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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Given 5 Days To Dismiss Local Chief
Director Charges ‘Politics’ in Ouster The ax that hovered over the head of Arthur HE. Wooden since pis disputed appointment . as county welfare director four years ago finally fell today. The state welfare board unani-
mously passed a resolution giving the Marion County Board five
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seek. i Warns State Will Act
The strongly worded resolution warned that should the county board fail to act, the state board will use its statutory power to remove Mr. Wooden as director. It was the first time the state
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“The board is of the opinion that the duties, functions and activities prescribed in the state welfare act of 1946 are not being performed by Marion County Welfare Director in compliance with law and with the rules and regulations of the state welfare department and unless action is
board has ever gone over the head of a county board in reCrystals moval of a director. The resolution, proposed by Ib. 69: Fred Hoke; Indianapolis, and J unanimously adopted read:
— taken by the Marion County board in five days for removal of Larvex Moth the director the state board will Proofer order his removal” » : It continued: “There is no . 79¢ doubt that it is our responsibility Pp o see that the welfare program Le Hs uniformly administered) memes Wl throughout the state. Evidence RR over a period of three years has ; - made it clear that Marion County 3 1s always the great exception and vk Matches always there is some ‘good’ : : eason Yh Marien County should ‘ be excep! ” . xes of 50 Books Frequently Criticized 18¢ Per Box— The Rev. Fr. W. Edward 1000 Strikes Sweigart, another member, added:
“It should be clear to us that after a certain length of time we risk becoming a party to these things.” , Mr. Wooden had been under fire every since he was chosen as director after p) 13th of 14 persons who took eligibility tests. Since then he has been criticized frequently for his administration. Latest of these outbursts came last week when his failure to provide emergency housing care for neglected children was scored Y police, He also was severely criticized in the $12,000 child welfare survey made here last year. The state welfare board launch a probe both into charges against Mr. Wooden and failure of the Marion County Welfare Board to take any action in its regular meeting.
Scores ‘Silence’ The “strange silence” on the part of the board during recent public criticism was scored by Otto Walls, state welfare director. I have had to rely on newspapers for my information,” he told the board. “I am at a complete loss to explain the lack of action of the Marion County board to refute or consult with the state office. Both the board and Mr. Wooden have been strangely silent.” Joseph Andrew, Lafayette, board president, said he had asCertained that the state board ou be empowered to remove . Wooden, should the county boay fan to do so. e end of the 5-day period the state board would order his dismissal by the county board. Should it fail to do so in 10 days’ time, he added, the county auditor would be instructed to discontinue his salary.
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ISSUES 'FIRE WOODEN' ORDER —This group today issued an ultimatum to the Marion County: Welfare Board to fire Arthur E. Wooden as county welfare director. Left to right are board members Fred Hoke, Indianapolis; Leon Kinman, Shelbyville; Joseph Andrew, Lafayette, president, and Mrs. Thomas Sheerin, Indianapolis. Standing are the Rev. Fr. W. Edward Sweigart, Ft. Wayne (left), and Otto Walls, state welfare director.
g Reaches
High Mark
Prices of Goods and Services Now
74.1 Per Cent Above
The department said this is * figure was 9.3 per cent above a year ago, 28.8 per cent more than
August, 1939, the start of World War II. : TT The department said retail prices of food led the advance. They rose 1.5" per cent from May 15 to June 15. In the same period, prices of fuel and house furnishings went up six-tenths of 1 per cent, rents went up three-tenths of 1 per cent. Prices of miscellaneous com-
modities and services remained| unchanged and clothing prices]
1939. Levels
WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP)—The goverfiffiént's cost of living index set a new all-time record high today. The Labor Department said that on June 15 retail prices for goods and services used by moderate income families in large cities stood at 171.7 per cent'of their 1935-39 average. ‘
‘the highest recorded level.”
The overall -price advance for the one-month period of cost-of-living items between May 15 and June 15 ‘was seven-tenths of 1 per cent. - The department said the food price index on June 15 was 214.1 per cent of the 1935-39 average. This was 12.4 per 'céent above a year ago and 2.1 per cent higher than last January. It is 16 per cent above the post-World War I peak:.in June, An increase in meat and egg prices was “mainly responsible for rise” in foods, the department (said. It said that these price increases “are much greater than
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the average seasonal increase.”
