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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1943

Home for Aged Urged to House Mental Cases

1000 Beds Needed, Psychiatrists Say By ROBERT BLOEM A state home for aged and irfirm persons could give Indiana the equivalent of a badly needed 1000-bed mental hospital, Indi-| anapolis psychiatrists agreed today. 5 Just how badly the state needs| those beds for mental cases who| are virtually “locked out” as far|

Czech Envoys

Totalitarian State

Communist rule.

I = is. oda Probe F ad (uit in Protest

Charge Reds Set Up |

WASHINGTON, Mar. 3 (UP)— Czechoslovakia Ambassador Juraj Slavik resigmed today with the declaration that he will fight inj exile to free his country from

The Czech minister to ‘Canada also resigned in protest in Ottawa’ toda

Entered as Indianapolis

no decided change in temperature.

Ind. Issued daily

Becond-Class Matter at Postoffice &ily except Sunday

| FINAL : HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

illure To Treat

Boy,

as treatment is concerned, isi pointed out by Dr. Beatty,

national picture,” Dr.

Norman | president of the state Council for Mental Health, / “If Indiana is typical of. the Beatty

said, “we need 16,000 beds for 1 hy

mental patients alone. . we haven’t more than 10,000.

That's why there are an estimated 500 or more mental cases in Marion County alone that can't be cared for, It Is one of

the reasons why Monday's hatchet murder may be repeated here almost any time. Insufficient Money "Indiana already is building a new mental hospital at Westville, but only the:sdministration unit and the power plant can be fin{shed with the mbhey available. The next legislature must appropriate more. for the. rest of the ital. NL gg 95 at Ft. Harrison is’ being prepared: to take some of the patients who are just old and need only custodial care out of _ Central Hospital for the Insane. But it will provide only slight relief for the overcrowding which has forced many Hoosier families to care for their own victims of illness. . mental of the basic problems fis the fact that many old persons are committed to insane hospitals for want of a better place to put them. Dr. David yd, General Hospital psychiatrist, estimates that each of the state’s five mental hospitals could be relieved of 200 patients if Indiana had an adequate, decent home for the aged. Suggests Camp Atterbury . “Camp Atterbury, for example,

Dr. Boyd said, “could be converted told

into a three-unit home for ‘the aged where old folks who are unable to provide for themse Sad re an : ws What happens instead is that the aged mental cases cause the worst drain on mental hospital facilities. Because their mental troubles are primarily a matter of age, there is little chance to cure them, move them back into society to make way for new and more acute mental cases. “We just can't make people young again,” says Dr. Max Bahr, superintendent of Central Hospital. Dr. Boyd's suggestion would be to make one unit of such a home as Camp Atterbury into a colony for married couples, avoiding the tragedy of separation in their last years. Another section could provide for aged, feeble men, and still another for women, instead of committing them to insane hospitals. Hospital Emergency Unit “Unless something like this is done,” Dr. Boyd said, ‘we here in Indianapolis will be less and less able to serve our purpose as more and more patients who should be sent to mental institutions back up in our psychopathic department. “General Hospitals first function is to serve as an emergency unit, to take care of emergency mental cases and get these peoPle out of their homes and off the streets where they constitute a constant danger. ] Some we can cure without sending them to an institution.

At best

+ Acme Teiephoto. CAPTURED BY CUPID — Jane Froman, radio and night club singer, arrived in Miami, Fla.. last night and was greeted by her fiancee, John C. Burn, PAA pilot who saved her life. They will wed Mar. 12.

Circle Bakery Robbed of $900

Enter. Shop Through Delivery Chute Burglars invaded Monument Cirele last night, smashing a steel cabinet at the Rene and escaped with nearly $800. The downtown burglars apparently were surprised at their work about 11 o'clock when a night employee of the bakery, Ben Giltner, arrived for work. He said he heard a hoise at the rear and then discovered the theft as he walked to the front of the store, located at No. 114. ‘Cash Drawer Also Looted The cash drawer on the first floor also was looted. Police said the burglars pried open a delivery chute in the rear of the bakery to gain entrance. The loot represented part of two days’ receipts, police were

