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Home Newspaper of ihe Caliuiict Kcjiion 1 AMMOND Formerly The Lake County Time FINAL Price 15 Cents Vol. io. 52 Phon WEstmore 2-3 1 00 AP. INS. l'P CP, AP Wlr Photo 112 Pages Hammond-East Chicago, Sunday, August 18, 1957 T3 (( P-l fo) X4 mnmi mw i i hi Lal i 1 A JV Lru JL i if I i I- I 'I il 1 A I i I CHILDREN STEAL TO PLAY MACHINES Counterspy Of FBI Tells Of Network Call Pinballs Top Factor In Juvenile Delinquency can't we give youth something (See Editorial, Page A-18) Pinball machines are contributing more to the Calumet Region's constructive to do? "Pinballs are definitely a trend in the 'wrong' direction," said the Rev.

Carver Tinsley, pastor of Urged To Obtain Personal Data On Ike, Spy On Cardinal shocking increases in juvenile crime than any other single factor, in the opinion of local police authorities, church leaders and social Southern Baptist Missionary workers. Police blotters and court records almost daily spell out details WASHINGTON (AP) Boris Morros, counterspy for the children's thievery, connivery and deception to obtain money for the cnin-hiins-rv devirps I Church, 860 State Hammond. "Their influence cannot be overestimated." INVESTIGATIONS into reports of juveniles using the pinballs in Hammond led even to The Hammond Times, where Donald A. Cornwell, circulation manager, re has named Martha Dodd btern, Thp gauJy. machjnes are devour- against slot machines, though the daughter of a former U.b.

am- -mz children's school lunch money, decision now forces all Dinball Court, reported cases In the court's jurisdiction where children stole, robbed and burglarized because of pinballs. "Some of it occurs in pool rooms," he said, "where there is a double statutory violation. State law prohibits minors from being in pool rooms, and it prohibits minors from playing pinballs." EAST Chicago's Asst. Police Chief Frank Rubesha reported the Twin "City's force is on standing orders to keep minors from playing the machines. "The operators are told, too," he said.

The availability children have to pinballs and other gambling activities is subject of increasing entries to The Hammond Times' Letter to the'Editor column. Getting in early licks at the Lake County Fair, Don (left) and Jim Schassberger of Crown Point, 4 and 3, respectively, take time out away from the horses and cows to enjoy some cool The 106th edition of the Fair opened Saturday. (Other photos on Page A-3, Story on Page A-ll.) (Hammond Times Photo) i bassador, as the boviet spy Wnojbus fare and other vital expenses once tried to betrav him to the in restaurants and stores available operators to purchase an annual $250 federal slot machine stamp. Indiana and Illinois state laws fh. Hmiw Pnmmittpp to Officials report.

ported three recent cases of news outlaw gambling, but recognize pin on Un-American Activities an Jl'VKXILE authorities cite fre Bounced Saturday quent cases of children robbing balls as "amusement devices, not gambling machines. Indiana, however, prohibits minors from playing the machines. paper carriers who poured their entire route collections into pinballs. "The carriers spent a total of $110 on pinballs," he said. "They The announcement came after from their parents, burglarizing the committee took sworn testi-i Chiang Sees Collapse of Red Empire Warns Russ Will Kesort To Atom War If Necessary By MARVIN STONE TAIPEI, Formosa I Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek said today that "the general collapse of the entire Soviet empire and international communism" is under way.

In an exclusive questionnaire interview with International News Service, the Chinese Nationalist president said that uprisings on-the Communist-held mainland "are in fact on a larger scale than the revolt in Hungary." The Chinese leader also warned that the Soviet leaders will not refrain from an atomic war if they become convinced that "such a war is the only way to maintain their tottering empire." QUESTIONS submitted to the generalissimo and his answers follow: Question: What in your judgment were the most significant events of the past decade, tC order of importance? Answer: "The meteoric rise to power of international communism in the early part of the past decade and the beginning of its disintegration in the latter part are, in my judgment, the most significant events of the last decade. "The rise of communism after World War II reached its peak in 1949, when the Chinese Commu-(Continued on Page A-4) rnony from Morros, Hollywood composer-director who recently Voiltll ItetlirilS disclosed his sensational career in' International undercover work. For I 131 Loss! ONE correspondent indignantly reported children were taking part 32 years he worked in what the- Police reported Sat in games of chance at the Fourth Russians believed was the role of of July celebration staged by vet erans at Whiting Park. 10,000 Jam Lake Fair CROWN POINT Some 10,000 persons thronged the Lake CoUnty Fair Grounds on Saturday, the opening day of the week-long fair. Fair officials said the crowd virtually doubled the first-day attendance of the 1956 fair, marred by a rainy start.

