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EATHER TODAY Fair, Warm Temperatures Yetterday High. tO; Low, CI The Indianapolis tar STAK-XEWS Quick-Action Want Adl Call AT lantic 2411 FAIR AND FIRST VOL. 48. NO. 331 WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1931 FIVE CENTS The Day In Indiana By Maurice Farly 2 US.

To Crime Reoort Cites Peril JL Citizens Take To Pen Tell Off Congress Jenner's Got Reply Controls To Go On East Gets Us Way Chase Blues State Health Award Presented To Maurice Early r'lli'll in i mnw mm hhimhiii i i i in mi i ihi i hi; nil i i i I ii pt, mm I Jj LX Presentation of the 1951 Distinguished Service Award to Maurice Early," columnist for The Indianapolis Star, was made last night by Rollis Weesner, a member of the awards-committee of the Indiana Public Health Association. (Star Photo) Senators Put Finger OnO'Dwyer Vice Lords Blistered As Probers Offer Corrective Measures Editorial On Page 18 Washington (AP) Senate crime investigators charged yesterday in a blistering report that the criminal activities of organized racketeers and their, political protectors have reached such huge proportions that they threaten to undermine the American way of life. The crime probers pointed an accusing finger at William O'Dwye. ambassador to that he allowed gambling, narcotics, waterfront murder and other crime to flourish while he was mayor of New York. O'Dwyer, in Mexico City, said he had tio comment "at this time." And the senators said Frank Costello, reputed "prinv minister" of the underworld, still holds a strong "sinister influence" over Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party organization in Manha.tan.

In a. 195-page report the committeeheaded by Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) threw a spotlight on monopolistic, tax-dodging racketeerism, often protected by' police officials and their government superiors, from coast to coast. WHILE MUCH OF the committee's was on New York, long a Democratic stronghold, it raked Republican administrations over the coals, too; It declared that "gambling was going full blast" in Saratoga County, New York, in the-backyard of Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey, until a short time before the committee opened hearings in. New York.

Dewey since has ordered an investigation of Saratoga gambling. The committee also turned a skeptical eye on Dewey's commuting the sentence of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, convicted vice overlord who was released from Sing Sing Prison and allowed to return to his native Italy during World War II. Dewey's explanation at the time was that Luciano had given Valuable information to the United States Navy before the invasion of Italy. The committee held that this information actually didn't amount to much, and it said Luciano's release must be justified on some other grounds. The report made 22 recommendations for Federal anti-crime action, including (Da ban on interstate transmission of gambling information.

(2) a new racket squad in the Justice Department, (3) tighter immigration laws to allow deportation of Turn to Page It, Column 8 14,000 Red Peril U.S.. Leaion Told Service Maurice Early, whose column "The Day in Indiana" appears seven days a week In The Indian apolis Star, last night received the 1951 Distinguished Service Award from the Indiana Public Health Selected by an eight-man com mittee, Early received the award "for his extremely valuable and sustained stimulation of citizenship interest In the field of public health over many years." Part. of the fifth annual two-day conference of the Indiana Public Health Association, the award was presented at a dinner in the Travertine Room of the Lincoln Hotel. The committee pointed out that the writer had pushed con sistently programs that resulted in improved health for the people of Indiana, mentioning his efforts in the fields of mental health, abatement of water pollution, and the cleaning up of restaurants. EARLY ALSO WAS commend ed for his work in setting up a tuberculosis control program and the establishment of full-time lo cal health units.

Early, who has written The Star column "The Day In Indiana" seven days a week since 1939, is a graduate of Marquette University College of Journalism. In 1946 he was given the Marquette University "By Line Award" from his alma mater for his authoritative daily columns and especially for a series of articles on relations with various South American countries. He gained the information for this series through personal trips and contacts. He was graduated from Marquette in 1914 and immediately joined th staff of the Lafayette Journal. THE FOLLOWING year Early transferred to the old Crawfordsville Review.

