Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1952 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

23 Indictments “Crack Heart’ of Dope Ring

Nationwide Ring Caught In Roundup

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BAN. FRANCISCO, Mar. 8

The indictment of 23 memhers of |

an alleged narcotics ring here will

“crack the heart of the nation’s narcotics racket,” United States

Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger sald today. The 23 persoms, including mob-] ster Waxey Gordon, were indicted yesterday by a federal grand fury on: evidence they supplied millions of dollars

soast The single Indictment names of alleged peddlers in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Miasouri, Minnesota, Arizona, vada, Oregon and California. Head of the ring, according to! the indictment, was Irving Wex-/

ler, alias Waxey Gordon, 63-year-| old "ex-heer baron” of New York! City during prohibition days.| Wexler is now serving a 25-year-|

to-life sentence in 8ing Sing.

worth of! heroin. to addicts from coast to!

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Another. five named in the indictment are serving time or are

under sentence for narcotics vioJations. The others are expected to he taken into custody ‘within 48 hours, narcotics agents sald. “This is the higgest collection of important violators ever included in one indictment in the | nation,” sald Ernest Gentry, district supervisor for the Bureau of Narcotics. A federal Michael Picini,

narcotics agent,

joined

peddler, and successfully made A

number of sales to some of the night at General Hospital of in- [three boys suffered cuts.

gnerobs, Sgenis gaid; however, Juries sustained in a car- ‘truck| Ronald Carter, who died in the age of a U. 8. Alr Force C-47 lannouncement of My. Tiuran and a Midwestern gangster was crash on the way to Rollerland| SA% Da Tg a uhned Hiewhich: erastied yesterday on an Atom Plants plans. He again made clear that contacted to “take care of him," here with his Sunday 8chool pration for his 14th Erna Alpine, glacier, i They pShve no he will be in the race for the but Plcint pulled out of the racket an P Y: signal "to indicate survivors, . Democratic nomination if Mr. TruSchool group. Mar. 23. The. plane carried seven or . , in time to save his te. | - By DAN KIDNEY man does not run again. | Critically injured im an auto- Ronald, a sixth grader at Bar- sight passengers and crewmen. Times Staff Writer THREE—The Statesman,

Hearing May Delay Morris Cleanup Plan

By United Press

up campaign, informed sources | said today. | President Truman's anti-cor-

ruption chief has been called by porirr's deputies sald was travel-| ing 70 to 80 miles an hour, struck

shipments of ofl for Soviet Rus- a truck in the 4800 block on 8. ala by a Chinese-financed com- Meridian St.

the Senate's permanent investi gating - committee to testify on

pany represented by Morris’ New| York law firm, Chairman Clyde

will testify Tuesday,

program sald Mr. Morris’ testi:|

mony, which may last more than 2" {slight

{vehicle, skidding some 150 feet.

one day, likely will delay com-| pletion of a questionnaire requir-| ing key government officials to| lst all their sources of income. | Mr. Morris had hoped to finish drafting the questionnaire early next week as the first major step in his campaign to weed. out| wrongdoers in government. Meanwhile, Sen. Karl E. Mundt!

(R. 8. D.) sald the Senate group At General Hospital, must find out if “post-war Pearl but In the government confined, made posisble the use of Amer- : nijlje Bowers.

Harborism”

fean surplus ships to haul oil from| an Iron Curtain port to Communist China under charter to the Soviet Oil Bureau. Sen. Mundt said testimony indi-

and that the State Department okayed them at the same time

the gang WV in late 1950, posing as a dope skating he promised,

{mobile crash was his chum, Ron(ald Straley, 13.

dition ix the boys’ pastor, the Rev./parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zedd men aboard—three lieutenant 1100s in income: tax payments Sen, Relauvey at The darling of Myron McKitrick, 31. The minia-| Adams of Bargersville. His sister, ~olonels, a major,” a captain, a from atomic energy commisison wing Sy, and all of the left

ter drove the Rargersville Chris-i8ylvia Carter, tian Church boys’ group to Indi|anapolls. Four other members of and Mrs. the group were injured.

Mrs. Russell Straley of BargersWASHINGTON, Mar. & New- yjlle, has a possible skull fracture bold Morris’ appearance before and internal injuries. Senate Investigators next week ter suffered a compound fracture’ may delay his government clean- of the left leg.

