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14, 1051 : : | | bo : . : ; : ; Bushmiller . : : fi 1 € 11 ianapolis Times Sunday Grok : | Edition - “ hi FORECAST: Partly cloudy and humid today with slowly rising temperatures. High today 86. Low tonight 70. hy 62d YEAR—NUMBER 135 ne | W . ii . SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1051 Ra Entered as gecons.can Seater at Poa . ree | PRICE TEN CENTS Na Po nin et NN for ‘ ay ’ « No Taken for $5 Deposit'— | Da H . Sex Perverts How To Get Cured Of What You Don’t Have— ousing Offers | nc with +

S ad al \ J Called ‘Racket’ wrate linic’ Here ‘Treats 1c Overcrowding Blamed | ® J hol ‘nN 0,0 ~ By Registrants | iii \Peatient’ With ‘Arthritis’

in home-hungry Indianapolis, today was branded a “racket” erts and prisoners

by all but one of the persons on a list of registrants ERE md an Ea Goes Along to Witness ‘rye + y Off the Cuff ‘Diagnosis

by The Times. : : : \patients in the same cells of J No one on the list has obtained housing through the!{he Marion County Jail, fedhousing service” in 13th floor Morris Plan Building after ..,) prison paying their $5 “deposit.” learned. Only one on the list said she still “had hopes.” | Sheriff Smith admits the mixed The others said they were convinced they had been 8roups. But he said the condition “taken” and a majority of these demanded to know why, "8 caused by the huge number By DONNA MIKELS I am being cured of arthritis. This is a doubly amazing fact when you consider (1) there is no cure for arthritis and (2) anyway, I haven't got it. You might think that either of these facts considered singly would hamper such a project and that the combina-

: : : : {of inmates combined with the either the county prosecutor or city officials did not start|lack of cell space. i tion would stop it cold. ; : But not They gave them no never mind out at.

+ an investigation. | | J. M. Spurrier, county jail in-| E Prosecutor TFairchild's office! In a followup investigation, I'he|spector in Indiana for the United] National Clines Co., the formal title for C. O. Thornberry’s o'’" establishment at 2244 Broadway.

was called by one woman who Times obtained a list of 86 per- States Bureau of Prisons, made -a ‘‘'sure cure Anyway, the curing of arthritis

said Tenants Housing failed to! Sons who have contacted thel formal inspection of the Marion Indiana 2d which never existed is small po-

# inspectors have!

ble list at the same time they here early this year. some changes in jail procedure. were running an ad claiming to. Talked to 55 Queried on Mixed Cells

have as high as 40 vacancies but never revealing locations. > Of these 55 were contacted. About the mixed cells of in-| | Thirty-one could not be reached sane, sex perverts and prisoners| {because they left incomplete ad- charged with murder; he said: | She said she told Deputy P. K. dresses or names at Better Busi-| “This condition is primarily Ward her experience and de- ness Bureau or because they were the fault of Marion County for manded an investigation, saying; absent from their residences dur- not providing proper facilities for, “This is worse than the gam- ing the check. segregation. It is bad enough

bling you're always talking about.], Of the 55 contacted 28 said that mental patients must be

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give her one lead to .a house, Better Business Bureau sincé cne County jail this week and recomalthough she was on their eligi- inception of the “housing service” mended that Sheriff Smith make tatoes, I learned later as a clinic to an outfit which can

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People aren't forced into gam- they had paid the non-refundable bling, but they are forced through!'$5 fee to become a client of Tendesperation to put their money ants’ Housing Service. The reinto this racket.” maining 27 said they did not Prosecutor Fairchild is absent register on advice of the Better from the city but Deputy Floyd Business Bureau that the TenMannon, in charge in his ab- ants’ Housing Service did not sence, said an investigation meet their standards of ethical would be considered. operation. Still another woman said she] From the 28 who put their $5

housed temporarily in jail for! safekeeping. . But to keep them in| the same cells with other pris-| oners is very bad. Something! should be done at once to remedy! the situation.”