His work attracted the attention of Aden of The Star, and in 1916 he lured Turn to Tage 14, Column 6 Raise River 1 2 Center Line Seoul Attack Foiled, Enemy Swings East To Open New Smash Tokyo May 2. (UP) United States Navy Sky raiders blasted the Hwachon Reservoir floodgates with torpedoes yesterday in a spectacular effort to block the Communist spring offensive, and the Reds retaliated by bombing the dc fenses of Seoul. Allied artillery silenced the enemy guns, however, and what appeared to' be the opening of a belated May Day assault on Seoul early this morning ended in confusion a short time later. It appeared the Allies had disjoined the Reds so badly they would have to be reinforced before they could strike. THE CHINESE--hit by 75,000 casualties in a week fell back more than 10 miles from Seoul's bristling arid.

Allied patrols probing through a broad no-man's land very few -of the enemy. The bulk of the Communist armies was believed to have wheeled eastward for an attack through the center of the Allied lines. The air strike against the gigantic dam which holds back 22 trillion cubic feet of water was calculated to throw that out of. joint, too. SKYRAIDERS from the U.S.

Carrier Princeton flew' in low over the central Korean hills and dropped torpedoes to destroy one gate and rip a 10-foot hole below the waterline in another. The Reds themselves had opened some of the floodgates once before in a futile effort to engulf the United Nations ar mies in the Pughan River valley. But when they took the reservoirs, they closed the gates and were waiting for the waters to subside farther in order, to cross the rivers and flank Seoul, An Allied staff officer at Seoul said the river had fallen considerably since the Reds closed the gates in a prelude to their attempt to smash across the Pukhan and Han Rivers. The Pukhan was expected to rise sharply overnight as a re sult of the Allied torpedo attack. THE DIVEBOMBER strike was made at the request of the Eighth Army, dispatches said.

Last major Allied use of aerial torpedoes in combat was the successful British Royal Air Force raid on the big Roer Dam in Germany during World War II. The vital floodgates were too small to be bombed successfully so the Skyraiders were called in to unleash their "tin fish" on the targets. The powerful planes had to twist and dive artwnd ridges to reach the short, curving leg of the reservoir lake leading into the dam. They had just enough overwater distance then to level off in a glide to the po'mt where the torpedoes wire released. Then they had to pull up abruptly over steep ridges just north of the dam and skim over high-tension vires.

the smaller meetings," Dr. Shibler said. They will be held at 3:45 p.m. today in Manual, Arsenal Tech Washington and Short-ridge High Schools. "W6 felt that all the reactions and responses, if put together at might save the nec essity of having another meeting later said.

IN "THEIR MASS meeting; Monday, the- school teachers the new. -'salary scale adopted" by the' Board School Commissioners as unreanstic. They passed a resolution urg- ing.that $5,000 top'J be put on qualified teachers' salaries' at once-. The pa' "plan adopted by the. board the union charged, would defer full benefits until as late as 1935.

Association Saboteurs 'to' lectual thinkers who say a man is entitled to' his even when those views constitute an active conspiracy to destroy the United States by force and violence." Allessandroni conferred yesterday with National Judge Advocate Ralph B. Gregg, Indianapolis attorney, and A. Luke Crispe, Vermont, chairman of Turn to Page 15, Column GOP 'Regulars' Indorse Clark Committee OKs Full Slate Of Candidates By FARWELL RHODES, JR. Municipal Judge Alex M. Clark will be indorsed officially today for the Republican mayoralty nomination by the Marion County Republican Campaign Committee.

Letters urging support of Clark and a slate of seven city and council candidates in next Tuesday's primary election will be mailed this afternoon to 60,000 Indianapolis voters. The letters will go out of the campaign committee's headquarters at 232 Massachusetts Avenue. The so-called "regular" organization's slate is: For city clerk Mrs. Grace M. Tanner, former secretary to the late Mayor Robert II.

