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FORECAST: Sunny and warmer today with a high this afternoon near 75,

To someone that plea

gashed a hand.

assurance of having a doctor say it isn't serious. It may mean life or death. Collectively, the answers to such emergencies may determine the outcome of one of the nation’s most momentous controversies — the question of “socialized medicine.”

other parts of the state and nation, there is as yet no real assurance of what the answer will be, Here, for example, it is possible to call a certain number and obtain swift results. Many newcomers, even many relatively long-time residents, have never had the foresight to provide themselves with a family doctor, Many have been economically unable, $ 2 ®

e \ YET A CALL to that num- : r, listed in the directory unRiding a der the simple heading of “‘docy mood. tor,” will” bring results someyou go thing like this: vould be “What is your address?” a ple have voice will ask. ou boys Given the address, the voice : . will supply name, address and X which telephone number of a nearby printing, - doctor who will come. If the art your first doctor cannot be reached, nals and the voice will keep trying until : one is obtained. : axle, and But within the past few years ool over & newcomer to Indianapolis tured in called another number. The Have a voice there gave no assurance. It wanted to know if the caller . - 2 could guarantee the “fee” should a doctor come, suren .. The caller responded with a - " reasonable logic that it would Ness pr] Lior becimposgible-t9-“guarantes’’ a”. LE : TF a Lo fee ‘unless “the ‘amount. were

known, The voice did not care + to-commit a doctor to any particular fee. There was no doctor. Fortunately a second attempt through another channel brought a doctor to the home, still in plenty of time. s = DOCTORS, themselves, see much of the drama that goes with medical emergencies. But ! -—they don’t see it all. The race to a hospital, the miracle of some wonder drug, the white efficiency of the operating room, these are familiar things to doctors.

everything possible for a loved one and the fear of the impact bd when the bills are added up— these belong to the patient or to his family. : Because of the emotional nature of medical problems, they are likely to be given more

weight than normal political considerations. eal ® = =

VIRTUALLY évery Hoosier’ sooner or later must contact a physician. He understands the problem of getting medical care and weighs it where he might ignore subjects like taxes or government efficiency. Rich

with the effectiveness of their medical care. A majority of all Hoosiers, neither rich nor poor, must consider how much it will cost as well as how effective

it is. Doctors, on the other hand, have heavy investments in

their careers, both in time and money. They, too, must think about income and expenses as well as about providing medical senvice, . o General practitioners — famfly doctors—keep unbelievable

A day of illness to them is a day without income and they must . provide in advance for such a possibility. . - » PATIENTS frequently complain about their care, even more about what it costs. Doctors fail to see_any logic to many ° complaints about the high cost of medical care when

the same individuals pay much | more for other services which | are less vital and do so without |

complaint.

In many cases where expen- | sive care includes other services thah those of the doctor, such | as heavy hospital bills, drug | bills, nursing bills, doctors feel |

they are unjustly blamed for the whole expenses. They feel,

of medicine's shortcomings but muffle well deserved praise. In the articles to follow this

told. The patients’ side, too, will be told, including a number

eal profession freely admits are Jnea and must be corrected

become suddenly and mysteriously ill. fallen from a ladder. A broken glass in the dishpan has

In Indianapolis, as well as in |

“Itable camera’ witt be used other operating room. The images will be sent from a transmitter head had been bashed in. atop the hospital to a relay pick- Sweater she was ‘wearing when

The fear that no doctor will | respond to a call for help, the | struggle between desire-to do |

and poor alike are concerned.

hours as ‘do many specialists,

sometimes justifiably, that the | public is inclined to speak (reely |

one, the doctors’ story will be |

of complaints which the medi- |

[eer awonan 60th YEAR—NUMBER 197 ‘I Need a Doctor—'"

Is Socialized Medicine the Only Ans

Would Government Control "Speed Physician's Arrival?

By ROBERT BLOEM “PLEASE help me. I need a doctor at once!”

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means a crisis. A child has A husband has

The answer on the telephone may mean only the re-

Centennial Cals Indiana's Doctors

2000 Here to See

Operations Telecast By JOHN WILSON The centennial

erations and clinical procedures.

They will hear addresses from an gecaiit Mr. {outstanding array of their col- was possible that it h {leagues-—either Hoosier-born or tempted. { { + |. The girl apparently was slain]

Hoosler-educated.

for the meeting. Overhead Camera

casts.

up at the Murat Temple.

day.

{be open to the public.

try Club. General meetings will open Tuesday.

