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59th YEAR—NUMBER 3 __
MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1948
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffics Indianapolis; Ind. Issued dally except Sunday
Gates Fires
In Vote ‘Purge’
. Diefendorf, Wulfman ' Feel Campaign Ax Photos, Page $
pie me he Two high state officials were) # removed from their jobs by Gov.| { Gates today in what was reported to be the beginning of a political «purge” in the State House for) the 1948 election campaign. | pr. Burrell E. Diefendorf of! Mitchell was removed as chair-
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man of the State Alcoholic Bev- %
erage Commission and Otto C. Wulfman was dismissed as chairman of the State Tax Board. Gov. Gates said he had ap-| pointed Lefler Anderson, of Lal * Porte, Republican member of the| | Beverage Commission, as new chairman to succeed Dr, Diefendorf and named Clarence D. Ro-| truck, former Mayor of Anderson, | as the new Republican member.
Klebe Succeeds Wulfman
The Governor elevated Walter! Klebe, Ft. Wayne, Republican member of the Tax Board, to the| chairmanship, = Succeeding Mr. |} Wulfman. The vacancy on the board has not been filled. “These changes were made golely for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of these two departments,” Gov. Gates said. He declined to comment further on the dismissals. However, Republican leaders! close to the state administration said both Dr. Diefendorf and Mr. Wulfman had been at odds with the governor on alignments
for the party's candidates for| . governor. mn ! tral Hospital Farm Colony. Quarters for the rest of the employees were no better.
Gates Backs Helmke Gov. Gates a week ago announced his administration would support Walter Helmke, Ft. Wayne, for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Dr. Diefendorf and Wulfman
‘l Spent 4 Days in Insane Hospital’'—
Yo (State Allows 70 Cents 1 High Officials A Day for Mentally li
To Live On, Get Well
153,000 Quit Mines in U. S. Over Pensions
Washington Alert For General Tie-Up
By United Press
PITTSBURGH, Mar. 15 (UP)—|
: Nearly 40 per cent of the nation’s;
\2oft coal miners quit work today, iin a strike for $100-a-month| {pensions for men past 60 with 20
Open Check
years or more in the pits. |
{ The number of miners idle! passed the 153,000 mark as the
Bg (strikes swept through nine states.|
LIVING QUARTERS—Times Reporter Jack Thompson lived this little cell on the second floor of the East ward at the Cen.
Times Reporter Works as Attendant, ‘Learns Why Help Is So Hard to Get
were described by administration leaders as supporters of U. 8. Sen. William KE. Jenner for the governor nomination. GOP leaders close to the gov-
been “showing some favoritism” to supporters of Sen. Jenner in the liquor business. : More Dismissals Seen Dismissal of Dr. Diefendorf Was seeh as a direct blow at associates of James L. Bradford, vor wholesaler, "who have been campaigning for Sen. Jenner, Party observers close to the
First of a Series of Articles
By JACK THOMPSON I have just spent four days in an insane hospital. ernor said Dr. Diefendorf had And while the world “outside” fretted about inflation
and the high cost of living, I lived in the midst of the deepest depression.
At Central State Hospital, Indiana expects a desper-
A dull
ately ill mental patient to live and get well at a cost to the tg-{state of as little.as 70 cents a day, . : gray diy provided proach to the forbidding old hospital. Only one other per-
‘the setting for my first ap-
governor's office predicted thatison was in sight as I walked through the mist. -I overtook
“two or three” more state officials would get the “ax” in the next few weeks “for the same reasons.” ? Democratic members of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission are Elmer Lohman, Ft. Wayne, and
him and asked him if he worked there.
He took an unlighted cigar from his mouth and said:
“No, my wife is a patient here. couple times a week.”
I bring her a box a
Signal for the work stoppages!
