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FORECAST: Fair today and tomorrow, little change in temperature. High today 87. Low tonight 55. High tomorrow 88.

62d YEAR—NUMBER 202

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1952

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KILLS PLAYMATE—DeForrest Steadman Jr., 5, hides between his parents af Cal., police station after accidentally shooting to death Larry Barnes, 8, while the boys were playing |. 3" 12 000 cowboys with one of the elder Steadman's guns. Police confiscated six revolvers after the tragedy. Saft

United Press Telepho..

at the Long Beach,

Today's News Bell Admits Fearing In The Times

Local

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Sewage disposal wrangle holds

up new Allison test shop .. Churches hail new Bible ,...

Editorial

By TED KNAP Indiana's largest telephone util-

ity is afraid to expand into rural areas because it doesn’t dare to buck a monstrous new competitor —the federal government. A spokesman for Indiana Bell

Pa x Expense funds stagger British 14 Teleptione Co. today admitted — Columnist reveals how he got story on Nixon political fund 14 ity is scared of federal punishment

National

3 Page| Charges Red spies in CIA ....

Lewis warns southern coal mine operators to “get in

line” ..

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Jruman hits Ike on Russian

|reluctantly—that the private util-

lit it fights government control of rural telephone systems. | “We can’t afford to buck the | federal government,” the Bell official said.

‘Like Sitting Ducks’

| “We're like sitting ducks. They 3 could take potshots at us with

’ antitrust ‘suits, FCC opposition Women s land bther federal regulations,” he . Page said. Wood' mixing—a fdll -home | .

furnishing feature ...... . Hoosier women have little tim: to rest in Holland

Other Features:

Amusements .... Business Notes ..ievvnvee Bridge ..i.icvicivinnese Comics ... Crossword s.eeecessscess Editorials «..3svsciavncie In Hollywood ...ceooesee Radio, Television «cious Ed Sovola .,.... Earl Wilson .. What Goes on Here .

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él This apparent fear will almost |certainly give the government a ny Wedge of public ownership into the telephone business in Indiana. Two “nonprofit” co-operatives have been formed in recent months and have arranged to buy 17 rural telephone companies in Indiana. The co-operatives are totally financed by government loans. Unless a private utility—like Bell—offers to buy the rural exchanges, the state Public Commission probably will let the cooperatives take over. :

Views on the News

Dan Kidney

WITH THE Democrats still on their unused 194

standing

‘Would Be Interested’

“would be interested in serving

the areas involved” in the sale.

However, Mr. Plum said Bell is lion in property. g| interested only if it’s OK with the

platform, you can’t blame Presi-|federally-backed co-op.

dent Truman for trying to

speeches, > 8 8 ANY YOUNG

” man

get them re-elected with 1948 controversy with the co-operative] ...and we will not join in any!Inc,, 5 move in opposition to their pend- PSC for permission to by 13| who

wants to grow up to be President had better start saving

his income tax returns.

” s = THE American Way—When a gadget is so simple a child can operate it, it's usually “im- panies.

proved” until an adult can't.

Weather Worth

Singing About

“Blue skies, shining at me—| nothing but blue skies do I see,” said the Weather Bureau today as it predicted warm weather

straight through Sunday.

Temperatures will be 3 to 6) degrees above average, the experts said. The normal maximum is 70 in the northern part of the| state and 75 in the south. The normal’ minimum ‘is 46 in the] north and 50 in the south. Yesterday’s 88 was the hottest for that day, breaking a record 87

set jn 1898,

There will be scattered showers though, either Saturday or Sun-| a day. But, to sun-baked Hoosiers, they'll seem like summer showers..

