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[. 9, 1952

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FORECAST: Fair, warm tonight, tomorrow.

~The Indianapolis Times

Low tonight, 61. High tomorrow 88.

63d YEAR—NUMBER 182

15Mile Speed

Limit Asked in ‘School Zones

Safety Groups Push

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’ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1952

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffios

Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily.

PRICE FIVE CENTS |

= Reckless Driving War | By JOE ALLISON 5 Separate moves for a sharp i reduction in speed limits in a

school zones today were launched by the Safety Board

and Indianapolis Safety Council. ? At the same time, Prosecutor Frank Fairchild announced he will file charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide against the driver of a carl: which killed a 10-year-old school boy last week. . A limit of 15 miles an hour, | near schools- was agreed on by the . city board and the Safety Council group. Hours Specified However, the Safety Council requested the limit apply from 7, a. m. to 4 p. m. while the Safety Board suggested only those hours during which pupils are going to and from school. The Safety Council action followed formation of a special traffic campaign committee last week which will direct an inten-| sive drive for greater enforce-| ment during the next four months. | Special school zone warning signs will be furnished by the Safety Council, committee member Edward H. Little said. | Council to Buy Signs | The Council will buy the signs to be erected by city crews in school zones, he said. | These signs would warn of the new speed limit if the plan is adopted by the City Council. The speed limit change would

0f Sen. Jenner Kicks Up Fuss

Neither Extreme Of GOP Satisfied

Other political news, photos, Page« 2, 8, 4 and 19; editorial, Page 20.

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenlhower today enlisted Sen. {William E. Jenner in his lat-

lest crusade to sweep from |Washington the ‘“fearmongers. quack doctors and bare-faced {looters” of the Truman adminis[tration, Before he left | Indianapolis this morning for a campaign strat-g {egy meeting in | Washington, D. C., Tke made it /clear he wanted! Sen. Jenner on} {his political team. RI

Ike's Approval

disguise.

SHE HAD IT "MAID"—General lke's bed gets a last minute smoothing from his special "aide," reporter-turned-domestic Donna Mikels. She lost the job when someone penetrated the

Bandits Grab 6430 In Downtown Holdup

‘Gunmen Rob Firm's

Paymaster i | Flee After

# kK.

n Alley,

Slugging

SHULL

Staging a brazen daylight holdup, two middle-aged robbers grabbed a $6430 payroll in a downtown alley four 'blocks from police headquarters this morning. Paymaster Charles Dickerson, 59, of 5057 W. 14th St.,

|said the men grabbed him as he

lapproached the rear door of the

ployed.

{ n | Central Rubber & Supply Co., 30 | Nc ers Ig |E, Georgia St., where he Is em-

New Ordinance

Curb on Explosive Shipments Feared

posed new restriction on trucks) |carrying explosives through Indianapolis. The truckers met with the Safety Board in an effort to kill an ordinance pending before the City Council. The ordinance calls for drivers!

He was bringing the payroll

from the Fletcher Trust Co., 108 N. Pennsylvania St., at the time {of the robbery.

The holdup occurred at the in-

tersection of the alleys. between Georgia and Maryland Sts. and {Meridian and Pennsylvania Sts, Seven motor - truckline repre-| The east-west alley is named

[sentatives today attacked a pro- | Chesapeake St.

One Grabbed Case

Mr. Dickerson said he was

|walking west from Pennsylvania {8t. As he approached the alley | intersection,

one of the men

{stepped out and grabbed his leather brief case containing the money.

a x About 14,600 f trucks loaded with losives| “The other man was standing require Council action. State laws| SAYS SHE — Eleanor Rose SAYS HE—Billy Rose arrives pL Mucks loade exp osiyes | o Cra conflict with city powers on some| Bill's wife takes a side ne for his N. Y ow matrimonial yelling, cheering, Mr. Leibowitz to secure police permission to In the parking lot across the ol streets but the state is expected : . 3» whistling sup - enter the city, follow designated ley,” Mr. Dickerson said. en

to waive its control over school Trance.

zones, An “I Am a Safe Driver” campaign also is under study by the Safety Couhcil committee. The proposal calls for of thousands of windshield sticksrs with the “safe driver” tag. The stickers would. be issued to drivers who demonstrate safe practices and would be handed but by city police, Mr. Little ex-

By ¥nited Press NEW YORK, Sept. 10—Show-| man Billy Rose withdrew sen-|

‘War of Roses’ Turns Out to Be Big Turkey

trial. huge Butler Fieldhouse last night to hear Ike's ‘‘get tough” speech. Another 5000 heard the General over loudspeakers in the Butler football bowl when he called for support of the entire Republican ticket from top to bottom. The {speech was carried coast to coast face criminal slander charges by two radio networks. brought against him in California by Mre. Dorothy (Wes) Ber- Critics Get Busy

porters jammed every inch of |

Newsgal ‘Maided’

necessary, post a bond. Required to Get Pass:

quired to secure police escort to! pass through the city. James Nicholas, executive secretary of the Indiana Motor Truck Association, led the fight to javert the proposed new regula- | tion. He said the procedure would

routes at specific times and, if the first man grabbed the money, ‘he came across and forced me south down the cross alley. Then

he hit me in the jaw and they Explosives trucks now are re-'photh ran east.”

