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Little About Chiseling’ |

a personal inspection of the store, consults the clients, and

rocers On

Trustee Selects Store, After That ‘Can Do

Clients Think Merchant Can Cut Them Off; Don't Complain When They Get Wrong Items CENTER TOWNSHIP Trustee George J ohnson says he has no definite method of selecting relief grocers. When a grocer petitions him to be cut into the county’ 8

§ they approve, the grocer is| — 0 0 C7 ore sells clients

bunches of bananas. Out of 54 clients assigned to the store, 39 walked away with 95 pounds of bananas in one week. Another store specializes in selling mops to relief clients. During the month of June, clients paraded away with mops. One client, the records of the auditor show, liked the mops so well she bought two , . . in one week.

What happens after that,

according to the trustee, is up to the grocer, the county auditor and the state board of accounts. If the grocers are ,chiseling, Mr. Johnson says, there is -not much that he can do, except refuse to okay their orders for payment. The records show he has okayed

Their Own

In Dispensing Food Relief; ym ies

A Job for a Grand Jury (An Editorial) .

ROSECUTOR George Dailey is one hundred per cent “right in taking this Center Township relief mess before a grand jury. _ He'll find plenty to take. *. This whole situation ‘reeks of carelessness . . . waste .. and probably fraud. If a dealer is delivering 10 pounds of meat and collecting {from the county for 40 pounds he is 8 guilty of fraud and ought to go. to prison. If a grocer is handing out 20 pounds of potatoes and

{collecting for 80 pounds that's ‘ground for a criminal indict-| ment. If a store is charging the county $6 for a $5 food order {that’s just plain old-fashioned theft.

NOT ALL the 52 stores that APD Center Township relief food are doing such things. But records of bills submitted and paid in the county auditor's office clearly indicate that some of them are. There is no: check-up on food delivered. There is no audit of the accounts billed. Bills “are only partly itemized

some peculiar orders from stores which sell:more than a half ton of potatoes a month to only a dozen people. Another store sells 30 to 60 ‘pounds of meat a month to clients with $10.50 relief orders or less.

Independents Complain

FOR THIS reason, probably,

Price 55 cents per mop. Other stores dispense brooms, cases of fruit and chickens. - After the trustee puts the relief store on his list, the store proceeds to dispense relief, at least the food part of it, on its own.

of Exclusion

there is a movement among tier] ;

to abolish the “favored grocer” system by which |

pendent grocers , the trustee selects one or two stores in each neighborhood, and!

sublets the food order business to them. Independents have complained to The Times ‘that they have been excluded from relief business because they wouldn't Play)

ball” with the trustee or with" other county officials. During the month of June, the trustee authorized payment of $32,865.18 to 52 groceries and three ‘dairies, and the auditor paid it without any question, although the auditor knew some of the orders were questionable, if not phony. . It was during this month that families consisting of two elderly persons were “consuming” more than 100 pounds of potatoes a

- month or 40 to 50 pounds of what

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= pounds- of potatoes. 40. Of. four,

DORE. Week...

the food orders said was meat. The clients who, the records. said. a received this food denied they got h quantity. of the diets of the clients, according to the food orders at

|anced between sirloin ste 2 k canned fruit, tangy, cake. bread. 9

flour. and sugar by the 10-pound | sacks every week on relief orders) which indicate there are one to| three persons bn the case. For exaniple, there is the case

North Side. weekly relief order. One ‘week, they bought two dozen oranges, a Bead of lettuce, a green pepper, a pound of bacon, | & pound.of #ib steak, a pound of pork chops, a pound of beef tver,| a pound of powdered coffee, al can of pineapple and a pound of something which is not legible on|

and the “items” some of them carry are absurd. Sometimes

VFW of Need

President Flies . To Miami as

Hurricane Nears

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 22 (UP)— ‘President Truman today urged full approval of his economythreatened foreign arms program because, he said, Russia has blocked all efforts to “free the world from the fear of aggression.” Its cost is. “considerable,” Mr. Truman told fellow veterans, but “it is part of the price of peace.” “Peace with justice,” he said, “cannot be bought cheaply.” Mr. Truman spoke at the NaForeign Wars. Gongrtasioual te wefe fighting to prevent the Senate from following the House's action in cutting $580,495,000 from the proposed $1,450,000 program to arm Atlantic Pact partners and five

