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| EE D ooh YEAR—NUMBER 155 wr ] . Golden Rule Days— 64,000 Troop Back To Indianapolis Schools

.4000 6-Year-Olds Enter First Grade; _ “All Teaching Positions Are Filled APPLES WERE SHINED and so were faces today as an estimated 64,000 Indianapolis school children got back in the bookstrap harness. 2 ‘While the expected enrollment is not a record in city school history, the figure each year is creeping back toward an all-time high set some 10 years ago.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1947

Polite But Chilly— gids

Army Police | Trail Ruark At Leghorn

Writer Finds ‘Things Looking Better”

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At that time more thdn 68,000 youngsters were enrolled in the public schools

alone. This year city schools ex- |

pect to register about 55,000 and parochial schools some 9000. And today is the big day when

youngsters expected over last year,

made by 3000 pupils.

High schools now are in full | swing, ' Elementary school pupils |

will go half days today and tomorrow. Pirst-graders will break into school life gradually. ' They will not start full days until next week. As the term opened, Virgil Stinebaugh, school superintendent, said that for the first time in years, every teaching position in the public schools is filled. The | staff today totals 2160, an increase of 35 teachers. » LJ ”

LITTLE DIFFICULTY is an-

rollment. Many schools have ‘rooms not even being used. Certain areas, however, where there

ing, might provoke some problems.

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FIRST GRADERS—SCHOOL 2-=These five beginners at School 2 look as if they're enjoying their first day as Mrs. Frank Hall, 6969 College ave., a member of the Medical ‘auxiliary assisting: school nurses in compiling ‘individual health records, chats with them. Seated left to right are Virginia Rose Roberts, 214 E. 10th ski James Hutchison, 626 N. Alabama st.: Judith Ann Morgan, 313 E. St. Clair st.; Ronnie Lee Kuykendall, 219 E. 10th st.,

But Says Reforms Are Still Needed

By ROBERT C. RUARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer LEGHORN, Sept. 8.—I have returned to Leghorn and

find myself loved for my sunny nature by a great many peo= ‘ple below the rank of lieutenant colonel. : | This is because of some pieces 1 wrote criticizing Gen.

\J. C. H. Lee's Italian organization.

As soon as I'reached Rome the army CID slapped a tail

jon me which I have been un-]

|ride with friends it is never

| long before the old headlights ap-|

| pear behind me and sometimes I have to get out of the car in al pouring rain in order to protect my, friends, |

This interest of the army in my life is a sincere effort to isolate the

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Robert C. Ruark, Times cole umnist, whose recent series of articles on conditions under the command of Lt. Gen, J. C. H, Lee resulted in a war department ine vestigation, went back to Haly to confer with Maj. Gen. Ira Thomas Wyche, the inspector general, af the latter's request. Mr. Ruark's conversation was under oath and cannot be divulged. Meanwhile,

people who tell me about naughty doings and such. I am now known as the kiss of death in the army and to smile at me is to blight one's career, However, I have been running a 20-hour salon with a pad in one hand and a pencil in the other.| 1 got stopped We meet secretly in garrets and night and woun places and they talk and I write particulars on

