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Panel Upholds 2 Firings by Welfare Board

‘Completely Justified’ In Discharges

By DONNA MIKELS f

The State Personnel Board] today upheld the Indiana State Welfare Department for firing

two “insubordinate” and “incom-| #8 petent” workers. |

The Board said the Welfare Department was completely justified in firing George L. Diven,; former director of staff services, | and Evan L. Parker, hearings! officer, | The Board ruling said evidence fn an appeal hearing Wednesday | showed that Mr. Diven was fired | because he was “insubordinate and inefficient.” Reasons cited for| Mr. Parker's dismissal included | “frequent absences from work, | lack of dependability and work below an acceptable level.”

Charges, Countercharges | The ousted workers appealed to the Personnel Board for reinstatement, charging their dismissal was not justified. Mr. Diven, tried to show he was a martyr to the cause of clearing “Comniunists” out of the Welfare Department, . : Today Leo M. Kinman, Shelbyville, president of the Welfare Board, said the ruling “justifies our complete confidence in the Department administrator, Maurice 0. Hunt.” He said it also serves to show that the Department will not be coerced into keeping incompetent workers on state payrolls by fear of “unfavorable publicity.” “This vindicates completely the Board's and Mr. Hunt's stands, and is proof that being in the merit system does not mean lifetime jobs for insubordinate and incompetent workers,” Mr. Kindman said.

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Mr. Hunt was out of the city and could not be reached for comment. . 3 Mr, Hunt, the Welfare Board and, more recently, Gov, Schricker had maintained throughout the interim between the late April firings and the hearing Wednesday that incompetency was the “real and stated cause” behind the Diven firing and that the socalled “Red” implications were “engineered as a cover-up.” The Personnel Board supported this even before the actual ruling, by sustaining a motion that last year's subversive activities investigation in the department was not pertinent in the hearing. Today Frank Symmes Sr. who répresents. both Mr, Diven and Mr. Parker, said he would appeal the Personnel Board ruling to the courts.

St. Louis Paper Sold

ST. LOUIS, June 15 (UP)—The| Star-Times announced today it| has sold fits name, good-will, circulation lists and publishing equipment to the Pulitzer Publish-

" FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1951

HUBCAP DEEP — Bethe Higgs ot Anderson digs out in 2800 block of N. Gladstone.

Constant rain during the past fews days have made a sea of ‘mud of the 2800 block of N. Gladstone Ave. the city engineer's office admitted today. A new sewer recently wis placed in the street and the rain

has made it impossible to restore the street to its original condition, the office reported. Restoring the street is included

in the contractor's agreement with the city.

City engineers point out that the contract will not be accepted by the city as complete until the street is repaired. The area is heavy clay and takes a long time to dry out, engineers

reported.

Whatta Vacation When Kids Have No Place to Play

By BILL FOLGER | Summer vacation is sad for] children around Fulton St. The kids miss their playground. Swings are down, the wading! pool is dry and the baseball diamond deserted at the playground) in the 700 of Fulton. The grounds were closed last Friday, the day before they were scheduled to open, because several young hoodlums damaged the pool and ‘shelter house. Park officials today said they can’t afford] to keep fixing it. | But little Virginia Long, 817 E.| St. Clair St., didn’t care about! the Park Department's troubles! ag she glumly observed: { Parents Complain | “I don’t see why they should punish the little kids for what! the big kids did.” And their parents complained! that it was unfair to punish all]

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West Spurs Big 4 Talks |

PARIS, June 15 (UP)-—The| U. 8., Britain and France asked] Russia today to agree to a Big| Four foreign ministers’ confer-| ence without further attempts by, their deputies here to write a complete program or agenda. {

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‘I Just Want My Man'—

Jailed Trucker's Wife Pleads With Governor

Editorial, Page 22

A distressed mother of six children, whose husband faces a 2%%year term for driving an overloaded truck, stationed herself outside Gov. Schricker’s office today to plead for “my man.” Mrs. Zella Lewis, 36, of 11081 E. New York St, came to seek mercy for her husband, John, who is jailed in Crown Point because he is unable to pay a $912 fine for the weight violation. Mrs. Lewis, who is expecting a seventh child late next month, came to see the Chief Executive with her 2-year-old ~“aughter, Vicky Lynn. “I just want my man,” she said. “I don’t mean to make the Governor mad, and this is no sit-down strike. He's the man who knows right from wrong. I don't want to embarrass him, I Just want to tell him my story.” Gov. Schricker was in conference when the truck driver's wife arrived. His executive secretary, Arthur Campbell, said the Gover-

nor would see her as soon as he

was free. ; Mrs, Lewis said it was “very unfair” for Judge Stanley Tweedls to release the load of steel without also releasing the driver. Judge Tweedle explained that he released the steel because it was for defénse work. “Do you want my opinion on who should pay the fine?” Mrs. Lewis asked.

