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DADDY IS AN ACE—Martha Lee Kasler and 2-year-old daughter Suzanne.

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Duane Carter Indianapolis’ ‘Tiger Spins 180 FeetNabs 2 MIGs in Day

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By BILL EGGERT The power is on. Taking advantage of good] weather, the first all week, the lead-foot boys of “500 Gasoline Alley,” turned on the power today and the No. 4 spin since opening day May 1 was the re-| sult. 1 Duane Carter, at the wheel of| the No. 1 Belanger Special, was' =~ = the latest member to join the 3 1952 “spin club.” Coming ‘out of the southwest, . turn, Carter who had been clocked | at 132 mph, went into a long broadside slide that covered 180, : feet -on tHe apron of the track.| He had power on during the slide, | When he shut off, the car did, one quick spin coming to a halt on the track. Carter let the car| drift back off the track so as not to be in the way of any other! driver. | Three Other ‘Spinners’ i The other “spinners” this year, were Joe James, Bayliss Levrett and Bobby Ball The track action became fast| and furious this morning when Sam Hanks took out the big Bar-! dahl Special and was clocked at 135.500 mph, That top speed didn’t last long. Jack McGrath took ou the Hinkle Special and turned a “fat” 136 mph. ta . Chet Miller, at the wheel of one of the Novi cars, added to the speed show turning in a lap at a] little over 135 mph. George Con-| ner, wheeling the Federal Engi-| neering Special, clicked off two laps which the rail birds ‘said were in excess of 134 mph.

Union Renews Wooing of ‘500’

Lt. James H. Kasler, 25,

said

NEW ACE—Lt. James Kasler.

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| When You Pour That—Smile

PHILADELPHIA, May 15 (UP)—As Vice President AlEditorial, Page 20 ben W. Barkley neared the The. AFL Teamsters Union| end 6f his speech yesterday to will make another attempt to-| the United Steelworkers’ connight to organize car owners, vention, he appeared to be drivers and mechanics of the In-| thirsty. dianapolis Motor Speedway rac-| When! an official placed a ing fraternity after being re-| glass of water at Mr. Barkley’s

b by Speedway President disposal, the Vice President puped iy way | said: “That's very kind and

Union local ‘president Everett| thoughtful of you, but I'm from Davis, in a registered letter in-| Kentucky. vited Mr. Shaw to attend the meeting, but the three-time winner of the 500-Mile auto race re-

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ected the offer. ; i Leh 3 Mr. Shaw said he felt the union | ATH vr 3 does not represent even a small] Lo DEIR Ye. 27 portion of the Speedway crews. | Crossword . 7 Earlier this week, Mr. Davis Btitoriala sessssansanaes 0 charged racing men weren't get-| ¥ 0 hss thane © ting their share of the jackpot | 00d. cosesvrnrinnrsnnans a and that they should hold out Forum a xfess ts 2 for more money, with union suP-| PAE, ea Lierenes 14 “1 ciate your. in®itation.”| MOVIES ssessessssssncess 14 yo pre a ie to Mr. one Radio, Television .sesvees 16 invitation, “but since there is no Robert RUBTK sosevsnnnne 19 evidence to indicate the union Society ..coceseresaeases 12 represents even a small portion, Ed BOVOIA seeveevssnesss 19 of the racin~ fraternity . . . I see Sports . vesrssnernsnees23, 25 no reason to attend.” | Earl WHISON seevscnsasns 19

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4 By ED KENNEDY An Indianapolis jet fighter pilot blasted his way into the airmen’s Hall: of Fame today by shooting down two|«tnat they do not know what they mére MIGs over Korea to become the nation’s 15th jet ace. of 4626 College Ave., qualified; He said he intends to punish

_ home.”

EA mission yesterday.

® and his wing man, Lt Albert * B. Smiley, Albany, Ga. spotted

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Gets Tough At POW Camp

Tells Reds They Can't Bargain By Sinited Press KOJE ISLAND, Korea, May 15—The new commander of the United Nations’ Koje Island prison camps laid

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down a tough policy today. He said Communist captives might as well stop making demands because “prisoners of war do not negotiate.” |

The commander, Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner, took over the| turbulent camps after Brig. Gen.| Charles Colson was fired by Gen.| Mark Clark. |

