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No Home-Grown Gestapo

Bn For Indianapolis UNDER Indianapolis law, as it stands today, any police-

man can stop you, or anybody, practically anywhere,

and demand that you tell him your name, address, occupa« tion, what you are doing there and why, and whether you have a criminal record. Sa, If your answers don't impress him as “accurate, prompt and straightforward” he can search you, right on the spot, and if he still isn’t impressed he can haul you off to jail. If you don’t answer his questions, in fact it is his “duty” to haul you off to jail, and for that you can be imprisoned for 90 days and fined $300. ; Hitler's Gestapo and Stalin's MVD never had it so good. .

4 “ r » - » THURL C. RHODES and his as yet unnamed clients, ' have done Indianapolis a very great service by their prompt challenge of this fantastic city law, which only came to light this week-—when a court sentenced a woman to jail under it. It is so obviously a violation of the most basic constitutional rights of Americans that there should be no question about the outcome of the court test-they seek. Even more interesting is how there came to be such alaw. ow er" . : Councilmen, who are supposed’ to enact city- laws, ap-

\ parently never heard of it.

~. No one, so far, will admit being the author of it. Somehow, it seems, this got written and inserted into the city code while it was being “recodified”—which means rearranged-—during 1951. A busy, and.we're afraid careless, City Council enacted the whole city code, apparently without having read it. And there it is. : ‘There have been complaints that quite a few other passages in the city’s code of laws were materially changed during that same recodification—and that some quite different statutes accidentally got enacted from what existed before or what Council intended. No other has come so clearly to light, however, at least not yet. Once this ridiculous and un-American section is removed it might be a good idea for competent lawyers to take a look at the rest of this revised code and see if it does contain any other hidden jokers.

Fairchild . . . and Rainier a DEMOCRATS, who don't hold the office at present, have no primary contest for the nominations for county prosecutor and county treasurer. But the two Republican _ incumbents, oddly enough, do have opposition next Tuesday. We believe the party ought to renominate both the men now in those Frank cutor, He hasn't accomplished everything he may hav wanted tp get done; but on the whole his record is webBow the average, and his administration has been a clean and vigorous one. - = Louis Rainier has improved the service from the treas_urer’s office, inaugurated a good many practices that have been helpful to the taxpayer, and run his job economically They deserve the indorsement of their party at the , and their nomination will add strength to the party's ticket in November.

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Trusted Us ‘TEVER the results of the postponed Korean truce _ talks, the Allies have a powerful new weapon in world defense against Red aggression. There is now proof that a majority of so-called Communists in typical satellite states, if they can escape, will fight rather than return. Of course it isn't news that satellite populations don't like their prisons. But it had been supposed that at least most of the Red-indoctrinated troops were fairly loyal to their masters. rl ; The poll of Red prisoners of war in Korea shows that only 70,000 of the total 173,000 are ready to return. Among the North Koreans, 47 per cent refused, and among the Chinese, 78 per cent. : This result is all the more remarkable because the poll was loaded in favor of the Reds. They were not asked, “are - you willing to go back?” which would have been a fair question. Théy were asked, “would you forcibly oppose repatriation ?"—an extreme test for prisoners. : Then the Red governments of China and North Korea were allowed to broadcast propaganda pleas to the prisoners. But neither that, nor homesickness, nor fear of their “capitalist captors,” could persuade them to return to Stalin's paradise. ; 5

DESPITE this revelation of Stalin's inherent weakness in Asia, apparently there are still some American and Allied officials who want to ship those anti-Red prisoners

back Sabir) iwi army. J ~~ Certai it is the duty of Wilied negotiators to obtain

release of our heroic men held by the Reds by any fair exchange of prisoners possible. But our captured troops would scorn release at the price of Allied surrender in Korea. . That is not what “hey fought for. To return the anti-Red prisoners would be the first step —and a long one—to Allied surrender. Not only in Kores, not only in Asia, but everywhere. : hi ‘We cannot hold the line against Communist aggression, much less hope that Stalin's victims will rise against him: when they have a chance for freedom, if we betray them. ‘Many of the anti-Red prisoners held by us came over in - response to our specific pledge of freedom. If we are false to that promise, we shall destroy what Stalin with all bis lies

and terror has not been able to kill. That is the faith of .

millions in the satellite states that we can be trusted.

