Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1948 — Page 2
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‘More Money to
of aie
tondent Cites ‘Unending Fight’
Improve Conditions
. to photograph the institution. ’ F officials Staph herewith presents t re Wa Watson found. By VICTOR Administrators of the Ft.
They admit that: Patients at times are mistre
§ » chen is a severe shortage of
a or turnover is high. e struggle for state money is
& Guasncations for employment |
jas. pay scale is low, the hours
Worked as Attendant “For a week, Times Reporter
in the preceding four , of this series. = ‘I went to Luther Hurley, super-
. 4nstitution.
photographs. Ha gave me free Tein, and
. "We are not proud of a good, wnany things here, but we make, p attempt to hide anything. We trying to do the best we can th what we have to work with."
One is the continuous lack of ’ They are adequate to institution doors open. That § about all, ‘When funds are available for ipfovement or repair, the school hire the work done.
1900 in Institution
sald. “We should have
ig ana living quarters undesir- |
‘ Watson worked at the pl as an attendant to investi these conditions which comnants had reported to this!
lent, and asked to be shown! room and broom ¢loset in, I told him I) to mirror the school in|
After Reporter David Watson had surveyed the Ft. Wayne i School for Feeble-Minded Youth, The Times sent Victor Peterson
Mr. Peterson. interviewed school their explanation of conditions
PETERSON 2
Wayne School for Feeble-Minded ‘Youth admit that institution conditions are not all they could be.
ated by employees who take dis- |
‘eiplinary action into their own hands. * Physical surroundings leave much to, be desired.
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BUSINESS PROBLEM—Luther Hurley, superintendent of ‘the Ft. Wayne Stats Schoo! for | | Feeble Minded Youth, finds his | efforts to improve physical conditions at the school are blocked | by the lack of estimates and hids on construction work.
0 employees. We have 209. ly, we have a hell of a time t help. We cannot offer; ict ve ay. hours or living
din pa untrainel. ‘At times nt. becomes violent. The ‘ones ‘ are in grave Physical
Ve know of a few times whin 8s have taken immediate
action. They have
y = It is a known fact that state astitutions have trouble getting pney. For y-ars administrators ve converged on Indianapolis 0 beg. They wine and dine those Db control the purse strings. is undignified, but it has seeured enough funds to keep intitutions operating. i ‘Dr. Harshman took me into the
ppled ward for the feeble . His only comment was, : for yourself.”
i. Here were 60 to 70 hopelessly | ppled feeble-minded. Their pdies were so twisted I wanted turn my head. The stench of | waste filled the air. * Many sat completely nude, On no clothes can be kept for tear them off immediately. Bus 6 Others were waiting for their
Pah people can do nothing for Yihemse ves: Yet there was no at-
is Lend Aid
here as help. In the same series pe Of rooms are cells for those who ashave insanity as a complication | 41 0f feeble-mindedness. Inmates’ care for them also.
ws-AVOM They don't want to see it. #e They ask to be excused. They say 7 they will take our word for it,” ¥Y3 Dr. Harshman said. ; wna. The physical plant of the school MONDAY
ol pt | ¥ = AT THE —
wd 0th Floor KX. of P. Bunding il ‘Pood & Wome Products Demonstration “1 {| Monday, Oct. 11,1:50 P. Mm. Sllyer Star Review No. 15 Women’s Benefit Ass'n bl: © C&ra Party } Committee » ot Mis. Bertha Schuck,
Mrs. Ruth Estell
ve. your ohuyrch, lodge, PB, | Ir. A. or other group give an
afternoon party here and make “1 money this easy, pleasant way. CALL LI-8137 FOR DETAILS
Toons, lr gio Bh
~~ “This is the room that members ing to get the patients to Ai of the budget committee always here as they would in the
PERSONNEL, FINANCES — Dr, ski Ps Harshman, of the school hospital, © cripple wards bears the brunt of the help shortage. There are no attendants there. Higher type inmates perform the duties... Pay js. not sufficient to. keep attendants in this section.
