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| Vi " ur StateHospitals g~ Lee al View of Rush Hour tu «G1. Says Lee hay Beis ‘Covered Up

Two-Year Survey Handed to Gates

By ROBERT BLOEM | . Conclusion of a two-year survey of hospital facilities available to © ore Yo © Hoosiers revealed today that In-! diana has few more than half the |e —— m————— —_—————

t hospital beds It needs. Ble «de $n Ge . rey Womtios in 1945 wi Bleeds to Death Day Room Provi o a d ed G Gates by the . Rate’ department of publi neatn, AS Saw Rips | f k h ehensive hos- | . { Bon pian for bringing howpita1 care JUgUlar Vein Atter Ruar Expose; in S., er CE aAR OLD man was Killed ‘le ital pl ras drafted wit e| - - IA Hosp i chy — and. health today when a circular saw he was Saluting Is Reduced center ‘planning council. operating - broke and severed his

According to the survey, Indiana | ol i Re ea tov {ugular vein, Colonels Accompany Correspondents, Gen

for each 1000 population, The The victim, Charles E. Knepper, Wyche on Tours and Soldiers Don't Speak Up standards set up under the federal president and treasurer of the By Serippe-Howard Newspapers

hospital and health center con- Newspaper Boys of America, an ad-| Long before Inspector Gen, Ira T. Wyche arrived at struction program is 4.5 beds. {vertising novelty concern, was oper- I : : A .eghorn, Italy, even before other newspaper reporters on

Based on 1940 Census p ating a saw on the seventh floor of | , . ys . : . Actually, thie ratio probably 18 ne wulsin bidg. at the time of the|® guided tour” were ushered into Lt. Gen. John C. H.

somewhat less than that shown be-| =... | Lee's hehdquarters, the conditions which Scripps-Howard

cause the population basis was the : i : : ‘ ist R . 1940 census, while the number of| Witnesses said he was cutting a Columnist Robert Ruark exposed had been cleaned up and

beds reflected the situation in 1945. Strip of art ‘for an advertisement cgyered up.

/when the saw broke. Nearly one-| CT . » v 8. en the population Was, o. ot"ihe saw ripped into the A description of how that happened has come in a series

OT the total general hospite) Heal around ‘his neck and collar- of letters Which a G. I., on duty in Leghorn, wrote home to

beds available, about one-fourth are| om: his mother.

M1 The victifn staggered 20 feet and : : in aged and non-fire resistive build-| (yon io’ oie oe newsianers, | The soldier's name and home town are withheld here,

ings,” the report said. . A . "3 { i is : Ey Et OF TOL WiLLIAN RESNO LDS. 4a. ea. for the obvious reason of protecting him from possible puni BIRDS' EYE VIEW A . | » f th G d bli + h h d h h df | f ous and mental patients are even ployee of the company, dropped to tive action, But the letters (unsolicited) and envelopes have IRL —An aerial view from the Goodyear blimp at rush hour yesterday shows a handful of Cars ies adequate, the report showed. nis knees and attempted to stop been examined, and their authenticity established. The causing jams all over the mile square. Parking lots such as the one at Vermont and Pennsylvania sts. (see arrow up- | “There were 28 nervous and (né Mow of blood by pressing quotations, culled from the young soldier's letter tell the

per right) are still half full but already cars are clogging up. Illustrative of one “traffic-less traffic jam'' is the [mental beds per 1000 population, ggainst the vein. o clogged up eastbound traffic at the New York st.-Massachusetts ave. intersection (see arrow lower left). With While we need five,” the report sald.| police emergency squad and city story: 3 ii la : 20 . . . . ITh NO | Moreover, the survey revealed the poenital ambulance doctors failed On receiving a clipping of the first Ruark article, the

© par ed cars, no westbound traffic and not enough traffic on Massachusettes ave. to cause the clog, there's still moopital Shuaticis In general wan, save the vietim's fe with oxy-/G. I. wrote: * va jam, | a “ gen and blood plasma, “ : . un ; rs y | ly-populated areas, but became pro-, mmployses of the company said That article really ‘went over with a bang. We had gressively worse in sections of less npr. Knepper often helped out in heard they were writing]

# x = ; . 8 = ar x» | — Plan Crackdown Survey Shows Jams Result 4 Slayings Shock popatuson und sea comin hg show and. ~esew ail here was about, Lue i. the states wt awey Indorses

: : , Key Facilities Needed | Mr, Knepper is survived by his that was the first we'd seen.