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WINNING FRIENDS . . . By Charles Lucey

‘# TALLAHASSEE, May 1—Not since the last

Florida hurricane has anything hit. this state with. the swish-and-swoop of Sen. Estes Kefauver's: campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

It is. paced like the wind. It packs more meetings into a ‘ddy than any candidate possibly could manage, yet this one usually “does. Unquestionably he’s the handshakin'est man in American politics. He may not have developed any new vote-hustling techniques but he has refined and polished the old ones as has no one else in the business,

Yesterday, the Tennessean was pumping that big right hand across northern Florida. Tuesday, he fanned through a dozen Florida west coast towns with a speed that must have ‘left some of them breathless and exhausted, but certainly friendlier toward Estes Kefauver. e Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia really is running against two people down here. The

other one is Nancy Kefauver, the Senator's wife.

DEBATE ' ; By Ludwell Deny Congress Split On Foreign: Aid

WASHINGTON, May 1--The pongressional issue on the Foreign Aid Bill is" riot economy, but what is economy. . All agree on thé need for foreign military aid. All want to hold overall spending to the smallest amouht necessary for security. But they disagree on how this can be achieved. Four different groups give four different answers: ONE: The administration says the $7.9 billion Truman proposal cannot be cut or materially changed without destroying Allied defense. Few in Congress believe this. TWO: A large group ‘favors the across-the-board $1 billion cut, which is 12.66 per cent, as recommended by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Almost as many Democrats as Republican members—four compared with five -~voted for this. THREE: A minority in @ongress would take out about 25 per cent of the Truman total. This minority ‘78 ‘mostly Republican. FOUR: Another group is less concerned with apparent savings than with higher net cosis to the American taxpayer in the long run if expensive U. 8. forces and weapons must replace in-

expensive foreign divisions and equipment. This

test is not initial cost but final cost and upkeep ~—how to get the most for our money. >

Awaken the Public THE LATTER point of view is represented by the Committee on the Present Danger. This is an organization of 50 prominent citizens from industry, labor, agriculture and the professions, formed to awaken the public to the Soviet threat. On the basis of extensive investigation here and abroad, that committee reported to Congress that aid to our Allies is “militarily the best

—and perhaps the only—way to create a sound

defense of the United States.” It submitted data showing that: : Maintenance of a U. 8. division costs more “than three times as much as an European Allied division. wd . : The promised new European divisions, for which European military have been increased $6 billion to a for next year of $14.4 billion, cannot be obtained without approximately the proposed American aid upon which

--those budgets are based.

Because the average West European per capita annual product is only one-fourth as large as ours, there is no possibility whatever of our Allies making up the deficit for those needed Allied divisions.

Heavy Loss Seen

“IF THE United States should decide not to back up this position,” the committee concluded, “the losses in total Allied military stre would be many times the saving achieved by ¢uts in the appropriation.” But the committee did not oppose effective savings. Far from rubber-stamping the admin--istration’s foreign aid system, it was critical. It reported lack of co-ordination by U. 8. agencies handling the program. “The setup has not functioned to utilize effectively the European economies to produce

what they could for their own defense” the

citizens committee charged. fince the administration cannot get the full program requested by the President, the present four-way congressional lineup probably will end in a two-way split. One side will favor drastic across-the-board cuts now, regardless of future expense. The

“other side will urge elimination of waste and

inefficiency, and making American aid more dependent on foreign performance, to get more foreign divisions. : The present prospect is for a meat-axe cut, resulting in fewer Allied divisions, less foreign effort, and therefore weaker American defense.

