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Urged Indiana's
in State
By NOBLE REED
present system of
ine criminals is & failure.
han
was
law,
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the consensus ex-
at a conferente of more nen 50 state leaders in crimin-
psychiatry and edu-
thinking, the state’s laws utile methods
tigens, the conference was told. Prison Not the Solution
le who are committing
penal terms
violent sex crimes are sick people .nd must be treated in special B:nstitutions instead of serving
and repeating their
acts over again,” said Frank E. oughlin, chief deputy attorney eneral, in the keynote discussion. He proposed work on a new set jaws to handle mentally ill
persons in hospitals rather than
in prison.
i Host sex crimes were traced to Wl psychopatic times begin as
perverts who some-
“Every person indicted for any
crime should
be studied as a men-
tal case,” declared Dr. Max Bahr, head of the Central Indiana Hos-
tal. ee present handling of erim{nals is a failure,” he said.’ “The
state is proceeding on the theory that punishment is an effective
deterrent to
crime.
Punistment Called ‘Revenge’ “If that were effective there should be no criminals in our penal institutions,” he said.
“In-
stead, however, we have more ” :
than ever.
Dr. Bahr asserted that punishment is “merely society's revenge in what is called justice.” “The present policy of an eye-for-an-eye and a life-for-a-life is primitive reasoning,” he said.
Under ‘the present antequateéd system, he said, insane pergons are punishéd the same as: sane
Most of the experts agreed that ! the men ill pers
was the big-
gest problem facing society. Dt. E. Vi Hahn, pe : atrist, 08 ty conferees that|at last he could relieve Mrs.
many of the adult offenders with|%’ i ‘ : * loos history of mental illness X's family and society of the
“in
“Many of the mentally ill chil-|He thought’ at last she was to|Mrs. X is still waiting.
“peeping toms” or|. other less serious offenders and grow more dangerous with homi-
cidal tendencies.
\
Mentally Ili
Almost, but not quite.
’
danger of her being at large.
dren can be readjusted in time,” have a chance to be cured. he said. “Children too often are
the most healthy minds cannot withstand.” : a;
Urges Education of Parents
Dr, Hahn pro) | temporarily in jail propuscq: that proper not be placed in another ward! rafters.
education of parents in childrén would contribute materially toward reduction of the
whole crime
He warned against a legal pro-|only yesterday, from actual case|from jail and taken to the hos-
cedure based upon the pre-|records at General Hospital:
problem.
sumption that adult psychotics can be cured in institutions.
This led to a discussion on laws|loWing cases, The Times respects that would hold mental patients/hospital authorities’ wish that deIn institutions indefinitely, per-|tails be handled in such a way haps for life if they can’t be|that no individual patient can be cured,”
Treatments Come Too Late
Dr. Thurman Rice, of the In-{however, is from an actual case diana University Medical Centér,[ROW awaiting attention.) i ho crimes lis h iting admis ent after anapo onies awaiting misve been liom o late.|sion to the psychiatric wards. “The first need is a sound|/Some were in serious condition, Sucationa) program for parents,” |at least one was dangerous. One said, 4
“The
menace
starting mental
of the sex
offender is greater now than in
Brandfather’s day because of the Women and five men waiting in Increasing complexities of mod-|Marion County Jail — mental ern society,” he warned. “Years|Cdses which had to be confined 280 young people got imarried|éven though it could not be in a early and established homes|hospital or an institution.
They ‘Hear’ Their Doom Plotted
ivi the
handicéps of present-
2y economic complications and
there were fewer mental cases.”
-He said People
thousands of young
today can't possibly over-
os effectively the present ecoaie Complications and as a re-
me
mentally ill and po-
nth criminals, . It i dangerous for the lay-
Man to
these
to Ina)” Dh
of the causes behind cases that court juries
Judge a sex crim“The public is so
hold not be permitted to ‘judge
prez Cites Problem Here |
ng peussing the problem of find- ® mentally ill before crimes
ire committed, Mayor Al Feeney|
nid the Indianapolis police decan furnish “500 of them right now.» .
