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Judge Grants Boost
Action on Hospitals
20 Wading Pools Closed ‘To Cut Down Rising Rate of |
DEMAND MORE FACILITIES FOR
Polio Cases i
the remainder of the season
in Indianapolis
ases in Indianapolis, Paul V. Brown
To curb the rising rate of polio cas ’ A ‘ city park board director, today closed 20 wading pools in the city for
{ Although no case has been trac | water, Mr. Brown shut down wading measure against the impénding polio | Closing of the pools followed . a {report by the city health board that | |bacter iological tests of water showed that many of the pools are. got clean, Nothing Found in Tests Only the Fall Creek wading pool will remain open for the remainder of the season, Mr. Brown said. This pool is regarded as a “junior swimming pool” because of its {automatic filtering and recirculating water plant, The other wading pools throughout the city are chemically treated manually and do not provide the sanitary measures found at the Fall Creek wading spot. Swimming pools under automatic control will not be closed, Mr: Brown stated. Since only three more weeks remain until the end of the summer swimming season, the wading pools are not expected to open,
Raided Nursing Home Bac In Business; Injunction To Be Asked.
By NOBLE REED An emergency “need for new hospital facilities here was stressed by state and city health authorities today fol-| lowing disclosure of “torture treatments” imposed upon patients in private nursing homes. ! Governor Gates called a confer-| ence of state welfare department officials at noon today to outline emergency measures to correct “deplorable conditions” in some private convalescent institutions,
Action ‘followed swiftly on the heels of a raid Saturday on a nursing home at 1828 N. Illinois st, where Prosecutor Sherwood Blue's staff found that many of 29 pa-
which operate filtering plant
ed to contraction of the disease in pool operations as “a precautionary | threat.” board director, rellerated that noth- | ing has been found in the water] tests that contribute to polio cases. in the city. t He said, however, that unclean pools lead to the contraction of any summer disease and that the recommendation to close the pools w made on this contention. Dr. Kempf reported that 15 cases of polio have been reported thus | far this year. Eleven cases were reported in July, one in June and three so far in August, he said.
56 Cases Reported h Dr. J. W. Jackson, state director | of contagious disease control, asserted that 56 cases of polio have | been found in the state this year. “Even though 19 cases have been reported in the past two weeks, the seasonal peak for contracting the | disease is yet to come,” he said. Dr. Jackson referred to a 10-year average which showed that the peak for polio disease comes the! first week in Seplember,
tients there had been beaten and . Gerald P. Kempf, city health shackled to their beds with iron chains, One 26-year-old woman patient 'C "Th s was found with hands and feet rea ure a shackled in irons to a “torture table” for several days as a “dis-
clipinary; treatment.’ The proprietor of the home, Mrs. Margaret Colvin, 50, was arrested | and charged with assault and battery on patients, malicious mayhem and operating a nursing home without a license. Resumes Business However, she gained her release under $3100 bond and returned fo the home, where she resumed busi-
concerned. creature’ It all started more than three farmer living on the south edge of
Farmer Tyre believed a pack of stray dogs killed his pigs. But las week when a 500-pound {calf was killed on the Tyre farm, ness as usual. the stray dog idea was abandoned Records revealed that although ang in its place came rumors that |
she had been operating NUCSINg | everything from a bobcat toa spot=i:
homes here at various places foriieq jeopard was running wild on 11 years, she never had a license ihe countryside. from the state welfare department as required by a law passed in 1943. She had applied for -a license at the state welfare department two months ago but it was held up pending an investigation of some complaints, according to Otto Walls; state welfare department director. the Tyre farm.
“We have been waiting on re- pegcribed as an almost “inhuports from the state health board... sound” citizens relate that it and the state fire department On 4efinjtely isn't the howl of a stray the sanitary and fire hazard con- 4,0 One resident said the sound ditions before taking further ac- w.¢ indescribable. tion on the license application,”| moo people who he been Mr. Walls said. | aroused in the middle of the night Expect Legal Action described the sound as that of a The welfare director said the at- young baby crying but others intornev general's office is preparing!sist it sounds something like a cat. legal action to enjoin Mrs. Colyin| One excited resident called police from continuing to operate the to report that a pack of dogs had home. the “creature” surrounded. When “Some legal action may be filed police arrived the dogs were there later today.” he said. but the “creature” had scrammed. | Prosecutor Blue said if Mrs, Col- The animal was dark and spotted, vin is not -prevented. frrom oper- the resident said, and a little smallating the home, “I'll put her under ef than an average size dog. He arrest every day she continues to Said that the last he saw of the operate.” “creature” it was chasing a howlRegarding sanitary ing dog over a nearby knoll.
