Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1950 — Page 3

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* posed of men and women from

for staff workers. ~~ It also called for election of the!

“Acheson in obtaining her hus-

_ headed by Frank Beatty, Kekomo|

fe Rate He we ~ For 3d Year

National Trend Reversed in County, | Annual Report Says

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ When World War II ended, and the boys came marching home, Marion County noted a sharp rise in crime. What amazed. the police, however, came as a shock to most parents. The young men. who went off to foreign shores were not bandits preying upon helpless. civilians with lessons learned ‘under arms. The crime wave was almost wholly conducted by teen-age boys and girls, the victims of ‘an era of loose morals, night factory

“shifts and “live while you can.” |

Gradually, the juvenile de~ linquents became a major police problem. Se Delinquent Types Marion County welfare workers learned that there were two kinds of juvenile delinquents—kids who were “too poor” and others who were “too rich.” The. Marion - County Juvenile Court was flooded with cases, turned over by a Juvenile Aid Division up to its ears in work tracking down hoodlums junior! grade, Together with the Juvenile Ald Division and the Welfare Department, the Juvenile Court staff and the Juvenile Court Advisory Council worked to improve conditions. In an annual report released yesterday, the Juvenile Court proudly announced that juvenile delinquency has declined for the third consecutive -year in Marion County. The report quoted Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics) ‘which showed that Marion County reversed the national trend in Junior crime. Juvenile Court Judge Joseph 0. | Hoffman released the report pre-| pared by his chief probation officer, Charles H. Boswell. The Juvenile Court staff attributes the — county's

council, The council, headed by Charles D. Brownson, is com-

all walks of life who devote their time to child problems. The report, noting that “conservation of human resources is more important than conservation of natural resources,” for the end of political patronage Jobs in the Juvenile Court staff, The report urged a merit system

Juvenile Court judge on a nonpartisan ticket.

The-report said the major need, —of the Juvenile Court ‘was an in=

crease in salary for staff workers. Also, the report labeled as an urgent need, adequate recreation facilities for boys and girls detained at the Juvenile Center.

To Talk With Acheson To Talk With Acsheson

called |

VIENNA, Mar. 1 (UP)—Mrs.

Robert A. Vogeler, wife of the

American business man who was sentenced to 15 “ears In prison for spying against - Hungary, hoped today the American offer to release convicted Soviet spy Valentin Gubitchev would influence the Hungarians to release) her husband. Mrs. Vienna while her husband was| tried, said she will fly to London next month to seek the help of U. 8. Secretary of State Dean

band’s release. Mr. Acheson is] tentatively scheduled to be in| London next month.

State Roundup—

“State School Group May _Enter Inquiry at Kokomo

Mrs. Kathleen South gazes at a picture of her baby, Linda Kay (inset).

From Her Mother Vanish

‘I'd Steal, Rob and

Father and Tot He Snatched

——=yecord’ mainly to the advisory

Slave to Have Her

Back’; Long Hunt for Parent Futile

By IRVING

LEIBOWITZ

KATHLEEN SOUTH would do anything in the world to get

her baby back. “Id steal, rob ... I'd work, I want my baby.”

slave, anything,” she cries. “But

Kathleen can’ have her baby. She doesn't even know where the baby is.

Two - year - old Linda Kay. ‘South’ was snatched from her |

mother’s arms by her father,

Willard South.

father. 80 does Juvenile Court Judge Joseph O. Hoffman, who made the baby a ward of Marion County and granted the mother full custody. The Juvenile Court and city police want Willard South to explain his action that sunny October Sunday last year when he grabbed Linda. He never returned. - - Ld

LINDA KAY and her mother had just come home from a

Sunday School class at the

Northside Baptist Church.

She had planned to take Lin- |

da out to see her grandmother,

Vogelér, . who waited In|still confined in a hospital.

But her husband insisted they go out to the drug store for candy. He was trying to make his wife take him back.

He had tried continually, ever

since Superior Court Judge

Head of Committee to Confer With Members on Investigation Plans ; KOKOMO, Mar. 11—An adult-pupil committee investigating Ko-

~ komo school’ operation will focus its attention on Chicago next “Sunday.

Dr. Carl Franzen, of the Indiana. ‘State Committee of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, will meet] with association members then to consider bringing the organization |

“Into the investigation.

* The probe would be similar to | one held in Anderson several

months ago.

City police want Linda's

J | originally planned th help finance |

remodeling of the church, will go! in a fund to build a new church.!

