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VOLUME 57—NUMBER 128

One year ago . . . wounded veterans at Billings hospit al shout with joy as they read The Times peace extra.

Today ... John Morris, former bomber pilot, and his family in their porch home.

Mrs. Morris is ironing.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1946

Sorry Doc, But Things

‘Beaten by Former Marine;

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

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LA FOLLETTE S' DEFEATED IN WISCONSIN

Two Congressmen Trail As Four States Vote.

By UNITED PRESS Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr, who carried on his famous father's Progressive party principles in the senate since 1925, was defeated In his bid to win renomination as a Republican, returns from Wiscon-

Are Tough

day. John Morris, former bomber pilot, is still looking for a house. He is only one of hundreds in the | same fix. But his difficulties epitomize the No. 1 post-war readjustment problem. On V-J day the average G. I. shouted: “When do we go home?” After a year of bewilderment he | asks: “Where can I Rue one?” » ” MR. AND MRS. MORRIS and | their three children are living on the front porch of a home occupied by relatives. Ten people call the| six-room half of a double “home.” The husky veteran piloted a B-24| on 35 missions in Italy.

Mr. Morris came back to a home | Mrs. Morris had rented. The land- | was |

lady's husband, a navy man, discharged. The Morrisses received | an eviction nde.

~ “I HAVE had some pretty good leads,” said Mr. Morris. “But landlords don’t want children on their property.” So the Morrises piled in with relatives. And Mr, Morris keeps on looking, getting the familiar army reply: “Sorry doc, things are tough all over.”

Cynthia, aged seven months, is in

her crib. John Randall, four years, and Stephen Alan, 19 months, play on the floor.

ARE WE STUMBLING TOWARD WAR AGAIN?

By RICHARD LEWIS

Former Sergeant, Paris Stars and Stripes | Sta

Today is one year after the end of the second world war and we are stumbling down the road toward the third one. % It is one year after the war and a good many G. 1s have returned to find # themselves sur- § plus citizens of Indianapolis from | the standpoint of * housing and jobs V-J day actual- “ Hi ly was only a Mr. Lewis

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By DONALD D. HOOVER Former Colonel, General Staff Corps, Gen. MacArthur's G. H. Q. Historians may record V-J day as the anniversary of signing the surrender in Tokyo bay. For those of us in Gen. MacArthur's Manila headquarters, however, V-J day was a year ago today, when Emepror | Hirohito issued his rescript of defeat. For four tense days after Domei, Japanese news agency, had sent word over radio Tokyo indicating surrender was a matter of hours, G. H. Q. had been {feverishly push- ——

ing ahead plans for the last | stretch of that dreary road that| The Times today presents the

had led from views of three staff members, Corregidor to two of whom were in the futalts, back Pacific, and one in Europe, on

through New ! Guinea and the VJ day a year ago.

Philippines, and | | now the Nippon-

ese homeland. ; echelon was hurriedly Equipment was * .

being loaded | |rakingly chosen to go to Japan months ahead of

schedule. Staging of troops who

and . pains~

{ preceeding actual surrender. ‘I was selected as one of three counter-intelligence officers in that

WE GET TOGETHER ONE NIGHT A WEEK

By EARL HOFF Former Major, Gen. MacArthur's Staff

V-J day was over when G. L's in Manila went wild with the realization that at long last they could g0 home. Two weeks had passed since the historic flight from the Philip- ' pines to Japan | Already tucked back in memory was the solemn ' moment aboard the U. S. S. Missoul when the

surrender docuMr. Hoff

were to have par- Mr. Hoover ticipated in fall and spring invasion was rushed along, An advance (Continued on Page 7—Column 2) |

party. When, I, left Manila for

VETERANS STRIKE, HALT 3 GM PLANTS

PONTIAC, Mich, Aug. 14 (U, P). ~A strike of 2200 war veterans for

vacation pay stopped work at General Motors Corp. plants on the anniversary of V-J day foday and idled 20,000 auto workers. The veterans established picket lines before Pontiac, G. M. C. truck and coach and Fisher body plants and C, I. O. United Auto Workers refused to cross the: lines. . Veterans demanded vacation pay for 1946 and asked that a veterans administration. office be established in each of the General Motors plasts.