- ‘Five recent holdups were solved, detectives said, in the arrest of three youhg men during

y. Mr. Slavik announced his decision at a 10-minute press conference in his embassy study. U., 8. Secret Service men attended! the conference. ' Mr. Slavik, his wife, and their 18-year-old son moved out of the embassy immediately afterward. The ambassador asserted that as a result of the recent Com-| munist coup “Czechslovakia has become a fully totalitarian police state.” l { Mr. Slavik made his decision— {“to fight for Czechoslovak democracy”—despite the fact that he has a son, 24, and a daughter, 26, still living in Czechoslovakia. They” are children by a previous! marriage. The diplomat was too burdened by emotion to answer questions. |

Yank in Prague: Quits Student Union Post { PRAGUE, Mar. 3 (UP)—Jim]| [Smith, American vice president of the International Union of Students, said today he was satis-| fied that only one student was] injured by gunfire in a student-! police clash last Wednesday, and, only 14 students still were in; prison in connection with the! demonstration. Mr. Smith, who resigned his vice presidency Saturday effective Mar. 10, said police and gov-| ernment officials permitted three

{top IUS officers to make a full!

{and unhampered investigation of the incident. The interior ministry, meanwhile, reported that two parliamentary deputies and an unspeci-|.

INJURED BOY — Tiny Richard {Hu was released without treatment by 4 and concussion a few hours later.

fied number of police, all National Socialists, would be charged with implication in an attempted mutiny against the state,

¥ BIG hn MN Two "of them, Joseph Jerome

Callahan, 24, brothers, of 1310 Nordyke St. confessed to participation in the holdups. Detectives Charles Haine and Forest. McKeighan said the youths were implicated: in the holdups by Edward Irwin Gardner, 24, of 1229 Fendley Ave., arrested last week in connection with the robberies. Confess $800 Holdup The Callahan brothers confessed, detectives said, t6 the $500 holdup of the Standard Grocery, 938 8. Meridian St. last Feb. 20 when one of the bandits fired a shot through Manager Robert

Young's office door.

‘They alse confessed to kidnap-

ing two attendants of a Gaseteria station, 802 Oliver Ave, during a $300 holdup.

Other robberies listed’ were

those - of the ‘Wake-Up Service Station, drug store at 1363 8. Meridian 8t. and another drug store at 1901 W. Morris 8t., all within the last month.

Approve Plan to Deepen W. Merrill St. Pass

1500 Madison Ave. a

The “Safety Board today ap-

proved - teptative plans for the deepening of the W. Merrill St. underpass under the Illinois Central Railroad.

The project, estimated by City

Engineer M. G. Johnson to cost r about $20,000, will be submitteq/ "red from a stolen army truck.

Soviet. Pact at Once

Callahan, 21, and Michael T.| HELSINKI,

Finnish Reds Demand

A Mar. 3 (UP)— Finnish Communist leaders called on President Juho K. Paasikivi| today and demanded that negotiations for a treaty of friendship

be started immediately. The ‘demand was made after reports that President Paasikivi had informed Russian Minister Lt. Gen. G. M. Savonenkov that

Finland cannot sign any theaty|is

Board in Drive On Roving Dogs Pre

and military alliance with Russia nating dangerous, roving packs of | dogs and to halt the current spread of rabies among the ani-| mals were announced toda the safety board.

ghes looks up sleepily from his bed at St. [General Hospital ambulance Sunday, and discovered to

Vincent's

Hospital. The child. have a skull fracture

urt By Car Here Later Check

Reveals Skull Was Fractured

Dr. Meyers, Police

Open Investigation By DONNA MIKELS | A 4-year-old boy who was released by, police and General Hospital without treat. ‘ment after he was struck by a car Sunday is in serious condition today at St. Vin. cent’s Hospital, ° | Meanwhile, police and hospital jofficials launched investigation of complaints that the child, Richard Hughes Jr.; 2313 N. LaSalle St. was fot given proper treatment at the time of the accident. ' The child, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hughes, was released at the scene of the acei-

dent by a General Hospital doctor who made what witnesses

[described as a “hasty examina- : [tion,”

Skull Fractured A few hours later the child was

- |rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital

for emergency care. There X-rays showed he had a skull fracture and a concussion. The child darted from behind a parked car in front of his home Sunday afternoon and was struck by a car driven by Mrs. LaVeta Moss., 2320 Adams St.

