Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1946 — Page 7
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE “Tony” Hulman (he paid $750,000 for the Indianapolis Speedway) has one “worry’’'~-can’t’ keep from wearing holes in his trousers pocket . , . and he’s willing to accept the | theory that it's because he carries more keys than anyone—except the town jailers. . . , “Tony” (few call him Anton, as he was christened) actually and, literally carries the keys to almost everything in Terre Haute. . , . It was there in 1850 that his"grand-
father set up a wholesale grocery business which has grown into a mammoth enterprise including now the’ manufacture of the nationally known Clabber Girl baking powder. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent by the “grocery boy” in.the interest of his neighbors. . . . Like the $100,000 he ‘gave to make possible .the town’s municipal airport . . . the Navy “Bearcat” plane he bought only a week ago: as a city relic of world war II and for ground instruction of the town’s schools . . . the 55 acres of land he’s signing over to the Indiana State Teachers college for the $50,000 athletic center, . . , Like the plan he's fostering now to provide a modern sewage disposal plant for the community. . . . Like the real estate development he bought out to provide $1500 building lots for half the price. . . . Like a hundred and one other things that have endeared “Tony” to the townspeople he “lives with.” . . . Look at most any board of directors list and you'll find Anton Hulman Jr. as president or as a director. . , ..He heads many campaigns, like the war bond drive. . . . Some ong will point out a building and tell you, “that ‘belongs to Tony"—and you know he means “Tony” Hulman . , . you'll probably find a war bond campaign office on the ground floor . . . or headquarters of the Navy War Mothers . . . or a drug store operated by a young fellow who was started in business by
“Tony” . . . if you eat in the Terre Haute House, you're in “Tony's” hotel . . . if you want a check cashed you'll probably go to “Tony's” bank... . At
Hulman & Co. the pomp of “big business” is unknown,
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HIS PRETTY secretary, Dorothy Cleary, calls him “Tony” and to even the lowest paid worker he's “Tony.” . . . Forest Park a 360-acre play spot, was constructed by “Tony” for the workers . . . including a. $60,000 club house, . . . Even in his kaleidoscopic world “Tony” has time for his own recreation . . . and it's kept him “fit” at 44 years of age just as he was back in 1922-24 when he was an outstanding athlete at Yale university . . . so good, he was an All-American football end at Yale in 1924—probably cheered by his friend Rudy Vallee, then an underclassman and leader of the band. . . . As early as 1919 at Worcester (Mass.) Academy he was known as the “one-man-track-team” . . . that year, too, he was officially named “best school-boy vaulter in the United States”. . . . During international competition ih 1923 he won the high hurdles representing Yale and Harvard at Wembley, England. . . . As one of the nation’s richest business executives he still dikes sports—field and stream competition for big game
Bowling association and with the midwell the competing will be resumed tocontinue through Sunday schedule
Pfahrbach, John Athert, R. Speer (Bedford); ), Itch T'ressler (Con- | (Connersville), Frank le); C. Grecco (Bed-
Joe Rea, Roy Haislup; and fish. . . . He has many trophies oot eure (Bedford), Wm. Faust heads and. fish attesting to his prowess. . . . Many of nnersville), John Blue; Rugh; Earl Henry
Miller; Leonard Chase, nberger, Wilbur, Plough red Spencer, Frank ville); Kenneth ‘Klein eorge Croft; Deke ville), Leslie Zikes ooup (Columbus), Ray ville). nges, John. Eder; H. Henry Stumpf; Chas. ; Clarence Baker, Bob , Ed. Schott; D. Stump venson; Arthur Smart, wuts, Chris Rasmussen; Striebeck; Emil Luca, Stuart, Ray Roberson; Field; Clarence Schott, jam Dugdale, Harry Bush, Jerry O'Grady; Christensen. agua, Hershell Griffin; ass (Muncie); Herman jon), J. Giorgianni iruhn, Paul BStriebeck; Marion), L. Clements vell (Muncie), Al Muel(Marion), Floyd Miles; aves (Muncie); Maurice
East Mixup
CHINCHOW, Manchuria. (Delayed.)—What the future industrial picture of Manchuria will be is something difficult to assess until current negotiations between the Chinese and the Russians in the Manchurian capital are completed and Russian troops withdraw from the country. Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky for the Russians, Chang Chianagu, head of the supreme” economic council for Manchuria; Lt. Gen. Tung Yuan-Ping, deputy chief of staff to the generalissimo’s field representa-, tive for the northeast provinces, and Gen. Hsiung Shih-Hui for the Chinese—are in Changchun. They are conducting negotiations over a series of questions whose crux seems to be how much of a
Floyd Morgan (Terre ere of influence the Russians will wield over Mann (Muncie), Bill Pier- ¢ Hon), Bud Argus: Paul churia. : uncie); C. rir, In! summa ath “Newessuey: It is impossible to present a balanced ry
from here, as Russian sources are not available, Therefoge, the facts herein presented are exclusively from Chinese sources.