No Normal Relief Seen Here As Prices Top 28-Year Peak:
CIO Council Urges Local ‘Buyers’ Strike’
for Price Controls
With retail prices hitting the highest level in 28 years, Indianap-
olis housewives and wage earners can look forward to no normal
until at least next year with the large corn crop, may decline by spring. The Executive Council of the CIO passed a resolution in Indianapolis calling for a “buyers’ strike” to coincide with the special session of Congress in hope
Truman Calls Porter Back
WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP) — President Truman today brought Paul A. Porter, former price administrator, back into the administration to prepare an explanation of the antiinflation program to present to congressional committees of the special session. Mr. Porter will servé as a non-paid special assist ant to the President. The White House said his duty will be “to. coordinate the information that may be presented to the appropriate congressional committees if and when hearings are held on «the President's proposed anti-inflation legislation.” The appointment strengthened reports from administration source that Mr. Truman will seek some form of price control from the special session.
relief except in a few isolated fields.
Climbing meat prices slipped back a few cents in Indianapolis this week, but experienced meat buyers'insist the rise will continue
possibility that hogs, due to the of forcing legislative price control.
The resolution said commodities have increased 277 per cent while wages have gained only 26 per cent on the average with the warning that prices “have gone completely beyond the financial reach of the working men and women of Indiana.” There was some relief in sight (but not before spring) in dairy products (milk, butter, cheese) due to excellent pastures and the bumper grain crop. President Truman is expected to demand legislative control of prices, especially of meats, when the special session of Congress Agricul experts sald today milk n peak (12,300,000,000 pounds) in June, lowest since 1941. And due to higher feed costs, there are four per cent fewer dairy cattle on farms, the report said. Ie —————————————
Newfoundland Spurns
Union With Canada
ST. JOHNS, Newtoundland, July 23 (UP) — Newfoundland
{voters rejected confederation with
Canada and favor a return to the self-governing colonial status the island enjoyed before becoming a complete dependency of Great
terday referendum indicated today.
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State Welfare Board Orders fi Oficias County To Fire Wooden
Orders Crackdown On Short Weights
Inspectors Report Wholesale Violations
A crackdown on merchants who sell short weight to. eustomers was ordered today by Mayor Feeney, The campaign against faulty scales and misrepresented weights on packages began after city injspectors reported wholesale violations of the weights and measures“iaw, : Three store managers have already been arrested ‘for “selling items that were short ‘of their labeled weights. Their cases are pending. Gives Pep Talk Mayor Feeney called in" all members of the weights and measures department this morning and gave them a pep talk on enforcing the laws governing food measurements. - He told them: “You have one Of the most important jobs in the city today. With food prices skyrocketing, it is absolutely necessary that we rotect the public from false food measurements. “There will be. no more warn- , From now on I want arrests when you find shortages in the measurement of food.”
Cites Several Instances
The mayor enumerated several instances of weight and measurément “cheating.” One store had sacks of potatoes labeled 10 pounds. They were found to be from one-fourth pound to two pounds short in weight each. In another store, the Mayor said, sacks of coffee were found to be short of the advertised weight. At another location it was found a farmer was gypped on the milk he sold to the establish; ment, which did its own /processing. Weights and measures inspectors ordered this establishment to purchase a new scale. Asks Public Be ‘Alert The Mayor pointed out several instances where meat costs had risen above the figures printed on automatic price computors affixed to scales. He said in this case the customer received the right weight, but was sometimes cheated in the computing of the
ce, Mr. Feeney asked the public to be on the alert for shortages in the foodstuffs bought and to call the weights and measures department if indications of cheating are found. “The great majority of store owners are honest,” the Mayor said. “It's only the cheaters that we are after.” He instructed Leo Martin, head of the weights and measures department, to.assign all five department inspectors to checking scales and food containers. The Mayor declared: “The whole department’s going to work
on this problem until it is cleaned up.” i
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Syndicate Maneuver
Veterans of Foreign Wars officials today investigated alleged attempts of an Indianapolis gambling syndicate to “take over” veterans’ club slot ma-! chines. A VFW legal spokesman theorized police may have unwittingly served as “innocent foils” in the maneuver by raiding service clubs on tips from anonymous callers. “We're not accusing police of anything irregular,” said the of ficial, who requested that his! name be withheld. | City Wide Cleanup? “But we're wondering whether the slot machine cleanup is citywide or confined to veterans’ ups.” “We don’t want honest officers misused by an unholy alliance that has been trying to saddle the slot machine business here.” Some veterans clubs, he said, virtually support themselves on slot machine revenue. He upheld their installation in the clubs on thé premise that patronage there is limited to members only. Shake-Down Attempt This same source disclosed Speedway Post 2839, VFW, had been approached by a “syndicate man” who demanded funds for “slot machine protection.” He was rebuffed. A few days later police raided the place. “We absolutely do not mean to imply the officers are in any way connected with gambling circles,” the spokesman explained, “But we are afraid they may have acted on an anonymous complaint ’phoned in by the syndicate,” Meanwhile six VFW slot machines, pawns in a Municipal Court feud, appeared doomed today. : ~Munfeipal Judge Joseph M. Howard ordered the machines
to the police property room. Police Chief Edward Rouls said he intended “to destroy them in due rpurse.” ; Guarded All Night
A police guard stood vigil over
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Glidden Plans
On W. 18th St.
