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[scuiprs—sowarnl| 63d YEAR—NUMBER 194
THE VOTERS SPEAK—
Both Parties Are Recruiting New Elements
By SAMUEL LUBELL A fairly strong shift of former Truman and Roosevelt supporters to Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower is under way through most of the country. ® Except in the cities of Texas and Florida, this Demo-
cratic break cannot be called spectacular. Still it shows up consistently in my talks with voters in all : li the 14 farm counties and 16 large cities ! I have toured since the Chi-
of September, these general conclusions stand out: ONE-—Neither candidate is setting the voters on fire. “I don’t know much about him” is a common remark voiced about Gov. Stevenson. As a new name, though, he is free of many of
cago conven- the political liabilities associtions. ated with President Truman. In the farm That makes it easier for many belt, which voters to stay Democratic in
the belief that a Stevenson victory will’ mean some housecleaning in Washington, TWO — Gen. Eisenhower's personality is winning over fair numbers of Democrats—more women than men.. But the “I Like Ike” enthusiasm runs smack up against two main obstacles—the fear that “a military man” in the White House may increase the risks of war and the alarm, even among those who want some change, that too abrupt a halt in government spending might throw the economy into a tailspin. THREE—The closest thing to true “crusade” ardor for Gen. Eisenhower that I found was in the cities—but not the farms—of Texas and Florida. In two middle Houston precints which I sampled, a full majority of the Democratic voters were swinging to Gen. Eisenhower. In similar areas of Miami every third Democratic vote was swinging, Nowhere else in the country have I run into such dramatic GOP gains. FOUR—Even among Democratic voters the prevailing temper is markedly conservative. Negroes generally and some whites talk of civil rights; one Milwaukee worker argued for health insurance. 3ut in the main there is no burning desire for mew programs aiming at new “social gains.” The
furnished the unexpected majorities which swung the last election for President Truman, the trend is away from the Democrats. Of the persons I inter viewed who had voted for Truman roughly one of four intends to back Gen. Eisenhower this fall. The swing toward the GOP seems weaker in the cities, ranging from every fifth Democratic voter in middle class precincts to one of every 10 or 12 in workers’ areas. The one New Deal element showing virtually no break thus far is the Negro.
MOST OF THESE defections are being caused by resentment against the draft, the Korean War and inflation—rising living costs, higher taxes apd “too much spending.” Corruption, despite the emphasis given it in Gen. Eisenhower's campaigning, ranks well down the list of issues splitting off one-time Democratic voters. On the opposite side of the political ledger, the strongest single Democratic asset is the haunting memory of the last depression. If Gen. Eisenhower is defeated, it will be by this dread of -a possible return to. “them Hoover times.”
Mr. Lubell
A dominant concern of most As an example of what the Democrats is to hold what they Republicans are up against take have, , the attitude of one Cleveland ® = =
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worker: “This administration stinks” he told me. “They put people in jail for stealing a loaf of bread and look what they get away with in Washington. “But,” he went on, “I don’t know how I'm going to vote. I went six years without a job in
SEVERAL election surprises may be in the making: Offsetting Gen. Eisenhower's inroads among Democrats is a counter-swing of hitherto Republican voters towards Gov. Stevenson. Most, but not all, of these shifting Republicans
the last depression. I think another bust’s coming. I'm are disgruntled Taft supafraid of the Republicans. I porters.
don’t know what they would
I have not done enough do.”
checking of staunchly Republican areas to judge how strong this shift may be. The persistence with which it crops up suggests it has some force. The last four years have brought a spectacular increase in the number of young farmers who are more Democraticminded than the older generation. Against that, significant numbers of farm tenants who backed both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Truman are swinging for Gen. Eisenhower in anger over the effects of inflation. x » »
A CURIOUS irony, Sen. Richard Nixon who was nominated for vice president to help carry California, may cost Gen. Eisenhower that state. Hostility to Sen. Nixon, I found, is proving a powerful influence in propeling former supporters of Henry Wallace— almost 200,000 strong in Cali-forniag-to return to the Democratic ranks almost en masse, despite an expressed liking for Gen. Eisenhower personally. In New York City, by contrast, some Wallaceites told me they would vate for Gen. Eisenhower. In later articles I will report more fully on what voters told me which led to these conclusions as well as on the results of my interviews with other voters from now until election day.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER the presidential candidates were nominated, I took off on a new kind of intensive grass roots survey of the most important voting areas in the country.