100 Women Doctors

doctors will honor the memor {the first woman to receive

[Indianapolis Athletic Club.

The woman, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, was graduated from Geneva College, New York,

convention of} {the Indiana State Medical Asso{ciation will open here tomorrow,

{featuring telecasts of actual op-/back of her head and passed: {through her right arm. The shots|

More than 2000 “Hoosier physi. Aused instant death, the coroner|

{ciate will gather for the four-day, meeting in the Murat Temple.

From a room in Murat Temple doctors will witness surgical demonstrations at the Indiana Uni-|tra] School, a distance of three-, versity Medical Center three miles quarters of a mile. away through the medium of tel-| evision. RCA engineers have set Donald McColl said he had been! up $100,000 worth of equipment

{ The opening session tomorrow will include the annual trap and skeet shoot at the Indiana Gun Club and the annual golf tourna{ment at Highland Golf and Counand section

More than 100 Hoosier women yu like it[M.D. degree in the United States {at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow in the ta

Girl Missing 6 Days Found Shot to Death

11-Year-Old Child Slain by Wounds In Head and Chest HEMLOCK, N. Y., Sept. 24 (UP) — An autopsy revealed tonight that Joanne Lynn, 11-year-old Hemlock, schoolgirl

\whose body was found hidden

{in a clump of bushes on a

{farm near here, had been shot to ! |

death,

Coroner Milton Hare of Liv-| |Ingston County, who performed] {the autopsy, said the stocky. |

{prown-haired sixth grade pupil {Who disappeared last Monday {while en route to school had been {shot twice, once through the chest {and once through the back of $

{her head.

Mr. Hare said the girl's slayer| {fired first as she stood facing) him, The bullet passed through | {several vital organs and came]

out the girl's back.

{second shot which 'plerced the

added = No-Assault- Indicated There was no

the same day she disappeared {while walking from her rural {home near here to Hemlock Cen-

Livingston County Sheriff H.

unable to determine as yet what (kind of weapon was used in the slaying. A brief search of the area

' Indianapolis physicians will Where the girl's body was found demonstrate an operation on the failed to reveal the death pellets. bowel, physical therapy treatment Darkness and hundreds of curious of polio. bone grafting and vari-|residents from miles around who! ous other procedures. One movie- J size screen and a dozen small TV field forced a halt to the search receivers will be used in the tele- until tomorrow morning.

into the bush-choked!

| Norma Marsgen of Lima was

At Long Hospital one surgery Picking hickory,nuts on the farm room will be equipped with an of Paul Concannon when she [ovathead cagiera. While a. por. dis@vered the body. about 600! ‘tran Test east of A HGHWEY, Tey The back of the. Lynn girl's!

she disappeared while en route to

When It's 1 A. M. It's Really 1 A. M.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,1049

a8 Second-Class Matter at Postofos Indisnapolid, Ind. lasued Dally

The Forgotten Men Of Marion County—

Jail Prisoner Confined

11 Months Without Trial

The

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| As Joanne fell, faced forward, Mr. Hare said, ‘the killer fired a!

sign of criminal} Hare said, but it ad been at-|

The televised programs will school last Monday was missing. | be held from 9 a. m. to noon on! ls Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs- body had “apparently been carA closed circuit will be ried and laid in the spot where used and the program will not It Was found.” es

Sheriff McColl said that the

| Michigan State, 7 to 3. there were Indiana Central 26, Huntington 6. 197,000 persons in the stands to Notre Dame 49, Indiana 6. Daylight savings time passed Set a record in Wolverine football Northwestern 20, Purdue 6.

‘Had Atom Bomb In '47,’ Russia Says

Soviet News Agency Recalls Statement Made by Molotov 2 Years Ago

LONDON, Sunday, disclosed today that it has had the atomic

bomb since 1947. The official Soviet

a statement broadcast by Moscow Radio,

neither confirmed nor

man’s statement Friday that “within recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred in the

U.S.S.R.

“Tass considers it necessary to recall that on Nov. 6, 1947 (then Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.) Molotov made a statement declaring the secret (of the atomic bomb) long nonexistent,” the broadcast said: “This statement signified that the Soviet Union had discovered the secret of the atomic weapon and that it had this weapon."

.“.. REGARDING the

Sept. 25 (UP)—Russia

Tass News Agency, in

denied President Tru-

eT * =» announcement that an

atomic explosion has occurred in Russia, the

official broaccast said

“The Soviet Union is working on many

projects which require

is possible this blasting might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union.” Tass said that when Molotov announced that the secret of the atomic bomb was non“scientific circles States took the statement as a bluff,” but that “they were mistaken since the Soviet Union possessed the secret in 1947.”

existent,

nation’s gridirons.

