Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1947 — Page 1

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Lift Standards

Mayor-Elect Urges

Sanitation Courses By ROBERT BLOEM A sweeping educational program aimed at voluntary compliance with * restaurant sanitation laws is high list of the new ay Mayor-elect

administration, Feeney said today At the same time Mr. Feeney took sharp issue with indicated health department plans to keep on stafl restaurant inspectors who Xe mittedly are not worth the top salaries soon to become available. In the recent series of articles a vealing insanitary conditions local restaurants, The Times oe ed that despite the possible pay hike from $150 to $200 a month, some inspectors will not get the raise. It is being reserved for qualified replacements.

One Thing Certain

F. Bays Weds Eugenie D. Selby,

Dec. 18 (UP)— od ry Mvas, former oe | state chairman, was married -last night to Miss Eugenie Debs Selby. The bride was Mr. Bays' secretary for 15 years and recently

of the collector of internal reve enue in Indianapolis. Mr. Bays served as state chairman of the Democratic party for | eight ight years. vi

Grand Jury Asks Public to Air Complaints

Invitation Follows Action by Club

The Marion County Grand “Jury

“If a man isn't worth even the i. afternoon issued a blanket inmeager $2400 a year now available, yitation to any citizen who had and the department certainly ought complaints on law enforcement to to know, then he shouldn't be kept appear and make statements before:

on at all,” the ~ vor-elect commented. “I'm not inclined to start out by criticizing,” Mr. Feeney said. “I've a lot of familiarizing to do- first. “One thing, however, is certain.

Voluntary compliance is the ulti-

te answer to cleaning up restau- olution passed by

{the jurors. The invitation was- issued alter the jury heard reports that a wo'nen's organization. planned to investigate law enforcement activitics Refers to Resolution The jury referred to a recent resthe Women's

rants. No staff of six food inspectors Department Club of Indianapolis, 1700 N. Meridian St.,, which pro-/--fty for the amount of educating posed to investigate methods used

should be charged with responsibil-|

necessary to bring that about.”

in selection of members

for the

Instead, he said, the city should grand jury.

provide a follow-through program

to instruct restaurant operators and cutor their help in the need for sanita- work, jurors asked officials of the plan partment Club to appear and give the expert services the jury whatever information and ~ state government had concerning law enforcement.

tion. Mr. Feeney's would utilize of federal agencies and the state universities.

educational

Edwin K. in on

Steers, deputy prosecharge of Grand Jury instructions from the De-

“I called the Department Club]

“The public pays for these serv- and they refused to appear before!

ices” he said. “We should make

use of them.” : Interest Not Political Mr. Feeney said he planned to determine early to what extent the board of health is responsible to the city government. -He expressed the

view that the piiblic never intended bY Mrs. Carl J.” Weinhardt, presi-| headed by Dr. Norman Beatty, re- | to set up a board entirely independ- | dent of thé Department Club, who,|ported plans are nearing comple-

secret and

the jury, explaining to me that their fact-finding committee was identity of members would not be made public,” Mr. Steers said. Club to Continue Study He quoted from a statement made |

ent of the: city administration. jhe said, explained that the club's

The fact is that Mr. Feeney will not have a single appointee on the board of health until next August.|

Not until the end of 1949 will he| saying that the club would “take! psychiatrist to direct a full-time have made enough appointments to|d€cisive steps toward securing the mental health staff here.

be assured of the co-operation of] three of the five members. His interest in the health picture, |

committee would study methods | used in selection of the Grand Jury. | He quoted Mrs. Weinhardt as

type of law administration whizh| (has long been denied citizens of | Marion County.”

5°-10°, More Snow Tonight: Drivers Told To

had been employed -in- the. office’

MANTLE OF COLD LACE — With the hand of a master Mother Nature painted this branch with a delicate blanket

artist,

of snow in the first real fall of the season.