Points to Be Settled
ACCORDING to these sources, which are the most authoritative the writer could find, the points on which an agreement has not yet been reached include ytlhe following Russian desires: 1. To have commercial airfields and to operate a commercial airline connecting key Manchurian cities. 2. To run a telephone line from Manchouli, on the northwest Manchurian-Siberian border, to the Yellow seaport of Dairen. 3. To have Russian technicians assist the Chinese in the operation of factories. 4. To enjoy joint management with the Chinese of coal mines and heavy industry, which are adjacent to the main railway line and were owned by the railway under the Japanese regime. Under the tetms of the Sino-Soviet treaty of friendship, the Russians will be partners of the Chinese for 30 years in the operation of the Chinese Eastern railway' and - South Manchurian railway, originally built by the Russians under the czars. This partnership is confined to the original route railways, the Chinese Eastern, running from Man-
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lose sight of other ones. Chief among these is that of the health of the nation,
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JINT SooPLY made by the army and navy medical departments ison and Ray Sts during world war II in caring for the wounded and EE guarding the health of the fighting man. EXAMINED Moi, It is important to realize, however, that these
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supply- the answers to the chief medical problems of the post-war period. "The surgeon on- the battlefield was-dealing with a young man who had suffered a wound. Our chief medical problems at home are concerned with other types of events. This was true even while the war was on. ‘No more graphic example of this could be brought forward than the epidemic of infantile paralysis which the United States experienced during the summer of 1944. It is believed that the number of cases reached 19,000 by the end of the year. Here was a situation in which blood plasma, sulfa drugs and penicillin could work no magiogy
A Changing Picture THE NATIONAL Foundation for Infanfile Paralysis spent over a million dollars on direct relief and medical care during this epidemic. Doctors, nurses and physical therapists were sent in‘n 19 states and the District of Columbia, In many cases physical therapists were locaved by
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long distance telephone or radio appeals and. flown 4 LONDON, Friday.—I find that listening to
speeches in the assembly meetings for so many hours daily, no matter how good they are, is a tax on my powers of concentration. It may be that, being deaf in one ear, I have to listen more attentively than the average person. : For this reason, I'shall be glad when the work in committees really begins and we can deal with cone crete questions in a somewhat smaller room and with a smaller group of people. > One of the questions being discussed by various groups is the, request of the world Federation of Trade unions to have special consideration. They want to be allowed a different approach to the as-
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Hoosier Profile
| SECOND SECTION
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1946
Firm Pl By VICTOR PETERSON N industry, 6 months old to Indianapolis, today plans an expansion of about $150,000. It.will include a.
establishment of two branch offices out of town. “Indianapolis has been unbelievably good to us” said Eugene E. Flesch, senior partner of the Flesch Miller Tractor Co. 802 Daly st. “Our business is going to he more than double what we had while established in Minneapolis,” he said. “Before coming here we investigated Indiana’s farming, contracting and mining strength. It rated high with the nation’s tops but the result has been beyond expectation.” - » . THE FIRM is the sole distributor in Indiana for Allis-Chalmers contracting. equipment. They also carry Koehring Co. and Quick-Way Truck Shovel Co. products, A complete repair shop, stocked with 85,000 parts, is part of the com-
Multi-millionaire “Tony” Hulman’s “big worry” , . . |
hole in his pocket.