needs “attention. The fire alarm system does not work. Roofs leak, plaster needs repair, over-all painting is necessary, the fence is falling apart. The central boiler house is in bad condition. Needs Overhauling Besides this, the institution's school needs a complete overhaul. Its heating system does not func{tion in cold weather. When tem{peratures drop, the school closes. The plumbing is inadequate. | Some of these programs have jbeen on the docket for a year, The state has made the money avail|able. Still they go unattended. ‘I've done everything in{power to correct these condi-| {tions,” 'Mr. Hurley said. *“ stymied. Under state law we! must have estimates and bids. ‘Please Don't Ask’ “No one’ will estimate or bid |in this day of cost plus work. [My long-time personal friends in {the industrial world have said,
to make an estimate.” These are the conditions at! the state school, the whys and) rwherefores they exist. “THrough all this we are trylive out-| side world,” Dr. Harshman said.|
Journalism Units Pick 16 Students
Sixteen upperclassmen in But+| [er University have been pledged | to the Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma, Delta Chi chapters of the na-
tional professional journalism fra-| ternities for co-eds and male stu-|John, the prospective millionaire
dents, mits. fespectively. pledged to the Theta Sigma Phi,
will be initiated in the spring. They are Misses Barbara Lovelle,
|James Oliver; Willjam W. Roberts, Roy “Upplait, ‘Rex "VHh “Trees,
Woolridge.
and way oy...
"Add to the thrill of this doy
IRichard Thompson, North Vernon.
Church Fears
Is Fast Fading
a Yc!
Five girls; all of “Indfanapolis,|”
‘Dorothy Newburg, -Marjean. Mc- whole Kay, Alice Robertson, and Patri-| pulling m
pledges to the|in after them,” he saul.
cia Smith; Indianapolis Sigma Delta Chi, to be. initiated] Nov. 1. are Robert Chapman,
{Harold Wilson and Albert H.
Other Sigma Delta Chi pledges Was from a business concern. It are Edward Fike, Louisville, and read:
||| before Saturday.”
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I BEAUTIFUL HAR {752%
SATURDAY, OCT. 9,1048
New World War
Says U.S. Atom Sole Bar to Soviet Grab LLANDUDNO, Wales, (UP)—Winston Churchill warned today that a third world war seems to be “remorselessly approaching” thing keeping the Soviets from
- |loverrunning Europe is the Amer-
ican stockpile of atomic bombs. “There seems to be remorse: | |lessly approaching a third world |war,” Mr. Churchill told the Con-
|servative Party conference here. | |
“Nothing stands today between ‘Europe and complete subjugation {to Communist tyranny but thej ‘atomic bomb in American posses-| [sion | “Bolshevik Russia is already] heavily armed and her forces in {Europe far exceed those of all the western countries put to|gether. a» | Hits Red Aggression
“I will not encourage you with {false hopes of a friendly settle{ment with - Soviet Russia,” Mr. Churchill said in one of the most | pessimistic declarations yet made by a British leader. { He denounced the “growing ag{gressiveness and malignity.of the {Soviet government and its com- | plete breaches of good faith.” “Indeed, I only wondered that !it took the British and American ‘peoples, in spite of all the lessons of the past, so long to realize the fearful challenge to their life and |freedom which was being opened upon them from the east,” he said,
(0'Banion Fortune
much. like the millions, But there is one who has attemped to keep
former owner-editor of the Tip-ton-Tribune, The 90-year-old cousin has delved deep to trace the family line. He has written a family history. | so
“Poof,
putting any money into it, John,” he warned. iT “There's no estate. I think you're fooling away your time. Take the advice of an old man and forget fit. —-LThe-—O'Banions-
Oct. 9 1
.and that the only.
Our Fair City—
Gates Is "Hatchet Man For Worried GOP Cohorts
_ (Continued From Page One) ithe much younger a SHS WwW 200,000 yotes or more that they've BE Ea om Bigh a e - been drifting along in &/pink cloud, are well dressed, polite and effi- 4 The fact seems to t. With Clent orl no more pay than City tween c Schricker.is a real threa Policemen men get. © Tuma;
GOP governor nominee Hobart Creighton conducting his cam- part of paign on a white glove basis, ‘not Daile lev Pledoes 6 Yo {mad at anybody,” somebody has! to start tearing into Mr. Schricker. 2 case, ) Gov. Gates isn’t running for any-
o'clock | |thing, so it looks as. if he's been No Privile gs late an) elected hatchet man. Presiden
Next worry of the GOP strate-| gists is whether the blasting gov-| Prosecutor Candidate ¢
ernor might stick his neck ofit too| far. Democrats are taking the Addresses Lawyers Operation of the prosecutor's
governor's blows with wide grins, office free from .the pressure of
saying, “We'd rather fight with Mr. Gates than anybody.” ’ Wise GOP heads, on the other any special privilege groups was _|hand, are aware of the fact that pledged by George 8. Dalley, jwe all make mistakes and realize nemocratic candidate for prosethat this business of asking em-| t in a ecch before more {barrassing questions can backfire cuter, in a sp ; (than 100 Democratic lawyers in
[if it's carried too far. the Lincoln Hotel yesterday.
