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By United Press
LONDON, Feb. 7 — Queen] Elizabeth II, dressed in black, | came home today to assume the British throne.
The arrival of the girl who went | away a week ago a princess and| ‘returned a Queen, climaxed a 22-|
hour flight from Nairobi, Kenya,| where she yesterday received the] news of the death of King] George VI, { Her face calm and her bearing regal, the 25-year-old’ sovereign | spent less than five minutes re-| celving Prime Minister Winston Churchill, her uncle, the Duke of | Gloucester, and a dozen other, of Britain's “greats” waiting for her at London Airport.
Speeds to London Each addressed her as Majesty.” : The Queen spoke a few words to the captain and stewardess of the plane which rushed her home from East Africa and then’ stepped into a gleaming limousine to be sped to London. There, Britain’s first queen since Victoria, faced among her! first duties the arranging of the! funeral of her father. =~
Elizabeth's plane landed at) London Airport at 10:19 a. m., In-|
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dianapolis time, and taxied to a ain paid homage today to Queen seat. A black hat firmly on her
halt at almost exactly the same] spot where she said goodbye to King George a week ago as she] left for what was planned as a! happy royal tour of Australia. The Queen wore a black twopiece suit and a black hat. Her! husband, Philip, sombre but com- | posed, wore a dark blue suit and| walked a step behind her as she; shook hands gravely with each;
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Due to Take Oath |
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dusk when the Queen arrived, | just 32 hours and 49 minutes after her father was found dead! in bed in his country home .of! Sandringham. | Although Elizabeth tonight was only 80 miles from her mother, | the widowed Queen Mother Elizabeth, who was at Sandringham, roval duty came above all de-| mands of emotion. The new]
queen will meet her ministers { and advisers tonight at her home,
Clarence House. Tomorrow morning she goes before the Privy Council to take her oath at St. James Palace. At 11 a. m. the proclamation of the] reign of Elizabeth II will be read | by heralds at the palace, at Char-| ing Cross, Temple Bar, the Royal] Exchange, in the City of London | and in cities and hamlets around the world wherever the Union Jack flies. :
Only then will the Queen go to [SAR
see her family. Funeral Féb. 16
Court - circles believed King George's funeral would be held| Monday, Feb. 18, to give nobility] from all over Europe time to ar=| rive in - London, The kings of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Bel.gium and Greece and the Queen
of the Netherlands may be among}
those attending.
Burial is expected to be in St.|k
George's Chapel at Windsor Cas-| tle, where the King's father, George .V, ‘also. #8 buried. . Sometime this week-end, the 1st Battalion of Grenadier Guards will escort ‘the .King’s body to; London, where it will lie in state in the Great Hall of Westminster, | adjoining the Houses of Parlia-| ment, until the funeral.
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Queen Holds Throws Her Rank Around'— Brief Airport Corporal Asks Divorce Wife
DETROIT, Feb. 7 (UP)-—Cpl. William J. Thompson asked for a divorce today, a month after his wedding, because his second lieutenant - wife “throws her rank around.” Cpl. Thompson said it was “love” when his wife, Ruth E. Thompson, and he both wore chevrons on their sleeves over-
Then Mrs. Thompson ~ was promoted to second lieutenant. “The commission changed everything,” the corporal sald. “She told me she didn’t love me anymore.” * Cpl. fhompson said he met his wife in Germany. They were married in Angola, Ind., Jan. 2, after their return to the United States. They separated two weeks later. : - Cpl. Thompson said that after Mrs. Thompson became his. “commanding officer” she refused to go home with him and
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When Before the Queen— .
Mary, 84, Does Duty By Curtsy to Lilibet
. By United Press ° LONDON, Feb. 7 (UP)~—Brit-|
Elizabeth II but its heart really; was in a time-stained red brick! mansion on The Mall. For their lievs 84-year-old Dowager Queen Mary, who has Britain’s love as her children and!
grandchildren have its respect.
Today as the people stood silent! outside her great house they saw!
