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The

59th YEAR—NUMBER 112

Broken Home Behind Abandoning of Twins

twin sons of Vaughn and Louis

IN THE MIDDLE OF MUDDLE—When police picked up the

e Chasteen, lack of emergency

facilities in which to house them brought to light a civic prob-

lem. But social workers are po kind of baclground produced th child neglect?

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Parents of

Mother Divorced When

ndering another problem—what e parents who are charged with

She Was 3

Weeks Old; Delinquency Record Started in '45

“~ By DONNA MIKELS

A 19-YEAR-OLD mother

who looks like a high school

girl herself is under arrest today, charged with being a

“bad mother.” : # Her twin babies may be

taken away from her. She

has said that if she loses them, she will take her own life.

General Hospital for medical, aid. ‘She has been without medical ave since’s : riage two months'sgo. Just what kind of a background produces a mother like oulse Chasteen, who with her husband, Vaughn, is charged with heglect of their five month old ons, Donald and Roland? That's what juvenile court ‘workers set out to discover today

the mother another chance or to take away her babies.

» = = IN THE CASE. of Louise it was a broken home, an early brush with the law and a term in the ‘juvenile home—not because she was bad, but because any place was better than her own home.

Today she was rushed from the Marion County Jail to

grade school she worked at a

ts. ‘She ctober to Vaughn Casters Their twin sons wers born in February. : Since their marriage, Louise and Vaughn have had no home of their own. They stayed awhile with his mother. Then they separated and she stayed with a girl friend and hired a woman in the building to care for the babies. She had gone back with her husband several weeks ago and had been sleeping in a truck at the South Side Market. “He drank and wouldn't give me money to find a home,” she told JAD workers. “He was always threatening to leave me.”

tJ » ” JUST LAST WEEK the woman

who had been caring for her chil-

. {planes would continue to supply

: |lagainst that imported to Berlin : by the Western powers.

variety of Jobs, mainly in res- wists

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FORECAST: Local showers tonight. Continued warm and humid tomor row.

To Feed Berlin

Attack Promise

As Propaganda

BERLIN, July 20 (UP)—The Russians struck another blow at the Western foothold in blockaded Berlin today by announcing they. would send in more than 100,000 tons of foodstuffs and seil it to all comers, including Germans from the western sectors of the city. Western occupation authorities at once attacked the Soviet announcement as a prop da move toward Russia's intended mastery of all Berlin and ejection of the Americans, British and French. | Attacking the Soviet move as) ‘pure propaganda,” American! and British spokesmen said their

the food needed in the western sectors of Berlin. One of the first catches in the Soviet offer spotted by the West-| erners was the provision that! payment would be required in Soviet-sponsored currency, as

Theoretically at least, Western currency would much of its value. “Dips in Reserves” The Russian government reported it was dipping into Soviet reserves for the foodstuffs to feed Berlin, including the Western sectors. It said the shipments would include “100,000 tons of wheat. The Soviet move was timed with the peak so far of the aerial supply line to Berlin from the west, and with signs that a showdown between the east and the west might be in the making. It followed by a few days the Moscow rejection of a western demand for lifting of the Berlin blockade. The Soviets said in their reply that they would take over the feeding of all Berlin if necessary. In one of the first reactions to the Russian move, the joint commerce and industry commission for the Anglo-American area reported that Russia still owes Berlin 75,000 tons of food promised in 1946' and 1946. It said the Sothe food in exchange for iron, steel, tires, tubes and- other commodities. . Casts Some Doubt Further, the commission said, one-third of the bread and grain which the Soviets promised Berlin in a previous pooling arrangement had not been delivered. Those facts, the commission observed, cast some ‘doubt on the ability of the Soviets to carry out the proposal to send in more than 100,000 tons of foodstuffs now. Last Friday the Berlin press reported that Germans in the Soviet zone had not yet received their . April rations “because available food has been taken to Russia.”

the lose

TUESDAY, JULY 20,

Registering On Aug. 30

Police Officers Find Virtue in Lie Detector Test

IE. MIAMI, Fla., July 20 (UP) — The pretty brunet bride was accused of no crime, but she sat tensely in the sheriff's office while the lie detector gave its testimony in wavy lines, “Did you have an affair with Mr. Blank?” the deputy shot at her. “No,” she replied. “Have you had relations with) any man but your husband?” he; demanded?” “No,” she said. The thin pen of the lie-de-tector bobbed, inscribing a series of even peaks. Deputy R. W. Howdown removed the paper from the machine, wrote an analysis and| handed it to the girl. »

iff's office yesterday afternoon and, weeping, told the deputy on duty the =tory of a marriage broken by a jealous husband. “I love him,” she wept. “I want to go back to him.” She begged a lie detector test, scientific evidence of her fidelity to show her \:¥#¥and. As far as the latest scientific detection apparatus of Dade County could determine, the pretty brunet was a virtuous wife. It was not known if the results satisfied the jealous husband.

