Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1951 — Page 3
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Noted School Got Paid by U.S. and State
Book Kickback Also Uncovered
By United Press WASHINGTON, July 24—Government auditors testified today that Virginia Military Institute for four years collected tuition for some of its GI students both from the federal government and from the state. | The overpayment was credited | to the account of the individual student, ‘the witnesses testified, and whatever was left at the time of graduation was paid to’ the] student in cash. About $90,000 was involved, they said. Charles E. Eckert, legislative attorney for the General Account- | ing Office, and other GAO officials | told the story to a special House committee investigating the $12 billion veterans training program. Mr. Eckert said the double-pay-| ment practice at the Virginia military school—alma mater of such soldiers as Defense Secretary George C.. Marshall—-was| noted by GAO in 1949 and subse-| quently was stopped. ‘He said it|
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had been going on since 1945. rgressional investigators dug deep-
Overruled by VA istration overruled any effort to| recover any of the government's] payments—totaling about $90,000! —on the ground that the impro-| priety, if any, involved state] rather than federal funds. { The VMI case was one of many | cited by the General Accounting] Office in a report to the com-| mittge on its investigation of 1575] schools of all kinds in seven un-| named states. In general the re-| port found that Uncle Sam, who!
had’ frequently been gypped. |
TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1951. _
Uncle Sam Foots the Bill—
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Ask State Control Over Private Welfare Funds
Top state officials said today they favored taking ‘steps to “supervise” and “provide proper safeguards” over the vast welfare and pension funds controlled by numerous unions, utilities, corporations and companies. State Insurance Commissioner Frank J. Viehman said Gov.| Schricker and other state of-|
ficials agreed with him that some safeguards are needed.
ANNIE OAKLEYS FOR 150 KIDS—Patrick J. Barton, Marion County Democratic Veterans’ | Organization, hands out free tickets for Thursday's Indians-Brewers game at Victory Fieid Left to right are Roy E. Patton of Crossroads Rehabilitation Center; William Samotis, Billings Veterans
Hospital; Mr. Barton; Lt. Forrest D. Higgs, Indianapolis Police Pals'Club and Ray L. Wilson, of
STRAUSS SAYS: —
A SUMMER SUIT TO TEMPER HE.
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BRIG. GEN. DAVID..J.
Mr. Viehman expressed the
|opinioni that many pension and
CRAWFORD—Admits getting | welfare funds now are “unfair”
free lodging,
Lawmakers Dig
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{to people who are supposed to be protected by them. He explained that benefits could be wiped out, lin some cases, if an organization : {goes bankrupt.
New Law Needed A new state law would have to
eeper in dll [be passed by the General As-
{sembly before the state could as-
Arsenal ‘Favors’
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|sume any supervision over such funds,
Mr. Viehman explained that
uch a law would cover the welDETROIT, Mich., July 24—Con- fare and pension funds of all kill them with a shotgun, futilities, corporations, companies slashed two of them with a dull {and unions.
He said he had in-
er today into the business deal- {ended to ask for such a law last He said the Veterans Admin-|ings of the Detroit tank arsenal,|year but ‘was in ill health.
whose commander accepted fa-| vors from a firm he had awar ed a contract.
For example, Mr. Viehman ex-
d-/Plained that one phase of state supervision would be “to see that phone yesterday. ; the welfare and pension funds|
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‘No One to Care for Them—
Desperate Father Kills
By United Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, July 24—A 39-year-old printing house clerk, desperate because yhe had no one to care for his {three small children set out to
then
kitchen knife jammed. “I've killed my kids,” Raymond |Conley told police over the tele-
after the gun - -
But officers found only one of
Brig. Gen. David J. Crawford are invested in diversified inter- ; told a House sub-committee on ests, “thereby insuring the people Ihe ues Shidren Sead when government expenditures yester- of a sound system.”
day that a private firm paid his|
sistence.
First step for the state to in-
was in the capital on Army sub- get an appropriation from the +Budget Committee to Investigate
He said, however, he believed and check the status of some of foots the veteran's school bills, he had done nothing wrong in/the major funds.
accepting the hospitality of the
There is considerable opposi-
The report showed that over- Continental Foundry and Engi tion to this plan.
payments of one kind or another)
neering Co. of East Chicago, Ind..|
One top spokesman for Indiana
had been collected by two-thirds|who he had awarded a $26 mil- industries said:
of the schools examined. It said an “unusual number” of these| cases resulted from irregular an fraudulent practices, but that others resulted from carelessness. Book Refunds In its formal report ‘the GAO identified none of the states and none of the schools. However, after Eckert recited the doublepayment case, Chairman Olin E. Teague (D. Tex.) asked him if the school involved were not VMI." Mr. Eckert said it was. He said the situation arose because the state of Virginia commonly appropriated funds to pay tuition of VMI cadets who are residents of Virginia. However, under the GI Bill of Rights the Veterans Administration pays tuition of World War II veterans, plus living allowances. Some VMI students came under both groups. Mr. Eckert said he found no other similar practice, Wayne H. Smith, a GAO attor-
lion contract because he believed it would do “a good fast job.”
The subcommittee, investigat-| ing “favors” done Army and civilian personnel at the tan arsenal, said only one tank turret was delivered before the contract expired last Mar. 31. Rep. Porter Hardy subcommittee chairman, reminded)
vas awarded, a year before the Korean War started.