Plant to Include
Big Grain Elevator By HAROLD HARTLEY A new $3 million soybean extraction plant will be constructed by the Glidden Co. in Indianapolis on a site adjacent to the company’s Feed Mill Diyision, Dwight P. Joyce, Glidden president, announced today. The new Soya Division Products plant will be located on a four-acre site close to the Glidden feed mill, 1160 W. 18th St. and will have a 250-foot frontage on Montcalm Ave,
The plant proper will consist of several buildings connected by
material in
bushel grain elevator. Completion of the new factory eventually will mean the employ ment of several hundred men, Mr. Joyce said. It will employ the latest oil extraction equipment, a BlawKnox unit of the new roto-cell
country’s largest producers of huve operated a large Soya Product plant in Chicago. , Calseth in Charge
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the devices all night-in Municipal Court 4 with instructions to arrest anyone attempting to reclaim them. This was in direct defiance of Judge Pro Tem Sol Bodner’s order to return them to their owner. They were seized from the LaVelle Gossett Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, on June 20. Judge Bodner contended they ‘were confiscated illegally because police raiders had no search
warrant. Law Violation The police chief refused to sur render them, however, charging this would violate a state law against slot machine possession. Judge Bodner didn't return today to the Court 4 bench, where he had substituted for Municipal Judge Alex Clark, now on vacation. Judge Howard said he would preside over both Court 3 and 4 today, and told police to clear the slot machines from the Court 4 anteroom.
HARTLEY ASKS CHANGES WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP) —Rep. Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R. N. J.) today proposed fundamental changes in the Taft-Hart-ley ‘law including a clause to
“make employers swear they
aren't Communists.
Reports Seeing Bright Red Cross High in Sky Here
EE RIT: MRS. GORDON LUCAS, 2838 Brookside Parkway, North Drive, spent a sleepless night last night wondering about the brilliant red cross she reports seeing high in the sky about 9:30 o'clock. First the cross was stationary then trailed a gold string from which a tiny parachute dropped, she said. All had vanished by the time the neighbors answered her call.
HOLLYWOOD, July 23 (UP)— Pioneer film director David Wark Griffith, 68, whose “Birth Of a Nation” lifted the movie industry, out of the nickelodeon stage, died today of a brain hemorrhage. His death A came at 10:24 a. m. (Indianapolis time) at Temple Hospital. He was stricken in his hotel room yesterday. Paralyzed from a hemorrhage on
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Dr. Edward Skaletar, his attending physician, was at Griffith’'s bedside. Members of his family, including a niece, Ruth Griffith, and a nephew, Willard Griffith, both of Santa Ana, spent of the night at the hospital.
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. h and, development of Soya products as materials for improved paints, varnishes 4nd shamels as well as for lecithin, candy coating soybean product. Ralph G. Goldseth of Chicago, vice president of the company, is in charge of Glidden’'s soya operations. The new Indianapolis plant is the latest link in the Glidden company’s $15 million postwar program. New plants
Francisco, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Fla., Elmhurst, Long Island, Norwalk, O., Reading, Pa. and Toronto, Canada. The new Indianapolis plant and the recently announced program calling for several units in Macon, Ga., brings the total program to $15 million. The company is one of the country’s leading producers of lacquers, varnishes, enamels, vegetable oils, pigments and chemicals and last year grossed $185 million. Sales this year indicate a gross of $210 million,
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SLAIN—John C. West, 22, of Parkersburg, W. Va, was slain by police today after being trapped near Van Wert, O,
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‘Ditiels, 24, ‘of Columbus, O., was captured after his "mad dog” partner was slain at a road intersection 20 miles from the Indiana state line near Ft. Wayne.
CAPTURED — Robart M.
