Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1952 — Page 1

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Cohen Asking FBI o Probe Times’ mpire Co. Storie

AN EDITORIAL ° Charges Press Gave

Yes, Let's Investigate Empire

FRANK COHEN has asked the FBI to investigate how False ‘Insinuations’

some of the war-time doings of Empire Ordnance Corp, which he founded with the help of Democratic National bi B Ly J : fl Committeeman Frank McHale, leaked out to the public. e oug t n uence Says he's heard that some newspapermen have seen Be. Chel ovens

the hushed-up SEC report on it, and he wants to find out WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — Munitions maker Frank why the President's orders to keep it secret were not obeyed. Cohen appealed today for an FBI investigation to deters

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[+= We'll second that motion. ir: Coh mine who has been “leaking” information from a secret We'd go somewhat farther, though, than Mr. Cohen 19.5 oi vernment report on his World War II Empire | proposes. : Ordnance Co, ¥ A gs: : . ua Main target of his attack was noting that he did not become LET'S find out why two Presidents have ordered that , series of articles carried by Democratic chairman until five

years afterward.

report kept secret. Scripps-Howard newspapers Mr, Crum sal that contrary i a ea : | -Mr, Crum s Let's find out how an official copy of a public docu- Which revealed the dealings Of {he impression created in recent ment that cost the tax-payers of this country $125,000 hap- tmpire Ordnance Corp. and the... naper stories, Empire Orde x : Haid ¥ " many other ventures of the Pro-| ance did a fine job of producing pens to be locked up among the “private papers” of the.Jate ior. a ea iT Woe Photo for The Times by Raymond Bright. Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park. : The material apparently re-, _and without any federal fi FIERY COLLAPSE—Walls of the Mt. Olive Methodist Church at Ben Davis collapse at the peak of the roaring flames that Leffs find out why the U. S. Department of Justice ferred to was researched and nancing. brok hurch 3 terd : h Te , . : th 14 fter the written by Irving Leibowitz, In-| Empire Ordnance was the broke up church services yesterday morning. (Another photo, Page 14). 2 never took any effective action on the report, a dianapoils Times staff writer, andlmaer, critic A Hee Sao

President ordered it to do so. ~ circulated throughout th e 19 bine of World War 1I invests Let's find out who got the money an Empire officer Scripps-Howard papers over the gated by the Truman Senate

re Ss la | * : | i Women Only: Main Saves Ben Davis Today's News confessed he stole from the government by padding pay- nation, : mimo heb gig any .

ro Is an con racts an Ww ere | ii ree times in the las eca : The series, on which Mr, Leibo- M

» ; » M h Ad e From a Major Blaze In The Times for that. witz spent two months digging en me Ahan, Jeet In Ch AOD .

Let's find out who the Department of Justice assigned for facts, ran five days in The ment, once coming under the fire

| BY B. K. SHULL Jfioor Wirsery ang Stuer Worshin Local 'to the case, and who Empire hired to defend it, and what, Times beginning two weeks ago|5¢ Harry §. Truman. | A new water main saved Pers hurried from the chureh,,, ier 2:vear term as County |. : 2 hip thev bore + h ‘other of to Dersons today. | ‘Mr. Truman accused Mr. Cohen, x Sen Davie froin 2 “maior ev. Braun and Mr. Butler tried =n. 0 0 oo CnC sought’ by lif any, relationship they bore to eac pe S| Mr: Coben also cited the New on Dec. 18, 1941, of seeking out 4 JOT to confine the fire to the base- Fairchild tosses hat in ring accused in the report. . {York Herald-Tribune when he persons with influence ‘in Wash holocaust” as flames devoured ment washroom. PAREN .iicasicens cursive 2 Let's find out how much Empire did get from the gov- charged the articles contained ington. Mt. Olive "Methodist Extinguishers Run Dry iis ©. Rainier... ... ernment for munitions it never produced, and who repre- Shise insinyaticns, that he} “Tells of Offer By United Press Their small extinguishers ran Blind war veteran soon to be ' gh -g "| ome accusation came after

Church and endangered five “a : - COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 18 ~The nearby homes yesterday. dry and the flames began to teacher ............. ...... 8 sented it in getting that, and who represented the govern-| Protesting that he has never Charles West 3 Democratic Uns

