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Judge Rhoads, Enforcement Officials Plan’ Radical : Change: in Court Policy; ‘Pampering’ of Delinquents to End.

: Problems of juvenile delinquency control are buzzing

around like worrisome bees in

Police, engaged in a highly-publicized clean-up, of gambling, prostitution and other illicit elements in Indianapolis, face the fact that almost 80 per cent of the crimes reported here are committed by youths of 18 and under. That percentage was estimated by Detective Chief Jesse Mc-

Murtry. Juveniles have been arrested recently for offenses ranging from vandalism to rape,

but burglary and robbery are

the most frequent teen-age charges. No More ‘Pampering’ New administration heads have taken up the challenge. Outcome

of a recent meeting of Safety Board President Will Remy, Chief of Detectives McMurtry, Police Chief

1 Clifford Beeker and Juvenile Court

Judge Mark W. Rhoads was a decisive change in the juvenile crime prosecution policy. Under-age offenders no longer will be pampered, nor their acts glossed over as adolescent irresponsibilities, the officials decreed. Those arrested for felonies will be referred to juvenile court immediately without being allowed a “probationary peri ‘Advice’ Scored Certain city 'officials believe the social welfare corrective attitude, which treated youthful criminals as blameless unfortunates deserving of another chance, has failed. These critics cite statistics indicating that during the last administration some under-age felons were brought before the juvenile aid division of the police department from five to 15 times within the space of a couple of years. Each time the offenders were given little more than “fatherly advice,” admonished to behave themselves in the future, and sent home, the new administration officials say. - As a result, they point out, juvenile criminals were looked upon by their schoolmajes as daring heroes whn flaunted the law with remarkal" success. Criticize Lenlency Even in cases where youths were referred from the police department: to juvenile court, they often were assigned to probation officers without trial, it was protested. Usually they were dismissed after a perfunctory “going over” criticsdeclared. :

Leniency in prosecuting ‘teen-age

criminals, city hall officials feel, is|

ble for almost all of the city’s automobile thefts. Most cars

"are stolen by youths for “joy rides.” This

War Ration Book 2! tration begins ~ Wren'% "through Feb. Tn

became a common practice among the younger set, some of them members of respected ‘families, when they found they could

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Floyd, Martha Arnold, at St. Francis. George, Madeline Boyd, at St. Francis. Morris, Mariam Pennington, at St. Francis. Delmar, Faye Burton, at City. Frank, Alberta Watz, at St. Vincent's. John, "Grace Frank, Rosetta Soukup, at St. Vincent’s. Clifford, Rose Sagmaster,

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secggtee 1 2 0 20 11 Totals ..oceemonaian $55 Eat DATES

SUG AR—Cou 11 is good for three pounds a March 15. Coffee—Coupon 25 good Sheoush March 21. Gasoline—A book—Coupon 4 Gauoline. through March 21. Fuel Oil—C 8 good f gallons a Feb 30. AR 5 Phe Tor 11 - gallons through Ap:

Tites—Tites for holders a A gas books

rch 31. Tires “for holders 01 , Cand T books must ‘be inspected by Feb. 28.

hoe for Shods—Ooupon 1 eo one pair

Canned Goods—Rationing begins March 1. Sales stop at. midnight Saturday.

; EVENTS TODAY Russian relief eluthivg arive begins. Depots

—— Farm hs oil ~schuel, Hotel Severin, all day. “- diana ‘Trade Executives association, iy Hotel Washington, noon. Restaurant J 330ciatio fom, meeting, tel Washington

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OFFENSES

some city hall bonnets.

continue with relative immunity. Members of gangs suspected of engineering scores of break-ins have been released many fimes from the juvenile aid division with nothing more severe than a remonstrance. Already the crack-down policy|: has taken its toll. The Juvenile court now is flooded with cases referred there by the juvenile aid division of the police department. Judge Mark Rhoads said his 13 probation officers are handling an average of 60 cases a month. Trials of about half-a-dozen habitual juvenile law violators have been advanced to criminal court.

A. S. JOHNSON, BANKER, DEAD

Fletcher Trust Treasurer Long Ill; Services to Be Wednesday.

Albert S. Johnson, treasurer of the Fletcher Trust Co., died early this morning at his home, 4317 College ave, after a seven-month illness.

~—one on the Andrew bill to place parole of prisoners in the hands of state institutions and the other on the township local option bill—were scheduled to be held today despite the “clogged” legislative calendar.

home over the week-end, preveniing a. Saturday session, Thurman Biddinger, Republican floor leader, announced the senate would meet “straight through to clean up its calendar today.”

persons had plghned to attend the hearings that committee chairmen said they would hold the: Hearings anyway. i

scheduled for 3 p. m. in the supreme court chamber and the Andrew bill hearing for 7:30. p. m. in the senate room.

