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Of Horror

More Money Needed To ‘Clean Up Mess,’ |

Sen. Gardner Asserts

The state of Indiana has for-| gotten Longeliff State Mental Hospital Conditions there are! deplorable. That was the charge eight Hoo-| sler lawmakers presented to the! 86th General Assembly today after their inspection of conds-| tions at the state institution ay Logansport. : Modern medical facilities ‘to! treat mentally ill patients are

rusting from lack of use because! Longeliff has no technicians to operate them, the joint Senate-| House probers reported. { A complete report will be read in both Houses today urging the administration to provide more money to run Longcliff. f The probers went on record as favoring ac bigger expenditure for, mental hospitals, “even if it means cutting down on expend-| ftures for schools and bureaus.” SOR “CFRWF wi Foo PE TRAY 2 oF Hundreds of frightened figures walk, crawl and squat on cold| floors in gloomy hallways, Sen. | William Butcher (R. South Bend) | reported. | “We are obligated to help, them,” he said. | He was one of four Senate probers te accompany four Representatives who conducted a surprise investigation of reported “concentration camp” conditions at Longcliff yesterday. Sen. Dorothy Gardner (R. Ft Wayne) said that while some published reports of the Logansport hospital were “exaggerated,” she admitted conditions were “deplorable.” > ‘Little More Money’ “An inspection trip through the undermanned, ramshackle tal,” she said, “is sufficient to make one's blood run cold.” Sen. Gardner, a housewife, dis-{ ¢losed this morning that would press for more funds fo remedy the situation. “We can clean up the whole mess with a little more money,” she declared. ‘ But whether the financially pressed administration is able to come to the aid of the “Hoosier ghosts,” was’ only a matter for speculation. Gov. Schricker had previously taken the stand that “a clean-up of all state mental and penal institutions can be accomplished with a little extra financing.” The State Budget Committee, in one of several economy moves, cut $632380 off the budget requested to run Longecliff for the next two years. “They don't even have enough soap to wash the patients,” Sen, Gardner charged. “How can they think of saving money at the expense of these people?” Other legislative probers were equally adamant in denouncing conditions. at Longcliff. Sen. Hurd J. Hurst (R. Peru) charged that the {ll treatment of Indiana’s mentally ill is a “crime of neglect.” Heading the movement now

underway to bring the conditions/labor camps.

of Indiana mental hospitals to!

the attention of the lawmakers Benjamin Schultz, who will lec-

ism inroads 1 and the public is Arthur G. Lot | he churches: Dr. J. B. Matthews, “Lady. I'm awfully sorry to do

the/Who has served as investigator| this but it's the only way I have! . [for the House Committee on A

in, a former newspapermah appointed acting director . of newly-formed Indiana Council fo Mental Health, :

Indiana Napped

worsened while Indiana napped.|

Mr. Loftin discounts the stories | acal. Girl Wins Role.

about mental iliness being incurable, “A substantial percentage of

mental cases could be halted and fo1q Blvd. has the role of Wini- Bridge

returned “to society ir al and treated early,” he declares, Since the state senate voted virtually to kill any official and independent investigation by the| General Assembly two weeks ago, | the matter rests solely with the governor. : Jo Just how much weight the legislative probers swing with the state's chief executive is problematical.” Although keenly aware of the problem, he is pledged to “more economy.”

Rise in Mercury

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==: Will Speak Here

the administration]

be Benjamin Gitlow, founder of described as about 25 years the Communist Party of the/small and wearing a brown suit, | United States and its former gen- entered.

Birhoaum, department judge ad-

. . vocate of the New York American He believes conditions have 1 egion.

