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63d YEAR—NUMBER 188
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1952
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postaffice
Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Daily.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SEVEN LIVES LEFT—Fluff has
Times photo by John R. Spicklemire. more troubles than most people.
Fluff's Curiosity Was Almost Cat-astrophic
OT JUST any old cat around town can brag he got the attention Fluff got today. , Police lieutenants and sergeants, a switchboard operator and a pair of patrolmen all responded when ‘“part-Persian” Fluff let out a yowl of protest. Police car 28 was sent, with giren screaming, to 140 8. Catherwood Ave. where Fluff, as cats are wont to do, had got himself into some trouble. The fact that police thought at first a small boy was hurt
helped Fluff get all this at--
tention.
en Patrolman. Oscar B..
Fendley and Charles Jones arrived, Fluff was fussing as only a messed up mouser can fuss. He was caught in a bicycle luggage basket.
It seems Fluff had got into’ moré trouble a few weeks ago with a much larger cat which had broken both of Fluff's back legs. With his splints off only two days, Fluff was putting in his time in the basement while his 6-year-old master, Robert (Butch) Webster, was away at Td keep the cat out of trouble, and away from bigger cats, Butch’'s mother Hattie had placed the bicycle basket over: Fluff’s box. Curiosity, reported to be fatal to felines, made Fluff poke his head threw the wires of the basket where he got Officer? Fendley and Jones, armed with a hacksaw and a pair of pliegs, freed the cat. Fluff still” has seven lives coming, they report.
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lke Charges Farmers Got ‘Terrible Licking’
Other political stories, Pages 3, 18 |iog farmers, were caught in the
By JOHN L. CUTTER
United Press Staff Correspondent
th eg Dk Bt t : 1 | Department said there were so {many hogs that prices would American Hospital
Eisenhower accused the*Truman administration hog farmds “a terrible licking” last. year in a. conflict between two agencies-—the
Price Stabilization. Speaking at Albert Lea, Minn, on the second day of his whistle stop tour: of the Midwest,
promised that a GOP administration . would be “consistent” in both foreign and domestic affairs.
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Introduces ‘Mamie’
Gen. Eisenhower was met at
Albert Lea by a crowd which included 4500 school children. He was given an ovation when he
stepped out on the back platform
of his train with his wife, Sen. Edward Thye, (R. Minn.), Rep. August H. Andresen (R. Minn.), Rep. August H. Andresen (R. ..Minn,) and Gov. C. Elmer Ander#on of Minnesota. He introduced hiz wife to the crowd as “Mamie.” She was handed a bouquet of roses by 11-year-old Sandra Skout.
Gen. Eisenhower told the
youngsters: “I want to say that]
you young people give me a lift. , I believe in the youth of America.” , As an example of Democratic Inconsistency and confusion, he recalled the hog price situation of the fall and spring of 1951. “The farmers, particularly the
‘Voters Speak’ Reports To Give Times Readers Daily Sampling O
A POLITICAL self-portrait of}
changing America— That's the goal of an unusual piece of journalistic enterprise in the field of grassroots politiTimes and
The Indianapolis
bther Scripps-Howard Newspa-|
pers. It's a project
of the American voting public. Geared to the hottest presidential campaign in recent history, the effect will bring to readers of The Indianapolis Times an exclusive pre-election series of 30 dally articles entitled—
“THE VOTERS SPEAR.” The series will start Monday and continue right’ up to election day. So
THE MAN behind this unique ‘ survey is one of America's top-
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Agricultural] Department and the Office of |
the Republican presidential candidate
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cal reporting now under way by|
that represents a new way of taking the pulse|
| middle,” he said. “The OPS threatened to put on
{never reach parity.
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to the confusion.” Gen. Eisenhower
ler a result.
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Samuel Lubell, author and political analyst, gets his campaign dope from the people. | This year, through The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard Newspapers, he's passing it back to them. A tireless doorbell ringer, Mr. Lubell goes directly to the voters to find out what they're thinking politically, and why they feel the way they do.
Who has made a nationwide reputation as one of the most astute
American Politics,” which has just’ been given the annual Woodrow Wilson Foundation award as the best book in the field of
[government and democragy.