Hats swept off. Women bowed at the erect figure in the back
grey head, the 84-year-old Queen was driving to nearby Clarence House to pay her respects and allegiance to her own granddaughter, the new Queen. This was her first duty—to curtsey to her new ruler. Then she would return to Marlborough House to busy herself with her correspondence and other inter-
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of her five sons to die. In the sprawling Marlborough House, Queen Mary's staff was awed by the old lady’s determination to carry on. As member of the staff said they never would forget the moment when Mary learned that her son was dead—even though she had been advised some time ago that he might die at any time. Queen Mary never answers the telephoge—“It is not for Queens,”
phone messages are written down and handed to her on a salver. A member of her household took the call. Anguished ‘Oh’ “The King ‘is dead,” he -wrote, and handed the note to the Queen. Some reports said she made not a sound. She took the message with her and went immediately to
Yet the look on her face was so alarming that members of the staff telephoned across the street
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1952
Airport Has
No Water to Fight Fires
By JOE ALLISON Drying up of a well, only source of water at Weir Cook Municipal
frat officials said. Water is being trucked to the [airport with street flushing equip{ment and just meets daily needs {of the field, Irving Fauvre, Weir
=#=8Ix Men, One 72, in
“Cook board president, said.
Fire Chief Joseph Hancock {said the situation is “serious” and declared the field “never has had adequate fire protection.”
Water Main Not Ready
The airport board has ordered installation of a city water main
Indianapolis Co. officials said today. The well supplying the field has been dry since Dec. 31, Philip Roettger, airport superintendent, said. Since then,
Water
the field has met
with -a street flusher loaned by the street commissioner's department. The truck must make at least three trips a day to keep airport supply tanks full. Airport officials admitted equipment to fight building fires does not meet safety standards, although they insist crash fire equipment is “the best available.”
Crash Equipment O. K.
“We use the same equipment recommended by the Air Force and Navy. It is the best we know of,” Col. Roettger said. “However, if we had a major building fire out here, we would ibe in serious trouble,” he added. | “We have known all along our Class A (building) protection is not good enough but we have {only now been able to do any{thing about it,” he said. : { He explained the airport had {to pay the entire $56,000 cost of {the new water line being installed by thé water company. Money for the installation was made available only last year when a $1,750,000 bond issge was made to improve the airport.
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yet heard the news, The Princess Royal dressed in|
‘frantic haste and rushed across’
to her mother. As she entered the Queen's private apartments, Mary
“When you come before the Queen,” she told her daughter, “please do your hair properly.” The Princess Royal -curtsied and went back to her own apartments, where she tidied up and returned to remain at her mother’'s side.
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The Last Full Measure
Six men, one 72 years old, were viciously attacked and 'slugged last night in the 2500-2600 blocks of W. Michigan 'St. by four young neighborhood toughs on a rampage. Police arrested two brothers, a teen-ager and a juvenile after the half-hour reign of bru-| tality stopped. Victims charged lice. The toughs moved on down the beatings were unprovoked, joe street, > : Slated to appear in Municipal] The other attacks were made Court 4 this afternoon were: {in the same spirit of savagery. -Jack Atherton, 22, of 772 N.| Mr. Deganutt had worked Ketcham St, charged with as- overtime at Link-Belt Co. and 'sault: and battery with intent to Was walking home when three or kill, disorderly conduct and re- four boys appeared and began sisting arrest. {hitting him. He fell down. : {| He protected his face with his ‘Boy, 15, Held ‘hands, afraid of kicking, he told Jerry Atherton, 21, of 772 N. a neighbor. His legs were cut Ketcham St. charged with as- and bruised. : sault and battery with intent to] Say Suspect Resisted