Truman Tells |

Times Clocks Busses,

uss Dem Execution

Finds They Ignore State Speed Limits "Drivers Step on If Through Small Towns, On Open Road to Make Up for Lost Time

TT Editorial, Page 10 “By VICTOR PETERSON

other nations. (President Truman arrived in| Miami by air to address the vet-| erans with a hurricane warning |

an-hour hurricane was about 525

Fifty miles per hour is the state speed limit for busses. It is not being observed. For a week I trailed and clocked busses over 420 miles

ow: bridges have trapped many

“ally receive the matches.

said. one of the clients Who. Tex.

least, appear to be delicately bal-ithe order. {

Penny. Matches Fill Out Amount

ALIA TRH PR PCG GR OE SE ER

ANOTHER FAMILY, preferring staples; ts = Jane 40|

..poungds..of . and 40 pounds of sugar. There were four ‘persons in he Rh Nearly every client buys matches by the penny box. Some-| times the records show one box, sometimes seven, eight or nine|

“not A , under the impression that the 2g, The|BTOCer can determine “how jong) matches are added on to the slip, they can. continue to get it. to bring the total up to the full Mr. Johnson denies this is the amount of the relief order when case. He says such clients do| purchases are a few cents short. not understapd much about how ‘If they demand the matches, things work, which is one of the however, they can have them. * (reasons, he says, they are on reIn a surprising num of lfef. cases, the client doesn’t go to the! Actually, each client is visited store at all. He telephones the once a month by a relief visitor| order to the grocer who then de-| |who determines whether the client! livers it,. with the order slip for!is entitled to continue on the the client to sign. |rolls. The visitors are not highly | “We don’t get what we ask for, paid and few of them have any and we don’t get $7.50 worth,” social service training. | Mr. Johnson says. that in -of-t¥ained--personnet, control. “But what can we ‘dojoffice is run by common sense! about it? If we squawk, the and experience, He says he tries groceryman can throw us off re-|to effect every economy he can. Hef.” { That is why, he says, the relief Although they go to ‘the town- |orders are sent to the grocers ship trustee's office to ‘be certi-/instead of the clients. . | fied for relied a Hsnber of’ clients| It saves postage, De says.

__CHents say th

0. meal.

the township trustee approves

They're paid anyway. The relief families for whom the money is spent say they never got the food .

current grocery orders which

the supplies for which the county is billed.

* THE taxpayer picks up the check for all of it. Center Township this year is spending $400,000 for re-

lief food.

It is asking for $525,000 for next year. Federal and state regulations have been used to keep 'secret how the money was spent. Until The Times yesterday revealed this slip-shod operaOther clients buy corn meal, tion, the public hasn't had a-look at its own relief account|

books for 10 years.

Mr. Dailey will be doing a major public service to Marion

them. Sometimes he doesn't.

northwest.) For Defense Only

“We are not arming ourselves, and our friends to start a fight with anybody,” Mr. Truman said. “We are building defenses so that we won't have to fight.” Mr. Truman said he would prefer that “these bulwarks against aggression” be established by the| United Nations. - “But,” he said, Union has blocked every effort] to ‘establish an éffective intérnatidhal police force and to free the] world from the fear of aggres-| sion. had to join other friendly nations | - lin forming regional ‘defense pacts.”

... show their are only a pitiful fraction of

County by cleaning up this mess. Evidence The Times has, lary assistance program and the

of an elderly couple living on the collected will of course be turned over to him. Evidence in They have a $7.50 the county auditor's office is there for his inspection. Let it tell its own shameful story . .

