Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1949 — Page 1

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Coroner Orders “Body

Of Poison Suspect

_ing Mrs. Spurloc

_ died, also under unexplained cir-

"in the midst of a c¢bol air mass|

estate. and a $1500 insurance

+ house.

60th YEAR—NUMBER 162

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FORECAST: . Fair and pleasant

today. Highest temperature, 78,

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Ind. Issued

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofce

s Father Exhumed

Authorities Seek to Determine Whether Elder Dearing Was Arsenic Victim EVANSVILLE, Aug. 20—An order to exhume the body of Mrs. Clarice Spurlock’s father Monday to determine whether he was another victim of arsenic poisoning was issued last night by R. Owen Williams, Vanderburgh County prosecutor. : 3 The prosecutor summoned the ‘Grand Jury into session Monday to hear evidence that : Mrs. Spurlock, 30-year-old Evansville housewife, poisoned her mother and possibly

her father, Mr. and Mrs. Winter , to get hold of a $20,000

policy. Fe Mrs, Spurlock, who was arrested yesterday with her husband, Arleigh, 39, in Memphis, Tenn, was to be returned to Evansville Monday night to face a murder charge in her mother's death last November. Her father died under mysterious _circum- : stances last spring. Couple Arrested

Arrest of the Spurlocks In Memphis yesterday broke another Indiana poison case. The couple was halted by detectives as they | drove into Memphis from Evansville, apparently unaware a war- _ rant had been issued for the arrest of Mrs. Spurlock. Mrs. Spurlock, a buxum, attractive brunette clad in a sweater -and slacks, took her arrest lightly and joked about it, but her husband appeared nervous and upset. He has been {ll for several weeks and his right arm and right leg are nearly paralyzed. He was unable to sign a receipt for are Ey ticles Memphis police returned to __ him when he was freed after the arrest. : Without speaking to his jailéd wife, Mr, . Spurlock ) from Memphis after leaving the 8helby County jail. Indiana-au-thorities said they wanted to examine him to determine if his semi-paralytic condition is the result of arsenic poisoning. They issued a warning that if he has arsenic in his system and does not take treatment, he may d E

Winter Dearing . . . death a "mystery."

Warrant Sworn Out Police of six , been’ alerted for the couple eriff Frank McDonald of Vanderburgh County (Evansvillé), who swore out & murder warrant Mrs. Spurlock Friday. ti The sheriff charged the plump,

this

i |clared that Russian refugees in ' {Yugoslavia were still being per- ! [secuted despite + |warnings, and declared that “the " |Soviet government will have to _. [resort to more effective means to . protect the rights and interests

lered in Belgrade on Thursday, re- : |charge that the Cominform reso-

was “criminal.”

¢* {the resolution as a criminal leaf- ‘ let. They are the Greek and the

: Mussolini.”

_ (Aggressor, including Russia. ‘Iwas persecuting the Russians in

Russ Demand

Sa AAA 5 BAI 5 5 SMR

Urge Revolt

Accuse Marshal Of Fascistic Traits - Like Hitler, Duce

LONDON, Aug. 20 (UP)—Russia today issued a virtual call for révolution in Yugoslavia and warned Premier Marshal Tito that “effective measures” would be taken to “bring order to the unrestrained Fascist offenders” "of e. Radio Moscow broadcast the text of a new 2000-word Russian note to Yugoslavia, urging supporters of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) to “remove” Yugoslav leaders unless they admit their mistakes . . . “and correct them.” “The information: burean Joes not doubt that the Communist Party of Yugoslavia will be able to carry out this honorable task,” the note said.

The broadcast document de-

earlier Soviet

of Soviet citizens in Yugoslavia and bring order to the unre{strained fascist offenders.” ‘Gestapo Methods’ The note charged that “Gestapo methods of rule prevail throughout Yugoslavia’ and that the “Communist party of Yugoslavia has become a branch of the political police.” The Russian document, deliv-

jected an earlier Yugoslav

Tite's Ouster; |

lution “excommunicating” ° Tito

i “only two! in Europe regard!

