Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1951 — Page 1

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61st YEAR—NUMBER 358

MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1951

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Indiana: Issued Dally,

Some Work, Some

Loaf ... No. 1

Reds in State

Sees Little Labor

Only Application Takers Busy

By ROGER STUART Scripps-Howard Staft Writer

WASHINGTON, Mar. 5— There's widespread loafing in federal agencies despite ap-

-more workers,

The government's civilian

payroll now totals more than 2,000,000 employees, and additional workers are being hired by the thousands every month. Yet in some agencies which are adding to. their personnel there isn’t enough work to keep the present employees busy. The overstaffing is not hard to find. I have just completed a spot check of. several federal agencies. In numerous offices I found workers sitting or” standing around with apparently nothing to do. Take the Labor Department, which has been accused by a House Civil Service subcommittee of suffering from “gross overstaffing, inferior planning, untrained supervision, and Improve dent aguinisteation ”

I ENTERED the massive Labor

Department building here by a” ‘rear door at 2:15 on a weekday

afternoon. Just inside was a small snack room. It was crowdegdtd«

Presently a young man carrying| . «+ fve.opened bottles of soft ¢

walked out: of the. ToOm sauntered down a corridor.’ Entering one of the rooms, he was greeted by several subdued feminine screams. Just outside the door through which the young man had passed, two mid-dle-aged women, each carrying a thin packet of papers, met. They stopped to chat. - Greetings had been exchanged, and the two were on the point of embarking on a discussion of household affairs when two younger women, who had come out of another office farther along the corridor, walked arm-in-arm toward them. -The newcomers Joined the first two for a discussion which lasted 10 minutes. I overheard a of the conversation. It went like this:

of department heads for} .

There's a lot of workers on ton. And there's a lot of drones,

the federal payroll in Washing.

too.

Roger Stuart, Scripps-Howard writer, made a tour of Washington agencies for several dak work—and at play during workin * But with all the loafers, the sands each month. These people are paid with series-of articles on what you are

“But do you mean REAL maple syrup? It’s so hard to get.” “Oh, not if you know where to look, There's a neighborhood gtore near where I live, and they have the real thing. Straight from Vermont. Of course, the man said it might be harder to get later, but— “You're right.”>, “I love it on hot cakes. f : “Me too.” » » 2 & i “ * x = “ON THE second floor, I passed seyeral Shasponetd upors, Pausing béfore one, I noticed a little sign indicating this ‘office was devoted to “Direct Productivity Reports.” I opened the door, discovering therein thrée young women at separate desks. - None was working. As I stepped into the room, one of the girls quickly ‘began to type, but the other two continued their conversation.

Another room on the same floor contained several desks. The door was open. From the corridor I saw that there was but one occupant—a young man with his feet on a desk. He was reading a book Dearing a garish red and yellow dust-jacket. I rode the elevator to the fifth floor. In every office I stopped the employees gave the appearance of being at work. Not so on the sixth floor, however,

“Maple syrup? Umm-m-m, I love it.”

observing federal employees at g hours, government is hiring more thou-

your taxes. Here's the first of a getting for your money.

cupies a large portion of the of-| fices on this floor. I picked one of the doors at random, discovering a young woman leaning over a man’s desk. They were engaged in conversation ‘punctuated by) gales of laughter: : The office directly across the

women. One was typing. The other sat lJanguidly back in her chair, smoking a cigaret and reading the funnies. « Returniz~ to the first floor, I decided ‘to look in ong more of. fice. Opening the door, I discovered three occupants. One was a young brunette who was doing the typing. A second woman sat at a desk reading a magazine. The third was a middle-aged man. He was reading a newspaper,

IN ALL the Labor. Department, the busiest office I found was Room 6131. Here three friendly and apparently efficient young women were hard at work, talking with visitors, filling out forms and typing. At the side of the room was a row of chairs, each occupied by a visitor. Other men| and women stood in line waiting turns to talk with one of the three employees. This was the room where ap plications for employment were

The Labor Department's Office

Washington Take Notice— °

Reporter Snoops Around and Discovers No Loafing in Government Offices Here

Not a Single Bureau On Desk, or Other Si

By ED

cratic Foot Found igns of Goldbricking

KENNEDY

WASHINGTON could use a Hoosier hotfoot.

Regardless of the goldbricking reported in the nation’s capital | gyietored as ‘I sneaked up

at taxpayers’ expense, not a single bureaucratic foot could be found | poised on a governmental desk here.