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a. m.. 58 10a m.. 78 Ta m.. 5 11a m.. 81 8a m.. 63 12 (Noon) R84 9a m.. 1 1p m.. 88

Latest humidity ....... 487%

Pollen Count

Grains per cubic yard of air, Today tescsasrasNanansana 4 ‘Yesterday .ocoeeeseiees .s 7

E. G. Plum, Indiana Bell vice, president, today issued a state-| iment that the private utility

U.S. in Rural Areas

Co-op ownership of 13 small telephone companies in Indiana would require a 70 per cent rate boost within five years, the Public Service Commission was told today. } The testimony came from Hoosier telephone co-operative’s own witness—Accounting Consultant G. G. Skelton, Indianapolis. He said the staggering rate hikes would be needed to get the rural exchanges back on their feet to give adequate service. Mr. Skelton testified the exchanges need an annual revesue increase of $456,000. The co-op hopes to get $131,000 from new customers and the rest from higher rates. ;

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1000-12,000 Russ in Korea, UN Charges

Many Are Manning Antiaircraft Guns

By United Press SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 30— A stepped-up tempo of fighting was reported along the ‘Korean ground I(ront today and coincidentally United Na-

tions military authorities said] that between 7000 and 12,000 Russian troops are in Korea. The Russians, an 8th Army |spokesman said, are in rear areas and most of them are manning! {antiaircraft guns. It was noted {that Red grouna fire has become much heavier and more accurate! [in récent months than during the jearly part of the war, { | Sources here said that as far| {as was known no Russians had been .used as front-line combat |troops. However they said that! |in addition to installing and man-| ining antiaircraft guns, the Rus-| (silans were working in rear area: |advisory, supply and administra[tive positions.

Rout UN Troops In. the ground war today Chinese Communist infantrymen, {surging forward behind a devas[tating curtain of fire from heavy {tank guns, knocked United Naftion troops from'a central front {mountain after 18 hours of bloody fighting. | It was the third position won {by the Reds since they started a iseries of attacks along a wide {front Sunday night. | Eighth Army sources placed the estimated number of Russian troops in Korea at between 7000 including those in antiaircraft units, It was learned here that the U. 8. Far East command in Tokyo had estimated earlier there were at least 5000. “They are not formed into divisions,” an 8th Army spokesman said. “They are in rear areas. There are not enough of them to make up a division.”

No Official Estimate

The spokesman declined to comment further. There was no official estimate as to how long the

Accused Death Car Driver Free Without Bond in New Arrest

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Earl Browder

Earl Browder, Wife Indicted

Couple Arrested On Perjury Charges

By United Press

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—A New York federal grand jury has indicted former Communist leader Earl Browder and his wife, Raissa Irene, on perjury charges,

today. .

tion for naturalization.

Russians have been in Korea in military posts. However, unofficial | reports t at least some Rus-!

sians were present have circulated

began. It was believed here that Russian aid had been increased! largely in an effort to cope with | the devastating attacks by the United Nations air force on Red transport and rear area supply concentrations.

Cox Jury Still Out

TERRE HAUTE — A federal]

court jury deliberated the fate of “herb doctor” Arthur J. Cox

| getting its foot into the door of telephone operation. | ‘In 1949 the government set up the Rural Telephone Administra{tion. Along with the Rural Elec|trification Administration, it is {headed by Hoosier-born Claude R. | Wickard. So far, the RTA has not been {able to squeeze into Indiana. And |{it has failed to get much of a foothold in other states. Unless RTA takes over private {phone companies on a sizable |scale, it ceases to exist. That |stunts the growth of bureaucracy {and halts the progress of what politicians call “creeping socialism,”

Are Big Business

| Rural co-operatives outside the {telephone field are big business in

They do not pay taxes. And they are financed by taxpayers’

“We will not be a party to any money.

Hoosier Telephone Co-operative, now appearing before the

through the night and still had] not reached a verdict today, 15 hours after receiving the case.