kill, ! A James Ballad. 19, of B18 Ar tounsd hit homs whee pe © ong noldo St. charged with city vag- upon by four boys. THey hit him rancy. " {about the head and face, and A 15-year-old boy was turned banged his ear. over. to juvenile authorities, | Mr. Martin. likewise was : The six slugging victims were slugged while walking on the Don Kennedy, 41, Shelbyville; street. James Lowden, 38, of 3435 E. 26th Police sald Jack/ Atherton re 8t.; A. G, Price, 72, of 2302 W.|sisted arrest enn picked up at Walnut 8t.; Frank Martin, 51, of the home>of a /girl friend, and" 581 N. Lynn St.; Joseph Deganutt, again tried to t while at Gen52, of 773 N. Warman Ave., and eral Hospital /®here he had been James Lay, 30, of 313 N. Belle- taken to ve face bruises vieu Pl. |treated. £) TA ; Police heard the first call for| Jack id his brother, Jerry, be« help at 6:15 p. m. from the Daisy tween a police record {Theater, 2540 W. Michigan St. |of 13 gon where Mr, Kennedy is manager as and Mr. Lowden is film operator.|n Mr. Kennedy said the youths
be or Kaen, You can take up Wherp Mry. mother gave them her blgpd. ~~ Skinner had to leave off. To Mrs. Hazei Skinner con. donate blood, call LL 1441,
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Defense yesterda Page| + If was her 13th trip there. It
will be her last, Today Mrs. Skinner is 60 years old. Donations are not accepted from persons past that age, ‘ “It’s the least any American can do,” was Mrd. Skinner's modest explanation of her many blood donations,
tributed blood at the Red Cross ~ Aire mkinner was back at work today at the Americap Legion where she’s been employed in the Publications” Division for the past seven years. She lives with her daughter, Mrs. Robert Sielken, at 2416 E. 58th S8t., N. Dr. Her family includes another daughter, Mrs, Eulah Gauker of Mankato, Minn., and four grandchildren.
The Times Lost A Buddy One Year Ago Today . FRESH FLOWERS bloomed on! a year-old grave in Washington Park today. 2 | It was just a year ago today that little Jerry Dunaway died
after losing a ‘courageous fight against incurable leukemia. The
18-year-old boy's battle was fol-| f lowed over the nation after The|2nd former State Department ex/|W. Michigan 8t., so he could go
Times flew him to the East to be-|Pert on Russia, is now associatéd to the basement of the Boston
come on of the first leukemia victims to be treated with thenrare hormone drugs. He rallied and survived more than. a year,
‘halt the fatal cancer of the blood. |
5 n = Y | Mrs. Earl Dunaway, 835 Eastern | Ave., visited the grave. There| were several calls from persons who remembered the anniversary.
more,” said his mother. “But I know his suffering is over, and| that comforts me.”
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Kennan Gets Moscow Post
By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. dent Truman - today formally U. 8. ambassador to Russia, succeeding Vice Adm. Alan G. Kirk who resigned.
Mr. Kennan, a career diplomat
with the. Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies. 7 Adm. Kirk, who has seryed in several diplomatic post
Moscow for. 2% years.
Mr. Truman praised his performance in a “difficult mission” and wished hin well on his return to private life. Mr. Kennan is the “Mr. X" who
is credited with -autgoring this| “As time goes by I miss him|government’s policy of contain-|
ment of communism.
Full .Dress Hearing NEW YORK, Feb. 7
acted strangely when they en-
tered. the lobby. He said List Paying
(previously had ejected one the theater for misconduct. “Three of them jumped on
™ ° member 1—Presi-|
(UP)—| ’ Jack Di Betta, 30, will get a hear-| MT. VERNON, Ind. Feb. 7|ing Feb. 13 on charges that he brother, I saw an arm come Set his money “as long as we have {(UP)—Lee Mayville; 44, Mt. Ver- punched his divorced wife, Anna, through the air and a fist caught |® government.”
