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296 Fifteen Cents HEAT WAVE ItH put the hex on Virus Wrathrr Md Tut 12. 8. SATURDAY TEMPERATURES Wa Indiana Rebels at U.S. Doles and Spending State's-Right Lawmakers Seek Relief Showdown rl Revolt is developing in the Corn Belt against centralization of our Government. To get first-hand information for its readers, the Free Press sent a reporter to Indianapolis, where the State Legislature is in session.

This is the first of three articles. BY JAMES S. POOLER Free Pre 8Uff Writer INDIANAPOLIS Indiana is in rebellion. It is rebelling against Federal costs and controls. The Hoosier legislators who spearhead the drive say they are staking down a beachhead for State's rights in America.

They are willing to risk losing from $15,000,000 to $19,000,000 a year II 1 1 1 1 sn. Allies Push Ahead at Main Red Line Resistance in Korea Stiffens; Yanks Enter Anchor Town TOKYO (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced that the United Nations "Killer" offensive ground out gains of one to three miles against stiffening' enemy resistance as the Korean war went into its ninth month. The gains were registered in the Hoengsong-Pyongchang area in federal reiier tunas by insisting on opening welfare rolls to the press and the prosecutors. They'll tell you the nation has been drifting people and states passively toward socialism.

Nobody bucks the handout. The result, as one Indianian put it, is "You give the Federal Government a ham and you get back a wiener." The Hoosier feels he is ideally situated to wake up the country to the twin perils of spi-raling Federal costs and ever tighter Federal controls over State functions. The Hoosier says he is historically constituted to abhor deficit spending. AWAY BACK in the 1840's Indiana went bankrupt building flocks of canals. Since 1852, by its constitution, Indiana has paid as you go and never been in debt.

That's why today the Hoosier rises up screaming in the Legislature about getting back only a nickel out of the dollar he gives the Federal Government on gap tax. That's why currently there It1" 7 I 4 -v Af i a jf MAN IN BARREL are running through both houses of his Legislature resolutions damning the Federal dole a "fv Naicotics chiefs and bills to give the State back control over the spending of Federal funds that return to Indiana. Not that it isn't without its fun. The Hoosiers put a naked man in a barrel on the floor of the Senate to dramatize the "rebellion in a corn patch" for the rest of the country. And a Republican got up and silenced the Senate while he looked to see "if he still had his socks." The Democratic whip, Senator Leo Stemle, eyeing the galleries (school pupils come in such droves to the Legislature they No.

1 Bookie Balks at TV Cameras; Refuses to Testify in Senate Probe JOHN S. KNIGHT DESCRIBES WASTE OF U. S. BUREAUCRACY. PAGE 4, SECTION B.

have to be limited to 10-minute visits), tried to recapture a little ground. He observed that the naked taxpayer "looked mighty 48 Nabbed urn as Peddlers to Yquths Crackdown Follows Grand Jury Probe A citywide dope traffic that specialized in peddling narcotics to an estimated 2,000 teen-agers was ripped open by roving squads of police and Federal agents. Snared were 48 peddlers who are accused of selling dope to youths from all classes of Detroit homes. More than 200 points were hit by police as they sought 55 peddlers named in secret indictments returned by a Federal grand jury last week. Officials had quietly been investigating reports of student dope debauches for more than a year, JOSEPH C.

BELL, supervisor" of the Government's Bureau of Narcotics in Detroit, said raids would continue over the week-end. Six of those seized were women. women. Both Bell and Lt. Joseph Neuf er, head of Detroit police narcotics bureau, called the raids "the biggest ever conducted in Detroit." "The teen-agers we talked1 to," they said, "were primarily mar-juanna users, many of whom had graduated to heroin." Lt.

Neufer put the current cost of heroin at $2.50 a capsule. An addict, he said, spends from 15 to $10 daily for the dope. Marijuana "reefers" cost $1 each, Neufer said. "WE WANT to break up this teen-age dope habit." Bell emphasized. "We've got to halt it now.

If they're still addicts by the time they reach 30 there is little chance for them to stop." A vicious cycle was established by the peddlers, the officers pointed out. Schoolboys and girls were given "cut rates" until they became addicts. Then, all credit was cut off and prices hiked. Driven to desperation by their craving for dope, the youthful addicts turned to criminal acts for money. "Young girls resorted to prostitution," Neufer said.

"Boys started stealing from cars and pulling holdups." MORE THAN $75,000 worth of heroin and marijuana "reefers" was confiscated, Bell said. Officials cruised until dawn Saturday to make the arrests on street corners, bars and in private homes. Their search was concentrated on the lower East Side. Lurking near schools, markets and teen-age gathering spots. Bell said, peddlers contacted their young victims.

Many were among the 75 witnesses who appeared before the grand jury. One witness was Peggy Ellsworth, 24. who was "Miss Michigan" in 1947. She was arrested last June and admitted then that she had used dope for more than two years. THESE WITNESSES told of broken health and shattered morals caused by dope.

