Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1947 — Page 2

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ast. By midnight. tonight it be 8s dead as the dodo. ‘Tear up your draft cards, fellows, want to, give 'em to the chew or save them if you want some handy proof of identifi- + cation, “It wont matter after midnigh, The selective service system, whi

Communist Admits ~Changing His Name

NEW YORK, March 31 (U. P).—

He told 3000 persons at a Com‘munist rally yesterday. he was “born and christened Francis Waldron in Seattle, Wash., 42 years ago, of Irish and” Norwegian extraction.” “As Francis Waldron—I even find

I went to school, worked as: an electrical worker, a teamster, a longshoreman and a lumberman,” he said. “And as Franvis Waldron

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world war II, will be no more. After midnight tonight there will be no more presidential “greetings” that sent young men to induction centers during the six and half years—while selective service was in force. Conscientious objectors — . those who ‘refused military service on religious or moral grounds—who ‘are still in public work camps will be freed when the draft agency dies. For teen agers, there is still a possibility. that the draft might be retived if the army and navy cannot meet their requirements volun-

No Co-operation Among Employees

Ome of a Series By DONNA MIKELS : Marion county's child welfare

the shuffie since the county wel-

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tarily,. Universal military training also hangs over their heads. Congress has created a new agency to succeed selective service, called the office of selective service records, This office will liquidate all but about 1200 of the present staff of 7500 paid employees and store the voluminous records collected in over 6%: years of operation.

fare department became engrdssed with intra-department strife, Morale of the child welfare workers is at an all-time low. They know that tomorrow may bring summary dismissal and have no taste for long range planning. Workers un-

MOW DOWN DEER LANSING, Mich. (U. P.).—Arch- 45. 80 per cent of child welfare in ers killed 120 deer in Michigan dur- Marion county. The other 20 per ing 1946, according to Arnold Hau- cent is handled by independent so-

der pressure to keep up a certain gen, president of the Michigan Cial agencies. Archers association. - He said 4243 Admit Own Weakness

amount of “production,” are more; | | bow and arrow hunting licenses| Some independent agencies ad-

I joined the Communist party.”

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in the county welfare department are mirrored in their own agencies because vital co-operation is missing.

‘than in getting it done right.

The department is responsible red FOR 75 YEARS

{in the child welfare program: ONE: Overcrowding' of the. Children’s Guardian home and {shortage of foster homes for de- | pendent children. TWO: Breakdown of adoption _jiprograms resulting in the growth m {of independent adoptions. THREE: Failure of agencies to provide basic care for child neglect The Guardian home is equipped to house 90 children temporarily. iIn recent months, however, it has housed as many as 170. Some children have remained there for months instead of being screened and placed in foster homes. Can't Find Homes The children are not placed out in foster homes because foster homes cannot be found. Few peo--|{ple are willing to board and house welfare children for $7 per week when they can make twice that operating as an independent board‘ing home. Jl Welfare workers estimate 200 foster homes are needed to care for | “desperate” cases and that move

of homes which are not entirely | satisfactory. To obtain more foster homes the majority of .the county’s social agencles asked legislative action to increase per diem board pay for | welfare children to $1.50. It failed. Only Temporary Wards The overcrowded condition of the | Guardian home is frequently pub- | licized and each time dt brings | queries from people who have tried {to adopt children and have been | told there not enough children to | go around. | The only answer social agencies ican give is that the children are not adoptible. In many cases, they .say, the children are only temporary wards during times of illness or marital disturbances in the (family. In others cases, children! are beyond the age wanted by | | adoptive parents. | This answer, however, is not al- | ways satisfactory’ to people who { have waited years to adopt a child. | After so long a time they become {tired of the “red tape” "of child | placement agencies and set out to adopt a child on their own.

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| Alice. Mrs. Mobley, a war widow,

Here are & few of the weak points | held during investigation of the child's death.