West Side Slum Clearance Starts

Crews Raze House In Project ‘A’ Area Photos, Page Three

By HAROLD HARTLEY Axes were swinging today in Indianapolis’ greatest piece of civic ‘surgery, the uprooting of one of the worst slum areas in the country. . Project A of the Redevelopment Commission, the first step in Indianapolis’ Slum Clearance Program, is under way.

W. 11th St. The dwelling was purchased by the commission with tax money on Oct. 6, 1946. The tenants were evicted a few weeks ago for failure to pay rent. But the commission didn’t want the rent; it wanted the house, The tenants were moved to another house in the area. The commission is on record that it will not destroy any dwelling

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1948

Motor Bureau Plans Hearing On ‘Fix’ Charge

Probe Traffic Case Of Linden Woman

(Photo, Page Two)

The State Motor Vehicles Bureau will hold a hearing to decide whether to suspend the driver's license of a Linden, Ind. woman involved in a controversial reckless driving case here. Traffic officials are

probing |

Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

This Is It— 1 Bagby Carries | ‘Hopes of Tribe

| By EDDIE ASH Times Sporis

clinging to first place in the American Association by just one-half game, or one percentage {point, Indianapolis baseball fans were on the well known needles {and pins today. | | For apparently this is it. If the Tribesters throw back the Brewers in Milwaukee to[night they are not likely to be overtaken the remainder of the season, according to the expert opinion of the sages around the

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis,

FINAL HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

lishit Men Of Draft Age Start

Rolls Open to Sept. 19;

__25-Year-Olds First of mms nae 10 Classes to Sign Up

Potential Inductees Warned to Keep

Pos!-d on When and

Where to Enroll

WASHINGTON, July 20 (UP)—President Truman

today ordered registration for 30 for men 18 through 25. The registration will con ferent age

the new draft to begin Aug.

tinue through Sept. 18. Dif-

groups will register on different days.

The President's proclamation called on all male citizens jand residents of the United States who have passed their

charges that the case againstigying nave their veteran ace, Jim begin registration at 8 a. m.

Mrs. Margaret Erk, 25,

16th St.

Dale Brown, Motor Vehicles

licenses regardless of

traffic offenses. ‘Tickled Pink’

would schedule a hearing as soon

Badgley and Sgt. William Cole.

men had already prepared written statements and added, tickled pink that Mr. getting into .this thing.”

charges. Dr. Harger, committee chairman, said his group will query principals involved, including Municipal Judge Pro Tem, Edwin Haerle, police, and deputy prosecutors. Today, Mrs. Erk’'s husband, Dr

case before It was” ” ‘Stated Argument’

[the argument,” he explained.

| Officer Badgley said Mrs. Erk|

Salvage crews began to raze, defiled” him when he forced her |, nged to a’ point with some of

a tumble-down dwelling at 85§{08F 10 1S Curh after 2 Joamllefthe stocks recently under pres-

license plates. “If a doctor can’t speed, who can?” the policeman quoted Mrs.

identified herself as a lawyer and declared: “I bet you $10 this case is thrown out of court.” She's an attorney and argued her own case. Patrolman Badgley said he “blew up” when the case was dismissed yesterday.

Bureau director, said his agency is empowered to revoke or suspend whether cited motorists are convicted of

The auto license chief said he as he received written reports from the officers who voiced the “fix” charges-—Patrolman Harvey

Mayor Feeney sald both police-

“we're Brown's

Meanwhile, Dr. R. N, Harger P

“fixed.” The defendant Ww: freed | BAEDY, to face the burly Brewers| l ; al . " | in Municipal Court ay de-|1D the series finale in the Cream, SHE HAD GONE to the sher- spite police testimony that she

{City and Tribe Skipper Al Lopez lis pinning his faith in the big

drove 70 miles an hour on W.|¢.)5w to hold off the challengers

runs. Having used up their two southpaws last night, the Brewers will have to call upon a righthander tonight and the Tribe batsmen usually thrive on orthodox pitching.

