Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1931 — Page 5

JUNE 19, 1931.

JURY MAY SIFT DETROIT RELIEF FRAUD CHARGES Negligence Will ‘Shock City,’ Says Spokesman for Edsel Ford. BY PALL WEBER United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT, June 19.—A grand jury Inquiry loomed today in the feud between Mayor Murphy and the Ford Motor Company charges of “criminal negligence” in administration of $17,000,000 city unemployment relief funds. Diplomatic phrases were dicarded as the dispute waxed bitter, and Edsel Ford himself Joined in the controversy. Both sides spoke their minds freely, Harry H. Bennett, the Ford spokesman, abandoning the usual formality of Ford statements to attack the city welfare department in terms of the most stinging frankness. ‘Showed Up’ Department Bennett charged that negligence _ln the administration of the funds would “shock the city” when fully revealed. He accused the city government of attempting to becloud the Issue by attacking the Ford Motor Company for its treatment of destitute laid-ofT employes—nationally known as a successful experiment in municipal unemployment relief —has been systematically robbed. Ford workers have been drawing money from the city while at the same time getting pay at the River Rouge plant, the executives claim. The charges followed revelations j that two young clerks in the depart- j ment had stolen more than $200,000 of the dole funds. “I served notice on you Wednesday,” Bennett wrote to Dolan, “that you will not be permitted to substitute the usual political stunts for service in this instance. You are going to produce the facts or j you are going to admit to the pub- j lie that you attacked us because we j showed up your department. Suspect 226 Workers "You are going to investigate the entire list of names I gave you and do it carefully. And finally you are going to admit that your department had been run with a degree of negligence, which when fully known, will shock the city.” The Ford company submitted to Mayor Frank Murphy a list of 226 names of workers suspected of fraud in obtaining city aid. A welfare department check of 100 names showed only eleven cases in which fraud charges might be sustained. Edsel Ford’s letter was mild compared with the words of his tempestuous assistant, Bennett. Dolan had asked Ford to back his company’s claims by taking care of 3,000 Ford workers and ex-workers now being cared for by the city. Ford was non-committal. “We shall be glad to extend our cooperation to avoid further misuse of public funds,” he said. GOITER DANGER CITED Doctors Told flow Treatment Prevents Idiocy in Families. Treatment of the thyroid gland will prevent idocy, feeble-minded-ness and stifle criminal tendencies, Dr. E. P. Sloan of Bloomington, 111., .told Indianapolis physicians Thursday night at a dinner at St. Francis - hospital. He demonstrated with photographs cures that had been effected and showed how goiter affects the .mentality of generations of families. The meeting was held in connection with the hospital’s ainnuai ■ Ciinic daj\

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‘HOOVER AGAIN,’ LUCAS PREDICTS President Losing Depression Blame, He Says. By Scripps-Haward newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 19.—Worry of some Republican leaders over the prospects of the re-election of Hoover are not shared by Robert R. Lucas, executive director of the Republican national committee. . Lucas said he knew that President Hoover has lost strength with the voters since his election, because of the depression. “But a year from now,” he said, “Hoover wil be considered a great

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CHANGES TO A)D BRANCH BANKING Legislation by Congress Is Held Needed Badly. By Scripps~Haward Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 19.—Strong efforts will be made by the administration at the next congress to have enacted branch banking legislation to be in effect before, the end of 1932. J. W. Pole, controller of currency, today reiterated his view that legislation along this line is needed badly. “Strong metropolitan banks, properly capitalized and managed, do not fail. Yet at the close of October last j r ear, some 1,417 national banks were in the hands of receivers. Last year, 1,345 banks closed, some of which were national banks, and the remainder state institutions. From January to June 1, 1931, there were 516 more bank failures.

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