Mr. Dickerson's left cheek was

(bruised and ‘his glasses broken

iby the blow. Both men carried guns, he said, and the first man said: “Drop that bag and get

‘down the alley or I'll shoot you.” Couldn't Follow Them

Suite, but Not for Long

By DONNA MIKELS HIS is a chambermaid’s view of a General.

'sational divorce charges against nie, widow of Band Leader Ben| It was one of the most enthuSeeks Aid of MPs his swimming queen wife, Elea-/Beffiie. Mrs. Bernie charged that] siastic Audiences Ike has met since { ’ bs | ted a nine-state plane trip The Safety Council also told nor, today, [Rosé slandered. her in displaying he star the Safety Board today it will] She was granted a separation an affidavit signed by her former eight days ago. The partisan

plained. place unwanted delays on move-

jamas with a blue satin stripe ment of trucks loaded with gov-! were folded at the foot of the [ernment explosives needed bed. |defense projects.

Both alleys were choked with parked cars, trucks and construcin tion equipment. Mr. Dickerson {said he could not tell which way

ask for assignment of military!

decree on grounds of abando

n. maid charging she participated crowd applauded at a rate of

police here again this year. The MPs last winter received traffic training here under city police and directed cars on downtown corners. The use of the soldiers could free 30 or 40 regular city police for traffic duty, Mr. Little pointed

out. Thus, a show which had been| Charges against the death Car pilled in advance as the bantam

driver sre 10 be placed today, Mr. roducer’s greatest spectacle, end-

Fairchild said. i Leroy Daniels, 43, of 3287 Ral-|¢@ as what is known along

ston Ave., already is under arrest| Broadway as a “turkey. on charges of reckless driving ana] After more than two hours of failure to stop for a red light. (negotiating between the judge Admits Failing to Stop and shifts of opposing attorneys He admitted, police said, fail-|—almost in the manner of a ing to stop for the automatic|labon mediator trying to settle signal at 10th St. and Holmes|a strike—the judge granted Mr. Ave, where his car struck Thomas|{Rose’s motion in open court to Zore, 10, of 14068 N. Concord St.,| withdraw his “ divorce charges and Charleyne Toth, 9, of 1326/and his defenses to a separation N. Concord St. Thursday. suit, which Eleanor had brought. | Tommy died the next day in| The judge set Oct. 15 for a| General Hospital. hearing at which he will fix ali-| Safety Council spokesmen said mony. they have been seeking use of the) Eleaner previously had been] involuntary manslaughter charge/granted $700 a week when she against death car drivers. filed separation papers. { Reckless homicide charges, have Hard With a Dollar | been used in the past. Maximum| ra ‘judge said Mr. Rose, who penalty under this law is a one-to- is known along Broadway as a | five-year prison term. Under the. ovo holds a dollar with al

ment and “cruel and inhuman treatment.” Mr. Rose, who once wrote a song beginning “I Found a Million Dollar Baby,” "agreed that Supreme Court Justice James B. M. McNally should set the amount of alimony.

manslaughter law, death Cari ovip of iron, may contest tHe ali-| drivers could be given 2-to-21-year ;, nv judgment at the hearing. terms. r

Mr. Rose told reporters after | Housewives Aroused the case ended that he withdrew | Elsewhere, the death of Tom- his charges when Judge McNally | Wy Zore brought action from privately pointed out to him that| aroused housewives. |“I had no chance of winning al Mrs. John Vargo, 1152 N. fight with a girl.” Holmes Ave., said a group of

“Personally, I neither apologize women will meet next week with nor withdraw what I have done] Safety Council officials to seek and said,” Mr. Rose said. “Our| ways of stepping up traffic pen- marriage never has been a onealties and reducing the traffic way street.” w ! toll. : Mr. Rose said he expected to!

