Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1948 — Page 1

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1948

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Electric Plant Deal Pushed

Proposals Offered

By Water Co. By HAROLD ‘HARTLEY Indianapolis “will get the new multi-million-dollar Western Electric plant if a satisfactory deal can be made with the Indianapolis Water Co. ' The water company has made proposals for both the optioned East and West Side sites. The cost of the six-mile, 24-inch main to the East Side site at Shadeland Drive and the Big Four railroad, would cost, water company officials estimate, about $1 million. The line to the West Side site, at 'W. 30th St. and the New York Central tracks would cost about ‘$800,000. H. 8S. Schutt, president of the Indianapolis Water Co., said today in his offices in Bryn Mawr, Pa., that the Western Electric Co. had been made the same proposition” which is made with all other water users.

Make Liberal Proposition

“We have made a liberal proposition,” he said, “and I think they will consider it. It's what the telephone company and all other utilities do when they have to make a big capital investment.” He said the company would use a quantity of water but that the distances were long. “If/ they want to go along, we'll try to contribute something toward the cost ourselves if the agreement doesn’t work out satisfactorily at the end,” he said. “Costs of cast iron pipe are double what they were in- 1941. Theres a limit to what we can 0.” No word has been received from the water company on the proposal from the Western Electric officials although ‘it is understood in business circles that the Western Electric officials consider the cost of water almost prohibitive to the project.

Guided by Decision

Robert Polkinghorn, director of |

industrial development for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, said other industrials will

BRUSH WITH DEATH Rath run the risk of being late for classes at Washington High School, this boy gambles with his life and climbs overithe couplings. Incidents like this happen frequently as students walk to and from sahool for want of adequate transportation. : a ;

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"Bus Service to Washingt Some Students Hike Across Tracks By LOUIS ARMSTRONG

to clear the track and

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Mercury Plunges To —5 at Airport LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 8 10am..17 Tam .. 7 11am... 2 8a m. .. 10 12 (Noon) 24 fam .. 14 1pm .i 24

Warmer temperatures are in sight for Indianapolis and vicinity this week-end to break the record cold wave which struck the area yesterday. But before the warmer weath-

another day and njght of cold weather. Paul A. Miller, weatherman, says temperatures will reach a high of 22 to 26 degrees today and a low of 5 to 10 degrees tonight. Temperatures this morning set a 42-year-old low for Mar. 12 when the mercury dropped to 7 above zero at 7 a. m. The previous low of 10 above for the date was established in 1908. The minimum temperature at the airport this morning was 5 below Zero.

Smog Causes Difference

A heavy smog which blanketed the city caused the wide differ-

ence between city and airport temperatures. Meanwhile, Indianapolis and

Indiana ts continued to dig out of the resend snow of 5.6 inches which fell \ Wednesday night and yesterday mormipg. It was the heaviest since Feb. , 1939.

City streets were covered with ice and snow, making driving us.

7 Below at Ft. Wayne

Sunshine forecast for today is ex to partially clear city streets and outlying roads. Ft. Wayne was one of the coldest spots in the nation this morning. The temperature there reached 7 below zero, Temperatures in the Dakotas were still below zero this morning but were 15 to 20 degrees warmer than the same time the day before. While the icy weather gripped most of the nation, Miami yesterday basked in 81 degree temperatures.

3 : in High Poor;

day stalking the streets leading

1 Tragedy ‘into Washington High School from the sotith. * When will they reach out their icy fingers and touch one or more of the hundreds of young:people who each day cover this dangerous: route to and from school?

Through a series of circum-

stances a large number of youngsters from the area south of Washington known as “the valley” walk or hitch-hike to and from school for want of adequate transportation. . » EJ

BECAUSE THE only bus service requires that they ride the West Indianapolis bus over the long route to Illinois and Washington Sts. and thére transfer to a W. Washington St. bus, many of them walk or try to hitch-hike. To do so they walk over Oliver Ave. or some other route to Belmont Ave. and then north to school. In some places there are no sidewalks and they must use the streets.” Some students walk nearly two miles to and from their studies. Some must cross four sets of railroad tracks. And some even walk the tracks. They cheat death every day. » = o THIS CONDITION has existed ever since the high school was built. An attempt was made by parents two or three years ago to get a bus line which would carry the children from “the valley” up Belmont Ave. to school. Nothing was done about it. Now another nmovement is under way. The school is conducting a survey as to how many children live in the area. Recently Mayor Al Feeney joined the campaign and the railway company said it would study the possibility of establishing cross-town service on

said today nothing definite has been decided.

