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NO MERE ACT—Adolphe Menjou is not just simulating
anxiety as’ he' looks | through his The film actor had real trouble bunch of keys i in his Soom.
luggage for a missing key chain: this ‘morning trying to find a lost
Menjou Decries Feminine
Slavery to Fashion Change
Women at Mercy of Designers, Says
Movie Star Here fo Autograph New Book
By HENRY BUTLER “It's gott me absolutely. got me, brother.”
That was Adolphe Menjou’s angnished comment this morn-|
ing while'he searched vainly in his Columbia Club room for a gold
key-chain with luggage Keys and good-luck charms attached.
Here to au Tailors,” in Li
copies of his autobiography, Ayres’ book department from 2: 2:30 to ¢ 4pm,
“It Took Nine
the ‘distinguished screen actor! =" = most Jecentiy geen fi “The Huck)
Mr. Menjou, whose book, 2 Whittlesey House publication, stresges the importance of good tailoring; this morning was wearing a coal-black unfinished chevjot single-breasted suit with white shirt, gray and white check tie and pear! stickpin and British‘made, ‘two-tone black-footed high
lace shoes with tan uppers. ,
“Nothing can, be more * important than; a .man's personal appearance. It is a reflection of his Mr. |
standing in the community,”
Fight Pollard
ritie cripple, was found in a blaz- |
{apparently cut off with a hatchet,
re
Jurors Given Tentative OK
_ Counsel Emphasizes Self-Defense Laws
“By ROBERT BLOEM Times Staff Writer GREENFIELD, Mar. 9—The defense today Had tentatively accepted eight members of the jury! which will try Howard Pollard! 25, Indianapolis, on charges of murdering Leland Miller in 1946. Previously, the prosecution had tentatively accepted a full ‘panel. Neither side has used its right to challenge jurors without cause! and it appeared some members of the tentative jury might be dismissed later today. During the examination of jurors, the prosecution emphasized a desire to have only jury members who would be willing to vote for the death penalty in event of conviction. Jury Gets Law Tips The defense concentrated today on giving prospective jurors a brief lgw course on reasonable doubt of ‘guilt, constitutional presumption of innocence and the laws of self-defense. 3 Defense attorneys’ questioning: of the jurors brought frequent ’§ {objections from the prosecution, iwhich charged defense lawyers| {with “going too far” in demand- |: {ing that the junors commit .hem-| (selves to vote for acquittal if they 3 {find any reasonable doubt of Pol-| {lard’s guilt. ; | The defendant, here wm a {change of venue from Marion {County Criminal Court, is [charged with slaying Miller the}
night, of Apr. 10, 1946.
The body of Mr. Miller, an arth]
ing shack near Ladoga. The! hands and one foot of the victim,
were found in a burning brush pile near Advance. Holds to ‘Luck Charm’ Throughout the see-saw legal, {maneuvering of nearly two years
J Way Race "
Pollard has never lost his confi-| dence in the “luck” charm which! {had seen him through 18 previous trips to court without a vonvie-|
Revenue « Bureau with “glaring inefficiencies It demanded an end to the political appointments of collectors and it assailed what it called “loafing on the job,” duplication of er effort and useless work. The charges were contained in a report to the House ‘accompanying .the tee’'s approval of an appropriation bill carrying $1,981,722,350 to run the Treasury ahd Post Office Departments in fiscal 1949. ‘The total was $35,993,850—or nearly 2 per cent —1Jess than requested by the de-|
Menjou said, in intervals between Partments.
his frantic search for the. missin key chain.
Mén should “hot try to follow
8 The
Loafing on Job committee made public a ‘report of its investigators charg- |
each new style trend. Mr. Menjou! "8 the Internal Revenue Bureau
believes.
sure their clothes fit properly. ‘Women Are Slaves’
He decriés feminine slavery to “Women in this country are at the mercy of ‘de-| A man can wear a dress suit for 10 years, but look .how often women have to buy new What about the. poor
fashion change.
signers.
things? 8uy that's got to foot the bills? ‘My wife tells me about - $10,000. to. build
social activities.”
