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Depressed by Coup, Family Declares GUE, Mar. 10 (UP)—Forein Minister Jan Masaryk leaped to his death from a window of his living quarters early
today vers of ‘his family said his death was in protest against the two-week -old Communist government in Czechoslovakia. Mr. Masaryk's body was found, a close friend of his said, below a third floor window of ‘his official residence, Cernin Palace, at i a. m. (Indianapolis Time). The informant said Mr. Masaryk appeared to have died instantly, but several hours passed pefore the body was discovered. News of Mr. Masaryk’s death stunned the residents of Prague. State Funeral Weeping crowds gathered outside shop windows, where blackpordered pictures of Mr. Masaryk re displayed. ee i crowd collected in front of People’s Party headquarters, where Mr. Masaryk’'s photograph was flanked by American, British and French flags on one side, Soviet and other Slav nations’ flags on the other. Mr. Masaryk will be accorded a state funeral Saturday, a foreign office source reported. He said the funeral procession would start from the Pantheon in Wenceslaus Square .and proceed to Cernin Palace and thence to Lany, where Mr, Masaryk will be buried beside his father and mother.
the Communist government of Premier Klement Gottwald. Official news of his death was withheld for four hours and 15 minutes after members of his family reported his body had been found. Depressed at Coup
political independent, but he had
eign minister in the new Com-munist-dominated Gottwald -(overnment. A member of Mr. Masaryk's
pressed ever since Communists
ment 15 days ago. , Last Sunday night Mr. Mass«} ryk made a lone to
Thomas G. Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia,”
said. Went to Grave Alone
the 98th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Masaryk's father, The day was observed at the grave by an official party headed by Premier Gottwald, but Mr, Masaryk did not take part in the official ceremony, \ He waited until night and then went alone to the grave. ; Mr. Masaryk is the second member of the ousted coalition cabinet to seek death by leaping out a window. Government sources reported two weeks ago that former Minister of Justice Prokop Drtina had suffered a fractured skull in a similar attempt at suicide. Mr. Masaryk was born in Prague on Sept. 14, 1886. He began his studies in Prague but ran away to America in 1907 and married the daughter of Charles Crane, an industrialist, while working at Mr. Crane's factory in Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Masaryk's mother was Charlotte Garrigue, of Brooklyn, and of Huguenot stock, whom his father married on a lecture tour of the United States.
Chief Czech at UN
Accuses Soviet Russia LAKE SUCCESS, Mar. 10 (UP) —Czechoslovakia’s chief United Nations delegate today formally asked the United Nations Security Council to charge Soviet Russia with aggression in Czechoslovakia as a result of the Communist coup there. Czech Ambassador Jan Papa-| nek, defying the Communist government of his country, charged in a formal complaint that the Communist seizure of power on Feb. 20 was “prepared and executed with the help, encouragement and advice” of Soviet Ruassia. He said the situation threatened world peace.
Trial of Pollard nsw SATE bY “Jin
Mr. Masaryk was listed as: alAn apparent “jinx” on the No. 6 seat ted reappointment as Jor-{brought new delays in selection piss Pro of a jury to hear the first degree murder trial of Howard Pollard, Indianapolis.
family said he had been Qe- i still without a jury, the prosecution full control of the govern-|jurors for the sixth chair without wo gy filling it. Most of the eight had
proceedings pleasantly as he was introduced Sunday's seremonies marked to each succeeding jury prospect,
social affair.
No. 6 Seat on Jury Remains Unfilled
By ROBERT BLOEM Times Staff Writer GREENFIELD, Ind., Mar. 10—
in ‘the jury bex today
As the trial entered its third tried eight prospective
because of ob-
fee» Fi en 0} to the death penalty. .. J s ; ba) 25 +¥ ~0l fendant,| . the grave of Jia famous, father. 35-year -0 defendant,
the republic{toot” slaying of Leland Miller in and known as the “liberator of (19468, continued to maintain an these sources|attitude of complete calm toward the
. He nodded
almost as though the trial were a
‘Expect Acquittal’ His answer to reporters’ questions about his attitude was the same as it has been since the trial opened: “1 confidently expect complete acquittal.” Examination of prospective jur-
throughout today and possibly tomorrow. Throughout its examination the defense laid groundwork for a, plea of self-defense. Each juror was carefully questioned to determine his views on self-defense as possible justitication for killing. Pollard May Not Testify Defense counsel also hinted the 25-year-old Pollard may mot take the stand in his own behalf. Jurors were asked if they would hold his failure to testify, against him, They also were asked if they would give him the same credence as any other witness in event he should take the stand. . Prosecution in the trial is expected to contend the fatal shooting of the 23-year-old Indianapolis. cripple was done in coldblooded revenge.