she added. Mr. Sims is the Sims Motor

Co., Chicago, which sympathy with my husband,”|to do. I have no money, no way out.”

had permitted Lewis out with the

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see Gov. Schricker to plead for in jail," overloaded truck. No fine or

the trucking firm. “I know the truckers are in

Mrs. Lewis declared.

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| tions on all doctors. |before the AMA convention,

{operations are unnecessary.

WAITS FOR MATE—Mrs. Zella Lewis waits with daughter to

By JOHN TROAN Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

| Unscrupulous Doctors Denounced—

AMA Urged to Rid Ranks Of Shysters, Harness Fees

surgery on women and claimed many pelvic operations aren’t

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June|needed. Some of these, he said, 15—The American Medical Ass0-|gre being done “by the hundreds”

ciation was faced today with ato relieve backaches that never challenge to carve shyster sur-ldo clear up

. “Consultants are often necesIn a ringing speech bound to sary,” Dr. Ravdin added. “But the

geons out of its ranks.

stir a fuss among the medical tendency to call them when they! men, Dr. IL 8. Ravdin of Phila-iare not required adds to the cost

delphia called on the AMA to|of médical care.

clean house and:

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Bell Takes Fight For Bigger Rate Boosts to Court

The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. went to court today to fight for a $7.2 million rate increase. The utility asked Marion County Circuit Court Judge Lloyd D. Claycombe to grant the telephone company temporary rates and to set aside a recent state Public Service Commission order .which the utility ecalled “unfair.” If Judge Claycombe grants the

temporary increase, b bills would rise from 60 cents to

ONE—Stop the overcharging of tendency of forcing the use of altowns in 48 Indiana counties.

patients for operations. TWO-Cut out “needless operations.” THREE—Halt fee-splitting be- 0 tween surgeons and general prac-| titioners.

particular group of consultants.”

Dr. Ravdin also held that “some| PSC, utility attorneys c

ught to me.” “In medicine,” he

surgeons fees are higher than they the commission with

said, “the

{adage of charging all the traffic

FOUR—Wipe out a “consulta-| Will bear is unmoral and the sur-

tion” racket which fleeces pa- 8¢on who does this is doing a tients of money and prevents STeat disservice to his profression|the utility a rate increase of $730,-

tors. “We shudder,” Dr. Ravdin said, about the kickback in industry and the five per centers. | “Yet I wonder if each of us is| lacking at times in social con-|. sciousness when we turn our) backs on the iniquitous splitting) practice in surgery. Dr. Ravdin is chief surgeon at

{them from chosing their own doc- angio the institution in which he | works.”

‘when we read in our papers ‘Restore Government Based on Truth’—Mac

Earlier Story, Page 26 SAN ANTONIO, Tex. June 15 sition to the telephone company

(fee-!| [UP)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur {called upon the American people today to “end invisible govern-

“unlawful

nation.” Charge Law Violation On May 31, the PSC authorized

Harry 8. Hanna, Indiana Bell president, declined to accept the increase, saying it was “unfair.” This morning, the utility specifically charged the commission violated the law by hiring witnesses to give testimony in oppo-

petition. Utility attorneys, headed by Thomas D. Stevenson, pointed out that Indiana law requires the

the University of Pennsylvania|™eDt based upon propaganda and psc to function as an impartial

School of Medicine and chairman of the AMA's surgical section. He read the riot act to “that small segment of American: surgeons” whose unscrupulous prac-

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restore truly representative government ‘based upon truth.”

exas Alamo

as a backdrop, the deposed Far Eastern his strongest attack vet on the

unleashed

tices, he said, are casting reflec- Truman administration.

In the sharpest talk delivered g

He said the great issue of the!

ay was whether

He denounced “wholesale” lenge of the time.”

the United

| Dr. States is departing from the spirit| Ravdin complained that many|of the Alamo “in the shaping of

national policy to meet the chal-

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earning “less than $30 a week.” Lewis, 37, was fined last week!