MES INDEX | 00D TAKES FIRST

Amusements... 18 Aviation °

DROP IN 12 WEEKS

ment was signed.

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MAN INJURED WHEN 6-TON PRESS FALLS

A six-ton press fell on Clarence Padgett, 24, 1724 Southeastern ave. today and he lived to tell about it. sMr, Padgett, a setup man for the! American Manufacturing Co., 313 E. South st., was helping move the press when it went out of control. | He was caught beneath it, receiving probable internal injuries. He was taken to Methodist hospital.

MAY NEGOTIATE STRAITS LONDON, Aug. 14 (U. P.)~ Premier Recep Peker of Turkey indicated in a speech broadcast by Ankara today that the Turks were willing to negotiate a revision of the Montreux convention govern-

ing the contro} of the fpardanelles.

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| nomination to Joseph R. McCarthy, IT HAS been a year since V-J|37-year-old circuit judge who had

sin’s primary showed today. Senator La Follette conceded the

|the support of the regular Republican organization in Wisconsin, Judge McCarthy, with a T000-vote lead, already had claimed victory, | thus marking the end of an Amer{ican political epoch that began In | 1905 when the elder Senator La Follette launched the Progressive | movement. ? Judge ‘McCarthy, a marine corps | captain in world war II, apparently | drew strong support from veterans, | particularly in the Milwaukee area, [formerly a La Follette stronghold. Returns from 3012 of the state's 3146 precincts gave Judge McCarthy | | 198,492 votes to 191453 for Senator La Follette. Senator La Follette indicated he would accept the blow and not seek re-election as an independent in the November election. Vermont Governor Defeated The Wisconsin La Follette race was the top contest in the primary balloting conducted in four states vesterday. Vermont, South Carolina and Arkansas also hela primaries. In Vermont, where the Republican nomination is tantamount to election, Ralph E. Flanders, prominent New England industrialist and | banker, defeated Sterry R. Water- | man, St. Johnsbury lawyer, for the Republican senatorial nomination.

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Mr. Flanders will succeed Warren R. Austin, who resigned to become U. S. delegate to the United Nations,

defeated for renomination by former U. S. Senator Ernest W, Gibson and Rep. Charles A. Plumley, 71,

congress, was renominated for his

eighth term.

Govérnor Goodland Renominated

The issue in Wisconsin was more than a battle between Senator La Follette and Judge McCarthy for the senatorial nominations. It was a fight between the state Republican organization and Mr. La Follette, who led his Progressive party back into the G. O. P, last March. The G. O. P. opposed Mr. La FolJette’s return. The Progressive forces suffered a second setback as 83-year-old Governor Walter S. Goodland ran more than 17,000 votes ahead of Ralph M. Immel, longtime political associate of the La Follette family, in the race for the Republican nomination for governor. Daniel W. Hoan, former Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination easily over Stanley Z. Fajkowski, a Milwaukee tavern keeper. Wisconsin very rarely elects a.Democratic governor, New Deal Congressman H. J. McMurray won the Wisconsin Democratic senatorial nomination with cut onnosition and will oppose Judge McCarthy. Two Congressmen Trailing Of all the congressmen running (for renomination, only one could be definitely counted out early today. He was Rep. Butler B. Hare (D. 8. C), a veteran of 16 years in the house. Rep. Hare was defeated for the Democratic nomination from South Carolina's third district by William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 27, a Greenwood, 8. C., wat veteran. In Wisconsin, ithe C. I. O.'s can=didate, Edmund Bobrowicz, running for Democratic nomination in the fourth district, was leading Rep. Thaddeus Wasielewski, Milwaukee. In the South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial race, Judge J. Strom Thurmond and Dr. James McLeod led a field of 11 candidates and will face each other in

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RIDERS CONFUSED BY PAPER ‘TOKENS’