European Recovery Program as! ‘part and parcel of the same pol-! icy” to help “free countries to re-| isist aggression.”

The Economic Side

. to a grand jury.

Tommy Surber, 10, Victim Dies at Riley

Of Leukemia,

Letters Pour In ' For Stricken Boy “Tommy Hugh Surber die thls” merning. in. Bidy Hospital... The 10-year-old leukemia —_— | tim passed away as the mailman

— | carried in almost 100 letters, an- °°

inst 4000 pieces of mail WHICH have" | poured in to the dying boy in the past few weeks. Tommy was still waiting for the coconut a woman in Florida had promised to send. But on top of his pile of gifts was a prized present, a baseball autographed. by. all his favorite Indianapolis Indians, sent to him after his “story appeared in the} Aug. 14 Indianapolis Times.

Broadcast Story Somehow a disc jockey in New

the! York City, Bob Poole, learned of his} {he small boy “who “had

1 'stricken with the incurable "+ Cook Spe Likely ment. He told his story on the

|ajr and suggested any listener] | who - could “fiid the time” drop, ‘the boy a cheering message. Within a week more than 2000

| sympathetic listeners from New|

| being established. “On the other hand, ” hé conyiinued;. af tian {gression is assured, economic re[tover wil. move forward. mare! [rapid y> | No. single program he said, can {bring about peace with freedom | and justice, nor can any single, nation doit.

the principles of the United Na {tions are still our goal’ {apparent shortly after the war that the United Nations “could {not live up to all our hopes for {it until all nations were united in the desire for peace.”

Learns. Hard Way | The Unitéd States has learned /the hard way tKat is a futile and vulnerable shield,” the President said. “We have

United States and the defense of other freedom-loving nations

Tommy | High. Surber

that we Lanrserveroat countryit

miles east of Miami and headed

“the Soviet] | collided on .rain-swept U. §. 41 Indianapolis on time.

For that reason, we have|

Mr. Truman described the mili-|

And, as for the economic side crease of 57 per cent. All but of the picture, he said economic Of these increases died in bus-| very will lag “if the haunt- | involved crashes. ing fear of miliary aggression is| esprea uch fear w - | Nett ae investments a Police “headquarters, I -began -to'five minutes late Pe and new industries from, {dog the busses, north, south, eas

: {ard TW RiRes BES 412 WHI peed to 4-80 plus on UR: IEORTS

“Mr. TPAE RE that white snaked. "it became | =

“isolationism | learned that the defense of the|

~{are: indivisible: We: have learned:

Specific speed limits in/a motorist, The bus took Death { {Valley at 60. Only moments beih amlets and cities meant fore, at the same speed, the driver {nothing. It was the déxception passed a farm tractor and wagon when the “40” zones were notigoing into another bridge. [taken at 50-60; the 30's at 40 and 7pe 13 minute late start had {the 20's at 30. {been erased by the time the bus Within the past 12 ‘days, 18/reached New Palestine and the persons have died in bus crashes bus pulled to a stop in Indianapin Indiana. Sixteen met flaming|olis on time. death when a Great Lakes Grey-| ne Indiana Motor Bus Co. has |hound bus crashed into a bridge.ls one hour and 40 minute run- | overturned and burned on State ping time. for the 70 miles to Rd. 37 near Dolan. {Logansport over State Rd. 29. | Two were killed when a truck A heavy fog blanketed the an Arrow Coach Lines bus! countryside as the 6:30 a. m. lef Bus 11 ‘near Farmersburg. The victims with Indiana plate BA 475 moved were both riding ip the truck. . (cautiously, held well “within the a 4 8 I50 limit and arrived at Kirklin THIS YEAR the traffic death fivé “minutes late. . 8 {toll in Indiana for the first six| As the fog raised, so did the imonths is up 3 per cent overibus’ speed. Fifty, 55: 60 the speed1948. July saw a 33 per cent in-jometer recorded. Boyleston and crease over the same month last Michigantown disappeared at 40, | year. {Middlefork at 60. The Burlingtdn And now August. To date this! {stop was made a minute early, | month there have been 24 more but the speed was not slackened. i | deaths than in the same period of The Logansport station received 148. It is 66 against 42, an: {n-|the bus two minutes ahead of six Schedule. ; I 8. THE BLACK and orange InAfter my speedometer was |diana Rallroad 9:30 a. m. bus

checked at the Indiana State /from Pern to Indianapolis -was starting. Recent-

t/ly Peru was honored with two

safety citations for ‘having no |and west. [atalicies>.