Stevenson Hits the Road After Frisco Speech

By MERRIMAN SMITH jtiat war with Russia is jevitable, United Press Staff Correspondent (Mr, Stevenson warned the Ration SAN. FRANCISCO, Sept. against Sderestimatig he suri 10—Gov. Adlai Stevenson put, In. Sala his first major foreign-policy many years.” speech behind him today and “Having failed to defeat us in got the feel of the open road from|the field of battle, the enemy now

ion Seeks to defeat us by prolonging bi Platform of a campaign the negotiations and by exhaust-|

ling our patience,” he said. | The

Democratic presidential “But some men in this country

nominee, whose recent public &P-| ear to think that if definitive |

“perhaps for,

4 » pearances have been confined to| Cictory cannot be won, we should

set out fOr iiper take reckless military acs)

Los Angeles, scheduling eight..." "cue the whole thing up. platform talks along the Way. |g,.h advice plays into the enemy's Mr. Stevenson, in making his hands. The contest with tyranny first foreign-policy pronouncement js not a 100-yard dash. It is a at the Veterans Memorial Audi-test of endurance.” torium here last night, defended ‘Soviet Fixes Spending’ the Truman administration's] Mr. Stevenson said: “It is the!

i a and simultaneous- | ow Ropes, an on Russia for Soviet Union which now fixes the | {

high taxes imposed on Americans. level of our defense expenditures,” = Seen as Turning Point amounting to 85 per cent of the “I believe we may in time look budget. back at Korea as a major turn-| «mhe only way to emancipate

ing point in history,” Gov. Ste-/,,rgelves from this foreign conjvenson said, “a turning point (pq)

whilch led not to another terrible taxes, war, but to the first historic dem-|strength and then to find the

stuffy auditoriums,

|with Eleanor in sex orgies.

|ing to pay “any proper alimony

| “stripped of all the verbage . . .|

|terpret it, his speech in Philadel-

{once every 42 seconds—40 times After the court was adjourned, during Ike's 28-minute talk. Eleanor through her Attorney] The General's speech capped a Louis Nizer said: {full day of special ceremonies, “I consider Mr. Rose's with- highlighted by a New York-style drawal and abandonment of aliticker tape reception around charges, with an apology by him,/ Monument Circle. a complete surrender by him and. But while Ike satisfied most of a complete vindication of me and the enthusiastic faithful who |

ee hho Were unjustly "wA SHIN GTON, Sept. 10 os : i (UP)—Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nobody Ever Wins who says he can ‘clean up the After the conferences ended, “mess in Washington,” arrived Arthur Garfield Hays, Mr. Rose's, here today on a flying visit and attorney, moved to drop all of Mr.| was presented a large broom. Rose’s charges. He said the case The Republican presidential had been heralded in the press as, nominee flew here from Ina Roman holiday with the Roses; dianapolis for brief speeches as the gladiators. and a visit to local campaign

He said this had been described| headquarters. as the “war of the Roses, and] therefore was compared to the turned out to hear him here, his historical incidents which Jasteglindorsement of Sen. Jenner sent 30 years and resulted in the criticism flying his way.

ruination of all involved. No one, Strangely, the fault - finding ever wins a war . . . in spite of came from supporters of Sen.

everything that’s ‘happened, Bill {Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) and his had Yc Be 16 na a of advisers on the East and|

[West Coasts. Mr. Hays said that the only! | question ays was “one of a Indiana Taft Republicans, in-]|

» _|eluding a number of top GOP Malice” and Mr. Rose was Wh leaders, are outraged that ITke'did |

{not come out with a more en-| f, | { hed by Ihe BOMIL. parties can-|thusiastic indorsement of Sen. not be reconciled,” he said.;Jenner. “Neither he nor I have She Some East and West Coast]

| Republicans, reported to include] stomach or the heart to engage : i in a mud-slinging contest with California’s Gov. Earl Warren and

" New York’s Gov. Thomas Dewey, | Eleanor Mr Hays then said Mr. Rose are miffed because Ike indorsed |

would withdraw his own divorce Sen: Jepuier at all did not’ mens suit and his defenses to actions Gen: ien ow Br d 0 nen brought by Mrs. Rose. {tion Sen. Jenner by name, Mr. Nizer told the court that Said he's not interested in any! : | ‘idea of “purging” anyone.

“ h state are it is the fact that Mr. Rose sur-| The people of each s

— rendered.” ’ | Continued on Page 5—Col. 2

few swipes at Republican presi- Guard has been fighting the same dential nominee Gen. Dwight D.lprogram for years.” Eisenhower's foreign-policy plank] ed by Crowd as laid down in Philadelphia last, gp eppointe y Thursday. . “I am reluctant to believe that agers my honored opponent has been were disappointed about the persuaded that bad history is good crowd he drew here yesterday

party man-

| | | |

in the San Francisco area,

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politics—perhaps he hopes the Re- |p, ging 22 miles from the

publican old guard will swallow]

his bitter pill of approval of our airport to his hotel.