What Others Say—

IN SPITE of all the promise of guided missiles, we must remain skeptical until they . . have been: proven in quantity . .. by the troop units.—Archibald S. Alexander, Army undersecretary. ! ¢ > ¢ ) I SHALL marry one day, but only a princess, 1 consider this my imperative duty. Of course . . . the choice is automatically very limited.—Prince Bertil of Sweden.

SIDE GLANCES

Kefauver's Campaign Sweeps Through F

_8he’s red-haired ‘and charming and everyone

wants to. meet her, She can shake almost as many hands as her husband. £ In one town, someone in the crowd flocking around the Senator's car demanded to know where she was.

“Working the other side’of the street,” smiled back Mr, Kefauver. But Mr. Kefauver isn't settling issues on the basis of handshakes alone. He is taking on Sen. Russell directly for what he says has been the Georgian’s misrepreésertation of his stand on the issue of the so-called world federation, on Mr. Kefauver's votes in Congress on antiCommunist. measures and on an alleged Kefauver campaign slush fund. As for Florida Gov, Fuller Warren, who has become an issue, Mr, Kefauver has no notion

‘Asleep in the Deep

of letting him escape. Mr, Warren has carried on a vendetta against Mr. Kefauver ever since the Senator ran his Miami-Tampa .crime investigation, and he'd like fo see the Tennessean demolished here. Sen. Russell's- leaders know the governor's support of their man may be a Hability. The. Georgian, himself insists Mr. Warren. . isn't running for the presidential nomination and that any Kefauver-Warren feud is no part of this campaign. But Sen. Kefauver is well aware the governor, nearing the end of his term, is widely unpopular, and he isn't letting him get away. : “Fuller Warren seems to hate me with a vengeance,” he says. “I don’t understand it. We tried to lean over backwards to be fair on what we reported about crime conditions in

By Talbuit

WAR PROPAGANDA . . . By Frederick. Woltman

Reds Getting Away With Lies

NEW YORK, May 1—Go back 10 years to World War II. Take the German-American Bund, that pale but true replica of the German Nazi Party in this country. Suppose the Bund had been allowed to go on functioning.

And suppose; wéek after week and month after month, the Bund waged an intensive campaign ‘to convince the people of America and the rest of the world that American troops were engaged in a systematic, deliberate murder of the wives and babies of the enemy. That's similar to what is happening here today. ? . The Nazi- Bund, almost overnight after Pearl Harbor, was put out of business. But the Communist Party and its camp followers today are perpetrating a worse fraud, spreading the thoroughly discredited enemy charge that American troops have opened germ warfare on the civilian population of North Korea. Because of a legal technicality—no formal declaration of war—the Communists are getting away with it. And the party remains a legal party, with the right to get on the ballot and run candidates for public office.

Rigged by Reds “LAWYERS’ Probe Confirms Korea Charge That Ridgway Troops Use Germ War,” trumpets the Dally Worker. It neglecta to mention that the “lawyers’ probe” was rigged up by the Soviet-controlled International

Association of Democratic Lawyers,

“Peace Council Urges World Body to Probe Germ War,” says another headline. The dispatch from the Daily Worker's Paris correspondent tells how the council's executive committee was “held spellbound” and “profoundly shocked” by “a documented account of the Pentagon's bacterial warfare against the Korean and Chinese peoples |, +? The “documented account” was presented by Kuo Mo-jo, Vice Premier of People’s (Red) China. “At one point,” he wrote, “the audience

} WASHINGTON, May 1-—For ambitious young Congressmen 1 have some free advice: Live within your wages. Fifteen thousand "dollars a year isn’t exactly hay and if you turn the collars of your shirts, gentlemen, you can get by. Above all, statesmen, do not

which you know nothing. That is when you tangle with money changers, 5 percenters and no telling who all eise. Then you get investigated by Sen. Clyde Hoey (D. N. C.), and no niatter how clean your skirts, you've got some explaining to do for your constituents. That's the trouble with constituents. Sus-