Mr. Spurrier specifically rec- |

ommended that Sheriff Smith! | “organize the jail cleaning pro-| gram better.” He also asked jail attaches to make some adminis-|

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To California For Cultists

The Better Business Bureau and the Indianapolis Medical Society today joined in urging the public to prevent its own

“patient,” also (it claims) prevent by steam baths the start of cancer, halt it in its early stages and perform other wonders not vet in the power of trained medical men. Do It at Home This is outfit which has been causing raised eyebrows and worried frowns at Better Business Bureau and among the medical

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ARTHRITIC "CURE?" —Relaxing says a doctor, but about as curative as a hot bath, had “flooded” City Hall with re- “deposit” on the line, some as : vied quests for a probe but that she long as four months ago, not one ; had been “brushed off.” {person obtained housing. ! "Offer Evidence Here are. the principal -come- . {plaints made against Tenant's| The Times survey resulted from Housing, aside from the principal its publication of a Better Busi-/one that they failed to find housness Bureau warning againstijng:

tration changes in the handling of keys: !

profession of late with advertisements offering to ‘get rid” of arthritis. . . “Get rid of arthritis at home \ .” the classified ads have been

victimization by medical quacks. : HARA Their statements. followed the investigation by The Times of a

self-styled arthritic clinic at 2244 reading. “Revive all ‘the .vital Broadway.

. ; organs . .. at only $2.45 a week.” A Fertile Field In these days of the inflated

Urges Segregation

The federal -jail inspector .em-| |phasized that he wasn’t *critical”| {with the administration of Sher-| |iff Smith. He said he was im-|

HR

fice said no such orders had been posedly pays for a “credit refleft with them either by Charlesierence” check, .they found the

Thomas, Cleveland, a manageriggency had never contacted the of the firm, or by any other of-|

Sees Hike in Defense Tab WASHINGTON, July 14 (UP)—|

The military spending budget for!

its investigation and for its policy of refusing further adver tising from the ‘‘arthritis cure” clinic.

3 Tenants Housing Service on June : ‘ : 26. : Phone Never Ring | Pressed with the cooperative at “This is just another indication | dollar, $2.45 to get rid of a disx At that time the officials of| ONE: Many persons com- | titude of the jail attaches. i of why Indiana deserves its repu- ease that ain’t get-riddable is too 2 Tenants Housing complained to|plained that at the same time However, he explained that| tation of being one of the most cheap to pass up—even if you ; The Times the article was unfairithey were waiting for a call|* >" effort should be made to fertile fields for medical quack- haven't got it. And as for "re. and offered to open its files show-|which néver came from Tenants’ | S€8regate the mental patients ery,” said Mr. Overley. viving all vital organs,” well— ing a large number of persons Housing, they continued to see from the other inmates. “As long as the public patronizes/you can’t even get a piano tuned 1 placed in homes: ; almost dally newspaper ads in| The former Chief Jaller of the these places and pours out its at those prices. p However, although a4 Times re- which the agency claimed to have| Marion County Jail, Robert Mut. money, medical frauds will flour-| Borrowed Mate : porter called at the office and/from 36 to 50 “available vacan- '2Y: said that under Sheriff Cun- ish. It is a problem neither police| . contacted the Service by phone, cies.” {ningham the mental patients nor legislation can wipe out—the' These sonsideratiobs- plus he no such opening of the files oc-| TWO: eral said that al-| Pa, ! people themselves . must stop fact that the an e InOS tte, Dirsonncl if the local oi Sev 1 : Continued on Page 2—Col. § allowing themselves to be taken.” dianapolis Medical Society doubt Ee - though the initial $5 fee sup 2 - 2 : ol ¢: He commended The Times for the humanitarian motives of any

outfit which advertises cures for cureless ailments for money — caused me to take an assumed name, a wad of expense money

ficial. | Continued on Page 2—Col. 2 this vear may be kicked upward! NB w {another $20 billi t } ing! Second to California from The Times and a boro ji pPpea s fo Mayor— | $80 billion, it was the predic jon| ndi: : rerly sai has “husband from the Ioste} A as t i Indiana, Mr. Overly said 43 embers of the Indianapolis

‘Why Do City Officials

[today of Chairman Joseph C.

| O'Mahoney, (D. Wyo.), of a Senate Military Spending Subcommittee. |

, been ranked by some experts as being second only to cult-ridden California in flourishing medical quackery. He said that since the Bureau started its fight on medical frauds in 1935 it has put more

Medical Society to become a paying patient at Mr Thornberry’s multitherapy mecca. The day before my “husband” and I visited National Clinics I

