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Tap on the Wrist for Tuffy I ANYBODY still wonders why big-time gambling rackets * flourish in Indiana and racketeers laugh at the law, let him look at the case of Tuffy Mitchell. _ Tuffy, never cofisidered anything more than a cheap little punk in the business, has operated here for years and every law enforcement officer in town who was worth his salt has known it. » A while back a Prosecutor who could neither be bought nor bluffed, got some indictments and haled him into court.
The usual flapdoodle followed. | Tuffy fought back with all the technicalities and delays and hairsplitting a skilled defense counsel could produce—and every trick of the guilty before a court. yi This time, though, they didn't work-—as they toa often have in the past. This time the case actually went to a jury, and a jury found Tuffy guilty as charged. It was a fine job by Prosecutor Frank Fairchild, and a big job. It consumed weeks of his own time, and thousands of dollars worth of the time of his assistants, to carry this case through. It took the time of two or more judges, and ‘court attaches, and the time of a jury to hear the case. Altogether this cost Marion County, we'd estimate, at least $10,000. . » » " . “ NOW WHAT HAPPENS to Tuffy? Well, there'll be appeals, naturally, on every technicality
will listen to them (also at public expense, of course), and he may yet go free.
fine of $1200. His own employees testified in his trial that they were taking in $1800 a day for Tuffy on his lottery tickets alone. Tuffy’s total fine could be six hours’ “take.” That's all the laws of Indiana permit in the way of penalty. : That's all the vicious little racketeers who run the state's multi-million-dollar gambling business have to fear if they are caught, and if they can't bribe their way out, or bluff their way out, or crawl out through some devious loophole in procedure. il Tuffy, no doubt, is laughing. At us. Who wouldn't be?
Ambassador O'Dwyer
N the Mayor of New York, who holds one of the most influential and best-paid political jobs in public life, resigns in mid-term to accept another position, it is singular. - Mayor William J. O'Dwyer’s resignation in 1950 to become ambassador to Mexico caused wonderment at the time. There never was any real explanation. i. By ‘now, it has become clear to everyone that the O'Dwyer administration was riddled with graft. The manper in which his police department was bribed by gamblers and racketeers has earned the title of “greatest police scandal in the nation’s history.” Mr, O'Dwyer, from the seclusion of his diplomatic post, merely says: “No comment.” ® But the ambassador to the friendly and important country of Mexico is the representative of all the American people—not merely the President who appointed him nor a political party which has thrived on big city machines.
By going to Mexico when he did, Mr. O'Dwyer personally escaped the onslaught of the subsequent investigations. But he was the head of an administration which coddled, protected and nurtured rackets and vice. * His presence in Mexico City does not relieve him of that responsibility. Nor does it reflect credit on the diplomatic representation of the world’s leading power.
A Sad Satellite
T IS not surprising to hear that the Czech Communists © are anxious to release William N. Oatis, the American reporter they jailed a year ago on phony espionage charges, if face-saving arrangements can be made with the United States. i vs . © This outrage was as stupid as it was highhanded; the economic measures to which this country resorted in retaliation have been costing the Reds a lot of money.” ; The Czech Reds probably would like to back out.from under the iron curtain, too, if they could do it without losing their necks. Czechoslovakia, with an economy far in advance of those of the other Soviet satellites, would be among the more prosperous nations in Europe were it free to do business on its own account. The country’s natural market is in the west and the tieup with Russia is dragging the Czechs down to Russian living standards. ‘* ‘Even a Communist government cannot wholly ignore national pride and national interests and one of these days & regime may come into power in Prague which will reestablish the country as an independent agent. Possibly a settlement of the Oatis case will be an initial step in that direction. For the Czech people are in jail, too, and most of them are intelligent enough to know it.
Spell Us Down § of us: have enough trouble with spelling, without "being confused by the experts. : Seems some report cards in the Los Angeles schools weren't properly proof-read. So language came out “langauge,” and semester came out “semeter.” The superintendent, commenting on this in a report, said: : © “There are two words, ‘language’ and ‘semester,’ that hope no one of our generation will ever mispell again.” Point of the story was that “mispell” correctly is IL.” Superintendent forgot to proof-read his own
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WASHINGTON; May 22 — The farm organizationtto keep your eye on from now until election day is the National Farmers Union. The Farmers Union is the unofficial balloon floater for Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan and the more “liberal” elements within the Democratic Party. ‘ The connection was avowed a few days ago when the Farmers Union president, James Patton, Denver, was named a vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). Mr. Patton is expected to advise the ADA on how, to win farm votes for candidates sharing ADA’s economic views. Mr! Patton is qualified to give such advice,
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IN 1948, the Republicans thought the farm vote was in the bag for Tom Dewey. But Mr.