| On one gwing, I picked up the Prne ly a exo i 6:45 al Bus 491, Yodiaws plate BB445, Im. for Rion 8 le amtppea THFOULH the ity &t' 40 run is scheduled for two hoirs { mphy and immediately upped ‘the

{Ohio plate 1553 was nine min- a utes late leaving the | Terminal.

sweeping curve, the driver Traction | pulled out to pass a gravel truck. | A speeding car raced at ‘the bus

Qut E. Washington St. the bus peaq on, It was touch and go as! ahead.

along the 08s,

of the!

.jat 38 to 40 mph. Bef

and

Marshal Tito

| ‘Must Pay For Crimes," Says Pravda

‘Yugoslavs Charge Soviet Espiona In War of W. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia,

Aug. 22 (UP)—Moscow pubs

SEE oie hg re Upon OF Hoosier. highways. Only two drivers observed posted|lished a demand for Marshal Fo a it ing . {limits and the 50 mph op. Others whipped along ‘at 60,|Tito's death today as the Rus. . (The service said the 100-mile- gome as fast as 65. sian-Yugoslay, rift steadily

widened.

The Yugoslav press struck at the Soviets with a charge of splonage. The press.of the two countries traded blows .after the two gove ernments exchanged bluntlye worded notes over the week-end. The Soviet note, delivered on Baturday, threatened “effective measures” to protect Soviet citizens in Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav reply, published yesterday, accused the Russians of double« crossing Tito n his dispute with Austria. * The Moscow newspaper Pravda, organ of the Russian, Communist Party, published the demand for Tito's execution in a.three-column article signed by Bedri Spachiu, secretary of the Albanian Com~ munist Party. : “Must Pay With Heads” The article reviewed the trial and execution of a band of “traitors headed by Kochi Dzodze, identified as Tito agents in Albania. If concluded: “However much’ the bourgoiseinationalist band of Tito, Rankovich and Diilas rage and storm in Belgrade, methods they employ, the: like

ple and pay with their heads for the crimes committed against the of

ian internationalism.”

3 NIN 5 = RT rf. X L Edward - Kardelj, “vice premier and foreign minister; Gen. Alexander Rankovitth, vice. premier

and interior minister, and Milo-

ed] Sheridan Ave, it was clocking 45.| For several miles east of the-city In the 17 miles. to Kokomo, the, on U. 8. 40 there is a posted limit driver wiped out the five minute of- 50. The bus clipped it off at late stark The schedule has the 55 to 60. bus arriving and departing from| This speed was held all along Kokomo at the same time, {the open highway. When the bus a. m. It left.at 10:10. reached Cambridgé City, it was This same in-and-out timing is

only two minutes late. But it ‘had | true in many instances. Tt is im-] taken Greenfield's 40 mph, zone possible to keep. The mere stop-|

the Cominform last year for reifusing to take orders from Mose cow,

Red Strikes in Finland A

ppears Near Collapse HELSINKI, Finland, Aug. 22 (UP)—~Finland’ 8 Communists

{at 60, the 30 at 45 and clipped ping and starting of a bus con-|talled general strike appeared to

{other - flepting seconds. in similar| symes seconds without unloading fashion. through all the towns|or joading a single passenger. en route. | J . ~ [Rd. 28 to Westfield, the A ichmond. on AE ARRIVED. 4 A R16 MOR oo ave ph speed. For

or jignored: wocall:-that they join: the

be collapsing today as thousands

|'of strikers streamed back to their From the intersection of State jobs. driver|

