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63d YEAR—NUMBER 198
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POLIO HONEYMOON-—Newlyweds Lou and Nancy Geisling
polio ward of a Detroit hospital. week after their marriage, while Lou, 26, became ill two days
Southerners to lke— ‘You-All Look Good’
By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent
ABOARD EISENHOWER
GOP candidate was determined |nistory would repeat itself.
The General scheduled other ap-
SPECIAL, Sept. 26—A pajama-/pearances today in Winstonclad Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, (Salem, N. C. and in the Virginia
The Mystery Deepens on Slush Fund
‘Left-Over’ Campaign Money Claim Fading
By JAMES DANIEL AND
IRVING LEIBOWITZ Scripps-Howard Staff Writers
CHICAGO, Sept. 26—The mystery about Adlai Stevenson's cash gifts to worthy state of Illinois employees
grew deeper and deeper today. Mr, Stevenson has claimed that some of that cash was what he
{had left over from his successful
1948 campaign for governor. But Herman Smith, long-time friend and money raiser for the
colorfully supported by “myicities of Roanoke, Lynchburg, Mamie” in a pink wrap, began Petersburg and Richmond. He will| his second drive for sogthern speak tonight at Richmond. | votes today with an early morn-| Gen. Eisenhower wore civvies
ing whistle stop at Salisbury, N.|last night when he gave his first, C
“The presidential
Illinois governor, said today that on the eve of the 1948 élection, there wasn’t any “left-over” campaign money.
\major military speech of the cam-| In a Holo candidate Paign at Baltimore, but he again| In fact, Mr. Smith said, the wooed voters of North Carolina Was the General—drawing from Sampaign was in a hole financially.
and Virginia after climaxing yesterday’s drive through Maryland. | He demanded at Baltimore an| end to “disorder and duplication and waste” in military spending. | The Salisbury stop was un-| scheduled. It caught the Eisen-| howers not yet dressed for the, day. But that didn't stop them from appearing on the rear plat: form to greet 100 earlier risers gathered to cheer the General,
Signs Autographs
Gen. Eisenhower stepped onto the back platform of the train in pajamas and bathrobe and ed signing autographs. A moment late Mrs, Eisenhower
{his 40 years’ | soldier.
experience as a
He said he didn’t know how
| : Speaking over national radio [much money might have come in
Continued on Page 2—Col. 1
Acheson Slap Back at Ike
Accuses General of *Torturing Facts’
Pr United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 26—Sec-
joined him, and someone in thes... or State Dean Acheson to-
crowd shouted, “hi ya, Mamie.| You-all look good to us even in the morning.” The Eisenhowers roared with laughter, The pink-wrapped Mrs.
Eisenhower had her hair in|
Charlotte, N. C,
There the candidate was greeted
the streets, ‘ Goes to Stadium
The party traveled by automobile to Memorial Stadium. Fire Chief E. L. Davis said more than 25,000 persons were in and around the stadium, which seats about 16,000. : Gen. Eisenhower was hustled through the crowd to the stadium but insisted on stopping to sign a little girl's autograph book.
He told the stadium crowd he|
had been warned before going south that he would be wasting his time “because the whole country is mortgaged to one political
group.” The crowd roared, “No.”