An extended tour of the Statehouse,

Marion County Courthouse, City 342 Massachusetts Ave. Building| indicated that the workers there are on the job full time. This is not an efficiency expert's report. How efficient these government employees are, I don’t know.’But I can report that they're working, not bumming in the halls, holding bull sessions in the restrooms or making dates over typewriters at taxpayers’ expense.

» # " AS. A MATTER of fact, I found employees in four agencies working overtime. The two busiest were taking your money or putting people into the Army—the Internal Revenue Department and the Army Induction Center. Others busier-than-bees were found at the State Auto License Bureau and the legislative office, both winding up seasonal opefations this week. a As a keyhole peeper, eavesdropper and private eye, my first misstep was in the direction of the FBI. My inconspicuous survey was conspicuous to a two-rod Gman. I got out through a side door without being fingerprinted. » » ~ IN A CORRIDOR that runs behind the House of Répresentatives, I stepped through a doorway to avoid a collision with two|

Federal Building, Hall and federal agencies in the

fast-stepping females, hands full of quadruplicates, and found myself on the rostrum of the House —right behind the speaker and in full view of the assembled body debating our welfare. I withdrew. In the Statehouse, tourists and lobbyists cause and waste of time than any lagging on the part of employees we | observed. | “Everything's set for you,” a {cigar puffing stranger told me. “All you've got to do is go see Sen. «oi.iet and tell him I sent (you. The deal is set.” = ” » “WHAT DEAL?” I queried. “Aren't you Mr. So-an-so?” Not me, so I missed out on a big lobbyist deal. In the interest of the survey, I took a strategic stand .near a ladies’ restroom in the Federal | Building for 15 minutes. No one went near it. On another floor, half a dozen secretaries were clocked as they powdered their noses—three minutes average. A group of men sitting around | a huge many-sided table in the Courthouse raised hopes for this sniper—“Ah, a poker game in {progress in the county commissioner’s office,” I thought.

the |

more confusion|

accepted.

No luck. They use the oversized {table for bond signing meetings. t . rosa | BUT at the Mayor’s office, two |obvious goldbricks were finally |spotted. My private eye positively| to} ascertain their official duties—

paper ‘reporters. Beauty and personality greeted me at the Beauty Board in the | Statehouse—but all- were busy.

for gossip in this office?” I inquired, with only the merest imitation of a wolf. “Oh, no. We go to the beauty shops.” That they do, that they!-

must do. ” » ¥

cated in the basements of both the Statehouse and the Federal Building. - Both are dingy, badly] lit and uninviting. Coffee is un-| de; par. Patronage is poor, except, when necessary. If you want to make a similar survey, of one thing you can be

from countless attractive young ladies. Even when hard at work, they look up with a smile and al “May IL help you?” (Here I must comment on Hoosierland’s good taste in hir-| ing of lady civil servants. They| are slightly lovely). That our government

quires ‘everything in duplicate, | triplicate, quadruplicate and quin-| tuplicate, ad infinitum, I don’t] deny. But it seems to me they're on the job.

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Inside The Times.

| Gaynor" Maddox, The Times’ food expert, finds that the nation's teen-agers. are slighting breakfast. . . . A Broad Ripple High 8chool sophomore plans to enter

John Henry Phelan, Beaumont, Tex., named to receive Notre Dame's coveted Laetare

A former World War II GI finds that the Army is making an honest effort now to put men in the right jobs according to their abilities and aptitudes , . . second of a series.

An inspirational story by Donna Mikels about two Ukrainian refugees who were married here in a recent church ceremony=-a symbol of new

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of Personnel Administration oc-|

hall. was @ccupied by two young |

and they turned out to be news-|

“Don’t you girls take time off|

PINT-SIZED canteens are lo-

sure—smiling offers to help come]

em-| ployees are often hurry-up-aad-| wait victims of a system that re-|

Labor Department ey New Bil

Banning Party

Pledge Bitter Fight in

Letter to Schricker “By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The Communist Party in Indiana, in open defiance of Gov. Schicker and the state legislature, warned today that it would not let the imminent state anti-Communist law halt

; Communist activity here,

Wetter to GUY: Scffrieker, thie Communist Party threatened. “We want to assure you that while we would much prefer that you veto this bill, veto or no veto, we will continue to maintain our party . . . for a Socialist America.” : Moving Headquarters

the Communist Party was moving out of its headquarters at 29% S. Delaware St. Party members have been carrying out books, pack{ages and papers, . | One source close to the Com|munist Party said the headquarters was getting ready to “move |underground. n The legislature has already passed the anti-Communist bill. It

was signed by Speaker of thel”

{House W. O. Hughes and awaits the ‘signature of Lt. Gov. John Watkins before it is .sent ‘tas the Governor. for final approval. Gov. Schricker is expected to sign ‘the bill today or tomorrow. Called ‘Constitutional’ . .The bill, which would outlaw the Communist Party amd any other subversive group, has been termed “Constitutional in. its present form by the attorney general's office. Under provisions of the proposed law, any person convicted of Communist activity is liable to a prison sentence of not less than one year or more than three years. The ‘letter to the Governor was |signed by George Sandy, chairman of the Communist Party in Indiana. Duplicates of the letter were forwarded to “about 500” community leaders and trade! unionists.