® x = HUNDREDS of residents in the area have sent a petition to the company asking for the service. School officials complain of tardiness on the part of students living in the area. The students plead they were held up by a train across the track.

Sometimes they have to wait 15 minutes for the tracks to clear, . A Times photographer saw one boy climb over the couplings of a freight car which had stopped across Belmont Ave. He didn't want to be late for school. Another eyewitness told of even a closer call. He said he watched a youth driving a coupe pick up_three girl hitchhikers and then drive across the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks on 8S. Harding St. while the warning bell was ringing. A fast passenger train missed the car by only a second. ' ” td o PARENTS and school authorities say the West Indianapolis line is inadequate. Some students get to Illinois and Washington Sts. and the urge to play “hooky” overpowers them. Sometimes students waiting on the corners are vassed up by the bus driver because his vehicle is full. The parents feel the needed bus service cannot come too soon. Until it does death will continue to hover over the dangerous streets and railroad

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Whether or not they locate here. “If we fail to get the plant,” he said, “it may hurt for a long time.” : ‘ A group of civic leaders meeting at the home of B. L. Curry, Warren Township Trustee, 6797

E. 10th St. last night, sent a tele-

gram to Mr. Schutt urging him to

do- everything possible to bring

the plant here.

Greek Rebel Threatens

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Chile Complains To UN for Czechs

Moscow Can Block

Action With Veto

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y,, Mar. 12 (UP)—Chile formally called on the United Nations Security Council to intervene in the Czechoslovak crisis and take action against Russia for allegedly supervising the Communist seizure of power. The action appeared to assure a public Security Council s =]

Europe. Chilean United Na gate Hernaan Santa Cruz announced informally that he was filing a formal complaint against Russia with United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie. Soviet Can Block It Mr. Santa Cruz was instructed by his government to sponsor the pigeon-holed move made by Jan Papanek of Czechoslovakia to have the UN intervene in the political situation in Prague on grounds that it represents a threat to international peace. Russia will be named in the council as engineer of the Feb, 20

Where

Bologna at

(An Editorial)

A CCORDING to Daily E.

Julietta, Marion County buys, or produces and butchers, enough meat to feed every inmate and every employee of the place an average of 21 pounds each per

month.

Also according to Mr. McCoy, inmates of Julietta are fed an average of something less than half-a-pound of meat each per week, or a little more than two pounds

a month,

Those are his own statements. The bills Marion County pays for meat for Julietta bear out his first

one,

There is some disagreement about the second. In-

mates of Julietta, and some

of what inmates actually get to eat at considerably

less than the half-pound a

ments indicate. “Menus” posted on the kitchen walls for the guidance of the cooks do not account for any-

where near a half-pound a Writer Richard Lewis helped meat at all.

- ” . BUT. LET'S accept Mr. McCoy's statements. Twenty-one pounds of meat per month per person provided. Two pounds of feat per month per person fed to inmates. That's what he says. "And the county's records of bills ‘paid for meat back himi™up. Two wieners a week, and less than four ounces of bai. stew, for Julietta inmates. Sometimes—but not every

week—a slice of bologna, all

McCoy's figures, and they tally with the official menus and the stories of the folks who work there and eat

there.

But five pounds of roasts, and pork-chops and beef hearts and bacon and so on for every inmate on the

bills the county pays.

What happens to all the rest of it? It'isn’t in storage at Julietta. We've“ooked.

It isn’t on the tables at there, too. Where is it?

directly responsible for the

Purchases made there must

County-—whose only offense

properly.

kind of silly.” The people of Marion better answer than that.

elsewhere.

THE MARION COUNTY COMMISSIONERS are McCoy is their appointee, and subject to their orders. paid there must get their okay before they can be paid.

They should have the answers to those questions. They should know why these wards of Marion

being kept on a starvation diet, while the taxpayers of this county furnish money enough to feed them

So far the only expression from any of them on the subject is that they are “surprised and disappointed” that the facts became known and that it all “seems

Juliette ‘de

Julietta Buys Meat— Does It Go?

