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63d YEAR—NUMBER 90
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1952
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis.
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Bill Veeck Fires The Rajah, Puts Marty Marion In
By United Press
ST. LOUIS, June 10—President Bill Veeck of the St. Louis Browns announced from Boston today that Rogers Hornsby had been removed as manager of the St. Louis Browns and will be replaced by Marty Marion.
The announcement was made ’ by Ruddie Schaffer, general manager of the Browns, after a telephone talk with Owner Bill Veeck in Boston, Schaffer quoted Veeck as saying Marion had taken over management of the club immediately after a settlement of Hornsby's three-year contract, which called for a salary of $40,000 a year, had been reached.
All a Mistake
Veeck said he felt the move was for “the general welfare o the glub.” He said he had “made
Hornsby as manager ahd it's best to admit it right -now.” ‘a It was the Second time that Marion had been manager of a St. Louis team, having béep
that time and denials when Big
: 50 boxes of confiscated items and
Fight Against Gaming Case
‘Missing $3800’ Cited in Court
That “missing $3800” came up in court officially for the first time today as Walter F.
( (Big Tom) Thompson started legal action to knock out a gaming case pending against him. This is the same $3800 which the indicted lottery operator reported missing after Prosecutor Fairchild’s men and police raided his downtown office in February, 1951. There was a hue and cry at
Tom reported the $3800 had disappeared from his desk in the raid, It didn’t turn up among the
Big Tom even took a lie detector test at his dwn expense to support: his charge that the money was taken. But today was the first time it had officially been mentioned in court proceedings.
Big Tom Opens
signed to.a one-year contract as head of the National League Cardinals for the 1951 season. He switched to the Browns last November, a short time after Hornsby, one of the all-time greats of baseball, had been
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Hearing on Search
The action today was a hearing in Criminal Court 1 on Big Tom's motion to invalidate the search which led to three indictments by the Marion County Grand Jury.. Big Tom was arrested for “fail-
O-U.-T—Rogers Hornsby, ousted as Browns’ manager.
named manager. . Marion joined the Browns as a player-coach. At the time Ol S arran Veeck said that Marion could! “look around” for a job as man-|
ure to give a hand signal” and
lottery tickets. This was used as
police searched his car, finding| ®
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ats
ager of any other major league elub while he was under contract with the Browns. He didn’t have to look far—or long—for Hornsby's active reign
as manager of the St. Louis club|
came to a sudden end a little more than four months after he took charge in spring training. Both Marion and Hornsby got their major league starts in St. Louis with the ‘Cardinals, Hornsby as a shortstop and second baseman and Marion as.a shortstop.
Most Valuable
Marion was voted the National League's most valuable player in 1944. The lanky, drawling infielder began his professional career in 1936 and went to St. Louis from Rochester in 1940. He helped organize the framework for the present major league players’ pension plan and has served as the National League's player representative. The reason for Hornsby’s dismissal was a mystery not explained immediately by Veeck. During the 1951 World Series, Hornsby signed a three-year contract to manage at the highest salary ever paid a Brownle manager. The 34-year-old Marion, popular with players, was let go as manager of the Cards by President Fred Saigh because he “lacked
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a wedge to gain a search warrant to go into his office in the Wulsin Building, in which the additional gaming equipment and records were seized.
Against Stern
Court Suppresses However, later in traffic court
Seized Evidence Big Tom was found not guilty on
Duke Stérn, former television the failure to give a hand signal
harge. As a result, his attorneys magician, won an important legal eh rR motion, contending ney:
battle here today in his appeal ofthe starch was not legal inasa conviction on a charge of pos- much as the arrest which led to
sessing obscene literature. it was illegal.
This was the situation as it Special Judge Charles W. ., 3 when Big Tom took the
Cook, Criminal Court 2, sustained stand today and mentioned the the defendant's motion to void|disputed $3800. the search warrant which was the| Under questioning by his attorbasis for the Feb. 26 police raia|ney: Virgil Norris, Big Tom told
Judge Harry O. Chamberlin the in which Stern was arrested. {money was taken. Later on cross
Judge Cook also suppressed all/questioning by Prosecutor Faift evidence seized in the raid on the/child, the 48-year-old Thompson New Novelty Shop, 10 E. Market Was asked to identify a sealed St, where the 39-year-old ma- Package which was among the
18th child recently.
