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There Is an Ugly Little War Going On
NOTE: Times reporter Ed Kennedy returned to Indianapolis last week-end after a six-week trip to Japan and Korea following the bloodline to the front line.
Why Doesn't al Te ra oeie GrAICK
In Safe Deposit Box
. By ANDY OLOFSON Why doesn’t the FBI step in and seize $250,000 sup-| iposedly cached in a Minneap-|
olis bank safe deposit box—'
(the loot of a Los Angeles safeBy ED KENNEDY leracking? Times Staff Writer | That's the latest question in BACK HOME IN INDIANA, Feb. 27--1t takes just 60 the bizarre history of Lawrence, P. Bardin, former Indianapolis hours to get from here to Seoul. A few more hours peer tycoon involved in the fedand you're at the Korean front. ral 1% scandals ter mit . : . ardin claims the .quarte - Despite the emphasis on peace. talks lion dollar theft in May, 1947, is, at Panmunjom, there still'is an ugly little what has kept him from paying i . i i up more than $400,000 in income war going on. There are men alive right taxes” Uncle Sam says he stil now who won't live to see morning. owes for 1946. There are others'who today are good, ‘They Are Just Waiting’ healthy American boys. They will be ~ wounded, fighting for their lives tomorrow morning.
In Los Angeles, Sgt. R. T. These will be the casualties from the
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Ruble, head of the safe detail, said the FBI has traced the stolen! quarter million dollars to a safe] 'deposit box in a bank “sonfewhere in Minnesota.”
Mr. Kennedy many patrol and counter patrol actions today and to- | “But they won't tell me ex-
actly where,” the sergeant ex-' (plained. “Evidently they are just, {waiting for someone to come and: open that box.
night. The wounded will need blood. If the bloodline flows, it will be there for them. If it doesn’t flow, Americans at home are to blame. : oa | “The rent on that safety box . Heartbreak Ridge, the Punchbowl, No Name Hill, has er ie regularly Y | Hill 851—these may be only names in newspaper stories |May, 1947, but they won't tell me to you, .names you'd rather forget. But they have a |" has blew paying it.
hm “I wish I did know.” special significance to me. Insists It Was Stolen = = » » ”
s . | In Houston, Tex., Bardin flatly, I SAW these battlegrounds—pieces of cheap Korean | denied joo aw he or o real estate paid for in blood. Young American blood. the key safety deposit box. But I helped carry guys off Hill 851 and load them on
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CELEBRANT—Bishop R. A. Kirchhoffer was Episcopal Church today.
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Police Nab
in forged money orders. FBI agents are ‘holding a 23-year-old Canadian-—-first to be * |arrested In a vast bogus money forder deal that has been plaguing U. 8. and Canadian authorities. - But {t was the combination of Washington's birthday, thoroughness of three Indianapolis deétectives and an alert credit manager in a local department store that {led to the arrest.
Tried to Cash Order
John Sidney Doyle, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, was arrested when he attempted to cash two $100 money orders at H. P, Wasson & Co., Friday. | The arrest was made by Det. Sgts. Edward Tutt, James Partain and Ted Crail, who had been called by Edward Sullivan, credit |manager at Wasson's.
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. Gi i. s . : etectives he and hi to officiate at the Ash Wednesday Communion in- Christ Pe ye 101d detectives he any nig
other-in-law, Robert Macdonnell, 26, flew in from Windsor.
he, too, is sure the FBI does know. v 3 helicopters for evacuation to the rear. When we put the | “If I knew,” said Bardin, “1 . : cover on the ‘copter litter, a wounded man would be alive, 'Would file a lien against that box er VICES ar : x . y so I would be sure to get my! The pilot would fly and pray for 45 miles that his Pas- rightful share.” = senger would be alive when they landed.
I saw a full battalion expose themselves to enemy fire to free a trapped patrol and save three wounded men.
Bardin still insists the money
| He also frankly admits the By EMMA RIVERS MILNER {$250,000 is part of $499,635.47 he| Times Church Editor {made in black market beer oper-| {ations here in 1946 with sthe stock of themselves as Lent began {Indianapolis Brewing Co., Int. |with Ash Wednesday today. |, It's all involved in the com-|- In.the sturdy stone edifice at {plicated story of federal delin- the heart of Indianapolis, Christ possession of obscene literature {quent tax claims of more than Episcopal Church on the Circle, when the vice officers raided the
SW over an operatin ble ‘in a I saw doctors sweat perating ta $400,000 still pending against the the Rt. Rev, R. A. Kirchhoffer New Novelty Shop. 10 E. Market hospital’ tent all night long and then concede, after all {former Indianapolis brewer, | — |8t., where he worked as clerk.