Instead of asking local political leaders how their communities felt, I have been going directly to the people themselves, ringing doorbells on city streets and along country roads, speaking with voters of every type— housewives, workers, farmers and businessmen, young voters and pensioners, the poor and the well-off. I have sought the “why” of people’s voting. What ‘are the issues really agitating the public? Why are some persons unshakable in their convictions? Why do others find it so difficult to choose between the candidates? Can Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson hold together the varied elements in the Democratic coalition which has won the last five presidential elections? Or is Gen. Eisenhower's candidacy bringing about a basic reshuffling of political forces, opening a new political era? 5 » ” ! MY FINDINGS so far must still be cross-checked with what other voters will be telling me as the campaign progresses. However, as of the third week
| Views on the News—
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Deal Made By ‘Big Tom’ In Game Case
Charges Dropped After Paying Fine
By JOHN V. WILSON
The 19-month-old gaming case came to an abrupt halt at trial time today as the Indianapolis lottery operator made a “deal” with Prosecutor Fairchild to avoid a possible jail sentence. Walter F'. (Big Tom) Thompson entered a surprise plea of guilty to two gaming charges in Criminal Court 1 this morning, In exchange, Prosecutor Fairchild agreed to dismiss two other charges, including the only charge in the. four -count indictment against Thompson which carried a jail sentence.
Pays Immediately
Special Judge Alvah J. Rucker fined Thompson a total of $1000
counts of advertising a lottery and making and drawing a lottery. Big Tom paid the fine immediately in cash. ?
The plea came as a jury was assembled in Criminal Court to hear the hard-fought gaming case. When Thompson entered his “surprise” plea—a “surprise” to everyone except the prosecutor’s office —the jury was dismissed. Prosecutor Fairchild then told the judge he was “dismissing” the two counts of keeping a room for pool selling and failing to register an assumed business name.
Could Mean 6 Months
The keeping a room for pool selling was the only indictment against Thompson which carried a possible jail sentence. On conviction, it carries a maximum penalty of six months and $500 fine,
Prosecutor Fairchild admitted the guilty plea was worked out over the week end in a conference with “Big Tom's” attorneys, Virgil Norris and John (Kit) Carson.
He said he made the “deal” because he felt he had insufficient evidence to convict on the latter two charges, after a court ruling blocked introduction of gaming equipment and records seized dn the raid on “Big Tom’s” downtowa office Feb. 27, 1951. The indictment stemmed from this raid. Prosecutor Fairchild also said he discovered over the week end
maining in the case, 3 duffel bag of baseball tickets, was “inadvertently” burned by police as they carried out the court ruling] destroying the rest of the evi-| dence.
Call It ‘Successful’
Although outcome of the case today conflicted with the prosecutor’s campaign pledge to “jail gamblers,” he lauded it as successful for the state, saying it
“Big Tom” |
plus $38 court costs on the two
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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice
Indianapolis, Indians. Issued Daily.
Diplomats of War in Korea
12,000 Hoosiers Hear General
By MACE BRODIE and ROBERT FLYNN Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
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EVANSVILLE, Sept. 22— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today blamed the Korean War
on “incompetent” diplomats. He said the mistakes were not made by the nation’s military men but by the “incompetent diplomats.” : In one of his strongest assaults on the administration's foreign policy, Gen. Eisenhower told an estimated 12,000 Hoosiers here America needs a change in diplomats. He received spontaneous but
{reserved applause when he cbn-
cluded his remarks. There were no staged or pre-arranged demonstrations and few banners.
