Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1950 — Page 1
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10 Days in the Poorhouse— 3 No Health Test Given Julietta Food Server
45 Bedhug Bites in One Night Close Casually Hired ‘Attendant’s’ Eye
“For 10 days Times Reporter Bob Bourne worked as -a ward - attendant's helper in Julietta, Marion County-Home. This article continues his day- by-day experiences; detaifing conditions in the institution.
~ By BOB BOU RNE I SQUINTED into the mirror to look at my right eye, swollen shut with bedbug bites. This was the morning after my first night spent at
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I counted 45 nasty, red welts on my body. A toe on my right foot- Was 50 swollene vo TR ~of “beard, 1 could I couldn’t put on my shoe. [use a steady job.”
Then Iwas ted through a long, Bedbugs had made the 4imly lighted hall toward I night one of. misery. The smell quarters. In a wide space, where . of stale urine soaked in the mat- the new building joins. the old, cored ESS Si SINE RY DASE Sc SOBA Piehewatehed television. Lsapipaepgt-he fare Wee They stared at-me—one-satd- ast “ployed. without salary. I. had come passed; in and Supt. Harrv.-Barrett hired “What you in for, Bud? “me, a bum off the read. I was 1 was shown my new home in given no physical examination and Ward 9 by Assistance Supt.°San .. supplied the home with no per- Cline. . Ward Attendant sonal data, Yet within 12 hours I Baker was lying down in his room was serving food to the residents. When we arrived. As far as the administration of “Just trying to get a lfttle rest,” the home knew. I could have been he said. a disease carrier or could have Here's been running from the law. Bike, d healthy “We'll find something for vou,” . DE a Lv
a: . a ! good on a mop.” Mr Barrett said when I was taken = «og. Mr. Baker said. “We to his office.
could use Some',help We haven't
2- new man for you, Mr.- Cline said. “He looks He should be
“If you get along here do you been doing too**good since our think you'd like to stay?” he last janitor got sent to the state asked. : farm for 90 days on that drunk “Well,” I said, rubbing four charge.”
“This Ain't a Bad Go at All’
“COME with me,” Mr, Baker said, “I'll see if we can't find vou
a bed. We should have an empty one around here somewhere.” We stopped in a very warm room, where the windows were closed.
“This one ought to do all right,” Mr. Baker said, indicating a bed by the inside wall. “Man who slept here died a few weeks ago. I'll see if I can't get you a clean] sheet.” He stepped across the hall to a room and unlocked the door. The
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As we walked along “the hall, Mr. Baker said: “This ain’t a bad go here, there ain't much work, and the bigwigs
R : on room was a large closet with bins (Continued on Page 9—-Col. 6) .00! of clothes, a-store of tobacco and matches, -and a shelf of drugs, Williams Gets Edge —— : One of the bottles read, “Prieno. In Michigan Count barbital.’ DETROIT, Nov. 13 {UP)—Gov.
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He reached to a top ‘shelf for a clean sheet. It didn’t feel like a sheet. The téxture of the material was too rough: They make them in the home 4s an economy ‘measure. Then he handed mé a rag. the size of a tea towel -made of the
into the lead in the for governor. today on the basis of New Macomb County totals. With the correction, Gov. Williams took a 607 vote edge over former Gov. Harry F. Kelly: The new state totals with only seven coun:ies still to. report offi-
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Feeney’s Fu Flags At Half Staff,
Julietta, the Marien County "Home, as a ward “attendant’s|
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G. Mennen Williams jumped back
Promise Proke Of County Home
Dailey, Fairchild Pledge Speedy Action
-By BOB BOURNE The Marion County prosecutor and prosecutor-elect today prom-
ised all-out investigation of conditions at the. Marion County Home. Two County - Commissioners, meanwhile, -said they were ‘“in-
clined to discount reports of the
|home - reported in vesterday's Times.” Prosecutor George 8S. Dailey -land Prosecutor-elect Frank H.
| Fairchild—satd—today they would
order investigations immediately. Mr. Dailey said: “The: Grand {Jury will: be ready.to hear the evidence the Times has gathered Wednesday."
~ Mr. Fairchild, who will take office Jan. 1, said he had begun a small investigation “on his
own” and would be glad to chime in with the Times investigation: ‘Stories Stink’ ~I-have-heard stortex: abr thet: inser Fatrehitd:
_ the stories I hear stink.’
“People came-to me with stories to tell; and I was amazed Mr. Fairchild, who will Nov. 18 as a ‘member County Council, said: “As a member of the County Couneil, I want to. know where the money we gave the home has disappeared to. We ‘gave. them nearly everything they asked for. We were a thrifty "Council, - but we didn’t pinch old peoples” Meanwhile, County Commissioners William Bosson and Fred
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'Get Something Done,’ New Legion Chief Declares Here
Commander Cocke Gives His Policy
By CLIFFORD THURMAN A two-fisted, dynamic.Georgian “invaded” : ‘Indianapolis today with all the force and power of a combat division. 3 He is Erle Cocke Jr. new national commander of the American Legion. More than one Legion ¢ommander attending today’s session at National Legion Headquarters
nursed a smarting hahd after the
-year-o shook with them. “What this job needs is some-
one to get something done,” the | Southerner whe denies he has an:
accent (“everyone else has. an accent but not I") he declared.
