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The Indiana

60th YEAR—NUMBER 50

Bonus Claim

Processing Set §

For Summer

Preliminary Plans Include Use of

Application Forms « Processing of claims for the

$150 million veteran's bonus is }

scheduled to start early this

summer, the Indiana Department of Veteran's Affairs announced yesterday. Preliminary. plans for slicing the honus melon include the use of application forms which will be available “at points” throughout the state.

Affecting nearly 400,000} the): bonus law passed by the recent; General Assembly will pay up toj§ $600 to veterans of World War IL A

Hoosier men and women,

Tentative ‘Rules Payments will not begin flowing to veterans, however, until money has been raised from gross income taxes. The law stipulates building up the fund from the annual deposits of the surtax. Tentative rules governing! bonus applications are: | ONE: Original discharge or] separation papers must be furnished with the application. . | TWO: The form will include! questions on the veteran's serv-| "ice record and personal history.) THREE: Special forms will be! provided for next-of-kin of deceased veterans. They will be supplied at the same time regu-| lar forms are distributed. | All application forms will be ‘made in triplicate. Original and; second copies will be forwarded! with nesrczary documenizasto the; bonus division. The third copy) will be kept by the veteran as a personal record. : Special envelopes will be fur-| nished with eath application 80| that the discharge papers will] not be folded or bent. After the] discharge papers are photostated, | they will be returned. i The department warned that; no elaim will be considered with-! out the necessary, decuments.! Lost or mutilated discharge] papers can be replaced by making| application to the veteran's . branch of service. Qualified Fersonnel jn personnel will be fur. nisheéd at the locations issuing the applications to assist veterans in properly filing the forms, according to Clinton Green, director of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. ps : Provisions of the bonus law ino : ;

ude: ONE: All Indiana veterans who served at least 90 days on active duty at any time between Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 2, 1945, who re-; ceived honorable discharges and who were residents of the state] for at least six months prior to in-| duction are eligible for the bonus. TWO: Basis of payment will be $10 for each. month in service, with $5 added for each month spent overseas. An extra $100 willbe paid -for-those-who were: disabled in service. Payments] will be a minimum of $30 and a| maximum of $600. | THREE: Eligibility dates for the disability payment have not] been determined. An interpreta-| tion “will be made later and in-| cluded with the application form. FOUR: Regardless of the length! of service, $600 will be paid to the eligible survivor of veterans who, died while on active duty. The, following order has been established for next-of-kin: Widow or widower (who has not remarried), children, mother, father and guardian. i When the veteran's claimt has been considered, the bonus divigion will issue an “order-to-pay.”| This must be kept until the time of actual payment. Many minor changes may be made in the payment plans announced yesterday before the ac-| tual machinery is put in operation, according .to Orville P. Bray, asgistant director and administrative officer of the bonus.

Record Crowd Expected Today At Home Show

prepared (1 crowd of 1 ing vd:

>day run by open-|

4 half an hour ear |

Mer <' I © a. m. The day is spokesmen declined to comment|snatched back to prison 25 days dedicate! o the State of Indiana. on Whether the two paroles willllater when

While (ze box office thus far has reported slightly fewer paid admissions than last years’ record, the exhibit in its com-| pleteness and glamour, home| show officials said, far exceeds| any year » » » YESTERDAY, J. Frank Cant-|

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well, managing director, was host

to Warren J. Lockwood, assistant | Federal |

admin’ Arator of the Housing Administration. Other

guests were R. Earle Perers, Ino

diana State Director for the FMA,

Ti Indiana's Forgotten/Men . . . they languish in. out of sight, out of mind of their s " o ”

‘Grandpop Smith,’ 85, Awaits Death At State’s Colany for Mentally. Ili

By DONNA MIKELS Harrison Colony, the overflow unit for state

" mental hospitals, an 85-year-old man sits and awaits death, for- | Fear Violence {

Once upon a time the mag we'll call “Grandpop Smith” had relatives. Records show that back in 1914 his sister, three years his elder, had him committed to a hospital for the insane. - Maybe at first some of his relatives did visit the white-haired Records don’t show and his memory has faded. But in as

OUT at the Ft.

gotten by the world.

man. many years as records have been kept, there's nothing to. show that “Grandpop’ ever receivéd a visit, a letter, a Christmas card from the “outside.”