Rush-hour

{fusion and resentment stemming from new, higher token fares on trolleys and busses, Transit traffic was delayed as much as 10 minutes on some lines hile passengers and drivers disye or wrangled over the in- | creased charge, Tokens went up (from four for a quarter to three for a quarters. At the same time telephone calls | { protesting the highest token fare in the city's history poured into the attorney general's office and the public Service commission at the statehouse. Trolley and bus operators, in compliance with a temporary injunction issued Monday, refused to accept the old metal checks sold previoudly. Numerous riders dropped these metal tokens into the hands of -harrassed drivers, only' to be

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a nerves were jangled even more than usual today by con-|

Remy Asked

To Prosecute Dupont

End Our ‘Houses of Horror’

(AN EDITORIAL)

PROSECUTOR BLUE has racket in Marion county place in his hands.

attacked the nursing home with every weapon the laws

Governor Gates has ordered similar action against

the same racket throughout

the rest -of the state.

They are backed, as they should be, by the complete support of outraged public opinion. Our laws will enable them, no doubt, to shut down the unlicensed, ill-equipped, frequently filthy, fire-traps in which unscrupulous operators have preyed on and mistreated the aged, the ill, and the helpless patients who

fell into their hands. That, It is only the first step.

we believe, must be, done.

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HESE “homes” have sprung up because there is a real

need for sueh service,

That need must still be met.

A “house of horror” could flourish only because these

patients had no other place to go.

They cannot, now,

simply be dumped in the streets.

The real solution, after cutor have done everything

the governor and the prosethey possibly can do, lies in

providing a place where these patients can go, and where

they can live in decency and

safety and comfort. A well-

equipped, properly run, convalescent hospital is the answer. It could be done by the county, or by the city, or by

the state.

Or it could be done by private investors.

In either case such a hospital should be, and could be,

completely self-supporting.

THESE are not charity cases. at a very high rate—for nursing home care.

They pay—{requently The

patients found chained to beds and tables in Mr. Blue's raid last Saturday were paying $25 a week or more—

which is four or five times

stitutions.

as much as the state spends

Governor Mortimer R. Proctor was| to give far better care to the inmates of its public in-

There are an estimated 500 such patients now in

county.

Vermont's only repfesentative in| nursing homes of all grades and standards in Marion

They pay an estimated $500,000 to $700,000 a year for “care” that too often they never get.

These nursing homes

meet all the county’s needs,

nish a fair financial return ment.

move toward cleaning up a

are not charity institutions.

They run el a neat profit—or they wouldn’t run at all.

WITH the right kind of management, and the right kind of equipment, and on a scale large enough to

such a hospital could furnish

decent living conditions for these people, who are mostly too ill to care for themselves and not ill enough to be in a regular hospital—and pay its own way.

It could even furon a private capital invest-

Governor Gates and Mr. Blue have made the first

disgraceful situation. They

should have, now, the support to carry on through to a full, and final solution of the problem they have exposed.

Julietta Space

learned today.

patients At the same time, the eovernét| announced he is seeking femporary | hospital buildings in other parts 0 the state to care for an estimated 400 insane patients, some of whom have been waiting many weeks for hospitalization in the state's overcrowded mental institutions. William Bosson, president of county commissioners, said the board is studying the request “but we don't know yet if it will be possible to handle additional patients due to lack of personnel and equipment.” Budget Limits Personnel

Mr. Bosson said the present personnel and equipment already is overtaxed with the county's regular infirmary inmates, “And TI don’t see how it will be possible to get trained personnel and equipment for mental patients t our present rate of pay and budget limitations,” he said. The commissioners said thére is extra space available at the infirmary but a large amount of equipment will be needed before any patients can be admitted. The first patients to be housed at Julietta, if it is made available, would be those now at the Margaret Colvin nursing home at 1828

Important News On Inside Pages

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Coffee Prices. 101st Airborne \Meets Russians Blast Greek Hey... Barbed Wire Ring rusalem. ..