SLAIN CHILD'S MOTHER Escorted by Sherif and Mrs. | Hall, Mrs. Ella Mobley, 21, center, leaves the county: jail at | Terre Haute to attend the funeral of her 3-year-old: daughter,

HELD IN CHILD'S DEATH— John Fagan, 23, is shown in the county jail at Terre Haute, Officials said Fagan admitted | beating the litle girl

and John Fagan, 23, are being

| agencies, are talled “wildcat” adop tions by social workers. These wp cial workers take a dim view of | such adoptions because none of the! Pestiibed pre-adoption studies are!

ae a show that 66 adoptions in Marion county — Eid were of the “wildcat” variety. $ This figure makes trained social workers shudder. Children, they say, are being put in uninspected homes, adoptive parents are taking! children who may turn out to be under par mentally or physically. | They also charge that a state law] forbids anyone other than a licensed | child placement agency to arrange an adoption and point to cases where doctors, lawyers or friends introduce people who want a child to a mother willing to place her child out for adoption.

Not Enough Children Basically, the adoption problem here is one of not enough children to go around. There is also a lack of public knowledge of adoption agencies and .the lack of confidence lengthy pre-adoption studies. The third weakness, the lack of ground floor care of child neglect cases, prevails in all of the county's social agencies.

~ damage was estimated at

JERUSALEM, March 31 (U.P).— Nearly sixteen hundred illegal Jewish immigrants from the vessel Moledeth ‘Were deported to Cyprus

: today.”

The deportaition followed a battle

\ | with British troops fh Haifa harbor

~fought against a backdrop of flames from sabotaged oil pipelines. Many refugees and British troops were injured in the dockside fighting which broke out during transfey of the Jews to the deportation 1s Empire Vigour and Empire Rival, . ; A British constable was kilied in a separate incident in Haifa by the accidental discharge of a soldier's

Eight Oil Tanks Explode Jewish underground members of the Stern gang blew up the Shell Oil Co. pipelines at Haifa as the first load of .refugees reached the harbor aboard ‘a British destroyer. Eight mammoth oil storage tanks went up in flames. Fire $16 {million. Six other tanks were im- | periled. Half of the refugees reached |" {Haifa this morning aboard two i British warships which took them from the crippled wooden refugee | vessel about 30 miles off the coast. The other half reached port aboard the vessel, which was towed in by the British. \ Dense smoke shrouded the port during the fighting. Three explosions caused by explosive charges:

Deaths Rise to 9! “In India Rioting

Fighting Continues In Two Cities

BOMBAY, March 31 (U. P).—| Official accounts of bloody rioting | between Hindus and Moslems said | today that 99 persons had been | {killed and 543 wounded in Bombay and Calcutta. These are the two biggest cities in India with a combined population of 3,500,000. Sporadic bursts of violence con- | tinued both here and in Calcutta. For the moment reinforced police

forces and troops appeared to have the situations more or less in hand. Two more persons were killed and seven wounded here today in Hindu-Moslem street fighting. Added to the toll in the initial flareup yesterday, the ecasualties for 24 hours were 42 dead and 144 injured. In Caleutta, British troops and

not ane solely charged with caring for neglected children before they become problems of the juvenile aid

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Unhealthy Homes Under the present setup, children can go to school dirty and ragged, behave in a way that indicates lack of supervision, or become chronic attendance problems. ‘All these things indicate an un‘healthy home situation. And yet

agency until police step in to arrest parents for gross child neglect.

Out of 100 social agencies, there is|

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police fired hundreds of rounds at {rioting Hindus and Moslems. {| The trouble started in Calcutta! last Wednesday, and had broken | out in varying degrees of intensity | every day since. The overall toll! there was reported at 57 dead and | 399 wounded. The streets of Calcutta were almost deserted. Few workers showed | up at government buildings, com-| 7 mercial offices and downtown shops. | Most marketing centers were closed. Fresh food was scarce. Prices were rocketing. An official statement on the

Then a social worker is assigned | {to the case. By that time the chil-! dren have often assumed delin{quency characteristics. The parents | look on the social agency as an,

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11600 Deported. al Haifa After Battle in Harbor

the saboteurs placed under the pipes battered the harbor ares.

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