The attendance figure this Saturday brought comments that the fair had its best opening day in many years. urday a 21-year-old man was seized while burglarizing a tavern where he had lost $60 in a pinball machine. The man was startled hy "The 'free game' actually is a subterfuge for the slot machine pay-off," reports Virgil Peterson, director of the Chicago Crime Commission. Peterson estimates the weekly yield of pinballs in good locations at $1,200 per machine. "The rise of hoodlumism in pinball operations is not surprising," he added.

"The lifeblood of organized crime, has always been commercialized gambling operations." The machines are found in public places in every Calumet Region py for them, but he really was1 an agent for the FBI. THE HOUSE Committee said it! "For the past 30 years," he added, "the July 4th celebration in Whit ing has been an event in which Whiting families and their friends got together for recreation and are more vicious than slot machines. They take your money faster and give you less in return. Pinballs are strictly gambling 'devices, nothing else. When they are made available to small children, it is all the more vicious." Cornwell identified the sites of the newsboys' pinball escapades as a restaurant (high school hangout) on Conkey street, another near Michigan and Calumet and a shop in Robertsdale.

HAMMOND Police Chief John Mahoney agreed that pinballs present "a law enforcement problem that requires constant vigilance." He reported two recent cases where young boys had broken into parking meters for coins to use on the machines. Harry Davis, chief probation of police at the rear door of the Aetna Lounge, 93'J Aetna St. He reportedly admitted his intention of burglarizing the tavern to reclaim $60 he had emptied into a pinball at the bar. had gleaned much valuable in- formation from him, including! statements that: I 1. A secretary in the U.S.

Em-1 bassy at Prague, Czechoslovakia, and a member of the U.S. Intelligence Agency in! relaxation. "We admit that children, accompanied by their parents, participate in games and various events but it is not true to say that community, with the exception of Lansing, which has none. Mrs. Wilfried Luebcke of Crown I East Chicago, Calumet City and organized gambling is being permitted.

The event, which opens Burnham are among communities which license the devices. Ham with a big parade each year, has been one of the finest July 4th af mond collects no fee at all, due to Germany were involved inj Soviet spy work. These persons homes and stores and even corn-were not named. jmitting outright robbery assaults S. Morros superiors In the Soviet! to keep the pinballs fed.

espionage network asked him' In all cases, officials recognize to get "compromising informa-j the true motive for the pinball tion-' about high Americans, in-i mania among youth: gambling, eluding President Eisenhower. "Where will it all end?" asked 1 I T. i. i. i fairs in the region and the arrange Point was named the winning horticulturist after she took most of the blue ribbons in the flower show.

Robert Walker of Gary was picked top man horticulturist for his surplus of blue ribbons. Miss Nancy Ritz of Turkey Creek was picked the junior sweepstakes an ordinance which banned the machines several years ago. (The ban was voided by a subsequent ments haven't been changed in nearly 30 years in Whiting." ficer of the Lake County Juvenile state law, and Hammond has failed to enact a pinball licensing ordi award winner in the flower com They also asked him to plant i-rZ spy in the office of Cardinal Hammond Brooks House. 'There about it. Many of petition.