them are prize pieces at the Hollywood-style lodge which sets along the private lake at his 750-acre farm where all kinds of game run wild. . , . His wife, Mary (of the Fendrich family of Evansville, leading cigar makers), also has trophies resulting from her championship with “Tony” in his outdoor sports . . . she excells in skeet shooting. . . . And the couple still find time for an enjoyable home life with their 11-year-old daughter, Mary Antonia. . .. While “Tony” is noted for staying close to his work as head of his firm . . . he'll “sneak off” any time for—of all things! —a chocolate 4) “cream soda, r
Has Yen far Speed [0 guste 1 ALTHOUGH jt's accepted in many quarters that | Capitali i at $100000 in June, “Tony's” pride in.Indiana and its landmarks prompted | the company employs 25 people. Exhim to buy the Speedway when he understood the|pansion will run employment figures
track was to be closed and the ground sold as building [to at least 50 plus an additional 10 lots, he confessed he has a yen for speed. . . . He saw (in the out-of-town branches which
1913 . . . and “got close” to the cars, for the Hulmans Evansville. | were friends of Carl Fisher, original owner. . , .| ® & = Anton Sr. was state champion in high and low| THE SITE of the new building has wheel cycles in the late 1880's . . . and operated the not as yet been determined but will fastest boat on the Wabash river. . . . He would take |be located on the outskirts on a “Tony” to Miami and there speed in the fast boat | railroad spur. The building will be Mr. Fisher owned. At 12 years old “Tony” bought completely modern, 100 by 300 feet, a motorcycle . . . liked to go so fast that he crashed and will double the present working the fence at the old fairgrounds at Terre Haute . . . space. and if you want to see a “twinkle” in “Tony's” eyes| The building will cost approxiask him if he'd like to drive a lap on his own speed- {mately $75,000. New equipment will way. . . . Confidentially, he’l] never drive in competi- | run about $20,000, and the opening tion . . . for he's colorblind. lof the branches will represent an expenditure of $50,000. :
new plant, equipment and the
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W oll] Oe located’ in Pt. Wayne and The first of its kind in the city. . . . Eugene E. Flesch (right) completes the sale of a Quick-Way truck his first “500"-race with his dad, the late Anton Sr. in| : : shovel to Army Veteran John J. Hoffmann, who is opening his own contracting business. The Flesch-Milier
Tractor Co. plans a $150,000 expansion, which will include a building,
branch offices.
FLESCH-MILLER TRACTOR CO. GROWING FAST—
150,000 Expansion
PART OF the company’s progpam clude tractofs, bulldozers, tow trac.
involves the hiring of as many veterans as possible. Already four are employed and fall under the veterans’ rehabilitation program. The
tors for plants, dirt scoops, - road graders, winches, excavating shovels and cranes.
. » - TODAY they completed: the sale
firm has applied for approval as|of the first and only truck shovel
part of the apprenticeship training|for excavating in Indianapolis.
program,
It was sold to John J. Hoffman, dis-
Some of the products carried in-|charged veteran of five years serv-
equipment, and the opening of two
ice. Mr. Hoffman follows in the footsteps of his family in the contracting business. Other key men of Flesch-Miller include Otis E. Miller, senior part-
ner; Owen Gahagan, junior partner; Donald W. Baumgardt, office manager, and Joseph Esser, parts and service manager.