Notre Dame Smothers IU

As Purdue, Butler Lose 1949 Grid Season Opens With a Roar With Record Crowds Over Nation |

The 1949 football season opened with a roar yesterday on the

only that:

large-scale blasting. It

in the United

Troops Called

As Hurricane Nears Tampico

Mexico towards this port city. i Turbulent waters of the Panuco|

River and Carpinteros Lagoon]

ran over some areas, but result-| ing floods were reported to be of

Everywhere

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Hearing Hurriedly Set After ‘Grapevine’ Says Times Is on the Hunt

Inmate Tells How Resources Faded As Lowyers Withdrew From Coase

Inside the Marion County Jail are men who cannot get a trial They have been in jail from four to 11 months. y Some of them don't know when they will be fried. Some believe they are being held without trial because they cannot pay off. Others insist they are being held for political or other reasons. Whatever their stories, the records show they have nof been brought to trial, and since they are without funds to buy “bail bonds, they simply sit in the county jail. These men mame attorneys and public officials from the courthouse and statehouse to the state prisons as instrumental in keeping them in jail. } Starting today, The Times is publishing the stories of some of these men, as told to Times Reporter Philip F. Clifford Jr.

(First of a Series)

By PHILIP F. CLIFFORD JR. Donald E. Travers is 28 years old. He has been in the

minor importance so far. Marion Clinty Jail since Nov. 17, 1948. He has not had a

Panic-stricken residents took refuge in schools, hoteis and. pub-

lic buildings. Meteorologists ex-| 1 . who. ane J ES, a SorOlopiats ox He is one of Marion County's forgotten -men ). are

{north of+Tampico between 8 a.m. NOW

and 10 am. tomorrow,

No casualties or damages had! age | Travers was arrested and

been reported late today. At 7 p.m, torrential rains

which had stopped after lashing! : the city through the morning, | Durglary and auto banditry

started up again. City officials

began to set up first-aid stations. | The coast north of Tampico is|

lined with oil installations, and a hurricane would inflict milliondollar havoc there.

trial.

in the jdil and have been there from four to 11 months ‘without trial and without funds to purchase bail bonds.

‘charged with second degree’

{Nov, 26, 1948, |- He walved arraignment and pleaded not guilty Feb. 11, 1949. {Criminal Court Judge William D, Bain fixed his bond at $10,000 and sent Travers back to jail.

If the record crowds at some of the season's openers are al barometer, then the season that lies ahead may be one of the

greatest from the attendance and of the sport.

At Ann Arbor, where mighty Football Scores

Michigan barely hurdled tough

out in Indianapolis at 2 a. m. to- annals; | Nearly 10,000 spectators ambled

day.

| It was only 1 o'clock at 2 o'clock. into Butler's Bowl to watch Tony Ohio State 35, Missouri 34. {but according to state law is was Hinkle's Bulldogs take a shell- Wisconsin 41, Margustie 0. Now when its acking from Evansville College UCLA. 41, Iowa 25.

lalways 1 o'clock

1 a. m. it is really 1 a. m., just by the score of 24 to 7.

.m., All this confusion and double

always been 1 a. m. at! In other games the crowds were

|capacity or near capacity. Some

68,000 watched Ohio State's Bucks: lk simply means that at 2 a. m. squeak through 35 to 34 over Mis-

[daylight savings time in.Indian-/souri and at Minneapolis 63,000 apolis and most other Hoosier/fans watched Minnesota trounce

|1849—the year the State Medical Central Standard Time.

Association was founded.

The women doctces will join {with physicians’ wives after the program to hear Emily Kimbrough, Hoosier author and lecturer, present a recital of her recent European trip. She will speak opr jr on “Chips Off the Young Block.”

A Hoosier doctor selected as English Ave. last night. the “General Practitioner of the, Police aguads, firemen, neigh-! . Year” will be honored at the an- bors {nual dinner Thursday night. Dr. {A. P. Hauss, association presi- and finally heard Roy ¢rying for |dent, will preside and Dr. Cleon his daddy, Roy Sr.. and his grand- . Nafe will present the award. mother, Mrs. Robert Orr.

“Are You Lonely? Are You Blue? —

Dates For Hire Here Co

Little Red-Haired Woman Runs Club

Missing Boy Found Safe in Car

Object of a five-hour neighborhood search,

with flashlights beat

[cities Yaded out of the picture. The Washington 48 to 20. Inlcity is now legally operating on|

It was a tough day for the state

{of Indiana's Big Nine representa-

{6 at South Bend as the Irish of. —— : Notre Dame rolled out another who had cast them in the under- but the remainder of the day In tered the county jail.