Dr. L. E. Burney, state health de-| All Hunts Futile partment commissioner, said his! Alonzo McCann, chief of police, | department “does not have suf- sald that dozens of “creature seek- | ficient personnel to make these in- ers” have gone to the gravel pit spections.” site but efforts to locate the animal Prosecutor Blue sgid he has in- have been futile. formation of similar torture tac-| One night last week, five boys tics and deplorable conditions at went to the creature's hangout. other nursing homes here, explain- | One threw a beam from a flash-| ing he is planning more raids. [light into some bushes and stopped Welfare Director Walls said there Short when he was greeted by two are 19 licensed private nursing (large blazing eyes. The boys called homes In Marion county and that |Police. five others are operating without| FPatrolmen
Back Up Rumors Backing up latest rumors are stories from south side residents who have been awakened in the middle of the night by weird sounds coming from a gravel pit located on the edge of town near
inspections,
Frank Denney and
licenses. | Arnold Wilson responded and Den“We have information that sev-|D€YS flashlight beam found the “blazing” eyes. They belonged to
eral of the places are not what they s Sig said. rey should be,” he said as the five boys.
Care Is Costly One irate resident reported. that Welfare department investigators he hadn't heard anything or seen estimated that Mrs. Colvin was anything, but that something had collecting an average of more than |eaten all the corn out of his garden. | $3000 a month from the 29 pa-|He said there were no tracks of any tients in her home, or $36,000 a cows or pigs and asserted it must year. have been the “creature.” It Is estimated that there are -— between 400 or 500 patients in the 23 other private nursing homes who | are paying many more thousands
an Angora cat—almost as terrified
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Wrecks Sleep.
Slew Calf, Hunted at Lebanon =
By GEORGE WELDEN | Flat Rock can have its snake as far as residents of Lebanon are! ‘They have enough worries of their own supposedly roaming the countryside. {
| with a “weird
weeks ago when Joseph Tyre, a | Lebanon reported that five of his!
J0-pound pigs had been killed by some animal.
DOUBT LEGALITY OF SPEED TRAPS
Attorney Charges Blockade Is lllegal Device.
Test of the legality of police blockade as a method of nabbing traffic violators loomed today in municipal. court. Judge John Niblack of Municipal Court room 4 took under advisement the case of a defendant arrested at a blockade and charged with driving while under the influence of liquor. Attorneys for Eulan L. Spears, 223 E. 10th st, charged the arrest! invalid because the blockade was an illegal device. Mr. Spears was halted in the 1100 block on Madison ave Judge - Niblack - said he would] study the legal question before. making any ruling on the Spears
case, |
Important News On Inside Pages
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Arkansas G, I.’s Stir Cleanup Crush Global Black Market ....
Refugees Swarm to Palestine ... 3 |Meat, Dairy Boom Forecast .... 8] Fight New Price Controls ...... Ii
Navy Envisions Space Planes . Rocket Shower Stirs Sweden . Byrnes Bans Debate on Italy . 'G O. P. Hopes Soar
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Irvington Drys Fight On .. . 121 Costs Block Highway Network .. 13; Russ Seek Dardanelles Gateway 15 16
Says U. 8S. Can Avoid Slump
CHOSEN INDIAN PREMIER
NEW DELHI, Aug. 12 (U. P).— A government communique said today that Pandi Nehru of the In- | dian national congress had ’accepted Viceroy Lord Wavell's invitation to form an interim government.
Jittery Gamblers Clamp on Own Lid Here, But It's "House of Horror' That Gets Raided
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9 NORE BODIES “INPOISON CASE
Defense Lawbers Say They
In Streetcar Fares
‘Want to Clear ‘Tot’ | Of Suspicion. -
BULLETIN State Police Detective Graham Tevis today said Lottie (Tot) Lockman will be arraigned on a first degree murder charge tomorrow before Justice of the Peace Elmer Crozier in Madison, He will ask that the case be bound over to the October term of Circuit court.