Mr..Menjou deplores. women’s
interfering: with their husband's shopping for clothes.
of it,”
he says. On y
the serious side,
and was. “deeply shocked”
They should dress: for their individual physique, making
it ‘takes an adequate - wardrobe ‘for all“ her
“When a Woman insists on taking her husband to the tailor, that’s the end
Mr. Menjou, an avid reader, said he had just begun “Raintree County” to!
with inefficiency, ineptitude, lessness and waste. Investigators reported finding a | few empty whisky bottles In some internal revenue offices and finding shoes and useless papers in filing cabinets. They also found a few cases where: refunds were erroneously made to taxpayers who really were delinquent in’ their taxes. Evidence of loafing on the job also was reported. Urges Shake-Up The investigators reported that the bureau’s home office in Washington: could stand a vigorous shake-up. They figured that the time spent in coffee-drinking ‘at the snack bar during working hours together with 15 minutes excess
care-
each year of 1,372,000 employee hours at a cost to taxpayers of| $2,217,495. “On two separate occasions,” |
learn of the death of its author, the report said, employees Were
Ross Lockridge Jr.
ual
observed sleeping on the jo!
He also has read recently “Sex-|search of almost any He oo Behavior in the Humaniin the basement will Yield several
by Alfred C. Kinsey and or more empty associates of Indiana University. whisky bottles.” His comment on the Kinsey Re-|
port was: “Wonderful—fabulous! Grain Futures Rally Everyone in America should read Utures Rally
it. He has done a job no one else
has done.”
; Mr. Menjou currently is tour- Grain futures rallied on Ng sothe 25 American cities auto-| Board of Trade today recover-
After Opening Losses CHICAGO, Mar. 9 (UP)— the
lunch period results in the loss
tion. | He appeared unimpressed as Democrats Split
{the prosecution brushed off one| Ov Go hi er Governorship prospective juror after another mA NOBLE REED
who objected on principle to the) ut death penalty. hetind asiong Th Indiana Marion County Prosecutor Jud Boring fone £1 Se son Stark, conducting the prose- to; be heading toward a three1 or il Ta ao way contest. for. thé. Governor one to sit on the jury who might nomination. refuse to vote for the electric] In the Democratic camp, forces, chair should Pollard be convicted. iwere split wide open with no con-| 11 Men, Woman’ on Jury | centration anywhere . on’ Align-| By the end of yesterday's ses: ments for Govérnor tandidates sion the prosecution had tenta- despite the party's optimism’ on tively accepted 12 jurors—11 men chances’ for ‘victory next: fall. and one woman. | Announcement last night of| « Thirty-one persons were exan- Walter Helmke, Ft. Wayne attorined by Mr. Stark and Hancock ney and Allen County GOP chairCounty Prosecutor Melville E. |man, that he would be a candi-| ‘Watson, and 15 were rejected date for Governor, apparently set! for unwillingness to vote for athe stage for Gov’. Gates’ forces! death penalty in event of con- in the Republican state conven-| viction. Four more veniremen [tion drive. ‘ {were excused from jury duty for “Follows , James . | other reasons. | Mr. Helmke came out for Gov-| Defense Attorneys Frank ernor formally at a special meet-| Symmes of Indianapolis -and|ing of Fourth District leaders at {Waldo Ging of Greenfield carried |Ft. Wayne last night. the bulk of .the examination load His announcement came rapid-, {today. { ly on the heels of Lt. Gov. Rich-| Ironically, the whip hand in the ard T. James’ withdrawal as a; state’s case against Pollard con- ogP candidate’ for ‘Governor. tinued to be held by a convicted J sin) will: resign as Lieubandit, Harry Adams, currently a vernor and quit the Gov-| doing a 15-year stretch in the reformatory for armed robbery. accepts May Refuse to Testify . president Adams, said tobe the only eve-| University. witness to the shooting of Miller] Forces associated close to; Gov. | which occurred ‘at the Pollard Gates’ office’ had ‘béen relying on’ home at 1812 Spann Ave. has|Lt Gov. James to act as al said he would refuse to testify. |buffer against the off-the-record After a brief appearance at the campaign +f: U. ‘8. Sen. court “house yesterday under liam E. Jenner for the governorsubpena, he was returned tem-|ship nomination." ~ porarily to Pendleton. Fast Play | Mr. Stark said he probably would call Adams to the stand. however, even if it were only for long enough to say that he had nothing to say.
appointment. , as . vice
race was ‘seen by observers as a
{regular organization Republicans|
1d their fences against the! Previously Adams had been 2, DUI LE
counted on to break down the ne third GOP governor candii i ¢%|date in the race is Hobart Creigh-| were| the a.be Poy ’ Pp {ton, speaker of the Indiana House
trial. : lof Representatives. He is picking Sut D {up farm delegates on a three-way,
split between : the Jenner forces Times Washington Burea
land the regulars. | Sen. Jenner yesterday indicated WASHINGTON, ri 9—Indiana Democratic State Chairman
istrongly. that’ he intends to get Pleas Greenlee arrived here today
linto the governor race in a tele-|, (gram to ‘the ‘Indiana Republican |. ditorial Association yesterday. Br GOP editors earlier had demanded that he get out of the) governor picture and “stay on the| job in Washington.”