Virtually all transport workers

best by joining in the common defense of the rights of all mankind.” Mr. Truman said that all of

Atlantic Pact have

LOCAL TEMPERATURES tragic cost of war”

the countries which signed - the “learned the]

une

The "Pennsylvania Greyhound] 10:12 a. m. Connersville to dianapolis (bus P 4845, Indiana] plate BB 155) was 13 minutes late | Illinois St. and Capitol Ave. were leaving the station. {negotiated at 40 to 42 as the bus) By Rushville, the driver had] {headed for the station, arriving one minute late. SN

Mite nie WITTY ety;

fdropped ‘to 45 by Westfield” Blvd. |

| made up seven of the lost min-| utes by crowding 60 over hilly, | The two busses which observed

4. Distance— all speed regulations were the {10:30 a. m. Pennsylvania Grey-

“And Wo PIF

limits, he hit a 62 clip but had| unions called off their scheduled

| walkouts.

r————————— Marijuana Raid At Walter Reed Hospital

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UP) |—Army . investigators raided a

State Board of Accounts

| York to Texas to Canada.an-| gga m 55 10 a.m... 69 “ «Moos N . All of us have learned how | swered the appeal. Many sent 7a m... 56 11a m... 77 weakness invites aggression—Itwisting State Rd. [presents and the woman in FIor-| § 5 m... 6012 (Noon) 78 how democratic countries. uniessi17 mites: {1a ~brought-a- big smile to. thel..g gq. py: «@8 rpms 1 1they stand” together; can be taken’

Showers and warm air from

‘lover one by one,” he said.

“And|Gwynneville, Morristown, now, all of us are determined {taintown felt the swish of speed. over the tragit route to Blooming-|

"To 'See About’ Relief Probe = “rn Tommy,

hr nted it.

““Accounts Chief Says

He'll Aid Prosecutor's

Investigation If His Men Can Find Time -

“+The State Board of Accounts said today it ‘was not. conducting any current investigation of Center Pownship relief, but ‘would

look into discrepancies if personnel could be freed from current |

tangled relief situation this morning when Prosecutor George Dailey leukemia

Day of Zest

“I always leave my pants ‘ at home on Sunday.” Thus, Wayne Wilson, 47, of Indianapolis, explained to police why he was nonchalantly walking down N. Capitol Ave. Sunday clad only in his shirt, He was charged with being drunk and publically. indecent. wv.

NYC.to Call 691 Back on Jobs

The New York Central will

it was announced today. The call-back is a part of general order affecting 2600 mechanical workers who were fuyrloughed June 13.. Nine hundred .. workers in the car repair shops at Beech Grove will not be affected.

In Elkhart the NYC foundry

will call back 75. The B. & O. shops at 241 N. Belmont St. still have about 57 workers oni furlough. THe Monon,

e auditing agency, came into the

asked Otto Jensen, the board's

‘chief exaniiner, to assign an ac-|

countant to probe the records for the prosecutor's office. - { Mr. Jensen said his men normally examine relief records, but are prébably not making a cur-| rent check. He said he would seé if he had any men ayailable to, lend the prosecutor a hand. Angered over what he termed “a deplorable situation,” Dalley promised an immediate, | full-scale probe of disclosures in| The Times that certain Indian-| apolis grocers bill the county and collect on items of food nevetr re-|

The . Times’ investigation revealed that mihy persons and families on the‘ township's poor relief rolls were being charged for food they never received.

Asks Help in Big Probe |

63 .years old and who lives alone was charged with approximately | 43 pounds of meat during June.

“My ‘staff of investigators’ Mr. Dailey said; “is not adequate to conduct a probe of this mag-

Mr.) .

cel wh 2 call back 691 of its engirie shop elved by township relief clients. 1 workers at h Grove Sept. 6.