FORECAST: Partly cloudy and warmer tonight. Increasingly cloudy and 59th YEAR—NUMBER 306

| Probers Brand ‘Let There Be Ligh ~ Longeliff Place

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warmer fomorrow. Low tonight, 32; high tomorrow, 4550, | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1040 .

fast night af 18h |

"Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily

Denies Intent ; To Embarrass Cy Oficals

Reports Linked

To. Testimony

County Prosecutor ‘George 8. Dailey today refuted charges that he was 10 eMbDEITENS Mayor Feeney, Chief Rouls or the Police Department in the Grand Jury's probe of two Republican | politicians and the baseball lottery racket. ¢ After the Mayor, the Chief and Police Capt. Mike Kavanaugh were subpenaed before the jury, yesterday, reports swept political circles -that--the- object was ‘to embarrass the city administration.” : The administration officials were called by Mr. Dailey to give the jury an anonymous lettér that resulted in a police visit to the lottery ticket manufacturing establishment of Fletcher Rahke, one of the jury's star witnesses, “I was surprised at the construction placed upon our request] that: the Mayor appear before the Grand Jury,” Mr. Dailey said. Had to Be Identified

mae couldn't ask him to. send ‘over the Totter It had to be

Daytime Holdup Men Get [3531 Tons Hauled $150 at West Side Market By Hayit Planes

--Empty Cash Register, Flee in Stolen Car; - Bandits Pass Single Gun From Hand to Hand 48 Weasels Included In Tenth AF's Total

Photo, Page 10 Two holdup men cleaned out the cash register of a West Side Tenth Air Force flights to the western disaster areas of Wyo-

food market early today, and fled in a stolen car with an estimated ming, Nebraska, Utah and Ne-

$150 to $500 loot. ! P. N, York, proprietor of the York Food Market, 934 River Ave, vada have hauled 3531 tons of

and his wife, Jewell, were alone in the store at 7:30 a. m. when. two emergency supplies, including 48

men came in. {We Is, in 56 cargo planes, Col. One of the pair, a slender youth Earl H. DeFord, Tenth Air Foree about 20 who wore a khaki/director of operations, announced jacket, ordered a pack of cigarets today, from Mrs. York, who was stand-| Other figures given by Col. Deing near the cash register. Then Ford in an international guard the other, a heavy-sét MAN Wear-|conferance yesterday at Ft. Haring a blue suit, pulled & stan revealed that 59,036 person-

saying: nel in the combined Army, Navy =X : 4+ "This is it . . . let's have Air Force "_opergs money.” To Address Legion Tc Stax in Store

Elizabeth Bentley, Vassar Col-| The two. men passed the gun total « bulldozers lege graduate whose testimony back and forth between them | 0 wal OH done and

lifted the lid on the Alger Hiss- as they scooped up the money! : Whittaker Cliambers case, will be from the cash register. Then|DA¥S taken part 1n th dperations among the speakers when Ameri- the khaki-cl man stayed in Heopters can Legion members from 10, the store covering the Yorks) H Log 184 Hours states meet here tomorrow for awhile his partner started the car. A conference on how to combat red| When the driver sounded the activities and pro horn, he ran from the store and! Attending the closed sessions the car sped west on Ray St. of the two-day gathering will be The Yorks got the license more than 100 selected Legion- number but police said the car naires from Illinois, Indiana, was one which previously was re- and human lives Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne-| ported stolen. To meet the press of new rebraska, Ohio, West Virginia, Wis-| Police also were investigating, . operations, the Tenth Air consin and Tennessée. Governors a holdup last night at the Hquor oe has called for 10 heli of a number of states will send store at 802 Massachusetts Ave. . io. which were to arrive in representatives. (Where a lone bandit took $6b|penver aboard C-82 cargo planes Miss Bentley, a former mem- after apologizing to his victim | 4044 E ) ber of the Communist Party. has that it was “the only way I have| Fifth Army units were embeen a key witness on Commu- to make a Hving." : id reconnaissance and photonist infiltration into high gov- One Sleeve Empty {graphic planes of the Tenth Afr ernment offices before the House] Mrs. Rose Ecktman, 50, Was Force to keep abreast of all new Un-American - Activities Com-|alone in the store owned by her | gisaster developments. mittee. son, Harold Ecktman, at about 11} As the operations continued, Among the other speakers will Jast night when a man who she|omcials estimated the cost to the

old, | taxpayer was approximately $250,000 per day.