TUESDAY; MARCH 9, 1048
OVER THE HILL TO THE POORHOUSE (UNESCORTED) If You've Peeled Spuds You Can ‘Cook’ At Julietta
ernor raee: tomorrow. When he; '
d treasurer of ‘Butler .’
Wil-|
Mr. Helmkes entrance ‘into +a down an S-year-old instruction fast play. on the part of the administrator said today:
apolis system was ‘set (up this| The court's decision specifically
Entered az Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis. Ind. Issued dally except Sunday
_ Photos’ by Lioyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer.
NOON MEAL—The inmates of Julietta sit at long board tables to eat a meal of ‘starchy gruel, white bread and brown Coffes: Buckets in the center table are used to carry in the food | from the kitchen: ;
NOON MEAL—Adithistrative employees receive
this pork roast for dinner while inmates eat macaroni.
{to-see the superintendent. He was out, they.
{ee
- |aggregate badly f traveled back and forth in the
PRICE FIVE GENTS
Roaches Race Around Kitchen Walls, Floors; Meat-Block Catch-All
- Noodle Gruel Ladled With Old Tin Can; Coffee Tastes Heavily of Chicory
(Second of a Series) By RICHARD LEWIS After The Times received complaints on bad food at Julietta, the Marion County Home for the Aged, I went over the hill to that particular poorhouse to:sample the meals. I had visited the place on a conducted tour five years ago. At that time, we lunched quite well. We were escorted into the administrative dining room which served, we were told, the same food as the inmates received, only under less crowded conditions. There is a social agency report which shows that a
|group of Indianapolis social workers shared a similar
experience in 1946, when they went to inspect the place. I decided to take an unescorted tour Last week, I walked into Julietta, my GI shirt and jacket soggy from winter rain, looking for a handout. They told me I would have said, I waited. The visitors’ waiting room at Julietta is neatly and dowdily furnished to achieve the atmosphere of genteel, but thrifty comfort. There was some literature on the table: A Readers st for July, 1048, a treatise on the Panama Canal bound in vellum and a pamphlet outlining the educational opportunities to be found -at
Vassar College. | "1 unwound a little hardiuck An elderly employee in cover- story and aSked if there was alls sat down and asked pleasant-| some work I could do in the ly it I was looking for, a job. I kitchen In exchange for .a) meal. could be, 1 said. 2 | Mr. « McCoy tapped a pencil “They need a ¢ook for the in-| thoughtfully on his Genk. mates,” he'sdid; “Ever cook?” | “Can you cook?" he ied - had. ‘My perience in that| I said I had cooked some in the consisted of spells of KP at/army. He nodded, he NC in 19043, and a! “Do you think you might stay week-end shaving potatoes in an|if ye gave you's ob here?! infantry replacement depot in| I said I a while. I England, 1944. Also, I boil a|said so told me not nifty 3-minute egg. {to go Into Inalanapolis in. search t. much to cooking.” {of a handout because the “ven in wath tough on vag. He
“Not thuch work?” T asked. | log pr hus. He shook is head and grinned. another ‘man on ‘cooking in the I was summoned then into the kitchen.” : offcé of Bupt. Daily E. McCoy, a I said that sounded just fine, pleasant, white-haired Stiman; He, escorted me to the kitchen with rimless spectacles and inativioted Herbert Wieden: “8it down,” he said. “Tell me haupt,- cook, to give me’ about yourself.” [hatpt, he r
'|Roaches Travel Across Kitchen. ‘Thoroughfares’
This was the inmates’ kitchen) The rest of the cooking equipat Julietta. It was a square, ment fnithat kitehén consisted of high-celling room with a floor of |two huge. steam kettles, heated by te cracked. Roaches gas jéts.. In’ one of the Kettles, I saw
thoroughfares provided by the! |gallons’ of “noodles water cracks. Most of ‘their business With & trace of
The roast was prepared in the employees’ modern’ electric kitchen. fe
seemed to center about the gar-|y Bags can Whish staoa sgainst'the Oot, a He uthet; uddy east wa ’ In the center of the room stood , There was a meatblock covered |a long. board table, with wooden | "Y & dirty cloth at the north end
the kitchen. I told to Religious Training Setup [is hid star want af ie ine wae lola lo
To Continue in County
Board Says U.S: "Supreme Court Ruling * Does Not ‘Cover Method Used Here
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER, Times Church Editor The tocat Weekl-day Religious Education Board intends to go|
ahead with the instruction of public school children on release time [stovepipe guard with a. round hole stuff there, they said,
in the city and county. Dt. Filorizel A. Pfleiderer, adiministrator of the schools, thus stated the plans.of the local authorities. Dr. Pfleiderer’s announcement came on the heels of a decision handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday which struck that touch on re-
architecture,
Justice Hugo L. Black, who wrote the majority opinion, didn’t say how far it wert. He merely Istated that no tax-supported public school system can aid any religious sect in any way. The wall between the church] ing. {and state erected by the first}. |amendment to the Constitution Hell in. Churches must be kept high and impreg“Fortunateiy, when the. Indtan-nable. » Justice Black said.