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at all ‘tim
als, of the
a the
“There than the
Some the gun
wt aa the only thing wrong
= was t “are not _ that there
He propose:
psychiatrists.”
ject,” Gov, Gates told the
Conference,
Mr, Ca
Conferences 0 chairman of the
said
d that the city police _have bsychiatrists availes in handling
Dr. Charles A. Zeller, director Indiana Council for MenHealth, presented the conferWith a technical paper, outProcedures for future laws subject, Conference was called b & They General Cleon Faust the direction of Gov. Gates. is no more challenging In government today nals o, Ceatment of sex crimand we must work toward Worthwhile ' legislation on’
Women Await Admission Here is the situation as it was
(Note: Mrs, X is not one person. In her case and in the fol-
identified from them. Each”de-
tail,. each: symptom described,
There were 11 women in Indihad been waiting for
weeks. In addition,
many
there were two
‘Which One Would You Confine?' Doctors
Ask; Mrs. ‘X’ Almost Got a Bed but Not Quite By ROBERT BLOEM
Mrs. X, who may kill herself or some member of her family at any moment, almost got a bed in General Hospital's psychiatric department yesterday,
or the first time in many & vacant bed. Dr. David Boyd, department head, thought
‘But before Mrs. X could being up of mental casés that an submitted to pressures that even brought in, police came in with|estimated 500 or more mentally another woman, suffering from|ill persons are “at large” in an acute mental ailment. She was| Marion County, There is no place too desperately ill to be held|to treat their type of illness that She could|isn’t already jammed to the
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admission for some time. 8he cannot be admitted now. She died waiting. Two patients have similar symptoms. They think someone is trying to poison them. They hear their enemies in the next room plotting their doom. Should either of them meet a person Who looks to them like a potential poisoner, they would react like cornered animals. It doesn’t take
A woman has been ag
might happen. A man thinks he is being pursued and persecuted. A woman is certain detectives are flashing “Invisible” lights inher eyes and trying to make her nervous by slajmming doors. A man is on the hunt for a doctor he believes murdered a relative of his to save the state the cost of an old-age
a-psychiatrist-t~ “igure out what!
CAPTURED—William Lemay, 17, has admitted being one of gunmen who held up the LVL Club Tuesday, according to Sheriff Clyde Williams of Paris, Tenn., where he was captured last night.
The ‘Lost 500'—
Acute Backlog Permits
to Roam
days the ‘Women's ward had
because she might have jumped out of a window. 86 the bed was ‘fllled again.
It is because of this acute back-
to Wards
two of the men could be released
pital, because that's all the room there was available. Two of the men were sufficiently ill to warrant immediate treatment, but because of the violent nature of their illness and their physical strength, doctors questioned if the small number of attendants at the wards could handle them. Look at the individual situations, some in jail, some outside, and all representing only that small fraction of existing cases which have come to the attention of tk: authorities. . A man hates his child. He wants to “get rid” of the youngster. His family is terrified and the family physician agrees there is good reason. - It may be several days before he can be hospitalized.
A youngster suffers long periods of unconsciousness in a case of acute mental illness brought on by a sudden fright. The family of a mentally ill person appeals for help -after exhausting all funds in fruitless attempts to cure the patient by private means. Each day the doctors face the question—which one to take? What will be the consequences of delaying in another case we can’t possibly take yet? To make their own dilemma clear, the doctors pose this hypothetical question for the taxpayers who must support improvements if improvements are to be made: y : One person batters his head against cell walls in jail, another is tied in bed at home with a| clothes line. -This situation has really existed. If you had only one bed, which
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New Legislation
THURSDAY, MARCH
4, 1048
Out-of-Town Gamblers
Night Club
Seeking to Take Over
Property
Times Telephotos From Tennessee
Identify Youths Who
Tell of $6000 Holdup
By EDWIN C. HEINKE, Times City Editor (Copyright, 1948, by The Indianapolis Times) Mayor Al Feeney and Sheriff Al Magenheimer today disclosed that they are investigating reports that a powerful mob of out-of-town gangsters is attempting to move into Indianapolis and Marion County. The gunmen-gamblers have contacted owners of half a dozen county spots in an attempt to buy them out or “muscle” them out of their property and set up a huge
gambling syndicate, Mayor heimer declared.
Sheriff Magenheimer said he believed that the two
Feeney and Sheriff Magen-
young bandits captured in Paris, Tenn., last night and today after staging the $6000 holdup of the Liberal View League Club early Tuesday were possibly hirelings of the mob. Magenheimer Anxious to Question Pair
The men will be brought
back to Indianapolis to face
charges of armed robbery and kidnaping, Sheriff Magen-
heimer said.