Moscow said that governments

Spanish. “Plainly, the declarations of the! Yugoslay govefnment are worth! no more than similar declara-| tions once made by Hitler and

The note made

Local Accidents

Injure 8 Persons

no mention of | (Photos, Page 2)

Aid to Center Townsh

The county was charged $4.01 for this "re

3 Killed, 11 Hurt State Traffic -

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ar 8 al ‘ 0 lief

meat.”

Tito’'s recent statement that : ‘has an army of 500,000 men ready to fight any

Russia charged that Yugoslavia

order to “curry favor with the international capitalists.”

ways | jured, eight of them apolis and environs,

Three were killed on state highand 11 were inin Indian-

in a ! nj Ave. and Shelby St. last night. |

gray-eyed brunet after Dr. Robert B., Forney, Indiana University toxicologist here, found that arkilled Mrs. Spurlock’s

ing, 56, last fall at Huntingburg. The nother, according to evidence in the hands of the sheriff, died at Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, eight days after visit-

Physicians were so puzzled by her death, they ordered an autopsy, but Mrs. Spurlock refused to permit it. Five months later, Mrs. Spurlock’s father, Winter Dearing, 59,

cumstances. Suspicious, the sheriff got an order to exhume the mother’s body Aug. 3. = Voices Amazement Dr. Forney went to Huntingburg for autopsy. He said he

| Russians who fled their homeland! ‘with pro-Soviet deeds.”

modern Yugoslavia as the Soviet note proposéd would almost certainly require the use of force.

tory Russia has yet sent collaborator, -

An Ohip man and woman were | {hurt when the motorcycle they | | were riding collided with an auto-| {mobile at E. Washington St. and (Emerson Ave. —— “Frame RE hea . | Marion (Jack) Johnson, 30" of Jaown eiolation of the eon! Muncle; Aloysus Kraige, 37, of Mun cating Tito. |meji City, and Mrs. Ruth Roland, | The note identified the perse-io; ¢ Hardinsburg. i cuted” citizens as 12,000 White". Johnson, a race driver, was he Bia aad Ui illed . when his. car went a after the Bolshevik revolution but kiliea + and crashed Soo: sub.of| who had “atoned for their Sins! four miles east of {night on Ind. 32, Western political observers com-| oo Roland was a passenger] mented that any such change inijn an automobile driven by her |

/husband, William. She was killed {when the car crashed into the,

All White Russians

The note said that Yugoslavia had admitted that the Russians

pathetic attitude toward the “we

{rear of a truck, on Ind. 56 10 miles! The note was. the. most peremp- west of Scottsburg. Mr. Roland! Its. oldwas blinded by the sun and did

Muncie last gi

.~Mrs. Edna Smith-and Shirley. Mae « ....the relief store is 10 per cent higher, : . ka.

& (Communist party and the Yugo-

The leadership of the Yugoslav

found enough arsenic in the body to account for the woman's death, after considerable work back in the Indiana University laboratory. : ' As soon as he notified the sheriff, the chase began. Seized in Memphis, Mrs. Spurlock expressed amazement she should be held in her mother’s death, but took the arrest calmly. Her husband, however, nearly collapsed. - He ‘has been {ll for several weeks. Mrs. Bpurlock’s inheritance in the death of her parents were a $1500 {insurance policy and a

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Acrleigh Spurlock . . , vanished.

Mercury to Stay Under 80° Here

Fair skies and temperatures in] the high 70s are on the Marion County weather agenda today. Weather forecasters last night said “fair and pleasant” conditions would extend throughout the| state, although Indiana has been |

{

for more than 60 Hours, | Tomorrow will be fair with slightly higher temperatures in the northern areas.

| Mrs. Clarice Spurlock . . . jailed. |

On the Inside ri So ashingron Expects

Tito to’ Reply in Kind | RISING STAR, Tex, Aug. 20!