Brannan — inside — accused the Republicancontrolled Congress of deliberately bringing on a slump in grain prices by failing to provide enough storage space for the harvests. } ‘By the time the Republicans caught on to the damage these charges had done to the GOP in the farm belt, it was" too - late. “Such Republicans as Sen. George Aiken (Vt.) toiled more or less in vain, drawing up memoranda to show that the nation had plenty of storage facilities but that Mr. Brannan scared farmers into dumping their grain at a loss. Memory of this made Republicans wary of the Farmers Union. Already in this campaign, Mr. Patton has given the administration one
Patton — outside the administration — and Mr.
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piece of useful advice. When the country. was getting an earful of the grain storage thefts,Mr. Patton announced he'd told Mr, Truman it would be a good idea to turn a spotlight on the private grain storage trade. This threat to enlarge the circle of the ‘ace cused took ‘some of the heat off Agriculture Department personnel. The tactics which the Farmers Union ill follow this summer aren’t definite yet. The’ union still plugs for the Brannan plan to give farmers high prices and city consumers lower food costs, by using tax money to pay subsidies, Congress never took to the Brannan plan, but the Farmers Union did. Even Mr, Brannan soft pedals parts of it now, but only because he says inflation is still a problem. Secretary Brannan and the Farmers Union are working together to discredit the present avstem of flexible farm price supports—under which farm prices are supported at up to 90 per cent of parity when a commodity is scarce and lower when it is in surplus,
Seeks Order
MR. BRANNAN is asking that Congress order him to peg price supports at 90 per cent of parity. Sen. Aiken points out that Mr. Bran« nan has discretion to set supports at any level up to 90 per cent. Sen. Aiken says he fears that after Congress adjourns without enacting “mandatory” 90 per cent supports, there'll be an outcry that Cone gress has again tried to bankrupt the farmers, repeating the 1948 pattern.
that can be dragged in, and through every higher court that GENTEEL KNIGHT SLs By Frederick <. Othman : In the end, the most he can get is 90 days in jail and a Charlie a Bi Hazy on Remark
By Truman About Senate Group
WASHINGTON, May 22— When Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in that medieval English of his about “a varry parfit gentil knight,” he meant a gent who really was a gent. Meaning, of course, our big, bald and loyal Secretary of Agriculture, the Hon. Charlie Brannan. Loyal? The Hon. Charlie, by comparison, makes Chaucer's gentil knight look like a crooked corn merchant. With my own ears I heard him swear upon his oath that he didn’t know exactly what President Truman had said about the Senate Agriculture Committee, but that he agreed with the chief's every word. That is what you call loyalty. How our Secretary of Agriculture can agree with something he doesn’t remember, he didn’t explain, but, if you'll take my hand, Alice, I'll try to lead you through our local wonderland. For months now the Senators have been investigating rural skullduggeries involving the thievery of several million bushels of government-owned grain, Mr, Brannan poohpoohed this inquiry; he said the embezzled wheat amounted to only a fraction of a per cent of the billions of bushels the federals bought. He also claimed the Senators were on a fishing expedition. ; 8s = = SO A couple of weeks ago, Gov. Tom Dewey of New York charged on television that, back in 1948, the administra-
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tion depressed the price of grain deliberately just before the election to scare farmers into voting Democratic. This made Mr. Truman sore. First chance he got he said Gov. Dewey was talking through his fedora. He also made a few uncomplimentary remarks about the senators investigating stuff that already had been investigated. The senators finally called Mr. Brannan to defend himself, Chairman Allen J. Ellender (D. La.) swore him to tell the truth, while Sen. James P. Kem (R. Mo.) told him to his face that he’d shown no sincerity in cleaning up the monkeyshines in his department. Then Sen. George D. Aiken (R. Vt.) revived those Dewey charges. He looked the Hon. Charlie in the eye and said that four years ago the administration had played a dirty trick on the farmers. Told ‘em the Congress (Republican at the time) wouldn't allow the department to store their grain and thereby forced the price down by about one billion dollars. : RS = » . “I DO not intend to let this happen again this fall,” roared the usually calm gentleman from Vermont. By now the Hon. Charlie was pale. He looked unhappy. Sen. Kem took over. He wanted to know how much time the Secretary of Agriculture used playing politics. Not one minute, snapped Mr. Brannan. “Let's get back to the subject.” suggested Sen. Ellender. “I think we're making quite a little progress,” retorted Sen. Kem. “Now the Secretary called this a fishing expedition, We have caught a lot of fish.” Sen. Ellender wasn't so sure. All right, one big fish, insisted Sen. Kem. He turned then to the most loyal man of all and said: “Now, Mr. Secretary, do you agree with the statements the President made about this committee?” “Oh, I do, sir,” replied the deadly serious Brannan looking owlishly through his goldrimmed eyeglasses and straightening ‘his funeral black tie. “I don’t remember what he said, but I agree.”
