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AFTER FOUR YEARS—NO PROGRESS

Conditions Shocking [TAKEN TO HEAL

At Mental Hospitals

LACK OF CARE LOW SALARIES STILL PREVAIL

Overcrowding, .Poor Working Setups Revealed in » Times Survey.

(This is the first of a series of articles on conditions at Indiana's mental institutions.)

By ROBERT BLOEM In November, 1942, the nation was shocked by news that 47 inmates of an Oregon mental hospital had died after eating a mixture of scrambled eggs and ‘roach powder. Before the ink was dry on the final tally of the dead, a Times editor wrote: “There, but for the grace of God, is Indiana.” Behind 1000 locked doors in one of our own mental institutions, he revealed, were 2000 helpless patients. In case of fire, their lives would depend upon the heroism’ of four underpaid, overworked attendants who would have to open those doors. Conditions Still Prevail

Tess than three months later, in February, 1943, a flash fire ripped through Indiana's hospital for the insane at Evansville. Two attendants died in the flames —one a 58-year-old widow who had served the institution 38 years at a maximum salary of $70 a month plus board and room. Five patients still are on the “unaccounted for” list. And almost without exception, a Times survey shows, the overcrowding, the low pay, the appallingly bad working conditions for employees, king inadequacy of medical and other care, still characterizé™ Indiana's mental hospitals. = . - Other Four Ignored After the Evansville fire, Governor Schricker delivered an impes-| sioned speech before the legislature | in which he upbraided Indiana for| a “pinchpenny” attitude toward its insane hospitals. The legislature immediately voted $2,500,000 to. rebuild Evansville hospital. Toward the other four hospitals, the legislature has hewn to a polcy of a few fire cscapes, a new roof here and there, some new wash bowls and a lot of excuses about war shortages of materials. Even In the new hospital at Evansville, attendants are working 13 hours a day, many of them for less than $100 a month. | 25 Fired for Brutality What management could do has| been done to improve the caliber of the employees caring for the state's mentally ill. At Richmond, superintendent O. R Lynch has discharged more than 25 employees] for brutality since taking over the] post last November. { But Dr. Lynch can't do much to attract good help when he; offers them the worst pay of any|

similar institution anywhere except in Indiana, a permanent room in| a ward with patients who are unable to control their natural funetions, and a sunrise-to-sunset work day six days a week, Prior to Dec. 1 last year, an ordinary institutional worker was |

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MICHIGAN CITY MAN | INDICTED IN SLAYING

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. July 24] (U. P.).—Marion Karras, 27, Michi-| gan City, today was under indict- |

ment on three counts in the strangulation-murder - of Dayda Lisak, 7, last week. at Michigan] City. |

A La Porte county grand jury in-| dicted ‘Karras yesterday for first | degree murder. |

27-YEAR RECORD SET, BY HOG PRICES HERE

Hog prices at the‘ Indlanapolis stockyards today jumped $1.50 to a 27-year record of $22.50 per cwt. as receipts dropped to 6200 head, one of the lowest figures since the end of OPA.

TIMES INDEX

Council Charges Report =~ Urging Natural Gas Here Kept Secret for || Years

By RICHARD LEWIS ; Citizens Gas & Coke Utility has suppressed for 11 years a report which urged the use of natural gas here, city coun-

cil charged ‘today.

The charge was made in a letter which Councilman Herman E. Bowers, finance committee chairman, sent to Thomas L. Kemp, manager of the utility. Mr. Bowers’

letter said: “We understand that you

have never made public the contents of a 1935 report on the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility by W. E, Steinwedell, consulting engineer of ‘Cleveland, O. ; “This report, we understand, was paid for from public funds of the utility.” Latest Council Move The charge was the latest move by city council. in its month-old dispute with the gas utility. A previous letter asking the utility management to explain an estimated profit of $8,500,000 in 11 years without reduction in gas rates to consumers never has been answered. The Steinwedell report was made at the behest of utility district officers at the time that the utility was acquired -by the city. It never was made public, according to the council, The report showed, according to

council, that the cost of manufac-

tured gas,was inextricably pegged to the cost of coal and the price which the utility could get for coke. Even slight fluctuations in costs and prices of those items, which the utility cquld not control, would influence the cost of gas, the report stated. The 1935 report said: “The cost of coal gas in the last few years has had a continuous upward trend due to the increased cost of coal, materials and labor and the variation in the selling price of coke. “The cost of coke oven gas is governed primarily by the difference between the selling price of the coke and the cost of the coal. Other variations are not of major importance.” Urged Natural Gas Use The report recommended shpplying straight natural gas to domestic, commercial and house heating consumers. ! At that time, industrial rates sug-

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Bad Weather May Postpone Setting Off Bikini A-Bomb

INITIAL STEPS BREACH IN GOP

Formula for Co-operation in

Hunt Origin of Faulty 4 Shells That Killed Gls

Fall Campaign Is Reached.

