Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1952 — Page 4

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FBI Men Pay Surprise Visit To Justice Department ———

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1952

‘Hits Pandering

Aids Queried About 2 Men Who Resigned

By CHESTER POTTER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 — FBI agents descended suddenly on staff lawyers of the Justice Department's antiMonday and ques

Judge Calls Them a ‘Farce’

Judge Scott McDonald ‘oday accused the police and prose. cutor's office of “using the courts for some other purpose’ than obtaining convictions on loitering and pandering charges. “They don't want convictions,” the judge charged in Municipal;

trust division

tioned them about activities of . : . : w . (Court 4, “These pandering charges thelr former superiors he two are a farce." agencies are housed in the same Judge McDonald dismissed loi-

tering and pandering charges against a man arrested Aug. 12

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The unexpected visit was made (

on order of Attorney General RECUPERATING — Eileen near Indiana Ave. and Vermont James P. McGranery in behalf . . i of the House subcommittee in Jeffrey, one of three girls who The defendant was arrested by

vestigating his department.

The staff attorneys were kept| ing spree with more than $18,- ae nomen gud ve in their offices answering nues- 000 belonain to Nah a n y tions during their customary ging ahant, 'the same night.

Police and the prosecutor's of

Mass., doctor last fall, is recovfice announced at the time they

lunch. period so that there would

be no leaks or swapping of In- ering from a fractured spine were starting to use loitering t 7 i 5 formation. ie suffered when she fell four charges and the World War II Rep. Frank T&Chelf (D. Ky.) weapon of mandatory health

stories in an attempted escape from a detention home last January.

subcommittee chairman, said recently that his group was looking| into the activities of former Deputy Attorney General Payton! Ford, who quit the Justice De-| partment a year ago, and Herbert| A. Bergson, who headed the anti-

checkups in an effort to stamp {out- prostitution and venereal disease here.

‘For Other Purpose’ | But today Judge McDonald [charged the loitering cases were

Hoosiers Praise

trust division and left about a . being brought into court “for vear before Mr, Ford. They are Air Force some other purpose, without a now associated in legal practice ‘Times. Speetal dream of conviction.” here | DAYTON, O., Aug. 20 Indiana! The affidavit against the de-|

Some Big Clients GOP Reps. Charles B. Brownson f®ndant In court today sald Pa-| Mr. Chelf sald his committee/@nd Mrs. Cecil Harden today|!roiman Harrison knew of his| was trying to find out if govern-|Patted the Air Force on the back. °Wn knowledge” the defendant ment officials were “doing govern-| AS members of a congressional Would solicit men for women and ment business out of one drawer Subcommittee, they took part in a/that on the night of Aug. 12 he| of their desks and private ousi-|tWo-day Investigation: of Afr #8W him with “Mary Doe. 22." ridka ott of another.” Force buying habits here. |The officer then arrested him. Mr. Ford and Mr. Bergson are| The group, headed by Rep. Her-!| When the prosecution in court reliably reported to have among Pert C. Bonner (D. N. C.), had today. falled to produce Mary] their clients some large firms nothing but praise after its closed 0." the judge blew up. | which have had and are having sessions with top Air Materiel ‘Charges Farce’ litigation with the Justice Depart-|C0mmand officers at Wrighit-Pat-| “I never saw such a farce" he, ment. [terson Air Force Base. {told Deputy Prosecutor Ted Lew-| Mr. Chelf has announced that/ - 1 felt more sure about the/ls, “as filing a charge in court] the committee will have a public future of the Air Force at Wright</about a Mary Doe, then when| hearing next week. He sald that Patterson than at the Pentagon,” you come before the hench, the there will be “some surprising ['€P- Brownson sald. “It's been|nrosecution does not know a Mary revelations.” easier to get Information here Doe.” “We want to demonstrate the than In Washington.” The judge asked Patrolman necessity. of a law which will He commended the Air Force Harrison how he could give Mary | prevent former government em- for its slogan, “More Air Force Doe's age as 22 when he didn't ployees from representing clients for the Dollar,” rather than “More know her. whose cases they may have had [lars for the Air Force.” | The policeman replied the pros-| access to in their .governmentall recutor’s office instructed him to fill out the affidavit that way.