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MOLLY MAYFIELD Advice to The Troubled |

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|of John Watkins to break the) {first day tie and in the Congress |race, Charles Brownson increased | his margin over John Carvey.

ing petition,” Mr. Plum's official phone companies in Indiana, is|

statement sald. [backed by federal promise of a For Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican ........... 68% 58% | Bat s fear of tangling with [fed s6.6-million loan. As its down For Adlai E. Stevenson, Democrat .....ccc00uvseee 34% 42% | Tt I aor The ates thy Hom(Layment, the Soop is obiaiming SENATE | bidding against the. co-op for the| 220000 on loan from 10 rural For William E. Jenner, Republican ................ 58% 48% purchase of the rural phone com- electrification co-ops—which also For Henry F. Schricker, Democrat .....ccceseeeee 42% 54%, borrowed from the federal gov- , : goy-| GOVERNOR “The co-operative made a bid ernment. : |For George N, Craig, Republican ...... avessssesss GOB 50% and we did not wish to submit a| OPPposing the co-op venture are| gor John A. Watkins, Democrat .......coeeevsvess 39.4% 50% competing bid,” Bell's statement/@ group of subscribers who said) * CONGRESS declared. they Dieter to be served by a pri- p, Charles B. Brownson, Republican .....oeeve.. 64.6% 56% | No Publicity Handout The exchanges Were offered oF For John Carvey, Democrat ........... Lrveevirs +. 35.4%) 4%, Bell's admission of fear did not|sale after the death of their own-! PARTY TRENDS come in a publicity handout which er, John C. Detchon. Straight Republican Votes ...... seesrtasnee cesses 49% 42%, might have hidden propaganda, Straight Democrat Votes ......coveveecrseicicess 28% 329%, motives. Instead, it came as a Second Plan Filed No Party Preference Indicated ...... casssrisusine #90 6% {reluctant admission to questions| second public-owner ship Republicans for Democrat Stevenson ........cove 9% 12% by The Times as to whether or venture was filed recently with! Democrats for Républican Eisenhower ....... sense 11%, 4%, {not Bell was interested in buying the PSC by the Bartholomew| Republicans for Democrat Schricker ........0i004:10% 186% [the rural phone companies. {Telephone Corp. Like Hoosier Democrats for Republican Jenner ....¢ceeevees 1% 47%, Bell officials: told The Times Co-operative, it ‘was formed by| Republicans for Democrat Watkins ....oecvvvvinee 10% 14% they preferred to keep qujet about rural electrification co-ops which! Democrats for Republican Craig .....cocoeveveeee 9% 6% {their fears of federal reprisal be- have federal financing to expand Republicans for Democrat Carvey .........coveeee 9% 12% {cause they ‘wanted to avoid the into the telephone field. | Democrats for Republican Brownson a 2 a, 10% 8% controversy. A Bell official said the private The one-day tabulation” for today was: Eisenhower, 74%;

“The (federal officials)

man declared.

(from the federal govetrnment.

in this rural co-operative move ment.” :

Why Is U. 8S. Concerned?

Why is the U. 8, government so

‘|concerned over 17 small Indiana Democrats today announced exchanges ‘worth less han $2 plans to | :

million?

could utility is “especially anxious” * make it tough for us,” the spokes- buy the four companies

“We just don't want to take /the chance,” he said. “We know Cet involved against the co-op, the government is very interested the Bell spokesman said. “Bell 18| Tne Times Straw Vote is pre- all sections of the city and allOné of us would go up to see

The answer appears to lie in here f frederal bureaucracy’s need. for half of

the Bartholomew co-op.

|said.

sought by| Those Watkins, 28.

He said Bell has not received exchanges are in Bell territory ny threats or hint of threats/and are a profitable venture, he

publican, 56%; Straight Democra

|der ther Yonkers apartment, the!

almost from the time the war Justice Department said, | collected $5000 among his staff{ o,. L oo broken.”

PRESIDENT

Browder in

¥BI nts arrested !