Ales Roam Front “5 Almost at Will

By United Press

TOKYO, Saturday, June 16— Rote Increase Allied probing forces ranged al-| Residence most at will over a 60-mile individual Line stretch of the Korean front Fri-|T¥o-Party Service day seeking contact with main body of retreating Communists. In the western sector, the main body of the Reds apparently had withdrawn many miles to the

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her husband, serving "$1 a day

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the United Nations forces, and was seeking to establish a new defense line. Any possibility the Communists might try to assume the initiative soon seemed remote, “We believe they have momentarily given up the idea of an offensive,” a briefing officer on the central front said. “The Reds her husband is freed,|are digging in, trying to establish - should it,” |penalty has been levied against Mrs. Lewis said she fears hard|a 1 think Sims pay times for herself and the ghildren. “I don't know what I'm going fighting but only against rearguard Red holding forces, froht dispatches indicated.

of fierce

body, not as a “proponent or opponent” of either side. Public Counselor Walter Jones. who fought the utility's proposed increase, agrees with the telephone company on this issue. He went so far as to request an official opinion from the Attorney General's office on the commis{sion’s practice of judging evi{dence that it submits itself.

Hearing Is Set

| The utility’s appeal asked Judge [unti the to authorize new rates |

until the PSC fixes rates that (“comply with the law.”

Mr. Stevenson also charged

$1.75 a month in Indianapolis. The utility serves 82 cities and

In a blistering attack on the)

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' Rips ‘White Paper'—

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By United Press WASHINGTON, June . 15 {Former Defense Secretary Louis {Johnson said today the State De{partment’s 1949 white paper on China appartnely was designed [“to destroy” Chiang Kai-shek’s {Nationalist government. | Mr. Johnson told Senators inlvestigating Gen. Douglas MaeArthur's dismissal that he protested, unsuccessfully, against issuance of the paper because “I {didn't think it was accurate and thought it was politically unwise.”

after a long policy row—said co some of the inaccurcales he pro- Mr. Johnson . . "political tested were corrected and some

were not. . | Mr, Johnson also testified:

ONE~—The Joint Chiefs of Staff certain countries” when the actions, prejudice and discrimi. OPposed his plan to send a mili-/ shall Plan ald ends. He did not

(tary mission to Chiang because, {he said, they were “under politi-

cal pressure from outside.” They

Johnson Charges Attem To 'Destroy’ Chiang Re

against a proposal to “conceal in the military budget a plan send “billions of dollars to

say whose proposal it was. THREE — The State Depart-

finally approved the plan after he ment should be kept out of mili-

{told thém to forget political con-

000 after a six-month hearing. siderations and give a strictly

military opinion.

{ly and very bitterly” protested

tary affairs. He said State “some day has to be reorganized to be the diplomatic agent and not be all over the lot, handling eco-

TWO-—As Secretary he “strong-|nomie aid and everything else.”

FOUR-—He supports the United

Cancer Clinic" Being Probed By U. S. Agency

| A discredited “cancer {clinic which was thwarted recent{ly by The Indianapolis Times to 'set up an Indianapolis branch is {under investigation by the Fedjeral Food and Drug administra{tion today. Last January the Pittsburgh |Drosnes-Lazenby Clinic announced in a routine press release {that it was branching out to other | cities, including Indianapolis. A Times investigation revealed {that the clinic had been dis-

[that “unnecessary delays” before | credited by the National Cancer She said her husband had been|the PSC has “cost the company

{nearly $7 million.”

$90 million. On the other hand, the company believes the property

should be valued at about $135

The hearing on the temporary the materials used by the Drosnes- Vital commodities in Indianapolis {injunction has been set at 2 p. m. Lazenby Clinic to try to discover hasn't changed in four years.

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The basic difference between facts resulted in the State Board for driving a truckload of steel the telephone company and the of Health and the Better Business 9100 pounds overweight. Unable PSC is the “true value” of the| Bureau joining forces to keep the to pay, he was confined to jailjutility’s property.