Mrs. Maurice Smith of no hokus-pokus Spellman of New York to re Pick Up 26 Teens Hobart was selected women port on the churchman's us parents, careless about the influences we allow to come into ojir children lif rt zrx-i tho sweepstakes arranger award. Geopge and John Malo of Rt. 1 divisions of baking was Shirley DeVries of Lowell, with the reserve champ title going to Nancy Cloyd of Munster. Carlie Gernenz of Crown Point, member of the Ross Blue Ribbon 4-H Club, took the trophy for the best pen.

of pullets. Paul Reeder of Rt. 1, Crown Point, Washington Ramblers 4-H, took the blue ribbon for the grand champion barrow, a White Chester. The reserve championship went to Carol Jurs of Hebron with a Spotted Poland China. Harold Walter of Rt.

4, Crown Point, a member of the Leroy 4-H Club, was awarded first place for the best rabbit xhibit of the show. Larry Scheub of Rt. 4, Crown Point, Washington Ramblers 4-H, won with the best doe and litter of rabbits in the show and was also named reserve champion for the best meat pen Cedar Lake, members of the Han For Breaking Curf ew over Haymakers 4-H Club, were selected to represent Lake County in the Indiana 4-H Club Entomology Exhibition -it the Indiana nance since then.) PINBALLS came under heavy attack from the Rev. Eugene R. Balsley.

pastor of the First Methodist Church, 6635 Hohman Hammond, who stated: "Pinballs are, as a rule, gambling devices. When people get the idea they can get something for nothing, watch out. It becomes a severe problem as far as children are concerned, especially in cases I've learned about where youngsters 'take' a dollar or two from their home and spend it gambling. Why Sutherland, Raiiich Gel 4 Fifty-five business firms In the now for greater delinquency United States were covers forilhan the country has ever known." Soviet espionage. I WHAT A It pinballs and what MARTHA DODI) STKRV is the is tne statu3 of tneir legality? daughter of the late William E.j Those pinballs which record Bodd, ambassador to Germany "free games" or Up odds on from 1933 to 1938.

In 1939 she came "bingo-type" score cards are classi-to public notice when a book she fjej as slot machines" in a U.S. wrote was banned in Germany by Supreme Court decision rendered (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) this year. There is no federal law Lake County juvenile authorities in a surprise visit to "trouble spots" in eastern portions of the county Friday night nabbed 26 teenagers for curfew violation Harry Davis, chief probation officer disclosed. Promising that more "personal investigations" will be conducted, Davis said the group included 23 boys and 3 girls.

Three of the youths had previous juvenile records, Davis said. Promotions of the show. State Fair. George was also awarded the trophy for the grand champion garden display at the fair on Saturday. The reserve award was given to William Guske of Rt.

4, Crown Point, a member of the Washington Ramblers 4-H Club, who also was reserve champion for having a top pen of pullett hens. Rita Clinton of Shelby was named grand champion of all divisions in the 4-H food preparation competition with Rosemary Riley of Crown Point as reserve grand champ. The grand champion of all 1 The championship for the meat All 26 were released to their The appointments of Charles E. Sutherland of Chesterton as pen went to Craig bprout of Rt. 4, Crown Washington Ramblers 4-H.

parents after authorities had taken them to Hobart police station, according to Davis. Crash Kills Cal City Man, 28 A 23-year-old Calumet Cityicntrol after crossing a railroad 330, American Legion, and belonged commander of the Dunes Park Times Poll. The blame for juvenile delinquency? Turn to Page A-6 for opinions expressed by Calumet Region parents contacted in a poll by The Times. Today's fair schedule includes a horse show, a performance by track, struck a soft shoulder off to the Fraternal Order of Police Shriner in the grandstand, and a Post of the Indiana State Police and Steve Ranich of Highland as first sergeant were announced Saturday at Indianapolis. Sutherland has been acting com parade of champions in the after noon.

the road, sailed off the ground and crashed into the telephone post 10 feet from the ground. The officers stated Kolsut's auto had passed two cars on a curve in the road just before the collision, which took place Friday night. The auto travelled 2S0 feet on the road after the driver lost control at the track! crossing. After sailing off the street the vehicle traveled another 120 feet through He was also a member of Nest No. 167.

the Polish Falcon, and Group No. 1962, the Polish National Alliance. SERVICES will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Czechanski Funeral Home, 248 155th PI, Calumet City, and at 10 a.m. in St.

