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Sheriff Wants Assembly OK On Merit Plan
Cunningham Also Advocates Metropolitan Police Setup Reorganization of the Marion County Sheriff's office
by action of the Indiana legislature was advocated last
night by Sheriff Cunningham. : Declaring that it is impossible to operate any sheriff's office in the state under present antiquated methods, Sheriff Cunningham proposed: ; : ONE—That the
Indiana, » General Assembly tw» OIEFALOFS Reject merit system for deputy sher-| iffs under which they would take - examinations and become wr | 2IKS With Lewis manent employees like policemen. He Wants Strike OFF
TWO-That a committee be| Til After Christmas
appointed immediately to deter-| mine the feasibility of setting up| a metropolitan police department) ? with city and county law entaree-| WASHINGTON, IN pei 2 ve ment operations under the direc-|, ay ight to supply John tion of a single department. desperately Y {La Lewis with a good reason to Target of criticism ever since . a) off a threatened new soft coal he took office last Jan. 1, Sheriff | o¢rike. Cunningham called upon Marion| They sought to the operaCounty citizens to realize that iors a to I the major shortcomings of coun-ia)] over again. But indications ty law enforcement agencies are were their efforts so far have mainly due to the fundamental!failed. weaknesses in the laws govern-| The strike deadline ing Sheriff office operations. | Wednesday midnight. 8 Men for Patrol i The sheriff declared that 75 Steelman and Federal Mediation
per cent of the growth in popula tion in Marion County during the{hours trying to get coal mine past 10 years comes under the owners to throw out their conjurisdiction of the Sheriff's office tract demands and start new in all law enforcement endeavor. Degotiations with Mr. Lewis,
“In the face of the tremendous unis Ey
population growth, the sheriff's hang office operates along the same Deir position has not a line primarily as it did fo, 20, | Wm. owe wile Ching ye Si) years ago,” he aid. {were said to feel that if the oper-| We have eight men to patroligtors agreed to start from the entire county. Essentially the scratch, Mr. Lewis would postpone servic of the Sheriff's office isithe new strike. the same as it always has been! Mr. Lewis has told associates more of a service for the courts he was willing to scrap his de-| in serving papers than a real law mands and start anew. enforcement agency. | The union's 200-man policy “To have effective law enforce-|Committee, with power to extend
it would be necessary to dimriet York Monday
| Ching line the Sheriff’s office along the , y Lewis and - saing lines of modegn police pro-{d8% Wits Winonester. a Ofieers
ure. “Salaries offered for deputy sheriffs are too low to be attrac.
is next
| Mr. Lewis was believed en ruute “To create a better staff and to New York for the meeting. get both, quantity and quality of See Three Reasons manpower necessary, this office as! Observers were banking on well as every other governmental! three things to swing the commitagency must compete with theitee toward continuing mine operemployment market. lation for at least another month. “The solution would be a sys-| They were: . tem of state-wide application un-! ONE: The bid for renewed neder state regulations as to quali-|gotiations by the Southern Coal fications and higher pay and then Producers Assn. establish a career basis setup with) The Southern operators offered security and a pension plan. {to meet with Mr. Lewis provided “It is ridiculcus to presume thatthe union agreed in advance to perfection in law enforcement can give Southern producers more be obtained under present circum- control over the multi-million stances. {dollar welfare retirement fund “Constitutional prohibitions can 3nd agreed also to stop calling perhaps best be obviated by a| duickie” strikes. statewide program along these| Mr. Lewis made no comment lines.” {but union officials said he didn’t Sheriff Cunpingham did not/| Consider it enough of a proposal to minimize the trouble that some of |T*Sume negotiations.
TWO: The belief that Mr.| his deputy sheriffs have gotten ‘| into in the past few months but Lewis was reluctant to call the|
declared that he was satisfied with |™iners out before Christmas. ‘The | his personnel by and large. | miners have worked only 158 cut | “This will happen in any of 232 working days so far this Sheriff's office,” he declared. [year They have lost an esti-| . | each 'n wages. Hints at Vacancies THREE: Presid 's| The Sheriff disclosed thatiwarning that oo on La ans sometime nthe next few months he Nulious) Emergupey Saco in the department but said there new walkout endangers the 3uY would be no immediate dismissals. tional economy. Mr. Lewis has| He said that better than half|i jicated he wants no part of a| of his deputies had been supplied statutory or nonstatutory fact-| by lists furnished by Democratic) oy, ing board.
ward politicians but added that this system had been followed 10 Bt pron in Shant Supply. years and that it would have been |." 0 spe » id impossible to get job applications |, 4 t > 14 de ixins \ the elsewhere because of low pay and |... .¢ jevel for any week in the
short tenure of office. past 23 years.