Elizabeth Bentley

Ex-Red. Courier

tion delivered 10,000 tons of food to 2,398,677 livestock.

ir ‘Force logged 194 hours and six Teconnaissance planes flew i hours in the operations {which are continuing with new snowstorms and winds. bringing {additional hazard to livestock

eral secretary, and Jerzy Gliks-|/ Mrs, Ecktman told police his

man, former Polish Soojalist who! left coat sleeve “ming Hmply wma Armory Boxoffice

was twice forced into Russian Was tucked in his pocket, as if

{his arm/ were amputated. He kept Opens af 6:30 Others to be heard are Rabbi 8 ight hand + Sua pocket, Golden Gloves General oldin, gun, : . # y 8 an Admission tickets and du-

said: cats remaining after today's sales at downtown lo-~oations-will .go on-sale at the N. Pennsylvania St. Armory boxoffice at 6:30 p. m, It's the Finals of The Times-Legion Golden Gloves tonight . . . so be there early to see every sec~ ond of the hair-raising action. The first bout climbs into the ring at 8 p. m. 96) .... Ticket prices are. Ring24 side and first row balcony, 20} $3rdownstairs reserved,

to make a ving” ‘ " Mrs. Ecktman stepped back and ‘|told him to take the contents of {the cash register. He scooped up the bills and took a fifth of]. whisky, then ran from the store.

UnAmerican Affairs, and Samuel M

Times Index

in College Play rr _ Miss Anne Lytle, 415 W. West- Amusements 24 Mrs. Manners 36 22 Marriage ... It Movies 35 National Afr,

fred Blaugh in the Goucher Col-/ Business ++ lege production of “Our Hearts Comics

Were Young and Gay,” a comedy Crossword .. 20|Othman ... 19! $1.50; General Admission based on the book by Cornelia Editorials .. 20/Radio ..... 25] . either adults or children, $1. Otis Skinner and Emily Kim-|Food ...... 22|8cherrer . 20| Prices include tax. {brough, to be presented tonight| Foreign Afr, 20 Side Glances 20| Ticket sales at Bush-Cal-and tomorrow night in Baltimore. Forum ..... 20! Society .... 21] lahan's, 136 E. Washing-

22 Sports, "...26, 27} 24 Weather Map 12 15) Bart Wilson. 29 19| Women's. 22, 23

Miss Lytle is the daughter of Meta Given . Mr, and Mrs, H. G. Lytle, and Hollywood .. was graduated from Shortridge In Indpls. .. High School in 1945. Inside Indpls.

ton -8t,, and at the Sportsman's Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania 8t., close at 4:30 p. m. »

$35 Million Jewel To Add Luster To Local Industrial Crown

tinue through tomorrow, accord- Ns ing to the Weather Bureau. Skies =

will be partly cloudy as the mercury hovers near freezing tonight and increasingly cloudy as the temperature climbs to a high of| 45-50" degrees tomorrow. | In a long-range fofecast, the, Weather Bureau said tempera-| tures will -average near normal in Indiana for the next five _ Hunted in Swindle | NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 11 (UP)] ~One of the nation's ten “most wanted men” was believed in! New Orleans today. Dustean Al: exander Youngs, 30-year-old alleged swindler, was \ been , identified by two persons from a pi and description in the New Orleans item. y ; ;

| the. site at 2525 Shadeland Ave. Steel construction will start next week.” iste

to have

This is the newest jews! in the city Tadustrial crown. I.is the $25 million (approx) Western Electric Co, plant which will spread its dynamic splendor over _ Be of brick and steel with'its own bus loading station, - Upward of 5000 will be em. ployed, virtually all local residents, taking home an annual payroll of apprdni $1,560,000, 6. F. Reymond, manager, said foday, . { 2.4 i y o