- creator of women’s “poodle” hair- pen pavis' Fi spread as the fire companies ar- The heart of Charles R. i if anv. the presence of a powerful been allowed to see the report en Davis Fire Chief A. W. : Brown,” former conductor. 1aedt, and what influence, if any, p § I himself, Mr. Cohen asked At-|d¢rsecretary of the Interior in

cuts predicted today this style Wulf said wind - driven flames rived. | : : : ; : ita ; Ivan.) Wolll £0 Ot In the fall Dut seidig died homes 200 to 300 Tost ies With “all the water pressure Still rides the ‘Riley’ ....... 7 Democratic National Committeeman on its board of direc- i oy ‘General J. Howard Bg. INE Cally days of hy NEW Deal, he is set to replace it with the the Plazing church. they could handle,” firemen from Seek to use schools as recrea- tors and of potent political figures on its payrolls had on Grath to find out how and WhY him 1 per Gohan ab “red i Yer: wi + “I doubt if we could have held seven township companies and.- tion center ................ its career a it has been “made available 10,,.5 ang said he would be wille demon meringue” and the “baby the fire without.the use of that two Sity siaijong could not mas- National | yaa rs yw [certain representatives of . the ing to make a $50,000 contribue pompadour.” main.” It's hard to say how far ter the flames. % . | press. : tion to the Democratic National Enrico Caruso, New York hair the fire might have spread with- As the flames, leaping 75 to Young Fopisty bide shoots het | THE BEST way to clear up all conjecture about that Mr. McGrath had no immediate Committee. Ho stylist, told some 2000 Ohio hair- out that supply,” he said. [100 feet into the air, gutted the ba oy irae ene lis to publish the report itself. : _ |comment on Mr. Cohen's pléa,| During the questioning of Me, dressers meeting here he called The new water source had been church, firemen fought a desper-| t ous . er to “go ident T has repeatedly refused to let the relayed in a letter by New York Cohen, Sen. Truman sald: one of his newest coiffures “lemon completed by the _Indianapolis:ate battle to save the parsonage, to hell” ........... grea 3 President Truman epe y .. Attorney Bartley C..Crum. “You were desperate for cone meringue” because it reminded Water Co. Saturday. Water next to” the church. Members Foreign ‘United States Senate see the report, on the grounds that it! , wie House spokesman said, tracts and you were after anyone him of a pie. |pressure in the main had been carried all the furnishings from : 4 1d get into politics only if it however, that the Justice Depart- With influence, a distinctly unHe said it is suitable for any turned on less than 24 hours be- the parsonage out along the Reds Pounce UN fof V Jose might get into politics. It could 4 N y ho ment jtself has custody of the ethical thing.” color hair and for women with-'fore the basement fire drove street. rs ie on : = eto , | Proved some politicians guilty of wrong-doing. None w Ol secret report. which was made| Mr. Cohen's name arose again out the “well-fed” look. The “baby more than 150 worshippers from Four other homes, three across Brod EE = a Kills 34. 11 are inpocent have anything to fear from the truth. 'by the Securities & Exchange|in the same year when Thomas pompadour.” Be said, is a modified] EAUREh Yestetday SGOMUng: [the Street from fhe church, were A A nas gn The Department of Justice is supposed to be investi- Commission 10 years ago at the/G. Corcoran, a veteran White “poodle” with waves instead of Discovered Blaze blackened by the intense heat. Women's bi par : |specific request of the late Presi-|House adviser, told the Truman curls, The fire was discovered by Plan New Church rae S3tng itself right now. {dent Roosevelt. Senate Committee he had rev G ived $100,000 in legal fees fi , 1 {Mrs. Gertrude Braun, wife of the Karen Kaiser, Lovely Lady of Here would be an excellent place to start. The spokesman said President ceive , n legal fees for | pastor, as she sang hymns in the . 109a¥. Rev. Bratn has called Tomo 3 Truman turned the report over legal and organizational work for Checked Sindee ee ‘| sanctuary of the : SHiurdhi ' Bhe 2 meeting o Siareh ew be 3s i New i Women’s ‘group 1 'to the Justice Department for|clients on defense projects. "Mr, : . make plans for buildin e fourth + § LONG. BEACH, -Cal, Feb. 18 smelled smoke, hurried through church on the site at 1449 S. High| to charter local chapter... 4, EC Wh t FE aitug Ene ord Td he oe (UP)—Police said today a woman he Gi pg yorsbippers School Rd. He said the fire loss The. Sven were Testing er. | 00 ’ Oo ays a {again os slat | y Zum Or en ah umployee bad : j was near $75,000. | ‘ee y 1 . : forgery suspect confessed to buy- Rey. Henry M. Braun, who was he original church, built in _CRristy .................. 