He told of the Salisbury stop. He said he heard people shouting “We want Ike” as he got out of bed on the train. “We went out to see our friends in our robes and faced them,” he said. He added that ‘we tried to dodge our friends, the photogra-
phers.” In his stadium talk the Gen-| eral insisted that each state,
county, and precinct is owned by) the people and that he. wouldn't recognize a political “mortgage”, of any description. | He said that if the people in| Washington could see the Charlotte erowd they would realize
hower now means to imply that| Waiting for the Hoosler chief that someone had wiped out the gorea should have been included gon 0 Lhe BBS oh the Evansville, xe ay was Mr. Stevenson, Jcan RINDI ooohiersasrsrens 14 debt, {by me within the defensive peri- ST terd pape | The former Butler coed has _ hig faee split by a wide grin. What's Happening to Our Slaps Truman Policies |meter and that it should have? Mr Sn apqay.) od his Illinois PeeP Stewardess on flights of DC- “Welcome to Indiana, Henry,” | Kid8? cocci, eevee 1 He said the Truman adminis- been manned by American troops,” vane sav there was isbn any 6s and Convair Flagships, flying he said. re Other Features: {ration has dragged down U. S. Mr. Acheson said. 18 say 4 ’ Ylout of Chicago. : : 4 : secret about the Governor's help- EERIE Business Notes ...... 24 prestige abroad and produced Certainly as Chief of Staff of ling ut selected state employees! somes rr — — Brain . 34 “scandals of which we are Xe Army his opinion was quite “their cost-of-living problems by| New Hurricane Roars \tor dinner. Then they go to the) ol Ee ws 37 ashamed. A e con rary an wholly in ac-igiving them extra money from MIAMI, Fla. — Hurricane Coliseum for the § p. m. speech.| Crogaword ..o..oevvuss "aw Gen. Eisenhower also charged | o37 16 v e statement I yo fund. . |“Charlie,” packing winds up to, WFBM of Indianapolis and| Editorials ............ 22 the administration with creating made. But if it was no secret, at least|104 miles per hour, lumbered WBAT, Marion, will broadcast. In Hollywood ..... wees. 1B inflation. He said it particularly CR it was not well-publicized around 8lowly northwest today some 300 the speech, and WXLW will tape| Radio, Television ..... 28 hurts farmers because “the things Norway Lifts Embargo Springfield, the capital of Illinois.\miles off the Florida coast and |it for rebroadcast tomorrow. The| Robert Ruark ...... ie 2 they have to buy go up and up | For -reporters making the weather experts said there was a program will not be televised. Ba BOVOIR ainsscsivese 21 and up. On Paper and Pulp rounds of state bureaus there yes-| “possibility” it would not hit the, But there was to be another| Sports ..... SanssesereddS 20 The big thing we have to do! (ogr,0- The Norwegian govern-|terday heard hurt and unhappy mainland. visiting Governor in Indianapolis) Earl Wilson .......... Lar now is to keep pur money from ment has abolished its export tax/comments from many cwil service WOMEN'S +s «sss «is ss e11-13 - | growing cheaper,” he said. lon paper and pulp, retroactive to/employees. They said they hadn't What Goes On Here ... 17 Gen. Eisenhower also de yung 20, : known certain Stevenson ap- ’ Se nounced “subversion and dis- pointees were getting money on ear n at S af x
loyalty in government.” that if there were men like former Army Secretaries Kenneth C. Royal and Gordon Gray of North Carolina in office they would see that there was no subversion and dishonesty. The General also said that “we need not have gotten into the (Korean) War if we had been farsighted.”
To. preserve peace and preserve | America, he said, “we must have
a change.” Gen. Eisenhower's special train
took him into North Carolina and Virginia, states which supported
Republican pres-
curlers. 1 After the brief stop at Salts. dentin nomice
bury, the special went on t0|z .heson. said arriving atigen a 10:15 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). [gpg foreign pol- § icy s ech i by about 2000 persons at the sta- Cc} 2 : rt - tion and other thousands lining'Monday night
las saying something I did not say.”
He said |
Attacking the js
Mr.
Eisenhow-
‘represents me
Mr. Acheson
Mr. Acheson said Gen. Eisenhower's statement { purported to be a “quotation and] |accurate paraphrase” of Mr. Ach-| leson’s January, 1950 speech before the National Press Club here.
Outlines Policy
“As stated it tortures the facts,” Mr. Acheson told a news conference. In his press club speech, Mr, Acheson said that the American defense perimeter in the Pacific “runs along the Aleutians’ to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus , .. and from the Ryukyus to the Philippine Islands.” Mr.. Acheson did not include Korea in this perimeter but said any nation attacked would first have to defend itself and then rely| on the free world acting under the United Nations charter.
Defines Perimeter .
Mr. Acheson said that the “defensive perimeter as I described it| was a line developed by our own| military authorities at that time.”
| “I cannot believe Gen. Eisen-|
A finance ministry spokesman said yesterday prices on the home market will remain unchanged.
