Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 February 1940 — Page 4
312 TEAMS SEE ACTION TONIGHT
Decatur Central-Tech Tilt One of Key Clashes 64 Sectionals.
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Augusta against: Southport and Speedway against Washington's Continentals. .~Arother * early headliner is the Bosse-Reitz game which starts things off at Evansville. The highly régarded Anderson Indians go into action against Frankton, while Eminénce has dreams of topping the Martneville Artesians at Bloomingn, : ‘The host Bluffton five must deal with Liberty Center, which ‘has ~ considerable backing, and our own Howe youngsters tackle the vicious Greenfield club at Greenfield. . Some of the favorites expected to have things their own way are: Frankfort, meeting Mulberry; Jeffersonville, playing Mauckport; Ft. Wayne South Side, leading off against. Lafayette Central; Muncie Burris, which plays Royerton, and Vineennes, paired with Wheatland. -.The other much-mentioned teams won't. go to the post until tomorrow. North Side of -Ft.. Wayne takes: off tomorrow afternoon against Coesse. Logansport opens with Young: - America, while - Lebanon plays one of this evening’s winners. New Castle’s Trojans, whose support has been on the upswing, starts off with Spiceland, and the strog Washington Hatchets meet Shoals, ‘which may do more than just: worry the Daviess County favorites. Tomorrow's first-round games here will send Shortridge against Broad Ripple, Warren Central against Oaklandon, Lawrence against Castleton, Beech Grove against Manual and Ben Davis against Franklin Township. These -are just a few of the top games. But, brother, they are not ‘a bit more important to you than Elmore Township's encounter with Trinity Springs at 2 p. m. tomorrow is to Elmore and Trinity Springs.
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Fire Convention Closes
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Chief Harry K. (Smoky) Rogers (left), chief engineer of the West-
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Alexander MacDonald, Indianapolis Power & Light Co. engineer.
Demonstration of “flame proofing,” the use of chemicals to make wooden buildings more resistant to fire, feature dthe closing session of the Indiana Fire Department Inspectors’ School at the Fair Grounds today. The demonstrations were given by Prof. A.R.
IMAGINATION CALLED HOPE'S ‘BLUE-PRINT
The Christian hope brings man’s greatest expectation within, the realm of the possible, the Rt. Rev. QC. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop of Alas bama, said today at a Lenten noonday address in Christ: Church. “Imagination and hope are closely related,” he said. “Things hoped for must first be vividly imagined in order that they may be definitely
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Douglas of Oklahoma A. & M. College. © More than 300 firemen and fac tory, insurance and REA inspectors from various Indiana cities attended the two-day convention. Experts on fire fighting discussed inspections, building construction, codes and other problems facing fire departments of the Siate.
FINNS GIVE HOLIDAY TO ‘POPPEMOFFSKY’
HELSINKI, Feb. 29 (U.P. .—-The Finnish Army has granted a leave of absence to Simo Haeyhae,* a peasant marksman credited with having picked off 219 Russians with his rifle. He had been at the front two and a half months. Shooting had been his hobby in peacetime—he had a closet full of trophies in his home— and when the war first started he failed to keep score of his hits. Some of his comrades, noticing his marksmanship, suggested that he do so and every day thereafter, he reported his day’s “bag” to his commanding officer.
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FOES OF SLUMS DEMAND ACTION
Committee" Circulates Petitions to Establish Housing “Authority Here.
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ings in the City” and a shortage of “safe dwellings for low income groups” Either. of these conditions is adequate cause for the creation of an
Indianapolis Housing Authority, under State law. Setting up of the authority by City Council would be the first step in instituting the slum clearance program, The authority, the Committee pointed out, would be empowered to decide whether private or public (USHA) funds would be used to finance the program. Debate on the resolution centered about a committee statement that “private enterprise is unable to provide safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations at rentals within the means of low income families,” which appeared in the survey. The statement was challenged by Dwight Ritter, Indianapolis Church Federation inter-racial committee chairman, and Leo F. Welch, Works Board vice president. Mr. Ritter asked that it be stricken from the report as unfair, Mr, Welch said that while he favored low cost housing in principle, he disagreed with committee statements which pointed to the inability of private enterprise to provide it, The committee’s report and conclusions in their entirety were defended by Adolph Fritz, State Fed-
‘|eration of Labor secretary, and Carl
Vestal of the Central Labor Union. Mr, Vestal invited both Mr, Welch and Mr. Ritter to accompany him on an eight-hour tour of city slums to determine first hand whether slum clearances were needed. The committee’s resolution was
jamended to read “private enterprise
has been unable . . .,” and approved. The committee’s report showed
| said. ‘the WPA survey completed at the end of 1939 indicate no lessening| jng less than a miracle” has pre-
Jjreport said.
‘byways for ‘recreation.’
|Ave.,
that slums tend to “demoralize” the
ipersons who live in them and to raise the taxes of people who don’t.
Out of 108 Indianapolis census
| tracts, 11 tracts in which 37,943 per{sons lived absorbed 26 per cent of
municipal tax money in 1933, the report. said. These tracts constituted the slum and near slum areas. The 10 per cent of the city’s population which lived in this area used 30 per cent of the City Hospital service in 1932, 33 per cent of the public relief money spent in Indianapolis and 25 per cent of the welfare expenditures for the City, it ‘said. In addition, the small area accounted for 16.7 of the total cost of extinguishing fires, 36 per cent of the cost for police protection and 24.9. per cent of the cost for placing all City’s misdemeanor cases on probation.
“No one should be concerned with!
the fact that -these statistics are not for the year, 1939,” the Citizens’ Housing Committee’s report “Preliminary tabulations of
lof bad housing conditions and their | excessive sacial, .and economic cost.