. 8 } | On Jay-Walkers From Cars Moving Too Slow |{finois Town | “Chronic and convalescent facil- wife Kathleen, and a daughter, I kind of Frere they ou Universal I . . Clogged Traffic Unable fo Shift Fast | (7 Mela pl mi eet vay vith tis ind of UfIIVEISaL, 1TAINING Work on Ordinance | ’ Enough to Make Up for Lost Time 1 Kills. Wife, Father, [>t “Development of facilities for Expect 5. [OUS, dome wav. Welcomes Legion

i > : . {this type patient has remained up| The G. I. recognized a newspaper i . hat Ta: Provide Penalties | sui sou Tndisnapolis—s time of teeming trate, snarled teh Ohl" Self; Friend Dead jio_ nsivd al ProliSiors and. ine ' . picture of Bob, Ruatk 44 the tan Convention fo N. Y. ' Pedestrians who laughed today at cars, clamoring horns, imperiled pedestrians and hopelessly bewildered! SHELBYVILLE. nL, Aug. 28 (Uy ae ne =v To Attend Fair he had visited Leghorn y BULLETIN . “motorists caught for speeding are traffic officers. wo wi Rake Ene Rolly of a £2. Bon. Ee ces po hospitals 108 the i ae don a NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (U. BR.) soon to find themselves included in From a motorist's eye view it looks like every automobile in mn ; : : 4 : his Wile, root “ehronje patients who need. rie in Re d Ri boys. lot he esti; "the Preient Tein sald today in the city-wide traffic crackdown. |dianapolis and & few from the country are trying to, crowd into the|iis father and himself was found special care: at intervals 3 Dsedy Curtain Ready fo se "ov 8 3 " to the 29th national It was learned today the city safety mile square all at once. today outside a. skating ring where | 1" ore cart "On Event Tomorrow | (Photo, Pake 3). American Legion convention that d and police traffic department| A birds’ eye view, however, pre- she. Wile was sialn, baste ave Skiing I sous of) Ln Even) wrote "He certainly 1s Wajng & 1of| ‘he United Siates “must be so re working on & new city ordinance sents a different picture. | The jam was the result of fot too | William Mogg. 33, was found dead, to Be a care for a oy Hw Approximately 35,000 persons a if re take notice of it. | strong that ne aggressor, however that will put “teeth” in the regula- |i. A Times’ aerial survey of key many cars, but of cars moving too is throat slashed and his head, _ | expected to begin pouring through © .| rash, can persuade himself that tions

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§ wounded, in a clump of tall rass Patients. Neither are such patients “You asked about the $4 organety bop | pediestaians crossing Wie; hg sg To a (slowly. Hovering over dOWDOWN | goross a road from the skating rink Able to afford hospitalization on the Fairground gates at 6 a. m. lomor-|ization. That is known as the we are open to conquest.” The traMé department today re-| were the most hopelessly snarled Indianapolis in the Goodyear blimp, where Helton last night killed his eve! ot general hospital costs.” TOW Jor She opening guy of he In {American- British Ieliowship. Mt ¥a NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (U. P).— mr aa an ne. WAT. Iu eo nth aherers walchad parking lot 16-veur ld wie ncauelne, and Heulh ener (clos placing S43 Bs coer eon The way OOF Thauas E. Dovey wal pieieStsians Who toss in the middle ratio of ‘automobiles to space. jemptied their loads te Yue Hrests, Voul 12 oy yet, a "€° than curative medicine were de- free tickets given to 4-H club mem- {; worked, every man in our com- [comed the 20th national American a aga { ’. % en " / light at a Age] g A Traffic Unable to Move Fast Enough | Jacqueline and Walter had been scribed as “woefully inadequate in bets te . 10205: nad pany was more or less put on the Legion convention today. Get Warnings N | The first signs of the 5 o'clock and Delaware sts. a motorist mak- members of a small group attend- Indiana. od ug year Ee a tod 2 dat spot to join. As each man got paid| He congratulated the Legion on ol armngy NOW | : ing a turn off New York st. onto|In§ & private party at the rink| The second repori—-the hospital) a;milssions ang an E91 ; he was approached by an officer andy, fop¢ against the “menace of Inspector Audry Jacobs of the jam were cars filling up at the in- Massachusetts ave, jammed east/When Helton walked in and began : Plan—gave promise, however, for|©f 30,000 for the opening day, (as he was walking away he was * aod ealish d trafic department said police had |{ersection, usually blocked behind a, *SCTEE CS 0 Se Tl men shooting. Jacqueline tried to es. | F2Pid improvement in the situation, Paid admissions for the eight asked to join, I didn't get asked nism” and called for a unibeen given instructions to keep @| us or another motorist making a rari) olirh a, I Oe. |cape, but was slowed by her skates. | The plan would be administered by| day event are expected to total because I got paid late. . versal military training program te sharp eye on’ pedestrians as they tarlly, 8 : n Authorities’ were: attemptin to! the state, but financed under the more than 750,000. An advanc2d| “The men in the staff depart- help America “win the peace.” crossed the street, He said the turn. : |powever, the intersection Was Bk Mogg's death with piss of [federal hospital construction act to| reduced price sale of 250,000 ticke's ments were forced to join it. It's! Governor Dewey spoke a few eee are fe TR i re hls (dogged oignidindhoniligion | mr members of Helton's family, |°Wid new facilities or additions to| ®* re sold In five days. Last yea: really a big joke all around.” minutes after the convention was now. When the new ordinance is | BE i aE at ae nna ake Te Jost tine | Mogg's mother said her son | existing ones, where they are! 627,573 persons paid to see the fair.) Brushes Too Noisy jcalled to order by National Compassed he said police would be able | PoC ! g Pp . needed, Record Poultry Entries | The G. I. commented on Mr./mander Paul H. Griffith, Mr.