capacities,” he said. i Ww - | omanSentenced , — — — | | Ol Friends . For ‘Taking’ State Polio Deaths Drop | The Chelf committee and Mr, or Taking Gl The Indiana State Board of) MeGranery have heen working “ “Mustering” a jubllant, young Health today reported a drop, tipsely. together inthe. “clean; o-oo 10 torlowing a cham. from 7.10 3 per (ent: in up” of the Justice Department. | “°° tial of is ng £aamStephen A. Mitchell, former PAENC ceichratiol tpfiay sent aj 32-year-old to Women's

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the polio death toll in the past year.

chief counsel of the committee . woman Relaa..e--.-H and now Democratic national Prison for 90 days, : chairman, worked behind scenes MISS Lenora Lilly, 40 8. State JT ENSIIIEISINGN ta put over recent changes in top St pleaded guilty to charges of OF personnel in Mr. McGranery's de- Petit larceny today before Judge * SKIN IRRITATIONS TX partment. Mr. MtGranery and S¢0tt McDonald in Municipal 3 3 Mr. Mitchell are old friends. Court 4. She also was fined $50 $f Aw Mr. Ford and Mr. Bergson are 8nd Costs, B E expected to be witnesses in next, She admitted taking the money Hi ‘ hi week's hearinjgé, which Chairman {rom a young GI whom she met 1 F Thelf says will cover other While he was celebrating his im- # MEDICATED CREME F phases of the investigation, some Pending discharge from the serv- ZI (enteining miraculous antiseptic PMX Ji/ of them “explosive.” ice and then eluding him by pre- 34 Sold i Mr. Bergson and Mr. Ford have tending to go to..a restroom in $f beck suman’ SP € | sald that they planned as long @ used-car lot at McKim and W. Ht, La TH ago as 1946 to enter legal prac- Washington Sts.”: The officers| artittrroorertrrs |

tice together eventually. After found the GI hunfing for her.| ys, Owrendable Mr. Bergson left the antitrust di- From his description, they Ss Xooft 4 vision, he became a noncompen- rested the woman in her room. '! RUG RAIS { sated attorney for Charles E.|~ _ Wilson, then head of defense mo- | billzation. Later he returned to the private practice of law. i

Police Find Skeleton

Hanging in Street OMAHA, Neb, Aug. 20 (UP) Police were trving to find the owner of a skeleton found dangling on a billboard along a city street, Two deputy sheriffs noticed the skeleton as they drove by in a patrol car. They said the bones were wired together, like the skeletons used in medical schools. “It must have hung there for

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ROCKAWAY BEACH, Mo, Aug. 20—The romance of a young couple ended in tragedy here today. Their bodies were found floating in IL.ake Taneycomo “locked in a last embrace.” A coroner sald they drowned only hours after their marriage. Coroner Harry Forsyth said James J. Seyer, 26, a Navy veteran, apparently went to the rescue of his bride, Betty, 19, and when he could not save her, they drowned with their arms around each other, They were married in the Sacred Heart Church in Crystal City, Mo., Baturday and came to Rockaway Beach for their honey-

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British Upstairs Boys Putting on the Dog

LONDON, Aug. 20 (CDN) With the nights growing longer, Scotland Yard is getting ready for the customary outbreak of country house burglaries, Forty-eight ‘‘upstairs boys,” as burglars are called here, been jugged in the last year, Those still free will go “back to

work” because they have spent their loot in gambling and high living this summer. One was

spotted at Ascot in top hat and Mrs. Wreathel Chappell, Tipton.

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been killed in Korea, Defense Department announced today. It re-| ported five more Indiana GIs; wounded and one injured.

Russell H. Rigsby, Freedom.

have Mr, and Mrs. Willlam M. Branstetter, Portland. Cpl. Thomas Brown Jr., husband of Mrs. Shirley Brown, Anderson. |

(Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd E. Reynolds, | FO OT A L NM

|F't. Wayne. COOLING SOOTHING INJURED Sgt. Vernard G. Bell, son of Mr. Another Hoosier soldier has and Mrs. Edward Bell, Lamar. |

KILLER IN ACTION | Pvt. Chester E. Rigsby, son of

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