The Kokome committee is the BENEFIT PROGRAM

outgrowth of a high school strike here last January when pupils]

~~walked out of Class In protest of ma

Times State Service

Lafayette, Mar. 11 — ~Approxi-

tely-100-persons-rd action relieving the to attend the first of two stateschoo) board coach of his coach- wide insect and rodent control

ing duties.

Demanded Stnce then, the local committee,

labor leader, has demanded resig-! nation of the school administra-|, tors. They have also asked that |

the school board be expanded

from three to five members.

Committeemen have indicated ST

that they believe labor should be| represented on the board. Several Kokomo civic organi-| zations have publicly indorsed the

~ present school board and Superin-

tendent O. M. Swihart. The board has meanwhile declared itself] agreeable to an investigation to

give the administration a “clean|at Purdue University Friday and

bill of health.”

conferences at Purdue University ‘Monday and Tuesday. —

G. C. Oderkirk of the Fish and] said practical ‘courses on

be offered.

tural services, will open the pro-| am. L. E. Hoffman, director of| agtiewnural extension, will preside

PROFESSIONAL MEETING SET

YETTE, Mar, 11 — An-|

LAFAYETT |nual professional conference of {the Indiana Speech and Hearing | Therapy Association will be held!’

| Saturday.

The 1950 census may SWIng gponsored by the Indiana So-|

Kokomo’s status to a second class] city, making a larger school board’ mandatory. EXPECT 100 AT PARTY Times State Service. - CHARLOTTESVILLE, Mar.’ ~The Amphion Male Chorus nl Anderson, an independent pro-| fessional group, will put on a

* benefit program at 7:30 p. m. to-| / morrow in the Charlottesville

ciety for Crippled Children, the | conference is a part of an educational program for aiding crippled, | children and adults. : z

| LIBRARIANS. TO TO CONV ENE mes State Servic TERRE "HAUTE, Mar. n-—

[More “than 100 librarians and {library assistants of Central and’ Southern Indiana - high schools iwill attend a Library Career Day program at Indiana State Teach-

H. J. Reed, director of agricur-

8,640 STILLS SEIZE

Kathleen a divorce. But it was no go.

~to-him.— That was whes Te yanked little Linda from her mother's arms and never returned. ” » » AT FIRST, Kathleen thought he” would come back with the baby. She waited, hopefully, never giving up. She got a job, working and praying her baby would come back. Every so often, Kathleen goes to the police. She even went to the FBI. She saved money and hired a private detective. Still no luck, The earth seemed to “have swallowed her husband and | baby. { Once a week, Kathleen trudges up the eerie, tree-lined {walk leading to the Hospital to visit her mother, who doesn’t; |know Linda Kay is gone. “I couldn't tell my mom,” Kathleen says. “It might make her worse.” S80 Kathléen plays make-be-lieve every week with Linda's grandmother. She tells her little

So 1 whité ‘lies “about what Linda |

said — what Linda did — where Linda went.

.} “EVERY NOW _and then she.

| asks why don’t I bring Linda with me,” Kathleen sobs. “And I make up something about her taking a nap or playing.” When Christmas came, Kathleen sat in her rented room, fondling the toys and dresses ‘her baby has never “geen, — They are “still Christmaswrapped, waiting to be Opened at 1562 E. 10th St.

a double-holiday. Linda was born Christmas Day and was |. going to celebrate her send birthday.

grudge-against-her-

“I don’t want anything from |

him,” she promises. “I'll even let him see the baby, if he'll only | bring her home to me.” -

Wildlife Service at Purdue Univer- Teen _Agers Admit sity,

{habits of insects and rodents will

Theft of Five Cars

jon a stolen-car charge, last night {admitted the theft of fiv. auto[mobiles in two months.

Both were arrested in Sunshine) {Gardens yesterday after Deputy

{Sheriff James Evans, acting on fa tip; caught one of them stand{ing beside a new ‘car taken Fri-

day night from a downtown park-

ing lot.

The two, both 17, were taken {to Juvenile Aid Division. They {said their system ‘was to pick

up discarded 1949 license plates

{and substitute them for original {plates on the cars they stole, {drove around several days and {abandoned. {| The system broke down after Mar. 1, when use of 1950. plates ‘became mandatory, “The plates found on the car yestérday were

‘stolen Friday night in the. South!

