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(sourrs—Howarol 63d YEAR—NUMBER 191
. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofes Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Daily.
19, 1952
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Senator Counters Gov. Byrnes’ Bolt to lke, Pledges Adlai Aid
Other political news, Pages 5 and 28
By JOHN L. STEELE
United Press Stat Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D. 8. C.) countered South Carolina Gov. James F. Byrnes’ bolt to Gen. Eisenhow-
er today by annduncing-he- will support Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson “with all the power that God can give me.” Sen. Johnston's statement split South Carolina Democratic leaders as far as the presidential campaign is concerned. There is a similar split in some other southern states. Gov. Byrnes, one of the most Influential political leaders in the south, dropped a potential blockbuster on Gov. Stevenson yester: day by asserting the Democratic presidential nominee promises
only “more of the Truman administration.”
&* Fear Chain Reaction
Deep dissatisfaction with Gov. Btevenson's position on eivil rights and labor legislation was the reason for Gov. Byrne's break. ! He said he reached his decision Just two days ago. He explained his action does not mean he is deserting the Democratic Party. Nor will he actively campaign for Gen. Eisenhower,
The peppery little governor's bolt could touch off a chain reaction in the South. Once a power in New Deal and Fair Deal administrations, Gov. Byrnes acted after Govs. Allan Shivers of Tex-
Roy W. Howard to Retire Jan. 1;
as and Robert F. Kennon of Louisiana ‘broke with Gov. Stevenson. Sen. Johnston, who four years iago fought bitterly with Presi{dent Truman said today he is | standing by the Stevenson-Spark-man ticket despite Gov. Byrnes’ {decision to vote for the Republicans’ Dwight D. Eisenhower. “I am voting for and supporting with all the power that God |can give me the Democratic Party and the ones who were nominated by the National Democratic Convention and overwhelmingly put on the Democratic ticket by the State Democratic Convention of South Carolina—Stevenson and Sparkman,” Sen. Johnston said. Sen. Johnston said “anyone has a right to vote” for the Democratic candidates ‘“or they can vote for the ones nominated by the National Republican Convention and indorsed by the State Republican * Convention — Eisenhower and Nixon.” Gov. Byrnes is ‘expected to vote for Gen. Eisenhower on the state's so - called "independent ticket.” Gen. Eisenhower was put on this ballot after 55,000 citizens of the state, Gov, Byrnes included; peti- | tioned for such action. Reopens Rift
Gov. Byrnes’ ‘action reopened the north-south rift within the Democratic Party which apparently healed at the national convention with nomination of the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket. th Republican and Democratic headquarters were caught flat-footed by Gov. Byrnes’ action
One thing was certain. The] Byrnes move will touch off a reappraisal of the stand taken already by many southern politicians, including South Carolina Sens. Burnet R. Maybank and] Olin D. Johnston, both of whom | have spokeny out for the Demo-| cratic. ticket.
Vote to Pledge Electors . Under Gov. Byrnes' leadership! the state’s Democratic conven- Wind Storm tion voted to pledge party elec-| tors to support the Democratic | raves Heavy
ticket. But simultanieously Gov.| Byrnes told Democrats they could | vote for ‘Gen. Eisenhower with-/| out losing their narty standing. Later, he was among 55,000 South Carolinians who successfully petitioned to put an “inde-
pendent” Eisenhower slate on the| pe
ballot. Gov. Byrnes’ move originally was planned for tomorrow, at the very time Stevenson was cam-| paigning through Virginia .in his| first southern drive. But perhaps] because of the fear of a “leak,”
May Take Until Sunday to Clean Up
Photos on Page 28 By CHARLES MILLER
Damage from last night's
the announcement came last hurricane-force storm here night. may not be cleared away unGov. Byrnes told newsmen hei | Sund was shifting to Gen. Eisenhower| tl Sunday. Street Commissioner James
because Gov. Stevenson has| switched his views on the Taft- Chapell said today he has pressed Hartley law, fair employment every available man into service practices and Senate filibusters. [to clear away the more than 250 - His claim that Gov. Stevensonitrees leveled by the storm here. | was moving “left” has been| other crews, ne added, are rushechoed by many other southern-iing to clear sewers of debris
ers. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D.\washed along by the 1.64 inches Ga.) said recently that Gov. Ste-|4¢ rainfall.
venson was cozying up too closel Ying op y At Least 4 Hurt
and had no immediate reaction.