By NOBLE REED The first step toward healing the bitter factional strife of the Marion County Républican party was taken today. In a two-hour conference, county G..O. P, Chairman Henry E. Ostrom and Charles Huff, representing the anti-organization faction of the party, announced jointly they had “arrived at a formula for co-opera-tion in the fall campaign.” . Details of the “formula” however, were not made clear by the two party leaders.

Ouster Is Demanded

The conference followed an unsuccessful “harmony” session -yesterday at which members of the Republican Citizens’ committee formally demanded Mr. Ostrom step out as chairman in favor of the compromise chairman “acceptable” to Republican candidates nominated in the primary under the banner of the citizens’ committee. At yesterday's session, Chairman Ostrom flatly refused to step out, explaining he felt it was his duty to remain chairman “because the majority of the precinct committeemen elected me.” . The demand for Mr. Ostrom’s resignation. was made by Donald V. Gerking, citizens’ committee chairman, who declared Mr, Ostrom’s regime was repudiated by the voters at the primary polls, May T. ’ Defeat Not Admitted

Mr, Ostrom replied that he did not consider that he had been defeated. “How can you take that position when most of the candidates who were nominated ran on platforms

opposing your leadership?” Mr. Gerking asked. ' Mr. Ostrom replied that the

leadership of the organization is!

By JOSEPH M. MYLER

United Press Staff Correspondent ~~

OFF BIKINI ATOLL, Thursday, July 25—The mighty atom bomb one of the freaks of politics, with was suspended in Bikini lagoon today, awaiting a radio-controlled im-|a majority of committeemen sup-

pulse that will cause it to explode its fury against 87 target ships,

But whether the bomb will be set off at 8:35 a. m. today (4:35 p. m.|a majority of candidates claiming to

time) was still doubtful Although Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy decided last night, after &

last-minute conference with weather experts, that “Test Baker is on,” he added he was not too confident in view of bad weather Bikini area during the last few days. If the cloud cover is not right, Adm. Blandy will postpone the detonation at half-hour intervals until 11 a. m. Bikini time (7 p. m. Indianapolis time today). After that, if the test still can not be held, it must be postponed another 48 hours until Saturday. The bomb was assembled aboard the U. S. S. Albemarle and transferred to the landing ship. The weapon ship then was towed from its place alongside tHe Albemarle to a position in the central cluster of the target array. Sleep Above Bomb The LSM 60 was moored early yesterday morning about midway between the carrier Saratoga and the battleship Arkansas, which are roughly 1000 yards apart. Last night, a boarding party led by 34-year-old Dr, Marshall Holloway went aboard to make last minute adjustments. The boarding party included Roger Warner, who like Dr. Holloway is a Los Alamos, N. M. physicist,

{uty commander of joint task force

one. They slept above their violent charge which is hanging from cables beneath the lagoon waters. Early this morning, they checked the complicated electronics equipment and the clockwork serving as a time lock to see that it is ready to go. Dr. Holloway subsequently will board the” U. S. 8S. Cumberland Sound from where he will push the button that will start the elec

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SOVIET CLINGS 70 ATOM VETO

‘Will Never Give‘ Up Right, !sire for a

UN Group Is Told.

BULLETIN NEW YORK, July 24 (U. P.) — Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko notified his associates on a subcommittee of the United Nations atomic energy commission today that under no circumstances would Russia relinquish her power of veto in any plan for the control of atomic energy.

NEW YORK, July 2¢ (U. P.)— Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko disclosed today .his government had rejected virtually all American proposals to the United Nations for control of atomic energy. The United Nations department of public information, in a preliminary report on a closed meeting of committee No. 2 of the United | Nations atomic energy commission, |said Mr. Gromyko had turned down specifically the American memorandum No. 3 which outlines the creation of an atomic development authority independent of the security council. The public information department made it clear that Mr, Gromyko on behalf of the Soviet government had accepted some parts of thee basic plan offered to the commission by Bernard M. Baruch, United States delegate. But Russia rejected Mr. Baruch’s proposal for an international de- | velopment authority and the elimination of the Big Five veto power. The committee's main discussion

| GROUNDING OF GIANT .. the closed session was on the

TRANSPORTS URGED

Permanent Constellation

Suspension Asked.