rogram in Champaign, Ill. The! “The Indianapolis setup is not parallel to that of Champaign, {where classes were held in schoolrooms and no rent was paid to {the school for the use of the | build
vas filled with: coal, but the cast/worry about what the
cast iron coal stove, mounted on|*3cK Containing my “beléngin’s” bricks. What appeared to be the|On the’ meat “block. : oven door was sealed shut with a| "Don’t ypu use that for’ meat?” “rust of dried grease and soot I asked The heating plate on top the One of ‘the ki n employ stove was cracked. One fire well giggled. The the ny bo meatblock plate was missing. A tin|was used for, Just throw your where you
iron top
in the center took its place. can watch it.
‘T.. .zs Disappear Around Here’ 2
around there, they told me. adulterated with chicory. Things disappeared. “How much chicory ‘do’ you I.hung up my jacket on a nafl have in your coffee?” I asked one Hear the Horth dot and shoved of the kitchen helpers. e paper tween some! “Too much,” he. ‘said. “Loys; mops. Then I asked if there Waa ain't it?” h unyiliing to 2 for supped. | 'Theh he added: “If you work 0 00 uead and out, you can eat in the employees indicated the steam kettles. {kitchen They give you food hats it,” he said. ate my supper just before the] inmates ‘had theirs. ' The cook |] Raid If there was a separate ladled the noodle gruel out of the) r employees. steam Kettle with a tin can wired| “You can’t work on what they to the end of a short, wooden feed in this kitchen,” said the
probable interpretation of - the struck at the instruction program |constitution (by the Supreme jn Champaign. The program
[Court) was taken into considera- glowed students to attend, with
jon. In Indianapolis, classes are held in the churches ‘nearest the |schools. Enrollments are obtained {through PTA members calling in| ithe homes of children and not through recruitment in the public, |schoolroom.
the writte> _ pagmission of their parents, half-hour weekly classes! conducted in public schools. Mrs. Vashti McCollum of Cham- | paign, who brought the suit, said; the court action had “saféguarded our school system from sectarian!
pole. He dumped a helping into|helper. “The meals is better in a tin plate and handed it to me|there.” | ith comment. Then he gave! He indicated a room next door me a cup of coffee from the to the inmates’ kitchen. As soon second ‘steam’ kettle. as I could without attracting their “Help yourself to the bread,” attention. I dumped the remaining he said. thalf of my supper into the garThat was supper. The noodles | bage can. Then 1 wandered into jwere warm and pasty. The coffee! the next room.
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8raphing “It Took Nine Tailors,” ing opening losses in some cases Prepared to:tel] President Trumay
i written by him and M. but soybeans remained at the! Musselman. | permissible 8-cent deeline.