Gen. Clark, Supreme United| Nations Commander, said Gen.! Cotsen wheeeded HIE AUTHortY Tn Seanting embarrassing _conces-| sions” “to the Communists for re-| lease’ of Brig. Gen. Francis T.| Dodd after Gen. Dodd's capture. Gen. Clark denied that he had | reprimanded Gen. Colson and| Gen. Dodd yesterday. i © “Speculative press reports are totally without foundation. Actu-| ally, the purpose of the conference was to provide me with additional factual Gen. Clark's statement sald in| part. i Gen. Boatner, a former frontline commander who fought at “Heartbreak Ridge.” 72,900 prisoners on Koje will be

the Geneva Convention but will get no favors. “Prisoners of war do not negotiate,” he said, “they are getting Panmunjom (site of the truce talks) and this place mixed up. Therg's no negotiating about the Geneva Convention. It's all right there in print.”

Always Under Arms

Lt. Col. Wilber Raven, Houston, Tex., military police officer who narrowly escaped seizure with Gen, Dodd, said the prisoners still are making verbal and written] demands. Their chief demand, he said, is for the right to organize an association of prisoners te inspect compounds on the island. This is ong of the “concessions” made to gain Gen. Dodd's release but which was invalidated when Gén. Clark made a blanket repuditation of the deal Gen. Boatner also said that as of today, all military personnel on the island, regardless of duties, must be armed at all times. “The trouble now is,” he said,

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OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL DAHL—Here's the film lovely who'll present the Borg-Warner trophy to the lucky winner of this year's 500-Mile Race. Redhaired Arlene Dahl has been selected to follow Loretta Young in the role at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 30. The silver trophy is six feet high. Sorry, we don't know Miss Dahl's dimensions offhand.

By ANDREW TULLY REPT OWA HE RATE WRN te 1952, by Scripps-Howard New

| NEW YORK, May 15—Ha ‘only exclusive interview he ever granted that he can name mob O'Neal has one regret—*"the

at least 300 more New York

paid in the last 10 years to bookie business,

Gross, now serving a 12-year .

prison term for bookmaking, already has implicated nearly 200 policemen in the nation’s biggest bribery scandal. ? Gross explained he did not deal personally with each of the additional 300 policemen, but said he paid bribes to heads of squads of which these cops were members. And, he added, these bribes were distributed among ‘squad members. The squat, black-haired bookie said he would name these 300 policemen at the departmental trial, opening May 26, of 13 po-

NEW YORK, May 15 (UP) —Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan fired four more

| policemen today on charges | they ' Bookie King Harry Gross.

accepted bribes from Mr. Monaghan acted on the recommendation of \Deputy Commissioner James +A. Dele-

hanty, who presided at the de-

Ceiling Set by U. §. Means 3-Cent Slash

Another Story, Page 15

The government's 15-cent-an-hour ceiling on pay boosts granted oil workers will mean a 3-cent stash for about 150 at the Rock Island Refining Corp., 5000

W. 86th St.

the refinery last Thursday when

the path of Rickenbacker, Foss,| «we must be very careful,” he| Boyington, Davis, Gabreski and gaid, “to be fair. It would be the roster of flying greats, “Tiger” | grossly unfair, for example, to!

Kasler paid for his membership ny nijsh them where lack of un Wage Stabilization Board Pa

the only way possible. With five jerstanding between Occidental victories in aerial combat. land Oriental ways is at fault.”| “I said he'd do it and he did,"| Gen. Boatner said the prisoners exclaimed his wife, Martha Lee, sometimes were like obstreperous today when she heard the news. |shildren. “Now I want him to come| «Let a child throw a tantrum

Can't Come Home Yet But Lt. Kasler can't come home|

“and he will -throw another.” | right away. He has completed 7s Asks Immediate

missions and needs 25 more be-' Drobe of Riot |

WASHINGTON, May 15 (UP)| Lt. Kasler—who hates to be _Angry Congressmen demanded) called “Tiger” because the men in his squadron kid him about it—bagged his latest two kills while flying as flight leader on