By William McGaffin HOUSING PARLEY APPEALS TOU. S.
chouli, to Harbin, to Suifenho on the southeast borders of Manchuria and Siberia, and the South Manchuria, running from Harbin to Dairen. This originally was all under the Chinese Eastern, but after the Russians lost the Russo-Japanese war they ceded the Harbin to Dairen stretch of 584 miles to the Japs, who renamed it the South Manchurian, railway. The Russians turned over the rest of the line of 1919 miles, from Manchouli to Suifenho to’
he Japs I» as: Three steps designed to relieve Small Lines Excluded the housing shortage in Indiana THE RAILWAY partnership does not extend to were sought from the federal gov-| the operation of numerous contributory lines built ernment today. by the Japs which presumably will be operated exclu-| They were earmarked late yester-| sively by the Chinese, Authoritative Chinese sources say that the Chinese ence as the day-long session waned began negotiations with the Russians at Changchun!into its closing on the basis of what Russia owned in Manchuria definite move toward solution of the under the czar. This was confined mainly to the No. 1 post-war problem. railway itself, however, as industrial development Resigned to the proposition that came for the most part after the Japs took over the 1946 Will not see the end of the country. | critical shortage of homes, the con-|
The Sino-Soviet treaty, providing for joint opera- | ference sought relief in these tion of the railway, said nothing about joint manage-| lutions: ment of industries. Hence, this has become a subject! ONE—That the OPA immediate-| of the Changchun negotiations. ly re-examine and revise pricing The same sources say China can make no plan égulations on building materials U | for taking over the Manchurian industrial set-up until| encourage greater producton of the Chinese complete the occupation of the country Standard grades used in home conand see what they have to work with. How long it|Struction. will take to restore Manchuria to the industrial pro-| TWO—That the armed forces of duction point it had reached when the war ended is|the United States take all necesanother unanswerable question. {sary steps to make available at What the Chinese are going to do about tech- the earliest moment such building nicians, which they lack themselves, remains to be|materials now in their possession seen. Authoritative sources say that the Russians 88 may be appropriate for use in have taken many Jap technicians to Russia. but that|the building industry. the Chinese plan to make use of those who remain. THREE—That the volume of forThe Chinese say: “We want our frieneds to help |eign shipments of lumber be reus run the factories” Whether this means the | duced to an absolute minimum Russians and Americans, or one to the exclusion of until such time as the present the other, is not clear. { housing emergency in the United . Copyright, 198, by The Indianapoiis Times and States has passed. i Bottleneck Blamed
e Chicago Daily News, Inc. Many of the 450 persons who . . {heard the federal government By David Dietz lambasted for permitting its controls to bottleneck the housing d | problem had left the house cham‘|ber of the statehouse before the [resolutions were brought to the oor.
State Group Outlines Program in 3 Resolutions. |
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By ART WRIGHT
by alrplane to the places where they were neede It is highly important, therefore, that we evaluate our own post-war medical problems and take the necessary steps to deal with them. Our own internal | . economy demands that we think of the ‘health of the| ney lad listened for some six American people. ‘ | hours to a long list of speakers On surveying the field we find that we are con-| representing the building industry, fronted with a changing picture. There was a time | federal agencies, the war veterans when contagions formed the major health problems! 8nd labor . . . and largely these blamed the . housing shortage on
facing the mation. t t trols : ‘too many government con " Diseases of Old Age It was their contention that if TODAY OUR chief problem is formed by the dis-| tederal agencies would forget prices ease of old age. It would bé a mistake, however, to|and similar restrictions ‘he builders think of the contagions as conquered. I need only would get the homes construction call your attention to the many tropical diseases or to|job done. infantile paralysis. | Sharing Contract Statistics assembled by heaith authorities prior to] One resolution expected by the world war II showed that at that time seven condi-|conference to receive immediate actions were responsible for seven out of every 12 deaths|tjon from the rent control division in the United States. These seven together did more of OPA was the following: havoc than all the other causes of death together.|” That where a householder allows In the order of their deadlines these seven were: |g family or families of veterans to Heart disease, cancer, kidney disease, accidents, pneu-|share his household, that the parties monia, cerebral hemorrhage and tuberculosis, teconcerned shall be allowed to enter Of this group recent medical progress has suc-|into a rental contract permitting a ceeded in making notable inroads on only one, namely | special ‘termination of such rental pneumonia. The death rate from pneumonia has agreement at the will of the parties, been materially reduced by the use of the sulfa drugs| thereto, irrespective of whatever and more recently penicillin. There are many prob-|gther rights such parties may have lems, however, particularly in the field of the preven-|nder the existing rent control regution of pneumonia that need to be dealt with. Even||ations though we have an excellent cure for a disease, we
day by the state housing confer- |
Appeals Traffic Sticker
Case in Test of City Law
The appeal of a $2 traffic sticker
trial is on ‘its way to the Sion
court. George S. Rainey, 1629 Allison st, N. Y. C. train dispatcher, be-
tionality of the city sticker law yesterday in municipal court 4. “Ill take this case to the supreme court if necessary,” said Rainey as he pointed out the al-
leged injustices of ‘the ordinance.|ing the public with the $2 settlement| tion for a new trial. minutes without a| He was charged with illegally park-|for traffic offenses,” Rainey de-| {ing his car in the 300 block on!clared.