1 > , . Let Agency Continue OF ca rau 1335 hae put mare an 1 vised Nations Chinen 1 g n Y n inNU » On the Inside OUTSIDE—A licensed doctor inspects attach. [INSIDE—Here are the rusted, corroded inside hes = ou of usiness in in Xe ok Be specialists in OT — { . " " . . ana, 1a 1any times a 0 ¢ n Du EXACTLY, S47 “If this outfit is no good and Of The Times ment on the "cure all. workings of the steam cabinet. somber still abound Methodist Hospital to positively SE ‘'F 1 g “To me medical quackery is the ascertain 1 had not a trace of "WEEK. THAT doesn't find housing why do . =." f Page: worst fraud there is,” said the arthritis in either my hands or ICES ME IT's the city officials let it con- Road clear to talk truce, hour man who has exposed everything knees, the joints we had decided E THAN ANY ti 21 : BOL sues rtrcnerrsnrnsonns 2 frm salves to cure cancer to au- would be “affected. INCIDENCE! nue : & |Flood soars as Kansas City tomatic “diagnosing” machines." The negative report was still in ; “It's many times worse than

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Poin Te iionen Tenants Ed 80vOla +.eerssransnses 19 Ground breaking ceremonies for three United Nations megotia- [the CIO Retail, Wholesale and room, Turn NOW to SECTION Lend : ads seeking new clients . BPOMS «vsnsssrssnsenssdd-1B [the 1 r are tentatively sched-| tors. The “sat” down |Department Store Union, sald] No arrests were made as no| FOUR. a | ap—— Earl Wilson vresss 19 |uled for sometimes during the at Kaesong at 1:45 p. m. (11:45 Mr. Pike was a member of his|one was found in the post at the : i ; Continued on Page 2—Col. 3 World Report «....eceees 21 [last of week of July : p.m. Saturday). {union but.not an organizer, time of the raid. ig Teas dtd Yi » 4 » i a : 4 i ? : ia . 3 i . : PF : > i SR : t + : w ol x 2 s va 4 - > . i: > - a ik . 5 : ; : oh 4 : - SA der, 4 0 4 i x sk

This was the question posed by Mrs. E. J. Groom, 2017 W. |

Washington St, who describes herself as “one of the people taken by Tenants Housing Service.” ; “I went to the Mayor and the Better Business Bureau and they said if I'd come to them first they would have advised me against

levee breaks “We Always Lie To Strangers” ... Second in a series of authentic Americana that ooze with the earthy traditions of the Ozarks . . , by Vince Randolph ..... “Thomas Jefferson in 1951” . ., James Russell Wiggins, man-~

gambling because a lot of people know what they're dning when they gamble but penple don’t know what they're doing when they put their money and their health into the hands of the unlicensed practitioner.” Plea to Public

The Indianapolis Medical Soci-

my handbag the night I climbed the steps to the pleasant frame home where Mr. Thornberry conducts his clinic. Accompanying me was my borrowed “husband,” a well-trained young Indianapolis physician loaned to The Times by the Indianapolis Medical Society, have competent medical authority present at the interview.

to

it,” sald Mrs. Groom. “Well, a aging editor of the Wash- : lot of people are so desperate ington Post, brings our third ety joined in the plea to the pub- X-Rays? Nonsense! that they'll jump into it like I did. president out of the dim lic to "investigate before invest- : ing.” The day previous, doctors at

If it’s no good why do they let it continue?” ‘So Darn Mad’ Mrs. Groom's views were similar to dozens of others related to

shadows of history and sets him down in the hurly-burly of Congressional investigations and foreign policy disputes of the present time. . . first of a series .......

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“The Indianapolis Medical Society, as a component unit of the American Medical Association, is interested at all times to putting a stop to quackery and in keep-

Methodist Hospital, including my “husband,” had used science’s latest X-ray devices to arrive at their diagnoses: But no such folderol for Mr. Thornberry.

The Times. Man ersons asked ; & that their name Ye withheld, bes Mr.E.d Groom {Bob Ruark pays a visit to his- ng He people, Welt Winn on From his rocking chair across cause they feared their house- . Sn. toric Bourbon St. in New Or- eth Sn Bagi a’ lars Pe the room the sprightly, T4-year-hunting might jeopardize their leans—known mainly for the poser pa 3 gs Jy ey a, old man made his “diagnosis,” present dwellings, but Mrs. Groom quality and number of its Guage. korn A the So. After listening to me describa said she was so darn mad I want burlesque houses . .. told in lets Ee ws DR ie 2 “aches and throbs” in my fingers to tell everyone and cut off their the finest Ruarkian tradi- ceive queries from the public and and knees. supply of suckers.” tion ...scusen crseasansasssedd to supply information on over It's arthritis settin’ in for sure,” said he, adding with an