He was pre-,

policies if it is sugar-coated with/ceded by a loudspeaker car that | condemnation of Democrats,” he told the streetside crowd in brassy,

said. “At any rate, however we in- was about to appear. The crowd he developed In phia does not dispose of foreign downtown San Francisco, howpolicy as an issue in this cam- ever, was large and warm. His paign,” Gov. Stevenson said. * managers ig wi ” , ~ (speech last night in the auditor‘Doesn’t Contribute Much’ * [TFPCL Ch F R10. Jess than 1000 “The General's 10-point Ppro- persons. Other and larger stadia gram, of which three points were were occupied by such things as ‘throw the Democratic rascalsy roller derby. out,’ and seven were a recital of| Mr, Stevenson defended Adminthe same foreign policy goals jstratiori policy in China, and outwhich the ‘Democratic rascals’ ined reasons communism at-

|have been following for years, tracted Chinese and may attract does not contribute much to our other Asiatics; He viewed China's! x fall to the Reds as the result of | and to substantially cut| Mr. Stevenson said he did not the development of nationalism | is first to develop our (publican Party would support the The candidate urged America

foreign policy discussion.” believe the old guard of the Re-'in the Orient.

onstration that an effective sys- means of ending this armaments principles outlined by Gen. Eisen- to help India develop natural re-

is race.” | Mr.

tem of collective

security Jossible."” .

4 AVR SR mimi X . . » #

Although he spurned the idea dominantly Asia speech with a

‘ /hower at Philadelphia. Stevenson prefaced his pre- “How do I know?” Mr. Steven- trade and encourage Indians to| his afternoon nap his bed was : | ‘scarcely rumpled. His blue pa-

{sources, increase our foreign

son sald. “Well, because the Old reject communism, : # . Li ¢ : Ran Mo.

3 v t - ; a

ER : . SR Cis hid a a A GE

ltones the Democratic nominee

I was the GOP presidential candidate's parlor “atdea”—until my disguise was discovered and I was banned from his Claypool Hotel suite. Sort of a “banned aide,” you might say. Dressed in a crisp white uniform and pert white apron, I decided to try to infiltrate the General's suite as a hotel employee yesterday. s ” tJ MY DISGUISE worked fine —at first. I looked so maid-like that the first wave of the General’s incoming party assigned me to unpacking the General's suits. (By the way, Ike, I'm sorry about the one I kept dropping and rumpling —- just couldn't get the hang of those trick hangers of yours.) So as the welcoming group poured into Ike's suite I kept circulating, putting fresh towels in place of the fresh towels I'd just put in place. Mostly I was

| trying to keep out of the view

of Indianapolis’ dignitaries I was afraid might recognize me and tell, » Then I made my big mistake. I headed for one room to get out of the way of some arriving local VIP's (Very Important People) whom I knew would recognize me. But as I did I ran into one of those AlFs (almost important people).

HE WAS a guy named George Diener, one of those minor

| politicians you don't know well

enough to recognize. But unfortunately, he recognized me and to borrow a military phrase I “had had it.” Maybe it was because this George was way down in the list of local people important enough to see Ike. Maybe he saw a chance to work his way up, a sort of political sec-

{.ond lpole, working for silver

bars, But, anyway, George told. And at this point I became about as popular as if I'd been wearing a neon Adlai Stevenson button. » Nd ” AND SO it was that just as a smiling General Ike bréezed in to view my first effort as a hotel maid, I was an ex-hotel maid. But I learned later—we maids

have a way of learning such

things—that General Ike got a big laugh from the gag when he heard abdut it. And I'm glad he appreciated it. I think I almost deserve the Purple Heart for the stogking I snagged and the fingernail I broke trying to figure out those trick” hangers which

held his four tailor - made, single-breasted suits, fr. ” -

BUT EVEN though I was dls-

| covered and ousted, I got back

around later and here's a maid's-eye view of Gen. Ike: He's a very neat man. After