R. Hoey (Dp. Was driven by Maurice Yates, 37, his mother. N. C.) said Mr. Morris probably of 1915 8. Delaware St. Mr. Yates was backing his truck out of a ‘and his mother, Mrs. Lillie May It Sources close to the cleanup g.iyeway when the Bargersville Essex,

|ers, (Baker, 15, of Bargersville; Bobby by | Morris, Charles DeMott, 13, Bargersville,

the flying lighted in

cated the Navy approved the trips Cay waa listed aa

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Fugitive Captured | GARY, Mar.’ 8 UP) —Authorg.: prepared today to turn fugi- August while serving a four-year Harry. S8eel, over . to Arkansas The FBI, who announced his ar-railroad yard.

» SATURDAY, MAR. 8, 1952 rest, said Seel escaped from the Arkansas State Penitentiary last

Bonne Terre, term for burglary ‘and. grand police. larceny. He was captured n a

Oregon Primary Looms As Key Political Fight

Ry United Press their names were filed without WASHINGTON, Mar. 8 ~The their consent. Oregon presidential primary Delegates elected £5) Otegon are } . committed to exert thei¥ best efstacked up today as an even behalf of the candidates {more furious battle royal than winning the presidential = pri-| Tuesday's curtain-raising contest maries. | {in New Hampshire, In New Hampshire, Sen. Taft, | | When the deadline for filing. in Gov, Blussen, Sen nal alvey and | [the May 18 Oregon race passed eaders of .the senhower-for- | late yesterday, every “big name” President organization were wind-| {in the presidential derby had been pe thew Sampaigns, Taft q entered except Sen. Robert A. en. Eisenhower, Sen. Taft an Taft of Ohlo an avowed candi- Gov. Stassen are entered in the!

{date for the Republican nomina- GOP presidentia] preference “pop-|

+. ularity contest,” and S8en. Ke-| ition, and President Truman, whol... oo 4 Mr. Truman in the

still hasn't announced his politi- Democrat | cal’ plans, and Sen. Richard B. atic race. { Russell (D. Ga.). Blasts Eisenhower {

In a Manchester speech last tered in Oregon—Gen, Dwight D. night, Sen. Taft suggested that | Eisenhower, Gen. Douglas Mac- Gen. Eisenhower's ties to the) Arthur, Gov. Earl Warren of Cal- Roosevelt administration ‘ might ifornia. former Gov. Harold E. make the General unable to “call Stassen of Minnesota and Sen. * spade a spade” in the presi-

Wayne 1.. Morse of Oregon. dential campaign. At Concord, Sen. Frank Carl-!

o. (8on (R. Kas.), director of the na-| The Democrats were Sen. Estes tional Eisenhower headquarters,

Five GOP candidates were en-

Democrats

Gov.

Other Politics

By United Press KLEINE SCHEIDEGG, SwitzThe other ¢rjand, Mar. 8—Four 8wiss mountaineers today reached the wreck-

RIDE ENDS IN° TRAGEDY—A Bargersville boy died, a minister and five youths were inured ‘Reta hinted again that the Atlantic deiver of - Tennessee, when this car struck a truck here. fense commander may come home ene J 8, Supreme Court Justice Wil- July. He said Gen. Eisenhower liam O. Douglas. might advise Mr. Truman that Ly Wrecked of candidates without their con- pleted,” sent and does not permit withNn qa ing ar Y Other political developments: ONE —- Gen, MacArthur withA 13-year-old Bargersville boy|” Billle rode in the front seat sey Republican primary yesterday. [Carter, the boy who died of a St tate Fic hts TWO—Sen. Robert 8. Kerr (D. fractured skull. His throat was J T L ' the Nebraska Democratic pri-

Ronald: Carter died at

Adlal F. 8tevenson of Illinois and perore the GOP convention in Boy, 13, Dies, 6 injured Oregon law permits the filing Nis mission in Europe fs com. drawal, Gen. MacArthur, Sen. Morse and Justice Douglas said : — drew his name from the New Jer{il never show his pals the fancy With the minister and ‘Ronald |Okla.), opposing Sen. Kefauver in mid- cut by flying wood. y flying mary, opened his campaign in that {state and said he expects an early

g per-| WASHINGTON, Mar. 8 Warn- sonal newspaper of Gov. Herman ing that Indiana may lose mil- Talmadge of Georgia, attacked

gersville school,

Harold H. In serious con- own

was the son of:Reports from Madrid, where the Carter, address un- plane took off yesterday on a He lived with his foster flight to Germany, listed seven