. | 4 {started out for the rink last night, { y to make penalties against jay- tions. In other cases buses loading or| of ‘tire rink said he mh Given Head Start: | A record number of livestock and Ruark’s statement that cars were Dewey sald, “We are living in a

t. In almost every such case, how- unloading, a double-parked car, or (Operators NR a ao pale ko ever: three-fourths of the block was/a jay-walking pedestrian caused a 2rrived. Dr. LeRoy Burney, state health POUItTY © Bites eve ben Zeceived int permitied Yo Suve in foqut of world Which an aL" - another phase of the city’s revi-| virtually empty of cars at the same momentary jam. Slays Father in Bed commissioner, pointed out that In-| as Sas, PIEpATS ins ate 8 : ,

“ ’ | , , {being made by exhibitors, fair of- “Boy, that is so true” said one He sald America must take the talized traffic clean-up which has time a jam existed at the intersec-| In each case the pattern repeated | Mogg's body was found about diana’s plan was started many| ©" letter. “In fact, you can’t walk near|lead in the struggle for peace but brought the arrest of 434 speeding tion. : itself. The few cars on the street

inoon. He had been dead about 10 months before the federal law was [\¢ials and concessionaires. , , {warned that “to win motorists since Monday morning. A variety of incidents caused the ‘were all clogged together, possibly ‘© 13 hours, . authorities believed. | enacted, giving the Hoosier slatel Some 400 exirs hog Jou were he Sompound - oH ig the must remain hid ne os Thirty-three of these arrests original jams, {because the lead motorists’ 20-miles | "018 ii ging Hime Pi Jigs love ed star, in making use YE ommodats » a oy yo supply room but 1 guess the noise stronger.” .| At the three-stre section idn't allow th elton’s de- . : | ere made today a Juoloreyeie of ot Siri oes Intersection 35 Hout speed didnt = ow Shem | arture from the rink in his war-| Twenty-six communities already eniered lor Prizes ih 360 ~different os rushes eas ho el, - Mr Johasod Makes. Rati vélore ; ) " Gi surplus jeep, |are planning new hospitals of vari- Classifications, Total number of : + 2 I8eY . down in traffic throughout the city. | w | . | ' . is 137 “That fellow Ruark really has'a convention alread : From the rink, Helfon drove to ous types, while 42 others lan-{PeDs 18 1376, | ntion already committed to Emphasis on the trae violation] YWOrst Jam at Multiple Intersections | , : ers are plan ; something and 1. Jobs be eared : by motorists came after a state-| The worst jams were at the mul- [into the second lane to try to make He lam Some 8 his fathed “4 ning to $5pane present hopitals,|_ A Seid of nen ym horses In rough, ele Ne surtien 1 4 Neos Tata in fajop of whi ; y ! i . " » 8 | Dr. Burney said. 4 f ' " By 1 . 4 ment by Mayor Denny that he tiplé intersection streets, where the green light. Instead the sec-| 0 =p" G0" (00 nis| The ney ts showed Indian. fillies and colts will be on exhibit, |hrilled ta see that article. Send had before it the report of its forwas well satisfied with the move pedestrians fighting with cars mak- ond and third lane became blocked | er When oBe aioe le apob bo eposts 8 owed Tndian Harness racing will begin Saturday ©YeTY installment. I hope the pea-|eign relations committes which to “bring all trafic plans up to ing right and left turns were hold- and a bus was caught in the center ct apo'ls ave acceptable hos- ; ’ "ple in the Stat il . nism date.” : 4 ? "ling up as many as five arteries of of the jam. [Re husbania, ok ule: Shaliwetd pital beds ured only 138 which. do er fund Ctreit mac. BC re ow I i ae Tic ra Grand If cot ‘We Are Working Hard’ [traffic To a motorist in the middle of! ’k_into Shelbyville not meet, either federal or state : A - a line of stuff.” Y 2 YWe are working DE to relieve] A photo taken from the blimp atu mass it must have seemed as and parked his jeep, then hiked standards. The number of beds Some 9% chickens ang yabbits Gripe About Redeployment fo ng arr rn traffic congestion and prevent loss one of the many jams illustrated if several hundred cars were crowd-| Pack to his father's farmhouse, needed and presumably to be PrO-| owed by Head 8) Saetle WIL The next letter was written after| York Mayor William O'Dwyer The of life caused by trafic accidents,” [graphically