Social Benefits Cut

By DAVID WATSON | Slimmer welfare rolls were §

The 1950 amendment to the]

on Presidential Yacht ic os

“more than justified.” 'gling mankind” to peace and se-| Mr, Churchill arrived here con- ! fident that new Anglo-American understanding and America’s vast!

The Hungarian protest was de-

curity.” After Mr, Churchill's arrival to-

federal law made new thousands eligible in Indiana for the pay-as-|

you-go to old age plan. |&

And, in slightly more than af

has helped slice 700 cases from! § the welfare files. |

Within 10 years welfare ols sia

could be reduced to a minimum, state authorities said. X William Starrett, state welfare | statistician, estimates reduction of some 2000 cases a year. By 1960, he said, old age assistance might

be cut to 25,000. The present load |

is 45,522. Dollar a Question The constant threat of con-

districts of Indiana. The special probes are part of a nationwide crackdown ordered in all 93 federal districts last night by Attorney General iJ. Howard McGrath. | Specific aim will be to clean up | conditions exposed by the Kee | fauver committee. {| Presumably the probe will cone |centrate on gambling pool opere lators with interstate operations. | Mr. Welsh ‘said the jury also will {look into any possible traffic in inarcotics or other forms of ore {ganized crime.

! Start in Two Weeks

Mr. Welsh, attorney for the Southern Indiana District Court,

Page livered by Hungarian Minister

4 open violation of obligations.”

17 our position.” | Formal Reply Next |

| The verbal rejection of the Hun-| I Di 18 garian protest was expected to be, an ies

20| reply next week. U a T ° Mr. Weil, who was accompanied | n er rain

Page| C, H. Bonbright.

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the: two wi 1 rs con- a I Wo aa or i |day the lwo world lenge Strength will carry. =struggiing Mr, Truman ple i note he delivered said the United | williamsburg before sitting downito keep the Sledge Jus $itorts States’ action was a “rude and! with - their aides to a hearty|Britain “the closest of friends.” | American roast beef dinner. | “Peace on earth is what we are A State Department spokesman, The White House described the hoth striving for,” Mr. Truman {told a reporter five minutes after shipboard affairs as a “social eve-itpld the 77-year-old British war{the minister left: ning.” And it did not disclose what|rior-statesman. | “We told him ‘that our action|was discussed at the Truman- [ (in closing the consulates) was| Churchill meeting. | more than justified. We stuck by}

visit to the United States as After the conference, Mr.prime minister since World War Churchill left the Williamsburg II, arrived at 11:29 p. m. (Indianapolis time), aboard the President’s personal plane, the Independence, from New York.

‘Peace Prospects Good’

' The British leader boarded the plane at New York after debark-

| followed by a formal American)

by an aide, said that it was “im-| Photo, Page $ ing from the giant Cunard liner, possible” for him to comment on| : the Queen Mary, It was at New his conference with Deputy As-| A divorced, former house York that—with a Churchillian

sistant Secretary of State James painter from Anderson was|thrust of his chin—he told news|killed beneath the wheels of the/men:

The United States government Knickerbocker, crack New York| train, last

|panned American travel in Hun-|night at Massachusetts Ave. and

are solid in 1952.” When Mr. Churchill arrived : here agcompanied by British ForStartled passersby said theeign Secretary Anthony Eden and

| viction of four American fliers| victim walked|a big official party, the first to

| whose U. S. Army plane landed in well-dressed | Hungary last Nov. 19. {slowly up to the tracks as the ! The four were fined $30,000 train approached. There he The cordiality of the greetings leach and were released on-pay- halted, apparently to let the emphasized speculation that, in

wheels of the train. identified by his The problems are global an

ldriver's license, issued to Leon |fnancial, military and political. {in Washington. + otra of | M: Bailey, 40, of Anderson. But the exchanges between the | Hungary branded Secre ary | His former wite, Peggy, said/American and British leaders at |State Dean Acheson's =p gpa they were divorced Dec. 16 and National Airport gave evidence ‘tion of the retaliatory closing o |that he had come to Indianapolis both men—and their advisers— 'the Hungarian consulates as ani oo. = "cok work as a painter|WOuld seek to smooth the road to

Hungary registered her protest

in a note to the State Department He was

ferred alone for about half animankind” to peace and safety. (sour note, Mr. Starrett said esti4 State Department. The prote st hour on the Presidential yacht P y

Mr, Churchill," making his first

“I think the prospects for peace -

great him was President Truman. |. earnings on which to make and released tonights as authori-

itinuing inflation, however, is a|§ |last night said he had not yet

ireceived the Attorney General's {order but he would start tomori row to set up the special Inquiry, -