One South Side woman who 81"

Her relief ofder is for $6 a week. |

After his story was published! in The Times, Tommy continued) {to receive about 100 letters and] | presents a day, making a total|

fof. more-than 4000 when death snap established a record low for

| ended his illness today, ™ 1 The boy, the son of Mri and| | Mrs. Earl Stirber, Scottiburg, be-|

{came ill about 10 weeks ago and|Pollen Count . .

[was discovered to be a victim of | a disease in which the | white blood cells destroy the red| cells. Tommy also is survived by a}

| twin sister, Betty Sue. : :]

Are YOU Expecting, A Baby? .

; » The Times will have helpful information for EVERY expectant mother tomorrow, -

Young, glamorous movie actress Jane Greer has written three stories in which she tells YOU how she stays pretty, happy and healthy during the long days before motherhood. et You'll find her stories in The Times .. . . on the Woman's pages starting toMOSTOW, . . Order your Times delivered

which also maintains a round-|.it.de. ‘g ” to your home. Telephone - RL Nos at 1108 F. 28th St, Has," Pde:. With this In mind," Mr.| co J¥o : had no layoffs. © ligontinued on Page 3—Col. 6) A...

{by a high of 83 tomorrow, the

{the "South "will end Indianapolis’ preview of fall =~ weather by {Wednesday or Thursday, the {weatherman said today. . The pleasant three-day cold]

mon defense, we shall

terrible conflict.”

Baby Dies During | Parents’ Absence *

Kenneth Marvin Webb Jr.

{yesterday's date. THe mercury hovered at 52 in downtown In-/

..89 per cubic yd.|

to the previous record for the neth Webb, of 1414 E. Elbert St., {date of 53 in 1897 and 1909.

sun by 4 p. m. and dropped to/ had been called by a baby sitter.| by 6 a. mp. today. { Blue skies and pleasant north- of the 22-year-old baby erly breezes will be accompanied | while his parents party. Weather Bureau sald. A low of 56 was forecast for tonight. Light showers and warmer air reported along the Ohio River today are expected to spread northward to Indianapolis by the middle of the week. Evansville’s minimum reading this morning, 64 degrees, was 10 degrees warmer than yesterday.

him not breathing. ner's Dr.

fever. dered.

3{dianapolis at 6 a. m. in comparison| year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ken-

{was pronounced dead by a GenTemperatures < limbed to 78) eral Hospital ambulance physi{under the influence of a brilliant cian early yesterday after police

The child had been left in care! sitter attended a The young woman. told] police he played normally, ate his supper and was put to bed at 9 p. m. She said she investigated his condition at 2 a. m. and found

A tentative diagnosis by Coro-| Jerome Holman Jr.| fixed cause of death as brain An autopsy has been or

“he Tittle towns of Arlington; hound. .to. Terre . Haute. and.. the, Foun- 8: 15 a. m. Great Lakes Greyhound

that, by joint efforts and a com-/In Arlington two toddlers played| ton. become ‘but a few feet off the road of the| The Terre Haute bus arrived on| strong enough to prevent another |fast-rolling bus.

: time. The other was oh schedule] | Between Arlington and Gwyn-|at Bloomington | but a nine minute| {ville an U. 8. 52 there is a stretch! {known as Death Valley. Two nar- (Continued on Page 8-—Col. 6) . -

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ner Lane, were overcome by charcoal gas in the bacon packing room shortly after noon today. Erwin Wetzel, an official . of the company, said | charcoal gas was used to de- | frost freezers in the plant. He | sald the gas had been employed’ | 10 years without anyone being affected. victims were treated at the scene by General ambulance doqgors. None ! was reported !

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A Great Lk Grovhound bus teasds hough th. bridge Brayhaund bus wkd V dep ago he vb pean. ]

mon-commissioned officers club attached to Walter Reed: {Saturday night following reports |that large supplies of marijuana fwere hidden there, iclosed today. However, Col, John E. Worden, {hospital public information officer, said today the investigators found “nothing wrong.”

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van Ditlas; minister: tout so

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