Senators Don’t Speak
Gen. Eisenhower said nothing about the decision he is expected to give today on whether he will drop Sen. Richard Nixon from the GOP ticket. Indiana’s.two Republican Senators—William E. Jenner and Homer E. Capehart—were introduced from the rear platform with Ike but did not speak. Although there is much speculation the General might force Sen. Nixon off the ticket because he
By CARL HENN
day played cupid in a hearts-across-the-ocean romance. Impressed by an appeal from
England, Mayor Clark dug ‘into
his own pocket to make an Indianapolis girl happy on her 25th birthday. The 27-year-old Englishman wrote the mayor: “The girl I love lives in Indianapolis and we were hoping to have been together by this summer, Owing to
by a gambler in Marion County.” He also said today’s case makes tions agaisnt the “two top Ramblers in Marion County” —Big Tom and Isaac (Tuffy) Mitchell, | whose conviction is currently un-| der appeal to the Indiana Su-| preme Court. Prosecutor Fairchild is a candidate for re-election Nov. 4. ’
Flames Destroy Shop
Flames, fed by drums of oily waste, destroyed a freight-car service shop at Kingan & Co. yesterday. The 30x80-ft. building in the 100 block White River Parkway, West Dr, was a total loss. There was no immediate
was ‘‘the largest fine ever paid]. .
. circumstances . . . we shall
until perhaps next spring . .. Observes Birthday
“On Sept. 22, it is her birthday, and my mind has been constantly turning on how much I would like to surprise her with flowers on that day. . . . I wondered if
spray of two or three best red roses could be made up and delivered to my girl?”
The suitor said he could not send the money because of currency regulations. He offered to forward a souvenir of “equal value.”
Mayor Clark, not”too far removed from his own courting
estimate of the damage.
days, ordered a corsage of red
Leslie Fearnhead, of Lancashire!
gainin A. E ruthinds, Phoenix, Ariz. (Story, Page 8.)
Mayor Fills Cupid Role In Trans-Sea Romance
“sweetheart” roses for Miss {Ave. It was delivered to her at {Indiana Bell Telephone Co., where ishe works as a service assistant.
Waiting for Postman
| | “I've been waiting for the {mailman to come all day,” she (exclaimed, “but I didn't know this would happen.” ° Smiling” happily she explained she and Leslie “met by mail” 44 {years ago after she read his ap(peal for a pen pal in the “Inside {Indianapolis” column in The In|dianapolis Times. | They corresponded and Miss
now have to wait a further year, Gruner visited England last fall, [jost
{when they made plans to be imarried. She expects to return {before next June.
Gets 2-to-21 Years
In Hagerstown Slaying RICHMOND, Ind. Melvin
to 2-to-21 years in prison today after pleading guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter. | Wayne Circuit Judge G. H. {Hoelscher allowed Welch to enter {the plea in the death of Welch's |foster sister, Mrs, Anna Wedster. i Mrs. Webster was slain Feb. {17 at the home of George Keagy {in Hagerstown where she was employed as maid.
UPPER BERTH—The top of the Joseph J. Clements family car is toy collie, "Bongo," for his daily nap. Wheneyer the car is parked near the Clements home, ium to cath three winks, out of reach of fhe
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to his private so
Times photo hy Raymond Brant,
the perch chosen by the fam-
has received about $18,000 from wealthy California friends, Ike
A, Taft (R. 0.) had “deleted” {sections of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-| | hower's speech to the AFL last | week, id {| The Democratic nominee told a table-pounding, foot-stomping
| AFL audience that Gen. Eisen-| hower had left unsaid much about
the operation of the Taft-Hartley Act and particularly the NorrisLaGuardia Act which Gen. Eisenhower praised and said was adopted under the GOP admin istration in 1932. “This would seem like a pretty broad claim to those Who remember that the House of Representatives in the 72d Congress was safely Democratic in its majority, and who can't see much
Sen. abruptly broke off his campaign tour of the Pacific Northwest to fly to Los Angeles to give a na-
Adlai Wonders If Taft ke’s AFL Speech
'Give "Em Hell' Yell Greets Democrat At Union Convention
AN SMITH
f Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 22—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, call- . |ing for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and a five-point pro-
r Department, suggested to-
day to the American Federation of Labor that Sen. Robert
To Tell All
By WILLIAM WARREN United Press Staff Correspondent PORTLAND, .Ore., Sept. 22 — Richard M. Nixon today
resemblance between Republicans like George Norris and Fiorello LaGuardia, on the one hand, and Sen. Taft and Rep. Hartley on the other,” Mr. Stevenson said.