New Mental Crime Clinic About Ready

Dr. Beatty Seeks | Top Psychiatrist

By NOBLE REED The first comprehensive program to curb crime through rehabilita~| tion of the mentally ill is about to be launched here with a fulltime clinic manned by experts, it (was learned today. | Agencies associated with the Iadiana Council for Mental Health, |

[tion for establishment of a hignly | trained psychiatric staff. Dr. Beatty disclosed that the [Council will select a foremost

Three Being Considered | “Three candidates for the post of {clinic director are now being con-

including ti% restaurant situation, | Members of the grand jury. said! sidered,” Dr. Beatty said. “The type is not political, the mayor-elect em. | this statement infers that the pres-|of director we get will depend upon how much salary we can offer, be- # “I'm not interested in inspectors i? 18W enforcement administration. cause it will mean hiring _him away §# | from some other institution with a!

phasized.

fs patronage,” he said. “But I am| certainly concerned with having the best qualified technical help possible| on a question which involves direct- | ly the health of thousands of citi-! gens.” He agreed with the principle of not raising salaries for whose qualifications don’t them, he pointed out. But where individuals admittedly shouldn't receive. the raises, they should be cleared out of the picture to make way for someone who can earn the money, he added. Even with a full staff of six well-| qualified inspectors, Mr. Feeney im-, plied, enforcement alone would keep them busy without asking them to| take on an educating job besides, No Pressure on Him As for the prospect of a recur-| tence of the former situation in which inspectors were proteges of | tity councilmen, Mr. Feeney said: | “The incoming council has never yet but pressure on me to give jobs| to their friends. I feel safe in as-| suming they will be interested in|

| recently

jent grand jury has been negiigent|

Ask for Details “If we have been negligent in any| law enforcement matters, we would! like to have specific statements made on the matters,” members of the jury said in a joint statement. They complained that some of the criticism on law enforcement have been based upon “false interpretation of facts.” “We are herby issuing a general invitation for the.public to present to us any legitimate information they have on negligence and law

enforcement,” the jury stated.

The Grand Jury's action followed {several weeks of public activities on law enforcement growing out of the {murders of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney | and Mrs. Mabel Merrified, along! with a score of violent crimes recently, Also public criticism of ‘law en{forcement reached new heights in; connection with disclosures that {ex-convicts with long criminal rec-

lords were being given suspended

sentences and let out of jail on low bonds.

The Women's Department” Club| this restaurant problem from the!sponsored the recent mass meeting

better offer.”

Plans are being worked out now *

{for financing the clinic with ‘state funds augmented with money su; =| plied by local units of government and donations from private agencies, he said. Several social agencies, he said, have indicated their willingness to co-operate in operation of the clinic. The clinical program would in{volve expert child guidance treatment for hundreds of children {threatening to become delinquents { because of maladjustments in their | attitude toward society, { Would Save Lives “Rehabilitation of these ‘children in their formative years will save | scores of them from a life of crime and relieve society. from increasing | burdens and costs of handling hard{ened criminals,” Dr. Beatty said.

{guidance work, he said.

Efforts will be made to establish have not been disclosed. Investiga-

[the clinic in or near General Hospital so that ‘the mental patients

standpoint of the public as a whole|at which 500 citizens met to discuss“ . Dave access also to medical

rather than from the patronage angle.” Speaking of the complaint by! the restaurant industry that they, not only pay for the entire sanitation program but more, too, Mr.| Feeney expressed belief that “every! dime paid by the industry for main-|

tenance of a food sanitation pro-|gt. yesterday while the tenants were)

gram should be used for that purpose.” The industry itself, tional program with the city primarily limited to a supervisory capacity, he said. By utilizing services of government. and university experts, “which are better than any you could buy,” the program could be carried out virtually without cost to either the city or the industry, the mayorelect said.

TORNADO HITS FLORIDA PENSACOLA, Fla, Dec. 16 (UP)— A tornado struck near this coastal city today destroying at Jleast five houses, doing undetermined damage and injuring three persons, none seriously.