the problem in many ing that particular intersection, | SHef ©. ©. Clawson saig. Claw- vided under the plan is 3233, | “The 25th annual Indiana State /N°T Ruark articles had reached response to the welcoming address he said. ‘ cases was one of not too many cars| An actual count, however, showed | epu- | Fa i actor. | €BDOIN and Gen. Lee had invited {was made by Louis A. Johnson of Frank Y. Hardy, traffic engineer, but too little speed. there were only 14 cars and a bus| tion 1° 7 She Soce. alter ds n, BODILs OF COUPLE FOUND i Sar oy aad of go other newspapermen to inspect his| West Virginia, a past national Lesaid today that pedestrians were) A Jam of east bound New York on that block of New York st. dur-| : OMAHA, Neb., Aug, 28 (U, P.).—|Cl ‘command. : |gion commander and { ¢ ’ : , Neb, \ , P.) —|Clyde Williams, - ormer assistpartly to blame for congestion at|st. traffic at Massachusetts ave.|ing the jam—there were no parked], A posse found Donald Heltonysiry, sheriffs office reported that| The Indiana Boys’ Camp started, IMin§8 are really going to ant secretary of war. : busy intersects lasted several minutes. The inside bo y on the floor of a room of the P bounce tomorrow,” th | Mr. J y Sections, . |cars, no west bound traffic. lta: house early today {the bodies of a young man and altoday with 500‘ 4-H Club members|. orrow,” the G. I. wrote.| Mr. ohnson said that the legion He said: “We may be nearingilane Was blocked by a motorist| Iffshort, there was no real traffic, mu oo'voioved he had killed him. "OAR Were found today in a clump attending The figure includes live-| Reporters are coming in from the|“stands firmly united behind our the time when it is necessary to making a left turn. Cars pulled |—just a “traffic” jam. of blood-spattered bushes along alstock judging teams ‘and those States and everyone is just waiting|government in its efforts to prevent install special traffic signals which - {highway near Boys Town, Neb. Ishowing livestock. to let them have the real story. ihe spread of Red fascism.” Of course, the big wheels (high of- | War Secretary Speaks

» » oR. { tell pedestrians exactly when they N vi : ras — pay cross the street.” te] 0 uto eaths Cut Il i th | cers) had a conference all day to-| Secretary of War Kenneth © He: pointed. out. that. pedestrians Le . | g n ing - J edar- d estnut Mare day and I expect they will orient Royall fold the convention that grossing just before the green light } Lifetime Safe Pla | us before the reporters come. The “we court national disaster when shanges may still be caught in the Y n | Shows A No § N ¥ (men have decided to tell the truth we lose progress and adaptability intersection and thus hold up traf- ORFOLK, Va. Aug. 28 (U. P.).—This seaport city has a reputation | p Nery Blast se or ews (and so it looks bad for old John!in national defense.”

fic coming from the opposite di- of being one of the safest traffic cities in the nation because of its i ; Lee and his stooges. Boy, I hope Mr. Royall said the United States “gradle-ta-the-grave™ safety program, eity officials said today. | WHITING, Tod. Aug. 28 <U. 75 Predicts Dewey Election, Calls New Lengthy |they get it good. {must maintain a military establish-

With the anti-speeding drive at Norfolk, which has one car for every 64 persons, as compared with —One man was killed and three Hemline Style ‘No Good’; Thinks Hitler Alive | ‘One of the things the men, are ment which will say “unmistakabily

height, Al eo {going to gripe about is redeploy- . its ght, Feeney, Democratic one for every 2.9 persons in Los Angeles, which has the highest trafic others were injured today when two By GENE WOOD, United Press Staff Writer ment. They never send a Ra a he world, we. Intend

eandidate for mayor, scored 20- death rate per 100,000 population, holds a record of more than 250 mil- ! rwise mile-an-hour zones-as outdated and lion man days With a traffic fatale j— sm an mil= Standard Oil refinery stills ex- RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 28.—Lady Wonderful is a horse of another home until aBout a week or two/tion would have it othe We

ion i ———] unworkable in an attack on the ity. ; from’ any of the groups Involved, bioded and burned In two successive color. before his time is up and most of are prepared to meet a war.