ADMITS BEING. SPOOK-<Vwa Louisville, Ky. policemen give [1.2 2214 the grand jury shiouid by comfort to Joyce Sanders, 11, after she admitted that she was the | A similar probe is expected “spook” that scared the household of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thacker the Northern Indiana in Fern Creek, Ky.- Joyce, an orphan, one of four boarded at the court. Thacker home, said that she played ghost "for fun." The Thacker | The Attorney General an home was visited by hudlireds of persons after it became the scene \nounced a special unit is being

of mysterious goings on like boxes fying through the air for ne | establish ad 1 a an apparent reason.

he ghostly doings lasted for four or five days. I{;, 8, attorneys in esch district [to hit at the underworld &§ svery (level.

mates could be thrown off by the; {bouncing dollar. : |

Then social security payments would not meet living needs and welfare aid would be sought to supplement. - | Today mor2 than 116,000 re-| ceive social security benefits in| Indiana, said Harold Mountjoy, director of the local social secur-| ity office. This contrasts with 72,-/ 271 recipients just before passage of the '50 amendment. The amendment covered 225.000 more people in the state, : Indict persons who violate boosted check amounts 50 to 200 ! : el [federal laws, he ordered, and per cent and increased the amount C 3 t hand local authorities data on of otiakle income allowable “B on ana : a eau Y conditions not covered by federal a recipient. : : = law, As social security benefits went A A * . 9; 4 : up, welfare aid, based on need, 4 ssing in ori a ; eys dropped. : * . By United Press

» ‘Some Ineligible But, Mr. Starrett warned, wel- KEY WEST, Fla, Jan. 5—A

fare never will be eliminated be-|petits blond beauty disappeared cause of those physically or men- in the Florida Keys and her dis-

tally unable to work who have|;..ught husband was questioned

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Kidnaping Hinted—

Proposed Last Yeas

Mr. McGrath proposed puch & might have faflen Into the deep, campaign in testimony before sea channels which rush around| Te Senate Sumuities last Joan the bridge. : he committee later incorpora After reporting her disappear-|!t among its recommendations. ance at Tavernier, a Key town 40, The special racket unit will be miles north of the scene, Mr. Le. /50¢ uw Dy Assis fant Attorney social security payments. ties tried to piece together his in- May drove to Miami. Several General James M. nerney and A drop in welfare AppHOAtiONs| oc rier. ey, 8 {hours later a filling station oper-|Fred E. Strine in the Justice Debegan immediately on adoption| Planes, a growing search party ator at Miami notified police that/partment’s criminal division. I§

tempting to get someone to call cases where federal laws are nod

Of welfare cases actually closed,/a bride of six months who vanhis mother. breached.

he said, there was a slowdown|ished from a fishing spot on the | because of a large back log of bridge about 60 miles north of Mr, LeMay was taken to a| Mr, McGrath did not specily cases pending in the counties. Key West. | Miami sanatorium and when Dep-|whether President has & Mr. Mountjoy added even more The 21-yBar-old girl's husband | uty Barker arrived to return him nang in the campaign. It was would have been closed had the told detectives she disappeared at| 2 Kay West he found the young noted, however, that it comes cost of living remained stable. |10:30 last night after they had anadian whimpering. Mr. Le- p00 the administration is undeg

“entirely unfounded fabrication.” =." tarior decorator. understanding. “The government of the Hun-| Mrs. Bailey and the vic- ‘Closest Friends’

Even so, more than $4 million/peen fishing. Tom's Harbor is a May was handcuffed after he re-(;, \. co fire in and out of Cone

a month now goes into Hoosier man. |sisted and put.in Mr, Barker's 8 man-made causeway island about. . to be taken back “for inves- gress for garruption in the gow

a» New Tribe Manager Gene De7 sautels set attendance mark at Little Rock . .. Eddie Ash Big Ten plans te honor Rose Bowl pact «ooveversnnnnnns 13 Spirited action ushers in city's 46th annual bowling tourna-

12 that the Closing. Oy maT of Anderson, said he had been monwealth and the United States ian consulates jin good health and not subjectiare the closest of friends,” Mr.

part of the United States govern-\gespnondent, except for

the way. And I am sure that we will ment towards the Hungarian Peo-| jivorce. y

succeed in doing that.”