things «down, signed, too, by By LYLE C. wiLsoN | Sometimes my friends bring aliwill not disclose but whose per United Press Staff Correspondent sorts of papers and reports and mission I have to WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Ameri- signed statements and documented necessary. can IN are back in the|eyewitness accounts. And abavel wu omoial welcome home world revolution groove today. They | &!l, they bring the kind of stuff!) hag been chilly but ‘have set up a special school for that will stand up in court. Oddly noite, I Had a three-hotir key party members te heat up their SHoUgh they are not all SUeC under oath with Inspec ‘| propaganda: . > | Wyche. I can’t talk abot’ 4 The propaganda textbook is franig, I Was sitting the other night with ,meia] view here has The : ; be Be ; Ca in its objectives, as" this sample fsome doctors and provost marshalsiam a liar, a simpleton or a Come dg 3 Ri 0) —— A 8 i from ‘page 30 will demonstrate: |and execs and engineers and they munist spy. But that is a view 2 E 4 ; : “The first thing that must be were all officers, is shared by very few people, e, the thing with which to be- . o is to form a united tront, to Enlisted Men's Food Is Now ‘1000 Times Better’ establish unity of action of the| I CAN put up with it all because what do you know? The traffis \workers in every factory, in every of the people who rush up and cops are Italians now. Before they district, in every region, in every shake my hand and the men—offl-| American MPs largely at time county, all over the world, Unity cers and enlisted men alike—who of action on a national and inter- have come to me with their prob. {of Writing. Members of a crack national scale is the mighty weapon lems, hopes, plaints and hates. Since NoWro MP company, {which renders the working elass/my series began, changes have al- “Things have changed on Bent capable not only of successful de- ready been made, Arm Boulevard, too. On that shork {fense but also of successful counters| The headquarters company fel-|strip of concrete which runs past attack against fascism (gapitalism), lows say. that the food is not 100, Gen. Lee's offices there used to be against’ the class enemy. but 1000 times better. There is aa big sign which said off limits for Results Are Felt {curious diminishment in the ranks anything but sedans. Now the sign v 'of the MPs ever since I murmured |says off limits to everything but " | Results of the teaching in the oo ..ipino shout their being used|passenger vehicles which allows OLD TIMERS— HOWE — These juniors at Howe | Propaganda school located 3 New|, traffic detail chiefly for the pur-|official jeeps and other transport to Hialy staved outside as long as the id. in the lore. {York are beginning to be fe How pose of saluting staff cars. The achieve the next building without 9 y . ng ey could. In The Tore- |in Communist party circles through-/ number has dwindled rapidly andidetouring a mile. ground are Ruth Davis, 1310 Edwards, and Dana Crapo, ou ie SORE, Stents ve no Con Lee Picks Up Hitchhikers. Too . $e A . { formed that Communist tactics a 3 ' 21 N. Colorado ave. Going upstairs are Vera Davis, 509 | strateny now are exactly a6 they| GEN. LEE hae come. owl Withllonger oft Hinits to all but residents N. Bradley, and Don Dougherty, 6808 E. Washington st. | were in 1935 when the Communist] 3 3 1 om urlew 10F rs re - miter een - | the common touch since ‘I wrote . Hl. Internationale, was booming the officers where once there was none, world revolution. School graduates about enlisted men drivers and has| po listed men are no longer required are filtering back to their homes been making a great point of notito walk on the ‘opposite side of with the gospel. lonly driving his own jeep but ofithe street from MTOUSA headThe party school text book is a picking up hifch-hikers. {quarters during office hours. Oh 10-year-old volunte by Georgi Di-| ‘The boys can get married again yes, the “boys: in the headquarters

fw and Ronald Eugene Thompson, 41 W. | 1th st. AST TIME : ” : id i ; Ga sb ei

T WAS A I$ TOL YOU

Ul. S. Reds Open : ‘Revolt’ School

Form United Front, Communists Told

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FIRST GRADERS—BUTLER—As excited as the first graders in primary school, these co-eds look over the textbooks for their freshman year at Butler university. Snapped as they perched on a campus ledge the first time are (left to right} Mary Jordan, 22 Jenny Lane; Suzanne Johnson, 1328 N. Wallace st., and Dona Dean, 37 Fall Creek pkwy.

Too Many Operations Seen Motorist Injured UMT Is No. 1 Objective Unnecessary by Doctor 1, | .¢ 4g Crash ©f Legion, O'Neil Says

. . American College of Surgeons Speaker Asks New Commander Here Asserts Nation's : | the revolutionary Communist Inter- to be allowed to enter the theater. was built at feverish pace. Ex

Hospitals Bar Unqualified Physicians Armed Forces Have Dwindled Dangerously nationale and now prime minister I- would” put ‘that under the head- pedite was the word. By PAUL F: ELLIS, United Press Science Writer A warning that the nation's armed forces have dwindled danger- of Bulgaria ing of curious coincidence since it| Things have eased up in the big NEW YORK, Sept. 8.— A Pennsylvania surgeon said today that | ously low was sounded today by James F. O'Neil, new national €Om-| , whe hook is “The United Front,” happened shortly after the storm disciplinary training camp since my unnecessary operations were being performed too frequently and ' | published by International Publish- broke. J would lump under - the first call. Things are looking better

that the nation’s hospitals should deny surgical privileges to the] A Terre Haute man was critically Here to take over the reigms of the Legion, he said the No. 1 oe New York City, It was pre- Same heading the odd fact that|all over, but a lot of things still unqualified physician. injured when his car sideswiped a issue the organization will back will be universal military training. pared by Mr. Dimitrov as an at-| Viareggio, the seaside resort, is no'stink out loud.

The speaker was Dr. Harold L. Foss, surgeon-in-chief of the “Security of the nation comes first,” Mr. O'Neil sald. “Right NOW tack on fascism and, especially, y i ?