Awaits Death Alone

“AN THE last few months “Grandpop* “hus “been having trouble with his heart. Doctors listened and shook their heads. Officials -of the colony. started. & search. for relatives, So far every effort

has

"failed to tufn up anyone claim-

| are

ing relationship to one of the state's “colony of lost men.” Il and lonely, “Grandpop Smith” awaits death alone. If within 30 days of his death no relative wishing to claim his body can be found, state law requires that it be turned over to the anatomical board for research purposes.

Visitors Are Rare

COLONY DIRECTOR Faye Hall admits little can be done but “make the effort” in cases like “Grandpop’s.” Older patients have been in institutions too long. Their records never listed relatives names. In passing time families have dropped off the face of the earth. : But what he is worried about the “Grandpop Smiths” now in the making. There are 283 patients in the Ft. Harrison Colony, threefourths of whom are “fairly rational” a good part of the time. Two hours of every day and longer periods on week-ends are set .aside for visitors. But it's a rare week that more than 50 to 75 patients have visitors.

Letters Never Come

PITIFULLY scrawled letters and cards from the ‘forgotten men’ asking information about home and friends go unanswered. Often the troubled

Schricker, were set yesterday. Although Governor's office mer Gov. Gates in 1945 but|0f conducting the famed Boston'and charged him with operating a’

be taken up along with other ap-|{fabulous sums of money had been plications, it was believed almost used to buy. the parole. |certain the Workman case, at least, would be threshed out.

Files Cou ction The Stephenson e, however,

since it began in 1922. may be deferred under a clemency commission rule that no clemen-; cy. matter is taken up while the applicant has a case pending in court. Stephenson currently has! filed an action in federal court at jo South Bend to obtain his freedom. 0

Workman was sentenced in

Indianapolis Builders, architects of the robbery for which and relators. Two hundred at-iyw oan and two others were

38 on a charge of committing:

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SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1049

rt nei REAS N.S. | On the Skids;

For Reporters

! PROSECUTOR George 8. Dai Party ittery

{and Sheriff James Cunningham paid the dice game establishment, Suspicious of Each Other, Fear FBI

at 4444 W, Washington St. a visit! late last night and found only a “pleasant” card game in progress.| The sheriff and prosecutor decided to look into the establishment after The Times disclosed a “prosperous” dice game had been operating earlier last week at:the spot. When. the two officials] ay. TONY saa walked into the establishment just before midnight they ment WASHINGTON, Apr. 30=-The eight men seated around a table

{Communist party of the United

playing cards. |States, an organization = with rh uty) | iperative powers—{s “ARE YOU playing for money Prove recupera or pleasure ” the sheriff asked on the skids, according to the the men. “For pleasure,” one of est information here. them answered. : { Field reports of all government Then Sheriff Cunningham asked agencies and public and private the prosecutor, “Can we make an OrSanizations interested in the arrest here?’ Mr. Dailey uaig/ Reds and their activities reflect “no” and the two walked out, ithe downward trend of the party. The “raid” was staged es. They agree the Communists are, pecially for newspapermen. Two Jittery, suspicious and fighting

among themselves, i JeDoriere accompanied the In almost every section of the.

i country, the Communist Party is (Gambling Foes

mes photo by Bill Ontes. n mental institutions, kin. »

it their ranks contain FBI in-| formers. |

negligible, according to authoritative sources. Recruiting has fallen off every‘raheng Jt now ig reported to be ¥ tar “below the mark needed to {balance the “desertions.”