Manhattan today and

Taken to Courthouse | The couple were taken to the New York federal courthouse. The indictment accused- Mrs. Browder of four counts of false statements in connection with her testimony in a 1949 naturalization proceeding. Mrs. Browder swore she was never a member of the Com} munist Party and that she had never been a member of any or-| ganization which teaches or ad-| vocates communism. The indictment charged that Browder himself lied when he; swore that his Russian-born wife was never a member of the Communist Party. If convicted; Mrs. Browder would be liable to a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $20,000 fine. Browder’s con-| viction could result in a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and $5000 fine. {

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Jenner Moves Ahead Of Henry in Straw Vote

Gen. Eisenhower increased his lead in The Times Straw Vote and Sen. William E. Jenner jumped ahead of Gov. Indiana, owning some $100 mil-/g poker in the second day's tabulation. | | In the race for Governor, George Craig forged ahead

Here is the tabulation, showing] the aggregate to date and the one day percentage from yester-| iday for a handy comparison:

2 Days lst Day

to! Stevenson, 26%; Jenner, 10%; Schricker, 30%; Craig, 71.4%; 6%; Brownson, 78.5%; Carvey, 26.5%; Straight Re-

t, 18%; No Party Preference Indi-

cated, 2%; Republicans for Stevenson, 6%; Democrats for Eisenhower, 18%; Republidans for Schricker, 1%; Democrats for Jenner; “But again, we don’t want to 10%; Republicans for Watkins, 6%; Democrats for Craig, 12%; »| Republicans for Carvey, 6%; Democrats for Brownson, 141%.

{big but the government is big-|sented for readers to draw their wage-earning brackets.

Plan Kefauver Visit

or a speech Oct. 17 on

“erime-busting”! Sen. Estes 'Kefauver (D. Tenn.)

own conclusions . .

offered as a Times prediction of The Times 3 who will win the élection Nov. 4, tions will be published daily and ‘I want $100’ ( ELKHART — Elkhart County Cards are mailed to residents Sunday in The Times until the was under $400 "a month.)

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of Indianapolis and Marion Couni ty. Their names are taken from go... vote tabulations,

n be. |the city directory on a pattern|phone PL aza 5551 and have The his party’s national ticket [that provides a representation of Times delivered to your home.

. it i8 NOT Another tabulation will be in|other would go up. l

tomorrow. Tabula-

election. ‘To be sure you get every issue of The Times with the tele-

\lections of cash from all the Illinois state mine safety in-| voluntary manslaughter charges.

from the 80 employee | |partment, including the 24 mine,

the Justice Department announced collected $5700 | contributions for Gov. Stevenson's

The Browders were accused of 1952 re-election making false statements in con-ended when Adlai insteall acnection with Mrs. Browder's peti-|cepted

tunderground manager of the New|

Idol Is Charged With Speeding; Judge Defends Court Action

Lee O. Idol—already under indictment for the January hit-run traffic deaths of two Indianapolis women—today was still at liberty despite arrest on new traffic charges. Beech Grove Magistrate Paul Wetter released Idol last night without bond after the 24-year-old man was charged with reckless driving (speeding 50 miles an hour) and driving without a driver's license. Judge Wetter said he did not require Idol to post bond because the driver already is under $2500 bond on reckless homicide and in-

Force’ Mine Inspectors to Aid Adlai

Mlinois Official Admits Collections Other political news, Page 3

By JAMES DANIEL and IRVING LEIBOWITZ Soripps-Howard Staff Writers

CHICAGO, Sept. 30—Col-|

spectors were admitted today] Idol was arrested Sunday night Spe EE Ee timcto by Deputy Sheriff Eural Lunsford.

whose failure to enforce safety Reported Speeding laws at a mine he formerly] Deputy Lunsford said Idol was worked for was blamed in the driving 50 miles ‘an hour in the 1951 West Frankfort, Ill, disaster|{1400 block ‘of 8S. DeQuincy 8t. that cost 120 lives. Records in the Bureau of Walter Eadie—whom Gov. Adlai Motor vehicles show Idol's driver's