Regardless of the shortcomings| Laundry Bandit
of some of his personnel, the| Sheriff 1ashed back at his critics| by declaring ‘that he had “wiped| bling that existed when I took]
office.” An armed bandit slugged a
He also said that he had Progress Laundry watchman last cleaned up a vicious “kangaroo Dight, but police bullets thwarted court” system that had been bit- his attempt to steal an armload!
[of clothing. terly condemned by the Federal * Bureau of Prisons. a srineving police fired two Sheriff Cunningham sald hel ne rom Ui a» —~ of Prisons immediately ater J, Market St. He dropped a large
coming into office; that he hadiv,; als io an alle ¥ received their recommendations; uy, watchman, John Sykes, 60, and had followed them out. isajd the bandit surprised him in “This correspondence is In mMY|,0’ roar of the building and office for anybody who cares 10 g,oueq him on the head with the {gun butt. He took Mr. Syk 1 Chief among the recommenda let containing 2 Sykes’ wal 3 i. | ‘When the bandit began removing of the “kangaroo court,” hé yg clothing from a rack Mr, {Sykes ran downstairs and sum“This \nside-the-jail court PEF moned police. A squad - ed w. he 1 prisoners themselves,” the Sher! Pp an Sah Jen iff declared. ! | aropped to the pavement and He also said that he bad elimi-'g,04 two shots when the man
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Can't Stop Her Party |
Photo by Henry E. Glesing Jr. Times Staff Photographer. What's a little old automobile accident? Not enough to keep "Ann Sheets from her cwn birthday party. Hurrying from her home, 806 Woodlawn Ave., fo the grocery yesterday to buy materials for her birthday cake, Betty Ann, 7, was struck by a car, but only slightly injured. After due deliberation, it was decided
tty Ann could ‘go on with the party, even though her face still |
Be bore streaks of dirt from the accident. The ‘Hard Luck’ Smiths——
Clothe-a-Child Only Hope
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And Children Have Stolen to Get Food By ART WRIGHT CALL THEM the “H.L" Smiths. “H.L" for Hard Luck, The, families appealing to The Times fof Ciothe-a-Child this Christmas, The father is ill, So fil that he can’t hold a job. What little
money he earns is with a pushcart. But that isn’t enough to feed, cloth and pay rent for eight children and a devoted wife,
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27,1940
Predict Early End to State Gas Rationing
PSC Spokesmen Sees No Restrictions
By Next Winter By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The end of gas rationing for industry and homes loomed today in Indiana. Natural gas, the cheap fuel piped to Hoosierland from Texas and Oklahoma, has begun to flow in greater quantities to Indiana cities and towns. Restrictions, born of post-war gas shortages, are coming off slowly but gradually. The Indiana Public Service {Commission already has lifted lcontrols from the Greenfield Gas Co. and the Eastern Indiana Gas Co. Lawrence W, Cannon, ranking member of the PSC and natural gas expert, said it was “the beginning of the end of rationing.” He predicted the lifting of all restrictions by next winter. Asg in Telli The five companies supI with -
The Smiths have been hungry many times. So hungry Of the son's Christmas-Eve ac. that a couple of the older chil- cident and the father’s contindren once were arrested for ued illness, have left nothing for warm clothes for the winter
stealing. “They stole,” says the social « -- not even enough to.fill the / empty stomachs. -
worker who investigated the Smiths’ plight, “because they f. ” were * The social worker AGAIN THERE is a ray of also has high praise for Mrs. hope for a happy Christmas, Smith . . . “good mother, she The Smiths have turned to never neglects her children.” Clothe-A-Child. 2 =» = How many “Hard Luck LAST CHRISTMAS loomed 8Smith” families will ‘be cared as mighty sad for the Smiths. for this Christmas depends They couldn't pay the rent. upon the generous response of While neighbors happily the public with cash to purlooked forward to a fun-packed chase the needed clothing. Christmas, the Smiths worried While “Smith” is not the real about an eviction notice. Some name of this family, they are real Indianapolis family, Clothe-A-Child never discloses the identity of the neighbors it serves. You can help them and hundreds of needy children by sending your checks or money orders—for any amount—NOW to: Clothe-A-Chiid, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland 8t. No contribution is too small or too large for Clothe-A-Child. All are listed in the Times, Persons not wanting their names used should request their contribution be listed as “anonymous.” You also may take Clothe-A-Child children to the stores and outfit them instead of contributing to the fund. Appointments may be made by telephoning Riley 5551.