New York Purge

Air of Mystery Hany Over Noblesville

By a Timey Staff Writer

‘newspaper which the father [two miles west of U. 8 31 on

« examined the father, They felt

Two 'Hot' Parole Cases Up for Hearing in May Applications of Ott Workman and

D. C. Stephenson Before Commission

The Governor's Commission on Clemency will face two of the! who {hottest parole questions in Indiana Prison history, May 25 and 26. (in IE oR og other foot. The three-man commission will have before it parole applica- date for a hearing until yester-| {tions from both Ott Workman, well-to-do Loogootee farmer, and D. day. |C. Stephenson, one time grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux| Klan. Both are serving life terms {plicated by politics. THE 24TH annual Home Show, Dates for the clemency hear- Ons o the trio still is in Prison) | for the largest|ings, first to be scheduled under With Workman; the other already stamped their feet and wept to-| f 8 the current administration of Gov. has been paroled. y 4 bY Tara mobile driven,

{though the charges never were proved, Workman's parole never iwas reinstated. Recently a member of the state prison board of trustees, Carter Manny of Michigan City, charged Workman was . “political prisoner” and should

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a parole,

parole application,

injury in an armed robbery. Vie- foren® Of atte

patients turn to their director | NOBLESVILLE, Apr. 30—Fear| A purge has been conducted

{ Toray on etiets io tie {County today in the wake of the the party and one is In progress In a random check of the file [county 3 Soncerted elfofts 10 fd in the Washington, D. C., organi Mr. Hall pulls out folder after itself of “swanky, ANAPOlS-| ation.

folder marked “no visitors” (OWned gambling joints.” Investigators for government

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

AInformers in Ranks |

conducting rigid, self - imposed | x loyalty investigations to find out! §

In Indiana, party activity is|

gripped once-peaceful Hamiltonlin the New York City branch of |’

FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and mild today with scattered showersby afternoon and evening. Partly cloudy and cooler tomorrow.

Three Dead, 60 | In Oklahoma Tor

Mrs. J.'L. Wofford (lef), Mrs. Raymond Jones and Mr. Jones, all residents of Windsor Village inspect # ditch which brought about 3, dispute in the neighborhood of 6100 block of Windsor Drive.

Is Hardest Hit

OKLAHOMA | sons were dead tonight and

160 or more injured after &

series of hop-skip-and-jump tornadoes that began in Oklahoma and Texas in the late afternoon and Taged Ato the night in Oklahoma. : The dead: Ann True, 7, Tulsa, killed three miles east of Meeker whén a tote nado picked up the car in which she was riding and tossed it three-quarters of a mile, Newt Pruitt, about 30, Utica, killed when a twister hit his farm home about 8 p. m, ‘ An unidentified boy at McLoud, The highway patrol reported an unidentified National Guard soldier died in the day's heavis est storm, at Norman. However, Jate tonight the death had not been confirmed, i Damagé $750,000 Norman storm

The

through the North Campus air

base, and the patrol reported 48 injured, three of them critically. Damage at the base was estie mated at §750.000 by Walter klahoma

i > i One wasthat of a 48-year-old | Citizens’ opposition to private ' . man, from towne 8 miles gambling Subs ere shied | staniex, the House UmAmenesn away. committed to the colony [of weake a8 threa Immigration mumittes, in August. He had had one [lence echoed over Clay Township, gy Subcomnitise visitor, an uncle who called [Scene of the state police's Decem- .,.... 3" orivate or last Dec. 12 and 1 to” raid on the. "3" Club. | op as the American I take “Jim,” “&% non-violent ‘afraid hoodlums 0 AT r TPed patient, home for Christmas. ‘burn 49 As Christmas got closer and ; Jim became more excited Mr, Hall wrote the uncle to arrange a furlough. There was no reply; » Jim spent Christmas alone in [bling Siw are close a corner of the dayroom won- [fuse to discuss nearby gambling dering “how the lights looked |operations. Other leaders in the around the square in—City.” |anti-gambling movement hiso are

No Help for Father AN EVEN more tragic case is that of a middle-aged professional man, the father ‘of BY ith Club's Name five sons, one a doctor, two The atmosphere of intimidation

Appropriations Com-

"the party ieadershi has been off-balance for months, A combination of events con tributed to this. They included the trial of the 11 Communist leaders In New York City, the House spy hunts, the discovery

papers in a pumpkin, successive grand jury deliberations in New {York City, and the arrest and trial of Judith Coplon, a govern ment girl accused of stealing FBI reports to give to the Russians. © Fears Well Founded

be withheld said threats wera made by persons residing in this

Ene | Activities Commitise, the Benate

nizations

of the stolen State Department:

~ idifference a

which Mr, Jones is pointing marks the residents’ prop-

| at oc Win: le Drivers

40 i an

ompany Ag To Fill In Ditch Dispute over a 300-foot. open drainage ditch in Windsor Village appeared settled last night as a construction company agreed to fill in the cut.

