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REECE HO'O'STS Chicago Aixy i 24,1547 QPI7C "9CniTnRQlcryS CZERIC'A INDIANA PRISON Indiana's Slate Penitentiary WW 1111, M-t 11; jTJL A-1 A STATEHOOD FOR PUERTO RICANS (Story in adjoining column) VOTE ON STRIKE Members of local 58, American IN $96,000 FAKE LACKS PLANNING, tNew York Times-Chicago Tribune Dlspaich SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. 23 Federation of State, County, and Carroll Reece, chairman -of the Re Municipal Employes AFL, last night tabled a motion to vote on a publican national committee, in a letter to Mrs. Ana Maria Iriarte, Republican committeewoman from strike in all offices in the city hall. STORY BUYING New York, Jan. 23 Special Two editors of New York pulp maga President James Nolan said later Puerto Rico, published this morn ing in El Mundo, gave the move-j zine publishing firms were arrested ment for Puerto Rican statehood WORK FOR IDLE Criminal Insane Kept on Same Grounds (1 'hit i'i the fourth of a series of nrtiilrt hr a Tritiunm reporter de smiting slate penitentiaries of firm 'ynidwentem Hate and comparing today on larceny and forgery charges involving the allegedly faked pur the strongest encouragement in re cent years.

chases of $96,000 in nonexistent manuscripts over a three year period. Reece said he had sounded out Republican congressmen and found I that a large number favor the District Atty. Frank S. Hogan said the editors, Kenneth W. Hutchinson, island's admission into the union.

45, of New York City, and Wilton The letter pointed out that the Re that the motion would be available whenever the union officers decided that the city would not meet wage increase demands rejected in the 1947 budget. The union, which Secretary James Oliver said included 1,200 employes, including most of the civil service clerical help, but not including firemen or policemen, asked a flat $45 a month raise for all clerks. Nolan said that the council committee with which he; negotiated, had promised wage Increases if the council succeeded in getting a diversion of state sales tax funds for the city. Gov. Green has asserted he does not favor diversion.

publican platform of 1944 character Matthews, 36, Elmhurst, N. were trapped when they failed to intercept the regular income tax statements mailed by their employers 1 in i nmrfi aaaiiiiianiiiai in' ized Puerto Rico's aspirations to statehood as logical. Layout of cell house and factory buildings within the walls of Reece charged that the Demo Jan. 15 to writers from whom fic Indiana state prison at Michigan City. cratic administration used Puerto Rico as a "West Indian rabbit" for renditions in litem uith thosa in federal prinont.) BY WILLARD EDWARDS hirst Tflhlme rrra erlr) Ftt Penitentiary.

Michigan City. Jan. 23 The prisoners happily greeted the appearance of Warden F.Fljh Howard. Pool players laid down their cues. Others dropped msg-azlnes In the large game room tion had been purchased last year.

They were not at their desks Jan. 15 to intercept the tax statements, as they had been in 1945 and 1946, brain trusters to experiment height generally considered ade and asserted the Republicans would concentrate on the island's real quate. The forced resignation of a warden in 1938 ended a regime in Hogan said, with the result that ADJUSTMENT OF RENT CONTROLS DEPENDS ON CONGRESS: TRUMAN needs. which at least 70 prisoners, includ ing many notorious killers, escaped. 412 Serving Life Terms There are 250 employes of whom and a score cf men massed them-fr-lvr-g lor.

a barred entrance, thrust hands thru the bars, grin-juncly demanded interviews. "Hello, boy." was the warden's FffXirz to this one and that. He smilingly parried attempts at con (C'hlcaio Tribune FreM Service Washington, Jan. 23 President Truman said today that any new adjustment in rent controls would 160 are guards. These men receive $195 a month, higher than in most states, and the warden is confident T.

W. Ford of New York City received a statement informing him he had been paid $2,850 for seven manuscripts in 1946. Denies Selling Stories Ford notified Frank Armer, general manager of the two publishing firms, Trojan Publishing corporation and Arrow Publications, that he had not sold any articles to any of their 16 detective, western, and love story magazines during 1946. Armer asked the district attorney to investigate. Shown- seven canceled checks It's Fun to Choose Your Own Candy that he is building up a competent force.

versation. It was a cheerful scene. have to originate in congress that he hoped the government can hold the line on rents. At his first regular news confer Kot before. In a tour of a score of The peak population in the '30s was 2,700.

Dropping to a compara ence in three weeks the President 1 Ipslit tively low mark during the war, the number of inmates is gradually in also told reporters that: at 1 TAILORED SUITS Tailored to your order 3 5 of lengths representing the fc finest woolens of two conti- fjj nents individually styled 1 and hand crafted In the 3 3 traditional Jerrems man- tJ! 2 j3 rer One Hundred Dollars fjj and More. jj f. jj Order now for Spring Xjfo'' JjljA 2 South Michigan South La Stlf 5 1. He has asked Postmaster Hannegan to continue both as creasing, having gained by 150 in made out to him, Ford termed the the last 18 months. endorsements forgeries.