Attucks Pupils Mark Vicon With Celebration

Meanwhile, it was learned that |

FINAL HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Expect Julietta Bill

To Be Passed Today;

Shift Effective Date

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Larry Nibargar, Donnie Taylor and Jimmie Miller (left to fight) .

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| weather is just fine for getting out the old push-mobile and taking a tide in Garfield Park. Too

today. Worries about Covington could wait. With their first sectional and] regional championship neatly| tucked away and with the hopes| of Indianapolis for a state champion with them—they had just cause to do a little celebrating.

this afternoon.

» = » PRINCIPAL RUSSELL A LAYNE said they were saving their big celebration until the final outcome of the tourney. “After we are the state champions or are eliminated—then we can really celebrate for what our

Pupils at Attucks were dancing

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powerhouse drive carried within +125 miles of the 38th Parallel. |

{boys have done so far—or for

what laurels they may have |added by then,” he said. He] seemed confident that more plaudits would be in store for the| team that wouldn't quit Saturday | night and topped Anderson, to 80.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a. m... 35 11 a. m... 51 Ta.m,.. 34 12 (Noon) 5% 8a m... 38 1p m.. 56 9a. m... 43 2p m.. 57 10 a. m... 48 Latest humidity ....... 59%

Eddie Ash Begins

Stories on Indians

When it comes to baseball, Indianapolis has one of the best authorities in the game. {#* That's Eddie Ash, Times | sports editor. Right now Eddie's in Florida with the hometown Indians. + His_ reports on. their training progress and the story around the American Association camps will appear in The Times sports section daily. His first on-the-spot report | 1s on Page 12 today.

Twins Contest Winners Sunday

! Winners of the $1000 in cash prizes in The Times Match the Twins Contest will be announced in The Sunday Times next Sunday. Watch for it. You—or one of your neighbors—may receive | one of the 53 prizes.

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| Marines ran

| ‘bad it's not a convertible—just

in case it rains.

UN Powerdrive [ge viene esky,

Slices Red Line

Big Guns, Planes Rout 6000 Foes

By EARNEST HOBERECHT United Press Staff Correspondent 6—|

TOKYO, Tuesday, Mar.

[United Nations troops smashed thei A pep session was held this through a major Communist demorning and a dance was set for fense line in the east central Ko-|ments.

{rean mountains Monday. Their

Massive artillery blows and) concentrated air strikes helped the U. 8. Tth Division sweep 6000 Reds from a 4000-foot plateau on| the Taemi front 17 miles east of Hoengsong. On the central front U. 8.| into a Communist | {line of defense four miles deep in the area three miles north ol | Hoengsong. Front reports said|

gp this appeared to be the CThinese|

| Communists’ main line of defense|

south of the Parallel.

Found in Sewer

TRAININGThe win Indians | Manager Don Suteridge | in their first practice. this morning.

Monday’s drive on the east-| central front bent the Red-held!

(Continued on Page 3 —Col. ol

Body of Baby

The body of an infant boy |was recovered early today from

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Spring,

nderful

By CLIFFORD THURMAN

Spring fancles danced through the minds of most Hoosiers

today—young and old alike.

The bright sunshine and balmy temperatures caused many an office worker to gaze out the window and think of coming vacations

{instead of answering the telephone.

School kids started counting the days until the end of

the 1950-51 session.

Country boys—and many in the city—wiggled their toes inside r shoes and promised them barefoot freedom soon. Stenographers giggled, bosses looked over golf club advertise-

Lovers roamed around in a complete daze. Today's spring-like weather was expected to continue into to-

morrow — without the brightness. armer weather tomorrow,.but increasing cloudi-

promised even

Weather Bureau forecasters

ness was expected tonight, with showers tomorrow. The mercury was slated to drop tonight, but will remain above

freezing at about 35 degrees,

weather experts said.

It will climb

rapidly tomorrow to the mid 50s or above.

The same sort of weather was

| Midwest.

fairly general throughout the |

Highs of 45 to 50 in the north and 48 to 54 in the south were predicted for Indiana. Lows tonight will range from 28 to

34 north and 30 to 35 south.