Andrew Church, with funeral mass to be sung by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Sehnke. Burial will be at Holy motorist was killed and a passenger in his car injured when their auto smashed into a telephone pole, police reported.

Calumet City police and firemen Used torches to free the driver JJohn (Ted) Kolsut, of 318 155th PI. from the wreckage. He was pronounced dead shortly afterward at St. Margaret Hospital. Hammond.

IN JURED WAS Jerry Janiga, 19, juvenile hangouts was launched at 11 p.m., one hour after curfew. He said it was 3 a.m. Saturday when all 26 had been disposed of. "The interesting thing," Davis explained, "is that few of the ACTING O.V complaints of vandalism and juvenile activity, the seven-man delegation led by Davis and Joseph Baltovich, chief investigator for Judge Joseph Meszar's juvenile court, swooped in on the Big Six Truck Stop, 1433 E. Ridge the nearby Hitching Post, the Villa Road and a bowling alley in New Chicago and the Rocket Drive-in at Hobart.

Davis explained that managers of the establishments had complained repeatedly about juvenile activity, particularly late at night. He noted that a group of youngsters recently caused considerable damage at one of the places when the manager complained to police about their activities. youngsters claimed knowledge of mander of the post since Aug. when Lt. Mark A.

Nelson of L.a-1 Porte left to become a staff cap-i tain in charge of the traffic and uniform division at Sutherland held the rank of first sergeant. KAXICH, now a sergeant, will be succeeded by Cpl. Myrick B. i Crampton of Chesterton. Thf pro- motions of Sutherland, Ranich and) Crampton are effective Sept.

1. Ranich, 38, was safety education! director for the nine counties in the Dunes Park District before the air before crashing against the Cross Cemetery, Calumet City post. Friends may call at the chapel Be Ready for School! School days are just around the corner and parents are facing numerous problems in preparing for the 1957-58 term. A special 25-page Back To School fashion section is included in today's issue of The Hammond Times to help parents and students in lining up their wardrobes. The pecial section includes pictures taken by Times Photographer Orville Kalz in which dozens of Calumet Region residents posed as models to show the latest in fashions for the new school term.

Also, parents will want to read the interesting articles on how to prepare for the new school term what their children should take to school, etc. 1.3 weoo calumet City, a elf-employed taxi driver. He was Cause of death was ruled due to after 9 a.m., today. the 10 p.m.-5 a.m. state curfew law, while most parents also denied knowledge of the law." Davis said the parents, living in areas from Hobart west to Chicago Heights, were "cooperative." Davis said the youths ranged from 15 to 17 years.

He said two treated for left elbow lacerations a skull fracture and multiple in- Survivors include his parents, Mr, Davis said the investigation of nd lett thigh contusion. juries at an inquest Saturday. Officers Joseph Pomilia and Ted: Kolsut, a native of Calumet City, Maysak reported the accident oc-j worked as a clerk in his father's cured when Kolsut's auto, speeding grocery store. He was a member west on State street, veered out of, of the Calumet-Memorial Post No. and Mrs.

John Kolsut, four sisters, Mrs. Sabina Voight, Mrs. Evelyn Burke, Misses Sally and Violet, and a brother, Edwin, all of Calumet City. -SUNNY. promotion to sergeant.

of the boys were known to have cases pending in juvenile court while another was a Boys School parolee. One of the girls was clad only in pajamas, a housecoat and was barefooted, Davis said. He comes from a well known! East Chicago police family. His; father, the late Nick Ranich, was, (Continued on A-4) AFTER HUDDLE WITH IIOLOVACIIKA I WEATHER Mostly sunny and warm today with the high in the mid 80s. Tonight cooler with the low near 60.

Monday partly cloudy but with little change in temperatures. Sunset today, 7:47 p.m. Sunrise Monday, 6:03 a.m. Indiana Illinois: Continued sunny and warm today with cooler temperatures expected tonight. Monday continued warm but partly cloudy skies expected.

State Police To Take Lake Gaming Cases To City Courts, Not To JPs TEMPERATURES 5 p.m. S(1 6 p.m. 76 7 p.m. 75 8 p.m. 72 9 p.m.