Saloon league, the Women’s Cl tian Temperance union, the Indianapolis ‘Church federation, and the state P.-T. A. had asked ‘for the local option hegring.

paraiso), chairman of the public policy eommittee, said that “wet interests” had not asked to be heard: at the hearing but they would “be welcome if they wished to appear.”

by the state welfare department, whose parole powers would be taken away under the measure’s provisions, and the Indiana League of Women Voters.

" TEHRAN, Iran, Feb. 15 (U. P.).— Premier Ahmad Chavam Saltanech resigned yesterday, reportedly because of difficuliies encountered in forming a new: cabinet,

(HEARING TODAY “ON OPTION BILL

Andrew Bill Also to Be! Aired Despite Clogged Calendar. Two important . senate hearings

When so many senators went Senator

However, so many. out-of-town|3

Option Hearing Today The local option hearing was

Dry groups, including the AntiS=

Ensign Betty Larr of Lafayette, a newly-commissioned officer in

the coast guard SPARS, takes a bearing aboard a coast guard vessel in "the Thames river near the coast guard academy at New London, Conn. Ensign Larr is a cousin of Alfred L. Larr, 2230% B: and a graduate of Western Michigan college. She is ‘duty at Dallas, Tex.

way. She is 22 ‘on recruiting

Senator John Van Ness (R. Val-

The Andrew bill is being opposed

IRAN’S PREMIER RESIGNS

He was one of the company’s oldest employees. He had been with the firm and one of its pre-|

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decessors, the German-American Trust Co., for 35 years. He had headed the saving department of Fletcher Trust for many years and

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All Data in Central’ War Time Sunrise...... 7:38 | Sunset ....... 6:21

at a recent annual meeting was named treasurer. He was a member of the First

TEMPERATURE —Feb. 15, 1942—

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Baptist church and the Calvin Prather Masonic lodge.

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 7: % a.m. .00 Total Dretipliation = since Jan. 2.24 Deficiency sirce J:

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His birthplace was at Napoleon, Ind.

8:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. The Rev. Carleton W. Atwater will be in charge.

The survivors include his “wife, |B ie

Mrs. Grace Barrow Johnson; a son,

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Spurgeon Johnson, and a grande

son, Thomas Albert Johnson.

TWO BURMA TOWNS BOMBED NEW DELHI, Feb. 15 (U. P.)—|Eit

Royal air force Blenheims, escorted a Louis D.C.

by fighters, attacked the 'Japaneseoccupied villages of Aiet Zigaing and Auk Zigaing, approximately 13 miles north of Akyab in western Burma yesterday, an allied “head-

good Tor four}.

pti meeting and} ier meet- , Mm.

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quarters communique said today.

salligs i Lingsworth, 2 19, Pind a 3 24 Less. !

n Shots, 24, Ft. Harrison; Fava Jane Sartor, *20, ‘of 2439 Broad-

Lo oHon Edwin Stuart, >, of 223 Barth; . Georgia Rose Hamon, 18, of 120 W. 12th. Carl P. Overton, 20, Ft. Harrison; Mtidred : Elizabeth Lents, 19, city. Willis Freeman Nelson 20, U. navy; Mary E. Scudder, 18, Pot 617 N. Euclid. Roy Lawrence Nelson, 20, of 970 Stillwell; anda L. Hollandbeck, 21, of 970 Still-

well. ASHE Morris. 5, of 252 W. St. Clair; Frances Rile; 5 , of 2562 W. St. Clair. Donald Manue 17, of 925 N. New geraey; ‘Mildred Irene Hook, 18, of 1905 N. Ta-

Claronce Lockard,.24, of 516 N. Sheffield; Bertha Carter, 22, R. R. 7, Box 336. Charles Edward Jones, 2 of 10 708. Fletcher; Myrtle Mae Wright, f 429 S. Pine. Rufus D. Gru

bbs, '26, v 28, of 532 E. New York: y Darland, 21, of 518 BE. 20th; Emogene Moore, 21, of 2411 Guil-

Novaosh Edward Davison, 26, Pf. Harrison; Louise Eleanor Crabb, 25, of 3856 Arthington blvd. Victor Raymond Boofer, 37, of 1220 Warman; Nettls Green Martin, 217, of 725 N. Sheffi Herbert Carl Li 30, of 319 N. Jeffer-| Ha sen. M Mary Marie Hacker, 31, of 602 N. Everett B Brooks Barnard, 21, of 1463 Hazel, Louisvill Lois -Inez Robertson, 18, - of 1226 h. E Joe Bates, Ft. Han} Mary Sue Brown, 17, of 6811 E Frank GC. Bec