VICTOR PETERSON
Times Staff Writer DUPONT, Ind., Aug. 12.— ; “Immediate exhumation” of | 4 two more bodies were de-| manded today by attorneys | for Lottie (Tot) Lockman, 65, |
|the town’s “Good samaritan.” | In a surprise move, her attorneys asked state police to disinter “Tot's" husband, Frank. and Fred Giddings, a retired farmer who died at 90. { Jailed last night on a bench warrant charging murder by poisoning, Mrs. Lockman declared this morning : “I slept there was
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like a baby because nothing to keep me | . There are othérs who | aren't in jail who probably had | {plenty on their minds to keep them | awake.” Murder Charge Filed | The murder charge against Mrs. | Lockman was filed after Dr. R. N.| Harger, Indiana university toxicolo-| gist, found mercury in the organs Mrs. Minnie McConnell, who | 0 last year at 75. In her customary role as nurse and housekeeper, Mrs. Lockman had ministered to Mrs. Minnie McConnell until her death. Mrs. Lockman was seized last week on aj charge of attempted murder in! i connection with the illness of Mrs. | | Mamie McConnell, daughter-in-law | of Mrs. Minnie McConnell. Traces | lof mercury were also found in speci- | ;mens from the sick woman. } Mrs. Lockman’s lawyer, Joseph Cooper, said he wanted the bodies of Mrs. Lockman's husband and | “Tincte Pied” Giddings exhumed! 'to clear his client of suspicion. Rarely Prepared Food He contended that if no poison is found in their bodies it will prove | the McConnells were poisoned by “someone not in jail.” He said
for the McConnells and that most of their cooking was “done by three or four other perso “If there i$ Da in the bodies of her husband or Mr. Giddings,” Mr. Cooper said, “that would prove |
she is innocent. She had exclusive | care of these two, but she fed the
McConnells nly six or eight times Robbery, Stray Bullet Thal
a month.”
He asseriod the defense would ories Checked in Killing.
defray expenses of the disinterments
if the state failed to act immedi- | searched
Police today
ately. Mrs, Lockman signed a state- | side for a mystery weapon that ment permitting the exhumation of struck down a model Hancock Frank Lockman, her husband. county farmer as he returned to
Attorney Cooper said Mrs. Lockman asked him this morning, “have you-lost-confidence-in-me?-
his - home Saturday night after a
visit to a tavern.
He answered, “no.” With a .25-caliber slug believed | “Don't do it,” she asserted. “I'm fired from a foreign-made pistol innocent.” as their only clue, police probed;
Mr. Cooper said, guilty, I'd plead her guilty.” Carl Borgman, 47, of near Jefferson County Prosecutor Don-| Palestine, industrious farmer and ald Bear said he would seek a for- father of five. mal murder indictment from the One was that he had been killed | | grand jury which convenes Oct. 7.! by a stray bullet. State police were ready to ex-| hume the bodies of perhaps four|the victim of a bandit who may elderly persons who died|have accompanied him from a tavlern or leaped on the running board Coroner Sidney Haigh, however, of his car near Julian and Shersaid future exhumations would re- idan aves. where Mr. Borgman's car quire more time than did the dis-| had bumped to a halt in a vacant | interment of Mrs. McConnell. She| field with the dead man at the | was exhumed Friday from peaceful, wheel. | myrtle-covered Lancaster cemetery. | They discarded Coroner Haigh said the bodies of that the New other suspected poison victims had! might have been the same man been buried for “from five to 10 deputy sheriffs shot at after a He asserted this might pre-|scuffie following an attempted “lovlane” holdup a short time
any possibility Palestine farmer
sent certain disinterment problems ers’
requiring special techniques and! earlier. added that none would be dug up No Powder Marks today : Lt. Howard Hunter of the police State Police Detective Graham oval I
laboratory said the death slug, which had entered Mr. Borgman's left side and cut the large artery (Continued on Page 5—Column 4) '0 his heart, was a steel-jacketed foreign made bullet fired from the of pistol collected as war souvenirs
| Tevis said at least three more bodies will probably be exhumed. Two of
the East
“if T thought her two theories in the slaying of J.ouis| New |
Borgman, 47, was the father of five, | «14 (left), triplets, Yildred, Marie nd Marilyn, 5, a nd Kenneth, 17.