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Fix-It-Yourself Harold Hartley ecceeevese 35 In Hollywood :.. 33 Potomac Patter ........ 9

a street car during the morning|the war.” “ | rush hour in Bahia, police reports When Mr. said today. . {Churchill alighted from an aaThe bys was enveéloped in flame

A Home and Your Happiness

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|garian People’s Republic - states), . "oor Claude Bailey, also| “Great Britain and the Com- POCkets In social security checks.\naifway between here and Key

‘Cleveland is a rude and open Vi-y, peart attacks. They said they Truman told Mr. Ch ‘and | : : . y. urchill, “and gg: : olation of the obligations on the ow of no reason for him to be{you and L want to keep it that Hits Car at Crossing

where I have many and ancient|crashed into their car in heavy| Montreal,

ment ...eecessassseseseses MHipleg Republic” the note said. Mr. Churchill résponded that it h f t : | Mr. Acheson, in announcing the 20 Killed, 30 Hurt; was “always a great joy to me Other teatures: |United States action-against oe 11s 3 |to come to the United States, [Great Amusements «.....+ 32, 33 |Hungary charged its government Bus, Street Car Collide BOOKS sssessssnssssssess 24 |yith ignoring “the basie rules of gyg DE JANEIRO, Jan. 5 (UP) [connections, and I lodk forward fog at a crossing near here, |torney, PHAZE sarssnscesssssons 28 _ |jong-established international Twenty persons were killed and|very much indeed to renewing the(Coroner H. H. Cleveland said was his Crossward seessecescsces 32 conduct. {30 seriously injured today when a comradeship and friendship that|today. Editorials «..eseesecnces 20 | crowded bus collided head on with|grew up during the struggles of| Three of

Truman and Mr.|N

tomobile in front of Blair House, bank, Ia.

campaign also

iy | tigation.” : : 4 Largo on the famed overseas; Mr. LeMay told officers he last coincided with reports that Mr, McGrath's resignation is immie

| : highway. | saw his wife when she left him to Sister of Attorney |change from her shorts to her nest lier this week Mr. Trum |dungarees. - He said she walked fariier this F. an Mr. LeMay identified his wife| , o0) nundred yards to where Proposed a reorganization pros

lag the former Madelaine Lucy 4 d ; ouths and two ’teen-aged girls] | the car was parked and was never Sram under which the Bureau of y Demers of Montreal and said she| ~~ o.in * When he failed to Internal Revenue, the nation’s

were killed last night when a/y,g the sixth place winner in the {find her at the car later, he federal tax collecting agency, Western - freight train 1951 Miss Sanda Soutest; But 0 searched the thick mangrove would be shaken up. It was in (Haymond Das {swamp and then drove to Tava- thi burfau that sensational tax sa e missing woman... ts report the disappearance. |scandals were uncovered,

| sister, Huguette. -Mr.| , gigte.wide alarm went out for| Daoust immediately boarded aiine gir] described by her hisband|

the victims were plane for Miami to ‘join in the sc very timid and able to speak! Philip Petras, 20, Fort Dodge, 1a.;| search. only French. She was listed as oe | d ) » a Duffy, 17, and Marfan | “Evidence at this time seems| (ive feet: one inch tall with dark gue gland uy nuiy 2lretdy 18, both of Fair- to support a theory of abduction,” ayes and long blond hair. She testimony ‘being presented by

Four Killed as Train

ORAN, Ia. Jan, 5 (UP)—Two|

One Probe Underway Mr. McGrath revealed that

|Sigglekow, Monroe County Deputy

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A suitable home of your

and the doors jammed, the re-

a large crowd "across Pennsyl-|

Sheriff yeighed 105.

{U. 8. Attorney J.”Ellis Mundy. He

The body of the fourth victim, James Baker said.

did not elaborate.

Radio, Television ....... own, in which your family |ports said, so that passengers had|vania Ave. set up the cry:

Real Estate ........s 35-37 Robert Ruark essssecane 19 RECOTdAS +ocisesesasesees 23 Sermon Of Week ccaceses 16 Ed SOVOl& eesssescsscecs 19 Sports sssssssstencens 11-14 Earl WISON «cecscsescsss 19 WOMEN'S secessrscess 25-35 What Goes On. Here .... 17 World Report «ceeesseees 21

Get Tickets Early For Gloves Action

Boxing fans who saw the opening of the Golden Gloves Friday night got the thrill of a lifetime . . « 11 K. O's and T. K. 0.’s in 18 whirlwind amateur matches. . - Don’t be disappointed next Friday night . . . get your-re-served tickets tomorrow at: __ Bush -Callahan Sporting Goods Co., 136 E. Washington 8t.; Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co., 209- W. Washington St.; . Sportsman's Store, 126 N. Penn. Bt. a. : "Prices are: Ringside and first row balcony, $2; Downstairs reserved, $1.50. General admission will go on sale fight nights

only at the N. Pennsylvania St.

Armory at $1 for adults.and 50 | °_ out attempted robbery as the mo- Mrs. Crigler. a but not so badly it hid a woun t “anywhere, rn Ee nd ‘omis dor children 12 years and | Navaia died today from a frac- |tV8 {OF the killings. "|" Neighbors saw the house burn-|trom a bullet which pierced Mr. seen for weoks at's timer Un or a ed pay Be prices include tax. | tured skull he sustained when a | Coroner E. Holmes. has noting late last night and rushed to(Taylor's arm and then his chejt a few days ago, said Mrs, Patten, five more steel furnaces in

can have a‘ united interest |no chance to escape. “Yea, Winnie, yea, Winnie.”