Accident Prevention Officers Marion Correll and Hughes arrived first. The Was un-

conscious when police arrived, but

Bend Firemen Fail in Attempt New Rules Invoked | To Rush Spaniel Out of Trap $ \ SOUTH BEND, Mar. 3 (UP)—Corky, a friendly cocker spaniel Against Owners {who chase B muskrat and got camght in a drain pipe, drowned to-

New regulations aimed at elimi-| gay when

Corky

t excited Monday {romped on

In a new dog-handling policy sued by the board, a crackdown him out. ©

i¢ the leash and ‘scam ¥ bY|long. He waliwedged in so tightly| ——— and so far from the end of the/to Dr. Stanley Williamson, a vetpipe that Charles couldn't get erinarian.

| They tried to get him out with

giving Russia the power to use the Finnish army anywhere in case of war. ~

11 Dead, 16 Hurt In Haifa Blast

JERUSALEM, Mar. 3 (UP)— A 400-pound barrel bomb exploded outside the former municipal building in the Arab quarter of Haifa today, killing 11 to 17 persons and wounding 16 to 50. An official announcement said 11“were killed and 16 injured seriously, all of them Arabs. Private reports said the casualty toll’ reached 17 dead and 50 inured.

Authorities tentatively indentified the bombers as the Stern group of the Jewish underground. Two buildings were wrecked. The barrel of explosives was

Some We actually do cdre whilelto “the City Works Board for final

ey’re waiting Here to be sent to an institution. But that funection should be secondary.” estate t———.

Increase’ During 1947

State Tax Collections Hoosiers reached farther down In their pockets to pay taxes in 1947 than in the previous year, F. Shirley Wilcox, collector of injoal revenue for Indiana, said yi He ‘explained internal revenue Collections from all sources in Indiana in the calendar year 1947 Were $937,934,345 58, compared to 402,322.18 in 1946.

vert Scotch whisky now boycotted by Guatemala, Mr. Bevin replied amid cheers:

come to London.”

approval.

The underpass now has a clear-

LONDON, Mar. 3 (UP)—For-,

eign Secretary Ernest Bevin| raised spirits in Commons today!

Asked where he is going to di-

“I already have suggested it

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12% cents a bushel at the open-

dropped $1 per 100 pounds.

89 a strike which would cut off

Grains, Hogs Drop;

ance ,of 10. fest four inches. 1t/ YY holesale Fpods Up would be increased to 14 feet! six inches.

Sie Promises of Scotch

CHICAGO, Mar. 3 (UP)—The

[price of grain and hogs dropped the City Market to crippled and

today, but wholesale food prices

‘i |generally had risen for the first| dividuals will use the space as a R ais ° C om mons’ Spirits Hime since the commodity market collapse.

Dun & Bradstreet’s index of wholesale food prices for the week which ended yesterday showed a rise of 9 cents to $6.70. The index represents the sum total of the price per pound of 31 basic foods. : On the Chicago Board of Trade today, wheat was down 14 to,

ing. Corn dropped 1% to 2 cents, and oats were down % to 114 cents a bushel.

Opening hog prices at Chicago

Feeney Names Dorn To Flood Control Board

Mayor Feeney today announced the appointment of Eugene W. Dorn, druggist, as a member Lof the flood control board. ~ Mr. Dorn has been active in Democratic politics for a long time. He was mentioned several months ago as a possible appointee to the safety board.

‘lasking that he clean up garbage

stone Ave. and Shelby St. Park Board crews.

ment and man power will be used

was begun on persons failing to obtain city licenses for their ani-|gnq all day’ mals; persons who turn. dogs|the Indiana ¢ loose in order to avoid buying partment an licenses, and persons who permitimane Societ their animals to roam while the to remove him, present city quarantine rule is| Corky whitfipered occasionally enforced. (He was so Quarantine Extended lalive in his The dog quarantine would have] expired Monday, but it has been extended another 60 days. During the period, no dog will be permitted to run loose on the street. The quarantine was ordered by the health department in Janu-

censes. The board also announced the installation of a free dog regis-| tration service. Description of Dogs | Persons issed dog licenses are given a card to be filled out with a description and picture of their| animal. These are filed with the city dog pound and after the| To be eligible, you MUST fill it quarantine is lifted they will be out and mail it t6: Sewing Conused .as a means. of returningltest Editor, Indianapolis Times, stray licensed dogs to their 214 W. Maryland St.

owners. | : : The safety board granted use| No Entry Fees |" There are no entry fees or

jof the old $4 dog headquarters in| |charges of any kind to make your {bid for a share of the $560 in {salesrom for brooms, leather and local prizes and the $900 in na{needle craft and rugs which they|tional cash awards. (have made You have until Apr. 19 to complete the garment you wish to] enter. On that day—and not before—you must deliver your con(test garment to The Times Sewing Contest headquarters. The place

win you rich awards and national

contest will be found in the Woman's Section of today's ‘Times. :