However, as a result of the warrant charging!

Y At least five drivers were waliting impatiently the go sign from the weatherman yesterday in or: der to give their machines the

public office holders and the was the Jatest in a series of in-| The earlier assaulls on the Com

dere * loidents which started with state Munists began to show resuits last other | or them police raids on the “J” Club, sitn-/ [ll At their annual convention One son, a businessman, has ated in the rolling farm land of If September, the record shows, | visited his father twice. The Clay Township. J So iy unis jeauers were others have never visited him | Following the raid and the en-(% ppo 2 1 y ghemberahip ro and one son declined to accept [Suing notoriety, club officials ir iy van a oh ut va further mail concerning his fa- Switched the sign fn front of the 8 0 ars to ™ an. sit drges ther when the director sought [club from the “J” Club to the a Hira tion,

- "» : particularly in the industrial secfamily funds to pay for a daily |'106 Saddle Club.” It is located, s. They urged concentratéd

attention on, organizing in: basic industries, Reports to the anti-Communist groups here indicate their fears {were well-founded. and that the jcorrective measures suggested

{106th St. | An air of mystery hung over | Noblesville’s picturesque 71-year-he might be furloughed to his [01d courthouse, where hearings on home with good results, pro- the gambling case are to resume viding his family would wel- |Saturday. { : ; Z come him. But the answer is | Circuit Court Judge Tom R.ithat ap the hier pid obvious; letters concerning the White disqualified himself in the grown worse and worse since the furlough remained unanswered. |[case. Joe Jacobson, Indianapolis FBT brought out an agent in the These men, colony officials [gambler, also known as Joey New York trial of the 11 leaders fear, are the “Grandpop Jacobs, is charged with operating This man, Herbert Philbrick, had Smiths” of tomorrow. The fam- |a gaming house, {been .a member of the party for ilies who lock up their family | Judge White declined to discussinine years. ar “shame” in mental institutions his reasons for taking himself out! Nothing would surprise the and “forget them” add more of the case. {party from now on, according to members to Indiana's “colony | County Prosecutor Frank W. one investigator's report. of forgotten men.” {Campbell, who pledged-to “smash. “Now every member of the {all big city gambling attempts to Communist Party is looking at invade Hamilton County,” was re- every other member and wonderluctant to talk about the situation. Ing if he’s an FBI man,” one exOne of Sheriff Carey Davis’ pert for a congressional comdeputies refused to permit photo- mittee asserted. graphs of the evidence confiscated | “It's a new experience for the lin the gaming raid. He said it| Communists. Before this, all the {was “none of “the public's busi- Suspicion has been on the other ness.” |side—people wondering whether | Walter Shirts, Noblesville law- they had Communists in their {own groups. Now that shoe is on

likes to read. Recently psychologists have

{DIES OF AUTO INJURIES

SEYMOUR, Ind. Apr. 30 (UP)

OUSSEVITZKY BOWS OUT |—Mrs. Rose Burchdall,

{ditch was four feet deep and sixicousin, {feet wide in the rear of the five

one of the company officials with! frespassing bas been filed and he will be asked to appear in Muni: ciral Court Monday for a hearing, Residents of five homes in the 6100 block of Windsor Dr. became angered Friday when workmen of the Monroe Corp, contrac tors for Windsor Village addition, dug a drainage ditch in the rear of their properties. Warrant Filed Mrs. J. L. Wofford, 6149 Wind-

first warm-up of the season.