\ WPA Figures Quoted
“In, fact, ‘recent figures show a worse housing condition.”
The Committee quoted WPA sur-|
vey figures showing that in the area bounded by 10th St.,
St., 1716 dwelling of a total of 3197 in the area are “substandard.” Of the 1716 substandard dwellings, the report added, the WPA survey showed 1501 dwellings share sanitary facilities, 609 need major repairs and “100 are fotally unfit
for habitation.”
“In the downtown area of Indianapolis; there are 6448 residential units of which, the survey said, 2961 have no toilets or baths and 2887 are substandard.
The Citizens’ Committee’s own
figures showed that last year 80 per
cent of 5080 cases handled by the Juvenile Court were from slum areas. “Overcrowding is one of the principal factors in delinquency,” the “Children are forced into the streets, into the alleys and ~The path from delinquency to’ crime is more
frequently - followed than: the path’
to good citizenship.” ' Building Lags
The population growth of Indianapolis in the last five years has far exceeded the number of new dwellings which should have been built to house the influx, the repotr said. “In the five years since 1934 when a housing shortage existed, there
dwelling units to house an increase of 7500- families,” it continued. In this period, 3800 new dwelling units have: been built, but 1702 have
and approximately 600 condemned as unfit for human habitation, the report said. The Committee’s report concluded that an acute housing shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings for low income groups exists in Indianapolis and that it is incumbent on the City officials to declare the need here of a local housing authority..
EIGHT ARRESTED ON
ing .charges yesterday when police raided a room in the 100 block of E. Wabash St. and confiscated chairs, tables and side rails. Richard Poland, 3670 Rockville Rd., and Charles Richardson, Martinsville, were charged with keeping a gaming house and the other six were charged with visiting a gaming house. Police said they confiscated a slot machine - yesterday at Columbia 3300 block. No arres; was made.
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The Indiana Brotherhood of Threshermen and Power Users today was on record against ‘any act. of the State I.egislature permitting the State to. enter into the Workmen’s Compensation business.” The resolution was adopted yesterday at the final session of the two-day 29th annual brotherhood convention at the Hotel Lincoln. Oliver Buller of Fairmount was elected ' president.- Other officers are Fred Paul, Hillisburg, vice president; W. S. Arnold of Indianapolis, secretary treasurer, and J. D. Johnston of Indianapolis, chairman of the legislative committee and State delegate-at- ais delegaje-ab large.
SQUALOR RULES FLORIDA CAMPS
FSA Reports Conditions Comparable to Those in ‘Grapes of Wrath’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (U. P.).
—Between 10,000 and 20,000 migrant families along the Eastern Seaboard
exist in poverty, squalor and disease comparable to conditions described by John Steinbeck in the “Grapes of Wrath,” the Farm Security Administration revealed today. The Administration released a detailed report of the plight of these families and single workers engaged in “rush period” farm labor from Florida to New Jersey. The Eastern Seaboard prototypes of Mr. Steinbeck’s “Okies’” and Joad family travel in old trucks, in jalopies, in freight cars; and live in ditch-side camps totally lacking in sanitary facilities, the FSA reported. They work 12 to 18 hours a day and move North with the season. Highlights of the report were: 1. Typical Housing—Two to 10 people living in each room of a 14-room shelter in Florida, each roorh renting for $1.50 a week; a single, open-pit toilet for four to eight shelters. 2. Disease—More than 50 per cent
‘and in some sections 80 per cent of the migrants are syphilitics. “Noth-
vented epidemics of contagious diseases. : 3. Education—Few children at[tend sehool..dn Florida, “education is in competition” ‘With beans.” 4
Conditions — Common |
law marriages “of a seasonal narture”; ‘unattached women sharing
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Boos and hedis) Punctuate State Hearing on Rate, Hour Petition. (Continued from Page One)
dependent ~ Barbers’: Association, which has been fighting the proposed regulations for several months, was booed when he attempted to speak for the organization. He said he had a petition signed by 181 Indianapolis barbers, protesting the proposed regulations. “Members of the association demand the right to fix their own prices and hours to make a decent
living,” Mr. Holmes said, amid roars of boos. “I have a petition signed by Mars Hill businessmen advising against a price and hour regulations in that section.” The attorney protested that bar-
[ers with shops tn the outiyin; ais
tricts can’t make a living at the 50cent minimum “because people in the neighborhoods will: not pay it.” “The customers will go to nearby rural shops where they can gat 35cent haircuts,” he sald. “We are not protesting the price regulations as much as the hour limits.. Members have found that they can't make a living closing their shops at 6 p.m.” " Half a dozen other speakers who attempted to argue against the price regulations also were down, - More than a dozen witnesses testified, amid cheers, that the price regulations were necessary “lo save the barher and his family from poverty.” One barber charged that those opvosing the petition “can’t get a fair price for their work ani don’t want. anyone else to get it"
Personal insults hurled back and forth across the room nearly caused
a fist fight ron the speakers’ platorm
A barber said another used one!
towel on several customers and the accused leaped to the floor, yelling: “He's a skunk.” The Board had difficulty keeping order.
The main argument for the pe-'
titioners was ' made by George
Smith, Barbers’
w 0 said he was “sh conduct of his colleagues. = He argued that barbers no longer can live decentlv on reduced prices, “The laborer 1s getting more By. for 30 hours work now than | barbers are getting for 65 hours,” he said. “Some people are trying to sell haircuts for the same price as we did 35 years ago.” He cited the rise in commodity prices and declared that the barber prices must keep pace with other prices if the barber-is to survive financially. . State Board members said they may complete action on the new order within the next few days.
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