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U. 8. big prison camp, Kremlin tells Russians , , . Page 2
By United Press MOSCOW, Sept. 16 — A Moscow magazine described baseball today as “a beastly struggle, a bloody fight
with mayhem and murder.” Furthermore, the magazine Smena said, baseball is really a perversion of a more civilized game of ball and bat played -<in Russia for centuries. “A baseball player would rather cripple tens of spectators than lose sight of his objective,” Smena said, ‘‘because losing the ball means loss of a monetary prize. “As far as bodily harm and blood-letting are concerned, baseball yields little to rugby football.” .
8 on ” TO SHOW the “beastly” nature of baseball, Smena published photographs which it said were reproduced from American magazines. : One outlined an incident in a game between “San Luis” and the. “Brooklyn Rodgers” in which a player was carried un conscious off the field.
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Another, said to be from Parade showed player “Dell Royce” being carried, fatally wounded, off the field in St. Louis. Friends of still-thriving Del Rice, St. Louis Cardinal catcher, cannot recall that he
WHAT MOSCOW THINKS OF BASEBALL—
‘Bloody Fight With
DELL ROY CE—"Fatally wounded?"
ever was seriously hurt in a game.) Another picture, credited to Time magazine, showed an American baseball player named Downey knocking down another player in a game in Mexico City.
Mayhem And
TAI KOPB—"Covered with
scars?"
Smena -gave excerpts from the memoirs Tai Kopb (Ty Cobb) wrote for Life, saying his body is covered with scars and adding that he, too, gave many damaging blows. Smena denounced alleged gambling conhected with base-
Murder’
ball. It said $5 billion a year is spent on bets.
It assailed the “mercenary” atmosphere surrounding baseball, with cheap advertising, radio and television casts and the use of such names for the teams as “Tigers” and “Pirates.” Finally, Smena said the play- | ers in organized baseball live like slaves, though their owners make fortunes by buying and selling them and then throwing them to 'the wolves when they are no longer needed. Babis Rut (Babe Ruth) was once sold like a slave for $150, 000, Smena said, despite his resistance. ” » ” BASEBALL players enjoy a career of six or seven years, Smena said, and then with health and bodies broken they increase the number of the American army of unemployed. Smena gave as an instance the case of “Harry Kellman" who, it said, died of hunger after playing with the best teams. (Harry Heilman, once of the Detroit Tigers, died—still prosperous—of a heart attack last July.)
Truman Fires Blast at lke.
By DAYTON MOORE
United Press Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Sept.
| legislation. The President declined to mention Gen. Eisenhower’s name but it was evident he referred to a statement the GOP presidential nominee made against any feder-ally-operated compulsory health insurance program. .
‘whistle stop tour Sunday, Gen. Eisenhower said such a program would give patients “regimented, |assembly-lihe treatment” result|{ing in “less and poorer medical care for more.” Addresses Hospital Group
Mr. Truman, addressing the Association | convention, scoffed at Gen. Eisen-
“In the confusion, farmers had hower’s remark that the coun-| to sell their hogs and prices fell try's health problems could be The new mother of the Amerito 76 per cent of parity—all due handled by “voluntary means”| can Legion Auxiliary ...
and “locally indigent medical
id one farm-|care.” “That's about like saying we]
{don’t need any form of social selcurity except the county poorhouse,” the President said. Mr, Truman avoided mentioning any form of national health insurance such as he has advocated but defended, his position that the government should help people meet medical expenses. “Our problem is to bring medical and health’ services to people at a price they can offord to pay,”
. he said. “I have invited the co-
joperation of the medical profes{sion in solving this problem.”
Views on the News—
Dan Kidney
YOU CAN'T blame Republicans
for believing that electing a President is no laughing matter, 4 5 2
V CAMPAIGNING gives every voter a chance to be his own talent scout. .
n . ” CAMPAIGN calumny will be exempt from the House investigation of TV and radio morals.