= ". 's ED WRIGHT, who has been slaughtered and batted out twice by the Indians, was marked up as Milwaukee's probable pitcher in the “morning line.” The weather report from Milwaukee at noon said cloudy and threatening rain. In the event of a postponement it cannot be layed off until late in August on the Indians’ fourth and last

said the Indianapolis Safety h the West. Council enforcement committee swing throug will investigate the officers’

Stocks Make

Mr. Truman listed 10 age

FORTUNATELY, the Red- 18th“birthday but not yet reached their 26th birthday to

Aug. 30.

Ten Classifications

classifications and gave these

dates for registration, between 8 a.m. and 5 p. m. in this

Islands:

on Monday, Aug. 30.

Sept. 1. THREE: Those born in Sept. 3. Sept. 7. Sept. 9. Sept. 11. ~ SEVEN: Those born in Sept. 14.

Sept. 16.

vernon ek a physician, denied at either he or his wife had “talked” to, anybody about the, . It Technical

Erk as saying. He said she also

Quiet Recovery

Wall Street Calls

NEW YORK, July 20 (UP) —|

on Sept. 17 or Sept. 18. TEN: Those born on or

while his * mates manufacture country, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin ONE: Those born in 1922 after Aug. 30 will register

TWO: Those born in 1923 will register on Aug. 31 or

1924, register on Sept. 2 or

FOUR: Those born in 1925, register on Sept. 4 or FIVE: Those born in 1926, register on Sept. 8 or

SIX: Those born in 1927, register on Sept. 10 or

1928, register on Sept. 18 or

EIGHT: Those born in 1929, register on Sept. 15 or

NINE: Those born in 1930 before Sept. 19, register

after Sept. 19, 1830, will reg-

ister within five days after their 18th birthday.

[Stocks made & quiet recovery give their workers sufficient

“We simply stated our side of uring the morning dealings to-

Net gains in the main list

{sure up as much as 2 points. The | volatile Superior Oil of California, 20-point loser yesterday, rallied 6 points to 205 on a single transaction, Railroad issues made the best group recoveries, Several of the steels and the motors firmed. Ofls generally were better. Coppers recovered as much as 2| points in American Smelting.

Curtiss-Wright was active at a!

time off to register on the | proper day.

Where to Register | Each eligible man was Instructed to register in the area in which he has his permanent, home or in which he may happen to be on the day for his registration. And each was warned “to familiarize himself” with the rules and regulations governing the registration program. Earlier, Maj. Gen. Lewis B.

| Hershey, newly appointed draft

director, said draft-age youths’

Louise was born in Indianapo- dren had to go to the hospital.| hielligence; tenants to move. lis. Her parents were divorced It was then she took them to the agents said they had received] Project A was selected after

cs! Some Califor. when she was 3 weeks old. Both|woman who turned them over to unconfirmed reports that Rus- seven or eight sites had been in-|

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remarried—her mother so fre-| quently that Louise is not now able to estimate her exact number of stepfathers. Her father, as far as she knows, never contributed to her support. os ” s HER FIRST delinquency brush came in 1945 when she was picked up by Juvenile Aid police for “running the streets” and “associating with a soldier.” Investigation at that time indicated her home life was “very bad.” Investigators found her mother was in the middle of her fifth divorce and was planning remarriage to a sixth. Since that time, according to the daughter, her mother has been married at least twice more. She said she does not know her mother’s address. “Whenever I wanted to see her I usually went to the Reel Inn and waited for her,” she added.

» = = BACK IN ’45 Louise was made & ward of the court and sent to Juvenile Detention Home. Here for the first time her life took on some semblance of regu-

police. When she was arrested Louise insisted that she had not told the woman she would return until the next day. “I couldn’t because he wouldn't give me the money until then,” she said. The woman, however, claimed she had understood the babies were just to remain a short time and felt that Louise had “abandoned” them. Workers - who've talked to her feel that Louise isn’t a “bad mother.” Just one with a poor background, whose husband has never provided her with a home in which she could have a chance to take care of her babies.