Guns won't stop Reds, Rep. Jacobs says. ........ ) (General news and features, Pages 2 to 12)

On the Greens . . . a picture story of women golfers. . . . Louise Fletcher's “Counter Spy” and Katy Atkins’ column. ................. Page 13 (Society, fashions, clubs, homemaking, patterns, neddlework, i teens, gardening and foods, Pages 14 to 22) Fortville to observe 100th anniversary tomorrow. Page 23 1 (Editorials, polities, world report,. radio, business, movies, amusements, Pages 24 to 34)

Indians split double-bill with Blues, 2-0; 4-2 ..,.. Page 85,

(Other sports news, Pages 36 to 38; classified advertising, Pages 39 to 43)

Other Features on Inside Pages

Amuse, ,.32, 33 Food .....v:.22) Mrs. Manners 10 Scherrer Business .....31 Forum ......24] Movies .,32, Hs Smith ...36

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Cap. Capers .21|Gardening ...20| Novel .......44|Soclety ‘v.14, 15! Churches ...,26 Hollywood ...32| Othman .....27 Sports ..,.35-38 Classified. 30-43 Home Page ..30| Politics ......25/Joe Williams 26 Crossword ..33/In Indpls. ...11] Potomac Pat. 9 Editorials ...24 Inside Indpls, 27) Radio .......29 Fashions ....16/Dan Kidney .24] Ruark ......27

Women’s 13-22], World Report 25

| Yugoslav Communist Party w {mean the overthrow of Tito

slav government are one and the! {same. Removal of the leaders t

were

see the: truck, told. Going Southeast,

| Mr. Kraige was killed when the he motorcycle he was riding over-| ould turned in Ind. 66 a mile east of}

state police

i this followers.

|-_ Tito and his leading collabora{tors were read but of the Com-!

| [refusiiig to take orders from

{cow {their own brand of CommNanien./

| oe 'Big Purge Reported | In 3 Balkan Nations | BELGRADE, Yugosldvia, Aug. «120. (UP)—The Communists. par-|

[ties of Hungary,

jAlbania. are being purged of posE18

sia’'s hold on sputheastern Europe |diplomatic reports indicated today. . : | Many important Communist of-| Ave. and the Caine car was going | ficlals—most of them unknown ®0Uth in Shelby when they col-| to the West—have disappeared in !1ded. the past few weeks and queries {as to their whereabouts |are discouraged or evaded.

lest of the “people’s democracies” | {to socialize, the party purge has been combined with a “cleansing”

country’s. economic and cultural

—-Government quarters predicted {tonight that Marshal Tito will {reply in kind to Russia's “tough-

est ever” note and probably willl mother sat by his bed reading to| gain strength because of the Sov+|phim. ?

fident that Tito could put down any disturbances that result from the Soviet call for a virtual revolution.

{Yugoslavia as outside ence—regardless of the issues in-| . {volved—and will rally the highly nationalistic Yugosiavs to +++ .24/Port their home-grown leader.

for some time Russia has been infiltrating agents into Yugosiav- |

Earl Wilson ,33/'¢t note

ence, which the bill as a native uprising.

and|Tell City.. Charles Kraige, his| {brother and a passenger, was in-| {Jured. State police said they were ===" 1irying to pass automabiles in the nform more than a year ago for tece of oncoming traffic and! 08-| skidded trying to dodge back into improvised poi jane. . ‘| All of the victims in the Shelby-| Madison accident were in fair condition in General Hospital late last night.

Instead they

v | Faust, 32, of 3211 8. Riiral St, in Bulgaria and!

ible Titoist and Western influ-| y ~ ol oy : : y eanette and Jane, in the other. ences. which: could threaten Rus-| “Police said the wutomobile in| "Which the two men were riding |was going southeast in Madison)

The- Ohio couple injured on the! either | Fast Side were identified as John! B. House, 46, of Hebron, O., and] In the case of Hungary, slow-| Leta Hutchison, 28, Columbus,O.| {

cen « Boy, 9, Victim urgeois elements from the! . . Of Eye Cancer, Dies in Hospital

ife. {

rp, | (UP)—Little Clar Linden UnderWASHINGTON, Aug: 20. (UP) wood, whose tragedy touched the

hearts of kind folks everywhere, died tonight. ’