” - ~ e
Miss M
its a myth, " the his- tors still say they haven't. given torian exploded. “Don’t you be yp hope of Truman victory.
of carrying them, said.
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ot “peent— —Pemocratic tatest- ~ Justice -says—prize-—is-ENE HE POLE ron Tor EeMort TH pettire bo FHA WSR of OIEreR to" groups. fot iarvidiars:
[comes from labor committee for hyreaus | Truman and Barkley
First prize trouncing in the address of F. J. in public office.
Baris. of Philadelphia before the! . Dbservers have. pointed.out-thaby: Indiana Independent Petroleum it is almost impossible to put a
|. didacy is somethi LOVELY LINDA—Linda Darnell talks things over with a committee of disabled (Generous Treatment | -uy politics. he said. “I have later. 1 veterans, Harold Lane, Johnny! Weiss, Bill Stalcup and Everett Barger. She arrived lat the generous ‘treatment they not been obligated ‘to- make a Marg r night to visit disabled veterans ‘hospital installations here |get in "Police Court. ‘A recent single promise or commitment to Weed, b in Indianapolis F iday 9 t to 5 disab ed eterans in P |example, going the gossip rounds, any individual or group in or early in under - the sponsorship of the newly reactivated USO. |tells of speed-hungry driver who out of politics if I am elected parents, let the speedometer needle drift prosecutor.” They we Washington Calling—_ Plan for Truman, upward to 63 miles an hour on’ Mr. Dailey also denied that ara (38th St. |there was any split in the Demo- Ma rdi G oud ontro s ra ed .wa as caught, #ot his nd cratic Party leadership, ar mons. and expected the wors ) ‘Dewe Visits Instead he got a fine of $3 and , TEEY MOTKEr 1h the Party is “Wh or ar mergency Use | costs—suspended. Then the blow with the organization leadership event fo - . fell, at least temporarily. The 100 per cent.” he said. “Rumors Ad . (Continued From Page One) | to address local United Mine | (Continued From Page. One) - judge also suspended his driver's ; 5. patty is divided are defi- i min every four years, total this | Workers meeting recently, was |Athletic Club. He will be ac- license for 30 days, and took it oo ire’ Spend year should be at least 54 | turmed down by unanimous companied, -as usual, by Mrs. up. . ko ) As | million. Democrats wanted 60 | rank-and-file vote. Miners said [Truman and ‘their singing daugh-| But imagine his surprise, hav-| Others Who spoke included garet as | they'd walk-out of mines if |ter, Margaret. ing already had a shall fine sus-| Reank - ciate, man. and Pau new Jy | Landis made any .“election- War Memorial Speech {pended, at finding his driver's tion ommitieema au J d New York city Tan La Wi Year mine inspections.” A reception for the President license in his mail box the next Mee, county Democratic chair- Forts Sow A a ® alge Landis is warning his district{will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the In- day. m NB found © y EAT oh along Wd n| that if he’s licked, Carl Hoffman/diana Roof ball room and. will] - "on | . when or Satiafie an Policy Oftof Michigan will head Education|last until 5:30 p.m. Private din- Politi ‘Bench’ ! : Pal w - nics on enc | meantin Dn a oe nh Indish: jos and Labor Committee. Hoffman's ner arrangements = have been poppwidy erpove continu. BALAN LEAL) mean n . for much Jougher iabor laws. made for the Trumans and the . Mrs registration is up: Philadelphia! |tour will reach its climax with an ing movement, especially among| Mrs 330.000; Pittsburgh 37,000; Cleve-| 18: 30 p.m. speech: from the north, tN top lawyers, to get the judi-| tambaig ES od A date 2] u TRUS TL 000 Deron 35.000 ; da: Emergeny + etmpe Ria THEY FOL BR hi ts Emr CIVIL AIR PATROL is setting Memorial. me CR HORE Of Catilornis increase is estimated 1 Ti ected by a party too often gets A t 500,000, Pennsylvania's at 300,-UP emergency communications| ndianapolis police and fire de-| Ge idea that. he owes the party silk, a kang ON ARTA IRB Ee TRIE joystem n_tirough its 550 licensed partments will provide security bosses something for getting him blouses Re x TRAE 7: Bk Walon Tis GEdiB wes Ru don tha gresidaptio lars van «Dae SPT A a ! g 200,000. = West Virginia, Wash- bd B¥-S OL a RE ET Pa [ington State, Boston ahd “other Ute = ndtional-emérgency affect- tionak.guard- troops and Soldiers; a lead to political pressure " ~picturepoints are up. ing normal’ communications. from Ft. Benjamin Harrison also sn the courts, breaks down jus-| Mrs Seventy-five CAP officers are may be on hand to assist in main: tice and puts the politicians in a| a favor meeting ‘here on it: taining Bie fruition) : web of position to “do a few favors” for, with a \Democrars Hopeful * ow |securlty, Which [must always sur their friends, political henchmen of Eliz | ver he a what mi SOME DEMOCRATIC Sena- Within the Law appears in public. 