Accuses Meyers Of ‘Gift’ Offer
WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (UP) —A witness testified today in the trial of Maj. Gen. Bennett E.
ors appeared likely to continue
Meyers that the general promised
helpful witness. Calvin Mettee, Meyers’ former GI. chauffeur, told a Federal Court Jury that the general made the money offer jast Oct. 25. - He did not specify whether the alleged offer was in connection with Meyers’ current trial for subornation of perjury. Meyers specifically is accused of persuading Blerior H. LaMarre, a former associate, to lie to a Senate War Investigating Committee last fall. The Senate investigation already had been completed by Oct. 25. The witness said Meyers offered him $2000 after coaching him at length -on the story the general wanted him to tell. He said all of Meyers’ suggested answers were “untrue.” * Later, ‘Mr. Mettee said Gen. Meyers had offered him the $2000 “for my loyalty.” “He did not specifically say ‘he would give it to me for making a false statement,” he said.
DEPRESSED — Jan Masaryk, ton of the founder of the Czech-
fbn ig IR Reject Rent Proposal WASHINGTON, Mar, 10 (UP) ~The House Banking Committee
oslovakian Republic, leaped 10 |i gay rejected a motion to kill
him $2000 if he proved to be a
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v ASHES — Dr. Ross Lockridge Sr., father of the dead author of “Raintree County," regards the bonfire pit where during the summers he and Ross Jr. staged patriotic observances around a bonfire. Here, Dr. Lockridge believes, Ross Jr. might have caught the inspiration for his book.
‘Whom Lord Tovelh, He Chasteneth’ ; Through-the Raintree Spring Winds Whisper
Lockridge's Work Was Done, Say Friends, At Funeral for Poet of Eel River hi
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By RICHARD LEWIS, Times Staff Writer
BLOOMINGTON, Mar. 10—They buried Ross Lockridge Jr. in Rosehill Cemetery here yesterday at the age of 33. His work was; done, they said. .
It was there for everyone
to see—"Raintree County”
—a record of the American republic. : The day was cool and bright with misty sunlight.
Quick, green 1ife was returning to grass on the slope, and in the
air pay was a soft pledge of spring
River was found Saturday night seated in his
PSC. Confirms Trolley Fares
Tokens Declared - Good Until July 1
The Indiana Public Service Commission today confirmed the 10-cent fare, free transfers and nickel fares for. schoolchildren in a final order setting permanent rates for Indianapolis Railways, Inc. . The order brought to an end five years of litigation before the Commission, Marion County,
‘Exaggerated, Says Bosson
Declares McCoy ‘Doing a Good Job’ Marion County Commissioners today protested that The Times’ series of stories on conditions at Julietta County Home were “exaggerated and silly.” “It certainly was a big surprise to us to see stories criticizing operation of Julietta when the administration has been bending over backward working 24 hours
a day to make it an efficient institution,” déclared Commissioner
. |William (Bud) Bosson.
“The stories put the worst construction possible on operation of the institution. . . . We have been unable to understand them. . . . It has been a great disappointment to see this type of articles in The Times,” he said. . ‘Some Confusion’ The commissioner explained that there has been some confusion at the institution recently because of the new state. welfare law, authorizing county homes to care for persons receiving old age assistance benefits.
State and Federal courts. The fare was 64 cents when the rate case started in 1943. . The Commission's final order
Pp! long. Some have said it is the mightiest effort to - interpret America since the day
wound slowly uphill along the gravel drive of the cemetery. Men and women appeared against the powder blue sky, walking slowly across the grass toward the slope where the poet lay in a carmine casket. Ross Lockridge Jr. had realized a life’s ambition in trying, as he put it, “to create a book for humanity.”. He succeeded instantaneously. He hit a literary and financial jackpot. lie returned to Bloomington, a literary hero. Suddenly, he was dead, a suicide. “Why?” they asked in Bloomn
Some of the learned men of the town gathered to consider the poet's dedth. They sought an explanation of it in terms of the records he left behind. There was no suicide note. He had simply told his wife he was going out to.mail some letters.