- His death occurred while his

et threat.

ry of nine-year-old Clar, American officials were The story of nine-year-o a

CON" who -was attacked by an eye|

‘The Russian note, it was be- Cards, letters and packages feved here, will be resented in Poured in.

interfergoing to die. SUP" | they brought him . from

Competent sources reported that | Buckeye, N, M., home to the Ris-!

ed today would |live at nearby Pioneer, Tex. stage for the planned vioSoviet would installed a special box to handle . ithe “Get Well” messages.

| Been They were Charles D. Barnett,| =

RR | vite company and union officials| [cancer two years ago, gained cir-| to meet here for a new effort to}

{culation after he was moved tol setfle (the hospital. Many thousands of| gock strike,

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ap New Move

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPJ The government soon will in-|

112-day-old Hawaii it was léarned to-|

the

| night. |

Government labor experts said’

» nr » CLAR’'S parents knew He was! the invitation which will be sent When it became by mediation director Cyrus 8. apparent that death was near,/ Ching,

will ‘go out early next

their week-—probably Monday,

The Hawalii®strike, now nearly

ing Star Hospital, so he could be four months old, has crippied the near his grandparents, Mr. and island's economy. It was called | ia, to cause disturbances. The Sov- Mrs. Lehman ' Underwood, who by the left-wing International -| Longshoremen’s and WarehouseThe tiny Rising Star postoffice| men’s Union (CIO) to enforce demands - for a 32-cents-an-hour wage increase. |

: » A or : [ +7

Mrs. Etta Woods . . . she said

| of meat a month the records show the county auditor paid for. Jem .

To End Dock Strike

she didn't get the 43 pounds

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ip Poor 'In a Mess’

ded Relief Fo From County Fund

: |

. |signed the claim which was lying a +on his desk,

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3 | All They Do Is Add

0 | She asserts she has no place to|

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* Times Survey Shows

Grocers Hike Prices

‘From 8 to 10 Per Cent

| Clients Complain of Shortages; Officials Found Passing the Buck (Copyright, 1949, by The Indianapolis Times) Marion County is paying thousands of dollars on Center {Township Relief orders for food that is never delivered, The Times learned this week.

» Some officially designated “relief stores” are padding {relief bills, collecting from the county auditor for supplies relief clients do not receive.

Certain stores have charged the county for as much as

(80 pounds of potatoes a month for single relief clients.

ke | Others bill the county, and collect, for 30 to 45 pounds

|of meat a month for single relief clients.

|. These relief clients Bay} nen County Auditor Ralph

. they never received such food, Moore opened his records of pay.

exhibit pitiful little weekly ment for Swapper oe on { : for e Ars e In Ss meat orders they did get that! gers of County Teel Scott come to only tiny fractions

Ging, last week. |of the quantity the county |, Mr. Ging ruled that statutes [pays for.

orbidding welfare agencies to _ “|make public their records did not | Certain grocers bill the county, apply to relief records. land collect, for the total amount] The records also showed. {of customers’ weekly relief grant| ONE-—That while some clients ieven though the customer never|are not spending the entire {ordered nor received that much/amount of their food orders on | food. : groceries, some grocers are bil- { Even where billings are possibly ling the county for the full {accurate, a Times survey showed amount. |prices in relief stores run 8'to 10| TWO-—That per cent higher on identical items, 'some. relief {than in other stores in their immediate neighborhoods. lof prices in the neighborhood. Revelation of the Center Town-| THREE-—That the 52 {ship Relief mess, the worst since|selected by Center Township {the 1930 relief scandals, came as! Trustee George K. Johnson to All {county officials, spending $400,00| $400,000 - worth of food {on relief food this year, are ask- here & year have a free hand in {Ing 40 per cent more money to billing the county, without any | spend for next year. . | periodic checking of their records | The situation was revealed whatever, a

‘Records Loaded With Discrepancies

food prices in Stores are capricious, do not reflect the general level

It has been common knowledge in the office of Auditor

Ralph

| Moore that the Center Township Relief records are loaded with

|diserepancies. : { Mr. Moore admitted to The

{Vina mess.” . He said it" was not his responsibility to take any core # " frective: action That-was up to-the trus tee -he-said PER cea

{ Trusteé Johnson. told The, | Times yesterday that he carefully {inspected the claims of each

grocer. If there wera any dis-| crepancies, it was news to him, | the said.,————— RTT Er

| “If a claim looks suspicious . [if they don’t itemize purchases . 11 send it right back,” he said. When Mr. Johnson was shown| a grocery claim where meat pur-|

chases totaling between $3 andy,

$5 per client

[particularly since’ ‘he had just!