‘was John L. Lewis’ charge that %
the mine operators “defaulted” their agreement with the United! Mine Workers by refusing to incorporate a pension plan in the dustry’s welfare fund. In Washington, meanwhile, it was reported the government was preparing to act against the walkout if it assumes proportions of a general tie up, But field reports indicated that
time to build up. . There was no picketing at any of the mines. At Terre Haute 3000 soft coal workers were idle with work at a standstill in five major shafts. More than 450 miners reported for work at the Victory mine but left a few minutes later. At the Saxton mine, 400 workers failed to report as did some 485 at the Snow Hill shaft, 300 at the Black Hawk and 350 at the Dresser mine, 4000 All Told Nearly 600 workers Tailed to work Shaft No. 1 and No. 2 at Bickflell and No. 5 at Bruceville. Fifty were out at the Shasta strip mine at Vincennes. And nearly 225 failed to show up at the Little Betty shaft at Dugger. All told there were 4000 idle in Indiana. Louis Austin, director of District 11, United Mine Workers, said he could make no prediction as to when the miners would re-
turn. - State-by-state reports showed: Pennsylvania—More than 33,000 of the 54,000 miners in western Pennsylvania refused to work. Production loss was estimated at more than 200,000 tons
It was estimatern section, 90 per cent of the Logan field's 18,000 workers quit and 5000 of the 7500 in the Winding Gulf fields were out. Strikes also were in progress in the Pocahontas and northern fields. Illinois—At least 12,000 refused
he had had his wife in the institution before. He complained] bitterly that when he had taken
to work. in the southern Illinois field and another 2500 walked out in mines at Taylorville and
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a general strike would take more |
GRAND JURY—The
in the infirmary after an expose in The Times. Pictured (left to right] Mrs. Dorothy Deffendall, Mrs, Ora Sharp, Max A, Fritz, Burchard Carr and Maurice P, DeMotts. Absent was the sixth member, John Merritt.
Julietta Probe; Meat Buying
v2 EES Grand Jury, Prosecutor Investigate |
Improvements. Start; ! New Stove By RICHARD LEWIS The Marion County Grand Jury, launched an investigation of Jus lietta, the Marion County Homa, 1today. At the same time, the proses cutor's office announced it was starting & probe in conjunction with the Grand Jury investigas tion to determine what becomes of meat purchased by the instie tution,
The investigations followed # series of articles last week in The
grand jury today toured Julietta to investigate conditions
administration moved swiftly over the week-end to improve
Meat Strike Set For Midnight im
CHICAGO, Mar, 15 (UP)—=TWO| 4ances. of the nation’s biggest meat packers today rejected a union proposal for averting a nationwide mg otal 4 P an \ and a matron for meat strike at midnight tonight. small held Swift & Co. and thé Cudahy (on centers, Packing Co., turned down an ar. bitration suggestion of the CIO|Mayor said. “We've been watch-|~,, the »re
United Packinghouse Worker “because
clauses in the contract should not
be matters for arbitration.”
Officials of Armour & Co, another member of the big four,
wages and major are conducted in a manner that's
————— Mayor Bans Fee On Teen Canteen Juke Dancing
Mayor Al Feeney today ordered the lifting of recent restrictions placed on teen canteen’ juke box
House Group Bars : Senate ERP Bil
Writes Own Measure For ‘Package Aid’
WASHINGTON, Mar. 15 (UP)=-The Senate unanimously approved a bill to renew President Truman's power to arm all U. 8, vessels during a na-
dam ar] 3
“There's no need of this,” thel Tat Hoc O Nom
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An order was recently issued by the park department requiring
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in their recrea-
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. 18 uP) ign Affairs jected a Democratic effort for immediate aeceptance of the Senate = passed European Recovery Bill, The committee, after disposing of tihs motion, then settled down to the business of writing a “single package” foreign ald bill ’
s/ing these kids and their dances
beyond reproach. “There's no need to treat them like criminals.” LJ » ”
THE RESTRICTION order was
in the packing industry, met to
James Doss, Indianapolis. consider the proposal. They were
Springfield. The Democratic member of the
Kentucky—Some 7500 miners sent out by Paul v Prk
based on a blueprint proposed by and recreation director, The :
“Where's the employment House GOP leaders,
office?” I asked him. That was
her home she had only received “about half her own clothes”
tax board is Pete Beckiewicz of South Bend.