Mrs. Groom said she paid her $5 fee in June. After seven days

Read the fascinating story of Herb Shriner, Hoosier home-

the-counter medicines, questionable health clinics and suspected

ominous note. “Calcium’s probnow.” Later

she had received no call and she spun FV comedian, who medical “quacks.” ably forming right tried in vain several days to call started with a two-bit har- Grab tha Phone ? Tenants Housing, with the phone monica and became one of “1f there is any doubt a tele- Continued on Page 2-—Cal, 6 always busy or not answered. television's top stars ........19}} phone call will save an invest- a meen She finally called the Morris The Venezuelan Embassy’s air- ment of money and the more “ Plan Building which checked and conditioning system broke tragic possibility of irreparable Buy a Home with

said the phone was off the hook, took a message. Later, she said, Tenants Housing returned her

down recently and threatened to cause an interna-

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impairment to health,” the spokesman said. He cited the case last week of

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c4ll and “bawled me out good for Capers by Elise Morrow 29 pl 5 : : a Bedford man found to be suffer- 03s ao bothering them and for checking TO ACHE OR NOT TO ACHE—C. O. Thornberry called these normal hands "arthritic." ing an aa in Ug Here Jon Copportunitst This » — p————— —————— ovely Cape only 0 y with Better Business Bureau. ‘ | Other Features: | - maggots as the result of ‘“treat- old ls “Geautituily” decorated’ and Was Scolded WwW 4 | { 000 : : ment’ by a self-styled herb doc- 5 and tiie bath dn. 1 large “They asked me how come I'd Anifsements ,........24, 28 ork to Begin | $50, Suit Filed tor. The “doctor” had a record of ki ort 0 "Very" ariractive | Kit 1 ANC inette arrangemens, registered if I didn’t believe in Automobiles ..eeveiaienes 52 . | . . a federal conviction on misrepre- many cabinets with Formica top them and said there was no law Bridge ......oierieniin.. 29 On New Army Site! Against 2 Officers senting Ris products and was un-| There isa ‘ell basement and they had to get me anything. Classified ............30-51 | work on the $20 million Army| (Earlier Story, Page 2) | A suit for $50,000 damages der injunction not to practice] Pot. feed NAS Oso ve

The girl also said that if she didn’t have any more to do than sit on the phone all’ day like I did they might find something.” Later Mrs, Groom said, the service did call her back and asked if she could go over the rent she had stipulated, up to $125. “I told them if I could pay that I wouldn't need them to help me find a house,” said Mrs. Groom, “and I asked them where all the places they were advertising every day were and why I didn’t get notified of them. They- said they'd check and call back but they never did.” :

Oscar Sering

Ruark Brightens Darkest Africa

Robert C. Ruark, The Times columnist everybody reads, will write tomorrow about his new venture . . . big game hunting for a lion in darkest Africa. The amusing thrills of the “big hunt” will be reported as only Robert Ruark ca

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Finance Center at Ft. Harrison | is slated to begin Thursday. | Contracts for the site prepara-| tion work and for pile driving]

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Engineers Office in Chicago, oe

cording to announcement today. The excavating and ground clearing has been awarded for $400,000. This work includes all grading, sewer construction, open ditch drainage, water supply lines, | and railroad spurs. Contract for constructing the actual building has not been awarded, but work is slated to

TOKYO, Sunday, July 15 (UP)—United Nations and

Communist truce negotiators today resumed cease-fire talks in Kaesong. The world free press was represented for the first time. : The negotiations to end the war in Korea resumed at 2 p. m. (midnight, Indianapolis Time). Vice Adm., O. Turner Joy, head of the United Nations delegation, reached Kaesong in a motor convoy at 1:57 p. m. (11:57 p. m. Saturday). Adm. Joy and Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie traveled by jeep instead of us-

ing helicopters as did the other

{in Marion County Superior Court with

(with, [court for a declaratory judgment; and injunction against the police

medicine. “Here is one case where a check the local medical society yesterday by Robert Lee Pike. |would have prevented tragedy,” He contends that Detective he said. Sgts. Francis Dux and Sylvester] A TE Ahlering arrested him Wednesday Four Slots Seized on charges of grand larceny and . vagrancy on the basis of an At Legion Post 405 i anonymous tip with no support-! Four slot machines were seized] ing evidence. ‘by » {by police last night at American] Mr. Pike's lawyer, Frank Beck-| 1 i suid he also asked the Legion, Post 405, 35434 E. 10th A vice squad led by Sgt. Ray

to stop the practice of not fixing YhoDIeY auoved el

bail. horse race slot machine, which Joseph Romer, state director of ware taken to the police property|

against two policemen was filed

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