WASHINGTON, July 24 (U, P.).— The' civil aeronautics administration called on the civil aeronautics board today to ground permanently the giant Lockheed Constellation transport planes now under a 30day suspension. : The board gave airline users of the giant four-motored transport 10 days in which to file. answers. Otherwise they will be considered to have waived CAB hearing on the question. CAA said it expects to submit by this week-end a list of changes required to make the Constellation airworthy. The pending action to ground permanently the original models will not preclude approval of improved models, the CAA said.

for 30 days on July 11 affer a crash at Reading, Pa., in which five per-

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song were killed. Hearing bn the Readiffg crash is set for July 3.

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The giant airliners were grounded

[third American memorandum, ‘which had been submitted detailing {Mr Baruch’'s original control plan, {the public information department said. The proposed authority would have a monopoly over all atomic development throughout the world. A detailed account of Mr. Gromyko's objection was to be issued

after the meeting.

An Indianapolis theater manager today suggested that children, unaccompanied by parents, not be admitted to movies after 8 p. m. in order to facilitate enforcement of the city curfew ordinance. . Clarence E. McConaughey, manager of the Dream theater, 2351 Station st, proposed a voluntary policy whereby no tickets. would be sold to children under 16 after 8 p. m., unless they are accompanied by adults, He lephoned his proposal to police aid officials,

Enforcement of City Curfew Sought by Theater Manager

.| Jesse McMurtry’'s 10 p. m. deadline.

entirely up to the precinct committeemen; This division of party power is

porting the party leadership against

have been nominated by anti-or- { ganization votes. Resignation Not Discussed Mr. Gerking at yesterday's session {offered no c¢ompromise, explaining 4 Mr. Ostrom refuses to resign the | citizens’ committee will set up sepa{rate campaign headquarters for the [candidates. He said that all but two candidates on the whole Re- | publican ticket had expressed a denew chairman. However, Mr. Huff, who is treasurer of the citizens’ commitiee, was selected as an envoy of peace to continue negotiations with Mr. Ostrom. ; In the conference this morning, the demand for Mr. Ostrom’s resignation was not discussed. The joint statement of Mr. Huff and Mr. Ostrom stated: “We met and discussed organization problems of the Republican party in Marion county. We believe |that we have arrived at a formula {for co-operation in the campaign to elect all candidates this fall, Change Still Hinted “This of course. is subject to the approval of responsible members | of the party. Certain details remain to be worked out. These have

'If' Is the Watchword as OPA Statf Gathers

“If” was the word of the day at district OPA staff meeting today. . , . Seated (left to right) are 8. A. Veatch, assistant district accountant; Addison Dowling, enforcement attorney; James D, Strick land, district administrator, and Hugh J. Baker Jr, price control attorney. Standing (left to righf) are W. T. Burnes, district administration executive; Albert J. Lynch, information officer; Wiliam N. Knowles, price board administrator, and Robert M. DeWeese, rent control executive, .

CITY DELEGATES Local Price ‘Control Office ASSEMBLE HERE . Ready if Law Comes Back

SEEK TO LINK FACTORY WITH WAR TRAGEDY

Army Asked for Details of Revelation Made at Profits Quiz.

WASHINGTON, July M4 (U. P.).—Undersecretary. of War Kenneth C. Royall has ordered a “complete investis gation” into circumstances surrounding the army's use of defective 42-inch mortar shells which killed American troops im Europe, it was learned today,

A high war department 2 said the report was now being pres

J pared and would he submitted upos

completion to the senate war invese tigation committee, : . Mr. Royall demanded a “full rea port,” it was learned, after the mittee disclosed mortar shells the type manufactured by & Garsy son munitions firm had cauped tragic casualties during the Battle of the Bulge, -

3 Major Questions Mr. Royall promised the commite tee a report “as soon as possible?

on! ' ONE: What the army did aboud the shell, TWO: Whether any attempts

were made to trace back the manus facturers through lot numbers, THREE: Who was killed or ine

‘By DONNA MIKELS . : Up and down the corridors and in the office of the district OPA Local Men Assigned 10 today, lolling workers talked of “rollbacks,” “senate action,” “filibuster” a land “veto.” . . Resolutions Group.

