Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1949 — Page 3

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Nursing Homes Watts Dodges Camera’ Form New Group

Local Woman Named

National President |

An Indianapolis woman who started a nation-wide movement! to raise the standards of homes| for the aged and infirm today has been named president of a newly organized American Association of Licensed Nursing Homes. She is Mrs. Mary Frame, operator of West Park nursing home at 373 N, Holmes Ave. | Mrs. Frame was elected president of the new national group at the two-day formation meeting which ‘énded last night in Toledo, { 0. The organization of a national group climaxed a four-vear crusade of the Indianapolis woman who started the nation - wide movement with formation of an Indiana chapter in 1945 The Indiana chapter was formed by a group led by Mrs. T'rame to r#&ise the standards of nursing homes and to distinguish Jicensed, qualified homes from unlicensed homes then receiving unfavorable publicity, Movement Spreads

The movement spread and in a Midwestern conference here last January formation of a national group was charted, with Mrs. Frame named chairman of the planning committee. More than 400 persons. includ. ing delegates from 11 state chapters and representatives from 24 other unorganized states attended the national convention yesterday and Wednesday. Speak ers included W. Rowland Allen personnel manager of I.. 8. Avres & Co. Mrs. Frame presided and Harry Latham, Indianapolis atwas.program chairman The national group was pat terned after the Indiang group Plans were made to exteRd chapters into every state with licensing laws and to seek licegsing laws in states which now Make no inspection of nursing he me Other officers include : Mrs ¥rances A. Barclay, Berea, 0. first vice president; Mrs. lewis Farnham; Grand Rapids, Mich. second: vice president; Mrs. Mary Arnold, Caldwell, Ida. president; Clifford Dahl, Neb., secretary, and Mrs. Georgiana Kelleher, Jamacia Plains, Mass, treasurer.

Merger of Street Forces Planned

Mayor Thinks Idea | Will Mean Economy

The first move in 20 years to combine the street and boulevard maintenance work of three sepa-| rate municipal departments under! today by Mayor Feeney. The Mayor said he proposed to

force and _equipment of

economy and. efficiency. The three departments Parks, Streeis Commission and Sanitation. Each has been black-

oil in maintenance work, its own _supenvisors, its own labor crews and its own equipment. | Favors Combination | “Mayor Feeney said he beHeved the job could be done as effectively - and more cheaply under a .single program, directed in all probability bv a chief supervisor. * This would enable joint planning of resurfacing and repair and also would extend the facilities of The city asphalt plant to the Parks Department. Mayor Feeney expense of separate streets maintenance was filustrated to him at yesterday's meeting of the Park Board when a requisition for a $5000 to $6000 pieee of equipment for heating oil came up for consideration. .

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Robert Austin Watts left Shelby

Photo By Henry E._Glesing Ir: Tin

County's red brick jail yesterday to start his second, fight for free-

dom in nearby Shelby circuit court.

At his side is Sheriff Fred

Gravel}: followed by two Shelbyville police officers. Watts at first

dodged photographers, later posed for pictures. » . ”

Watts Seeks New Delay in Trial

Court Studies His

Postponement Plea (Continued From Page One) third vice ter to Judge Barger. and fhe acWayne, Ceptance was a mere formality. , In the witness chair Watts rg--the jaunty pose that has become graditional with him on the witness stand. To most of Judge Barger's questions concerning the appointment of pauper attorneys, Watts gave thev said concise answers, He broke into a grin, however, {when the judge, questioning his for his own de-

sumed

ability fense, asked:

“Not Employed”

“You are not now employed and have not been for some time?”

to pay

It was then the defense team

action they plan to take cannot .be acted upon when court is in vacation, and Judge Barger agreed to study this contention. Privately Watts’ counsel said purely. a hypothetical one and that actual trial would be post: hand-to-chin:Poned far beyond that date.

Entirely New Defense They indicated Watts’ second trial will ‘be built on an entirely new defense that he has witnesses prove I didn’t do it’ “A new trial means just that” Mr. Brunner said, “It means you start all over “over today; the first day conferred with our client to trial® Oet. 3.” His attorneys said Watts

“who can

and go

who

Grinning, Watts replied in the studied law intensively during the

negative.

After the formal a single program was announced Watts went into a huddle with his own defense, in the jury 12 . men once wrote his

co-ofdinate the supervision, labor death sentence. three. When they emerged, Altpastonents which blacktop or Yers. filed a motion asking the ‘oil: streets and. boulevards. gx. Saunt that Watts be retained in “Shelby Mounts ait are a returned to Pendleton, pendSince a motion requesting the same action already topping or spreading emulsified ©n file from the Marion County with Prosecutor's office, Judge Barger

attorneys which

ing trial.

sustained it.

19 months he was waiting for execution, had many plans for his At least one of these room in is an investigation of jury lists in Marion County to -determine if Negroes are being excluded and this was one of the things his lawyers said could not be done in vacation session. .

acceptance,

the law-

“femecessary- Watts -attormers believe they could attack legality of the trial date since it was set more than. a month official mandate ordering a new trial was received here from the '. 8. Supreme Court.

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Air Force Probes Fatal B-36 Crash

Five Men Killed

. In Takeoff Plunge

FT. WORTH, Tex. Sept. 16 (UP) ~The first fatal crash of a B-36 bomber was investigated today by have feuded bitterly with Navy over the big plane. Five men apparently were killed {last night when a- B-36 failed on fits takeoff from Carswell Air /Base and nose-dived to the bottom of adjoining Lake Worth. | Crash boats rescued eight of ithe plane's crew of 13 and re |covered the body of T. Sgt. Willam G. Seymour, a radio operaitor who lived in Ft. Worth | T-8gt. Rex Zinn of Plymouth Ina, a member of an Air Force

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started machinery for a post ponement. In a closed huddle with the judge and Lewis K,| (Murchie, deputy prosecutor from Marion County, Watts’ attornevs said they believed certain legal!

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|erash boat crew, said three me were rescued from the tail of {the bomber and one from the | fuselage. ry They were the first airmen killed in a B-36 since the plane, {largest land-based bomber in the world, was developed in World War II and became the center of heated quarrel between Air Force and Navy officials. Previously, several super. bhombers--designed to deliver the atom bomb anywhere in the world ~-were forced down and on Mar, 7, 1947, 12 men had to bail out of a B-36 that crashed. But no crewmen were injured in: those mishaps,

CLERK ROBS NEWSBOY COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 16 (UP) Police charged today that Richard Temple, 22. a $75-a-week dairy employee, had stolen more than $100 in small amounts during the last six months from Robert He was held for petty larceny.

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Charge Imprisonment Marked by Tortures

BERLIN, Sept. 16 (UP)~—An American soldier and three British servicemen broke out of a Soviet sector jail while the Russlans were changing the guard and escaped to Western Berlin today. The four men told Western power officials that the Russians had fed them “starvation” rations, beaten them, placed them in “ice box" rooms and poured hot and cold water on them, But an official American announcement said Pvt, John J, Sienkiewrcz of Baltimore, Md. showed fatigue and a generally

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Two Lose Lives In Traffic Crashes

State traffic accidents today had claimed the lives of an Anderson high school. girl and a South Bend truck driver, Miss Dorothy Potter, 16, Anderson, died yesterday of injuries received in an automobile crash Monday on Ind. 32 near Ander son. A 15-year-old companion, Miss Nadine Cave, died Wednesday, Alfonse Haeck, 70, South Bend, was killed when his light truek collided with a car on U. 8. 3 west of South Bend yesterday.

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