Massachusetts ave. between 4:30 and 6 p. m. | Judge John Niblack overruled a | demurrer filed by the defendant, {fined him $5 and costs, which were | suspended, leaving only the sticker
/gan a test case of the constitu-|charges to be paid. Rainey, how-
ever, appealed the case and paid | the $50 bond out of his own pocket. | “The maximum sentence of $300 {and 180 days in jail for sticker vio-
BOSTON MAYOR
ASKS NEW TRIAL
Sentencing on Mail Fraud Charge Delayed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (U, P).— Federal District Judge James M. Proctor said today he would not sentence Rep. James M. Curley (D. Mass.) and his co-defendants in the Engineers’ Group mail fraud
[ations is a hazard, a threat and | unconstitutional. The city is milk
Offers to Die In G.l.'s Stead
WALLINGTON, N. J, Jan. 19 (U. P.).—A 55-year-old man “disgusted with this life” today offered to die in place of Pfc. Joseph E. Hicswa Jr. Hicswa, 20, was sentenced to death for killing two Japanese In Osaka last Nov. 24. The offer to be “destroyed instead of your son” was made to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E, Hicswa Sr., parents of the condemned youth, in a letter, The name of the man was withheld in conformance with his request for no publicity. .
LEGAL FRATERNITY TO INSTALL HERE
New officers and directors of the Indianapolis alumni chapter of Sigma Delta Kappa, national legal fraternity, will be inducted at a luncheon meeting Monday in the Claypool hotel. Those to be installed are Robert E. Kirby, president; Charles K. McCormack, first vice president; Arthur K. Group, second vice president; Sidney D. Field, secretary; Marvin E. Curle, treasurer, and Albert E. Lamb, Robert E. Chenoweth, Joseph T. Mazelin, John G. Tinder and Joseph G. Wood, directors. William H. McKitrick, retiring president, automatically became a director.
conducted by Judge Dan V. White, John M. Burke will conduct a memorial for Frederick G. Jeffrey who died last November.
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60 MINUTES 4 WED WITH 7/ A "nk | SF [7% AYSTER ( SUSPEN GREATEST M THRILL OF THE YEAR MISS iT!
would prefer to be able to prevent its occurrence.
2 MORE VETERANS RETURN-TO MANUAL
By Eleanor Roosevelt | Charles Yeager and Bowman Hall
'have returned to the Manual high |school faculty and a third inIstructor, Carl A. Dawson, on his way from the Aleutians, will complete the demobilization of the school's teaching staff, E. H, Kemper McComb, principal, announced today. . Head of Manuals art department, Mr. Yeager joined the navy in December, 1943, while Mr. Hall, English, physical education teacher and assistant track coach, entered the air corps in February, 1942.
social council to enter into negotiations with specialized non-governmental agencies, this particular labor organization should” be treated on a different vasts| because of its broad’ membership. They have requested consultative representation in the assembly and voting representation in the economic and social council. This question is now bein taken up by a subcommittee, which will hear all the arguments in the case and report back to the steering committee. : The dinner which Prime Minister Attlee gave for the delegates the other evening, in the painted hall of the Royal Naval college, was one of the most beautiful occasions of this kind that I've ever attended. Since I was the only woman delegate attends ing that dinner, Mrs. Attlee did not wish me to feel isolated, so she acted as hostess and it was not a completely stag party. | 2
released from service include Miss Ida ‘Mae: iW. Finley Wright ‘and E, Edward Green,
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Installation ceremonies will be,
MAN KILLED,
ED, TEN HELD IN BRAWLS
George Bowers Dies. of Bullet Wound.