Times Index

Amusements , 12|Obifuaries ... 11 hundreds of children it clothes each year? h y Eddie Ash... 22| Dr. I .. 20 Here's what happened when a woman attendance officer for the Siale d police, gorse, "of Mrs, Clark's Bridge ....... 20| F. C. Othman nS into Clothe-A-Child headquarters, Hers was a mission father shortly after the shooting.) Carnival ..... 15 | Patterns , 20! . d found th Marquis Childs 16 Radio ....... 7 She reported that a visit had been made by herself and the school There, Jey sai b they fom lassi ome followin - ———— - a ae. bs, one. of the girls was children who attended school were|letters addressed to her. mics ...... 41|Side Glances . without books. So they worked out Crossword ... 8 Society ...... 10 hot Sending School because she a plan whereby the principal would before the noon recess. They irEditorials ...: 18 Sports ... 22- 23 v: dud tn . aid ne pi buy the books, and “the father cluded Walter O'Neal, former BarForum ....... 16 Teen Topics. . my ot ny Bt Ry ae in would repay the loan in the amount tholomew County sheriff, and ; J Gardening | . 20 Washington . ad no shoes, a a ie 9 ®| usually spent for the children’s Sheriff Richart Thayer, who said groupe . Hollywood ... 15 Weather Map 13| children were barefoo * * * ‘lunches. About the lunches,

however, should sponsor the broad educa-|

means of curbing crime here.

Thief Takes ces $100

In Yule Presents

The season's meanest thief broke into an apartment at 330 E. 13th

treatment.

Similar mental clinic

at work and took $100 in: Christmas Secretary of State George C.?Mar-

presents. Theft of the presents was reported to police py Helen Ambrose and Geraldine Rumage, who had moved

into the flat Saturday. Their lug-|

{gage and jewel cases had been ran- | sacked.

handkerchiefs.

Accused Officers 4

NEVER TOO OLD — youngsters out of everyone. 46th St.

snowman in her front yard.

» | Face Arraignment| suo «= oo lines, or CRAWFORDSVILLE, Dec. 16$ (UP)—Arraignment of four high-| 6732.00 ranking State Police officers on ® The Times MIL E-O-charges of conspiracy to commit DIMES is located on the

bribery has been Scheduled for tomorrow,

The men were indicted 10 days|

The clinic director will be selected [480 in a surprise action by the on the basis of his training in child Montgomery County Grand Jury.

Complete details of the charges

tion leading to the indictments resulted from a minor forgery case. | The four officers had investigated | a midnight barnyard conference be-|

programs lween principals in the forgery case|

|also are planned at Evansville, Ft, and-found a trooper present, The | Wayne and in Lake County. trooper, who w subsequently sus(pended, was not indicted by the Marshall to Report als Col, Robert DNossow, superinten-. Friday on Big 4 Failure dent of state Police, claimed (ne WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UP)- _ charges were a political attack on his force, shall will report to, the American The defendants are Maj. Robert people Friday night on the failure O'Neal, executive officer; Capt. John of the Big Four Foreign Ministers’ J. Barton, chief of detectives, and Conference. Capts. Kermit Lewis and Robert N Bush, both field supervisors.

The State Department said ar-

rangements for Mr. Marshall's

radio address have not been finally State Among the missing presents, they completed, but the report will be told police, were a razor, several made some: time Friday compacts, a toilet set and traveling|Mr. Marshall plans to speak about] kit, a bath set, some towels and|20 minutes,

evening

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Girls Able to

§ Inside.Indpls.. fl cher News 20, and poorly clad.

| Mrs. Manners 2 Word-A-Day . 5 | Movies teers il World Aflairs.

Attend School

: Through Clothe-A-Child

Tip From Teacher Reveals Worthy Family With 6 Children in Need of Assistance

Y By ART WRIGHT How does The Times Clothe-A-Child learn about the need of the

school would pay for them without, Mrs. Edmans’ death, the defendant rylicness, It also was discovered in the

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Rests Case In Edman Trial

BROWNSTOWN, Dec. 16 (UP)—| The state rested its case today in the murder trial of David Edman, accused of the fatal shooting of iMrs. Ruth Clark. Edman, his divorced wife, last February. Three prosecution witnesses were {called to the stand in Jackson Cir-| {cuit Court this morning before the| case was turned over to the defense. Testifying for the state, Detective Don Winn and Troopers Eugene Vance and Fred McClain, all of the

Good-packing snow makes Miss Joan Yarian, 660 E.