The serious and sober young Raymond W, Karst. In 1949 gressman from St. Louis County, Mo., and Interested in turning Jefferson an

post, into a park for his peo-

try to earn an honest dollar on'” the side in businesses about

picious. 3 J man who knows about this is "* he was the Democratic Con- . ~

abandoned and histori "Army

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broke into tears as the translator described the

death ‘of a Chinese lad after {infection by microbes, carried by flies which had been dropped in specially designed - bombs by

American airplanes.” 7 : Here he gives the tip-off: “The impact of this issue—the outlawing of bacterial warfare and the condemnation of the U. 8. government for employing it—cannot be exaggerated.” '

Latest Atrocity Lie

THE GERM war forgery, the Cominform’s latest atrocity He, evidently is its most successful weapon to date, So the Communist parties here

. and in the rest of the democracies are peddling

it for all it's worth. Its chickens came quickly home to roost.this week for the first International Conference in Defense of Children convened in Vienna Apr.

~ 12 to 16. This column had marked it down as

a Communist subterfuge. . The ever-obliging Daily Worker added its confirmation. I began to serialize the conference “findings,” namely, that {t's paradise for

children behind the Iron Curtain; and pretty

much hell in the U. 8. A, * S

R s Indignant Protest

THE American Association of University Women, meanwhile, registered an indignant protest over a hoax put over by the “United States Participating Committee.” Among the nine American sponsors, the committee had exploited the name of the University Women by listing Mrs. Helen E, McAllister of Kansas. City as a former president. Not only was Mrs. McAllister no past president, but there's no record she was ever a member, according to Mrs, Ruth W, Tryon, the AAUW’s spokesman in W . This false identification of the association with the Vienna affair, said Mrs. Tyron, was most harmful to the AAUW, :

By Galbraith KEEP SKIRTS CLEAN . . . By Frederick C. Othman: ne vf Tip to Congressmen—Live Within Your Pay

‘of Jefferson Barracks over to the anti-freene interests. Rep. _ deal. All this at the time was Karst sald nothing doing. Then he got a call from Mr. Hanne-

He had his own troubles, anyhow. From Washington he was trying to direct by long distance the development of a subdivision de luxe of 16 homes costing $25,000 each. He had a man on the spot, of course, but this enterprise ran badly into

lorida-Like The Wind

Florida. I have no personal vengeance. against

Warren. I don’t even know him. But when he sends out scurrillous literature about me, I have a right to answer him In this campaign.” Whenever Mr, Kefauver pitched this one, he

got friepdly response. i As for slush funds, he says, a $50-a-plate

dinner for Sen. Russell in Atlanta may have”

raised . $150,000—more than Mr. Kefauver has spent in_ his whole primary campaign this year, Mr. Kefauver's case for his votes on the House Un.American Activities Committee is

that he voted for it when he thought it was

doing a good job and against it otherwise. As to world union, the Senator says, Mr,

Russell must have been confused in linking him"

with a project for a proposed union of both Communist and non-Communist countries, to which he is opposed. But he is in favor of closer political union among North ‘Atlantic Pact countries, he says, so that the U. 8. shall have a say. in proportion to the cost share it is bearing. +

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‘Mental Health' -

MR. ‘EDITOR: : . . The peaple of Indianapolis may have legitimate criticism of Mr, Oscar Ewing, but this does not justify the newspapers in taking every avail. able opportunity to smear Mr. Ewing and ridicule every project with which he may be re

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motely connected. I take strong issue to the con-

tent and tone of the editorial, “Mr. Ewing's

Soap Operas,” which ran Apr. 21,

It is highly unlikely that Mr. Ewing had very

much personally to do with the production of the 6 radio programs on .mental health. But whether he did or not, The Times ought to have the courage to criticize the programs on their merits rather than brand them with guilt by association. Such methods ought to be beneath the dignity of The Times. = Even more important is the tone of the editorial toward the mental health program of The National Institute of Mental Health. No one suspects that 6 radio dramas alone are going to correct all our bad mental habits. . PAD -