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Ten helicopters of the Tenth

be brought in and properly iden: tified. “And because we were busy, we didn't know who had the letter —Feeney, Rouls or Kavanaugh-— so we sybpenaed all three. We (didn’t. have the ‘slightest -inten~ {tion of embarrassing anybody. ! | The Mayor was in the jury gee room. “only four minutes—long enough to turn over the letter {to Mr. Dailey. Chief Rouls and [{Capt. Kavanaugh were not called. | Meanwhile Mr. Dalley contin-| ued to investigate the letter in| FE the hope of finding out who wrote | {it. A typewriter was seized by {his men Wednesday night in the! room of Ralph Hitch, profession- HF al bondsman and man-about-town, ‘who is reported to be close- RST A We ly affiliated with the pair of poli- : ticlans Mr. Dalley hopes the Miss Helen Smith, of Indianapolis, Grand Jury will indict. One of! cents Hospital, couldn't resist the

them is a Po and the other 8 tavern owner. | CoP, yesterday as she passed a mitrer. Asked what he would do if he nurses at SF. Vincent's found out who wrote the letter,| months of training Mr. Dailey said he would have to| auditorium. They shill check Federal authorities, -—

Sees Possible U.S. Interest County Makes “If it 1s proved that the letter! nn ¥

have 2lf; yours to go before gr

{might ‘be interested in possible misuse of the mails,” said the Prosecutor, : } It has been consistently re-|

Sent fo State School for Psychiatric Care; 21 Meri Under Arrest for Exploiting Her

ported thets Mr. Dalley in addi-| Marion County made another try today to rehabilitate Jane (tion to hoping to indict the Ré-Doe, a child prostitute whose contacts with more than 300 men [publican politicians, hopes to see since last October led to the arrest of a ring of 21 bellhops and a change in the leadership of the taxi drivers who were exploiting her. : i

Police Department. Jane, a tall, thin girl of 15, hardened and defiant by prostitution He has made .

was written to interfere with due! i LE \ a rrr ot oor meen TO Save No. 1 Problem Girl

no secret of his here and in Cincinnati, was ordered to the Indiana Girls School]

Measure. LL To 2d Reading

Bill Legalizing Race Betting Has OK of Committee Pari-mutuel betting in In<

Transit Walkout

Hits Philadelphia

dissatisfaction of the operation of today by Juvenile Court. : the department and his friends ‘Court attaches who consider business of prostitution. The taxi {say he believes too much inefi- per the county’s prize problem men and bellhops took their cut. [clency exists in the operation of child were not suré the Girl's! Juvenile Aid authorities picked {Chief Rouls, a Republican ap-|8chool would be able to rehabil-/up the 1 a week ago in com[pointed by the Democratic Mayor itate her. , pany of & taxi driver police wantHowever, Mr. Dailey faces a] “She needs special psychiatric/ed to question. Gradually, she {Stiff fight if he hopes to unseat care, in an Institution able to/unfolded her story of prostitution. {Chief Rouls for the chief is stillgive it.” sald Chief Probation/She could remember about 300 (firmly entrenched in - Mayor Officer Charles Boswell. “That/contacts. There were probably Feeney's favor and the Mayor Marion County hasn't got.” more. thas made no secret of that. Made 3 E A dozen Indianapolis men, have | In speeches and conversations Me pes {been * charged with associating) | with friends, Mayor Feeney has Jane Doe entered into prosti- ith. her.

x ’ i fon V ahi ¢ + Wi {praised Rouls and the policemen. tution &t 14 “after Her “third es: ~ =.