The commis-| so-called clinic out of Indiana. at the rate of one day for each sion set the property valuation at

Probe Reported

Today from Washington came word that the Food and Drug administration is investigating

whether it violates the food and! drug laws, Meanwhile, the Cancer Institute in Washington said it is advising]

{persons who have asked if it has Pa

|indorsed the Drosnes - Lazenby| P { P 4 [treatment that it has not done ‘Rate Rate Increase | 30, and that any such claims that| the 1947 city primary. $525 $6.25 $1.00 “ »” { 3 4.25 5.10 ‘ss |it has are “baloney. | Rural Rosidense™ 380 416 #0 | p Gordon A. Granger of the! 3 les . 3.50 4.10 60 medical division of the Food and| Individual Line $1435 sie sys |DFUE Administration, said “No| Rural Business 5.28 625 1.00 [conclusigns have been reached as d yet” in its investigation, which is Times Index | continuing. Meas hoe tig He sald that he could not re-| BFIGES »uunveeennssaes. ss 10. [YE2) UNder law what was discov.

ered in an analysis of “Mucorrhi-| cin,” the substance the Pittsburgh clinic gives to its patients at $10] for a half-ounce bottle, Tests made previously showed the yeast preparation contained fungi, mites, unidentified excretions of these mites and scales of unidentified insects. Dr. Gilein Meadors of the Cancer Institute, sald the Institute has had no direct contact with the Drosnes-Lazenby Clinic for about a year. The Institute has been informed, however, that the clinic has opened branches in one or more cities, a

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Nations “completely” but fears it may “discredit” itself by indecision in Korea. He complained some United Nations members are manifesting “lack of support for the interest of freedom in {which we of America are so conjcerned and to which we give our {boys’ lives and our treasures.” The committee finished questioning Mr. Johnson at 12:36 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) and ressed until 9 a. m. Monday when

cure” Presidential Adviser W. Averell

Harriman is scheduled to testify.

BULLETIN

SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 15 (UP)—The constitutional auvthority of the NCAA to ban | live television of college foot- | ball was questioned today by | Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.8.C., | president of Notre Dame University.

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Audit of Tilson

Records Goes to Jury The State Board of Ace counts today revealed it has = found a $2300 discrepancy in the records of former County Clerk A. Jack Tilson and a

deputy clerk, Roscoe Reel. A certified copy of the finding has been sent to the Marion County Grand Jury.

The entire shortage appeared

in the accounts of Mr. Reel, who was deputy clerk assigned to Municipal Court No. 3 in the Police Station. : Otto K. Jensen, state examiner, said the $2300 hole was discovered in a partial audit which covers only 18 months of Mr, Reel’s four year tenure and that the entire check 1s not yet completed. Only $14.50 of the $2390.50

no state fine. In this case the state accounts audit chalked up a $10 discrepancy. In no case did records indicate a suspension of any of the costs, In this manner, the shortage added up to the $2300 figure, The entire report, when come pleted, will cover a period from July 1, 1945, to December, 1850, when Mr. Tilson and his deputies went out of office. The pare tial report covers only to December of 1946 of this period. Mr, Tilson said today it is very possible the continuing audit may, uncover other deficits in the fund, ‘May Be Again’ “If there's a shortage once in his accounts, there may be again ® he said. Mr. Reel was listed as residing at 1017 English Ave. but no longer lives there, a party at that' residence said today. His new address was not immediately determined. Mr. Tilson presently is an offi« cer in the Lake Wawases

{Property Owners Association,

Orphanage Fire Toll MONTREAL, June 15 (UP) A fire swept a Catholic orphanage

and home for the aged today, killing at least four persons. A fire department official said: “As many as 50 may have perished.”

Changed Here in 4 Years

By JOHN V. WILSON Despite the rising cost of living, the price of one of the most

That's the privilege of voting. The cost of each vote cast in the May 8 primary election was $a Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer d that amount whether they voted or not, That is the same cost as for

Taxpayers paid $83,662 for the 1951 election, an increase of $5600 over 1949. ° But the number of votes cast was higher, too. This year 72,856 citizens went to the polls, compared with 68,494 four years ago.

The figures were compiled by ¢

County Clerk H. Dale Brown, a member of the Election Board. Although the. cost per vote remained the same, Mr. Brown frowned at his compilation. He figured the cost was too high. “I think the totals prove that

people are paying too much for|didates spent $4006,

while 20

a privilege and not taking advant-| Democratic contenders paid out

age of it,” he said. “It wouldn't have cost a penny

more if twice the number voters mayoralty nominations cost the main GOP, foes, ge. Both political parties spent aClark and Ceril 8. (Cy) total of $74,976 in their inter-|total of $26,448.

had gone to the polls.”

organization battles.

On In the races for city clerk and Bayt 1 can-ia to

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