A further postmaster general and as chair investigation and today's arrests man of the Democratic national There are 442 men serving life sentences and the state reformatory has sent 165 of its most refractory Take Lome a box of sweets to delight the family dad loves Both men were said to have Mrs. Steven fudge and cocoa- younger men here. worked for the two publishers since 1933. Hutchinson's salary -and bon New prisoners get the usual med nut crescents and mom really prisons, had the reporter encountered such seemingly high morale, uch good spirits. Prison Within a Trison Unfortunately, these were not men.

They were inmates of the Indiana Hospital for Insane Criminals which the state, for reasons which seem satisfactory to its officials, has maintained for many years in one cornef of the yard of the state prison, marked off from tr.e prison proper by an old walL Altho technically a separate institution, the separation is far from complete and some mingling of the two populations is inevitable. The warden manages both places, a double duty thrust upon no other official in this observer's experience. There is no attending physician, no ical inspection and remain in iso uses totaled $7,500 a. i-ear, and goes ior nut caramels and choco lation several days while their rec Matthews' $10,000. late chips bonbons and ords are studied.

The deputy war Charges Fake Accounts Dist. Atty. Hogan said the pair, creams are favorites of sis den gives them assignments. Under committee. 2.

He has given State Secy. George C. Marshall a free hand in running the state department. Asked if he had talked with Secretary Marshall, Mr. Truman said the two had conferred for about 20 minutes today, discussing China, South America, Germany, Palestine, and many other topics.

Questioned if Marshall had discussed with him any changes in top ranking personnel, Mr. Truman said Marshall had requested the top ranking men to present conditions the classifica raisin and peanut clusters for junior. tion board can do little in the way of sorting out the various types of apparently not satisfied with these incomes, had checks drawn up and signed by the general manager in payment for fiction purportedly "ac Ill- $1 criminals for training or education designed to rehabilitate them. cepted for printing from mythical authors. Machine Gun Pair Cow When a probe of Ford's charge stay.

Chocolate Covered Fruits Nuts. .1.30 lb. of forgery was about to begin, psychiatrist. The arrangement is Matthews allegedly wrote the author 13 in Saloon, Get $1,600 Two gunmen, one carrying a sub unwholesome, to put it mildly. Hospital Overcrowded The hospital for the insane, origl nally to quarter 130 pa tienis, is overcrowded with a pros telling him a mistake had been made, and that the tax statement he received should have been sent to another wrter who used the machine gun, fled with $1,600 last night after holding up Andrew Jedrzejczyk and cowing 12 custom pseudonym Tom Ford." ers Jedrzejczyk's tavern at 914 Fulton st.

One of the gunmen took ent population of 33-1. Nine years Later, it was charged, Matthews ago a special commission recom noted the installation of a "hobby shop," just about the latest wrinkle in modern penology. Here, in a large room with work benches, prisoners on good behavior can tinker in the evenings at wood, leather, and metal work. Recreation Program Lags Ey modern standards the recreation program is 20 years behind the times. There is a small yar4 containing a baseball diamond and a showed Armer a letter from Ford the money from a cigar box on the mended the construction of a new institution as one of the primary back bar after the 13 were forced to He on the floor.

Jedrzejczyk's in which Ford said he had been in error in stating ne had not received the $2,850 and that he was en route to New Mexico. Ford denied writing needs of the Indiana penal system. With a population of 275 at that son, Andrew was robbed oi $1,300 on Jan. 2 by two other gunmen while returning from a bank. time, the report stated that the con such a letter.

OPEN EVENINGS gestion in the hospital was perilous. It cannot be said that Warden Howard, who took over his duties 7 4 prison team plays outside groups in the summer and is even taken to play at outside fields about three times a season. But the inmates are kept inside during the winter. During the summer they are admitted to the yard on Saturday and Sunday only. The prison has a "little Alcatraz" on the third floor of a disciplinary building where troublemakers are incarcerated in dark cells, without beds, and on a limited diet.

It spoke well for prison discipline that there was not a single occupant of this detention quarter at the moment. Convict Built Pipe Organ Michigan City has the only chapel encountered on the tour which looks like a church, inside and out. Religious exercises for the various WIMMWi ((IB Eibxners Choice 1 r- IS months ago, is a happy man. He has an 88 year old prison which Just grew, completely unplanned. Aside from the criminal insane group, he has 1,903 of the state's worst criminals packed into cell houses intended to accommodate a maximum 1,800.

I'iro Hazards of Worst; Typo In the last half century, as the penal colony increased, buildings were crowded into the 25 acre enclosure wherever space could be found for them. Howard found fire hazards of the worst type when he assumed his duties and his main efforts have been directed toward correcting this dangerous situation. Two old cell blocks have been stripped of their antiquated cages and dormitories for the surplus population have been installed. Like most wardens, Howard hates this congregating of men In large groups and has asked funds for 600 more cells in order to achieve the penal ideal an individual cell for each man. This is an objective, incidentally, which the inmates also desire ardently.

Idleness Is Danger Idleness, is another danger in this prison. The warden said 1,200 men were working, leaving T63 idle. A tour of the prison showed evidence that many of those presumed to be denominations are held here on Sundays and moving pictures are shown weekly during the winter. The light, full flavored wJiuley chapei accommodates 1,800 men and it has a big pipe organ, built by a that conforms to standards -t-f young convict, over a period of four years, out of such materials as he could assemble. Experts say it has a fine tone, is worth perhaps $10,000.

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