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This made the senators laugh. The Hon. Charlie managed a smile, while the chairman observed: “That's loyalty to the nth degree.” It is that. Loyalty’s a fine thing, too. But when you don't know what you're loyal about, I guess it’s either election year —or pverybody’s just walked through the looking glass,
NEW RED DEMANDS . . . By Ludwell Denny Next Stalin Move Is Expected Before Signing of Allied Pact
WASHINGTON, May 22 — Stalin is expected to make his next move in the struggle for Germany ‘before the signing of the Allied-West German contract in Bonn and the European Army pact in Paris, scheduled for next Monday, His most likely action is “through the satellite East German “parliament,” meeting tomorrow. : Probably it will declare the proposed Allied-West German peace contract illegal, brand Chancellor Konrad Adenauer - and his Bonn colleagues traitors subject to future punishment, and demand immediate unification and freedom of Germany. 5 » - POSSIBLY it will threaten conversion of its so-called security policy into an East German army. This would be described as retaliation against West Germany's proposed
membership in the six-nation unified European army under Gen. Ridgway’'s larger North Atlantic Treaty command.
In addition to such satellite moves, Stalin may act in Berlin. He could clamp the blockade on West Berlin and Allied occupation forces there, which he has been practicing for two weeks. Or he could turn over to his East German puppets the Red highway link between West Germany and the isolated Allied zone of West Berlin, and let them do the blockading for him. = ” » ALL OF these possibilities are under watchful study by American authorities here. More propaganda statements by the East German Red parliament would cause no great concern. The line is already well known. It has been partially “effective in increasing public doubts in West Germany over the wisdom of signing the
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MR. EDITOR:
The seizure of ownership of rent or use of property by Rent Control was a serious and dangerous precedent, even upon the plea of a public necessity. The Congress has the right to do anything in the national interest except the right to seize ownership of the rights of property. This is forbidden by our Constitution. Otherwise the properties of the citizen would have no legal protection against the Congress. Property would be under a new and strange insecurity, liable to be seized according to a public need and our system of law and justice reduced to a political system of public charity. As a result, ownership of rent or use of property will evaporate contrary to the purpose of: our Constitution. Such a personal injustice must be something more than an economic theory. It is something less than law. Strictly speaking
it is socialism.
Upon a socialistic ideal Rent Control pitted one citizen against the otner. from one for the personal use of the other. To call this the purpose of law would be shocking in a nation that speaks of freedom most. Our freedom is getting weak from seizure. —F. J. Frantz, 150 Ketcham St., City.
Wants ‘Cowboy’ President
MR. EDITOR:
For over a century, Washington and Monroe set the moral tone of our foreign relations. Two oceans supported their wisdom. Now we are the world power. Modern progress has narrowed
these oceans.
Now, world peace is our peace. Henry Cabot Lodge and Woodrow Wilson struggled with this “ issue. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Arthur H. Vandenburg united under the banner “World Peace is Our Peace” and established the United
Nations.
Personally, I feel Gen. Eisenhower as President will best continue this worthwhile and fruitful policy, especially with the Russian bear
on the prowl.
“~We-have-a great many friends around the globe, save the bosses behind the Iron Curtain. We were faithful in Cuba, in the Phillipines, in
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“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
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Japan. Greater world ‘tasks await us. There
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I am a young Mass.,, who has been fortunate enough to have been able to visit your most wonderful city. I came here three days ago, knowing only two people. Today, I believe I can name over 100 new friends that I have met in your lovely
are five continents. An evil power or powers who control several of them endanger world peace, endanger our peace. The Russian bear must be contained and controlled. As in 1861, it may become evident and necessary to establish “One World” with freedom and justice in the saddle. We need a cowboy in the saddle (presidency), a cowboy who understands the arts of the world but who, at the same time, understands the work of the layman, Gen. Washington was such a soldierstatesman. Gen. Eisenhower is another such soldier-statesman. y
—C. H. Hopper, 310 N. Illinois St. City
A Soldier Says Thanks
serviceman from Quincy,
I want to especially praise your Servicemen’'s Center and the ladies that work there. They
have been so friendly and helpful to a fellow
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_. Better weather could have made the first part of my week here more enjoyable, but the rain, to me, is nice. You see, I was stationed at Ft. Hood, Tex. for the past year. When it raing in Texas it is quite a novelty.
In closing, I want to thank all the wonderful people that I have met here who have made " my week most enjoyable. I sincerely hope you will print this letter of gratification. Your newspaper, in my opinion, is tops, and ranks among the great newspapers of America. I am wondering why: they don't refer to Indianapolis as the city of “Brotherly Love.” I've ~ certainly found the meaning of brotherly love
May God bless the good city of Indianapolis and-all of its fine people. _ =Pfec. Arthur J. Palmer, Ft. Knox, Ky.