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79 a.m. 69' 4 p.m. SI Unofficial x. "r-'V Zeis stated that the Lake County gambling raids have been conducted "and are being stepped up" to stop the syndicate movement. "Once a gambling syndicate becomes firmly entrenched, other organized crime follows," Zeis said.

"Racketeering of all kinds flourishes and the longer it is neglected the harder it is to stamp out," he added. Zeis said he has turned over to federal internal revenue agents evidence of Illinois gamblers operating in Indiana and that, if any information concerning transportation of gaming machines is uncovered, it will also be submitted to federal authorities. Not denying that Illinois "hoods' may flow across the state line, Holovachka said he knows that syndicated gambling does not exist in Lake County. Charging that Republicans continually bring up the "gambling syndicate" charges, the county prosecutor said "they have been saying that for 30 years." "There has been none in my five years in office, none in the two years previous and there will be none the rest of my term," Holovachka declared. I CROWN POINT Indiana State Police and Lake County Prosecutor Metro M.

Holo-i vachka have resolved their differences over handling of gambling arrests, but Holovachka disagrees with State Police Superintendent Harold S. Zies that a Chicago gambling syndicate is invading Indiana. I Holovachka said that state police Friday agreed to handle prosecution of gamblers through his office instead of the justice of peace courts previously used. I State Police have invaded Lake County gambling houses on five occasions in recent weeks with ar-j rests being made in Hammond, Chicago, Whiting and Gary. Holovachka met with Lt.

Charles A. Sutherland of Iunes Park District and Capt, Mark A. Nelson of Indianapolis police headquarters to resolve the prosecution problem. He said it was agreed that when gambling arrests are made in Lake County 'hereafter, they will be handled through llolovachka's office. Holovachka said that means that charges will be filed in the In recent raids.

State Police made arrests at Newman Smoke Shop, 570 State Hammond; Nardi's Lunch, 1612 119th Whiting; Up-Town Lunch, 1604 119th Whiting; Glen Park Hunting and Fishing Club, 22 E. Ridge Gary; and Twin City Handbook, 720 Exchange East Chicago. State Police have confiscated more than $2,000 in the five raids, while the 15 operators each paid fines of $25 plus $13 for court costs. Friday, Gov. Harold W.

Handley, to whom credit for the raids has gone, lashed out against Holovachka" charges of "politics" declaring that "if Holovachka thinks he is bigger than the stats of Indiana and wants to make a case of it, we will show him what we can do." The governor said "we are moving in on Lake County because Holovachka has consistently refused to act." The Lake County prosecutor had contended that the Republican stronghold of Lafayette, called by Holovachka "the biggest gambling emporium in the state," hadn't been touched but that predominately Democratic Lake County has been the gambling target. city courts where penalties are sufficient to deter gambling activities. State police will take their prisoners to city jails and the following morning will contact the deputy prosecutor to file affidavits in city court. Fines of up to $500 and jail sentences are possible in city court compared to the maximum $25 fine in justice courts, it was explained. Nelson and Sutherland acknowledged that justice of peace courts have been used for expediency and to evade the many continuances permitted in city courts.

It was indicated that state police will not only continue their raids on Lake County gambling places but will also probably step them up. The issues were resolved after Holovachka complained that state police were bypassing his office in taking defendants to peace court in Schererville. Holovachka asserted that the state police are "not going to usurp the powers of my offices as they have in the past." In answering Zics' charges that a Chicago gambling syndicate is trying to invade Indiana, Holovachka declared that "they have been saying that for 30 years." I 1957 AUGUST 1957 1 TW I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 I 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Classified Ads D7-13 Editorials Obituaries A19 Radio Programs A16 Sports Dl-4 Theater Tage D6 TV Tre views A 16 TV Programs I5 Voice of The Teople Woman's Tagcs CI 3-17 4 Dealh Car met City. Motorist, 28, was killed when auto, reportedly traveling at high speed, jolted out of control at railroad crossing and sailed into post 10 feet off the ground. Mangled steel 13 what remains of car which crashed into telephone post in Calu.