. fore he can head back to the | States. |

of the Koje Island prison camp),

With ground action light, he

three MIGs just across the Yalu River from their sanctuary in “Phey don’t meed a brigadier’ Manchuria. general in charge of that camp,” Damages 20 Others Mr. Mansfield said. rat Hey} » is a Marine top| The, two slashed in with their SUE, oo have is P F-86 Sabre jets spitting fire. Lt.| Senate Republican Leader Kasler bagged two of famed gtyles Bridges of New Hamp-| Russian-made jet planes and his shire said he would introduce a| wing man sent the third flaming resolution today requesting an {to earth. investigation by the Senate Pre-| | Lt. Kasler also has credit for paredness Subcommittee. |damage to two more MIGs as re-| (Ogmcials here were not surjcorded on gun camera film. prised when Gen. Clark, repudiThe pilot is the son of Mr. and ated Gen. Colson’s™ concessions. Mrs. Rex E. Kasler of the College State Department Ave, address. His wife and 2-year-/the “terms” which the Red prisold daughter, Suzanne, live with soners laid down for Dodd's re- | {his parents. [lease were so loaded with “propaHe was graduated from Short-| ganda jokers” that there was no ridge High School in 1944 and en- reason for the United States to listed in the Air Corps. During|take them literally. | World War II, he served asa B-293 4 {tail gunner and flew a number ot Reds Accuse UN missions over Japan. Of ‘Experiments’ | y, | H : Dadet in 19% lite | PANMUNJOM, Korea, May 15| { He returned to civilian life in ” ti- | 11046 and, after three years at|(UP)—Communist truce negoul-

| Butler University, became an Alr ators accused the United Nations | JSED C AR S ALE

Force cadet in 1950. He went to

today of using captured prisoners |Korea in November last year and| op war for “experiments” with

igot his first MIG Apr. 1. | ¢ i atomic bombs and germ warfare. AL Pe A ele The United Nations immediately

cer on active duty, but he has re " applied for a regular Air Force called the charge “ridiculous.

|commission.

Lt. Kasler's’ first. kili-the onejcharge had been made at the

for overseas—was in a plane ga¢ promptly denied it. named in her ‘honor. .|gate, promptly

(Lee anymore,” Mrs. Kasler ‘said. background Adm. Joy again pro-

"| She explained that according posed an indefinite recess in the

to his: létters the pilots change truce talks here. But the Reds around in their planes, flying any said they wanted another session [one that is ready to go. ~ (tomorrow and he agreed. © ce . iv Lar ¢ iE : Loh ;

officials said

It was the first time such a)

t truce talks here and Vice Adm. ~ [he promised.bis. wife when he left C. Turner Joy, senior Allied dele-!

As Communist mortars and | “But he’s nof flying the Martha ajjjed artillery thundered in the

their union, CIO Oil Workers Local 535, and Rock Island agreed on an 18-cent increase subject to

proval.

0il Pay Boost

They ended a nine-day strike at,

partments! trial of the officers. A fifth defendant was fired on Tuesday. All five policemen —ranging from eaptain to pa-

| trolman--lose lifetime pene

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cops who shared in bribes he protect his $20-million-a-year

HARRY GROSS—Can rattle off names by the hour.

trict attorney Julius Helfand)

I was thinking to myself, I know these guys pretty well, I been their weddings and birthday

Ie to p ee charged with accepting bribes from him—"“if anybody

iagks me about them.” Never Forgets Nanies, Faces “I never forget the name or the face of any guy who's been on my payroll,” said Gross. “I can rattle off names by the hour.” Gross reiterated his grand jury testimony at the recently concluded bribery trial of /five policemen concerning five top city officials he implicated in the scandal. “I gave the grand jury more evidence against those guys than I did the others, but they didn’t get indicted,” said Gross. “I don't {understand it.”

ross sald he had done business

As he testified at the trial!

parties, and T'm going to help send them to jail. And the big shots go free. ‘Started to Ory’ ; “1 said to myself, ‘I do this. If I do I'm worse they are. I'd be guilty of a worse crime than they were.’ “I knew I couldn't live with myself if I did it. So I walked off the stand.” Gross said that during the noon recess, “They took me into a room and I started to cry. I said I couldn’t do it. Julie (Mr. Helfand) sald, “You've got to, Harry, Think of your family. You'll get 10 or 12 years.” I sald 1 couldn't help it, I couldn’t do it. He paused to light a cigaret. When he resumed there was a iquaver in his voice. | “I couldn't do it—I couldn't do

L. E. Kincannon, Rock Island With William P. O'Brien, former it » Gross said.

vice president and general manager, said the contract calls for acceptance by the union of the full amount of the increase per-

ers will get. Meanwhile, a government official's prediction that the nationwide oil strike will end “within the next 48 hours” promised relief for the local situation before it became critical. 3 Ofl workers from Whiting stopped picketing Standard’s 8.

were expected to withdraw their pickets from the company’s Tibbs Ave. terminal later.