Former Times Men Get New Posts mim bmn vie:
By Scripps-Howard Newspapers
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 — Anhouncement was made today at
the Scripps-Howard newspapers’ New York headquarters of the resignations, effective as of Dec. 31, 1952, of W. W. Hawkins, chairman of the Board, and Roy W. Howard, president of the E. W. Scripps Co. the operating company of the 19 Scripps-How-~ ard newspapers. Mr. Howard also is president of The Indianapolis Times. : The statement was made joint: ly by Charles E. Scripps, chairman of the “of thé Edward W. Beripps trust, which holds the voting control of the operating company, and by the directors of the E. W. Scripps Co. Simultaneously, it was announced that Charles E. Scripps has been elected the new chairman of the board of the E. W.
Scripps Co. Jack R. Howard, pres-.
ent executive vice president, was: elected president and continues as general ‘editorial manager. . Mark Ferree becomes the new executive vice' president and will. continue as general business manager. All three are at. present directors. Named Editor-in-Chief Walker Stone, at present head
of ~the— Washington bureau, Was
elected a director and named editor-in-chief of Scripps-Howard
"INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ALUMNI—Mark Ferree (loft) and
Jack R. Howard today were named to top posts in the
Howard organization. They were
fice shortly after the announcement was made. Mr. Howard becomes president of the E. W. Scripps Co. and Mr. Ferree execufive vice president eflective Jan. |. Both worked at The Times
earlier in their careers.
to fill the position formerly held |lish language papers in Tokyo and by the late George B. Parker. The ‘Shanghai, and a hitch as a corpewly Sepia ofricers wil “lo53 |Tespondent in Manchuria, he reogo E. Scripps is" the son turned to become a reporter, of the late Robert P. Scripps and |¢°PY reader and later rewrite man the grandson of E. W. Scripps, | Ot The Indianapolis Times, Subthe great liberal publisher who in [Sequently he went to the Wash1878 launched the Cleveland|in8ton Daily News as telegraph, Press, the first paper in the pres-|and later news editor. : ent nationwide organization. | Shortly after Scripps<Howard He is 32, was borp in Cali-| Radio Co. was organized, Jack fornia, attended William and Howard joined the Knoxville staMary College and at present lives tion and in 1937 became president: in Cincinnati. He served an sap-|of the Radio & Television Corp. prenticeship in the news depart-|a position he still holds along ‘ment of the Cleveland Press be-|With his newspaper connections.
to the left-wing Americans for At least four persons were in-
Democratic action. jured in traffic as winds up to 74 miles an hour lashed the rain over the city, flooding underpasses and thoroughfares. | Mr, and Mrs. William Bowman, 1760 S. High School Rd.
Lumber Co. ripped lose by the] hurricane -strength winds slammed into their house, knocking down 4000-volt power lines into their front yard. “Everything happened at once,” Mrs. Bowman said. “My husband had just shut the window in the north bedroom and was out in the hall when the lumber company roof blew over. That window he'd just closed — window, ! ‘frame, storm window, the whole|
; RET doe
to the +All Lights Out
lights were out. I looked out back and there were light lines down in the yards burning. “My husband looked at them and said 'That’s nothing, They're only 110. There’s 4000-Volt wires in the front yard'.” v ~ Firemen from Ben Davis and Mickleyville were called to the scene to put out flames started by the writhing high tension wires. Where the “hot” lines had contacted the sidewalk, holes an inch deep and a half-inch in diameter were burned in the.concrete, ' : Main damage from the high wwinds was in the northern portions of the city and county. Hundreds of trees were smashed down across streets and roads, with several cars and houses re- | ported struck. Pressure from the rushing rain water popped a sewer lid into the air at Delaware and Washington Sts. The 800 and 900 blocks of Madison Ave. were “completely blocked to traffic ith water
Serippsphotographed in The Times of-
Pome 0 oom oF us EDY—Here is the Michigan City's ill-starred
SECOND TRAG
| Lyons family—Mrs. Frances Lyons, her husband James and his
daughter by a previous marriage, Dorothy—last year as they pleaded for the return of the kidnaped infant.