authorities said ir

Pending the Grand Jury's re. cape from the County Juvenile/ =... v. .. a4 of gonorrhea she 20d

|cess until Monday, Mr. Dailey was Center, which court attaches ad- ) [busy at the legislature, seeking/mit 1s about as secure in hold- CUAtTICR IWRC PCODE EE FRE {to get his bill passed for ‘addi-|ing children as open field. ltreatment and the county hasn't {tional investigators and facilities. Jane was sent to the Center for got the facilities for that, they , |psychiatric study after the court. iq (Nab Tennessee Fugitive. iried to place her in.a sities of} |foster homes whére she remained! To CHEYENNE, Wyo. Feb, 11lp o cobb, (UP)—A young escaped Tennes- g1hle. : dws ' ears [see convict was held today after] Foster home was recommended) . ' [nis arrest as he was about to fof the girl because her: father |

| » board a train. Police Chief Fred Was an alcoholic. When he dis- In Tax Evasion

[Schmoker said Charles Edward 2PPeared last spring, the mother [SHoPt, 26, KAMIted he escaped Was unable to support Jane and, Hillen J. Fenwick, 49-year-old,

[from the Shelby County penal Ive younger children. Foster farm at Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 24, home was the only answer. |Evansville businessman was sens {He was arrested here last night. | But it wasn’t the answer for i tFane.—The-mother, product of -a enced today. to. five years in fed |{foster-home herself, wasn't the eral prison and fined $5000 by| answer for Jane, either, since Judge Robert C. Baltzell in Fed-| {mother couldn't control her. {eral District Court after he was) Tells Her Story {found guilty of income tax evasion In September, Jane was picked in 1943 and 1944.

Bargain Day

TOKYO, Feb. 11 (UP) — Four Japanese women, who Joined a sale-happy mob in

Transportation Co, struck at 11:01 p. m, (Indianape olis Time), carrying out a long-

people

only private automobiles, d taxis for . transportation.’ Schools remained teachers and other

open, with school

ployess (ransported_ in thartersd.

Negotiations aimed at | : the strike continued even = the transit system shut mn.

But 11th hour efforts to stop the out, ~ oy a Meet Again Today The last negotiating session; ended shortly after 2 a. m. (Ine

dianapolis time) without 3 dlanapole time) without seitits’

company union representatives agreed to meet again today. : “4 - Mayor Bernard Samuel made desperate attempt to. avert of postpone the strike by

Fenwick, Evansville realtor, a downtown Tokyo depart- |up on a morals charge and sent drugstore = operator and Goins puntely to the workers to remain ment store, were sent to the [to thé Juvenile Center. She left, operated devices concessionaire, lon Job. But members of the hospital today with broken [roamed the streets and fell prey| ves found guilty in a jury trial TWU's Local 234 rejected the legs, broken shoulder. blades [to taxi drivers who lodged her in! mayor's plea at a tumultuous

jon Jan. 7 of having attempted to |evade payment of nearly $10,000 income tax in 1943 and 1944, Judge Baltzell, in answer to a}! plea by Fenwick's attormey for probation, refused, saying “Tax evasion is as bad a crime as almost any other federal offense.” .The attorney stated that he would file an appeal at a later date, —i————————————

‘Hardware Reports $40 Loss in Burglary

Burglars obtained $40 cash and merchandise from the English Hardware Co., 3811 English Ave. the - manager discovered today when he reported for work. A. W. Huntsman, 40, of 2912 W. Michigan St, told police the store was ransacked and that several manicure sets, wrist watches and fountain pens were missing. A total of $40 was taken from a cash register. 'Entrance was gained by breaking the glass in a rear door.

_.|lgnores ‘Golden Rule’ MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb, 11 (UP) “Gre ‘Washington, .|police, custody today. accused of| trying’ to steal women's. wear the Golden Rule Depart.

and broken breastbones. hotel rooms and set her up in the

Wilcox Calls Lt For Locksmiths

eeting several hours be~ deadline.

Indiana state treasurer Shirley ro inn pen eh BI

year term in office won't be as Im

hectic as the first day.

) Harold ‘ayne). os

they were as futile as :

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