5 : : | Mr. Crum said in his letter to|M*: Cohen, Savannah Shipyards. ing .whisky with bad checks so about to deliver his sermon titled 187) was destroyed by fire in Pretty curls for little girls .. 3 A t $ e an oO wa |Mr. McGrath that “there are re-| In 1947, Mr. Cohen went to the she could break the bottles be-| “Be Still” rushed to the base- 1898. The second structure was A new reducing drug ..... i 8 ou |puted to be only two copies of Bovernment with a plan to con. cause she “hates lignor.” ment, and assisted, by Samuel pijown down in the 1911 tornado. : 3 . . |this report,” -one: of which {is Vert the deserted Passamaquoddy Mrs. Alyce E. Milner, 26, was Butler, 65 of 1800 Lawndale, The building lost yesterday was Sports . NEW YORK, Feb. 18—Baseball is merely an Eng- {“under lock and key in the|Village in Maine into a training arrested in Van Nuys, Cal. ATS ane Jatiliss the flames puilt in 1912, and remodeled more Page lish game notable only for its resemblance to a sport Roosevelt library at Hyde Park| canter for Sisplaced Jersons from ice sai s wit and extinguishers. ith ar . 7. B said i lavs 1 sin" ; % 5 ant . . 3 Nee S84 Nhe ols fet he Wille ar Fushen H han § Yea ago. ey, | aun Indiars DE ee In The 13 ‘invented in Russia centuries ago. Sq the Russians say. Wants Report Published |many. The Cohen plan called for checks in southern California, their children. from the second defective wiring. “An open letter to baskethall That observation, with denunciations of the wesfern | Walker Stone, editor of the! tedching displaced persons use Oregon, Arkansas - and Texas. fans in the Press Box ..... 12 world, feature the new Soviet encyclopedia, of which the a pager AFH their —_— NG Sasir payment a ough. whisky with * ° - oy Zovia E ournqment 4s first seven volumes have arrived in this country. Howard Newspapers would like “Slave labor,” was the descrip “When I got outside,” officers otorists "Ine ©. +... ..|Norwegian wins Olympic ski Russia’s encyclopedia uses plenty of quotes from 10. gue the Teper: published.” She tion 3pplied nr he | Plan in Some o Jones dies Bg re banged ‘ y meet servsevevsidinionn 13 Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin for authority. Much of the |c7lD [0 Flr OF "Hiations, the goverame at roRqoed whisky run down the gutter.” After Rad ar Arrests Other Features: + | Soviet work is given to editorial opinion in contrast with o Mr. Cohen. who headed Empire to approve Mr. Cohen's proposal, Amusements oo _.. 6 | the factual presentations of wéstern encyclopedias. {broke THO The Tos rectly With Cn 1d New J F { By CARL, HENN He described the: officers as “act- Henry Butler chevy sess 4 Only Alexander the Great and his conquests in Asia the disclosure that he paid Demo-| 10€N-Age Boys He " seas eailures Nine Juckless Juotorists today, 18 in concert” to arrest speed- Bridge tessanene teasnnss . hy : Minor, Persia and India in the 4th Century B. C. draw a \ératic National Chairman Frank In Ca staker's De th 4 2 {gained the dubious honor of be- . / 8 serneen tesesraaas : : : . : : tE. McKinney a $68,000 profit in On Spot Reports ling first in Indiana to pay speed-| Found Him Guilty Crossword .............. 14 | really favorable review from the Russian encyclopedists. ag on 0 worth: of INDEPENDENCE, Cal, Feb, B Ti ff ling fines after arrest by radar. Judge Bayt then found York Fditorials ............... 10 |________ eee errr == stock in another Cohen company, 18 (UP)—Two teen-age Indian y limes Sta Municipal Court 3 Judge Phil- guilty and fined him $20 and. J2rold Hartley ......... i LOCAL TEMPERATURES | ° INDIANAPOLIS |Empire Tractor Corp. National DOYS face arraignment today for CITY DESK ._ (lip Bayt found eight motorists costs, or a total of $26.75. Radio, Television ........ 11 | Sam 27 10.0.5: 35 TRAFFIC CASUALTIES Derwocratic Committeenmnm: from allegedly “burning alive” a 22 went on the air oy;ity ‘and fined each $15 and Prosecutor Fairchild concluded - Robert Ruark ...... saves 9 a 1 a m..39 | (48 Days) Indiana, Frank McHale, reaped a }°4r-old caretaker in the lonely today. costs {this test case by savi to M Ed Sovola ...... sssnssss 9 Ta m.. pia 1951 1952 similar profit from a $1000 in- Saline Valley, 65 miles east of A new form- of radiovnews-| yr... 4 TE ’ Ying ‘0. Nr-} sports 12.13 8 a.m... 30 12 a m...39. i p : |Lone Pine, Cal ; li However, more important things York: SPOFLS <rrcrrsvinrsass ey 10 Sam 33 Accidents ...... 1088 927 'vestment. " ’ ek A hi pi ot pom the were in store for Jay York, Box! “On behalf of the state, I want: Lar! Wilson crericasiuies ® Tye u > Injured ...oe0.. 409 436 Mr. McKinney has denied any| e boys confessed to Inyo 12:05 or 9 ‘station ati228, R. R. 13. Mr. York was the to congratulate you for being the, WOmeN's: .......4, as 43. | Latest Humidity ........ 86 Killed ..eocaees = 7 ® ‘wrongdoing in the transaction, County sheriff's officers that they 05 p.m. : shot e caretaker, known only