{Larry Recker of Fairbank, was But authorities were not over-|

| Under Mr. McGrath's instruee

and take roots in a community

burned so bady it was impossible

of home valies advertised For to determine the cause of her

By LLOYD B. WALTON

Sale . . . in the real estate. Times Staff Writer pages of The - Indianapolis LITTLE POINT, Jan. 5—This death. Times. a . |quiet Morgam County farm com-| Sheriff Skaggs, who is inves-

| munity was shocked today by the|tigating the case with State PoNEW LISTING . |violent, fiery murder of a 66-year-|lice Détéctive Verl Clark, would 3-Bdrm." double; Arepl. In ly, rm. old recluse and his 76-year-old/not discuss the matter fully. He full Che Side vacant, good transp. |houseleeper. - |did say there were no immediate Misht sSonaider, . SontFact, . Bee 313- Sheriff Marvin Skaggs said at-|suspects and that he was check- "® JOE BERGER, REALTOR tempted robbery was probably|ing some leads. One of these is 6128 GUILFORD ORTH SIDE RLTRS. .|the motive for the grisly slaying|a report that thé home of the of Herman Taylor and Mrs, Elvie| couple was robbed two years ago Bradley, “ whose two-room farm|and a sum of money taken. No home was turned into a funeral|arrests were made at that time,

Shown here is just one of ‘the bundreds of home listed pyre by the killer or killers. but the money is reported to have

in today’s Times. Read them

over, perhaps that “just Mr, Taylor was killed by a|been returned. ; Hght? Home you want is |hullet which penetrated his heart] Mrs. ¥allle Crigler, Castleton offe : :

after passing through his.arm daughter of Mrs. Bradley, said and chest. : she thought her mother t The charred remains of Mrs. have had some money in the Bradley were found in the smold- house. Two years ago she had ering ruins of the house. some money saved and it was Sheriff Skaggs said Mr. Tay- taken when the house wag broken

Turn Now To Section 4— The Real Estate Section

Tricycle. Kills Bull Fighter

MADRID, Spain, Jan, 5 (UP) fight Impresario Juan

of your choosing, will do a : s {district attorneys will call in the a deal toward enhancing Sheriff Checking Leads = : ‘heads of federal, state, county your family happiness, . “ : . ) * : : * land local law enforcement Start shopping NOW for M 1 D S agencies and crime eommissions your more suitable home. Oo er e ieve 0) ive or ou e a in Wie know about conditions in Start where you know you ; 8 {their areas, will find the widest selection Photo, Page 7 said Mrs. Bradley's body was ually carry sizable sums of money {| Mr, McGrath said the informae

|lor’s billfold containing $37 was|into, “They (Mrs. Bradley and Morrison dragged his body away years in the little home o . . nln, , . 1) n the! lying on the ground near his body.|Mr. Taylor) were rather -close|from the burning house. . . However he still did not rule{mouthed about everything,” said] The body was burned -badl A

found later in the morning. looking the possibility that she

(tions, Mr. ‘Mundy and the other

he was seen the day before his death with a “pretty good size roll of bills.” It was not known "where he 6btained the money.

His brother, Urban, said he presumed Mr. Taylor had sold some junk as he made his living buying and selling old metal and junk.

Mr. Taylor lived in a house on the Paul Patten farm, He had retired-as a farmer and odd-jobs man and recently had operated a![ truck. sii ; Ps Mr. Taylor's brother, Urban said he knew of no enemies of} his brother or Mrs. Bradley. Mrs. Patten said Mr, Taylor} was ‘very well liked” by people in the Martinsville area, where he had lived nearly all his life. . She said Mrs. Bradley had been John Curtis and ROger his housekeeper for about two

{tion thus obtained would give ithe grand juries and the Justice {Department the identity of under-. | world characters, as well as crime {information in general, { It is expected that known {criminals racketeers and others lof their ilk will be brought before {the grand juries for questioning, { Mr. McGrath said that in obs {taining the comprehensive ‘pice {ture of crime conditions through. {out the country, the agencies, in |addition to the FBI, which will |be' asked to participate, are: | The Secret Service, Customs Busca, Alcohol Tax Unit, Intels gence unit of Internal Re ’ Here Bureau, the a and Exchange Commission, and postal ‘inspectors, 2

~ HERMAN TAYLOR . . . : Murdered for his money?

|ablaze.

Steel Output Cut

* Patten farm. hy "AT WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UP)

She sald they very seldom