The word most often used as the workers waited for results of Committees for the 1946 conven- the little but mighty “if.”

tion of the Indiana Municipal] 1t popped up with regularity in

" ” . league were announced today by the regular Wednesday morning a alsiat meeting. “If” the bill is ; ; passed, the office will stay open]

senate and Presidential action on the OPA revival bill, however, was

Mayor JLoba (Jack) Bruner Bloomington, league president, atic, J os handle a deluge of

Indianapolis city officials were them to give up and go home.

| named to the powerful resolutions, Special School Planned committee of which Mayor C. D.| If the bill passes, and rent. rollRotruck of Anderson Was ap- backs are authorized, a special pointed chairman. school will be held Monday through | To Congress Seen. § dte Arch N. Bobbi, NY Wednesday for rent control admincorporation counsel, Mayor Tyndall, | » Sons Councilman Herman Bowers, Coun. |istrators, to acquaint them with | : a Sil President Joie A Shumasher, provisions of the act. [President Truman will act promptan y Con er ry Parson, The only. thing anyone was sure || ; tly on the bill to revive price conMayor Bruner also announced of was that rent problems will be)

committee heads for various comthe biggest headache under. the new mittees. Homer Showalter, may 4 9 ¥ Yor | The office already has re-

; { bill of Wabash, will chair the place . . of meeting committee; ge ceived 1187 complaints of rent hikes] Smith, city attorney of Logansport, | %70¢ Se Seatliol OPA June NW of rules and credentials committee; | wy we ap oe r " Sidney Baker, of Newcastle, steer-|'0 Pe investiga eongress Al ing committee, of which Mayor | he President revive OPA’'s powers th Tyndall is a member, and Frank °Ver landlords. A breakdown of the| continued on Page 5—Column 6) Migas mayor of East - Chicago complaints shows that 342 increases - auditing committee. | were up to 20 per cent over ceiling, {427 were from 20 to 50 per cént Three-Day Meeting | hikes and 418 increases were at ieast Hoosier cities, represented by

50 per cent above the rent ceiling more than 450 delegates, will take Two Officers Evicted up the task of solving their post-| Spokesmen said they doubted the war problems. The three-day meet- bill would provide any retroactive

ing will continue through tomorrow | 8ction on evictions during the] | non-OPA period following June 30.

the opening of the three-day nfeet- york, “If” it isn’t, theyll ape ing in the Claypool hotel. [to ‘wait until the President tells | ‘mittee’'s hearing yesterday into the : | : | |

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trols, either in the form of a message or a memorandum to congress, The senate is expected to pass | the hybrid, house-approved measure today. “It might come today, but more likely tomorrow,” Charles G. Ross,

VETERAN DROWNS IN FLAT ROCK RIVER

Thaddeus Morris Hoban

to do with -consultations on the

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900 BARBER SHOPS

Price to Be Boosted Here Starting Monday.

Local citizens will get their hair trimmed for $1 starting Monday, Members of the Journeymgn Barbers International union, local 247, voted last night to boost the price of haircuts from 75 cents. The $1.00 rate will be effective,

Monday. Union officials said 200 of the city’s approximately 220 shops

would adhere to the price boost. It will mean, they said, the first pay boost for barbers in some three years. : A shave will cost 65 cents. Children's haircuts will cost 75 cents |except on Saturdays and eves of | holidays when the cost will be $1.

asking their assistance in obtaining co-operation of other movie operators. . ? Mr. McConaughey said the 8 p. m. limit would help “clear the streets” of youngsters before Police Chief

Lt. Golden Reynolds, juvenile aid officer, said he would relay the suggestion to the local chapter of the Associated Theater Owners of Indiana. He said the 10 p. m, curfew (with 30 minutes grace) had

{and Friday.

Loses Life on Picnic.

Times Special

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. July 24.— Thaddeus_ Morris Hoban, 44-year-

Two Indiana OPA offices, those at Ft. Wayne and Columbus, were evicted during this period. The sociations in neighboring states district office here also faces eviction when its lease runs out In were on hand as well as officials September, since the building Was|q4 veteran of: world war<II, was of the American Municipal asso-|clq by the State Insurance Co. to ’ ciation ‘and the United States con-\the Lumberman's Insurance. Co. Grovned in'Fiat Rock river northference of mayors. : recently. east of Geneva yesterday. The main business session of the : | Recently discharged from the

convention opened in tire Chateau | ; [ 1 . 2 . room of the Claypool hotel at 11|MAD MARSHALL SETS RAY at {oles ine Wve meas a ANOTHER POLE TRIP

a My with Mayor Loba Bruner a picnic on the farm of his mother, 3 Flooring, league president, EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich Mrs. Laura Hoban, when he ¢ , : {July 24 (U..P.).~—Mad Marshall drowned. Mayer Ropers 4 Tyndall, repre-| saohs said his bride, the former| His body was recovered a halfsen . . 5 . 1 Se 4 vocation Lonnte Cosmar, will be a flag-pole hour after he was missed by his Ww yin oS Oo h 8 Miller Mavor widow starting today. |brother, Edgar, He is survived by yi Lue ¥. Hip1h ’ y Mr. Jacobs, who married Lonnie his mother; a son, Teddy; three atop a 176-foot pole at Coshocton, | brothers, and three sisters, includ0. June 30, will ascend a 305-fot |ing Miss Augusta Hoban of Indianapolis.