“She talked to me about babies’ |

formulas and putting the boys on baby food,” one jail matron said. “Any mother who's taking that interest in her babies at five months isn’t bad. She just didn’t

Couple Plans For "Rest of Our Lives’

larity. And here is the report! of the matron, made when she Was placed in the home of rela-| tives a month later. i “Louise was rather indiffer-| ent, brazen and sullen when she! came here. She seemed mostly interested in discussing her past experiences. Now, however, her| Past experiences seem distasteful

to her. She has done a right]

about face.” Louise, continued the matron, showed a talent in sewing and drawing that she had not known she possessed.

“ » ” ” SHE WAS careless, silly, indifferent and untidy,” a nurse's

report read. “Now she has. im-| Proved and seems capable of!

conducting her own affairs unJer Supervision. She seems more Tully aware of the seriousness of er conduct.” en it came time to place Louise back in a ‘home social Workers decided her disinterested Stepfather and emotional, unStable mother's home would be the worst possible place.” ~ Instead, she was put in the home of he sister and brother-in-law. Her stay, terminated When her sister was killed in an auto accident, was without any Serious incidents.

AFTER HER sister's funeral, Louise returned to her mother's home. After graduation from

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Married 54 Years, E.

For California Jaunt on First Leg of Trip By SHERLEY UHL

{sian Military Governor Vassily| |D. Sokolovsky had hurriedly] [called a staff conference at his! |Karlhorst headquarters late] Monday night to discuss a directive from Moscow which was reported to have ordered him to “find ways and means of easing the Berlin blockade.” Observers doubted the accuracy of the reports. Official Frankfurt sources to-| day reported that Gen. Lucius D.| Clay and his political adviser,| Robert Murphy, might leave with-| in 24 hours for a four-day visit! to Washington. Informants said the visit was, being planned, but had not been| confirmed officially. . | Gen. Clay has denied that the; western governors recommended the dispatch of armed convoys through the Russian zone to Berlin.

Honeymoon

Side ‘Newlyweds’ Pack

Married in 1894, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Collins are leaving next

month on a “honeymoon for the

“Didn't have enough money chuckles the 76-year-old cabinet-maker.

little home at 430 N. Wallace

rest of their lives.” to take one right anyway,” So they sold their trim] St. and now they're packing for

Long Beach, Cal., where they’ll spend the first lap of their journey.

“Nobody's gonna tie us down,” snorted Mr. Collins, puffing hi

don’t know if we'll ever settle in one place again. the country from now on.”

We'll see

[stacked for sale or removal. An! lold churn, a cutglass kerosene

pipe furiously in anticipation. “I amp, a coffee grinder, are among

the accumulations. i Mr. Collins shuffles about ing worn slippers, putters in the gar-|

Snowy-haired but still energet- den, a little sad, he admits, atl

ic, Mrs. Collins wanted to go West, thought of parting with his

Co. He's retiring July 30.

children.

Collins testily.

Thrifty and industrious, they've, never indulged in a pleasure trip| VIENNA, | before. They've never had an au- Austrian police reported today| tomobile or telephone, belong to'that a two-engined plane bearing: no social clubs, They have noa Czech emblem crash-landed

For the first time in decades their daily household routine is

first to relieve her sinus trouble./q,wers and vegetables. : When they awaken Aug. 2 ON «gee this vine,” says he proudly. a California-bound Santa Fe Pull-«ghe's got 38 tomatoes. I guess man, it will be the first week-day/pye almost lived in this garden. in 26 years that Mr. Collins 1 pope the next folks take care hasn't reported for work as car-,¢ jt» penter for the Real Silk Hosiery

Report Crash in Austria July 20 (UP)—:

|Sunday evening near St. Poelten

“And we never ran. around in in the Soviet zone northwest of any of these taverns,” adds Mr.

Vienna.

FINED ON GUN CHARGE | Morris Mosley, 26, of 2508 Hill-|

disturbed. Mrs. Collins busily side Ave., was fined $200 and dusts furniture, dishes, antiques costs in Municipal Court 4 today| and pric-a-brac—all neatly

on a charge of carrying a gun.

vestigated. It is bounded on the! north by 16th St, on the east] by West St., on the west by Mil-

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Heat to Stay Despite Showers

Scattered showers were forecast by the Weather Bureau to accompany today’s warm and humid weather. Skies will remain partly cloudy, according to the prediction for Indianapolis, and temperatures

are expected to climb into the] middle 80's today and hit 90 to-|

morrow. The mercury is due to hover near 70 tonight. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am... 68 10a m... 73

7a.m,.. 70 11a m...7 8a. m... 71 12 (Noon) 78 9a. m..71 1p.m... 79

because there was no evidence she was driving recklessly. She denied she was speelling. The judge said police estimates of her speed were ‘only guesses.” Mr. Haerle contended she should have been cited for speeding instead of reckless driving. He said he understood both police and motorist were “mad,” and added, “I couldn't consider the personalities.” Patrolman Badgley, however, asserted ‘speeding is the main offense in any reckless driving charge.” He contended Mrs. Erk {was “zig-zagging.”