Stevenson picked in 1949 to|license expired July 31. “eliminate politics” from the| Judge Wetter said he followed . mine inspection system-—ac- the law in releasing Idol without

knowledged he personally handled bond. He pointed out state $10,700 in political contributions statutes require traffic defendants in his de-/only sign a statement agreeing to appear for trial. No bond is required, he said. Idol was ordered to return te the Beech Grove court Oct. 9 fo! answer the new charges. Idol was indicted in March for| the Jan. 26 hit-run death of Mrs. Mary Throckmorton, 30, of 1024 Albany St., and Mrs, Betty Stinson, 23, of 526 N. Noble St. | Deputy Coroner William Hague sald the women were struck so hard “nearly every bone in their

safety inspectors.

He said that during 1951 he in “voluntary”

campaign, (which

the Democratic presidential nomination.)

Collected Lucas Fund In 1950, Mr. Eadie said, tel

for former Sem, Scott Kear on successful re-e mpaign. of Virginia Ave. i An end to polticEitg in oe The body of Mrs. Throckmor-| o. Roh bi Press SPAR state mine inspection system * ton was thrown 100 feet by the , BN ROU WITH z= Xone of the things Gov. Steve son Impact and that of Mrs. Stinson g Rima De SU-agen: ohn J: promised the Illinois Voters wi 50 feet. rd Sp rkman, Dem, tie v ce pres : ig rg at Candidate Arrested 2 Dayy Later that “McCarthyism” is a “defi. Aisi dW, out at bribery| Idol was arrested two days|nite threat to the American form and corruption in the Reet Fatio after an extensive investi- of government.”

They were hit in the 200-block

Gov. Dwight|gation by Police Sgt. John A.| Invading usually Republican BAIINBAtON Of OTT, ¥ir.| Jones of the traffic department. (territory in upstate New York, elected he| Although Idol was indict:d in|Sen. Sparkman told students at | March, no trial date on the reck- (Elmira College for Women that less homicide and manslaughter the philosophy expressed by Recharges has been set. [publican Sen. Joseph. R. McCarthat neither I nor any governor | The prosecutor's office reported thy of Wisconsin could lead to will be subject to the criticism | today the trial had been set, but police tactics used in “enslaved, merited by the present adminis-| Wagpostpored when Idol's attor- totalitarian government.” tration.” This rebuke of Gov. neys, Forrest Rau and Lloyd New- “We are apt to take our freeGreen was emphasized with pho- lin filed a request fora jury trial. doms too much for granted,” Sen. tos of grieving widows of 111 Idol entered a plea of innocent Sparkman said. “The McCarthyminers killed in the 1947 Cen-|to the charges when arraigned ism thinking could lead to the tralia, Ill, mine disaster. Aug. 18 and police said he has in-| ‘knock-on - the - door - at - midsisted he is innocent since his ar-|night’ technique of totalitarian

Green, Stevenson vowed if would guarantee: “w _ A hog-tight, politicalproof mine inspection system, sO

Mr. Stevenson's pledges Were thrown back at him after West rest. regimes. Frankfort’s New Orient mine blew Arrested 7 Times I'm afraid of what might de-, velop in this country. This is a -