couldn't resist the temptation of starting a

THE TIMES 1047

le-O-Dimes

DAILY ESTIMATE

sidewalk in W. Washington in front of the L. 8, Ayres Co. and 8. 8. Kresge Co. It is open 24 hours a day. It takes 60 lines of dimes, each 88 feet long to make a full MILE-O-DIMES — $8976.00 ~every dime of which wil | go to clothe a needy child. @® Stop by and add YOUR | dime to this fast-growing line,

Watts Trial Sent To Shelby County

The case of Robert Austin Watts,

charged with the shotgun slaying of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney at he: far North Side home Nov. 12, will {be tried in Shelby Circuit Court ut {Shelbyville during the first two weeks of January Judge Saul I. Rabb of Criminal

Court 2, who granted a change of venue from the county yesterday, said 8helby County was selected Lecause the court docket there was most. convenient for an early trial Judge Rabb said Judge Harold Barger of the Shelby Circuit Court| informed him that he could 2rrange his docket for the Watts trial early in January. Watts, who confessed .the slaving of Mrs. Burney and also the fatal stabbing of Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, South Side club woman, will be {taken to the Shelby County jail {as soon as legal papers are trang ferred to Shelby Clout Court.

Dictionary of Smells To Cover 10,000 Odors

ROCHESTER, N. Y,, Dec. 16 (UP)

Five defense witnesses were called —The American Society of Chemists)

announced today it would publish] the first odor dictionary. The society said all odors were in four

had reported thefts of items from animals when wet. It is said in the-| investigation thai the three olderyContinued on Page 7~—Columa @ his Bartholomew County a

‘ory there are 10,000 odaus

(including electric

categories—fra-| the that on several occasions prior to grance, acidity, burntness and cap-| the distinctive odor of,

Keep Off Roads

Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Stall Photographer. WINTER IN THE COUNTRY — A snow-covered rail fence winds along picturesque Lakeside Drive at Traders Point Lake. Beauty | and danger mixed as roads became treacherous.

Photos by

Misses St.

ese | Ives ANA caused scores of less serie 4 C T ld A ous accidents. h: ongress oO verage In Indianapolis alone, 28 trafic J accidents were reported between iy Family Needs $60 a Week [=r we oo m ws ni. Crash Kills Two i One Lipstick a Year, One Beer a Week Limit Major accident in the state was § aye the crash of a semi- a In Labor Bureau Budget Study of 34 Cities Tal To iraller tnd 3 i By FRED W. PERKINS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer bad stretch of road near RichWASHINGTON, Dec. 16—An income of $60 to $70 a week is required mond last night in which three were gl for an average large-city family of four persons to make ends meet on killed and nine injured. PE “a modest but currently adequate United States standard of living.” State police said the bus driven a That was the finding of a study placed before Congress today by by John Gentle, 38, of 2065 Dear- . ef Ewan Clague, head of the U. 8. Bureau of Labor Statistics. born 8t., skidded into the path of 2y This family-—composed of a breadwinning father and a homemaking a truck driven by Floyd Green, 4 mother, a boy of 13 in high school’ —— ~|Chicago. - The bus was sheared in and a girl of 8 in grade school— { two near the rear and the truck y would have the necessities for urg ars 00 {plunged over an embankment with health, raising children, and a few |both drivers escaping death. amusement and social activities but Names of Vietims {few luxuries. ‘ Safe of 3500 Killed in the truck-bus crash 3 For instance, the wife would be were John D. Lewis, formerly a i restricted to one small. lipstick a printer at two’ Indianapolis mews- 13 “year. (Our office telephone girl Burglars smashed their way Into papers who vas killed instantly | says she uses two large ones a year.) the John Loonan Sales, Inc., office and Clifford Rand Kidwell, 34, Day- : | And the husband would be on a oh the East Side last night, pried ton, O., who died at Reid Memorial weekly allotment of one bottle Of | eh the safe and escaped with an Hospital last night.

oer, unless he wants to juggle the household funds. Sampled 34 Cities said Mr. Clague, “is not budget or one based -on a few people's notions of what workers should have, Rather it is based on the kinds of goods and services that workers’ families in the U. 8. actually select.” To get the figures—which were requested two years ago by a House subcommittee and were presented today to the Joint Committee on the Economic Report—the bureau

“his,” an ‘ideal’

{made wide samplings among con-

sumers in 34 of the largest cities. The hypothetical family—representative of white-collar salaried people as well as wage earners— lives in a rented five-room house with the usual inside conveniences, lights. It eats rather sparingly of high-priced meats and eggs. It buys only necessities in clothing, relying consider-

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PHOTO CONTEST DEADLINE NEAR—

Amateur phoiographers have until midnight Friday to get their Circle Monument Christmas decoration pictures to The Times. Read the rules today . .. there are $75 in prizes.