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Asks Co-operation In Street Cleaning

{nounced in The Times at a later | |date. on | Mayor Feeney today called for, That and other important con- | a pooling of equipment and man|test news will be published .expower by the park board and|clusively in The Times . .. so be street commissioner to keep the|Sure to keep reading your Times streets clean. |every day. Maintenance crews of the Park| You will have 16 chances to Department. ‘are charged with/Win cash prizes here and eight cleaning all parkways in the city, chances to be selected as an enThe Street Department cleans the|trant in the National Sewing Conother streets, excepting those] test. .

- he was barely las hours, according Corky drowned.

Mail Registration Today For Times Sewing Contest

The registration blank which

to bring garments will be an-|

Caught in Drain Pipe ned in Rescue Effort

cue workers tried to flush him out with a fire hose. when he saw the muskrat as he Jeash with his owner, 12-year-old Charles Stewart Jr. pered into a 12-inch pipe 40 feet

Charles steed by Monday night long poles. When they failed, th sterday as police, Clay Township Fire Department

tate Highway De-/was called. Firemen borrowed a e South Bend Hu- line of hose from the ined forces to try Notre Dame Fire De

.{But the water pressure

{budge the dog and police sai

ary, When the number of cases Entry Blank on Page 14; Prizes Total 02 ts Sey Toskueq in ihe chy, $1460 Plus All-Expense Trip to New York deadline for obtaining dog li- By ART WRIGHT

Today is the day to register- for The Times Sewing Contest | which offers women and teen-agers $1460 in cash prizes. All you haye to do to compete is to fill in the registration form, {send it to The Times, then start making the garment that might

recognition.

York, you will receive tional $200,

classifications you. wish.

tions:

Dress: Silk, made from Coat or Suit, pattern.

rayon, wool, ete. standard pattern

from standard pattern. GLAMOUR GROUP All Ages) =

lounge clothes and beach wear,

{made from standard patterns oe D on’t Read This;

from original testant. ORIGINAL DESIGN GROUP (Open to All Ages) —Adult dresses, coats or suits originally designed by the contestant without use of commercial pattern. £

CHILDREN’S CLOTHING

design by con-

maintained by the state. i N. Y. Trip Offered The call for co-ordinated efforts If you win one of the eight first | came after Tony Maio, Street!prizes— there are eight classificaCommissioner, received a letter tions—in the Indianapolis contest, your entry will be gent to New York to be judged by the nation’s top fashion experts, , If your entry is judged best in| any of the eight classifications of the national competition, you wil be invited to New York for a

and trash thrown on Pléasant Run Pkwy., 8. Dr., between Key-

‘The parkway is cleaned by the In the future, sweeping equip-

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‘CHICAGO, Mar. 8 (UP)— The CIO United Packinghouse | Workers today set Mar. 16 for

much of the nation’s .neat supply. The strike would involve 100,000 men at the pa-

interchaneably by both departments. :

approval today that “little time” classifications of the In

paid from the moment you leave Indianapolis. You also will see your garment worn by famous Powers and Conover models at a national fashion shew in New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. - First prize in each of the eight apolis

Lords Warned of War LONDON, Mar. 3 (UP)—The Marquess of Salisbury told the House of Lords amid shouts of

tion's big pagking plants.

remains to avoid a new world

contest will be $50. § will be $20. If you win

at New

Okinawa ‘Sweet Thing’ three-day stay with all expenses Now Can Get That Ring

The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. announced today it had established telephone service to Okinawa. Rates will be $12 weekdays and $9 Sundays for a threeminute call to any United States; the 1 said.

GROUP (Open to’ All Ages)Garments for children up to 12

|years old made from standard| Chilly,

pattern or originally designed by contestant. ‘ALL garments for children — even though of original design — MUST be entered in the Children's Clothing Group.

NEW YORK, . Mar. 3 (UP)—

of the

University of partment dnd squirted water through the pipes.| didn’t!

will officially place you in the an -addi-

You may submit any number of entries in as many of the eight

Here are the eight classifica-| Ingbure,

STANDARD PATTERN GROUP (Senior Division) —Dress: Cotton, made from standard pattern |

made from standard

- STANDARD PATTERN GROUP (Junior Division, 18 Years old or under) —Dress, made from standard pattern; Coat or Suit, made said.