The men gave their names as William T. Lemay’ and John Raven, both 17 years old. Lemay said his home was at Nashville and Raven said he lived in San Antonio, Tex.
(Lemay previously had given
his partner's name as Har-
old Rayburn.) Both men signed confessions.
“I've had plenty of reports that an out-of-town gang
had been contacting places in
the city and county and I'm
sure going to question those two.birds,” said the sheriff.
. “Ever since the LVL holdup I've been hearing reports
that the bandits were part of the gang that was interested :
in taking over the club along with other places.” : “We're not going to tolerate any gangsters moving
Mayor Feeney said he had
been quietly fuvestigating the reports for 's week and had alerted the police department to be on the lookout for movements of the gang. “Well give them rough treatment,” the Mayor declared. Offer to Buy One Spot The Times knows of at least one place that was contacted by the mobsters. They strode into a -prominent place about a month ago and bluntly offered to buy the resort. “I told them that if I could sell the place at a good profit, why sure I'd sell,” the manager told The Times. “They didn’t close any deal but came about a week later and started to make plans about what room the horse book was to be in and what rooms other gambling operations were to be installed. ! “I told them ‘Hey, what the] hell, you haven't even bought the place yet. “They said ‘well, don't worry about that, we've got all the money in the world back of us.’ I haven't heard from them since.” Make Full Confession Meanwhile a full confession to the LVL holdup was made to Sheriff Clyde G. Williams and Paris Chief of Police W. G. Smith. Both said it was their first holdup, although the LVL owners believe they are the same men who held up one of the owners, Roll Hoss, six weeks ago. Lempy and Raven were surprised last night as they drove into a tourist court near Paris. Raven escaped through a back window but was captured near Paris at 6:45 a. m. Most of the $6000 loot taken in the holdup was recovered inthe car. N= Late last night Mr. Hoss and L.-8. Pratt, co-owners of the night club, identified the bandit and the car through tele-| photo pictures provided hy Tne Indianapolis Times and another, Scripps-Howard newspaper, the| Memphis Commercial-Appeal. | Editor Calls Times ~“Wheu «bandits were trapped | by Sheriff Williams at Paris, Commercial - Appeal Managing Editor Robert Paine picked up the telephone and called 7The Times city desk. | “The man who was picked up {gave an Indianapolis address. Have you had any holdups in which something like $5000 or $6000 was taken?” he asked. He was told about the LVL
his wife, Florence, were held up
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at their North Side home by the bandits, who later drove Mr. {Hoss to the club and held up Mr. | Pratt ,and several employees of!
..Page 13 the club. | Pictures of Lemay, the 1941
Cadillac which was taken from | Mr. Hoss and the money boxes)
{Which held the $6000, were taken St. Louis Star-Times today re- Under the circumstances of his|#” {by photographers at Paris, rushed ported that Eddie Dyer, manager abdication hé said he did not!" {to Memphis and wired in by of the St. Louis Cardinals, had consider himself bound in vany {Acme Telephoto to Times Stafr been hit on the head by a line way by it.# [Photographer John Spicklemire. drive during batting practice at
Identifies Car { Mr. Hoss and Mr. Pratt stood anxiously by the telephoto ma-!
chine as Photographer Spickle-| !2ken to the Mt. Park Hospital livered to him an ultimatum on
mire received the pictures. When | they were developed, the club)
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GET-AWAY CAR—When Tennessee authorities surprised the two bandits in a
tourist camp, they found most of the $6000 loot from the LVL Club still in this car.
Parolee Kills Self To Avoid Capture
Crawls Under Bed To Fire Fatal Shot
A 27-year-old parolee “without much nerve” shot himself fatally early today in the bedroom of his
| mother’s home while police looked
for him outside. The parolee, Edward Boardman, had been talking on the telephone to his wife, Mary, 22, when police came to the door at 268 N. Addison St. He ran to the bedroom and crawled under a bed, while his wife waited on the telephone. She heard the shot. Earlier, Boardman had gone to her home at 2122 N. Delaware St. and told her: “I've come 2400 miles to get you.” 8he said he had been in California and had come back to ask her to rejoin him. She refused. He then took $23 from her and left, she told police. Police went to the home of his mother, Mrs. Beatrice Boardman, on a hunch he might be there. Feared Capture He had told his wife, she said, that he would not let police take him again. He was on parole from the Indiana Reformatory, where he was serving a 1-10 sentence on a larceny conviction. Boardman told his wife that parole agents and police were looking for him in connection with a burglary. “He wasn’t a fellow with a lot of nerve,” his wife mused. “I certainly didn’t think he'd do a thing like this.”
