Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1952 — Page 12

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GOP Can Find Flaws In St 's Rea nrin aws in evenson Ss Regime ....::::... 7 Shortwave radio oN a i. s t sireau of Standards here predicted

A year ago, the Republicans were searching desperately for some way to lay a glove on Adlai a8 a the Illinois governorship.

to politics who had done every thing by the book. A good part of to

program already

brought into the

By CHARLES LUCEY This is the second of four Scripps-Howard Staff Writer | articles in which Scripps-How-SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 20— ara Staff Writer Charles Lucey, writing from the Illinois state capital, makes an on-the-spot appraisal of Adlai Stevenson's record as a governor.) then ee mn fOr higher and higher. The State Revenue Department thought the loss was due to out-of-state mail purchases, which are not subject tax. But legitimate cigaret| dealers were skeptical and, act-| ing on information furnished by| them, the Chicago Dally News in|

Stevenson, seen

second-term candidate

Here was a Johnny-come-lately

ifs legislative

was achieved, Good and able June, 1951, sald a clgaret stamp men had been counterfeit racket existed.

my = Hires Private Detectives

kis Se oy Still, Revenue Director Clifford of the Dwight Halpin sald there was no evidence

reen admini- of counterféiting. He said a $3-

was an issue in the 1948 cam-

paign, when Adlal Stevenson was of inadequate regulation and own people, there always would on than Adlai Stevenson. He was elected governor, Mr, Stevenson weak enforcement” as were be a plausible alibi. Of course let down by a few subordinates used the issue himself and pledged blamed in the Centralia blast. they wouldn't give it to him he trusted. Against this, he had

reform of state mine safetv-regu-

lation. Jan. 14 as saying: Yet when the West Frankfort “The mine disaster occurred three years

later, although :there had been some reorganization of the mines and minerals department, there actually had been no tightening, of mine safety law. Mr: Stevenson had tried.

aw.” He

safety laws and had presented

gation Commission for review, Commission members and repre-

unions rejected it. The governor sought the sup-

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aster revealed “the same factors But when he'd check back to his

And Gov, Stevenson was quoted straight — they were running a

owners fault in not following the state law on rock-dusting (of coal dust to prevent combustion) state was at fault in not seeing that the company . followed the

The horsemeat scandal: When Adlal Stevenson moved had prepared an overhaul of mine ¢, gph o601q one job he had to fill was that of Superintendent his program to the Mine Investi-| jo ‘po oC® Ct oe | politicians seemed Interested—it Mission ! was a spot where a petty grafter $3000 and $3500 in bribes. A sentatives of mine operators and .ou1q shake down minor shop- flock of state food inspectors

keepers and food dealers. Stevenson, in a search for the dictments began to catch up with

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loceans will come through fairly {well during the next week, radio ‘forecasters at the National Bu-

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crossing the Atlantic and Pacific/today.

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more distressed by such goings-

brought dozens of able and high-

minded men into the state government, In every case he himself moved forthrightly. But his administration suffered, nevertheless,

TOMORROW: Adlai Stevenson's Relations With the Politicians.

racket and wanted to protect it. The U. 8. Office of Price Sta-

bilization turned up evidence that in 1951 there had been a widespread network of sales in horsemeat disguised as beef. It was a hoodlum-racket and OPS men (said it followed the typical syndicate pattern—intimidation and threat often made a steady buyer of a dealer. From Mr. of

were at

and the

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Gov. were fired. Around the state in-

stration had dimmed into the past Then it

mail order buying.

hap- Mr, Lucey

million-a-year loss was due to the port of mining area state SenLater, how- ators, but it was no go.

ever, the state claimed it had dis-

right man, thought he had him the horsemeat racketeers. in Charles W. Wray. | Millions of pounds of horseThen Mr. Stevenson stopped. Long before the horsem:at meat, OPS men estimated, had hat, his critics say, is where he scandal actually broke, the gov- been misbranded and palmed off.

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istration spotless into trouble.

cigaret tax stamp counterfeiting racket costing the state millions of dollars. Gov. Stevenson's state

ries of raids and

originally and there were signs of collusion between state employees and the stamp racketeers.

Frankfort, 11l.,, mine disaster last

was testimony that ment of the state mining law was

son's critics said he had not been as been in pushing his stalled program for mine law tightening.

closure of a horsemeat ring operating widely throughout Illinois, | police work were involved and

chortled locking the barn after the horse be had been eaten. Hamburgers be-| stamp machine was stolen, it is came “Adlaiburgers’ to his critics. | contended. And then, there were

affairs, ones.

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covered some stamp fraud about this time. The state hired private detectives to investigate the racket. On Nov. 27, state .police raided eight suspected wholesalers and collected huge quantities of fake-| stamped cigarets. i It was found that a Milwaukee| tool and die works had supplied

ned. Within a few months, an adminthat had been all but

disclosures of a

First came

dramatically in a arrests after

lice moved

careful investigation but the parts to make four stolen cigaret «tate had seemed slow to act stamping machines usable. The thefts had occurred between

March, 1949, and June, 1950, and in each Instance there had heen! speculation about counterfeiting. | Twenty-four persons—but no

state employees-—were Indicted.

After that came the West

120 died. There lax enforce-

ec. 20, in which

when they refused to take lie detector tests. A fourth resigned, Gov. Stevenson has insisted his administration deserves credit for) using the state police as it did to move in on the newest operation of the crime syndicate. Exceptionally fine investigative and

contributing cause. Gov. Steven-

insistent as he should have

Then, in January, came the. dis-

with bribe-taking|there is no question about the

collusion

state food. inspection employees, | Vigor in pressing the case. peddling millions of pounds of horseflesh as beef,

State Warned

{ Gleefully the Republicans| But critics say it came late. The about: Gov. Stevenson state was warned of what might happening when. the first

There were other smelly little|the statements of revenue offibut these were the big | clals downrating the possibility {of the rackets moving in. Taking them as they occurred:| On the West Frankfort ‘mine It became fairly clear early in| disaster:

1951 that state cigaret tax reve-| The earlier Centralia, 11l., mine nues were declining, even though Y.

| disaster, which occurred in the S. cigaret sales were going preceding Green administration,

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made his mistake,

The governor's friends knowledge now his position] would have been stronger if, regardless of his chance of success, he had handed a bill tof Democratic legislative leaders wnd insisted they introduce it, |another But there is some agreement; that even if the law had been changed, it wouldn't have guaranteed against the West Frank-

line, this year.

ciates in the

fort tragedy. Newspaper reports of testimony at a state investiga-| Inc. tion of the disaster, quoted a fed-/chase of the line

if existing laws had been proper-| Rapids, Mich. ly enforced the toll at West

ST. PAUL, Aug. 20 (UP)--City One Block South of E. 38th St. :_ ly hy 100 lives, time being. But Mr. Freeman weed inspector Ted Mosio was a Eo atm at 3842 N. IHinois St. HU. 1427 The federal official said the dis- plans to transfer the entire opera- stricken today with hay fever. EEE —

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