“five-year-old Roy by Northwestern's was found in-a parked champions at Evanston. automobile near his home at 2310

tives. Indiana went down 49 to

mighty juggernaut. Purdue - was socked 20 to 6 Rose Bowl

It wasn't a surprise for Butler, {Indiana and Purdue to have been beaten, but partisan fans had

the hoped the scorés might have been

'brush in the vicinity of the home just a little closer.

Biggest upset of the day came when Villanova beat Penn State

| stories of games,

interest standpoint in the history

Evansville 24, Butler 2

Michigan 7, Michigan State 3, Illinois 20, Towa State 20.

Minnesota 48, Washington 20. Villanova 27, Penn State 6. Army 47, Davidson 7.

Pittsburgh 13, William & Mary 7.

Princeton 26, Lafayette 14. Columbia 27, Amherst 7. Rose Poly 14, McKendree 6.

“1. and College Ave:

! called Police Lt.

Goes 6 Miles To Report Panther On Far N. Side

LATEST to see the phantom panther last night was a woman who roared into Hotel Lincoln to report she had seen Beast at Soth 8. She did not explain to the telephone operator who promptly Jack Small why she didn't call from the North Side instead of going to the hotel.

. » ” UP TO AN early hour today the panther had not been actually seen and police were inclined to put him in the same classification as the Thorntown Gorilla and the Churubusco Turtle. Police spent all night checking the South Side for the panther which was reported to have escaped from a phantom circus wagon. (Picture of the “panther” on

| Page 3.

Spots of Frost Won't Deter Sun

Hanover 42, Canterbury 0.

Complete football scores, diagramed

photos. . . . Pages 33 to 36.

dog spot all week.

Nearest after that to an upset the nicest fall day you could'said, he retained the firm of happened at Columbus, O., when dream of,” the weatherman said. Townsend and Townsend to de-

Missouri confounded the experts

by nearly whipping Ohio State's degrees early today and possible cost him $525. In early 1949, . heavily favored Bucks but finally frost in low lying places.- A bril- Travers declared, Missouri was in !llant sun should push the mercury.

was Towa State's 20 to 20 tie with warmer air from the Gulf region

Hardy souls who stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to set their clocks back an hour

—. may have seen frost in some spots

Indianapolis will be “just about

He predicted a low of 38 to 40

Increasingly cloudy skies were expected. to accompany slightly

lost 35 to 24. . striking distance in the last three to 75 this afternoon. minutes. Alsa in the near-upset class

tomorrow. .

Which Furnishes Company for a Fee

more for each date you get. per date.

and finally matched for a date through Indianapolis’ lonely hearts dating service. The experience had its drawbacks. My first date proved to be a stand up and I was knock-

Sucessful, that is, after having paid my date's $3 fee. It is not an adolescent date bureau. It is for adits, for men and women of middle age or | older who seek the companion- { ship of the opposite sex,

. . . r THE tiny, red-hajred woman who operates what she calls an “introductory service for men

| time, however, I was successful, f

when I knocked. She surveyed | me critically when I entered the apartment she

| ridian Club. It's. at 2456 N. Meridian St. .

: “Yes,” she told me, “I can | get you a date with almost any

iy pi?

If you are a woman you pay a $3 registration fee and $3

ing on empty doors. The second .

and women” answered the door

ates under the name of the Me-

By CLIFFORD THURMAN

Yo can buy a date in Indianapolis for a fee. If you are a man, it will cost you $4 to register with the date bureau and $3

It cost me exactly $12 to be personalized, specialized, analyzed

kind of lady you want. I have + all kinds listed in. my books. “Just tell me what you want. What sort of a girl do you like? An intellectual one? Fast one? Slow one?” «» The little red-haired woman was wearing red lounging paJamas, topped with a feathery sort of jacket and she sat atop

a bed with a red spread. There .. #

were red carpets, red lamp shades, mahogany furniture and red bric-a-brac. The little red lamps were glowing. Comes the inquisition of a new member, : “Stand up,” she demanded after recording my name, age, height, weight and occupation, “What do you look like?" ” ” . ALL this time she was dialing a number and she was talking in a throaty, low voice before 1 had time to answer. : “He says he's 43," she was telling someone on Tae ; fw

me Fast Or ore ie

27 to 6 to upset also the experts

of the line. “I guess he is about that. He looks it. He isn't very tall and he's a little heavy. Nice, though, He seems nice.” “Well,” the little red-haired lady told me, “you may like this

girl and you may not, I had an- '

other in mind but she’s engaged “ for the evening. This one, however, is all right, She's a school teacher. She's taller than you and a little on the heavy side, but maybe she'll be what you want.” © ’ I stood up then, among all