Averages 21 Pounds a Month Per Person, Superintendent Says

McCoy, superintendent of

Julietta, the Marion County Home, to provide every person

E. McCoy.

was meat in the stew,

Supt. McCoy said inmates received bologna for lunch and that

Last of a Series of Articles ‘By RICHARD I’ 18 Enough meat is either pur..ased or slaughtered at

there with 21 pounds a month, according to the institution's records and the statement of its superintendent, Daily

Yet inmates told me that the only meat they ever get

is two wieners for breakfast once a week. meat in the Sunday noon stew, Others vehemently denied there

Some said they tasted

their other meals were “flavored” with bacon ends and other meat.

The menu on the kitchen wall showing the fare for inmates the

mates’ statement. Employees confirmed it, too. They told me meat was rarely served the inmates, although administrative employees had meat lishes consisting of roasts reguy.

employees, put the figure

week Mr. McCoy's state-

week. The meals Times

to cook there contained no While

macaroni and two slices of bologna each last Friday, ad-

dinner,

the institution had the same diet. cook in the

‘round. These are still Mr, ~

the stew was so *

Supt. McCoy estimated that in addition to purchased meat, the institution slaughtered 4800 pounds of pork and 2000 pounds meal times. We've looked [of beef a month from its own : livestock.

of meat chased made a total of 12,280 operation of Julietta. Mr, [in January. This averages slight-

inmates and 57 employées. (Aver-

have their approval, Bills [age consumption of meat for the

just under 12 pounds a month per

is being old and poor—are

doubtful stew meat as in March.

I again inspected the meat appeared on the menu, although two slices of bologna were, being|, served that day per inmate, The lockers were nearly empty. Supt. McCoy expressed surprise

County are entitled to a

The 6800 pounds slaughtered plus the 5480 pur-|costing $739 the insti pounds of meat for the institution Bis Feb: ly more than 21 pounds for 526/Mar. 2,

entire United States last year was|1234 pounds of meat which:

lockers Mar, 5. Still no meat had| body gets

served top echelon em-

were week of Mar. 1 confirmed the in- ployens,. but inmates never got

em. Records of the auditor's office

show purchases of pork chops on the institution’s meat contract at 48 cents a pound,

Supt. McCoy denied the insti-

tution ‘ever bought any pork chops. Employees told me pork chops|said,

Stew Well Cooked—Can't Taste Meat

inmates were eating|inmates couldn't taste the meat.

That was stew meat, he

The records of\the suditor's of5480

ministrative employees had a|pork and beef were purchased pork roast the same day for{for the institution in the first

Supt. McCoy said all persons in|of $2529.64, inmates’ | pounds of beef averse

person.) our days. The Times has statements from| It was not on the menu, alinmates that the January fare/though to 100 pounds could

up contained the weekly wieners and have been used in the stew Feb. . NO,

Says Main Difficulty Is in Preparing Food

“What I mean is

You can’t laugh off starvation.

If they can’t get it from the officials responsible for the conduct of this institution, they must seek it

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coup in which the Czech Communists seized power. By means of the big five veto power, however, Russia will be able to block any concrete UN action against Moscow or the Communists,

British General Warns Of Holy Land Slaughter

JERUSALEM, March 12 (UP) -—British North Palestine Com-

mander Maj. Gen. H. C. Stockwell today called upon the United Nations to create a Palestine police force of at least 50,000 welltrained troops as Arabs and Jews fought two large-scale bat|tles and several skirmishes in (the Holy Land. Gen. Stockwell described ‘Arab and Jewish armed forces as “eager” for the British to evacuate, “so they can slaughter each other.” Jewish and Arab forces were reported to have fought for sev-

FL eral hours in another clash in the i Page @|Sodom Desert, the first in that SE outlying Dead Sea area. At least

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5 European Nations

BRUSSELS, Mar. 12 (UP) —

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50-year draft treaty of military

. .Page 28 alliance designed to halt the

{westward march of communism.

U. S. Reported Cool

Agree on Anti-Red Pact

{Charleston, W. Va.