ODDS ARE SHORTENING . . , By Charles Lucey Move to Draft Stevenson Picking
WASHINGTON, May 22 — There's a new head of steam behind the draft of Gov. Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic presidential nomination and top party leaders say the odds on him are shortening. He's still the one the most influential men in the party want. They appear steadily less inclined to accept his disavowal of candidacy. If they-—chiefly the leaders of the big Northern states—decide at Chicago to make one final, dramatic pitch for the Illinois governor, they'd come close to having the convention votes to put him over. . » » ~ MANY Democratic leaders believe that if Sen. Robert A. Taft is the nominee of the Republican convention, meeting two weeks earlier in Chicago, then the chances of Gov. Steve enson’s nomination and acceptance are good. 1f Gen. Dwight Eisenhower is the Republican nominee, the Democratic nomination could be influenced in a different direction. ‘
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case it might go to Vice Presi dent Alben W. Barkley because of a wish to honor him and because he still
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might go to Sen. Estes Kefauver because of the sheer momentum he has rolled up in the primaries and his demonstration- of public appeal, in state after state,- Which influ-
ential political leaders just cannot ignore. ” ” » IF THE GOP names Sen.
Taft, then the draft-Stevenson drive may generate in states which have somewhere near 500 convention votes. The leaders of these states don’t form any execlusive little club, —there are a lot of them.
But up at the head of the table would be such figures as Paul Fitzpatrick and Edward J. Flynn of New York, Pennsylvania’s David Lawrence and
Francis Myers, Illinois’ Jacob Arvey, Massachusetts’ Gov.
~Paul Dever and Connecticut's
Sen. Brier McMahon. Michigan, Indiana, Rhode Island and a chunk of the Ohio delegate vote could be in there, » ” » STATES represented here have big delegate counts. New York has 94, Pennsylvania 74, Illinois 68. Over the week end, the Americans for Democratic Action backed away from indorseément of.any of the present candidates. The inference was drawn widely that most ADA members are for Gov. Stevenson. In Indiana, the new Democratic state committee, with Gov. Henry Schricker as
GOD SENT
JUST WHAT could -be more beautiful . . .. than flowers in the spring . . . the daffodils and violets . . . that cause our hearts to sing . . . what could be more inspiring . . . than fields of emerald green . . . that dress the world so beautiful < . . in gowns fit for a queen . ., what conld be more refreshing than . . . a brook that bahbles by ... . enthralling those who watch It pass . . . so much so that they sigh
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BUT RED propaganda cane not prevent West Germany from either signing or ratifys ing these Allied agreements, If at the last minute Adenauer refuses to sign, it will be bee cause the Allies have reached their limit of concessions and can give no more in the foreign ministers’ negotiations this week end. If he signs and his parliae ment later refuses to ratify, that will be from sabotage by the Socialist opposition party and by the right-wing Free Democratic Party within his own coalition government. = » - IF STALIN goes beyond propaganda and transforms his East German “police” into a satellite army, that would be more serious. Even so, that in itself would be a change in name rather than in fact. Those formations — about 65,000, including 10,000 sailors and marines — already are a military force, trained and armed as such. The payoff will come if and when Stalin expands those 65,000 potential officers and noncoms into the forces of 300,000 which they are-capable of leading. ” = » AS FOR a Berlin blockade, American officials here and in Germany are not as convinced as some rich West Berliners— who are fleeing—that it is just around the corner. They simply don’t know and are not guessing. But they are getting ready to meet it, if it comes. The 12,000 {isolated Allied troops in West Berlin can be
defeated by the vast Red army —
surrounding them — if Stalin wants to start a world war, But they can’t be blockaded or bluffed out of Berlin.
What Others Say—
AT THE time of making a picture I want not to know what I'm doing; a picture should be made with feeling, not with’ knowing.—Hans Hof~ mann, American abstractionist «painter. » tJ ” AMERICAN food 1s ele mental not artistic.—Salvadore Dali, Spanish artist. » » »
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5 ” o SEN. KEFAUVER has out. run everyone in presidential primaries, but some of his vice tories were popular expres. sions only and did not nail down any delegates. He has well over 100, now, but just a couple big states could throw more than that into the pot. Yet, if the party bosses do sidetrack Sen. Kefauver, they may face the problem after Chicago of trying to explain why they passed up the man who showed the most voter appeal,
~ - » : SEN. RUSSELL has 41% convention votes now and he's due for early sizable additions in North Carolina and else where. His supporters say he'll go into Chicago with more than any other candidate —but probably no one will go In with more than one-third of the total delegate vote. This means‘the uncommitted heads of the big states will have treHenious power, re still could be a jo » Jock. Thats Sen. Mike Seas roney o klahoma repeated omar, Sd tt nin n ouse
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