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Slow Or Simply Brainy

But It's Well for a Man to Be Wary Lest His Lady Friend Deal on the Cuff

that red plush and” dém light and got ready to go. “That'll be $4,” the little redhaired lady announced in a very business-like manner. “It should be $5 but I'm making a special exception tonight. You may not like this girl.” a » » ” T PAID the $4 and in return got a card with an address on the back. Théré was a name there, too. Something went vrong, though. When 1 reached my destination, the number the

. date bureau lady had given me,

my date wasn't home. Hurrying back to the date tureau I knocked again and the red-haired lady -cracked the door, She'd gone to bed; she said, and what did I want? I told her I couldn't find my date snd mentioned my $4. “Come back tomorrow,” the red-haired lady sald, “you must have gotten there too late.” I didn’t insist, especially since the red-haired lady slammed the door in my face. I did telephone the-next afternoon, however, and was invited to.come out again, ““Come, in, come in,” she said cheerily when I arrived.on the : “second night. “I have been In’. touch with the first girl I had"

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in mind for you and she's avallable ‘tonight. Come on in until I telephone.”

She telephoned then and after a brief discussion In which I heard myself thoroughly described again, the redhaired lady bounced back into the room and told me everything was-arranged. “There's one little matter” she said. “She hasn't paid her fee yet. I wonder if you'd want to pay it? It will be $3.

» » ~ I PAID the $3 for my companion’'s fee and received another card with name and addreds.) This time my date was ready and waiting when I arrived -at her apartment. Her time was all mine, she said, whatever I wanted to do she wanted to do, I told her then that this wasn't “really -a date, I had only wanted to find out what the bureau was and how the date service worked. It only ‘cost me $12 to find out. She shrugged her shoulders and I took her home. The date service will get her other dates, 1 guess. fi i LE Dh Ce "11:00 AW. te 3:30 FM.

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{resent Travers.

shave criminal records. |

There Ever Since Travers has been there ever since. He wasn't sure when his trial would be held. Neither, was Judge Bain. Neither was Prosecutor George 8. Dalley.

He was without an attorne until last Friday. # By that time the prison-to-§g courthouse “grapevine” was buzs-

was out -that The JE

said. Fis Late Friday afternoon he was hustled from the jail and over to Judge Bain’s courtroom. Within a matter of minutes, Public Defender John O. Lewis appeared and was assigned to rep-

Judge Bain set Travers’ trial for tomorrow morning.

Admit Their- Past Most of the men I talked to {are hardened criminals. They ad- ; {mit it. And none claims to he and told me they were dropping an “angel.” Like Travers, they all out of the case.” “We couldn't do you any They have been in and out of good” Travers quoted the lawyer {jail most of their lives, Their pre- as saying. Travers said the lawyer |vious mailing addresses would in-| dismissed the issue by saying etude Sing Sing, Folsom, Michi- “There's too much heat on you. gan City, Joliet and Lewisburg. You're a dead duck.” - All state and federal prisons. | And that was that,” Travers While admitting their criminal Said. “Here I am still in the clink, |pasts, the only thing these men|and my 500 bucks took off on {ask for, is a “decent break.” This|legal wings. How can you beat they say is something hard to, that? a come by in -Indiana. But more, Farl Townsend said the firm specifically, Indianapolis. was retained by Travers but he | Travers told me he had access depiod ceiving Yb. Yowisend to. “stashed funds” when he en- said, “that we were paid $200 by his brother-in-law, Richard Craig. After we dropped out of the case, we returned $100 to Mr. Craig. We have his receipt,” he said. 4 The prisoners told me of being dragged from the poke” to the

Donald E. Travers . . . still without trial after || months in jail.

Shortly after his arrest, Travers

fend him. He said this service

“one of the pap firm's members came to see me (Continued on Page 2-—Col. 7)

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| Tweed costumes look wonderful with copper jewelry, says Louise Fletcher in “Counter Spy.” ... It's old home week in Katy Atkins’ column. . . . All about the Hoosier Kennel Club's show in Marjorie Turk’'s “In a Personal

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says a Hoosier traveler, Mary Studebaker. ... Page

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