Tyn-dall. For councilman, first district John A. Schumacher, former president of the City Council. For councilman, second districtCarter W. Kltzroth, Indianapolis Power Light Co.

official. For councilman, third districtGlenn W. Radel, owner of Eaton's Restaurant. For councilman, fourth district Charles P. Ehlers, incumbent.

For councilman, fifth district' Wesley Brown, hardware dealer. For councilman, sixth dis-Turn to Page 15, Column 5 The Weather Joe Crow Says: By barring the press TV, the Mac-. Arthur probers mv" nrevent a public but- there sure be plenty of Indianapolis and Indiana Mostly fair and continued warm today; tomorrow, partly cloudy and warm with local Speedway Dealt Two Bad Blows Grandstand Builders Strike; Heat Breaks Up Portion Of Track By BOB STRANAHAN Sports Editor May Day brought not a bou quet but unexpected troubles to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway yesterday when a section of the back stretch blew up and a strike halted work on a new grandstand. Qualification trials are sched uled for only 10 days away and things virtually are at a standstill at the big track west of the city: Unseasonable temperatures of 90 degrees literally exploded a section of the track the mid- i' of the back stretch. joints wore puffed ud as much as two inches at other points on ie track.

Clarence Cagle, superintendent of the track, who personally rode the motor roller trying to smooth the track back to running guessed it would be "Friday or Saturday before we'll be able to let a car on the track." Union ironworkers stayed off the job on the big grandstand on the west side of the oval because of dissatisfaction' with' a 15-cent-hourly --wage Increase granted under an escalator clause in their contract with the Building Contractors Association of Indianapolis. Seats already have been sold In the grandstand for the 500-mile race on May 30. It is about three-quarters completed. AMERICAN. Automobile Association officials had hoped to open the track for practice soon alter the May Day date, since there are many rookie drivers who will have to pass their tests.

Car owners and drivers were more concerned about the track than the labor difficulty. Twelve cars already are quart tcred at the track and the men behind the men in the machines are anxious to get them out to iron out the "bugs" before they shoot for the Important pole spot on May 12. ALREADY IN Gasoline Alley are two cars owned by W. B. Turn to Page 4, Column 3 Raps Water Rate Hike Bid Financial Expert Calls Request Excessive Indianapolis Water Company is demanding 17 times as much new rate revenue as it needs for a fair return on its service, a financial expert testified yesterday in a hearing on the utility's request for a rate hike.

James M. Honaker, Frankfort (Ky.) accountant and financial consultant, told the Indiana Public Service Commission the company deserves only 560,350 additional revenue annually. Honaker said the $1,015,000 the utility has asked would give a return of 6.07 per cent on its property' investment while he considered not more than 4.65 per cent "fair." Honaker was presented as a public witness by Assistant Public. Counselor Lloyd C. Wampler prior to conclusion of hearings in the case.

Only action remaining is oral argument May 16 by Wampler and Utility Counsel. Joseph J. Daniels. Honaker said a water com- pany docs not merit as high a rate of return as. some utilities because it, can attract capital at' lower security iates and its op-crating costs are' lower.

He' said computations allowed $3,774,750 allocated for construction work which includes -the Cicero Creek Reservoir on 'which the -company is demands. Th6 five-year project -is to cost an estimated $1 hearing's on "the of Indiana -Bell Telephone Company for annual rate revenue, will continue todays. Public' Counselor Walter "FT Jones' Jr. will present Sven a Philadelphia actuary," 'as ah expert witness. THE PUBLIC remains as local about public affairs as it has boon for the last month, members of Congress from Indiana will have to hire additional help to get the telegrams and letters answered.

AS the congressmen were beginning to see daylight in catching up with the mail that came with the firing of Mc Arthur more communications began to flood the wires and the mail. These new protests howled about the committee vote to hold the Gen. M.ieArthur hearing behind closed doors. Most of the protests termed the closed committee meeting plan as an "iron curtain" action. SENATOR Homer E.