By CARL HENN
E. Bailey home today. There was another new arrival!
to squeeze into the Bailey household—the 18th child to be born to 41-year-old Mr. Bailey and his wife, Marie, 39. “I got no kicks coming, we're making out all right I guess,” said Mr. Bailey when a reporter asked him how he felt about another
gician worked as a clerk. {raid evidence and Mr. Norris
Although the state now can use quipped: only whatever other evidence it| ‘Better open has, Prosecutor Frank Fairchild that’s the $3800. said he still would try the case| The “needle” drew no response against the former TV perform-|from Prosecutor Fairchild and er. Date for the trial has not|the package turned out to be} been set. baseball tickets.
In ruling the search warrant -Admitted Sales faulty, Judge Cook referred to testimony of raiding officers. During his testimordy Big Tom | In their affidavit to obtain the admitted he sold lottery tickets] warrant, he said, they swore the/and bank clearing numbers novelty shop was under Mr. books from his office. One of his
it up—maybe|
addition to the bulging household at 520 E. Perry St.
Deputy Was Worried
The newest arrival, Bernapd, was born Sunday attended by a distressed deputy sheriff, who kept looking over his shoulder hoping the General Hospital ambulance would get there first. It didn’t, So Deputy Lee Eades did the honor and presented Mr. and Mrs. Bailey with their 18th child, their sixth boy. Deputy Eades said he'd assisted at birth
How's lt-Feel to Have 18th Child?—Oh, OK
Everybody inhaled at the Elmer with their first grandchild.
AND THIS 1S NOT ALL—Mrs. Elmer E. Bailey with part of
|months ago presented the Bailey's!
“Then there's Don, 17, and Maurice, I think he’s 16,” said Mr. Bailey. He paused to think and said: “I can't rightly call the rest of them. After the first four or
her family. She gave birth to her
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ST Asks Congress For Power To Seize And Run Steel Mills
Goes to Capitol Hill For Extraordinary Plea To Assure Arms Flow
By United Press
WASHINGTON, June 10 —President Truman asked
§ [Congress today to enact legislation authorizing the govern.
ment to seize the steel industry and run it until the contract dispute is settled. Mr, Truman, in an extraordinary personal appearance before a joint session of Congress, said a “properly drafted” seizure law can assure steel production, treat both sides “fairly” and encourage collective bargaining. “I hope the Congress will act quickly,” Mr. Truman said. “The issue of peace or war hangs in the balance, and steel is a vital element in the outcome.” : “The issue is squarely up to Congress,” the President said. “I hope the Congress will meet it by enacting fair and effective legislation.” Mr. Truman said use of the Taft-Hartley Law injunction “would be grossly unfair” to the 650,000 striking CIO Soumpelled ®, wor. indefinitely United -Steelworkérs because rr Rn Re ES they had postponed their walk- might be justified. This is obout many times before, finally viously not equal Nustice. under striking June 2. ITs Haw se PLR an ph Quotes. Black As for the Supréme - Court's
strike, the President said, it
should =direct the President to seek such a court order without waiting for the appointment and report of a fact-finding board as|
Truman said, would be “unwise, unfair, and quite possibly inef-
fective.”
ruling last week that the seizure under the President's inherent powers.was unconstitutional, Mr,
required by the Taft-Hartley Act. Truman said, “there can be no The Taft-Hartley approach, Mr.! question of their (the court mae
jority) view that the Congress can enact legislation to avoid
Select Plants a crippling work stoppage in the
Mr. Truman went before the Steel industry.” | joint session of Congress 16/ The President quoted Supreme
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'hours after the steel negotiations Court Justice Hugo L. Black,
collapsed at the White House last night.