BUT the programs do represent a positive

and constructive step in the right direction and deserve our intelligent consideration. For the past year, I have worked closely with mental patients confined to the United States Army Hospital, Camp Atterbury. Contact with thesés unfortunate young men has convinced me of the necessity of a public program for the im- _ provement of mental health. The Times does not criticize the need for adequate sewer systems and sanitary conditions in restaurants, And it ought to take a mature position in regards to the equally vital program of mental health and avoid childish, thoughtless ridicule. I trust The Times will use its voice in the , future in a more responsible way. If it must attack Mr. Ewing, then do so on legitimate grounds, But I suggest it refrain from irresponsible, irrelevant and immature slander against the mental health program. —Roderick Robertson, City

He's for Parades MR. EDITOR: The last year that Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus gave the elaborate street parade in its gilt and glamour was 1920. Countless thousands lined the'streets in every town and city to witness the display of pageantry on circus day. Circus goers went to the circus just the same. The other rival shows of that period, John Robinson Circus, Sells-Floto Circus and the Hagenback-Wallace Circus continued on with their parade. Their newspaper ads stressed these words, “the only big show liberal enough to give a street parade.” It whet the appetite of the onlookers to see the performance. Just a few years later those shows too discontinued the street parade. Cole Bros. Circus, which took to the road in 1035 from Rochester, Ind. (it’s not out any more, the cars were sold for scrap metal recently) gave a splendid parade for a few years and finally discontinued same account of traffic conditions. This year King Bros. Circus, one of the largest on the motorized field, has revived the street parade. Appearing in the line of march is the -original band wagon with elaborate carvings, and the steam calliope that rolled over the streets of a nation with Gentry Bros. Famous Shows, that hailed from Blooomington, Ind. The writer was with the show the tenting season of 1910. We played a week stand in Indianapolis. : Traffic conditions being what they are today, drivers of cars, busses, trucks and motorcycles are sure to frown on a e as a public

nuisance in their mad rush. Sole towns and.

cities I am sure will ask an extra ljcense for the

parade and other unforeseen things may crop up .

such as more work forced on the street cleaners, “The elephants are coming—hold your hosses,” should there be any. I will not be surprised that the will run up against many obstacles

during the tenting tour thereby robbing the , younger generation of enjoying the thrill that °

the big show press agents of the old days would refer to as “A Princely Presentation cf Pompous Pageantry, worth walking miles to witness.”

~Charlie Duble, Jeffersonville,

$25,000 for “expediting”

debt. like it, Mr. Hannegan added, Then about a week The gentleman from Missouri because it would employ 2500 nt we Novk Je: he mortgaged his own house for people, all voters. : ning for Congress The $10,000, but when time came So Rep. Karst did make ah pont ‘gay, the boom Pon, to paying the paving bill he inquiry to the War Assets Ad- Hoey and Co. spread om the have it. Came then other bills - deal was going. It seemed to the anti-freeze negotiations, for a grand total of $4000. have come so far he couldn't So Mr. ; He cast_around for a loan. stop it even If he wanted. Then ~~ 9 Mr. East rushed ta CoplGot it, too, through a friend, = to his amazement he discovered h his own story of Lee Schumacher, who received that he owed $4000 to Mr. hs Saincidzncss his it in turn from one James A. Waechter instead of Mr. Schu- He said he never Waechter, pal’ of politician macher, This he said he re- id anything wrong. His testi. Hannegan. This saved the sub- paid from his : i dp and division. : “wages ih dibbles and dabbles. i on : Pretty soon Mr. Schumacher He learned to his still further Later he told me that he sald how about the Congress- that the anti-freeze Still was $18,000 in debt on that man helping out to turn part people had given Mr. Waschter subdivision, His house still 14 Rh J ata MO Se LN : . ever : oe! said he about the real

THE modern girl is ‘wise,

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