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lafter Nov, 1. hat was the day
before the Illinois voters defeated {Gov. Dwight Green and set a lot lof Mr. Green’s backers to worry|ing about how they could get “in iright” with the new state administration. . There’s considerable belief here that these worriers were among the folks who kicked in to Gov. Stevenson’s “campaign fund”— after the election. Republicans here claim that the Stevenson campai fund was $25,000 in the hole on 1948 election day. So, they say, there must {have been that much money-— and a lot mofe—tosséd TH after
day directly accused Gen. Dwight Mr. Stevenson was chosen to be D. Eisenhower of “torturing the facts” of a speech made by Mr. Acheson in January, 1950.
igovernor. Usually Expect Something | Mr. Smith didn’t go that far. He just said the campaign was
tf in the red on the day before
election. (Mr. Smith now is busy raising money for the Volunteers for Stevenson for President.) A high Illinois Democratic official didn’t go that far either, He just said that people who contribute to campaigns before the votes are counted “gamble” on having an advantage if their ‘man wins. People who put in imoney after the election usually expect something in return, he ‘added. Despite Mr! Stevenson’s claim
{this week that he had cash left
over from the 1948 campaign, Mr. ,8Smith isn’t the only proStevenson Democrat to deny it.
‘A Shoestring Operation’ Two days after the 1948 vote, the governor's administrative assistant, James Mulroy (who now is dead), said the Stevenson race was ‘a poor man’s campaign” with income “approximately” balancing outgo.
enson,
Adlai Lands Set To List
Entered as Second-Class Matter at PostofMice Indianapolis. Indians. Issued Daily.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1952
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Times photo by John R. Spicklemire
LIGHTS FOR STEVENSON—Mrs. Maude Schricker polishes the candelabra for the table on which she will set an old-fashioned Hoosier dinner for Gov. Adlai Stevenson at the Governor's mansion tonight. (Story, another photo, Page 21). rd onl | His Granddad Came New School . To City for Votes, To i 4 i A ERR Thy YY or. Oo es, Oo Gets Chance To aa Gov. Adlai Ste-jtoday. However, he'll get none . rd Revi » venson Will make his #rst polit of lusty SHSGEs SwAling the GovBoa fo eview ical “pitch” in Hoosterland. But" o/s "miler Warren of Florida Catholic Plan another Adlai E. Stevenson cam-mot Gov. Schricker at the State paigned here as a national candi-'Hoyge this morning as he closed The Zoning Board today agreed/date 52 years ago. a whirlwind “good will” trip unanimously to reconsider at its| It was Gov. Stevenson's grand-{through the Midwest. Oct. 13 meeting a request for per-|father, who ran for vice president] He presented Gov. Schricker mission to build a Roman Catho-lon ‘the unsuccesful Democratic with grapefruit, cigars and kind lic school-church at 4838 Fletcher | eee IWords from Florida along with Ave, thanks for ‘sending So many In a special meeting at noon, ATpos i oL4 distin Shed {people to us during the winter.” the board voted to bring up again vis: Lor a auapy " yuay However, Gov. Warren said tothe petition, which was turned go unnoted by Mayor Ft day was a bad day to advertise down by a 5-2 vote Monday. The Mayor — who is Marion [Florida in Indiana because the Frank J. Unversaw, one of the County GOP chairman — plans weather here is better than in his two who voted against the build-| to remain in his office for home state. ing, was among three members routine business while city, | The two governors kept their 'who called today's meeting. The county and state Democrats political talks on the light side other two were Hiram J. Raffens- greet Gov. Adlai Stevenson at and Gov. Warren left after a perger and Louie Moller. { Weir Cook Municipal Airport short stay for his return to
dianapolis where he is scheduled
"PRICE FIVE CENTS
In Indiana, Fund Donors
Budget Talk, Attack On Jenner Expected
At Coliseum Tonight