Stark Opens Pollard Trial
Times State Service GREENFIELD; Mar. 15—Howard Pollard killed Leland P. Miller in cold blood because Miller would not agree to leaye the state to avoid testifying in a pending criminal action, Prosecutor Judson L. Stark told the jury as the Pollard ‘murder trial opened to-
y. The prosecutor's opening statement was completed just before
my assignment—to get a job at Central and see for myself what goes on inside. He motioned me to come along with him. As we walked he said
As he pointed out the main office to me hé remarked: “You just go on in there and ask someone what you want to know. I hear jobs are pretty easy to get out here.” Inside, I was ushered into the office of Dr. Max Bahr, superintendent of the hospital. He asked me three questions. “Are you a resident of Indiana? “Have you anything wrong with you physically? “Have you ever worked in an institution before?”
the noon recess. Indications were that the first witness would be called about mid-afternoon, following the opening defense statement by Frank Symmes, one of Pollard’s attorneys. In an hour-long outline of the state's case, Prosecutor Stark declared that following his arrest Pollard confessed the killing of
I had a feeling that except for
12 Hours a Day, Little Time Off Walter Lewis, colony superintendant, picked me up at the office and drove me to the colony out on Tibbs Ave. just west of U.
8. meals I had there.
back.
region. Reports from other areas
He said it was his opinion some of the help had taken some of his wife's clothing. I had no comment, I still haven't.
Little Help, Plenty of Problems
the second question, it didnt make much difference what my answers were. It didn’t. Dr. Bahr told me briefly about his help problem. Later I saw for myself that he had very little help and plenty of problems. Next day I filled out an application form and went to work at my $90-a-month-and-maintenance job. I was a little disappointed when I was assigned as an attendant at the farm colony instead of in the hospital proper, but I had other things to think about very shortly.
gravy, coffee, bread and margarine. I could have had some milk if I had wanted it. It was one of the two best From nutrition standpoint it may have
ers were following. Alabama—half the state’s 20,000 miners idle. Ohio—All major mines in the eastern fields were reported closed. In the Hocking Field production loss was estimated at 18,200 tons a day. A large part of the state’s 20,000 miners were reported idle. Virginia—In the western fields of the state, 8000 miners left the pits. Tennessee—About 2000 reported idle. Thousands of UMW members crowded union meeting halls yesterday to hear Mr. Lewis’ statement read. In it, Mr. Lewis charged that the mine operators failed to co-operate in the setting up of a pension plan under the union’s royalty-supported welfare fund.
Landis Finds
Lewis Guiltless WASHINGTON, Mar. 15 (UP)
quit in the Big Sandy Valley expected to vote against the plan. Although it was not included indicated thousands of other min-|in the union offer, Wilson & Co. also refused to consider arbitra- Rouls and Capt, Golden Reynolds,
tion.
of the packing industry.
conditions. 20-Cent Raise Asked
The packers’ attitude toward the arbitration plan indicated that only intervention by the President could halt the walkout, which would shut down a third
The union, whose 100,000 members are poised to strike in 100 large packing plants, accepted the arbitration proposal on certain
Ralph Helstein, union president, said the union would agree to|transportation for Washington arbitration if the packers would High grant an immediate nine-cent
Mayor revoked the order after meeting with Police Chief Edward
of the juvenile aid division. Teen-agers will still be required to buy a license and hire a
matron for dances where an orchestra is used. .
Better Bus Service Promised Pupils |
The Indianapolis Railways, Inc. today moved to provide better
chool pupils after The
The motion for immediate approval of the Benate bill was
made by Rep. John Kee (D. W. Va.). It was beaten by a vote of
12 to T.° Marshall Testifies Meanwhile Secretary of State George C, Marshall said today that as a result of Communist “intimidation, fraud and terror,” the “hour is more fateful now than it was one year ago.” And he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the nation must avoid “fear which would lead to sterile inaction” abroad. He added that “hast action” likewise must be avol lest American resources, be wasted. Mr. Marshall's comments were made before the committees in
hourly wage increase retroactive|Times Friday revealed that in-
to Jan. 12.
29-cent raise.
cent increase last month.