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that the state is for him for an‘other term. “Hoosiers don't check out on; {the President for all the wrong! |reasons,” Mr. Greenlee said. “We feel that he is a progresisive and colirageous chief éxecu-| tive and that his present unpop-
|ularity will pass and he will be re-
‘elected. To Meet McGrath
“I .came here to confer with
National Democratic Chairman McGrath and his assistant, Gael Sullivan. I intend to tell them {and also the President that In-| diana will be for the Democrats {come next November. Our electing the Mayors in all of the large] , cities is a straw in the wind.” , Gréenlee cited the unusual FL at the recent Jackson{Jefferson Day dinner in Indisnaps olis as assuring victory for t
Indiana National Committee: arrive here from Florida tomor-
tee meeting. + Greenlee said
1 World Aff... 2 Hey 4 would hi regarding In- fore or after
SR POI Ap re pee |
Issue Another Blast At another meeting here Sunday. a committee of the editors isent another blast to the senator, {demanding that he resign as U.S. senator immediately if he intends to ran for governor. Sen. Jenner's oy said “he would ‘be ‘guided by his own “conscience and lessons of political experience” in decisions ef~ fecting his political future. In effect, the Senator politely {told the editors he didn’t intend to follow their advice. Which meant to party leaders that he
at his own time and pleasure. Democratic leaders had not re-
'|covered from the setback of former Governor Henry Schricker’s|
latest refusal to be drafted to run for governor. At present there are only two
Ruth Millett 14! Side Glances 12 Democats at the polls in the Ty ®| candidates » sout for the Demo-!
cratic nomination, Harry,
ter Mybeck, of Crown Point.
12 row to attend a 3 steers commit- There was no organized bally-!
hoo for either them either be-|
. Schricker's ret at
will be a'candidate for Governor,
“The Indiana State law has not
permits the release of children up to 120 minutes (for religious Instruction) each week on -condition that none of the taxpayers’ money is used. The Indiana sys-| tém is operating .under the 1943 law. “Ten thousand pupils are released from school each week to lattend 373 classes in Indianapolis and Marion County. “The plans are to go ahead with instruction under the terms of the Indiana state law.” Supreme Court Rules The U. 8. Supreme Court ruling yesterday held that religious education in public schools is constitutional
The court's Jone dissénter, Justice Stanley F. Reed, said the majority opinion was so sweeping that it could forbid schools from excus during school
governor. children 9 Sports... 16-17 man Frank McHale is due to McClain, of Shelbyville, and Wal- hours to attepd religious classes
at their own A J Robert H. Jackson, said the decision could |include a. ban on classical art _ aubjects, euch
peen declared unconstitutional. It,
domination.”
{versity of . Illinois professor, sought an injunction to halt the! classes in the school where | 10-year-old son is a pupil.
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Surprise—Sunny Weather Promised
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.. 27. 10 a. m... 35 Tam... 27 11a m..3 8 a.m.. 80 12 (Noon) 42 ®a m.. 31 1p. m.. 42
After a week of gloomy, cold or near-cold weather, Indianap-
uUn-iglis has been ‘promised sunny
weather today, By this afternoon temperatures are expected to reach the upper thirties. The mercury will drop tonight. however, with tempera tures as low as 16 predicted. Despite the fact that spring is Just around the next blizzard, according to the calendar. tomorrow will be 1
@ larature ar cloudy,
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The employees’ kitchen, which {serves the superintendent, the ad-| ministrative employees and a number of other employees 1 couldn’t then determine, was aj stully in contrast to the one] which fed the inmates.
stove, a new refrigerator of about eight cubic feet, modern sinks and was cheerfully illuminated. 1 saw meat, potatoes and a vegetable being prepared there by a frail, white-haired lady who. I was told, was the cook. I returned to" the shabby inmates’ kitchen. The food cellar, IT was told, was downstairs. Crates of eggs were stored down there. Just outside the food cellar was a dark cranny where employees urinated. rather than walk all the way around to the first floor toilet. At § p. m., the inmates began lining up outside the dining hall, They waited apathetically while
It contained a mgqdern electric;
attendants set out the’ tin plates: of noodle gruel which the kitchegy
Employees’ Kitchen Is Vastly Different
Mrs. McCollum, wife of a Uni-!
{men were ladling out of the steam kettle with the tin can. t 5:15, the aged chow line ishuffied into the hall. One of the {mess attendants said there were {300 there for supper. 1 couldn't {check this because .a number of |inmates hobbled out of the dining room as soon as they saw what there was for supper. The men had entered the mesa hall at 5:17 p. m. At 5:30, it was empty again and the mess atfendants were scooping up the tin plates, tin cups and tin spoons for washing in the sinks on the west wall of the dining room. “How'd you like the supper?” I asked a crippled inmate. He was a big man, his cheeks tanned with age, and he limped on a heavy cane. He seemed to size me up as an (employee, since T had come out of
single word: “Slop.” he said deBantly. hobbled away, th Ig (TOMORROW-_The menu at
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