—————————— REPORT STRONG QUAKE

"HONEYMOONERS"—Usually the honeymoon is over when the husband is

{Street ascribed it to technical {reasons | CHICAGO, July 20 (UP)— | Grain, livestock, and butter prices dropped slightly at major markets today but experts said house-

{new high since 1946 of 11% up % | Should know in a week or two

| in what order they will be called lup for service in the Armed

plained he discharged Mrs. Erkinews to account for the improve. Forces. ment ia the market and Wall

Under the law, actual inductions cannot begin before Sept. 22. Gen. Hershey sajd he and his aides have had “a great deal of discussion” about startifig the new draft with 25-year-olds. But he admitted that a lottery

wives would not benefit much! scheme, similar to that used in

{from the decline. | — EE —

Bound to Grand Jury On Murder Charge

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| World War II, also has been con-

sidered.

A Good Story—

| Joe Thurman, 58, of 1137 Pat- Buf Editor Made

{terson St., was bound over to the

{Grand Jury on a murder charge

without bond today after a pre-

liminary hearing in Municipal

Court 3.

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WASHINGTON, July 20 (UP)

NEW YORK, July 20 (UP)—A| He is charged with the fatal —From the Washington Daily “very strong” earthquake cen-| shooting of James Allen, 38, of News: . tered in Peru was recorded at| 1014 Colton 8t., in front of the; Fordh#m University today, the Thurman home last July 4 fol-| Rev. Fr. Joseph Lynch reported. |lowing an argument over money.

“I'm going to kill myself.” The man’s voice coming over {the phone to the early man on ithe News city desk was so low it- was almost lost in the chatter {of the teletype machines. “You want a good story?’ the {man sald. “I've had a lot of [rouble and I thought I'd get it |over with.” 1

i #8 Ln { THE TELEGRAPH editor | picked up another phone and diialed police, “I'm 24 years old,” the voice {went on. He gave his name and | address. “I'd rather not do it like this,” {he said, “I've tried for three days | already. { “I have to make it definite this | time.”

» ~ » | “I WAS in the Army,” the |voice said. “I was married before but it didn’t turn out. I {took me two years to forget, “Then I found this girl. I was {down and out and she just prac{tically built me up. “Then she left me. I was build(ing my whole life on her and she {left me.” y ” » “THERE'S THE doorbell,” the voice said. the bell.” There was a sense of hurry— of climax—in the voice. The silence again.

taken it now.” Then the phone went dead. Police wrote the sequel: | “At 6:30 a. m. on July 20, (man’s name and address delet ed) was removed to Freedman's Hospital in No. 10 wagon and treated for poisoning by Dr. L. Leper of the staff. Condition wed.”

t 4 » Congress certain

“Someone's ringing!

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ee a State Draft Group

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Ready for Action

Await Official Word From Washington

Selectiv: service mechanism in Indiana was ready to move into action today upon receipt of official word from Washington. Lists of county draft board personnel have been prepared by the Office of Selective Service Rec ords at Ft, Harrison and are nearly ready to go to Gov. Gates, From these lists the Governor will make his recommendation to President Truman who will make the official appointments. Officials Have No Word Lt. Col. F. Lyle Summers, head of the Selective Bervice Records office, is to be recommended to President Truman by Gov. Gates for the position of state selective service director, Although the President had announced dates for the draft registration, officials here had received no word. Lt. Cmdr, Louls B. Shackelford, assistant to Col. Summers, said he had expected some word today but it has not yet come through. He said the office would receive a set of Army regulations on how the state's 96 boards are to conduct the registration and draft.

‘Paris Crash Kills Five | PARIS, July 20 (UP)—Five |persons were killed today at Vil{lacoublay Airport in the Paris | suburbs when a transport plane {crashed on its maiden flight. The plane was undergoing tests by |{the French government.

Report 120 Drown { ALLAHABAD, India, July 20 | (UP)—Approximately 120 perisons were believed to have drowned yesterday when a twat carrying 200 persons capsized in the Ganges River.

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