The union had demanded alposing students to trafic haz-
A rival union, the AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, settled for a nine-
adequate transportation was ex-
ards, James Tretton, vice president in charge of trafic of Indianapolis Railways, said a Crosstown bus line for pupils-will be established
support of the new request for
$275 million: in military assist.
ance for Greece and Turkey.
Mr. Marshall said that other European nations faced & similar threat of “being drawn against their will into the Communist orbit.” Regarding Greece, Mr. Marshall
on Belmont Ave., from Morris 10, 14 he committee that guerrilla Forecast Today Michigan Sts, “within a week.”|, "un outside aid had ¢ a mi... 55 10 a m... 58 | see “oe Seek Emergency Permit |qoubled their number and in-l 7g m... 56 11 8 m... 84 iH Reds Run Italy He said that the company will creased their arms since the in-| 8 go m... 56 12 (OV : 86 D ask the Works Board and the|ception of American aid to the| 9g m... 57 blame for the miners’ walkout en-| WASHINGTON, Mar. 15 (UP) public Service Commission for an non-Communist Athens governtirely upon the coal operators. | _The State Department bluntly emergency permit, pending the ment last year. He held John L. Lewis, head of {t14 Italy today it can expect no/normal wait for approval of the UN Flouted p the United Mine Workers, gullt- nore: aid 11 the U. 8. if th lapplication. This will permit the| Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulless, and expressed the opinion om the Y, 2 © bus to be in service while the-ap-/garia, Mr. Marshall said, have that the Taft-Hartley law is pow- Communists win the April 18 pjication is pending, he said. |“flouted” a United Nations resoluerless in the matter. Italian elections. Mr. Tretton said schedules will/tion of last October calling for State department spokesman phe arranged to carry the great- a halt to foreign assistance to the
: Michael J. McDermott made this est load of pupils both in the Greek guerrilla bands. And he reol [OWS statement in response to ques- mornings and afternoons. minded the Senate committee
itions at a news conference: that Russia and Poland have boy~
“The Communists in Italy have ‘3 icotted the United Nations Balkan said they don’t want the Buropean| Ask Truce in Holy Land WASHINGTON, Mar. 15 (UP)
Committee to work for peace. recovery program and if the Com-| NEW YORK, Mar. 15 (UP)—| The Becretary had faced growmunists should win (the elec-|The big powers today asked the|iNS demands in Congress for a tions), which we cannot believe Jews and Arabs in Palestine as —Federal Judge Benjamin Moore will be the case knowing the spirit today dismissed charges that the CIO and CIO President Philip
frank appraisal of the world situation, and feeling of the Italian people, el) as Syria, Lebanon and Egypt ol to fo van there would be no further ques-| ey would agree to a truce a oe Penal F gd |The room was directly over the|why Dr. Bahr hgd a “help prob- Murray violated the Taft-Hartley tion of assistance from the U. 8.”/end fighting in the Holy Land. patients’ quarters—a convenient lem.” act by printing articles favorable F i ° | e our Men Killed, 8 Injured
sault and battery brought by his Feature, but unattractive. wn lto a political candidate. @ % In Louisville Plant Blast
wife, Mrs. Fern Barker. : | fo : tad my first in| (TOMORROW: How to ake on oo Seep traduion. to the patients, later| Care, of the mentally li—tor al-\g ise Take Cash, Watch, Car Jeffersonville Man Critically Hurt as Explosion Rips Harvester Building; Hunt More Bodies
52. On the way out, he explained my job, and I began to understand why the help shortage was so acute. I was to work 12 hours a Jay, from 6 a. m. to 6 p.m. Each week I was to receive a half day pass and two evenings in town. Other days I was to be on
—Rep. Gerald W. Landis, onetime miner at Linton and ranking Republican member of the House Labor Committee, today put the
Miller and said that he hoped to escape death in the electric chair, but that he later declared the slaying was in self defense. » Mr. Stark described Leland Miller as weighing less than 100 pounds, with both hands crippled 80 badly by arthritis that he could not hold spoon or fork, let alone attack Pollard with a knife.