In addition to Indiana delegates, representatives from municipal as-

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10 AERIAL DEPUTIES {pole at Roman beach near here, ° WORN IN BY SHERIFF. . . 5 Tobin Slaps Failure to Put

Sheriff Al Magenheimer added an Troops at Mississippi Polls

“air corps” to his Marion county force today. In brief ceremonies at Municipal Only a handful of Negroes voted “at their own peril,” Mr, Tobin charged, “and by such threats, the

airport this morning, the sheriff swore in 10 owners of private air-| Daniel J. Tobin, president of the senator violated the constitution.” “In many more enlightened sec-

planes as deputies to, assist his | International Teamsters Union (A. «ground forces.” |P. of L), today lamented that fedAmong those who will serve are eral troops were not sent to MisCol. Roscoe Turner, Ted Carter, O.|sissippi to enforce the U: 8. conW. Eisenlohr, Wilbur Shaw, Gordon stitution during the successful reLackey, P. W. Walton, A. D. nomination bid by Senator Theo-|tions of the nation, there was Schwab, Paul E. Bowes, Gene dore G. Bilbo. . Dawson and Cliff Bergere, who will| “Federal troops should be sent he squadron commander, anywhere that armed supervision is necessary to guarantee the basic rights of citizenship,” Mr. Tobin said dn an article prepared for the August issue of the Teamsters magazine. “They should have been: rolling into Mississippi within 24 hours ‘after Bilbo defled the constitution,” he wrote. The constitution provides that men be free and equal, Mr, Tobin said, g “Bit not last

could win any popular election anywhere,” the article stated. > “The answer is that it was not a popular election,” Mr, Tobin said.

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by Senator Bilbo “and other South-

to pass wage, health or school legislation to rectify the “abject” condition in Mississippi. Mr. Tobin pointed out that the senate has the power to deny Mr. Bilbo a seat. |

month in Misgis-| “They should ship him back,

succeeded in suppressing dglinquenocy to its lowest point im pn

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Message or Memorandum

WASHINGTON, July 24 (U, P.). White House said today

amazement that a man like Bilbo

Mr, Tobin said that flibusters

ern legislators” forestalls any effort

sippl. That's why Bilbo won,” he| preferably in a (cattle oan” Mr.

jured, where, under what cireume stances, and whether there werd

in its voluminous files, “on the

16-irm Illinois munitions which handled $78,000,000 wosth government war contracts. Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt, chief of the army's chemical warfare service, testified that he had “swead blood” over the killing of American boys by the defective shells, Gen. Waitt said the army had sought to track down makers: of the defective shells but only “unsatisfactory” results thus far. He said, however, that the Erie Basin Metal Products Co, a k firm in the Midwestern com was the largest manufacturer the 42-inch shells procured by the Chemical Warfare service, ’

Designed hy Garsson He also testified that Dr. Henry | Garsson, described as the “brains™ . {of the combine, had aided in the desigh of the shells. He attributed part of the trouble to design, “I sweat blood over this thing" Gen. Waitt, testified. “We don't know whose shell went bad (but) {we have no reason to believe there |was anything wrong with their (Garsson) shells.” ; Dr. Garsson has claimed thas Erie Basin products set “the mosé remarkable record of the war” in its production of 4.2 inch mortar shells. . * : The committee was told so many gunners were maimed or killed by defective shells during the Battle of the Bulge that orders were given to gun crews to fire them only with lanyards. This cut their firing time by 90 per cent, ' Gen. Waitt confirmed the difficulty with the 4.2 inch shells after Com«

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HOOSIERS PROMISED ‘SLIGHTLY COOLER’

Continued fair weather with slightly lower temperatures was promised Hoosiers today. The temperature stood at 88 at 13 noon In Indianapolis, far below the all-time high record for July 24, 108, set in 1934. Temperatures throughe out the state varied only slightly,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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