plight and took up a collection to pay the rent. There was enough money left to provide a Christmas dinner. Now the Smiths’ certainly could look forward to a happy Christmas day. But not for long. Christmas Eve, the mother saw her happy Christmas “bubble” explode when a man brought word that one of her sons had been hit by a truck. His leg was broken. Mrs. Smith, devoted as usual, spent Christ mas Eve in the hospital by his side. “Hard luck” has continued to hound the Smiths. The ill father still is unable to earn a living. Mounting bills because
ly the completion of all Group B facilities in Indiana-—a string of pipe lines to smaller cities and towns, The PSC, which assumed jurisdiction in the gas shortage during a December cold wave in 1946 when supplies were running out, said it.was prepared to “lift restrictions gradually.” Rationing Already Off Thus far, the end of rationing for cities supplied with natural gas has extended only to Fortville, Greensburg, Vincennes and McCordsville. But the. three-year natural gas {drought will be over for most Indiana cities this winter, company officials predict. Next year, gas burners will begin replacing coal and oil gurners
gas
{allow only combination gas and {ofl burners. }
| The cheaper natural gas has|
{been in limited use over the state] {for several years. | In Indianapolis, city officials land civic leaders fought to have natural gas piped into the city. The battle was won this year {when the Federal Power Commis|sion ordered the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility to purchase natural g ¢ for its consumers. Meanwhile, gas companies are
On the Inside
First Section First major changes in high school routine may Affoet YOUP GRIMM. »uius ccs sionasn ert sivieeva Preview of 1950 Indiana Congressional races, .... News of Religion by Emma Rivers Milner. ...... (News, features, Mrs. Manners, Pages 2-14)
Second Section Louise Fletcher and Katy Atkins in two top
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apare, Club Calendar, Gaynor Maddox's and Jean abbert’s recipes, Smith's expert garden ing, Teen of the Week and Teen News, Pages 15-26)
| Third Section Banta Claus looks at Farrington Ave. and goes on - overtime , , . a pictire story of a block full Of Childrem. ........00unstanbennsssvasiiis Bob Bloem's State Politics, World Report, Our Fair City, Washington Colum. su.iisiheivannsde Harold Hartley's Business. ....c.csvsvvenscinens
. (Radio, Record News, House Real Estate News, Henry Butler and the World, Pages 290-40
- Fourth Section Heze Clark's All-State Team. , . . News right out
+ AEC Chief Accused ree 3 0f A-Bomb Plot
columns for women. .. Page 15 CRAB ENA rAN REINS a res WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UP) Easley Blackwood’s Bridge. ...........o0000... Page 16| gen. Bawin C. Johnson (D. (Weddings, Ohristmas Gift Selections, Capital Colo.) today charged retiring
Page 28 editorial in the Washington Post
Page 29 the Senate-House Atomic Energy Page 30 Committee. President Truman yesterday
iF of the Press Box. pers BansERsEIR RRA RAY Page 41m
building up huge natural gas surpluses over the staté preparing to ask the PSC to lift all restrictions within a matter of months.