Some "were so far gone that they had been sent to a Federal treatment center at Lexington, Ky. All indicted are scheduled for arraignment before Federal Judge Thomas P. Thornton Monday. Student addicts flocked to soda Turn to Page 10, Column 6 Moving In CASABLANCA (JP) The first shipload of construction machinery for building five new United States air bases in Morocco arrived Saturday. You'll Find: Amusements Sec.

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Page 12 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads Call WOODWARD 2-9400 of the central front. The allied troops slogged through mud and bellied their way up steep scrub-covered mountains to close with the Communists. The UN offensive reached the main line of Chinese resistance in central Korea. American stabbed into deserted Hoengsong, an anchor of the Communist defenses. ON" THE EASTERN flank of the Allied offensive, American tanks and infantrymen fought their way about three miles north of the important Central Korean road hub of Pangnim, five miles north of Pyonchang.

They advanced beyond the village of Palmori8il Saturday afternoon. A massive artillery, tank and air barrage had cleared the Reds frorn mountain pass positions protecting Pangnim, two miles to the south. Capture of Pangnim gave the Americans control of the eastern anchor of the strategic Central Korean lateral road after other American units neutralized the road's western anchor, Hoengsong. An over-strength company of United States infantry, supported by a company of tanks and engineers, entered Hoengsong, 10 miles north of Wonju. THEY MET no resistance inside the ruined city but dueled for three hours with Chinese in the hills north of the town.

Then they pulled back to their original positions. South Korean troops gained up to three miles in the rugged mountains southeast of Pyong-chang. There thev joined United States troops in cleaning out a salient the Communists pushed deep into Allied lines two weeks ago. On the western flank of the offensive, Allied troops, including Canadians, rammed into "heavy resistance" northeast of Chip-yong, MacArthur said, but continued to move forward. He also disclosed that South Korean marines had occupied two more islands in the North Korean harbor of Navy headquarters said the South Koreans now occupy four Third American general in Korea fighting.

Page 4. lost islands in the harbor, 75 miles north of the 38th Parallel boundary between North and South Korea. THE ALLIES advanced all along the 60-mile front, but it was slow going. Vehicles skidded, overturned and stuck fast on soft shoulders of the roads. Streams which could be forded a week ago were chest deep.

Heavy fog and overcast limited air support. All indications were that the Allies had, at least, encountered the main Chinese defenses. The Chinese defense line runs roughly eastward from a point 25 miles east of Seoul through the Chipyong and Hoengsong areas to Pyongchang, 25 miles east of Wonju. LONG! THERE WILL be a few clouds, the Weather Bureau said, but Detroiters will also get a lot of sunshine. "Enjoy it while you can," the Weather Bureau suggested.

A new wave of rain and snow is heading eastward from the Pacific Coast. fat to me. I say he in good condition. IT MAY BE horseplay but back of it are some earnest men. Before the man in the barrel won his laughs, Senator John W.

VanNess, the Republican floor leader, had given reasons why Hoosiers were down to the hide. He got off an oratorical crack about the "damnable stranglehold the Washington bureaucrats have on the people of Indiana." But He backed it up with the claim that "Indiana taxpayers poured more than one billion dollars into the Federal coffers in 1950 and got back less than five per cent of that total. Is there anything fair or just about that?" And he roared that Indiana could well do without that or so in welfare funds "if we can run our own relief pro FRED M. ZEDER Brilliant career ends F. M.

Zeder Dies in Miami Beach Chrysler Official, 64, a Noted Engineer Fred Morrell Zeder, Chrysler Corp. engineering genius, died at 5 a. m. Saturday in St. Francis Hospital, Miami Beach.

He suffered a heart attack at a party in the Surf Club Friday night. The party was given by his friend. Charles F. (Boss) Kettering, famed inventor and GM consultant. Mr.

Zeder would have been 65 March 19. He was vice chairman of Chrysler's board of directors and vice president in charge of engineering. He had been scheduled to retire in April. ZEDER HAD been a vice president of the firm since it was organized. With the aid of his two associates, Orik Skelton and Carl Breer, he designed the original Chrysler car introduced in 1924.

When Mr. Zeder was promoted to vice chairman of the board in 1935, Walter P. Chrysler called him "the greatest engineer this industry has produced," a "creative genius." K. T. Keller, chairman of the board, said Saturday: "Chrysler Corp.

has lost one of its most revered and valuable leaders. From the first day it was Turn to Page 12, Column 5 Big Holy Year VATICAN I (P) The Catholic Church's 1950 Holy Year brought 3,100,000 pilgrims to Rome. Blast Hurts 4 REMUS (JP) Four persons were injured in a filling station when an automobile gas tank' exploded. It was being drained. BUT IT WON'T LAST JOSEPH C.

BELL Detroit dope raids deputy to raid Carroll's office, but no one was there and the deputy came back empty handed. HE SAID he was unaware of the 1,850 slot machines which an Internal Revenue Bureau report said were in St. Clair and Madison Counties last year. Dallas Harrell, whose tenure ended in Madison County last year, said he knew there was wide-open gambling in his county. But, he added, it was all in tonus or incorporated areas, which "were not my responsibility." The Kefauver Committee has laboriously unearthed enough in formation to indicate that the Capone mob of Chicago is entrenched in the racewire business in St.

