Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1942 — Page 24

WAR EMPLOYER ENGULF SEATTLE

ment Store Sales Rise 60 Per Cent; Voters Reject Dave Beck’s Leadership.

This is the last of a series of articles on the west coast ‘war fronts.

By FRED S. FERGUSON Times Special Writer

SEATTLE, Wash., March 27.—Seattle is engulfed with

‘experienced airline

the greatest influx of industrial workers and their families in its history, is soaring away on all the wings of an industrial boom and is having a difficult time figuring out what

to do about it. Rents are sky-rocketing. Apartments or houses are not to be had. A big trailer city has been established in

one quarter. Boarding houses are packing people in. What P€ Put up by the government. This

oan 7 Rel iw 1 won't be enough. were for merly family 10-| 1m the midst of all this industrial tels,”

furnishing weekly or activity and booming, it may intermonthly rates, now take their et Westbrook Pegler to know the customers only by the day.

details of “how his old friend Dave | Beck, of the Teamsters’ union, had Retail department stores sales are his ears slappec back no end in the up 60 per cent over last year, and municipal election held here March will certainly go higher. They have 10. been rising con- - | Well. stantly for months, : ik ginning everybody was so enand the top ob- gaged in war work that they viously is not in 'didn’t pay much attention to the sight. fact that there was a mayoralty All street cars election coming up. There was having been elim- even some doubt that any opposition inated from the would be offered the Democtatic cay some time ago incumbent, Earl Millikin. Then at and busses sub- the last minute, Police Judge Wilstituted, the trans- liam Devin, Republican, filed. portation system is That made it an election, but the entirely inade- campaign was not arousing much quate for the vast- fire or smoke because of the war ly increased population of perhaps gistraction. The Devin people—the 100,000 the area. Private cars Republicans—kept saying, however, are therefore necessary to supple- that Millikin was dominated by ment the public transportation fa- Dave Beck. That was their main cilities, and this brings on the tire cry—dominated by Dave Beck. problem. | The Democrats, of course, replied Tough to Find a House [this wasn't so. Their man was his Across the river, at Bremerton, OWI master, they said, and had no truck with Mr. Beck.

Voters Fed Up?

All this time the labor boss was to keep up with the procession. in Washington. There was no word S pressing is the Qemand for from him whatever on the election, Houses Chak . Sueno, Was and there 1s a suspicion that the Re- > thal Dent © publicans may not have been getting thrown out that all of the old folks along too well with their Beck living here on state old-age pen- charges, owing to the folks more insions Have to some other locality terested in the war. But right at Bot Rt by the war activities, this point Beck returned to Seattle, eh a make room for active 5.4 just a week before the election OrRers. got on the radio and issued stateThere was not too much ecer- ments indorsing Mr. Millikin. tainty as to how this idea might be. The Republicans went to it. Mr. received by the pensioners, but the Beck's indorsement of Mr. Millikin voluntary response was extremely just made their point. They had good. and this plan may be carried been saying all the time that Mr. through. Millikin was Beck’s stooge, so they There is a standing list of more went to bat on a straight Beck issue than 1000 applications for houses and the Beck-Millikin ticket was with the homes registry bureau and beaten and Mr. Devin elected by the thousands of new arrivals here some 20000. From which the con-

it seems that in the be-

Dave Beck

In in

similar conditions exist, and with all of the industrial activities to be found in this war front area every civic facility is being strained

come from throughout the Midwest, clusion may be drawn that Seattle Southwest and everywhere. has become a little fed up on Mr | eck is labor-bossing. { Vast Parade to War Plants Beck, and his lalbx

BAILS OUT TOO LATE, ARMY FLIER KILLED

MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y., March 27 (U. P).—A United States army

Meantime local and surrounding town businesses or plants, not engaged in war work, are being ; stripped of help as this help leaves to join the vast parade into the war work If you try to translate this into pilot was killed yesterday when he dollars in payroll increases, pur- bailed out of his disabled plane 100 chasing power, and housing prob- feet above the right-of-way of the you get dizzy. Temporary Long Island railroad tracks in the housing will be necessary to take town of Westbury. | care of a large portion of the new The single seat, combat ship, industrial population. Under the crashed and burned near the railpresent program ‘the erection of road tracks. The pilot's body was some 12/000 new low-priced houses found about 100 feet from the is contemplated this year. Of this wreckage. Witnesses said he had number about half will be privately jumped so close to the ground that constructed and the other half will the parachute was unable to open. |

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CHARGES AIR TRAINEES FLY IN BAD WEATHER WASHINGTON, March 27 (U. P.).—Rep. Jack Nichols (D. Okla.) chairman of a special house committee which has been investigating airplane accidents, told the house yesterday that there is an average

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thousands of hours in the air, are kept on. the ground. He said his committee plans to present recommendations to the] WASHINGTON, March 27 (U.P). “proper military authorities” tb-|-~The office of defense transporta-

day that the meteorological service tion today asked intercity bus lines of the aeronautics bureau be util<{ tO re-examine their schedules with ized.

FEWER INTER-CITY BUS LINES URGED

a. view to eliminating trips on which ‘only a small number of passengers ordinarily are carried. John L. Rogers, director of the ODT motor transport division, urged the operators in a circular letter to eliminate unnecessary mileage in order to save rubber and other éritical materials.

Mr. Rogers said that “a system

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i A KING GEORGE ON RADIO LONDON, March 27 (U. B).— King George VII will make a radio address tothorrow in connection with the national day of prayer which will be observed Sunday, the British Broadcasting Co. announced

today.

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