‘|Johnson signed the claims. ‘some, he did not sign them. In {all cases, the auditor paid the claims, signed or not.

a week had not been relief, t itemjzed, he expressed surprise— account

Times yesterday that relief was

months without itemizing it or listing" the poundage. Relief cli« ents to whom the meat was su posed to have been sold told The Times they never got it. __ In some ~ instances, Trustee n

The auditor asserted that if ere was anything wrong with he trustee would have to for it. :

nything wrong with grocery orders, the grocers would have to 'laccount for it, course,| Grocers said that any discrep rocers, you/ancies in the ordsrs were cere are bound to have something like! tainly the fault of .the

“I'll ‘have to look’ into ‘that, said the trustee. “Of

{not often.”

that happen once in a while, but ~The records of Auditor. Moore,

show that one grocery has been | charging the county for meat for

At the top of the official hier

3 claims, accountants from the State Board of amine relief orders, insisted that all they were s

see that the grocer’s addition was

The accountants working over last

auditor's office hinted they knew roould not divulge it. SE : These are some of the discrepancies The Times found:

ONE: Two elderly persons on

The clients complained they are

{being gypped on their groceries and that their slips were. filled with items they didn’t want, couldn’t eat or didn't get.

archy in the processing of relief '. Accounts who exe upposed to do was correct, year’s relief claims in the something was wrong, too, but

but doesn’t know how much she |got because the grocer never told ther,

Her relief order is for $6 a week. TWO: A woman and her five The

meat purchases

children, ages 18 months to 8 against her average more than years are charged with thé pur. balf of the order each week,

chase of 60" pounds of potatoes in

Last week, she was charged

the first two weeks of June. She $4.01 for a mess of spare ribs

aserts’ she was not on relief in/and knuckle bones. June. Her relief orders were cut|Photo on Page 1.) | (off from May 7 until the first week! [charged {pounds of

in August, when she was again placed back on the rolls, said.

THREE: A South Side relief client and her 8-year-old daughter are charged with 31% pounds of meat during June. |

she|

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48 years old, is with purchasing 31 meat during June. He

A single man,

{has no ice box. He told The Times {he never received that much meat {in many months. He said the meat

he was doled out by the grocer was “terrible.”

He 1s no longer n relief,

A Nor {¥tore meat which the order shows, wi orth Side stint charged

{ {af potatoes for a family of four, was alse

of meat during June, told The Times:

she received at the rate of eight! pounds a week. She has an icebox, but cannot afford to buy ice. She

A South Side woman, charged

Times investigator called. She rolls,

A North Side woman, charged

“I never bought that muc meat in any month. They nay have charged me with it, bub

of potatoes

{working in his own business when a |denied receiving that much meat, home.

‘Works Though on Relief

was working. She is still on relief

th the purchase of 70 pounds

during June ‘was

Times investigator called at his; -

with the purchase of 63 pounds

not at home when The

with the purchase of 57 pounds :

at the county paid the follow8 meat bill for this client who

[never got it. We don’t get enough/recelved a $10.50 weekly food

meat to last the week.” She said her actual meat pur. chases a week never exceeded two pounds of 'jowl, two pounds of

J J J

bacon and two pounds of shoulder| (Continued on Page ne. i i Auditor, Moore's records Show; pon. 1 : *

order duri

June: une 717% Ibs. of méat, $6.00 ute 14 914 By. of teat- 1 une 21-15% Ibs, of meat,

m—

The trustee sald ff there was =

clients, 5

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