Then he cfiarts their voting behavior—by state, county, ward and precinct. He's been doing it for years—in the big cities, in the villages and the hamlets, and in the farmlands. His appraisal of the voting
prospects in this year’s important national’ election is based on those unmatched
records and on what he’s learning* in the front-porch talks
; he's now having.
notch political writers, a man | The award was presented by
the American Political Science Association. Mr. Lubell is also
political observers in the business. the: author of numerous political He is Samuel Lubell, ‘author of articles. in some: the recent book, “The. Future of top magazines. |
of the country's Mr. Lubell is a-doofbell ringer. But the advantage Mr. Lubell has over others is that he knows Sxuttly where to ring the door-
16— | Action delayed on three
President Truman Tabeled Gen.| Dwight B. Eisenhower today as Joe Mitchell-faces tax lien... {a “political pullback” with “horse | and buggy” ideas about medical!
Before leaving New York on a
-{Lubell also ‘has figures at his fin-
Today's News
In The Times
Local. | Page [Council paves way for 740 GI homes ...... Erasaraes tare
notty
laws ... 9
Editerial -~
| Turk morale thrills Pace {We notify kin of GI casualties but Reds ignore such a policy. 14
National
Ike goes over with bang as he
sharpens whistlestop style.. 3 Turns Adlai fire on Taft...... 8 Foreign age|
Air Force thinks Russia prolongs Korea war to test MIGs 2! Toll of MIGs hits new mark.. 2 Iran threatens British break. 2
Women's |
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Glass house puts out welcome i mat again
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Amusements ...... sevens 4 0 Bridge ............ sesensall Business Notes v.ovevvnee 18 Crossword ..... “eansnans 11 COMIC ..v.vvse'vaen v>10, 11.2} Editorials ........ exansa 14 1] Radio, Television +.e044..15 Robert Ruark ...... eavsl3 i Ed Sovola .......: sasesnesdd id BPOrig ..onsvverserinee 16, 1¢ WOMGN'S +.vocivisvvees 8 7} +12
What Goes On Here....
AFL Warned |
Of New Attack |
NEW YORK, Sept. 16—Presi-| dent Truman told the American] Federation of Labor convention | today that “some of the special] interests already are grinding] {their axes for a fresh attack on | labor in the event of a Republican | victory.” | In a message to AFL President! William Green, Mr. Truman said {he had seen indfcations recently {in the Wall Street Journal that|
8 WAKE ISLAND, Sept.
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138 MPH Wind Watkins Blames GOP: For Registration Jam
Rips Wake Isle
By United Press 16— {Emergency rescue planes stood iby. today for a mass evacuation
lent 138-mile-an-hour typhoon.
9 of this tiny mid-Pacific island 8nd fa «we after 4¢ was “leveled” by a vio- provide
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Lt. Gov. John A. Watkins today accused the Republican-con-trolled County Council of laxity : im=failing to “adequate” facilities for
[the ‘speedy registration of ‘voters.
Mountainous seas, fed by the DT Fae re Bal storm . which struck yesterday, © Cel. '2 : 12th|seph Barr, candidate for state ing with the Marines.
washed over the whole island. |
The Navy said 90 per cent of, "np ; 1 School 4, 630 W. Michi-
the island's facilities were de-|
Page stroyed, “several” persons were injured ang all communications ,,,,q the sincerity of his Republication foe, George Craig, in| [trying to ease voting restrictions |for servicemen:
from Wake were disrupted for eight hours. ’ Virtually every building on the island was reported wiped out] and cestly commercial air line! and military installations were uprooted.
water 17 hours after the typhoon struck. The island's 750 inhabitants huddled for shelter in!
the Japanese in World War 1 The island residents, most o
also were forced to seek refuge in ,grounded planes. Blows 17 Hours The typhoon, although its winds had diminished, was reported still blowing 17 hours after it began. The Navy weather station here said the typhoon developed “very suddenly” in the northern part
{he found a line of more than 25 {prospective voters who had been
{waiting more than an hour to Most of Wake was still under| register,
Page enches and foxholes used by utes to complete the registration 1./0f one person, I can understand ¢ the reports that more than 4000
¢ them employees of American air| Potent {line firms and service personnel, |2W2Y:
|Council would provide more funds
{registration (faster and every citizen assured {of his right to vote.”
{had demanded the Governor call |a special session to ease registra{tion and voting procedure for absentee voters, Mr, Watkins said.
from peard nothing about this (Marion
of the Marshall Islands and headed north northeast there.