His Holiness, Pope Pius XII,
I watched blood being transfused into soldiers in as many os four places in their bodies at once. A serious case got blood injected directly into the armpit, as close to the heart as they can reach, with an electric pump.
peddled to high school youngsters,
‘their efforts, that only the gift of blood could save their ‘Impoverished’ | will broadcast an Ash Wednes. | Sth Was a television magician ° atients. . | Bardin, in reporting the Los, jand musician appearing weekly on p | day message to the world by 1 hildren's sh > 2 z & ‘ Rothe | Angeles safe theft, told income| ;.dio from the Vatican in Rome. ja popular c ren’'s show. I SAW men saved. I saw men die. .. (tax officials here the loss would| wFBM will carry the address : 10 Municipal Court 4 today,
: - . : {prevent him from paying his tax| A ~. I saw hospital wards filled with wounded. The nurses |b He claimed the robbery “im-| 51.3 PB. and WIRC, at 1:39
: : i » Po ON 3 S Z point to cots in halls and store rooms, now unused, but |poverished” him. | and released him without bond. -ready for action. 5
| . Howev®r, in Texas, he claims he \was to celebrate Holy Communion! Following the hearing, Vice Lt. ; . ; {made a deal with Internal Reve- at 12:05 p. m. Bishop Kirchhoffer Russell Carmichael, who arrested I saw casualties from a single patrol use, in a few nue agents to settle'a $436,000'heads the Episcopal Diocese of Stern, said he did not plan any . hours, as much blood as is received at the Indianapolis : Blood Center in a whole day.
Judge Scott McDonald granted Stern a continuance to Mar. 14
tax lein againft him there for Indianapolis. |action against other persons con00,000. { Protestants of many denomina- nected with the novelty shop unThe deal; he says, would include tions were to assemble for til after Stern's trial. | relinquishing his clalms to $25,000 luncheon and to hear an inspira-/ Confiscated in the raid were 70 {being held by the government tional address today at 12:15 p. m. small books, all sex parodies on {here, another $25,000 in cash and'in the Central YMCA. Dr. Frank popular newspaper comic strips. {$5000 a year for 10 years. 'M. Templin, one of the pastors Also.taken were 41 books of lewd | Federal tax officials have de-!of the Meridian Street Methodist photographs, and several illicit | nied any such “deals.” Church, ‘was to speak on “Christ sex devices. { -U. 8. Treasury and Justice De- and Our Changing World.” partment officials here were mum . : : {about all phases of the Bardin To those of you in Indianapolis who have donated {tax case. Roman Catholics are expected a high school principal, after stu-
blood, I bring you heartfelt thanks of thousands of guys | peputy ‘U. 8. Attorney Mar- to attend church today or this demts were showing the. filthy fwd photos in the sc all over Korea who already have received your contribu- (shall E. Hanley currently isievening to receive ashes on their pictures in the school. named the New Novel
i i i i \studying a huge file on the Bar- heads. The priest will make the: Lt. Garmichael, who conducted their source, police sa tion, or who.may have an appointment with life tomor- | cocd cent to him Tooms Wantlar of ee arnt oe Tr he 0 Conducted thelr gubree, police & row because you remembered.
: ington. The case probably will head. As he does To those who have not yet given, I bring a question ¢ Submitted to a federal grand words in Latin which mean: from the combat linés, in the simple language of soldiers:
jury this fall. “What the hell are you waiting for?”
City Smoke Law Ties Up Scrap for Defense
3 By JOE ALLISON ’ 3 ] ’ oy forecasters shouldn't do Critically-needed metal scrap for the nation’s steel groundhogs — walked out on alin the church.
srt ing away here, snarled in a fight over city long-range limb. He said: wi : iy he y : “The peak of winter has passed. | anti-smok .