Tragedy Hits Mother fo
“MICHIGAN CITY, Sept. 19 —James I) father of a newborn infant kidnaped here
last year and never found, collapsed and died today, less than 24 hours after his wife gave birth to a daughter. sDeath came less than an hour after the happy father went to the same hospital from which the first Lyons child disappeared last Oct. 13, to view his new daughter. ‘Mr. Lyons apparently suffered a sudden heart attack, as Ihre sat drinking mid-morning coffee with were just talking, ordinary cona group of businessmen in the versation, when he suddenly downtown Eighth St. Cafe here. folded and fell off the chair.” News Withheld The ambulance and a fire de- . The. news of the 42-year-old Partment squad later attempted father's death was temporarily|to revive him but it was too late. withhheld - from: Mrs. Frances The father was listed “DOA”
JAMES LYONS—The
42. year-old father died today, less than 24. hours after the birth of a daughter.
less than a year tragedy has fol-| hospital which had brought the lowed on the heels of happiness family first joy, then grief. for the 38-year-old mother. | It was in the St. Anthony's Late’ this morning Mrs. Lyons| Hospital last year that the long-
which by special arrangement ig child, Lawrence James Lyons. The
standing up to 4 feet deep. Two Pedestrians Hurt Three police cars were drowned out while on duty during the storm, and one squad car was, struck by another car while the! officers were trying to clear a] tree from the 5000 block of] Boulevard Pl
[today and went to the hospital to|nursery.
fore enlisting in the Coast Guard |
In 1939, he became assistant to
shortly after Pearl Harbor. |the late John H. Sorrells, ScrippsAfter serving in the Pacific, he Howard executive editor. Comcame out of the war a lieutenant missioned in the Navy in 1942, he (jg) and returned to newspaper saw combat service throughout work. At present, he is a director most of the war in the Pacific of the E. W. Scripps Co. andijand is today a lieutenant-com-
Commissioner Chapell said 150 men today are clearing away the fallen trees, with another 50 working on the sewers. His crews have been on the job since the storm broke at 7:30 p. m. yes-
chairman of the board of the Ed- mander in the Naval Reserve.
ward W. Scripps trust. Jack R. Howard is the son of}; 1, George B. Parker
Roy W. Howard. Born in New py, o. 4 editor-in-chief,
York City in 1910, he attended |
Exeter, and upon graduation from |g... 1943 ‘he has heen editor of
Yale in 1932 sailed for the Orient |, o
Mr. Stone was trained by the , Scrippswith whom he worked for 15 years.
-Scripps-Howard newspaper
to broaden the newspaper expe- ,),,.. in Washington, editorial
rience gained during summer jobs| with the United Press in Europe.
After about two years on Eng-
Views on the News EE ——————————
Dan Kidney
RUSSIA HAS decided to keep
bureau and .clearing house for {national and foreign news. He is 48.
After graduation from Oklahoma A & M College he worked {on Oklahoma newspapers, studied {law at George Washington Uni|versity, and in 1927 joined the {staff of Scripps-Howard's Washington Daily News, working as
Port Arthur and protect China's copy reader, reporter and city ed-
friendship with her fleet.
[itor In 1932 he became Washing-
ton correspondent for concern
. ” ” | THEATER OWNERS have papers in Indiana and New York.
decided to put Broadway hits on TV. That should assure every family have a turkey for Thanksgiving.
s = LIFTING - REGULATION X|
will make it possible for every man to own his own mortgage.
Fire Loss $200,000 MENOMONIE, Wis.—Fire believed started by an oil burner caused an estimated $200,000 damage in seven businesses, sent wo firemen to a hospital and tied
{That led to his appointment as
an SHNA editorial writer and later as associate editor. Mr. Ferree, 47, a native of Marfon, Ind., began newspaper work as a reporter in Evansville after attending Indiana
of the Miami (Florida) Herald.
Following experience as a news| man he changed to the business
advertising staff of the Wash-| ington Daily News where he iater, was made advertising manager. |
up downtown Menomonie for four hours Thursday.
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After a year as advertising dirécitor of the Indianapolis Times, to
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University. \which he had been transferred, Later he joined the editorial staff {from Washington, he was made, the storm. Both were released
| «Read Dick Dupkel’s College Football
‘ Iterday, he said. | Indianapolis Power
hours to repair damage to power
during the night and early today. | Two pedestrians were injured during the storm. Mrs. Mary, Myers, 80, of 3761 N. Meridian {St., was struck at 38th and Illinois Sts. by a car driven by Pvt. Kemp Davis, 25, Ft. Harrison. Mrs. Myers was taken to 8t. Vincent's Hospital with a fractured | right leg. : Hospital officials today listed her condition as good. { Calvin Knight, 66, of 859) Fletcher Ave, received compound | “{fractures of both legs when he] was struck at Virginia Ave. and | 8. Noble St. by a taxi driven by | Raymond L. Phillips, 23, of 2844 | Central Ave. . | Utility Repairmen Busy Methodist Hospital reported he was in fair condition today.