Sh 12, AUrYIges him. sergeant and a private. Reports .ogt.plus contractors unless the She also is a foster child of Mr. from Germany sald eight men Adams, Funeral serv- were believed aboard. federal Jaw in Shangel, Sale oie ices are being Arranged. The veteran Swiss mountain SIale aay al

——— guides made a perilous five-hour A long letter explaining the

climb up the avalanche-ridden' al S ] situation was received by Indiana slopes of Jungfrau Mountain to Senators and Congressmen. It

reach the broken plane at. the . 8000-foot level of Guggi Glacier, Wa®. signed by Gov. Schricker. Struck Mountain State Auditor Frank T. Millis and

Ulrich Eymann, manager of State Treasurer Wiliam L. Forthe Jungfrau Hotel at Wengeralp tune. lon the Bo Ravers Th BI It asked that these officials be {the plane appeared to : have Riven a hearing in Washington

Man, Mother crashed head-on to a mountain to 1ay their case before the en-

Times State Service . s tire Indiana congressional dele PENDLETON, MaF, 8-4 New) Jen uml mmplet ont theglasiey gation “some time after Apr. 1.”

helow, early last evening | York Central HE An In, The C-47 had taken off from A date is expected to be set ly. The truck carrying cord wood, Madrid at 10:47 a. m, (4:47 a. m, Short IA 31-year-old Anderson man and | Indianapolis Time) yesterday for The letter points out that the

its base at Fuerstenfeldbruck Air State of Tennessee took a tax Base in Bavaria. case, covering the points involved, | was about 70 miles off its © the U. 8. Supreme Court and course when it crashed. lost, The high court ruled that Mr. Evmann sald some of his ©O 8t-plus-fixed-fee - contractors hotel guests saw a plane circling working on AEC Projects in close to the Jungfrau peaks late Tennessee need not pay that yesterday afternoon. state's sale and use taxes. “All of a sudden, the engine Plan Refund Plea noise stopped and there was the working on

Companies the thunder of a crash and of an avalanche over at Guggl Glacier,” Multi-million-dollar AEC project

he said. “The avalanche must 2% Dana, Ind. had been paying

the Indiana gross income tax, |} have heen Set. off by the plane but now are preparing to ask|

ha for a refund and pay no more,

Double-Take

By BOB BARNES

Train-Car Crash Kills

Ronald 8iraley, son of Mr. and

The minis-

fa 1962. The 3 and Tribune

“70-80 MPH’

The minister's car, which

Dead are Willis William KFssex,

58, New Albany. She died

en route to 8t. John's Hospital,

coming over the top of 8! ndersor al ‘ ML, - cashed Into Bi The accident happened on a side road opposite the Pendleton State Police Post at the intersection of Ind. 9 and Ind. 67. State police said the couple were returning to Anderson from Pendleton. The demolished car was carried a quarter of a mile {down the track, where the front {wheels of the engine were de-'

{ me to wear socks like THIS?

&You expec Injured also were Billie Bow- . 12, of Bargersville; James

R. R. 4, Franklin, and

Eye Saved A delicate operation: perfomed

where all according to the officials’ letter. railed, NR Charles DeMott remained State police said the car was Lodge Blames Acheson Should the preparedness prod th ight e hit bv a second train hefore the 90 ADELPHIA, Mar. 8 (UP) gram be speeded up and AEC save i ye y i -Gov. John D. Lodge of Con- projects increased, state financing

bodies eould he removed. This ~ , nearly stopped hor necticut charged last night that

the windshield of jt <macked the. vehicle and did Secretary of State Dean Acheson car, hroken by jitt)e damage. issued “an invitation to the Comfrom the truck, mrogpers said there are no munists to move in” to Korea boy's eye, His flash signals at the crossing, but when the United States informed "Ialr” to- there is an unobstructed view the world where the lines of” our both wavs. frontier would extend,

would be placed in great jeopardy by the Supreme Court ruling, the letter stated. They ask that the matter be |. taken up ‘by Congress and the law changed to permit such tax charges.

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