He didn’t wad his white shirt in a corner—he folded it neatly on a couch. He hung up the brown.suit he switched for the navy blue linen which he wore for the Fieldhouse speech. If he changed ties, he put the old one back in his luggage. un ‘nn’ ONE VALUABLE bit of information eluded me. I wondered if he put the cap back on his toothpaste. But Ike's so neat he left no toilet articles out in the bathroom so I'll never know. The General had a massage by Claypool masseur John H. Stewart before the afore-men-tioned nap. Later his physician, Dr. Howard Snyder, said IKe told him it was the most restful nap he's had on his tour. He awoke refreshed enough to do justice to a real he-man meal prepared by Claypool Chef Fred Haver—melon, a 16ounce sirloin rare, mashed potatoes, green beans, beets, coffee and ice cream. tJ » n THERE was a portable bar in the General's suite. But he himself drank “cokes,” except on his return from his speech last night when he tossed off six fast glasses of cold water,

There was no late night war | huddle. The politicos who tried | to see the General after he re- | turned. from his speech were |

informed: he'd retired. He got

back in the hotel a little after 10 p. m. and by 11 he'd gone |

to bed.

Ike was up a little after 6:30 |

a. m. as Emmett Buckner, assigned as Ike's special room waiter, wheeled in the melon, boiled eggs, toast. and coffee the General had previous night. ” os n IKE LOOKED over-the papers, ate a hearty breakfast, commended “Buck” on the fine ‘service during his stay. Then he went back into his bedroom, dressed in that nice tan- suit (the one I wrinkled) and was on his way to the airport, Then the suite which almost 24 hours had been guarded by uniformed and plain clothes police stood wide-open.

seeing what happened to my tidy suite, I took a look. » n n THE living room where Ike's visitors and party had gathered was just that—lived in. But in the bedroom the percale sheets were hardly wrinkled. The $35 bedspread was neatly folded at the foot of the bed. The used

bath towels were placed on a

chair by the shower. It was almost as if the room hadn't been occupied--or if it had at least occupied by the kind of guests we hotel maids treasure, a very neat man.

| Bank Call ssued .

WASHINGTON-—The Com p-|Gen. Eisenhower's voice at all. troller of the Currency issued 4 Mr, Pulliam, who was sitting call today for the condition of all close to Ike, said the voice was

national banks as of Sept. 5. 2g oq

Mr. Nicholas pointed out that

ordered the

the broad powers of the ordinance would even prohibit movement of! lany explosives through Indian-| {apolis by trucks, lif drivers were, unable to secure police permis-| sion,

Governed by Board

{they went after their first few

steps east from the scene of the crime. Mr. Dickerson said he had been carrying the payroll from the bank for the past 20 years,

always over the same route.

He added he felt there was less

Assisted by representatives of [risk in traveling down the alley

{six truck - freight firms, [Nickolas explained that routes were governed by the In-| iterstate Commerce Commission. Many truck lines are forced to

Mr. and truck through the rear door. *

entering the company

Police swarmed to the scene,

but were unable to find any immediate trace of the fleeing men.

{travel routes leading over city | _

(streets, he said.

Other ICC regulations call for k transfer of trailers loaded with!

explosives from one hauling firm to another at some loading point within the city limits, he explained.

Safety Board members declined

time, however.

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lke Swore, but —Newsmen Swear

And because I couldn't resist |

| Did Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower | luse profanity during his speech | last night at Butler Fieldhouse? | Radio listeners complained to WISH and WIRE that the Repub{Hean presidential nominee “took {the Lord's name in vain.” Three newspapermen, who carefully listened to six rebroadcasts of a WXLW tape recording, said

the General did no such thing.|

[They reported the General did] gay: “Go ahead, go ahead. Yeah |aamn it.” The newsmen were [Times reporter Irving Leibowitz and two Associated Press corre-| spondents Lou Kramp and Douglas Cornell. But another newspaperman, Eugene Pulliam, publisher of the Star and News, said it wasn't

that of a radio technician who

to alter the ordinance at this! §

‘in Maine. {already in.

i 52 £y é Rossii Ws Bes in or Bl na

HOLDUP VICTIM — Charles

Dickerson.

Views on the News— —————————

Dan Kidney

CORRUPTION wasn't an issue The Republicans were

” n 5 “MORALITY In American Politics,” is the title of a new book. Author George.A. Gras ham obviously “must have put in hours of research.

- o o IF GOV. STEVENSON loses, maybe he can ‘get a job as an assistant professor of journalisnia

Mildly

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UP) — Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived here today from Indian~ apolis and “apologized” for what he said was the possible use of the word “damn” in his Indiana radio speech last night. He said he had no recollection of using the word “but I apologize if I did it unintentionally.”

became excited when a Tele-

prompter Ike was using failed to function properly. Two men,” professing to be .local ministers, told local radio stations they intend to bring the matter before the Indianapolis Ministerial Association. He " Gen. Fisenhower told newsmen this morning: ’ rah ; : “I. don’t recall it. Did I say that? If I did it was purely imadvertent.” = : ip