Side, deputies said.-

Dies in New York

John. Niblack refused to. grant -

Kathleen refused to go back

‘Christmas was to ‘have been |

But Kathleen doesn’t hold 2 “husband

Two teen-age Sunshine Gar-|

den youths, arrested yesterday,

Brock Pemberton

_|Feming Cites

was estimated, however,

On Auto Tags

Acts to Correct ‘Slipshod Methods’ - Costly to Many Units By ROBERT BLOEM 1

Secretary of State Charles, Fleming said yesterday that for-| mer “slipshod” methods of tabu-|

lating vehicle registrations had!

cost certain counties thousands. of dollars.” » Marion County, he said, was one of the counties which. * ‘appar-| ently has not been getting its fair| share of highway funds” because] of the system. He said the new county-count of vehicle registra | tions recently given to State Audi-!| tor James Propst had straight. | ned out the inequities, “There is no danger of such a

“untold

{development in the future” Mr.|

Fleming said.

license plates in their home coun-| ties assures a fair tabulation for| the distribution of highw a yl funds.”

Because only a small part of the motor vehicle funds collected by the state are distributed on the basis of registrations, the amounts are not impressive. It that Marion County benefited by $50,000 to $75,000 because of count changes for 1949. Many Lose Out However, Mrs. Fleming said, there were indications certain counties had been getting less than their share of these funds for years, “The total amount of” loss to counties like Marion County

Fleming said. In 1948, Mr. Fleming said, 91 of the state's 92 counties showed an increase in motor vehicle registrations. Because the returns are based on proportion, most counties got about the same share of highway funds for county use as they had received for 1947. A recheck of the figures, which

‘He's Been Dating "> Gir—

Confesses Faking Holdup, ‘Naming Rival fo Get Even

. {one involved is guilty of any crime.

over the license plate. "

“The present sys work, but hadn't gotten far when tem of requiring motorists to buy| the cab driver called Mr. Evans,

probably is very substantial,” Mr.}|

To Enter 24

Fails fo Select Jury” After Five-Day Effort

By DONNA MIKELS Times Staff Writer COLUMBUS, Mar. 11—Robert Austin Watts’ second trial in the it began last Wednesday. A. cab driver called- from 38th. St. murder and Shadeland Dr. to say there had been a hold-up. | jdianapolis housewife, will enter He went into elaborate detail, how he Had picked up fare at the its . second week Monday, still {bus station and driven him to! ijury-less. 30th St. and Shadeland Dr. his office, and proceeded - along| Five days of tedious question< “There,” he said, “the fare the line the original story - ‘was ing and cross-questioning of pros pulled a gun and took $14 from false. " pective jurors ‘ended yesterday = me. We were parked in front of! Confesses Faking ‘without. a jury being seated. |another car at the time. The Soon the driver broke down, For the third consecutive day | robber got out of my cab and told admitted he had made up the court had to be closed early be me to drive on.” Istory. He said he had thought cause the supply of veniremen ore Followed Orders to “kill two _ birds with one!dered im for that day Was exe

| stone.” .hausted. “1 did," the cabby said. “In my| “I gqt a late start that morn- Forty more Bartholomew Couns

rear view mirror, I saw him geting” his statement reads, “and I re ordered into the other car. It was a black knew I wouldn't clear $20 for the Nord ere stl hae 1937 coupe, and it had a cloth/day. We have to make $20 during selected by the time these are ex= the day or we can't take our cabs hausted there will remain less “I can identify that car,” he home with us for the night.” than 100 on the panel of 350 told Deputy Evans. _1_ “I had taken’ in only $8.90, 50 J oRiremen drawn for. this trial, -

“But Sheriff Can't Jail Taxi Driver Because Law Doesn't Cover County By BOB BOURNE

Sheriff's Investigator James Evans has a problem. He has. solved a reported robbery, but has discovered that no!

The sheriff's office went “to I decided to fake the robbery.” residing Judge George W. Long “Then I" saw this other guy. might have to draw another panel {He's been dating my girl, and I of prospective jurors. wanted to get even with him.” | Watts is being tried the second Deputy Evans traced registra-| Wolly Shen yan: had the time for the November, 1947, | wha slaying of Mrs, Burney. 2 was tion of the license plates and ry, city has an ordinance/tried sentenced to die int found the car was registered to| against making a false crime re-\January, 1948. A subsequent Sues a man who worked in the vi- port. The county is not so covered. preme . Court . opinion snatched cinity of the holdup. The man! {The cabby will go free and the him from the electric chair and. in question had a perfect alibi. {innocent man will receive noth- gave him tfie new trial which is. Mr. Evans called the cabby into! Ing for his inconvenience, DOW in progress.

and said he had spotted the car.

i :

«STRAUSS SAYS: TRADITION WITH A TOUCH OF TOMORROW “x "

