Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1943 — Page 7

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| A HEAVY

py Contracts Awarded in Past Two Years by County Commisioners Will Be Probed: Co-op Housing Plan to Be Scanned.

By NOBLE REED The heaviest schedule of investigations here -in many

years will be started by the grand jury this week. investigated in the next two

Matters scheduled to be months include:

1. All contracts awarded by county commissioners during the last two years, especially those involving food for

county institutions.

2. Circumstances surrounding the awarding of a county contract to the foreman of a previous grand jury while it was probing other county Oe,

3 "MORE NATIONS JOIN.

IN FOOD CONFERENCES

WASHINGTON, April 19 (U, BP). The state department has announced that three additional nations — Egypt, El Salvador, and

. Venezuela—have accepted the U. S.

: invitation to attend the interna-

tional food conference to be held

May 18 at Hot Springs, Va. This. rings to a total of 34 the acceptances of invitations which were g issued to 42 governments.

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inquiries into all county contracts.

‘court and a new one was impaneled

of & home through the federal

| home buyers,” Mr; Brown said.

JY SCHEDULE

. The financial activities or a co-operative housing as‘sociation organized here a year ago to promote the building of houses for defense plant workers. 4. A scheme operated by a notary public to get drivers’ licenses for clients without pradiieins, property tax receipts. Foreman Got Contract The first of the county contracts to be studied by the jury will be the $2000 award to Charles Helfenberger, who at the time he received the contract, was foreman of the ‘January term jury which had begun

Subsequently that jury was “fired” by Judge W. D. Bain of criminal

two weeks ago. More than 40 witnesses will be called within the next few weeks to

tell the jury what they know about] -

contracts for the sale of food to Sunnyside sanatorium where the state health board charged “watered” milk and inferior meat had been delivered by firms holding county contracts. Also the jury will resume inquiries into construction work at Julietta infirmary where additions started five years ago still are not completed despite expenditure of nearly $500,000., The original cost estimate on the project was $263,000.

Probe Housing Venture Leo Brown, deputy prosecutor in| charge of grand jury operations, said he had called a ‘score of witnesses to testify before the jury re-

garding their reported losses in the co-operative housing venture. He said preliminary @ evidence showed that about 200 persons paid

$25 each to the co-operative group|

to help them finance the building|

housing administration. “The co-operative group apparently went out of business ahd none of the fees returned to prospective

10 MENINGITIS CASES LISTED HERE IN ’43

Fifty-two cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis, dncluding 10 in Marion county, have been reported in Indiana this year, tHe state board of health said today. Nine cases were reported in Vanderburgh county, eight in Tippecanoe, six in Lake and two in Allen, Hendricks, Johnson, Wayne and Vigo. One case was reported from Jasper, Kosciusko, Hamilton, Delaware, Parke, Bartholomew, Jackson, Jefferson and Spencer counties. The state board of health asked that all' cases be reported to its office, 1098 W. Michigan st,

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