304 the Jvsciel a Rb ETE : i rl el op i ; olv But despite huge turnouts in when money prizes are offered Oil Executive that re Tae on done| | 4 mother Pennsylvania and New Jersey, |local committees showing most R labout it. The judges want it most, : Truman got gloomy reports {improvement over 1944 in this aps Communists of all to prevent infringement onl Washi Jeon. politica) Jsadery i DOkH | year's Democratic vote. Offer| Communism and government their self-respect, their commu- As VIF
came in for a verbal nity standing and their careers!
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long time. It was 50 or 60 years Truman life, with heavy emphasis and- that: Takes it i |Association yesterday at’ the confessed and convicted killer in ( aeipnia ago that we had this same story on war record, no mention of] " } {Severin Hofel. |the electric chair in Indiana, and Mn 74 ham H and everyone got excited. boss Pendergast connection. Faces Acid Test | Mr. Rarig, representing the even after they get the death ver-| an wt sees to . r man O'Banion spent Truman friends discount an- ELECTION IS acid test of or- Roym & Haas Co., of Philadel- dict, they hang around a year or, delight oney to get the nouncement that Al Smith Bol labor's political - power. |phia, said: “In communism we two to be fed and clothed by the! MM On fortune. I don't think it exists,”| relatives are for Dewey. Just | Most unions are now out for have. a government system of State, | fg planted he said. ; an old family tradition, they Truman. They're even more anx- terror and collective economy. In I : beets. “John,. it's a family tale and Smith supported Alf Lan: ‘lous for Democratic Senate and America, the founding fathers Need More Police someth once was more than just legend.| don and Willkie. He backed Red [Hi ouss-—with enough members. to did not put their trust in govern-|" yyy png WHO are up in arms The see But that was long ago,” the aging| Roosevelt fourth term only be- jFepea} Taft-Hartley. They've lit- oly." bureaus and private monop-|,yo.s the consistently high rec- [REALE EEE FRETENATN who, wo pewspaperman said, It e chance of getting this, It took ord of th Ne: . According to the historian’s| Don't expect anything to come tWO-thIrds"majorities to pass bill] FY U1 he ESsOClation are} 154 of stacks ua have tases ah Trough oo i Hg Ftafudmemory there was a fabulous/©f declaration by Gov. Folsom over Truman veto, but simple Morris Parker; South Bend, presi- "1 at the Police Depart- sis le name ; fortune which had its origia n|of Alabama for Truman. There's majority in either Senate = or dent; P. H. Logan, Indianapolis, ment. They report that, while sixth floor. knows Manhattan real estate. |o way to vote for Truman in| House could stop repealer. vice president; Emmett Farmer... n,jice aamittedly have failed [3 R capital, e d uctions F The st be |his state} . And Folsom doesn't| If they fail in election in No- Camby, treasurer, and George W. to stop molesters, the department, After e story begins in Holland {control legislature, can't alter| vember, next question is whether Hofmeyer, Indianapolis, secretary. jciually has about 60. unfilled up to. Breesk| avd Rig County. Jreland, Av situation. to form new party along Reuther New directors are A. J, Kramer, vacancies. y LEN RY tems 0 was Al rahan - Vanduses sears a the lines or keep on fighting in same Ft. Wayne; J. E. Hesenféld, In-| "4 oo time this year the num-| fess than cost turned e old way. |dianapolis; T. Turner, Indianap- i an Seek C bi oy P 4 | ber of vacancies is reported to ‘ AI Ra Re A gue oss jolis, and M. H. Williams, White- pave totaled 90. ® See full page in . . In al
Vandusen| found himself in possession of!