Charles E. Scripps
injured in a two-car crash at Shelby and Beecher Sts. during business manager. | from the hospital after treatment. In 1945, Mr. Ferree came to] More than 100 repairmen for New York to become assistant the Indianapolis Power & Light
department, in 1932 joining theigeneral business manager of all Co. were called to duty last night |
Scripps-Howard . newspapers and to repair the storm damgge. A continued in that role until 1948 | dom 3000 voit Hues 83 Street He then became general business circuits and e city in we 12000 homes was knocked out by Continued on Page 3-—Col. 6 the storm.
“a
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& Light baby and said what they were go|Co. spent an estimated 2000 man-|ing to name her,” said attorney |
|lines in the county. More than the table with Mr. Lyons. “It was Board of Health today. 2000 people reported lights out a double name, but I don't re- night's violent storth wrecked the
Two other persons were slightly |
sery, unaware that elsewhere in| ‘Waited for years for a baby” St. Anthony's hospital doctors |endured 29 hours labor.
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Seek 3 Escaped Convicts In 55,000 State Holdu
Pp
Believe Desperadoes Headed South After
Times State Service i
SOUTH BEND, Sept. 19—Three desperate escaped
South Bend Bank Job
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convicts who terrorized the East last week were today thought to be headed toward central Indiana after holding up a bank here and escaping with $55,000, mostly in
small bills. i A teller at the bank was seri-| Oldsmobile carrying Illinois 1iously wounded by a blast from a cense plate No. 1515-180, sped sawed-off shotgun. east,
The Indianapolis office of the 4-State Manhunt
Federal Bureau of Investigation said they suspected the trio who robbed the bank today were the two Nolan brothers and Elmer |Schuer.
{Bend police {manhunt already was under way. {Police in Illinois, Michigan and
Sgt. Irving Grahm of the South said a four-state
|Ohio were alerted.
Escaped From Prison
Roadblocks were set up all over
| The three escaped from Lewis- the area and it was believed the |burg, Pa., Federal Prison a week |8Toup would head south into cenlago and have been the object of tral Indiana to avoid crossing one of the biggest manhunts in State lines. ’
{recent years.
Sheriffs, state police, the FBI
{ | They led police on a twisting | 3nd South Bend police joined
turning path which left in its|forces to conduct the search ia |wake a trail of kidnaping, rob- Indiana.
{bery and stabbing. {Western Ave, branch of the National Bank and Trust Co. and fired a shot which wounded George Lorence, 25, the clerk. He was taken to Memorial Hospital! with an arm wound.
The car was last seen heading
Today three bandits held up the [OLNCast, tll within the elty
All but $3000 of the loot was
in small bills,
In June, 1949, the bank had its first holdup. Half an hour later, Luther W. Roy, 22, Harvey, Ill, was arrested in La Porte, and the
Robbed 3 Years Ago money was recovered. Roy
The holdup occurred shortly Pleaded guilty to a federal charge after 11 a. m. on the city’s West 38d Was sentenced to 10 years in
Side. The bank was held up and Prison. : robbed of $58,000 by a hg xl More than 100 law-enforcement
man three years ago. {cars already were in on the hunt Walter I. Henderson, manager for the robbers. Police officers of the branch, said the holdup was Setting up the road blocks were staged in a hurry. He said the|prepared to meet the sawed-off bandits were in and out so fast “I shotguns of the crooks with mahardly knew what happened.” chine guns, tear gas, riot guns The clerk was shot when heland rifles. st moved after one of the gunmen The same trio which escaped
it was more than an hour be-/up. a Bronx, N, Y,
ine how much money
ordered employees to stand from ; quietly. as the group whic P Tubsday leg bank and
i ‘gunmen are {Harlan County, Kentucky.
| Mr, Lorence and James Roe, 121, were on duty when the bandits |
. barged through the front door| Scot Bagpipers |“whooping and hollering.” They op wore masks. One man who ap- Hit Ever Y Note peared to be the leader stood at ol the door brandishing a length of In Rain of Death two-by-four lumber. ES A | A second bandit carried a se UEWHERE = SOREA, | sawed-off shotgun, and the third . ayed): —Bag-~ |a..German luger-type pistol. pipers of the Scots Black Watch | One ‘of them ordered the em-|Regiment skirled through a one-
hour Chinese Communist artilI'ployees to stand against one wall ‘ |and. three customers against an lery bombardment today without
tother, However, Mr. Lorénce missing a note.