eity’s traffic control am. Rather they act as a group of indi-| . | Those who know her say that she has all the answers—but she ch | The 27t “Indianapolis i the], No jes estrian from Nov. 20, 1944, |Vidusls en b Feapenn The body of Julius Kipaz, 52, a can't talk. This lady puts down her answers on paper using her nose (Continued on Page 3-Column 4) 8 3 1a | eu veptiun ot examples set by other modern cities mp oy. * bilit {helper on the stills, was found in| to pluni out letters on a special keyboard devised by Mrs. Claudia - STE i ; y through March 29, 1047. Norfolk's pw, "nd Working together in aniy., unoidering debris of a pump Fonda, her owner. composed of wives, mothers, daugh-

|self a few minutes earlier.

phich have Setignaled aussi high record for the first six months of Sano, 40 ® 800 Job, city OM! room, one of the hundreds of units] Mrs. Fonda raised the 23-year-old] Woman Confesses im x. inn by Nimits 3 that trafic ioay flow this year was 4.3 deaths per 100,000 | Every Child Trai dotting the world's largest refinery dark chestnut mare from a wobbly horse gives all the answers with a (Mrs No ~ H Pea : pasties by Speed y and quickly” he said, |POPulation, the lowest of all U. 8. he ois, Tru ing (s STeR. colt. The Lady was trained for|¥Yaight face. When she makes an . rion Py dent A, of iy smooth! quickly, cities of 200,000 persons or more. aond a pu ie ety 1 The second fire, which broke out|general farm work but she became ®TOr she whinnies to indicate wt Hank eaw S| ET re: that more than LOCAL TEMPERATURES | Tt Didn't ‘Just Happen’ plan,” under which police concen ™, 1% HOUTS after the original ex- stubborn and took to prognosticat, és SUAIting all over again. dying rr Sam... 68 City officials said this low fatal-|trate on. eliminating. the worst of~ plosion, was brought under con- ing instead, Mrs. Fonda said. Says Hitler Alive | (Continued on Page 3—Column 1) Yam....69 Bivias ity rate did not “ happen.” .|fenses. The trac engineer gives trol soon, The stills produced 24,000 “We couldn't get the harness on W Dr. Thomas L. Garrett, editor of CHICAGO, Aug. 28 (U, PI! ! Sam... 1 They attributed to the “three his full time 40 accident prevention barrels of gasoline daily and 1088 her,” Mrs. Fonda said. Your Mind,” a psychology digest, The wife ‘of an escaped inmate of e's—education, enforcement and|through traffic control of MOF Ve-| rr, bur WAS Tegarded as se- Taught to Spell galled lady “gisiine Phesiome. 55, Joa ER re waned Yoday Times Bubble Gum ~ engineering” a program which has hicles and pedestrians, ht dwestern consumers who! 1 ,dy'y amazing career started] pads soo, cPiember lssue. | Sut his body up with a hack.| Contest Tomorrow -{been conducted here for 10 years. ,| In educational field, every ve bullt up a record-breaking de- when she was just past four months. Js Answers cover 4. wide range : d ris oy Ce 2 The long-range program did notichild f the first grade through mang for fuel. She dragged a batch of children's ot Subjects. or SAD le, she saysfaw 2nd river . Pitoes Into hel begin to show results until after high school receives safety training! swGENTINE PAPER CLOSED |V00den blocks out of the rubbish), De will line style Mrs, Anna. Sosnowski, 80, surren.- | the war, * in the form of specially prepared BUENOS AIRES H and started arranging them in line president and | Fit : 8 next) ered. io police f ’ hou fter| fair will gef under The department of public safety lesson sheets,’ safety .posters and f Aug, 28 £U,P; on the ground. Oa. her. 4 tlive in rts of the roty had rey {a ~ morta Wil the safety patrols. ; padiocked|y, ied a Hinton Sorta i the High school students receive driv-| ewspaper Vangusrdia : ¢ hod iliaue; squirie, punches hel She said she married him tw ing lessons in dual control mutomo- spell, CAEYS, | adding, ubttaciing, ¢ od” of ; : multiplying and dividing. Mes Fonda Tea ars \started Lady on numerals. by cutting! up slips of paper inscribed with the | ux “I swear on a stack of Bibles," on riMrs. Fonda said, “My ‘Lady’ without