up on Dec. 21, 1951, leaving 120 | ” ona 111 widowed and 178 BINOE [pers eererecn even Times pn i angerous kind of thinking —this children fatherless. State and gition to the charges growing out cCarthyism. federal death benefits exceeded, ¢ {he hit-run deaths. $2 million. He was fined §1 and costs here Subsequently, federal inspectors|for violation of liquor laws and reported the hlast would have, judgment was withheld (same as been confined to a small area if|a finding of guilty but with no the explosive coal dust in the penalty) on a disorderly conduct mine had been rendered harmless charge, by sufficient dusting with pow-| He was fined $1 and costs June Sept. 30- (UP) — One policeman dered limestone. Testimony was 28 here this year on a drunk|Was killed and two others were given that the mine company re- charge. wounded today by a masked gun-~ duced its purchases of the lme-| He was fined $100 for drunken /man who held up a branch bank stone dust 50 per cent after Gov.|driving on Nov. 6, 1947 in fSreens- and then was seized in a house Stevenson was elected. boro, N. C., FBI reports show. Witnesses sald coal dust, lightly| Other charges against him have Where he had held a young mothmixed with rock dust, was “ankle either been dropped or resulted er as hostage. deep” in some mine passages. in acquittal. A girl bank clerk was treated for powder burns sustained when the bandit fired his first blast S:ate Mine Director Eadie was Auto Death Trial linside the Watchmoket branch of [the Industrial Trust Co. Orient mine before taking his) Of Gl Delayed | Policeman Charles Patenaude, State post in 1948. A law says jes : ; ig 48, Pawtucket, died of a bullet |fore the blast, one of Mr. Eadie's| my 4rame deat |wound sustained during the cap{inspectors -— T1-year-old James , reams dere i ot aime] vure of the gunman. |Wilson—had visited the mine. A ~iiinay Court 2 was postponed| Wounded slightly, were two federal safety report credited Mr.\ 0 yom arrow because of illness of Other Pawtucket policemen, JoWilson with doirg what he could : \seph Donnelly, 39, and James

a juror. to have the mine made safe. | or (Cavanaugh, 41. The clerk, Mrs. But in the publie cry for a The juror is Clifford Weaver, g

scapegoat, Mine Director Eadte|1610 Wyoming St. Carol Maynard, 20, was hospital\scapegoat, Mine Director E Didonato, 24-year-old former ized for shock and burns on the |discharged Inspector Wilson. nid Camp Atterbury GI, is charged right forearm. Wl Sompjamt bir: dust| With reckless homicide in the| All the loot was recovered

death of Det, Sgt. James Gaughan some on the floor of the |bank samples to the state laboratoryig,.,"g"1g5;, § BRAN where it had spilled from a paper

for checking, and had written | t in th t r Jor x A jury of six men and six bag, the rest in the getaway car. fair” in several places in his ref nN y completed late yes- Bank officials declined to give the

Bare Je, ousht io Fave terday to hear evidence against exact amount pending an audit

| “ ”n . “ithe Ridgway, Pa. 28th Division but said it was substantial. specific suggestiofs for improve eran before Special Judge Rob-| There were about 12 customers

Trapped Bandit

Kills Policeman EAST PROVIDENCE, R. IL,

Inspector Given Credit

et a state hearing on his job ert Rutherford. 'and 40 employees in the bank, rights, Mr, Wilson said Mr. Eadie - The jury ituges Shree Jormer} E = had made his inspectors kick in|servicemen and one former «| p All, like Didonato, a former mess | HST fo Talk Here

part of their pay for ‘political contributions.” Today, Mr. Wilson expanded on this. He said he and six other inspectors were called to West "Frankfort in 1950 to meet Mr, (Eadie at the Dimmick Hotel, [“We stood out on the sidewalk.

sergeant, were non-commissioned |

officers. | 10 Minutes Oct. 9

Football Picks dent, Tea om Will Pay Off

lowed by wHistlestops at Andere

son and Muncie. |Eadié” and come back and an-| The winner of the $25 cash here at 6:45 a. m. and leave at

The President’s train will ‘arrive |

prize in the first week of The 7:01. He will speak from 6:50 to 7 Times FOOTBALL PICKS will [from a platform atop the Capitol be announced in The Times Ave. overpass of Yiiion Statio Po 6 "You Know this tet] IOROITOW, ‘a en Tr epident Tranan to said, ‘You know 8 isn't, mp d wi f th . (ac par u supposed to be a political job. test o geton week YoU . om Muncie. ° The train will stop at Since the Centralia thing, we In-| win the $25 prize this week. . Anderson from 7:55 to 8:05 a. spectors have been put under the, Details on Page 17. {and at Muncie from 8:30 to rit system.’ : — (a, m. ; CL RT hn ie Hn BR

| “When I walked in, Eadie sald, . Wilson's pay