Turn to Page 28.

John Spicklemire, ADDS CHRISTMAS SPIRIT — The white carpet covering the city brought thoughts of the holiday to Lillian (left) and Catherine Mars, 912 N. Bolton Here they select their tree.

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

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Cold to Remain In State Until Next Week

Traffic Toll Rises;

Streets ‘Hazardous’ LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am. ....2 10am... 2 Tam. .. 22 lam... 22 $a m. .. 22 12 (Noon).. 24 9am....2 1p.m.... 24 : State police today urged

elimination of all but essential travel as traffic fatalities on . |ice-glazed Hoosier highways %. mounted and the weather out- : {look worsened. “| The weatherman predicted a temperature tonight .of § to 10 above | zero, | The state authorities reported or ! roads packed with snow and ice and 1 |“highly hazardous.” | A generally state-wide snowfall {tonight will obscure motorists’ vision and add to a three-to-four-inch accumulation already covering the state. Cold Through Sunday The weather forecast indicated more zero temperatures for the rest A of the week, { Although it will be a little warmer tomorrow night and Thursday, the mercury will drop again Thursday ; and Friday and remain cold through of Sunday over the state, ] Meanwhile, the state highway commission reported wet snow frozen to pavements over Hoosierland. Most hazardous area is near Greenfield, where highwaymen are trying to clear away about five inches of packed snow. Reports from gther areas indicate there is about four inches of packed snow around Crawfordsville, three inches in the Ft. Wayne, Linton and Columbus areas and about one inch La Porte. Safe Only at Slow Speeds All roads are slick in many pl over the entire ares north of U. 50, the warning continued, with traffic proceeding safely only at low speeds. Snow has been scraped from many spots but other spots are still glazed. \ Highway workers have been dispatched to the most hazardous spots with sand, cinders and ealcium chloride to attempt to improve road conditions before nightfall, Emergency warning came in the wake of the worst night of the winter, in which ice and slushcovered roads took a toll of eight

Times Staff Pholographer.

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James Lacey, 21, Clarksville, Pa.,

stimate 3500 ash. estimated 3 In died in Reld Hospital today. He

The burglary was discovered had been in crits : ca when Mr. Loonan, a wholesale food = 1 condition since distributor, opened pe olde a Eight other passengers were ine i a” Moors ven A 8 '= ured; vhe critically. James Lemley, A day. » i Police who Investigated under (Continued on Page 7—Column 3) Sgt Albert Beck sald burglars

gained entrance by prying an iron 2 Army Fliers Killed y

grating off a side window and - ; Near Wiesbaden 3

spashing the glass. Knocked Off Combination FRANKFURT, Dec. 18 (UP)— ci They lowered themselves into the Two crewmen of a small Army ! f ’ Ww transport plane which disappeared 2 office and dropped on the safe, : which is 40 inches high and 28/°" 3 short, flight from nearby Wies- i inches wide baden were found dead today in the § . , lar The yeggs knocked off the com- Jreckuge Of pets craft 12 miles re sald, th ied bination, Police said, and then prie The men were not named pending pa | notification of kin. French and

ney bags, ey ook five sloth mon oy age, American troops found the wreckMaj. Raymond E. Johnson of

be total | 28€: ob gary Seal pond y r {Minneapolis later landed a liaison

Loonan said ‘| plane at the scene.

Two Sets of Footprints Police found footprints in the

N( 1 SHOPP A LIL snow outside, indicating two men had done the job. They found no fingerprints inside or on the safe] and assumed the burglars wore gloves while they worked. It was a “smooth Job,”

Victim of ley Walk

Virgil Arnett, 50, 328 E. Washington St, became the victim of |tey sidewalks today when he slipped’ iat, Delaware and Washington Sts.| and broke his ankle. He was treated! at General Hospital.

they said