The typhoon ripped rooftops off buildings on Wake, knocked | communications lines down, and
island.
A ham radio operator on Guam |aforts
said he had intercepted a message which said the storm “uprooted” Quonset huts and other flimsy structures on Wake, ,
A reconnaisance plane located |
the center of the typhoon, named “Olive,” at about 30 miles northeast of Wake later today.
Killed in Crash
County) situation from my Re-
| forced all aircraft to by-pass the
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Mr. Watkins, Democratic can-
charge after ‘visiting the Ward branch registration center
gan St.
At the same time, he ques-
The lieutenant governor said
‘Twenty Minutes Each’ “Since it takes at least 20 min-
ial voters have been turned ' he said. !
“It seems to me that if the
to hire additional personnel the process would be
In lashing out at Mr. Craig, who
“It is very odd that we have
6 Marines Die As UN Jets | Strike Peak At 400 MPH
Korean Storm Hid Crest 0f Mountain
Pilots Flying Tight Formation’
Jim Lucas, other Korea stories,
Page 8 By United Press
SEOUL, Sept. 16—An entire flight of six American
Marine Pantherjet fighter planes slammed into a cloud-
hidden Korean mountain last
Thursday, killing all six pilots.
None came from Indiana. Navy and Marine officials said the planes apparently were re. turning from a combat mission. They struck a 3000-foot moun~ tain about 25 miles east of Taegu in South Korea. The crashes oce curred almost at the same instant, at about 6 p. m. Weather was stormy and the mountain’s upper portion was hidden in the clouds. The swift F-9-F jets apparently were flying at tremendous speed in tight formation-—possibly upwards of 400 miles an hour—when they struck in follow-the-leader fashion.
3 Dy Ting
pace of registering voters in ‘he
12th Ward yesterday also came
To Trick VA
/ Three Indianapolis real estate
from other Democrats, including{men plan to plead “not guilty”
John Carvey, candidate gress; Charles Mains, [for prosecutor; former
for Con-|Friday when they appear before candidate Federal Judge William E. Steckler, Judge/charged with committing “fraud John MeNelis, 12th Ward chair-|against the Veterans Administra.
man; John Christ, secretary of|tion.”
{the County Committee, and Jo-
senator. Republican Registration Commissioner Michael Hanrahan said he and his Democratic colleague, Ira Butz, were doing everything possible to speed up the registration,
% .| . He said 20 additional clerks-—10
Democrats and 10 Republicans— will be put to work today when the branch registration board moves td the Democratic 23d Ward. .
Grab Hoosier GI
CASABLANCA, French Morocco, Sept. 16 (UP)—An 18-year-old Hoosier ¥I and two other American soldiers were captured by French police today after they
guardhouse last night. French authorities the three fugitives as Donald L. Skinner, Columbus, Ind.; Fred-
Germany whose name was given as Christian Sraprath. The men, who escaped from the
For the last] (Craig) |
publican opponent. two or three weeks he has been making a holier-than-thou cry for a ‘special session knowing full well that all such in the past have been blocked by Republican-controlled legislatures.
Complaints Numerous “I wonder why he: has never bothered about ipadequate registration facilities right here in the|
jcounty he has chosen as his of-|
ficial voting residence. Could it| be that he and his ‘Palace Guard’ are so satisfied that enough Re-
TERRE HAUTE-—Alva L. Bow- puplicans were registered in 1950
“plans are afoot in Wall St. to/don, 54, Terre Haute, was injured that they don't want any more make the Taft-Hartley Law even fatally Monday when his auto|additions to the voting rolls be-
{more oppressive and unfair than was struck by another at a city fore this election?”
{it is at present.”