Lyons. It was the second time in| (Dead on Arrival) at the same,
ignored the warning and ran to- Soldiers all around them hit the
ward a customers’ booth near the| back of the room. He darted] through the door just as the
dirt as about 500 rounds of mixed 105 and 122-millimeter artillery crashed into the rear area where the pipers were giving a concert.
held close her infant daughter, childless .couple had their first]
being kept in the mother’s room, |infant was delivered by Caesarian| rather than in the hospital nur- section after the mother had!
bandit with the shotgun fired.|g,¢ the pipers stood.
The charge struck him in the] The bombardment started durarm before he ‘could pull it ing a party given by sergeants of through the door. the British Norfolk Regiment for : sergeants of other CommonKicked Over Desk wealth: units, The bandit walked over and| “It was most inconsiderate of looked at Lorence, then kicked the Chinese,” the battalion adjuover a desk. Then he joined the tant commented after it was over. robber with the pistol in the tel-|
were pronouncing her husband, The nation was shocked four emg cages and the two stutfed| Times Index
“dead on arrival.”
A nation-wide search view his daughter, before start-| wads made, rewards were offered
ing for the filling station hejand both parents pleaded vialaway When he reached zero, he {radio for “our baby's return.” But shouted
|operates. | Then he went to the Eighth 8t./no trace was ever found. Cafe, gathering place for busi-| nessmen in mid-morning, to join|
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
{a group of friends and business] 6a m.. 52 10 a. m... 59 |acquaintances. | 7a m..51 Ila m.. 64 . i 8 a.m... 52 12 (Noon) 64 Told About Baby | 8a m..58 1p. m.. 85
“He had told us about the new| Jpatest humidity 45%,
There was no pollen count for | Frederick H. Krueger, sitting at|hayfever-sufferers from the State Last
member what it was, Then weboard’'s pollen-count equipment.
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Polities. Foothall And Problems of Children
No man knows how America votes better than Sam Lubell. Starting Menday, The Times will print his observations as he trudges from coast to coast, ringing more. doorbells than the Fuller brush man. Mr. Lubell, who knows how every disgrict has voted for years, knows just which doorbells to ring to bring you the keenest analysis of how the presidential election will go.
Starting Sunday, The Times will present the | football prospects of the nation’s universities, written | by skilled sports reporters from all sections. First of | these stories will be on The Big Ten. ; “What's Happening to Our Kids?" That's a question widely asked today. Lee Graham has some thought provoking answers which will appear on The Times
Women's Pages next week. 5
{days later when the infant DOY ine into their ckets. The happy father arose early disappeared from his crib in the Po
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As they worked, the leader stood in the doorway counting {backwards as the seconds ticked |
“Let's go with what (You've got,” and the three ran to ia car parked in front. Police were told a fourth mem- | ber of the gang was in a getaway {car near the bank. The car, believed to be a green!
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As Football Returns
So Do the Parlay Cards
| By TED KNAP Death and taxes are not the {only certainties. | As frost touches the pumpkin {this last week end of summer, pigskins begin flying in college football. In Indianapolis, that |brings dhother certainty—football gambling cards. | With a “We don't care about [the big bad wolves of federal tax {and local cops” attitude, men of {chance came out with the cards lagain® today. They were slipped lacross bars, cigar counters, office |desks and shop machinery.
About Same Deal | The cards are just about the
(same as they have been for years. |Slyly, they are called “forecasts,” |and there's a note reading “For Amusement Only.” But anyone who got a card knows just how to “amuse” him- | self, You study the odds and pick the teams you think will win, Three “hits” pays a- “fin” for every dollar you wager. The more
can win—up to 100 to 1 odds for 10 picks, But one miss leaves your pockets lined with nothing but cotton. Only one big operator put out cards today. Next week end, when Big Ten play starts, big play will start on several other established cards.
Warned by Fairchild Tradition also brought a warne ing today from the law. Prosecutor Frank Fairchild said, “We are keeping our eyes open for the football parlays and will try to hold them down, We're especially concerned because children get to play them.” . Admitting it’s pretty hard to catch people betting on football games, the Prosecutor appealed to their “horse sense.” “Football parlay ecards are strictly for suckers,” Mr, Fairchild said. “We've studied the situation and found that only 20 per cent of the money is returned as winnings, while the gambler gets 80 per cent of the gross.
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