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Sought

In Hospital Emergency

By NOBLE REED Space in Marion county's Julietta infirmary may be taken over by state and city authorities for temporary housing of scores of mental patients now being cared for improperly in private nursing homes, it was

Governor Gates and Mayor Tyndall have asked county commissioners to consider emergency use of at toast. one Julietta building for these

CITY DEPARTMENTS FACE REVAMPING

(Earlier story, page 5)

City department heads were faced with making major operating cuts after reductions in three department budgets were made last night by the city council. The council last night cut $40,000 from municipal garage requests; $75,000 each from the city engineer, and street commission. In a letter to the department heads, Herman E. Bowers, finance committee chairman, requested that the revised budgets be submitted at a 4 p. m budget session tomorrow. In reducing the three hudgets, the council suggested that wage increases for employees should not “exceed 10 cents over the 1946 appropriations” - The council also suggested that the work week be limited to 44 hours. This cut scrapped Mayor Tyndall's

{Continued on “Page 3-~Column 1) MOTHER, DAUGHTER HURT IN AUTO CRASH

Two women were in fair condi-

their car collided with one driven by Leroy Johnson, 604 N. Senate ave., last night at 30th st. and Capitol ave. Mrs. Anita Fleming of Carmel received possible internal injuries,

» | while her ‘mother, Mrs. Lillian Suzzo

of Carmel, sustained a broken right wrist.

ing a traffic signal and driving with inadequate brakes, was to appear

in Municipal court-3 iy” oy

Johnson, charged with disregard-

Case

LOCAL LAWYER URGED TO JON IN PROBE NOW

Arraignment Now Slated For Friday, but Police May Seek Delay.

(Photos, Page 2)

By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer

DUPONT, Ind., Aug. 14.— Will H. Remy, Indianapolis | safety board president—who achieved fame as prosecutor in the D. C. Stephenson case —has been asked to become special investigator and prosecutor Lin Dupont's mercury poisoning mys- ° tery. In Sdintiapolis. Mr. Remy had no comment to make. But loeal authorities said he had been ap. proached and was exploring the entire situation before making a decision, Convinced his mother, Mrs, Minnie McConnell,

ing, Connell, local hardware mer. chant was reported to have

Jefferson county Jall at Madison, charged with Mrs. McConnell's murder, State police also charge that she poisoned Mr. McConnell’s wife, Mayme, who has recovered from the effects of the mercury. Arraignment Friday The thought was expressed In Madison that somebody with wide experience in criminal prosecution, like Mr. Remy, should be called in ° to assist Prosecutor Donald Bear; State police working on the case also were reported. trying to induce Mr. Remy to help with the investi gation and prosecute the case, Meanwhile Mrs. Lockman's ar. raignment before Peace Justice Elmer Crozier is scheduled for Friday although state police said they may ask a continuance in an effort to gather more evidence. Information so far gathered is “purely circumstantial,” State Police Capt. Robert O'Neal said. Dupont was flooded with rumors this morning that Mrs. Lockman had attempted suicide. The rumors started when three physicians wera called to the jail, but two of them were examing a mental patient and the other was vaccinating prisoners, Mrs, Lockman is in good health, jailers reported. A suggestion that there was

(Continued on Page 3—Column 1) BYRNES WANTS PACTS TO GUARANTEE RIGHTS (Conference Details, Page Five)

PARIS, Aug. 14 (U. P).—Secrétary of State James F. Byrnes

———| pledged the United States delega-

tion to the peace conference today to make every effort to include a guarantee of “human rights and freedoms” in the peace treaties, Mr. Byrnes’ office made public his promise, made in an exchange of correspondence with Dr. Everett Clinchy, president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

CHRYSLER PLANT SHUT DOWN DETROIT, Aug. 14 (U. P.)— Chrysler Corp. announced today that 1100 workers walked out today in the trim shop of the main Dodge plant, forcing layoff of 6500 workers and a shutdown of the final as« sembly lines,

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Purchaser of Late Model Home

May Move Into It Immediately With new construction lagging because of material shortages, the probable solution for those who must have possession quickly is to investigate the newer existing homes offered for sale . . ,