He knows where e United States so that the result of his ringing is an amazingly accurate insight into American. political {sentiments and voting trends. The keys to this scientific re{search are infinitely detailed maps upon which Mr. Lubell has charted the voting behavior of every county in the United States since 1896.
s - » HE HAS gone behind the figures in many areas to talk with voters, many of whom he is re{visiting during his current project. As if these statistics themselves weren't staggering enough, Mr.
ger tips to show how every ward in every major city in the country has voted since 1828. © These unmatched records pros vide the basis for bis operathans
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intersection.
to-person interviews, he the opinions of voters of every, economic, ethnic and age group. What he seeks are the signifi cant trends and shifts of sentiment which will decide the No-
vember elections. In his series in The Indianapo-| lis Times and other Scripps-How-ard Newspapers, he will report his findings in a down-to-earth manner, in the human terms of individuals, in cities and villages, on farms and in factories and ces,’ in business places and in mes all over the country. ! ” . »
LMR: LUBELL has been on the grassroots trail of the elusive American voter since July. Traveling by train, bus and
auto, he first checked into several
h sed et
Complaints about the snail-like
record in the last election. Then he headed west to the Coast. At this moment, he is out in the field, ringing doorbells and! asking questions. He will start his series while continuing his survey.
Mr. Lubell has had extensive experience as a newspaperman. He began to win his naticnal recognition as a political reporter in 1938 with articles in the Saturday Evening Post and Reader's Digest. World War II took him to Washington where he worked first as a writer for the Office of Facts and Figures, and later be: came general secretary to Bernard Baruch’s Rubber Survey Commission. After notahle work
U. 8. Air Force base at Noucaceur, were nabbed at the frontier {post of Mechra Saf, 400 miles {from Casablanca, when they at{tempted to crash through a police | barricade. The trio had earlier overpowered their guards, bound and gagged them, and escaped In a car with the guards’ guns.
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Grains per cubie yard of air:
Today ......:..4s sisves. 61 Yesterday .covvnvvenaes 104
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to James F. Byrnes, then directof of the Office of Economic Stabilization. » » »
MR. LUBELL
government, The writing of his book, and of other magazine articles have oc-
cupied him sincg the war—that and the ringing of more doorbells and the acquisition of an astonishing store of information about
can life. cross-country currents of political
tion year watch for ..“THE VOTERS SPEAK" :
with this commision, & moved
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Starting Monday in The Indi anapolis Times. Jolt 8
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In Morocco Flight
escaped from:an Air Force base! identified)
erick B., Thompson, 22, Hillsdale, N. J, and an Army deserter from|
is not only a « skilled writer but he also has . knowledge and experience in the . fields of economics, politics and 4
For a revealing report on the sentiment in this important elec- |
Yolen wall,
A fourth man chdrged is serve
| Charged are Millard I. Hall, 53, of 5250 N. Delaware St.; Robert L. Pike, 57, of 5835 Fore rest Lane; Samuel Protheroe, 66, of 5840 Forrest Lane, and Joseph F. Gage, 5186 Atherton, N. Dr, Except for Mr. Gage, the men are free on $1000 bond. Mr. Hall said he; Mr. Protheroe and Mr, Pike will plead “not guilty.” Mr, Gage is reported to be with the Marines. The indictments charged the men concealed a “trick material fact” which broke regulations applying to GI loans on houses. | Assistant U, 8. Attorney Charles O'Connor said evidence to the Grand Jury indicated | “under the table” payments were {demanded of prospective house {buyers to conceal sale prices from VA. ! ‘Ridiculous’
Hanley Hottel, secretary of Hall-Hottel Co,, Inc., termed the indictments “ridiculous” and described them as a “Hitleristic business.” Mr. Hottel appeared {with the defendants when they
|surrendered. At the time of offense charged, Mr. Hall was president of the firm, Mr. Pike and Protheroe {were salesmen and Gage was vice {president of Meridian Mortgage
Co. Mr. O'Connor said evidence showed the men charged were
associated in joint operation of the Hall-Hottel and Meridian Mortgage companies as well as Merid{ian Construction Co. ’ Mr. Hottel said. “Our files are open, We have made hundreds of GI loans through the Veterans Adminis tration. We have been guided by them, These are unjust accusas tions and a surprise to us.” If convicted, Mr. Hall faces a total penalty of 15 years in prison and a $30,000 fine. Mr. Pike 10 years and $20,000; Protheroe and Mr. Gage, 5 years and $10,000,
f Nation's Political Pulse
aye them|in seeking out the strategic areas| strategic areas in the Kast and|into the White House as assistant in every corner o of the country where, in person- Midwest — strategic, in Mr. Lutallies] bell's book¥hecause of their voting
the pattern of politics in Ameri- S82
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