Bpecial, Hal Robson in the old! Spike Jones Bpecial of Indiunap-| olis- Racing Cars, Inc. two Federal Engineering Detroit Specials and Doc Williams in the Sarafoff Special. Meanwhile, Speedway manage-

the track will be open this week for practice the grounds will be sor Dr. one of the “embattled” {0l0sed to the public until Saturhousewives, said an easment ini4ay, one week before the opening her property deed allows for con-|of qualifications.

struction on the property by. pub-; og lic utilities but not by the con- Driver of Death Car Related to Victim

These include George Connor man, Hollywood, a small in Lou Moore's baby Blue Crown munity north of Norman; east of

ment announced that aithoughidow

An elderly man, identified as J. E. Miller, died of a heart ate tack after watching the Texas twister approach Bonham. His family sald he was trying to reach a storm cellar when the attack seized him. Many Towns Hit Oklahoma twistérs hit at Nove

coms

Lawton; west of Shawnee; Dale; east of Meeker; south of Chicks asha -and in southwest Jackson County, Much of the damage occurred in relatively. thinly populated areas, keeping fatality figures

n. Most of the injured at Nore man were members of several National Guard units who were holding target practice at rifie range near the former Naval Air Station north ‘of the city, The station is now called the North Campus of the University of Oklahoma.

struction company. She said she was almost run, over by a ditch-digging machine} KNOX, Ind, Apr. 30 (UP)~— when she vhjected to the project.|An eight-year-old boy was fatally She and her husband filed theinjured today when struck on a trespassing warrant after that. {lonely country road by an auto-| By last night the drainage mobile driven by his mother's The victim was Anthony Niel{sen, son of Mr. and Mrs, Alfred {Nielsen, who live near here. Police

houses. Officials of the Monroe Corp, said they would move the ditch identified the driver of the car) back a “few feet” and thatias Frank Fisher, 24. North Jud-| “everything is straightened out son, Ind. Authorities said they, now." ‘would investigate the accident. |

Giant Fan Shoulders Blame For Kicking Lippy's Heckler

Rooter Says He Tripped Over Man Who Got Hit by Leo's Lifted Elbow

and both cases have been com- K

BOSTON, Apr. 30 (UP)—Prop- here at midnight tonight er Bostonians applauded wildly, juries received when she | night when Serge Koussevitzky by 17-year-old Rotert Cole of! Workman was paroled by for- took his final bow after 25 years Seymour. Police arrested Cole!

Symphony Orchestra.

license.

{motor vehicle without a

he Inside

vows to wage battle like Stalingrad. .,.Page 2 (General news and features, Pages 1-12) Hawaii comes to Indiana . . . also Louise Fletcher's

Counter-8py +..ocvuervssscustnsnsssness.Page 18’ (Society and women's news, fashions, teen-talk, gardening, The A a. H Pages 138-24) i | The American Home . . . a balance skeet........Page 25 | 25 for the murder of Madge! ; . berholtzer, a statehouse em- |, tEditorisis, world repr moYes, business;

Je has made averally Indians slaughter Milwaukee, 12-4. .....+........Page 87)

'mpts, an = to win either a new trial

it was rumored

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Stephenson was convicted in i { oF} (Sports, Pages 37-40; classified advertisling, Pages 42-45) Othar Features on Inside Pages :

{ink across the center field "grass

Thursday's game in which the Giants Dodgers, 15 to 2. {

{in front of him.

now at Durocher,” said Cronk. “Ap- ham reiterated that the Giants \Durocher turned around ” {bumped the fan with his elbow, F'ght.

tended the luncheon in the Manu-| ytenced was Workman's broth-

One large hangar, containing several valusble airplanes, was wrecked, and six or eight other buildings were badly damaged,

Ceiling Holds Up Lt

ABC Tourney

A ceiling, 22 feet high, 1s’ all that is holding up plans for hold ing the 1850 American Bowl

w==-iCongress 80-day tournament in a sports center to be built on Ei,

38th 8t, across from the Faire

grounds.