(Open. to!37 about a mile north of Bloom“Special occasion”/ington. {clothes such as evening clothes,

Logansport Crash Kills 1, Injures {

(UP)-—An automobile and a converted schoo construction “kers to their jobs collided today, killing a woman and injuring four other persons.

ton, Ind, was killed. She was riding in the automobile with four other Walton residents on their way to work in a Logansport factory. Bus Driver Woodrow Cole and the 20 construction workers were unhurt. Miss Maze's companions were Albert Cook, 69; Mrs. Jack Winters, 20; Mrs. Tom Swing, 38: and Earl Laymon, 48. They were taken to Memorial Hospital with back and head injuries. The accident happened on Ind. 35, a mile south of Logansport. The bus was going to: Kokomo where the workers were employed on a construction project ‘by the Wolf Construction Co.

2 Hurt in Wreck

In Bloomington

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Mar. 3 (UP)—Two persons were injured seriously and 10 others were bruised and shaken when a Greyhound bus rammed a parked {truck near here early today. { Leo Teflinger, Mitchell, suffered | ja fractured leg and internal in-| {juries, and Mrs. Paul Kays, Hunt- | also was injured in{ternally. Both were taken to a | hospital here. Neither driver of the two vehicles was injured. Robert Ben-

LOGANSPORT, Ind, Mar. 3 bus carrying 20

Miss Juanita Maze, 37, Wal-|!

in a few minutes started kicking. One officer picked him up and carried him to his mother to hold until the ambulance arrived. Witnesses - sald a bystander

“He's all t, ‘he's ki L" The nr was OE icking.

|child fn her arms when the am-

bulance arrived. She said the doctor stuck his head in the police car, opened the child's right eye and patted his cheek. with “There's nothing wro him, he's just ny Mrs. Hughes quoted the doctor as sayng.

The mother said she pointed out that the child was bleeding at ihe mouth. She said the doctor replied:

plied: “ ‘You'd bleed, too, if you had {been hit'.” ’ | Calls Private Doctors | Mrs. Hughes said she asked if there would be any er examination made but the doce tor told her he was “releasing him at the scene of the accident. The mother immediately began

not able .to locate one until 5:30

child was vomiting and -uncon-* scious,

the child and immediately or dered him rushed to the hospital. Brain speofalists have been called in to examine the child, who has been in a coma almost continue ously until today. Both Dr, Charles Myers, superintendent ‘of General Hospital, and Capt. Audry Jacobs, of the police accident prevention division, are investigating the incident. Dr. Myers said he had talked to the ambulance physician, Dr. Jake D. Ruch, = ‘Difficult’ to Diagnose “I think there is no question that the doctor erred in not

-iton, 20, Decatur, Ill, driver of ,|the truck, told Deputy Sherif | .|James East that he stopped his truck to attach a gasoline tank. As he got out, he saw the northbound bus coming and jumped back into the cab. The bus rammed into the truck, Benton

The accident occurred on Ind.

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bringing the child to the hospital,” -Dr. Myers said, He added that the doctor had a good record and that head injuries of this type are “pretty difficult to determine.” “It’s one of those things one could slip on,” the superintendent said. “However, the doctors should always err on the side of safety in such intsances.” Capt. Jacobs said that both

ing and appraised them as “top men.” He said he would investigate the complaints. _He added that the department had no “hard and fast” rule on moving accident victims, Officers are instructed not to move them in cases of back or head injuries

he said, but ir other cases they are instructed to take any action

| “This would be a good day to {stay home by the fire, wet, glum weather is in| {store for Indianapolis and vicin-| |ity today, tonight and tomorrow thé Weather Bureau says. Temperatures ‘were - to reach only the middle 30s today. They'll {drop to 25 to.30 degrees ‘tonight. {Occasional drizzles will make get{ting about disagreeable, Clouds will blot -out the sun. : Little change is forecast for tomorrow. ‘ ' River conditions were eased slightly as colder weather reduced water run-off. Wabash 1s still Sing but its Toa fm como ge) pper stre oO! BR and White are

abi

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be 1113 NC

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believed best for the injured person.

EE ——— This Isn't Funny — ‘Think So ?—Then Ask Mr. Lobb

Practical jokes have ceased to

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the Day, but said the iif remari : .

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