“To Block It Is Defeated

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Jats, today. os... ; | The Houle approved it wpe

House At Attempt

Senate Approval Believed Near

‘BULLETIN The State Senate this afternoon adopted the amended Indianapolis health merger bill to take Julietta out of politics. It was sent to Gov, Schricker for his signature.

By JOHN V. WILSON . The Indianapolis health merger bill to take Julietta County Home out of politics

| |Tinally méved toward approve

al in both houses of the legise

adopting a committee report on amendments. It sent the revised measure back to the Senate, where final passage is expected later today. The measure was amended to change the effective date of the bill from July 1, 1951, to July 1, 1952. An attempt was made in the House by Rep. John Sedwick, Martinsville Republican, to block passage of the bill on the ground that he was opposed to taking Julietta away from county come missioners,

| Ro RARE aten when

motion to suspend. the rules and adopt the bill was voted 71 to 12. Also opposing the bill were Rep, Kenneth Blackwell, Franklin Re« publican, and Rep. Leo Kriner, Indianapolis Republican. The latter explained he was not op= posed to taking Julietta out of politics, but was opposed to merge ing county health facilities with [the city “because it would raise the taxes on us farmers.” : The measure was stymied in committee since Saturday night, when it was recalled from the Governor's office for the date | changing amendment. Charge GOP Trick Democrats charged that delay~ ling the effective date was a Ree

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Bosses’ Tactics:

'Do Nothing but Spend’

Session’ Inaaoins to Close

Legislators Still Must Wind Up Action On Record $546 Million 2-Year Budget

By ANDY OLOFSON Tired, bewildered .and disgusted, Indiana state legislators to- mijttees were ordered to- make

|day plodded to end their “‘do-nothing-but-spend”

session,

a sewer in the 400 block of N.|llon—highest two-year cost in Indiana history.

| Beville Ave.

Police said the body was that|$31, of a full-grown baby who had | for two years starting July 1.

been dead “a long time.” child was about two days old. sewer

a city cleaning

A coroner's deputy said the hours

Under this upped budget,

Blasted | in Senate

| Deadlocked Groups | Ordered to Report

By NOBLE REED

| High pressure tactics of political {bosses were blasted on the Senate (floor today as deadlocked coms<

| prompt reports or face the threat

Major chore for them to do before they can go home will be of being replaced. 1 action on the appropriation bills totaling more than $546 mil-

Sen. D. Russell Bontrager, Elke hart Republican, charged from

spending would be at-the rate of the floor that politicians were 164 per hour, day and night, i, 05 echoed through the halls SWinging the “political whiplash™ of the State Capitol in the wee Over legislators to “drive us into

The legislature spent 19 futile hours of Sunday morning. To the line.”

leaders and stone-headed] committee members

to West Point.

standing. by’ ‘Satur@ay’tune of “My Bonnie Lies Over) {and early yesterday while Repub- the Ocean,” they sang: The tiny body was found by! lican créw | conference

“Jess Andrew has gone back Oh; bring back

headed by Felix Brown, 724 8S. butted noggins behind closed] my budget to me.”

East St. was discovered shortly after the) crew started work today.

coroner in the investigation.

He told police the body doors.

Another was:

The standby period was rough,!for my bill, I'll vote for yours.”

but legislators kept their sense of Homicide detectives. joined the humor.

Satirical

Finally at 4: 17 a. m. they were | ference

ol of their wigwam at Kissimmee, Fla., to get instructions from Charters Estar

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“If you'll vote

§ sponsored the |prison terms for possession and

“I probably am commit political suicide,” he d {“but I couldn’t face my folks back home if I didn't say this.” Overtime Threatens With the General Assembly |deadline set for midnight, the con= committees were still |snarled in disagreement, threaten~

parodies of popular (Continued on Page 3—Col. 4) ing an overtime session in which

the clocks would be set back. | Speaker W. O. Hughes ordered {the committees to make their re ports before noon today; but the deadline passed without action. Lieut. Gov, John Watkins, pre siding officer in the Senate, orjdered the conference committees working on the .anti-lottery bill to meet at once and report back

J [promptly an agreement on the {amendments which have been at

tacked as unconstitutional, About ‘Given Up’ | Rep. Charles Hasbrook, who bill to impose

{manufacture of material used in

lotteries, indicated he had about

(Continued on Page 3—Col. 2)

BULLETIN:

WASHINGTON, Mar. 5 (UP) --The administration won a major test on its mili manpower bill today when the Sen. ate rejected a proposal to set the lower draft age at- - 18% years insead of 18,

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