The other was that he had been
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Deputy Coroner Leonard Cox said |
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Mr. Borgman had been dead only] |a few minutes when his body was found and that he couldn't have]
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Father of Five ls Victim of ‘Mystery Murder
Victim of a mystery slaying Saturday might as he returned home. from a local tavern, Louis C. He is shown a bove with Mrs. Borgman and their children, Floyd,
i fares.
3 FOR QUARTER TOKENS START
Printed Coupons to cam 4th Ride in Case Final Hearing Ends Hike.
An increase in streetcar fares to three tokens for 25 cents was authorized today by Special Judge Horace Hanna in Marion county cire cuit court, Judge Hanna granted an injunce tion sought by Indianapolis Rails ways, Inc, to restrain the publig service commission from interfering with the collection of the higher The P. 8. C. previously had denied the utility permission ‘to make an emergency fare increase, The restraining order will be in effect until the main issues in the case come before Judge Hanna next month. Warn Speculators . The new rates will go into effeck at midnight tomorrow night. The present cash fare of 10 cents and’ the two-cent transfer will remain unchanged. Speculators were warned imme diately that mass purchases of the present low-priced tokens would be of no avail. After the midnight to morrow deadline, tokens now in use will no longer be good for transe portation and will have to be ree deemed at local banks for cash.
Printed Coupons The new tokens will be. printed coupons—four to a strip. Three of the four coupons will be good rides and the. fowrth is to be by the purchaser for fedemption in case the temporary rate increase is denied final hearing. Judge Hanna ‘ordered the coms | pany to keep a sufficient amount on | deposit at all times to redeem the
4. | total number of coupons sold. Cous
Patrolman Otto Murphy (right) points out to Detective Michael J. Kavanaugh the path through the weeds made by the car of Mr. Borgman and the telephone pole against which it stopped at Julian
ave, near Sheridan ave.
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| pons, if the lower rate 1s returned, | will be worth six cents each or 2§ j cents for, each four. Appeal Is Asked | Attorneys for the state immes ! diately asked an appeal to the sue | preme court. Although it was grante ied by Judge Hanna, Deputy Ate torney General Cleon Foust said _ details of such an appeal have not | been completed.
| Mr. Foust raised two immediate {objections to the restraining order | —first, that forcing patrons to redeem old tokens at‘ banks was a serious inconvenience, and second, that no provision was made for dis | position of deposits in cases where | redemption coupons are lost. Where to Redeem Arthur Gilllom, attorney for the utility, pointed out to the judge that large numbers of tokens are
; I the hands of speculators and
‘these speculators will have no ine
" | convenience in redeeming them af
banks.” The company listed 26 places { where the old tokens may be res | deemed at the rate of four for 28% | cents: The Fidelity Trust Co, the Ine diana National bank, Indiana Truss Co., Security Trust Co., American National bank or any of ity branches, and the Union Trust | and branches. Redemption also may be made at the Indianapolis Raile ways office at 914 Traction Tere minal bldg. Coupons Not Ready Company spokesmen said none of the new tokens would be availe able until after the deadline toe morrow night since plates were made but no new coupons have | been printed. The court ordered the railway company to post bond for its ree sponsibility to its patrons and ta {the public service commission in the event the rate increase ‘s “not { upheld. In ruling for the Company, "Judge Hanna found it would be “greatly injured should final action be in