“We've got a fighting team of ‘young World War II veterans and
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—Phote Weftage b Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Veetogeaptor City Hall is dark . . . Gone is the light that was-Mayor -Al- Feeney,
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofice
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Bayt Sworn in Office
After Mayor Collapses And Dies at Banquet |
Noted as Fighter of ‘Punk Criminals’; FE Served as Sheriff and State Police Head By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Ci The American flag fluttered at half staff today over fv “layor°Feeney's beloved City Hall. « Mayor Al was dead and his city was in mourning. - Albert G. Feeney was the second consecutive Mayor fo die in office here. Mayor Robert Tyndall also died in office « in 1947. id
Mr. Feeney's- opponent in -the 2 2 & R 8
mayoralty race, William H. “= Bayt Voli State of Mourning .
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The body of Mayor Feney will lie ,in state at Kirby Mortuary from 2 p. m. today until requiem
victims of heart attacks. services at 10 a. ,
at St. Joan of Arc Catholic ~5 : Church. rae Swarm in ge 300 » Burial will be in Holy Cross ayor ot In ian pay Cemetery. y apolis
In his first official act, Mayer Phillip Bayt today proclaimed & day of mourning in the city for the late Mayor Feeney. Mr, Bayt, the former city cone rs
An honor guard of policemen! and firemen will ring the Mortuary. Mayor
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30th mayor at 4 p. m. w pendent politicians in modern by City Clerk Richard Stewart mes. A Democrat all his life, oo 4101 fue hours after Mayor the Mayor fought his own party! Feeney died yo on as he attacked the op-' o14¢imers around City Hall He based his - political philos- said Mr. Bayt, who is 40, is the aphy « on an old time-honored ax- youngest mayor in Indianapolis E history. Records .were not coms= Other stories, photos, Pages 2, 3, Plete on ages of former mayors i 9 and 11; Editorial, J. Hugh here. 1 O'Donnell sketch, Page 12. Without fanfare, the swearing in ceremonies were completed in iom—“Good government is good City Hall while many In th politics.” streets had not yet learned of Wielding a big stick, Mayor Al the mayor’s passing. clubbed the gamblers off the! Mr. Bayt, ordering city flags = streets all of his years in public/to fly at half staff, said Mayor E service. As State Police head, he Feeney was the greatest friend reorganized the department un-|1 ever had. He treated me like a der Gov. Paul McNutt, and, as|father.” : Marion County Sheriff, he drove, Today, Mayor Bayt takes on { the gamblers to cover. |the responsibility of running the | ‘Cop at Heart’ |complex city machinery. 28 As Mayor, he transformed the, No Present Changes J police department into a hard-| He said there would be no hitting anti-crime force. He often changes in #ny of the city de- | said his football days-at the- Uni- partments for the present.”
Al Feeney, a Born Fighter, | ‘Caught Public Imagination
Bucked Organization Democrats to Win Indianapolis’ No. 1 Position on His Own
By
When Al Feeney
DAVID WATSON was elected: Mayor,
everybody went upstairs
to the second floor apartment where the Feeneys lived on Central
and hugged Mom. Mom Feeney was boy was Mayor. She Mom Feeney lived only long “Mayor Al’ Under the big color picture of” Mom Feeney that still. hangs in his City Hall office, Mayor Fee: ney often spoke of visiting his mother’s birthplace, Paris, Ky. He made the trip last week, five davs before he died. Mom Feeney was proud of her boy, "Al Even when he came home from Manual High School with a black eye or two, MOM was proud of him. : A South Sider hy birth, he was born on Missouri St. And, if Mom Feeney could look back-on her son's stormy career, heehee Her son-wasmoday Aipredtet able. : But he. alsQq was a neat, friendly, well Sais politician-and-the most eligible bachelor in town at 39 despite his gray hairs. A born fighter, given to throwing punches at people on his own side, he captured the imagination of the public with his victorious ampaign for mayor in 1948, A rebellious Democrat, with His office in his hat; he beat the organization in the mayoralty primary, and won the fall campaign by borrowing a telephone,
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Reds Show Little Offensive Spirit
Allies Advance On Whole Front
_By EARNEST HOBERECHT United-Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO; Tuesday, Nov. 13— United Nations {forces advanced cautiously on virtually the entire lepgthe oftheir 200 Hite Korean frat Monday They pushed to the walled city of Yongbyon and were _ setting a trap for Chinese C ommunists who dented their lines below Tokchon. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division heat back a Communist battalion northeast of Kunu, under heavy mortar fire and ~. pounding from a 76-millimeter gun, while other elements of “the same division ' pushed = ahead three miles to Yongbyon. They did not occupy the town. The cavalry nen, in the third day of the United Nations offensive in northwest Korea, were on their way back to Unsan, 11 more miles to the. north wherc nearly two weeks. ago they took their worst defeat of the war. u Show NG. Spirit They said .the Reds appeared jo be fighting a delaying action