Boy at Play
Shoots Sister
Finds Shotgun Under Davenport
By HEZE CLARK Police headquarters telephone
five I get them mixed up.” | Mr. Bailey runs a garage at| the rear of his home and says he and his family manage to get| along. He gets a “good deal” by
in big quantities at supermarkets. ! Some of the “in-between” girls help out around the house—‘they! eat and sleep here and we've got| no use for any lazy kids around,”; said the father.
from a family of 10. |
quavered:
“A boy just shot his sister.” Police rushed to 249 S. State Ave., where they found Gloria
eye.
rang and a horrified voice
{buying all their children’s shoes Jean Johnston. 7. bleeding from | dustry. lat ohe store and buys their food Shotgun wounds around her. left!
But while the nine-day-old strike of the 650,000 steelworkers went on, preparations were rushed to resume production at steel plants turning out the goods for the defense effort. Acting Defense Mobilizer John
officials to a meeting to decide which plants should reopen to provide the critical needs of the Korean War, CIO President Philip Murray promised last night that workers would return to the plants the government deems necessary to keep running to turn out war good. The steelworkers walked out June 2, minutes after the Supreme Court nullified Mr. Truman’s Apr. 8 seizure of the in-
Mr. Truman said “we cannot | expect to get enough steel in this
Beside her was her 8-year-old way to meet-all of the essential brother, John, who kept murmur- needs of the defense program.”
ing: “I didn't mean to shoot her. I didn’t know it was loaded.”
cers his anguished story:
lL “I Didn't Know’
aggressiveness.” However, in a. previous Crim-
Stern’s control and management.| employees, Hazel Adams, 520 N.
Tibbs Ave., also testified ‘Thomp-|
. “ inal Court 2 hearing, one of the/Son had sold “quite a few” Pick Wittenberg College officers testified the officers did wip Hekots. 0. Barked uo) not know who owned or managed. 8 employee also backed up| Names Dr. Otto Jensen ithe store. Thompson's contention that the| Dr. Otto K. Jensen, state ex- traffic arrest was a ruse on the, aminer for the State Board of part of police. |
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Accounts, today was re-elected Patrolman Fred McCool. who! chairman of the Wittenberg Col-| 6 a. m... 68 10 a. m... 78 [arrested the strapping Thomp-| lege board of directors. He will. 7 a. m... 70 11a. m... 81 |[son, admitted he is a vice squad] gerve a one-year term. | 8 a m... 72 12 (Noon) 838 |officer, not a traffic man and
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Latest humidity ...... 58%
Dr. Jensen has been a member of the board since 1940 and first was named chairman in 1943.
that he was in plain clothes “tail-| ing” Big Tom when the arrest)
was made. |ter, Mrs. Delores Tharp, who two|
" damage”
Willkie Sues Kingan &
By JOHN V. WILSON H. Frederick Willkie, ousted Kingan & Co. president,
today sued the meat packing firm and three top officers for $5,650,000 charging defamation of character. The multimillion-dollar suit, filed in Superior Court 2,
was the latest explosion in the management battlé of one of the nation’s largest meat processors. " Named defendants - were Wil-_ liam- R: Sinclair, president and’ board chairman; his son, Thomas’ Taggart Sinclair, a director, and Edward Scheidenhelm, vicé president and secretary. : Mr. Willkie charged his repu tation as a business adviser; suffered “great and irreparable from statements re-§ leased during the top-level feud Si early this year. J Reached “at the plant today, William R. Sinclair said, “I hav no comment to make at this time.” ; Mr. Willkie was ‘removed by the board of directors in Febru-
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~ ations based “largely upon the] ability of management to out- * guess the market, the weather, © ment”...