Cape-hart is so amazed by the flood of mail that he is not attempting to answer the letters and wires. Tut it is a big job for his staff to sift out the regular mail from MacArthur deluge with a proportion demanding the of the President SEN ATOR William E. Jenner docs not believe the upsurge of expression by the people was due entirely to the firing of the general. It was just the fuse which set off accumulated wrath about mink coats, crime, the Senator Kefauver committee TV showings, 5 percenters, RFC and other things which have been in the news. "IT'S JUST' LIKE my son, Bill," Jenner explained.

"He ill do a number of things that are wrong. And then he will do something and I will have to whip him. The thing ho gets hipped lor may not be as bad as some of the other things but it's the accumulation." BUT THE BIG argument over the Truman-MacArthur affair probably will go on for months between those who follow the Democratic Tarty line and the G.O.P. members of Congress. THE DEMOCRATS insist the commotion was stirred up by the Republicans and that they are using MacArthur.

They insist the ultimate reaction will be against the general, and it's a shame that a man with his record should be made a political victim. BUT THOSE connected with the Republican and the Democratic national committees say both of these organizations are keeping a safe distance from the red-hot controversy because these organizations don't want to get their fingers burned. HOOSIERS who had hoped 1hat Congress would throw over-bqard much of the price control laws when they expire June 30 will be disappointed. Hoosiers in Congress declare that the con-Irol laws, with some modifications, will have to be extended. REPRESENTATIVE Charles A.

Hallerk explains that there must be controls, such as the regulation of credit, when the government is spending such a vast nmount of monoy. Otherwise there would he runaway inflation. SO FAR the Indian, members of Congress have not had a great deal of "heat" turned on them to do away with price controls, Even the farmers are hot protesting loudly to stop ceiling prices on livestock. This is true oven though Farm Bureaus are opposed vigorously; to these IT MAY RE THAT the. mem-" hers of the Farm Bureau are not as well Informed as their leaders nbotit the prospects of black and other'ievlls if a free market in meat ivabolished- CONGRESSMEN; 'appear, to', "public the.

'The big the Kat Coasfare mad about ihe-meat prices Ibeing charged. They are" that there is djrty work somewhere and the way 'to cure it is to.roll back SAMPLE, public relations man for the Indiana Farm Bureau, is In Washington to confer with the" organization's national" experts on livestock control. 4 Kenneth years old, Kerwin, and his bride- to-be, Gloria Trask, 19, who helps him fear up letters from other prospective brides. A week ago Kerwin walked into a Portland (Me.) newspaper office and said he wanted to advertise for a who's lonely, too." His story was published and he received letters from 50 young women. He selected Gloria and they plan to be married May 14.

(AP Wire-photo) Free Parking To Ease 'Pain Of Taxpaying Taxpaying will be made as painless as possible for those rushing to settle their accounts with the county before the Monday deadline, County Treasurer Louis O. Rainier announced yesterday. The treasurer's office will remain open until 9 p.m. Friday. Free parking will be available in the Courthouse parking area for taxpayers only that evening.

In addition the county auditor's office and those of township assessors also will stay open late Friday to help taxpayers with special problems, Rainier said. On other days this week, the treasurer's office will close at the regular time, 4 p.m., daylight saving It closes at noon on Saturday. Monday is the last day to pay the spring installment of county taxes without penalty. Although payments are well ahead of this time last year, Rainier said many persons wait until the last minute to come in despite the inevitable pre-deadline jam. tomorrow with MacArthur as the first witness.

Along a related line Representative Scott (R-Pa.) said yesterday that Wedemcyer strongly urged United States occupation of North China in 1945 as the war there drew to a close. THE CONGRESSMAN, in an Interview, said he had seen three reports from Wedemeyer contending that this country should move, in to "forestall occupation by other forces "not in our interest." Russians later took over in the northern areas; the Japan-ese had conquered. said that the reply-, to the first 'two teports -was not- enough American." troops were available. The. third time, he 'Wedemeyer told, that the decisions occupation already had been Triade.

by his superiors. "Scott, said the general a Vsharp reprimand" and was told not'to. "repeat your recommendations." Wedemeyer advised" a gainst- quirk withdrawal or; United "States- forces', pointing out-that the Russians- dominated thel '-Koreans through "Com-. by; t'he "means ere promoting revolt in. -the south.