Lowden while I was farther
said. the door. 5 Ran to Help/
“They started op on him,
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in the theater,” Mr. Kennedy| “The fourth one stayed by,
jand sald they were /going to kill]
Tax List, Page 40 i By DAVE WATSON : | Indiana's taxpayers have been (digging fast and furiously Into
‘him. I grabbed a proom and ran|the half million dollar tax refund {up to help Lowden. Then they “mine” of the U, 8. Internal
istarted to beat on me. | “While 1 n into the aisle, | Lowden went Ao call
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| The/belligerent youths left the {nominated George F. Kennan asi,..u 5
before police came and sta ed beating up others on their Way. | /M¥. Price was about to open ron doors in the sidewalk at 2617
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{Furniture Store to fire the furnace, when he saw the four walk-
{ing toward him.
said. walked past me. ‘one. of the doors. One of the| ‘boys came back and stood next! iside. He got closer and closer, ito the edge. would fall in in his condition, IT said:
‘It Knocked Me Flat’
lice, I was| : t for a’ while, but |Cripe sald about 2000 taxpayers got me down and have filed claims for refunds cking me. 1 don’t re-| uch after that for about
I was afraid he mych
| Revenue Bureau,
Indiana Collector Ralph W,
since the campaign to clear the files was started last month.
This has depleted the bonanza pile by between $70,000 to $90,000. The collector said refunds are hovering dt -the expected avere age of $35 to $45 per person, There are 15,000 to 16,000 taxe payers eligible for refunds for the years 1943 through 1950.
Volume Increasing Mr. Cripe said claims were slow
{in reaching his offic since| . “I saw they were going to walk get of the drive but at the ous but the drugs finally failed to|leaving the Navy, has been in right over the doors,” Mr. Price steadily is increasing. The peak “So I waited until they day saw 250 persons appearing at Then I opened the ‘office to register claims. >
The routine of processing the
claims has no thou! [to the opening, looking down in- humorous ot Sane w ta
One told officials he knew how he had coming and for
0 which years. Asked why he had |not applied before, he said:
“I figured as long as Joe Stalin
| .“ ‘Be careful, buddy, you might [Wasn't over here, the. bureau
fall in there and get hurt. | “Just about that time, one of | the others said, ‘Don’t you hit my |
non, was held today on charges 24, in the eye, stripped her and me on the chin as I raised up. It of. looting a house when the oc- left her nude on the sidewalk | knocked me flat.” |
cupants fled Ohio River flood waters. 2 |
after an argument over financial| matters.
Mr. Price got upp’went. into a
{lunchroom next door to call po-
{would see that I got my money,”
he replied. : . Another said he knew he would
Both, however, had overlooked the statute of Hmitations. After 10 years’ elapse, the ree funds can no longer be made.
‘The Story of Empire— :
The ‘Polit
(FOURTH OF FIVE ARTICLES) Nixon (R. Cal.) asked President/dent Roosevelt, also, had refused.|
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Times Staff Writer
WASH[NGTON, Feb. T— Ten years’ “investigation” of the wartime munitions-and-politics “Empire” launched by a New York promoter, an Indiana politican and a Chicago brewer
with ' Capone gang connections, has come to little.
Two Presidents of the United
“States have suppressed the of-
“ficial report of its operations. .U. 8. Department of Justice action has been so languid that .federal investigators angril
| ‘charged “whitewash.” ;
The U. 8. Senate, the U. 8. Securities: and Exchange Com- - mission, federal income- tax bureaus, federal courts, even the .FBI have looked into its tangied
Ultimately. every inquiry ‘has’ hit a road-block in Washington.
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Truman for the report in a letter which sald it_ was reputed to contain evidence of “larceny, perjury,
President Truman wrote Sen. Nixon refusing and stating that: “I see no reason for making a political football of it at this time.” .
. In New York a former SEC investigator, a Democrat, who had seen the report said: “Political football, hell . . . that report was political dynamite.” Observers commented it could only get into politics if it involved politicans accused of improper conduct. £ It -does. 4 . Harry A. McDonald, former SEC chairman appointed to head the Reconstruction Finance -Corp.,
himself, while’ chairman of the Senate Committee investigating war supplies had asked President Roosevelt to let the U. 8. Senate
Only last month Sen. Richard
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have the report—and that Presi-
bribery and other acts of fraud.”
disclosed that President Truman!
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President Roosevelt initiated that investigation, however.