and to .be showing no offensive , spirit. The South Korean 6th, Tth and 8th Divisions were working
laround a Communist wedge in their lines near the eastern end of the Allied: .northwest line, and were attempting to cut off an estimated Chinese division. (At Washington, an Air Force Air Force planes destroyed 49 enemy jet and propeller driven aircraft during .the* period Nov. Nov. 11). The Allied forces also strength-|
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[versity of Notre Dame equipped Patrick Barton, unsuccessful {him for “tough-fights.” “+ —-+Pemoecratic-- candidate for or Aluminum C | His enemies said he was a bate Court in the recent election, “cop at heart, “put Mayor Al was expected to be named City : |said he “never did’ like punk Controller. 0 {criminals.” Like most of the key men in or ll ic 0 | A bachelor, the Mayor spent the administration, Mayor Bayt | k {the greatest portion of his time worked for Mayor Feeney be~ {with youngsters. He formed clubs fore. He was chief deputy under for the city’s youth and con-|Sheriff Feency in 1940. ‘tributed - heavily — and anony: Others in the present adminismously—=to many charities for/tration who served under Mayor youngsters. {Feeney before include Street Death came to Mayor Feeney Commissionar Tony Maio, City on his 59th birthday yesterday./Clerk Richard Stewart, City PurAf City Hali, friends and work- chasing Agent Albert Losche and ers cancelad the birthday cakel/even Miss Bess Bigane, secretary and refreshments they had pur-, in the controller's office. chased for Mayor Al's ‘ ‘surprise’ Passes Bar Test
party. today. While a deputy sheriff, Mayor i He had ‘just concluded a short speech to the Daughters of Isa-| Bayt passed the Indiana State a bella, a Catholic women's grou. lawyer. m 3 in the Travertine Room of the] : ; Lincoln Hotel. Three minutes la-| In January, 1943, the -newlyter, at 10:30 a.m, he slumped to] /seated mayor became a secret the floor. {service man. ‘Mist Be Tolerant’ | © In“Chicago, he cracked a case _ He spoke no. word before he that had baffled authorities for died. Earlier, he had jokingly re- two years. Singlehanded he traced ferred: to a vacation ‘trip he had the author of threatening letters to the Tate President Roosevelt:
For Defense Needs WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UP)! A 35 per cent cutback in use of aluminum for civilian consumer goods, effective Jan. 1, was ordered today by the National Production Authority. The cutback order limits manufacturers of consumer goods to 65 per cent of the average amount of aluminum they used during the first half of this year. They will be allowed tp usa their full normal -eomsumption Shrine the rest of this year, givng them-a month and a half to revise production “schedules and find substitutes for aluminum, if possible. NPA Administrator William H.
: : taken that ,.asted two days. As £ Harrison —said—the cutback was ended his marks some! After that, he was detailed to ordered because ‘‘there is not... on say his face turned white White House duty. 3 enough of this vital metal avail- _ pa aig: Often called the Mayor: of the
“We, as Catholics, must be tol- West Side, where he is political erant of non-Catholics just as kingpin, Mayor Bayt has been a Hsp wuld want them ta be tate -firm-believer-in- the prineiples FART OLE ee May -Feeney-and-le-expected Some 200-women who had as- carry them out,
able currently -to- meetin full-the demands of both the defense proAEA ahaha. expanded. + civilian
Expects Joh Losses 4 the Democrats
. Today's action, he said, “is in- gembled for their annual. Com-| Only’ recently, tended ‘to assure the . aluminum. myunion breakfast sat in stunned have been. booming Mr. Bayt for supply for the nation's .rearmament effort and to permit all (Continued on \ Page 3—Col. 6) (Continued on "Page 5—Col. 4 ; other users to share equitably in 108 8 3 the - available non-military. sup- z ply.” : Mr. Harrison said the order quite likely” will cause some unemployment early next year in
industries using aluminum for civilian goods. Defense needs now call for about 10 per cent of all aluminum supplies, and until this figure is sharply increased. a. lag in aluminum industries’ employment is expected. Today's. cutback order did not specify what uses may be made && of the 65-per cent of aluminum supplies available for consumer , goods. In World War 41, the War production Board limited production! of specific items, but NPA'’s policy is merely to cut back raw ma-!# terials’ and let manufacturers use| their share as they wish.
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