0 KfOFlNGSiniNG INSULATION. RALPH R. REEDER A SONS Call WA. 24 21 (or stlmatn-Ar, By LESTER M. UTNT Fourteen thousand Moscow-trained Communists are at large in the United States, poised for the signal from Russia to loose a nation-wide wave of sabotage.

This peril was cited yesterday by Walter E. Alessandronl, of Philadelphia, chairman of the Un-American Activities Commit tee of the American Legion, in Indianapolis for the annual spring session of the Legion executive committee. The committee, organized last November, will make its first report to the executive committee Thursday morning during proceedings to be televised for the first time in Legion history. Alessandroni, a member of the faculty of Villanova University Law School and past commander of the Department of Pennsylvania, was sharp in criticism of American tolerance for subversives. "THESE 14,000 Communists should be rounded up at once before they can carry out their plan of destruction," he said.

"They are in reality Soviet soldiers in civilian clothes and should be dealt with accordingly." Alessandroni characterized the FBI as "the finest law enforcement agency in the world" and said it had reported the presence of the 14,000 saboteurs and knew their identity. "They can be rounded up at once," he said. "And they should be rounded up rather than allowed to carry out their conspiracy against us." "As of this moment, our country is in the greatest peril in its history from subversive action." The Legion official said the sabotage probably would be timed to coincide with an air raid on the United States, possibly from a satellite, rather than Russia. THE FIGHT against communism has entered a new phase, he declared. Formerly it was a fight against ideological propaganda.

Now it has moved to one of immediate physical danger. "Technically are not at war with Russia but we are at war with communism," Alessandroni asserted. "Frankly, I cannot follow these high intel- In Today's Star House subcommittee to hold hearing on Vincennes flood wall today Page 4. Vogeler arrives In United States after 17 months In Red prison Page 4. Austin raps MacArthur, say U.N.

policy on Korea Is Page 4. North Carolina doctor, named American 'mother of yeai; Page 40. 1 Stalin parade, at May Day cele-. bratldn 28 9 29-Sl 23' General Warned In '47 Of Reds' Korea Attack 4 Meetings Scheduled In School Pay Dispute Another Story on Page 2 Washington (AP) Lt. Gen.

Albert C. Wedemcyer warned in 1917 of just such a invasion pf Korea as later set off the war now roaring to a bloody new climax. At the same time he urged a policy of safeguards which was followed only in part- against that threat. One Wedemcyer recommendation which was followed was creatio.n of- an American-officered defense force in the south. The United States did grant, some aid'to the South VIEWS of.

general, who commanded United States forces in China In World Wac II, were disclosed yesterday with re--lease of "long-secret- portions of "a report herria'de -to" President Truman Sept. '9, 1947. The.docuv merit" represents his findings in in the Far East. 5 'V o'n; with" certain parts deleted," out by the SenateArmcd Serv-' ices Committee'in a preliminary t.o. formal hearings on the" dismissal 'of Gen.

Douglas Mac- Arthur 'as United States' and United Nations commander in the Fa.r East. That jnquiry opens' Dissatisfied Indianapolis schoolteachers will meet with school board heads in four separate meetings today to hear the board's explanation of its controversial new salary The schoolteachers' union, the Indianapolis Educational Association, indicated displeasure with th6 salary scale in a mass meeting late Monday. It voted'to ask that the board' agree to consolidate the fo.ur explanatory sessions into one mass meeting' so the union might have benefit vf' "solidarity." But yesterday Dr. Herman" h. Shibler," school said he believed the four meetings should proceed' as planned, and George Ostheimer, president, said there would be no objection.

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