Jack Cochrane, his wife and their two youngsters reached Ko{komo last night with the help of a two-state sheriffs’ “shuttle serv-

{ice,” the American Red Cross and {the Salvation Army. i . They had tickets from Rochester, Ind., to Indianapolis bu‘ got off the bus by mistake when they saw the bright lights of Kokomo and thought it was the Hoosier capital. Mrs. Lucy Vance, executive secretary of the Kokomo Red {Cross chapter, sent the family ‘o la restaurant for a hearty break{fast of ham and eggs after they stayed all night in a small hotel through the courtesy of the Salvation Army. . Red Cross to Help Here | They arrived in Kokomo about {8 p. m, as the temperature {shriveled to a point near the zero imark, Within a matter of min(utes, their plight was discovered and the Cochrans were out up for the night in the hotel. { The bus company station agent 'agreed to honor their tickets and allow the family to complete their

| Virgil Shepperd, executive sec{retary of the Indianapolis Red {Cross chapter, planned to meet, [the family and arrange another {lap of the trip to Charleston. | Mr. Cochrane, a canning plant {worker, started the trip from Ste.

Sheriffs’ ‘Shuttle Service"

king Family

ranes crossed the Indiana state line and found Hoosier sheriffs

equally co-operative. “We have been able

from the cold,” said.

Mr.

Mrs.

Perna May, 4, were

Burned Out in Michigan, Parents, 2 Children Find Hoosiers Helpful on West Virginia Trek

| KOKOMO, Mar. 12 (UP)—A family of four, burned out of thelr (Michigan home, and hitch-hiking in sub-zero weather, boarded a {bus today for another leg in a “good samaritan” journey to

to get food for our children and shelter Cochrane “I didn't know there was 80 much kindness in the world.” Vance said the family was warmly dressed. The father and mother had heavy coats and the children, Jack Jr., 10, and wrapped

when he was asked where the meat was. He insisted it was being served. *

slips for the last 10 days of Fshruary. They were neither signed n initialed to verify deliveries weights of meat, for which the institution was billed. Supt. McCoy said everyone in the institution got the same food. Confronted with evidence to the

Mr, McCoy produced the meatt “Our main difficulty,” said Mr.

McCoy, *is in preparation. In tha kitchen where there are electric stoves, we can pare it differently. is “The meat you saw in the employees’ kitchen roasting is the same meat being served elsewhere in the institution; but we

contrary, he said;

“A lot of times the meat is! so thoroughly cooked up that you just can't see it, but it's there. You have to remember these people, a lot of‘them, wouldn't know what to do with a steak. “They haven't any equipment to eat it. A hospital would call what we serve a soft diet, “But there is plenty of food served here and it's wholesome

“We average three meat meals a week. One thing that's a favorite with these people, I suppose because it's soft and has seasoning, is wieners,

{Senate Ave, Food Market, 1302

“And when we serve wieners, we don't just give them half a wienie and call that their meat. They get two wienies—two each.” How did Mr. McCoy explain the complaints about the meat? “You know,” he said, “these are

Arrest of 3 Teen-Agers| Smashes Theft Ring

Police today sald they had broken up‘ a juvenile burglary gang after the capture and confession of three teen-age boys to a series of local burglaries. Their total loot was $125. They admitted breaking into about 50 parked cars and more than a dozen business establishments.

snugly in heavy clothing. The little girl clutched a doll somebody had given her since they left upper Michigan. » They are going to Charleston because they have relatives there.

Yeggs Crack Safe, Get $4000 Cash

Burglars smashed a safe at the

N. Senate Ave. early today and escaped with $4000 cash. The yeggs entered the frame building by chopping a hole

can't fix it that way in the old steam kettles,

They Haven't Equipment to Eat Steaks’

old people, senile. They have their troubles and complaints and some of them are nervous. There's bound: to be some complaining.” ee

Asked why thé® new electric stove was placed in the employees’ kitchen while inmates’ meals were cooked in kettles because of a Edefective coal stove, Mr. McCoy said: “The old one will have to do for a while. We're going to move the inmates’ kitchen out of that place where it is now. We've got space in the rear of the dining hall for it.” Later, he said:

“If you only knew how I have .

gone before the commissioners to get this done and that done. I don’t know what is wrong. “We have pleaded for more money and more food ever sines we have been here.”

Grains Up and Down

CHICAGO, Mar. 12 (UP)— Grain and hog prices opened slightly higher today.' Farmers, who rushed hogs to market yesterday to beat the deadline for a nationwide meat packing strike, held them off the market today. {In later trading, however, all

closing levels.

Cut Livestock Buying

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