. Things should be on the up-grade| Churches all over the city will Local scrap suppliers get a large part. of their steel
The wounded, dead and dying in Korea looked just the same as did the wounded, dead and dying on Normandy beachheads, in the hedgerows of St. Lo and on the battleground of Bastonge. Whether it's a big or little war makes
no difference to the casualties. School Head Complained
Receive Ashes Police acted on complaints from
{ “Remember man that thou art!/in Chicago |dust and unto dust thou shalt re-|cities. |turn.” | Lt. Carmichael said the mer- | Thus the brevity of life and the /chandise was found in a back to
Forecaster Dares: : mortality of. human flesh are/room showcase. He went to the up to $25 Goodby, Winter Ie out. novelty store: with a search war- among the students
Wallace Bertrand, a normally = With a thought for the men and rant signed by Judge McDonald. small. 25-cent cautious fellow, peeked at the women employed, downtown, “We're going to crack down on strip parodies. smiling sun today and came up(Christ Church each Lent’ holds it,” Inspector Leolin Troutman! ‘myles of the with a daring forecast: {services at noon, Monday through 'said. “It's filthy stuff.” You can kiss farewell to winter. Frid ay. Many distinguished! The chief U. 8. meteorologist— although knowing that federal season. Bishop Kirchhoffer
and other Midwest offered one of the obs for sale by Stern. Some of the books, the vice officer,
will
Troutman said police are looking Crime Pays.” {for street peddlers known to be making sidewalk sales of their smut in congested areas.
Plan Special Services
+ . i \was stolen from a safe in “ | ent Openin | S i k P ddl; brother's Los Angeles home in| ! biothens 10s ‘Ang mn sex Doo e Ing | A TV performer was brought to court here today on! Christians the world over took charges of having sex books which police said were bein
POSSESSED—TV's Duke Stern.
so, he will say flooded with the photos, books and raid was preceded by a plainsex equipment by outside contacts'clothes officer who said he was
were priced : . although most popular break in the international deal-
pocket-size comic
books
preachers are scheluled. for taisiuntil-the-“town-is-cleansd up: Gordon-and-Littte-Todine Others:
Funeral .Cost $162,400
They checked in at a hotel. Doyle
: {said he then went out to cash one TV Actor Arrested Here “im oie
closed because of Washington's birthday. 80 he decided to try {the ring's next best target — a large department store.
Had Given Warning But what Doyle didn't know
8 was that the three detectives, who ‘handle forgery detail, already had
Duke Stern, 39, of 3419 Hillside Ave., was charged with Warned credit managers of the
operations of the international
ring, giving the numbers of ex-|
{press money orders stolen in {Canada. Noting the money order Doyle {wanted to cash also was drawn jon the Canadian National Rail- .. (way, Mr. Sullivan called the de- . | tectives, even though the number did not correspond with one of
the stolen blanks.
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find out what was delaying him. | |The brother-in-law also was! {promptly arrested. Later he tried {to dispose of eight of the money! order blanks. + Both were arrested on prelim-| |inary charges of forgery, but! o | Doyle's case was dismissed when | {he was turned over to the FBI. | Macdonnet is being held under! {$1500 bond for a hearing sched-| {uled Friday in Municipal Court 4.
Had FBI Notice
‘hool. They notice of Feb, 10 about a Feb. 7 ty Shop as id. station Where 46 money
yesterday's blanks were stolen.
order The notice’
blanks.
passed the word to local store (officials.
Meanwhile, FBI agents hailed
cene books according the Ing in bogus money orders.
Today Doyle waived hearing be{fore U. 8. Commissioner Lawrence
were
Indianapolis. | value of $1000.
ward F, Stiles, assistant FBI agent in charge here, as “some-|
Canadian As Ring's ‘Organizer’ For Indianapolis Area
| By DAVID WATSON Three alert Indianapolis detectives—with an assisg W from the Father of Our Country, George Washington— today were credited with breaking an international ring
While détectives were question- | state ing Doyle, Macdonnell came in to/
Teamsters Union promised today The detectives noted an FBI jo stop sending out flying squads
as the remainder of the taxi come b urglary at the Windsor railroad pany strike.
listed the serial numbers of the|Borted Board. There were these The detectives promptly other developments as authorities (sought either to end the five-day walkout or halt the violence that
Doyle's arrest as the first big has accompanied it:
labor commissioner, officially ene tered the dispute after C. E, Davis, president of the striking Turner Jr. and was ord {local, urged him to act to séttle carried a rdered held names such as Li'l Abner, Bath- under $5000 bond. The warrant | 1° Zl. Hitson mediates He said other raids will follow, less Groggins, Dagwood, Flash !8sued against Doyle said he !Y Sent two representatives to get brought -10.-stolen-meney- orders 12. touch with Red Cab officials... : i “ from Canada to In addition to several stores/included “Rex Morgan, M.D. in like/speak both tomorrow and Friday : red : Call” “Dic s in They had a potential cash-in|toTneys met in Prosecutor Franig p now under surveilance, Inspector Night Call” and “Dick Tracy in Fairchild’s office in an effort to
Doyle was identified by Eq.| ind a way to end the walkout.