When plans to hold the foure

nament. in the Fairgrounds Colle seum fell through recently, W. Le {McGinley {owner of the Parkmoor, offered ,ithe ABC use of his 40-alley bowls = NEW YORK, Apr. 30—Leo (Lippy) Durocher got surprise helpiing center which will get under

Texas rancher and

in his fight to h~ ve his baseball suspension lifted tonight when a construction in a.month or twe,.

long-time Giant fan came forward to say that he-not Leo—‘accldentally kicked” Fred Boysen, who had been heckling Durocher, at the Polo Grounds on Thursday. . The fan, 33-year-old George Cronk, said “absolutely” that Durocher did not punch OF Kieking'io fhe exit hecatse I thought Boysen—a charge that has caused |i "oy just a trivial incident,” the New York Giants’ manager tol 4 cponk.

be suspended from baseball. The fireman, who works for

Cronk said that he was walk-lin, New York Central Railroad, said he had told his story today to Edgar Feeley, attorney for the Giants, Cronk said he had pigned a statement in behalf of rocher, lone of 100 which Giant President: He sald that Durocher and Horace Stoneham was gathering!

in the Polo Grounds on the way| to an exit gate immediately after)

Jost to the Brooklyn;

Cincinnati,

However, the ABC requires a

ceiling 22 feet high to accommoe date a score board, Mr. MeGinley says this would be wasted space for him after the tourney unless ABC would pay the extra cost of construction. gress: is said to be considering altering their scoring plans so they ' might use the building.

The bowling cone

McGinley

10 Columbus Firemen |

Hurt in $250,000 Blaze

COLUMBUS, O. Apr. 30 (UP)

other Giant players were walking to take with him to the hearing in|— Ten firemen were injured, none iserfously, while battling a gen-

“Then 1 saw this fan that I|' Following an hour's conference eral alarm fire that swept fous

recognize as Boysen lunge with the glum Durocher, Stone-|

tlw ha touched Len hecanse Were backing their manager “100

ADU and per cent because Led is 1 i

n the niet Walter G. Strickfaden

He revealed that he, Durocher $250

buildings in downtown Colume bus tonight. :

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facturers Building at the State... 15 Charles Bash, who still Earlham Names Dean

Fair Grounds where the show is jj ee in Dubois County where {the trial occurred.

heid.. The show closes at 10:30 p. m. today. Many exhibitors will start

box office closes tonight.

. , 144 E. Ohio, 5 EEE WS hcl vi :

Workman's connection with the —Dr. Edward Jones Allen of the case was alleged tc have heenUniversity of Denver has been emptying their booths when the that he furnished information on appointed dean of Earlham Col-

"the basis of which the other twollege, it was announced today by Churches ....12|Home Dec. were to rob Mr. Basch, who was

President Thomas E. Jones of shot during the holdup attempt. Earlham. : |

Eddie Ash ...38|Food ....17, 18! Movies ..32," 33 Records .....34 Beauty ......17{Forum ......26 Needlework ..17/Ruark ......20 Bridge ......19/Gardening ..23! Othman .....20|8ports ....37-40 [Business ....35 Editorials ...26 Cap. Capers .19 Hollywood ee

RICHMOND, Ind., Apr. 30 (UP)

Pattern .....20| Earl Politics .....20

Wihison .33

Class. ....41-48 Junior Page Crossword ...311Dan Kidney

Radio ives .30 World Rept. .27

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Amiise. . ..32, 33 Fashidns ....20, Mrs. Manners 11 Real Estate .10 Boysen lost his balance and fel!

lsald Cronk, “and I couldn't help Parli. Law. ..22 Teen Talk ,.21 tripping over him because every-| +33body was rushing toward the Women's .13.24 exit. In tripping, I kicked him, Potomac Pat. 20) World Aff. ..28/1 think in the leg.”

own. . “I was right behind Boysen”

“1 sald, ‘sorry’ and

a ifront office man, will leave here by train Monday night for Cin|clnnati, called Durocher on the

statement and shown Cronk’s picture. said, “I ought to know kept walk-ihit me—it was Leo Durocher,” ened an entire

The blaze was brought under control about 11 p. m. It was dis covered shortly after 8 p. m. wm apparently started in the carpet./floor of the Underwriters’ Boysen, when told of Cronk's/vage Co. eS TAY It spread to three adjucent buildings and for a time threat

nd Garry Schumacher, a Giants

where Chandler has;

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