1 ee 10 Sp Rath. ann. of 106 Wisconsin:

Forest Luke Beers, Lillian May 3 Sones, 3, of 308% Turner V. Brown, Marjorie Cory, 40; both of Tadianapon lis, Oscar 2802 Fran

of klin pl; iracie. Renders, 30, of Lod a California.

gis Dorothy Jean Ried: 17,

To as P. Clones, 2. of 641 N. Oakland; 4: Jlelen Ogden, 32 , of 768 Massa~-

chu. Charles yilitam Sox 21 ,of 131 8 So R. Mudd, 18, of Tio’ 5

among, Oro uch, 50, t 617% 3; Ruby Frances Saylor. 37, of 1702

es H. 948 W. Walnut; Josephine Augel, 24, of 945 W. Walnut. William Ford, 24, of 501 Birch, T; Viola Catherine DeLong, 19, of 501 Birch, 7. Robert H. Fuquay, 19, of 2002 W. Morris; rage Me Meadows; is, of ue na Traub. ore Jos Lois is Christine. Lish , 28,

Morris. Julian Greatiiouse, 31, Ariz; Arthella i, “31, Fee

Harold Hinshaw, f Ferguarly. Page Newkirk, 28 8, C0 E. Tre Aron L. Hurley, 27 Vermont; 20, ok Sid W. Vermont.

bury; Mary Marie Tillery, 20,

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Pittsburgh

temperatures this afternoon and early tonight, becoming colder late tonight and

william, Mariam Knapp, at St. Vincent's. Francis, Margaret Doran, at Coleman. Virgil, Jewel Collett, at Methodis t. Wendell, Josephine ‘Costello, at Methodist. Endle, Dorothy Grable, at Methodist Hubers Letha Griffey, at Methodist.

Paul, Rachel Moser, at Earl, Iva Penry, at Frask, Sylvia Platt, at Methodist, Raph, Louise Morgan, at St. Franc army; Lucille | Orville, : Charies, Sleien Proce, at at City. au Carl, Alberta > Miser, Leonard, Betty Louise cent’s, Ernest, Zola Brim, at St. Vincent's.

N.| Virgil, Fayth Kellermeyer, at St. Vincent's. Charles, Louise Carrigg, at St. Vincent's.

Poet. Anne Jordan, at Coleman. Dennis, Goldie Sm Ira, Ger

Raym Walter, Ray,

Bernie, Parkway. | Gl na

G Arthur N. Brisbane, 18, R. 1, Box 206, |Lo Terre

Ye James, Mattie Bonner, at 17137 Yandes.

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a. en len McCallister, ‘95, at 2430 Columbia,

Antonio, Tex.

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INDIANA—Light snow this afternoon and fonight. Snow flurries in extreme north portion Tuesday forenoon. Rising

Tuetday forenoon. = Moderately strong

‘Humes, at St. Vincent's. at 8t. Vincent’s

.» Dorothy Leffel, at Methodist. Methodist. Methodist.

Boys

is. Harold, Mary Scott, at St. Praneis. Mary Wodtke, at St. Francis.

City. at City. Evamae Weaver, at CRY, st. Vine

Virgil, Ev Bean,

Herola: Margaret Hager, at St. Vincent's. a, Jeanne Thomas, at St. H Josephine Conner, at Ay

1th. aL Coleman. t Coleman. Sarah A , at ficthadis : Lets Blaisdel Methodist, Isabelle Brown, at M ethodis ene, ays Earley, at Meinodiat.

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DEATHS

Mary A. Hoffman, 84, at 1818 BE. Ohio, cerebral hemorrhage. vid Maurice Burkhard, 6, at 5003 W. Vermont, endocarditis. 7 John Monaghan, a, at 520 BE. Vermont, | chronic myocarditi Barron, 87, ae: 520 E. Vermont, cardio vascular renal. . Turner, 55, at City, cerebral

Elmer Oromwell, a at 1732 Broadway,

0 vascular Robert Walker, 51, eumonia.

at Veterans, lobar pn

Lincoln Thomas, 69, at 1 ulevard| place, obstruction of bowels By Bo Henry r. Jyeigheln, , at "on Hosbrook,

ey k Braun, 86, at 1633 8. Talbott, | Lycurgus B, Valentine, 85, at 2261 ~| Esther Ham 26, at City, oma. :| Ente Ipton, Poh SY petrciname,

3 HOOSIER MARINES WOUNDED IN ACTION

have been wounded in action, according to navy. casualty lists released today.