Judge ‘Hurls Book’
had the elements, but to me, at least, it lacked appetite appeal. Generally speaking, the meals I got as an employee of Central Hospital didn’t offset the low salary and working hours. Richard Duckworth, another attendant, showed me to my room. call ’round the clock. That was point three on working Furthermore, an “evening off”|conditions. By stretching my meant only from 6 pi m. my|arms out,,I could almost touch regular quitting time, to mid- both walls at the same time. night. Once a month there would] There was a single window, a At ° B ‘ be a “weekend” off—from 9 a. m.|battle-scarred dresser of the last Wife eater Saturday to midnight Sunday. . serturys 3 rity So aud a rock: Taste number two of my work- mattress. e floor neede on Sisto Mite Beater wae ing conditions came with lunco.|paint but I'd have settled ior a 3 today when testimony disclosed We had pork, potatoes, kale and good cleaning.
that he also struck his crippled Tin Can Lidé Keep Out Rats
step-daughter. : Jack Barker, 60, of 820 College| Ih one corner a hole was cov- known, I don’t think it would Ave, (rear) was sentenced to 90|ered with tin can lids, apparently have helped much. to black out some marauding rat.| I was beginning to understand
U. S. Bars Aid
to ] and drop to 45 or 50 tonight.
On the Inside
i) William Philip Simms reports that Spain will join anti Soviet bloe in FEUrOpe.. .eecsosesnsssessssses POG 2
. 5 = 4 8 » Bevin proposes ERP for Germans , . . 16 nations hear
the book for you,” Judge Joseph described to me as a ‘“better| Most nothing.) August Bloom, 40, of 2338 Guil- plan i iAsirseberrnssiinnireiins rari BIEE
Howard sald as he imposed the Ry DeALS aximum penalty. class” of patients. “ class” ; referred to the degree of their Board OK's East Side Sewer Resolution ford Ave. told police Saturday
Testimony disclosed that a 10-year-old crippled step-daughter|insanity, of course, not to their social background.
was struck by Barker when she
Went to the aid of her mother.
Get $1000 Loot
Clothes valued at $1000 were Russo Men's Shop, 737 E. 63d St., Saturday hight, an employee told police. The shop was -entered by forcing
stolen. from the
a window, @
yy FIRE DESTROYS 17 PLANES
8, Mich., Mar. 15 (UP)— A $100,000 fire destroyed a hang-
8r and 17 small
As Mr. Duckworth and I were on our way to the East Wing, where I was to work, I had seen a patient standing near a window. He was busily Buty Wivisibie
It was only the beginning.. At that time I didn’t know how pitilittle money was available tal authorities
to do| 1 had
Indianapolis Works Board to-night that two men slugged him
day adopted $29,000 sewer construction resolution to provide
storm .and sanitary drainage on|
three East Side streets. A public hearing on the resolu-
‘tion is to be held by the board.
Sewers are to be constructed in Audubon Rd. and Greenfield Ave. from the B. & O. Railroad tracks to Graham Ave. Also in Shimer Ave. from Graham Ave.
\ Charley's Restaurant, 144 EK.
in the 3500 block of Shelby St. taking his billfold containing between $60 and $70, a wrist watch valued at $70 and his car. He was treated at General Hospital for a cut under his eye and police then arrested him on the charge of drunk. Mr, Bloom said he had been drinking in a tavern with two casual acquaintances. They just left the tavern when the robbery took place, he said. ‘-
FAMOUS FOR STEAK FOR
seriously injured.
fon, 31, Anchorage, was found.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Mar. 15 (UP)—A powerful explosion ripped through the motor testing building at the Loulsville plant of the International Harvester Co, today leaving four dead and eight
Rescue crews from the plant meanwhile dug through twisted wreckage of the building in search of other possible victims. Bodies of Les Kuchenbrod, a crane operator, and a man tentatively identified as W. E. Stilwell,| was Alfred Zinsmeister, 27, Jefof Buechel, were recovered. Earli- fersonville, Ind er the body of William C. Man ’ .
A company doctor said a known. Thers was no fire followfourth man had been brought ing it. The explosion, felt two aud .| from the ruins, but identification three miles away, threw ‘was not made immediately,
the
Among the critically injured
Cause of the explosion was not
approxi mately 2000 persons out of work. : y »
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