. sumer recognition and demand.”
before, but this was his first Times Index “solo.” | AMUSEMENtS +vvvrrisviesa 10 “We've been .wanting a boy."| Bridge ....sssevscessesss 23 said Mrs. Bailey later, Her 18! Comics ...eeveeveeesse22, 23
births—no twins or triplets—have| run to girls. She has 11 girls and] six boys surviving. One boy died] in childhood. | Mr. Bailey started to give a re-| porter a rundown of his family. Three live away from home— Elmer Jr. 22, and Bob, 20, and their 18-year-old married daugh-|
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Co. ‘For $5,650,000 In Damages
approved by the board as were had been neglected
“substantial sums” for research
for such|paid dividends totaled $80 a share length of time that the samelon preferred stock and the mar-
and improvements. {had fallen into decay and were ket value of common stock had
Mr, Willkie said he proposed, 12 recommendations to the board, | including a spending program for study, research, advertising and installation of modern equipment. | Among his findings, listed in the suit, were: ONE—That Kingan's dealing in commodities “was actually a sort of legalized gambling,” with oper-
the competition and the governrather than “marketing a product line based on a con-
TWO-—Losses of “millions of dollars a year” from buying livestock that had an “excessive amount of fat.”
‘Stock Not Suited’
“In procuring livestock for slaughtering the corporation had
ary after 14 months in the driver’s seat. At the time, the Sinclair faction said his policies cost the company $1,043,452 in operating Wess, - which, if proeured, could be sold In his suit, the ousted president at a much higher price” fired back that the ‘alleged THREE—"“Real danger” . of losses” were “not honestly/ entirely to certain orders. and closing the plant by the U. 8. Dechargeable” to his reforms. regulations of the Office of Price partment of Agriculture “unless Mr. Willkie declared the ee | OURAN oi : better sanitary practices were 8 recommended :
failed to procure that class of livestock which was best suited to the production of products which the public demanded and
changes In management had been FOUR-—"Parts of the property > 5 » 3 : i ait
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useless.” Mr. Willkie charged a state- cent of its par value. ment sent out to stockholders| # ’ and published in Indianapolis Restored, Confidence newspapers Feb. 2 contained] A reorganization followed in “numerous false and defamatory 1943 or 1044, Mr. Willkie said, statements” about him. ) The suit seeks $1,650,000 for “loss of earnings” during the rest,” - ’ i of his prdfessional life, $2 million of both stocks began dropping for “mental anguish” and an- again. . Shes $2 million -as punitive, “The conditions became so seriAmages. : lous” that in July, 1950, William Cites Reduced Pay {R: Sinclair reported-to his assoAs a result ‘of publicity con- ciate officers the board of direccerning his impending ouster, Mr. tors was seeking to hire a trou-| Willkie claimed he has been ble shooter, Mr. Willkie's suit “compelled” to take less desirable agded, £ /this background. Mr : gains 8 ound, : Jobs and at reduced pay, Willkie said he was hired to inCourthouse observers raised yegtigate Kingan's management eyebrows over size of the suit. and to Improve its business Several judges and lawyers said affairs. ; it was the ‘largest in their| After work began on his promemory. 7, Mr. Willkie's complaint out- three defendants and others lined business events at Kingan's, “conspired” to fire him. leading up to his hiring as presi-| Mr. Willkie, brother of the late dent Dec. 22, 1950. . | Wendell L. Willkie, Republican Although the firm had devel- presidential candidate in 1040, oped into one of the mest suc- went to Kingan's from a $100,000 cessful meat packers in the na- a-year job with Seagram's Distion, Mr. Willkie said, dividends
tilleries. to stockholders were deferred The suit was prepared yearly in the early 1940's, "sla C. Rivet Br. of Kiva &
Asks for Wage Hike In asking for a seizure law, the
He said both he and Mrs. Then as his critically wounded | president indirectly asked also Bailey come from big families—| sister was rushed off to St. Fran-| he from a family of 11 and she cis Hospital, Johnny told the offi-
{for authority to raise workers’ | wages. | Noting that the Constitution’ {protects property owners during
| “I found the gun (a 12-gauge a period of government operation
{shotgun) under the daven
[the living room, I took it upstairs [to play with it. “Then it went off . . . | 8issie in the head. “I didn’t know it was loaded + «+ I didn't know it was loaded.” The boy’s 5- year-old sister, Margaret, was in the room when
and hit
port in by “requiring that they be given
{Just compensation,” Mr. Truman
R. Steelman called government|
who wrote the majority decision, las saying that Congress ‘can authorize the taking of private property for public use.”