By Any Chance? He added that Gen. Eisenhower failed to mention that the NorrisLaGuardia Act “virtually outlawed the labor injunction in the federal courts or that it had been
seriously cut down by the TaftHartley Act.” Looking up from his prepared
NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (UP) The National Broadcasting Co. announced today that Sen. Nixon’s speech will be carried on its full television network from 8:30 to 9 p. m, Indianapolis time, tomorrow night.” The network said the time had been purchased by the Re-
publican National Committee at a cost of $75,000. 3
tionwide television report on his $18,000 political fund, : But he
did not let up on his corruption text, Mr, Stevenson propounded theme. lan ad lib question: said #¢ would resume his tour. He used both corruption &nd| “I wonder if by chance if Sen. The GOP vice presidential foreign policy to highlight his 15-/ Taft deleted such frankness from nominee would not say whether minute stopover here, the General's text?” this meant he would remain on “We must have a government] There were gasps of amaze-|the Republican ticket as running that excites your pride,” he de-'ment from several parts of the M#te to Gen. Dwight D. Risen.
ernment.” Soldiers’ Job
But Gen. Eisenhower empha{sized foreign policy and what he labeled the “blunders” of the diplomats. In an attempt to answer criticism that he was one of the chief architects of U, 8. military policy in Korea, Gen. Eisenhower said: “The mistakes that were made were not made by military men. It 18 the job of soldiers to restore {the peace that the diplomats have { “But we can’t afford the luxury lof sending our armed forces |atoung the world picking up the {pleces left by our incompetent diplomats.” Ike continued his policy of not naming names but there was no ‘mistaking the target of his atitacking—Secretary of State Dean
you would know a shop where a Welch, 32, Muncie, was sentenced Acheson,
| Needed Force
His aids say it is only a question of time when he will come out and publicly denounce Mr. Acheson by name. Ike declared: “Two grave emergencies have ‘been forced upon us since 1945 when we were’ the most powerful military nation in the world and in a position where we could have forced a peace. “One was the dangerous Berlin airlift and the other is the Korean War.” Gen. Eisenhower said “inefficiency in high places and bungling diplomacy” got us into positions where military force was needed. Gen. Eisenhower said the war threat will be eased only when America sends to Washington
people.
contain communism and force it to recede.”
Ike Shuns Dewey Tactics as Train. Overshoots Depot
Times Special ABOARD EISENHOWER SPECIAL, Sept. 22--Chugging toward Indiana, the train missed the station in Carmi, Ill, early today but Gen. Eisenhower was careful not to criticize the engineer like Thomas E. Dewey did four years ago. 4 In 1948, when the train lurched suddenly in Beaucoup, Ill., Gov, Dewey said of his engineer, Lee Tindle, Evansville: : “This is the first time I've had a lunatic for an engineer.” » . . TODAY, 62 miles ast of that town, the brother of Gov. Dewey's engineer, Cecil A, Tindle, also of. Evansville, missed the station at
~|Carmi by about a block, Nearly
1500 men, women and children
_|had to catch up with the train.