‘were tabulated by holdover. Sh i a Tr 1 from the previous admincounties 3

Stage Producer

"istration, showed many in the 1948 count were “heavily padded,” Mr. Fleming said. “The total number of county registrations in 1948 was 25,000 greater than the number of li-

Stricken in Home

‘Theatrical producer Brock Pem- | berton died of a heart attack late | today in his New York apartment. He was 64. Friends said Mr. Pemberton

turning home from his office,

income, tax reforts. His. wife, Mrs, Margaret. McCoy Pemberton, was with him when he died. The famed producer, during his {three decades in the theater, was {as well known for bringing new talent into the dramatic world as for producing good plays. He introduced Walter Houston, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert and Frederick March, to the stage and presented the first plays of Maxwell Anderson, S8idney Howard and Zona Gale. ‘Harvey’ Was Last Hit __Mr. Pemberton’s last big Broadway hit was the Pulitzer prize! winning show “Harvey,” one ‘of! the biggest money-making shows | of all time. Only a few weeks ago Mr. Pem- | | berton played the leading “Har- | vey” role of Elwood P. Dowd,! whose best friend is a gigantic]

imaginary rabbit, for one week]

-at a community theater in Phoenix, Ariz, He recently concluded! [a $1 million deal in Hollywood to| film “Harvey.” Mr. Pemberton had suffered from heart trouble for the past three years and had had several other serious attacks, but his] death came unexpectedly. The producer, born in Leavenworth, Kas., was a newspaperman [and drama “critic before he turned |to producing in 1920. His first {show was “Enter Madame,” which was an immediate success. His greatest hit shows included “Miss Lalu Bett,” which won a Pulitzer prize, “Strictly Dishonorable” and “Kiss the Boys Goodbye”

NEW YORK, Mar. 11 (UP)—|

was. stricken suddenly. after re.

where he had been working on |

cense plates sold by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles,” Mr. Fleming |said. “In fact; if they had padded on another 10,000 they would {have exceeded the total number fof license plates manufactured {that year.” -

~-14;000 Increase -

Mr. Fleming said, 1949 registra{tion totals for use in distributing this years revenues increased only about 14,000. “Yet the Bureau collected nearly $1 million for those 14,000

tion's figures could be considered correct,” Mr. Fleming said. Mr. Fleming said he could see no indication of politics as a reason for padding the plate lists. He said it was simply a case of “slipshod operation” that deprived Marion and several other coun-

way funds. . | According to the new county. registration count about two] dozen counties will receive an in-| creased share of road funds. All| {the rest will receive a smaller {share than in recent years de|spite the increased registrations for the state as a Whole.

—

‘Dr. Sander and Wife ‘Take Rest After Trial

CANDIA, N. H., Mar. 11 (UP)

—The medical career -of Dr. Her-|-

mann N. Sander still hung in the

balance today as be and his wife] .

feft town to rest and relax after

his three week trial on a charge|

of committing a mercy murder. The first hint as to whether the

41-year-old physician. will be. al-{. _....

lowed to resume his practice will come tomorrow when: the House of Delegates of the New Hampshire Medical Society will mead | to decide whether he shotild be ‘ex: pelled, censured or approved .as

result of the death of Mrs. Abbie )

+e Borroto.

As a result of the palling.”

plates if the previous administra-|-

ties of their-fair share of high- ;

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Of course his clothes Lia come from

Photo by Liova

Knowledge—And Only 10 Cents

\ Kida tr Ti Twa. Hoosiers

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5. Walton, “Tomita. Stat. Pratosrestr.the street fo

hi the STH FLOOR)

Of course the word MUST is not used in the sense of compulsion—nor in a legalistic way!

mmr ——————A——

~ But if he is fo have the fullest comforts—and the - deepest satisfactions (and enjoyments}-in his outlook on life!—his clothes MUST come from his. favorite store!

You know how perfectly natural it is for him to prefer clothes from The Man's Store—This instinct comes from

: “Boys 2 to 22 are cutfitted: .

down deep—it begins in his early years—it continues on through his high school ages—{and through the decades

beyond).

And the best part of it all is—that these clothes that contribute so much to his joy—are likewise, in-the long run,

the most lenient clothes on the paferne! purse!

'SAMPECK UNDERGRAD SOL FLETCHER

—and other great names in the

Young Man's Clothes world!

The famous SIXTH floor! :

“L. STRAUSS & C0, INC. TE MANS STORE

DAVID COPPERFIELD Ly KAYNEE SAFETY LEGION