“There's too much regulation
by government now.” { . At the Indianapolis Chamber {of Commerce, William Book, ex-! Kk | ecutive director, said;
“I know of no instance where
funds are mishandled.”
However, Mr. Viehman said he
(D. Va), Knows of instances where the|_ benefits of welfare and pensian| .@ Gen. Crawford there was no need [Unds were wiped out because a ‘or haste at the time the contract company went broke.
Unless there is more popular
support for state supervision of|
Gen. Crawford admitted he ac- Such funds than is now evidenced,
and “good friend,” during a visit to Washington, June 24-25, when he testified before another committee. Mr. Middleton, an agent for Continental, paid Gen. Crawford's hotel bill, but the arsenal commander said he felt he had committed no “impropriety.” James G. Sipe, civilian procure-
ney, said two colleges were found to have "charged list “price for| books in their bookstores, then to, have given refunds to non-veteran| students only. The government! foots the bills for veterans’ books. | He was uncertain about what
schools these were.
Aunt Picks Up Baby After Three Weeks
A 2-month-old baby girl who! was “abandoned” for three weeks! was picked up by her aunt‘today.| Miss ®£dith Cordell, 49, who operates a nursery in her home at 2048 N. Keystone Ave. said the aunt, Mrs. Jean Scott, took the] baby home with her. ! She told Miss Cordell she had| been busy moving out of town, | had passed through Indianapolis| today and had seen the story in a | newspaper. | Miss Cordell said that on July 2 a young mother had introduced| herself as “Mrs. Wirely” and left] her 2-month-old daughter at the] nursery. “temporarily.” Two days
later, she added, Mrs. Scott paid|,
$48 for two weeks’ care for
the baby. Since then she had not|7 YH heard from the mother or the|{#§¥
aunt until today.
Tosses Away Numbers Slips
A man jumped out of a car in the 2400 block of Northwestern |
“ Ave. last night, ran between two!
buildings, threw away 85 num- |
bers racket slips as a police vite]
squad attempted to close in. At 435% Indiana Ave. a squad led by Capt. John Sullivan seized | a crap table in the Czar Club. No game was in progress and no| arrests made. In other raids, police took 118 baseball books at the following) places: 833 Ft." Wayne Ave. 12 books; 377 8. Illinois St., 6 books;| 7 8S. New Jersey St. 21 books;| 216 Indiana Ave. 16 books; 248 Indiana Ave., 25 books; 224 Indi-| ana Ave. 24 books; 148 W. 16th
St., 14 books.
ment chief at the arsenal, told the subcommittee he used a Washington hotel room reserved by the Mack Manufacturing Co. last June 25-26 but paid back the firm on July 20.
cepted the hospitality of Col. Ray Statehouse observers believe the! Middleton, a retired Army officer Plan will be defeated. .
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{they arrived at the two-story (frame house, where Conley had
| Washington hotel bill when he jtiate supervision would be to rooms with his mother.
Eightéen-month-old William Emery Conley lay in a pool of blood in his crib, dead of a gaping wound in the throat. Nearby on the floor was 3-year-old Wilson Lee Conley, his stomach ripped by a shotgun blast. Three - month - old Linda Sue Conley was lying on an unmade {bed, bleeding from a jagged {throat wound. Linda and Wilson were taken to University Hospital. Nurses {said today both were in ‘‘extreme|ly critical” condition. | Police Chief J. E. Adams said | Conley, who was charged with
~
murder ‘seemed very calm” when |
he was arrested late yesterday. “He wrote out a statement for us himself.”
Conley said he has kad no one to look after his children since he and his wife separated. He said he couldn't go to work and “decided to kill the children.” Conley’'s wife rushed to the hospital to .see the two children when told of the incident. Then she went to the city jail and talked to Conley. “You drove me away, yourself,” Chief Adams quoted Mrs. Conley as telling her husband. "
Attique Tau Players Announce Try-Outs
The Attique Tau Players announced try-outs for an original musical drama from 6 to 10 p. m tomorrow and Thursday in Riddick auditorium, 1440 N. Meridian St. Directed by
Richard Feather-
ingill, the group is described as the newest amateur non-profit local dramatic organization for
teen-agers. The forthcoming musical show offers many parts for singers, dancers and actors, according to Mr. FeatHeringill.
| the Indiana Democratic Club, sponsors of the "Pack the Park” night.
Ghost Story .Leads To Death of Boy
One Child, Wounds 2 Others $/eep-Walker
CORDOBA, Argentina, July 24 { (UP)-—A ghost story has resulted in the tragic slaying of a 15-year-old boy afflicted with sleepwalking. Authorities belatedly announced that Hugo Torrichelli was shot
dead by police on the patio of
a ranchhouse on the outskirts of Cordoba last Friday. Police mistook the dim, pa-jama-clad figure for a mysterious phantom said by residents to be stalking their property at night and chalking “vampire the witch” on walls.
Look See
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 24 (UP)-—=Detectives got a good look at Seldom Seen today. The 67-year-old gambler was held for questioning about the disappearance of a witness in a contempt of court case.
Services Tomorrow
FT. WAYNE, (UP) Services will be tomorrow for Norman Leon Plummer, 23, Huntertown, who was killed in an accident at the Montpelier auto race track Sunday
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