One man was killed and 10 persons were arrested in brawls last 1 night. . William Johnson, 715 W. 10th st. shot and killed George Bowers, T14 W. 9th’ st, after Bowers attacked him with a knife, police reported. After a fight in the Liberty Bell tavern, 117 N. INinois st. three {men were taken into police custody {on disorderly conduct charges. They were Robert Metzger, Williamsport, Wis.; Sam Hargrove, 4646 Carvel ave, and Wayne Sharnes, 5128 Carrollton ave. Six men were arrested on disorderly conduct charges after a fight at Blacker's restaurant, 17 W. Ohio st. They were Charles Dinkel, Richard Dinkel and Wesley McLaughlin, all of 61 Elizabeth st.; Thomas J. Murdock, 1542 E. Market st.; John Rose, 28 Park ave., and Harold Hynes, 838 Park ave. A soldier was also turned over to military authorities. : T h ree unidentified assailants wrecked the Jung restaurant at 918 N. Illinois st. sending the owner, Chester Lee, 2005 Dexter st., to City hospital with injuries. Ilsum Khim, cook, 2707 College ave, was also injured. } Alfred H, Eicher, Springfield, Mo., {was charged with assault and battery and drawing a deadly weapon when he scuffied with auxiliary po{liceman, Lewis Craven, 1419 N. Hamilton ave. Mr. Craven's companion, Lt. Col. Peter D, Green, Stout field, was subpened as‘a witness.
EDWARD 0. SNETHEN HEADS MEN’S FORUM
installed as president of the Professional Men's férum. Other officers are Dr. R. E. Cavanaugh, first vice president; Walker Downing, second vice president, and Daniel B, Luten, secretary-treasurer. Directors selected to serve one year are A. D. Beeler, Dr. C. W. Efroymson, Dr. J. H. P. Gauss, Phillips Irwin, C. G. Baker, Dr. H R. Alburger and Dr. Simon Reisler.
DE SOTO DEALERS SHOW 1946 MODEL
ana viewed the 1946 model for the first time yesterday at a luncheonmeeting in the Athenaeum. The luncheon, given in honor of the dealers, was sponsored .by Jones & Maley, Ine. local De Soto and Plymouth distributors. C. W.
~{ Grilliot, De Soto-.district. manager,
and Paul D, GoeRe, general manager of Jones & Maley, addressed
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Edward O. Snethen recently was|.
De Soto dealers in central Indi-
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The three were convicted on mail {fraud and conspiracy charges by a district court jury here last night.
| BOSTON, Jan, 19 (U. P.).— Friends said today that Mayor
have been a passenger on the Eastern Airlines plane that ! crashed in Cheshire, Conn. yesterday if the federal jury deliberating his mail fraud case in
Washington had reached its verdict Thursday.