$ I ot 5 It will be.a feature of The first of the nine. to plead notifirst to plead not guilty, so we as Johnny, in an ambush abouf

. er 0 guilty... He was. charged with could have a chance to argue it : : = r a Mondays gneeding 62 mph. in the 2900 block tn court.” * * lan New Road Sh * oo R in for TV Awar two Weeks ago siti. ho threat. doi 7, . turday. “1 pleade : " pres : n ene nife them if they again Times reporters, calling direct- of W. 1680 Stoiearty Ba tus 2y led leaned not Sully respony A riner t ' unni g trespassed on the Camp Vega ly from the scene of action, give Fairchild Takes Over wanted to see how hs “thing a ES : a i Ranch where he worked. The

: ® I : Bret hate Yeports to the station.! pis case made ‘court history. operated.” ; & youths, sheriff's officers said, set ese a Sphone calls are. re- ,¢ this point, Prosecutor Frank None of the nine speeders is 0 0 esvi p fire to. the bunkhouse where the © “For the past two weeks Wroy Fairchild took over the question- expected to appeal, but future| » Wounded an had Yaken refuge, and The Times have held daily 108 of the defendant to lay tests of the radar arrest tech-| The State: Highway Department

{ ) stifv the “dry runs” on the program. careful groundwork to justif) nique may come when someone today made plans to construct a A Wise Family

= method of arrests. : appeals a case to a higher court. new four lane super-high - oy rs tor he Beran) There had been some’ question None of the defendants today tween Inde ow Noploa:! HM d f 1 12:05 . over aE Hear he Whether use of the radar cars t0 was represented by legal counsel. vile to replace bumpy Ind. 37. ea uys a nome Times reporters report the ne arrest speeders might be con np. pagar technique has been Highway Commission Chairfrom scenes of action, Ws | sidered legal by he Souris: stab. declared legal in Ohio. * /man Samuel Hadden said he per- ; - 1. Prosecutor Fairchi gt The Times helped bring the{sonally favored the ‘new, wider! radar system here -by bringing a road. A radar car here from Columbus,| No ‘definite starting date has! 0., last year to enable officers fo been assigned for .the project. —The Prudential: Insufance Co,| than 30 mph. see how the system worked. However, both Mr. Hadden and.