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Lilienthal Target Of Senator's Charge
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman David BE. Lilienthal with heading a “nefarious plot” to disclose “super bomb” secrets to Britain and Canada.” Mr. Johnson's charge was in reply \to a news story and an
accusing him of divulging secrets which he learned as a member of
ordered Attorney General J, Howard McGrath to tighten up security of atomic And other state ts.
secre Some official sources sald he was motivated by a Nov. 1 statement of an atomic bomb 1000 powerful
Entered as Becond-Class Mattir ‘st Postoffios Indianapolis. Ibdiaoa. Issued
in Hoosle* homes, Most cities now }
Harry Bridges
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War Against Communism . . . No. 1—
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Eugene Dennis
ri from Being Indisnapsiis & teprie ye the die a disillusioned man in Mos- lsm--merely names for. fc nter's ‘icy blasts today, the... yarkin died in Ireland, simi-/ian movements every bit weatherman said last night. freedom bad Temperatures yesterday dipped with communism in 1934 and be-/to be beaten in a shooting. war, to a -chilling 24 shortly after{came a famous and authoritative tin dawn and peaked at 35 in mid-
afternoon at Weir Cook Alrport.) , oo unists was called for Paki yo The day averaged some eight des June, 1919. Before the meeting $400,000 Fire ! 3
grees below normal.
could be held, New York State 2 But the weatherman said the!Sen. Clayton R. Lusk’s commit Rages in Frankfort :
combination of mild westerly rtially cloudHegel and only partially Sous ordered mass raids. Nearly 1000|by bring the mercury up to & NOrmAlle, wy, "oer stood trial. Am season recast i ong A Son tony the 60 were Gitlow and Larkin. here. and tomorrow. Thermometers should dip to the freezing point tonight;
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Federal Court Cases, Other Action May Force Them to Quit
Conviction of 11 Top Leaders Turned = Tide Against Forces of Moscow 4
By PETER EDSON, Times Special Writer For the first time since World War I the Communist Party in America is on the run. Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, in his charge to the jury that convicted the 11 top Communists for conspiring to overthrow the government, made clear that the Come munist Party itself was not on trial. : et Land But there is every indication other pending court cases, plus other federal and
civil action, will drive the Reds underground or force them to quit altogether, The significant trials, and the es: Alger Hiss, perjury. Judith Coplon, spying. Eugene Dennis, Communist secretary, contempt. Harry perjury.
The test case on two of the 10 Hollywood writers, contempt of Congress
fore- power. Left and right-wing So-/p. m., was still
quent articles
sniping by loyal organizations/Subversive it was, Rysiouy and the government has not done Placing the locale of the the job. as “somewhere between the Ate
What is now needed—and what janie Aha the Fathc and phe. the government appears deter- ween y Mexico mined to give—is the knockout|Oreat Lakes." The U. 8. Commu~ blow. But how do you tag such a/Pst party was underground -—- shifty opponent? What is his/®Ven at its birth, fighting style? How did He de- ® =» » velop his present tactics? CLAIMING representation from . n= 32 foreign-born and 25 nativeHERE, BRIEFLY, is an intro- ba mn Srgantmtions, the United duction to communism as it de- unist veloped in thid country: The movement grew on three
main roots: The left wing of the ] World War I Socialist Party, The| iases, fearful of raids by
LW.W., promoter of the wobbly Att idea of “one big union for all” iY. Sen. A. Mitchen Palmer, dee ared:
The ‘many organizations of for-eign-born ‘Socialists, such as the| «pps Communist Party is an illegal organiza-
Russian, Finnish and Ukranian underground, The war of the Communists
Federations, tion.” Perhaps the most Hnponait of these was the Russian Federa- against Ame tion. This outfit declared In 1917! The war iia ag against that it was the sole, rightful Communists was on. ¢ representative of bolshevism in| Where will it end? One fearful America. Over the years this for- prospect is that it may lead into eign influence has been dominant|the third world war. in U, 8. communism. — — the movement was mads in Moss Three pioneers in the party’sicow and then imported into the
Reprieve From Jey | spade work 30 years ago were New World, it is still managed by Blasts Due Today
Warming westerly winds will| born
John Reed, the Harvard-educated Moscow today.: + newspaperman; Jim Larkin, Irish) Some say you can't kill an patriot, and ‘Benjamin Gitlow, with a gun. Nevertheless, it here of Russian parents. not be forgotten that Reed expatriated himself only to|fascism and Japanese
larly disillusioned. Gitlow broke gerous to American
Tomorrow: The raids, historian of its innermost feuds.| first effort to curb the wh A i t—— %
The first national Conference
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