Dyer Struck by Ball
At Cardinals’ Camp ST. LOUIS, Mar. 4 (UP)—The
the St. Petersburg, Fla, training camp. He was revived on the field and
X-rays failed to disclose a fracture; but doctors said he would remain at the hospital for observation, :
Sewing Conte
to Indianapolis entrants.
conjunction with the National
Sewing Contest,
All that is necessary to’ take part is to fill out the entrant's registration blank which appears in the Woman's Section of The Times—on page 25—and mail it to: Sewing Contest Editor, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland St. After your registration is made, The Times will mail you an official entry form which is to be pirined to your contest garment when you deliver it on Apr, 19 to the place which will be announced
Ex-King Breaks Silence on Ouster LONDON, Mar. & (UP)—
claimed today that the Commu-
under stern threat of plunging
his country into a bloodbath, and that he still considered himself to be king in fact. : Michael broke the silence he has maintained since he gave up his throne on the last day of 1047 a few hours after he left the continent for the first time and on
United States.
he was out to regain his throne.
. Premier Petru Groza and {Gheorge Gheorghiu-Déj, one of ithree secretary generals of the Romanian Communist Party, de-
the morning of Dec. 30, Michael said.
He said they told him that they|
Reds Forced Abdication By Threats, Says Michael
Young Michael of Romania pro-|!
nists forced him to “abdicate” He
the eve of .his ‘departure for the!%®
The 26-year-old deposed mon- 5 arch served implicit notice that|’
st Open to All
In Times Circulation Area
By ART WRIGHT The Times Sewing Contest, which already has brought enthusiastic response from homemakers and teen-agers, is not restricted Charles Myers, superintendent of
later in The Times. Garments are to be delivered only on that day. The Times will pay not less than $560 in prizes in the local contest—§50 for first and $20 for second in each'of the eight classifications of judging. First place garments in the Indianapolis contest will be sent to New York City to be judged for prizes in the national contest. If an Indianapolis winner also gets a first place in New York,
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{ TELLS ALL—Michael of Ro- |. mania says Communists forced him off throne by threatening bloodshed. He wants to regain his crown, hii
would cause blood to flow If he tried to hold out.
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Mayor Al Feeney today said his investigation of the faulty diagnosis of an injured child
[showed that a General Hospital
ambulance doctor had made “an error of judgment.” Investigation showed, the Mayor said, that the doctor made a faulty diagnosis when he res leased 4-year-old Richard Hughes Jr, 2813 LaSalle Bt, at the scene of the accident instead of him to the hospital for completes
examination. y afterward {ll and was rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital where examination revealed he had a skull fracture and concussion. The child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hughes, is improve g after being on the “serious”
in list. ‘Realizes Mistake’ Mayor Feeney sald that Dr,
General Hospital, had talked to
If you live within the circulation area of The Times, you are|Dr. Jake D. Ruch, the doctor who eligible to compete for the $1460 in prizes offered by The Times in|released the child after he was
struck by a car, “The doctor realizes he was in the wrong,” Mayor Feeney said. “He feels as bad as anyone about this thing and offers no excuse for the mistake,” “This incident, unfortunate as it was, has been a fine lesson for him and other ambulance doctors. I think it's made a laste ing impression on him.” The Mayor said he found the two police officers who were prese ent were totally blameless, adding their responsibility ended when they turned the child over to the ambulance physician. Supt. Myers, who investigated
“|the incident earlier, confirmed
that the doctor was in érror. He added that head injuries such as the child sustained were extreme ly difficult to diagnose. He said that Dr. Ruch had a good rece ord for conscientious work.
‘Wheat Hits Limit
On Chicago Market
CHICAGO, Mar. 4 (UP)—May wheat shot upward the full 10« cent limit on the Chicago Board
[of Trade today after Secretary
of Agriculture Clinton Anderson announced that the government
> |is “feeling” its way back into
i market. r. Anderson announced Yesterday that the et ih Is going to “reel” its way back into the grain market by buying flour for export. The governe ment has bought no wheat or flour since prices broke a month ago today. Meanwhile, a survey by United Press showed that retail prices of most basic foods have stopped dropping. “3
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