; : Commissioner Jap Jones said it and 9000 agents agreed to a set-, Judge Bayt asked for an offj- i | ; “ ~ tlement yesterday of a 78-day-old| cial explanation of how the radar Bad Luck Hits Thrice {should begin “right now. sf i a A f Noblesvill strike. The agreement, subject to operates. The prosecutor called TERBURY® “C group oi Noblesville news.} ratification by union members, Lt. Francis Campbell, head of, ya ERE Ry on, (UP)— paper officials will meet with th the Wage Stabilization Board and police radio and radar set-up, Bad luck kep Som ng ack for Highway Commission here to-| State Insurance Departments| Lt. Campbell said an electronic more ja the RR i sin J. 'Ral- morrow to discuss the proposed gives each agent an averagé cash beam “like an ice-cream cone Sion. He was sitting in his parked highway.

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* WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UP) Mr. York's car traveling faster

the FUTURE! . Comforts, Community Prestige, Security, Happiness . . . these are a few of the benefits Home. Ownership will give YOUR

; 80 A ; rw 8 hen another car Bick Plan : a Te f i ; years ‘the value your money of $5.36 a week. |g0es out "150 feet, to the rear bf automobile nek Lan i cille Ball ” increase of DAE 2 TI the parked ay OT ® this Smashed into it. While inspecting All four highway commission- Herb -Shriner Thomas Mitchel ; - Lugile 3 will buy then in other items & : He's. Got a Job No point the cone is 30 feet wide. [the damage. a second car brushed ers are in agreement on the pro- ow By United Press ' Lucille Ball and her husband, er Show, I Love Lucy, Red Skel-| . . mont X s. Cot a _ |against him and his leg was in- posal, although one commissioner: HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18 The Desi Arnaz will assist -Mr. ton. : | ? gly high y “° HATTIESBURG, Miss., Feb. 18, Reflects Wave jured. As he was being taken to favors a by-pass around -Nobles- six TV “bests” of 1951 will re- Stokey. "Best Variety Show—4ll Star; or low . , . your dollars will

(UP) — Triplets were born here, - Any car entering this beam a hospital, a third auto, got into ville with a - railroad grade ceive the gold “Emmy” award ill be special Revue, Comedy Hour, Fred War- buy just as much as they do yesterday to Mrs. R. P. Thornton, automatically ih an elec- the act by crashing into his al- separation and another favors of the ay of Yi ard Wi { eg an ey aie ing Show, Toast. of the Town, today. Select Mov mother of 4-year-old twin girls tronic wave which registers the ready-damaged car. : [at by-pass ‘without the grade Arts and Sciences tonight at the putions. = = i Your Show of Shows. . \ and two other daughters, ages 3/car's speed. The radar operator T separation. . fourth annual awards dinner, | pool othe voting fn the ., Best Actress — Imogene Coca, advantagesy and 1. The father of the triplets, radios to another police car ‘S h zola’ The highway.would extend for Winners judged by academy ix na 1” classifications. are: Helen Hayes, Maria Riva, Mary TURN NOW ‘two girls and a boy, is a 33-year. several blocks ahead, giving the . cnNNoz : 21 miles, from Fall Creek Blvd. ,members to be the cream of the 8 BL : | Sinclair, Margaret Sullivan, = REAL ; ™ old unemployed oil field worker. | description of any speeding car. ‘STORY jand 38th St. in Indianapolis to'year's video crop will become Best Dramatic Show— Celanese t Actor—8id Caesar, Walter, ele AE The other squad car then makes, THE LIFE | the outskirts of Noblesville. |known when the names are taken Theater, Philco Goodyear TV Hafpden, Thomas Mitchell, Rob-| tod § - d Li + the arrest, :) : OF JIMMY DURANTE A road survey, recently com- from sealed envelopes by Pres- Playhouse, Pulitzer Prize Play-| ert Montgomery, Vaughn Tr. Tax Re un st... : Fairchild cited sev- o Pleted, reveals heavy traffic over ident Mike Stokey. Television ed- house, Robert Montgomery Pre- pest Comedian or ior Jim Ls : eral legal authorities to justify =~ BY GENE FOWLER Ind. 37 “justifies building a new-'itors of daily and trade papers Sénts, Studio One. : . |—Lucille Ball, Imogene Coca, - On Page 20 i |#n arrest by one officer when'the © . . PAGES ~~ = je bigger highway,” Mr. Hadden throughout the country : nom- Best Comedy Show—Burns and Jimmy Durante, Martin and Lew- ¢ rn on is observed by another. . . - Isald. : : : /inated the candidates, | Allen, Groucho Marx, Herb Shrin-|js, Herb Shriner, Red Skelton. »

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