” » » DR. ROSS LOCKRIDGE SR. ° the poet’s father, an eminent historian and scholar, disclosed a letter his son had written last November from Hollywood. At that time, Dr. Lockridge said, Ross Jr. and his family were living in a Motel on the
to avoid being lionized by officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which is filming his book. The poet wrote his father: “Strangely enough, at the very pinnacle of Raintree County’s remarkable, pre-pub-lication success, the strength that enabled me to write it seemed to desert me and I have been at odds and ends. with myself. “During this time, however, I have reminded myself of the grand, old truth, “whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth,”
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“the. garage, the motor and garage doers tightly |ratfied the: tate schedule tents EDN. spy mation by cathan moncside, sad, he coroner, atte (ively set ast Dec. 38. 7 they tried 1a fevive the Young man on ihe kitchen Seorst, | It found hat the da vii of ie Tee ho gn a And 1 have vast cdthfort ard {property as of Nov. 30, 1041, was
strength from a direct reliance | on the scriptures and the great, symbolical truths everywhere expressed in the Old and New
Tes ts.
“When our own strength deserts us, there is a greater
strength.”
"en “WHY?” they asked in
Bloomington.
Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president emeritus of Indiana University, considered the problem in the living room of his. home on the campus. He knew
the Lockridges well.
“The book, I think, consumed the dean of Hoosier scholars said. “Like Walt Whitman, he wrote with a vast emotion; a great laughter. He re-
him,”
nounced technical art forms. “It burst forth from him,
this book, like Emerson’s ‘Vol-
cano’s Tongue of Flame.’
“This thing, so filled with » great emotion, ‘was written with an impassioned mind through a long time. It was written with a passion that burns up a man.
I think that was it.
“It resulted in a deadening of the emotions—I would I could There's an exhaustion of whatever it is that is the mother of emotion, so that the ordinary impulses of youth, of joy and satisfac-
say that better.
tion are dead for a time.
“Had Ross gone ahead as a college professor, perhaps ne
would be alive today.” = » »”
IN THE high, March afternoon, the body of the poet was given to the earth. There was
silence for the final prayer.
Below the cemetery hill came
the muffled sound of the town
where the court house flag flev at half mast and black crepe was draped about the poet's book in the bookstore window “on the square. : Beside the two-story, whiteveneer home of the poet's father is a grove of trees. There, they say, grows the fabulous Raintree, although it does not
thrive so well in this climate. Within the grove lies a semi.
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his death today in protest, so |federal rent control. The mo-|Ernest Blau. 15! For. Affairs 12|
members of his family said, |tion was made while the com-| Bridge ..... 15 Forum
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$10,467,057.16. The utility had at{tempted to establish a valuation of more than $15 million. Good Till July 1 The commission set noon June 30 as the deadline for redeeming tickets or tokens purchased by patrons prior to Dec. 18, when the straight 10-cent fare was set and token sales were stopped. The final order vacated a requirement in the tentative order of Dec. 18 that the utility reduce its capital surplus account by
INSIDE THE COUNTY POORHOUSE
Where's Meat? Inmates Ask At Julie
Times Series
ta
Records Show It’s Delivered, There's Little Evidence of It in Kitchen
After supper of noodles
poorhouse, the kitchen staff next day.
had been receiving about food institution. Personnel talked freely about did not suspect they were talking
Daily McCoy. Supper dishes, consisting of tin plates, tin cups and cheap utensils of tin or aluminum, were washed in sinks in the dining hall. This left the kitchen free for nraparation of Wednesday's dinnar, The menu for the week of Mar. 1 hung from a nail on the kitchen wall. Tuesday it was
The cook in the inmates’ kitch-
appears on the payroll as the baker for the institution, but no bread has been baked there since last July. So he cooks. There are big baking ovens 'n a room behind the kitchen.” Mr.
Wiedenhaupt told me the ovens were closed by order of the County Health Department. All
en was Herb Wiedenhaupt. Hel|ln8
(Third of a Series of Articles) By RICHARD LEWIS
and water, a typical meal
served the elderly wards of Marion County at the Julietta
began to fix dinner for the
I had become a probationary assistant cook in the kitchen there, in order to investigate complaints The Times
and - general conditions in the
their work and conditions. to a reporter.