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set up the ring's operations In this area. Mr. Stiles said investigations also showed the ring was so weil organized that its members were ordered not to infringe on the territory of other members. The agent said the ring has been operating in Canada and the United States for the past “several months.” It was indicated today that Doyle's arrest was the first on this side of the border. Agents estimated Doyle alone has. been connected with at least $4500 of forged money orders, Mr. Stiles sald Doyle has cashed orders in Milwaukee, Madison, Wis., and Philadelphia. Others have been passed by the ring in New York, Illinois, Miche igan and other states over the lcountry. : Mr. Stiles said Doyle admitted ‘he used forged Identification ‘papers furnished him by a key member of the ring. Doyle fure ther stated, according to the ‘agent, that rhost of the money, orders were cashed in banks, trust companies and large dee partment stores. | When Doyle was arrested, Mr, [Stiles said, he was attempting ito cash two $100 money orders. i The agent said the money ore {ders used by the gang are drawn {on the Canadian National Raile way Co. ; : For the past several months, Mr. Stiles sald, Canadian authorie {ties have been plagued with bure glaries of railway express offices from which the money ordex | blanks were stolen. : { All of the money orders have {been made out in $100 amounts, 1 {the agent said. : Doyle is charged with interes transportation of stolen property, which in turn stems from transporting forged money, orders in “foreign commerce.”
Cah Co., Union in Peace Move |
Both Red Cab, Inc, and the
patrol Indianapolis streets fom
Police Chief John Ambuhl ree the . agreement to the
ONE—Thomas Hutson, state TWO—Company and union ate
They had another date this in Judge Lloyd D,
Tip-off on the local outlet came LONDON, Feb. 27 (UP)—King'thing of a district organizer” for The
from now on. Chances of pro- hold special services between now from ¥ junked auto bodies. To,
{longed cold are pretty slim.” jand Easter, the Feast of‘ the Beo-i on ; G 's" funeral cost $162.400. a 'the ring. Judge continued until then a ke the. metal usable by the But both are caught in thé mid- He was heartened by today’s Resurrection. Many Protestants {rom several high school stu- (seorges funeral cost §162.400, a g make the al us ! :
. er! : Ae 3 hearing on a company request fog / x . Pag . y : $4 1 t - Prelimi restigatic as jidle of the tangle of the need for bright sun and temperatures will attend family dinners in their dents, all teen-agers, Who were De en —r eva 2 Aiton na ig "> has ia temporary injunction. steel mills, all rubber, wood and. "ong city laws speeding toward 50. Also by to-/church buildings which will be:Called into their vice principal's Propriation estimate showed to- ent here tos al, Doyle Viol 1 ust ‘be burned out 5¢T2P : {SP g ‘oward 30. - Also by. to- ge i -a Office. after they had exhibited '9ay. Was sent here from Canada te slence Charged upholstery m | Neither the board nor Mr. Min- morrow’s forecast: Fair skies/followed by worship and Bible ; ——pnn “| _Red Cab attorney Donald ©, of the bodies. 5 gle can give permission for burn and a high of 53 degrees. |study. p ‘Duck filed the suit yesterday. It But antl-smoke rules passed b/g the “car bodies if ‘city laws! After that, maybe a little rain,| Catholics will engage .in their asked an injunction to halt “mass City Council makes it illegal to are violated. Only the City Coun-/maybe even a little snow, but|popular devotions called the “Way # | picketing violence, strikers fole ® nothing very bitter. |of the Cross.” In so doing. they ‘ :
burn the junk cars in numbers. .an give permission by amend- 0 ; ; ; : : {lowing cabs, st which will prevent loss. of moneyijng the ordinance, Mr. Mingle will follow in spirit the main epi-| {ing hen ers pumasty sodes in Christ's Al af : » .