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES | lived more than a few minutes after| |its favor unless temporary injunce Gam ...5 10a C70 By SHERLEY UHL raid the alleged “horror house”, This heightened the anxiety. peing shot. There were no powder |tion is issued.” He set Sept. 3 for Tam... 11am... 12 | Prosecutor Sherwood Blue didn't nursing home at 1828 N, Illinois st.,| Then, to top it all off, Sheriff Al|marks on the body. | > m. ... 61 2 (noon) .. 72 |realize it, but he killed a flock Where several patients were found Magenheimer announced formation, police believed they might find (Continued on Page §—Columan 3 Sam... 68 ith tone Saturday. | |shackled to beds. | of not one, three “vice squads” and |the death weapon discarded near Rl of Pads y Je 5 + shot" Wi But somewhere along the line dispensed them on an observation |the scene. The Borgmans were to move this fal to this house they had | 3.BEDROOM MODERN WITH Mr. Blue took a “pot sh al 8} ord leaked out to the gambling | cruise, The slaying was discovered short. bought recently. AUTOMATIC OIL FURNACE TIMES INDEX nursing home and a eovey of gam- | fraternity that Mr. Blue was “on | The gaming lads didn't relax un- | |y after Deputy Sheriffs Otto Gasper { blers “dropped out of the trees.” {je warpath,” Rumors flew thick |til they read accounts of Prosecu- | and Arthur LeFevre reported a| eeg This home was heated so casily Amusements. 20 Obituaries ... 4 Through a comedy of errors, the | and fast. Telephones buzzed and|tor Blue's nursing home foray In|masked man attempted to hold | Sw indlers INTERNATIONAL PRESS last winter that only $43.50 Aviation 9| PF. C. Othman 9|town was closed tight against ene [ithe {inderworld * “grapevine” cracked | Saturday's evening editions. But/them up on Ritter ave, just north| Alle"? . EMBARGO DECLARED orth of fuel ofl was consumed, Eddie Ash .. 6| Radio 19|ing activities Saturday afternoon. jke a blacksnake whip. they were too shaky to reopen im-|of 10th st. where they had set al : Many Seher ually Sonstructioh * Business ..... 16| Reflections .. 10, The boys clamped the lid on volun-| Bogkies and pool room and smoke mediately. |trap for a man who had molested | ® Remember Ponzi? The NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (U. P.).— ures are incorporated in Boots 18| Earl Richert 13 {tarily after learning Prosecator shop operators thought “this is it.”| The gamblers have been living couples parked in cars. Boston “wizard” who milked | An embargo on all international VACANT—Move In: 1708 Shao Classified. 17-18] Mrs. Roosevelt 3 Bike Wh Foing ou a bis fal Riss Ly A numer of ohractert perspised in [hz of Me. Blue So Biles Rig Caliber Different Naty 350.000:000 i of 40.- |press copy was declared effective InSulated atl and, dws: Comics . 19 Eldon Roark 9 all starte en arles 5- | freely. At least two of them were candidate, Alex . Clark, lost the! The man, who had flashed a light small investors in seven lat- 1 p. m. (C.D TY} today by the Aluminum sto sash, asbestos Crossword 12| Scherrer ,.... 10|sell, investigator for the prosecutor's gaiq to have promised to return/G. O. P. prosecutor's nomination | them and snarled “This is a months? | om he { th d oe a nd. din 8 roar: itonn Editqrials 10 Serial . 13 office, strolled over to police head- funds paid to them to “exert their to Judson L. Stark. hold up” fled after the deputies] ® “Paper Empire” revela- Sials of tie Tadic ahd Sables de pullin, Ad Cot Pores Forum . 10 Side Glances 10 quarters for some assistance. .. influence” in certain . quarters.! The police department ls gen-|c. med with him, They fired eight tions of today suggest oth- partment of ‘thie Aenean Commu eng. il gi ce. sae drive 10 G. 1. Rights... 19 Sports 6-7, Investigator Russell asked Police! These functionaries are alleged to! erally allied with Mr. Stark. Once o ou and believed at least one had ar get-rich-quick-Walling- nications association. oar “Saguge in the Meta Given .. 14 Bob Stranahan 6 Chief McMurtry to lend Mr. Blue have informed the payers their in- before, Prosecutor Blue had staged |; ck him. However, their weapons {ord stories’ oF tie past. The action wis. a Fesulk. of the Houses : ol wR Ernie HiIl. 11 Washington. — 10 several officers for a “special raid.” fluence wasn't what it-should be. = |a series of spectacular raids that go... 32 and .38 caliber revolvers. ¢ . id trik i today’s Somplets In Indpls. .. 3 Weather Map 12 At the same time. the prosecutor «By ‘coincidence during the utter reflected poorly on the local force. o,0 of the' victims of the holdup! ® Read the first article in |SiX-day strike against Press Wire- Tn a ‘Inside Indpls 9 Joe Williams. 6/summoned newspaper repditers for confusion, a police squad car crew Asked about the situation, Prose-. pq, qit inspected. Mr. ~Borgman’s, - a series: “Swindlers AIL" less, Ine, : I imes assified Ads Ruth Millett. 9 Women's 14, the event. actually did browse through one or cutor Blue said he preferred not ? _ today on SCORE . : Movies ...... 20, World Affairs 10 The prosecutor was on his way to two suspect. establishments. ( to. comment. 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