: : semi- y sh ainst - 4 ; i — George F. Geisinger Memorial “hospital, Danville, Pa, who addressed semi-trailer, broshed ag 50° | the world is engaged in a war of o/upon Nazi Germany. Now by sub-

Terre Haute Park Head In 3-Way™ Wreck

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the opening session of the Clinical, . iia ia — vo ——— JOLIET CRI" AMA NOUse trailer and | ideologies centéring around this Vas vatjed to government servic stituting “capitalism” for “fascism” Congress of the American College | stitution to -all except those duly whipped into a ditch in front of country and Russia. iin a civilian capacity. He was SP- | where the word appears in the text, of Gi | 7 F d of Surgeons. | qualified.” the Drive-In theater on U. S. 40. Must Be Prepared [cial assistant to the assistant sec- and “United States” for “Germany,” wr ’ ’/ oun f He told his. colleagues that “it| Dr. Foss also said the return of The injured man, Roger Winter,| “There is no shooting war yet. Tretary of the navy for air until last| the Communists use Mr. Dimitrov’s In Massachusetts For is known to most of us that in| neary 40,000 young medical officers 40, superintendent of public parks hope none develops. But we must year, | book as a manual for political ac- * p LAWRENCE, Mass, Sept, 8 (U. Pleading guilty to a manslaughter P.) ~The ravished body of a 7-year- charge, Charles Mason Elliott, 18, lold gir] who had been beaten to of 2210 E. 75th st, was sentenced

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certain hospitals ill-advised or| civil life had caused a new prob. at Terre Haute, and a companion, be prepared. If there is any threat, Bas Two Sons tion -in this country.

poorly performed operative pro- "| James Conover, 40, a member of to world peace, Russia poses it. | : ll | The changed situation for which cedures are performed.” lem. These young doctors, he said, the park board at Terre Haute and| “This country must be in posi- | Now 49 years old, he is married oommunists look and hope here is

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“Some operations,” he said, “are now .out of uniform are “clamorous principal of Garfield High school, | tion not to bluff Russia but to back and has two sons. Kenneth, who i8'a bitter depression.

unnecessarily done, some, although for further experience” and that were,en ‘route to Noblesville to! indications may be clear, unskill-| there was not enough resident po-|attend a meeting of the Indiana | fully performed while unnecessary sitions to meet the demand. {Municipal Parks and Recreation | complications follow in the wake of | association.

dS ininespemienceq surgeons when Mr. Conover, who was unhurt

fections too frequently - occur and E surgical mortalities become inordi-| {when thrown clear of the wreckage,

nately high.”

| | LJ | -.Adis Ald of Hospitals Hoosier Esca ees Indianapolis on U. 8. 40 when they He said the hospitals can do Jock attempted to pass a house trailer “in limiti the rformance ©. ; | ne pe EVERGLADES, Fla, Sept. 8 (U. "7% °F;

major surgery to only those ade- The Winter car sideswi " in s § ped a quately equipped.” P.).—Two men who master-minded truck driven by G. L. Teague of

told Deputy Sheriff Harry Fox-|here, What time he divides will be nog worthy that they were heading into!spent in Washington where he will " today.

up any stand it might take,” Cmdr. 20, served as a navy combat air O'Neil said. crewman, The youngest son, James, Elected at the recent New York R. is a senior in high school. Hé national convention, Mr, O'Neil i. 47 plans to spend most of his tenure of office at Legion headquarters

G. I's’ CASH 5243 MILLION

'War veterans cashed in at le

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U, P)— . y ast| The skull of Louise Ann Kurpiel| Young

[$243,633,000 worth of terminal leave|

The family will remain In theiponds between Tuesday and Friday East during Mr. O'Neil's stay in of-|o¢ Jast week, the treasury reported | en had been ised to beat her.

plug for UMT. More, Cheaper Housing

Other top issues which he has pledged himself and the Legion to fight for are hospital construction

“of » er Said, “It calle an exit from the “escape proof” 73 § Sherman dr. At the impact with better service to the patient for a plan of staff selection Which yengangn Ind, jail last week, were the side of the car was seared off. and more and cheaper housing.

aims at permitting only those adequately trained and in possession | | hou: of sound surgical judgment from day. Ouse Jeaties 5 inte ahh, ever atiempUing major sur Pro-! “They had failed to figure a way cupants of the car-trailer, Mr. and cedures. out of the jungle-like wilds of the Mrs. Joseph Szolosl, San Diego,