They I cannot protect
their identities, but I can state they were personally loyal to Supt.
apple butter and potatoes for breakfast, bread and tomatoes for dinner and noodles for supper. Wednesday, it was gravy and potatoes for breakfast, Great Northern beans for dinner and rice, raisins and potato salad for supper.
Hired as Baker, But All Bread's Bought
helpers sat on a box slowly rolling cigarets. Occasionally, he would chuckle to himself. ! He continued this routine for five hours, now and then shaking his head and chuckling to himself, The other helper did nearly all the work I saw done around the kitchen under Mr. Wiedenhaupt's supervision, As soon as Tuesday's supper was over, the helper toted ‘n two
bread is purchased now.
“This has increased the popula-
tion tremendously but we haven the kitchen by “Shorty” Rich-
been doing éverything possible t0|ards and by two other employees keep up efficient administration.” " plo
_| Mr, Bosson said Daily MeCoy, Julietta superintendent, had been
Mr. Wiedenhaupt was assisted
who were helpers. One of the
of the institution.
he sald. Notes Grand Jury Reports
at the institution.
cently.”
$166,207.29 and transfer this sum into depreciation reserve. i Lawrence Cannon, ! sioner, said retirements on utility
had wiped out the need for making the transfer. : The commission permitted the utility five years to pay the costs of the rate case, which have totaled $250,000. Today’s order which ends the
mean that ratés cannot be changed, the commissioners ‘said. Any public agency, group of individuals or the utility itself may initiate a new rate hearing at ‘any time, they said.
Mayor Clears Up Hiring, Firing Issue
A conflict over the powers of hiring and firing in the city combustion engineer's office was settied today by a statement of policy issued by Mayor Al Feeney. Robert Wolfe, city combustion
he has the exclusive power to hire , land fire personnel in his office.
pointees and recommend dismissals.
fice.
“|Cold, Light Snow On Tap Today
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Settle back in your overcoats— old man winter still has some bad weather up his sleeve. The Weather Bureau this morning said Indianapolis and
continuing through tomorrow. Temperatures will
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12{1 below. At Miami
property since the Dec. 18 order)
long-drawn controversy does not
engineer/ has been insisting that
“That's not quite right,” retorted the Mayor. Mr. Wolfe was informed that he will -have only the power to recommend ap-
The controversy arose over at-| tempts to fill three jobs vacancies) in the combustion engineer's of-
vicinity will have cold weather today with occasional light snow beginning late this afternoon and
reach a high of near freezing today and gress, program drop to 16 to 12 degrees tonignt.. proved speedily with the spend-| The cold wave moving in from [ing figure unchanged. the North and West last night
the mercury was in the high 70s.
| stances. | “The commissioners feel these stories silly,” he said.
be reached for comment.
Police Probing Kidnap Story" Of Divorcee, 29
men here early yesterday.
case.”
charges against her.
said she insisted her
case and wanted it “dropped.”
owner of the car.
Taft, Vandenberg Differ Over ERP
leaders
covery.
$5.3 billion to about $4 billion.
foreign policy wants
tion. Vandenberg,
{working 24 hours a day under handicaps to raise the efficiency
“He's been doing a good job,”
The commissioner referred to reports made by Grand Juries for the last two years on conditions
“These Grand Jury reports have given Julietta a clean bill of health at all times,” he said. “Not a single criticism has been offered by any Grand Jury re-
He said there are always some patients at Julietta who are dis{satisfied and say they are miscommis-| treated but these are isolated in-
that sounded kind of
Other commissioners could not
DETECTIVES were investigating today a story told by a 29-year-old divorcee that she was kidnaped and raped by three
After reporting the attack to police, the woman changed her mind and informed detectives she would refuse to ‘prosecute the
Mayor Al Feeney then ordered the police department to investigate the woman's case and if the story was found false to bring
- » . ” CHIEF OF Detectives John O'Neal brought the divorcee in for questioning again today. He original story of the attack was true but that she would not prosecute the
{ She provided police. with a 1i- Pounds of bologna cense number of a car she said| was used in the attack. Chief] O'Neal said he will question the|
WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (UP) —The Senate’s top two ~ GOP;
split today over how much to spend on Europe's re-
Ben. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) said he would" support efforts to cut first year spending under the European recovery program from
Senate President Arthur H. Vandenberg, the party’s No. 1 kesman in Conap-
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while rever reported 3 below and Omaha fusing to run, has left himself yesterday, free to accept the
no; tion if { it should be pressed him.