The jury deliberated a day and a half before rendering a verdict. The defendants were found to have (illegally represented themselves as engineer-brokers with special means of obtaining war contracts for their clients. All were officers of the now-defunct Engineers’ { Group. Rep. Curley ‘was president. Mayor Fourth Time
The government claimed that about $60,000 had been paid in to the organization by businessmen on the promise of contracts that never materialized. Qnly about $10,000 of the money was ever refunded, it was alleged. : Curley’s attorneys said a motion for a new trial probably would be filed Monday or Tuesday. z - Curley, who became mayor of Boston for the fourth time on Jan. 7, faces a maximum sentence of 47 years in prison, a fine of $19,000, lor both. He was convicted of mail fraud on nine separate counts as well as of conspiring to commit mail fraud, . His co-defendants were James G. Fuller, Tormesly of Washington, and Donald Wakefield Smith, former member of the national labor relations board. Fuller is already serving a five-year term in Atlanta penintentiary for sending bad checks through the mail. He faces a further maximum sentence of 67 years in prison, a fine of $23,000, or both. Smith was convicted on four counts of mail fraud besides the conspiracy charge. The maximum penalty possible for him is a 22year prison term, a fine of $14,000, or both, The verdict was delivered at 10:05 p. m. last night after a day and ‘a half of tense waiting py attorneys and defendants. ul The court room was filled almost to capacity. The gray-haired Curley, who was 71 the week before his trial opened, was flushed but composed.
NATURE STUDY CLUB | SETS ANNUAL FROLIC
Annual winter frolic of Nature Study. club of Indiana will be in Wpoollen's gardens at 2 p. m. toThere will be hikes in the after
evening. Members are requested bring covered dishes. 3 a —— tA
; ‘MEAT STOLEN. The theft of nearly 100 pounds
the Home Packing Co. of Terre
. existing
This construction during 1946.
. no» i OPA HAS estimated that cone
struction costs have risen on an
average of 35 per cent over war prices. Officials say gs 20 per cent higher than those on
accommodati cient to offset the added builds
Ing costs since items such as
taxes, utilities and other fixed charges have risen less sharply. In establishing the new ceils
ings, OPA rejected a recommens
dation by its industry adviscry committee that new housing con« struction be exempted from all rent control. 3
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Real Estate Boards, which mad of
the same
creased construction’ costs wouid not begin to cover adequately the problems of constructing, maintaining and
amortizing rental properties under present condi.
THE ORGANIZATION has protested repeatedly that existing ceilings are too low. Now thas these ceilings are to be used as the basis Tob xine charges on new construction, the controversy is intensified, 3
The association said OPA de-
The producers council, organiza tion of building material suppliers, has warned that rent ceilings oa new construction will curtail the building of rental units. It estimated that not more than 28 or 30 per cent of new homes would be built for rent, although the demand is for about 50 per cent, ® = =» : EXTENSION of the plan to the homes-for-veterans program is worked out Jointly by OPA and the federal housing administration, which is
handling the issuance of prior-
ities. Under this program, first call on materials is given to builders who agree to limit their costs to $10,000 per unit or rent the
dwellings for $80 a month or less, -
They also are required to offer preference to veterans in sales or rentals.
OPA and the building industry have long been at loggers heads over reni control. The Association of Real Estate Boards in October asked’ that ceilings be walved on all new construction . and on existing homes renting for $75 or more. This brought a retort from Price Administrator Chester Bowles that the organization was “trying to break down the rent control structure and bring on inflation.” The price act expires June 30 and building interests already are urging congress to exempt new construction from rent. cons trol if the law is extended.
noon and ‘a pitch-in supper in the|
Haute was reported today by driver, Roy Patrick.
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— We, the Women——
Ohio Governor Shows Way to
House Veterans
By RUTH MILLETT IT SHOULD turn out to be a masterly political move—the gove ernor of Ohio offering rooms in the governor's mansion to a fore mer army pilot and his wife. A large percentage of the vote ing public has had enough experi= ence in the weary business of house hunting to appreciate the story. \ Only one thing could have made the yarn better—and that would have been for the couple selected to have had a baby. Now if the governor's gesture would only prompt the leading citizens of every community to make the same offer in behalf of the local housing situation, the problem of finding living quare ters for veterans and their fame ilies would be well on the way to being solved temporarily.
. » » » . FOR IF the families who live in the big houses and set the social pace in their communities would find a room or rooms for a vete eran and his wife—other familie’ would feel they could afford vo do the same thing without jeopare dizing their social standing. To popularize the idea should not be too hard.
of beef from a truck owned by| ought veterans.
ons are sufe (]
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