In 1942, with the nation gripped in a global war, he personally ordered SEC to look into Empire Ordnance. Corp., which had already expanded from a $130,000 shoe-string into a chain of interlocking munitions companies with $34 millipns in war contracts. He arranged for a special, extra budget for SEC to do, the job. SEC spent more than $125,000 on the investigation. It took more than 20,000 pages of sworn testimony. It submitted a report 1500 pages long, telling. in detail what it had learned about Emve Ordnance Corp. It also submitted a criminal referénce re-
prosecution of various individuals. President Roosevelt acknowledged the report with a letter to Ganson Purcell, SEC chairman, expressing ‘‘appreciation of an important . job competéntly performed.” President Roosevelt ar
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“Thank you very much for the (report en. the investigation of the Empire Ordnance Corp. and |the activities of Frank Cohen. I am adopting your suggestion that the report be referred to appropriate agencies.” The report went to the U. 8. Department of Justice, and to Tom C, Clark, then head of the criminal reference division, later Attorney General and now a U. 8. Supreme Court Justice. Mr. Clark had come to Washington from Dallas, Tex.,, and had become one of the nation’s’ most prominent Democratic leaders. Mr. Cohen also had powerful Democratic connections in Dallas, from oil and insurance affilia-/ tions, and had on his board of directors Frank McHale, of Indiana, powerful member of .the Democratic National Committee. He retained lawyers in New York ‘who were potent figures in Tammany Hall politicat “circles. SEC members now charge that at this point the Department of ‘Justice tried to soft-pedal the
going before a féderal grand jury. SEC pressure, which may have reached into the White House, ultimately forced the case to the jury, they say. . iL Before the grand jury, however, there was little pressure. SEC men say Justicer Department lawyers refused to call them as witnesses, disparaged their report, discredited testimony offered, and eventually told the jury that there were “no triable issues” in the case before it. - . It was now the end of 1943, with ‘the fourth-term political campaign just around the corner. The case was full of “political dynamite.” The grand jury, advised by the government's own lawyers that it had no case, took’ no action, : The report is still a secret, one copy in the files of the Department of Justice and one copy, inexplicably, under lock and. key among the “private papers” of the late President Roosevelt at Hyde
whole affair, and to keep it from
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It had lifted the lid for one
small public glimpse into Empire operations, however, by the conviction of Jack Perlman.
Perlman was head of an Empire subsidiary at Manayunk, a Philadelphia suburb, where forgings for gun tubes were made under ‘war contracts.
SEC investigators had quizzed Perlman about whether che had “padded” pay-rolls there by collecting wages for workmen who did not exist! whether he had made contractors: and others selling supplies to the company add 15 to 25 per cent to their prices and split it with him, whether he divided such thefts wjth anyone else, or knéw. of anyone else in the concern engaging in it. ; Perlman, under oath, denied i all. ; He was indicted charges of perjury. On Dec. 6, 1945, he pleaded guilfy to all four charges, admitting that he had padded pay-
on , four
rolls and collected
been guilty of other: fraudulent practices. His confession implicated others. He was fined $1000 and sen'tenced ta’a year in federal prison, but the prison sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for two years instead. Although his plea of guilty constituted testimony “of large-scale fraud against. the government, which ultimately paid all the costs at Manayunk, no other charge was placed against him. Although it implicated other Empire officials, no charge ever was placed against any of them." After the SEC report was made; Elisha Walker was removed by the War partment as its “trustee” in charge of Empire. Mr. Walker, Wall Street broker, was a part ownér of Empire from] its beginning, and had, in fact, loaned Mr. Cohen $25,000 with which to make his first start in organizing it. The report went into considerable detail of his as
a letter of “commendation” for his services. : Investigations were no to Mr. Cohen. . Before the U. 8. Senate coms mitee which made the first of« ficial induiry into Empire Orde nance Corp. He testified that he . had been investigated before, by
novelty
pany operations, and by FEI on Empire itself. He said this out of a charge that he 4 sabotaging the war effort”-—ale though it probably was only the customary FBI loyalty check of those days. >
The Senate investigation was aimed primarily at the
of “influence” with the governs ment,_ although it did. bring to light the remarkable financial structure of Seale The U. |
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SEC in his many insurance coms -