Surviving Gunman Tells 0f 7 Murders
Trapped at Road Block Near Indiana Line VAN WERT, O, July 23 (UP)—One of the two guncrazed ex-convicts who had touched off one of the great~ est manhunts in Ohio history was fatally shot and his come panion was captured today when they attempted to break through a road. block near here. John C. West, 22, died of bullet
{wounds a little than two hows Sl he been shot own a gun with and sheriff's Poles West's Robert Murl ‘Daniels, 24," was alive,
He confessed seven murders attributed to them within the past two weeks, sheriff's deputies 8 . Leaps From Cab A. Van Wert policeman, Leonard Conn, was se
Margin Over Ellis Crown at Stake On Final 18 Holes
Miss Alice O'Neal of Indianapolis was three-up over Miss Dorothy Ellis, the Manual High School teacher, today at the half-way mark of their 36-hole battle for the Indiana women's golf championship at the Country Club of Indianapolis. Miss O'Neal had a 38-40-78, three over par while Miss Ellis carded a 42-30—81. They were to tee off this afternoon at 2 o'clock for the final 18 holes. rr—————
Of Truman Wheat Pact
WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP) | ~—f8en. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) predicted today that the Senate will reject President Truman's request for approval of the international wheat agreement at the special session of Congress. Mr. Jenner the agreement in a statement issued through his office here. He said the treaty would require the United States to deliver 185 million bushels of wheat annually within price limits of $2 and $1.10 a bushel. Mr. Jenner said it is hard to understand how Mr. Truman expects to avoid heavy financial losses under such an agreement since the support ‘price is now about $2.29 a bushel at Chicago.
denounced
David Wark Griffith, Movie Pioneer And Maker of Stars, Dies at 68
Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Richard Barthelmess and the Gish sisters. For much of the past 20 years he was in retirement.
» » »” MR. GRIFFITH'S second wife, Evelyn Baldwin Griffith, 40 years younger than he, divorced Mr. Griffith last November, claiming he was a bachelor at heart. They were married in 1936. His first wife was actress Linda Arvidson. They were di-
of marriage. “D, W.,” as he was known throughout the movie industry, was born in La Grange, Ky. Jan. 22, 1880, son of Margaret Oglesby and Col. Jacob Wark Griffith, known during the Civil War as “Roa * Jeifrith, Young Griffith worke& if the mail room of his brother's news-
also wrote notes. After seeing Julia Marlowe in
part Mr. | neer stars
Arlington Busses Will Stop Sunday:
Indianapolis Railways’ Arlington Ave. feeder-bus line will be discontinued : after Sunday Dbecause officials said it was operating at a loss of $88 a day. The Public Service Commission of Indiana approved abandonment of the route at a hearing yesterday. The bus operated on Arlington and Ritter Aves. between Brookville Rd. and 38th St. since Apr. 26.
CONSIDER CIGARET HIKE NEW YORK, July 23 (UP)— Tobacco trade circles reported today that leading cigaret manufacturers have been considering raising prices, but have held back for fear the public won't like it and sales will fall off.
paper work to become a dramatist. He first appeared as an actor in a play, “The District School,” but he earned so little as a stock company actor in Louisville that he took a job mornings running a store elevator. ” FA LATER HIS luck improved and he played leading roles in “The Three Musketeers,” “The Ensign” and “Elizabeth.” At Chicago in 1907 Griffith saw his first motion picture. He was impressed by the long lines awaiting admission. - In June, 1908, he became anh assistant director and began his rapid rise in the industry. Some of the actors he worked with at the Biograph were Owen Moore, Lionel Barrymore, Mabel Normand, Alice Joyce, James Kirkwood, Harry Carey and Con-
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shot through the head while drive ing on the outskirts of Tiffin. Taylor, driver for the Bolin Trucking Co. Cleveland, was en route to Welch, W. Va, from South Bend, Ind., with a load of Studebaker cars. The truck in which the two gunmen were trapped was a Bolin truck. Daniels and West, object of the greatest manhunt since John Dillinger rampaged through the Midwest in the early 30's, also are wanted in connection with the brutal murder of John C, Niebel, superintendent of the Mansfield Reformatory Farm; Mr. Niebele's wife, and their daughter, Phyllis, 22, who were shot down in a corn fleld near Mansfield early Wednesday; Earl Columbus tavern operator, shot and killed during a2 holdup July 10; and Frank M, Krec 52, Flat Rock, Mich, tourist camp operator who was murdered July 11. EE ——————————
2 Youths, 18, Drown as Boat Tips in Lake
———————— i MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, July 23 (UP)—Two 18-year-old youths were drowned in Lake Michigan early today when a rowboat over. turned 100 feet off shore in a Michigan City yacht harbor.
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