dealers. | : by the dealers Pointed out. ND Professor Enters
pathway to # § : ” Outgrowth of the conflict be-I" aaanwhile, Mr. Kuret said to- Calvary. a Irae O. Miles. aitorney {08 tween defense needs. and city gay more than 4000 auto bodies, Race for Congressman Thus -Lént “will progress in 3 it ordinances is a charged filed representing as much as 4000 tons :
{accused the company of “sendi its sluggers out to heat up strike ers.” Cases of three Red Cab officials charged with assault and battery . |with intent to kill a striker were ba Continued in Municipal Court 4 . [yesterday afternoon until Mar. 13, |. Free on $500 bond each wera {Bob Goodner, 46, of 1530 Ny j1inols 8t.; Marshall Hogue, 45, ! jof 1554 Ringgold-Ave., and Jess . |Stevens, 52, of 115 N. Grant ‘Ave, Strikers William Boyce, 47, of 1936 Boyd Ave., and Peter Estuck, 37, of 892 N. Gladstone Ave., sure rendered last niglit on warrants charging assault and battery on a Red Cab driver. They were res leased without bend: ER
‘he spiri intensity . coming to a! against J. Kasle & Sons Inc. of steel scrap, are rusting away Charles Price, Notre Dame Uni- on iil "Holy Week ne Good| #] aD ; versity professor and runner-up ¢//Mmax in ) 30 2210 Oliver Ave, In local scrap yards. (for the Democratic nomination Friday, the anniversary of the Cited. for Violation | " -_- = lfor U. S. Senator here two years, Crucifixion. ‘The penitential seaThe scrap metal dealer was Ceqtholic School |ago; today filed his candidacy for S00 Will end on Holy Saturday, cited yesterday’ or, Yiolasion - : the Democratic nomination for APT. 12,/the eve of Easter. the city's anti-smoke- ordinance - : [congressman in the Third Dis- ey |] growing out of a fire at the tom. DTiVE to Open {trict (South Bend). Beginning of Lent pany’s yards Monday. . Kick-off dinners for more than| Prof. Price has been one of the| . Michael Kuret, Kasle purchas- 4500 workers in the Catholic key leaders in the World Federa- Marked in Rome '! ing agent, said today: the fire High Schools Fund Campaign will (tion movement since he served in i ; was accidental. His firm lostibe held in Marion County par-the armed forces and lost an arm' ROME, Feb. 27 (UP)—The 40-| | money as a result, he declared. '|ishes tomorrow night. in combat. (day lenten period recalling the|? John G. Mingle, city smoke pre-/ Goal for the drive is more than fasting and prayer-of Christ in vention chief, agreed part of the/$1.5 million, to finance a new rum n to Meet P ithe desert began today with the! | fire might have been accidental,| East Side high school and addi- a 0 Meel Press |solemn observation of Ash Wed-' but insisted it resulted from two|tions to Cathedral .and Sacred| “WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 ( UP) (nesday. _ o previous fires - “deliberately set” Heart High Schools. Construc-|—President Truman will hold a| ‘Roman Catholic tradition says) by the dealer; A ‘tion at Cathedral started thjs/news conference at 9:30 a. m. that during Christ's 40 days in William Reightor, local chief of week. The. addition will include (Indianapolis Time) tomorrow, /the desert the devil tempted him| Released’ Without Bond. the National Production Author- eight cldssrooms and a cafeteria. — wo |pfomising all the earth “if thou In Municipal Taayt Bu i 2 ity, last month appealed to the| Starting at 2 p. m. Sunday, the Times Index . 3 but bow before, me.” ; todays
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Board of Safety and Mr. Mingle workers will canvass every Cath-| Amusements Zen. 10 | Today the Lenten period —: Sher Sse ‘were continued un by; to “expedite” the burning:of auto olic home in Indianapolis. First | C i - (Sittizsndses on Lenten-comes from the old Eng-| Poli hs thi Loins SR Aa di Ce . rts ‘on the drive will bel COMICS” ...uiiaiiniinnie, 25 "“" " 2 i ce this morning reported hodies for scrap. | repor; 4 | Crossword. *............., 2¢ (lish “lenctem” meaning spring new violence in the ‘Got to Have It’ « turned In at a luncheon Friday| Editorials aL aa 14 |season—is dedicated to the ob-i
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| organizing walkout, at ir a | | | |
Safety Cab companies.
“We are in extreme need o
servarice of the ceremonies mark-! scrap steel,” Mr. Reightor said’
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