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WASHINGTON, May 15 (UP) —The population of the United States was 156,405,000 on Apr. 1, the Census Bureau estimated today. The figure ‘was up-2,706,000: over Apr. 1, 1951. Hospital ‘Rambles’ NEW YORK, May 15 (UP)—A “hospital on wheels,” equipped with its own operating room, was one of 25 advance-design truck

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jpolice commissioner, August Flath, former chief inspector, James Moran, former deputy fire commissioner, William T. Whalen, former detective chief, and

land get away with it,” he said,|mitted by WSB, which the Work-|yra pert Golden, formerly a police

division inspector. Gross talked’ frankly and with a great show of earnestness as he sat at a long table in an ante. room on the 11th floor of the Tombs Prison. He was wearing {tan checked slacks, a. white, {short-sleeved sports shirt open at {the neck, and brown bedroom

today an immediate investigation Harding St. operating plant and gjippers.

An Explanation

With great agitation, he told why he suddenly refused to iestify against 18 policemen last fall after his testimony had helped to get them indicted by a grand jury. “The day of the trial, I figured I was going to testify to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” he said dramatically. “I took the stand and ‘vas sworn in. I identified all the 18 defendants by name, and I think, {by rank. | “Then Helfand (assistant dis-

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' {several

“Not the way they wanted me to do it. It wasn't fair.” How did it happen, then, that

corporation counsel, Victor Her-

witz? “It was Mr, Herwitz," Herwitz' assistant, James C. B. Millard Jr.) came to see me and said I could tell my story straight, just the way it happened, and nothing else. : Assurance in ‘Destiny’ | “That's why I'm testifying now --because Mr. Herwitz said he believed me and to just go ahead and tell what happened.” Gross crushed out his cigaret

ingly. “With a man like that—I must leave my destiny in his hands.” The 36-year-old booxie did indicate, however, that .he had received some assurance from Mr. Herwitz that his “destiny” would be protected. He said Mr. He

comes up for a reduction of his sentence later this month, leniency will be recommended. Gross said he wasn't worried about what would happen to him

‘ |when he got out of prison. He

and his family have received threatening letters and his 25-year-old brother, Jackie, reported he was beaten the other night by two men who warned

3 him to tell Harry to “layoff.”

“I'm ‘a gambler,” said Gross. “I figure it’s not in the percentages for me to get murdered. Why should a guy charged only with a misdemeanor want to risk a murder rap? I gotta bet against it.”

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Maj. Robert O'Neal Appointed Chief of State Police Force

# ‘| Can Name 300 More NY Cops Who Took My |Bribes,” Boasts Gross |

He Is First Career Officer

Rises From Clerk

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By TED KNAP Robert A. O'Neal today was named superintendent of Indiana State Police — first career policeman ever to win the post, The announcement was made by Gov. Bchricker as he left the ar of Indiana State Police Board today. With the appointment, the 88-

year-old superintendent became the first state policeman to’ rise

{from the lowest to the highest

spots in the department--from civilian clerk to “top man.” He succeeds Arthur M. Thurs. ton, who resigned effective July 1 to become vice president of the Farmers’ National Bank in Shelbyville.

Board Cleared Way

It was a crowning glory for Supt. O'Neal, who always had preached that the superintendency should be made open to career

The board today cleared the ment by granting Supt. O'Neal

started to guide me, All this time|Policeman, .

y{leave of absence from his present .

fost a» major and executive ofThus Mr. O'Neal would serve

_|as superinténdent, But in case

He was granted leave under board policy which permits leaves of absence for military duty or to serve in another state post at the Governor's request. : + Following a Pattern The new superintendent ‘made no announcement of policies; But presumably he will follow the pattern he set as a state police-man-—vigorous enforcement of all laws, especially gaming, without regard to “politics.” With the appointment of a “career” man to the top post, Indiana followed a pattern being

Gross suddenly decided to testify against the nthe de -Joct in other states to put top law

mental trials for the assistant

enforcement jobs on a “merit” rather than “political” basis. Such a move has lohg been

said [urged in Indiana and Supt. O'Neal Gross. “He and Mr, Millard (Mr, {nas been top favorite for the post,

backed by civic. and nonpolitical groups. No successor was named to the executive officer post.

HEADS STATE POLICE Robert A. O'Neal.

Her ‘Hurted’ Little Puppy Is Going to Live

MINNEAPOLIS 15 (OR) Ture sear 51d Judy Buch played hapatly — Iofiay hry ause Tr pupp; » ] Kentified gunman, will live. Judy's heart “broke” 2g wiled to her

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