of the heart of the nation's greatest city, Ira O'Bannon recalled. Meanwhile members of the ©’'Banion family were tiring of treatment Ireland received at the hands of the British Empire. In|
1704, the first of the O’Bannons| m Li "settled in Virginia and changed’ Same Progra kely
|the name to O’Banion..An O’'Ban{fon met a Vandusen and the fam{ilies joined in marriage. In the want: Century the property was leased on a 99-year) basis. That is as
{O’Banion has been able to trace a Higher type inmates are used ‘Lather, please don't even ask me the million-dollar story.
Now, more than 150 years have ipassed. |0’'Banions have received money, |from the estate. More. thought! {they were going to come into) {millions. Others spent money, hoping to unearth the fleeting Ifortune. It will be a relief to the brothers | land Sister to learn the way the| | wheel of fortune spins. has been upsetting. They have been too excited tol eat or to sleep. They are under-
standingly nervous. The prospect tlo
lof riches is sweet, but they do not expect to change their ways. “Rich or poor, I'm just plain
said. “Pg-Kind of ke to-know how we stand. One thing is sure, if we never get it, we'll never miss it. “I know I'm not dreaming the g, but if someone is
hole, crawl in and pull the hole
Late yesterday
again
the New York lawyer had arrived. oME.could use the money, -1-owe about $300 now,” he said. There was a card in the box. It
“Important. Please contact the accounting department on or
LOUIS BROMFIELD, and Ohio farmer, is reported property destined to become part hoping he'll : ported as |Agricultuze in Dewey cabinet. Same sort of indications come from Ben. Guy Cordon‘ (R. Ore.) fjeq. about Interior post.
Talk like that is giving Europe Jitters, say men just back ffom Marshall plan countries Good, Bad News remember Taber's try at cutting Goop NEWS for margarine funds; shiver at what they think eaters: may be coming.
The news May Face Defeat REP. GERALD W. LANDIS py Senator Taft.” R. Ind), slated to be chairman f House Education and Labor farming,” Iowa farm and dairy Committee in next Congress, may| magazine, quqtes Dewey as saybe ‘defeated because of his vote yng “I don’t believe the con- | sumer will benefit. as much as | we're told, so I don't think there is much point tn. Jemoving the
for Taft-Hartley.
He once was mine worker, comes from Indiana's leading coal-producing
Republic
be Secretary of if Dewey's
Truman give these lands
abroad
” ” jon bill
district. He tried: | tate
author’ A Tough Problem
Attorney General elected—has | problem—what to do .about all anti-trust suits Tom Clark has United States embassy anouriced today Spain has been invited to Incoming attorney general will attend an international confer- ‘| have to decide which suits to try,'ence on Northwest Atlantic fishwhich to kill by postponements, ing to be held in Washington next
which to settle with consent deHOUSE REPUBLICAN Leader crees, which to dismiss.
Halleck predicts Dewey will con-| {tinue program initiated by 80th’ Congress. yeazs of the 15h} In Illinois state Chamber of {Commerce speech he forecast re- giates. far as Ira duced government spending, lowretirement of public , and “better regulation of exported There is belief that some| carrying out the foreigr-aid pr
won Supreme Court decision effect confirming U. 8. INlandsi GOP platform promised Debits _. Oto’ overturn court decision, turn {over lands to states. » ” -
“Food Topics,” [trade publication; says: |action in next session of Congress to repeal garine taxes has been promised
No-so-good news:
land.
tough Invite
“If GOP platform pledge is car- {7 8. since the American ambasried out, Congress and President sador was withdrawn trom Ma{will dispose directly of suits af-| pid. fecting oil-rich lands off coastal
vetoed bill to] to states. Clark Clearings in Debits title 10 cienrings
Spain to Meet MADRID, Oct 9
ISPIANAZOLIS, CLEARING HOUSE
| .And there is some concern over the morale and efficiency of the
department. Observers point to Monday’s TIMES
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