By TED KNAP Times Staff Writer . EVANSVILLE, Sept. 26—Adlai E. Stevenson invaded, Indiana to a comparatively cool reception and quipped “It
like Tke—to0.” He landed here at noon and began a whirlwind course, of parades, speeches and handshaking before heading for In-
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tonight to deliver a plan for cut- Political News ting the budget by “sharp gov- On Inside Pages
ernment economy.” He first toured the Interna- Mrs. Schricker looks forward tional Harvester Co. plant here to Adlai's Visit .ieevressens = where he was greeted by a group Feingold sketches .......%... 2
of 15 workers carrying “I Like Adlai is Welcome, Too . . + an Ike” signs. Raiforial .... corivnsrnrsse 38
Grinned Other political news .... 9 and 28
The Governor merely grinned A ———
and quipped, “I like him—too.” This Democratic strong hold greeted a presidential candidate for the second time this week when the Governor's plane touched down here. Gov. Stevenson's courtship of this industrial city on_the Ohio River came four days after Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower made a whistle-stop speech here, Only about 400 Hoosiers were on hand when Gov. Stevenson's DC-6 glided to a smooth landing ‘at the classy, 2- year-old Dress Memorial Airport.’ The Vanderburgh County cirjcuit judge, Ollie C. Reeves, chair{man of the welcoming committee, {said a larger crowd was not exipected at the airport because the
big doings were downtown,
Forget ‘Special Fund’ The greeters,” many of them party officials, temporarily forgot
Adlai Stevenson
those “special fund” slurs against x . the Democratic nominee as they { al 0 IS cheered his handwaving arrival. | Wetherby of Kentucky—greeted . . Publication Due apolis this morning with Lt. Gov. Butler. | United Press Staff Conespondent newsmen arrived ahead of ihe announced that he would make crowds they said would total 10. to his controversial fund to aug-
Cries of “Adlai, Adlai Adlai” rolled down the runway. i Two governors—Henry Schrick- in onors er of Indiana and Lawrence the governor from Illinois. Gov. Schricker flew here from Indian- | Today or Tomorrow John A. Watkins and Democratic! National Committeeman Paul By MERRIMAN SMITH | | SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 26— TWO planes carrying about 70! vov. Adlai E. Stevenson today ' Stevenson ship. < 1 {public today or tomorrow the list Loca) Deméberais were lining Plot contributors and beneficiaries 00 f oi thong the pars % louie 2 ment salaries of top state offia? ‘| cials.
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And a biography of Mr. Stevwhich his headquarters'ing Adlai Stevenhere terms “authoritative,” callsison on all .his
tion, joined the others today to suspend the six-month rule,
‘The Assignment | Begged for . .
apolis
Mr. Unversaw and John Rair-| don, who voted against the peti-|
Proudest stewardess of Ameri- - can Airlines today is an Indian {this noon. Gov. Stevenson was
sch 1 ; » A rdess on the special plane tak-T_hcouled to arrive here bY PIANC! puis. prone robbery ‘moti
Miss who has been ste-|
and escort him through two parades and one speech. Mayor Clark's office reported he will be in today, but his agenda is made up of “just appointments.”
+ 9 ticket ‘with William Jennings * Bryan.
present-day Adlai was born,
That was the year the|
After speaking in Evansville]
|at 4:25 p. m. The first of two
| parades will take him to the Clay-
Florida.
In The Times
Local
in slaying here............
Editorial
Stevenson was scheduled to make, |a half-hour speech. Mr. |hower drew about 5000 for his
Today's News | short stop Monday.
|Gov. Stevenson left the airport and headed the parade to the In- pine” officials who received ternational Harvester and Chrys- money from the fund and that he {ler plants. He was to handshake had Page with workers and union leaders in/night to discuss ve this 3 130,000. |
Gov. Stevenson made the announcement in reply to questions from reporters who erowded |arpund him at Capital Airport as |he boarded a plane to leave on.