Doug Named GOP Keynoter
CHICAGO, June 10 (UP)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named today as the keynote speaker for the Republican national convention which will open here July 7. The convention arrangements committee named Gen. MacAr-,
thur by a voice vote after his name was the only one placed in nomination. ; A spokesman for the arrangements committee said there was a scattering of “no” votes but that the overwhelming preponderance of the committee voted “aye.” The slight opposition to Gen. MacArthur's appointment ap+ parently indicated that the supporters of Gen, Dwight D. Eisen-~ hower did not consider the keynote speaker’s position important enough to warrant a fight, Gen. MacArthur is an avowed supporter of Sen. Robert A. Taft. Earlier, J. Russell Sprague of New York, an Eisenhower man and member of the Committee, said that “we'd take anyone who is impartial,” but that the Eisen-
|said: { “The law should give similar ihower camp preferred that the
|protection to wage earners. This] {means that changes in wages and working conditions during seizure |should not be prevented by law. “If they were, the seizure would |
keynote speaker not be committed to any candidate. An Indianapolis man was named chief doorkeeper for the convention. He was Michael J.
the gun went off. She was unin-| oan that workers would be Hanrahan, 4834 N. Illinois St.
jured.
Mrs. Lillie S8arkine, 54, who was’
Bobby Offered 4 Bikes
(taking care of the children, was| in the back. yard when the gun went off. She had just finished a/ big washing. After the girl was
taken away to the hospital, Mrs.|
Sarkine collapsed. The children’s
father, John
Johnston, an electrician for the | Pennsylvania Railroad, had just {left the house a few minutes be-
depreciated to less than 10 per fore the accident. Their’ mother,
work at RCA.
Iona,
While police carried on their investigation, the horror-struck boy
went out and sat
sobbed
on the front
“ |which “restored confidence” for a porch. Hugging his small dog, short time. Then reported values Lady, the boy broke down and
“I didn’t know it was loaded. I
didn’t know couldn't help it.”
it was
loaded. I
Views on the News
Dan Kidney
GEN. EISENHOWER says he is willing to see Stalin anywhere.
Less
magnanimous Americans
have a special place where they would like to see him.
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was at!
gram, Mr. Willkie charged, the a
IN POLITICS, it would be easier to teach an old dog new tricks—if there were any. = =» ” AFTER a year of taking government testimony, the Subver-
Photo, Page 4 : | By DONNA MIKELS
Tears welled up again in the eyes of Bobby Boltinghouse today. | But they were tears of joy . « «| the overflowing of happiness in a| little boy who is going to get his! bicycle back. Yesterday The Times printed a challenge to the thief who stole the 14-year-old polio victim's new red bike—a picture of Bobby and the question: “Could you look into this face and. keep a stolen bicycle?” Touched the Hearts Nobody knows if the thief read the challenge. : But other people did .". . and the story of a forlorn little boy reached into their hearts. Phones started ringing at The Times, at Bobby's home at 2148'; Madison Ave, at the home of Mrs. A. J, Schneider, the neighbor who bought Bobby the new bike when the young infantile paralysis victim was released from the hospital, io
As Times Phones Buzz
liver it. A businessman who asked his name be withheld
|called Bobby's mother and asked
to give Bobby a neW bike, The Times was about to put all the offers in a hat and let Bobby draw one today but a stranger from Chicago apparently solved the quandary. 3 He called The Times and Bobby's home, declining to give his name but saying that he had purchased a bicycle in a downtown department store and it would be delivered t or tomorroy. That's the situation as it stands today. But the whys and wherefores don’t worry young Bobby today. All he knows is that he's going to get a new bike. Told that not one, but four, bicycles were offered Bobby paused thoughtfully and said: “Gee—four bikes.”
.-He Isn't Greedy
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But Bobby isn’t a greedy boy, :
He paused a minute, then said: “Maybe there's some other little; boy they could give them
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