“When a system of staff intment ny is estamished Florida Everglades. |Cal., were injured.

as a basic organization in every. The pair was tentatively identi- cnaops sAG QUIETLY ne

hospital in the lard, some of the!fied here as John Robert Sylvester, evils mentioned will become things 28, and William Jefferson Abney, NEW YORE, Sept. 3-1, P)of the past.” 23. both of Kokomo, Ind. They The stock list sagged fractions to Dr. Foss said it is impossible for first attracted suspicion when they more than a point in guiet dealings a surgeon to work without operat- drove up to a gas station, operated today. Some of the liquidation ap-

lin the custody of Florida officers to- The car then banged against the| oyer.all plans will be discussed

with President Truman as soon' as a meeting can be arranged on the President's return from South America. Mr. O'Neil charged that housing prices are way out of line and indicated that the Legion might con-| duct ‘an investigation .into the sit-, uation, : : | Outside claims that Communists | were inflitrating into the Legion

Ing 00 facilities” ami shetefore by Deputy Sheritf J, R. Williams, parently reflected the international | °" a large scale were denied: “|

without a hospital staff appoint- in nearby Monroe. Mr. Williams go.ation ment, the chief control over thé said he thought “something was n quality of work performed can be fishy,” when he noticed that the exercised by the Baspital itself license plates on the 1939 Dodge

through its trustees whom sedan looked like they belonged to rests the responsibility of denying another car. the surgical privileges of the in-

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| Sources of Irritation

“No post -ever has fallen under Communist domination. The chief sources of irritation have been New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, Mr. O'Neil, who is police chief of Manchester; N. H., is on leave from his present duties, A newspaper man from 1921-34, he was asked by Frank Knox, late publisher, to de|vote himself to his hometown of | 80,000 in the police capacity. | An infantryman during world war I, he was commissioned a second Heutenant on the field. In 1944 he |

BOY DIES IN'FALL OUT OF CAR PLYMOUTH, Ind., Sept, 8 (U. P.).

! : CALLS FOR PREPAREDNESS—James F. O Neil, new national in Parkview hospital last night of commander of the American Legion, today demanded the nation [injuries received when he fell out| remain strong. It was his first interview here. since assuming office. of the back door of his fathePs car.| His home is in Manchester, BW, I. © :

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death with a rock was found todayito two to 21 years in prison by lon - the banks of the Merrimac|Judge W. D. Bain in criminal court {river. : today. Elliott originally wap had been crushed. Nearby was'charged in a grand jury indicts a bloodstained stone’ which appar- ment with second degree murder {in the fatal stabbing of Earl Hinds, 26, doorman at the Wharf house in Ravenswood, May 31, 1946; However, the prosecutor's office informed Judge Bain that evidence in the case was not strong enough : to convict Elliott en a murder |p. m. last night. charge : The body was found about 420 Subsequently, Judge Bain per- | feet west: of the Joseph W. Casey! .itted the defendant to plead bridge, which is known as a hang- | ory to manslaughter. The youth fout for vagrants, and just behind j,. been out under $10,000 bond for {the U. 8. army climatic research| overal months due to serious ille { laboratory. {ness which developed while he was The girl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. in jail. {Louis Kurpiel, said the child dis-| Mr. Hinds was stabbed to death lappeared yesterday afternoon. She during a struggle with Elliott after {had gone to visit a friend and when |the latter was found ‘prowling | she failed to return, a posse of 100 around the Wharf house. |friends and neighbors began a | search.

| Medical Examiner Julian J. Burgiel, after a preliminary examinaItion, said the girl apparently had been dead 10 to 12 hours, placing

Warm and Muggy

“Special Session Through Tomorrow

Not Needed: Taft i:3 % iii.

11am.... 83 12 (Noon)... 84 | COLUMBUS, 0. Sept. 8.U. P)— al Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O) t0-| 71¢ will be warm and “sticky” toe

day sald he could see no reason gay and tomorrow, according to the for a special session before con-| weitherman. :

gress convenes next January. | Temperatures moved quickly Mr, Taft said there was “certainly {hrough the 70s and will head for no reason for a special session On| the high 80s late today. Overcast domestic affairs and that informa- | skies were predicted for tonight and tion on foreign aid would not be|tymorrow with a drop to 68 degrees {ready for congressional action be- | tonight, * A 5k fore- Jan. 1,-1048— | :

He met newsmen prior to start- HEARINGS SET FOR RADIO =~ ling on a four-weeks western tour| WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U, P),

ficiently advised on the sit-

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