la two-day swing through Indiana
and Kentucky. He said there were “eight or
Eisen-|
Heads for Plants Ten minutes after he landed,
contacted all of them last making the fund labor - dominated cit of |public. Y Y He said he had also talked with
The candidate said he would most of the donors but still had
pool Hotel. After a couple of political pow-|
the 1948 race “a shoestring oper-itrips. ation.” She is Miss Jo But Mr. Stevenson has said A n n McMillen, publicly that the fund he used daughter of Mrs. to give bonuses to particularly Frances E. Mcgood state workers began with millen, 3905 N. “the balance which remained iniyaSalle St. - CC . my campaign fund when I took| «This ig the as- a office, supplemented by additions|s j gn ment I Eh contributed to that fund.” iL y begged for for (This fund is apart from ied said is i 1850 drive to raise money among ine pretty brunet Miss McMillen more than 1000 firms selling $35. ¢ the Stevenson million worth of goods and serv-ig,. 5) giided into the airport at
rade to Gov, Schricker’s house
Adlai Stevenson had been in | | | | |
diana only 10 minutes before his | now-famous the open. Gov. Henry Schricker was to | meet the Democratie presidential candidate at Evansville air- | port but his plane was delayed.
humor broke into |
the side. ‘
Two Sailors Jailed
aims
Ars sers sass ina ann ~
|GOP to woo foreign-born .... 22
National
Woods “roped, tied and branded” by Texas housewives .. 24 Knowland calls GOP landslide Kanassvstervasinry 25
possible Women's
Page ment tonight 1 wows, he will head “another pa-| New soft policy veils Stalin's ment. economy long n
|make public his views on govern-|not discussed the subject with all his of them.
{speech at the Indianapolis Fair-| Gov, Stevenson was asked Em Coliseum. Pp {whether he would list the donors
But he also was well stocked] and beneficiaries in a speech or in
: ia statement. [wits political aminimtion io ire) He said he would issue a state-
(R.| 'Ind.). His research staff spent | Men although he wight 1ates Ie weeks digging up material to use fer lo tne : ar on Sen. Jenner. : Wilson Wyatt, his gph / i his/Paign manager, had in Smiling but stl silent on * earlier that the, list was forthContinued on Page scot 1 coming.
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{Children’s Museum opens Mex-
Stevenson's Program
1 4:25 p. m.— Arrive at Weir Cook airport. Brief reception and remarks by Gov. Stevenson to welcoming crowd. 4:40 p. m.— Parade from airport to Claypool Hotel. North on High School Road to Washington St, east on Washington to Holmes Ave, north on Holmes to 10th St., east on 10th to Indiana Ave. southeast on Indiana to New York St. east on New York to Meridian St. south on Meridian around Circle to Washington, west on Washington to Illinois St. to east entrance of Claypool, 5:20 p. m.— Arrive at Claypool. Receptions for state Democratie ! leaders and Democratic mayors, 6:45 p. m.— Parade from Claypool to Governor's Mansion, 4343 N. Meridian St. North on Illinois to New York, east on New York to Meridian, north on Meridian to Governor's mansion. :
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Dan Kidney
7:00 p. m.—Arrive at Governor's mansion for dinner. 8:30 p. m.—Leave for Fairgrounds. South on Meridian to 38th St. east on 38th to Main entrance at Fairgrounds. 8:42 p. m.— Arrive at Fairgrounds Coliseum,
Coliseum Program
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In Holdup of Driver
AUBURN, N. Y.—-Two young sailors were held in jail here today after admitting they robbed a friendly motorist from Bayonne, N, J, last Monday. ity police said Anthony Patti, 19, Baltimore, Md. and George M. Wheeler, 20, Brooklyn, N. Y., admitted holding up Edward J.
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AMERICANS 'ARE beginning| to enjoy the campaign. It proves again that we have more of everything—including mud-slinging. - ” » GOV. STEVENSON was never a five-star general, but t he seems to have done alright | as a secret dough-boy. » . »
6:00 p. m.—Doors open to public, No reserved seats. 6:30 p. m.—Band music. 8:00 p. m.—Chairman B. Howard Caughran opens meeting, ‘8:01 p. m.—National anthem by chorus and audience. 8:08 p. m.—Invocation by Rev. William M. Pritchard Jr. 8:05 p. m.—Songs by 1500 women of Home Economics Club chorus. 8:15 p. m.—Candidates introduced. 8:42 p. m.—Gov. Stevenson and party arrive,
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and Sen. Taft are about to take off] 9:01 p. m.—Gov. Stevenson speaks. and try to explain the campaign:
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8:54 p. m.—Gov. Schricker speaks, introduces Gov. Stevenson.
9:30 p. m.—Speech ends, Gov. Stevenson leaves.
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