“Is that tomorrow's dinner?” I asked the cook. “That's it,” he said. : . “Don’t you serve meat around here?” 1 asked. 2 The cook shook his nead. “They get some in their stew at noon Sunday.” “You're lucky to get any meat around here,” said Mr. Richards. “Do the inmates complain about that?” I asked, “I guess they do,” said Mr, Richards. “What can you do about it?” . Mr. Wiedenhaupt and Mr. Rienards left the kitchen. The beans were soaking in the tubs and the
It was brightly lighted, clean as a pin and contained an alectric stove, an electric refrigerator of about eight or nine cubic feet and modern sinks. Mrs. Stella Ward, a neat, whitehaired lady, had finished cooking a meal of meat, potatoes and a vegetable, she said. The food was sent upstairs by a dumb-waiter and was served in a private dining room to Supt. McCoy, his wife, Mrs. Minta MecCoy, who is employed also at the institution as matron, and other administrative employees. Later, I learned that Mrs. Ward is not the regular cook, but is regularly employed as a dining
I caught a brief glimpse of the meat locker. According to the records, 1234 pounds of beef, smoked jowl, hearts and bologna had been de-
Mar. 2 at a cost of $373.25.
guard where the meat was. pointed to the lockers.
(when the record
Poorhouse
Breakfast: Gravy and eggs.
Breakfast: Apple
Dinner: Green beans
Breakfast: Cereal.
I didn't see anything resembling such shipments in the meat coolers, I asked an old attendant who appeared to be some sort of ie
1 asked him if any meat had been delivered that day, Mar. 2,
showed 260 arrived. He »
Dinner: Bread and tomatoes.
- Wednesday
Breakfast: Gravy and potatogs. Dinner: Great Northern beans. * Supper: Rice, raisins, potato salad.
Thursday Breakfast: Applesauce and wieners. Supper: Peaches, prunes, apricots.
Friday
Breakfast: Gravy and potatoes.
Dinner: Macaroni and tomatoes.
Sunday
Dinner: 8t: Supper: Symp and oleo. x a
big sacks of Great Northern beans and proceeded to pour the beans into huge; galvasized tubs to Shak for the next day's ‘oon meal.
They Get Some Meat in Stew Sunday
hel WAS the steam Lele oF Reins Te pint no: I examined the. had come in. There Was pea-sizéd white and brown gravel the
bottom of one bag. Wherd Mr. Richards
“There's been too darn much gravel in those beans lately,” he There was nothing left to do in the kitchen. I walked through a small pantry, where sacks of potatoes were piled high in front of an old ice box which was not being used. From there, I entered the employees’ kitchen.
Employees’ Kitchen Bright, Neat as Pin
room attendant. She pinch hits as cook when Mrs, Mary L. Pooler, who is listed on the payroll as the employees’ cook, is away. I found the storage pantry clean. A small stock of canned goods was neatly stored there. In the rear of the building was a small milk house, which was clean, and contained modern
Meat Listed on Records Hard to Find
didn’t know. know, I went back into the kitchen. The helper was scrubbing the steam kettle with a brush and rinsing it. The other helper was
No one seemed to
livered at Julietta on Feb. 28 and|still sitting on the box rolling a cigaret.
The roaches were having 2a mass meeting around the garbage can. An old man came in and looked furtively over his shoulder. “Here,” he said, handing me n folded slip of paper. “If you ever get to St. Louis, call up my ece. Tell her to send for me.” He shuffled out and disappeared into the dark hall. gi
Menu
This is the complete menu for Julietta inmates posted on the
of Mar. 1. >
Monday
. Dinner: Cabbage.
Supper: Vegetable soup.
Tuesday
butter and potatoes. Supper: Noodles.
Dinner: Corn.
(changed to macaroni).
Supper: Mush,
Saturday
Breakfast: Apple butter and fried mush. Kel : Supper; Bean’