Said Gen. Eisenhower: “I'm sure sorry.” Hg apologized for getting them up so early about 7:55 a.
five
m.) at later apologized again tor making
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The Mayor of Indianapolis to- {Frances Gruner, 2020 N. Parker clared. “We must have men who audience. From the balcony a {will bring honesty back in gov-/man said, “give 'em hell, boy,”
When Stevenson began his speech by ridiculing the Repub{licans for not liking his “light Itouch,” an obvious partisan (whoopedfrom the balcony, 8 Pov {it on, Steve.” The AFL was expected to hand Mr. Stevenson tomorrow the first indorsement of a presidential candidate by one of its conventions in its 71-year history.
“Next President” The 2000 persons in the Grand
Ballroom of the Hotel Commo|dore stood and howled their ap-
er. But -the sudden shift in {plans led to speculation around (his headquarters in the Benson Hotel here that the California Senator would quit the ticket.
‘I Will Resume’
Mr. Nixon received a long dise tance telephone call from Gen. Eisenhower last night and talked with the presidential nominee for about 20 minutes. Early today he told newsmen he was suspending his whistled stop tour of the Pacific Northwest to make the television speech and give “a complete statement of my entire financial history.”
{proval in a one-minute ovation) {when AFL President William, 'Green introduced Mr. Stevenson! a8 “a great American” and added:
“There are a lot of people, sit-| {ting in this hall, who believe that| {he’ll be the next President of the! United States.” After Mr, Stevenson's 30-minute {address—which was interupted 40 (times by applause and 12 times by belly laughs-—Mr, Green told the| convention: | | “There is no question about how| you feel toward this outstanding! | American.” That set off another ovation,| and it was five minutes Deforewr {Stevenson, waving and smiling, {was able to leave the platform. | Mr. Stevenson called the Taft{Hartley Law a “tire with 23 punc-| tures and 5 blowouts” that) needs “junking and not a recap job with reclaimed Republican! rubber.”
{ Train Labor Leaders i | His five-point plan for the De-
partment of Labor included the {program similar to the Agricul-
train the men who mafle democ-|
racy work in the labor unions and’ around the bargaining table.” | He said he hoped more labor leaders would serve in the nation's diplomatic posts. { “Where men's minds have been poisoned against democracy, | many will learn again that Amer-| |ica ‘is free only as they hear) {from you that you are free” | Mr. Stevenson said. “Ambaassadors in overalls can be the best salesmen of demgqcracy.”
‘He Didn't Read’
He sought to refute Gen. Eisenhpwer’s conténtion that he, Mr. Stevenson, had “embraced” the {principle of compulsion by recommending that the President be {given power to “compel arbitration” of national emergency disputes.
“After the great reunion on the love seat at Columbia University, I respect the General's {authority on the subject of em|braces,” he said, referring to the recent meeting at Gen. Eisen-
Asked if Gen. Eisenhower had asked him to resign from the ticket, Mr. Nixon paused, then replied, “I will resume my tour.” The young Californian appeared wan and pale at the aftermidnight news conference and later underwent a massage by Dr. Hugh Pritchard who accompanied the Nixon party on its trip north from California. Mr. Pritchard said he gave Nixon a massage “to relax him” and that the Senator was “in perfect health.”
Truman Due Here Oct.9
President Truman's newest ‘give ’em hell” whistle-stop came paign will be featured in four Ine
diana cities, including Indianap. olis, !
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The President's 16-state came
men who have the respect of the establishment of a labor training paign tour opens Saturday.
Sunday, the President hits rt.
“Only then,” he said, “can we tyra]. Extension Service “to help Wayne at 3 p. m. for a scheduled
5-minute stop.
Longest Indiana stop will be in Indianapolis Oct. 9. The Pres. ident is scheduled to come in at 6:50 a. m. and leave 20 minutes later.
Goes to Anderson
The same day, Mr. Truman's train will stop in Anderson at 7:55 a. m. and Muncie at 8:30 a. m. The President announced in Washington he will make 10 major. and 77 minor speéches on the trip. None of the Indiana stops has been designated for a ma jor- address. First news of Mr. Truman's visit to Indiana was disclosed in The Indianapolis Times several weeks ago. Mr. Truman's whistle-stop campaign tour will begin Sept. 27 and end Oct. 12, :
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