Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1941 — Page 35

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FIRE FIGHTERS

Bade “Are * Nationilized ;

To Permit Co-ordination In Quenching Blazes. By HELEN KIRKPATRICK °

LONDON, May 15 .—Britain’s fire ”" brigades are to’ be nationalized, i}

“has been announced, with control

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" thorities and placéd under the Home and Scottish offices.

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cut "down the losses-from fire, it +is: believed, and is one which the regular members of London’s fire brigade— probably the most efficient == in the world—have Jong. _hoped for. Although there Miss s KirkpatrickDas been good-vol-untary ' co-opera-tion between the fire brigades, nationalization will mean that - this ocuntry’s fire fighting services can be -disposéd to° the best advantage. It ean now be :disclosed that on

, side London have had to be called up to assist. the London brigade. One such instance was during the big dock fires at the beginning of

September. As a result of the tremendous fires caused by the incendiaries and oil bombs, London’s fire fighters ‘who now number. around 2500 have the greatest:experience in ‘handling large fires and scattered blazes, which test the organization to the utmost. . . Under’ ‘the old’ system ‘of autonomous local units, all officers

rank so that the fire chief of “little Puddlington,” who brought ' his engines to London, to -biggér fires than “little Puddlington” had ever seen or would ever sée, had the same statu¢ as London’s fire chief. ‘Occasionally too, it was found that

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jtten their mother because her husband lies in a Nazi prison“camp and she cannot feed them. : hundreds like them found refuge in a Toulouse charity. home.

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and hose couplings. of other towns would not fit the fire plugs of London or the raided area “to which they were rushed. - ‘The: London fire. brigade. has organized the water system in London so that most of the mains’ in the city -could: be hit and’ there would still. be water. © They know the quickest way of usihg naturalsources of supply which the brigades of provincial cities do not know. Under the autonomous system, it was not possible for other cities’ brigades to profit from the London experience. Now, instead of .each city: and town having its own brigade, fire forces will be grouped according to areas under the command .of a regional director, who is in turn under the central command. This nationalization will be for the

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HOUSEWIFE AMAZED BY -JUMBLED ORDER

WEST. BRANCH, N. ¥Y, (U. P.).— When a’ busy West: Branch house-

| wife sent her neighbor’s 10-year-old

son to the grocer’s,: she received more of an’ order than’ ‘she bargained for. - She handed the’ béyl'a list of ‘the articles she wanted as follows: ; 1 bottld vanilla : 1 can baking powder =~’ “5 pounds sugar 2 2 bars. soap Absently, the housewife checked “One, two, three, four items,” “she said, writing the figures down at - the side of the list. Completely to her

surprise, she received the following: |

11 bottles of vanilla, 21. cans. of baking powder, 35 pounds of sugar,

and 42 cakes of soap.

[Realtors Told u. § May

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Start: Projects if: Private Interests Lag.

By DAVID MARSHALL : ‘Protests by local realtors. against proposed ~ governiental defense housing won't mean . much -unless

Government. must show. to the satisfaction of ordination. that - private initiative

ernment feels it must do.

Earl B. ‘Teckemeyer, president of the Indianapolis bo ard, realizes

ally has been § digging out the j facts and conyeying, them. to : Washington § since he took of- | fice..~ on Last October 5 wR : the property: Tovaiad : management di- Mr. Teckemeyer vision of the board . established fa central bureau to list all vacancies assan aid’ to new residents moving to Indianabolis. The first few reports of the buteau listed between 850 and 400 vacancies. How the slack has been taken up by families coming here in the last six months can be gauged from the current listing. Available now are 146 units (both houses and apartments). the price ‘class most needed by defense workers—$25 to $40. . As more end more workers come

fense industries those nearly 150 vacancies will be filled. Thus, the Real Estate Board knows new homes must ‘be built—as quickly ‘as possible. . After the central listing’ foureau was established, the board formed a Citizens Defense, Housing Committee

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. ‘The citizens’ committee sent al questionnaire to nearly 400 individ-|-uals and firms known to have done some - building in 1940. The committee, estimated ‘that. 200 of these built only one ‘or ‘two units. Therefore, “but. 200 active builders ‘can be counted on. to: help | in’ the. present|. situation. . To, date the ‘committee has re-

tion: “The 5: puilders. constructed 741: units in 1 ; * In the first three mons ad

They plan to: build 1153. more “Units this’ year. : "THey, could, ‘iff necessary, ' build 1209 additional units.

. They plan: to. build 750 rental units’ this year.

It is significant that while these builders put up’ 741 units in all of; 1940, they have built more than half that amount in the first quarter of ‘this year.’ Further aid to the situation can come from a program of the Indianapolis Planning Commission to rezone four sections of the City, mak{ing them available for construction of double houses. One whole section. .of the: East side already has been: rezoned to permit construc-

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This means 68 xinits added to the 750 already planned. 2 ‘When the final report is completed Indianapélis will know better how it stands. However, two things are clear. This report being made by lacal realtors must be accurate and not just “guesses.” Mr. Teckemeyer has continually stressed: this. The Government has had and still has experts studying the defense housing situation. The Real Estate Board's figures must jibe with those of the experts. Because no maiter what, the board says, if these men report a rieed for ' governmental ' housing, Federal projects will go up. Impoktant, too, is that either pri

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