Jr.

Krouse of South Bend, and .Pvt. Harry W. Dawson of Rochester.

among the navy, coast guard and marine personnel, 106 of which were wounded, three dead and eight missing. The total number of navy casualties announced since Dec. 1941, is 23,226.

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GROTTO AUXILIARY ‘MEETS THIS WEEK

Three Hoosiers in the marines

her home, 1025 N. Bancroft st. They are Pvt. Charles R. Kaeser

of Muncie; Pvt. Parker A. : the home of Mrs. Ray Reisner,

Eugene st.

The lists included 117 casualties| ¢, Eg. S. GROUP TO MEET

Corinthian chapter 465, O. E. S.,

William 8. Ervin, worthy patron.

STRAUSS

The Sahara Grotto auxiliary will

Mrs. Harry Alexander will entertain members of the welfare committee at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow at

The telephone committee will

meet at 12:30 p. m. YW ednesday ai parole system,

|even left ‘committees. It takes 12

days, if everything moves like clockwork, for a bill to go through the legislature. ; { Although none of them was willing to be quoted, a number of Republican. leaders admitted that the

day or two before the March 8 deadline, “but that wouldn't ‘do much to impress the voter.™ They had hoped that it would be possible to adjourn 10 days or a week early.

Action on Budgét Due

The most important of all the measures pending is the state budget bill. Action on this has been held up by the house ways and means committee because of the Evansville hospital fire. It is scheduled to be started on its way through both houses early this week. Also still in the house ways and means committee is the state civilian defense bill, * which now carries

Option Bill Pending

Among the controversial measures pending are the local option liquor bill, the milk control bill and the Andrew bill to change the state

A public hearing on the local option bill is scheduled at 3 p. m. today, but it may be postponed if the senate decides to work straight

will have ga stated meeting and|through this afternoon and hold a initiation at'8 p. m. Wednesday at|night meeting. the Evergreen Masonic temple. Mrs. Minnie Jones is worthy matron, and|ure is delayed a few days longer,

If committee action on this meas-

it will have little chance

SAYS—IT1's ONE DAY NEARER VICTORY

WELFARE PROBE

said that, of course, it

‘gram,

Unli mited Jobe.

For Women Seen |

PT. DES MOINES, Ia., Feb. 15 U. P).~Mrs. Roosevelt. believes | that American women, if given sufficient training, could take over virtually all behind-the-lines Jobs now performed by men. : She voiced the belief during a visit to this training center of the women’s army auxiliary corps. Asked whether the women’s branches of the armed forces would be continued after the war, Mrs. Roosevelt said it would depend on their usefulness in peace“Maybe they won't be needed,” she said, “but we may find out that: there are certain things women do better than men.”

NEARING CLOSE

Committee May Report Tomorrow; Some ‘Hot’

Developments Hinted.

The legislature’s committee to investigate the state welfare department will complete its report this afternoon and present it to both houses at tomorrow morning’s session, committee members said to~ day. They indicated that a number of “hot” developments have been uncovered during the committee's month-long investigation and that they would be incorporated in the report. Some difference of opinion had developed in committee on what to incorporate in the report, but members said these had been straightened out in the last few days and a “satisfactory” report would be ‘made. The report is expected to criticize

the operation of several county wel-

fare departments. It also is expected to criticize federal “subsidization” of the state’s welfare pro-

AGAIN ASAI

‘Supported by ir

“Sinister influences ‘are this measure,” Mr. Miller said admonishing- the legislators “despite the fact that the 1 county delegation in the house advised that the city ‘of Ind {olis was strongly opposed to

measure, they voted unanimously favor of the bill.”

The bill provides that all ei of with a population of over 700 shal pay 80 per cent of the installa b and maintenance costs of automa crossing signals and one-half of salaries of crossing watchmen, Makes City Liable “Any accidents caused th ough negligence of such watchmen will B made the basis for damage s against the railroad involved the city as a joint employer,” Miller's letter stated. Ra therefore, are going much f than the bill would indicate possibly involving municipalities damage suits. “The same situation ‘would ¢ to damage suits based on the fa of crossing signals to function pro erly,” it added. 8 Declaring that “Mayor asked me to advise you that definitely opposed to this me Mr. Miller pointed out that “it argument of the railroads pre BY that they are entitled to this rel because they are substantial payers and employers of large n o bers of people, the door. will be.op for other concerns, similarly : ated to avail themselves of. publi funds for operating purposes. from the added tax burden, measure . should be defeated

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