Louis. Pioneer News Service, nominally owned by William Molasky and William P. Brown, distributes re ports of Continental Press Service to bookmakers in this region. Despite losing its telephone and telegraph service. Pioneer still is servicing about 25 handbooks.

THE COMMITTEE, by round about process, has established a reasonable inference that Frank (Buster) Wortman, the Capone mob's representative in St. Louis and East St. Louis, has an interest in the service. Fortune Hid in Stolen Auto The bandit who stole a car in Dearborn Friday night is driving a gold mine around. Buried in the trunk, accordr ing to Dearborn police, is $117,000 worth of negotiable American Express money orders.

Police said the car was stolen from Southfield and Oakwood. They sent out a nationwide alarm on the missing 1950 automobile. The car, police said, was reported stolen by Harvey Daniels, of 13607 Ashton, an employe of the American Express Co. The money orders ranged in denomination from $10 to LT. JOSEPH NUFER examine paraphernalia taken in cems had headquarters in East St.

Louis. Fischer said he once sent a JAMES J. CARROLL Shuns the spotlight 12 Survivors of Ship Saved Last of Men in Wreck Picked Up GUAM JP) The last 12 survivors of the ill-fated Norwegian freighter Florentine were snatched from the sea. The Navy tug Takelma messaged that it had picked up a lifeboat with the survivors, who have been the object of a wide search since the freighter sank in a storm off Iwo Jima Tuesday night. The captain and 20 others from the ship were picked up earlier by Jthe British freighter Silver Maple.

PWMWUH i IV I 1 I -5l Tret rrH, wire srTir- i ST. LOUIS The nation big- gest bookie, James J. Carroll, refused to testify before television! sKirt-iAwo of tViA Cnnito Prim. fm-' mittee hearing. Chairman Kefauver Tenn.) said he would be cited for con-temph of the Senate.

Carroll's brief but tumultous appearance came just before the committee wound up the two-day hearing here and prepared for its next stand, at Los Angeles Tuesday. Carroll flew here from Miami after Kefauver had threatened to cite him for contempt for ignoring a subpena. THE PROSPECT of testifying before television cameras outrages his "sense of propriety," said. After Kefauver refused to order the cameras to stop, Carroll stalked out of the courtroom. He returned a few minutes later and sat in one of the spectators' benches.

Earlier, two former Illinois sheriffs told the committee that they either were unaware of wide-open gambling in their counties or felt it was not their responsibility. Dolph Fischer, who went out of office in St. Clair County last year, said he didn't know anything about gambling in his area although two national betting con- Hospitals Ban Visitors The flu epidemic forced sharp restrictions on visiting patients in many Detroit-area hospitals Saturday. Highland Park General Hospi tal announced that starting Sunday only the critically ill patients could be visited. HARPER HOSPITAL will ad mit only two members of the im mediate family.

Grace Hospital has barred all but the immediate family and Providence all but one member of the family. Those in critical condition are permitted 1sitors at all hospitals. Hospital staffs themselves were hard-hit. Harper inoculated most of ita staff with flu vaccine. 1 gram.

At the moment, the fieht is strictlv on riartv lines. But the Republicans don't mind. There are 26 of them to 24 Democrats in the Senate. And in the House thesKare roughly two to one. IN FACT they claim that there would be Democrats with them if the governor, Henry F.

Schricker, a Democrat, hadn't put the pressure on over the welfare bill fight. They cited the sad case of Senator Judson West, a Democrat. Caught up by enthusiasm on the bill to open up relief rolls to the county prosecutors so that ehiselers could be combed out, Senator West had tacked on an amendment to make the rolls available to the press, tod. "Then the governor had a session with the Democrats before the bill came up," Senator VanNess explained. "And poor Senator West was in the deplorable position of having Turn to Page 13, Column 5 'Peanuts' Packs Wallop If you enjoy a funny gag and ordinary prattle, you'll like "Peanuts." It's the newest of the comic strips one with a humorous wallorj starting in MONDAY'S FREE PRESS Blast Sears Gas Station Attendant Sets Off Stiff Blaze in Hamtramck An explosion ripped apart a Hamtramck gas station late Saturday night.

One attendant suffered third degree burns over his entire body. In St. Francis Hospital in criti cal condition is Otto Ream, 23, of 8719 Lumpkin. Hamtramck." Another attendant had just stepped out of the station at St. Aubin and Holbrook when the explosion occurred.

REAM, afire from head to foot, came racing out of the inferno. "For the love of God, I don't know how it happened," he said on the way to the hospital. Fireman battled the blaze for 40 minutes before controlling it. Plane Under Sea May Be American FRANKFURT. Germany () United States Navy officials said they are investigating the possibility that airplane wreckage found by a German diver in the Baltic may be that of a missing privateer fired on by Russian Get Out of Doors-Spring Is Here Today A giant whirlpool of air centered over New York State will pull Gulf Coast warmth into the Detroit area Sunday, the Weather Bureau said.

The mercury will rise from a point just above the freezing mark Sunday morning to a high for the season of 52 degrees. laitco jaai Baling..